name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bilby
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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Australian: /ˈbɪlbiː/
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CMU ARPABET: B IH1 L B IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A locality in Lac Ste. Anne County, Alberta, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A hamlet in a detached part of Barnby Moor parish, Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6383).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An Australian desert marsupial of the only extant species Macrotis lagotis with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dalgite, pinkie, rabbit bandicoot, rabbit-eared bandicoot
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rabbit-eared bandicoot, rabbit bandicoot, Macrotis lagotis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bandicoot
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Gamilaraay bilbi.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بيلبي كبير — Australian desert marsupial
- Eastern Arrernte: aherte — Australian desert marsupial
- Chinese Mandarin: 兔耳袋狸 (tù'ěrdàilí) — Australian desert marsupial
- Czech: bandikut králíkovitý — Australian desert marsupial
- Finnish: pussikaniini — Australian desert marsupial
- Finnish: korvapusseli — Australian desert marsupial
- Irish: bilbí — Australian desert marsupial
- Japanese: ミミナガバンディクート (miminagabandikūto) — Australian desert marsupial
- Korean: 큰빌비 (keunbilbi) — Australian desert marsupial
- Malayalam: ബിൽബി (bilbi) — Australian desert marsupial
- Navajo: naʼatsʼǫǫsí bijaaʼntsxaaígíí — Australian desert marsupial
- Russian: би́лби (bílbi) — Australian desert marsupial
- Russian: кро́личий бандику́т (króličij bandikút) — Australian desert marsupial
- Russian: уша́стый су́мчатый барсу́к (ušástyj súmčatyj barsúk) — Australian desert marsupial
- Swedish: större kaninpunggrävling — Australian desert marsupial
- Ukrainian: бандикут кролячий (bandykut kroljačyj) — Australian desert marsupial