"tapestry" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtæpəstɹi/ Audio: en-us-tapestry.ogg Forms: tapestries [plural]
enPR: tă'pəstrē Etymology: From Middle English tapiestre, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|tapiestre}} Middle English tapiestre, {{der|en|fro|tapisserie||tapestry}} Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), {{der|en|grc|τάπης}} Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), {{der|en|ira}} Iranian Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tapestry (countable and uncountable, plural tapestries)
  1. A heavy woven cloth, often with decorative pictorial designs, normally hung on walls. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Weaving Translations (heavy woven cloth): гоблен (goblen) [masculine] (Bulgarian), tapís [masculine] (Catalan), 壁毯 (bìtǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 掛毯 (Chinese Mandarin), 挂毯 (guàtǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), tapiserie [feminine] (Czech), gobelin [neuter] (Dutch), wandtapijt [neuter] (Dutch), tapeto (Esperanto), gobelino (Esperanto), seinävaate (Finnish), tapisserie [feminine] (French), tapiz [masculine] (Galician), Wandteppich [masculine] (German), Bildteppich [masculine] (German), Bildwirkerei [feminine] (German), Tapisserie [feminine] (German), Gobelin [masculine] (German), arazzo [masculine] (Italian), tappezzeria [feminine] (Italian), タペストリー (tapesutorī) (Japanese), tui raumata (Maori), زار (zar) (Ottoman Turkish), tapeçaria [feminine] (Portuguese), tapiserie [feminine] (Romanian), гобеле́н (gobelén) [masculine] (Russian), шпалера (špalera) [feminine] (Russian), таписѐрија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), tapisèrija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), tapiz [masculine] (Spanish), gobeläng (Swedish), duvar halısı (Turkish), duvar kilimi (Turkish), גאָבעלען (gobelen) [masculine] (Yiddish), וואַנטגעוועב (vantgeveb) [neuter] (Yiddish), באַשלאָג (bashlog) [masculine] (Yiddish)
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  2. (by extension) Anything with variegated or complex details. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable Translations (anything with variegated or complex details): kudos (Finnish), labyrintti (Finnish), mosaïque [feminine] (French), tapiz [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-tapestry-en-noun-2sXjwq4a Disambiguation of 'anything with variegated or complex details': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: be part of life's rich tapestry, tapestry beetle, tapestry moth

Verb

IPA: /ˈtæpəstɹi/ Audio: en-us-tapestry.ogg Forms: tapestries [present, singular, third-person], tapestrying [participle, present], tapestried [participle, past], tapestried [past]
enPR: tă'pəstrē Etymology: From Middle English tapiestre, from Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|tapiestre}} Middle English tapiestre, {{der|en|fro|tapisserie||tapestry}} Old French tapisserie (“tapestry”), {{der|en|grc|τάπης}} Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), {{der|en|ira}} Iranian Head templates: {{en-verb}} tapestry (third-person singular simple present tapestries, present participle tapestrying, simple past and past participle tapestried)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To decorate with tapestry, or as if with a tapestry. Tags: intransitive, transitive Related terms: tapetum lucidum Translations (to decorate with tapestry): koristella seinävaattein (Finnish), tapisser (French), tapizar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-tapestry-en-verb-n0DLMad4

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "زار"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to decorate with tapestry",
      "word": "koristella seinävaattein"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). 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.