"martinet" meaning in English

See martinet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈmæɹtɪnɛt/, /mæɹtˈnɛt/, /mɑɹtɪˈnɛt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-martinet.wav Forms: martinets [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛt Etymology: After the example of 17th-century French army officer Jean Martinet. Head templates: {{en-noun}} martinet (plural martinets)
  1. (military) A strict disciplinarian. Categories (topical): Military, People
    Sense id: en-martinet-en-noun-ktk4s3yn Disambiguation of People: 33 36 31 0 Topics: government, military, politics, war
  2. (figuratively) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): People Categories (lifeform): Apodiforms, Swallows
    Sense id: en-martinet-en-noun-tUN9dnRR Disambiguation of People: 33 36 31 0 Disambiguation of Apodiforms: 11 65 13 11 Disambiguation of Swallows: 10 63 17 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 43 23 6
  3. (historical) A short whip with multiple lashes once used in France. Tags: historical Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-martinet-en-noun-nig1fEHD Disambiguation of People: 33 36 31 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈmæɹtɪnɛt/, /mæɹtˈnɛt/, /mɑɹtɪˈnɛt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-martinet.wav Forms: martinets [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛt Etymology: Borrowed from French martinet. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|martinet}} French martinet Head templates: {{en-noun}} martinet (plural martinets)
  1. A martin; a swift.
    Sense id: en-martinet-en-noun-bkOn51rO
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "After the example of 17th-century French army officer Jean Martinet.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "martinets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "martinet (plural martinets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Military",
          "orig": "en:Military",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 36 31 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 15:",
          "text": "The same Aubrey deLint I'd dismissed for years as a 2-D martinet knelt gurneyside to squeeze my restrained hand and say ‘Just hang in there, Buckaroo,’ […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Greil Marcus, “Tied to History”, in The Threepenny Review:",
          "text": "In Seattle, he was replaced by a martinet from Annapolis, a man so vain and incompetent, so impatient with advice from experienced sailors and sure of his own right way, that, when the Hull set sail for the South Pacific, twenty men went AWOL, certain that to ship with this man was a death sentence.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A strict disciplinarian."
      ],
      "id": "en-martinet-en-noun-ktk4s3yn",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "disciplinarian",
          "disciplinarian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) A strict disciplinarian."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 43 23 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 65 13 11",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Apodiforms",
          "orig": "en:Apodiforms",
          "parents": [
            "Birds",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "10 63 17 10",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Swallows",
          "orig": "en:Swallows",
          "parents": [
            "Perching birds",
            "Birds",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 36 31 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942 July-August, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: II—C. J. Bowen Cooke”, in Railway Magazine, page 223:",
          "text": "Before I met Mr. Bowen Cooke I had been given to understand that he was of a reserved nature, and on occasion could be a \"bit of a martinet\"; [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules."
      ],
      "id": "en-martinet-en-noun-tUN9dnRR",
      "links": [
        [
          "discipline",
          "discipline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 36 31 0",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short whip with multiple lashes once used in France."
      ],
      "id": "en-martinet-en-noun-nig1fEHD",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A short whip with multiple lashes once used in France."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæɹtɪnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mæɹtˈnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɑɹtɪˈnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-martinet.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛt"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Jean Martinet"
  ],
  "word": "martinet"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "martinet"
      },
      "expansion": "French martinet",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French martinet.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "martinets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "martinet (plural martinets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A martin; a swift."
      ],
      "id": "en-martinet-en-noun-bkOn51rO",
      "links": [
        [
          "martin",
          "martin"
        ],
        [
          "swift",
          "swift"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæɹtɪnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mæɹtˈnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɑɹtɪˈnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-martinet.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "martinet"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛt",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛt/3 syllables",
    "en:Apodiforms",
    "en:People",
    "en:Swallows",
    "fr:Apodiforms",
    "fr:Swallows"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "After the example of 17th-century French army officer Jean Martinet.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "martinets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "martinet (plural martinets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 15:",
          "text": "The same Aubrey deLint I'd dismissed for years as a 2-D martinet knelt gurneyside to squeeze my restrained hand and say ‘Just hang in there, Buckaroo,’ […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Greil Marcus, “Tied to History”, in The Threepenny Review:",
          "text": "In Seattle, he was replaced by a martinet from Annapolis, a man so vain and incompetent, so impatient with advice from experienced sailors and sure of his own right way, that, when the Hull set sail for the South Pacific, twenty men went AWOL, certain that to ship with this man was a death sentence.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A strict disciplinarian."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "disciplinarian",
          "disciplinarian"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) A strict disciplinarian."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1942 July-August, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: II—C. J. Bowen Cooke”, in Railway Magazine, page 223:",
          "text": "Before I met Mr. Bowen Cooke I had been given to understand that he was of a reserved nature, and on occasion could be a \"bit of a martinet\"; [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "discipline",
          "discipline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A short whip with multiple lashes once used in France."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A short whip with multiple lashes once used in France."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæɹtɪnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mæɹtˈnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɑɹtɪˈnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-martinet.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛt"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Jean Martinet"
  ],
  "word": "martinet"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English eponyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛt",
    "Rhymes:English/ɛt/3 syllables",
    "en:Apodiforms",
    "en:People",
    "en:Swallows",
    "fr:Apodiforms",
    "fr:Swallows"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "martinet"
      },
      "expansion": "French martinet",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French martinet.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "martinets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "martinet (plural martinets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A martin; a swift."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "martin",
          "martin"
        ],
        [
          "swift",
          "swift"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæɹtɪnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mæɹtˈnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɑɹtɪˈnɛt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-martinet.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-martinet.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "martinet"
}

Download raw JSONL data for martinet meaning in English (5.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.