Meaning

5 senses

  1. A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:

    A narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel.

  2. A piece of metal on a sword hilt which overhangs the scabbard.

  3. A flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ.

  4. A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.

  5. (archaic)A narrow tongue of land.

Origin

From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from

From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua.

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Forms

plural: languets
Singularlanguet
Plurallanguets

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
languageA1languid

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
langlanguageA1languidlanguishlanky

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