Meaning

1 senses

  1. To act as a mascot (for).

Examples

15 sentences

  1. Fursuits are basically mascot suits.

    Першочергово, фурсьюти - костюми маскотів. — Ahha

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  2. This dog is our regimental mascot.

    ruЭтот пёс - талисман нашего полка. — marafon

    deDieser Hund ist das Maskottchen unserer Einheit. — Sudajaengi

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  3. Cats are the mascot of the Internet.

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  4. Yuri looked really good as a mascot.

    Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · B2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  5. The mascot's not cute, even by the most favorable standards.

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Origin

Borrowed from French mascotte, from Occitan mascòta (“sortilege”), feminine diminutive of

Borrowed from French mascotte, from Occitan mascòta (“sortilege”), feminine diminutive of masca (“witch”), from Old Occitan masca, from Medieval Latin masca (“specter, nightmare”). More at mask.

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Forms

mascots, mascoting, mascoted, mascoted
Base formmascot · to mascot
3rd person singularmascots
Present participlemascoting
Past simplemascoted
Past participlemascoted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymascot
he, she, itmascots

Past simpleLesson

all personsmascoted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mascoted
he, she, ithas mascoted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mascot

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
masalamascaramascarponemasculinemasculinitymashB1

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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