name
Meaning 1
Bikini atoll.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bikini
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /bɪˈkiː.ni/
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General-American: /bɪˈki.ni/
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rhymes with -iːni
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homophone: bikini
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Scotland: /bɪˈki.ne/
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homophone: Bikini
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CMU ARPABET: B IH0 K IY1 N IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A brief, often minimalistic two-piece bathing suit worn by women, especially one that exposes the midriff and navel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: two-piece
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A brief bathing suit covering only the pelvis (equivalent to the bottom portion of a two-piece bikini), worn by any gender.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Brief underpants or trousers that reach to the hips rather than the waist and have high cut leg holes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
a woman's very brief bathing suit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: two-piece
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: swimsuit, swimwear, bathing suit, swimming costume, bathing costume
noun
Meaning 6
an atoll in the Marshall Islands; formerly used by the United States as a site for testing nuclear weapons
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: atoll
History
Etymology
From German Bikini, the colonial name of the atoll as part of German New Guinea, and this was derived from Marshallese Pikinni.
Etymology tree Marshallese pik Marshallese ni Marshallese Pikinnibor. German Bikinibor. English Bikinibor. French Bikini French bikinibor. English bikini From French bikini, named after the place name Bikini, from English Bikini, the name of the atoll where the United States tested nuclear weapons in July 1946; it was reckoned that the bathing suit would cause as much excitement as a nuclear bomb. This name was originally from German Bikini, the colonial name of the atoll as part of German New Guinea, and this was derived from Marshallese Pikinni.
Across languages
Translations
69 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: bikini — bathing suit
- Albanian: bikini — bathing suit
- Amharic: ቢኪኒ (bikini) — bathing suit
- Arabic: بِيكِينِي (bīkīnī) — bathing suit
- Armenian: բիկինի (bikini) — bathing suit
- Azerbaijani: bikini — bathing suit
- Basque: bikini — bathing suit
- Belarusian: бікі́ні (bikíni) — bathing suit
- Bengali: বিকিনি (bikini) — bathing suit
- Bulgarian: бики́ни (bikíni) — bathing suit
- Catalan: biquini — bathing suit
- Chinese Cantonese: 三點式 /三点式 (saam1 dim2 sik1) — bathing suit
- Chinese Cantonese: 比堅尼 /比坚尼 (bei2 gin1 nei4) — bathing suit
- Chinese Mandarin: 比基尼 (bǐjīní) — bathing suit
- Czech: bikiny — bathing suit
- Danish: bikini — bathing suit
- Dutch: bikini — bathing suit
- Esperanto: bikino — bathing suit
- Estonian: bikiinid — bathing suit
- Finnish: bikinit — bathing suit
- French: bikini — bathing suit
- Georgian: ბიკინი (biḳini) — bathing suit
- German: Bikini — bathing suit
- Greek: μπικίνι (bikíni) — bathing suit
- Hebrew: בִּיקִינִי (bikíni) — bathing suit
- Hindi: बिकिनी (bikinī) — bathing suit
- Hungarian: bikini — bathing suit
- Indonesian: bikini — bathing suit
- Italian: bikini — bathing suit
- Japanese: ビキニ (bikini) — bathing suit
- Kazakh: бикини (bikini) — bathing suit
- Korean: 비키니 (bikini) — bathing suit
- Kyrgyz: бикини (bikini) — bathing suit
- Latvian: bikini — bathing suit
- Lithuanian: bikinis — bathing suit
- Macedonian: бики́ни (bikíni) — bathing suit
- Malay: bikini — bathing suit
- Maltese: bikini — bathing suit
- Marathi: बिकिनी (bikinī) — bathing suit
- Mongolian: бикини (bikini) — bathing suit
- Norwegian Bokmål: bikini — bathing suit
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bikini — bathing suit
- Iranian Persian: بیکینی (bikini) — bathing suit
- Polish: bikini — bathing suit
- Portuguese: biquíni — bathing suit
- Romanian: bikini — bathing suit
- Russian: бики́ни (bikíni) — bathing suit
- Serbo-Croatian: бѝкӣни — bathing suit
- Serbo-Croatian: bìkīni — bathing suit
- Slovak: bikiny — bathing suit
- Slovene: bikini — bathing suit
- Spanish: biquini — bathing suit
- Swedish: bikini — bathing suit
- Tajik: бикини (bikin-i) — bathing suit
- Tamil: நீச்சலுடை (nīccaluṭai) — bathing suit
- Telugu: బికినీ (bikinī) — bathing suit
- Thai: บิกินี (bì-gì-nîi) — bathing suit
- Turkish: bikini — bathing suit
- Ukrainian: бікі́ні (bikíni) — bathing suit
- Urdu: بِیکِینی (bīkīnī) — bathing suit
- Uzbek: bikini — bathing suit
- Uzbek: бикини (bikini) — bathing suit
- Vietnamese: bikini — bathing suit
- Vietnamese: áo tắm hai mảnh — bathing suit
- Volapük: bikinit — bathing suit
- Volapük: niblitül — bathing suit
- Welsh: bicini — bathing suit
- Welsh: bicinis — bathing suit
- Yiddish: ביקיני (bikini) — bathing suit
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