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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?l, IPA^(key): /di?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English del, dele, from Old English d?l (“part, share, portion”), from Proto-Germanic *dailiz (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ail- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Scots dele (“part, portion”), West Frisian diel (“part, share”), Dutch deel (“part, share, portion”), German Teil (“part, portion, section”), Danish del (“part”), Swedish del ("part, portion, piece") Icelandic deila (“division, contention”), Gothic ???????????????????? (dails, “portion”), Slovene del (“part”). Related to Old English d?l (“portion”). More at dole.

Noun

deal (plural deals)

1. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.

2. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Ch.32:

     There is a deal of obscurity concerning the identity of the species thus multitudinously baptized.

   Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, load, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew

Synonyms

• (act of apportioning or distributing): allotment, apportionment, distribution, doling out, sharing, sharing out

Derived terms

• (indefinite quantity): a great deal, a good deal, big deal, real deal
• afterdeal
• foredeal
• half-deal
• ordeal

Related terms

• a deal is a deal

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English delen, from Old English d?lan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-Germanic *dailijan? (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ail- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with West Frisian diele (“to divide, separate”), Dutch delen, German teilen, Swedish dela; and with Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Russian ??????? (delít?).

Verb

deal (third-person singular simple present deals, present participle dealing, simple past and past participle dealt)

1. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.

   The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
2. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
   • 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot, ch. 30:

     "Away, proud woman!" said the Lady; "who ever knew so well as thou to deal the deepest wounds under the pretence of kindness and courtesy?"
3. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.

   I was dealt four aces.

   The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt.

4. (baseball) To pitch.

   The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger.

5. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, ch. 11:

     Mr. Brownlow contrived to state his case; observing that, in the surprise of the moment, he had run after the boy because he saw him running away; and expressing his hope that, if the magistrate should believe him, although not actually the thief, to be connected with thieves; he would deal as leniently with him as justice would allow.

6. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:

     In Deheubarth that now South-wales is hight, / What time king Ryence raign'd, and dealed right [...].

7. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book IV:

     Wel said syr Uwayne go on your waye, and lete me dele.

8. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).

   She deals in gold.

9. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.

   This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs.

10. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 14:

      Science, it cannot be too often repeated, deals with tangible phenomena.

11. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 19:

      Then there was the sound of a struggle, and I knew that the attendants were dealing with him.

    I can't deal with this.

    I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal.

Synonyms

• (distribute among a number of recipients): apportion, divvy up, share, share out, portion out
• (administer in portions): administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, hand out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out
• (distribute (cards)):
• (baseball slang: to pitch): pitch, throw
• (have dealings with):
• (trade): sell, trade, bargain
• (sell (illicit drugs)): sell
• (be handled):
• (handle, cope):

Derived terms

• deal with
• dealer
• dealth
• dealy

Translations

Noun

deal (plural deals)

1. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
2. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.

   I didn’t have a good deal all evening.

   I believe it's your deal.

3. A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction

   We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight.

   • 2014, Jamie Jackson, "Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:

     The deal, which overtakes the £50m paid to Liverpool by Chelsea for Fernando Torres in January 2011 as the highest paid by a British club, takes United’s summer spend to £130.7m, following the £27m spent on Luke Shaw, the £28m for Ander Herrera and £16m for Marcos Rojo.

4. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
   • 2009, The Guardian, Virginia Wallis, 22 Jul 2009:

     You also have to look at the kind of mortgage deals available to you and whether you will be able to trade up to the kind of property you are looking for.

5. An agreement between parties; an arrangement
   • 2009, Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times, 20 Jul 2009:

     California lawmakers, their state broke and its credit rating shot, finally sealed the deal with the governor Monday night on a plan to close a $26 billion budget gap.

   He made a deal with the devil.

6. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.

   What's the deal?

7. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.

   The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork.

Synonyms

• (cards held in a card game by a player at any given time): hand
• (instance of buying or selling): business deal, sale, trade, transaction
• (a beneficial transaction): steal, bargain
• (agreement between parties fixing obligations of each): contract, pact

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English dele (“plank”), from Middle Low German dele, from Old Saxon thili, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þilj? (“plank, board”); cognate with Old English þille. Doublet of thill.

Noun

deal (countable and uncountable, plural deals)

1. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 86,^[2]

     Some Houses were […] entirely lock’d up, the Doors padlockt, the Windows and Doors having Deal Boards nail’d over them,
2. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
3. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.

Synonyms

• (wood that is easy to saw, from conifers such as pine or fir):
• (plank of softwood):

Translations

Adjective

deal (not comparable)

1. Made of deal.

   A plain deal table

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6

     She glanced round the kitchen. It was small and curious to her, with its glittering kissing-bunch, its evergreens behind the pictures, its wooden chairs and little deal table.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47

     Through the open door you see a red-tiled floor, a large wooden bed, and on a deal table a ewer and a basin.

Translations

Anagrams

• ALDE, Adel, Dale, Dela, E.D. La., Leda, adle, dale, lade, lead

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English deal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?l/
• Hyphenation: deal

Noun

deal m (plural deals, diminutive dealtje n)

1. (informal) deal, a transaction or arrangement
2. (informal) a deal, a bargain (a favourable transaction)

Derived terms

• drugsdeal

Related terms

• deel
• delen

Middle English

Noun

deal

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of del

Romanian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *dol?. Compare Serbo-Croatian dol.

Noun

deal n (plural dealuri)

1. hill

Derived terms

• deluros
• delu?or

Spanish

Etymology

From English deal.

Noun

deal m (plural deales)

1. (business) deal

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kist, from Middle Dutch kiste, from Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh?.

Noun

kis (plural kiste, diminutive kissie)

1. chest, box

Dalmatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kis

1. cheese

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Danish

Noun

kis c (singular definite kisen, not used in plural form)

1. sulfide mineral

Finnish

Etymology

See kissa.

Interjection

kis

1. used to attract a cat, often repeated

Anagrams

• -ksi

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Turkic language, compare to Turkish küçük and Turkmen kiçi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ki?]
• Rhymes: -i?

Adjective

kis (comparative kisebb, superlative legkisebb)

1. small, little

   Synonyms: kicsi, -ka, -ke, -cska, -cske, -ikó (the meaning of ’little’ is often expressed with diminutive suffixes in Hungarian)

Derived terms

• kissé

Usage notes

Kis can only stand before a noun but never on its own. If it were to stand on its own (as a predicate, or a short reference to a noun phrase with this quality), kicsi must be used instead. (Note that the same syntactic difference exists between két and kett? in Hungarian, both of which mean 'two'.) Their distribution is comparable to that of "sick" and "ill" in English: "they are ill" (cf. kett?, kicsi, when used on their own) vs. "sick people" (cf. két, kis, i.e. used before a noun).

Kashubian

Etymology 1

From German Kies.

Noun

1. gravel

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish ken.

Pronoun

kis

1. who

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

kis

1. Alternative form of cos

Etymology 2

Verb

kis

1. Alternative form of kissen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Swedish kis (sense 1), and German Kies (sense 2)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki?s/, IPA^(key): /çi?s/ for the second meaning.
• Rhymes: -i?s

Noun

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kiser, definite plural kisene)

1. (slang) guy, dude
2. (mineralogy) pyrite

Derived terms

• svovelkis

References

• “kis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kis_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “kis_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swedish kis (sense 1), and German Kies (sense 2)

Noun

kis m (definite singular kisen, indefinite plural kisar, definite plural kisane)

1. (slang) guy, dude
2. (mineralogy) pyrite

Derived terms

• svovelkis

References

• “kis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Slovene

Etymology

Back-formation of kísel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kí?s/

Noun

k?s m inan

1. vinegar

Inflection

Synonyms

• ócet (archaic)

Further reading

• “kis”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kis/

Noun

kis c

1. a boy

   en tuff kis

   a tough boy

Declension

Synonyms

• pojke

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Kies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çis/

Noun

kis c

1. pyrite, fool's gold

Declension

Synonyms

• svavelkis
• pyrit
• kattguld

Descendants

• ? Finnish: kiisu

References

• kis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• -isk, sik

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English kiss.

Noun

kis

1. kiss

Volapük

Pronoun

kis

1. what? (nominative, interrogative)