noun
Meaning 1
A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
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
wafer
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: /ˈweɪ̯fəː/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈweɪ̯fəː]
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Australian: /wæɪ̯fəː/
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Australian: [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯fəː] ~ [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯fɐ̝ː]
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General-American: /ˈweɪ̯fɚ/
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General-American: [ˈweɪ̯fɚ] ~ [ˈweɪ̯fɹ̩]
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rhymes with -eɪfə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: W EY1 F ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Christianity
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: host
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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verb
Meaning 5
To seal or fasten with a wafer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 6
thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bread, breadstuff, staff of life
noun
Meaning 7
a small thin crisp cake or cookie
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cookie, cooky, biscuit
noun
Meaning 8
a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: paste, library paste
History
Etymology
From Middle English wafre, from Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Low German wāfel, Middle Dutch wafel (“honeycomb”), West Flemish wafer. See also waffle.
Across languages
Translations
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: вафла (vafla) — biscuit
- Catalan: neula — biscuit
- Chinese Cantonese: 威化餅 /威化饼 (wai1 faa3 beng2) — biscuit
- Chinese Mandarin: 威化餅 /威化饼 (wēihuàbǐng) — biscuit
- Czech: oplatka — biscuit
- Danish: vaffel — biscuit
- Danish: vafferør — biscuit
- Dutch: wafel — biscuit
- Egyptian: G40-q:N33 (pꜣq) — biscuit
- Esperanto: oblato — biscuit
- Estonian: vahvel — biscuit
- Finnish: vohveli — biscuit
- Finnish: vohvelikeksi — biscuit
- French: gaufrette — biscuit
- German: Oblate — biscuit
- German: Waffel — biscuit
- Greek: γκοφρέτα (gkofréta) — biscuit
- Hebrew: וָפֶל (váfel) — biscuit
- Hebrew: וַפְלָה (váfla) — biscuit
- Hungarian: ostya — biscuit
- Hungarian: nápolyi — biscuit
- Italian: wafer — biscuit
- Italian: cialda — biscuit
- Italian: ostia — biscuit
- Japanese: ウエハース (uehāsu) — biscuit
- Macedonian: обланда (oblanda) — biscuit
- Māori: keke angiangi — biscuit
- Middle English: wafre — biscuit
- Polish: wafel — biscuit
- Polish: wafelek — biscuit
- Polish: andrut — biscuit
- Polish: andrucik — biscuit
- Portuguese: wafer — biscuit
- Romanian: napolitană — biscuit
- Russian: ва́фля (váflja) — biscuit
- Spanish: oblea — biscuit
- Spanish: barquillo — biscuit
- Spanish: canutillo — biscuit
- Spanish: barquilla — biscuit
- Swedish: rån — biscuit
- Thai: เวเฟอร์ (wee-fəə) — biscuit
- Turkish: gofret — biscuit
- French: pain à cacheter — lump of sealing substance
- German: Siegeloblate — lump of sealing substance
- Portuguese: obreia — lump of sealing substance
- Russian: печа́ть (pečátʹ) — lump of sealing substance
- Arabic: رُقَاقَة (ruqāqa) — electronics
- Chinese Mandarin: 晶圓 /晶圆 (jīngyuán) — electronics
- Finnish: piikiekko — electronics
- French: wafer — electronics
- German: Wafer — electronics
- German: Halbleiterscheibe — electronics
- Greek: δισκίο πυριτίου (diskío pyritíou) — electronics
- Hungarian: lapka — electronics
- Italian: lamella — electronics
- Italian: dischetto — electronics
- Polish: wafel — electronics
- Polish: podłoże — electronics
- Portuguese: wafer — electronics
- Russian: подло́жка (podlóžka) — electronics
- Spanish: oblea — electronics
- Swedish: kiselplatta — electronics
- Swedish: kiselskiva — electronics
- Vietnamese: đĩa bán dẫn — electronics