name
Meaning 1
A surname
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
mitt
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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/mɪt/
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rhymes with -ɪt
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CMU ARPABET: M IH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A mitten
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A hand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially, in-plural, informal
Examples
- Hey, get your cotton-picking mitts off my sandwich!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
the handwear used by fielders in playing baseball
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: baseball glove, glove, baseball mitt
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: baseball equipment
noun
Meaning 6
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he had the hands of a surgeon
- he extended his mitt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hand, manus, paw
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extremity
Narrower terms: fist, clenched fist, hooks, meat hooks, maulers, right, right hand, left, left hand
History
Etymology
Clipping of mitten.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: want — oversized, protective glove
- Finnish: kinnas — oversized, protective glove
- Finnish: patakinnas — oversized, protective glove
- Finnish: räpylä — oversized, protective glove
- Italian: guantone — oversized, protective glove
- Korean: 미트 (miteu) — oversized, protective glove
- Finnish: räpylä — hand
- Finnish: käpälä — hand