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3-letter words (1 found)

AXE,

2-letter words (4 found)

AE,AX,EA,EX,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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Definitions and meaning of axe

axe

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ax, axe, ex, from Old English æx, from Proto-West Germanic *akusi, from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷsih₂ (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare German Axt, Dutch aks, Danish økse, Icelandic öxi, and also Latin ascia.

Alternative forms

  • ax (largely US)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ăks, IPA(key): /æks/
  • Rhymes: -æks
  • Homophones: acts, ask (some dialects)

Noun

axe (plural axes)

  1. A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
  2. An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
  3. (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
    Synonyms: chop, pink slip, sack, boot
  4. (figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
  5. (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
  6. (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
Usage notes
  • In the United States, some spell the weapon axe and the tool ax to distinguish them, though most people use the same spelling for both senses.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • adze
  • hatchet
  • twibill

Verb

axe (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing or axeing, simple past and past participle axed)

  1. (transitive) To fell or chop with an axe.
  2. (transitive, figurative) To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
    Synonyms: downsize, fire, lay off; see also Thesaurus:lay off
Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • ax (US)

Noun

axe (plural axes)

  1. (archaic) The axle of a wheel.

Verb

axe (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)

  1. To furnish with an axle.

Etymology 3

From Old English axian (“ask”); see ax for more.

Verb

axe (third-person singular simple present axes, present participle axing, simple past and past participle axed)

  1. (now obsolete outside dialects, especially African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of ask.

Further reading

  • axe (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • exa-

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin axis. Compare the inherited doublet ais.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aks/

Noun

axe m (plural axes)

  1. axis
  2. axle

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Turkish: aks

Further reading

  • “axe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

Unknown. Cognate with Spanish aje.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈaʃɪ]

Noun

axe m (plural axes)

  1. ache
  2. affront
    Synonym: afronta

References

  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “axe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “axe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
  • Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “axe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

axe

  1. inflection of axar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of axir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Halkomelem

Noun

axe

  1. alternative spelling of áx̱e

Source

  • X̱eʼthílemel. Kelésmes Halqʼeméylemqel: Halq'emeylem Christmas Word List 2022, p. 14. Agassiz, BC: Seabird Island Community School (2004).

Interlingua

Noun

axe (plural axes)

  1. An axis, a straight line that crosses the center of a body and around which it turns.
  2. An axle, a bar connecting parallel wheels of a kart, wagon, etc.

Latin

Noun

axe

  1. ablative singular of axis

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

axe

  1. alternative form of ax

Etymology 2

From Old English ǣsce, from Proto-Germanic *aiskijǭ.

Alternative forms

  • as

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aks/

Noun

axe

  1. (rare) An ask or demand.
Descendants
  • English: ask (if not formed from the verb)
References
  • “axe, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.

Etymology 3

Noun

axe

  1. alternative form of asshe (“burnt matter”)

Etymology 4

Verb

axe

  1. alternative form of axen (“to ask”)
    • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Knight's Tale", Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere MS), ll. 1346–52:

Old English

Noun

axe f

  1. alternative form of æsċe

Source: wiktionary.org