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cavendish

/ˈkævəndɪʃ/

cavendish noun: leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

Noun (1)

cavendish (uncountable)

  1. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
    • "But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said.1919, Richard Harding Davis, The Exiles and Other Stories
    • No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I

Proper noun capitalized: Cavendish

Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)

  1. A surname transferred from the place name.
    • Their captain's a swine, an evil bastard. Name of Cavendish.1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders
  2. A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046).
  3. A locality in Alberta.
  4. A local service district in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
  5. A community, ward and former township in Trent Lakes, Peterborough County, Ontario.
  6. A rural community of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
  7. An unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States.
  8. A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
  9. A township in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.

Noun (2) capitalized: Cavendish

Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)

  1. (countable) The most commonly sold banana; one of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.
    • Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes.2018, Chris Fitch, Globalography: Our Interconnected World revealed in 50 Maps, page 10
    Synonyms:
    Chinese banana, dwarf banana
  2. (alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”).

cavendish meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali

cavendish in Hindi

कैवेंडिश, कैवेन्डिश, कैवेन्डीश

cavendish in Tamil

கேவெண்டிஷ், கேவிண்டிஷ்

cavendish in Marathi

कॅव्हेंडिश, कॅव्हेंडीश

cavendish in Bengali

ক্যাভেন্ডিশ, ক্যাভেণ্ডিশ
More languagesFewer languages
cavendish in Malayalam
കാവെൻഡിഷ്, കേവിൻഡിഷ്, കാവൻഡിഷ്
cavendish in Kannada
ಕೇವೆಂಡಿಷ್, ಕೇವೆಂಡಿಶ್
cavendish in Gujarati
કેવેન્ડીશ, કેવેન્ડિશ
cavendish in Odia
କାଭେଣ୍ଡିଶ୍, କାଭେଣ୍ଡିସ୍, କାଭେଣ୍ଡିଶ
cavendish in Nepali
केभेन्डिश, केभेन्डिस, क्याभेन्डिश

Examples of cavendish in a sentence

  • Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred.1896, anonymous author, The Ladies Book of Useful Information:
  • It was always an augury of foul weather in Livingstone's temper when, instead of the decent evening cigar, he smoked the short black brule-gueule, loaded to the muzzle with cavendish.1868, George A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone;:
  • Come, I'll trate ye to a taste o' me cavendish, which is better than growlin' in yer hammock at the muskaities, poor things, as don't know no better."1817, R.M. Ballantyne, The Pirate City:

Synonyms of cavendish

  • Chinese banana
  • dwarf banana

Forms of cavendish

Noun
alternative formCavendish
pluralCavendishes
Proper noun
pluralCavendishes

Origin of cavendish

Possibly from the name of the original manufacturer.

* (English village): "Cāfna's enclosure", from Old English personal name *Cāfna + edisċ (“pasture”); recorded as Kauanadisc in 1086 (DB). * (in Vermont): Likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. * (banana): Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.

Words formed from cavendish

Phrases with cavendish

Questions about cavendish

What does cavendish mean?
Cavendish means leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
What is cavendish in Hindi?
Cavendish in Hindi is कैवेंडिश, कैवेन्डिश, कैवेन्डीश. See Cavendish meaning in Hindi.
How do you use cavendish in a sentence?
Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred.
What part of speech is cavendish?
Cavendish can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cavendish?
Cavendish is pronounced /ˈkævəndɪʃ/.
What is the plural of cavendish?
The plural of cavendish is Cavendishes.

Words near cavendish in the dictionary

  1. cavemovirus
  2. cavemoviruses
  3. Caven
  4. Cavender
  5. Cavenders
  6. cavendish
  7. Cavendish banana
  8. Cavendish bananas
  9. Cavendishes
  10. cavendishia
  11. cavendishias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cavendish (page history and authors); Cavendish (page history and authors); cavendish (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cavendish (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cavendish (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cavendish (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cavendish (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cavendish (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cavendish (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cavendish (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cavendish (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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