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farrago

noun · 2 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.

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Pronunciation

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  • /fəˈɹeɪɡoʊ/
  • /fəˈɹɑːɡoʊ/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hodgepodge, melange, mingle-mangle, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, rummage, salad, anthology, gallery, congeries, crazyquilt, disjecta membra, farrago, galimatias, gallimaufry, grab bag, horse and rabbit stew, hotchpotch, hotchpot, job lot, jumble, macedoine, medley, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, mixture, motley, odds and ends, oddments, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork quilt, potpourri, ragbag, salmagundi, slurry, smorgasbord, welter, Whitman's sampler

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a motley assortment of things

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: odds and ends, oddments, melange, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin farrāgō (“mixed fodder; mixture, hodgepodge”), from far (“emmer (a kind of wheat), coarse meal, grits”). Doublet of farro.

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: շիլափլավ (šilapʻlav) — confused miscellany
  • Bashkir: ваҡ-төйәк (vaq-töyək) — confused miscellany
  • Bulgarian: смесица (smesica) — confused miscellany
  • Bulgarian: бъркотия (bǎrkotija) — confused miscellany
  • Chinese Mandarin: 大雜燴 /大杂烩 (dàzáhuì) — confused miscellany
  • Finnish: sekamelska — confused miscellany
  • French: mélange — confused miscellany
  • French: méli-mélo — confused miscellany
  • French: fatras — confused miscellany
  • Hebrew: בליל (b'líl) — confused miscellany
  • Latin: farrāgō — confused miscellany
  • Portuguese: gororoba — confused miscellany
  • Portuguese: farragem — confused miscellany
  • Russian: вся́кая вся́чина (vsjákaja vsjáčina) — confused miscellany
  • Spanish: fárrago — confused miscellany
  • Spanish: farrago — confused miscellany
  • Tibetan: སྙག་གེ་སྙིག་གེ་ཟང་ཟིང (snyag ge snyig ge zang zing) — confused miscellany
  • Tibetan: རྙོག་ཟིང — confused miscellany
  • Tibetan: སྣེ་འདོམས (sne 'doms) — confused miscellany
  • Tibetan: སྣེ་འཛོམས (sne 'dzoms) — confused miscellany