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- [teyl]
- /teɪl/
- /teɪl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [teyl]
- /teɪl/
Definitions of tail word
- noun tail the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs. 1
- adjective tail limited to a specified line of heirs; entailed. 1
- verb with object tail Informal. to follow in order to hinder escape of or to observe: to tail a suspect. 1
- verb with object tail to form or furnish with a tail. 1
- verb with object tail to form or constitute the tail or end of (a procession, retinue, etc.). 1
- verb with object tail to terminate; come after or behind; follow like a tail. 1
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Origin of tail
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English; Old English tægl; cognate with Old Norse tagl horse's tail, Gothic tagl hair, Middle High German zagel tail, Middle Low German tagel rope-end
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Parts of speech for Tail
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
tail 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".
tail usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for tail
adj tail
- back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
- back of — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- dorsal — of, relating to, or situated at the back, or dorsum.
- hind — situated in the rear or at the back; posterior: the hind legs of an animal.
- hindermost — Hindmost.
noun tail
- back seat — a seat at the back, esp of a vehicle
- backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
- beaten track — well-trodden path or route
- beehive — A beehive is a structure in which bees are kept, which is designed so that the beekeeper can collect the honey that they produce.
- behind — If something is behind a thing or person, it is on the other side of them from you, or nearer their back rather than their front.
verb tail
- bird-dog — to follow, watch carefully, or investigate.
- birddog — one of any of various breeds of dogs trained to hunt or retrieve birds.
- bring up the rear — to be at the back in a procession, race, etc
- catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
- catenate — to arrange or be arranged in a series of chains or rings
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