pillow
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old English pyle, pylw-, from West Germanic *pulwi-, borrowed from clasical Latin pulvīnus ‘cushion’. Cognate with Dutch peluw, German Pfühl.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɪləʊ/
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- Rhymes: -ɪləʊ
[edit] Noun
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pillow (plural pillows)
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[edit] Translations
soft cushion used to support the head in bed
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[edit] Verb
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to pillow (third-person singular simple present pillows, present participle pillowing, simple past and past participle pillowed)
- (transitive) To rest as on a pillow.
- 1942: She had pillowed her head on her arm — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 815-6)

