name
Meaning 1
First king of the Kingdom of Israel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
jeroboam
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: /ˌd͡ʒɛɹəˈboʊəm/
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rhymes with -əʊəm
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CMU ARPABET: JH EH2 R AH0 B OW1 AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Alternative letter-case form of Jeroboam: a very large wine bottle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A bottle of champagne or Burgundy wine containing 3 liters of fluid, four times the volume of a standard bottle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A bottle of Bordeaux wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 5
a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: double-magnum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wine bottle
noun
Meaning 6
(Old Testament) first king of the northern kingdom of Israel who led Israel into sin (10th century BC)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Jeroboam I
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: king, male monarch, Rex
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew יָרָבְעָם (yāroḇʿām).
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: Йеровоам (Jerovoam) — bottle of wine
- French: jéroboam — bottle of wine
- Macedonian: бинлак (binlak) — bottle of wine
- Arabic: يربعام — Biblical king
- Azerbaijani: يربعام — Biblical king
- Belarusian: Ераваам (Jeravaam) — Biblical king
- Breton: Yarovam — Biblical king
- Bulgarian: Йеровоам (Jerovoam) — Biblical king
- Catalan: Jeroboam — Biblical king
- Chichewa: Yeroboamu — Biblical king
- Hakka Chinese: Yâ-lò-pô-ôn — Biblical king
- Chinese Mandarin: 耶羅波安 /耶罗波安 — Biblical king
- Czech: Jarobeám — Biblical king
- Finnish: Jerobeam — Biblical king
- French: Jéroboam — Biblical king
- West-Frisian: Jerobeäm — Biblical king
- Galician: Ieroboam — Biblical king
- German: Jerobeam — Biblical king
- Greek: Ιεροβοάμ (Ierovoám) — Biblical king
- Ancient Greek: Ἱεροβοάμ (Hieroboám) — Biblical king
- Hebrew: ירבעם — Biblical king
- Biblical Hebrew: יָרָבְעָם (Yārŏḇə‘ām) — Biblical king
- Hungarian: Jeroboám — Biblical king
- Indonesian: Yerobeam — Biblical king
- Italian: Geroboamo — Biblical king
- Japanese: ヤロブアム — Biblical king
- Korean: 여로보암 (yeoroboam) — Biblical king
- Latin: Ieroboāmus — Biblical king
- Malagasy: Jerôbôama — Biblical king
- Persian: یربعام — Biblical king
- Polish: Jeroboam — Biblical king
- Russian: Иеровоам (Ijerovoam) — Biblical king
- Spanish: Jeroboam — Biblical king