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- [blak-out]
- /ˈblækˌaʊt/
- /ˈblæk.aʊt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [blak-out]
- /ˈblækˌaʊt/
Definitions of blackout word
- countable noun blackout A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes. 3
- countable noun blackout If a blackout is imposed on a particular piece of news, journalists are prevented from broadcasting or publishing it. 3
- countable noun blackout If there is a power blackout, the electricity supply to a place is temporarily cut off. 3
- countable noun blackout If you have a blackout, you temporarily lose consciousness. 3
- noun blackout the extinguishing or hiding of all artificial light, esp in a city visible to an enemy attack from the air 3
- noun blackout a momentary loss of consciousness, vision, or memory 3
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Origin of blackout
First appearance:
before 1910 One of the 15% newest English words
First recorded in 1910-15; noun use of verb phrase black out
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Parts of speech for Blackout
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
blackout popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 77% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
blackout usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for blackout
noun blackout
- collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- knockout — Informal. a person or thing overwhelmingly attractive, appealing, or successful.
- faint — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- swoon — to faint; lose consciousness.
- syncope — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
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