trait
/tɹeɪt/
trait noun: an identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
Noun
trait (plural traits)
- An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
- inherited traits and acquired traits
- The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?
- Synonyms:
- characteristic
- An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
- Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin.
- Traits are parametrized on other methods, which must be provided to create a class using the trait. Using a trait-like mechanism to compose large collections of mutually-dependent classes or traits could lead to parameter explosion.2006, Nathaniel J. Nystrom, Programming languages for scalable software extension and composition
trait meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
trait in Tamil
- தனித்திறக் கூறு, தனிப்பண்புத் திறம், தாற்றக்கூறு, போக்கு குறிப்பிடத்தக்கப் பண்பு, விசேஷ குணம், சிறப்பான தன்மை
trait in Urdu
- صفت, سیرت
trait in Bengali
- বৈশিষ্ট্য
trait in Malayalam
- വരി, ലക്ഷണം, സ്പർശനം, വിശേഷഗുണം
More languagesFewer languages
- trait in Kannada
- ಪರಿಚೆ, ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕ ಲಕ್ಷಣ, ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಸ್ವಭಾವ, ವಿಶೇಷ ಗುಣ
- trait in Tagalog
- panangi
- trait in Arabic
- صِفَة ṣifa, شِيْمَة šiyma, سِمَة sima
- trait in Indonesian
- ciri-ciri, ciri khas, ciri, karakteristik
- trait in Persian
- صفت sefat, خصلت xeslat
- trait in Thai
- นิสัย ní-sǎi, ลักษณะนิสัย
- trait in Vietnamese
- đặc điểm, đặc tính
Examples of trait in a sentence
- The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, Truth:
- The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity.1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education:
- Turning to our second trait, if you have straight hair, then both of your parents must carry an allele for this trait.2003, Robert S. Siegler, Judy S. DeLoache, Nancy Eisenberg, How Children Develop, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 89:
Synonyms of trait
Forms of trait
| plural | traits |
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Origin of trait
Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), from Latin trahō. Doublet of tract.
Words formed from trait
Phrases with trait
Words that rhyme with trait
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
Questions about trait
- What does trait mean?
- Trait means an identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
- What is trait in Tamil?
- Trait in Tamil is தனித்திறக் கூறு, தனிப்பண்புத் திறம், தாற்றக்கூறு. See Trait meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use trait in a sentence?
- The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
- What part of speech is trait?
- Trait is a noun.
- How do you pronounce trait?
- Trait is pronounced /tɹeɪt/.
- What is the plural of trait?
- The plural of trait is traits.
Words near trait in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: trait (page history and authors); trait (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trait (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trait (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trait (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trait (Kannada 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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