Mahogany

Quick meaning: Mahogany is a noun meaning (uncountable) The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.

Meaning

(uncountable) The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
2. (countable)(by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.
3. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
4. Made of mahogany.
5. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
6. (regional) A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.
7. (obsolete, colloquial) A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.

Example Sentences

Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.

Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany […]

In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000).

Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?

Word Forms

• mahoganies
• mahoganey
• mahoganee
• mahogeney
• mahogeny
• mahagony
• mahagoney

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wood, boner, walnut, teak, cedar, oak.

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