GUY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Guy mean?
• GUY (noun)
The noun GUY has 3 senses:
1. an informal term for a youth or man
2. an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day
3. a rope or cable that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
Familiarity information: GUY used as a noun is uncommon.
• GUY (verb)
The verb GUY has 2 senses:
1. subject to laughter or ridicule
2. steady or support with a guy wire or cable
Familiarity information: GUY used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GUY (noun)
Meaning:
An informal term for a youth or man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
hombre; guy; cat; bozo
Context examples:
a nice guy / the guy's only doing it for some doll
Hypernyms ("guy" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guy"):
sod (an informal British term for a youth or man)
Meaning:
An effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("Guy" is a kind of...):
effigy; image; simulacrum (a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture))
Domain region:
Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)
Meaning:
A rope or cable that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
guy cable; guy rope; guy
Hypernyms ("guy" is a kind of...):
brace; bracing (a structural member used to stiffen a framework)
Holonyms ("guy" is a part of...):
collapsible shelter; tent (a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs))
• GUY (verb)
Meaning:
Subject to laughter or ridicule
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
ridicule; poke fun; make fun; laugh at; jest at; guy; blackguard; rib; roast
Context examples:
The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house / The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher / His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
Hypernyms (to "guy" is one way to...):
bemock; mock (treat with contempt)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "guy"):
tease (mock or make fun of playfully)
lampoon; satirise; satirize (ridicule with satire)
debunk; expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)
stultify (cause to appear foolish)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Steady or support with a guy wire or cable
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The Italians guyed the Tower of Pisa to prevent it from collapsing
Hypernyms (to "guy" is one way to...):
brace; stabilise; stabilize; steady (support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
