"working animal" meaning in English

See working animal in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: working animals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} working animal (plural working animals)
  1. An animal which is kept mainly to do work, such as a draft animal or a service animal, not mainly as a pet nor for its animal products. Coordinate_terms: livestock (english: mainly coordinate, but overlapping), pet, wild animal Translations (animal kept for work): työjuhta (Finnish), Arbeitstier [neuter] (German)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for working animal meaning in English (1.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "working animals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "working animal (plural working animals)",
      "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 links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "english": "mainly coordinate, but overlapping",
          "word": "livestock"
        },
        {
          "word": "pet"
        },
        {
          "word": "wild animal"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An animal which is kept mainly to do work, such as a draft animal or a service animal, not mainly as a pet nor for its animal products."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "aid dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "assistance dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "barn cat"
        },
        {
          "word": "detection dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "draft animal"
        },
        {
          "word": "draft horse"
        },
        {
          "word": "farm cat"
        },
        {
          "word": "guard dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "guide dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "hearing dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "hearing-ear dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "helper dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "hero rat"
        },
        {
          "word": "mule"
        },
        {
          "word": "ox"
        },
        {
          "word": "police dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "rescue dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "seeing-eye dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "service animal"
        },
        {
          "word": "service dog"
        },
        {
          "word": "sheepdog"
        },
        {
          "word": "workstock"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-working_animal-en-noun-pNjbYG1v",
      "links": [
        [
          "draft animal",
          "draft animal"
        ],
        [
          "service animal",
          "service animal"
        ],
        [
          "pet",
          "pet"
        ],
        [
          "animal product",
          "animal product"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "animal kept for work",
          "word": "työjuhta"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "animal kept for work",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Arbeitstier"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "working animal"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "english": "mainly coordinate, but overlapping",
      "word": "livestock"
    },
    {
      "word": "pet"
    },
    {
      "word": "wild animal"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "working animals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "working animal (plural working animals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "aid dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "assistance dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "barn cat"
    },
    {
      "word": "detection dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "draft animal"
    },
    {
      "word": "draft horse"
    },
    {
      "word": "farm cat"
    },
    {
      "word": "guard dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "guide dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "hearing dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "hearing-ear dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "helper dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "hero rat"
    },
    {
      "word": "mule"
    },
    {
      "word": "ox"
    },
    {
      "word": "police dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "rescue dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "seeing-eye dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "service animal"
    },
    {
      "word": "service dog"
    },
    {
      "word": "sheepdog"
    },
    {
      "word": "workstock"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English links with redundant alt parameters",
        "English links with redundant wikilinks",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An animal which is kept mainly to do work, such as a draft animal or a service animal, not mainly as a pet nor for its animal products."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "draft animal",
          "draft animal"
        ],
        [
          "service animal",
          "service animal"
        ],
        [
          "pet",
          "pet"
        ],
        [
          "animal product",
          "animal product"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "animal kept for work",
      "word": "työjuhta"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "animal kept for work",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Arbeitstier"
    }
  ],
  "word": "working animal"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 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.