wean

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A young child. Scotland
    — I, being but a yearling wean.
动词 v.
  1. To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder. transitive
    — The cow has weaned her calf.
  2. To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.; To habituate (someone) to something, especially since childhood. broadly,often,transitive
    — His generation was weaned on 1980's music.
  3. To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition. intransitive
    — The kittens are finally weaning.
  4. To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated. broadly,transitive
    — He managed to wean himself off heroin.
  5. To cease to depend. broadly,intransitive
    — She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.
  6. To raise, to help grow toward maturity broadly,obsolete,transitive
    — For they are friends that help to weane my ſtate, Till men and kingdomes help to ſtrengthen it: […]

词形变化

weans present,singular,third-person weaning participle,present weaned participle,past weaned past weans plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wenen, from Old English wenian (“to accustom; habituate; train; prepare; make fit”), from Proto-West Germanic *wannjan, from Proto-Germanic *wanjaną (“to make wont; accustom”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive for; wish; love”).
Cognate with Dutch wennen, German gewöhnen, Danish vænne, Swedish vänja, Icelandic venja. Related via PIE to wone, wont, and wonder, and perhaps win.
词源 2
Borrowed from Scots wean (literally “wee one”).
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