"deaf-mute" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} deaf-mute (not comparable)
  1. (now offensive) Unable to hear or speak. Tags: not-comparable, offensive Synonyms: deaf, deaf and dumb [literary, offensive] Translations (unable to hear or speak): sordomudu (Asturian), глуханямы́ (hluxanjamý) (Belarusian), глухоня́м (gluhonjám) (Bulgarian), sordmut (Catalan), 聾啞 (Chinese Mandarin), 聋哑 (lóngyǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), hluchoněmý (Czech), døvstum (Danish), doofstom (Dutch), surdmuta (Esperanto), surdamuta (Esperanto), kurttumm (Estonian), kuuromykkä (Finnish), sourd-muet (French), xordomudo (Galician), ყრუ-მუნჯი (q̇ru-munǯi) (Georgian), taubstumm (German), κωφάλαλος (kofálalos) [masculine] (Greek), मूक बधिर (mūk badhir) (Hindi), süketnéma (Hungarian), siketnéma (Hungarian), sordomuto (Italian), 聾唖の (rōa no) (alt: ろうあの) (Japanese), dafstomm (Luxembourgish), मूक बधिर (mūk badhir) (Marathi), døvstumme (Norwegian Bokmål), głuchoniemy (Polish), surdo-mudo (Portuguese), surdo-mut (Romanian), глухонемо́й (gluxonemój) (Russian), глувонем [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), глухонијем [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), gluvonem [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), gluhonijem [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), hluchonemý (Slovak), gluhonem (Slovene), sordomudo (Spanish), dövstum (Swedish), pipi at bingi (Tagalog), sağır dilsiz (Turkish), глухоніми́й (hluxonimýj) (Ukrainian), câm điếc (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-deaf-mute-en-adj-DxszZ86v

Noun

Forms: deaf-mutes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} deaf-mute (plural deaf-mutes)
  1. (now offensive) A person who is unable to hear or speak. Tags: offensive Synonyms: deaf person Related terms: blind, deaf, mute Translations (person who is unable to hear or speak): sordmut [masculine] (Catalan), sordmuda [feminine] (Catalan), 聾啞者 (Chinese Mandarin), 聋哑者 (lóngyǎzhě) (Chinese Mandarin), 聾啞人 (Chinese Mandarin), 聋哑人 (lóngyǎrén) (Chinese Mandarin), doofstomme [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), surdmutulo (Esperanto), surdmutulino [feminine] (Esperanto), surdamutulo (Esperanto), surdamutulino [feminine] (Esperanto), kuuromykkä (Finnish), sourd-muet [masculine] (French), sourde-muette [feminine] (French), xordomudo [masculine] (Galician), ყრუ-მუნჯი (q̇ru-munǯi) (Georgian), Taubstummer [masculine] (German), Taubstumme [feminine] (German), κωφάλαλος (kofálalos) [masculine] (Greek), חירש־אילם (kheresh-ylem) [masculine] (Hebrew), חירשת־אילמת (khereshet-ylemet) [feminine] (Hebrew), sordomuto [masculine] (Italian), sordomuta [feminine] (Italian), bouyran balloo [masculine] (Manx), głuchoniemy [masculine] (Polish), głuchoniema [feminine] (Polish), osoba głuchoniema [feminine] (Polish), surdo-mudo [masculine] (Portuguese), surda-muda [feminine] (Portuguese), surdo-mut [masculine] (Romanian), глухонемо́й (gluxonemój) [masculine] (Russian), глухонема́я (gluxonemája) [feminine] (Russian), gluvonemac [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), gluvonemak [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), gluvonemica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), gluvonemkinja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), sordomudo [masculine] (Spanish), sordomuda [feminine] (Spanish), dövstum [common-gender] (Swedish), pipi at bingi (Tagalog), చెవిటిమూగ (ceviṭimūga) (Telugu), sağır dilsiz (Turkish), người câm điếc (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-deaf-mute-en-noun-IpuybMFy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69

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          "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
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          "word": "dövstum"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
          "word": "pipi at bingi"
        },
        {
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "ceviṭimūga",
          "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
          "word": "చెవిటిమూగ"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
          "word": "sağır dilsiz"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
          "word": "người câm điếc"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deaf-mute"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "deaf-mute (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English offensive terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Unable to hear or speak."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hear",
          "hear"
        ],
        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now offensive) Unable to hear or speak."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "deaf"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable",
        "offensive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "literary",
        "offensive"
      ],
      "word": "deaf and dumb"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "sordomudu"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "hluxanjamý",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "глуханямы́"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gluhonjám",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "глухоня́м"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "sordmut"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "聾啞"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lóngyǎ",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "聋哑"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "hluchoněmý"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "døvstum"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "doofstom"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "surdmuta"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "surdamuta"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "kurttumm"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "kuuromykkä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "sourd-muet"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "xordomudo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "q̇ru-munǯi",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "ყრუ-მუნჯი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "taubstumm"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kofálalos",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "κωφάλαλος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "mūk badhir",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "मूक बधिर"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "süketnéma"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "siketnéma"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "sordomuto"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ろうあの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rōa no",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "聾唖の"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "dafstomm"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "mūk badhir",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "मूक बधिर"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "døvstumme"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "głuchoniemy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "surdo-mudo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "surdo-mut"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gluxonemój",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "глухонемо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "глувонем"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "глухонијем"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "gluvonem"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "gluhonijem"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "hluchonemý"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "gluhonem"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "sordomudo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "dövstum"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "pipi at bingi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "sağır dilsiz"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hluxonimýj",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "глухоніми́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "câm điếc"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deaf-mute"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncomparable adjectives"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deaf-mutes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "deaf-mute (plural deaf-mutes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "blind"
    },
    {
      "word": "deaf"
    },
    {
      "word": "mute"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English offensive terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959 September, K. Hoole, “The Middlesbrough-Newcastle route of the N.E.R.: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 417",
          "text": "This buckling was first noticed by a deaf-mute who was walking over a bridge across the line and he pointed it out to the driver of a steamroller which happened to be passing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974 April 20, “Beacon Hill Murder”, in Gay Community News, page 1",
          "text": "Andrew was studying to become a teacher of deaf-mutes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is unable to hear or speak."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hear",
          "hear"
        ],
        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now offensive) A person who is unable to hear or speak."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "deaf person"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "offensive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sordmut"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sordmuda"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "聾啞者"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lóngyǎzhě",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "聋哑者"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "聾啞人"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lóngyǎrén",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "聋哑人"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "doofstomme"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "surdmutulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "surdmutulino"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "surdamutulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "surdamutulino"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "kuuromykkä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sourd-muet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sourde-muette"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "xordomudo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "q̇ru-munǯi",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "ყრუ-მუნჯი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Taubstummer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Taubstumme"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kofálalos",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "κωφάλαλος"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "kheresh-ylem",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "חירש־אילם"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "khereshet-ylemet",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "חירשת־אילמת"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sordomuto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sordomuta"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bouyran balloo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "głuchoniemy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "głuchoniema"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "osoba głuchoniema"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "surdo-mudo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "surda-muda"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "surdo-mut"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gluxonemój",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "глухонемо́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gluxonemája",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "глухонема́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gluvonemac"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gluvonemak"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gluvonemica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gluvonemkinja"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sordomudo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sordomuda"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "dövstum"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "pipi at bingi"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "ceviṭimūga",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "చెవిటిమూగ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "sağır dilsiz"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "person who is unable to hear or speak",
      "word": "người câm điếc"
    }
  ],
  "word": "deaf-mute"
}

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