cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Romanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
note: Michigan, Canada
ipa: /ɹoˈmɪ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -eɪniən
Forms: form: Romanians
form: Rumanian
form: Roumanian
Etymology: From Romania + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native of Romania.
examples: text: USR leader Elena Lasconi, who was supposed to face Georgescu in the second round of the 2024 presidential elections and is expected to run again this year, also reacted to the news, saying, “I hope the CCR's decision is just a first step. […] Romanians need to regain their trust in institutions!”
ref: 2025 March 11, Irina Marica, “Călin Georgescu barred from presidential race as Romanian Constitutional Court rejects appeal”, in Romania Insider:
glosses: The official language of Romania and Moldova.
examples: text: I think there was this one Black guy in there who was practically crying.
I swear I could hear Sir Mixalot in my head whenever I did Romanians.
ref: 2010 March 24, Built, “With the big boyz...”, in IronMag Forums:
text: I did Romanians for a year and worked up to 250 for sets of 5. I couldn't take the DOMS anymore and dropped them.
ref: 2015 April 15, OZ-USF-UFGator, “diract Back work: Are Deadlifts and chin ups enough”, in Starting Strength Forum:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: Ellipsis of Romanian deadlift.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Wallachian
word: Daco-Romanian
Meronyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Moldovan
word: Moldovian
Derived terms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Proto-Romanian
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: proto-Romanian
word: Old Romanian
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Romanian terms
Aromanian = Macedo-Romanian
Daco-Romanian
Istro-Romanian
Megleno-Romanian
Moldavian
Vlach
do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: MLE, some accents in Irish English and Scottish English
ipa: /dy/
ipa: /duː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: doo
homophone: Doubs
homophone: doux
homophone: (yod-dropping) dew
homophone: due
ipa: /də/
ipa: /dʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒ/
ipa: /diː/
ipa: /dɪ/
ipa: /dɪv/
enpr: dō
ipa: /dəʊ/
enpr: dō
ipa: /doʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: doe
homophone: dough
homophone: d'oh
note: MLE, some accents in Irish English and Scottish English
ipa: /dy/
ipa: /duː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: doo
homophone: Doubs
homophone: doux
homophone: (yod-dropping) dew
homophone: due
ipa: /də/
ipa: /dʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒ/
ipa: /diː/
ipa: /dɪ/
ipa: /dɪv/
Forms: form: dos
form: doh
form: Do
Etymology: Coined by Italian musicologist Giovanni Battista Doni in 1635 as an easier-to-sing open-syllable revision to the solmization ut of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin Dominus (“The Lord”) (speculated by some to be an ulterior abbreviation of Giovanni Battista Doni) on the pattern of other Latinate solfège with the stated justification that God is the tonic and root of the world.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: ut
glosses: A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
Related terms: sense: names for musical notes
word: fa
sense: names for musical notes
word: la
sense: names for musical notes
word: mi
sense: names for musical notes
word: re
sense: names for musical notes
word: so
sense: names for musical notes
word: ti
do
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: MLE, some accents in Irish English and Scottish English
ipa: /dy/
ipa: /duː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: doo
homophone: Doubs
homophone: doux
homophone: (yod-dropping) dew
homophone: due
ipa: /də/
ipa: /dʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒ/
ipa: /diː/
ipa: /dɪ/
ipa: /dɪv/
enpr: dō
ipa: /dəʊ/
enpr: dō
ipa: /doʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: doe
homophone: dough
homophone: d'oh
Forms: form: do.
Etymology: Short for ditto.
Senses: examples: text: Softest flowers, .. J. P. Robson, 335 / Stars of Hartlepool, .. do 356
ref: [1849], “Contents”, in J[oseph] P[hilip] Robson, editor, Songs of the Bards of the Tyne; or, A Choice Selection of Original Songs Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect. […], Newcastle upon Tyne: […] P. France & Co., […], →OCLC, page 14:
text: Michael Higgins, 51, Back lane / John Mulligan, 53, do
ref: 1862 October 23, “The O'Connell National Statue”, in The Freeman's Journal, Dublin, page 2:
glosses: Abbreviation of ditto.
do
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: note: MLE, some accents in Irish English and Scottish English
ipa: /dy/
ipa: /duː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: doo
homophone: Doubs
homophone: doux
homophone: (yod-dropping) dew
homophone: due
ipa: /də/
ipa: /dʊ/
ipa: /d͡ʒ/
ipa: /diː/
ipa: /dɪ/
ipa: /dɪv/
enpr: dō
ipa: /dəʊ/
enpr: dō
ipa: /doʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: doe
homophone: dough
homophone: d'oh
Etymology: Shortening of dozen.
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after el and before do one in a duodecimal system. Written 10, decimal value 12.
Related terms: word: gro
word: mo
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: do loop
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: do svidaniya
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: do svidanya
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: whoop de do
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: whoop-de-do
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: whoop-dee-do
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: whoopee do
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: whoopee-do
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: whoopy-do
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: whoopy do
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: woopty-do
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: woopy do
Bulgarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌlˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /bʌlˈɡɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /bʊlˈɡɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /bʊlˈɡɑɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Bulgarian
form: most Bulgarian
form: Bulg.
Etymology: From Bulgaria + -an or Bulgar + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
glosses: Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language.
Derived terms: Bulgarian Hound
Bulgarianization
Bulgarianize
Bulgarianness
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Bulgarian salad
Bulgarian split squat
Bulgarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌlˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /bʌlˈɡɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /bʊlˈɡɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /bʊlˈɡɑɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Bulgarians
form: Bulg.
Etymology: From Bulgaria + -an or Bulgar + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.
ref: 2014, Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 305:
glosses: A native of Bulgaria.
examples: text: The big advantage of learning Russian is that, once you’re proficient, you can understand other Slav languages such as Czech, Polish or Bulgarian.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
glosses: The official language of Bulgaria.
examples: text: Yes, Bulgarians attack glutes (and this one does too!) but all the pauses and pulses in this series will also exhaust your quads.
ref: 2020 October 27, Ebenezer Samuel, “These 10 Moves Will Build Monster Quads”, in Men's Health:
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of Bulgarian split squat.
Derived terms: Middle Bulgarian
Old Bulgarian
Protobulgarian
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Bulgarian terms
UTC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A compromise initialism between English CUT (“Coordinated Universal Time”) and French TUC (“Temps Universel Coordonné”), unofficially giving “Universal Time Coordinated” and “Universel Temps Coordonné”.
Senses: synonyms: GMT
glosses: Coordinated Universal Time, which is the international standard for civil time and the Internet.
Derived terms: UTC offset
Related terms: english: Greenwich Mean Time
translation: Greenwich Mean Time
word: GMT
word: UT
english: Universal Time
translation: Universal Time
word: UT1
word: Zulu time
word: military time
UTC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Uniform Traffic Code.
UTC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of unable to contact.
chat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: chat Two people chatting.
form: chats
form: chatting
form: chatted
form: chatted
Etymology: Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Senses: examples: text: She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
text: I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
glosses: To be engaged in informal conversation.
examples: text: I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
glosses: To talk more than a few words.
examples: text: They chatted politics for a while.
text: We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.
ref: 2014, Lenny Smith, Choices, page 43:
glosses: To talk of; to discuss.
examples: text: Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
glosses: To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
raw_tags: as chatting
examples: text: Do you want to chat online later?
glosses: To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
Synonyms: visit
Derived terms: word: chat away
english: chat line
translation: chat line
word: chatline
word: chat shit
word: chat show
word: chat up
word: chat-up line
word: chop and chat
word: live-chat
chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: chats
Etymology: Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Senses: examples: text: It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
text: Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Informal conversation.
examples: text: Internet Relay Chat
glosses: An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
examples: text: "Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."
text: While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]
ref: 1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online, page 256:
glosses: A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
raw_tags: with or without "the"
examples: text: The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
text: "Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?"
text: Chat, is this prime minister serious?
ref: 2024 September 11, Fatima Payman, 00:48 from the start, in Skibidi Senator Payman + 100,000 aura (video), archived from the original on 12 Sep 2024:
glosses: A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
raw_tags: with or without "the"
glosses: A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
raw_tags: with or without "the"
glosses: Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
glosses: Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
Hyponyms: sense: Birds
word: anteater chat
sense: Birds
word: bushchat
sense: Birds
word: chatshrike
sense: Birds
word: chat-tanager
sense: Birds
word: fallowchat
sense: Birds
word: furzechat
sense: Birds
word: palmchat
sense: Birds
word: robin-chat
sense: Birds
word: rock chat
sense: Birds
word: rufous bush chat
sense: Birds
word: stonechat
sense: Birds
word: whinchat
sense: Birds
word: yellow-breasted chat
Derived terms: backchat
back-chat
back chat
bechat
chatathon
chatbot
chatbox
chatfest
chat fiction
ChatGPT
chatgroup
chat group
chathead
chatiquette
chatless
chatlog
chatmate
chatroom
chat-room
chat site
chatspace
chatspeak
chatteration
chatterer
chatterish
chattily
chattiness
chatty
chat-tyrant
chatwood
chitchat
chit-chat
chit chat
cyberchat
e-chat
enter the chat
F in the chat
fireside chat
group chat
hot chat
Internet Relay Chat
leave the chat
L in the chat
midchat
Snapchat
vidchat
video chat
webchat
web chat
W in the chat
chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: chats
Etymology: Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.
Senses: examples: text: Wheat and potatoes were traditionally cash crops, though they also provided tail corn for the poultry and chats for the pigs
ref: 1978, Joan Thirsk, Edith Holt Whetham, H. P. R. Finberg, The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 8, 1914-1939, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A small potato, such as is given to swine.
chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: chats
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 441:
topics: business
mining
glosses: Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: chats
form: chatt
Etymology: From thieves' cant.
Senses: examples: text: 'Do officers have chats, then, the same as us?'
'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'
ref: 1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520
text: May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
ref: 2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls?, →ISBN, page 18:
text: Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.
ref: 2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, →ISBN, page 149:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A louse (small, parasitic insect).
chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: chats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chaat.
given name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪvən ˌneɪm/
Forms: form: given names
Senses: examples: text: Japan: Use family names first, followed by given names, but be aware that some may introduce themselves to Westerners with their given name first.
ref: 2004, Gwyneth Olofsson, When in Rome or Rio or Riyadh...: Cultural Q&As for Successful Business Behavior Around the World, page 17:
text: This may explain why some Chinese Americans write their Chinese name backwards. For example, the Chinese characters to Ching Tien Chay′s name show that his given name is really Tien Ching.
ref: 2008, Emma Woo Louie, Him Mark Lai, Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition, page 89:
text: In one experiment, the researchers had people rate the characteristics of people with various given names or nicknames.[…]A person with a nickname like Liz, for example, would probably be rated as friendlier and more popular than a person with the given name Elizabeth, but Elizabeth would probably be rated more intelligent and trustworthy.
ref: 2011, Anne Myers, Christine H. Hansen, Experimental Psychology, page 296:
glosses: A personal name chosen for a child, usually by their parents.
examples: text: Professor: Lady Bird, is that your given name?
Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson: Yeah.
Professor: Why is it in quotes?
Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson: I gave it to myself, it’s given to me by me.
ref: 2017, Greta Gerwig (scriptwriter), Lady Bird
glosses: A name bestowed by oneself or another, as opposed to the name given by one's parents.
Synonyms: word: first name
word: forename
word: front name
word: personal name
word: birth name
raw_tags: of surnames
word: Christian name
word: given name
word: prename
Hypernyms: english: Egyptian pharaohs
translation: Egyptian pharaohs
word: nomen
english: ancient Romans
translation: ancient Romans
word: praenomen
word: regnal name
english: rulers
translation: rulers
word: throne name
word: Christian name
word: baptismal name
english: Christians
translation: Christians
word: confirmation name
alt: adoptees
word: adoption name
word: family name
word: name
word: anthroponym
Coordinate terms: alias
assumed name
epithet
family name
hypocorism
last name
legal name
middle name
nickname
nom de guerre
nom de plume
pen name
pet name
screen name
stage name
surname
user name
womb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: wombs
form: wame
Etymology: From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded non-native Middle English mater, matere (“womb”) and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
Senses: examples: text: I danced myself right out the womb / Is it strange to dance so soon?
ref: 1971, Marc Bolan, “Cosmic Dancer”, in Electric Warrior, performed by T. Rex:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
examples: text: And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew[…].
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
glosses: The abdomen or stomach.
glosses: The stomach of a person or creature.
examples: text: The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: The shadows of the future hours rose dark and menacing from the womb of time [...]
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A place where something is made or formed.
examples: text: The centre spike of gold
 Which burns deep in the blue-bell's womb.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Popularity:
glosses: Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
Synonyms: sense: organ in mammals
word: uterus
sense: organ in mammals
word: matrix
sense: organ in mammals
word: belly
Derived terms: the womb to the tomb
womb to tomb
rent-a-womb
wandering womb
womb-brother
womb-child
womb envy
wombless
womblike
wombly
wombman
wombmate
womby
Related terms: sense: Etymologically related terms
word: gambeson
womb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: wombs
form: wombing
form: wombed
form: wombed
form: wame
Etymology: From Middle English wombe, wambe, from Old English womb, wamb (“belly, stomach; bowels; heart; womb; hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *wambu, from Proto-Germanic *wambō (“belly, stomach, abdomen”). Cognate with Scots wam, wame (“womb”), Dutch wam (“dewlap of beef; belly of a fish”), German Wamme, Wampe (“paunch, belly”), Danish vom (“belly, paunch, rumen”), Swedish våmb (“belly, stomach, rumen”), Norwegian vom (“rumen”), Icelandic vömb (“belly, abdomen, stomach”), Old Welsh gumbelauc (“womb”), Breton gwamm (“woman, wife”), Sanskrit वपा (vapā́, “the skin or membrane lining the intestines or parts of the viscera, the caul or omentum”). Superseded non-native Middle English mater, matere (“womb”) and matris, matrice (“womb”) borrowed from Latin māter (“womb”) and Old French matrice (“womb”), respectively.
Senses: examples: text: she grew round-wombed
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăks
ipa: /æks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: acts
homophone: ask stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: axes
form: ax
Etymology: From Middle English ax, axe, ex, from Old English æx, from Proto-West Germanic *akusi, from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷsih₂ (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare German Axt, Dutch aks, Danish økse, Icelandic öxi, and also Latin ascia.
Senses: glosses: A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
glosses: An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
examples: text: His girlfriend/boss/schoolmaster gave him the axe.
synonyms: chop
pink slip
sack
boot
glosses: A dismissal or rejection.
examples: text: the Beeching Axe
text: The tractor plant is slated for the axe.
text: I had a job in the great North Woods
 Workin' as a cook for a spell
 But I never did like it all that much
 And one day the axe just fell
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:
text: But P'u-yi was nothing if not soft when it came to family, and he arranged for the young man to live with his uncle Beitzu P'u-hsiu in P'u-yi's old house in T'ien-ching. So Yü-t'ai was well clear of Ch'ang-ch'un when the axe fell in 1945.
ref: 1994, Tony Scotland, The Empty Throne: The Quest for an Imperial Heir in the People's Republic of China, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 103:
text: Back in 1963, how could Beeching advocate closure of the electrified Liverpool-Southport commuter route, just because its books didn't balance? The busy North London line between Richmond and Broad Street was also for the axe, as was Leeds to Bradford and Ilkley.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:
glosses: A drastic reduction or cutback.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
examples: text: A financial dealer has an axe in a stock that his buyers don't know about, giving him an advantage in making the most profit.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
Hyponyms: battle axe
battleaxe
Beeching Axe
crash axe
Dane axe
Danish axe
fire axe
hatchet
Jeddart axe
Lochaber axe
throwing-axe
tomahawk
wagoner's axe
Derived terms: axeblade
axe bombing
axe head
axe kick
axeless
axelike
axeman
axemanship
axe murder
axe-murder
axe-murderer
axe murderer
axe throwing
axe to grind
axewoman
axe wound
Bad Axe
battle-axe
boarding axe
break-axe
broadaxe
curtal-axe
curtle-axe
dagger-axe
give the axe
greataxe
Hagen axe
hand axe
have an axe to grind
ice-axe
ice axe
mad as a meat axe
man with the axe
meat axe
moot-axe
pick-axe
poleaxe
pole-axe
take an axe to
throwing axe
tomax
Related terms: adze
hatchet
twibill
axe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăks
ipa: /æks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: acts
homophone: ask stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: axes
form: axing
form: axeing
form: axed
form: axed
form: ax
Etymology: From Middle English ax, axe, ex, from Old English æx, from Proto-West Germanic *akusi, from Proto-Germanic *akwisī, probably from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʷsih₂ (“axe”), from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare German Axt, Dutch aks, Danish økse, Icelandic öxi, and also Latin ascia.
Senses: glosses: To fell or chop with an axe.
examples: text: The government announced its plans to axe public spending.
text: The broadcaster axed the series because far fewer people than expected watched it.
text: He got axed in the last round of firings.
text: On Wednesday, GSMA, which organises the congress, was forced to admit it would have to axe this year’s event after more than 40 companies pulled out citing health and safety concerns.
ref: 2020 February 12, Mark Sweney, “Mobile World Congress axed after firms quit over coronavirus fears”, in The Guardian:
text: The Department for Transport axed TfL's central grant in 2015, when Boris Johnson was London mayor.
ref: 2020 June 17, Philip Haigh, “Capital for the capital to meet London's transport needs”, in Rail, page 28:
synonyms: word: downsize
word: fire
word: lay off
word: axe
word: can
word: decruit
word: dehire
word: discard
word: remove
word: discharge
word: dismiss
word: downsize
word: fire
word: give the axe
word: give someone the boot
word: give someone their cards
word: give the chop
word: give the elbow
word: give someone the heave-ho
word: give someone the old heave-ho
word: lay off
word: let go
word: let someone go
word: make redundant
word: pink slip
word: promote to customer
word: retrench
word: sack
word: serve notice
word: shit-can
word: term
word: terminate
word: throw out
word: unhire
glosses: To lay off, terminate or drastically reduce, especially in a rough or ruthless manner; to cancel.
axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăks
ipa: /æks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: acts
homophone: ask stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: axes
form: ax
Etymology: Derived from French axe, from Latin axis.
Senses: glosses: The axle of a wheel.
axe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăks
ipa: /æks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: acts
homophone: ask stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: axes
form: axing
form: axed
form: axed
form: ax
Etymology: Derived from French axe, from Latin axis.
Senses: glosses: To furnish with an axle.
axe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăks
ipa: /æks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: acts
homophone: ask stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: axes
form: axing
form: axed
form: axed
Etymology: From Old English axian (“ask”); see ax for more.
Senses: examples: text: Axe and it ſhalbe geven you. Seke and ye ſhall fynd / Knocke and it ſhalbe opened vnto you.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Mathew vij:[7], folio ix, recto:
text: I axe you—have I said one word about that little matter to-day?
ref: 1904, Jr. John Fox, “The Army of the Callahan”, in Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories:
text: I axe him to sit down and drink some of my wine, but he says no thanks, he just come to axe me a question.
ref: 2013 November 18, Loren D. Estleman, Edsel, Stress, and Motown (The Detroit Novels; I), →ISBN, page 140:
qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of ask.
HTTP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
ref: 1996 May, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.0”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 1945:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the protocol used most commonly to transfer Web pages and accompanying data over the Internet.
Hyponyms: HTTP/2
HTTPS
Derived terms: HTTP cookie
HTTP verb
XmlHTTP
CLI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CLIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of command line interface.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of command-line interpreter.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of calling line identity or caller line identity.
CLI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Common Language Infrastructure (for .NET.)
TCO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TCOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Total Cost of Ownership (“the sum of costs arising when deploying technology, especially hardware and software”).
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of transparent conducting oxide.
Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk/
ipa: /ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ə.bɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ərəˈbɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈarəbɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈrabɪk/
Forms: form: Arabical
form: Arabick
Etymology: From Latin arabicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβικός (Arabikós), from Ἄραψ (Áraps, “Arab”) [from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)] + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). By surface analysis, Arab + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: an Arabic translation
text: nuances of Arabic inflection
text: One day my UN students asked me, "Which is the Arabic country where the best Arabic is spoken?" I quickly replied, "Bosnia." They exclaimed, "But Bosnia is not an Arab country!"
ref: 2008, Abdallah Nacereddine, To Be Oneself: The Tragicomedy of an Unfinished Life History, →ISBN, page 342:
glosses: Related to the Arabic language.
examples: text: Arabic numerals
related: word: arabic#Adjective
coordinate_terms: Roman#Adjective
roman#Adjective
glosses: Expressed in a script that was developed in Arab lands (but is not always used in the Arabic language): 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
raw_tags: of numerals
examples: text: White chalk on the fascia board above the Arabic-food stall reads "Lebanon" and "Lebs rule".
ref: 2012, Deborah Youdell, “Intelligibility, agency and the raced–nationed–religioned subjects of education”, in Intersectionality and "Race" in Education, →ISBN, page 202:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Arab countries or cultural behaviour (see also Arab as an adjective).
examples: text: I saw that in my workplace black co-workers had to unite with Arabic and white workers just to be able to win better wages and working conditions and certainly to be able to win a strike.
ref: 1987 February 22, Dallas Williams, “Black, Gay and Red”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 5:
glosses: Arab.
raw_tags: of people
Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk/
ipa: /ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ə.bɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ərəˈbɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈarəbɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈrabɪk/
Forms: form: Arabical
form: Arabick
Etymology: From Latin arabicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβικός (Arabikós), from Ἄραψ (Áraps, “Arab”) [from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)] + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). By surface analysis, Arab + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Egyptian Arabic
text: Eastern Arabic
text: translated from the Arabic
text: Classical Arabic – the language of the Qur’an – will make you understood everywhere, but colloquial Arabic may be more useful, because once the locals start conversing with each other, you’ll lose the plot.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
text: We’d gone to Arabic school as children and taken lessons in the summer holidays, and I still read the news in Arabic, but it wasn’t like I practised reciting the written language any more, with its complex rhythms and grammatical structures.
ref: 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 74:
glosses: A major Semitic language originating from the Arabian peninsula, and now spoken natively (in various spoken dialects, all sharing a single highly conservative standardized literary form) throughout large sections of the Middle East and North Africa.
examples: Near-synonym: Arabic alphabet
synonyms: w:Arabic script
glosses: The Aramaic-derived script used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.
Derived terms: Algerian Arabic
Andalusian Arabic
Arabical
Arabically
Arabicization
Arabicness
Arabic numeral
Arabic scale
Arabic script
Arabic studies
Chadian Arabic
Classical Arabic
Cypriot Arabic
Dhofari Arabic
Eastern Arabic
Egyptian Arabic
Gulf Arabic
Hijazi Arabic
Hispano-Arabic
Indo-Arabic
Juba Arabic
Levantine Arabic
Libyan Arabic
Mesopotamian Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic
Moorish Arabic
Moroccan Arabic
Mozarabic
North Levantine Arabic
North Mesopotamian Arabic
Old Arabic
Omani Arabic
Palestinian Arabic
Perso-Arabic
Quranic Arabic
Saʽidi Arabic
Ṣaʽīdi Arabic
Siculo-Arabic
South Sudanese Arabic
Spanish Arabic
Sudanese Arabic
Sulaimitian Arabic
Tajiki Arabic
Tunisian Arabic
Upper Egyptian Arabic
Related terms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Classical Arabic
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Modern Standard Arabic
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Arabic terms
word: Arab
word: Arabian
Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk/
ipa: /ˈæɹ.ə.bɪk/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ə.bɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ərəˈbɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈarəbɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈrabɪk/
Forms: form: Arabics
form: Arabical
form: Arabick
Etymology: From Latin arabicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραβικός (Arabikós), from Ἄραψ (Áraps, “Arab”) [from Arabic عَرَب (ʕarab)] + -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). By surface analysis, Arab + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: He was speaking an Arabic that they'd never heard before and could barely understand.
glosses: A variety of the Arabic language.
examples: text: That's the majority of working N'Yawkers. Blacks and Hispanics outnumber the arabics.
ref: 2000 July 20, Topprolmc, “OT - I participated in an obscene act today!”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet):
text: Classic Arabic didn't "turn into" the various Arabic vernaculars. There is disagreement over whether the range of spoken Arabics all have a single ancestor (seems unlikely), but Classical Arabic is a somewhat artificial creation based on at least two dialects.
ref: 2004 April 22, Peter T. Daniels, “Taiwanese and their language”, in soc.culture.china (Usenet):
glosses: An Arab.
examples: text: A novel writer will usually spell out Arabics from one to nine, to accord with the tone of the genre.
related: word: arabic#Noun
glosses: Ellipsis of Arabic numeral.
Maori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊɹi/
note: New Zealand, anglicised
ipa: /ˈmɐʉɹiː/
note: New Zealand, anglicised
ipa: /ˈmæʊɹiː/
note: New Zealand, approximating Māori pronunciation
ipa: [ˈmɑːɔɾi]
rhymes: -aʊɹi
Forms: form: Maori
form: Maoris
form: Maories
form: Māori
form: Mäori
form: Maaori
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”). Doublet of Maoli.
Senses: glosses: A member of the indigenous people of New Zealand.
Derived terms: Maoribank
Maorify
Maori hen
Maoriland
Maoriness
Maoritanga
Pakeha Maori
tikanga Maori
Maori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊɹi/
note: New Zealand, anglicised
ipa: /ˈmɐʉɹiː/
note: New Zealand, anglicised
ipa: /ˈmæʊɹiː/
note: New Zealand, approximating Māori pronunciation
ipa: [ˈmɑːɔɾi]
rhymes: -aʊɹi
Forms: form: Māori
form: Mäori
form: Maaori
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”). Doublet of Maoli.
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
Derived terms: Cook Islands Maori
Related terms: te reo
Wiktionary’s coverage of Maori terms
Maori
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊɹi/
note: New Zealand, anglicised
ipa: /ˈmɐʉɹiː/
note: New Zealand, anglicised
ipa: /ˈmæʊɹiː/
note: New Zealand, approximating Māori pronunciation
ipa: [ˈmɑːɔɾi]
rhymes: -aʊɹi
Forms: form: Māori
form: Mäori
form: Maaori
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”). Doublet of Maoli.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Maori.
Derived terms: Maori dog
Maoridom
Maori mint
Maoriness
Maori onion
Maori potato
Maori rat
Maori title
Maori wrasse
Johor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒəʊˈhɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: Johore
Etymology: From Malay Johor, from Arabic جَوْهَر (jawhar), from Classical Persian گَوهَر (gawhar).
Senses: glosses: A state in southern Malaysia. Capital: Johor Bahru.
Derived terms: Johor Baharu
Kedah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Queda
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay Kedah.
Senses: glosses: A state in northwestern Malaysia. Capital: Alor Setar.
Kelantan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay Kelantan.
Senses: examples: text: Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 292:
glosses: A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Kota Bharu.
glosses: A major river in Kelantan, Malaysia.
Derived terms: Kelantanese
Malacca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlaka/
ipa: /məˈlakə/
ipa: /məˈlækə/
Forms: form: Melaka
Etymology: From Malay Melaka, probably after melaka, a kind of tree that grows in the region.
Senses: glosses: A state in western Malaysia.
glosses: The capital city of Malacca State, Malaysia.
examples: text: The Arabs were not pioneers on this route; even earlier than this period Indian ships had sailed through Malacca to Java and went as far as China.
ref: 2000, K. Sridharan, Sea: Our Saviour, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Consider these facts : • In just one year, U.S. $ 400 billion in cargo — including 80 percent of the oil transported to Northeast Asia moves through Malacca on 60,000 ships; • Of the 15 largest ports in the world, 12 are in the Asia […]
ref: 2010, Asia Pacific Defense Forum, page 4:
text: Moreover, the per barrel cost of pumping oil through Burma to Yunnan and then refining it and transporting it to market will likely be several times the cost of carrying it through Malacca on a supertanker to Eastern China's large demand centers.
ref: 2012, Gabriel Collins, Andew Erickson, Lyle Goldstein, William Murray, China's Energy Strategy: The Impact on Bejing's Maritime Policies, Naval Institute Press, →ISBN:
text: […] when the Portuguese had owned a de facto monopoly on shipping routes across the Indian Ocean, through Malacca to the Indies, and along the Pacific coast […]
ref: 2019, Michael C. Carhart, Leibniz Discovers Asia: Social Networking in the Republic of Letters, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Ellipsis of Strait of Malacca.
Derived terms: Malacca cane
Strait of Malacca
Related terms: sense: not to be confused with
word: Molucca
Malacca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlaka/
ipa: /məˈlakə/
ipa: /məˈlækə/
Forms: form: Malaccas
form: Melaka
Etymology: From Malay Melaka, probably after melaka, a kind of tree that grows in the region.
Senses: examples: text: Walking Canes, from low priced to the richest and most costly description. Novelties in French Cane mountings. A choice collection of Malaccas and other Sticks.
ref: 1853, Carroll & Hutchinson (New York), Things of Beauty Set with Gems of Verse (page 115)
glosses: Ellipsis of Malacca cane.
Negeri Sembilan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: N9
form: Negri Sembilan
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay Negeri Sembilan.
Senses: glosses: A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Seremban.
Derived terms: alt: a resident of Negeri Sembilan
word: Negeri Sembilanite
Pahang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malay Pahang.
Senses: glosses: A state in northern peninsular Malaysia. Capital: Kuantan.
Penang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /peˈnaŋ/
ipa: /piˈnaŋ/
ipa: /ˈpiːnɛŋ/
ipa: [ˈpi˧.nɛŋ˦]
ipa: /pəˈnæŋ/
ipa: /pɛˈnæŋ/
ipa: /pəˈnæŋ/
ipa: /pəˈnɑŋ/
rhymes: (UK) -æŋ
rhymes: (US) -ɑːŋ
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay pinang (“betel nut”), from Pulau Pinang.
Senses: glosses: A state in western Malaysia. Capital: George Town.
glosses: An island of Penang, Malaysia.
Derived terms: Penangite
Penang laksa
Penang lawyer
Perlis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malay Perlis.
Senses: glosses: A state in northwestern Malaysia. Capital: Kangar.
Sabah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑːbɑː/
rhymes: -ɑːbɑː
Etymology: From Malay Sabah.
Senses: glosses: A state in eastern Malaysia located at the Northern part of the Borneo island with the main city Kota Kinabalu as its capital.
Related terms: North Borneo
Sarawak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saraˈwak/
ipa: /ˈsæɹəwæk/
ipa: /ˈsɑːɹəwæk/
ipa: /səˈrɑːwək/
Etymology: From Malay Sarawak.
Senses: examples: text: In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956.
ref: 1972, C. P. FitzGerald, The Southern Expansion of the Chinese People: "Southern Fields and Southern Ocean", London: Barrie & Jenkins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 189:
glosses: A state in eastern Malaysia. Capital: Kuching.
glosses: A former country in Southeast Asia; the "Kingdom of Sarawak" from 1841 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's annexation of it in 1946.
Derived terms: Sarawak dolphin
Sarawakian
sarawakite
Selangor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay Selangor.
Senses: glosses: A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Shah Alam.
glosses: A river in Selangor, Malaysia.
Derived terms: Kuala Selangor
Terengganu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trengganu
Etymology: From Malay Terengganu.
Senses: glosses: A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Kuala Terengganu.
Kuala Lumpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuala ˈlumpʊr/
ipa: /ˈkuala ˈlumpʊə/
ipa: /kuˈɑːlə ˈlʊmpə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kuˈɑːlə ˈlʊmpʊə/
Etymology: From Malay Kuala Lumpur.
Senses: glosses: A federal territory, the capital and largest city of Malaysia, located in the western part of the country.
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: KL
sense: the city
word: K-Hell
Related terms: KLite
Putrajaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Malay Putrajaya; from Sanskrit पुत्र (putra, “son”) + जय (jayá, “victory”).
Senses: glosses: A federal territory in western Malaysia.
glosses: The administrative capital of Malaysia, located in the federal territory of the same name.
glosses: The Malaysian government.
Labuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɑːbuˌɑːn/
Etymology: From Indonesian Labuan and Malay Labuan.
Senses: glosses: A district in Banten, Indonesia.
glosses: A federal territory off Sabah, Malaysia.
rain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rān
ipa: /ɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: reign
homophone: rein
Forms: form: rains
form: raining
form: rained
form: rained
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: rain
form: rain
form: rained
form: rain
form: rainest
form: rained
form: rainedst
form: rains
form: raineth
form: rained
form: rain
form: rained
form: rain
form: rained
form: rain
form: -
form: raining
form: rained
Etymology: From Middle English reinen, from Old English reġnian, from Proto-West Germanic *regnōn, from Proto-Germanic *regnōną, from *regną (“rain”), as above.
Cognates
Cognate with Cimbrian règhenan, rengen (“to rain”), Dutch regenen (“to rain”), German regnen (“to rain”), Limburgish raengere, rääne (“to rain”), Low German regen (“to rain”), Luxembourgish reenen (“to rain”), Yiddish רעגענען (regenen, “to rain”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål regne (“to rain”), Faroese, Swedish regna (“to rain”), Icelandic rigna (“to rain”), Norwegian Nynorsk regna, regne (“to rain”).
Senses: examples: text: Judging by the black cloud, it will rain later today.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: To have rain fall from the sky.
examples: text: Tears rained from her eyes.
text: Leaves rained from the tree.
text: Bombs rained from the sky.
text: The rain it raineth every day.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: To fall as or like rain.
examples: text: The boxer rained punches on his opponent's head.
glosses: To issue (something) in large quantities.
Derived terms: Also see terms derived from the noun
berain
don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining
don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining
is it going to rain
it never rains but it pours
it's raining
make it rain
piss on someone's leg and tell them it's raining
rain buckets
rain cats and dogs
rain dogs and cats
rain death
rain death upon
rain down
rain fire and brimstone
rain like cats and dogs
rain off
rain on one's parade
rain on someone's parade
rain out
rain pitchforks
Related terms: drizzle
hail
mizzle
precipitation
serein
shower
sleet
snow
storm
rain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rān
ipa: /ɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: reign
homophone: rein
Forms: form: rains
form: raining
form: rained
form: rained
Senses: examples: text: Such wondrous science in mans witt to rain.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of reign.
bouton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boutons
Etymology: Borrowed from French bouton.
Senses: glosses: A bud-like swelling, especially one at the end of an axon
Derived terms: interbouton
superbouton
Turk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɝk/
ipa: /tɜːk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: more Turk
form: most Turk
form: Türk
form: Túrk
form: Turke
Etymology: From Middle English Turke, Turk, from Old French Turc, from Medieval Latin Turcus, from Byzantine Greek Τοῦρκος (Toûrkos), from Classical Persian تُرْک (turk), from Middle Persian [script needed] (twlk' /⁠turk⁠/), from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜 (t²ür²k̥). See Proto-Turkic *tür(ü)k for more.
Senses: examples: text: Kazakhstan is officially a bilingual country: Kazakh, a Turk language spoken natively by mainly the Kazakh population, has the status of the 'state' language, [...]
ref: 2017, Karen Malone, Children in the Anthropocene:
glosses: Synonym of Turkic.
synonyms: word: Turkic
glosses: Synonym of Turkish.
synonyms: word: Turkish