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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈvæl.i.əm/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈvæl.i.əm/, /ˈvæl.jəm/
• 韻: -æliəm

名詞

Valium (countable and uncountable, plural Valiums)

1. (trademark, pharmacology) The drug diazepam.

   Coordinate terms: Librium, Miltown

   • 2003, Samuel H. Barondes, quoting Peter D. Kramer, chapter 4, in Better than Prozac, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47:

     Mothers little helpers were pills—Miltown, amphetamine, barbiturates, Librium, and Valium were the most popular and widely available in the fifties and early sixties—that were used to keep women in their place, to make them comfortable in a setting that should have been uncomfortable, to encourage them to focus on tasks that did not matter.

2. (countable) A Valium pill.

派生語

• val
• Valiumed

参照

• “Valium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Valium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• maulvi