adj
Meaning 1
Made of wickerwork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wicker
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: /ˈwɪkəː/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈwɪkəː]
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈwɪkɚ/
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General-American: [ˈwɪkɚ] ~ [ˈwɪkɹ̩]
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rhymes with -ɪkə(ɹ)
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homophone: whicker (wine–whine merger)
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homophone: Wicca (non-rhotic)
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CMU ARPABET: W IH1 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
Meaning 3
A ghost town in Brazos County, Texas, United States, recorded by the USGS as a populated place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Wickerwork.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- wicker basket wicker chair wicker cradle
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wick
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wickerwork, caning
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: work, piece of work
noun
Meaning 7
slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wood
History
Etymology
From Middle English wiker, cognate with Swedish vikker (“willow”), Old Norse veikr (“weak”), English weak.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: плетен (pleten) — made of wickerwork
- Dutch: gevlochten — made of wickerwork
- Hungarian: fonott — made of wickerwork
- Hungarian: vesszőből font — made of wickerwork
- Turkish: hasır — made of wickerwork
- Arabic: خوص — flexible branch or twig
- Assamese: কামি (kami) — flexible branch or twig
- Catalan: vímet — flexible branch or twig
- Chinese Mandarin: 篳 /筚 (bì) — flexible branch or twig
- Chinese Mandarin: 柳條 /柳条 (liǔtiáo) — flexible branch or twig
- Czech: virgule — flexible branch or twig
- Dutch: teen — flexible branch or twig
- Dutch: twijg — flexible branch or twig
- Finnish: vitsa — flexible branch or twig
- French: osier — flexible branch or twig
- Galician: vime — flexible branch or twig
- Galician: vimbio — flexible branch or twig
- Galician: bringa — flexible branch or twig
- Galician: buíño — flexible branch or twig
- Galician: guineita — flexible branch or twig
- Galician: guimia — flexible branch or twig
- Galician: trogallo — flexible branch or twig
- Galician: brime — flexible branch or twig
- Galician: ódega — flexible branch or twig
- German: Weide — flexible branch or twig
- Greek: ψάθα (psátha) — flexible branch or twig
- Hungarian: vessző — flexible branch or twig
- Hungarian: fűzfavessző — flexible branch or twig
- Ingrian: vitsa — flexible branch or twig
- Irish: caolach — flexible branch or twig
- Italian: vimini — flexible branch or twig
- Japanese: 小枝 (koeda) — flexible branch or twig
- Japanese: 籐 (tō) — flexible branch or twig
- Korean: 고리 (gori) — flexible branch or twig
- Ladino: estera — flexible branch or twig
- Persian: ترکه (tarke) — flexible branch or twig
- Polish: wiklina — flexible branch or twig
- Portuguese: vime — flexible branch or twig
- Portuguese: verga — flexible branch or twig
- Romanian: nuia — flexible branch or twig
- Russian: прут (prut) — flexible branch or twig
- Russian: лоза́ (lozá) — flexible branch or twig
- Spanish: mimbre — flexible branch or twig