Other forms: tiles, tiling, tiled
A tile is a flat square of baked clay covering bathroom walls and roofs. Hard, waterproof, and cold underfoot.
Roof tiles overlap to shed water and wall tiles butt together with grout between. The material has widened, since modern tiles are ceramic, porcelain, stone or vinyl. Laying them is a real skill, and the difficulty is always the cuts round the edges. There is a computing sense, since a tiled display arranges windows side by side, and a tile is also a piece in several games.
Old English
tiġele
Middle English
tile
English, today
tile
From Middle English tile, from Old English tiġele. From Middle English tile,tyl,tigel,tiȝel,teȝele, from Old English tiġele,tieġle,tiġle (“tile, brick”), from Proto-West Germanic tigulā (“tile, brick”), from Proto-Germanic tigulǭ (“tile, brick”), from Latin tēgula, from Proto-Indo-European (s)teg- (“to cover”). a doublet of tegula. 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Around the House, A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 9 of A Man Called Ove.
Practise this word