"hippo" meaning in All languages combined

See hippo on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhɪpəʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɪpoʊ/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hippo.wav [Southern-England] Forms: hippos [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪpəʊ Head templates: {{en-noun}} hippo (plural hippos)
  1. Clipping of hippopotamus. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Alternative form of: hippopotamus
    Sense id: en-hippo-en-noun-FewC~aFH
  2. (historical, slang, South Africa) An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force. Tags: South-Africa, historical, slang
    Sense id: en-hippo-en-noun--4kLBEsF Categories (other): South African English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: hippo birdie two ewe, hippo fly, hippo grass, pygmy hippo, velvet hippo

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hippo meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hippo birdie two ewe"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hippo fly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "hippo grass"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pygmy hippo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "velvet hippo"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hippos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hippo (plural hippos)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "hippopotamus"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 June 24, The Weekend Argus",
          "text": "The Eastern Cape village whose dam has been taken over by a hippo will decide next week what happens to the animal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of hippopotamus."
      ],
      "id": "en-hippo-en-noun-FewC~aFH",
      "links": [
        [
          "hippopotamus",
          "hippopotamus#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "South African English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: mellow yellow"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force."
      ],
      "id": "en-hippo-en-noun--4kLBEsF",
      "links": [
        [
          "armored personnel carrier",
          "armored personnel carrier"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, slang, South Africa) An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Africa",
        "historical",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɪpəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɪpoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪpəʊ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hippo.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hippo.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hippo.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hippo.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hippo.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hippo"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪpəʊ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪpəʊ/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "hippo birdie two ewe"
    },
    {
      "word": "hippo fly"
    },
    {
      "word": "hippo grass"
    },
    {
      "word": "pygmy hippo"
    },
    {
      "word": "velvet hippo"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hippos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hippo (plural hippos)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "hippopotamus"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English clippings",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 June 24, The Weekend Argus",
          "text": "The Eastern Cape village whose dam has been taken over by a hippo will decide next week what happens to the animal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Clipping of hippopotamus."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hippopotamus",
          "hippopotamus#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "clipping"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "South African English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: mellow yellow"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "armored personnel carrier",
          "armored personnel carrier"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, slang, South Africa) An armored personnel carrier used by the South African Defence Force."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "South-Africa",
        "historical",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɪpəʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɪpoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪpəʊ"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hippo.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hippo.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hippo.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hippo.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hippo.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hippo"
}

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.