Word of the Day: Cat

cat / kat

noun

1. a small domesticated feline, usually kept as a pet

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Jules Renard, 1864-1910

2. any member of the Felidae family, i.e., lion, jaguar, etc.

The first humans to reach North American found a continent crawling with terrifying big cats: an American cheetah, an American lion (bigger than those in Africa today), and the saber-toothed tiger.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/panthropocene/518664

3. someone who is very fond of playing jazz music

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

Nigel Kennedy, 1956-