adj
Meaning 1
Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
canine
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: kāʹnīn
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Received-Pronunciation: kaʹnīn
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪnaɪn/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkænaɪn/
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rare, Received-Pronunciation: /kəˈnaɪn/
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General-American: kāʹnīn'
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General-American: /ˈkeɪˌnaɪn/
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rare, General-American: /kəˈnaɪn/
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rhymes with -eɪnaɪn
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rhymes with -ænaɪn
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rhymes with -aɪn
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homophone: K9
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CMU ARPABET: K EY1 N AY2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Dog-like.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
Synonym of cuspid, the pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars in heterodont mammals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cuspid
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: card-games, poker
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 9
of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 10
of or relating to a pointed conical tooth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: laniary
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: canid
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: carnivore
Narrower terms: bitch, dog, domestic dog, Canis familiaris, wolf, jackal, Canis aureus, wild dog, hyena, hyaena, fox
noun
Meaning 12
one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: canine tooth, eyetooth, eye tooth, dogtooth, cuspid
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tooth
Narrower terms: fang
History
Etymology
From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, doglike, dogtooth”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.
Across languages
Translations
73 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كَلْبِيّ (kalbiyy) — pertaining to dogs
- Armenian: շնային (šnayin) — pertaining to dogs
- Armenian: շան (šan) — pertaining to dogs
- Belarusian: саба́чы (sabáčy) — pertaining to dogs
- Belarusian: псі (psi) — pertaining to dogs
- Belarusian: псі́ны (psíny) — pertaining to dogs
- Bulgarian: ку́чешки (kúčeški) — pertaining to dogs
- Catalan: caní — pertaining to dogs
- Chinese Mandarin: 狗的 (gǒu de) — pertaining to dogs
- Czech: psí — pertaining to dogs
- Dutch: honds — pertaining to dogs
- Esperanto: hunda — pertaining to dogs
- Faroese: hunda- — pertaining to dogs
- Finnish: koira- — pertaining to dogs
- French: canin — pertaining to dogs
- German: Hunde- — pertaining to dogs
- German: Hunds- — pertaining to dogs
- German: hundeartig — pertaining to dogs
- Greek: κυνικός (kynikós) — pertaining to dogs
- Greek: σκυλίσιος (skylísios) — pertaining to dogs
- Greek: σκυλο- (skylo-) — pertaining to dogs
- Greek: κυνοειδής (kynoeidís) — pertaining to dogs
- Ancient Greek: κύνειος (kúneios) — pertaining to dogs
- Hindi: श्वानीय (śvānīya) — pertaining to dogs
- Irish: cainíneach — pertaining to dogs
- Italian: canino — pertaining to dogs
- Japanese: イヌの (inu no) — pertaining to dogs
- Korean: 개의 (gae-ui) — pertaining to dogs
- Latin: canīnus — pertaining to dogs
- Macedonian: кучешки (kučeški) — pertaining to dogs
- Malay: kanin — pertaining to dogs
- Malay: anjing — pertaining to dogs
- Polish: psi — pertaining to dogs
- Portuguese: canino — pertaining to dogs
- Portuguese: canina — pertaining to dogs
- Portuguese: caninos — pertaining to dogs
- Portuguese: caninas — pertaining to dogs
- Romanian: canin — pertaining to dogs
- Russian: соба́чий (sobáčij) — pertaining to dogs
- Russian: пси́ный (psínyj) — pertaining to dogs
- Serbo-Croatian: па̏сјӣ — pertaining to dogs
- Serbo-Croatian: pȁsjī — pertaining to dogs
- Slovak: psí — pertaining to dogs
- Slovene: pasji — pertaining to dogs
- Spanish: canino — pertaining to dogs
- Ukrainian: пе́сячий (pésjačyj) — pertaining to dogs
- Ukrainian: соба́чий (sobáčyj) — pertaining to dogs
- Ukrainian: пся́чий (psjáčyj) — pertaining to dogs
- Ukrainian: пе́ський (pésʹkyj) — pertaining to dogs
- Ukrainian: пси́ний (psýnyj) — pertaining to dogs
- Volapük: dogik — pertaining to dogs
- Welsh: cynaidd — pertaining to dogs
- Welsh: cynol — pertaining to dogs
- Yiddish: הינטיש (hintish) — pertaining to dogs
- Dutch: hondachtig — dog-like
- Finnish: koiramainen — dog-like
- German: hundeartig — dog-like
- German: hündisch — dog-like
- Greek: κυνικός (kynikós) — dog-like
- Greek: σκυλίσιος (skylísios) — dog-like
- Italian: canino — dog-like
- Italian: cagnesco — dog-like
- Portuguese: canino — dog-like
- Portuguese: canina — dog-like
- Portuguese: caninos — dog-like
- Portuguese: caninas — dog-like
- Punjabi: ਕੁੱਤਾ ਵਰਗਾ (kuttā vargā) — dog-like
- Slovak: psí — dog-like
- Spanish: perruno — dog-like
- Spanish: canino — dog-like
- Finnish: koiraeläin — dog or wolf
- Latin: canis — dog or wolf
- Malay: kanin — dog or wolf