Word.ws English Dictionary

tigre

tigre is the obsolete form of tiger.

Meaning of tiger

Noun

tiger (plural tigers)

  1. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
    • For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311
    1. A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
      • Coordinate term: tigress
  2. (inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in the subfamily †Machairodontinae).
  3. (inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus
    • What you mean is that no scientist has captured one and been able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it exists, which is probably very good news for the tiger.2010, Barry Jonsberg, Blacky Blasts Back: On the Tail of the Tassie Tiger, Crows Nest, N.S.W: Allen & Unwin, page 43
  4. (obsolete) A jaguar.
    • Similar is the test among the Moxos of Peru. One of their totems is the tiger; and a candidate for the rank of medicine-man must prove his kinship to the tiger by being bitten by that animal and surviving the bite.1887, James George Frazer, Totemism, page 20
  5. A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.

See all 22 meanings of tiger

Proper noun capitalized: Tigre

Tigre

  1. A Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.

Noun capitalized: Tigre

Tigre pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A group of agricultural Tigrinya-speaking people in northern Ethiopia.
  2. (plural, plural-only) A group of nomadic Tigre-speaking people in northern Eritrea.

Forms of tigre

Noun
pluraltigres
Proper noun
alternative formTəgre
alternative formTigrē
alternative formTegrē

Origin of tigre

Borrowed from Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

Questions about tigre

What does tigre mean?
Tigre means a Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.
What is tigre the obsolete form of?
Tigre is the obsolete form of tiger.
What part of speech is tigre?
Tigre can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near tigre in the dictionary

  1. Tigranyan
  2. Tigranyans
  3. Tigray
  4. Tigrayan
  5. Tigrayans
  6. tigre
  7. tigres
  8. tigress
  9. tigress-like
  10. tigresses
  11. tigresslike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tigre (page history and authors); Tigre (page history and authors); tiger (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tigre.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tigre. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.