product
/ˈpɹɑ.dəkt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.95 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed."
- "To whom thus Michael: These are the product / Of those ill-mated marriages thou sawest;"
- "These institutions are the products of enthusiasm; they are the instruments of wisdom."
- "The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”."
- "They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production."
- "Skill is the product of hours of practice. His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Latin prōductusder. Middle English product English product From Middle English product, from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: product, prōductus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɹɑ.dəkt/
- British English: /ˈpɹɒd.əkt/
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Slang
- Obsolete
- Transitive verb