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promenade
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French promenade, from promener (“to walk”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p??m?n??d/, /p??m??n??d/, (rare) /?p??m?ne?d/, /p??m??ne?d/
- (US) IPA(key): /p??m??ne?d/, /p??m??n?d/
- Rhymes: -??d, -e?d
Noun
promenade (plural promenades)
- (formal) A prom (dance).
- A walk taken for pleasure, display, or exercise; a stroll.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)
- A place where one takes a walk for leisurely pleasure, or for exercise, especially a terrace by the seaside.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 235:
- The present dream in particular scarcely left any room for doubt, since the place where my patient fell was the Graben, a part of Vienna notorious as a promenade for prostitutes.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 235:
- A dance motion consisting of a walk, done while square dancing.
Synonyms
- (a place to walk): esplanade
Translations
Verb
promenade (third-person singular simple present promenades, present participle promenading, simple past and past participle promenaded)
- To walk for amusement, show, or exercise.
- To perform the stylized walk of a square dance.
Derived terms
- promenader (agent noun)
Translations
Anagrams
- open-armed
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French promenade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pro?.m??na?.d?/
- Hyphenation: pro?me?na?de
- Rhymes: -a?d?
Noun
promenade f (plural promenades or promenaden)
- promenade
French
Etymology
promener +? -ade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??m.nad/
- Rhymes: -ad
- Homophone: promenades
Noun
promenade f (plural promenades)
- walk; stroll (walk for enjoyment)
Derived terms
- promenade de santé
Descendants
Further reading
- “promenade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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lunge
English
Alternative forms
- longe (US)
Etymology
From French allonge, from Old French alonge, from alongier, from Vulgar Latin *allongare, from ad + Late Latin longare, from Latin longus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?
Noun
lunge (plural lunges)
- A sudden forward movement, especially with a sword.
- A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a lunge line, approximately 20–30 feet long, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while lungeing.
- An exercise performed by stepping forward one leg while kneeling with the other leg, then returning to a standing position.
- A fish, the namaycush.
Derived terms
- lunge whip
Translations
Verb
lunge (third-person singular simple present lunges, present participle lunging or lungeing, simple past and past participle lunged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging).
- I lunged at the police officer and made a grab for her gun.
- 2004, Louis L'Amour, Rustlers of West Fork
- With savage desperation the Indian lunged his horse straight at Hopalong and, knife in hand, leaped for him!
- (transitive) To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing).
Translations
Anagrams
- Leung
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse lunga, from Proto-Germanic *lungô (literally “the light organ”), cognate with Norwegian lunge, Swedish lunga, German Lunge, English lung. The noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l???]
Noun
lunge c (singular definite lungen, plural indefinite lunger)
- (anatomy) lung
Inflection
Derived terms
- lungebetændelse
- lungekapacitet
- lungekræft
- lungetransplantation
References
- “lunge” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “lunge” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lun.d??e/
- Hyphenation: lùn?ge
Adverb
lunge
- Archaic form of lungi.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Compare Dutch long, English lung, Danish lunge, German Lunge, Swedish lunga, Icelandic lunga.
Noun
lunge m or f (definite singular lunga or lungen, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
- (anatomy) a lung
Derived terms
- lungebetennelse
- lungekreft
- lungeskade
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lungô (“the light organ”), from Proto-Indo-European *leng??- (“light, agile, nimble”). Akin to English lung.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²l????/
Noun
lunge f (definite singular lunga, indefinite plural lunger, definite plural lungene)
- (anatomy) a lung
Derived terms
- lungebetennelse
- lungekreft
- lungeskade
Further reading
- “lunge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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