name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
guise
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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/ˈɡaɪz/
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homophone: guys
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rhymes with -aɪz
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CMU ARPABET: G AY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1924, Aristotle. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 1, Part 5. dialecticians and sophists assume the same guise as the philosopher
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noun
Meaning 3
An external appearance in manner or dress; an appropriate indication or expression; a garb; a shape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A misleading appearance; a cover, a cloak.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Under the guise of patriotism
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noun
Meaning 5
Deliberate misspelling of guys.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, alt-of, deliberate, misspelling, plural, plural-only
Examples
- Sup guise? — What's up, guys?
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verb
Meaning 6
To dress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
Meaning 7
To act as a guiser; to go dressed up in a parade etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
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noun
Meaning 8
an artful or simulated semblance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- under the guise of friendship he betrayed them
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pretense, pretence, pretext
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: semblance, gloss, color, colour
History
Etymology
From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“way, manner”), Dutch wijze (“way, manner”). More at wise.
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: държание (dǎržanie) — way of speaking or acting
- Dutch: uiterlijk — way of speaking or acting
- Dutch: voorkomen — way of speaking or acting
- French: apparence — way of speaking or acting
- German: Art und Weise — way of speaking or acting
- German: Auftreten — way of speaking or acting
- Macedonian: начин (način) — way of speaking or acting
- Macedonian: однесување (odnesuvanje) — way of speaking or acting
- Occitan: aparéncia — way of speaking or acting
- Portuguese: aparência — way of speaking or acting
- Spanish: apariencia — way of speaking or acting
- Turkish: üslup — way of speaking or acting
- Bulgarian: външен вид (vǎnšen vid) — appearance in manner or dress
- Czech: převlečení — appearance in manner or dress
- Czech: vzezření — appearance in manner or dress
- Czech: podoba — appearance in manner or dress
- French: apparence — appearance in manner or dress
- French: aspect — appearance in manner or dress
- German: Erscheinung — appearance in manner or dress
- German: Gestalt — appearance in manner or dress
- German: Auftreten — appearance in manner or dress
- Macedonian: изглед (izgled) — appearance in manner or dress
- Macedonian: појава (pojava) — appearance in manner or dress
- Māori: ari — appearance in manner or dress
- Swedish: skepnad — appearance in manner or dress
- Ukrainian: зо́внішність (zóvnišnistʹ) — appearance in manner or dress
- Bulgarian: маскировка (maskirovka) — cover; cloak
- Bulgarian: прикритие (prikritie) — cover; cloak
- Czech: maska — cover; cloak
- Czech: zástěrka — cover; cloak
- Czech: převlek — cover; cloak
- Czech: rouška — cover; cloak
- Czech: převlečení — cover; cloak
- Czech: pláštík — cover; cloak
- Czech: přetvářka — cover; cloak
- French: couvert — cover; cloak
- French: prétexte — cover; cloak
- German: Deckmantel — cover; cloak
- Ukrainian: ви́гляд (výhljad) — cover; cloak
- Ukrainian: прикриття́ (prykryttjá) — cover; cloak
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