slat

Pronunciation: /slæt/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a thin strip (wood or metal)
  2. verb equip or bar with slats
  3. verb close the slats of (windows)

Etymology

From Middle English slatte, sklatte, sklat, sclat, from Old French esclat (“piece broken or split off, shiver, splinter”), from Old French esclater (“to split, burst”), from Frankish *slaitijan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to rend, split”). Doublet of slate and éclat.

In classic literature

Synonyms

spline

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
strip
Narrower (hyponyms)
stave, splat, louver, lath

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