Meaning

4 senses
  1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

    The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.

    Decke, Wolldecke, Bettdecke

    одея́лоodejálo, покрыва́лоpokryválo

    ко́вдраkóvdra, покрива́лоpokryválo, одія́лоodijálo

  2. A covering layer of anything.

    The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.

    Schicht, Lage

    покрыва́лоpokryválo, покро́вpokróv, слойsloj

    покрива́лоpokryválo

  3. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.

    A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.

  4. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

More definitions
  • bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
  • a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
  • anything that covers

Examples

446 sentences
  1. Could you bring me a blanket?

    Можеш принести мені ковдру? — aandrusiak

    ruНе могли бы Вы принести мне одеяло? — al_ex_an_der

    deKönntest du mir eine Decke bringen? — Wolf

  2. Could I have a pillow and blanket?

    Можна мені подушку і ковдру? — deniko

    ruМожно мне подушку и одеяло? — megaton

    deGeben Sie mir bitte ein Kissen und eine Decke. — Dejo

  3. I got a blanket and put it over Tom.

    Я взял ковдру і накрив Тома. — Ahha

  4. Why did your cats hide under the blanket?

    Чому твої коти сховалися під ковдрою? — deniko

    deWarum haben sich deine Katzen unter der Decke versteckt? — salutony

  5. Do you have blankets?

    В тебе є ковдри? — aandrusiak

    ruУ вас есть одеяла? — afyodor

    deHast du Decken? — al_ex_an_der

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fabric:
Русский
By meaning 2
fabric:
layer of anything:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
fabric:
layer of anything:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket

Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”).

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Forms

plural: blankets

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • bedding that keeps a person warm in bed:cover
  • anything that covers:mantle

Word family

58 related words

Collocations

9 patterns
  • an extra blanket
  • fold the blankets
  • under the blanket
  • another blanket
  • extra blanket
  • a blanket over
  • with a blanket
  • got a blanket
  • some blankets

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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