trait

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• /tɹeɪt/
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• trā traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete
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• /tɹeɪ/ traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete
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• rhymes with -eɪt
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• rhymes with -eɪ
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• homophone: tray
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• homophone: trey (one pronunciation)
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• CMU ARPABET: T R EY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), from Latin trahō. Doublet of tract.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صِفَة (ṣifa) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Arabic: شِيْمَة (šiyma) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Arabic: سِمَة (sima) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Bashkir: сифат (sifat) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Belarusian: ры́са (rýsa) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Bulgarian: белег (beleg) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Bulgarian: отличителна черта (otličitelna čerta) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Bulgarian: черта́ (čertá) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Catalan: tret — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Chinese Mandarin: 特徵 /特征 (tèzhēng) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Czech: rys — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Dutch: karaktereigenschap trek — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Esperanto: trajto — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Finnish: piirre — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Finnish: ominaisuus — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• French: trait — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• German: Eigenschaft — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• German: Zug — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Hebrew: מאפיין (meafyén) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Hebrew: תכונה (tkhuná) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Hungarian: jellemző — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Hungarian: jellemvonás — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Icelandic: einkenni — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Icelandic: eiginleiki — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Indonesian: ciri-ciri — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Indonesian: ciri khas — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Indonesian: ciri — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Indonesian: karakteristik — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Indonesian: trait — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Indonesian: sifat — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Italian: caratteristica — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Italian: tratto — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Japanese: 特徴 (tokuchō) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Korean: 특징 (teukjing) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Norwegian: trekk — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Norwegian Bokmål: egenskap — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eigenskap — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Norwegian Nynorsk: drag — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Occitan: trach — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Occitan: trait — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Persian: صفت (sefat) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Persian: خصلت (xeslat) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Polish: cecha — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Polish: rys — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Portuguese: traço — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Portuguese: peculiaridade — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Russian: черта́ (čertá) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Russian: осо́бенность (osóbennostʹ) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Russian: прису́щее (prisúščeje) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Slovak: vlastnosť — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Slovak: črta — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Slovak: rys — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Spanish: rasgo — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Spanish: característica — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Spanish: carácter — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Swedish: drag — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Swedish: egenskap — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Swedish: egenhet — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Tagalog: panangi — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Thai: นิสัย (ní-sǎi) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Turkish: özellik — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Turkish: vasıf — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Ukrainian: ри́са (rýsa) — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Vietnamese: đặc điểm — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Vietnamese: đặc tính — an identifying characteristic, habit or trend
• Finnish: piirre — uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface
• Russian: типа́ж (tipáž) — uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface
• Russian: трейт (trejt) — uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface