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Revision as of 03:58, 19 May 2022
Englisch
Alternative forms
- dormaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dormiēns, present participle of dormiō (“I sleep”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GenAm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈdɔɹmənt/
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Audio (Berkshire): (file)
Adjective
dormant (not comparable)
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again.
- The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months.
- This volcano is dormant but not extinct.
- 1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America; republished in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, volume 2, 1864, page 10:
- It is by lying dormant a long time, or being at first very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, via PC, →ISBN, →OCLC, scene: Thresher Maws Codex entry:
- Thresher maws are subterranean carnivores that spend their entire lives eating or searching for something to eat. Threshers reproduce via spores that lie dormant for millennia, yet are robust enough to survive prolonged periods in deep space and atmospheric re-entry. As a result, thresher spores appear on many worlds, spread by previous generations of space travelers.
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- a lion dormant
- (architecture) Leaning.
Synonyms
- (inactive, suspended): quiescent; see also Thesaurus:inactive
Antonyms
Related terms
Translations
inactive, asleep, suspended
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Nomen
dormant (plural dormants)
- (architecture) A crossbeam or joist.
Further reading
- “dormant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “dormant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “dormant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
dormant (feminine dormante, masculine plural dormants, feminine plural dormantes)
Derived terms
Participle
dormant
Further reading
- “dormant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Norman
Verb
dormant
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- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- en:Heraldry
- en:Architecture
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *drem-
- en:Sleep
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
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