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Definition: Bonnet |
BonnetNoun1. A hat tied under the chin. 2. Protective covering consisting of a hinged metal part that covers the engine. Verb1. Dress in a bonnet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bonnet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Bonnet \Bon"net\ (b[o^]n"n[e^]t), noun. [Old English bonet, Old French bonet, bonete. French bonnet from Late Latin bonneta, bonetum; orig. the name of a stuff, and of unknown origin.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Bonnet (Heb. peer), Ex. 39:28 (R.V., "head-tires"); Ezek. 44:18 (R.V., "tires"), denotes properly a turban worn by priests, and in Isa. 3:20 (R.V., "head-tires") a head-dress or tiara worn by females. The Hebrew word so rendered literally means an ornament, as in Isa. 61:10 (R.V., "garland"), and in Ezek. 24:17, 23 "tire" (R.V., "head-tire"). It consisted of a piece of cloth twisted about the head. In Ex. 28:40; 29:9 it is the translation of a different Hebrew word (migba'ah), which denotes the turban (R.V., "head-tire") of the common priest as distinguished from the mitre of the high priest. (See MITRE.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | Bonnet, denotes much gossiping and slanderous insinuations, from which a woman should carefully defend herself. For a man to see a woman tying her bonnet, denotes unforeseen good luck near by. His friends will be faithful and true. A young woman is likely to engage in pleasant and harmless flirtations if her bonnet is new and of any color except black. Black bonnets, denote false friends of the opposite sex. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Bonnet A pretended player at a gaming-table, or bidder at an auction, to lure others to play; so called because he blinds the eyes of his dupes, just as if he had struck their bonnet over their eyes. "A man who sits at a gaming table, and appears to be playing against the table; when a stranger appears the Bonnet generally wins."- The Times Bonnet Braid Bonnet. The old Scotch cap, made of milled woolen, without seam or lining. Glengarry Bonnet. The Highland bonnet, which rises to a point in front. He has a green bonnet. Has failed in trade. In France it used to be customary, even in the seventeenth century, for bankrupts to wear a green bonnet (cloth cap). He has a bee in his bonnet. (See Bee.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A removable protective cover for machine parts, shaped like a bell or cap. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | An irregular sponge-like formation of the head of an ingot resulting from an evolution of gas when steel has cooled to such a degree that it is too viscous to allow the gas to escape completely(Enc. Iron Steel Ind). Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A covering over a mine cage, which serves as a roof to shield it from objects falling down the shaft, thereby protecting the riders. Syn:cage cover b. A cap piece for an upright timber c. The metal casing of a miner's flame safety lamp, with openings at the top and a hook for carrying the lamp. The bonnet protects the inner gauze from damage and from the impact of high-velocity air. See also:safety lamp d. Syn:air domee. The cap over the end of a pipe. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The bonnet is also British English for the opening cover for the engine of a car. Called Hood in American English.
The bonnet also refers to certain different types of headgear, mostly worn on formal or ceremonial occasions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bonnet."
Synonyms: BonnetSynonyms: hood (n), poke bonnet (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino. |
Disobedience | Insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader. |
Insanity | Screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bonnet |
| English words defined with "bonnet": Bluecap, Bongrace, Bonnet piece, Bonneted, Bonnetless ♦ Canton crape ♦ Drabbler ♦ Latching ♦ Munga ♦ Poke bonnet ♦ Sapajou, Shirred, sunbonnet, sunhat ♦ Unbonnet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bonnet": Bonnet Lairds, Bonnet Rouge, Bonnet-piece ♦ Cunning ♦ King of Yvetot ♦ Laugh in One's Sleeve ♦ Pope's Tiara, Procession of the Black Breeches ♦ Yvetot. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bonnet" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bonnet, cap). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Evil does not wear a bonnet! (Cats & Dogs; writing credit: John Requa; Glenn Ficarra) Well if you think I'll marry you just to pay for the bonnet I won't (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard) Bee in your bonnet, Potter (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; writing credit: Steven Kloves) | |
Lyrics | Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet (Birdhouse in Your Soul; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Bird in a Bonnet (1958) Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet (1954) Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet (1929) Bees in His Bonnet (1918) The War Bonnet (1914) | |
Song Titles | Black Bonnet Girls (performing artist: The Electric Amish) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Consumer Goods |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Amédée Bonnet. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Woman in bonnet bending over roses. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Never my dear Stede Bonnet, did I dream you would see me in such plight. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The busy "B's", what buzz beneath the bonnet of Dame Democracy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | White War Bonnet, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | World's Fair, railroad pageant. Poke bonnet III. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Portrait photographs. Seated child wearing a bonnet. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I shall wear a large bonnet, and bring one of my little baskets hanging on my arm. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bonnet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.74% of the time. "Bonnet" is used about 398 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.74% | 393 | 14,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.26% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 398 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bonnet" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bonnet | Last name | 1,000 | 18,796 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bonnet": a bee in his bonnet ♦ a bee in one's bonnet ♦ bee in his bonnet ♦ bee in one's bonnet ♦ Black bonnet ♦ Blue bonnet ♦ bonnet cover ♦ bonnet head ♦ bonnet leading edge reference line ♦ Bonnet limpet ♦ bonnet macaque ♦ Bonnet monkey ♦ bonnet pepper ♦ Bonnet piece ♦ bonnet rear reference line ♦ Bonnet rouge ♦ bonnet shark ♦ bride's bonnet ♦ Chip bonnet ♦ Glengarry bonnet ♦ have a bee in one's bonnet ♦ have bees in one's bonnet ♦ in the bonnet ♦ poke bonnet ♦ third of the bonnet top ♦ To have a bee in the bonnet. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bonnet": bonnet-lid, bonnet-like. | |
Ending with "bonnet": below-the-bonnet, Blue-bonnet, easter-bonnet, poke-bonnet, sun-bonnet, war-bonnet, windpuff-bonnet. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
blue bonnet | 1,089 | war bonnet | 14 |
bonnet | 114 | blue bonnet jeep | 13 |
texas blue bonnet | 99 | feather bonnet | 12 |
sebastian bonnet | 74 | rain bonnet | 12 |
baby bonnet | 49 | bonnet neil | 11 |
blue bonnet motor | 37 | bonnet email | 11 |
blue bonnet ford | 34 | bonnet hair dryers | 11 |
bonnet hair dryer | 32 | bonnet pioneer | 10 |
scotch bonnet pepper | 32 | soft bonnet hair dryer | 10 |
blue bonnet picture | 31 | the legend of the blue bonnet | 10 |
lac du bonnet | 31 | bonnet importer pepper scotch | 10 |
scotch bonnet | 27 | bonnet house | 10 |
blue bonnet federal credit union | 22 | blue bonnet book | 10 |
bonnet pattern | 21 | art blue bonnet clip | 10 |
blue bonnet flower | 20 | sun bonnet sue | 9 |
graham bonnet | 19 | stede bonnet | 9 |
blue bonnet vitamin | 18 | easter bonnet | 9 |
blue bonnet seed | 15 | polishing bonnet | 9 |
blue bonnet electric | 15 | indian war bonnet | 9 |
charles bonnet syndrome | 15 | bonnet cuisine | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bonnet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbulesë (cloth, clothes, clothing, coat, counterpane, cover, curtain, dustsheet, envelope, envelopment, folder, haircloth, hood, mantle, overcast, overlay, Pall, pod, seating, suffusion, throw, vesture), kapotë (capote, greatcoat, reefer, Ulster), kapelë grash (picture hat, turban). (various references) | |
Arabic | لبس قلنسوة, قلنسوة (calotte, cap, capuche, cowl, hat, hood, mitre, tall hat), وصلة في شراع, غطاء محرك السيارة (hood), طاقية (old flame, pill). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съучастник (abettor, accessary, accessory, associate, companion, confederate, co-participant, fellow, participator, partner, party), шотландска мъжка барета, шапчица, капак (cap, cover, hood, lid, revers, shutter, top), боне (caul, mob cap, mutch, nightcap). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蘇 蘭帽 , 发动机顶盖. (various references) | |
Czech | kryt (casing, covering, housing, shield, top), èepec (headdress, hood). (various references) | |
Danish | motorhjælm (hood). (various references) | |
Dutch | motorkap (hood), wagenkap (hood), kapotjas (hood), kap (cap, cowl, hood, lamp-shade, roof). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kufo (cap), kapoto (hood). (various references) | |
Faeroese | kýsi (cap), hetta (cap, cowl, hood, these, this, this here). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوعی کلاه بی لبه زنانه ومردانه , کلاهک دودکش (Hood), کلاهک (Cap, Cupule, Lid, Warhead), کلاه سرگذاشتن , سرپوش هرچیزی , درپوش (Blind). (various references) | |
Finnish | suojakupu (bonnet cover, cowl, hood), myssy (cap, cosy), kupu (craw, crop), konepelti (hood). (various references) | |
French | capot. (various references) | |
German | Motorhaube (cowling, engine bonnet, engine cowling, hood), haube (cap, coif, cover, cozy, crest, drying hood, hood, mobcap), Mütze (cap, hat). (various references) | |
Greek | καπό (hood). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכס" מ וע (hood), מ'בעת (cap, hat, lid), מצ פת (headdress, shtreiml, turban). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sapka (cap, coif, dome, hat), motorháztető (hood), főkötő (coif). (various references) | |
Indonesian | topi perempuan, topi bayi. (various references) | |
Italian | cofano (coffer, hood), cappotta (hood, top). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ボンド紙 (Bomby blood, bond paper, boneless ham, compressed gas cylinder, hood, pause, poker, poker face, Poland, polar tie, poral, porcelain, porch, pork, pork chop, pork cutlet, pork saute, port, port cutlet, port tower, port wine, portability, portable, porter, portfolio, pose, pouch). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボンネット (hood). (various references) | |
Korean | 보닛. (various references) | |
Manx | nah volg. (various references) | |
Norwegian | panser (hood). (various references) | |
Papago | ku-luhji. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onnetbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | boné (lid), boina (cap), barrete (barret, barrette, beret, cap, coif, coxcomb, toque), touca (cap, coif, hood, mob-cap), massalota esponjosa (cauliflower top, rising top, spongy top), gorro (glengarry), cobertura de protecção (bonnet cover, cowl, hood, shield), cobertura de motor (hood), capote (cloak, cowl, hood, lurch, mantle, vole, volt), capota de carro (hood), capô (hood). (various references) | |
Romanian | bonetã (cap, capot, hood), beretã (beret, cap), scufie (caul, hood, night cap), pune o pãlãrie cuiva pe cap, pune o bonetã, pãlãrie de damã (picture hat), capotã de automobil, înveliş de protecţie (lagging). (various references) | |
Russian | чепчик (caul, mutch, pinner), колпак (bell, cap, cope, dome, globe, hood, hubcap, lid), капор, покрышка (cover, covering, lid, mantle, overlap, overlay, tyre), дамская шляпка. (various references) | |
Scottish | boineid (a bonnet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hauba (hood), ženski šešir. (various references) | |
Spanish | capot (hood). (various references) | |
Swedish | skyddshuv (bonnet cover, cowl, hood), bahytt. (various references) | |
Thai | มีความคิ" (have a bee in one's bonnet). (various references) | |
Turkish | bone (coif), başlık giydirmek, başlık (cap, caption, casque, chapiter, head-dress, headgear, heading, headline, headpiece, helmet, hood, lemma, prelims, title), kep (cap, mortarboard, tile), kaput (coat, condom, cowling, sheath), kapak (cap, capsule, clack, cover, covering letter, dome, flap, hatch, hatchway, lid, shutter, top), şapka (cap, hat, headgear). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | капор (capote, hood), гасити вогонь, надівати капелюх (hat), захищати (advocate, apologize, assert, bield, champion, cover, defend, fight, overshade, overshadow, protect, shelter, shield, stand by, stand up for, stick up for), жіночий капелюшок (calash), дитячий чепчик. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mũ phụ nữ, ca-pô. (various references) | |
Welsh | bonet, pen.guwch. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | bonitum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bonnet": bonneted, bonneting, bonnets. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bonnet": bluebonnet, dubonnet, sunbonnet, unbonnet, warbonnet. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bonnet": bluebonnets, dubonnets, sunbonnets, unbonneted, unbonneting, unbonnets, warbonnets. (additional references) | |
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"Bonnet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: banet, baonett, Benneton, Bennlech, bobnet, Bodnath, Bohnen, Bonane, Bondt, bonet, bonity, Bonnal, bonnee, Bonnett, Bonnke, bonnut, Bonte, Bonytt, Bornat, Bornet, Bronnaya, bunet, bunnet, Bunnett, donnet, gonnet, onett. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bonnet" (pronounced bÄ"nut) |
| 3 | -n u t | alternate, affectionate, baronet, Bennet, bicarbonate, bluebonnet, cabinet, compassionate, coordinate, incarnate, definite, diaconate, dispassionate, disproportionate, effeminate, electromagnet, extortionate, ferromagnet, fortunate, garnet, geminate, granite, hornet, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, innominate, inordinate, laminate, magnate, magnet, minute, obstinate, passionate, peanut, Pinot, planet, proportionate, rennet, senate, Sennet, sultanate, tenet, unfortunate, unit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: beton, bonne, nonet, tenon, tonne. | |
-2 letters: bent, bone, ebon, neon, none, note, tone. | |
-3 letters: ben, bet, bot, eon, neb, net, nob, not, obe, one, ten, toe, ton. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, en, et, ne, no, oe, on, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: bonnets. | |
+2 letters: banknote, bonneted, bonniest, botonnee, butanone, dubonnet, unbonnet. | |
+3 letters: banknotes, benthonic, bentonite, bisontine, bondstone, bonneting, butanones, dubonnets, entombing, sanbenito, sunbonnet, unbonnets, warbonnet. | |
+4 letters: abnegation, abstention, autobahnen, bayoneting, beknotting, benevolent, bentonites, bentonitic, bethorning, betokening, bluebonnet, bondstones, brownstone, embonpoint, entombment, mountebank, nonbetting, noncabinet, nonsubject, nontaxable, obtainment, sanbenitos, subvention, sunbonnets, unbonneted, unbuttoned, warbonnets. | |
+5 letters: abandonment, abnegations, abstentions, bayonetting, benediction, benefaction, bicomponent, bluebonnets, boutonniere, brownstones, connectable, connectible, containable, cybernation, embonpoints, ennoblement, entombments, ethnobotany, fibronectin, hibernation, inebriation, inobservant, interrobang, mentionable, mountebanks, noncabinets, nondiabetic, nonsubjects, nontaxables, notableness, obtainments, rebuttoning, recombinant, reobtaining, subventions, tenebrionid, unabsorbent, unbeknownst, unbonneting, uncountable, unobservant. | |
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