"cobhouse" meaning in All languages combined

See cobhouse on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: cobhouses [plural]
Etymology: cob + house Etymology templates: {{compound|en|cob|house}} cob + house Head templates: {{en-noun}} cobhouse (plural cobhouses)
  1. A structure built of cob.
    Sense id: en-cobhouse-en-noun-mcq9uldE
  2. A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.
    A flimsy structure, as one built by children from small bits of wood and other materials.
    Sense id: en-cobhouse-en-noun-ZMH8EqkF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 45 16 15
  3. A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.
    An outbuilding of inferior construction.
    Sense id: en-cobhouse-en-noun-4Z1dUPzh
  4. A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.
    (figuratively) A flimsy arrangement or structure.
    Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-cobhouse-en-noun--CR9yaSL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: log cabin

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for cobhouse meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cob",
        "3": "house"
      },
      "expansion": "cob + house",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "cob + house",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cobhouses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cobhouse (plural cobhouses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "log cabin"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A structure built of cob."
      ],
      "id": "en-cobhouse-en-noun-mcq9uldE",
      "links": [
        [
          "cob",
          "cob"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 45 16 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.",
        "A flimsy structure, as one built by children from small bits of wood and other materials."
      ],
      "id": "en-cobhouse-en-noun-ZMH8EqkF",
      "links": [
        [
          "cob",
          "cob"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.",
        "An outbuilding of inferior construction."
      ],
      "id": "en-cobhouse-en-noun-4Z1dUPzh",
      "links": [
        [
          "cob",
          "cob"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.",
        "A flimsy arrangement or structure."
      ],
      "id": "en-cobhouse-en-noun--CR9yaSL",
      "links": [
        [
          "cob",
          "cob"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.",
        "(figuratively) A flimsy arrangement or structure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cobhouse"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "cob",
        "3": "house"
      },
      "expansion": "cob + house",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "cob + house",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cobhouses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cobhouse (plural cobhouses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "log cabin"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A structure built of cob."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cob",
          "cob"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.",
        "A flimsy structure, as one built by children from small bits of wood and other materials."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cob",
          "cob"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.",
        "An outbuilding of inferior construction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cob",
          "cob"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.",
        "A flimsy arrangement or structure."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cob",
          "cob"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "A structure built of cobs of wood, often notched where the pieces cross.",
        "(figuratively) A flimsy arrangement or structure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cobhouse"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.