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Lego set

Lego set

1 1.0
A box of small plastic bricks and parts for building models like cars or houses
  • noun
  • /ˈlɛɡoʊ sɛt/
translation icon : set de Lego
  • He spent the entire afternoon building a spaceship with his new Lego set.

I mean, most of my adult friends have like Lego sets and stuff in their homes on display.

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Examples

  • I'm loving this LEGO set!

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  • His favorite activity was playing freely with a Lego set in the corner of the classroom.

    Academic text (2005)

  • I mean, most of my adult friends have like Lego sets and stuff in their homes on display.

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  • So I went to his room and he was happily playing with a Lego set that I was saving for Christmas.

    Emily Norris

  • I used to beg, plead, cry for this like Lego set and my mum would be like no, no, wait till Christmas.

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  • So like I said, I did not find my Orca custom Lego set, but I had this one and I think it's even better.

  • One thing I did was buy a duplicate of a Harry Potter Lego set last Christmas.

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  • We've got some brand new Lego sets, which are the Lego City Missions sets.

    Emily Norris

  • I'm sorry to say that you did not get either, but you seem so overjoyed and content with the small Iron Man Lego set that we were able to get for you.

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  • What a maroon asks if you could have one Mythbusters event or myth immortalized in a Lego set, which one would it be?

Synonyms

Lego
vsLego set
27 1.0

A brand of small colorful plastic bricks sold as building sets

is the packaged toy that combines those bricks with extra parts to build models

Surface Forms

Lego set singular
Lego sets plural

Morphology

Lego + set

The meaning is directly compositional: 'Lego' names the type of interlocking bricks and 'set' denotes a group or kit of related items, so a learner who knows both words can infer a package of Lego pieces. This follows straightforward noun + noun composition and is cross-linguistically transparent, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Lego set starts with Lego, a name that comes from Danish words meaning 'play well', and set means a group or box of pieces sold together for building. So a Lego set is a kit of interlocking bricks made for play and for building models.