albur — meaning in English

English meaning

• bleak adj Cold, grey, and exposed, with nothing to soften the harshness of the scene.
• chance noun An opportunity to do something.
• pun noun A joke that plays on a word's different meanings or on words that sound alike.

Senses

albur is used for these senses in English:

• bleak A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
• chance (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
• dace A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
• double entendre A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.
• pun A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

bleak — full definition

1. adj Cold, grey, and exposed, with nothing to soften the harshness of the scene.
2. adj Offering little hope; grim.

chance — full definition

1. noun An opportunity to do something.
2. noun The likelihood of something happening; probability.
3. noun Something that happens randomly, without any apparent cause or plan.
4. verb To risk doing something, accepting that it might go wrong.
5. verb To happen to do or encounter something without planning it.

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