"encrustment" meaning in English

See encrustment in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: encrustments [plural]
Etymology: From encrust + -ment. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|encrust|ment}} encrust + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} encrustment (countable and uncountable, plural encrustments)
  1. encrustation (something forming a crust). Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: incrustment

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "encrust",
        "3": "ment"
      },
      "expansion": "encrust + -ment",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From encrust + -ment.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "encrustments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "encrustment (countable and uncountable, plural encrustments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ment",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "disengaging truth from its encrustment of error",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "encrustation (something forming a crust)."
      ],
      "id": "en-encrustment-en-noun-A2anJV03",
      "links": [
        [
          "encrustation",
          "encrustation"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "incrustment"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "encrustment"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "encrust",
        "3": "ment"
      },
      "expansion": "encrust + -ment",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From encrust + -ment.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "encrustments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "encrustment (countable and uncountable, plural encrustments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ment",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "disengaging truth from its encrustment of error",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "encrustation (something forming a crust)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "encrustation",
          "encrustation"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "incrustment"
    }
  ],
  "word": "encrustment"
}

Download raw JSONL data for encrustment meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). 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.