OUNCE
What does "OUNCE" mean?
A unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound.
Meanings
- A unit of mass equal to about 28.35 grams, one sixteenth of an avoirdupois pound. The recipe calls for four ounces of butter.
- A very small amount of something. If you had an ounce of sense you would have stayed home. figurative
- An old name for the snow leopard. Naturalists once called the snow leopard the ounce. archaic
Did you know?
- 'Ounce' and 'inch' are secretly the same word - both descend from the Latin 'uncia', meaning a twelfth part, splitting into a unit of weight and a unit of length.
Word origin
From Latin 'uncia', meaning a twelfth part, via Old French 'unce'; the same Latin root also gave English the word 'inch'.
Remember it
OUNCE sounds like 'pounce' - and the ounce is also an old name for the snow leopard that pounces.
A little poem
An ounce of pure gold-
small enough to close one fist,
heavy as a life.
haiku
Wordplay
- I weighed exactly one ounce of snow leopard. Turns out an ounce is an ounce.
What it teaches
An ounce of the right thing outweighs a pound of the wrong; measure value, not just mass.
Quick facts
What does OUNCE mean?
A unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound.
Is OUNCE a valid word?
Yes — OUNCE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is OUNCE?
OUNCE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does OUNCE come from?
From Latin 'uncia', meaning a twelfth part, via Old French 'unce'; the same Latin root also gave English the word 'inch'.
What can OUNCE teach us?
An ounce of the right thing outweighs a pound of the wrong; measure value, not just mass.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.