"mascot" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmæsˌkɒt/ [UK], /ˈmæsˌkɑːt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mascot.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mascots [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French mascotte, from Occitan mascòta (“sortilege”), feminine diminutive of masca (“witch”), from Old Occitan masca, from Medieval Latin masca (“specter, nightmare”). More at mask. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|mascotte}} French mascotte, {{der|en|oc|mascòta||sortilege}} Occitan mascòta (“sortilege”), {{m|oc|masca||witch}} masca (“witch”), {{der|en|pro|masca}} Old Occitan masca, {{der|en|ML.|masca||specter, nightmare}} Medieval Latin masca (“specter, nightmare”), {{m|en|mask}} mask Head templates: {{en-noun}} mascot (plural mascots)
  1. Something thought to bring good luck. Translations (something thought to bring good luck): талисман (talisman) [masculine] (Bulgarian), mascota [feminine] (Catalan), 吉祥物 (jíxiángwù) (Chinese Mandarin), mascotte [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), mascotte [feminine] (French), mascota [feminine] (Galician), Maskottchen [neuter] (German), Maskotte [feminine] (German), קָמֵעַ (qamé'a) [masculine] (Hebrew), kabala (Hungarian), sonóg [feminine] (Irish), portafortuna (Italian), talismano (Italian), マスコット (masukotto) (Japanese), maskot [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), maskot [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), mascòta [feminine] (Occitan), maskotka [feminine] (Polish), mascote [feminine] (Portuguese), талисма́н (talismán) (Russian), mascota (Spanish), maskot [common-gender] (Swedish), masgot [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-mascot-en-noun-oD-La4vd Disambiguation of 'something thought to bring good luck': 97 1 1 1
  2. Something, especially a person or animal, used to symbolize a sports team, company, organization or other group. Translations (something used to symbolize a sports team or other group): талисман (talisman) [masculine] (Bulgarian), maskot [masculine] (Czech), mascotte [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), maskott (Estonian), mascotte [feminine] (French), mascota [feminine] (Galician), Maskottchen [neuter] (German), kabalafigura (Hungarian), kabalababa (Hungarian), maskoto (Ido), mascotte [feminine] (Italian), maskot [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), maskot [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), maskotka [feminine] (Polish), mascote [feminine] (Portuguese), maskota [feminine] (Slovene), mascota [feminine] (Spanish), maskot [common-gender] (Swedish), linh vật (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-mascot-en-noun-v2gd5yLn Disambiguation of 'something used to symbolize a sports team or other group': 3 91 3 3
  3. A person engaged by an organization to portray its mascot in costume.
    Sense id: en-mascot-en-noun-33D01ON~
  4. (psychology) A personality type characterized by reliance on humor and positivity to wish away conflicts and attempt to defuse potentially violent situations. Categories (topical): Psychology
    Sense id: en-mascot-en-noun-~~9AtIyM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 12 12 61 3 Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mascotte [archaic] Derived forms: desktop mascot, mascotry

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈmæsˌkɒt/ [UK], /ˈmæsˌkɑːt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mascot.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mascots [present, singular, third-person], mascoting [participle, present], mascoted [participle, past], mascoted [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from French mascotte, from Occitan mascòta (“sortilege”), feminine diminutive of masca (“witch”), from Old Occitan masca, from Medieval Latin masca (“specter, nightmare”). More at mask. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|mascotte}} French mascotte, {{der|en|oc|mascòta||sortilege}} Occitan mascòta (“sortilege”), {{m|oc|masca||witch}} masca (“witch”), {{der|en|pro|masca}} Old Occitan masca, {{der|en|ML.|masca||specter, nightmare}} Medieval Latin masca (“specter, nightmare”), {{m|en|mask}} mask Head templates: {{en-verb}} mascot (third-person singular simple present mascots, present participle mascoting, simple past and past participle mascoted)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To act as a mascot (for). Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-mascot-en-verb-4f25G4yU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mascotte [archaic]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for mascot meaning in All languages combined (13.2kB)

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