CALIBRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calibre mean? 

• CALIBRE (noun)
  The noun CALIBRE has 2 senses:

1. a degree or grade of excellence or worth

2. diameter of a tube or gun barrel

  Familiarity information: CALIBRE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALIBRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A degree or grade of excellence or worth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

caliber; calibre; quality

Context example:

an executive of low caliber

Hypernyms ("calibre" is a kind of...):

degree; grade; level (a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality)

Attribute:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

inferior (of low or inferior quality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "calibre"):

high quality; superiority (the quality of being superior)

inferiority; low quality (an inferior quality)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Diameter of a tube or gun barrel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bore; caliber; calibre; gauge

Hypernyms ("calibre" is a kind of...):

diam; diameter (the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference)

 Context examples 

I have related this in order to show the mental calibre of the men with whom I was thrown in contact.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)