adj · name · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
UK:/ˈdvɔːʒæk/
US:/ˈdvɔɹæk/
US:/dəˈvɔɹæk/
US:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
UK:/ˈdvɔːʒɑːk/
US:/ˈdvɔɹʒɑk/
US:/ˈdvɔɹʒæk/
CMU ARPABET:D V AO1 R AH0 K
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
adj
Meaning 1
Describing an optimized keyboard layout for the English language, in which the alphabet is arranged in the order PYFGCRL on the top row, AOEUIDHTNS on the middle, or home row, and QJKXBMWVZ on the bottom row, thus placing the letters most frequently used in the home row. Many variants on Dvorak layouts also exist, including keyboards for right-hand-only and left-hand-only-typists.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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name
Meaning 3
A surname from Czech, especially
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841–1904), Czech composer of Romantic music.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
Czech composer who combined folk elements with traditional forms (1841-1904)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Antonin Dvorak
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: composer
History
Etymology
From Czech Dvořák, from Old Czech dvořák (“attendant, tenant farmer”), equivalent to dvůr (“court, courtyard, estate, farm”) + -ák (“-er, -an: forming related nouns”). The keyboard is named after the American inventor August Dvorak.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic:
دْفُورْجَاك
(dfūrjāk)
— Surname
Armenian:
Դվորժակ
(Dvoržak)
— Surname
Azerbaijani:
Dvorjak
— Surname
Bengali:
দ্ভরাক
(dbhorak)
— Surname
Chinese Cantonese:
德伏札克
(dak1 fuk6 zaat3 haak1)
— Surname
