name
Meaning 1
A surname from Italian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
martini
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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General-American: /mɑɹˈtini/
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Received-Pronunciation: /mɑːˈtiːni/
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rhymes with -iːni
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noun
Meaning 2
A cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Will you join us at six o’clock for martinis?
- My boss is out on another of his three-martini lunches.
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noun
Meaning 3
Any cocktail served in a cocktail glass, often sweet or fruity and aimed at women.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable
Examples
- I love the chocolate martinis at Trendy Bar!
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noun
Meaning 4
A breech mechanism for a rifle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 5
A type of rifle using similar features.
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noun
Meaning 6
Alternative letter-case form of martini (a cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A brand of Italian vermouth available in several versions, from the Martini & Rossi company.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
a cocktail made of gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cocktail
Narrower terms: vodka martini
History
Etymology
Martini is an Italian name, and in the sense of vermouth is used by the Italian company Martini & Rossi. In the sense “cocktail with vermouth and either gin or vodka”, coined in America in the 19th or 20th century, for which various theories exist – perhaps named for the Italian brand of vermouth, perhaps after Martinez, California, perhaps after an Italian bartender of that name.
See Martini.
Named after Hungarian-born Swiss inventor Frédéric de Martini (1832–1897).
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: մարտինի (martini) — cocktail
- Chinese Mandarin: 馬提尼酒 /马提尼酒 (mǎtíníjiǔ) — cocktail
- Dutch: martini — cocktail
- Finnish: martini — cocktail
- French: martini — cocktail
- German: Martini — cocktail
- Hungarian: martini — cocktail
- Italian: martini — cocktail
- Japanese: マティーニ (matīni) — cocktail
- Macedonian: марти́ни (martíni) — cocktail
- Polish: martini — cocktail
- Portuguese: martíni — cocktail
- Russian: марти́ни (martíni) — cocktail
- Spanish: martini — cocktail
- Turkish: martini — cocktail
Real reading context