noun
Meaning 1
The act of breaking.
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
breakage
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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/ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/
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rhymes with -eɪkɪdʒ
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CMU ARPABET: B R EY1 K IH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Something that has been broken.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: accounting, business, finance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
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
noun
Meaning 5
the act of breaking something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the breakage was unavoidable
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: break, breaking
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change of integrity
Narrower terms: rupture, smashing, shattering, fracture, crack, cracking, chip, chipping, splintering
noun
Meaning 6
reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: reimbursement
noun
Meaning 7
the quantity broken
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the total breakage was huge
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: indefinite quantity
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English break Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English breakage From break + -age.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: чупене (čupene) — action of breaking
- Bulgarian: трошене (trošene) — action of breaking
- Finnish: rikkominen — action of breaking
- Finnish: särkeminen — action of breaking
- Finnish: rikkoutuminen — action of breaking
- Finnish: särkyminen — action of breaking
- Norwegian Bokmål: brekkasje — action of breaking
- Norwegian Nynorsk: brekkasje — action of breaking
- Polish: stłuczenie — action of breaking
- Welsh: toriad — action of breaking
- Welsh: gorthoriant — action of breaking
- Bulgarian: нещо счупено (nešto sčupeno) — something that has been broken
- Finnish: särkynyt esine — something that has been broken
- German: Anbruch — something that has been broken
- Ancient Greek: ῥῆγμα (rhêgma) — something that has been broken
- Norwegian Bokmål: brekkasje — something that has been broken
- Norwegian Nynorsk: brekkasje — something that has been broken
- Polish: stłuczka — something that has been broken