boulder
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)boulders
- a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of originSynonyms: bowlderType of rock, stoneKinds river boulder, glacial boulder, shore boulderExamples Plymouth Rock
- a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university townInstance of townPart of Colorado, Centennial State
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Noun large mass of stone
- Spanish
- peñasco
- French
- rocher
- German
- Felsbrocken
- Italian
- masso
- Portuguese
- pedregulho
- Russian
- валу́н valún
- Dutch
- rotsblok
- Polish
- głaz
- Swedish
- stenbumling
- Korean
- 바위 bawi
11 more languages
- Hungarian
- szikla
- Portuguese (PT)
- pedregulho
- Catalan
- penyal
- Danish
- kampesten
- Esperanto
- ŝtonego
- Finnish
- lohkare
- Georgian
- ლოდი lodi
- Latvian
- laukakmens
- Norwegian
- steinblokk
- Romanian
- bolovan
- Serbo-Croatian
- stijena
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Same as Bowlder.
Origin: Cf. Sw. bullra to roar, rattle, Dan. buldre, dial. Sw. bullersteen larger kind of pebbles; perh. akin to E. bellow.
1. A large stone, worn smooth or rounded by the action of water; a large pebble.
2. Geology A mass of any rock, whether rounded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift.
Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. — Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54