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1. (n.) serpent
a snake.
2. serpent
a wily, treacherous, or malicious person.
3. serpent
the Devil; Satan. Gen. 3:1–5.
4. serpent
an obsolete wooden wind instrument with a serpentine shape and a deep tone.
Etymology: (1250–1300; (< MF) < L serpent-, s. of serpēns, orig. prp. of serpere to creep, crawl)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) snake, serpent, ophidian
limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
2. (noun) serpent
a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited
3. (noun) serpent
an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) serpent
any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia
2. (noun) serpent
fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person
3. (noun) serpent
a species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground
4. (noun) serpent
the constellation Serpens
5. (noun) serpent
a bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form
6. (verb) serpent
to wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander
7. (verb) serpent
to wind; to encircle
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Sense: a snake.
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 Afrikaans: slang |
 Arabic: ثُعْبان، حَيَّه |
 Bulgarian: змия |
 Brazilian: serpente |
 Czech: had |
 German: die Schlange |
 Danish: slange |
 Greek: φίδι |
 Spanish: serpiente |
 Estonian: madu |
 Farsi: مار |
 Finnish: käärme |
 French: serpent |
 Hebrew: נָחָש |
 Hindi: सांप, सर्प, भुजंग |
 Croatian: zmija |
 Hungarian: kígyó |
 Indonesian: ular |
 Icelandic: snákur, slanga |
 Italian: serpente |
 Japanese: へび |
 Korean: 뱀 |
 Lithuanian: žaltys |
 Latvian: čūska |
 Malay: ular |
 Dutch: slang |
 Norwegian: slange |
 Polish: wąż |
 Persian: مار |
 Pashto: مار، منګور (اصط) دلستوڼي |
 Portuguese: serpente |
 Romanian: şarpe |
 Russian: змея |
 Slovak: had |
 Slovenian: kača |
 Serbian: zmija |
 Swedish: orm |
 Thai: งูใหญ่ |
 Turkish: yılan |
 Taiwanese: 蛇 |
 Ukrainian: гадюка, змія |
 Urdu: سانپ |
 Vietnamese: con rắn |
 Chinese: 大蛇 |
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