lozenge
/ˈlɑzɪnd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.
noun
A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
Example Sentences
- "Wherein the decussis is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...]."
- "How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!"
- "His sloppy socks were of scarlet wool with lilac lozenges; […]"
- "The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white."
- "One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable."
- "In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɑzɪnd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈlɒzɪnd͡ʒ/
Usage
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Frequently Paired Words
lozengy
lozenze