name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
bullion
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.
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Pronunciation
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/ˈbʊl.jən/
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CMU ARPABET: B UH1 L Y AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Base or uncurrent coin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, crafts, glassblowing, hobbies, lifestyle
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Synonyms: bullseye
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
gold or silver in bars or ingots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ingot, metal bar, block of metal
noun
Meaning 8
a mass of precious metal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: precious metal
History
Etymology
From Middle English bulloin, bullioun, from Anglo-Norman bullion, of obscure origin, perhaps from French bouillon, extending the sense to that of ‘melting’. Middle Dutch boelioen (“base metal”) seems to have come from the unrelated French billon.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кюлче (kjulče) — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Catalan: lingot — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Czech: slitek — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Czech: cihla — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Danish: barre — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Danish: guldbarre — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Danish: sølvbarre — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Dutch: staaf — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Dutch: goudstaaf — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Dutch: zilverstaaf — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Finnish: jalometalli — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Finnish: sijoitusmetalli — bulk quantity of precious metal
- French: lingot — bulk quantity of precious metal
- German: Barren — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Indonesian: batangan — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Indonesian: ingot — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Italian: lingotto — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Malay: jongkong — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Norwegian Bokmål: barre — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Norwegian Nynorsk: barre — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Persian: شمش (šemš) — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Portuguese: barra — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Russian: сли́ток (slítok) — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Serbo-Croatian: ingot — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Spanish: tejo — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Spanish: tejón — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Spanish: [en] lingotes — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Swedish: tacka — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Turkish: külçe — bulk quantity of precious metal
- Ottoman Turkish: كولچه (külçe) — bulk quantity of precious metal
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