blanket
pronunciation
How to pronounce blanket in British English:
UK [ˈblæŋkɪt]
How to pronounce blanket in American English:
US [ˈblæŋkɪt]
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- Noun:
- bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- anything that covers
- a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
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- Verb:
- cover as if with a blanket
- form a blanket-like cover (over)
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- Adjective:
- broad in scope or content
Word Origin
- blanket (n.)
- c. 1300, "bed-clothing; white woolen stuff," from Old French blanchet "light wool or flannel cloth; an article made of this material," diminutive of blanc "white" (see blank (adj.), which had a secondary sense of "a white cloth." Wet blanket (1830) is from the notion of a person who throws a damper on social situations like a wet blanket smothers a fire. In U.S. history, a blanket Indian (1859) was one using the traditional garment instead of wearing Western dress. Only 26,000 blanket Indians are left in the United States. ["Atlantic Monthly," March 1906]
- blanket (v.)
- c. 1600, "to cover with or as with a blanket;" also "to toss in a blanket" (as punishment), from blanket (n.). Related: Blanketed; blanketing.
Example
- 1. She was wrapped in a white blanket with blue stripes .
- 2. Creative adam and eve inspired blanket cover for your bed .
- 3. Just like they would send your baby blanket back to you .
- 4. In exchange , she received a blanket .
- 5. She clutches the blanket to her .