hookah

«hookah» in Mova's school dictionary: A tall pipe for smoking tobacco, in which the smoke… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hookah, hookahs)

meaning for a pupil

A tall pipe for smoking tobacco, in which the smoke passes through water in a jar before being breathed in through a long tube; also called a water pipe or shisha. tree →

sense in the lessons

In Alice in Wonderland, the blue Caterpillar sits on a mushroom smoking a long hookah and asks Alice «Who are you?». Hookahs come from India, Persia and the Middle East. Health and safety: smoking a hookah is not safe — it is as harmful as smoking cigarettes and it is illegal to sell tobacco to children.

examples

• The Caterpillar was quietly smoking a long hookah. tree →
• «Who are you?» said the Caterpillar, taking the hookah out of its mouth. tree →
• Hookah smoke is harmful to your lungs. tree →
• In the old picture, the man sat with his hookah. tree →
• Shisha is another name for hookah smoking. tree →
• The Caterpillar's hookah stood on top of the mushroom. tree →

note

Countable. Sounds like «HOOK-ah». Safety: hookah smoking is not safer than cigarettes.

In the corpora

• Earlier, Alice nibbles a mushroom to grow and shrink and talks with a hookah-smoking Caterpillar.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hookah» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.