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collared

col·lar
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [kol-er]
    • /ˈkɒl ər/
    • /ˈkɒl.ər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [kol-er]
    • /ˈkɒl ər/

Definitions of collared word

  • noun collared the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over. 1
  • noun collared a similar but separate, detachable article of clothing worn around the neck or at the neckline of a garment. Compare clerical collar. 1
  • noun collared anything worn or placed around the neck. 1
  • noun collared a leather or metal band or a chain, fastened around the neck of an animal, used especially as a means of restraint or identification. 1
  • noun collared the part of the harness that fits across the withers and over the shoulders of a draft animal, designed to distribute the pressure of the load drawn. 1
  • noun collared an ornamental necklace worn as insignia of an order of knighthood. 1
See all 25 definitions of collared

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Origin of collared

First appearance:

before 1250
One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English coler < Anglo-French; Old French colier < Latin collāre neckband, collar, equivalent to coll(um) neck + -āre, neuter (as noun) of -āris -ar1; spelling later conformed to Latin (cf. -ar2)

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Parts of speech for Collared

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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collared popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% 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".

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Synonyms for collared

verb collared

  • caught — Caught is the past tense and past participle of catch.
  • cornered — having (a specified number or type of) corners
  • grabbed — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
  • seized — to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp: to seize a weapon.
  • nabbed — to arrest or capture.

noun collared

  • ruffed — displaying or wearing a ruff.
  • torqued — Mechanics. something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
All 20 Synonyms of collared

Antonyms for collared

verb collared

  • failed — unsuccessful; failed: a totally fail policy.
  • freed — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • gave — simple past tense of give.
  • kept — simple past tense and past participle of keep.
  • liberated — to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
All 11 Antonyms of collared

Related words

  • collared lizard

    any of several species of long-tailed iguanid lizards of the genus Crotaphytus, of central and western U.S. and northern Mexico, usually having a collar of two black bands.

  • collared peccary

    a piglike artiodactyl mammal, Tayassu tajacu, of forests of southern North America, Central and South America: family Tayassuidae

  • iguanid

    any of numerous lizards of the family Iguanidae, of the New World, Madagascar, and several islands of the South Pacific, comprising terrestrial, semiaquatic, and arboreal species typically with a long tail and, in the male, a bright throat patch, including the anoles, collared lizards, earless lizards, horned lizards, and iguanas.

  • musk hog

    the collared peccary. See under peccary.

  • peccary

    any of several piglike hoofed mammals of the genus Tayassu, of North and South America, as T. tajacu (collared peccary, or javelina) having a dark gray coat with a white collar.

  • torquate

    ringed about the neck, as with feathers or a color; collared.
All related words to collared

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