abattoir
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An abattoir.
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (“to slaughter”) (cognate to abate) + -oir (“-ory”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæb.əˌtwɑː(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæb.əˌtwɑɹ/, /ˈæb.əˌtwɑ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (Canada): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: ab‧at‧toir
Noun
abattoir (plural abattoirs)
- A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [1]
- Once the cows reach maturity, they're sent to the abattoir.
- A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.[2]
- Synonym: bloodbath
- The army's raid on the enemy turned into a major abattoir.
- 2017 April 19, Franz-Stefan Gady, “What Would the Second Korean War Look Like?”, in The Diplomat:
- The corridors where North Korean troops would be advancing [in a hypothetical invasion of South Korea] would almost certainly be turned into human abattoirs.
Derived terms
Translations
public slaughterhouse
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a place likened to be a slaughterhouse
See also
References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abattoir”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.
- ^ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Further reading
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French abattoir.
Pronunciation
Noun
abattoir n (plural abattoirs, diminutive abattoirtje n)
Synonyms
Descendants
French
Etymology
From abattre (“to slaughter, butcher”) + -oir (suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
abattoir m (plural abattoirs)
- abattoir, slaughterhouse (place where animals are slaughtered)
- Cet abattoir est vaste et bien aéré. ― This slaughterhouse is large and well-ventilated.
- (figuratively) abattoir, slaughterhouse (place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed)
- aller à l’abattoir ― to go to the slaughterhouse
- envoyer à l’abattoir ― to send to the slaughterhouse
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “abattoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
abattoir n (definite singular abattoiret, indefinite plural abattoirer, definite plural abattoira or abattoirene)
- (concerning France) an abattoir (a public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.)
- 1836 October 17, Den Constitutionelle, page 2:
- man betænker, hvilke uhyre mængde kvæg der mellem aar og dag bliver slagtet i Parises abattoirs
- one considers the enormous amount of cattle slaughtered in Paris' abattoirs between year and day
- 1928 September 13, A-magasinet, page 2:
- abbatoirene [sic] i Rue de Flanders
- the abattoirs in Rue de Flanders
References
- “abattoir” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).