🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bào

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Leopard/ˈlɛp.ərd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4520 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"豹子奔跑的速度非常快。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A large, solitary cat of the forests and open country of Africa and Asia, having a yellowish-brown coat with black spots.

    "The leopard silently stalked its prey through the dense foliage."
  2. 2

    A yellowish-brown color characteristic of a leopard's coat.

    "She wore a stylish coat with a bold leopard print."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'leopardus', which comes from the ancient Greek 'leopardos', a compound of 'leōn' (lion) and 'pardos' (male panther). Historically, the ancients mistakenly believed the animal to be a hybrid between a lion and a pard.

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