noun
Meaning 1
A short staff, a club; a cudgel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
truncheon
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: /ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/
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UK: /ˈtɹʌnʃən/
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General-American: /ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/
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rhymes with -ʌnt͡ʃən
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CMU ARPABET: T R AH1 N CH IH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nightstick, baton
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
The shaft of a spear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 5
A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 6
A penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
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verb
Meaning 7
To strike with a truncheon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 8
a short stout club used primarily by policemen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: club
History
Etymology
From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus.
Across languages
Translations
47 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Danish: batong — short club
- Danish: knippel — short club
- Dutch: knuppel — short club
- Finnish: kapula — short club
- Finnish: patukka — short club
- Finnish: sauva — short club
- Finnish: keppi — short club
- French: matraque — short club
- Galician: porra — short club
- German: Gummiknüppel — short club
- German: Schlagstock — short club
- Greek: γκλοπ (gklop) — short club
- Hungarian: gumibot — short club
- Irish: smachtín — short club
- Norwegian Bokmål: batong — short club
- Norwegian Nynorsk: batong — short club
- Polish: buława — short club
- Portuguese: cassetete — short club
- Russian: дубинка (dubinka) — short club
- Spanish: porra — short club
- Swedish: batong — short club
- Swedish: polisbatong — short club
- Swedish: påk — short club
- Swedish: knölpåk — short club
- Swedish: käpp — short club
- Ottoman Turkish: صوپه (sopa) — short club
- Ottoman Turkish: چوماق (çomak) — short club
- Ottoman Turkish: كوتك (kötek) — short club
- Ukrainian: кийок (kyjok) — short club
- Ukrainian: дубинка (dubynka) — short club
- Bulgarian: полицейска палка (policejska palka) — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Czech: pendrek — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Czech: obušek — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Dutch: wapenstok — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Finnish: pamppu — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- German: Schlagstock — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Macedonian: пендрек (pendrek) — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Polish: gumowa pałka policyjna — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Russian: резиновая дубинка (rezinovaja dubinka) — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Spanish: porra — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Swedish: kommandostav — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Turkish: cop — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Ukrainian: гумова палиця (humova palycja) — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Ukrainian: гумовий кийок (humovyj kyjok) — a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer
- Polish: uderzać pałką — strike with a truncheon
- Polish: uderzyć pałką — strike with a truncheon
- Swedish: prygla — strike with a truncheon