See portmanteau in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for portmanteau meaning in English (22.2kB)
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "luggage"
},
"expansion": "table",
"name": "etymid"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*per- (fare)"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "portemanteau",
"4": "",
"5": "coat stand"
},
"expansion": "Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frm",
"2": "porter",
"t": "to carry"
},
"expansion": "porter (“to carry”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frm",
"2": "porter",
"3": "manteau",
"alt1": "porte",
"lit": "that which carries coat",
"nocat": "1",
"pos1": "third-person singular present indicative of <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"frm\">porter</i> (“to carry”)",
"t1": "carries",
"t2": "coat"
},
"expansion": "porte (“carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "table\nFrom Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "portmanteaus",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteaux",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "portmanteaux"
},
"expansion": "portmanteau (plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 13 10 0 26 26 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 13 11 0 26 24 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 12 19 0 23 21 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 13 9 0 27 19 24",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Lewis Carroll",
"orig": "en:Lewis Carroll",
"parents": [
"Authors",
"British fiction",
"Fantasy",
"Individuals",
"Literature",
"People",
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Culture",
"Entertainment",
"Writing",
"Human",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Society",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"All topics",
"Art",
"Communication",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Alternative forms: portemanteau, (obsolete) portmantua"
},
{
"ref": "1667, Charles Croke, Fortune's Uncertainty",
"text": "Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and Portmanteau, went to Don Juan's; where they first found good Stabling for their Horses, and afterwards as good Provision for themselves.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections."
],
"id": "en-portmanteau-en-noun-diyduIp1",
"links": [
[
"travel",
"travel"
],
[
"case",
"case"
],
[
"leather",
"leather"
],
[
"open",
"open"
],
[
"equal",
"equal"
],
[
"section",
"section"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baule"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥaqībat safar",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "حَقِيبَة سَفَر"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mal"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "malizenn"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "goljam kožen kufar",
"sense": "case",
"word": "голям кожен куфар"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "case",
"word": "kontaminace"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "koffer"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valies"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "case",
"word": "reisikott"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "case",
"word": "kohver"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "case",
"word": "laadik"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "case",
"word": "matkalaukku"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "portemanteau"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valise"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "malle"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Koffer"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "case",
"word": "valise"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "averta"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lagaminas"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "koffert"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "koffert"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "čamedân",
"sense": "case",
"word": "چمدان"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "waliza"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maleta"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valise"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valiză"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čemodán",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "чемода́н"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "baúl",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бау́л"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "súmka",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дорожная су́мка"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"roman": "kožni kofer",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "кожни кофер"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maleta"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valija"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "case",
"word": "bavul"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "case",
"word": "va li"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0",
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "case",
"word": "pọtimáńtò"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Australian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "4 13 11 0 26 24 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 12 19 0 23 21 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A schoolbag."
],
"id": "en-portmanteau-en-noun-9CYxOzCw",
"links": [
[
"schoolbag",
"schoolbag"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, dated) A schoolbag."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "port"
},
{
"word": "school port"
}
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"dated"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"A hook on which to hang clothing."
],
"id": "en-portmanteau-en-noun-B9uHzCx~",
"links": [
[
"hook",
"hook"
],
[
"hang",
"hang"
],
[
"clothing",
"clothing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) A hook on which to hang clothing."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æntəʊ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 1 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 2 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg/En-au-portmanteau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "pôrtmă'ntō"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"portmanteau"
],
"word": "portmanteau"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "word"
},
"expansion": "table",
"name": "etymid"
}
],
"etymology_text": "table\nFirst used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in Jabberwocky.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "portmanteau (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002 December 14, Nicholas Lezard, “Spooky tales by the master and friends”, in The Guardian (London), page 30",
"text": "The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses deep, rational scepticism about the whole business of haunting.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002 December 11, Nick Bradshaw, “One day in September”, in Time Out, page 71",
"text": "We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09\"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau."
],
"id": "en-portmanteau-en-adj-qrwYQVoO",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(attributive, linguistics) Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau."
],
"tags": [
"attributive",
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æntəʊ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 1 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 2 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg/En-au-portmanteau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "pôrtmă'ntō"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Jabberwocky",
"Lewis Carroll",
"Through the Looking-Glass",
"portmanteau"
],
"word": "portmanteau"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "portmanteau film"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "portmanteau word"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "word"
},
"expansion": "table",
"name": "etymid"
}
],
"etymology_text": "table\nFirst used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in Jabberwocky.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "portmanteaus",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteaux",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "portmanteaux"
},
"expansion": "portmanteau (plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "3 13 10 0 26 26 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 13 11 0 26 24 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 12 19 0 23 21 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 13 9 0 27 19 24",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Lewis Carroll",
"orig": "en:Lewis Carroll",
"parents": [
"Authors",
"British fiction",
"Fantasy",
"Individuals",
"Literature",
"People",
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Culture",
"Entertainment",
"Writing",
"Human",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Society",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"All topics",
"Art",
"Communication",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1938, Joane Chaffe Miller, Conversion and Fusion in Modern English: A Concise History of the Scholarly Recognition of These Linguistic Processes",
"text": "He found the blend \"tomax\" in \"a collection of gratulatory verses presented by the President and Fellows of Harvard College 1 to the new King, George III,\" dated 1761. A note by the owner of the volume explains the word as a combination of tomahawk and axe: \"It is a portmanteau word, which must have been as clear to the average reader in England of 1761 — as clear to George III himself - as brillig and slithy would have been to us, had not Humpty Dumpty kindly explained them.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Carlos Piera of Cornell University, “On the Representation of Higher Order Complex Words”, in Selected Papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Chapel Hill, N.C., 24-26 March 1983, page 287",
"text": "1. Portmanteau Words and Allomorphy - This paper is primarily concerned with the theoretical implications of what have been called portmanteau words (Hockett, 1947)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A portmanteau word."
],
"id": "en-portmanteau-en-noun-qXSVyGdb",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"portmanteau word",
"portmanteau word"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) A portmanteau word."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "blend"
},
{
"word": "frankenword"
},
{
"word": "portmanteau word"
},
{
"word": "portmantologism"
}
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 13 10 0 26 26 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 13 11 0 26 24 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 12 19 0 23 21 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 13 9 0 27 19 24",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Lewis Carroll",
"orig": "en:Lewis Carroll",
"parents": [
"Authors",
"British fiction",
"Fantasy",
"Individuals",
"Literature",
"People",
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Culture",
"Entertainment",
"Writing",
"Human",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Society",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"All topics",
"Art",
"Communication",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC",
"text": "His long-awaited portmanteau, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is the most Anderson of all Anderson films. It's Anderson distilled, Anderson squared, Anderson to the nth degree.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A portmanteau film."
],
"id": "en-portmanteau-en-noun-M~G1T5Mg",
"links": [
[
"portmanteau film",
"portmanteau film"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æntəʊ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 1 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 2 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg/En-au-portmanteau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "pôrtmă'ntō"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Jabberwocky",
"Lewis Carroll",
"Through the Looking-Glass",
"portmanteau"
],
"word": "portmanteau"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "word"
},
"expansion": "table",
"name": "etymid"
}
],
"etymology_text": "table\nFirst used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in Jabberwocky.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "portmanteaus",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteauing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteaued",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteaued",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "portmanteau (third-person singular simple present portmanteaus, present participle portmanteauing, simple past and past participle portmanteaued)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "3 13 10 0 26 26 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 13 11 0 26 24 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 12 19 0 23 21 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 13 9 0 27 19 24",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Lewis Carroll",
"orig": "en:Lewis Carroll",
"parents": [
"Authors",
"British fiction",
"Fantasy",
"Individuals",
"Literature",
"People",
"Fiction",
"Speculative fiction",
"Culture",
"Entertainment",
"Writing",
"Human",
"Artistic works",
"Genres",
"Society",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"All topics",
"Art",
"Communication",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To create a portmanteau word."
],
"id": "en-portmanteau-en-verb-SItgItFM",
"links": [
[
"create",
"create"
],
[
"portmanteau word",
"portmanteau word"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To create a portmanteau word."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "List of portmanteau words defined in Wiktionary"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æntəʊ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 1 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 2 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg/En-au-portmanteau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "pôrtmă'ntō"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Jabberwocky",
"Lewis Carroll",
"Through the Looking-Glass",
"portmanteau"
],
"word": "portmanteau"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English autological terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms borrowed from Middle French",
"English terms derived from Middle French",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (fare)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/æntəʊ",
"Rhymes:English/æntəʊ/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ/3 syllables",
"en:Lewis Carroll"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "luggage"
},
"expansion": "table",
"name": "etymid"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*per- (fare)"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "portemanteau",
"4": "",
"5": "coat stand"
},
"expansion": "Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frm",
"2": "porter",
"t": "to carry"
},
"expansion": "porter (“to carry”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frm",
"2": "porter",
"3": "manteau",
"alt1": "porte",
"lit": "that which carries coat",
"nocat": "1",
"pos1": "third-person singular present indicative of <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"frm\">porter</i> (“to carry”)",
"t1": "carries",
"t2": "coat"
},
"expansion": "porte (“carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "table\nFrom Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "portmanteaus",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteaux",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "portmanteaux"
},
"expansion": "portmanteau (plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Alternative forms: portemanteau, (obsolete) portmantua"
},
{
"ref": "1667, Charles Croke, Fortune's Uncertainty",
"text": "Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and Portmanteau, went to Don Juan's; where they first found good Stabling for their Horses, and afterwards as good Provision for themselves.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections."
],
"links": [
[
"travel",
"travel"
],
[
"case",
"case"
],
[
"leather",
"leather"
],
[
"open",
"open"
],
[
"equal",
"equal"
],
[
"section",
"section"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English dated terms"
],
"glosses": [
"A schoolbag."
],
"links": [
[
"schoolbag",
"schoolbag"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Australia, dated) A schoolbag."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "port"
},
{
"word": "school port"
}
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"dated"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A hook on which to hang clothing."
],
"links": [
[
"hook",
"hook"
],
[
"hang",
"hang"
],
[
"clothing",
"clothing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic) A hook on which to hang clothing."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æntəʊ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 1 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 2 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg/En-au-portmanteau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "pôrtmă'ntō"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "baule"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḥaqībat safar",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "حَقِيبَة سَفَر"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mal"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "malizenn"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "goljam kožen kufar",
"sense": "case",
"word": "голям кожен куфар"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "case",
"word": "kontaminace"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "koffer"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valies"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "case",
"word": "reisikott"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "case",
"word": "kohver"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "case",
"word": "laadik"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "case",
"word": "matkalaukku"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "portemanteau"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valise"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "malle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Koffer"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "case",
"word": "valise"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "averta"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lagaminas"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "koffert"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "koffert"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "čamedân",
"sense": "case",
"word": "چمدان"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "waliza"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maleta"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valise"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valiză"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "čemodán",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "чемода́н"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "baúl",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бау́л"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "súmka",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дорожная су́мка"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"roman": "kožni kofer",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "кожни кофер"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "maleta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "case",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "valija"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "case",
"word": "bavul"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "case",
"word": "va li"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "case",
"word": "pọtimáńtò"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"portmanteau"
],
"word": "portmanteau"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English autological terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/æntəʊ",
"Rhymes:English/æntəʊ/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ/3 syllables",
"en:Lewis Carroll"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "word"
},
"expansion": "table",
"name": "etymid"
}
],
"etymology_text": "table\nFirst used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in Jabberwocky.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "portmanteau (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2002 December 14, Nicholas Lezard, “Spooky tales by the master and friends”, in The Guardian (London), page 30",
"text": "The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses deep, rational scepticism about the whole business of haunting.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002 December 11, Nick Bradshaw, “One day in September”, in Time Out, page 71",
"text": "We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09\"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(attributive, linguistics) Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau."
],
"tags": [
"attributive",
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æntəʊ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 1 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 2 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg/En-au-portmanteau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "pôrtmă'ntō"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Jabberwocky",
"Lewis Carroll",
"Through the Looking-Glass",
"portmanteau"
],
"word": "portmanteau"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English autological terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/æntəʊ",
"Rhymes:English/æntəʊ/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ/3 syllables",
"en:Lewis Carroll"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "portmanteau film"
},
{
"word": "portmanteau word"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "word"
},
"expansion": "table",
"name": "etymid"
}
],
"etymology_text": "table\nFirst used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in Jabberwocky.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "portmanteaus",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteaux",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "portmanteaux"
},
"expansion": "portmanteau (plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1938, Joane Chaffe Miller, Conversion and Fusion in Modern English: A Concise History of the Scholarly Recognition of These Linguistic Processes",
"text": "He found the blend \"tomax\" in \"a collection of gratulatory verses presented by the President and Fellows of Harvard College 1 to the new King, George III,\" dated 1761. A note by the owner of the volume explains the word as a combination of tomahawk and axe: \"It is a portmanteau word, which must have been as clear to the average reader in England of 1761 — as clear to George III himself - as brillig and slithy would have been to us, had not Humpty Dumpty kindly explained them.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Carlos Piera of Cornell University, “On the Representation of Higher Order Complex Words”, in Selected Papers from the XIIIth Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Chapel Hill, N.C., 24-26 March 1983, page 287",
"text": "1. Portmanteau Words and Allomorphy - This paper is primarily concerned with the theoretical implications of what have been called portmanteau words (Hockett, 1947)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A portmanteau word."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"portmanteau word",
"portmanteau word"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) A portmanteau word."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "blend"
},
{
"word": "frankenword"
},
{
"word": "portmanteau word"
},
{
"word": "portmantologism"
}
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC",
"text": "His long-awaited portmanteau, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, is the most Anderson of all Anderson films. It's Anderson distilled, Anderson squared, Anderson to the nth degree.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A portmanteau film."
],
"links": [
[
"portmanteau film",
"portmanteau film"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æntəʊ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 1 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 2 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg/En-au-portmanteau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "pôrtmă'ntō"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Jabberwocky",
"Lewis Carroll",
"Through the Looking-Glass",
"portmanteau"
],
"word": "portmanteau"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English autological terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/æntəʊ",
"Rhymes:English/æntəʊ/3 syllables",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ",
"Rhymes:English/əʊ/3 syllables",
"en:Lewis Carroll"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "word"
},
"expansion": "table",
"name": "etymid"
}
],
"etymology_text": "table\nFirst used by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass to describe the words he coined in Jabberwocky.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "portmanteaus",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteauing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteaued",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "portmanteaued",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "portmanteau (third-person singular simple present portmanteaus, present participle portmanteauing, simple past and past participle portmanteaued)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "List of portmanteau words defined in Wiktionary"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To create a portmanteau word."
],
"links": [
[
"create",
"create"
],
[
"portmanteau word",
"portmanteau word"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To create a portmanteau word."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/pɔːɹtˈmæntoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˌpɔːɹtmænˈtoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-æntəʊ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-us-portmanteau-1.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 1 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/En-us-portmanteau-2.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio 2 (US)"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg/En-au-portmanteau.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/En-au-portmanteau.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
},
{
"enpr": "pôrtmă'ntō"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Jabberwocky",
"Lewis Carroll",
"Through the Looking-Glass",
"portmanteau"
],
"word": "portmanteau"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.