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newt

newt
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [noot, nyoot]
    • /nut, nyut/
    • /njuːt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [noot, nyoot]
    • /nut, nyut/

Definitions of newt word

  • noun newt any of several brilliantly colored salamanders of the family Salamandridae, especially those of the genera Triturus and Notophthalmus, of North America, Europe, and northern Asia. 1
  • noun newt any of various other small salamanders. 1
  • noun newt A small, slender-bodied amphibian with lungs and a well-developed tail, typically spending its adult life on land and returning to water to breed. 1
  • noun newt small amphibian 1
  • countable noun newt A newt is a small creature that has four legs and a long tail and can live on land and in water. 0
  • noun newt any of various small semiaquatic urodele amphibians, such as Triturus vulgaris (common newt) of Europe, having a long slender body and tail and short feeble legs 0

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Origin of newt

First appearance:

before 1375
One of the 22% oldest English words
1375-1425; late Middle English newte, for ewte (the phrase an ewte being taken as a newte; cf. nickname), variant of evet, Old English efete eft1

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Parts of speech for Newt

noun
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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newt popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 89% 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".

newt usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for newt

noun newt

  • frog — a triangular mass of elastic, horny substance in the middle of the sole of the foot of a horse or related animal.
  • salamander — any tailed amphibian of the order Caudata, having a soft, moist, scaleless skin, typically aquatic as a larva and semiterrestrial as an adult: several species are endangered.
  • toad — any of various tailless amphibians that are close relatives of the frogs in the order Anura and that typically have dry, warty skin and are terrestrial or semiterrestrial in habit. Compare frog1 (def 1).
  • caecilian — any tropical limbless cylindrical amphibian of the order Apoda (or Gymnophiona), resembling earthworms and inhabiting moist soil
  • caudate — having a tail or a tail-like appendage

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