name
Meaning 1
A trademarked brand name of disc-shaped gliding toy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
frisbee
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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US: /ˈfɹɪzbi/
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CMU ARPABET: F R IH1 S B IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Alternative form of Frisbee (an object)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disc, flying disc, flying disk
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Alternative form of Frisbee (a sport)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disc, flying disc, flying disk
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A disk-shaped gliding toy, sold under the brand name Frisbee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Broader terms: frisbee, disc, flying disc
noun
Meaning 5
A frisbee, a disk-shaped gliding toy of any brand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
frisbee: the sport involving Frisbees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disc, flying disc
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
Alternative form of Frisbee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
Meaning 8
To throw something in the manner of a Frisbee.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The bartender Frisbeed a cardboard coaster to the patron at the end of the bar.
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noun
Meaning 9
a light, plastic disk about 10 inches in diameter; propelled with a flip of the wrist for recreation or competition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disk, disc, plaything, toy
History
Etymology
1957, brand name Frisbee was trademarked in 1959 by Fred Morrison, later acquired by Wham-O. From an alteration of frisbie, applied to the disk game by U.S. college students who tossed pie plates from Mrs. Frisbie's Pies, Frisbie Bakery, Bridgeport Ct., since the 1930s. From the English family name Frisbie, Frisby attested 1226, from the toponym attested 1086 in Frisby on the Wreak, Leicestershire, from Old Danish Frisby (“Frisian village”).
A genericization of the trademark Frisbee.
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Spanish: frisbi — Translations
- Arabic: صَحْنٌ طَائِر (ṣaḥnun ṭāʔir) — toy
- Armenian: թռչող ափսե (tʻṙčʻoġ apʻse) — toy
- Armenian: տարելկա (tarelka) — toy
- Bulgarian: летя́щ ди́ск (letjášt dísk) — toy
- Cherokee: ᎠᏠᏗ ᎦᏃᎯᎵᏙᎯ (atlodi ganohilidohi) — toy
- Chinese Cantonese: 飛碟 /飞碟 — toy
- Chinese Mandarin: 飛盤 /飞盘 (fēipán) — toy
- Czech: frisbee — toy
- Danish: frisbee — toy
- Dutch: frisbee — toy
- Esperanto: flugdisko — toy
- Finnish: frisbee — toy
- Finnish: liitokiekko — toy
- French: frisbee — toy
- German: Frisbee — toy
- German: Wurfscheibe — toy
- German: Frisbeescheibe — toy
- Bavarian German: Frisbee — toy
- Hebrew: פריזבי — toy
- Hungarian: frizbi — toy
- Icelandic: svifdiskur — toy
- Italian: frisbee — toy
- Japanese: フリスビー (furisubī) — toy
- Japanese: フライングディスク (furaingu-disuku) — toy
- Korean: 프리스비 (peuriseubi) — toy
- Korean: 플라잉 디스크 (peullaing diseukeu) — toy
- Latin: discus volans — toy
- Latvian: frisbija disks — toy
- Lithuanian: plastinė lėkštė — toy
- Macedonian: фризби (frizbi) — toy
- Māori: ripi — toy
- Mongolian: нисдэг таваг (nisdeg tavag) — toy
- Norwegian: frisbee — toy
- Polish: frisbee — toy
- Portuguese: frisbee — toy
- Portuguese: disco — toy
- Russian: лета́ющий диск (letájuščij disk) — toy
- Russian: лета́ющая таре́лка (letájuščaja tarélka) — toy
- Serbo-Croatian: frizbi — toy
- Slovak: frisbee — toy
- Spanish: frisbee — toy
- Spanish: disco volador — toy
- Spanish: frisbi — toy
- Swedish: frisbee — toy
- Thai: จานบิน (jaan-bin) — toy
- Turkish: frizbi — toy
- Ukrainian: фрісбі (frisbi) — toy
- Vietnamese: đĩa ném — toy
- Vietnamese: đĩa ném thể thao — toy
- Vietnamese: frisbee — toy
- Finnish: frisbee — sport
- Finnish: liitokiekkoilu — sport
- German: Frisbee — sport
- Polish: frisbee — sport
- Vietnamese: frisbee — sport