name
Meaning 1
A surname
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bout
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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/ˈbaʊt/
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Canada: /bʌʊt/
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rhymes with -aʊt
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rhymes with -ʌʊt
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homophone: 'bout
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CMU ARPABET: B AW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a bout of drought
- a coughing bout
- a long bout of the flu
- I've boxed in exhibition bouts to entertain the crowds.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: attack
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A boxing match.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: boxing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fencing, government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
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noun
Meaning 5
A roller derby match.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: roller derby
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 6
A fighting competition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 8
The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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prep
Meaning 9
Apheretic form of about.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Examples
- They're talking bout you!
- Maddy is bout to get beat up!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To contest a bout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 11
an occasion for excessive eating or drinking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they went on a bust that lasted three days
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bust, tear, binge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: revel, revelry
Narrower terms: piss-up
noun
Meaning 12
a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: contest, competition
noun
Meaning 13
a period of illness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a bout of fever
- a bout of depression
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: time period, period of time, period
noun
Meaning 14
(sports) a division during which one team is on the offensive
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: turn, round
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: part, section, division
Narrower terms: top, top of the inning, bottom, bottom of the inning
History
Etymology
From Middle English bout, bowt, bught (whence also modern English bought (“bend, curve”)), probably from Old English *buht (“bend, turn”), an unrecorded variant of Old English byht (“a bend, curve”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“a bend”). Equivalent to bow + -t. Doublet of bight and bought. Compare Dutch bocht and German Bucht. For the sense development compare bender.
Written form of a reduction of about.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: период (period) — period of something
- Czech: záchvat — period of something
- Czech: nával — period of something
- Czech: vlna — period of something
- Esperanto: atako — period of something
- Finnish: jakso — period of something
- Irish: babhta — period of something
- Irish: taom — period of something
- Italian: attacco — period of something
- Russian: период (period) — period of something
- Spanish: racha — period of something
- Czech: zápas — boxing match
- Esperanto: matĉo — boxing match
- Finnish: ottelu — boxing match
- Finnish: nyrkkeilyottelu — boxing match
- Polish: walka — boxing match
- Polish: pojedynek — boxing match
- Russian: поединок (pojedinok) — boxing match
- Spanish: encuentro — boxing match
- Welsh: bowt — boxing match
- Esperanto: matĉo — fencing encounter
- Finnish: ottelu — fencing encounter
- Hungarian: asszó — fencing encounter
- Hungarian: csörte — fencing encounter
- Manx: cliwederys — fencing encounter
- Portuguese: ataque — fencing encounter
- Esperanto: matĉo — roller derby match
- Finnish: ottelu — roller derby match
- Esperanto: matĉo — fighting competition
- Finnish: ottelu — fighting competition
- Finnish: mittelö — fighting competition
- Russian: поединок (pojedinok) — fighting competition
- Welsh: bowt — fighting competition
- Finnish: poski — music: bulge or widening in a musical instrument
- Irish: babhta — music: bulge or widening in a musical instrument
- Ottoman Turkish: تكنه (tekne) — music: bulge or widening in a musical instrument
- Esperanto: transiro — going and returning of a plough