name
Meaning 1
A given name for a pet animal.
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
peanut
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: pē'nŭt"
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpiːnʌt/
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General-American: /ˈpiˌnʌt/
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CMU ARPABET: P IY1 N AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: P IY1 N AH2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He always liked eating peanuts along with tea before biscuits came into his life.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: goober, goober bean, goober pea, monkey nut, pinder
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: earthnut, groundnut
noun
Meaning 3
Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: countneck
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
See peanuts (“very small amount”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
of little importance or influence or power; of minor status
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a minor, insignificant bureaucrat
- peanut politicians
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: insignificant
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: edible nut
noun
Meaning 8
a young child who is small for his age
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling
noun
Meaning 9
widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: peanut vine, Arachis hypogaea
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: legume, leguminous plant
noun
Meaning 10
underground pod of the peanut vine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pod, seedpod
History
Etymology
From peanut.
From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).
Across languages
Translations
221 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: grondboontjie — a legume resembling a nut
- Alabama: hayaɬi — a legume resembling a nut
- Albanian: kikirik — a legume resembling a nut
- Amharic: ኦቾሎኒ (ʾočoloni) — a legume resembling a nut
- Guerrero Amuzgo: ta̱ti — a legume resembling a nut
- San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: tëtyi — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: فُولٌ سُودَانِيٌّ (fūlun sūdāniyyun) — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: فُسْتُقُ العَبِيد (fustuqu l-ʕabīd) — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: سَبَال (sabāl) — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: فُسْتُقُ الأَرْضِ (fustuqu l-ʔarḍi) — a legume resembling a nut
- Algerian Arabic: كَوْكَاو — a legume resembling a nut
- Algerian Arabic: قَوْقَاو — a legume resembling a nut
- Algerian Arabic: كَوْكَاوِيَّة — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: فول سوداني (fūl sūdānī) — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: سوداني (sūdānī) — a legume resembling a nut
- Libyan Arabic: كَاكَاوِيَّة — a legume resembling a nut
- Libyan Arabic: كَكَّاوِيَّة — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: كَوْكَاو — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: قَوْقَاو — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: البِيَّان — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: فستق (festuʔ) — a legume resembling a nut
- Arabic: فستق (fustuʔ) — a legume resembling a nut
- Sudanese Arabic: فول سوداني (fūl sūdāni) — a legume resembling a nut
- Tunisian Arabic: كَاكَاوِيَّة — a legume resembling a nut
- Armenian: գետնանուշ (getnanuš) — a legume resembling a nut
- Assamese: বাদাম (badam) — a legume resembling a nut
- Asturian: cacagüés — a legume resembling a nut
- Asturian: cacagüesa — a legume resembling a nut
- Aymara: chuqupa — a legume resembling a nut
- Azerbaijani: araxis — a legume resembling a nut
- Azerbaijani: yerfındığı — a legume resembling a nut
- Basque: kakahuete — a legume resembling a nut
- Belarusian: ара́хіс (aráxis) — a legume resembling a nut
- Bengali: চিনাবাদাম (cinabadam) — a legume resembling a nut
- Bengali: চীনাবাদাম (cinabadam) — a legume resembling a nut
- Bulgarian: фъстъ́к (fǎstǎ́k) — a legume resembling a nut
- Burmese: မြေပဲ (mrepai:) — a legume resembling a nut
- Catalan: cacauet — a legume resembling a nut
- Cebuano: mani — a legume resembling a nut
- Cerma: kaakoeŋo — a legume resembling a nut
- Chinese Cantonese: 花生 — a legume resembling a nut
- Chinese Cantonese: 落花生 (lok6 faa1 sang1) — a legume resembling a nut
- Hakka Chinese: 番豆 (fân-theu) — a legume resembling a nut
- Chinese: 塗豆 /涂豆 (zh-min-nan) — a legume resembling a nut
- Chinese Mandarin: 花生 (huāshēng) — a legume resembling a nut
- Chinese Mandarin: 落花生 (luòhuāshēng) — a legume resembling a nut
- Chinese Mandarin: 長生果 /长生果 (chángshēngguǒ) — a legume resembling a nut
- Chinese Mandarin: 土豆 (tǔdòu) — a legume resembling a nut
- Ngazidja Comorian: ndjugu — a legume resembling a nut
- Cornish: know dor — a legume resembling a nut
- Czech: arašíd — a legume resembling a nut
- Czech: burský oříšek — a legume resembling a nut
- Danish: jordnød — a legume resembling a nut
- Danish: peanut — a legume resembling a nut
- Dutch: aardnoot — a legume resembling a nut
- Dutch: pinda — a legume resembling a nut
- Dutch: apennoot — a legume resembling a nut
- Dutch: arachidenoot — a legume resembling a nut
- Dutch: grondnoot — a legume resembling a nut
- Dutch: olienoot — a legume resembling a nut
- Erzya: модапеште (modapešte) — a legume resembling a nut
- Esperanto: arakido — a legume resembling a nut
- Esperanto: ternukso — a legume resembling a nut
- Estonian: maapähkel — a legume resembling a nut
- Estonian: arahhis — a legume resembling a nut
- Estonian: arahhispähkel — a legume resembling a nut
- Estonian: hiina pähkel — a legume resembling a nut
- Faroese: jarðnøt — a legume resembling a nut
- Finnish: maapähkinä — a legume resembling a nut
- French: arachide — a legume resembling a nut
- French: cacahuète — a legume resembling a nut
- French: pinotte — a legume resembling a nut
- Galician: cacahuete — a legume resembling a nut
- Georgian: არაქისი (arakisi) — a legume resembling a nut
- Georgian: მიწის თხილი (mic̣is txili) — a legume resembling a nut
- German: Erdnuss — a legume resembling a nut
- Greek: φυστίκι (fystíki) — a legume resembling a nut
- Greenlandic: jordnøddi — a legume resembling a nut
- Hawaiian: pineki — a legume resembling a nut
- Hebrew: בוֹטֵן (boten) — a legume resembling a nut
- Hebrew: אגוז אדמה (egoz adama) — a legume resembling a nut
- Higaonon: mani — a legume resembling a nut
- Hindi: मूँगफली (mūṅgaphlī) — a legume resembling a nut
- Hungarian: földimogyoró — a legume resembling a nut
- Hungarian: amerikaimogyoró — a legume resembling a nut
- Icelandic: jarðhneta — a legume resembling a nut
- Ido: arakido — a legume resembling a nut
- Indonesian: kacang tanah — a legume resembling a nut
- Ingrian: maapäähkänä — a legume resembling a nut
- Irish: pis talún — a legume resembling a nut
- Italian: arachide — a legume resembling a nut
- Italian: bagigio — a legume resembling a nut
- Japanese: ピーナツ (pīnatsu) — a legume resembling a nut
- Japanese: 落花生 (rakkasei) — a legume resembling a nut
- Kannada: ಕಡಲೇಕಾಯಿ (kaḍalēkāyi) — a legume resembling a nut
- Kari'na: akunepy — a legume resembling a nut
- Kazakh: жержаңғақ (jerjañğaq) — a legume resembling a nut
- Khmer: សណ្ដែកដី (sɑɑsɑndaek dəy) — a legume resembling a nut
- Kongo: nguba — a legume resembling a nut
- Kongo: mpinda — a legume resembling a nut
- Konkani: भिकण (bhikaṇ) — a legume resembling a nut
- Korean: 땅콩 (ttangkong) — a legume resembling a nut
- Kyrgyz: жержаңгак (jerjaŋgak) — a legume resembling a nut
- Ladino: fustuk — a legume resembling a nut
- Lao: ຖົ່ວດິນ (thūa din) — a legume resembling a nut
- Latin: arachis — a legume resembling a nut
- Latvian: zemesrieksts — a legume resembling a nut
- Lithuanian: valgomasis arachis — a legume resembling a nut
- Low German: Eerdnööt — a legume resembling a nut
- Low German: Ültje — a legume resembling a nut
- Lü: ᦷᦏᧈᦡᦲᧃ (ṫho1ḋiin) — a legume resembling a nut
- Luhya: chimaito — a legume resembling a nut
- Luxembourgish: Kakuett — a legume resembling a nut
- Luxembourgish: Afennoss — a legume resembling a nut
- Macanese: façám — a legume resembling a nut
- Macedonian: кикири́тка (kikirítka) — a legume resembling a nut
- Macedonian: кикири́ка (kikiríka) — a legume resembling a nut
- Malay: kacang tanah — a legume resembling a nut
- Brunei Malay: kacang tanah — a legume resembling a nut
- Malayalam: കപ്പലണ്ടി (kappalaṇṭi) — a legume resembling a nut
- Malayalam: നിലക്കടല (nilakkaṭala) — a legume resembling a nut
- Maltese: karawett — a legume resembling a nut
- Manx: cro thallooin — a legume resembling a nut
- Māori: pīnati — a legume resembling a nut
- Marathi: शेंगदाणा (śeṅgdāṇā) — a legume resembling a nut
- Mongolian: хуасан (xuasan) — a legume resembling a nut
- Nahuatl: cacáhuatl — a legume resembling a nut
- Nahuatl: tlalcacahuatl — a legume resembling a nut
- Navajo: neeshchʼííłbáhí — a legume resembling a nut
- North Mofu: ndér — a legume resembling a nut
- Norwegian Bokmål: peanøtt — a legume resembling a nut
- Norwegian Bokmål: jordnøtt — a legume resembling a nut
- Norwegian Nynorsk: peanøtt — a legume resembling a nut
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jordnøtt — a legume resembling a nut
- Occitan: cacauèt — a legume resembling a nut
- Old English: eorþhnutu — a legume resembling a nut
- Oromo: ocholoonii — a legume resembling a nut
- Papiamentu: pinda — a legume resembling a nut
- Persian: بادام کوهی (bâdâm kuhi) — a legume resembling a nut
- Persian: بادام زمینی (bâdâm zamini) — a legume resembling a nut
- Plautdietsch: Ieednät — a legume resembling a nut
- Plautdietsch: Pienat — a legume resembling a nut
- Polish: arachid — a legume resembling a nut
- Polish: fistaszek — a legume resembling a nut
- Polish: orzech arachidowy — a legume resembling a nut
- Polish: orzech ziemny — a legume resembling a nut
- Polish: orzeszek ziemny — a legume resembling a nut
- Polish: żydek — a legume resembling a nut
- Portuguese: amendoim — a legume resembling a nut
- Portuguese: ginguba — a legume resembling a nut
- Punjabi: ਮੁੰਗਫਲੀ (muṅgphalī) — a legume resembling a nut
- Quechua: inchik — a legume resembling a nut
- Romanian: arahidă — a legume resembling a nut
- Romanian: alună de pământ — a legume resembling a nut
- Romanian: alună americană — a legume resembling a nut
- Romansh: spagnoletta — a legume resembling a nut
- Russian: ара́хис (aráxis) — a legume resembling a nut
- Russian: земляно́й оре́х (zemljanój oréx) — a legume resembling a nut
- Russian: кита́йский оре́х (kitájskij oréx) — a legume resembling a nut
- Northern Sami: eananniehtti — a legume resembling a nut
- Scottish Gaelic: cnò-thalmhainn — a legume resembling a nut
- Serbo-Croatian: kikirìki — a legume resembling a nut
- Slovak: arašid — a legume resembling a nut
- Slovene: arašíd — a legume resembling a nut
- Slovene: kikirikí — a legume resembling a nut
- Slovene: kikirikí — a legume resembling a nut
- Lower Sorbian: zemski wórješk — a legume resembling a nut
- Upper Sorbian: zemski worjech — a legume resembling a nut
- Upper Sorbian: zemski worješk — a legume resembling a nut
- Sotho: letokomane — a legume resembling a nut
- Spanish: maní — a legume resembling a nut
- Spanish: cacahuate — a legume resembling a nut
- Spanish: cacahuete — a legume resembling a nut
- Swahili: njugu — a legume resembling a nut
- Swahili: karanga — a legume resembling a nut
- Swahili: njugunyasa — a legume resembling a nut
- Swahili: njugumawe — a legume resembling a nut
- Swedish: jordnöt — a legume resembling a nut
- Tagalog: mani — a legume resembling a nut
- Tamil: நிலக்கடலை (nilakkaṭalai) — a legume resembling a nut
- Tamil: கச்சான் (kaccāṉ) — a legume resembling a nut
- Telugu: వేరుసెనగ (vērusenaga) — a legume resembling a nut
- Telugu: వేరుసెనగకాయ (vērusenagakāya) — a legume resembling a nut
- Telugu: పల్లీ (pallī) — a legume resembling a nut
- Telugu: పల్లీకాయ (pallīkāya) — a legume resembling a nut
- Telugu: ఇలాతికాయ (Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda) — a legume resembling a nut
- Telugu: బుడ్డ (Mahabubnagar, Kurnool) — a legume resembling a nut
- Telugu: గుత్తిసెనగ (guttisenaga) — a legume resembling a nut
- Telugu: సెనక్కాయ (Rayalaseema) — a legume resembling a nut
- Thai: ถั่วลิสง (lí-sǒng) — a legume resembling a nut
- Thai: ลิสง (lí-sǒng) — a legume resembling a nut
- Tibetan: སྦ་ཏམ (sba tam) — a legume resembling a nut
- Tongan: pīnati — a legume resembling a nut
- Turkish: yer fıstığı — a legume resembling a nut
- Turkish: araşit — a legume resembling a nut
- Ottoman Turkish: یر فستغی (yer fıstığı) — a legume resembling a nut
- Turkmen: ýer hoz — a legume resembling a nut
- Uab Meto: fukasê — a legume resembling a nut
- Ukrainian: ара́хіс (aráxis) — a legume resembling a nut
- Ukrainian: земляни́й горі́х (zemljanýj horíx) — a legume resembling a nut
- Urdu: مونگفلی (mungfali) — a legume resembling a nut
- Venetan: bajijo — a legume resembling a nut
- Venetan: bagigio — a legume resembling a nut
- Vietnamese: đậu phộng — a legume resembling a nut
- Vietnamese: đậu phụng — a legume resembling a nut
- Vietnamese: lạc — a legume resembling a nut
- Volapük: raagid — a legume resembling a nut
- Wayana: ahnep — a legume resembling a nut
- Wayana: pinta — a legume resembling a nut
- Welsh: cnau daear — a legume resembling a nut
- Welsh: pysgnau — a legume resembling a nut
- Wolof: gerte — a legume resembling a nut
- Wolof: areen — a legume resembling a nut
- Yiddish: פֿיסטאַשקע (fistashke) — a legume resembling a nut
- Yiddish: סטאַשקע (stashke) — a legume resembling a nut
- Yiddish: רבי־ניסל (rebe-nisl) — a legume resembling a nut
- Yiddish: משה־רבינו־ניסל (Moyshe-Rabeynu-nisl) — a legume resembling a nut
- Zaghawa: mandawa — a legume resembling a nut
- Zhuang: duhdoem — a legume resembling a nut
- Zhuang: duhnamh — a legume resembling a nut
- Zhuang: duh — a legume resembling a nut
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