different between bloke vs altre

English

Etymology

Origin unknown; the following borrowings have been hypothesized:

• Of Celtic origin, such as Irish ploc (“large, stubborn person”, literally “large, round mass”), itself borrowed from English block
• From Hindi [Term?] or Shelta loke (“man”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bl?k, IPA^(key): /bl??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /blo?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

bloke (plural blokes)

1. (Australia) An exemplar of a certain masculine, independent male archetype.
2. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, informal) A man who behaves in a particularly laddish or overtly heterosexual manner.
4. (Britain, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1847]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man

   Antonym: (Britain, informal) blokess
5. (Britain, naval slang) (A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
6. (chiefly Quebec, colloquial) An anglophone (English-speaking) man.

Alternative forms

• bloak (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• (Australia, New Zealand): sheila

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• bloke on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kolbe

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bloque, from French bloc, from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukk? (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bloke

1. A block; a substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.

English

Verb

altre (third-person singular simple present altres, present participle altring, simple past and past participle altred)

1. Obsolete form of alter.

Anagrams

• Alert, alert, alter, alter-, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin alter, alterum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?al.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?al.t?e/
• Homophone: altra (Balearic, Central)

Adjective

altre (feminine altra, masculine and feminine plural altres)

1. other

Derived terms

Further reading

• “altre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “altre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “altre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “altre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Noun

altre n

1. indefinite plural of alter

German

Pronunciation

Verb

altre

1. inflection of altern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al.tre/

Adjective

altre

1. feminine plural of altro

Pronoun

altre

1. feminine plural of altro

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• alter, altere

Noun

altre n

1. indefinite plural of alter

Old French

Alternative forms

• autre

Etymology

From Latin alter, alterum.

Adjective

altre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular altre)

1. other
2. another

Descendants

• French: autre