Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.

    Spinat

    шпина́тšpinát

    шпина́тšpynát

    southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleracea is or resemble it in some way.

  3. (countable, slang, uncountable)Thick rough.

    That shot left me in the spinach!

Examples

125 sentences
  1. I can't get Tom to eat spinach.

    Я не можу умовити Тома поїсти шпинату.

    ruЯ не могу заставить Тома есть шпинат.

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  2. Children often hate spinach.

    Діти часто ненавидять шпинат.

    ruЧасто дети ненавидят шпинат.

    deKinder hassen oft Spinat.

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  3. I used to hate spinach.

    Я колись ненавидів шпинат.

    ruЯ раньше ненавидел шпинат.

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  4. Eat your spinach.

    Їж свій шпинат.

    deEsst euren Spinat.

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  5. Tom hated spinach.

    Том ненавидів шпинат.

    ruТом ненавидел шпинат.

    deTom hasste Spinat.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea:
Русский
By meaning 1
a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea:

Origin

From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from O

From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Classical Persian اسپناخ (ispanāx, ispināx).

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Forms

plural: spinaches
Singularspinach
Pluralspinaches

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • like spinach
  • hate spinach
  • didn't like spinach
  • eat spinach

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
spinach — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto