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say it: elk
elk is a noun meaning "large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America". It is pronounced /ˈɛlk/ — elk. It carries 3 recorded senses.
large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for elk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.