Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tiger
IPA transcription: [t'aɪɡɚ]
Pronunciations of tiger
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: tiger
    Meaning: a fierce or audacious person; "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me"
  • Synonyms: tiger, Panthera_tigris
    Meaning: large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
Usage examples
  • Like an enraged tiger
  • "Whoever drinks of me, a tiger soon will be."
  • Hark! a tiger roars,--the valley answers again.
  • Tiger was right; this was almost too good to be true.
  • "We need your co-ordinates in order to tell," Tiger said.
  • By this time they were on the rock, and suddenly Hook remembered Tiger Lily.
  • She looked at him, and the dull misery in her eyes would have softened a tiger.
  • On a clanking chain they led a large, angry tom-cat, painted to represent a tiger.
  • Deposit a charge of shot in some outlying section of Thomas the Tiger, and note the effect.
  • Tiger got the request off while Jack and Dal strapped down for the conversion to Koenig drive.
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