English
mahogany
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /məˈhɒɡəni/
Noun

mahogany

  1. (countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
  2. (uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
  3. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
    • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:
      Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren.
     
  4. A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
    • 1842, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
      Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
      Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany  […]
Translations Translations Adjective

mahogany

  1. Made of mahogany.
  2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.


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