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Added 7 October 2026

line

/laɪn/ noun

In Latin: līnea, euthīa Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about line at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
The arrow descended in a curved line.
An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.

interjection

Expresses that the speaker has forgotten their dialogue and needs to be prompted with it.

verb

To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
to line troops
To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
to line works with soldiers
To form a line along.

noun

A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
maknae line; hyung line; 97 line

Origin

From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen. The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.

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