cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
plenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpliːnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈpliːnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈplɛnəɹi/
rhymes: -iːnəɹi
rhymes: -ɛnəɹi
Forms: form: plenaries
Etymology: From Middle English plenarie, plenarye, from Late Latin plēnārius, from Latin plēnus (“full”).
Senses: examples: text: After lunch, we will all be in the main auditorium listening to the plenary.
glosses: A plenary session.
examples: text: Alternatively, the plenary may be used as preparation for the next lesson, and it might support the children to discuss some vocabulary with the TA to help them prepare.
ref: 2004, Brian Sharp, Meeting SEN in the Curriculum: Maths, →ISBN, page 114:
text: A good plenary doesn't just consolidate learning in that one lesson; it provides feedback for the teacher across a period of time and offers the chance to resolve any misconceptions.
ref: 2010, Caroline Bentley-Davies, How to be an amazing teacher, →ISBN:
text: During the plenary the teacher wanted to consolidate this by getting pupils to use and apply what they had learned and also to discuss the calculating strategies they would use in different situations.
ref: 2013, Richard English, Maths and ICT in the Primary School: A Creative Approach, →ISBN, page 30:
topics: education
glosses: Part of a lesson, usually at or towards the end, designed to review or evaluate the learning that has taken place.
halcyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhælsi.ən/
ipa: /ˈhælʃən/
ipa: /ˈhælʃi.ən/
Forms: form: halcyons
form: alcyon
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Alceoun, from Latin halcyōn, alcyōn (“kingfisher”), from Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn).
Senses: examples: text: the Halcyon bird, or as some call it Alcedo or Kings-fisher, exceeds all mens conceit. […] Gods decree hath been, that all the watrie wildernesse should be quiet and made calme, without raine, wind, or tempest, during the time the Halcyon sitteth and bringeth forth her young-ones […]
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Amidſt our Arms as quiet you ſhall be / As Halcyons Brooding on a Winter Sea.
ref: 1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv, page 51:
text: And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.
ref: c. 1880, Ambrose Bierce, On a Mountain:
glosses: A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.
examples: text: But novv hovv ſtands the vvind? / Into vvhat corner peeres my Halcions bill?
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I, signature B2, recto:
text: Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks / With every gale and vary of their master
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.
The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act as a weather vane when hung from a beam.
glosses: A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
halcyon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhælsi.ən/
ipa: /ˈhælʃən/
ipa: /ˈhælʃi.ən/
Forms: form: more halcyon
form: most halcyon
form: alcyon
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Alceoun, from Latin halcyōn, alcyōn (“kingfisher”), from Ancient Greek ἀλκυών (alkuṓn).
Senses: examples: text: Renege; affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks / With every gale and vary of their masters,
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 84:
glosses: Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.
examples: text: Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age.
ref: 1787, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers No. 30:
text: Deep, halcyon repose.
ref: 1842, Thomas De Quincey, Cicero:
text: I had wander’d in rapture beneath them, and bask’d in the Halcyon clime.
ref: 1919, H.P. Lovecraft, The City:
text: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: at peace
word: blissful
word: calm
word: peaceful
word: prelapsarian
word: relaxed
word: serene
word: faint
word: hushed
word: low
word: muffled
word: quiet
word: quiet as a grave
word: quiet as a mouse
word: quiet as a church mouse
word: soft
word: still
word: stifled
word: tranquil
glosses: Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.
Derived terms: halcyon days
Related terms: Alcyone
maiden flight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maiden flights
Etymology: See maiden (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: The manufacturer's CEO was confident enough to ride as a passenger on the airship's maiden flight.
glosses: The first flight of an airplane or other airborne vehicle, usually used to test or demonstrate the functions of the systems.
Hypernyms: flight
Related terms: maiden voyage
test pilot
intestate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛsteɪt/
Etymology: From Latin intestātus, from in- (“not”) + testātus (“testate”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Without a valid will indicating whom to leave one's estate to after death.
glosses: Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will.
Derived terms: abintestate
Related terms: intestacy
intestate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛsteɪt/
Forms: form: intestates
Etymology: From Latin intestātus, from in- (“not”) + testātus (“testate”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: the surplusages of intestates […]after the expiration of one full year from the death of the intestate is to be distributed : one - third to the widow of the intestate, and the residue in equal proportions to his children ; or if dead to their representatives : that is , their lineal descendants
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
antonyms: testator
glosses: A person who dies without making a valid will.
ice hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of hockey played on an ice rink with a puck, rather than a ball.
Synonyms: sense: See usage note
word: hockey
Meronyms: word: +/-
word: assist
word: backhand
word: blue line
word: body check
topics: ice-hockey
skating
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: centre
word: centreman
word: cross-check
word: defenceman
word: faceoff
word: fight
word: goalie
word: goaltender
word: hat trick
word: high-sticking
word: high stick
word: high-stick
topics: ice-hockey
skating
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: left wing
word: netminder
word: offside
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: overtime
topics: ice-hockey
skating
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: penalty
word: penalty box
word: penalty kill
word: PIM
english: competition
translation: competition
word: point
topics: ice-hockey
skating
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: power play
topics: ice-hockey
skating
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: right wing
word: short-handed
word: skate
word: slapshot
word: snap shot
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: stick
word: wrist shot
Derived terms: ice hockey puck
para ice hockey
Related terms: field hockey
roller hockey
pond hockey
puck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭk
ipa: /pʌk/
ipa: /pʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: pucks
Etymology: From Middle English pouke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūkō, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke). Doublet of pooka.
Senses: examples: text: William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period.
ref: 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 232:
glosses: A mischievous or hostile spirit.
topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Synonyms: english: hostile; mischievous
translation: hostile; mischievous
word: goblin and fairy
sense: a small being, human in form who is playful and has magical powers
word: Robin Goodfellow
sense: a small being, human in form who is playful and has magical powers
word: faerie
sense: a small being, human in form who is playful and has magical powers
word: faery
sense: a small being, human in form who is playful and has magical powers
word: fairy
sense: a small being, human in form who is playful and has magical powers
word: fay
sense: a small being, human in form who is playful and has magical powers
word: sprite
Derived terms: puckish
puck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭk
ipa: /pʌk/
ipa: /pʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: pucks
form: pucking
form: pucked
form: pucked
Etymology: From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).
Senses: glosses: To hit, strike.
puck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭk
ipa: /pʌk/
ipa: /pʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: pucks
Etymology: From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).
Senses: examples: text: In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.
ref: 1886 February 28, Boston Daily Globe, page 2:
text: The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 184:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
examples: text: He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal puck.
ref: 2004, Art Directors Annual, volume 83, Rotovision, page 142:
glosses: An object shaped like a puck.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pointing device with a crosshair.
qualifier: hurling
glosses: A penalty shot.
Derived terms: hockey puck
ice hockey puck
puck bunny
puck carrier
puck chaser
puck chasing
puck crown
puck-dribbling
puck-handler
puck-handling
puck palace
puck-pusher
puck sense
puck-shy
puckster
rag the puck
shuffleboard puck
side puck
urinal puck
where the puck is heading
where the puck is going
puck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭk
ipa: /pʌk/
ipa: /pʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: pucks
Etymology: From the Irish poc (“male adult goat, billy goat”). Doublet of buck.
Senses: qualifier: rustic
glosses: billy goat
puck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭk
ipa: /pʌk/
ipa: /pʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: pucks
Etymology: Blend of pike + tuck
Senses: examples: text: The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults.
ref: 2013, The Sports Book: The Sports, the Rules, the Tactics, the Techniques:
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.
phobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
ipa: /ˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Forms: form: phobias
form: phobiae
form: phobiæ
Etymology: First attested in c. 1790, from words ending in -phobia, ultimately from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”). Compare ism, from -ism, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.
Senses: examples: text: I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.
text: It was when anthropophobia set in, when he was made uneasy by people who walked too close to him, that, sagely viewing his list and seeing how many phobias were now checked, he permitted himself to rest.
ref: 1925, Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith:
glosses: An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).
examples: text: Some patients have the phobia of light, and others have the phobia of darkness. Another common aversion is that of high places. The phobiac of this type can not sit in the gallery […]
ref: 1914, McClure's Magazine, page 140:
text: For some children and their parents, however, it can be difficult to determine when fears are typical and when they are developing into more serious phobias or anxiety disorders. […] But once fears become debilitating or impair daily function, they can be classified as a phobia or anxiety disorder, said Thomas Ollendick, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Virginia Tech, who is known for his work with children and adolescents.
ref: 2025 February 5, Julianna Bragg, “Does my child have an anxiety disorder? Here are the signs parents should look out for”, in CNN:
text: For as interviewer Than Win Htut expressed it, “misunderstandings about, and phobia of, gay life and homosexuality are very common in Burma.” Than Win Htut went on to observe that in Burma[…]
ref: 2009 June 24, Michael G. Peletz, Gender Pluralism: Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times, Routledge, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: An aversion or dislike (of something).
Derived terms: counterphobia
phobanthropy
phobiac
phobian
phobiaphobia
phobic
phobist
pithecophobia
pseudophobia
social phobia
specific phobia
Related terms: -phobe
-phobia
-phobiac
-phobic
consultant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsʌl.tənt/
ipa: /kənˈsɐl.tənt/
Forms: form: consultants
Etymology: From French consultant, present participle of consulter, from Latin cōnsultāre (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulere (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulere, of uncertain origin.
Senses: coordinate_terms: consultee
referrer
glosses: A person or party that is consulted.
glosses: A person whose occupation is to be consulted for their expertise, advice, service or help in an area or specialty; a party whose business is to be similarly consulted.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A senior hospital-based physician or surgeon who has completed all specialist training and has been placed on the specialist register in their chosen speciality, roughly equivalent to an attending physician in North America.
Derived terms: chainsaw consultant
consultantese
consultantship
e-consultant
image consultant
insultant
investment consultant
nonconsultant
teleconsultant
Related terms: consult
consultancy
consultation
consultative
consulter
favour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favours
Senses: examples: text: I need a favour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?
text: Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?
text: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
glosses: British standard spelling of favor.
favour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: favours
form: favouring
form: favoured
form: favoured
Senses: examples: text: And the Angel came in vnto her, and said, Haile thou that art highly fauoured, the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:2:
text: The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: Clacton and Walton are resorts mostly favoured by Londoners and only three trains run through to the Midlands and North.
ref: 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:
text: Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: British standard spelling of favor.
Derived terms: disfavour
favourability
favourer
favourise
favourless
favoursome
Nanson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnænsən/
rhymes: -ænsən
Etymology: From Nan + -son (the former is an old diminutive related to Nancy), son of Anne. First noted in Yorkshire, Northern England in the 16th century.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
Related terms: Nansen
cheat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: cheats
form: cheating
form: cheated
form: cheated
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English acheten, variant of escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswīcan.
Senses: examples: text: My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
synonyms: break the rules
glosses: To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
examples: text: My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
text: After he found out his wife cheated, he left her.
text: While the nonavoidant passive-aggressive cheats for the sexual gratification and tries to disguise his or her cheating afterwards, in contrast, the passive-aggressive avoidant cheats less for the sex than to send a message[…]
ref: 2003, Martin Kantor, Distancing: Avoidant Personality Disorder, page 137:
synonyms: step out on
glosses: To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
examples: text: He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
text: I feel as if I've cheated fate.
glosses: To avoid a seemingly inevitable thing.
examples: text: My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
text: He cheated his way into office.
text: I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: [T]he holly providentially planted about the house, to cheat winter of its dreariness, and throw in a gleam of green summer to cheer the fireside:—all these bespeak the influence of taste, flowing down from high sources, and pervading the lowest levels of the public mind.
ref: 1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Rural Life in England”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 130:
text: The gig ended with Rotten uttering the now famous line, “Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?” On January 17, the Sex Pistols split up.
ref: 2018, Peter Smith, quoting Johnny Rotten, Sex Pistols: The Pride of Punk, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xxvi:
synonyms: belirt
blench
lirt
glosses: To deceive; to fool; to trick.
glosses: To disregard self-imposed restrictions or commitments in favour of resting or indulging oneself.
cheat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English chet (“low-quality bread”), of unknown origin; compare manchet.
Senses: examples: text: The raueled cheat therfore is generallie ſo made that out of one buſhell of meale, after two and twentie pounds of bran be ſifted and taken from it (wherevnto they ad the gurgeons that riſe from the manchet) they make thirtie cast, euerie lofe weighing eightéene ounces into the ouen and ſixteene ounces out[…]
ref: 1587, Raphaell Holinshed, Iohn Hooker, “Of the food and diet of the Engliſh”, in The firſt and ſecond volumes of Chronicles […] , volume I, London: Henry Denham, page 169:
text: Takes part with them, at ſhore: their pureſt cheat, / Thrice boulted, kneaded, and ſubdu'd in paſt[…]
ref: c. 1624, Homer, translated by George Chapman, The crowne of all Homers workes Batrachomyomachia […] , Iohn Bill, page 3:
text: Where by the way note, that loaves made of pure Wheaten Meal require both more Leaven and more labouring, and more baking than either coarſe Cheat or than Bread Mingled of Meal and Grudgins.
ref: 1746, Thomas Moffett, Christopher Bennet, Health's Improvement […] , London: T. Oſborne, page 339:
glosses: A sort of low-quality bread.
dont
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of don't.
examples: text: dont tread on me
glosses: Obsolete spelling of don't.
Chypre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chypres
Senses: glosses: Any of several perfumes having a citrus top note and woody base notes.
presentiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt/
ipa: /prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt/
Forms: form: presentiments
Etymology: From French pressentiment, from Middle French, equivalent to pre- + sentiment.
Senses: examples: text: A man, my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.
ref: 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC:
text: A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; […]
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 13:
text: Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: This unfortunate accident has upset me. I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
text: “No,” replied the girl, “it would not be strange, of course; but for some inexplicable reason I have one of those foolish feminine presentiments that all is not right with Mr. Caldwell. It is the strangest feeling—it is as though I knew that he was not on board the ship.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 106:
text: I had a presentiment that this would be my last journey to the Continent for many a long day to come; this, as events turned out, proved all too correct. [This was published posthumously, the author died on 19 November 1942.]
ref: 1943 November and December, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1939)—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 355:
text: Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.
ref: 1973, Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight:
glosses: A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
Synonyms: boding
foreboding
forefeeling
premonition
Derived terms: presentimental
haute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haute
form: most haute
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of haut and haught (“high; haughty”).
haute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊt/
ipa: /əʊt/
Forms: form: more haute
form: most haute
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French, extracted from terms such as haute cuisine and haute couture.
Senses: examples: text: Monessons’s Oz, of course, was the ultimate new concept in Dallas dining: an exclusive, members-only restaurant/disco serving only the finest haute cuisine, wine, and liquor at very haute prices.
ref: 1977 May, Jim Atkinson, “The Wizard of Oz (Ret.)”, in Texas Monthly, page 116, column 2:
text: Over the last five years, Japanese photographer Shoichi Aoki documented these fashion mavens, who combine haute pieces with homemade accessories, and printed them in ...
ref: 2001, CMJ New Music Monthly, page 23:
text: In sum, the subject’s paternal family was of very haute black bourgeoisie origins, upper civil service, in Antigua.
ref: 2003, Norman Rush, “So, My Boy, Now You Have Him”, in Mortals, Vintage International, published July 2004, →ISBN, page 228:
text: Don't even think about handling the hangers in a careless way; if the haute pieces (1920s-1990s) don't already scream "Handle with care!", Rita might. The delicate designer darlings, […]
ref: 2004, Gary Baum, Victoria Namkung, Where to Wear: Los Angeles 2005, Where to Wear Global, →ISBN:
text: Scott shared backstage pre-show, stopping to issue the disclaimer that these theories already exist and live online. But he editorialized a bit in the name of fashion. “I take it one step further and ask, ‘Was Jackie an alien? Was she an android? How did she endure the pain and grieving of the assassination? All the ridicule about her being such a haute, snotty Bouvier too good to be an American icon? How did she do that if she was actually human?’”
ref: 2018 February 21, Jessica Iredale, “Moschino RTW Fall 2018”, in Women’s Wear Daily:
text: Goodbye, normal jeans: hello haute denim / Sculpted, sophisticated, celebrity endorsed – these collaborations are giving denim a high-end spin[…]Haute denim isn’t new, of course, but this season’s offering is different: a cache of fashion houses have sought out partnerships with traditional denim brands, combining an eye for design with decades of technical know-how.[…]Whether it’s perking up your officewear or bringing some 2000s cool to your party look, haute denim is a good investment.
ref: 2020 November 24, Baya Simons, “Goodbye, normal jeans: hello haute denim”, in Financial Times:
text: Taiwanese jeweller Cindy Chao has a taste for haute luxury and hot sauce
ref: 2020 December 19, Ming Liu, “Taiwanese jeweller Cindy Chao has a taste for haute luxury and hot sauce”, in Financial Times:
text: Coatigans can be found at all price levels from a variety of retailers, including Amazon, J. Crew and so on up to the very haute.
ref: 2023 September 25, Vanessa Friedman, “Should I Wear a Fleece to the Office?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2023:
glosses: high (especially in terms of fashion, cookery or anything considered to be typically French)
Related terms: haught
haut
haute bourgeoisie
haute ecole
haute-contre
lace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: laces
Etymology: From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces.
text: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.
examples: text: your laces are untied, do them up!
glosses: A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.
examples: text: The king had ſnared been in loues ſtrong lace, [...]
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Second Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 20, page 23:
glosses: A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
examples: text: He is forced every Morning to drink his Dish of Coffee by itself, without the Addition of the Spectator, that used to be better than Lace to it.
ref: 2025 December 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, November 24, 2025”, in The Spectator, number (please specify the issue number); republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume (please either specify the issue number or |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
Synonyms: sense: cord; for a shoe
word: shoelace
sense: cord; for a garment
word: tie
shoelace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃuːˌleɪs/
Forms: form: shoelaces
Etymology: shoe + lace
Senses: examples: text: untied shoelace
text: tie up one's shoelaces
text: He bent down to tie his shoelace.
text: The hiker’s shoelace snapped halfway up the trail.
glosses: A lace used for fastening a shoe.
Synonyms: word: shoestring
Meronyms: aiglet
Derived terms: shoelace formula
shoelace tie
shoelaced
shoelacing
Related terms: bootlace
lacing
zho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /(d)zoʊ/
/ʒoʊ/
Forms: form: zhos
Senses: examples: text: You can extend the idea of isograms to sentences that don't repeat any letters. Interestingly, there are several English sentences that use each letter exactly once. They're all pretty weird and either borrow from other languages or use acronyms that were later accepted as English words. For example:
Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck
As I'm typing this, my word processor is marking each of the above words (save for “buck”) as spelled incorrectly, though I promise they're real words. Honest.
ref: 2015 February 26, “CS106A Practice Midterm 2 Solutions”, in Stanford University, page 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dzo.
dzo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(d)zəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: dzos
form: dso
form: dzho
form: zho
form: zo
Etymology: From Tibetan མཛོ (mdzo).
Senses: coordinate_terms: dzomo
glosses: A male hybrid of a yak and a domesticated cow.
za
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: zas
form: 'za
Etymology: Shortened from pizza.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, not ordering a SUB or ZA (pizza) is almost impossible since places to eat in Sackville include Subway (subs), Ed's (subs), Joey's (subs and za), Pizza Delight (mostly za), The Snack Shop (subs and za) and One Plus One (subs and za).
ref: 1994, Sara Borins, The Real Guide to Canadian Universities, →ISBN, page 130:
text: But Chris, using some of his dated terminology, insisted that he wanted "za" for dinner. Back when Chris was a youngster in college, "za" was short for pizza--as if pizza were a lengthy word needing abbreviating.
ref: 2006, Lee Simon, The restaurant dream?: an inside look at restaurant development, from concept to reality, →ISBN, page 44:
text: They call me the Za-Lord.
ref: 2010, Jim Butcher, Turn Coat:
glosses: Pizza.
za
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From an apheretic pronunciation of exotic. Compare zaza (“exotic marijuana”).
Senses: examples: text: Give me some Za, Percs, drank (Wow) / Lambo starburst paint (Wow)
ref: 2021 April 23, “Just Say Det”, in A Gangsta's Pain, performed by Moneybagg Yo:
text: I'm off the za, I'm smoking opps / He tryna run, he catch a shot (Boom)
ref: 2021 December 3, “What They Gon Say”performed by Ron Suno:
text: Heavy on the za, but with the shrooms, I'm micro dosin' / Got the mini K up in the goose, I'm micro coatin'
ref: 2023 April 3, “A2Z/Euphoria 2”performed by BabyTron:
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Exotic marijuana.
za
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /ziː/
ipa: /zʌ/
ipa: /zə/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /zɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Senses: synonyms: ze
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of the, mimicking foreign accents.
za
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /ziː/
ipa: /zʌ/
ipa: /zə/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /zæ˧˥/
ipa: /zə˧˥/
ipa: /zɑ˧˥/
ipa: /zɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /ziː/
ipa: /zʌ/
ipa: /zə/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -ʌ
Etymology: From an apheretic pronunciation of wossat or (directly) of what's that.
Senses: examples: text: "Really, the best evidence that Liam was under mind control is that everyone here is still alive." "Za?"
ref: 2022 May 11, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, May 11, 2022:
glosses: An expression of surprise or confusion; compare wha, huh, eh.
woodlouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdˌlaʊs/
Forms: form: woodlice
Etymology: From wood + louse.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, both the woodlouse and the crayfish possess an unpaired medial nerve which runs along the whole length of the ventral nerve cord, linking adjacent ganglia.
ref: 1995, Olaf Breidbach, Wolfram Kutsch, editors, The Nervous Systems of Invertebrates: An Evolutionary and Comparative Approach, page 193:
text: Woodlice commonly produce offspring 1-3 times per year, with spring and autumn broods most common. Woodlice often survive for longer than a year, with longevity of 2-5 years not uncommon.
ref: 2001, John L. Capinera, editor, Handbook of Vegetable Pests, page 566:
text: The sections allow woodlice to bend and curve their armored bodies. Some types of woodlice can roll into a tight ball. They do this to protect themselves when threatened by a predator.
Female woodlice carry their eggs in a liquid-filled pouch under their bodies. When the young woodlice hatch from the eggs, they crawl out of the pouch.
ref: 2011, Ruth Owen, Creepy Backyard Invaders, page 18:
glosses: Any of the terrestrial isopod crustaceans of suborder Oniscidea, which have a rigid, segmented exoskeleton, often being capable of rolling into a ball, and feed only on dead plant matter, usually living in damp, dark places, such as under stones or bark.
Synonyms: sense: local terms
word: armadillo bug
sense: local terms
word: butcher boy
sense: local terms
word: cham chamruam bug
sense: local terms
word: cheese-bug
sense: local terms
word: cheesybug
sense: local terms
word: chiggypig
sense: local terms
word: doodlebug
sense: local terms
word: grammersow
sense: local terms
word: pill bug
sense: local terms
word: rolly polly
sense: local terms
word: roly-poly
sense: local terms
word: roly poly
sense: local terms
word: sowbug
sense: local terms
word: sowpig
sense: local terms
word: sai bug
sense: local terms
word: saisai gnat
sense: local terms
word: saikor bug
sense: local terms
word: sairynkor bug
sense: local terms
word: slater
sense: any species of suborder Oniscidea
word: oniscidean
word: carpenter
word: cheeselog
word: cheslip
word: crawly pig
word: lockchester
word: lugdor
word: oniscid
word: potato bug
word: woodlouse
Derived terms: sea woodlouse
woodlouse spider
Related terms: word: crustacean
word: isopod
word: arthropod
word: Oniscidea
word: Ligiamorpha
word: Armadillidium
word: armadillidiid
word: porcellionid
word: sea slater
bull-pup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull-pups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bullpup.
bull-bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull-bitches
Senses: glosses: A female bulldog.
examples: text: "They used to say, if you got something you can't figure out, give it to Mack. Fauna, it's your dice. You're a bull-bitch idear [sic] dame."
ref: 1954, John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday, published 1960, page xxvi. 133:
glosses: A tough, uncompromising person; a hardass.
car carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car carriers
Senses: glosses: A special ship that transports cars in a garage with ambient control and ventilation.
glosses: A special railroad car for transporting automobiles.
glosses: A special semi-trailer for transporting automobiles.
Synonyms: english: rail vehicle
translation: rail vehicle
word: autorack
word: car transporter
sense: float
word: semi-trailer
Kienbock's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kienböck’s disease
Etymology: Named after Dr. Robert Kienböck, a radiologist in Vienna who discovered it in 1910.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A painful disease of the wrist that results from loss of circulation to the lunate bone.
etc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛt ˈsɛt(ə)ɹə/
Senses: examples: text: I visited several neighborhood parks that had extensive feeder operations, trail systems etc, and there were always family groups, often with very young kids as well as abuelas and abuelos, teenage boys and girls birding or hiking- it was really eye-opening to see a people immersed in the natural world around them.
ref: 2024 October 20, CaptBLI, “Dawn Chorus - Small game, Mississippi hunting laws.”, in Daily Kos:
glosses: Alternative form of etc..
biltong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biltongs
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans biltong, from bil (“buttock, hindquarter”) + tong (“tongue, strip”).
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the buck's flesh we cut into strips and hung in the sun to dry into 'biltong,' as, I believe, the South African Dutch call flesh thus prepared.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: "P W who …?" Mr William Clark is reputed to have said when he was being quizzed for the job of American Assistant Secretary of State. Well, whatever political reminders he might now have, he will never forget our prime minister [P. W. Botha] after being given so memorable a dish as biltong souffle for breakfast yesterday, backed up by straight biltong and maroela jelly.
ref: 1981, “The Star: Gastro-diplomacy”, in South African Digest: Fortnightly Digest of South African Affairs, Pretoria: Department of Information, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 3:
glosses: A South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying, similar to American jerky.
sate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: sates
form: sating
form: sated
form: sated
form: sade
Etymology: Alteration (after words such as satiate and satisfy) of earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic *sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). Doublet of sad.
Senses: examples: text: At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
text: crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
synonyms: satiate
fill up
glosses: To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
Derived terms: sated
satedness
sateless
unsated
unsating
Related terms: satiate
satisfactory
saturate
sate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: sade
Etymology: From Middle English sate, satte, from Old English sæt, first and third person singular preterite of sittan (“to sit”).
Senses: examples: text: So saying, she sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 274:
text: […] And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, / Sate the king when healths went round.
ref: 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] LXII”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, →OCLC, page 94:
glosses: simple past of sit
examples: text: […] and I am old enough to remember how often I have seen the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, about eight in the morning (when I was at Bath in 91 or 92), returning from the parade, where she had sate up the live-long night with her sister, Lady Duncannon; it can therefore be no disgrace to appear as if you felt for your daughter.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:
glosses: past participle of sit
sate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: sade
Etymology: From Malay sate (“satay”).
Senses: glosses: satay
Saul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔːl/
ipa: /sɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
rhymes: -ɑl
Etymology: From Hebrew שָׁאוּל (sha'úl, “asked for”). Doublet of Silas, which derived from Aramaic.
Senses: examples: text: And it came to paſſe, when the euill ſpirit from God was vpon Saul, that Dauid tooke an harpe, and played with his hand: So Saul was refreſhed, and was well, and the euill ſpirit departed from him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 16:23, column 2:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The first king of Israel in the Old Testament.
examples: text: Then Saul (who alſo is called Paul) filled with the holy Ghoſt, ſet his eyes on him
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:9, column 2:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Hebrew name of Apostle Paul in the New Testament.
examples: text: “You got an uncle named Saul?” “I never mentioned him?” “What are you saying —you got some Jewish guy for an uncle?” “He's not Jewish. It's just a name they have back in the old country.”
ref: 2000, Peter Abrahams, Crying Wolf, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Fretherne with Saul parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7409).
glosses: A village near Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky, United States.
Friedman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Friedmann
form: Freedman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Friedmann, from German Fried (“peace”) + Mann (“man”).
Senses: examples: text: Friedman, another NRx entrepreneur-cum-philosopher backed by Thiel's dollars, leads the Seasteading Institute, an organization busy designing permanent (almost Lovecraftian) cities at seas—seasteads—prefigurative gov-corps outside the territory claimed by democratic governments.
ref: 2019, Roger Burrows, “Urban Futures and The Dark Enlightenment: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed”, in Keith Jacobs, Jeff Malpas, editors, Philosophy and the City: Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 254:
glosses: A surname from German.
seventy-five
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛv.ən.tiˈfaɪv/
Etymology: From seventy + five.
Senses: examples: text: What exactly is an automall? Pretty much what the name suggests. Kings Automall, upon completion, will feature ten auto dealerships and several auto-related businesses clustered along a cul de sac on seventy-five acres at the Fields-Ertel Road-I-71 intersection.
ref: 1987 December 24, Greg Evans, “The automalling of kings”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page G-6:
glosses: The cardinal number immediately following seventy-four and preceding seventy-six.
Synonyms: word: 75
word: LXXV