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- [bahy-ped]
- /ˈbaɪ pɛd/
- /ˈbaɪ.ped/
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- [bahy-ped]
- /ˈbaɪ pɛd/
Definitions of biped word
- countable noun biped A biped is a creature with two legs. 3
- noun biped any animal with two feet 3
- adjective biped having two feet 3
- noun biped any two-footed animal 3
- adjective biped two-footed 3
- noun biped a two-footed animal. 1
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Origin of biped
First appearance:
before 1640 One of the 44% oldest English words
1640-50; < Latin biped- (stem of bipēs) two-footed. See bi-1, -ped
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Parts of speech for Biped
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
biped popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 75% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
biped usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for biped
adj biped
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- animal — An animal is a living creature such as a dog, lion, or rabbit, rather than a bird, fish, insect, or human being.
- mortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- individual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
- anthropoid — resembling man
noun biped
- body — Your body is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
- life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- character — The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places.
- child — A child is a human being who is not yet an adult.
- creature — You can refer to any living thing that is not a plant as a creature, especially when it is of an unknown or unfamiliar kind. People also refer to imaginary animals and beings as creatures.
Antonyms for biped
adj biped
- inhuman — lacking qualities of sympathy, pity, warmth, compassion, or the like; cruel; brutal: an inhuman master.
- immortal — not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying: our immortal souls.
- unmanly — not manly; not characteristic of or befitting a man; weak, timid, or cowardly.
- general — of or relating to all persons or things belonging to a group or category: a general meeting of the employees.
noun biped
- abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
- inanimate — not animate; lifeless.
- nonentity — a person or thing of no importance.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
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