fibre

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
noun any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber)
noun the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; - Herbert Spencer

From French fibre, from Old French, from Latin fibra.

Fibres of fine fine straw. — Ulysses, James Joyce
The popular fibre responds to mine. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
He lived intensely--every fibre of him!" — The case-book of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle

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