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- [wom-bat]
- /ˈwɒm bæt/
- /ˈwɒm.bæt/
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- [wom-bat]
- /ˈwɒm bæt/
Definitions of wombat word
- noun wombat any of several stocky, burrowing, herbivorous marsupials of the family Vombatidae, of Australia, about the size of a badger. 1
- noun wombat A burrowing plant-eating Australian marsupial that resembles a small bear with short legs. 1
- noun wombat Australian marsupial 1
- noun Definition of wombat in Technology Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time. Problems which are both profoundly uninteresting in themselves and unlikely to benefit anyone interesting even if solved. Often used in fanciful constructions such as "wrestling with a wombat". See also crawling horror, SMOP. 1
- countable noun wombat A wombat is a type of furry animal which has very short legs and eats plants. Wombats are found in Australia. 0
- noun wombat any of various burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials, esp Vombatus ursinus, constituting the family Vombatidae and having short limbs, a heavy body, and coarse dense fur 0
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Origin of wombat
First appearance:
before 1790 One of the 43% newest English words
First recorded in 1790-1800, wombat is from the Dharuk word wom-bat
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Parts of speech for Wombat
noun
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preposition
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determiner
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wombat popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 71% 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".
wombat usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for wombat
noun wombat
- x — the 24th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
- bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- baz — (computing) A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity, typically the third in a series after foo and bar.
- foo — (computing) A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
- fred — Antoinette, 1888–1946, U.S. actress, theatrical manager, and producer.
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