adj
Meaning 1
Extremely sharp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rapier
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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UK: /ˈɹeɪpˌɪə(ɹ)/
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adj
Meaning 2
Cutting; employing keen wit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- John is very quick on his feet during interviews by using his rapier responses.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
comparative form of rapey: more rapey
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparative, form-of
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name
Meaning 4
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A slender, straight, sharply pointed sword (double-edged, single-edged or edgeless), designed predominantly for thrusting; used during the Renaissance period of Europe for civilian duelling
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tuck
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sword, blade, brand, steel
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French rapiere, from Middle French (espee) rapiere, from Old French rapiere, raspiere, from Spanish raspadera (“poker; raker; scraper”), from Spanish raspar (“to scrape”), of Germanic origin. More at rasp.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سَيْفٌ ذُو حَدَّيْن (sayfun ḏū ḥaddayn) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Arabic: سَيْفُ الْمُبَارَزَة (sayfu l-mubāraza) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Arabic: مِغْوَل (miḡwal) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Armenian: սուսեր (suser) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Bulgarian: рапира (rapira) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Catalan: estoc — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Chinese Mandarin: 護手刺劍 /护手刺剑 (hùshǒu cìjiàn) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Czech: rapír — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Dutch: rapier — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Esperanto: rapiro — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Finnish: rapiiri — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- French: rapière — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Galician: estoque — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- German: Florett — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- German: Rapier — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- German: Stoßdegen — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Italian: stocco — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Japanese: レイピア (reipia) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Kazakh: рапира (rapira) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Korean: 레이피어 (reipieo) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Macedonian: рапи́р (rapír) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Manx: cliwe keyl — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Marathi: रेपियर (repiyar) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Polish: rapier — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Portuguese: florete — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Portuguese: rapieira — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Romanian: rapieră — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Russian: рапи́ра (rapíra) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Russian: шпа́га (špága) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Spanish: estoque — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Spanish: espada ropera — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Swedish: rapir — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Swedish: värja — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Ottoman Turkish: شیش (şiş) — slender straight sharply pointed sword
- Volapük: steigaden — slender straight sharply pointed sword