adj
Meaning 1
Damn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
darn
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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General-American: /dɑɹn/
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New-England: /daːn/
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Received-Pronunciation: /dɑːn/
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)n
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CMU ARPABET: D AA1 R N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Damned.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, not-comparable
Qualifier: degree
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
intj
Meaning 3
Damn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Damn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
Examples
- His opinion isn't worth a darn.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A place mended by darning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 6
Damn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: business, manufacturing, sewing, textiles
Examples
- I need to darn these socks again.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- her stockings had several mends
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mend, patch
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sewing, stitchery
noun
Meaning 9
something of little value
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his promise is not worth a damn
- not worth one red cent
- not worth shucks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: worthlessness, ineptitude
verb
Meaning 10
repair by sewing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- darn socks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
History
Etymology
A minced oath of damn.
From Middle English dernen (“to keep secret, hide, conceal (a hole)”), from Old English diernan (“to hide, conceal”), from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *darnī (“hidden, secret”). Related to Old English dyrne, dierne (“secret”, adjective).
Across languages
Translations
53 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: hitto — Translations
- Finnish: hemmetti — Translations
- Finnish: perhana — Translations
- Swedish: attans — Translations
- Swedish: nedrans — Translations
- Swedish: rackarns — Translations
- Swedish: sablar — Translations
- Tibetan: ཨ་ཡ — Translations
- Tibetan: ཨ་ཁ (a kha) — Translations
- Tibetan: ཨ་ལས (a las) — Translations
- Welsh: daria — Translations
- Azerbaijani: gözəmək — stitch with thread
- Bulgarian: замрежвам (zamrežvam) — stitch with thread
- Bulgarian: закърпвам (zakǎrpvam) — stitch with thread
- Chinese Mandarin: 織補 /织补 (zhībǔ) — stitch with thread
- Chinese Mandarin: 縫補 /缝补 (féngbǔ) — stitch with thread
- Czech: štupovat — stitch with thread
- Dutch: stoppen — stitch with thread
- Esperanto: fliki — stitch with thread
- Finnish: parsia — stitch with thread
- French: repriser — stitch with thread
- Galician: zurcir — stitch with thread
- Georgian: კემსვა (ḳemsva) — stitch with thread
- Georgian: ნემსვა (nemsva) — stitch with thread
- German: stopfen — stitch with thread
- Greek: μαντάρω (mantáro) — stitch with thread
- Hungarian: stoppol — stitch with thread
- Ido: darnar — stitch with thread
- Ingrian: topata — stitch with thread
- Ingrian: štoopata — stitch with thread
- Irish: dearnáil — stitch with thread
- Italian: rammendare — stitch with thread
- Japanese: かがる (kagaru) — stitch with thread
- Japanese: 繕う (tsukurou) — stitch with thread
- Māori: tapi — stitch with thread
- Māori: moanarua — stitch with thread
- Norman: dèrner — stitch with thread
- Norwegian Bokmål: stoppe — stitch with thread
- Polish: cerować — stitch with thread
- Polish: zacerować — stitch with thread
- Portuguese: remendar — stitch with thread
- Portuguese: cerzir — stitch with thread
- Russian: што́пать (štópatʹ) — stitch with thread
- Sanskrit: सीव्यति (sī́vyati) — stitch with thread
- Slovak: štopkať — stitch with thread
- Spanish: zurcir — stitch with thread
- Spanish: surcir — stitch with thread
- Swedish: stoppa — stitch with thread
- Turkish: yamamak — stitch with thread
- Ukrainian: церувати (ceruvaty) — stitch with thread
- Ukrainian: зацеровувати (zacerovuvaty) — stitch with thread
- Ukrainian: зацерувати (zaceruvaty) — stitch with thread
- Vietnamese: mạng — stitch with thread