Masculine
spoed
Meaning
- (masculine, uncountable) speed
- (masculine, uncountable) hurry, haste
- (Belgium, masculine, uncountable) emergency department of a hospital
- (masculine, uncountable) thread pitch
- (masculine, obsolete, uncountable) success
Concepts
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sput/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch spoet, from Old Dutch *spuot, from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi. The "emergency department" sense is a clipping of spoedafdeling.
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