herbとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, General Australian, New Zealand) enPR: hû(r)b, IPA^(key): /hɜːb/
  • (米国発音, Canada) enPR: (h)ûrb, IPA^(key): /(h)ɝb/
  • North American pronunciation of the word varies; some speakers include the h-sound and others omit it, with the h-less pronunciation being the more common. Individual speakers are usually consistent in their choice, but the choice does not appear to be correlated with any regional, socioeconomic, or educational distinctions.
  • Outside of North America, the h-less pronunciation is restricted to speakers who have a general tendency to "drop the h" in all words.
  • 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)b
  • Homophone: Herb (for the pronunciation /hɜː(ɹ)b/)

名詞

herb (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 herbs)

1. (countable) Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
2. (countable) A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.

   If any medicinal herbs used by witches were supposedly evil, then how come people from at least the past benefited from the healing properties of such herbs?

3. (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.

   Synonyms: grass, weed; see also Thesaurus:marijuana

   • 1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Casper:

     You think he's got any herb?

4. (countable, botany) A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season
5. (uncountable, obsolete) Grass; herbage.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     flocks grazing the tender herb

6. (countable, US, slang) A lame or uncool person.
   • 2008, Maryann Dickar, Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School (page 88)

     George (AO) describes the tie between fighting and respect: 'Cause some people could come up to you and say, “Ah, he's a herb, he can't fight. He's nothing.”

下位語

• See also Thesaurus:seasoning

関連する語

アナグラム

• Behr, Hebr., breh, hreb