name
Meaning 1
A county of Ireland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
limerick
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Pronunciation
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/ˈlɪm(ə)ɹɪk/
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name
Meaning 2
A city in County Limerick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Liberty County, Georgia.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A place in the United States:
A town in York County, Maine.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A place in the United States:
A township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 7
A locality in the Upper Lachlan council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 8
A habitational surname from Irish.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence.
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noun
Meaning 10
a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: verse, rhyme
noun
Meaning 11
port city in southwestern Ireland
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center, port
History
Etymology
Anglicized form of Irish Luimneach.
From the Irish town name Limerick, Irish Luimneach [ˈl̪ɣɪmjənjəx].
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: Ли́мерик (Límerik) — county
- German: Limerick — county
- Irish: Luimneach — county
- Irish: Contae Luimnigh — county
- Latin: Limericum — county
- Macedonian: Лимерик (Limerik) — county
- Marathi: लिमेरिक (limerik) — county
- Polish: Limerick — county
- Russian: Ли́мерик (Límerik) — county
- Scots: Limerick — county
- Arabic: لِيمِرِيك (līmirīk) — town
- Armenian: Լիմերիկ (Limerik) — town
- Azerbaijani: Limerik — town
- Belarusian: Лімерык (Limjeryk) — town
- Breton: Luimneach — town
- Bulgarian: Ли́мерик (Límerik) — town
- Cebuano: Luimneach — town
- Chinese Mandarin: 利默里克 — town
- West-Frisian: Limmerik — town
- Georgian: ლიმერიკი (limeriḳi) — town
- German: Limerick — town
- Greek: Λίμερικ (Límerik) — town
- Hebrew: לימריק — town
- Irish: Luimneach — town
- Irish: Cathair Luimnigh — town
- Japanese: リムリック — town
- Korean: 리머릭 (rimeorik) — town
- Latin: Limericum — town
- Lithuanian: Limerikas — town
- Macedonian: Лимерик (Limerik) — town
- Manx: Limmeragh — town
- Marathi: लिमेरिक (limerik) — town
- Ossetian: Лимерик (Limerik) — town
- Persian: لیمرک (limerek) — town
- Polish: Limerick — town
- Russian: Ли́мерик (Límerik) — town
- Scots: Limerick — town
- Scottish Gaelic: Luimneach — town
- Ukrainian: Лімерик (Limeryk) — town
- Urdu: لیمرک — town
- Uzbek: Limerik — town
- Bulgarian: ли́мерик (límerik) — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Chinese Mandarin: 五行打油詩 /五行打油诗 (wǔháng dǎyóushī) — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Dutch: limerick — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Esperanto: limeriko — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Finnish: limerikki — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- French: limerick — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- German: Limerick — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Hebrew: חַמְשִׁיר (khamshír) — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Icelandic: limra — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Irish: luimneach — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Japanese: リメリック (rimerikku) — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Polish: limeryk — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Portuguese: limerique — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Russian: ли́мерик (límerik) — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Spanish: quintilla — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Spanish: quintilla jocosa — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
- Swedish: limerick — humorous rhyming verse of five lines
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