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|part of speech:
||a metal device that sends or receives radio or television signals.
We need an antenna to get a clear picture on our television.
- similar words:
||one of a pair of long, thin body parts on the head of insects, crabs, and other animals. Antennae are used to feel and smell.
The word antenna
is a Latin word for a long pole that sticks up from a ship's sail. "Antenna" entered the English language as a word for the feelers of insects in the 1300s.