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# slender

«slender» in Mova's school dictionary: **Thin, graceful and narrow, not thick or heavy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (slender, slenderer, slenderest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Thin, graceful and narrow, not thick or heavy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slender/#m1)

2) Small or slight, as in a slender chance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slender/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the lessons tall, thin and graceful people, animals or objects, such as an arrow or a maiden

### examples

- The giraffe has long slender legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slender/#x1)
- A slender reed bent in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slender/#x2)
- She had a slender chance of winning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slender/#x3)
- The slender girl ran fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slender/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slender» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slender/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.