Definizione monolingua

wean

wean (third-person singular simple present weans, present participle weaning, simple past and past participle weaned)

1. (transitive) To cease giving milk to an offspring.

   The cow has weaned her calf.

2. (transitive) To quit from something to which one is addicted or habituated.

   He managed to wean himself off heroine.

3. (intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment.

   The kittens are finally weaning.

4. (intransitive) To cease to depend.

   She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.

wean (plural weans)

1. (Scotland) A small child.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 92:

     Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw.

     Oh it is not weans it is children. Oh Kieron, it is children and girls, do not say weans and lasses.

Definizione dizionario wean

svezzare

divezzare

dividere

slattare

Altri significati:

to cease giving milk

(transitive) To cease giving milk to an offspring.

to cease to depend on the mother for nourishment

(intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother for nourishment.

to cease to depend

(intransitive) To cease to depend.