English Explanatory Dictionary

lobster

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.
  2. Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:
  3. A spiny lobster, also called the rock lobster, a crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
  4. A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
  5. A squat lobster.
  6. A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
  7. An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.
verb
  1. To fish for lobsters.
adj
  1. Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

Pronunciation

/ˈlɒb.stə/ /ˈlɑb.stɚ/ en-us-lobster.ogg

Word forms

lobster lobsters lobstering lobstered more lobster most lobster

Etymology

From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster). Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster.

Synonyms

lobsterback redcoat red as a lobster

Related words

crawfish crayfish mudbug prawn shrimp yabby 🦞

Derived words

American lobster Andaman lobster Arafura lobster Bermuda lobster bight lobster blue lobster California lobster Cape lobster Caribbean lobster China lobster clawed lobster common lobster European lobster fan lobster Formosa lobster furry lobster globster Japanese lobster land lobster lazy lobster lobsterback lobsterboat lobster box lobster caterpillar lobster clasp lobster claw lobsterer lobsterette lobsterish lobsterlike lobsterling lobster louse Nicothoe astaci) lobsterman lobster moth lobster mushroom lobster Newberg lobster palace lobsterperson lobster pot lobster pound lobster prominent lobster roll lobster sauce lobsterscope lobster scorpion lobster shift lobster sloop lobster-tailed pot lobster-tail pot lobster thermidor lobster trap lobsterwoman lobstery Maine lobster mitten lobster) mole lobster mud lobster Neptune lobster New Zealand lobster northwest lobster

Translations

Abenaki: sôga Afrikaans: kreef Dupaningan Agta: lobugen Albanian: karavidhe Albanian: gaforre e madhe Arabic: كَرْكَنْد Arabic: استاكوزا Arabic: أم الربيان Arabic: لوبستر Armenian: օմար Assamese: ডাঙৰ মিছামাছ Asturian: llocántaru Asturian: bugre Azerbaijani: xərçəng Azerbaijani: omar Basque: otarraina Belarusian: ама́р Bengali: গলদা Bhojpuri: झींगा Bonggi: kulakng Breton: legestr Bulgarian: ома́р Burmese: ပုဇွန်ထုတ်ကြီး Catalan: llagosta Catalan: llamàntol Catalan: escamarlà Cebuano: banagan Chinese Cantonese: 龍蝦 /龙虾 Chinese Mandarin: 龍蝦 /龙虾 Chinese Mandarin: 海螯蝦 /海螯虾 Wu Chinese: 龍蝦 /龙虾 Cornish: legest Corsican: gàmbaru Czech: humr Danish: hummer Dhivehi: އިހި Dutch: zeekreeft Dutch: kreeft Dutch: hommer Esperanto: omaro Estonian: homaar Faroese: hummari Finnish: hummeri French: homard French: langouste West-Frisian: kreeft Galician: lumbrigante Galician: lubrigante Galician: lagosta Georgian: ასთაკვი Georgian: კიბო Georgian: ლობსტერი German: Hummer Greek: αστακός Ancient Greek: ἀστακός Ancient Greek: κάμμαρος Haitian Creole: oma
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