• a b
  • Log In
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
  • Writing
  • Mobile apps
  • Help
  • ©2017 EdictFree.
    All Rights Reserved.
Vocabulary
  • Topic
Help
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy policy
Mobile apps
  • Android
  • Ios
Bright
  • Home
  • Vocabulary
    • Topic
  • Writing

Free Online Dictionary

The home of living English, with more than 820,000 words, meanings and phrases
All Properties select
District 1 District 2 District 7 More

Longman Dictionary English

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Related topics: Fish, Weapons, Roads
pikepike /paɪk/ noun [countable] 1 pike.jpg HBF (plural pike) a large fish that eats other fish and lives in rivers and lakes2 PMWa long-handled weapon with a sharp blade, used in the past3 → come down the pike4 TTR American English spoken a turnpike
Examples from the Corpus
pike• The personal best pike measured a massive 45 inches with a girth of 24 inches and was returned alive.• Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.• A 21-pound pike was caught there recently.• Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?• Authorities said they were sending biologists to Delliker Pond to determine whether pike were present there.
Origin pike 1. (1300-1400) pike “sharp pointed object” ((11-20 centuries)), from Old English pic2. (1500-1600) French pique3. (1800-1900) turnpike
ldoceonline.com
Word of day

May 11, 2025

candle
noun ˈkændl
Ad
Mobile apps

Browse our dictionary apps today and ensure you are never again lost for words.

Follow
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Find Out More
  • Contact us
  • Privacy policy
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree
Copyright EdictFree.Com All Rights Reserved.
Design by EdictFree