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newt

noun · verb · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈn(j)ut/
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈnjʉːt/
  • rhymes with -uːt
  • CMU ARPABET: N UW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A small lizard-like amphibian in the subfamily Pleurodelinae that lives in the water as an adult.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To turn (someone) into a newt, especially by magic.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To (usually temporarily) expel a user from a MUD or similar system

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, informal, transitive

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: triton

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: salamander

Narrower terms: common newt, Triturus vulgaris, red eft, Notophthalmus viridescens, Pacific newt, eft

History

Etymology

From Middle English newte, newete, from rebracketing of Middle English an ewte as a newte (for similar misdivisions compare adder, nickname, apron, umpire, etc.). Middle English evete, eute, euete, ewte (“newt”), derives from Old English efete (“lizard; newt”). Doublet of eft.

Across languages

Translations

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: triton — type of salamander
  • Arabic: سَمَنْدَل (samandal) — type of salamander
  • Armenian: տրիտոն (triton) — type of salamander
  • Assamese: নিউট (niut) — type of salamander
  • Asturian: tritón — type of salamander
  • Asturian: guardafontes — type of salamander
  • Azerbaijani: triton — type of salamander
  • Azerbaijani: səməndər — type of salamander
  • Basque: uhandre — type of salamander
  • Belarusian: трыто́н (trytón) — type of salamander
  • Breton: gweronell — type of salamander
  • Bulgarian: дъждо́вник (dǎždóvnik) — type of salamander
  • Bulgarian: трито́н (tritón) — type of salamander
  • Catalan: tritó — type of salamander
  • Chinese Cantonese: 蠑螈 /蝾螈 — type of salamander
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蠑螈 /蝾螈 (róngyuán) — type of salamander
  • Czech: mlok — type of salamander
  • Czech: čolek — type of salamander
  • Danish: salamander — type of salamander
  • Dutch: salamander — type of salamander
  • Erzya: ведьметьказ (veďmeťkaz) — type of salamander
  • Esperanto: trituro — type of salamander
  • Estonian: vesilik — type of salamander
  • Estonian: triiton — type of salamander
  • Finnish: vesilisko — type of salamander
  • French: triton — type of salamander
  • Galician: tritón — type of salamander
  • Georgian: ტრიტონი (ṭriṭoni) — type of salamander
  • German: Molch — type of salamander
  • Greek: τρίτωνας (trítonas) — type of salamander
  • Ancient Greek: κορδύλος (kordúlos) — type of salamander
  • Hebrew: טרִיטוֹן (triton) — type of salamander
  • Hindi: सरटिका (sarṭikā) — type of salamander
  • Hungarian: gőte — type of salamander
  • Irish: niút — type of salamander
  • Irish: earc — type of salamander
  • Italian: tritone — type of salamander
  • Japanese: イモリ (imori) — type of salamander
  • Japanese: 井守 (imori) — type of salamander
  • Japanese: 蠑螈 (imori) — type of salamander
  • Kazakh: тритон (triton) — type of salamander
  • Korean: 영원 (yeong'won) — type of salamander
  • Kyrgyz: тритон (triton) — type of salamander
  • Latin: stelliō — type of salamander
  • Latvian: tritons — type of salamander
  • Lithuanian: tritonas — type of salamander
  • Macedonian: до́ждовник (dóždovnik) — type of salamander
  • Norman: lêzarde dg'ieau — type of salamander
  • Persian: سمندرک (samandarak) — type of salamander
  • Plautdietsch: Äajdakjsel — type of salamander
  • Polish: traszka — type of salamander
  • Portuguese: tritão — type of salamander
  • Romanian: triton — type of salamander
  • Russian: трито́н (tritón) — type of salamander
  • Russian: салама́ндра (salamándra) — type of salamander
  • Scottish Gaelic: dearc-uisge — type of salamander
  • Scottish Gaelic: dearc-luachrach — type of salamander
  • Serbo-Croatian: водењак — type of salamander
  • Serbo-Croatian: vodenjak — type of salamander
  • Slovak: mlok — type of salamander
  • Slovene: pupek — type of salamander
  • Spanish: tritón — type of salamander
  • Swedish: vattenödla — type of salamander
  • Tagalog: triton — type of salamander
  • Thai: นิวต์ (níu) — type of salamander
  • Turkish: semender — type of salamander
  • Turkmen: triton — type of salamander
  • Ukrainian: трито́н (trytón) — type of salamander
  • Uzbek: triton — type of salamander
  • Vietnamese: sa giông — type of salamander
  • Volapük: salmun — type of salamander
  • Welsh: madfall ddŵr — type of salamander