somersault

CEFRB2

/ˈsʌməˌsɒlt/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A movement in which you roll forward or backward through the air.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    To perform a somersault.

Examples

  • A somersault gone wrong landed Tom in the hospital.

  • The performer somersaulted all the way across the stage.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. Starting on one's feet, an instance of rotating one's body 360 degrees while airborne or on the ground, with one's feet passing over one's head.

More examples

In context

  • He turned a somersault.

  • Tom did a somersault.

  • He half-carries, half-drags it back to the stern, making sure the heat exchanger stays in the water, and somersaults it into the zodiac.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From French sombresault (now obsolete, compare French sursaut, soubresaut), from Old Occitan sobresalt, from sobre- (“over, above”) + salt (“jump”), from Latin suprā (“over”) + saltus (“jump”). Doublet of soubresaut. Cognate with Spanish sobresaltar (“to spook, startle”) and Portuguese sobressaltar (“to spook, scare, jump over”).