weed
Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growingAny plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
» Our garden was full of weeds.
Unser Garten war voller Unkraut.
В нашем саду было полно сорняков.
Наш сад заріс бур'янами.
Meaning
15 senses(countable)Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.
If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
Unkraut
сорня́кsornják, со́рная трава́sórnaja travá
бур'я́нburʺján
A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.
(informal, uncountable)Cannabis.
Gras
тра́вкаtrávka
(colloquial, uncountable)Tobacco.
(countable)A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.
(UK, countable, informal)A puny person; one who has little physical strength.
(countable, figuratively)Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(Scotland, countable, uncountable)A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.
(Scotland, countable, uncountable)Lymphangitis in a horse.
(archaic, obsolete, uncountable)Underbrush; low shrubs.
A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.
(colloquial, countable, obsolete)A cigar.
(archaic)A garment or piece of clothing.
(archaic)Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.
- a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
- any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
- street names for marijuana
Examples
136 sentencesOur garden was full of weeds.
Наш сад заріс бур'янами.
ruВ нашем саду было полно сорняков.
deUnser Garten war voller Unkraut.
The garden needs to be weeded.
Сад треба прополоти.
ruСад необходимо прополоть.
We have to pull the weeds.
Нам треба виполоти бур'яни.
ruНам нужно выполоть сорняки.
I helped Tom pull weeds in the garden.
Я допоміг Тому прополоти бур'ян на городі.
My grandmother was pulling up weeds in her backyard.
Моя бабця полола бур'яни на задньому подвір'ї.
ruМоя бабушка пропалывала сорняки на заднем дворе.
deMeine Oma jätete im Hintergarten Unkraut.
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”).
From Middle English wede, from Old English wǣd (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat.
From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English wēdan (“to be mad or delirious”), from wōd (“mad, enraged”).
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Forms
plural: weedsSynonyms
59 synonymsAntonyms
1 antonymsWord family
271 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
5 patterns- pull weeds
- weeding the garden
- pull weeds in
- garden pulling weeds
- weeds in the