Hobbit

Quick meaning: Hobbit is a noun meaning A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.

Meaning

A member of a fictional race of small humanoids with shaggy hair and hairy feet.

More Meanings

1. (US, slang, uncommon) A socially unappealing, overly academic student.
2. A Welsh unit of weight, equal to four Welsh pecks, or 168 pounds.
3. An extinct species of hominin, Homo floresiensis, with a short body and relatively small brain, fossils of which have been recovered from the Indonesian island of Flores.
4. (archaic) An old unit of volume (2+¹⁄₂ bushels, the volume of 168 pounds of wheat).

Example Sentences

It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had […] a little round tummy like a hobbit

The hobbit became extinct 50,000 years ago, about the time the first humans arrived on Flores, but the Pacific rat lived on.

Although partial remains of other Hobbits have surfaced at the same site, they say it could have been an isolated colony of inbred people who shared the same genetic abnormalities.

And in the island regions of southeast Asia, where the descendants of erectus, and the Hobbit, and any similar relict populations lived, climate changes would have greatly disrupted connections between regions and populations, as sea levels rose and fell by 100 metres or more.

Word Forms

• hobbits
• hobbitses

Synonyms for hobbit

Depending on context, synonyms include halfling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hobbet, hobbitry, halfling, hoblin, werehog, hooman.

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