EQUAL
What does "EQUAL" mean?
The same as another in amount, value, rank, or quality.
Meanings
- Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value. Cut the cake into equal slices.
- Having the same rights, status, or treatment. All citizens are equal before the law.
- A person or thing of the same rank or ability as another. As a chess player, she has no equal in the club.
- To be the same in number or value as; to match. Two plus two equals four.
Did you know?
- The '=' sign was invented in 1557 by Robert Recorde, who chose two parallel lines because, in his words, 'no two things can be more equal.'
Word origin
From Latin 'aequalis' (uniform, identical), from 'aequus' (even, level, fair), the same root behind 'equate', 'adequate', and 'equator'.
Remember it
EQUAL holds 'qua' - Latin for 'as' - because to be equal is to count as the same.
A little poem
Two parallel lines that never touch or sway -
and yet we trust them to mean things weigh the same.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why are the two lines of the equals sign such good friends? They run side by side forever and never try to be more than the other.
What it teaches
Equal is not identical: things can weigh the same and still be nothing alike.
Quick facts
What does EQUAL mean?
The same as another in amount, value, rank, or quality.
Is EQUAL a valid word?
Yes — EQUAL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is EQUAL?
EQUAL has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does EQUAL come from?
From Latin 'aequalis' (uniform, identical), from 'aequus' (even, level, fair), the same root behind 'equate', 'adequate', and 'equator'.
What can EQUAL teach us?
Equal is not identical: things can weigh the same and still be nothing alike.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.