dormouse
/ˈdɔː.maʊs//ˈdɔɹ.maʊs/
dormouse noun: any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
Noun
dormouse (plural dormice)
- Any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
- For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war...1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat, Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237
- Restoration such as this must work around wildlife habitats, and NR came to discover that almost the entire line was a haven for dormice.2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 41
- Glis glis (edible dormouse).
- Muscardinus avellanarius (hazel dormouse).
- A person who sleeps a great deal, or who falls asleep readily (by analogy with the sound hibernation of the dormouse).
dormouse meaning in Urdu and Vietnamese
dormouse in Urdu
- درموش, خرموش
dormouse in Vietnamese
- rodent
- chuột sóc
Synonyms of dormouse
Forms of dormouse
| plural | dormice |
|---|---|
| alternative misspelling | doormouse |
Origin of dormouse
From Middle English dormowse, of uncertain origin. Possibly from a dialectal *dor-, from Old Norse dár (“benumbed”) + mous (“mouse”). More at doze, mouse. The word is sometimes conjectured to come from an Anglo-Norman derivative of Old French dormir (“to sleep”) (as *dormouse (“tending to be dormant”), with second element mistaken for mouse), but no such Anglo-Norman term is known to have existed.
Words formed from dormouse
Phrases with dormouse
Words that rhyme with dormouse
Questions about dormouse
- What does dormouse mean?
- Dormouse means any of several species of small, mostly European rodents of the family Gliridae.
- What is dormouse in Urdu?
- Dormouse in Urdu is درموش, خرموش. See Dormouse meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is dormouse?
- Dormouse is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dormouse?
- Dormouse is pronounced /ˈdɔɹ.maʊs/ (US).
- What is the plural of dormouse?
- The plural of dormouse is dormice.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dormouse (page history and authors); dormouse (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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