noun
Meaning 1
A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
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
magnet
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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Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ.nɪt/
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Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡ.nət/
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Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [ˈmæɡ.nət̚]
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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South-Asia: /mæɡnɛʈ/
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homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)
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rhymes with -ɪt
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CMU ARPABET: M AE1 G N AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An alluring or attractive person or thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, in-compounds, informal, often
Examples
- He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lodestone
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Ellipsis of magnet link.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
(physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: device
Narrower terms: bar magnet, electromagnet, field magnet, magnetic needle, paramagnet, permanent magnet, static magnet, solenoid
noun
Meaning 5
a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- flowers are an attractor for bees
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: attraction, attractor, attracter, attractive feature
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: feature, characteristic
Narrower terms: attention, tourist attraction
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Old French magnetebor. Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs) Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor. Latin magnēsbor. Middle English magnete English magnet From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnēs, magnētem (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις [λίθος] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (Magnēsía) (whence came the colonists who founded the city in Lydia). Related to manganese, magnesia and magnesium.
Across languages
Translations
129 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Akkadian: 𒍝 𒍝𒁉𒌈 (abnu ṣābittu) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Akkadian: 𒃻𒁕𒉡 𒍝𒁉𒌈 (šadanu ṣābittu) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Albanian: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Amharic: መግነጢስ (mägnäṭis) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Amharic: ማግኔት (magnet) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Arabic: مَغْنَاطِيس (maḡnāṭīs) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Arabic: مِغْنَاطِيس (miḡnāṭīs) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Arabic: مَغْنَاطِيس (maḡnāṭīs) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Armenian: մագնիս (magnis) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Assamese: চুম্বক (sumbok) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Assamese: অয়স্কান্ত (oyoskanto) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Asturian: imán — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Aymara: achkatasiri — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Azerbaijani: maqnit — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Azerbaijani: ahənrüba — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Azerbaijani: dəmirqapan — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Basque: iman — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Belarusian: магні́т (mahnít) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Bengali: অয়স্কান্ত (oẏoskanto) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Bengali: চুম্বক (cumbok) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Bulgarian: магни́т (magnít) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Burmese: သံလိုက် (samluik) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Carpathian Rusyn: маґнет (magnet) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Catalan: imant — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Chinese Cantonese: 攝石 /摄石 (sip3 sek6) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Chinese: щитешы (xitiəšɨ) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Chinese: 吸石 (zh-min-nan) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Chinese Mandarin: 磁鐵 /磁铁 (cítiě) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Chinese Mandarin: 磁石 (císhí) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Cornish: tennven — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Crimean Tatar: mıqnatis — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Czech: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Danish: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Dutch: magneet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Esperanto: magneto — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Estonian: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Faroese: sigul — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Faroese: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Faroese: magnetur — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Finnish: magneetti — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- French: aimant — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Galician: imán — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Georgian: მაგნიტი (magniṭi) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- German: Magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Greek: μαγνήτης (magnítis) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Hebrew: מַגְנֵט (magnét) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Hindi: चुंबक (cumbak) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Hindi: मक़नातीस (maqnātīs) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Hungarian: mágnes — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Icelandic: segull — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Indonesian: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Indonesian: sembrani — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Indonesian: besi berani — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Interlingua: magnete — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Inupiaq: nipitchak — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Irish: maighnéad — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Irish: adhmaint — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Italian: magnete — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Italian: calamita — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Japanese: 磁石 (jishaku) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Kalmyk: сорнц (sornts) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- S'gaw Karen: ထးနါ (hṭä nah) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Kazakh: магнит (magnit) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Khmer: មេដែក (mei daek) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Korean: 자석 (jaseok) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Middle Korean: 지〮남셕〮 (cínàmsyék) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Central Kurdish: مەقناتیس (meqnatîs) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Kyrgyz: магнит (magnit) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Lao: ແມ່ເຫຼັກ (mǣ lek) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Lao: ແມ່ເຫລັກ (mǣ lek) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Latin: magnes — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Latvian: magnēts — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Lithuanian: magnetas — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Lü: ᦶᦙᧈᦵᦜᧅ (mae1l̇ek) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Macedonian: магнет (magnet) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Malay: besi berani — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Malay: besi semberani — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Malay: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Manx: magnaid — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Māori: autō — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Mon: သြာန်လာ် — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Mongolian: соронз (soronz) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Norwegian Bokmål: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Pashto: مقناطيس (meqnātís) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Iranian Persian: آهَنْرُبا (âhanrobâ) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Iranian Persian: مَغْنیطیس (maġnitis) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Polish: magnes — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Portuguese: ímã — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Portuguese: íman — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Punjabi: ਚੁੰਬਕ (cumbak) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Romanian: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Russian: магни́т (magnít) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Scottish Gaelic: magnait — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Serbo-Croatian: ма̀гне̄т — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Serbo-Croatian: màgnēt — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Shan: သၢၼ်ႇလႅၵ်ႉ (sàan lḛ̂k) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Shan: လဵၵ်းၸၼ် (láek tsǎn) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Sikkimese: ཁབ་ལེན (khab len) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Slovak: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Slovene: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Spanish: imán — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Swahili: sumaku — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Swedish: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tagalog: batubalani — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tagalog: gayuma — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tajik: магнит (magnit) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tajik: оҳанрабо (ohanrabo) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tamil: காந்தம் (kāntam) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Telugu: అయస్కాంతము (ayaskāntamu) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Telugu: అయస్కాంతం (ayaskāntaṁ) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Thai: แม่เหล็ก (mɛ̂ɛ-lèk) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tibetan: སྐུད་འདྲེན་ལེན་པོ (skud 'dren len po) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tibetan: ཁད་ལོང — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tibetan: ཁབ་ལོང — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tibetan: ཁབ་ལེན་རྡོ (khab len rdo) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Tibetan: རྡོ་ཁབ་ལེན (rdo khab len) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Turkish: mıknatıs — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Turkish: çaşak — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Turkmen: magnit — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Ukrainian: магні́т (mahnít) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Urdu: مَقْناطِیس (maqnātīs) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Uyghur: ماگنىت (magnit) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Uzbek: magnit — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Vietnamese: nam châm — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Welsh: magnet — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Yiddish: מאַגנעט (magnet) — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Zhuang: yapsig — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Zhuang: swzdij — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- Zulu: uzibuthe class 1a/2a — piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
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