bacon
Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pigCured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
» Tom doesn't eat bacon.
Том не їсть свинину.
Том не їсть бекон.
Meaning
7 senses(uncountable, usually)Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
Cured meat from the sides, belly, or back of a pig.
(sometimes, uncountable, usually)Such meat from the belly specifically.
(uncountable, usually)Thin slices of the above in long strips.
(broadly, uncountable, usually)A similar product made without meat, or from meat other than pork.
beef bacon; vegetarian bacon
Speck, Bauchspeck, Bacon
беко́нbekón, ветчина́vetčiná
беко́нbekón
(derogatory, slang, uncountable, usually)The police or spies.
Run! It's the bacon!
(slang, uncountable, usually)Road rash.
(archaic, uncountable, usually)A saucisse.
Examples
150 sentencesTom doesn't eat bacon.
Том не їсть свинину.
I smell bacon.
Я відчуваю запах бекону.
deIch rieche Speck.
I smelled bacon.
Я відчув запах сала.
ruЯ почувствовал запах сала.
deIch roch Speck.
Would you like bacon or sausage?
ruХотите бекон или колбасу?
deWollen Sie Speck oder Wurst?
Do you want some more bacon?
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English bacoun (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman baFrom Middle English bacoun (“meat from the back and sides of a pig”), from Anglo-Norman bacon, bacun (“ham, flitch, strip of lard”), from Old Low Frankish *bakō (“ham, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *bakô, *bakkô (“back”), an extension of *baką, whence English back, which see for more. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“back, buttocks; to vault, arch”).
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Forms
plural: bacons| Singular | bacon |
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uncountable
Synonyms
8 synonyms- English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626):Francis BaconSir Francis BaconBaron Verulam1st Baron VerulamViscount St. Albans
- English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292):Roger Bacon
Word family
49 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
5 patterns- bacon and eggs
- eat bacon
- smelled bacon
- had bacon and
- like bacon