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AVOIRDUPOIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excess bodily weight
Example:
she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others
Synonyms:
avoirdupois; blubber; fat; fatness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("avoirdupois" is a kind of...):
bodily property (an attribute of the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "avoirdupois"):
adiposeness; adiposity; fattiness (having the property of containing fat)
abdominousness; paunchiness (the bodily property of a protruding belly)
greasiness; oiliness; oleaginousness (consisting of or covered with oil)
corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)
steatopygia (an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains)
Synonyms:
avoirdupois; avoirdupois weight
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("avoirdupois" is a kind of...):
system of weights; weight (a system of units used to express the weight of something)
Meronyms (parts of "avoirdupois"):
avoirdupois unit (any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights)
