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I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Meaning of "mongrel" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MONGREL

From obsolete mong mixture; compare Old English gemong a mingling.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MONGREL

mongrel  [ˈmʌŋɡrəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONGREL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mongrel can act as a noun and an adjective.
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.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MONGREL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mongrel in the English dictionary

The first definition of mongrel in the dictionary is a plant or animal, esp a dog, of mixed or unknown breeding; a crossbreed or hybrid. Other definition of mongrel is a person of mixed race. Mongrel is also toughness and physical aggression.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONGREL


agricultural
ˌæɡrɪˈkʌltʃərəl
apparel
əˈpærəl
April
ˈeɪprəl
carol
ˈkærəl
central
ˈsɛntrəl
cultural
ˈkʌltʃərəl
dogrel
ˈdɒɡrəl
federal
ˈfɛdərəl
floral
ˈflɔːrəl
gangrel
ˈɡæŋɡrəl
general
ˈdʒɛnərəl
integral
ˈɪntɪɡrəl
langrel
ˈlæŋɡrəl
Mingrel
ˈmɪŋɡrəl
natural
ˈnætʃrəl
nonintegral
ˌnɒnˈɪntɪɡrəl
oral
ˈɔːrəl
podagral
pəˈdæɡrəl
rural
ˈrʊərəl
several
ˈsɛvrəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONGREL

monger
mongering
mongo
mongoe
mongol
Mongolia
mongolian
Mongolian People´s Republic
Mongolic
mongolism
mongoloid
mongoose
mongrelisation
mongrelise
mongreliser
mongrelism
mongrelization
mongrelize
mongrelizer
mongrelly

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONGREL

au naturel
barrel
beer barrel
borel
Brel
Demirel
ground squirrel
jurel
kestrel
laurel
mackerel
mandrel
minstrel
morel
Orel
quarrel
saurel
Sorel
sorrel
squirrel

Synonyms and antonyms of mongrel in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MONGREL»

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

Translation of «mongrel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONGREL

Find out the translation of mongrel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mongrel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mongrel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

杂种狗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

chucho
570 millions of speakers

English

mongrel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दोगला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هَجِيـنٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

беспородная собака
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vira-lata
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বর্ণসঙ্কর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bâtard
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mongrel
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Promenandenmischung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

雑種の犬
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잡종
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mongrel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chó lai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நாய்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मंगळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

melez
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incrocio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mieszaniec
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нечистокровний пес
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

corcitură
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημίαιμος σκύλος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

baster
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

blandras
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bastard
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mongrel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONGREL»

The term «mongrel» is regularly used and occupies the 66.933 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MONGREL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mongrel» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mongrel» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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7 QUOTES WITH «MONGREL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mongrel.
1
Minna Antrim
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
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Mark Barrowcliffe
When Reg died and we first looked into getting a new dog, I was adamant we should pick up a mongrel from an animal-rescue shelter. It's not only that they're usually healthier and have better temperaments, they also fit with my world view - I prefer a ballpoint to a fountain pen, a barber to a hair stylist, and camping over glamping.
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Ariel Dorfman
I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations.
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Sophia Myles
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.
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Sting
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
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Steven Weber
A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONGREL»

Discover the use of mongrel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mongrel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cosmopolis II: Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century
Cosmopolis II presents a truly global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St. Louis.
Leonie Sandercock, Peter Lyssiotis, 2003
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Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of ...
Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom’s African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present, working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory.
Ashley Dawson, 2007
3
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
Follows the cultural development of New York City in the 1920s, highlighting the contributions of several artists such as Dorothy Parker, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, and Irving Berlin.
Ann Douglas, 1996
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Mongrel
Mongrel has given Rails developers a first-rate server. If you've suffered through Rails apps deployed on Apache or Lighttpd with FCGI, suffer no more! Start using Mongrel, and say good-bye to FCGI and all its problems.
Angel N. Sciortino, Angel Dobbs-Sciortino, 2006
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Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, + Pranks
Mongrel is a cross-section of Chin's imagination and experiences that calls into question what it means to be an Asian-American in San Francisco, the effect your family will always have on you, and the role sexuality plays in your life.
Justin Chin, 2011
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Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and ...
For many, this is a disturbing realization, because it forces us to abandon the idea of American exceptionalism and re-examine slavery in America as part of a long, global history of slaveholders frequently crossing the color line.
Clarence E. Walker, 2009
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Australian Mongrel
Accompanying the dogs is a cross section of people who share their lives with man's best friend, and the many stories and yarns that go with them.
David Darcy, 2012
8
The Mongrel: A Story of Logan Fontenelle of the Omaha Indians
The Mongrel as a dramatized account of Logan Fontenelle's life, is told against a historical backdrop of when Indian buffalo hunts, the Morman migration and the fur trade were all part of the Nebraska experience.
Anthony J. Barak, James J. Reisdorff, 2000
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A Thorough-Bred Mongrel - The Tale of a Dog Told by a Dog to ...
A Thorough-Bred Mongrel - The Tale Of A Dog Told By A Dog To Lovers Of Dogs. By Stephen Townesend, F.R.C.S. Originally published in 1900. A charming fiction featuring a Skye Terrier, a Smooth Collie and an unwelcome Chihuahua.
Stephen Townesend, 2008
10
Mongrel
Set in Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, Marko Sijan’s explosive debut novel, Mongrel, mixes tragedy, black comedy and pathos in its five chapters, each narrated by a different youth, each of whom tilts closer toward an abyss of ...
Marko Sijan, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONGREL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mongrel is used in the context of the following news items.
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Mayfair Menu: Fusion with a mongrel edge
Rather than fusion, Johannesburg has what I think of as mongrel food. So much more personality. Samir Moussa's superette (much more than ... «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
2
Google, Facebook and chums launch web blacklist to nail ad …
Johnsen outlined two examples of toolkits mongrel marketers will use including UrlSpirit that serves as a form of botnet. Nominated URLs are ... «The Register, Jul 15»
3
Titans target? Moses Mbye in action for the Bulldogs. Picture: Adam …
Off-contract next year. The Titans need serious mongrel up front and Asofa-Solomona would provide it. Aidan Guerra in action for the Roosters. «Courier Mail, Jul 15»
4
Lord Melvyn Bragg stops dog attacking swan and cygnets on …
Labour peer Lord Melvyn Bragg stepped in to stop a vicious attack on the Heath last week – between a nesting swan and a mongrel. «Ham&High, Jul 15»
5
Witter Springs Chronicles: Talking animals
Animals communicate. They can't speak words, at least that's true most of the time, but we once had a mongrel dog that could. My dear wife ... «Record Bee, Jul 15»
6
Shawn Vestal: Newsmakers self-identify however they please
Ted Nugent, whose litany of racist blather includes calling Obama a “subhuman mongrel”? “I am not a racist.” The Orange County Republican ... «The Spokesman Review, Jul 15»
7
No change under Aquino
... PDAF or Priority Development Assistance Fund and that mongrel called the DAP or Disbursement Acceleration Program of President Aquino ... «Manila Standard Today, Jul 15»
8
Amazing transformation of rescued street mongrel with terrible …
This heartwarming video reveals the transformation back to good health undertaken by a stray dog found wandering the streets of India. Staff at ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
9
Parker Posey got weepy over role in Woody Allen's 'Irrational Man'
THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Gravier Productions, Inc./Sony Pictures Classics/Mongrel Media - Sabrina Lantos. TORONTO - Actress Parker ... «mysask.com, Jul 15»
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Want to stop border crossers? Buy the Great Wall
... border, where I am sure it will be as successful at keeping out illegal immigrants as it was in keeping the Mongrel hoards out of China. «azcentral.com, Jul 15»

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