tawnとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɔːn/
• (General American) IPA: /tɔn/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /tɑn/
• 韻: -ɔːn, -ɔn, -ɑn
• Homophone: torn (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)

動詞

tawn (third-person singular simple present tawns, present participle tawning, simple past and past participle tawned)

1. (transitive) To tan, make tawny.

名詞

tawn (plural tawns)

1. (rare) A tan.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 5”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; HE doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.

語源 2

From town.

固有名詞

tawn

1. (Bermuda, colloquial, uncountable) Hamilton (the capital city of Bermuda).
   • 2013 September 5, James Burton, “Burton's Banter: Our rich dialogue — as moreish as a cold burr...”, in The Bermuda Sun‎, archived from the original on 12 December 2022:

     12:30pm: Went tahn to get some greeze. Parked opposite de lye-berry.

別の表記

• tahn

Holonyms

• Bermy, de rock

名詞

tawn (plural tawns)

1. (Bermuda, countable) Pronunciation spelling of town.

アナグラム

• Want, wa'n't, wan't, want