"tress" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /tɹɛs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tress.wav [Southern-England] Forms: tresses [plural]
enPR: trĕs Rhymes: -ɛs Etymology: From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|tresse}} Middle English tresse, {{der|en|fro|tresce}} Old French tresce, {{der|en|VL.|*trichia}} Vulgar Latin *trichia, {{der|en|grc|τριχία|t=rope}} Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), {{m|grc|θρίξ|t=hair}} θρίξ (thríx, “hair”), {{cog|fr|tresse}} French tresse, {{cog|it|treccia}} Italian treccia Head templates: {{en-noun}} tress (plural tresses)
  1. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet. Categories (topical): Hair Translations (A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet): خُصْلَة (ḵuṣla) [feminine] (Arabic), ضَفِيرَة (ḍafīra) [feminine] (Arabic), խոպոպ (xopop) (Armenian), հյուս (hyus) (Armenian), ծամ (cam) (Armenian), толом (tolom) (english: braid/plait) (Bashkir), бөҙрә (böźrə) (english: curl) (Bashkir), плитка (plitka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), кичур (kičur) [masculine] (Bulgarian), tresse [feminine] (French), Haarsträhne [feminine] (German), Haarlocke [feminine] (German), Zopf [masculine] (German), dlaoi [feminine] (Irish), dual [masculine] (Irish), cuach [feminine] (Irish), trilseán [masculine] (Irish), 髪の房 (kami no fusa) (Japanese), urumawhatu (Maori), tresse (Middle English), hårlokk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), flette [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), krølle [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), گیسو (gisu) (Persian), زلف (zolf) (Persian), Schleif [feminine] (Plautdietsch), trança [feminine] (Portuguese), коса́ (kosá) [feminine] (Russian), прядь (prjadʹ) [feminine] (Russian), ло́кон (lókon) [masculine] (Russian), cuach [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), trizza [feminine] (Sicilian), trenzada [feminine] (Spanish), trenza [feminine] (Spanish), hårlock (Swedish), briger [masculine, plural] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-tress-en-noun-CMDOIv2Z Disambiguation of Hair: 38 14 12 35 Disambiguation of 'A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet': 93 4 3
  2. A long lock of hair Categories (topical): Hair
    Sense id: en-tress-en-noun-vrBuV4gp Disambiguation of Hair: 38 14 12 35
  3. (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Hair
    Sense id: en-tress-en-noun-yZuDTHKW Disambiguation of Hair: 38 14 12 35 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 5 43 24 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 17 3 66 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mermaid's tresses, tressful, tressy

Verb [English]

IPA: /tɹɛs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tress.wav [Southern-England] Forms: tresses [present, singular, third-person], tressing [participle, present], tressed [participle, past], tressed [past]
enPR: trĕs Rhymes: -ɛs Etymology: From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|tresse}} Middle English tresse, {{der|en|fro|tresce}} Old French tresce, {{der|en|VL.|*trichia}} Vulgar Latin *trichia, {{der|en|grc|τριχία|t=rope}} Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), {{m|grc|θρίξ|t=hair}} θρίξ (thríx, “hair”), {{cog|fr|tresse}} French tresse, {{cog|it|treccia}} Italian treccia Head templates: {{en-verb}} tress (third-person singular simple present tresses, present participle tressing, simple past and past participle tressed)
  1. To braid or knot hair. Categories (topical): Hair
    Sense id: en-tress-en-verb-v5b-abXx Disambiguation of Hair: 38 14 12 35

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for tress meaning in All languages combined (11.4kB)

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          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "gisu",
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          "word": "گیسو"
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          "roman": "kosá",
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          "word": "коса́"
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          "roman": "prjadʹ",
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          "lang": "Sicilian",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "خُصْلَة"
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      "roman": "ḍafīra",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ضَفِيرَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
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      "roman": "xopop",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "խոպոպ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
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      "roman": "hyus",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "հյուս"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "cam",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "ծամ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ba",
      "english": "braid/plait",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "tolom",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "толом"
    },
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      "code": "ba",
      "english": "curl",
      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "böźrə",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "бөҙрә"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "plitka",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "плитка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kičur",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "кичур"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tresse"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Haarsträhne"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Haarlocke"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Zopf"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "dlaoi"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "dual"
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "cuach"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "trilseán"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kami no fusa",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "髪の房"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "urumawhatu"
    },
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      "code": "enm",
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      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "tresse"
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
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      "word": "hårlokk"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "flette"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "krølle"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "gisu",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "گیسو"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "zolf",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "زلف"
    },
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      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schleif"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trança"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "kosá",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "коса́"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prjadʹ",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "прядь"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "lókon",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "ло́кон"
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cuach"
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      "code": "scn",
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      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "trizza"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "trenzada"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      ],
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet",
      "word": "hårlock"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
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        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "briger"
    }
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