machete
/məˈʃɛ.ti/
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machete noun: a sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
Noun
machete (plural machetes)
- A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang
- It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air. A boy with a machete cuts the one remaining line, which pops up and lashes him across the face.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 384
- A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
Verb
machete (third-person singular simple present machetes, present participle macheteing, simple past and past participle macheted)
- To cut or chop with a machete.
- After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.
machete meaning in Marathi, Kannada, Nepali and Tagalog
machete in Marathi
- a sword-like tool
- मचेटे maceṭe
machete in Kannada
- ಮಚ್ಚುಕತ್ತಿ
machete in Nepali
- माचेटे
machete in Tagalog
- a sword-like tool
- sundang
More languagesFewer languages
- machete in Arabic
- مِحَشّ miḥašš
- machete in Persian
- کارد بزرگ و سنگین
- machete in Thai
- พร้า práa, มีดพร้า mêet práa
- machete in Vietnamese
- rựa
Examples of machete in a sentence
- Taylor was seen nearby and had a three foot machete down his pants.
- There was no sound but the swack - swack of the machete.
- 'We call that the bladebreaker because it is hard enough to smash a machete.
Synonyms of machete
Forms of machete
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | machetes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | machetes |
| present participle | macheteing |
| past participle | macheted |
| past | macheted |
Origin of machete
From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.
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Questions about machete
- What does machete mean?
- Machete means a sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
- What is machete in Marathi?
- Machete in Marathi is मचेटे (maceṭe). See Machete meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is machete?
- Machete can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce machete?
- Machete is pronounced /məˈʃɛ.ti/.
- What is the plural of machete?
- The plural of machete is machetes.
Words near machete in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: machete (page history and authors); machete (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); machete (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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