cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dining room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dining rooms
form: dining-room
form: diningroom
Senses: synonyms: dinner room
coordinate_terms: dining hall
dining facility
diner
dinette
dining car
kitchen
living room
sitting room
drawing room
parlor
parlour
den
glosses: A room, in a home or hotel, where meals are eaten.
Derived terms: living-dining room
doggy bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doggy bags
form: doggie bag
Etymology: From doggy + bag. In the food sense, this refers to the idea that the food is to be taken home for the diner's dog.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: goody bag
glosses: A bag (or other container) used to take home uneaten food from a restaurant meal.
synonyms: bowser bag
glosses: A bag used to pick up the droppings of dogs in parks and public places.
Related terms: left over
left-over
leftover
windbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndˌbæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: windbags
Etymology: From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag.
Senses: glosses: Bellows for an organ.
examples: text: Some windbag. Hell, ain't I seen your kind before? ... Some bag of wind. You're just hot air, that's all.
ref: 1964, Jesse Hill Ford, The conversion of Buster Drumwright, page 111:
text: "Do you hear that, Ryan? Your mommy is being a pontificating windbag."
ref: 2014 January 16, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 482 - Blood:
glosses: Someone who talks excessively.
Synonyms: word: gasbag
word: bag of wind
word: bloviator
word: chatterbox
windbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndˌbæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: windbags
form: windbagging
form: windbagged
form: windbagged
Etymology: From Middle English wyndbagge, equivalent to wind + bag.
Senses: glosses: To talk pompously or excessively.
sleeping bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːpɪŋ(ɡ)bæɡ/
Forms: form: sleeping bags
Senses: examples: text: All students attending the multi-day field trip should bring a sleeping bag suitable for camping in a tent.
synonyms: bedroll
coordinate_terms: bivouac sack
glosses: A padded or insulated bag large enough to surround the whole body and which keeps the user warm while sleeping, used as a substitute for bedclothes.
Related terms: swag
lanthanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăn'thənīd
ipa: /ˈlænθənaɪd/
Forms: form: lanthanides
Etymology: From lanthanium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the 15 rare earth elements from lanthanum to lutetium in the periodic table; because their outermost orbitals are not filled, they have very similar chemistry; below them are the actinides.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the 14 rare earth elements from lanthanum to ytterbium (lutetium is excluded by some authors as it is a d-block rather than an f-block element).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the 14 rare earth elements from cerium to lutetium (lanthanum having been excluded because it was thought to be a d-block element in the past).
Synonyms: word: lanthanate
english: including lanthanum
translation: including lanthanum
word: lanthanoid
english: proposed to avoid confusion with the usual meaning in chemistry of -ide
translation: proposed to avoid confusion with the usual meaning in chemistry of -ide
word: lanthanon
word: rare-earth element
Derived terms: lanthanide contraction
lanthanide series
nonlanthanide
radiolanthanide
Related terms: lanthanum
cerium
praseodymium
neodymium
promethium
samarium
europium
gadolinium
terbium
dysprosium
holmium
erbium
thulium
ytterbium
lutetium
actinide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'tĭnīd
ipa: /ˈæktɪnaɪd/
Forms: form: actinides
Etymology: From actin- + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the 15 radioactive elements of the periodic table from actinium to lawrencium that are positioned under the lanthanides, to which they have similar chemistry.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the 14 elements from actinium to nobelium (lawrencium is excluded by some authors as it is a d-block rather than an f-block element).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (dated) Any of the 14 elements from thorium to lawrencium (actinium having been mistakenly excluded because it was thought to be a d-block element in the past).
Derived terms: actinidic
nonactinide
organoactinide
radioactinide
superactinide
transactinide
Related terms: actinium
thorium
protactinium
uranium
neptunium
plutonium
americium
curium
berkelium
californium
einsteinium
fermium
mendelevium
nobelium
lawrencium
rare earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rare earths
Etymology: From rare + earth. First use appears c. 1841 in the publications of Henry Minchin Noad. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: rare earth element, rare earth metal
text: The metallic base of yttria, a very rare earth, discovered in a mineral called godolinite.
ref: 1841, Henry Minchin Noad, Lectures on Chemistry, Including Its Applications in the Arts, and the Analysis of Organic and Inorganic Compounds, page 375:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: rare earth mineral
glosses: Any of the naturally occurring oxides of the lanthanide metals; they are widely distributed in relatively small concentrations and are used in glassmaking, ceramic glazes etc.
examples: text: Near-synonym: lanthanide
text: Despite their name, rare earths are not so rare. The most common, cerium, is as plentiful in the Earth's crust as copper or lead. The difference between them and more familiar materials is that, in nature, rare earths are almost never found on their own. Rather, they're mixed with other minerals, and often at low concentrations, making them difficult to mine economically.
ref: 2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential minerals to manufacturers around the world”, in Bloomberg Businessweek, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025:
text: But the government also gave MP Materials a decade-long guaranteed price floor for its products, such as the rare earths neodymium-praseodymium, at twice recent market rates (leaving aside the fact prices have soared this week as MP Materials has cut ties with China).
ref: 2025 August 30, Gillian Tett, “America's new ‘patriotic’ capitalism”, in FT Weekend, page 7:
synonyms: rare earth metal
hypernyms: metal
<
element
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
glosses: A rare earth element.
Derived terms: rare earth element
rare earth metal
rare earth mineral
rare earth element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rare earth elements
form: rare-earth element
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of seventeen soft, lustrous, sometimes magnetic metals that form trivalent salts, which includes the lanthanides plus yttrium, scandium.
Related terms: rare earth
rare earth metal
rare earth mineral
REE
unununium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Systematic element name.
Senses: glosses: roentgenium.
wikipedia: Systematic element name
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: darmstadtium Ds
sense: Next
word: copernicium Cn
salle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salles
Etymology: Borrowed from French salle. Doublet of sala and sale.
Senses: examples: text: Your local fencing salle is a good place to relax and unwind and let the cares of the day take a backseat for a while. Meeting someone on the fencing strip, blade in hand, can become your only concern for two or three hours a couple of times a week.
ref: 2001, Nick Evangelista, Anita Evangelista, The Woman Fencer:
glosses: A fencing school.
Synonyms: salle d'armes
STP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sewage treatment plant.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of standard temperature and pressure.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of shielded twisted pair.
qualifier: especially LGBTQ
glosses: Initialism of stand-to-pee.
examples: text: “Don,” she cries, breathless. “We got some STP today.” At this time STP is a pretty big deal, remember; nobody yet knew what it was and it was relatively, although just relatively, hard to come by.
ref: 1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
text: I could not correctly estimate what I was experiencing, and the strychnine in the STP began cramping my belly.
ref: 2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 128:
glosses: A hallucinogen (2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine), chemically related to amphetamine but with LSD-like effects.
STP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This building would suit alternative uses STP.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of subject to planning.
STP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Stone Temple Pilots, an American rock band.
Related terms: UTP
TP
silver tape
spanning tree protocol
twisted pair
unshielded twisted pair
standard temperature and pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard temperatures and pressures
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of various standard sets of conditions for experimental measurements used to aid reproducibility. Abbreviated as STP. Often elliptically called standard conditions.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: strictly
glosses: The international, standard conditions used by the IUPAC to aid reproducibility; a temperature of 0 °C (273.15 K) and a pressure of 1 bar (100 kPa). Abbreviated as STP. Often elliptically called standard conditions.
Related terms: STPD
internal combustion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process where fuel is burned within an engine such as a diesel engine, producing power directly as opposed to externally such as in a steam engine.
Derived terms: internal combustion engine
reproducibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reproducibilities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being reproducible.
The closeness of agreement among repeated measurements of a variable made under the same operating conditions over a period of time, or by different people.
glosses: The quality of being reproducible.
The closeness of agreement among scientific results more generally, at the level of whole experiments, either nearly identical or similar.
Related terms: english: broadly synonymous, although sometimes differentiated in technical subsenses
translation: broadly synonymous, although sometimes differentiated in technical subsenses
word: replicability
english: broadly synonymous, although sometimes differentiated in technical subsenses
translation: broadly synonymous, although sometimes differentiated in technical subsenses
word: repeatability
word: replication
word: replication crisis
fusible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːzɪbl̩/
Forms: form: more fusible
form: most fusible
Etymology: From Middle English fusible, from Old French fusible, from Medieval Latin fusibilis.
Senses: examples: text: Although a fusible plug is provided in the firebox crown of every locomotive, so that by melting if the inner firebox crown becomes uncovered, and thereby releasing steam at full pressure into the firebox, the fire may be extinguished and the crew given an unmistakable warning of the danger, there is no absolute guarantee that the plug will melt.
ref: 1941 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: Burst Boilers”, in Railway Magazine, page 143:
glosses: Able to be fused or melted.
Derived terms: fusibleness
fusibly
infusible
Related terms: fusibility
fusible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːzɪbl̩/
Forms: form: fusibles
Etymology: From Middle English fusible, from Old French fusible, from Medieval Latin fusibilis.
Senses: examples: text: Try any fusibles you have on hand, making sure that they aren't too stiff for the project you have in mind.
ref: 2010, Susan Stein, The Complete Photo Guide to Textile Art, page 40:
glosses: Any substance that can be fused or melted.
reproducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reproducible
form: most reproducible
Etymology: From reproduce + -ible.
Senses: antonyms: irreproducible
unreproducible
qualifier: experiment etc
glosses: Capable of being reproduced at a different time or place and by different people.
raw_tags: of a measurement
reproducible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reproducibles
Etymology: From reproduce + -ible.
Senses: examples: transparencies and other reproducibles
glosses: Something that can be reproduced.
Related terms: reproducibility
repeatable
goody bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goody bags
form: goodie bag
Senses: synonyms: party bag
giftbag
glosses: A bag containing candy, small toys and other goodies handed out as a thank you gift to guests at a children's party.
examples: Near-synonym: doggy bag
glosses: A bag (or just a napkin) containing leftovers (like cake or crackers) from a children's party.
synonyms: giftbag
swag bag
glosses: A bag containing gifts and promotional material handed out at a conference, exhibition or similar event.
Related terms: grab bag
lucky dip
mixed bag
reproduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiː.pɹəˈdjuːs/
ipa: /ˌɹiː.pɹəˈd͡ʒuːs/
ipa: /ˌɹi.pɹəˈdus/
Forms: form: reproduces
form: reproducing
form: reproduced
form: reproduced
Etymology: From re- + produce.
Senses: glosses: To produce an image or copy of.
examples: text: The 12-page ruling notes that “Marriage is when a man and a woman are willing to live together, to build a husband and wife relationship to reproduce their offspring […] . Marriage is, therefore, reserved for only a man and a woman.” Other parts in the verdict also mention that members of the LGBTQIA+ community cannot reproduce, as it is against nature, and that people of those communities are no different to other animals with strange behaviours or physical features.
ref: 2021 December 3, Thai PBS, “Constitutional Court’s full verdict enrages LGBT community, rights defenders”, in Thai PBS World, Bangkok: Thai Public Broadcasting Service, retrieved 04 Dec 2021:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To generate or propagate offspring or organisms sexually or asexually.
glosses: To produce again; to recreate.
glosses: To bring something to mind; to recall.
Synonyms: topics: printing
publishing
media
word: manifold
Derived terms: reproduceable
reproducible
reproducibility
reprography
Related terms: word: reproduction
sense: generate offspring
word: procreate
sense: generate offspring
word: proliferate
sense: generate offspring
word: spawn
notoriety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊ.təˈɹaɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: /noʊ.tɚ.aɪ.ə.ti/
rhymes: -aɪɪti
Forms: form: notorieties
Etymology: Derived from Middle French notoriété, from Medieval Latin nōtōrietās, from nōtōrius, from nōtus (“known”), perfect passive participle of nōscō (“get to know”). By surface analysis, notorious + -ety.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e who portrays examples of disinterestedness and intrepidity, confers on virtue the notoriety and homage that are due to it, and rouses in the spectators, the spirit of salutary emulation.
ref: 1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Arthur Mervyn:
text: I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: This seems to me to be a reasonable request, and I will try to explain to you what it is that has given me this false notoriety; so please give me your attention.
ref: 1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.
wikipedia: Medieval Latin
Synonyms: ill fame
infamy
notoriousness
oregano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒɹɪˈɡɑːnəʊ/
ipa: /əˈɹɛɡənəʊ/
ipa: /əˈɹɛɡənoʊ/
Forms: form: oreganos
Etymology: 18th century, from Spanish orégano (“wild marjoram”), from Latin orīganum, from Ancient Greek ὀρίγανον (oríganon). Doublet of origanum.
Senses: synonyms: wild marjoram
glosses: A herb of the mint family, Origanum vulgare, having aromatic leaves.
glosses: Other herbs with a similar flavor, including other species in the genus Origanum, and Mexican oregano, Lippia graveolens
glosses: The leaves of these plants used in flavouring food.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Coleus amboinicus
alt: syn. Plectranthus amboinicus
word: Cuban oregano
taxonomic: Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare
word: English oregano
taxonomic: Origanum syriacum
word: Lebanese oregano
alt: Lippia graveolens and Poliomintha longiflora
word: Mexican oregano
taxonomic: Monarda austromontana
word: Mt. Pima oregano
word: oreganoed
taxonomic: Thymbra capitata
word: Spanish oregano
taxonomic: Origanum syriacum
word: Syrian oregano
notorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nə(ʊ)ˈtɔː.ɹɪ.əs/
enpr: nə-tôrʹē-əs
enpr: nō-
ipa: /nəˈtɔ.ɹi.əs/
ipa: /noʊ-/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs
Forms: form: more notorious
form: most notorious
Etymology: From Late Middle English notoryous, from Medieval Latin nōtōrius (“evident, known; famous, well-known; infamous”), from Latin nōtus (“known, recognized; familiar, widely known; famous, well-known; infamous”) + -tōrius (suffix forming adjectives). Nōtus is the perfect passive participle of nōscō (“to become acquainted with or learn about (something); (rare) to be familiar with, recognize”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know; to recognize”).
cognates
* Catalan notori (“well-known”)
* Middle French notoire (Anglo-Norman notoire, notoir, notore, notorie, modern French notoire (“notorious; well-known”))
* Italian notorio (“notorious; well-known”)
* Portuguese notorjo (obsolete), notório (“illustrious; open, public; notorious”)
* Spanish notorio (“apparent, clear, obvious; well-known”)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of notoriously.
synonyms: word: notoriously
nowhere else
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Nowhere else will you find such skillful craftsmanship.
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: In no other place.
Related terms: anywhere else
everywhere else
somewhere else
brelan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French brelan.
Senses: glosses: A French card game: gleek.
Angeleno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænd͡ʒɪˈliːnəʊ/
Forms: form: Angelenos
form: Angeleño
form: Angelino
form: Los Angeleno
Etymology: From Spanish angeleño.
Senses: examples: text: The LAPD has asked Angelenos not to shoot at the alien spaceship, fearing it might trigger an interstellar war.
text: He expressed his concerns through a series of histrionic rhetorical questions concerning L.A.’s shortcomings, all of which Sadie, a native Angeleno, already knew: Did she know about the earthquakes? The fires? The floods?
ref: 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 185:
coordinate_terms: Angelena
glosses: A native or resident of Los Angeles.
sporran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɒɹən/
ipa: /ˈspɔɹən/
ipa: /ˈspɑɹən/
rhymes: -ɒɹən
Forms: form: sporrans
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic sporan (“purse”), from Middle Irish sparán, possibly from Late Latin bursa (“purse”), ultimately from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “leather, hide”).
Senses: glosses: A small pouch, usually made of either fur or plain or fur-trimmed leather, which is worn, suspended from a belt or chain, on the front of a kilt and used to hold various items normally carried in trouser pockets.
Related terms: kilt
Amazonian epoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Amazonian epoch
Etymology: Named for Amazonis Planitia.
Senses: glosses: The most recent of the Martian geologic epochs, from approximately 1.8 billion (1800 million) years ago (the end of the Hesperian epoch) to the present.
Hesperian epoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for the Hesperia Planum
Senses: glosses: The second of the three Martian geologic epochs, approximately from 3,500 million years ago to 1,800 million years ago, marked by lava flows, preceded by the Noachian epoch, and followed by the Amazonian epoch.
wikipedia: Hesperia Planum
Noachian epoch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Noachian epoch
Etymology: Named for Noachis Terra.
Senses: glosses: The earliest of the Martian geologic epochs, approximately from 3,800 million years ago to 3,500 million years ago, marked by many large impact craters and followed by the Hesperian epoch.
geologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒiː.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒi.əˈlɑdʒ.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪk
Forms: form: more geologic
form: most geologic
Etymology: From geology + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: geological
glosses: Of, or relating to geology or a geologic time scale.
Derived terms: geologic era
geologic joint
geologic time
geologic timescale
hydrogeologic
photogeologic
poule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: poules
Etymology: Borrowed from French poule, from Latin pullus, pulla.
Senses: examples: text: It was a warm spring night and I sat at a table on the terrace of the Napolitain after Robert had gone, watching […] the poules going by, singly and in pairs, looking for the evening meal.
ref: 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 40:
text: ‘Where are the Delages taking you?’ ‘Dinner at…somewhere terribly smart. They'll pretend I'm a poule they picked up in the street.’
ref: 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 369:
glosses: A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut.
poule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: poules
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Alternative form of pool.
glosses: Obsolete form of pool (in various senses).
geologic time scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geologic time scales
form: geological timescale
form: geologic timescale
Senses: examples: text: If maths and physics are the nearest we have to a universal language to communicate with visiting extra-terrestrials, handing them a geologic time scale would be about as useful as a Jackson Pollock painting. It looks hella scientific […] but essentially it’s a very fancy way of telling the story about the history of the Earth.
ref: 2018 May 2, Mark Carnall, “What is geologic time, and how does it work?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: GTS
glosses: A chronological scale of the earth's history used to measure the relative or absolute age of any part of geologic time.
Related terms: eon
epoch
era
period
applistructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæplɪˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈæplɪˌstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈæpləˌ-/
Forms: form: applistructures
Etymology: Blend of application + infrastructure, coined by an analyst at JP Morgan.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The amalgamation of applications and technological infrastructure.
Related terms: infostructure
sure-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sure-fire
form: most sure-fire
form: surefire
Etymology: From sure + fire, originally used to denote the efficacy of firearms (rifles) to fire.
Senses: examples: text: That hat should be a sure-fire way to spot him in a crowd.
text: […] just as he knew that showing up for lunch with a brown bag full of dried squirrel jerky and mushrooms and lemongrass was a surefire way to end up social roadkill in the high school hierarchy, […]
ref: 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town:
text: There certainly looks to be a whole clutch of sure-fire winners among the 11 promised new productions.
ref: 2014 April 29, Andrew Clements, “ENO's 14/15 season: some sure-fire winners, while Coliseum plans will strengthen the company”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most sure-fire way to destroy democracy.
ref: 2025 February 14, JD Vance, “Munich security conference speech in full”, in The Telegraph:
glosses: Guaranteed to work or happen.
Related terms: foolproof
surefire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surefire
form: most surefire
Senses: examples: text: Dutifully socking away a chunk of your salary each month may seem like a surefire path to a comfortable retirement. But there are plenty of ways you could be sabotaging that savings.
ref: 2014 August 6, Melanie Hicken, “5 big retirement mistakes”, in CNN Money:
glosses: Alternative form of sure-fire.
fitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fitts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fit (section of a poem or ballad)
anywhere else
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn’t be anywhere else on your birthday.
text: Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: In any other place.
Synonyms: word: anyplace else
Related terms: anybody else
anyone else
anything else
everywhere else
nowhere else
somewhere else
everywhere else
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: qualifier: set phrase
glosses: In all other places.
Related terms: anywhere else
nowhere else
somewhere else
somewhere else
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A place other than here.
Synonyms: word: elsewhere
word: someplace else
somewhere else
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In or at some other place.
glosses: To some other place.
examples: text: But I get slightly crazy when I'm working on something. I zone out and get lost watching scenes play out in my head. That's why I won't have lunch with friends when I'm writing. My head is somewhere else and they naturally take it personally.
ref: 1996, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Emmy, volume 18, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, page 38:
text: Hearing the laughter of his sons, Alf grinned. But he was somewhere else, thinking of the woman moving through the dim house behind him.
ref: 2013, John Bemrose, The Island Walkers: A Novel, page 3:
glosses: Distracted; in a daydream, (of the mind) unable to interact with events in the here and now
Synonyms: sense: all
word: elsewhere
sense: all
word: otherwhere
sense: all
word: someplace else
sense: to some other place
word: elsewhither
sense: to some other place
word: somewhither else
Related terms: anywhere else
nowhere else
everywhere else
Phanerozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊɪk
Forms: form: Phanaerozoic
form: Phanærozoic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φανερός (phanerós, “visible”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Phanerozoic eon
Phanerozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊɪk
Forms: form: Phanaerozoic
form: Phanærozoic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φανερός (phanerós, “visible”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geologic eon from about 538.8 million years ago to the present
Hypernyms: era
Hyponyms: Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Proterozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹoʊt(ə)ɹrəˈzoʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊt(ə)ɹoʊˈzoʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒt(ə)ɹəˈzəʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒt(ə)ɹəʊˈzəʊɪk/
rhymes: -əʊɪk
Etymology: From protero- + -zoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the geologic eon from 2,500 Ma to 541.0±1.0 Ma.
Proterozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹoʊt(ə)ɹrəˈzoʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊt(ə)ɹoʊˈzoʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒt(ə)ɹəˈzəʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒt(ə)ɹəʊˈzəʊɪk/
rhymes: -əʊɪk
Etymology: From protero- + -zoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
hypernyms: Precambrian
coordinate_terms: word: Archaean
english: preceding eon
translation: preceding eon
word: Cambrian
english: succeeding eon
translation: succeeding eon
glosses: The eon from 2,500 Ma to 541.0±1.0 Ma, the beginning of the Phanerozoic, marked by the build up of oxygen in the atmosphere and the emergence of primitive multicellular life.
Archaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈkiːən/
ipa: /ɑɹˈkiːən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: Archean
form: Archæan
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖα (arkhaîa, “ancient”), neuter plural of ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Arche, the Muse of beginnings in Greek mythology.
examples: text: The oldest vestiges of continental crust, which date from the Archaean aeon about 4 billion years ago, are in Acasta in north-west Canada.
ref: 2006 March 25, NewScientist, page 12/1:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to the geologic eon from about 4,031 to 2,500 million years ago; comprises the Eoarchean, Paleoarchean, Mesoarchean and Neoarchean eras; marked by an atmosphere with little oxygen, the formation of the first continents and oceans and the emergence of simple life.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: "Archean" only
glosses: Of or relating to the irregular Jovian moon named for Arche.
Archaean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈkiːən/
ipa: /ɑɹˈkiːən/
rhymes: -iən
Forms: form: Archean
form: Archæan
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖα (arkhaîa, “ancient”), neuter plural of ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The eon from 2,500 Ma to 4,000 Ma.
Hypernyms: Precambrian
Hyponyms: Eoarchaean
Paleoarchaean
Mesoarchaean
Neoarchaean
Coordinate terms: Hadean
Proterozoic - eons in Precambrian
Hadean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪˈdiːən/
ipa: /ˈheɪ.diːən/
rhymes: -iːən
rhymes: -eɪdiən
Forms: form: Hadaean
Etymology: From Hades + -an, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Hadean eon; part of the Precambrian supereon, spanning from around 4.6 to 4 billion years ago.
Hypernyms: Precambrian
Coordinate terms: Archaean
Proterozoic - eons in Precambrian
Hadean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /heɪˈdiːən/
ipa: /ˈheɪ.diːən/
rhymes: -iːən
rhymes: -eɪdiən
Forms: form: Hadaean
Etymology: From Hades + -an, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).
Senses: examples: text: No Ceres weeps at the Hadean gate!
ref: 1902, Frederic Crowninshield, A Painter's Moods, page 49:
glosses: Pertaining to Hades or hell.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Hadean geological eon.
someone else
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: I grabbed somebody else's coat.
synonyms: another
somebody else
glosses: Some other person.
Related terms: anyone else
everyone else
anyone else
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: If you’d spoken to anyone else about it, you’d have heard a very different story.
text: I haven’t seen anyone else here besides you and me.
text: Anyone else would have refused.
synonyms: anybody else
glosses: Any other person.
everyone else
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Everyone else was there.
text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. [...] Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 15:
synonyms: everybody else
glosses: All other persons.
anybody else
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anyone else.
synonyms: word: anyone else
Cenozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkeɪnəʊˈzəʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌsɛnɵˈzəʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌsiːnɵˈzəʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌkɛnɵˈzoʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌsɛnɵˈzoʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌsinɵˈzoʊɪk/
rhymes: -əʊɪk
other: /k/
other: /s/
Forms: form: Caenozoic
form: Cænozoic
form: Cainozoic
form: Kainozoic
Etymology: From ceno- + -zoic; from Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Cenozoic era.
Cenozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkeɪnəʊˈzəʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌsɛnɵˈzəʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌsiːnɵˈzəʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌkɛnɵˈzoʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌsɛnɵˈzoʊɪk/
ipa: /ˌsinɵˈzoʊɪk/
rhymes: -əʊɪk
other: /k/
other: /s/
Forms: form: Caenozoic
form: Cænozoic
form: Cainozoic
form: Kainozoic
Etymology: From ceno- + -zoic; from Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”).
Senses: examples: text: The whole history of the earth is divided into five eras, with corresponding rock-systems. These are: 1. Archæan or Eozoic¹ era, embodied in the Laurentian system; 2. Palæozoic² era, embodied in the Palæozoic or Primary system; 3. Mesozoic³ era, recorded in the Secondary system; 4. Cenozoic,⁴ recorded in the Tertiary and Quaternary systems; and, 5. The Psychozoic era, or era of Mind, recorded in the recent system.
ref: 1883, Joseph Le Conte, Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader, New York: D. Appleton and Company:
text: The researchers found that the first day of the Cenozoic was peppered with cataclysms. When the asteroid struck, it temporarily carved a hole 60 miles across and 20 miles deep.
ref: 2019 September 10, Katherine Kornei, “A New Timeline of the Day the Dinosaurs Began to Die Out”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon comprising the Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary periods from about 65 million years ago to the present, when the continents moved to their current position and modern plants and animals evolved.
Mesozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊɪk
Forms: form: more Mesozoic
form: most Mesozoic
Etymology: From meso- + -zoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon that comprises the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods from about 230 to 65 million years ago, when life on earth was dominated by reptiles.
Mesozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊɪk
Etymology: From meso- + -zoic.
Senses: examples: text: The whole history of the earth is divided into five eras, with corresponding rock-systems. These are: 1. Archæan or Eozoic¹ era, embodied in the Laurentian system; 2. Palæozoic² era, embodied in the Palæozoic or Primary system; 3. Mesozoic³ era, recorded in the Secondary system; 4. Cenozoic,⁴ recorded in the Tertiary and Quaternary systems; and, 5. The Psychozoic era, or era of Mind, recorded in the recent system.
ref: 1883, Joseph Le Conte, Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader, New York: D. Appleton and Company:
text: The Mesozoic landscape of southeastern Utah can tell us much about the past, and it's one of the most intriguing and beautiful landscapes on Earth.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Mesozoic era.
something else
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It's a bracket for a camera at the moment, but it could be turned into a bracket for something else.
ref: 2022 September 21, Brendan Rice, “Ready for inspection”, in RAIL, number 966, page 61:
glosses: Another unspecified item, perhaps not yet known or decided upon.
examples: text: My mother's cooking is something else!
text: Before Ladybug could answer, Chico said, “Man, you’re something else. Do you really think that tall and skinny is good looking? […]”
ref: 2010, Mary Ann Hutchison, Moochi’s Mariachis, Pen & Publish, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Something exceptional, out of the ordinary, unusual.
examples: text: You mean to tell me you let those kids walk all the way home? At night in the rain? Man, you're really something else.
glosses: A person or thing that is outstandingly unfavorable.
specialty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛʃ.əl.ti/
note: Indic
ipa: /spɛˈʃælʈi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈspɛʃəlʈi/
Forms: form: specialties
form: speciality
Etymology: From Middle English specialte, Old French specialte, especialte, from Latin specialitas.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: discipline
text: medical specialty
text: academic specialty
text: They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.
text: The doctor ordered a consultation with another doctor in a different specialty.
text: Even men of boundless knowledge, like Humboldt, must have had once their speciality, their pet subject, or they would have, strictly speaking, no knowledge at all.
ref: 1858, Charles Kingsley, “My Winter-Garden”, in Fraser’s Magazine, volume 57, page 410:
glosses: That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent; bailiwick.
glosses: A product that originates in and is characteristic of a place.
examples: text: The specialty of rule hath been neglected:
And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand
Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Particularity.
glosses: A particular or peculiar case.
glosses: An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
examples: text: Let specialties be therefore drawne betweene vs,
That couenants may be kept on either hand.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: 1812, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on Pleading, with a Collection of Practical Precedents, and Notes Thereon, 2nd American edition, edited by Thomas Day, New York, Volume 2, section 456, note c,
[…] in a plea to an action of debt on specialty, it is still necessary to show that the debt on which the judgment was recovered was a specialty, or to aver that the judgment was recovered before the defendant had notice of the plaintiff’s demand.
topics: law
glosses: A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
Derived terms: specialty coffee
specialty crop
specialty shop
specialty store
Related terms: specialist
subspecialty
subspecialist
Paleozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪl.iəˌzəʊɪk/
rhymes: -əʊɪk
Forms: form: more Paleozoic
form: most Paleozoic
form: paleozoic
form: Palæozoic
form: Palaeozoic
Etymology: From paleo- + -zoic.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Itʼs all Paleozoic rock under our feet, this part of the world: to think of it, laid down five hundred million years before, shrugging its shoulders and bringing down the steeples on the churches!’
ref: 2016, Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent, Serpentʼs Tail (2017), page 41:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon that comprises the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods from about 542 to 250 million years ago, from the age of trilobites to that of reptiles.
Paleozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪl.iəˌzəʊɪk/
rhymes: -əʊɪk
Forms: form: paleozoic
form: Palæozoic
form: Palaeozoic
Etymology: From paleo- + -zoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Paleozoic era.
Derived terms: Lower Paleozoic
Related terms: sense: Preceded by
word: Proterozoic
sense: Succeeded by
word: Mesozoic
word: Palaeophytic
Neoproterozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + Proterozoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic era within the Proterozoic eon; comprises the Tonian, Cryogenian and Ediacaran periods from about 1000 to 544 million years ago, when algae and sponges flourished.
Neoproterozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From neo- + Proterozoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Neoproterozoic era.
swearword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swearwords
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of swear word.
Mesoproterozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + Proterozoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic era within the Proterozoic eon; comprises the Calymmian, Ectasian and Stennian periods from about 1600 to 900 million years ago, when the Rodinia supercontinent was formed.
Mesoproterozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From meso- + Proterozoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Mesoproterozoic era.
running text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running texts
Senses: glosses: The main body of a document; text in the form of sentences and paragraphs, as distinct from headings, captions, footnotes, and other added content.
Related terms: body copy
body text
hydrauger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydraugers
Etymology: Blend of hydraulic + auger.
Senses: glosses: A horizontal boring machine used to install pipelines etc. under roadways
Paleoproterozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From paleo- + Proterozoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The era from 2,500 Ma to 1,600 Ma, marked by a dramatic increase in atmospheric oxygen.
Hypernyms: sense: era 2, 500-1, 600 Ma
word: Precambrian - eon
sense: era 2, 500-1, 600 Ma
word: supereon
sense: era 2, 500-1, 600 Ma
word: Proterozoic - eon
Hyponyms: sense: era 2, 500-1, 600 Ma
word: Siderian
sense: era 2, 500-1, 600 Ma
word: Rhyacian
sense: era 2, 500-1, 600 Ma
word: Orosirian
sense: era 2, 500-1, 600 Ma
english: system/period
translation: system/period
word: Statherian
Coordinate terms: sense: era 2, 500-1, 600 Ma
word: Mesoproterozoic
sense: era 2, 500-1, 600 Ma
english: eras
translation: eras
word: Neoproterozoic
Paleoproterozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + Proterozoic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic era within the Proterozoic eon from 2,500 to 1,600 million years ago.
compartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/
ipa: /kəmˈpɑːtmənt/
Forms: form: compartments
Etymology: First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”).
Senses: examples: text: Two men were seated in a well-lit compartment of a third-class railway carriage.
text: This is a second-class ticket. And you're sitting in the first class!” “I'd no idea,” Haldiram said. “I didn't know what compartment was this.” And looking around, he asked, “Where does it say First Class? I still can't see it.
ref: 2014 April 28, Dr. Ulhas R. Gunjal, Home, Again!: A Novel of Identity, Self-Discovery, and Tragedy, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 313:
text: Because of the heavy traffic, the 1960-61 Christmas guide to trains between King's Cross and the north stated: "To make travel conditions as comfortable as possible, passengers are requested to raise arm rests to enable four people to be seated on each side of those compartments which are fitted with arm rests."
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, pages 29-30:
glosses: A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.
glosses: One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The part of a protein that serves a specific function.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A mound (often of grass), shelf (of e.g. wall) or other thing beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.
Derived terms: biocompartment
compartmentable
compartmental
compartmentation
compartmentectomy
compartmentful
compartmentize
compartmentless
compartmentlike
compartment syndrome
driver's compartment
engine compartment
glove compartment
intercompartment
microcompartment
multicompartment
nanocompartment
passenger compartment
rhizocompartment
smoking compartment
subcompartment
compartment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɑɹtmənt/
ipa: /kəmˈpɑːtmənt/
Forms: form: compartments
form: compartmenting
form: compartmented
form: compartmented
Etymology: First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”).
Senses: glosses: To arrange in separate compartments.
copse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒps/
homophone: cops
rhymes: -ɒps
Forms: form: copses
Etymology: 1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
Senses: synonyms: mott
glosses: A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
examples: text: Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.
ref: 1578, Henry Lyte, transl., A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes, translation of Cruydeboeck by Rembert Dodoens, page 57:
text: The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,
Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Among the woods and copses lose themselves,
ref: 1798, [William Wordsworth], “Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], →OCLC, page 202:
text: Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.
ref: 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 109:
text: Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19
synonyms: thicket
bush
orchard
glosses: Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
synonyms: stand
wood
woods
glosses: Any woodland or woodlot.
Synonyms: coppice
Derived terms: copselike
copsewood
copsy