name
Meaning 1
A surname from French.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Chopin
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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Canada, General-American: /ʃoʊˈpæn/
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CMU ARPABET: SH OW1 P AE0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Frédéric Chopin, a Polish-born classical composer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A liquid unit of measure of almost half a pint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 4
the music of Chopin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he practiced Chopin day and night
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: music
noun
Meaning 5
French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Frederic Francois Chopin
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: composer, pianist, piano player
noun
Meaning 6
United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Kate Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty Chopin
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writer, author
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French Chopin: see there for more.
Variant of chopine, borrowed from French chopine, diminutive of chope + -in.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: شُوبَان (šubān) — surname
- Bulgarian: Шопе́н (Šopén) — surname
- Chinese Cantonese: 蕭邦 /萧邦 (siu1 bong1) — surname
- Chinese Mandarin: 肖邦 (Xiāobāng) — surname
- Chinese Mandarin: 蕭邦 /萧邦 (Xiāobāng) — surname
- French: Chopin — surname
- Japanese: ショパン (Shopan) — surname
- Korean: 쇼팽 (Syopaeng) — surname
- Polish: Szopen — surname
- Polish: Chopin — surname
- Russian: Шопе́н (Šopén) — surname
- Swedish: Chopin — surname
- Scottish Gaelic: seipinn — liquid unit of measure
Real reading context