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belle
English
Etymology
From French belle (“beautiful”), from Latin bella.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?l/
Noun
belle (plural belles)
- An attractive woman.
- In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.
- A fellow gay man.
Translations
See also
References
- belle at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Lebel
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
belle
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bellen
French
Etymology
From Old French bele, from Latin bella(m), feminine of bellus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?l/
- Homophones: bel, belles
Adjective
belle
- feminine singular of beau
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: belle
- English: Belle
Noun
belle f (plural belles)
- beautiful woman, belle, beauty
- (Louisiana) girlfriend
Derived terms
- Belle au bois dormant
- se faire la belle
Coordinate terms
(girlfriend):
- beau
- blonde
- femme
- gars
- homme
Further reading
- “belle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?l?
Verb
belle
- inflection of bellen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Interlingua
Adjective
belle (comparative plus belle, superlative le plus belle)
- beautiful
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?lle
Adjective
belle
- feminine plural of bello
Noun
belle f
- plural of bella
Latin
Etymology
From bellus (“pretty, handsome”)
Adverb
bell? (comparative bellius, superlative bellissim?)
- well, neatly, perfectly
- prettily, delightfully
Related terms
- bellus
- bonus
References
- belle in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- belle in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- belle in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- belle in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Norman
Pronunciation
Adjective
belle
- feminine singular of bieau
- feminine singular of biau
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bell?, from Proto-Germanic *bell?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bel.le/, [?be?.?e]
Noun
belle f
- bell
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: belle
- Scots: bell
- English: bell
- ? Fiji Hindi: belo
- ? Japanese: ?? (beru)
Turkish
Verb
belle
- second-person singular imperative of bellemek
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big
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?g, IPA(key): /b??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From a northern Middle English dialectal term big, bigge (“powerful, strong”) possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.
Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.
Adjective
big (comparative bigger, superlative biggest)
- Of great size, large.
- Synonyms: ample, huge, large, sizeable, stoor, jumbo, massive; see also Thesaurus:big
- Antonyms: little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute
- The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, […], with their court of farm and church and clustered village, in dignified seclusion.
- (of an industry or other field, often capitalized) Thought to have undue influence.
- Popular.
- Synonyms: all the rage, in demand, well liked
- (informal) Adult.
- Synonyms: adult, fully grown, grown up; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
- Antonyms: little, young
- 1931, Robert L. May, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:
- By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]
- (informal) Fat.
- Synonyms: chubby, plus-size, rotund; see also Thesaurus:overweight
- (informal) Important or significant.
- Synonyms: essential, paramount, weighty; see also Thesaurus:important
- "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
- (informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
- Synonyms: fanatical, mad, worked up; see also Thesaurus:enthusiastic
- 2019, Louise Taylor, Alex Morgan heads USA past England into Women’s World Cup final (in The Guardian, 2 July 2019)[3]
- Neville is big on standing by his principles and he deserves plaudits for acknowledging he got his starting system wrong, reverting to 4-2-3-1 and introducing Kirby in the No 10 role.
- (informal, transitive with of) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
- (informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
- Synonyms: busty, macromastic, stacked; see also Thesaurus:busty
- (sometimes figuratively) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- Synonyms: full, great, heavy; see also Thesaurus:pregnant
- [Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
- (of a city) populous
- (informal, slang, rare, of somebody's age) old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
- 2020, Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival
- I don't think so, if you're shouting at people across the playground at your big age.
- 2020, Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
big (comparative bigger, superlative biggest)
- In a loud manner.
- In a boasting manner.
- He's always talking big, but he never delivers.
- In a large amount or to a large extent.
- He won big betting on the croquet championship.
- On a large scale, expansively.
- You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
- Hard.
- He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.
Noun
big (plural bigs)
- Someone or something that is large in stature
- An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
- (as plural) The big leagues, big time.
- (BDSM, slang) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
Synonyms
- (big leagues): major leagues
Antonyms
- (BDSM): little
Verb
big (third-person singular simple present bigs, present participle bigging, simple past and past participle bigged) (up)
- (transitive) To praise, recommend, or promote.
Etymology 2
From Middle English biggen, byggen, from Old Norse byggja, byggva (“to build, dwell in, inhabit”), a secondary form of Old Norse búa (“to dwell”), related to Old English b?an (“to dwell”). Cognate with Danish bygge, Swedish bygga.
Verb
big (third-person singular simple present bigs, present participle bigging, simple past and past participle bigged)
- (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to inhabit; occupy
- (reflexive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to locate oneself
- (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to build; erect; fashion
- (intransitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to dwell; have a dwelling
Etymology 3
From Middle English byge, from Old Norse bygg (“barley, probably Hordeum vulgare, common barley”), from Proto-Germanic *bewwuz (“crop, barley”). Cognate with Old English b?ow (“barley”).
Alternative forms
- bigg
- bygg, bygge (obsolete)
Noun
big (uncountable)
- One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
Anagrams
- GBI, GiB, Gib., gib
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch bagge, vigge. Originally a word exclusive to the Northern Dutch dialects.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?x/
- Hyphenation: big
- Rhymes: -?x
Noun
big m or f (plural biggen, diminutive biggetje n)
- piglet, little pig
- Synonym: keu
Derived terms
- biggenkruid
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???/
Adjective
big
- inflection of beag:
- vocative/genitive masculine singular
- (archaic) dative feminine singular
Mutation
Italian
Noun
big m (invariable)
- star (entertainment)
- big shot, big noise
Scots
Etymology
From Old Norse byggja (“inhabit, build”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??/
Verb
big (third-person singular present bigs, present participle biggin, past biggit, past participle biggit)
- to build
Torres Strait Creole
Etymology
From English big, cognate with (the first part of) Bislama bikfala, bigfala, Pijin bigfala, Tok Pisin bikpela.
Adjective
big
- big
Derived terms
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi??/
Noun
big
- Soft mutation of pig.
Mutation
Western Apache
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *-w??t?.
Cognates: Navajo -bid, Plains Apache -bid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [p??k]
Noun
big (inalienable)
- belly, stomach, abdomen
Usage notes
- The form -big occurs in the White Mountain varieties; -bid occurs in San Carlos and Dilzhe’eh (Tonto).
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