trapeze

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A trapezium.
  2. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
  3. The trapezium bone.
  4. A certain yo-yo trick.
verb
  1. To swing on or as on a trapeze.
name
  1. A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

Pronunciation

/tɹəˈpiːz/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-trapeze.wav

Word forms

trapeze trapezes trapezing trapezed

Etymology

From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.

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