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Word: Trait
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 16th century: from French, from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draught’ (see tract). An early sense was ‘stroke of the pen or pencil in a picture’, giving rise to the sense ‘a particular feature of mind or character’ (mid 18th century)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
treɪt
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
treɪ
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person
Short Definition:distinguishing quality or characteristic
Examples:- the traditionally British trait of self-denigration
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