Meaning

2 senses
  1. A simple fence made from wooden pickets, connected by horizontal bars.

    Lattenzaun, Staketenzaun, Staket

    a fence made of upright pickets

  2. A series of spaced perpendicular striations that occasionally occur in aurorae.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. I want a house with a big yard and a white picket fence.

  2. Tom wants a house with a big yard and a white picket fence.

  3. There's a white picket fence around Tom's house.

Translations

1 languages
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By meaning 1
a wooden fence made of spaced uprights connected by horizontal rails:

Forms

plural: picket fences
Singularpicket fence
Pluralpicket fences

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a fence made of upright pickets:paling

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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