adj
Meaning 1
Of or composed of mixed origin or composition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a hybrid mix of jazz and punk
Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
hybrid
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hī'brĭd
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/ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd/
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rhymes with -aɪbɹɪd
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CMU ARPABET: HH AY1 B R AH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: HH AY1 B R IH0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Of a car, running on both fuel (gasoline or diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 3
Involving both 2D and 3D animation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: animation
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noun
Meaning 4
Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bastard, crossbreed, mixing
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A hybrid vehicle, especially a car; a vehicle that runs on both fuel (gasoline or diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 8
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cycling, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 9
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
Meaning 10
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: golf, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Meaning 11
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
A word that is internally macaronic, its elements being derived from different languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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adjective satellite
Meaning 12
produced by crossbreeding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: intercrossed
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 13
(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: crossbreed, cross
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organism, being
Narrower terms: dihybrid, monohybrid
noun
Meaning 14
a composite of mixed origin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices
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Broader terms: complex, composite
noun
Meaning 15
a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: loanblend, loan-blend
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: word
History
Etymology
From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, an offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”). Attested since 1601, but rare before c. 1850.
Across languages
Translations
145 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: հիբրիդային (hibridayin) — consisting of diverse components
- Asturian: híbridu — consisting of diverse components
- Belarusian: гібры́дны (hibrýdny) — consisting of diverse components
- Bulgarian: хибри́ден (hibríden) — consisting of diverse components
- Catalan: híbrid — consisting of diverse components
- Chinese Mandarin: 混血 (hùnxuè, hùnxuě, hùnxiě) — consisting of diverse components
- Finnish: sekamuotoinen — consisting of diverse components
- French: hybride — consisting of diverse components
- Galician: híbrido — consisting of diverse components
- Georgian: ჰიბრიდული (hibriduli) — consisting of diverse components
- German: hybrid — consisting of diverse components
- Hebrew: כלאיים \ כִּלְאַיִם (kil'áyim) — consisting of diverse components
- Irish: hibrideach — consisting of diverse components
- Irish: cros-síolrach — consisting of diverse components
- Irish: croschineálach — consisting of diverse components
- Italian: ibrido — consisting of diverse components
- Latin: bigener — consisting of diverse components
- Latin: miscellus — consisting of diverse components
- Polish: hybrydowy — consisting of diverse components
- Polish: mieszany — consisting of diverse components
- Portuguese: híbrido — consisting of diverse components
- Russian: гибри́дный (gibrídnyj) — consisting of diverse components
- Spanish: híbrido — consisting of diverse components
- Turkish: melez — consisting of diverse components
- Ukrainian: гібри́дний (hibrýdnyj) — consisting of diverse components
- Welsh: croesryw — consisting of diverse components
- Arabic: هَجِين (hajīn) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Armenian: հիբրիդ (hibrid) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Belarusian: гібры́д (hibrýd) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Bulgarian: кръсто́ска (krǎstóska) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Bulgarian: хибри́д (hibríd) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Catalan: híbrid — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Chinese Mandarin: 雜種 /杂种 (zázhǒng) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Czech: kříženec — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Danish: krydsning — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Danish: hybrid — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Dutch: kruising — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Dutch: hybride — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Esperanto: krucbredulo — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Esperanto: hibrido — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Finnish: hybridi — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Finnish: risteytys — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- French: hybride — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Galician: híbrido — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Georgian: ჰიბრიდი (hibridi) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Georgian: ნაჯვარი (naǯvari) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Georgian: ჯიშნარევი (ǯišnarevi) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- German: Blendling — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- German: Mischling — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- German: Kreuzling — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- German: Kreuzung — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- German: Bastard — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- German: Hybride — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- German: Hybride — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- German: Hybrid — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Greek: υβρίδιο (yvrídio) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Hebrew: בֶּן תַּעֲרוֹבֶת (ben ta'aróvet) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Indonesian: hibrida — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Indonesian: blasteran — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Irish: hibrid — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Irish: cros-síolrach — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Italian: ibrido — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Italian: incrocio — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Italian: meticcio — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Japanese: 雑種 (zasshu) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Korean: 잡종 (japjong) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Northern Kurdish: dureg — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Latin: hybrida — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Latin: hybridus — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Malay: kacukan — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Māori: momorua — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Mongolian: эрлийз (erliiz) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Norwegian Bokmål: hybrid — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hybrid — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Polish: hybryda — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Polish: krzyżówka — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Polish: mieszaniec — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Portuguese: híbrido — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Romanian: hibrid — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Russian: гибри́д (gibríd) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Russian: по́месь (pómesʹ) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Sicilian: ìbbritu — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Spanish: híbrido — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Swedish: hybrid — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Swedish: korsning — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Swedish: blandras — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Ukrainian: гібри́д (hibrýd) — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Vietnamese: tạp chủng — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Welsh: croesryw — biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding
- Arabic: هَجِين (hajīn) — something of mixed origin
- Armenian: հիբրիդ (hibrid) — something of mixed origin
- Armenian: խառնածին (xaṙnacin) — something of mixed origin
- Bulgarian: хибри́д (hibríd) — something of mixed origin
- Catalan: híbrid — something of mixed origin
- Czech: hybrid — something of mixed origin
- Danish: hybrid — something of mixed origin
- Dutch: hybride — something of mixed origin
- Finnish: hybridi — something of mixed origin
- Finnish: risteymä — something of mixed origin
- Finnish: sekamuoto — something of mixed origin
- Galician: híbrido — something of mixed origin
- Georgian: ჰიბრიდი (hibridi) — something of mixed origin
- Indonesian: hibrida — something of mixed origin
- Indonesian: campuran — something of mixed origin
- Italian: ibrido — something of mixed origin
- Latin: hybrida — something of mixed origin
- Latin: hybridus — something of mixed origin
- Malay: kacukan — something of mixed origin
- Malay: hibrid — something of mixed origin
- Māori: momorua — something of mixed origin
- Norwegian Bokmål: hybrid — something of mixed origin
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hybrid — something of mixed origin
- Polish: hybryda — something of mixed origin
- Portuguese: híbrido — something of mixed origin
- Russian: гибри́д (gibríd) — something of mixed origin
- Russian: по́месь (pómesʹ) — something of mixed origin
- Spanish: híbrido — something of mixed origin
- Swedish: hybrid — something of mixed origin
- Catalan: híbrid — word derived from different languages
- Dutch: hybridisch woord — word derived from different languages
- French: hybride — word derived from different languages
- Galician: híbrido — word derived from different languages
- German: Bastardwort — word derived from different languages
- German: Hybridwort — word derived from different languages
- German: hybrides Wort — word derived from different languages
- German: Mischwort — word derived from different languages
- German: Zwitterwort — word derived from different languages
- German: Vox hybrida — word derived from different languages
- Italian: ibrido — word derived from different languages
- Latin: vox hybrida — word derived from different languages
- Polish: hybryda — word derived from different languages
- Russian: гибри́д (gibríd) — word derived from different languages
- Bulgarian: хибри́д (hibríd) — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Catalan: híbrid — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Chinese Mandarin: 混合動力汽車 /混合动力汽车 (hùnhé dònglì qìchē) — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Danish: hybrid — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Dutch: hybride — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Finnish: hybridi — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Finnish: hybridiauto — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Galician: híbrido — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- German: Hybridfahrzeug — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Polish: samochód hybrydowy — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Polish: hybryda — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Portuguese: híbrido — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
- Swedish: hybrid — car that runs on both fuel and electricity
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