laboratory
/ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
Example Sentences
- "Again she read the passage that had riveted her attention; and, rising from her seat, carried the still open volume, and laid it on a slab by the furnace in the laboratory: it was a celebrated treatise on poisons, written in the fifteenth century."
- "[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old Latin labōs Latin labor Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin labōrō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Late Latin labōrātor Medieval Latin labōrātōrius Medieval Latin labōrātōriumbor. English laboratory Borrowed from Medieval Latin labōrātōrium.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlæb(ə)ɹəˌtɔɹi/
- British English: /ləˈbɒɹət(ə)ɹi/