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===Noun===
===Noun===

Revision as of 08:33, 28 April 2024

English

WOTD – 7 December 2008

Etymology

Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ab‧at‧toir

Noun

abattoir (plural abattoirs)

  1. A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.][1]
    Once the cows reach maturity, they're sent to the abattoir.
  2. A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.[2]
    Synonym: bloodbath
    The army's raid on the enemy turned into a major abattoir.
    • 2017 April 19, Franz-Stefan Gady, “What Would the Second Korean War Look Like?”, in The Diplomat‎[1]:
      The corridors where North Korean troops would be advancing [in a hypothetical invasion of South Korea] would almost certainly be turned into human abattoirs.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abattoir”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
  2. ^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Further reading

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French abattoir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌaː.baːˈtʋaːr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: abat‧toir
  • Rhymes: -aːr

Noun

abattoir n (plural abattoirs, diminutive abattoirtje n)

  1. abattoir, slaughterhouse

Synonyms

Descendants

  • → Caribbean Hindustani: batwár
  • → Indonesian: abatoar
  • → Papiamentu: abatuar
  • → Sranan Tongo: abatwar

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

From abattre (“to slaughter, butcher”) +‎ -oir (suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

abattoir m (plural abattoirs)

  1. abattoir, slaughterhouse (place where animals are slaughtered)
    Cet abattoir est vaste et bien aéré. ― This slaughterhouse is large and well-ventilated.
  2. (figuratively) abattoir, slaughterhouse (place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed)
    aller à l’abattoir ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    envoyer à l’abattoir ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Descendants

See also

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

An abattoir.

Etymology

From French abattoir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abatɔˈɑːr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːr
  • Hyphenation: a‧bat‧toir

Noun

abattoir n (definite singular abattoiret, indefinite plural abattoirer, definite plural abattoira or abattoirene)

  1. (concerning France) an abattoir (a public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.)
    Synonyms: slaktehus, slakteri
    • 1836 October 17, Den Constitutionelle, page 2:
      man betænker, hvilke uhyre mængde kvæg der mellem aar og dag bliver slagtet i Parises abattoirs
      one considers the enormous amount of cattle slaughtered in Paris' abattoirs between year and day
    • 1928 September 13, A-magasinet, page 2:
      abbatoirene [sic] i Rue de Flanders
      the abattoirs [sic] in Rue de Flanders

References

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