adj
Meaning 1
Voracious; aggressively greedy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cormorant
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːməɹənt/
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General-American: /ˈkɔɹməɹənt/
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General-American:
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Southern-US, dated: /ˈkɑm(ə)ɹənt/
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noun
Meaning 2
Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family Phalacrocoracidae which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Pacific Ocean; specifically, the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: corvorant, sea crow, sea raven
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, archaic, attributive, figuratively
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: glutton, belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, epicure, gannet, gorger, gourmand, gormandizer, greedyguts, guttle, hog, Homer Simpson, helluo, pig, slow belly, trencherman
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pelecaniform seabird
History
Etymology
PIE word *ḱorh2wós From Middle English cormeraunt (“great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo); other types of aquatic bird”) [and other forms], from Old French cormaran, cor-maraunt [and other forms] (modern French cormoran), possibly variants of *corp-marin, from Medieval Latin corvus marīnus (literally “sea-raven”), with the ending -morant possibly derived from French moran (“marine, maritime”), from Breton mor (“sea”), with -an corrupted in English to -ant. Latin corvus is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh2wós (“raven”), which is imitative of the harsh cry of the bird; while marīnus (“of or pertaining to the sea, marine”) is from Latin mare (“sea”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea; standing water”), possibly from *mer- (“sea; lake; wetland”)) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Cognates * Catalan corbmari * Occitan corpmari * Portuguese corvomarinho
Across languages
Translations
140 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: kormorante — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Ainu: ウリル (uriru) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Albanian: karabullak — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Arabic: غَاقِيَات (ḡāqiyāt) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Armenian: ձկնկուլ (jknkul) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Assamese: দৈকলা (doikola) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Assamese: কাউৰী (kauri) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Assamese: পানী কাউৰী (pani kauri) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Azerbaijani: qarabatdaqkimilər — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Breton: morvaout — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Breton: morvran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Bulgarian: кормора́н (kormorán) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Bulgarian: дяволица (djavolica) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Bulgarian: голям корморан (goljam kormoran) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Burmese: တင်ကျီးငှက် (tangkyi:hngak) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Catalan: corb marí — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Catalan: cormorà — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Cebuano: gamaw — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Chichewa: mphipe — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Chinese Mandarin: 鸕鶿 /鸬鹚 (lúcí) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Chinese Mandarin: 鸕䲿 /鸬䲿 — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Chinese Mandarin: 鸬鹚 (lúcí) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Chinese Mandarin: 魚鷹 /鱼鹰 (yúyīng) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Cornish: morvran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Czech: kormorán — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Danish: ålekrage — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Danish: skarv — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Danish: storskarv — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Dutch: aalscholver — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Dutch: schollevaar — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Dutch: scholver — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Dutch: waterraaf — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Esperanto: kormorano — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Estonian: kormoranlased — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Estonian: karbaslased — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Faroese: hiplingur — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Faroese: skarvur — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Finnish: merimetso — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- French: cormoran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- West-Frisian: ielguozzen — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Galician: corvo mariño — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Galician: pata — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Georgian: ჩვამასებრნი (čvamasebrni) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- German: Kormoran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Greek: κορμοράνος (kormorános) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Greek: ευρωπαϊκός κορμοράνος (evropaïkós kormorános) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Greek: φαλακροκόρακας (falakrokórakas) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Ancient Greek: κόρᾰξ (kórăx) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Greenlandic: oqaatsoq — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Hawaiian: kakalakeke — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Hawaiian: lawaiʻa — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Hebrew: קורמורניים — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Hungarian: kormorán — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Hungarian: kárókatona — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Icelandic: skarfur — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Irish: broigheall — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Irish: cailleach dhubh — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Irish: duibhéan — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Irish: fiach mara — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Italian: cormorano — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Italian: divoratore — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Italian: ghiottone — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Italian: mangione — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Italian: marangone — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Japanese: 鵜 (u) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Japanese: 鷀 — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Japanese: 鸕 — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Japanese: 鶿 (u) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Old Japanese: しまつとり (sima tu to2ri) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Kazakh: суқұзғын (suqūzğyn) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Klallam: ƛ'əŋ'q'łčə́qsən — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Korean: 가마우지 (gamauji) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Central Kurdish: قەلمراوی (qelmirawî) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Northern Kurdish: qirmiravî — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Kyrgyz: кара каздар (kara kazdar) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Lacandon: ʌjmach (Najá) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Latin: phalacrocorax — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Latin: truō — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Latvian: jūras krauklis — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Lithuanian: kormoranas — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Macedonian: кормора́н (kormorán) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Malayalam: നീർക്കാക്ക (nīṟkkākka) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Manx: cormorant — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Manx: fannag varrey — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Manx: feeagh marrey — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Manx: scarroo — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Manx: shag — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Mazanderani: دارغاز (dārqaz) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Mi'kmaq: mqatawapu — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Navajo: tónteel zhį́ʼii — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Norman: cormaran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Norwegian Bokmål: storskarv — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Norwegian Nynorsk: storskarv — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Ojibwe: gaagaagiishib — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Persian: باکلان (bâklân) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Persian: قرهقار (qara-qâz) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Polish: kormoran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Portuguese: cormorão — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Portuguese: biguá — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Quechua: kusuri — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Romanian: cormoran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Russian: бакла́н (baklán) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Saanich: MÁŦEĆ — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Scottish Gaelic: sgarbh — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Scottish Gaelic: ballaire — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Scottish Gaelic: ballaire-bòthain — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Scottish Gaelic: gairg — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Scottish Gaelic: gairgeann — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Scottish Gaelic: learg — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Serbo-Croatian: корморани — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Serbo-Croatian: вранци — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Shan: ၵႃၸႆး (kǎa tsái) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Slovak: kormorán — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Slovene: kormoran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Spanish: cormorán — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Swahili: mnandi — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Swedish: storskarv — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Tagalog: kasili — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Tagalog: korbehon — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Tamil: நீர்க்காகம் (nīrkkākam) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Tamil: நீர்க்காக்கை (nīrkkākkai) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Tày: ca nặm — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Telugu: జలకాకము (jalakākamu) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Telugu: మద్గువు (madguvu) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Telugu: నీరుకాకి (nīrukāki) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Tibetan: སོ་བྱ། (so bya) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Tlingit: yooḵ — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Turkish: karabatak — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Ottoman Turkish: قره باتاق (kara batak) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Ukrainian: баклан (baklan) — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Urdu: کارمورنٹ — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Vietnamese: cốc — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Vietnamese: cốc đế — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Welsh: mulfran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Welsh: morfran — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- West Flemish: aalscholver — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- West Flemish: butstekker — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Wolof: coll — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Zealandic: aolscholver — seabird of the family Phalacrocoracidae
- Hungarian: kapzsi/telhetetlen ember/lény — person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.