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gabion

Meaningcage

Common meaning: wire basket filled with stones for support or protection

Journey through time

  1. Italiangabbione‘large cage’source
  2. Frenchgabionsource
  3. Englishmeaning shiftslarge cage → wire basket filled with stones for support or protectiongabion‘wire basket filled with stones for support or protection’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Italian gabbione ‘cage’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Concise Etymological Dictionary (1911), entry GABION, p. 204 · dictionary scan

Roots

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