Meaning

7 senses
  1. An image made on a body part, usually the skin with ink and a needle.

    Tätowierung, Tattoo

    татуиро́вкаtatuiróvka, нако́лкаnakólka, тату́tatú

    татуюва́нняtatujuvánnja, тату́tatú

    a design on the skin made by tattooing

  2. A method of decorating a body part, usually the skin, by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).

    Tätowieren

    татуи́рованиеtatuírovanije

    татуюва́нняtatujuvánnja

  3. (countable, uncountable)A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).

    Zapfenstreich, Zapfenstreich

    вечірня зоряvečirnja zorja, барабанний дрібbarabannyj drib

  4. (countable, uncountable)A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.

    a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters

  5. (countable, uncountable)A military display or pageant.

    Großer Zapfenstreich

    військовий парадvijsʹkovyj parad

  6. (countable, uncountable)A rhythmic tapping.

  7. A pony of a certain breed from India.

Examples

419 sentences
  1. Tom wanted to be a tattoo artist.

    Том хотів бути майстром татуювання.

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  2. Tom has a tattoo on his arm.

    У Тома на руці татуювання.

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  3. I don't want Tom to get a tattoo.

    Я не хочу, аби Том робив татуювання.

    ruЯ не хочу, чтобы Том делал татуировку.

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  4. Everyone on the swim team got a tiny dolphin tattooed on their left shoulder.

    Усі в команді з плавання зробили крихітне татуювання дельфіна на лівому плечі.

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  5. I have a tattoo.

    У мене є татуювання.

    ruУ меня есть татуировка.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
an image made in the skin with ink and a needle:
signal:
military display or pageant:
Русский
By meaning 2
an image made in the skin with ink and a needle:
method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
an image made in the skin with ink and a needle:
method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface:
time to close the taps:
military display or pageant:

Origin

From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“

From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).

From earlier tap-to, borrowed from Dutch taptoe, from tap (“tap; faucet on a cask”) + toe (“to; shut”). More at tap, to.

From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū).

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Forms

plural: tattoos / tattooes

Word family

21 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • get a tattoo
  • tattoo on his
  • a tattoo on
  • has a tattoo
  • tattoo on my
  • name tattooed on
  • a tattoo artist
  • tattoo of a
  • a tattoo of
  • tattoo artist
  • tattoo removed
  • name tattooed

See also

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