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spies

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spa?z/
  • Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

spies

  1. plural of spy

Verb

spies

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spy

Anagrams

  • Seips, Sipes, pisés, sipes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch spiesse, from Middle High German spiez, from Old High German spioz, from Proto-Germanic *speutaz. Cognate to spit and spiet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spis/
  • Hyphenation: spies
  • Rhymes: -is

Noun

spies f (plural spiesen, diminutive spiesje n)

  1. spike, long spear, pike
  2. skewer
    Synonym: spit

Derived terms

  • barbecuespies
  • braadspies
  • kebabspies
  • spiesgezel
  • steekspies
  • vleesspies
  • werpspies

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detective

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??t?kt?v/
  • Rhymes: -?kt?v

Noun

detective (plural detectives)

  1. (law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
  2. A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.

Synonyms

  • (law enforcement): DT (abbreviation), Det (abbreviation)
  • (person employed to find information): private detective, private investigator
  • (person employed to find information): (slang) dick, private dick
  • sleuth

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

detective (not comparable)

  1. Employed in detecting.

Asturian

Noun

detective m or f (plural detectives)

  1. detective

Galician

Noun

detective m (plural detectives)

  1. detective

Further reading

  • “detective” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Noun

detective m (plural detectives)

  1. Alternative form of detetive

Spanish

Etymology

From English detective.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dete??tibe/, [d?e.t?e???t?i.??e]

Noun

detective m or f (plural detectives)

  1. detective

Usage notes

  • detective may be masculine or feminine, but the less common detectiva exists for female detectives as well.

Derived terms

  • detective privado
  • detectivesco

Further reading

  • “detective” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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