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Wasp has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

"The old hymn book belonged to his family, and he remembered how his great-grandfather, an English wasp, had sung it in the chapel every Sunday."

2

social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

"The wasp buzzed menacingly before delivering its formidable sting."

3

Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

"The party felt like an old WASP enclave where everyone knew each other's family history and spoke in hushed, judgmental tones about the new neighbors."

4

Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“White Anglo-Saxon Protestant”)

5

A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
White Protestant hymenopterous insect
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
vespid velvet ant sphecoid wasp gall wasp
Rhyming Words
asp gasp hasp rasp clasp grasp unhasp engrasp regrasp begrasp unclasp enclasp reclasp sea wasp fig wasp woodwasp foregrasp handclasp euro wasp sand wasp
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