dog

CEFRA1

/dɒɡ/

noun · verb

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  1. 01

    noun

    A common animal kept as a pet or working companion.

  2. 02

    verb

    To follow someone closely and persistently.

Examples

  • Didn't you see a dog pass through the yard?

  • I buried my dog at the pet cemetery.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

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noun

Extra meanings

  1. Initialism of digitally originated graphic.

  2. A mammal of the family Canidae:

  3. The species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding.

More examples

In context

  • I took the dog for a walk.

  • Did you know that they eat dog in parts of Asia?

  • The dog barked all night long.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin. The original meaning seems to have been a common dog, as opposed to a well-bred one, or something like 'cur', and perhaps later came to be used for stocky dogs. Possibly a pet-form diminutive with suffix -ga (compare frocga (“frog”), *picga (“pig”)), appended to a base *dog-, *doc- of unclear origin and meaning. One possibility is Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”) (compare frocga from frox). Another proposal is that it derives from Proto-West Germanic *dugan (“to be suitable”), the origin of Old English dugan (“to be good, worthy, useful”), English dow, Dutch deugen, German taugen. T...