animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.nɪ.məl/
ipa: /ˈæ.nə.məl/
ipa: /ˈæ.nɪ.məl/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈnɪ.məl/
rhymes: -ænɪməl
rhymes: -ænəməl
rhymes: -ɪməl
Forms: form: animals
Etymology: From Middle English animal, from Old French animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of the adjective form animāle, neuter of animālis, from anima (“breath, spirit”). Displaced native Middle English deor, der (“animal”) (whence modern English deer; from Old English dēor (“animal”)), Middle English reother (“animal, neat”) (whence modern English rother; from Old English hrīþer, hrȳþer (“neat, ox”)).
Senses: examples: text: Humans, like other animals, need air to breathe and food to eat.
text: It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:
topics: sciences
synonyms: creature
glosses: Any member of the kingdom Animalia of multicellular organisms that are usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and which derive energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (further distinguishing them from plants).
synonyms: beast
coordinate_terms: human
person
glosses: Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
examples: text: When he's hungry my toddler opens his mouth like an animal instead of asking us to feed him.
glosses: A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
examples: text: Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
ref: 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
glosses: A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
A tetrapod; a land-dwelling nonhuman vertebrate.
glosses: A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
A warm-blooded animal; a mammal or bird.
examples: text: Birds are as popular as animals in the toy kingdom, especially pigeons, owls and domestic hens.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 54:
text: I spent my summer studying the animals and birds of the two islands.
glosses: A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
A non-human mammal.
examples: text: My students are animals.
text: Own me, I'll let you play the role
I'll be your animal
ref: 2019, “Bad Guy”, Finneas O'Connell, Billie Eilish O'Connell (lyrics), performed by Billie Eilish:
text: She speculated that things could deteriorate later: “I think they’re scared of the English, which is fair; we are animals.”
ref: 2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Jodie White, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro final”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: brute
monster
savage
glosses: A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
examples: text: He's a political animal.
glosses: A person of a particular type specified by an adjective.
examples: text: a whole different animal
text: no such animal
glosses: Matter, thing.
Synonyms: word: animal
word: beast
word: beastie
word: creature
word: critter
word: deer
Hypernyms: word: living thing
word: organism
Hyponyms: word: female animal
word: male animal
word: youngling
word: vertebrate
word: invertebrate
word: fish
word: amphibian
word: reptile
word: bird
word: mammal
word: arthropod
word: insect
word: arachnid
word: crustacean
word: mollusc
word: herbivore
word: carnivore
word: folivore
word: frugivore
word: insectivore
word: omnivore
word: bug
word: creepy-crawly
word: fowl
word: livestock
word: pet
Derived terms: advice animal
ambassador animal
animal activist
animal African trypanosomiasis
animal-assisted therapy
animal black
animal cabinet
animal charcoal
animal coat
animal companion
animal control officer
animal cracker
animal dentistry
animal dye
animalesque
animal experimentation
animal fat
animal feed
animal flower
animal food
animal fries
animal heat
animalhood
animal house
animal husbandry
animalian
animalicide
animalish
animalism
animalist
animalistic
animalivore
animalivorous
Animal Jammer
animalkind
animal kingdom
animal liberation
animal-like
animally
animal magnetism
animaloid
animal print
animal product
animal protein factor
animal registry
animal reminder disgust
animal rights
animal sanctuary
animal science
animal shelter
animal tester
animal testing
animal trypanosomiasis
animal welfare
animal welfarist
anipal
antianimal
assistance animal
balloon animal
companimal
companion animal
compound animal
draft animal
draught animal
eat like an animal
emotional support animal
farm animal
funny animal
go the entire animal
intensive animal farming
interanimal
intraanimal
koranimal
manimal
microanimal
moss animal
multianimal
nonanimal
pack animal
party animal
planimal
plant-animal
plush animal
political animal
power animal
rare animal
scape-animal
service animal
Set animal
small animal
spirit animal
stock animal
stuffed animal
therapy animal
Typhonian animal
Typhonic animal
wereanimal
wheel animal
wild animal
working animal
zoo animal
Related terms: word: anima
word: animalcule
word: Animalia
word: animalier
word: animate
word: animus
word: :Category:Animals