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cheap
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /t??ip/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ch?p, IPA(key): /t??i?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
- Homophone: cheep
Alternative forms
- chap, chop (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English cheep, chepe/chepen, chep, cheap/cheapien, chapien, from Old English c?ap (“cattle, purchase, sale”), ??apian (“to bargain, chaffer, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup (“trade, purchase”), *kaup?n (“to buy, trade”), from Proto-Germanic *kaup?n?, *kaupijan? (“to buy, trade”), *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), from Latin caup? (“tradesman, innkeeper”). See also chapman.
Noun
cheap (countable and uncountable, plural cheaps)
- (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
- (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
- Price.
- (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
- Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Adjective
cheap (comparative cheaper, superlative cheapest)
- Low and/or reduced in price.
- Where there are many sellers and few purchases, land will be cheap.
- Of poor quality.
- Of little worth.
- (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
- the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks
- (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.
Synonyms
- (low/reduced in price): bargain, inexpensive, frugal, no-frills, priced-off
- (of poor quality): flimsy
Antonyms
- (low or reduced in price): dear, expensive, high-priced, pricey
- (of low value): precious, valuable
- (financial markets): rich
Related terms
See also
- Appendix:Fighting Game Terms
Translations
Verb
cheap (third-person singular simple present cheaps, present participle cheaping, simple past and past participle cheaped)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
- (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
- (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
- (transitive, obsolete) To sell.
Derived terms
- cheap out
Usage notes
Use of cheap as a verb has been surpassed by cheapen.
Adverb
cheap (comparative more cheap, superlative most cheap)
- Cheaply.
- March 24 1658, John Milton, letter to Emeric Bigot
- I need not request you to purchase them as cheap as possible
- March 24 1658, John Milton, letter to Emeric Bigot
Anagrams
- Peach, Pecha, chape, chapé, peach
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /çap?/
Noun
cheap m
- Lenited form of ceap.
Verb
cheap
- past indicative analytic of ceap
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vulgar
English
Alternative forms
- (early modern English): vulgare
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Latin vulg?ris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl?k- (compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ???? (halía, “assembly”) ????? (eilé?, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (velik?, “great”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?v?l.??/
- (US) enPR: v?l?g?r, IPA(key): /?v?l.??/
Adjective
vulgar (comparative more vulgar or vulgarer, superlative most vulgar or vulgarest)
- Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
- The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.
- (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.
- 1860, G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, age 265
- Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- (especially taxonomy) Common, usual; of the typical kind.
- the vulgar bush brown, Bicyclus vulgaris
- 1869, Richard Francis Burton, The Highlands of the Brazil, page 85:
- A vulture (V. aura), probably the Acabiry first described by Azara, is here called […] the hunter. It resembles in form the vulgar bird, but it flies high. The head is red, and the wings are black with silver lining, like the noble Bateleur of Africa.
Synonyms
- (obscene): inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, profane
- (ordinary): common, ordinary, popular
Derived terms
- (obscene): vulgarity, vulgarian
- (ordinary): vulgar fraction, vulgate, Vulgate
- vulgar fraction
- Vulgar Latin
- Vulgar Era
Translations
Noun
vulgar (plural vulgars)
- (classicism) A common, ordinary person.
- 2016, Evan Gottlieb, Juliet Shields, Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830
- Popular antiquarian writings […] frequently focused on the regional vulgars' superstitious beliefs regarding the dead and their ongoing presence—such as popular funeral rites or the vulgars' fear of church yards.
- 2016, Evan Gottlieb, Juliet Shields, Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830
- (collective) The common people.
- The vernacular tongue or common language of a country.
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin vulg?ris.
Adjective
vulgar (masculine and feminine plural vulgars)
- vulgar
Derived terms
- vulgarment
Related terms
- vulgaritat
Further reading
- “vulgar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Etymology
From Latin vulg?ris.
Adjective
vulgar m or f (plural vulgares)
- common to the people, vulgar
- ordinary, undistinguished
- popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
- simple, unintelligent
Synonyms
- (ordinary): prosaico
- (popular): común, popular
Antonyms
- (popular): científico, técnico
Related terms
- vulgaridade
- vulgarismo
- vulgo
Further reading
- “vulgar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin vulg?ris.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vu?.??a?/
- Hyphenation: vul?gar
Adjective
vulgar (plural vulgares, comparable)
- common to the people, vulgar
- ordinary, undistinguished
- Synonym: prosaico
- popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
- Synonyms: comum, popular
- simple, unintelligent
Antonyms
- (popular): científico, técnico
Related terms
- vulgaridade
- vulgarismo
- vulgo
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French vulgaire, Latin vulgaris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vul??ar/
Adjective
vulgar m or n (feminine singular vulgar?, masculine plural vulgari, feminine and neuter plural vulgare)
- vulgar
Declension
Synonyms
- grosolan
- ordinar
- comun
Related terms
- vulg
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin vulg?ris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bul??a?/, [bul???a?]
Adjective
vulgar (plural vulgares)
- vulgar
Derived terms
Related terms
- vulgo
- vulgaridad
Further reading
- “vulgar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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