Standard Lemma guide
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
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Having more than one shape or appearance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: polymorphic, polymorphous, protean
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An organism, folktale, etc. that appears in more than one form.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances- John Dewey
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: uniform
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English form English multiform From multi- + form.
Across languages
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
