TIGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tiger mean? 

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

1. a fierce or audacious person

2. large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered

  Familiarity information: TIGER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fierce or audacious person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

it aroused the tiger in me

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Panthera tigris; tiger

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

big cat; cat (any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild)

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

tiger cub (a young tiger)

Bengal tiger (southern short-haired tiger)

tigress (a female tiger)

Holonyms ("tiger" is a member of...):

genus Panthera; Panthera (lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers)

 Context examples 

The biggest of the tigers came up to the Lion and bowed, saying: Welcome, O King of Beasts!

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This empty house is my tree, and you are my tiger.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Taxonomic family which includes domestic and wild cats such as lions and tigers.

(Felidae, NCI Thesaurus)

The fellow gave a bellow of anger and sprang upon me like a tiger.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jim sprang upon it like a tiger.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Everybody heard it and knew; and Cheese-Face knew, rushing like a tiger in the other's extremity and raining blow on blow.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You have called me snake, tiger, shark, monster, and Caliban.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Aha! he said, your simile of the tiger good, for me, and I shall adopt him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Considered a neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is spread by the females of the Aedes genus; this includes the species albopictus mosquito, or Asian tiger mosquito.

(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)

The researchers modeled eruptions on Enceladus as uniform curtains along the tiger stripe fractures.

(Saturn Moon's Activity Could Be 'Curtain Eruptions', NASA)