Valium
English edit
Etymology edit
Marketing coinage. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvæl.i.əm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvæl.i.əm/, /ˈvæl.jəm/
- Rhymes: -æliəm
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Noun edit
Valium (countable and uncountable, plural Valiums)
- (trademark, pharmacology) The drug diazepam.
- 2003, Samuel H. Barondes, quoting Peter D. Kramer, chapter 4, in Better than Prozac, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
- Mothers little helpers were pills—Miltown, amphetamine, barbiturates, Librium, and Valium were the most popular and widely available in the fifties and early sixties—that were used to keep women in their place, to make them comfortable in a setting that should have been uncomfortable, to encourage them to focus on tasks that did not matter.
- (countable) A Valium pill.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “Valium”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Valium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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Noun edit
Valium m (plural Valiums)