snake

CEFRA1

/sneɪk/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A long, legless reptile.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.

Examples

  • Seen from the sky, the river looked like a huge snake.

  • The mere sight of a snake makes her sick.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A tool for unclogging plumbing.

  2. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.

  3. Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptiles with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.

More examples

In context

  • A snake coiled up in the grass

  • Gem’s a snake for Kamale, man.

  • The path snaked through the forest.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-West Germanic *snakō (“slider, snake”), from *snakan (“to creep, slide”), related to Old High German snahhan (“to sneak, slide”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *snēkô (“creeper, crawler”). Cognate with German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Danish snog (“grass snake”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Norwegian Nynorsk snåk (“viper, adder”), Faroese snákur (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”).