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adj · noun · verb · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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: /ˈkɒn.tɛkst/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈkɑn.tɛkst/
  • Australian: /ˈkɔn.tekst/
  • CMU ARPABET: K AA1 N T EH0 K S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Knit or woven together; close; firm.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • 1541?, Robert Copland (translator?), Guydon's Questionary Chirurgical, translation of 1533, Guy de Chauliac, La questionaire des cirugiens at barbiers The skynne is composed & context and woven with thredes and vaynes.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • —In what context did your attack on him happen? —We had a pretty tense relationship at the time, and when he insulted me I snapped.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: frame, framework, background, backdrop, setting, purlieus, milieu

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Examples

  • Without context, I can't tell if dish refers to a plate, or to the food served thereon.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The trama or flesh of a mushroom.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, mycology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To knit or bind together; to unite closely.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: linguistic context, context of use

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: discourse

10

noun

Meaning 10

the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the historical context

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: circumstance, setting

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: environment

Narrower terms: conditions

History

Etymology

From Latin context(us).

Across languages

Translations

145 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: konteks — circumstances or settings
  • Armenian: համատեքստ (hamatekʻst) — circumstances or settings
  • Basque: testuinguru — circumstances or settings
  • Bulgarian: обстано́вка (obstanóvka) — circumstances or settings
  • Bulgarian: ситуа́ция (situácija) — circumstances or settings
  • Chinese Mandarin: 場合 /场合 (chǎnghé) — circumstances or settings
  • Chinese Mandarin: 情況 /情况 (qíngkuàng) — circumstances or settings
  • Chinese Mandarin: 背景 (bèijǐng) — circumstances or settings
  • Chinese Mandarin: 環境 /环境 (huánjìng) — circumstances or settings
  • Czech: kontext — circumstances or settings
  • Czech: souvislosti — circumstances or settings
  • Danish: kontekst — circumstances or settings
  • Danish: sammenhæng — circumstances or settings
  • Dutch: context — circumstances or settings
  • Finnish: asiayhteys — circumstances or settings
  • Finnish: yhteys — circumstances or settings
  • Finnish: konteksti — circumstances or settings
  • French: contexte — circumstances or settings
  • Galician: contexto — circumstances or settings
  • German: Kontext — circumstances or settings
  • German: Zusammenhang — circumstances or settings
  • Greek: συμφραζόμενα (symfrazómena) — circumstances or settings
  • Greek: πλαίσιο (plaísio) — circumstances or settings
  • Hebrew: הֶקְשֵׁר (hekshér) — circumstances or settings
  • Hindi: संदर्भ (sandarbh) — circumstances or settings
  • Hindi: परिदृश्य (paridŕśya) — circumstances or settings
  • Hindi: परिप्रेक्ष्य (pariprekṣya) — circumstances or settings
  • Hungarian: összefüggés — circumstances or settings
  • Hungarian: kontextus — circumstances or settings
  • Icelandic: samhengi — circumstances or settings
  • Irish: comhthéacs — circumstances or settings
  • Italian: contesto — circumstances or settings
  • Japanese: 前後関係 (zengokankei) — circumstances or settings
  • Japanese: 状況 (jōkyō) — circumstances or settings
  • Khmer: កាលៈទេសៈ (kaalaʼteisaʼ) — circumstances or settings
  • Korean: 맥락 (maengnak) — circumstances or settings
  • Korean: 짜임새 (jjaimsae) — circumstances or settings
  • Korean: 바탕 (batang) — circumstances or settings
  • Māori: horopaki — circumstances or settings
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sammenheng — circumstances or settings
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kontekst — circumstances or settings
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: samanheng — circumstances or settings
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kontekst — circumstances or settings
  • Polish: kontekst — circumstances or settings
  • Portuguese: contexto — circumstances or settings
  • Romanian: context — circumstances or settings
  • Russian: обстано́вка (obstanóvka) — circumstances or settings
  • Russian: ситуа́ция (situácija) — circumstances or settings
  • Russian: конте́кст (kontékst) — circumstances or settings
  • Scottish Gaelic: co-theacsa — circumstances or settings
  • Spanish: contexto — circumstances or settings
  • Spanish: marco — circumstances or settings
  • Swedish: sammanhang — circumstances or settings
  • Swedish: kontext — circumstances or settings
  • Tagalog: kalamnan — circumstances or settings
  • Telugu: సందర్భం (sandarbhaṁ) — circumstances or settings
  • Turkish: bağlam — circumstances or settings
  • Turkish: kontekst — circumstances or settings
  • Vietnamese: bối cảnh — circumstances or settings
  • Afrikaans: konteks — text in which a word appears
  • Albanian: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Arabic: سِيَاق (siyāq) — text in which a word appears
  • Arabic: قَرِينَة (qarīna) — text in which a word appears
  • Armenian: համատեքստ (hamatekʻst) — text in which a word appears
  • Armenian: կոնտեքստ (kontekʻst) — text in which a word appears
  • Azerbaijani: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Belarusian: кантэ́кст (kantékst) — text in which a word appears
  • Bulgarian: конте́кст (kontékst) — text in which a word appears
  • Catalan: context — text in which a word appears
  • Chinese Mandarin: 上下文 (shàngxiàwén) — text in which a word appears
  • Chinese Mandarin: 語境 /语境 (yǔjìng) — text in which a word appears
  • Chinese Mandarin: 前後文 /前后文 (qiánhòuwén) — text in which a word appears
  • Czech: kontext — text in which a word appears
  • Danish: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Dutch: context — text in which a word appears
  • Esperanto: kunteksto — text in which a word appears
  • Estonian: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Finnish: asiayhteys — text in which a word appears
  • Finnish: yhteys — text in which a word appears
  • Finnish: konteksti — text in which a word appears
  • French: contexte — text in which a word appears
  • Galician: contexto — text in which a word appears
  • Georgian: კონტექსტი (ḳonṭeksṭi) — text in which a word appears
  • German: Kontext — text in which a word appears
  • Greek: συμφραζόμενα (symfrazómena) — text in which a word appears
  • Hebrew: הֶקְשֵׁר (hekshér) — text in which a word appears
  • Hindi: संदर्भ (sandarbh) — text in which a word appears
  • Hungarian: szövegkörnyezet — text in which a word appears
  • Hungarian: kontextus — text in which a word appears
  • Hungarian: szövegösszefüggés — text in which a word appears
  • Icelandic: samhengi — text in which a word appears
  • Ido: kuntexto — text in which a word appears
  • Indonesian: konteks — text in which a word appears
  • Irish: comhthéacs — text in which a word appears
  • Italian: contesto — text in which a word appears
  • Japanese: 文脈 (bunmyaku) — text in which a word appears
  • Japanese: 前後関係 (zengokankei) — text in which a word appears
  • Kazakh: мәнмәтін (mänmätın) — text in which a word appears
  • Kazakh: контекст (kontekst) — text in which a word appears
  • Korean: 문맥 (munmaek) — text in which a word appears
  • Korean: 맥락 (maengnak) — text in which a word appears
  • Northern Kurdish: pêwend — text in which a word appears
  • Kyrgyz: контекст (kontekst) — text in which a word appears
  • Latvian: konteksts — text in which a word appears
  • Lithuanian: kontekstas — text in which a word appears
  • Macedonian: контекст (kontekst) — text in which a word appears
  • Malay: konteks — text in which a word appears
  • Manx: co-lhaih — text in which a word appears
  • Manx: cohecks — text in which a word appears
  • Mongolian: контекст (kontekst) — text in which a word appears
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sammenheng — text in which a word appears
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: samanheng — text in which a word appears
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Iranian Persian: زَمینِه (zamine) — text in which a word appears
  • Iranian Persian: بافْت (bâft) — text in which a word appears
  • Iranian Persian: مَتْن (matn) — text in which a word appears
  • Iranian Persian: قَرینِه (ġarine) — text in which a word appears
  • Polish: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Portuguese: contexto — text in which a word appears
  • Romanian: context — text in which a word appears
  • Russian: конте́кст (kontékst) — text in which a word appears
  • Scottish Gaelic: co-theacsa — text in which a word appears
  • Serbo-Croatian: ко̀нтекст — text in which a word appears
  • Serbo-Croatian: kòntekst — text in which a word appears
  • Slovak: kontext — text in which a word appears
  • Slovene: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Spanish: contexto — text in which a word appears
  • Swedish: kontext — text in which a word appears
  • Tagalog: kalamnan — text in which a word appears
  • Tajik: матн (matn) — text in which a word appears
  • Tatar: контекст (qöntekst) — text in which a word appears
  • Thai: บริบท (bɔɔ-rí-bòt) — text in which a word appears
  • Turkish: bağlam — text in which a word appears
  • Turkish: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Turkmen: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Ukrainian: конте́кст (kontékst) — text in which a word appears
  • Urdu: سِیاق و سَباق (siyāq o sabāq) — text in which a word appears
  • Urdu: قَرِینَہ (qarīna) — text in which a word appears
  • Urdu: سِیاق (siyāq) — text in which a word appears
  • Uzbek: kontekst — text in which a word appears
  • Vietnamese: văn cảnh — text in which a word appears
  • Vietnamese: ngữ cảnh — text in which a word appears
  • Vietnamese: mạch văn — text in which a word appears
  • Welsh: cyd-destun — text in which a word appears
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