name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
loupe
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/luːp/
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rhymes with -uːp
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homophone: loop
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CMU ARPABET: L UW1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A magnifying glass, usually mounted in an eyepiece, often used by jewellers and watchmakers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A type of short-range binoculars used by surgeons and dentists.
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noun
Meaning 4
small magnifying glass (usually set in an eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: jeweler's loupe
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hand glass, simple microscope, magnifying glass
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French loupe.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лупа (lupa) — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Chinese Mandarin: 放大鏡 /放大镜 (fàngdàjìng) — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Czech: lupa — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Dutch: loep — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Esperanto: lupeo — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Finnish: luuppi — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- French: loupe — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- German: Lupe — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- German: Vergrößerungsglas — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Hungarian: (kézi) nagyító — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Hungarian: nagyítóüveg — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Hungarian: lupe — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Ido: lupo — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Japanese: ルーペ (rūpe) — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Polish: lupa — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Portuguese: lupa — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Russian: лу́па (lúpa) — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Russian: увеличи́тельное стекло́ (uveličítelʹnoje stekló) — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Serbo-Croatian: лупа — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Serbo-Croatian: увеличавајуће стакло — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Serbo-Croatian: lupa — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Serbo-Croatian: uveličavajuće staklo — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Swedish: lupp — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Turkish: büyüteç — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Turkish: pertavsız — magnifying glass often used by jewellers and watchmakers
- Finnish: luuppi — type of binoculars used by surgeons and dentists
- Italian: occhiali ingrandenti — type of binoculars used by surgeons and dentists
- Russian: лу́па (lúpa) — type of binoculars used by surgeons and dentists