Meaning

10 senses
  1. An excess, too much.

    a glut of the market

    Schwemme, Überfluss, Überschuss

    изли́шествоizlíšestvo

  2. That which is swallowed.

  3. Something that fills up an opening.

    засорzasor

  4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.

  5. A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.

  6. A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.

  7. An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.

  8. A block used for a fulcrum.

  9. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

  10. (UK)Five goals scored by one player in a game.

More definitions
  • the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Cheap imports will glut the market.

  2. The market is glutted with cheap imports.

    ruРынок пресыщен дешевым импортом. — shanghainese

  3. We glutted ourselves with lobsters and other seafood.

    ruМы объедались омарами и прочими дарами моря. — shanghainese

  4. There was a glut of cotton goods due to cheap imports.

  5. He often bemoaned the glut of capital sloshing around the industry.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
excess:
something that fills up an opening; a clog:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
excess:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /g

Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).

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Forms

plural: gluts
Singularglut
Pluralgluts

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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