Synonyms for elephants
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : el-uh-fuh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛl ə fənt |
Définition of elephants
Origin :- c.1300, olyfaunt, from Old French oliphant (12c.), from Latin elephantus, from Greek elephas (genitive elephantos) "elephant, ivory," probably from a non-Indo-European language, likely via Phoenician (cf. Hamitic elu "elephant," source of the word for it in many Semitic languages, or possibly from Sanskrit ibhah "elephant").
- Re-spelled after 1550 on Latin model. As an emblem of the Republican Party in U.S. politics, 1860. To see the elephant "be acquainted with life, gain knowledge by experience" is an American English colloquialism from 1835.
- noun large mammal
- The white posts of which the fence was made were elephants' tusks!
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- The elephants were examining the bundles that had been thrown down.
- Extract from : « The Cat of Bubastes » by G. A. Henty
- The crowd of people were chiefly occupied in looking at the elephants.
- Extract from : « Rollo in Paris » by Jacob Abbott
- And the animals that I like to see most, I believe, are the elephants and the camels.
- Extract from : « Where Half The World Is Waking Up » by Clarence Poe
- The elephants of Rangoon are as fascinating as the camels of Peking.
- Extract from : « Where Half The World Is Waking Up » by Clarence Poe
- As elephants go, he wouldn't have made the welter-weight class by about a ton.
- Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
- It was summer, for they excited the elephants with the blood of the grape and the mulberry.
- Extract from : « Byeways in Palestine » by James Finn
- Fancy, actual chains in granite, pendants from elephants' heads!
- Extract from : « From Edinburgh to India & Burmah » by William G. Burn Murdoch
- They say there is a country where the elephants are wild,And never even heard of our Zoo.
- Extract from : « Golden Moments » by Anonymous
- How did his elephants save Pyrrhus—and then we saw them for the first time?
- Extract from : « The Lion's Brood » by Duffield Osborne
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