name
Meaning 1
A dice game similar to Yahtzee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dice, games
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
crag
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkɹæɡ/
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[ˈkhɹwæɡ]
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/ˈkɹeɪ̯ɡ/ Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada
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[ˈkhɹweɪ̯ɡ] Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada
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rhymes with -æɡ
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homophone: Craig
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CMU ARPABET: K R AE1 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A rough, broken fragment of rock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
The neck or throat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
a steep rugged rock or cliff
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cliff, drop, drop-off
History
Etymology
From 13th century Middle English crag, from Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Middle Irish carrac (compare Irish creig, Scottish Gaelic creag), possibly ultimately from the late Proto-Indo-European/substrate *kar (“stone, hard”); see also Old Armenian քար (kʻar, “stone”), Sanskrit खर (khara, “hard, solid”), Welsh carreg (“stone”).
A variant of craw.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: shkrep — rocky outcrop
- Albanian: skërkë — rocky outcrop
- Arabic: جُرْفٌ (jurfun) — rocky outcrop
- Belarusian: скала́ (skalá) — rocky outcrop
- Bulgarian: чукар (čukar) — rocky outcrop
- Bulgarian: канара (kanara) — rocky outcrop
- Chinese Mandarin: 峭壁 (qiàobì) — rocky outcrop
- Chinese Mandarin: 崖 (yá) — rocky outcrop
- Czech: útes — rocky outcrop
- Czech: převis — rocky outcrop
- Czech: skalisko — rocky outcrop
- Czech: skalní věž — rocky outcrop
- Finnish: kalliojyrkänne — rocky outcrop
- French: affleurement — rocky outcrop
- French: éperon rocheux — rocky outcrop
- Galician: penedo — rocky outcrop
- Galician: rochedo — rocky outcrop
- Georgian: კლდე (ḳlde) — rocky outcrop
- German: Felsen — rocky outcrop
- Ancient Greek: κρημνός (krēmnós) — rocky outcrop
- Ancient Greek: ἐρίπνη (erípnē) — rocky outcrop
- Hungarian: szirt — rocky outcrop
- Hungarian: kőszirt — rocky outcrop
- Hungarian: szikla — rocky outcrop
- Hungarian: sziklaorom — rocky outcrop
- Hungarian: bérc — rocky outcrop
- Hungarian: sziklabérc — rocky outcrop
- Hungarian: sziklafok — rocky outcrop
- Irish: creig — rocky outcrop
- Italian: costone — rocky outcrop
- Italian: dirupo — rocky outcrop
- Italian: strapiombo — rocky outcrop
- Italian: precipizio — rocky outcrop
- Italian: bricco — rocky outcrop
- Italian: bric — rocky outcrop
- Italian: falesia — rocky outcrop
- Japanese: 巨岩 (kyogan) — rocky outcrop
- Japanese: 崖 (gake) — rocky outcrop
- Latin: scopulus — rocky outcrop
- Polish: skała — rocky outcrop
- Polish: grań — rocky outcrop
- Portuguese: rochedo — rocky outcrop
- Portuguese: penha — rocky outcrop
- Russian: скала́ (skalá) — rocky outcrop
- Russian: утёс (utjós) — rocky outcrop
- Scottish Gaelic: creag — rocky outcrop
- Scottish Gaelic: carraig — rocky outcrop
- Spanish: afloramiento rocoso — rocky outcrop
- Spanish: peñón — rocky outcrop
- Spanish: despeñadero — rocky outcrop
- Spanish: risco — rocky outcrop
- Ukrainian: ске́ля (skélja) — rocky outcrop