cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
self-advancement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + advancement.
Senses: glosses: The promotion of one's own qualities or abilities
self-assertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + assertion.
Senses: examples: text: If his sweet-tempered wife could have got up any self-assertion against anyone, I am satisfied it could only have been because she was the Beauty’s sister.
ref: 1869, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:
text: In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows; its influence is directed, not so much to the survival of the fittest, as to the fitting of as many as possible to survive.
ref: 1893, Thomas Huxley, Evolution and Ethics:
text: "Self-assertion is foreign to my nature, but I have to hold my ground against opposition."
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine:
glosses: The aggressive advancement of one's own opinions or wishes.
self-aware
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-aware
form: most self-aware
Etymology: From self- + aware.
Senses: examples: text: The robot didn't just resemble a human girl: she was self-aware and conscious as well.
text: The time has come. According to the Terminator clock, at 8:11 p.m. Tuesday, Skynet will become self-aware. And humanity will be screwed.
ref: 2011 April 19, Angela Watercutter, “Skynet Becomes Self-Aware: How to Welcome Our AI Overlords”, in Wired:
glosses: Aware of oneself as an individual that exists in the real world.
examples: text: The video is a self-aware parody of the trend.
glosses: Cognizant of one's appearances, shortcomings, etc.
Synonyms: word: intelligent
word: sentient
word: self-aware
word: sapient
Meronyms: sentient
Related terms: self-awareness
self-command
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + command.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: willpower
text: I would wish it to be done, for the sake of what is more important than my comfort, a habit of self-command in you, a consideration of what is your duty, an attention to propriety, an endeavour to avoid the suspicions of others, to save your health and credit, and restore your tranquillity.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 13:
synonyms: self-control
self-discipline
self-mastery
self-regulation
antonyms: undisciplinedness
coordinate_terms: self-awareness
self-criticism
glosses: The conscious control of one's own behaviour.
self-complacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-complacent
form: most self-complacent
Etymology: From self- + complacent.
Senses: glosses: Complacently self-satisfied
self-contradiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-contradictions
Etymology: From self- + contradiction.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A statement that contains a contradiction, or a premise from which one could be derived.
Related terms: self-contradict
self-contradictory
self-criticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛlfˈkɹɪtəˌsɪzəm/
ipa: [ˌsɛlfˈkɹɪɾəˌsɪzəm]
Forms: form: self-criticisms
Etymology: From self- + criticism.
Senses: glosses: Criticism of oneself.
examples: text: to commit self-criticism
text: ... commit self - criticism and allow other people to criticize him . If we do all these things , then there is hope and there is a future for Marxism . The most important thing is consistency . If you make a promise you must keep it[…]
ref: 1991, Edward A. Gargan, China's Fate: A People's Turbulent Struggle with Reform and Repression, 1980-1990, Doubleday Books:
text: This is starting to resemble (in a much lower-stakes field, it cannot be said often enough) some Union of Soviet Cinematographers self-criticism sessions for artists whose work was considered “bourgeois formalism” or whatever made Stalin’s colon clench that week.
ref: 2003 August 16, vjmorton, “Not-so-brave heart”, in Rightwing Film Geek:
topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A practice of confessing and criticizing one's real or imagined transgressions in public settings, especially in East Asia.
Derived terms: self-critical
tactility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tactilities
Etymology: From tactile + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Each time they lay down there together, as if she obeyed a voice that came out of the quilt telling her to put the light out, she would extinguish the candle flame between her finger-tips. All around them, the tactility of the dark.
ref: 1988, Angela Carter, “John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore”, in Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, New York: H. Holt, page 337:
text: 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Part 8, p. 554,
Maan loved swimming, not for the exercise but for the luxury, the tactility of it.
synonyms: tactuality
glosses: The condition of being tactile (relating to or able to be perceived by the sense of touch).
glosses: The ability to feel pressure or pain through touch.
take-no-prisoners
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: ruthlessly aggressive and uncompromising
talking-to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talkings-to
form: talking to
Etymology: From talking + to.
Senses: examples: text: Yer gonna make me wonder what I’m doin’
 Stayin’ far behind without you
 Yer gonna make me wonder what I’m sayin’
 Yer gonna make me give myself a good talkin’ to
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, “You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go”, in Blood on the Tracks:
text: Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well.
ref: 1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 55:
text: In the afternoons, on her way to Sant Ambroeus, Vernon occasionally passes Carrie’s stoop to give the influencers a talking-to: “I say to them, ‘Excuse me, is that your property? That’s actually trespassing.’ ”
ref: 2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
glosses: A scolding or reprimand; a lengthy rebuke.
talky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: talkier
form: talkiest
Etymology: From talk + -y.
Senses: glosses: Talkative or loquacious
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: This is not a talky film, and there are many scenes in which all the power emanates from visual images.
ref: 1984 August 18, Walta Borawski, “Another Country (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 13:
text: It was a pleasant enough presentation, if talkier than strictly necessary.
ref: 2007 April 24, Allan Kozinn, “Music of the Spheres and the Pain of Earthly Matters”, in New York Times:
glosses: Containing a great deal of dialogue or talking in general
raw_tags: of a book etc.
Derived terms: talkiness
Related terms: talkie
talky-talky
talkative
tamarack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamaracks
Etymology: From Canadian French tamarac, believed to derive from an Algonquian word.
In European languages there was contamination between tacamahac, from Nahuatl, and various Algonquian words containing the final Proto-Algonquian *-a·xkw- (“hardwood or deciduous tree”), including the sources of tamarack and hackmatack, as was already recognized by Chamberlain 1902. This makes the precise Algonquian words involved difficult to recover.
Senses: examples: text: The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads.
ref: 2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 36:
text: The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.
ref: 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 116:
glosses: Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
glosses: The wood from such a tree.
Synonyms: hackmatack
tacamahac
tanager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtænəd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: tanagers
Etymology: From translingual Tanagra, from Portuguese tangara, from Old Tupi tangara.
Senses: examples: text: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:
text: I’m remembering that time when there was a mourning warbler on that chip path 15 years ago and I remember the scarlet tanagers last week. That’s what I think about when I’m in the park.
ref: 2023 June 19, Morgan Jerkins, quoting Christian Cooper, “‘She doesn’t have the power’: Central Park birdwatcher Christian Cooper on why racist ‘incident’ won’t define him”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
hypernyms: bird#Noun
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animal#Noun
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creature#Noun
glosses: Any of numerous species of often colorful passerine birds that inhabit New World forests within the family Thraupidae.
Derived terms: ant tanager
beryl-spangled tanager
chat-tanager
dusky bush tanager
fulvous-headed tanager
hepatic tanager
Hispaniolan tanager
Louisiana tanager
magpie tanager
masked crimson tanager
mitrospingid tanager
Puerto Rican tanager
red tanager
scarlet-browed tanager
scarlet tanager
shrike-tanager
summer tanager
swallow tanager
tanagrine
thrush-tanager
true tanager
western tanager
tanbark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanbarks
Etymology: From tan + bark.
Senses: glosses: The bark of the oak (or other trees) used as a source of tannin.
examples: text: Another circle of groats, crowning a temporary pathway of tanbark flung wide around the first two rings, provided dry footing for the rest of the guests.
ref: 2004, Lois McMaster Bujold, Winterfair Gifts:
glosses: The spent bark used as a ground covering.
glosses: Woodchips.
raw_tags: in the San Francisco Bay Area
tangentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /tænˈd͡ʒɛnʃi.əli/
/tænˈd͡ʒɛnʃəli/
Forms: form: more tangentially
form: most tangentially
Etymology: From tangential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Rift sawn planks shrink about one half of those cut tangentially, due to the restraining action of medullary rays. Also, rift sawn timber gives a harder wearing surface than the other and hence these may be used in flooring and other locations subjected to abrasive actions.
ref: 2003, . B.C. Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain, & Arun Kr. Jain, Basic Civil Engineering, →ISBN, page 79:
text: And while cellphones are at least experientially related to the land line, and e-mail feels tangentially related to the fax, texting is simultaneously a throwback to the telegraph and a harbinger of a new age.
ref: 2007 July 12, Lisa Belkin, “Let’s Talk. Let Me Outline the Ways.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a tangential manner or direction.
Related terms: coincidentally
tantra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʌntɹə/
/ˈtɑːntɹə/
/ˈtæntɹə/
Forms: form: tantras
Etymology: From Sanskrit तन्त्र (tantra), from Proto-Indo-European *ten-tlo- /*tn̥-tlo-, from *ten-. Doublet of tar (“string instrument”).
Senses: glosses: A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.
Derived terms: black tantra
red tantra
tantric
white tantra
organic law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organic laws
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A law or system of laws which forms the foundation of a government, corporation or other organization's body of rules. A constitution is a particular form of organic law for a sovereign state.
tap-dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tap-dances
form: tap-dancing
form: tap-danced
form: tap-danced
Senses: glosses: To perform a tap dance
tap dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tap dances
Senses: synonyms: tap
glosses: A rhythmic dance in which the heels and toes of the dancer's shoes make a series of clicks.
synonyms: dog and pony show
song and dance
glosses: Any act or performance, especially one viewed as servile, designed to please, appease, or win the approval of others.
Related terms: tap-dance
tap-dancer
tap-dancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tap-dancers
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who performs a tap dance.
tapeline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapelines
Etymology: From tape + line.
Senses: glosses: A line of lightweight plastic put up around a crime scene to restrict access to the police.
glosses: A tape measure.
tape-record
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tape-records
form: tape-recording
form: tape-recorded
form: tape-recorded
Senses: examples: text: They then asked for permission to tape-record responses to the questions.
ref: 2003, Celia B. Fisher, Decoding the Ethics Code: A Practical Guide for Psychologists:
glosses: To record on magnetic tape.
Related terms: tape-recorded
tape recorder
tapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tappers
Etymology: From tap + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A low tap was heard at the room door. Mr. Bob Sawyer looked expressively at his friend, and bade the tapper come in[…]
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: One who makes a tapping noise.
glosses: A tap-dancer.
glosses: A wiretapper.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A weakly hit ground ball.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
glosses: In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
glosses: The lesser spotted woodpecker.
glosses: A tapster.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.
Derived terms: rubber tapper
till-tapper
toe tapper
toe-tapper
wheeltapper
wheel-tapper
tattooer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattooers
Etymology: From tattoo + -er.
Senses: glosses: tattooist
Synonyms: tattooist
tax-deductible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That is exempt from payment of income tax.
taxonomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to taxonomy.
Derived terms: chemotaxonomical
cytotaxonomical
ichnotaxonomical
parataxonomical
taxonomically
Ulrica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A feminine form of the male given name Ulric (modern German Ulrich), Germanic for "ruler of all" or "wolf[like] ruler".
Senses: examples: text: Farewell, Front-de-Boeuf! — May Mista, Skogula, and Zernebock, gods of the ancient Saxons – fiends, as the priests now call them – supply the place of comforters at your dying bed, which Ulrica now relinquishes!
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, chapter XXX, in Ivanhoe:
text: "Forever is a word forbidden to men," asserted Ulrica and, to lighten the emphasis, she asked me to repeat my name, which she had not caught. "Javier Otárola," I told her. She tried to repeat it and couldn't. I failed, equally, with the name Ulrikke.
ref: 1975, Jorge Luis Borges, “Ulrica”, in The Book of Sand:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, rare in English.
vereda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veredas
Etymology: From Spanish vereda.
Senses: glosses: A scattered settlement in Latin America.
apanage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: apanages
form: appanage
Etymology: From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).
Senses: examples: text: Well, prince, Genoa and Lucca are now nothing more than the apanages, than the private property of the Bonaparte family.
ref: 1889, Lyof N[ikolayevich] Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], chapter I, in Nathan Haskell Dole, transl., War and Peace […] In Four Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Co. […], →OCLC, part first, page 1:
text: they suspected that Peter II was only waiting till he had saved enough of his apanage to run away to some more civilized country.
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 1046:
glosses: A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.
examples: text: For, though I don't very much want books and opera and etchings and wines and liqueurs—still, if I want them I can have them at any moment. And that sense of security is worth more than a thousand of the temperamental ecstasies and agonies that are the appanage of hard-up youth.
ref: 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company:
glosses: A perquisite that is appropriate to one's position; an accompaniment.
apanage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈæpənɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: apanages
form: apanaging
form: apanaged
form: apanaged
form: appanage
Etymology: From French apanage, from Latin *appanare, adpanare (“to give bread”), from pānis (“bread”).
Senses: glosses: To confer an apanage upon.
self-inflicted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + inflicted.
Senses: examples: text: Police said they found the driver deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot injuries.
text: An expert in the self-inflicted wound, his attacks frequently miss their target in favour of reminding you of his own failings.
text: When the salarians discovered them, the krogan were a brutal, primitive species struggling to survive a self-inflicted nuclear winter. The salarians culturally uplifted them, teaching them to use and build modern technology so they could serve as soldiers in the Rachni War.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan Codex entry:
text: One huge self-inflicted wound the industry is now suffering from is the lack of coupling compatibility. Up to the 1980s virtually everything had compatible drawgear on a given route, so there was every chance of pushing a failed train out of the way. Since privatisation, compatibility has been lost and in the last few years operators seem to have gone out of their way to avoid compatibility.
ref: 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 43:
text: A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.
ref: 2025 January 1, Reuters, “Suspect in Montenegro shooting dies from self-inflicted injuries after killing at least 12 people”, in CNN:
glosses: Inflicted by oneself.
Related terms: own goal
self-esteem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛlf.əˈstiːm/
Forms: form: self-esteems
Etymology: From self- + esteem.
Senses: examples: text: American companies now put a great deal of effort into boosting their employees' self-esteem by handing out inflated job titles. Most likely, they think it also helps compensate for the longer hours, unpaid overtime and stagnant wages that have become standard. It doesn't.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “EUPHEMISMS: What Do You Do for a Living?”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 90:
text: People with high self-esteem think they're more popular, charming, and socially skilled than other people, but objective studies find no difference.
ref: 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, pages 191–192:
glosses: Confidence in one's own worth; self-respect.
taxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxers
form: taxor
Etymology: From tax + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who taxes.
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed.
revictual
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈvɪtəl/
Forms: form: revictuals
form: revictualing
form: revictualling
form: revictualed
form: revictualed
form: revictualled
form: revictualled
Etymology: From re- + victual.
Senses: examples: text: Vessels of war of belligerents shall not revictual or take in stores in the Canal and its ports of access […]
ref: 1888, “Convention of Constantinople”, in The, Article 4:
text: When it was proposed that it should be revictualled on the same system as Belgium, Nicholas objected.
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 1053:
text: […] stopping now and again to be revictualled through the window with pots of tea and proper meals […]
ref: 1995, Tom Stoppard, Indian Ink, I.i:
glosses: To supply with fresh provisions.
munk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: munks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monk.
burdens of proof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burden of proof
bammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bam
bamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bam
bams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bam
bams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bam
farks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fark
farked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fark
European Parliament
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈroʊpiən ˈpɑrləmənt/
ipa: /jʊˈrəʊpiən ˈpɑːrləmənt/
Forms: form: the European Parliament
Senses: topics: government
politics
hypernyms: parliament
glosses: A legislative chamber of the European Union.
shewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shew
shewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shewings
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of showing.
guldgubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gullgubber
Senses: glosses: embossed gold foil plaques bearing male or female figures
antennas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɛnəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of antenna
Synonyms: antennae
accusatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækjuˈzeɪtɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of accusatrix
accusator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accusators
form: accusatour
Etymology: From literary French accusateur, from Latin accūsātōrem, accusative singular of accūsātor (“accuser”). Doublet of accuser.
Senses: glosses: A male accuser.
Related terms: accusatorial
accusatorially
accusatory
accusatrix
accusators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accusator
accusatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈkjusətɹɪks/
/ækjuˈzeɪtɹɪks/
Forms: form: accusatrices
Etymology: From Latin accūsātrīx (“accuser (female)”). By surface analysis, accusator + -trix.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:accusatrix.
synonyms: accuseress
glosses: A female accusator.
Mazandaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian مازندران (mâzandarân, literally “the gate or the valley of the giants”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A land mentioned in Shahnameh and Avesta.
glosses: A northern province of Iran.
Synonyms: Tabarestan
Tabaristan
Tabaria
Tapurestan
Tapuria
adjutrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒʊtɹɪsiːz/
ipa: /əˈdjutɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of adjutrix
glosses: plural of adjutrice
adjutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædʒətə(r)/
Forms: form: adjutors
Etymology: From Latin adiūtor (“helper, assistant”), from adiuvō (“help, assist”).
Senses: glosses: An adjutant; a helper or assistant.
Related terms: adjutory
adjutrix
adjutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædʒətə(r)/
Forms: form: adjutors
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French adiutoire, adjutoire, from Latin adiūtōrium (“humerus”). Ultimately a doublet of etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: The upper arm, as opposed to the forearm.
Related terms: adjutory bone
adjutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjutor
adjutrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒʊtɹɪks/
ipa: /əˈdjutɹɪks/
Forms: form: adjutrices
Etymology: From Latin adiūtrīx, feminine of adiūtor. By surface analysis, adjutor + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female adjutor.
Derived terms: coadjutrix
dominatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɒmɪˈneɪtɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of dominatrix
dominating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dominate
dominator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dominators
form: dominatour
Senses: examples: text: Young looking 30 yr old dominator, but might bend (flexible) for the right person.
ref: 1988 May 7, Jeff Winters, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: subordinator
glosses: One who, or that which, dominates.
A male dominant.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: subordinator
glosses: One who, or that which, dominates.
A node that dominates another.
Derived terms: dominatrix
dominators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dominator
dominates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dominate
testatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈsteɪtɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of testatrix
travelator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹæv.ə.leɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: travelators
form: travellator
form: travolator
Etymology: Blend of travel + escalator
Senses: glosses: A moving walkway; a slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an escalator.
Synonyms: word: autowalk
word: moving walkway
word: walkalator
Related terms: escalator
resurgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒəns
Forms: form: resurgences
Etymology: From resurge + -ence.
Senses: glosses: An instance of something resurging; a renewal of vigor or vitality.
resurgences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resurgence
resurges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resurge
resurges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resurge
resurging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resurge
resurging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resurgings
Senses: glosses: An instance of something resurging; a resurgence.
resurging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resurging
form: most resurging
Senses: glosses: Undergoing a period of resurgence; resurgent.
resurgings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resurging
resurged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resurge
traditional medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditional medicines
Senses: glosses: A system of medicine developed before the era of modern medicine, especially one that is associated with a single culture.
glosses: A specific medicine or remedy in this system.
Related terms: alternative medicine
complementary medicine
herbal medicine
integrative medicine
resurgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Forms: form: more resurgent
form: most resurgent
Etymology: From re- + surgent.
Senses: examples: text: All the terror of time, where error and fear were lords of a world of slaves,
Age on age in resurgent rage and anguish darkening as waves on waves,
Fell or fled from a face that shed such grace as quickens the dust of graves.
ref: 1894, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “England: An Ode”, in Astrophel and Other Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, Part I, stanza 5, p. 103:
text: What if this voice should say words that it speaks already in private, should rise and not fall again, should rise and rise and rise, and the people rise with it, should madden them with thoughts of rebellion and dominion, with thoughts of power and possession? Should paint for them pictures of Africa awakening from sleep, of Africa resurgent, of Africa dark and savage?
ref: 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 26, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, page 184:
text: 1975, Gerald Ford, State of the Union Address delivered on 15 January, 1975,
A resurgent American economy would do more to restore the confidence of the world in its own future than anything else we can do.
text: They won at West Ham in a quarter-final replay then survived a comeback from a resurgent Everton to win the semi-final with Antony Martial's late winner.
ref: 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC:
glosses: Undergoing a resurgence; experiencing renewed vigor or vitality.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a celestial object, moving upwards relative to the horizon after a period of having moved downwards.
examples: text: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, Aphorisms on Spiritual Religion, Aphorism 19, p. 326,
[…] the co-eternal Word and only-begotten Son of the Living God, incarnate, tempted, agonizing […] , crucified, submitting to Death, resurgent, communicant of his Spirit, ascendent, and obtaining for his Church the Descent and Communion of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.
text: Break not my dream, obtrusive tomb!
Or teach thou, Spring! the grand recoil
Of life resurgent from the soil
Wherein was dropped the mortal spoil.
ref: 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 36:
glosses: Rising again, as from the dead.
resurgent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Forms: form: resurgents
Etymology: From re- + surgent.
Senses: examples: text: The poor man came before the Police, making the bitterest complaints upon being restored to life; and for three years the burden of supporting him fell upon the mistaken Samaritan, who had rescued him from death. During that period, scarcely a day elapsed in which the degraded resurgent did not appear before the European, and curse him with the bitterest curses—as the cause of all his misery and desolation.
ref: 1808 April, Sydney Smith, “Indian Missions”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume 12, number 23, page 175:
glosses: Someone who rises again, as from the dead.
autoformat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoformats
form: autoformatting
form: autoformatted
form: autoformatted
Etymology: From auto- + format.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To format (a document, etc.) automatically.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To automatically prepare (a mass storage medium) for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process, without requiring a prompt from the user to do so.
autoformats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoformat
autoformatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autoformat
autoformatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autoformat
beaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beach
beaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: beachings
Senses: examples: text: Before the beachings, he notes, his team had spotted about 50 of the unusual Cuvier's beaked whales in the study area.
ref: 2001 January 26, David Malakoff, “ECOLOGY: A Roaring Debate Over Ocean Noise”, in Science, volume 291, number 5504, →DOI, pages 576–578:
text: The beachings, coming so close together, are considered extremely rare, in part because threshers mainly rove deep waters.
ref: 2007 September 16, Ray Rivera, “2nd Shark Washes Up on Rockaway Beach and Is Pushed Back”, in New York Times:
glosses: An event in which a marine animal beaches itself.
calefie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calefies
form: calefying
form: calefied
form: calefied
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of calefy.
bloomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluː.mə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bloomers
Etymology: From Middle English blomer, from blome (“iron ingot”) (modern English bloom), from Old English blōma.
Senses: glosses: An ironworker.
Related terms: Blumer
Bloomer
bloomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluː.mə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bloomers
Etymology: From bloom + -er.
Senses: examples: text: What's more, I claim that Elmer's biggest mistake wasn't the one he made at Cedarville before six thousand witnesses. His prize bloomer was pulled in Hoboken before three witnesses
ref: 1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post:
text: "You know," pursued Reggie seriously, "I think you are making the bloomer of a lifetime over this hat-swatting chappie. You've misjudged him. He's a first-rate sort.[…]
ref: 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress:
text: In 1933, four years before his death, Rutherford said, firmly and explicitly, that he didn't believe the energy of the nucleus would ever be released—nine years later, at Chicago, the first pile began to run. That was the only major bloomer in scientific judgment Rutherford ever made.
ref: 1959, Charles Percy Snow, The Two Cultures:
text: After 12 successive league wins[…]Charlton were nobbled by the First Division's no-hopers, who profited from a goalkeeping bloomer then held on to their lead for dear life.
ref: 2000 March 12, Stuart Barnes, “Swindon stunner for Curbishley”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: aberration
word: barbarism
word: bloomer
word: blooper
word: blunder
word: boner
word: boo-boo
word: break
word: clanger
word: cock-up
word: error
word: fault
word: faux pas
word: floater
word: flub
word: fluff
word: fuckup
word: gaffe
word: goof
word: howler
word: inaccuracy
word: lapse
word: lapsus
word: mess-up
word: misstep
word: mistake
word: oopsy
word: screwup
word: slip
word: slip-up
word: slipup
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: wrength
word: solecism
word: erroneity
glosses: A large or embarrassing mistake; blunder.
glosses: A circular loaf of white bread.
glosses: A blooming flower.
examples: text: She was a late bloomer.
glosses: One who blooms, matures, or develops.
Derived terms: early bloomer
everbloomer
late bloomer
life estate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life estates
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An estate in land which is owned by a party only for the duration of the life of that party, and for which ownership will revert to another upon the death of that party.
Synonyms: estate for life
life estate pur autre vie
life tenant
tenancy for life
life estates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life estate
estate for life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estates for life
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A life estate.
estates for life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estate for life
tenancy for life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenancies for life
Senses: glosses: A life estate.
tenancies for life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenancy for life
tenancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenancy
insofar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.səʊˈfɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪn.səˈfɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪn.soʊˈfɑɹ/
ipa: /ɪn.səˈfɑɹ/
ipa: /ɪn.səʉˈfaː(ɹ)/
Etymology: By surface analysis, in + so + far.
Senses: examples: text: The plan was successful, insofar as it saved money.
text: the fugitive-slave act did not affect a foreign country which Virginia claimed to be and that she must reckon it one of the infelicities of her position that in so far at least she was taken at her word
ref: 1861 May, Major-General Benjamin Franklin Butler, letter to Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Fort Monroe: Headquarters Department of Virginia, Union Army:
text: Seventh: The defendant, its agents, servants and employees were negligent insofar that the trolley car was started while the plaintiff, Rose Goldman was in the act of alighting therefrom, and before she had reasonable opportunity to fully descend therefrom; insofar that the defendant, its agents, servants and employees did not take proper precaution and used reasonable care in starting the trolly car; insofar that no warning was given to the plaintiff, Rose Goldman, that the trolley car would start and by reason of the negligence of the defendant in other respects.
ref: 1933, New York Supreme Court, page 9:
text: Although the respective articles of the EEC Treaty expressly provide that all provisions including competition rules have to be applied to public enterprises in the same way as to private enterprises experience of past 20 years shows that rather little has been done insofar.
ref: 1980, International Bar Association. Section on Business Law, International Bar Association. Conference, Codes of Conduct for Transnational Corporations, page 52:
glosses: To such a degree or extent.
glosses: Insofar as.
recreating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recreate
Dumas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Desha County, Arkansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Tippah County, Mississippi.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clark County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Moore County, Texas.
glosses: plural of Duma
Related terms: Alexandre Dumas
French writer
pregante
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Sorry, the message is so long... I just wanted to tell ?Emily that yes you can get pregnate and find a good doctor who will listen to you and you'll be pregante before you know it.^([sic])
ref: 1995 May 5, Tamara J. Vecsey MHLP <vecsey@fmhi.usf.edu>, “irregular cycle = no ovulation”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 Oct 2025:
text: Fred Thompson got a girl pregante in high school.
ref: 2007 May 7, the Bede <rspwsownthebede@yahoo.com>, “a reminder for the Family Values crowd:”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 Oct 2025:
text: But seriously, to answer the questions—yes, all of you are pregante.
ref: 2016 October 21, Miles Klee, “You’ll lose your mind hearing this guy read every Yahoo Answers misspelling of ‘pregnant’”, in Daily Dot, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2025:
text: My Editor Josie is pregante at the moment, and her feet get all swollen, like she has two of that guy from the X-Men movie, the one who gets blasted by the Cerebrum or something and then bloats up and disintegrates into water?
ref: 2019 December 3, Melissa Mason, “I’m Gonna Make Maseur Sandals Cool Again & Goddammit You’d Better Get On Board”, in Pedestrian, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2023:
text: Just because of the way that the Sims 2 work, there's a way to impregnate yourself using the tombstone of life and death. Beautiful tool, beautiful tool. This will always impregnate yourself with a clone version of you, and for some reason clones are always of the opposite, uh, sex. So Brandy's pregnant with, basically, with a little boy version of her. Skip is registered as the dad. So all around, it's a really sad story. Maybe Brandy did kill him and didn't realize that she was pregante.
ref: 2024 March 6, Plumbella [pseudonym; Jesse McNamara], 24:47 from the start, in The Sims Iceberg Explained, via YouTube, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2025:
text: Hi guys I have an announcement I’m gonna make soonnnnnnnnnmnnnnnn 💕 I’m not pregante OR AM I no I’m not BUT WHAT IF I AM
ref: 2025 June 6, umeshiso_ [pseudonym; Umeko Motoyoshi], Instagram, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2025:
glosses: Misspelling of pregnant
Tammie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æmi
Senses: glosses: A female given name, a spelling variant of Tammy.
Tamsin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tamsins
form: Tamsyn
Etymology: A medieval contraction of Thomasina, a feminine form of Thomas, revived in the UK in the twentieth century.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Aramaic.
Tayla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, an invention based on Taylor from the 1990s.
Tonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A short form of the female given name Antonia.
glosses: Phonetic rendering of Ukrainian То́ня (Tónja), an informal diminutive form of Антоніна (Antonina, “Antonina”).
Related terms: Tonya
Tricia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪʃə/
rhymes: -ɪʃə
Forms: form: Trisha
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
spirali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian spirali (“spirals”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Pasta in the form of twisted tubes.
maltine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maltin.
Velma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛlmə/
Etymology: Coined at the end of the 19th century, by analogy with Thelma and Wilma.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Verna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined in the 19th century, from Latin vernus (“spring-like”) or as a feminine of Vernon.
Senses: examples: text: I dislike peppermint flavouring to this day. And the name Verna — I dislike that. It doesn't sound like spring to me, or like green grass or garlands of flowers or girls in flimsy dresses. It sounds more like a trail of obstinate peppermint, […]
ref: 2009, Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Veronica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈɹɒnɪkə/
Etymology: From the Latin form of Berenice, from Ancient Greek Φερενίκη (Phereníkē). Influenced by the Church Latin phrase vera icon ("true image") associated with the veil of Saint Veronica, who wiped the face of Jesus on the way to Calvary, resulting in an image of his face miraculously appearing on the veil. Doublet of Berenice.
Senses: examples: text: My own name, Veronica — an ugly enough thing I had always thought, it sounded like either the ointment or the disease — was one her great favourites. St Veronica wiped the face of Christ on the road to Calvary and He left His face on her tea towel. Or the picture of His face. It was the first-ever photograph, she said.
ref: 2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: Veronica bucket
Veronica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈɹɒnɪkə/
Forms: form: Veronicas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Verónica.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
vocal chords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of vocal cords.
Zara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaras
form: Zarah
Etymology: A 20th-century variant of Sarah, or explained as Arabic زَهْرَة (zahra, “flower”); given to the daughter of Princess Anne in 1981.
Senses: examples: text: While the plane is “perfectly capable” of making the trip without these modifications, Zara’s father Sam Rutherford says these changes have given both him and Zara an extra sense of security.
ref: 2021 August 18, Rebecca Cairns, “This teenage aviator hopes to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A female given name.
A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah.
glosses: A female given name.
A female given name from Arabic.
Zoey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊi
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a phonetic spelling of Zoë.
Alejandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Alejandra. Doublet of Alexandra.
Senses: examples: text: “The end goal is to destroy all of civil society. NGOs include everything from community clinics to civil rights orgs. It means the end of the ACLU, NAACP, and all advocacy orgs,” Harvard cyberlaw instructor Alejandra Caraballo wrote on Bluesky in February.
ref: 2025 April 17, Zane McNeill, “DOGE Aims to Embed Agents in All Nonprofits That Receive Federal Funds”, in Truthout, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2025:
glosses: A female given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Alexandra.
Guadalupe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡwɑdəˈlupeɪ/
note: places in Texas
ipa: /ˈɡwɑdəlup/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Guadalupe; see there for more. Doublet of Guadeloupe.
Senses: glosses: Any of several places in Iberia and the Americas, chiefly an island off Baja California.
A city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.
glosses: Any of several places in Iberia and the Americas, chiefly an island off Baja California.
A town in San Vicente department, El Salvador.
Derived terms: Guadalupe County
Guadalupe fur seal
Guadalupe pine
Guadalupe River
Nueva Guadalupe
Related terms: Guadalajara
Guadalcanal
Guadalquivir
Guadiana
Guadalupe Nuevo
Guadalupe Viejo
longsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒŋsəm/
rhymes: -ɒŋsəm
Forms: form: more longsome
form: most longsome
form: langsome
Etymology: From Middle English longsum, from Old English langsum (“long; taking a long time; lasting a long time; long-enduring; long-suffering”), from Proto-West Germanic *langasam (“lengthy; long-lasting; vast; extensive”), equivalent to long + -some.
Senses: glosses: Marked or characterised by longness or length; lengthy; long-lasting; protracted.
glosses: Tedious; tiresomely long.
Synonyms: sense: characterised by longness
word: lengthsome
word: long
sense: long-lasting, protracted
word: diuturnal
word: prolonged
word: lasting
sense: tedious
word: plodding
word: tiresome
word: boring
word: wearisome
Derived terms: longsomely
longsomeness
lapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lap
lapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He had to pass the lapped cars on the racetrack.
glosses: Being one or more complete laps behind the leader in a race.