1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Lemming

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of various small, thickset rodents, especially of the genus Lemmus, inhabiting northern regions and known for periodic mass migrations that sometimes end in drowning.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A small Arctic and Subarctic rodent from any of six genera of similar rodents.

n. Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of the genera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. They are found in both hemispheres.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A rodent quadruped of the family Muridæ, subfamily Arvicolinæ, and one of the genera Myodes, Cuniculus, and Synaptomys (see these terms).

n. The North American lemmings, 8 or 10 species of which are now recognized, have been divided into two genera, Lemmus and Dicrostonyx, and the species once familiar as Myodes obensis is now Lemmus alascensis. The black-footed lemming, L. nigripes, is peculiar to St George Island, Bering Sea. The common northeastern species is D. hudsonius.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution

Word Usage

"I'm not calling the lemming behavior a mental disorder."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

gnawer rodent

Hyponym

northern bog lemming red-backed lemming pied lemming grey lemming lemmus trimucronatus

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Fleming condemning heming hemming leming

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

ptarmigan sweet gum pulse-beat deer-meat garraun