"mule" meaning in English

See mule in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /mjuːl/ [US, UK] Audio: en-au-mule.ogg [Australia] Forms: mule [singular], mules [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A mule is the child of a horse and a donkey. Mules are often used to carry things for people or pull carts or plows.
    Sense id: simple-mule-en-noun-lpC-HZKl
  2. A mule is a shoe that does not have support for the heel.
    Sense id: simple-mule-en-noun-8TRcUl~P
  3. A mule is a person paid to smuggle drugs.
    Sense id: simple-mule-en-noun-1fe3SGtU
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mule",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mules",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A mule is the child of a horse and a donkey. Mules are often used to carry things for people or pull carts or plows."
      ],
      "id": "simple-mule-en-noun-lpC-HZKl",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A mule is a shoe that does not have support for the heel."
      ],
      "id": "simple-mule-en-noun-8TRcUl~P",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A mule is a person paid to smuggle drugs."
      ],
      "id": "simple-mule-en-noun-1fe3SGtU",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mjuːl/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-mule.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mule"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mule",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mules",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mule is the child of a horse and a donkey. Mules are often used to carry things for people or pull carts or plows."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mule is a shoe that does not have support for the heel."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mule is a person paid to smuggle drugs."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mjuːl/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-mule.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mule"
}

Download raw JSONL data for mule meaning in English (0.8kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-08 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f 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.