Tiger
Word: tigerTiger Meanings:
- A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger
- Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person
- A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress
- A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar
- (Canada, Inland Northern American, New England, some speakers) IPA(key):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtaɪɡə/
- Homophone: taiga (nonrhotic)
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia. Hypernym: felid Hyponyms: tiger cub, tigressA male tiger; as opposed to a tigress. Coordinate term: tigress
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- Tigre, Tigré, greit, tigre
- IPA(key): (Revived Middle Cornish) /ˈtiːɡɛr/, (Revived Late Cornish) /ˈtiːɡɐr/
- Dutch: tijger
- Limburgish: tieger
- a tiger (Panthera tigris)
- Middle English: tygre, tygur, tygyr, tigre, tiger, teger, tegreEnglish: tiger (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: teeger
- “tiger”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran