meagre
/ˈmiːɡəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.
adj
Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
Canadian usage; British usage
Example Sentences
- "1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48, Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] ."
- "It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts."
- "Meagres (Argyrosomus regius, 230 cm, 103 kg) have been raised mainly in Spain, France and Italy."
- "[…]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:"
- "Nothing will grow in this meagre soil."
- "He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite."
Etymology
From Middle French maigre.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmiːɡəɹ/
- British English: /ˈmiːɡə/
Usage
- Canadian usage
- British usage
- Transitive verb
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
brown meagre