name
Meaning 1
A city in Orange County, California, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
cypress
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, US: /ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/
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homophone: Cyprus
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CMU ARPABET: S AY1 P R AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: S AY1 P R IH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Ellipsis of Cypress County.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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noun
Meaning 3
An evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves, whose dark foliage is sometimes associated with mourning, in family Cupressaceae, especially the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis.
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative form of Cyprus (“type of fabric”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 5
any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cypress tree
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: conifer, coniferous tree
Narrower terms: gowen cypress, Cupressus goveniana, pygmy cypress, Cupressus pigmaea, Cupressus goveniana pigmaea, Santa Cruz cypress, Cupressus abramsiana, Cupressus goveniana abramsiana, Arizona cypress, Cupressus arizonica, Guadalupe cypress, Cupressus guadalupensis, Monterey cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa, Mexican cypress, cedar of Goa, Portuguese cypress, Cupressus lusitanica, Italian cypress, Mediterranean cypress, Cupressus sempervirens
noun
Meaning 6
wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wood
Narrower terms: cypress pine, juniper, sequoia, redwood, bald cypress, swamp cypress, pond bald cypress, southern cypress, Taxodium distichum, pond cypress, Taxodium ascendens, Montezuma cypress, Mexican swamp cypress, Taxodium mucronatum, sandarac, sandarac tree, Tetraclinis articulata, Callitris quadrivalvis
History
Etymology
From Middle English cipres, from Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Late Latin cypressus; compare Hebrew גֹּפֶר (gōp̄er), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14), also κύπρος (relating to aromatic pitch).
Across languages
Translations
92 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Akkadian: 𒋗𒌫𒎙 — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Akkadian: 𒇷 (burāšu) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Albanian: selvi — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Albanian: qiparis — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Arabic: سَرْوَة (sarwa) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Arabic: سَرْو (sarw) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Arabic: سرو (sarw) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Arabic: سروة (sarwa) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Aramaic: ܫܘܽܪܒܻܝܢܳܐ (šurbinnā) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Aramaic: ܫܱܪܘܱܝܢܳܐ (šarwēnā) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Aramaic: ܒܪܽܘܬܳܐ (bərōṯā) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Aramaic: שׁוּרְבִּינָא (šurbinnā) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Aramaic: בְּרֹותָא (bərōṯā) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Aramaic: בְּרָָתָא (bərāṯā) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Armenian: նոճի (noči) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Armenian: կիպարիս (kiparis) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Azerbaijani: sərv — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Bulgarian: кипари́с (kiparís) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Bulgarian: се́лвия (sélvija) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Catalan: xiprer — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Chinese Mandarin: 柏樹 /柏树 (bǎishù, bóshù) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Crimean Tatar: servi — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Crimean Tatar: selbi — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Czech: cypřiš — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Dutch: cipres — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Esperanto: cipreso — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Estonian: küpress — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Faroese: syfrisviður — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Faroese: syprisviður — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Faroese: sypristræ — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Finnish: sypressi — an evergreen coniferous tree
- French: cyprès — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Galician: ciprés — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Galician: alcipreste — an evergreen coniferous tree
- German: Zypresse — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Greek: κυπαρίσσι (kyparíssi) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Ancient Greek: κυπάρισσος (kupárissos) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Hawaiian: kupeleko — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Hebrew: בְּרוֹשׁ (bərṓš) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Hebrew: תְּאַשּׁוּר (təʾaššū́r) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Hungarian: ciprus — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Hungarian: ciprusfa — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Icelandic: kýprusviður — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Ido: cipreso — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Italian: cipresso — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Japanese: サイプレス (saipuresu) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Japanese: 糸杉 (itosugi) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Kazakh: сауырағаш (sauyrağaş) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Kikuyu: mũkarakaba — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Central Kurdish: سەوڵ (sewll) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Northern Kurdish: serw — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Latin: cupressus — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Latvian: ciprese — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Ligurian: çipresso — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Lithuanian: kiparisas — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Lombard: ciprèss — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Macedonian: чемпрес (čempres) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Manchu: ᠮᠠᡳᠯᠠᠰᡠᠨ (mailasun) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Māori: kaiperi — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Middle English: cipres — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Nahuatl: tlatskakuauitl — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Nahuatl: tlatskan — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Norman: cyprès — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Norwegian: sypress — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Occitan: cipres — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Persian: سرو (sarv) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Piedmontese: sipress — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Polish: cyprys — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Portuguese: cipreste — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Romagnol: arẓiprës — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Romanian: chiparos — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Russian: кипари́с (kiparís) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Serbo-Croatian: чѐмпрес — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Serbo-Croatian: сѐлвија — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Serbo-Croatian: сѐвлија — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Serbo-Croatian: čèmpres — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Serbo-Croatian: sèlvija — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Serbo-Croatian: sèvlija — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Slovak: cyprus — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Slovene: cipresa — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Spanish: ciprés — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Sumerian: 𒋗𒌫𒈨 — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Swahili: mvinje — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Swedish: cypress — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Tagalog: sipres — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Turkish: servi — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Turkish: selvi — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Ottoman Turkish: سروی (servi) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Ottoman Turkish: سلوی (selvi) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎛𐎌𐎗 (tỉšr) — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Welsh: cypreswydd — an evergreen coniferous tree
- Xhosa: uthulwane — an evergreen coniferous tree
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