cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
syncretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sɪnˈkɹɛtɪk/
[sɪŋ-]
[siŋ-]
Forms: form: more syncretic
form: most syncretic
Etymology: Back-formation from syncretism: by surface analysis, syncret(ize) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In Islamic villages below Tengger, however, more syncretic communities still celebrate annual village ritual festivals (slametan desa, slametan tuyo) designed to give homage to the spirits of the mountains and insure the flow of their waters.
ref: 1985, Robert W. Hefner, “Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam”, in Paperback, Princeton University Press, published 1989, page 58:
text: 1999, John B. Henderson, Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, Kai-wing Chow, On Cho Ng, John B. Henderson (editors), Imagining Boundaries: Changing Confucian Doctrines, Texts, and Hermeneutics, State University of New York Press, page 112,
From the point of view of many late Ming and Ch'ing scholars, the most syncretic, as well as the most threatening heretic of all was a nominal Confucian, Wang Yang-ming (1472-1528).
text: To cite another obvious case, there can be few things more syncretic than Roman Catholic canon law, where the doctrine of a Galilean peasant was built into Roman imperial legality.
ref: 2013, Néstor O. Míguez, “1: The Nomadismo of the Popular and the Religious”, in Emily Everett, transl., edited by Joerg Rieger, Across Borders: Latin Perspectives in the Americas Reshaping Religion, Theology, and Life, Lexington Books, page 43:
glosses: Combining disparate elements in one system, especially as in forms of religious observance, philosophical systems, or artistic creations.
Derived terms: word: nonsyncretic
word: syncretically
english: usage problem
translation: usage problem
word: syncresis
english: usage problem
translation: usage problem
word: synchresis
Related terms: syncretism
syncretize
eclectic
suppletive
insufflate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnsʌfleɪt/
Forms: form: insufflates
form: insufflating
form: insufflated
form: insufflated
Etymology: First attested in 1670; borrowed from Latin īnsufflātus, perfect passive participle of īnsufflō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)) from in- + sufflō (“to blow on”). Cognate with French insuffler.
Senses: glosses: To breathe or blow into or on.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
examples: 2001: Cocaine is usually taken by insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98)
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: snort
glosses: To inhale (a powder etc.).
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.
Related terms: autoinsufflate
autoinsufflation
insufflation
insufflator
chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚ/
rhymes: -eɪmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chambers
form: chambering
form: chambered
form: chambered
form: chambre
Etymology: From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
Senses: examples: text: She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
glosses: To enclose in a room.
examples: text: I chambered with Alexander Preston.
ref: 1893, Publications of the Scottish History Society, volume 14, page 64:
glosses: To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
examples: text: The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
glosses: To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
examples: text: The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
glosses: To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
examples: text: Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
glosses: To be lascivious.
Synonyms: sense: to be lascivious
word: blissom
word: lust
word: harlotize
chambre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chambres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of chamber.
Related terms: valet-de-chambre
chamber of commerce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chambers of commerce
Senses: examples: text: The US Chamber of Commerce represents Big Business nationally, but state and local chambers of commerce are for smaller businesses locally.
topics: business
glosses: An association of businesses to promote their interests in a community.
madder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈmad.ə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈmæd.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈmæɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madarǭ (compare Swedish madra, Old Norse / Icelandic maðra), from Proto-Indo-European *modʰro-, cognate with Proto-Slavic *modrъ (“blue”), and compare Irish madar (“madder”), Latvian madara (“madder”).
Senses: glosses: Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.
madder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈmad.ə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈmæd.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈmæɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Forms: form: madders
form: maddering
form: maddered
form: maddered
Etymology: From Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madarǭ (compare Swedish madra, Old Norse / Icelandic maðra), from Proto-Indo-European *modʰro-, cognate with Proto-Slavic *modrъ (“blue”), and compare Irish madar (“madder”), Latvian madara (“madder”).
Senses: glosses: To dye with madder.
Related terms: bedstraw
bluet
genipap
madder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈmad.ə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈmæd.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈmæɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Etymology: Inflected forms.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mad: more mad
madder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈmad.ə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈmæd.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈmæɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Forms: form: madders
Etymology: From Irish meadar.
Senses: examples: text: Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,
A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,
O there is the sport! […]
ref: c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "O'Rourke's Feast"
glosses: Obsolete form of mether.
madder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈmad.ə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈmæd.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈmæɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Forms: form: madders
form: maddering
form: maddered
form: maddered
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of matter.
birch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bû(r)ch
ipa: /bɜːtʃ/
enpr: bû(r)ch
ipa: /bɝt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: birches
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰerHǵós
From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English birċe, bierċe, from Proto-West Germanic *birkijā, from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos.
Cognates
Compare West Frisian bjirk, German Birke, variant of *berkō (compare Dutch berk, Danish birk, Swedish björk, Norwegian bjørk), Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá), Lithuanian béržas, Czech bříza, Ossetian бӕрз (bærz), Russian берёза (berjóza)), Latin fraxinus (“ash tree, ash javelin”), Albanian bredh.
Senses: glosses: Any of various trees of the genus Betula, native to countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
glosses: A hard wood taken from the birch tree, typically used to make furniture.
synonyms: makepeace
switch
glosses: A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.
glosses: A birch-bark canoe.
Derived terms: American white birch
birchbark
birch beer
birch bolete
birch bracket
birchen
birch-leaved bellflower
birchlike
birch mouse
birch of Jamaica
birch partridge
birch sap
birch skeletonizer
birch tar
birch tree
Birch Vale
birch wine
birch wood
birchwood
birchy
black birch
black birch tree
canoe birch
cherry birch
downy birch
dwarf birch
flame birch
Japanese cherry birch
Much Birch
non-birch
northern birch mouse
oil of birch
paper birch
red birch
river birch
silver birch
sweet birch
water birch
weeping birch
white birch
yellow birch
birch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bû(r)ch
ipa: /bɜːtʃ/
enpr: bû(r)ch
ipa: /bɝt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: birches
form: birching
form: birched
form: birched
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰerHǵós
From Middle English birche, birk, from Old English birċe, bierċe, from Proto-West Germanic *birkijā, from Proto-Germanic *birkijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos.
Cognates
Compare West Frisian bjirk, German Birke, variant of *berkō (compare Dutch berk, Danish birk, Swedish björk, Norwegian bjørk), Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá), Lithuanian béržas, Czech bříza, Ossetian бӕрз (bærz), Russian берёза (berjóza)), Latin fraxinus (“ash tree, ash javelin”), Albanian bredh.
Senses: glosses: To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
examples: text: That the morrow would see us arraigned 'fore the Head
 And probably birched with a willow
ref: 1902, M. M. Read, “The Midnight Feast”, in The Boy's Own Annual, volume 25, page 63:
text: […] and was tied to a tree and soundly birched with a bundle of furze
ref: 2012, Charles J. Esdaile, Outpost of Empire: The Napoleonic Occupation of Andalucia, 1810–1812, page 319:
text: The Mexica were always washing, in water obtained through the aqueduct, or in the lake, and would often go to the popular baths in the numerous stone steam houses (where birching, with grasses, or massage was also available).
ref: 2013, Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico, page 292:
glosses: To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
Derived terms: bircher
unbirched
common noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common nouns
Senses: examples: text: The Butlers had been serving the Fowls for centuries. It had always been that way. Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated.
ref: 2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 15:
glosses: A noun that denotes any member, or all members, of a class; an ordinary noun such as dog or city; contrasted with a proper noun, which refers to a single named entity, such as Socrates or Tokyo.
Synonyms: appellative
appellative noun
nomen appellativum
common substantive noun
Coordinate terms: proper noun
Related terms: abstract noun
appellativization
collective noun
concrete noun
proprialization
alba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ălʹbə
ipa: /ˈæl.bə/
Forms: form: albas
Etymology: First attested in 1821; borrowed from Occitan alba, ultimately from Latin albus (“white”); compare Spanish alba (“dawn”).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
alba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ălʹbə
ipa: /ˈæl.bə/
Forms: form: albas
Etymology: First attested in 1848; borrowed from Latin alba (the feminine form of albus (“white”)) in the now-disused species name of binomial nomenclature Rosa alba (it is now considered a hybrid and is accordingly called Rosa × alba).
Senses: glosses: A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
glosses: A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
Derived terms: aquila alba
linea alba
magnesia alba
phlegmasia alba dolens
terra alba
alba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ălʹbə
ipa: /ˈæl.bə/
Etymology: First attested in 1859; borrowed from Latin alba, the nominative plural form of album (“blank tablet”), whence the English album.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:alba.
glosses: plural of album
alba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ălʹbə
ipa: /ˈæl.bə/
Forms: form: albas
Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin alba (“alb”), from Latin alba (as in tunica alba (“white tunic”), vestis alba (“white garment”)), feminine of albus (“white”). Doublet of alb.
Senses: examples: text: On a little plot of grass near the kitchen the family were spreading out a large supply of priestly vestments—albas, casullas, capas pluviales, ornamentos, parmentos, cíngulas, estolas, frontales, etc., etc., etc.
ref: 1857, Isaac F[arwell] Holton, “Montserrate and the Boqueron”, in New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 217:
text: Christ, whom they meet, must wear an alba and an amictus, be barefooted, and carry a cross on the left shoulder.
ref: 1932, Theodore Komisarjevsky, The Costume of the Theatre, page 56:
text: Traditional styles such as cassocks and cottas, or contemporary trends in robes and collars, choir albas, skirts, caps and acolyte vestments.
ref: 1979, Yearbook, Board of Publication of the Lutheran Church in America, page 494:
text: Another canon with a biretta in his hand, wearing an alba and an upper fur mucia, is kneeling to the left of the Crucifix;
ref: 2000, Ivo Hlobil, Ladislav Daniel, editors, The Last Flowers of the Middle Ages: From the Gothic to the Renaissance in Moravia and Silesia, →ISBN, page 304:
glosses: Synonym of alb.
synonyms: word: alb
albatros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albatroses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of albatross.
albo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albos
Etymology: From Albanian + -o.
Senses: glosses: An Albanian.
albergo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albergos
form: alberghi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian albergo. Doublet of auberge and harbor.
Senses: glosses: An Italian inn.
nuevo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish nuevo. Doublet of new.
Senses: examples: text: What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past.
ref: 1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2019:
text: In Chicago, a favourite resto is Topolobampo, celebrity chef Rick Bayless's shrine to nuevo Mexican cuisine.
ref: 2009 January 20, Susan Sampson, “Obama's a veggie lover, but he's no beetnik”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2009:
glosses: New or novel, usually in reference to Latin American culture
Related terms: nuevo sol
bizarro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bizarro
form: most bizarro
Etymology: Variant of bizarre, equivalent to bizarre + -o; see that entry for more information. In the sense of “logical inverse”, derived via the comic book character Bizarro, an inverted version of Superman from a planet where “good” means “bad” and so on, and further popularized by "The Bizarro Jerry", a 1996 episode of the sitcom Seinfeld.
Senses: examples: text: "So you found a cow?" Alison mocked his discovery. "That's bizarro, you know."
ref: 1988, Daniel Moreau, In Death We Trust, page 80:
text: "Man," Hesketh said, "that's bizarro. One second they're there, and the next nothing.
ref: 2018, Kieran Shea, Koko Uncaged:
glosses: Alternative form of bizarre.
examples: text: In some alternate, bizarro universe, there was probably a bizarro Kirsten who was totally awesome. Bizarro Kirsten gave bizarro Dillie and bizarro Liza awesome makeovers and awesome advice and let them stay up after hours eating awesome snacks and watching awesome late-night TV.
ref: 2010, Robin Wasserman, Candy Apple #25: Wish You Were Here, Liza, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 23:
text: This then leads to Elaine's entrance into what Jerry describes as a “Bizarro world,” citing the Superman concept, in which all of the facets of the show as we know it, especially its principle^([sic]) characters, are reproduced in some way backward.
ref: 2013, Andrew Shaw-Kitch, Structure, Seinfeld, and Play, Lulu.com, →ISBN:
text: Egypt is a Bizarro-Canaan, looking as Canaan might look seen through Alice's looking glass. It shows the Judeans how a country should not be run.
ref: 2010, Gershon Hepner, Legal Friction: Law, Narrative, and Identity Politics in Biblical Israel, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 618:
text: When the occupation began, Jon Stewart called it “the Bizarro Tea Party,” which is funny because it's the Tea Party—billionaires organizing mad-as-hell rallies against working-class programs—that is a bizarro version of a genuine grassroots protest movement.
ref: 2012, Danny Katch, America's Got Democracy: The Making of the World's Longest-Running Reality Show, Haymarket Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Being the opposite or logical inverse of a familiar person, place, or situation.
examples: text: An incredibly fucked-up parody of B-horror movies with a bizarro slant.
ref: 2010, Caris O'Malley, The Egg Said Nothing, Caris O'Malley, →ISBN, page 97:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Pertaining to bizarro fiction.
bizarro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bizarros
Etymology: Variant of bizarre, equivalent to bizarre + -o; see that entry for more information. In the sense of “logical inverse”, derived via the comic book character Bizarro, an inverted version of Superman from a planet where “good” means “bad” and so on, and further popularized by "The Bizarro Jerry", a 1996 episode of the sitcom Seinfeld.
Senses: examples: text: Often described as "the Citizen Kane of dismemberment movies," this cult-movie masterpiece set the standards for the "bizarros-who-turn-their-home-into-a-human-slaughterhouse" horror genre.
ref: 1997, Harold Schechter, The Manly Movie Guide, Boulevard, →ISBN:
text: Showgirl breasts and round hips that swayed to a sultry beat when she walked and drew heartbreakers and bizarros from the four corners of the earth.
ref: 2008, Cindy Gerard, Whisper No Lies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 1:
text: BOOM!, he can't walk, can't talk, he's in a ward at a state institution with thirty retarded bizarros, many of them bizzare^([sic]) […]
ref: 2009, Martin Drapkin, Now and at the Hour, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
synonyms: word: kook
word: odd duck
word: wacko
word: bizarro
word: coot
word: crackpot
word: crank
raw_tags: in US
word: eccentric
word: freak
word: glaik
word: hard case
word: kook
word: live one
word: nutbag
word: nutbar
word: nutcase
word: nutter
word: oddball
word: oddity
word: odd bod
word: odd duck
word: odd fish
word: queerdo
word: queer fish
word: rum
word: strange bird
word: strange fish
word: strangeling
word: wack
word: wacko
word: weirdie
word: weirdling
word: weirdo
word: wild man
word: wingnut
glosses: weirdo, misfit
examples: text: Bizarro is literature's equivalent to the cult section at the video store.
ref: 2006, Carlton Mellick, Jeremy Robert Johnson, The Bizarro Starter Kit: An Introduction to the Bizarro Genre, →ISBN:
text: Bizarro isn't really a new genre. Just a new term.
ref: 2006, Gina Ranalli, Chemical Gardens, →ISBN:
text: Not only does it centre on the dire-sounding romance novel, Electra Galaxy's Mr Interstellar Feller (product description: "When a handsome yet stuffy intergalactic cop is forced to enter the Electra Galaxy's Mr Interstellar Feller competition, and is partnered with an Earth cop as his manager and overseer, hilarity and romance ensue"), but it takes the bizarro quotient to new levels.
ref: 2009 December 11, Alison Flood, “When authors attack”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Bizarro fiction.
Related terms: mondo bizarro
tempest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛm.pəst/
Forms: form: tempests
Etymology: From Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“time, weather”).
Senses: examples: text: For a Tempeſt. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auſter and Boreas, and caſt them together in one Verſe. Add to theſe of Rain, Lightning, and of Thunder (the loudeſt you can) quantum ſufficit. Mix your Clouds and Billows well together till they foam, and thicken your Deſcription here and there with a Quickſand. Brew your Tempeſt well in your Head, before you ſet it a blowing.
ref: 1714 June 10, [Alexander Pope], The Guardian, volume I, number 78, London: Printed for J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, page 332:
text: BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]
ref: 1781, [Mostyn John Armstrong], History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk. Volume IX. Containing the Hundreds of Smithdon, Taverham, Tunstead, Walsham, and Wayland, volume IX, Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, bookseller, →OCLC, page 51:
text: As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.
ref: 1847, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas:
text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
glosses: A storm, especially one with severe winds.
examples: text: Comforted with these reflections, the tempest of his soul subsided
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: They awaited the word "forward"—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest did not break out.
ref: 1914, Ambrose Bierce, One Officer, One Man:
glosses: Any violent tumult or commotion.
glosses: A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
Derived terms: tempest in a teacup
tempest in a tea-kettle
tempest in a teapot
tempest-tossed
tempestuous
tempest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛm.pəst/
Forms: form: tempests
form: tempesting
form: tempested
form: tempested
Etymology: From Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“time, weather”).
Senses: glosses: To storm.
examples: text: . . . the seal
And bended dolphins play; part huge of bulk,
Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait,
Tempest the ocean.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Oh! dark lowered the clouds on that horrible eve,
And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.
ref: 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Drowned Lover,”, in Poems from St. Irvyne:
glosses: To disturb, as by a tempest.
terra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹə/
rhymes: -ɛɹə
homophone: terror (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: terras
form: terrae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin terra.
Senses: glosses: Earth, soil, land, or ground as a physical surface.
glosses: The material world as opposed to the heavens.
glosses: A continent or large landmass, especially on another planet or moon; e.g. Arabia Terra or Aphrodite Terra.
glosses: A lunar highland or mountainous region with relatively high albedo; e.g. Terra Nivium.
Related terms: terracotta
terra-japonica
terra Lemnia
terra-mara
terra ponderosa
terra preta
terra rossa
conspire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: conspires
form: conspiring
form: conspired
form: conspired
Etymology: From Middle English conspiren, from Old French conspirer, from Latin conspirare, conspīrō, from con- (combining form of cum (“with”)) + spīrō (“breathe”).
Senses: examples: text: They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 37:18:
text: And there came a man, rushing from the farthest end of the city. He said, “O Moses! The chiefs are actually conspiring against you to put you to death, so leave ˹the city˺. I really advise you ˹to do so˺.”
ref: 2015, Mustafa Khattab, transl., The Clear Quran, →ISBN, surah 28, verse 20:
glosses: To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results; to collude, to connive, to plot.
examples: text: The press, the pulpit, and the stage / Conspire to censure and expose our age.
text: I feel my vanquish'd heart conspire
To crown a flame by Heav'n approv'd.
ref: 1744, Georg Friedrich Händel, Hercules, act 3, scene 5:
glosses: To agree, to concur to one end.
examples: text: Rain and sweat conspired to smudge her mascara.
text: Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: To work together to bring about.
Synonyms: sense: secretly plot
word: collogue
Derived terms: coconspire
conspiringly
conspirophile
nonconspiring
unconspired
unconspiring
Related terms: co-conspirator
conspiracy
conspiration
conspirator
inspire
spirit
albino
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈbiːnəʊ/
ipa: /ælˈbaɪnoʊ/
ipa: /alˈbiːnoː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese albino and Spanish albino.
* Portuguese albino is from Medieval Latin albinus, from Latin albus
* Spanish albino is diminutive of albo, from Latin albus (“white”).
Senses: glosses: Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.
Synonyms: sense: lacking melanin
word: albinal
sense: lacking melanin
word: albinic
sense: lacking melanin
word: albinistic
sense: lacking melanin
word: albinoid
sense: lacking melanin
word: hypomelanistic
sense: lacking melanin
word: hypomelanoid
sense: lacking melanin
word: amelanistic
sense: lacking melanin
word: amelanoid
Derived terms: albinistic
albinoid
Related terms: sense: lacking pigment
word: hypopigmented
sense: having an excess of pigment
word: hyperpigmented
word: leucistic
albino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈbiːnəʊ/
ipa: /ælˈbaɪnoʊ/
ipa: /alˈbiːnoː/
Forms: form: albinos
form: albinoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese albino and Spanish albino.
* Portuguese albino is from Medieval Latin albinus, from Latin albus
* Spanish albino is diminutive of albo, from Latin albus (“white”).
Senses: glosses: A person or animal congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); one born with albinism.
Synonyms: sense: one lacking melanin
word: albinoid
sense: one lacking melanin
word: hypomelanoid
sense: one lacking melanin
word: amelanoid
Derived terms: albiness
albinism
albinoid
albinoism
pseudoalbino
chart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɑɹt/
ipa: /tʃɑːt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
homophone: chaat (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: charts
form: charting
form: charted
form: charted
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French charte (“card, map”), from Late Latin charta (“paper, card, map”), Latin charta (“papyrus, writing”), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs, “papyrus, thin sheet”). See charter, card, carte.
Senses: examples: text: chart the seas
glosses: To draw a chart or map of.
examples: text: Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
text: We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
text: The men in "Homo," (and even perhaps Haynes himself) are not looking for acceptance or validation, but a way to chart their own notions of self-determination in a world that makes little sense and offers even less comfort.
ref: 1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
glosses: To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
glosses: To record systematically.
examples: text: Did you chart the urine output yet?
glosses: To record systematically.
To enter (medical information) into a medical record.
examples: text: The song has charted for 15 weeks!
text: The band first charted in 1994.
glosses: To appear on a hit-recording chart.
raw_tags: of a record or artist
Derived terms: chartable
outchart
rechart
Related terms: card
cartography
cartoon
cartouche
charter
Chartist
Magna Carta
album
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælbəm/
ipa: [ˈaɫb̚m̩]
Forms: form: albums
form: alba
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin album (“blank white writing tablet”), from albus (“white”).
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Rome, a white tablet or register on which the praetor's edicts and other public notices were recorded.
examples: text: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
text: In his free time, he used to open his album and add new pictures to it.
glosses: A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
examples: text: This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album of 300 equites (Plut. CG 5.2, Comp. 2.1), or by adlecting 600 equites into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. Per. 60).
ref: 1965, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings (Press of Case Western Reserve University), volume 96, page 364
glosses: A collection, especially of literary items
glosses: A phonograph record that is composed of several tracks
glosses: A jacket or cover for such a phonograph record.
examples: text: When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: His albums are very popular on Spotify.
text: He has released 8 albums so far.
glosses: A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
Synonyms: sense: phonograph record
word: disk
sense: phonograph record
word: disc
sense: phonograph record
word: LP
sense: phonograph record
word: long-playing
Derived terms: adult album alternative
album graecum
album-oriented radio
album-oriented rock
album-oriented soul
album track
concept album
live album
minialbum
multialbum
nihil album
nonalbum
photo album
solo album
split album
stamp album
stratum album intermediale
studio album
catapulta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catapultae
form: catapultæ
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin catapulta. Doublet of catapult.
Senses: examples: text: The projectile machines, or antient artillery, used by our ancestors about the time of the Norman invasion, were the scorpion, catapulta, balista, and onager of the Romans, with divers other species of the same machines, under a variety of different appellations.
ref: 1801, Francis Grose, chapter 12, in A History of the English Army, volume 1, page 366:
text: This pantomime over, Bentley recoiled, with the spring of a Roman catapulta, to his natural pursuits.
ref: 1863, Thomas de Quincey, Richard Bentley and Other Writings, page 128:
text: The catapulta was formerly an engine of war, used by the Romans for casting javelins and stones against castellated walls. A modern form of catapulta has been constructed, with a view to do away with the necessity of bowling the ball.
ref: 1863, "An Old Cricketer", The Cricket-Bat; and how to use it, page 90:
glosses: A Roman catapult (weapon for launching projectiles).
enzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.zaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: enzymes
Etymology: From German Enzym, coined 1878 by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: biocatalyst
glosses: A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction: either a globular protein with this function or an RNA molecule with this function.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: biocatalyst
biocatalyst
glosses: A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction: either a globular protein with this function or an RNA molecule with this function.
The protein type specifically.
coordinate_terms: ribozyme
qualifier: strictly
topics: Christianity
glosses: Leavened bread, as opposed to azyme.
Derived terms: abzyme
adaptive enzyme
alloenzyme
allozyme
angiotensin-converting enzyme
angiotensin converting enzyme
angiotensin converting enzyme 1
angiotensin converting enzyme 2
antienzyme
antizyme
apoenzyme
chemzyme
coenzyme
cuproenzyme
ecoenzyme
ectoenzyme
electroenzyme
endoenzyme
enzybiotic
enzymatic
enzyme-inducing medication
enzyme-inhibiting medication
enzyme inhibitor
enzymeless
enzymelike
enzymic
enzymogenesis
enzymoimmunoassay
enzymology
enzymolysis
enzymopathy
enzymosis
enzymuria
exoenzyme
flavoenzyme
granzyme
haloenzyme
heteroenzyme
holoenzyme
invert enzyme
isoenzyme
isozyme
lysozyme
macroenzyme
mechanoenzyme
megaenzyme
metalloenzyme
molybdoenzyme
multienzyme
nanoenzyme
nanozyme
necroenzyme
neoenzyme
nonenzyme
phosphoenzyme
photoenzyme
plastizyme
precursor enzyme
proenzyme
pseudoenzyme
restriction enzyme
ribozyme
selenoenzyme
seroenzyme
synzyme
theozyme
thermoenzyme
thioenzyme
tungstoenzyme
Related terms: zymase
zymo-
zymogen
zymogenic
zymogram
genu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.juː/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiˌnu/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(j)u/
rhymes: -ɛnjuː
Forms: form: genua
Etymology: PIE word
 *ǵónu
Borrowed from Latin genu (“knee”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The knee.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The knee.
A knee-like structure, in particular a bend in the corpus callosum of mammals.
Derived terms: genual
genu-
Related terms: geniculate
nunchaku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌnˈtʃækuː/
ipa: /nʌnˈtʃɑːkuː/
enpr: nən-chä'ko͞o
ipa: /nʌnˈt͡ʃɑku/
ipa: /nən-/
Forms: form: nunchakus
Etymology: Borrowed from Okinawan 双節棍 (nunchaku) (compare Japanese 双節棍 (nunchaku)), probably from Hokkien 兩節棍 /两节棍 (nn̄g-chat-kùn, literally “two-segment cudgel”), from 兩 /两 (nn̄g, “two”) + 節 /节 (chat, “joint; link; segment”) + 棍 (kùn, “cudgel; stick”).
Senses: topics: engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sports
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: chainsticks
numchuck
num-chuk
nunchuck
nunchuk
glosses: A weapon originating from Okinawa, Japan, consisting of two sticks joined by a chain or cord.
topics: engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sports
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The skill of using this weapon in martial arts.
Hypernyms: weapon
Coordinate terms: flail
Related terms: weapon
Okinawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒkiːˈnɑːwə/
ipa: /ˌəʊkiːˈnɑːwə/
ipa: /ˌoʊkiˈnɑwə/
rhymes: -ɑːwə
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 沖縄(おきなわ) (Okinawa).
Senses: synonyms: Uchina
glosses: A prefecture and island group of Japan.
examples: text: Anyone who knew our military installation in Okinawa knew it was a room full of gasoline waiting for someone to strike a match. We had forty-two bases on the island with more than twenty thousand personnel. All of them were living and conducting exercises right up against Okinawan civilian neighborhoods.
ref: 2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, Scribner, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 323:
synonyms: Uchina
glosses: The main island of the Okinawa and Ryukyu Islands, in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
synonyms: Uchina
glosses: The second-largest city on Okinawa Island, in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
qualifier: World War II
glosses: The Battle of Okinawa, which took place on the island of Okinawa in 1945.
Derived terms: Battle of Okinawa
Okinawan
Okinawa diet
tempe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tempes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tempeh.
finger fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌfʌk/
Forms: form: finger fucks
Senses: glosses: The act of using or inserting one's fingers into another person's genitalia, anus, or other part of the body to stimulate them sexually.
finger fuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌfʌk/
Forms: form: finger fucks
form: finger fucking
form: finger fucked
form: finger fucked
Senses: glosses: To insert a finger into a person's genitalia, anus, or other part of the body to stimulate them sexually.
skull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭl
ipa: /ˈskʌl/
homophone: scull
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: skulls
form: skulling
form: skulled
form: skulled
form: scull
Etymology: From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from a dialectal form of Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to Old English sċealu (“husk”). Compare Scots scull, Danish skal (“skull”) and skalle (“bald head, skull”), Norwegian skalle, Swedish skalle and especially dialectal Swedish skulle.
Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skoltr, skolptr (“muzzle, snout”), akin to Icelandic skoltur (“jaw”), dialectal Swedish skult, skulle (“dome, crown of the head, skull”), Middle Dutch scolle, scholle, Middle Low German scholle, schulle (“clod, sod”), and Scots skult, skolt. Compare also Old High German sciula, skiula (“skull”).
Senses: glosses: To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
examples: text: Monte swung so hard at the next ball that he skulled it straight right, into the pond: 8 in, 9 out.
ref: 2002, Robert C. Knox, Golf Balls Are Female, page 148:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike the top of (the ball).
examples: text: She nearly skulled the next drink and, despite feeling a little woozy, she felt a lot better.
ref: 2016, Karen Nolan, The Y Necklace:
text: That was at Jessica Eyre's sixteenth, and while nothing terrible had happened (I had skulled four Lemon Ruskis and fallen asleep in the garden), it was agreed by all that I had embarrassed myself.
ref: 2021, Mary Fifield, Kristin Thiel, Fire & Water:
text: He lifted his pint to skull what was left, but suddenly the whole thing— the smell of smoke and spilled beer, the flat Glasgow voices, the chiming of the cash register, the clatter of glasses— was somehow too much.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 337:
text: He skulled his drink, set the glass down, then grabbed the bottle and ambled over to the other couch.
ref: 2022, Lena Moore ·, Coveted:
glosses: To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.
skull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭl
ipa: /ˈskʌl/
homophone: scull
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: skulls
Etymology: See school (“a multitude”).
Senses: examples: text: A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.
ref: 1586, William Warner, Albion’s England:
text: These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls, into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.
ref: 1601, Philemon Holland (translator), Pliny the Elder (author), The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndvs., book IX, chapter xv: “Of the names and natures of many fishes.”
glosses: Obsolete form of school (“a multitude”).
Synonyms: word: brain bucket
word: brainbox
word: brainpan
word: cranium
word: harnpan
word: skull
Hypernyms: word: bone
Meronyms: word: braincase
word: mandible
word: maxilla
word: zygomatic bone
word: lacrimal bone
word: nasal bone
word: ethmoid bone
word: sphenoid bone
word: frontal bone
word: temporal bone
word: parietal bone
word: occipital bone
scull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭl
ipa: /skʌl/
homophone: skull
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: sculls
Etymology: From Middle English sculle (“a type of oar”), of uncertain origin, possibly from North Germanic, from Old Norse skola (“to rinse, wash”).
Senses: glosses: A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
glosses: One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
glosses: A small rowing boat, for one person.
glosses: A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.
Derived terms: sense: racing boat
word: double scull
sense: racing boat
word: quad scull
sense: racing boat
word: quadruple scull
sense: racing boat
word: single scull
scull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭl
ipa: /skʌl/
homophone: skull
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: sculls
form: sculling
form: sculled
form: sculled
Etymology: From Middle English sculle (“a type of oar”), of uncertain origin, possibly from North Germanic, from Old Norse skola (“to rinse, wash”).
Senses: examples: text: The afternoon sun was getting low as the Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, and not paying much attention to Mole.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: To row a boat using a scull or sculls.
glosses: To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.
Derived terms: sculler
scull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭl
ipa: /skʌl/
homophone: skull
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: sculls
Etymology: See skull. The verb sense may derive from Danish/Norwegian/Swedish skål.
Senses: examples: text: The sculls were so tender, that they generally fell to pieces on being touched. The other bones were stronger. There were some teeth which were judged to be smaller than those of an adult; a scull which on a slight view, appeared to be that of an infant, […]
ref: 1801, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the state of Virginia, page 144:
glosses: Archaic spelling of skull.
examples: text: The scull is a head piece, without visor or bever, resembling a bowl or bason, such as was worn by our cavalry, within twenty or thirty years.
ref: 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:
glosses: A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
scull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭl
ipa: /skʌl/
homophone: skull
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: sculls
form: sculling
form: sculled
form: sculled
form: skol
Etymology: See skull. The verb sense may derive from Danish/Norwegian/Swedish skål.
Senses: examples: text: 2005, Jane Egginton, Working and Living Australia, The Sunday Times, Cadogan Guides, UK, page 59,
In 1954, Bob Hawke made the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds.
text: That way you get your opponent so gassed up from sculling beer that all he can think about is trying to burp without spewing.
ref: 2005, Stefan Laszczuk, The Goddamn Bus of Happiness, page 75:
text: For a livelier scene, head here on Friday or Saturday night, when mass beer-sculling (chugging) and yodeling are accompanied by a brass band and costumed waitresses ferrying foaming beer steins about the atmospheric, cellarlike space.
ref: 2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia from $60 a Day, 14th edition, page 133:
text: After a three-day Torquay-to-Sydney road trip with his hosts, Noll rejoined his American temmates, unshaven and stinking of alcohol, the Team USA badge ripped from his warm-up jacket and replaced by an Aussie-made patch of Disney character Gladstone Gander sculling a frothy mug of beer.
ref: 2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 136:
text: I sipped it. It was thick and sweet and yuck. It went somewhere and did something I couldn't pinpoint. I sculled the rest.
ref: 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 181:
glosses: To drink the entire contents of a drinking vessel without pausing.
Synonyms: chug
down
scull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭl
ipa: /skʌl/
homophone: skull
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: sculls
Etymology: See school.
Senses: examples: text: Of fish that with their fins and shining scales
Glide under the green wave , in sculls
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A shoal of fish.
scull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skŭl
ipa: /skʌl/
homophone: skull
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: sculls
Etymology: See skua
Senses: glosses: The skua gull.
White Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: (cocktail): The word white refers to the milk, while Russian refers to the vodka.
Senses: examples: text: The overseer of the clinic was a White Russian woman, a nun, formerly of the Russian Orthodox community in Jerusalem, but a good-hearted woman. In these cases, we should not be too scrupulous politically, said the priest.
ref: 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 340:
glosses: Of or relating to Russians with tsarist or anti-Soviet sympathies in the period directly following the Revolution in 1917.
glosses: Of or relating to Belarus, literally "White Russia", or its language.
Synonyms: word: Belarusan
english: preferred
translation: preferred
word: Belarusian
word: Belorussian
english: official before 1991
translation: official before 1991
word: Bielorussian
word: Byelorussian
Coordinate terms: Great Russian
Little Russian
White Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: White Russians
Etymology: (cocktail): The word white refers to the milk, while Russian refers to the vodka.
Senses: examples: text: Few cocktails include milk and cream, so the White Russian is a welcome departure from the norm. Already a popular drink in its own right, the White Russian was made famous by Jeff Bridges’ character in “The Big Lebowski.”
ref: 2015, Shane Carley, The Mason Jar Cocktail Companion, Cider Mill Press, →ISBN, page 15:
related: word: white Russian
word: white russian
synonyms: word: Caucasian
coordinate_terms: Black Russian
glosses: A cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk.
examples: text: The White Guard colony in Harbin is armed and organized along military lines. At the head of this army of counter-revolution—the shock troops of Japanese imperialism—stands the notorious tsarist bandit, "Ataman" Semionov.
ref: [1935, Leon Dennen, White Guard Terrorists in the U.S.A., New York City: Friends of the Soviet Union, page 18:
glosses: A White Guardist, a Russian who did not support the Socialists in the Revolution in 1917 and the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and afterwards (e.g. as a White émigré).
synonyms: word: Belarusan
word: Belarusian
english: preferred
translation: preferred
word: Belorussian
word: Bielorussian
english: official before 1991
translation: official before 1991
word: Byelorussian
glosses: A Belarusian person.
Coordinate terms: Great Russian
Little Russian
Black Russian