animal
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos
Proto-Italic *anamos
Latin animus
Latin anima
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin animālis
Latin animalder.
Old French animalbor.
Middle English animal
English animal
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 English deer (outside puristic usage) in the general animal sense, from Middle English der, deor (“animal”), from Old English dēor, related to German Tier (“animal”), Dutch dier, Swedish djur etc. Displaced also rother (“horned animal, esp. ox”, now obsolete), from Middle English rother, reother (“a bovine”), from Old English hrīþer, hrȳþer.
Inflected forms:
form: animals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia that is usually mobile, with cells that are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: critter
Humans, like other animals, need air to breathe and food to eat.
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.
gloss: Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: When he's hungry my toddler opens his mouth like an animal instead of asking us to feed him.
gloss: A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
examples: 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.
gloss: A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I spent my summer studying the animals and birds of the two islands.
Birds are as popular as animals in the toy kingdom, especially pigeons, owls and domestic hens.
“Long Story Short,” a new animated series from Raphael Bob-Waksberg with art by Lisa Hanawalt, trades the talking animals for kvetching humans.
gloss: A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: My students are animals.
Own me, I'll let you play the role
I'll be your animal
She speculated that things could deteriorate later: “I think they’re scared of the English, which is fair; we are animals.”
gloss: A person of a particular type specified by an adjective.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He's a political animal.
gloss: Matter, thing.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: a whole different animal
no such animal
gloss: Of or relating to animals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: animal instincts
The season has been most unfavourable to animal life; and I, who am merely animal, have suffered much by it.
[…]—according to Sanssure, Abbé Fortis, Bruckenman, Jameson, Dr. Richardson, &c. &c. both animal and vegetal remains have been detected in Basalt and Wacke.
The body was covered with soft hair, and though undoubtedly human, it was very animal in its instincts and ways.
The unsatisfactory material at our command, however, renders it difficult to determine why we cannot prove a worship of a living incarnation for every deity who is represented on the monuments in a form either wholly or partially animal. We must wonder why, for example, the sacred hawk or hawks of Horus at Edfu (who never has human form) are scarcely mentioned.
He looked down at the tangled wet hair, the wild, bare, animal shoulders.
I thought: if pain is the thing shared by all living creatures, then I’m no longer human or animal or vegetal; I am unplugged from the tick of metabolism; I am mineral.
In any case, the argument the inhabitants of these parts would have advanced as their strongest one against the so-called chastity belt would, of course, have been that living species, whether animal or vegetative, were made the way they were for an obvious reason.
gloss: Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: animal passions
But the line also distills pop culture’s big commandment about sex to its animal essence: If you’re not screwing somebody, you’re nobody.
gloss: Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion.
gloss: Excellent.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
not-comparable
slang
Synonyms: animal
beast
beastie
creature
critter
deer
Related words: anima
animalcule
Animalia
animalier
animate
animus
:Category:Animals
Wiktionary appendix of terms relating to animals
Derived words: 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
animal hoarding
animalhood
animal house
animal husbandry
animalian
animalicide
animalish
animalism
animalist
animalistic
animalivore
animalivorous
Animal Jammer
animalkind
animal kingdom
animal liberation
animal-like
animal magnetism
animaloid
animal print
animal product
animal protein factor
animal registry
animal reminder disgust
animal rights
animal sanctuary
animal science
animal shelter
animal soul
animal starch
animal tester
animal testing
animal trafficking
animal trypanosomiasis
animal unit
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
pack animal
party animal
planimal
plant-animal
plush animal
political animal
power animal
rare animal
robo-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
animally
nonanimal
animalize
animalness
animal pole
animal spirits
animal–industrial complex
humanimal
semianimal
superanimal
vegetoanimal
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