cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Zaporozhian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zaporozhians
form: Zaporogian
Etymology: Ultimately from Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje, “place beyond the rapids”) or a related term; compare Zaporizhian, Zaporizhzhia.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, the Zaporozhians tended to concentrate on their own affairs, that is, those of a relatively small (they rarely numbered more than 10,000), isolated Cossack fraternity based in the vast, empty steppes between the Hetmanate in the north and the Crimean Khanate in the south.
ref: 2009, Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, 4th edition, University of Toronto Press, unnumbered page:
text: As the Zaporozhians began to clash with the newcomers a number of Serb settlements were wiped out and the colonization came to a halt.
ref: 2016, Alexander Basilevsky, Early Ukraine, McFarland & Company, page 359:
text: The Zaporozhians detained the captains sent by Mazepa, placed them in custody ("as bandits"), and did not allow them to set fire to dry grasses in the "Wild Fields" (as had been planned in preparation for the campaign).
ref: 2020, Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva, Ivan Mazepa and the Russian Empire, McGill-Queen's University Press, page 111:
synonyms: Zaporozhian Cossack
Ukrainian Cossack
glosses: One of the Cossacks who lived downstream of the rapids of the Dnieper/Dnipro River, in present-day Ukraine.
Zaporozhian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zaporozhian
form: most Zaporozhian
form: Zaporogian
Etymology: Ultimately from Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje, “place beyond the rapids”) or a related term; compare Zaporizhian, Zaporizhzhia.
Senses: examples: text: Then, too, towards the middle of the eighteenth century both the Russian government and the Zaporozhian nobility began to use all means to attract settlers to the Southern Ukraine.
ref: 1955, Annals, Volumes 14-20, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, page 2:
text: […]city-type centres and settlements in the Zaporozhian territory the Sich's role as the regional centre grew especially important and that fact unexpectedly gave to a free steppe region a highly centralized form of government.
ref: 1978, Lev Okinshevych, Ukrainian Society and Government, 1648-1781, Ukrainian Free University, page 117:
text: The attitude of the Zaporozhian envoys in Moscow shows that for the Zaporozhian Cossacks, who played an extraordinarily important role in the opening stage of the uprising, Kyiv was a distant if not an alien center, clearly outside the scope of Zaporozhian influence.
ref: 2001, Serhii Plokhy, The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine, Oxford University Press, page 271:
glosses: Of or relating to the Zaporozhians or their culture, etc.
Zaporogians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaporogian
Zaporozhians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaporozhian
zingel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zingels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zingel.
Senses: glosses: A fish of the perch family, found in the Danube, Zingel zingel.
zingels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zingel
cresylite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An explosive composed of a mixture of trinitrocresol and picric acid
black briony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black brionies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of black bryony.
cumenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumenols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric isopropyl derivatives of phenol
geohistorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more geohistorically
form: most geohistorically
Etymology: From geohistorical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a geohistorical sense.
antigravitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigravitic
form: most antigravitic
form: anti-gravitic
Etymology: From antigravity + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Buildings shaped like vast silver monoliths floated, and moved, horizontally and vertically, like titanic antigravitic machines dancing in precisely calculated, mathematical symmetry.
ref: 2011, Matthew J. Drury, EDEN²:
glosses: Of, or related to antigravity.
Derived terms: antigravitically
antigravitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antigravitically
form: most antigravitically
form: anti-gravitically
Etymology: From antigravitic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: They attached the large disks that Lumaura had made, in the nose and stubby wings that were hoped would allow the great ship to hover antigravitically.
ref: 2011, The Sacred Clown, Thunderhead:
glosses: Through the use of antigravity.
anti-gravitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-gravitic
form: most anti-gravitic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antigravitic.
anti-gravitically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anti-gravitically
form: most anti-gravitically
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antigravitically.
grassroots leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑːsɹuːts ˈliːdə/
Forms: form: grassroots leaders
Etymology: Compound noun formed with English elements. Compare U.S. English (grassroots) A rank used to describe a political party of bottom-up management structure.
Senses: examples: text: Grassroots leaders still play a key role in the Government’s efforts to reach out to the people even with the setting up of the Feedback Unit.
ref: 1985, Low Mei Mei, The Straits Times (Singapore), page 12:
text: Can grassroots leaders really help improve our lives or are they just running dogs of the PAP.
ref: 1999, Cocoa Man, “Google Groups: Grassroots leaders can help improve our lives.”, in Online:
text: Our grassroots leaders decided to upgrade it into a modern CC to serve residents better.
ref: 2000, Mohamad Maidin Bin PAcker Mohd, Singapore Government Media Release, page 2:
text: Members of the public will be able to better identify their grassroots leaders and district councillors with the implementation of the new PA identity card.
ref: 2010, People's Association (Singapore), (Online)
text: 2017, Lim Yangchen , Straits Times, 7 Oct (Online) Bishan East-Thomson Constituency grassroots leader Edmund Lim said: "This is a way of educating our younger generation... to be aware of the importance of caring for our elderly."
glosses: A government-appointed volunteer who serves in an organisation with the main purpose of bridging the gap between the Singapore Government and the people.
Related terms: alt: GRO
word: grassroots organization
viscuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of viscous.
viscious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of vicious.
cyclane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclanes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cycloalkane
synonyms: word: cycloalkane
glosses: A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C₆H₁₂, consisting of six carbon atoms arranged in a cage-like structure with twelve hydrogen atoms.
Derived terms: ciclafrine
iclaprim
Villapando
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Villapandos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Villapando; this surname is predominantly found in the Philippines.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Pamintuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pamintuans
Etymology: Borrowed from Kapampangan Pamintuan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Kapampangan.
Zadkiel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew צָדְקִיאֵל, meaning "Righteousness of God".
Senses: glosses: The archangel of freedom, benevolence and mercy, in Jewish and Christian angelology.
extreme points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extreme point
Paguio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paguios
Etymology: Borrowed from Kapampangan Paguio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Kapampangan.
pixiu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /piːˈʃjəʊ/
Forms: form: pixiu
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貔貅 (píxiū).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical Chinese creature resembling a winged lion, supposed to bring wealth.
exponential decays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exponential decay
zoophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + physics.
Senses: examples: text: In 1865, he did advanced study in Zoophysics and Zoochemistry while on the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Bonn, and he received his medical degree in 1866.
ref: 2013, Gilbert Gottlieb, Behavioral Embryology:
glosses: The study of the structure of animal bodies; comparative anatomy.
zoopraxinoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoopraxinoscopes
Senses: glosses: A mechanical toy by means of which images of animals are made to go through motions on a screen.
zoopraxinoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoopraxinoscope
zoobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + biology.
Senses: glosses: zoology
zootoxicology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + toxicology.
Senses: glosses: The study of zootoxins.
zootoxicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + toxicological.
Senses: examples: text: The zootoxicological properties of marine toxins vary as remarkably as do their chemical properties.
ref: 1971, Findlay E. Russell, Marine toxins and venomous and poisonous marine animals, page 10:
glosses: Relating to zootoxicology.
zygocardiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygo- + cardiac.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Yoke-like and cardiac; applied to an ossicle of the stomach of some crustaceans.
zygodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygo- + -odont.
Senses: glosses: Having or relating to molar teeth whose cusps are paired.
Zantiote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zantiotes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zantiot.
Zantiotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zantiote
zinkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zinke
jabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jabbles
Etymology: Compare jaup.
Senses: glosses: An agitation on the surface of water.
jabble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jabbles
form: jabbling
form: jabbled
form: jabbled
Etymology: Compare jaup.
Senses: glosses: To splash.
jabbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jabble
jabbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jabble
jabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jabble
jabbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jabble
jickajog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of jigjog.
Januform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Janus + -form.
Senses: glosses: two-faced, like Janus
julap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: julaps
Senses: glosses: Dated form of julep.
julaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of julap
Figueras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Figuera
jury of matrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juries of matrons
Senses: glosses: A jury of women impanelled to try a question of pregnancy, as where a widow alleges herself to be with child by her late husband, or a woman sentenced to death, to stay execution, pleads that she is with child.
juries of matrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jury of matrons
jungle fowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jungle fowl
junglefowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junglefowl
judicial factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: judicial factors
Senses: glosses: An administrator appointed by the courts to manage the estate of someone under some imperfection.
judicial factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of judicial factor
junk bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk bottles
Senses: glosses: A thick, strong bottle made of green or black glass.
junk bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junk bottle
spamference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spamferences
Etymology: Blend of spam + conference
Senses: glosses: A junk conference publicised through spam (unsolicited electronic mail or online postings).
spamferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spamference
Tuason
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tuasons
form: Tuazon
Etymology: Ultimately from Hokkien 大孫 /大孙 (tōa-sun, “eldest grandson”), via Spanish Tuason or Tagalog Tuason.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Hokkien] common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry
kalendars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalendar
kedjeree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of kedgeree.
Iceland dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iceland dogs
Senses: examples: text: The conclusion that one must arrive at, as it seems to me, is that the collie, the Shetland, and the Iceland dogs all had one common origin, the restricted location of the collie in the Lowlands not being conducive to the supposition that he was of origin there, when there was no breed to the north or south bearing any resemblance to him.
ref: 1913 April, James Watson, “Dogs”, in Country Life, volume 23, page 65:
glosses: A shaggy white sharp-eared dog of a breed imported from Iceland.
Iceland dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Iceland dog
interwrought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interwork
interstripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + stripe.
Senses: glosses: Between stripes.
interstrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + strial.
Senses: glosses: Between striae.
Monteverdian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Monteverdian
form: most Monteverdian
Etymology: From Monteverdi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Claudio Monteverdi (1567?–1643), Italian composer, string player and choirmaster, and a pioneer in the development of opera.
cerolein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceroleins
Etymology: From cero- + olein.
Senses: glosses: A wax obtained from beeswax by extracting with hot alcohol
ixolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From an Ancient Greek word for birdlime, + -lite.
Senses: glosses: A fossil resin, found in bituminous coal, that becomes soft and sticky when heated.
isobilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + bilateral.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the flanks of the organ flattened surfaces.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Able to be divided into two similar halves.
ismatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ismatical
form: most ismatical
Senses: glosses: ismatic
ismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ismatic
form: most ismatic
Senses: glosses: Addicted to isms, or faddish theories.
isogeothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to isogeotherms.
geoisothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to geoisotherms.
Italian warehouseman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italian warehousemen
Senses: glosses: A dealer in the finer kinds of groceries (not necessarily from Italy), such as pasta and dried fruits.
Italian warehousemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Italian warehouseman
Isthmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Isthmian Games of Ancient Greece.
iambographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iambographers
Senses: glosses: A poet who writes iambic verse.
iambographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iambographer
Idris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Idris.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Welsh, popularized by actor Idris Elba.
Idris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic إِدْرِيس (ʔidrīs).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a prophet in Islam; traditionally identified with the biblical Enoch.
examples: text: "Where do you keep your cash, bub?" asked Idris hoarsely. His American was better than Hassan's English.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 490:
glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
glosses: A surname from Arabic
intercolor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + color.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, darker-skinned individuals in intercolor relationships in Veracruz sometimes express a sentiment of inferiority regarding their color.
ref: 2013, Christina A. Sue, Land of the Cosmic Race: Race Mixture, Racism, and Blackness in Mexico:
glosses: Between people of different skin colors.
yasht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæʃt/
ipa: /jʌʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
rhymes: -ʌʃt
Forms: form: yashts
Etymology: From Middle Persian yšt' (yašt, “prayer, worship”), probably from Avestan 𐬫𐬀𐬱𐬙𐬀 (yašta, “honored”), from 𐬫𐬀𐬰 (yaz, “to worship, honor”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁yaǵ-.
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of a collection of hymns and prayers.
Related terms: yazata
yashts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yasht
khayal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khayals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of khyal.
yamadou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yamadou oil is obtained from the seeds of Virola sebifera (Myristicaceæ,) a tree growing 50 to 60 feet high in Guiana, North Brazil, and as far north as Panama, where it is called Malaqueto de montana.
ref: 1871, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 1461, U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC:
glosses: An oil obtained from Virola sebifera.
yucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yuckers
Senses: glosses: A bird, the American flicker or golden-winged woodpecker.
yuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yucker
Kathina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali kaṭhina.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An annual festival during which robes are presented to priests, usually falling between the 1st day of the waning moon of the 11th month and the middle of the 12th month under the lunar calendar.
glosses: A robe presented to a priest during this festival.
yoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoops
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: All the servants were there in the hall — all the dear friends — all the young ladies — the dancing-master who had just arrived; and there was such a scuffling, and hugging, and kissing, and crying, with the hysterical yoops of Miss Swartz […]
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair:
text: And Terice shrieked again and Helene gave a hysterical yoop. "Stop that!" ordered O'Leary sharply. As Terice, her mouth still open, stared at him and Helene nearly strangled on a sob, he added: "See here, we are in a rather terrible situation. […]
ref: 1998, Mignon Good Eberhart, The Mystery of Hunting's End, page 119:
glosses: A sobbing sound.
yoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yoop
yeldrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeldrocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yeldrin.
Yorkism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From York + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Support for the House of York.
Yorkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Yorkish
form: most Yorkish
Etymology: From York + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Supporting the House of York.
Related terms: New Yorkish
yauldest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of yauld: most yauld
zucchettas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zucchetta
yaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yaffs
form: yaffing
form: yaffed
form: yaffed
Senses: glosses: To bark, yelp.
glosses: To scold; to nag.
Young England
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A Victorian group of young Tory politicians who opposed free trade and radicalism and professed a sentimental attachment to earlier forms of social life in England.
Derived terms: Young Englander
Young Ireland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: An Irish political, cultural and social movement of the mid-19th century that began as a tendency within Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association but eventually split to found the Irish Confederation in 1847.
Young Italy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A political movement for Italian youth, founded in 1831 by Giuseppe Mazzini, and aiming to create a united Italian republic through promoting a general insurrection in the Italian reactionary states and in the lands occupied by the Austrian Empire.
Vaidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vedic.
vairé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of vairy.
pilgrim badge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilgrim badges
Senses: glosses: A badge, typically of lead alloy, sold as souvenirs to Roman Catholic pilgrims in the late Middle Ages.
pilgrim badges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilgrim badge
vaingloryings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vainglorying
spd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of speed.
verdegris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of verdigris.
verisimilarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The property of being verisimilar.
vertebration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The formation of vertebrae.
venetianed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Venetian + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with Venetian blinds.
Venetian glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A kind of colourful, elaborately made glass from Venice, Italy.
Voltaireans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Voltairean
Voltaireanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Voltairean + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Voltairism
Voltairianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Voltairian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Voltairism
vulnerose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vulnerose
form: most vulnerose
Senses: glosses: Full of wounds.
vitrophyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪtɹəfaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: vitrophyres
Senses: examples: text: The compositions of felsites and vitrophyres are similar but felsites have higher K/Na ratios than their corresponding vitrophyres.
ref: 1986, Eric H. Christiansen, The Geology and Geochemistry of Cenozoic Topaz Rhyolites, page 5:
glosses: A porphyritic variety of volcanic glass.
Derived terms: vitrophyric
vitrophyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitrophyric
form: most vitrophyric
Etymology: From vitrophyre + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to vitrophyre.
vitrophyres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitrophyre
Greecian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Greecian
form: most Greecian
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Grecian.
Greecian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greecians
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Grecian.
Greecians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Greecian
quinquenniad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪŋˈkwɛniəd/
ipa: /kwɪŋˈkwɛniˌæd/
ipa: /kwɪŋˈkwɛnɪad/
ipa: /kwɪnˈkwɛnɪad/
Forms: form: quinquenniads
Etymology: From Latin quinquennis (“5-year”) + -ad.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quinquennium: A 5-year period.
synonyms: word: quinquennium
extra: A 5-year period
quinquenniads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinquenniad
Quinisextine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Quinisext
ustilagineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the ustilago fungus.
Darwinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Darwinical
form: most Darwinical
Etymology: From Darwin + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Darwinian (“of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by Charles Darwin”).
synonyms: word: Darwinian
extra: of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by Charles Darwin
autonav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + nav.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: automatic navigation
AFA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AFAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Associate of the Faculty of Actuaries (professional qualification).
glosses: Initialism of automatic fire alarm.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of agricultural and fisheries arts, one of the strands under the TVL track in senior high school.
AFA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Family Association.
synonyms: 161
glosses: Initialism of Anti-Fascist Action.
baccalaurean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a baccalaureate.
out of station
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Away from home; out of town.
'bacco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I reckon next I munna smoke a bit of 'bacco.
ref: 1836, Charles Hooton, Adventures of Bilberry Thurland, volume 1, page 290:
text: He ain't priming no 'bacco, he just come out here to look at us colored folks work.
ref: 2010, Shelia P. Moses, The Baptism:
glosses: tobacco
Balaamitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Balaamitical
form: most Balaamitical
Etymology: From Balaamite + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of Balaam or Balaamites.
anthocyanoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthocyanosides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of molecules consisting of an anthocyanidin backbone with specific sugars attached.
anthocyanosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthocyanoside
stovemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stovemakers
Etymology: From stove + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who manufactures stoves.
stovemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stovemaker
stovemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stove + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of stoves.
printworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪntˌwɜːði/
Forms: form: more printworthy
form: most printworthy
form: print-worthy
Etymology: From print + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Well, I believe her story is very printworthy. It illustrates an important point of all this.
ref: 2010, Kathryn Harwig, “Five — Illness as a Wake-Up Call”, in The Return of Intuition, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:
text: General education and the cultivation of the Greek language were considered issues of political significance, so poems did not have to be overtly political to be regarded as relevant or printworthy.
ref: 2014 June 26, Anthony Hirst, Patrick Sammon, “Chapter Seven — Eleni Calligas”, in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 171:
text: "I know. News about the legislation might be printworthy anyway."
ref: 2016 November 29, E W Farnsworth, The Black Arts, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Of sufficient worth to be printed.
Derived terms: printworthiness
unprintworthy
print-worthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more print-worthy
form: most print-worthy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of printworthy.
theatremaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatermaking
Etymology: From theatre + making.
Senses: glosses: The creation of theatrical productions.
PDUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PDU
rabbitkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rabbit + -kind.
Senses: hypernyms: animalkind
mammalkind
glosses: The entirety of rabbits; all rabbits collectively as a group.
Synonyms: bunnykind
mousekind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mouse + -kind.
Senses: examples: text: […] it must, I say, be obvious that such abundant supplies of favourite and wholesome food offers the greatest inducement to mousekind to associate themselves with mankind, to attend on their footsteps, and to increase and multiply under their provident but uninentional care.
ref: 1850, Rusticus, “The mice and the rats, the weasels and the stoats”, in Chambers's Journal, page 131:
glosses: The entirety of mice; all mice collectively as a group.
frogkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frog + -kind.
Senses: glosses: The entirety of frogs; all frogs collectively as a group.
arithmo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number, counting, arithmetic”).
Senses: glosses: numbers; arithmetic
Asenath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæsɪnæθ/
Forms: form: Asenith
form: Aseneth
form: Assaneth
form: Osnat
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew אָסְנַת (ʾāsənaṯ).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An Egyptian woman whom Pharaoh gave to Joseph, son of Jacob, to be his wife, and who bore him two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Tiv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tiv Tiv.
Senses: glosses: An ethnic nation in West Africa.
Tiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tiv Tiv.
Senses: glosses: A Southern Bantoid language spoken mostly in Nigeria, with some speakers in Cameroon.
Derived terms: Tivoid
oarhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oarholes
form: oar-hole
Etymology: From Middle English ore hol, equivalent to oar + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Oarholes were sealed when not in use by wooden covers that rotated in place to keep out water. A slot cut into the oarhole allowed the blade of the oar to pass through the oarhole so oars could be deployed entirely inboard of the ship.
ref: 2016, William R. Short, Icelanders in the Viking Age:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a slot or opening in the side of a galley or ship through which an oar is fitted
Related terms: rowlock
oarholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oarhole
immunoanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoanalyses
Etymology: From immuno- + analysis.
Senses: glosses: immunoassay
Derived terms: radioimmunoanalysis
immunoanalyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunoanalysis
microadenomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microadenoma
Sumilang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines.
average frustrated chump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: average frustrated chumps
Senses: examples: text: Wryly admitting his afc status (average frustrated chump), Mr Strauss logs on as Style, achieves pua stardom and becomes role model and tutor to a new generation of afcs.
ref: 2005, The Economist - Volume 377, Issues 8446-8458, page 92:
text: I've successfully transformed myself from an AFC (Average Frustrated Chump) into an RAFC (Recovering Average Frustrated Chump).
ref: 2008, Zander Martin, The Players, →ISBN, page xxxvi:
text: My problem was the same as every other average frustrated chump (AFC).
ref: 2015, Trina Boice, Base Hits and Home Run Relationships: What Women Wish Guys Knew, →ISBN:
text: Though I knew my new mind-set was seriously warped, I felt more ethical in many ways as a pickup artist than I had been as an average frustrated chump.
ref: 2015, Allie Borden, The Celibacy Project:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: Someone who does not get as much sex as they want.
Related terms: AFC
BAFC
below-average frustrated chump
WBAFC
well-below-average frustrated chump
Tio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tios
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Spanish Tío and Portuguese Tio, from tío (“uncle”) and tio (“uncle”).
* Borrowed from Catalan Tió, a nickname from tió (“log, stump for burning”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Soliven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Solivens
Etymology: Borrowed from Ilocano Soliven.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ilocano.
Related terms: Benito Soliven
Mabini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Lopez, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Batangas, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Davao de Oro, Philippines.
glosses: A municipality of Pangasinan, Philippines.
condensation point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condensation points
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: (said to be "of" a given subset of a topological space) a point whose every neighborhood contains uncountably many points belonging to the given subset
Hypernyms: accumulation point
Lindelöf covering theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870–1946), a Finnish mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A theorem which states that for any open covering of some given set in Euclidean n-space there is an open subcovering (of that same set) which is countable.
wikipedia: Ernst Leonard Lindelöf
Diederik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of Dutch origin, from Middle Dutch Diederic, from Old Dutch *Thiodarīk, from Frankish *Theodarīk, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Þeudarīks. Compare with Derek, Theodoric.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Dutch.
grossone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grossones
form: Grossone
form: GrossOne
Etymology: From gross + one.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A proposed form of integer notation that would be able to handle arithmetic of infinities
dahline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dahlin.
datiscine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datiscines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of datiscin.
oar-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oar-holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oarhole.
Grossone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grossones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grossone.
GrossOne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GrossOnes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grossone.
tangent space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tangent spaces
Senses: examples: text: This gives a degenerate norm on the tangent space of Hₙ at the origin, and one can use left translations to define similar norms at the tangent spaces of Hₙ at all other points.
ref: 2001, Stephen Semmes, Some Novel Types of Fractal Geometry, Oxford University Press, page 124:
text: In a Lie group G, because left translation by an element g #92;in G is a diffeomorphism that maps a neighborhood of the identity to a neighborhood of g, all the local information about the group is concentrated in a neighborhood of the identity, and the tangent space of the identity assumes a special importance.
Moreover, one can give the tangent space TₑG a Lie bracket [ , ], so that in addition to being a vector space, it becomes a Lie algebra, called the Lie algebra of the Lie group.
ref: 2011, Loring W. Tu, An Introduction to Manifolds, 2nd edition, Springer, page 178:
text: More dramatically, there are situations where one has a sequence of smooth manifolds such that the limit is again a smooth manifold, but with a limiting “tangent space” which has nothing to do with the actual tangent space of the limit!
ref: 2014, Peter K. Friz, Martin Hairer, A Course on Rough Paths: With an Introduction to Regularity Structures, Springer, page 7:
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
qualifier: differential topology
glosses: An n-dimensional vector space that represents the set of all vectors tangent to given n-dimensional differentiable manifold M at point x.
Related terms: cotangent space
tangent spaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tangent space
narrow escape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnæɹəʊ ɪˈskeɪp/
ipa: /ˌnæɹoʊ əˈskeɪp/
ipa: /-ɛˈskeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: narrow escapes
Etymology: From narrow (“having a small degree or margin”, adjective) + escape (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Meredith referred to the turnpike or carriage road constructed by the Tredegar Iron Company alongside the tramroad from Penllwyn Mawr to Tredegar, and said there was no fence between the two; he had experienced narrow escapes at times when on horseback, for horses occasionally took fright when meeting locomotives.
ref: 1939 September, Charles E. Lee, “The Sirhowy Valley and Its Railways—I”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 207:
synonyms: close call
close shave
near miss
glosses: A situation in which some danger or unfortunate circumstance is only just avoided.
Related terms: by a hair's breadth
by the skin of one's teeth
cheat death
dodge a bullet
hair's breadth
twinkle-toed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twinkle-toed
form: most twinkle-toed
Senses: glosses: nimble; agile with one's feet
Related terms: twinkle toes
cash-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cash-outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cashout.
casting vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkæstɪŋ ˈvoʊt/
Forms: form: casting votes
Senses: glosses: A vote made by the leader or chair of a group, in the event of a deadlock
Castroism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Castrism.
CAT scanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænə(ɹ)
Forms: form: CAT scanners
form: CT scanner
Etymology: From CAT scan + -er, or CAT + scanner.
Senses: glosses: A scanner used in a CAT scan
one man's fish is another man's poison
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one man's meat is another man's poison.
catspraddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catspraddles
form: catspraddling
form: catspraddled
form: catspraddled
Senses: glosses: To fall and land sprawled
one man's fish is another man's poisson
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Pun on one man's fish is another man's poison, replacing poison with the French word poisson (“fish”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one man's meat is another man's poison.
Beetewk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Beetewks
Etymology: From the name of the Bityug river near Voronezh, ultimately from Russian битю́г (bitjúg), which is from Turkic.
Senses: glosses: A type of Russian heavy draft horse, originally from Voronezh guberniya on the Bityug river.
Synonyms: Voronezh horse
damside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dam + side.
Senses: examples: text: Exasperated, he unties them and tugs them over to the damside, where there is abundant grass.
ref: 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, published 2000, page 123:
glosses: The side or bank of a dam.
GP-land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GP land
Senses: examples: text: In GP-land people understand that you're a woman, you're going to want to have babies, it's more accepted.
ref: 2008, Emma Hill, So you want to be a medical mum?, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 196:
text: It may be possible to satisfy the requirements of the nMRCGP/JCPTGP exam by demonstrating only 2 years in hospital posts, plus 1 year in GP-land, plus passing the exam, BUT many trainees in practice recognise that this is a basic core requirement, not a maximum requirement, and indeed, so do many potential GP-employers.
ref: 2010, David Church, “GP training ‘schemes’”, in British Journal of General Practice, 60 (575): 451-452:
text: Because going from, in GP-land, having 15 minute blocks and a room full of patients... I didn't realise how much over the last years I'd learnt all these techniques to block everyone... to find what they needed and get them out in 15 minutes.
ref: 2016, Ray Land, Jan H. F. Meyer, Michael T. Flanagan, Threshold Concepts in Practice, Springer, →ISBN, page 229:
text: And also I think that, you know, if GPs can't get hold of you or they feel like you leave at midday, which 4.30pm in GP-land is midday, they're not going to call again because you're not helpful.
ref: 2016, Bridget Johnston, Carolyn Coole, Melanie Jay Narayanasamy, “An end-of-life care nurse service for people with COPD and heart failure: stakeholders' experiences”, in International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 22 (11): 549-559:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The world of general practice.
ass.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She had a meeting with the warden, clinical service, and the ass. warden.
ref: 1985 December 21, Jackie Beattie, “Satisfied”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 4:
glosses: Abbreviation of assistant.
bookoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookoo
Aristaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aristaean
form: most Aristaean
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Aristaeus.
muhlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muhly
vesiculectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vesiculectomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Removal of the seminal vesicles.
Derived terms: prostatovesiculectomy
vasovesiculectomy
vesiculectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vesiculectomy
Beetewks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Beetewk
geofluidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + fluidic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geofluid.
ludodiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Streets and squares became banned for children after they had been invaded by herds of automobiles. No wonder these conspiring factors decimated the ludodiversity of the children's play lore.
ref: 2015, Yves Vanden Auweele, Elaine Cook, Jim Parry, Ethics and Governance in Sport: The Future of Sport Imagined, page 58:
glosses: Diversity of games, regarded as an aspect of cultural heritage.
Lazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The Laz ethnic group.
playlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From play + lore.
Senses: examples: text: A particular challenge in twentieth-century Australia concerns the need to protect children's traditional playlore, to defend its value, and the time and space children need to practice their own culture.
ref: 2015, Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Michael M. Patte, James E. Johnson, David Kuschner, International Perspectives on Children's Play, page 169:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The lore associated with games played by children.
storylore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From story + lore.
Senses: examples: text: […] these include a host of dirty stories, and the tall tales and traveling jokes which form so much American floating storylore.
ref: 2008, Richard Mercer Dorson, James P. Leary, Bloodstoppers & Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of Michigan's Upper Peninsula:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The lore associated with stories told within a culture.
exoskarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoskarns
Etymology: From exo- + skarn.
Senses: glosses: A skarn of igneous origin that occurs at and outside the granite that produced it, and is an alteration of wall rock.
Coordinate terms: endoskarn
endoskarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoskarns
Etymology: From endo- + skarn.
Senses: glosses: A skarn of igneous origin that forms within the granite mass itself.
Hyponyms: greisen
Coordinate terms: exoskarn
endoskarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endoskarn
exoskarns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exoskarn
tactite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactites
Senses: glosses: A skarn.
tactites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tactite
tactitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tactite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to tactites; skarnic.
NWAV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.weɪv/
Forms: form: NWAVs
Etymology: The pronunciation comes from NWAVE, the initials of the name of earlier iterations of the conference, New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English.
Senses: examples: text: Susan Tamasi is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Program in Linguistics, Emory University, Atlanta. She has presented at NWAV, AAAL, Sociolinguistics Symposium, and American Dialect Society.
ref: 2015, Susan Tamasi, Lamont Antieau, Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US: An Introduction, New York, NY: Routledge, →ISBN, page i:
text: The researchers who had sent in their papers were frustrated – three NWAVs without publications.
ref: 2016, Sali A. Tagliamonte, Making Waves: The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, →DOI, →ISBN, page 68:
text: One of the problems of NWAV reviewing is that it is carried out by self-declared experts with basically no conference organizer oversight, veto, or corrective. Everyone who went to NWAV can self-identify their areas of expertise and significantly affect the inclusion or rejection of a given paper.
ref: 2019, Stefan Dollinger, Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 253:
text: I found so many enthusiastic supporters at various NWAVs, too many to name, and I will always be grateful to have “grown up” in this dynamic, challenging environment of researchers.
ref: 2023, Frances Jessica Ruth Maddeaux, Individual Differences as Predictors of Participation in Sound Change, University of Toronto, page vi:
glosses: Initialism of New Ways of Analyzing Variation: an annual academic conference in sociolinguistics.
referentialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of referentiality
bekantan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bekantans
Senses: glosses: The proboscis monkey.
bekantans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bekantan
proboscis monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈbɒs(k)ɪs ˈmʌŋki/
Forms: form: proboscis monkeys
Senses: examples: text: Don Caldwell, editor-in-chief of the site Know Your Meme, namechecks Brr Brr Patapim, “a proboscis monkey that is also a tree”, as one who made it to YouTube.
ref: 2025 June 25, Elle Hunt, “From Chimpanzini Bananini to Ballerina Cappuccina: how gen alpha went wild for Italian brain rot animals”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: bekantan
kaha
kahau
nose ape
nose monkey
glosses: A reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey, of species Nasalis larvatus, with an unusually large nose, endemic to Borneo.
proboscis monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proboscis monkey