Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A tall annual herb, Cannabis sativa, native to Asia.

    Hanf

    конопля́konopljá, пенька́penʹká

    коно́пліkonópli

  2. (countable, uncountable)Various products of this plant, including fibres and the drug cannabis.

  3. (countable, historical, slang, uncountable)The gallows.

More definitions
  • a plant fiber
  • any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs
  • a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging

Examples

12 sentences
  1. Is mom scolding the horse's hemp?

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  2. This sofa is made of hemp.

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  3. Tom put some hemp milk in his coffee.

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  4. Tom got pimples from drinking chocolate hemp milk.

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  5. We were at the mill, near the hemp field.

    deWir waren bei der Mühle, dicht am Hanffeld.

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Translations

9 languages
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

Inherited from Middle English hemp, from Old English henep, from Proto-West Germanic *hana

Inherited from Middle English hemp, from Old English henep, from Proto-West Germanic *hanapi, from Proto-Germanic *hanapiz. Doublet of cannabis and canvas.

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Forms

plural: hemps
Singularhemp
Pluralhemps

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs:cannabis
  • a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging:hangman's ropehangman's halterhalterhempen necktie

Word family

31 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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