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.
name
Acronym of Simple API for XML.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative spelling of zax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Clipping of saxophone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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noun
a shade of colour similar to sky blue
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fashion, lifestyle
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verb
To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, transitive
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verb
To play the saxophone
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: saxophone
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Broader terms: single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind
noun
a Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Adolphe Sax
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Broader terms: maker, shaper
History
From the German surname, spelling variant of Sachs.
From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.
Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.
Clipping of saxe blue, from the name of the region of Saxony.
