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say it: aw-ree-GAH-mee
origami is a noun meaning "the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)". It carries one recorded sense.
the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
Japan
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 origami 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.