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spot

Pronunciation: /spɔtː/

“spot” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. spotlight; light from a spotlight directed at something one wants to illuminate
  2. short advertisement, commercial, or promotional segment on television, radio, podcasts, etc.
  3. relating to a market price, rate, etc. that follows day-to-day market fluctuations
  4. exact, completely correct, right on target

Etymology

Borrowed from English spot (“spot, mark; spotlight; short commercial”), from Middle English spot (“spot, mark”) and spotte (“spot, mark”), partly from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partly merged with Middle English splot (“spot, blot”), from Old English splott (“spot, blot, patch of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott (“spot, blot”), from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from…

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