noun
Meaning 1
An excess, too much.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a glut of the market
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus
Antonyms: lack, shortage
Standard Lemma guide
glut
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Sound
Pronunciation
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glŭt
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland: /ɡlʌt/
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Northern-England: [ɡlʊt]
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ɡlɐt/
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India: /ɡləʈ/
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rhymes with -ʌt
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CMU ARPABET: G L AH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
That which is swallowed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Something that fills up an opening.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clog
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: bricklaying
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 7
An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 8
A block used for a fulcrum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 9
The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 10
Five goals scored by one player in a game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to glut one's appetite
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 12
To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: economics, sciences
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verb
Meaning 13
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 14
the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: oversupply, surfeit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance
verb
Meaning 15
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- She stuffed herself at the dinner
- The kids binged on ice cream
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eat
verb
Meaning 16
supply with an excess of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- flood the market with tennis shoes
- Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flood, oversupply
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: supply, provide, render, furnish
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: насищане (nasištane) — excess
- Czech: nadbytek — excess
- Czech: přebytek — excess
- Czech: přesycení (trhu) — excess
- Dutch: oververzadiging — excess
- Dutch: overmaat — excess
- Finnish: ylimääräinen — excess
- Finnish: liika — excess
- Finnish: ylijäämä — excess
- German: Schwemme — excess
- German: Überfluss — excess
- German: Überschuss — excess
- Italian: eccesso — excess
- Italian: pletora — excess
- Italian: scorpacciata — excess
- Italian: sazietà — excess
- Plautdietsch: Äwafluss — excess
- Portuguese: excesso — excess
- Russian: изли́шество (izlíšestvo) — excess
- Dutch: slok — that which is swallowed
- Russian: засор (zasor) — something that fills up an opening; a clog
- Dutch: wig — wooden wedge used in splitting blocks
- Dutch: blok — mining: piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing
- Bulgarian: насищам (nasištam) — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- Bulgarian: пресищам (presištam) — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- German: auffüllen — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- German: sättigen — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- German: befriedigen — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- German: stillen — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- Irish: anluchtaigh — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- Japanese: 飽食する (houshokusuru) — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- Kabuverdianu: farta — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- Portuguese: saciar — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- Scottish Gaelic: sàsaich — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- Spanish: saciar — to fill to capacity — see also sate
- Czech: přesytit — to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand
- Czech: zahltit — to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand
- French: inonder — to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand
- German: überschwemmen — to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand
- Irish: calc — to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand
- French: gargantuer — to eat gluttonously
- Irish: anluchtaigh — to eat gluttonously
- Māori: apu — to eat gluttonously
- Portuguese: empanturrar-se — to eat gluttonously
- Spanish: glotonear — to eat gluttonously