Lozenge
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈlɒz.ɪnd͡ʒ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lozenge is a noun meaning (shapes, heraldry) A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.
Meaning
(shapes, heraldry) A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.
More Meanings
- A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a lozenge.
- (transitive) To mark or emblazon with a lozenge.
Example Sentences
His sloppy socks were of scarlet wool with lilac lozenges; […]
How the junior partner of Hobbs and Dobbs leads her smiling to the carriage with the lozenge upon it, and the fat wheezy coachman!
In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.
The floor is constructed from marble lozenges and triangles of every imaginable hue: yellow and pink and all manner of mottled and blotched shades, framed in white.
Word Forms
- lozenges
- lozenging
- lozenged
Synonyms for lozenge
Depending on context, synonyms include diamond, pastille, troche, lozzy, pill, tablet.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tablet, pill, indicator, patch, dependence, dependency.
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