noun
Meaning 1
Harm, hurt, damage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
detriment
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
The position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: astrology, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Meaning 4
The position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: in complement, in plenitude
verb
Meaning 5
To be detrimental to; to harm or mar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
Meaning 6
a damage or loss
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hurt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: damage, harm, impairment
Narrower terms: expense
History
Etymology
From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum (“loss, damage, literally a rubbing off”), from dēterere (“to rub off, wear”), from dē- (“down, away”) + terere (“to rub”). Detriment is related to the word detritus, and built on similar foundations to the word impediment.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: вре́да (vréda) — harm, hurt, damage
- Bulgarian: ущърб (uštǎrb) — harm, hurt, damage
- Catalan: detriment — harm, hurt, damage
- Chinese Mandarin: 損害 /损害 (sǔnhài) — harm, hurt, damage
- Dutch: schade — harm, hurt, damage
- Dutch: schadelijk — harm, hurt, damage
- French: détriment — harm, hurt, damage
- Galician: detrimento — harm, hurt, damage
- German: Schaden — harm, hurt, damage
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌸𐌰 (sleiþa) — harm, hurt, damage
- Hindi: अपकार (apkār) — harm, hurt, damage
- Hindi: हानि (hāni) — harm, hurt, damage
- Hindi: क्षति (kṣati) — harm, hurt, damage
- Hungarian: hátrány — harm, hurt, damage
- Italian: detrimento — harm, hurt, damage
- Italian: scapito — harm, hurt, damage
- Italian: svantaggio — harm, hurt, damage
- Japanese: 損害 (songai) — harm, hurt, damage
- Korean: 상해 (sanghae) — harm, hurt, damage
- Latin: dētrīmentum — harm, hurt, damage
- Persian: پتیاره (petyâre) — harm, hurt, damage
- Portuguese: detrimento — harm, hurt, damage
- Russian: вред (vred) — harm, hurt, damage
- Russian: уще́рб (uščérb) — harm, hurt, damage
- Spanish: detrimento — harm, hurt, damage
- Swedish: skada — harm, hurt, damage
- Swedish: förfång — harm, hurt, damage
- Turkish: zarar — harm, hurt, damage
- Ottoman Turkish: ضرر (zarar) — harm, hurt, damage
- Ottoman Turkish: زیان (ziyan) — harm, hurt, damage
- Ottoman Turkish: مضرت (mazarrat) — harm, hurt, damage
- Ukrainian: шкода (škoda) — harm, hurt, damage
Real reading context