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" My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones."
Jack Horner

Meaning of "dinosaur" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DINOSAUR

From New Latin dinosaurus, from Greek deinos fearful + sauros lizard.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DINOSAUR

ˈdaɪnəˌsɔː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DINOSAUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dinosaur is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DINOSAUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, 231.4 million years ago, and were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for 135 million years, from the beginning of the Jurassic until the end of the Cretaceous, when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of most dinosaur groups at the close of the Mesozoic Era. The fossil record indicates that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic Period and, consequently, they are considered a subgroup of dinosaurs by many paleontologists. Some birds survived the extinction event that occurred 66 million years ago, and their descendants continue the dinosaur lineage to the present day. Dinosaurs are a varied group of animals from taxonomic, morphological and ecological standpoints. Birds, at over 10,000 living species, are the most diverse group of vertebrates besides perciform fish. Using fossil evidence, paleontologists have identified over 500 distinct genera and more than 1,000 different species of non-avian dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are represented on every continent by both extant species and fossil remains.

Definition of dinosaur in the English dictionary

The definition of dinosaur in the dictionary is a person or thing that is considered to be out of date.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DINOSAUR

allosaur · apatosaur · archosaur · brontosaur · carnosaur · Chickasaw · cotylosaur · deinosaur · hadrosaur · ichthyosaur · mosasaur · plesiosaur · pterosaur · quartersaw · stegosaur · teleosaur · titanosaur · tyrannosaur · vavasor · vavassor

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DINOSAUR

dinner-dance · dinnerless · dinnertime · dinnerware · dinnerware set · dinning · dinnle · dino · dinoceras · dinoflagellate · dinomania · dinosaurian · dinosauric · dinothere · dinotheria · dinotherium · dinoturbation · dint · dintless · dinucleotide

WORDS THAT END LIKE DINOSAUR

ankylosaur · balisaur · baur · centaur · coelurosaur · daur · duck-billed dinosaur · elasmosaur · faur · gaur · Kaur · megalosaur · Minotaur · ornithosaur · pelycosaur · pliosaur · scaur · supersaur · waur · whaur

Synonyms and antonyms of dinosaur in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DINOSAUR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «dinosaur» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «dinosaur» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DINOSAUR

Find out the translation of dinosaur to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of dinosaur from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dinosaur» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

恐龙
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

dinosaurio
570 millions of speakers
en

English

dinosaur
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

डायनासोर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ديناصُور
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

динозавр
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

dinossauro
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

অধুনালুপ্ত সরীসৃপবিশেষ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

dinosaure
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Dinosaur
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Dinosaurier
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

恐竜
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

공룡
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Dinosaurus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

con khủng long
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

டைனோசர்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

डायनासोर
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

dinozor
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

dinosauro
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

dinozaur
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

динозавр
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

dinozaur
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δεινόσαυρος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dinosourus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dinosaurie
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dinosaur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dinosaur

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DINOSAUR»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of dinosaur
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «dinosaur».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dinosaur

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10 QUOTES WITH «DINOSAUR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dinosaur.
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Kage Baker
1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.
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Robert T. Bakker
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
3
Boz Burrell
I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.
4
Belinda Carlisle
I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.
5
Morgan Fairchild
Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I'd love to bring those interests to a show like 'E.R.' or 'The West Wing,' or a movie like 'Jurassic Park.'
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Neil Gaiman
I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'
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Jack Horner
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Jack Horner
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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Jack Horner
My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.
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Jack Horner
There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DINOSAUR»

Discover the use of dinosaur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dinosaur and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
Illustrated with forty-eight color plates and scores of black-and-white pictures, an entertaining study examines the enduring appeal of dinosaurs to the human imagination, the many different images of dinosaurs in popular culture, and their ...
W. J. T. Mitchell, 1998
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The Complete Dinosaur
"Written by many of the world's leading experts on the "fearfully great" reptiles, the book's 45 chapters cover what we have learned about dinosaurs, from the earliest discoveries of dinosaurs to the most recent controversies.
M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James Orville Farlow, 2012
3
Danny and the Dinosaur
But Danny can teach a old dinosaur new tricks. It's the most fun this dinosaur has had in a hundred million years! Originally published as An I Can Read Book over 40 years ago, this classic story is perfect for reading together.
Syd Hoff, 1958
4
Eating the Dinosaur
Takes a humorous look at expectations versus reality in pop culture, sports, and media, exploring such topics as pop culture's obsession with time travel and what Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in common.
Chuck Klosterman, 2009
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Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem ...
This book, published in celebration of the site's 50th anniversary, is the first scientific overview of the park, its flora and fauna, its major fossil discoveries, and its ecology.
Philip J. Currie, Eva Bundgaard Koppelhus, 2005
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Dinosaur Detectives
Prepared for a trip to study the dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History, Ralphie and his classmates are surprised to instead travel back in time to the Mesozoic Era where they learn about the dinosaurs first-hand.
Judith Bauer Stamper, 2001
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The Ultimate Dinosaur Book
Describes how dinosaurs lived and died, offers profiles of the major types of dinosaurs, and identifies each species that has been discovered so far
David Lambert, 1993
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Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life
This captivating book, laced with evocative anecdotes from the field, gives the first holistic, up-to-date overview of dinosaurs and their world for a wide audience of readers.
Scott D. Sampson, 2009
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Detective Dinosaur
Then he cracks the case of the squeaky shoe. Then he goes on night patrol, and spots a scary shadow in a dark alley. Can it be a monster? Help Detective Dinosaur follow the clues and find out!
James Skofield, 1998
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Dinosaur Paleobiology
This book provides a contemporary review of dinosaur science intended for students, researchers, and dinosaur enthusiasts.
Stephen L. Brusatte, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DINOSAUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dinosaur is used in the context of the following news items.
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Scientists Discover a New Horned Dinosaur | TIME
The Wendiceratops pinhornenis dinosaur is seen in a life reconstruction illustration. Danielle Dufault/Wendiceratops The Wendiceratops ... «TIME, Jul 15»
2
Ray-Finned Fish Thrived After Dinosaur Extinction: Study
The extinction of dinosaurs paved the way for ray-finned fish species, researchers claim. Pictured: an animatronic model of a Tyrannosaurus ... «International Business Times, Jul 15»
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World's oldest flying dinosaur fossil found on Isle of Wight | Meridian …
The fossilised rostrum - or snout - of the coloborhynchus was confirmed after Mr Thurbin took it to staff at Dinosaur Isle Museum in Sandown, ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
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Who wants tickets to “Sarah the Dinosaur?” | Raising Austin
Pollyanna Theatre Company kicks off showings of “Sarah the Dinosaur” this weekend. I have two sets of four tickets to give away for the 11:30 ... «austin360, Jul 15»
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The Trail Less Traveled: Dinosaur hunting, anyone? - The Daily …
Now that the movie “Jurassic World” is out I felt that it might be more socially acceptable to talk about such things, what with all the dinosaur ... «The Daily Citizen, Jul 15»
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Local high schooler to present on found dinosaur fossils - Telluride …
That dynamic will be reversed Wednesday when he will speak at the Telluride Historical Museum about the dinosaur fossils he found while on ... «The Daily Planet, Jul 15»
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Jurassic World Raptor Encounter debuts at Universal Studios …
I loved the dinosaur, however I don't know if it was the voice or the overly ... at Universal Studios Hollywood, encouraging dinosaur selfies ... «Inside the Magic, Jul 15»
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'Wendiceratops:' bizarre three-horned dinosaur found in southern …
EDMONTON - Another new species of dinosaur with a bizarre and elaborate array of horns and shields on its face has emerged from the hills ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 15»
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Canada Post pulls stamp that misidentified hoodos as Dinosaur
The hoodoos on a Canada Post stamp issued Friday are actually near Drumheller, Alta., not in Dinosaur Provincial Park. The post office has ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
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Dinosaur-Survival PC Game Ark Sells 1 Million, Gets New Mod …
Steam's big dinosaur-themed game, Ark: Survival Evolved, continues to grow. Developer Studio Wildcard on Tuesday announced that the ... «GameSpot, Jul 15»
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