palladium
/pəˈleɪdi.əm/
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British/pəˈlɛjdɪjəm/
palladium noun: a safeguard.
Noun (1)
palladium (plural palladia)
- A safeguard.
- The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
- [H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
Noun (2)
palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)
- A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
- A single atom of this element.
Proper noun capitalized: Palladium
Palladium
palladium meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
palladium in Hindi
- chemical element
- निचूषातु nicūṣātu
palladium in Tamil
- chemical element
- வெண்ணிரும்பு veṇṇirumpu
palladium in Marathi
- पॅलेडियम, पैलेडियम
palladium in Urdu
- پیلیڈیم, پیلڈیم, پیلاڈیم
More languagesFewer languages
- palladium in Bengali
- একটি মূল্যবান রূপালী ধাতু
- palladium in Telugu
- పల్లాడియం, పల్లాడియమ్
- palladium in Malayalam
- പലേഡിയം, പല്ലാഡിയം, പല്ലേഡിയം
- palladium in Kannada
- ಪಲ್ಲಾಡಿಯಮ್
- palladium in Punjabi
- ਪੈਲੇਡੀਅਮ, ਪੈਲੇਡਿਯਮ, ਪੈਲੀਡੀਅਮ
- palladium in Gujarati
- પેલેડિયમ
- palladium in Odia
- ପାଲାଡିଆମ୍, ପାଲାଡ଼ିଅମ, ପାଲାଡ଼ିଆମ୍
- palladium in Nepali
- प्यालाडियम, प्यालेडियम, पेलेडियम
- palladium in Tagalog
- paladyo
- palladium in Arabic
- بَلَادِيُوم balādiyūm, بَالَادِيُوم bālādiyūm
- palladium in Malay
- paladium
- palladium in Persian
- پالادیم pâlâdyom
- palladium in Thai
- แพลเลเดียม pɛɛl-lee-dîiam
- palladium in Vietnamese
- palađi
- palladium in Myanmar
- ပယ်လေဒီယမ် pailediyam
Forms of palladium
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | palladia |
| plural | palladiums |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Palladion |
Origin of palladium
The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an epithet used before Athena.
The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.
Words formed from palladium
- allylpalladium
- dioxide of palladium
- dipalladium
- nonapalladium
- octapalladium
- organopalladium
- pallad-
- palladian
- palladic
- palladide
- palladiferous
- palladio-
- palladious
- palladium black
- palladium chloride
- palladium cyanide
- palladium dichloride
- palladium dinitrate
- palladium hydride
- palladiumise
- palladiumize
- palladium nitrate
- palladoan
- palladous
- pentapalladium
- protoxide of palladium
- radiopalladium
- testibiopalladite
- tetrapalladium
Questions about palladium
- What does palladium mean?
- Palladium means a safeguard.
- What is palladium in Hindi?
- Palladium in Hindi is निचूषातु (nicūṣātu). See Palladium meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is palladium?
- Palladium can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce palladium?
- Palladium is pronounced /pəˈleɪdi.əm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of palladium?
- The plural of palladium is palladia.
Words near palladium in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: palladium (page history and authors); Palladium (page history and authors); palladium (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); palladium (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); palladium (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); palladium (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); palladium (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); palladium (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); palladium (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); palladium (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); palladium (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); palladium (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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