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cat

  • noun
  • kăt

Terms relating to animals.

Other meanings

  1. A mammal of the family Felidae.

  2. Chiefly with a descriptive word: an animal not of the family Felidae which (somewhat) resembles a domestic feline ().

Synonyms

  • true cat

A kind of

  • feline

Kinds of cat

  • domestic cat

Example sentences

  • “The dog and the cat ran away.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

  • “Cats are not as dangerous as tigers.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

Word history

From Old English "catt" (male cat).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “cat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.