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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

クイズ

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kuizu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Quiz/kwɪz/
nounverbCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #2500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼はテレビのクイズ番組に出場しました。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A brief test of knowledge, often performed informally or as a game.

    "The teacher gave the students a short math quiz to check their understanding."
As verb
  1. 1

    To question someone closely and intensively about a matter.

    "The detectives began to quiz the suspect about his whereabouts."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Originating in Dublin around 1790 as slang of uncertain etymology, possibly coined as a nonsense word by theatrical entrepreneur Richard Daly in a bet. It initially meant to make fun of or look at oddly, subsequently shifting through the 19th century to mean an eccentric person, a curious test, and finally an examination or questionnaire.

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