adj
Meaning 1
Made of lace or decorated with it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- lacy lingerie
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lacy
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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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈleɪ.si/
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rhymes with -eɪsi
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CMU ARPABET: L EY1 S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Looking like lace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A surname from Old French, variant of Lacey
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 4
A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey.
A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly 19th century usage, variant of Lacey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 5
A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lacey.
A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Lacey.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
made of or resembling lace
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a lacy gown
- a lacy leaf
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lacelike
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
having open interstices or resembling a web
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: netlike, netted, webbed, weblike, webby
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English lace Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English lacy From lace + -y.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: дантелен (dantelen) — made of lace or decorated with it
- Estonian: pitsiline — made of lace or decorated with it
- Finnish: pitsinen — made of lace or decorated with it
- French: de dentelle — made of lace or decorated with it
- French: semblable à de la dentelle — made of lace or decorated with it
- Greek: δαντελένιος (dantelénios) — made of lace or decorated with it
- Greek: δαντελωτός (dantelotós) — made of lace or decorated with it
- Hindi: जालीदार (jālīdār) — made of lace or decorated with it
- Polish: koronkowy — made of lace or decorated with it
- Russian: кружевной (kruževnoj) — made of lace or decorated with it
- Turkish: dantelli — made of lace or decorated with it
- Estonian: pitsitaoline — looking like lace
- Finnish: pitsimäinen — looking like lace
- French: comme de la dentelle — looking like lace
- Greek: δαντελένιος (dantelénios) — looking like lace
- Hindi: जालीदार (jālīdār) — looking like lace