Meaning

24 senses
  1. (US, countable, uncountable)A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

    Gitterbett

    де́тская крова́ткаdétskaja krovátka, крова́ткаkrovátka

    дитя́че лі́жечкоdytjáče lížečko

    baby bed with high sides made of slats

  2. (UK, countable, uncountable)A bed for a child older than a baby.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A wicker basket.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.

    Krippe

    я́слиjásli

  6. (countable, uncountable)The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A bin for drying or storing grain, such as a corn crib.

    за́кромzákrom

    a bin or granary for storing grains

  8. (countable, uncountable)A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.

  9. (countable, uncountable)A confined space, such as a cage or office cubicle.

  10. (countable, uncountable)A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.

  11. (countable, uncountable)A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.

  12. (countable, usually plural, uncountable)A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.

Examples

26 sentences
  1. Leave the baby in the crib.

    Залиш дитину в ліжечку. — deniko

    ruОставь ребёнка в колыбели. — odexed

  2. Tom put the baby in his crib.

    deTom legte das Kind ins Bettchen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. The baby is in his crib, sucking on his pacifier.

  4. The baby is sleeping in his crib.

    Немовля спить у своєму ліжечку. — deniko

    ruМладенец спит в своей кроватке. — Wezel

    deDas Kind schläft in der Wiege. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Writing crib sheets is very useful.

    ruШпаргалки писать очень полезно. — marafon

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a baby’s bed with high sides:
Русский
By meaning 6
a baby’s bed with high sides:
a feeding trough for animals:
a bin or box for storing grain:
(obsolete in English) petty theft or plagiarism:
notes concealed by a student to aid him/her in test or examination:
(slang) one’s residence, or where one normally hangs out; a house or dwelling place:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
a baby’s bed with high sides:
a feeding trough for animals:
notes concealed by a student to aid him/her in test or examination:

Origin

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed;

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-West Germanic *kribbjā, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerbʰ- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”).

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Forms

plural: cribs
Singularcrib
Pluralcribs

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • baby bed with high sides made of slats:cot
  • a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two:cribbage
  • a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly):ponytrot

Word family

17 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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