potato A1 Topic:Food & Drink US /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ See IPA manual Freq #4343 Meanings 1 noun A round vegetable with brown or yellow skin that grows underground and is cooked before eating. We had roast chicken with potatoes for dinner. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a round vegetable with... spudtater More donovanearthapplemickeymurphytoaster Word family Forms potatoespotatolesstaturs Derived forms air-potatofauxtatononpotatopomatopotaterpotato-applepotato-ballpotato-beanpotato-beetlepotato-boglepotato-boxpotato-bug Common collocations potato pancake Noun + noun Etymology AI details Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”). batata tnq View etymology graph -> Topics Food & Drink External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # potato **Type:** Word **Level:** A1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ **Frequency rank:** 4343 ## Meanings 1. A round vegetable with brown or yellow skin that grows underground and is cooked before eating. ## Examples - We had roast chicken with potatoes for dinner. ## Synonyms - donovan - earthapple - mickey - murphy - toaster ## Derived Forms - air-potato - fauxtato - nonpotato - pomato - potater - potato-apple - potato-ball - potato-bean - potato-beetle - potato-bogle - potato-box - potato-bug ## Roots and Affixes - Root: batata ## Etymology Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”). ## AI Etymology Potato was borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”). The historical chain includes batata (tnq). In present-day English it covers a round vegetable with brown or yellow skin that grows underground and is cooked before eating. The wider family includes derived forms such as air-potato, fauxtato, nonpotato, pomato, potater. ## Topics - Food & Drink markdown