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- [hahy-brid]
- /ˈhaɪ brɪd/
- /ˈhaɪ.brɪd/
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- [hahy-brid]
- /ˈhaɪ brɪd/
Definitions of hybrid word
- noun hybrid the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species, or genera, especially as produced through human manipulation for specific genetic characteristics. 1
- noun hybrid a person or group of persons produced by the interaction or crossbreeding of two unlike cultures, traditions, etc. 1
- noun hybrid anything derived from heterogeneous sources, or composed of elements of different or incongruous kinds: a hybrid of the academic and business worlds. 1
- noun hybrid a word composed of elements originally drawn from different languages, as television, whose components come from Greek and Latin. 1
- noun hybrid something that is powered by more than one source of power: a wind-solar hybrid to generate electricity. a car or other vehicle that combines an internal-combustion engine with one or more electric motors powered by a battery: She says she's proud to be driving a hybrid. 1
- adjective hybrid bred from two distinct breeds, varieties, species, or genera. 1
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Origin of hybrid
First appearance:
before 1595 One of the 38% oldest English words
First recorded in 1595-1605, hybrid is from the Latin word hybrida, hibrida a crossbred animal
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Parts of speech for Hybrid
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
hybrid popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% 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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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for hybrid
noun hybrid
- combination — A combination of things is a mixture of them.
- bastard — Bastard is an insulting word which some people use about a person, especially a man, who has behaved very badly.
- cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- compound — A compound is an enclosed area of land that is used for a particular purpose.
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
adjective hybrid
- portmanteau — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- assorted — A group of assorted things is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- crossbred — (of plants or animals) produced as a result of crossbreeding
- mixed — put together or formed by mixing.
- interdenominational — occurring between, involving, or common to different religious denominations.
Antonyms for hybrid
noun hybrid
- separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- homogeneous — composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.
- pedigreed — having established purebred ancestry: a pedigreed collie.
- pure — free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter: pure gold; pure water.
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