单词 | subdebutante |
释义 | subdebutante in British English (ˈsʌbˌdɛbjuːtɑːnt) noun US another name for subdeb subdeb in British English (ˈsʌbdɛb) or subdebutante (ˈsʌbˌdɛbjuːtɑːnt) noun US informal a girl on the broach of becoming a debutante or a girl in her middle teens subdebutante in American English (sʌbˈdebjuˌtɑːnt, -jə-) noun a young woman who has not yet made her debut into society Word origin [1915–20; sub- + debutante]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: conditioning, costar, decoder, neorealism, stockpilesub- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (subject; subtract; subvert; subsidy). On this model, sub- is freely attached to elements of any origin and used with the meaning “under,” “below,”“beneath” (subalpine; substratum), “slightly,” “imperfectly,” “nearly” (subcolumnar; subtropical), “secondary,” “subordinate” (subcommittee; subplot) |
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