shingle

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun building material used as siding or roofing
  2. noun coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
  3. noun a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.

Etymology

From Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *skindulā, borrowed from Late Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of shindle.

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Synonyms

shake

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