dinosaur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “terrible, awesome, mighty, fearfully great”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”). Coined as Dinosaur(s) and Dinosauria by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1841/1842.
Inflected forms:
form: dinosaurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deinosaur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Dinosaur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dinosaurus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Those animals of the clade Dinosauria that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
pos: noun
tags: usually
examples: Despite what some cartoons portray, no humans were around when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
gloss: Any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, including its sole surviving lineage: Neornithes.
pos: noun
examples: Many people love their backyard birds, but some of us may not realize that those feathery friends are also literally dinosaurs, in a biologically accurate sense of that word.
gloss: Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago, as well as the stem-mammal Dimetrodon.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
proscribed
examples: Pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, icthyosaurs — I don't know, they're all dinosaurs to me!
"Not a bird, my dear Roxton - not a bird." "A beast?" "No; a reptile - a dinosaur."
‘Dinosaur!’ Denham exploded. ‘By the Power! A dinosaur!’
gloss: Someone or something that is very old or old-fashioned, especially someone who is not willing to change and adapt.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: She may be a tough old bird, but it's a mistake to write her off as a dinosaur; you do so at your own risk.
[The OS/360 linkage editor] is the culmination of years of development of static overlay technique. Yet it is also the last and finest of the dinosaurs, for it belongs to a system in which multiprogramming is the normal mode and dynamic core allocation the basic assumption.
The sign in the window said for sale or trade on the last remaining dinosaur Detroit made.
gloss: Anything no longer in common use or practice.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: I couldn't believe it when I saw the equipment that they were still using. Those machines were all dinosaurs, but they were busily cranking out production.
Synonyms: dinosaur
Related words: :Category:Dinosaurs
Derived words: avian dinosaur
dinosaur-burner
dinosauresque
dinosaur hunter
dinosaurian
dinosauric
dinosaurish
dinosaur juice
dinosaur kale
dinosaurlike
dinosauroid
dinosaur oil
dinosaurologist
dinosaurology
dinosaur plant
duck-billed dinosaur
Milo dinosaur
non-avian dinosaur
nondinosaur
ostrich dinosaur
pedosaur
pinosaur
-saur
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: dinozaur
lang: Arabic
word: دِينَاصَوْر
roman: dīnāṣawr
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܕܝܼܢܵܨܵܘܪܵܐ
roman: dīnāṣāwrā
lang: Armenian
word: դինոզավր
roman: dinozavr
lang: Assamese
word: ডাইন’চৰ
roman: dainösor
lang: Assamese
word: দিন’চাউৰ
roman: dinösaur
lang: Assamese
word: ভীমসৰট
roman: bhimxorot
lang: Asturian
word: dinosauriu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dinozavr
lang: Basque
word: dinosauro
lang: Belarusian
word: дыназа́ўр
roman: dynazáwr
lang: Bengali
word: ডাইনোসর
roman: ḍainōśor
lang: Bengali
word: ডায়নোসর
roman: ḍaẏnōśor
lang: Bengali
word: দিনোসাউর
roman: dinōśaur
lang: Bengali
word: ভীমসরট
roman: bhimśoroṭ
lang: Bulgarian
word: диноза́вър
roman: dinozávǎr
lang: Burmese
word: ဒိုင်နိုဆော
roman: duingnuihcau:
lang: Catalan
word: dinosaure
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 恐龍 /恐龙
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 恐龍 /恐龙
roman: kǒnglóng
lang: Cornish
word: arghpedrevan
lang: Czech
word: dinosaurus
lang: Danish
word: dinosaurus
lang: Dutch
word: dinosaurus
lang: Esperanto
word: dinosaŭro
lang: Estonian
word: dinosaurus
lang: Fijian
word: dainasoa
lang: Finnish
word: dinosaurus
lang: Finnish
word: hirmulisko
lang: French
word: dinosaure
lang: Galician
word: dinosauro
lang: Georgian
word: დინოზავრი
roman: dinozavri
lang: German
word: Dinosaurier
lang: German
word: Dinosaurus
lang: German
word: Dino
lang: German
word: Saurier
lang: Greek
word: δεινόσαυρος
roman: deinósavros
lang: Gujarati
word: ભીમસરટ
roman: bhīmasraṭ
lang: Hawaiian
word: nalala
lang: Hebrew
word: דִּינוֹזָאוּר
lang: Hebrew
word: דינוזאור
roman: dinozaur
lang: Hindi
word: डायनासोर
roman: ḍāynāsor
lang: Hindi
word: डायनोसोर
roman: ḍāynosor
lang: Hindi
word: डाइनोसोर
roman: ḍāinosor
lang: Hindi
word: डाइनोसर
roman: ḍāinosar
lang: Hindi
word: दीनोसाउर
roman: dīnosāur
lang: Hindi
word: भीमसरट
roman: bhīmsaraṭ
lang: Hungarian
word: dinoszaurusz
lang: Icelandic
word: risaeðla
lang: Ido
word: dinosauro
lang: Indonesian
word: dinosaurus
lang: Inuktitut
word: ᐆᒪᔪᕕᓂᑐᖃᐅᔮᓗᐃᑦ
roman: oomayofinitoqaoyaaloit
lang: Irish
word: dineasár
lang: Italian
word: dinosauro
lang: Japanese
word: 恐竜
roman: kyōryū
lang: Kazakh
word: динозавр
roman: dinozavr
lang: Khmer
word: ឌីណូស័រ
roman: diinousɔə
lang: Korean
word: 공룡
roman: gongnyong
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: dînozor
lang: Kyrgyz
word: динозавр
roman: dinozavr
lang: Lao
word: ໄດໂນເສົາ
roman: dai nō sao
lang: Latin
word: dinosaurus
lang: Latvian
word: dinozaurs
lang: Lithuanian
word: dinozauras
lang: Macedonian
word: диноса́урус
roman: dinosáurus
lang: Malay
word: dinosaur
lang: Malay
word: denosor
lang: Manx
word: jeeneysoar
lang: Māori
word: mokotuauri
lang: Māori
word: mokonui
lang: Māori
word: mokouki
lang: Mongolian
word: үлэг гүрвэл
roman: üleg gürvel
lang: Mongolian
word: динозавр
roman: dinozavr
lang: Mongolian
word: аврага гүрвэл
roman: avraga gürvel
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠦᠯᠭᠡ ᠭᠦᠷᠪᠡᠯ
roman: ülge gürbel
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠋ᠳ᠋ᠢᠨᠣᠽᠠᠧᠷ
roman: dinozaēr
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠠᠪᠤᠷᠭᠤ ᠭᠦᠷᠪᠡᠯ
roman: aburɣu gürbel
lang: Navajo
word: naayééʼ
lang: Nepali
word: डायनोसर
roman: ḍāyanosar
lang: Norman
word: dinnosaure
lang: Norwegian
word: dinosaur
lang: Norwegian
word: dinosaurus
lang: Occitan
word: dinosaure
lang: Pashto
word: ډانگسر
lang: Persian
word: دایناسور
roman: dâynâsor
lang: Polish
word: dinozaur
lang: Portuguese
word: dinossauro
lang: Punjabi
word: ਡਾਈਨੋਸੌਰ
roman: ḍāīnosaur
lang: Romanian
word: dinozaur
lang: Russian
word: диноза́вр
roman: dinozávr
lang: Samoan
word: tainasoa
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: daidhneasar
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dìneasar
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: диносаурус
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: диносаур
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dinosaurus
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dinosaur
lang: Slovak
word: dinosaurus
lang: Slovak
word: veľjašter
lang: Slovene
word: dinozaver
lang: Spanish
word: dinosaurio
lang: Swedish
word: dinosaurie
lang: Swedish
word: skräcködla
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠒꠣꠁꠘꠣꠍꠞ
roman: ḍainasór
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠒꠣꠁꠘꠧꠍꠞ
roman: ḍainosór
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠒꠣꠄꠘꠧꠍꠞ
roman: ḍaenosór
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠖꠤꠘꠧꠍꠣꠃꠞ
roman: dinosáur
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠜꠤꠝꠡꠞꠐ
roman: bímośoroṭo
lang: Tagalog
word: bayawak-kilabot
lang: Tagalog
word: dinosawriyo
lang: Tajik
word: динозавр
roman: dinozavr
lang: Tamil
word: டைனோசர்
roman: ṭaiṉōcar
lang: Tamil
word: தொன்மா
roman: toṉmā
lang: Tatar
word: динозавр
roman: dinozawr
lang: Telugu
word: రాక్షస బల్లి
roman: rākṣasa balli
lang: Thai
word: ไดโนเสาร์
roman: dai-noo-sǎo
lang: Turkish
word: dinozor
lang: Turkmen
word: dinozawr
lang: Ukrainian
word: диноза́вр
roman: dynozávr
lang: Urdu
word: ڈایناسور
roman: ḍāynāsor
lang: Urdu
word: دینوساؤر
roman: denosāor
lang: Urdu
word: بھیمسرٹ
lang: Uyghur
word: دىنوزاۋر
roman: dinozawr
lang: Uzbek
word: dinozavr
lang: Vietnamese
word: khủng long
lang: Volapük
word: dinosaur
lang: Welsh
word: deinosor
lang: Yiddish
word: דינאָזאַווער
roman: dinozaver