AVOIRDUPOIS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Excess bodily weight

Example:

she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others

Synonyms:

avoirdupois; blubber; fat; fatness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("avoirdupois" is a kind of...):

bodily property (an attribute of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "avoirdupois"):

adiposeness; adiposity; fattiness (having the property of containing fat)

abdominousness; paunchiness (the bodily property of a protruding belly)

greasiness; oiliness; oleaginousness (consisting of or covered with oil)

corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)

steatopygia (an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks)

Meaning:

A system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains)

Synonyms:

avoirdupois; avoirdupois weight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("avoirdupois" is a kind of...):

system of weights; weight (a system of units used to express the weight of something)

Meronyms (parts of "avoirdupois"):

avoirdupois unit (any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights)