exotic
pronunciation
How to pronounce exotic in British English:
UK [ɪɡˈzɒtɪk]
How to pronounce exotic in American English:
US [ɪɡˈzɑːtɪk]
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- Adjective:
- being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
- strikingly strange or unusual
Word Origin
- exotic (adj.)
- 1590s, "belonging to another country," from Middle French exotique (16c.) and directly from Latin exoticus, from Greek exotikos "foreign," literally "from the outside," from exo "outside" (see exo-). Sense of "unusual, strange" in English first recorded 1620s, from notion of "alien, outlandish." In reference to strip-teasers and dancing girls, it is attested by 1942, American English. Exotic dancer in the nightclub trade means a girl who goes through a few motions while wearing as few clothes as the cops will allow in the city where she is working ... ["Life," May 5, 1947] As a noun from 1640s, "anything of foreign origin," originally plants.
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Example
- 1. Tourists could ride luxury carriages to exotic destinations .
- 2. You could wear a costume , a wig or even some exotic make-up .
- 3. Prosperity and a fast-growing middle class have cultivated more sophisticated and exotic tastes .
- 4. And catholic strongholds remain hostile to rivals : last year an exotic luz del mundo temple in guanajuato was vandalised .
- 5. At the exclusive shop run by designer eman al-mandeel , I was taken aback by flashes of colour and exotic fabrics .