Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective More than or beyond what is usual, normal, expected, or necessary: synonym: superfluous.
- adjective Subject to an additional charge.
- noun Something more than is usual or necessary.
- noun Something, such as an accessory on a motor vehicle, for which an additional charge is made.
- noun A special edition of a newspaper.
- noun A performer hired to play a minor part, as in a crowd scene in a film.
- adverb To an exceptional extent or degree; unusually.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cricket, a score or run not made from the bat, as a bye or a wide: usually in plural.
- A prefix of Latin origin, originally an adverb and preposition, meaning ‘outside, beyond.’ ;
- Used in trade to denote a size somewhat larger than that, mentioned: as, extra elephant folio; extra foolscap octavo.
- More than what is usual, or than what is due, appointed, or expected; supplementary; additional; supernumerary: as, an extra price; an extra edition of a newspaper; extra diet; extra charges at a boarding-school.
- noun Something in addition to what is usual or expected; something over and above the usual course or charge, or beyond what is usual.
- noun Specifically An edition or a copy of a newspaper issued at an unusual hour to convey special intelligence.
- Beyond the ordinary standard or measure; extraordinarily; unusually; uncommonly: as, this is done extra well; that is an extra high price.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior
- noun Something in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; esp., an added charge or fee, or something for which an additional charge is made.
- noun An edition of a newspaper issued at a time other than the regular one.
- noun (Cricket) A run, as from a bye, credited to the general score but not made from a hit.
- noun Something of an extra quality or grade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Beyond what isdue ,usual ,expected , ornecessary ;extraneous ;additional ;supernumerary . - adjective
Extraordinarily good ;superior ; as extra work, extra pay. - adverb informal To an extraordinary degree.
- noun cricket A
run scored without theball havinghit thestriker 'sbat - awide ,bye ,leg bye orno ball ; inAustralia referred to as asundry - noun an extra edition of a newspaper, which is printed outside of the normal printing cycle
- noun A
supernumerary orwalk-on in a film or play
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something additional of the same kind
- adjective more than is needed, desired, or required
- adjective further or added
- noun a minor actor in crowd scenes
- adjective added to a regular schedule
- adverb unusually or exceptionally
- noun an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Extra cheese, extra crispy, extra spicy, the word extra just makes things sound better, doesn't it?
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He says the government of Samoa was using that money to pay salaries of what he calls extra personnel.
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He says the government of Samoa was using that money to pay salaries of what he calls extra personnel.
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He says the government of Samoa was using that money to pay salaries of what he calls extra personnel.
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He says the government of Samoa was using that money to pay salaries of what he calls extra personnel.
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He says the government of Samoa was using that money to pay salaries of what he calls extra personnel.
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He says the government of Samoa was using that money to pay salaries of what he calls extra personnel.
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It will be what we call extra tropical, just a low pressure system coming in, probably making some rain showers for Portugal, Spain and also into France.
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And I talked with a senior officer who's close to General David Petraeus from Iraq today, who told me that they have seen quite a marked decline of the number of what they call extra-judicial killings in Baghdad over the last several weeks.
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I don ` t want to get overly complicated here, because honestly I ` ll get lost myself, and I ` m riddled with ADD, but a lot of Venezuela ` s oil is what they call extra-heavy oil.
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