product
Pluralproducts
Pluralproducts
Formsproducts, producting, producted
- 1Something a company makes, grows, or offers for people to buy, such as a phone, food, or a service.
This product sells well in stores across the country.
They launched a new product last spring.
UsageSay a new product or many products.
Similargoods, merchandise, wares
- 2The thing that comes from a process, from hard work, or from a situation.
Cheese is a product of fermenting milk.
The report is the final product of their research.
UsageSay the product of something: the product of hard work.
Similarcreation
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- 3A cream, gel, or spray that you put on your hair, skin, or nails.
She put some product in her hair before the party.
Too much product made his hair feel sticky.
UsageSay some product or too much product in your hair.
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- 4A new substance made during a chemical reaction.
When you burn wood, ash is one product of the fire.
Water is a product when hydrogen burns in air.
UsageSay a product of burning, or how much product was made.
Oppositereactant
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- 5How much of something has been made by a person or process.
Gross domestic product shows how much a country makes in a year.
Each new worker added less to the farm's total product than the last.
UsageMost often in gross domestic product, or GDP.
Similaroutput, yield, production
Less common meanings
- 6The number you get when you multiply two or more numbers together.
The product of three and four is twelve.
To find the product, multiply the two numbers.
UsageSay the product of two numbers. Adding numbers gives the sum.
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- 7Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when sold like goods.
The dealer hid the product under the floorboards.
Police found a large amount of product in the car.
UsagePeople say product with no a for drugs that are sold.
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- 8To make something or bring it into being.
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- 9A math operation, or its result, that works like multiplying, but for more than just numbers.
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Origin
From Latin prōductus, a form of the verb prōdūcō. It first appeared in English in mathematics.
Checked 5 Nov 2026 · 3 facts
- English product derives from Latin prōductus. en.wiktionary.org
- Latin prōductus is a form of the verb prōdūcō. en.wiktionary.org
- The earliest recorded English sense was mathematical. en.wiktionary.org