"pneumatique" meaning in English

See pneumatique in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /njuːmaˈtiːk/ [UK] Forms: pneumatiques [plural]
Etymology: From French pneumatique. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|pneumatique}} French pneumatique Head templates: {{en-noun}} pneumatique (plural pneumatiques)
  1. (historical) The pneumatic postal system in Paris (abolished 1984), or a letter sent by this system. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-pneumatique-en-noun-2ojhKsE9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 92 2 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 1 6

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "pneumatique"
      },
      "expansion": "French pneumatique",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French pneumatique.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pneumatiques",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pneumatique (plural pneumatiques)",
      "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 undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 2 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "93 1 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              90,
              101
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 71:",
          "text": "Then, full of imaginative and slightly sentimental resolution, he went out and posted the pneumatique.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              58,
              69
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 412:",
          "text": "Thus were great love-letters born – they would be sent by pneumatique and a helmeted motor cyclist would deliver them, like Mercury himself, within the hour.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The pneumatic postal system in Paris (abolished 1984), or a letter sent by this system."
      ],
      "id": "en-pneumatique-en-noun-2ojhKsE9",
      "links": [
        [
          "pneumatic",
          "pneumatic"
        ],
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) The pneumatic postal system in Paris (abolished 1984), or a letter sent by this system."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/njuːmaˈtiːk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pneumatique"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "fr:Auto parts"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "pneumatique"
      },
      "expansion": "French pneumatique",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French pneumatique.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pneumatiques",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pneumatique (plural pneumatiques)",
      "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 derived from French",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              90,
              101
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 71:",
          "text": "Then, full of imaginative and slightly sentimental resolution, he went out and posted the pneumatique.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              58,
              69
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 412:",
          "text": "Thus were great love-letters born – they would be sent by pneumatique and a helmeted motor cyclist would deliver them, like Mercury himself, within the hour.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The pneumatic postal system in Paris (abolished 1984), or a letter sent by this system."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pneumatic",
          "pneumatic"
        ],
        [
          "letter",
          "letter"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) The pneumatic postal system in Paris (abolished 1984), or a letter sent by this system."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/njuːmaˈtiːk/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pneumatique"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pneumatique meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). 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.