rabbit

CEFRA1

/ˈɹæbɪt/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small animal with long ears and powerful back legs.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.

Examples

  • "What's the matter?" asked the little white rabbit.

  • A rabbit has long ears and a short tail.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈɹabɪt/

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noun

Extra meanings

  1. The meat from this animal.

  2. A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.

  3. A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. (Those of the larger kind are instead called hares)

More examples

In context

  • Glenn McGrath dismissed Michael Atherton a record 19 times; hence Atherton is McGrath's rabbit.

  • She was cooking rabbit stew for dinner.

  • The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe (“rabbit, seal”), of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub. Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe ("rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch rob (“rabbit", also "seal”)); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe (“rabbit”), and the later German Low German Rubbe, Robb (“seal”), West...