teal
/tiːl/US/til/
teal noun: any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
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Noun (1)
teal (countable and uncountable, plural teals)
- Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
- A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.
- A teal independent.
- In a bid to defend their inner-city seats, the Liberal Party has moved towards the environmental and progressive left in what can be described as a “teal strategy” that blurs the lines between the Liberals and the Greens.2021 September 21, Kurt Wallace, “Navigating the great dividing voter range”, in IPA Today, Institute of Public Affairs
- Concerns of a targeted dirty tricks campaign targeting “teal” independents has prompted the Australian Electoral Commission to bring in its electoral integrity assurance taskforce as pre-polling opens.2022 May 9, “AEC mobilises taskforce to investigate corflute damage”, in Sydney Morning Herald, page 10
Adjective
teal (comparative more teal, superlative most teal)
- Having a bluish-green colour.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: TEAL
TEAL
Noun (2) capitalized: TEAL
TEAL (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of triethylaluminium.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Teal
Teal (countable and uncountable, plural Teals)
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- A ghost town in Cole County, Missouri, United States.
Noun (3) capitalized: TEAl
TEAl (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of triethylaluminium.
teal meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam
teal in Hindi
- टील
teal in Marathi
- टील
teal in Telugu
- టీల్
teal in Malayalam
- duck
- ഇരണ്ട iraṇṭa
More languagesFewer languages
- teal in Kannada
- ಟೀಲ್, ಟೀಲು
- teal in Punjabi
- ਟੀਲ
- teal in Gujarati
- ટીલ
- teal in Nepali
- टील
- teal in Arabic
- شرشير šaršīr, حَذَف ḥaḏaf, شرشيري šaršīriyy
- teal in Indonesian
- itik
- teal in Persian
- خوتکا xutkâ, سبز دودی sabz-e dudi
- teal in Vietnamese
- mòng két, xanh
Examples of teal in a sentence
- She slid a blue mini cupcake with green and teal sprinkles my way.
- Teal or lime green, for example, were particularly hot in third grade.
- The teal faced being had a wicked looking spider’s mouth and wide elephantesque ears.
Forms of teal
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | teals |
| alternative form (obsolete) | teale |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more teal |
| superlative | most teal |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Teals |
| alternative form | Teale |
| alternative form | Teall |
| alternative form | Teel |
| alternative form | Teele |
Origin of teal
From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. Compare feal and heal for similar phonological development. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).
From teal, a nickname given to someone considered to resemble this duck.
Words formed from teal
- tealish
- tealness
- American teal
- Baikal teal
- black teal
- blue-winged teal
- Brazilian teal
- brown teal
- Cape teal
- chestnut teal
- cinnamon teal
- common teal
- Eurasian teal
- falcated teal
- gray teal
- green-winged teal
- greenwinged teal
- grey teal
- Hottentot teal
- Laysan teal
- lesser whistling teal
- New Zealand teal
- ringed teal
- speckled teal
- tealery
- teal independents
- Teal Point
- teal-seed
- yellow-billed teal
Phrases with teal
Words that rhyme with teal
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- keel
- anneal
- creel
- peal
- peel
- sweal
- congeal
- Izmail
- kneel
- meal
- Neale
- streal
- weal
- awheel
- Castile
- cochineal
- feal
- heal
- Lille
- ordeal
- repeal
- sele
- squeal
- zeal
- ceil
- debile
- dishabille
- hele
- leal
- lifesteal
- Neil
- Niel
- O'Neill
- reveal
- schlemiel
- seel
- she'll
- shiel
- skeel
- spiel
- square meal
- unseal
- veal
- we'll
- weel
- ye'll
- -meal
- allele
Questions about teal
- What does teal mean?
- Teal means any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
- What is teal in Hindi?
- Teal in Hindi is टील. See Teal meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is teal?
- Teal can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce teal?
- Teal is pronounced /tiːl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of teal?
- The plural of teal is teals.
Words near teal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: teal (page history and authors); TEAL (page history and authors); Teal (page history and authors); TEAl (page history and authors); teal (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teal (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teal (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teal (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teal (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teal (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); teal (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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