English Explanatory Dictionary

ounce

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
  2. A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.
  3. A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625 millilitres.
  4. A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.
  5. Any small amount, a little bit.
noun
  1. A large wild feline, such as a lynx or cougar.
  2. Synonym of snow leopard, Panthera uncia.
  3. Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.

Pronunciation

/aʊns/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-ounce.wav

Word forms

ounce ounces

Etymology

From Middle English ounce, unce, from Middle French once, from Latin uncia (“Roman ounce, various similar units”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one”). Doublet of a, one, inch, uncia, onça, onza, oka, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.

Synonyms

oz. fl. oz. ℥ uncia snow leopard Panthera uncia onza

Derived words

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Translations

Albanian: ons Arabic: أُوقِيَّة Arabic: وِقِيَّة Arabic: أَوْنْس Arabic: أونصة Arabic: أونسة Aramaic: ܐܘܢܩܝܐ Armenian: ունցիա Armenian: ունկի Bengali: আউন্স Bulgarian: унция Catalan: unça Chinese Cantonese: 安士 Chinese Mandarin: 盎司 Czech: unce Esperanto: unco Faroese: unsa Finnish: unssi French: once Friulian: once Galician: onza Ge'ez: ወቄት German: Unze Greek: ουγγιά Hebrew: אוּנְקִיָה Hindi: औंस Hungarian: uncia Icelandic: únsa Indonesian: ons Irish: unsa Irish: uinge Old Irish: ungae Italian: oncia Japanese: オンス Khmer: អោនស៍ Korean: 온스 Northern Kurdish: weqî Northern Kurdish: ons Latin: uncia Latvian: unce Lithuanian: uncija Malay: auns Maltese: uqija Māori: aunihi Middle English: ounce Mongolian: унци Norman: onche
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