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spies
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spa?z/
- Rhymes: -a?z
Noun
spies
- plural of spy
Verb
spies
- 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)
- spike, long spear, pike
- 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)
- (law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
- 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)
- Employed in detecting.
Asturian
Noun
detective m or f (plural detectives)
- detective
Galician
Noun
detective m (plural detectives)
- detective
Further reading
- “detective” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Noun
detective m (plural detectives)
- 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)
- 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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