deal

deal

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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dēl, IPA(key): /diːl/
  • Rhymes: -iːl

Etymology 1

From Middle English del, dele, from Old English dǣl (“part, share, portion”), from Proto-West Germanic *daili, from Proto-Germanic *dailiz (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰ(h₁)-oy-lo- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Scots dele (“part, portion”), West Frisian diel (“part, share”), Dutch deel (“part, share, portion”), German Teil (“part, portion, section”), Danish, Slovene, and Swedish del (“part”), Icelandic deila (“division, contention”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (dails, “portion”). Related to Old English dāl (“portion”). More at dole.

Noun

deal (plural deals)

  2. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
    Synonyms: allotment, apportionment, distribution
  4. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
    Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, load, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew; see also Thesaurus:lot
Derived terms
  • (indefinite quantity): a great deal, a good deal, big deal, real deal
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“part, watershed”).

Verb

deal (third-person singular simple present deals, present participle dealing, simple past and past participle dealt or (nonstandard) dealed)

  1. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
    Synonyms: apportion, divvy up, share, share out, portion out
  2. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
    Synonyms: administer, allot, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, hand out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  4. (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
    The boxer was dealt a blow to the head.
    • 2009, Jake Conner, Maverick, Strategy RPG: Core Rulebook, page 99
      This is a heavy-handed weapon attack that can be made with a two-handed weapon, that will deal damage equal to 4 times your size category
  5. (baseball) To pitch.
    Synonyms: pitch, throw
  6. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  7. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  8. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  9. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
    Synonyms: sell, trade, bargain
  10. (transitive, intransitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
    Synonym: sell
  11. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  12. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

deal (plural deals)

  1. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
  2. (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
    Synonym: hand
  4. A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
    Synonyms: business deal, sale, trade, transaction
  6. (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
    Synonyms: steal, bargain
    • 2009, The Guardian, Virginia Wallis, 22 Jul 2009:
      You also have to look at the kind of mortgage deals available to you and whether you will be able to trade up to the kind of property you are looking for.
  8. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
    Synonyms: contract, pact
    He made a deal with the devil.
    I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.
    to cut a deal, to cut deals
    to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal
  10. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  11. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
    Synonyms: dealy, thingy, whazzit
  12. (slang, of a person) A personality trait, especially a negative one, and the underlying cause of it.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → French: deal
  • → German: Deal
  • → Lithuanian: dylas
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English dele (“plank”), from Middle Low German dele, from Old Saxon thili, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þiljǭ (“plank, board”); cognate with Old English þille. Doublet of thill.

Noun

deal (countable and uncountable, plural deals)

  1. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
    • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 86,[5]
      Some Houses were […] entirely lock’d up, the Doors padlockt, the Windows and Doors having Deal Boards nail’d over them,
  2. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  3. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
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Adjective

deal (not comparable)

  1. Made of deal.
    A plain deal table
Translations

Anagrams

  • ALDE, Adel, Dale, Dela, E.D. La., Lade, Leda, adle, dale, lade, lead

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English deal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diːl/
  • Hyphenation: deal

Noun

deal m (plural deals, diminutive dealtje n)

  1. (informal) deal, a transaction or arrangement
  2. (informal) a deal, a bargain (a favourable transaction)

Derived terms

Related terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English deal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dil/

Noun

deal m (plural deals)

  1. a deal: a transaction
  2. a deal: an agreement
  3. local, small scale drug trafficking
    Hypernym: trafic de drogue
    Quelques jours après l’assassinat d’un homme sous les yeux de son fils de 8 ans, le quartier semble à l’arrêt sans qu’aucune solution pérenne ne se dessine pour lutter contre les violences liées au deal. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

  • dealer

Related terms

  • dealeur

Further reading

  • “deal” in languefrancaise.net, Bob, dictionnaire de français argotique, populaire et familier, 2023.
  • “deal” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
  • “deal” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.

Middle English

Noun

deal

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of del

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dæ͜ɑl/

Adjective

deal

  1. proud, eminent

Declension

References

  • Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “deal”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[6], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Polish

Alternative forms

  • dil

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English deal, from Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan, from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdil/
  • Rhymes: -il
  • Syllabification: deal

Noun

deal m inan

  1. (business, slang) deal (transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain)
    Synonym: ugoda

Declension

Further reading

  • deal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic дѣлъ (dělŭ), from Proto-Slavic *dělъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [de̯al]

Noun

deal n (plural dealuri)

  1. hill

Declension

Derived terms

  • deluros
  • delușor

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin deus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deˈal/ [d̪eˈal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: de‧al

Adjective

deal m or f (masculine and feminine plural deales)

  1. (rare, relational) god, gods

References

  • “deal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English deal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdil/ [ˈd̪il]
  • Rhymes: -il
  • Syllabification: de‧al

Noun

deal m (plural deales)

  1. (business) deal
    Synonym: negocio
Usage notes
  • According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “deal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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