cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
intelligent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɪɳʈəlɪd͡ʒəɳʈ/
Forms: form: more intelligent
form: intelligenter
form: most intelligent
form: intelligentest
form: entelligent
Etymology: From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intellegēns (“discerning”), present active participle of intellegō (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + legō (“choose, pick out, read”).
Senses: examples: text: Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
ref: 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
glosses: Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
examples: text: The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.
text: The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign.
glosses: Well thought-out, well considered.
examples: text: My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
glosses: Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
examples: text: The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.
glosses: Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
examples: text: an intelligent network or keyboard
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
Synonyms: sense: similar level of brain power to mankind
word: self-aware
word: astute
word: brainy
word: bright
word: brilliant
word: clever
word: educated
word: genius
word: gifted
word: ingenious
word: intellectual
word: intelligent
word: keen
word: knowledgeable
word: piquant
word: quick
word: quick-witted
word: rational
word: sagacious
word: savvy
word: scholared
word: sharp
word: smart
word: talented
word: whip-smart
word: wise
Hyponyms: word: overclever
Derived terms: artificially intelligent
general intelligent action
hyperintelligent
intelligent agent
intelligent character recognition
intelligent dance music
intelligent design
intelligent designer
intelligent designism
intelligent disobedience
intelligent falling
intelligent guess
intelligent haunting
intelligentization
intelligentness
intelligent system
intelligent terminal
intelligent transportation system
nonintelligent
superintelligent
ultraintelligent
Related terms: word: intelligence
word: learned
word: wily
word: witty
intelligent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɪɳʈəlɪd͡ʒəɳʈ/
Forms: form: intelligents
form: entelligent
Etymology: Partly from Russian интеллиге́нт (intelligént) and partly from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: Now, as all intelligents are doomed to pass probationary states, it is highly probable that many intelligents, long antecedent to the foundation of our world, may have tarnished their innocence; or worse, many may have by disobedience fallen.
ref: 1832, The Comparative Coincidence of Reason and Scripture, volume II, London: J[ohn] Hatchard and Son, […], page 253:
text: Like many Russian intelligents, the Merežkovskijs, together with Filosofov and the young student Vladimir Zlobin, fled from Russia in 1919.
ref: 1972, Olga Matich, Paradox in the Religious Poetry of Zinaida Gippius, Wilhelm Fink, →ISBN, page 30:
text: But if you fall away from your faith, as many intelligents have fallen away, then you will no longer be Russia or Holy Rus’, but a rabble of all kinds of other faiths who wish to destroy one another.
ref: 2000, Nadieszda Kizenko, A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People, The Pennsylvania State University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 248:
text: Many Russian intelligents, in particular scientists, that already in tsarist times were “infected” by liberal and even socialist ideas found in the revolution and the societal structure that followed, with all its horrible features, positive sides.
ref: 2011, Evgenii L’vovich Feinberg, translated by Andrei Vladimirovich Leonidov, Physicists: Epoch and Personalities (History of Modern Physical Sciences; 4), World Scientific, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.
tepid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕp'ĭd
ipa: /ˈtɛpɪd/
rhymes: -ɛpɪd
Forms: form: more tepid
form: most tepid
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tepidus. Cognate with Sanskrit तप् (tap), Proto-Slavic *teplъ.
Senses: examples: text: I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.
synonyms: word: Laodicean
word: lukewarm
word: warm
word: tepid
word: mild
word: balmy
glosses: Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
examples: text: He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.
text: The erratic behaviour of Hariri now is largely explained by the fact that his best days may be behind him, given his long absences from the country for security reasons, his declining Saudi business interests, some local challenges to his tepid leadership in recent municipal elections, and his decline in stature in the eyes of his Saudi backers.
ref: 2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera:
synonyms: word: uninterested
word: lukewarm
word: unconcerned
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness; lukewarm.
Derived terms: tepidity
tepidness
quick
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪk/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: quicker
form: quickest
form: kwik
Etymology: From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”).
Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Danish kvik (“quick, quick-witted”) and Danish kæk (“bold; spirited”), Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.
Senses: examples: text: Get rich quick.
text: Come here, quick!
text: If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Quickly, in a quick manner.
examples: text: Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?
ref: 2006, SpongeBob SquarePants, Whale of a Birthday:
glosses: Answer quickly.
Derived terms: right quick
quick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪk/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: quicks
form: kwik
Etymology: From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”).
Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Danish kvik (“quick, quick-witted”) and Danish kæk (“bold; spirited”), Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.
Senses: glosses: Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
examples: text: The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
ref: 1641, John Evelyn, diary entry September 1641:
glosses: Plants used in making a quickset hedge
examples: text: This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.
ref: 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stamford, 9 October 1550:
text: How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
text: O see the fate of him whose guard was lowered!—
A single misstep and we leave the quick.
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Prognosis”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
examples: text: the quick and the dead
antonyms: word: dead#Noun
word: ;
word: deceased#Noun
word: departed#Noun
glosses: Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
synonyms: word: living
extra: those who are alive
examples: text: Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet,
Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LXXXVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Quitchgrass.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fast bowler.
Derived terms: cut to the quick
to the quick
quick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪk/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪk]
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: quicks
form: quicking
form: quicked
form: quicked
form: kwik
Etymology: From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”), *gʷeyh₃w- (“to live”).
Cognate with Dutch kwik, kwiek, German keck, Danish kvik (“quick, quick-witted”) and Danish kæk (“bold; spirited”), Swedish kvick; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “life”), Latin vivus, Lithuanian gývas (“alive”), Latvian dzīvs (“alive”), Russian живо́й (živój), Polish żywy (“alive”), Welsh byw (“alive”), Irish beo (“alive”), biathaigh (“feed”), Northern Kurdish jîn (“to live”), jiyan (“life”), giyan (“soul”), can (“soul”), Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “living”), Albanian nxit (“to urge, stimulate”). Doublet of jiva.
Senses: glosses: To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
examples: text: I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.
ref: 1917, Thomas Hardy, At the Word ‘Farewell’:
glosses: To quicken.
expose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspəʊz/
ipa: /ɪkˈspoʊz/
ipa: /ɛkˈspoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: exposes
form: exposing
form: exposed
form: exposed
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin expōnō (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expone and expound (via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”)), from the same Latin term.
Senses: examples: text: The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
text: You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive.
ref: 2021 August 19, “Twitter User Agreement”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2021, 3 Content on the Services:
text: Many supporters believed Donald Trump would finally expose government cover-ups once he returned to power. But more than six months into his new term, those much-hyped conspiracy theories have either been debunked or quietly fallen apart.
ref: 2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek:
glosses: To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce (to).
glosses: To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
examples: text: This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.
ref: 1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Eskimo Life, page 152:
glosses: To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
glosses: To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
examples: text: In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides.
ref: 2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ Gems, page 266:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
Synonyms: sense: a hidden aspect of one's character
word: bewray
sense: to remove clothing
word: doff
word: undress
sense: to reveal
word: bare
word: nake
word: reveal
Derived terms: autoexpose
coexpose
exposable
exposal
exposé
expose oneself
exposition
exposome
exposure
hyperexpose
overexpose
photoexpose
reexpose
underexpose
cognitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkɒɡ.nə.təv/
ipa: [ˈkɔ̟ɡ.nə.ɾəv]
Forms: form: more cognitive
form: most cognitive
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“I get to know”) + -īvus (adjective suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.
ref: 2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 08 Sep 2013:
glosses: Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
glosses: Intellectual.
examples: text: Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";
ref: 1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Cognate; to be recognized as cognate.
Derived terms: acognitive
amnestic mild cognitive impairment
anticognitive
Beck's cognitive triad
biocognitive
cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome
cognitariat
cognitive behavioral therapist
cognitive behavioral therapy
cognitive behavioural therapist
cognitive behavioural therapy
cognitive bias
cognitive control
cognitive disability
cognitive dissonance
cognitive distortion
cognitive dysfunction syndrome
cognitive estrangement
cognitive linguistics
cognitive load
cognitively
cognitive parallax
cognitive poetics
cognitive psychology
cognitive relativism
cognitive reserve
cognitive science
cognitive therapy
cognitivism
cognitivist
dyscognitive
hypercognitive
metacognitive
metacognitively
neurocognitive
neurocognitively
noncognitive
normocognitive
pancognitivism
physiocognitive
precognitive
precognitively
procognitive
psychocognitive
recognitive
retrocognitive
sociocognitive
sociocognitively
subcognitive
trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy
trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy
ultracognitive
visuocognitive
Related terms: cognate
cogniscient
cognition
cognizable
cognitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈkɑɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkɔɡ.nɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkɒɡ.nə.təv/
ipa: [ˈkɔ̟ɡ.nə.ɾəv]
Forms: form: cognitives
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cognitīvus, from Latin cognitus, perfect passive participle of cognōscō (“I get to know”) + -īvus (adjective suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,
ref: 1902, American Anthropologist:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A cognate.
Related terms: affective
motor
vici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vicus
glosses: chrome-tanned leather used especially for the uppers of shoes
Floridian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔˈɹɪdi.ən/
Forms: form: Floridan
Etymology: From Florida + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Recess’s website features the charms of vaporwave internet art and Lisa Frank-style nostalgia, while their Instagram account evokes the combined look of “Endless Summer” with “Floridian retiree” and the summer-camp psychedelia that has replaced “Lifestyle Lumberjack” as the default millennial style choice.
ref: 2019 January 8, Kate Carraway, “How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2019:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Florida or its culture.
Floridian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔˈɹɪdi.ən/
Forms: form: Floridians
form: Floridan
Etymology: From Florida + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: [S]ince the end of September, the average daily unemployment claims for Florida have risen by 55 percent, translating into approximately 50,000 more Floridians applying for unemployment benefits. That is mind-boggling. That is staggering.
ref: 2001 November 30, [Bill] Nelson, “[SENATE—Friday, November 30, 2001] The Economic Stimulus Package”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress, First Session, volume 147, part 17, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 23620, column 3:
text: But there’s also a burgeoning food scene in downtown Palm Beach that’s drawing Floridians from Jupiter to Boca.
ref: 2017 March 1, Hannah Seligson, “Where to get hip in Palm Beach”, in CNN:
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Florida in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
online
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏn'līn"
ipa: /ˈɒnlaɪn/
note: dialects of the US with, lot–cloth split
ipa: /ˈɔnlaɪn/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑnlaɪn/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒnlaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɔnlɑen/
ipa: /ˈɒnlaɪn/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟nlɑe̯n]
Forms: form: on-line
Etymology: 1950, from on + line.
Senses: examples: text: He works online.
text: Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious.
ref: 2004, Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, Napoleon Dynamite (motion picture), spoken by Kip (Aaron Ruell):
glosses: While online; while in a running or active state, or connected to the Internet.
online
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏn'līn"
ipa: /ˈɒnlaɪn/
note: dialects of the US with, lot–cloth split
ipa: /ˈɔnlaɪn/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑnlaɪn/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒnlaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɔnlɑen/
ipa: /ˈɒnlaɪn/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟nlɑe̯n]
Forms: form: onlines
form: onlining
form: onlined
form: onlined
form: on-line
Etymology: 1950, from on + line.
Senses: examples: text: The output in Listing 8-2 shows your disk group status prior to onlining the disks, the commands to online your disks, and the status after onlining.
ref: 2013, John Clarke, Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 219:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To bring (a system, etc.) online; to promote to an active or running state.
Related terms: come online
New Mexican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Mexico + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, New Mexico or its culture.
New Mexican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Mexicans
Etymology: From New Mexico + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of New Mexico in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
Transylvanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniən
Etymology: From Transylvania + -an.
Senses: glosses: From, or pertaining to, Transylvania or its people.
Derived terms: Transylvanian Hound
Transylvanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniən
Forms: form: Transylvanians
Etymology: From Transylvania + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Transylvania.
Piedmontese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpiːdmɒnˈtiːz/
Etymology: From Piedmont + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Piedmont in northwest Italy.
Piedmontese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpiːdmɒnˈtiːz/
Forms: form: Piedmonteses
form: Piedmontese
Etymology: From Piedmont + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The inhabitants or residents of Piedmont.
glosses: A breed of double-muscled domestic cattle that originated in Piedmont, Italy.
Piedmontese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpiːdmɒnˈtiːz/
Etymology: From Piedmont + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A Gallo-Italic language spoken in Piedmont.
Synonyms: Piemontese
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Piedmontese terms
New Yorker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
Forms: form: New Yorkers
Etymology: From New York + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of New York in the United States of America.
examples: text: This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:
glosses: A native or resident of New York City.
glosses: A New York-style pizza, a type of large pizza originally eaten in New York City.
Synonyms: Gothamite
New Yorkian
Hypernyms: American
Hyponyms: Nuyorican
Derived terms: New Yorkeress
Pennsylvanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪn.jən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪ.ni.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪn.jən/
rhymes: -eɪniən
Forms: form: Pennsylvanians
Etymology: From Pennsylvania + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the three Pennsylvanian epochs.
Hypernyms: American
Pennsylvanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌpɛn.sɪlˈveɪn.jən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪ.ni.ən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌpɛn.səlˈveɪn.jən/
rhymes: -eɪniən
Etymology: From Pennsylvania + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to the state of Pennsylvania.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of any of the three geologic epochs (lower, middle and upper) within the Carboniferous period from 318 to 299 million years ago; marked by a high oxygen atmosphere and the rise of reptiles and winged insects.
Virginian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɚˈd͡ʒɪnjən/
ipa: /vəˈd͡ʒɪnjən/
rhymes: -ɪnjən
Etymology: From Virginia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: His polite demeanor instantly gave him away as being a Virginian and not a Marylander.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Virginia or its culture.
Virginian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɚˈd͡ʒɪnjən/
ipa: /vəˈd͡ʒɪnjən/
rhymes: -ɪnjən
Forms: form: Virginians
Etymology: From Virginia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: She was a Virginian of South American descent and had lived in Richmond for most of her life.
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Virginia in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
Derived terms: Virginian creeper
Related terms: West Virginian
West Virginian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛst vɚˈd͡ʒɪnjən/
Etymology: From West Virginia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Karen Mackay's Annie Oakley Rides Again is another explicitly lesbian album. It's sprightly, low-key bluegrass in style, befitting Mackay's West Virginian roots, but has a strange, sad tone to it, perhaps because the album was inspired by the sudden death of Mackay's friend.
ref: 1985 December 14, Maida Tilchen, Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 8:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, West Virginia or its culture.
West Virginian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛst vɚˈd͡ʒɪnjən/
Forms: form: West Virginians
Etymology: From West Virginia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Another order called for the termination of all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, initiatives from state-run institutions, something Morrisey said he believes will protect West Virginians from racial and gender discrimination — especially “inappropriate” preferential treatment for certain groups over others.
ref: 2025 January 14, Leah Willingham, “West Virginia governor axes DEI and enacts vaccine exemptions on first full day in office”, in AP News:
glosses: A native or resident of the state of West Virginia in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
Orne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ornes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Orne.
Senses: glosses: A department of Normandy, France.
glosses: A river in Normandy, France, flowing through the departments of Orne and Calvados.
glosses: A surname from French.
alter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒl.tə/
ipa: /ˈɔːl.tə/
ipa: /ˈɔl.təɹ/
ipa: /ˈɑl.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
homophone: altar
Forms: form: alters
form: altering
form: altered
form: altered
form: altre
Etymology: From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: tweak
text: No power in Venice can alter a decree.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks
VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come,
Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes,
But beares it out euen to the edge of doome:
If this be error and vpon me proued,
I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature H, recto:
text: My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 89:34:
text: It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
glosses: To change the form or structure of.
examples: text: […] Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul, / Victorious song, death’s outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song, […]
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: To become different.
glosses: To tailor clothes to make them fit.
glosses: To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
examples: text: We don't know if he was altered on alcohol or drugs or anything […]
ref: 2016 February 10, Sydney Pruitt and Claire Ricke (quoting Jeff Barrick), "Police: Man lying in street hit, killed by Capital Metro bus", KXAN
glosses: To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
Synonyms: word: adapt
word: alter
word: amend
word: change
word: convert
word: differentiate
word: innovate
word: metamorphose
word: modify
word: revamp
word: rework
word: transform
word: transmogrify
word: transume
word: variate
word: vary
Hyponyms: word: diversify
word: homogenize
word: mix
word: improve
word: repair
word: worsen
Derived terms: alterability
alterable
alterably
alterative
alter-ego
alterer
alter-globalist
alter-globalization
alteringly
alter or change
mind-altering
misalter
prealter
realter
unalter
unaltering
Related terms: alterant
alteration
alternate
alternative
alter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒl.tə/
ipa: /ˈɔːl.tə/
ipa: /ˈɔl.təɹ/
ipa: /ˈɑl.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
homophone: altar
Forms: form: alters
Etymology: Probably from alter ego.
Senses: examples: text: While the second goal would be best met if each alter were coconscious, the defendant should be satisfied if at least one competent alter is present to hear what transpires.
ref: 2000, Elyn R. Saks, Stephen H. Behnke, Jekyll on Trial: Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Law, page 147:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: headmate
qualifier: multiplicity
glosses: One of the personalities, identities, or selves in a person with dissociative identity disorder or another form of multiplicity.
alter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒl.tə/
ipa: /ˈɔːl.tə/
ipa: /ˈɔl.təɹ/
ipa: /ˈɑl.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
homophone: altar
Senses: examples: text: As an alter boy he remembered that walking between the alter and the gates was prohibited for everyone except the priest.
ref: 2002, Nicholas Smeed, Resurrections: Vignettes About Discovery, Relationships, Personal Empowerment, And Preternatural Experiences, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 26:
text: The hardest part of being an alter boy was learning Latin. The mass was conducted in Latin and we had to learn to pray in Latin.
ref: 2007, Jerry P. Martinez, Leche De Coyote, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 39:
text: On the alter, several candles sat unlit. An open bible rested among the candles. Behind the alter, hanging high, a huge cross was affixed to the wall, with a replica of Jesus in rags nailed to it. A simple wooden door stood closed behind the alter […]
ref: 2009, Todd Sprague, Survive, Todd Sprague, →ISBN, page 142:
text: Truth motioned to Alexandra, “There; the key is kept on the alter.” She spotted it easily, for it was now well lighted by an amber colored presence light. She and the others moved quickly toward the alter.
ref: 2011, Suzanne Dekeyzer James, The Stone Harp, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Third-rate alter boy. Skinny, lousy face, brown hair with a cowlick as big as Sputtnik. So as not to go on about it, I can put it in one word: Butt-ugly.
ref: 2018, William Francis Jack, Alter Boy Rules, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Misspelling of altar.
Related terms: alter kaker
tailor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪlɚ/
ipa: /ˈteɪlə/
homophone: tailer
rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tailors
form: tailour
form: taylor
form: taylour
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur.
Senses: examples: text: He works as a tailor on Swanston Street.
synonyms: word: needleworker
word: tailorer
glosses: A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.
examples: text: The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.
ref: 1880, New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council, Journal (volume 30, part 3, page 460)
synonyms: bluefish
glosses: Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
Derived terms: merchant tailor
tailorbird
tailoress
tailor-fashion
tailor-made
tailor make
tailor-make
tailor's chalk
tailor's dummy
tailor's goose
tailor's ham
tailor's muscle
tailor-style
tinker tailor grass
Tooley Street tailor
tailor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪlɚ/
ipa: /ˈteɪlə/
homophone: tailer
rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tailors
form: tailoring
form: tailored
form: tailored
form: tailour
form: taylor
form: taylour
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur.
Senses: examples: text: We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.
synonyms: fit
glosses: To make, repair, or alter clothes.
examples: text: The website was tailored to the client's needs.
text: [C]aregivers from diverse backgrounds may experience variations in the emergence of depressive symptoms, necessitating distinct strategies for support tailored to their individual needs.
ref: 2024 December 16, Amanda M. Y. Chu, Damen H. Y. Woo, Agnes Tiwari, Helina Yuk, Mike K. P. So, “Which types of family caregivers are more prone to developing depression? Leveraging non-financial social support to mitigate depression”, in Current Psychology, →DOI:
synonyms: fit
shape
glosses: To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.
examples: text: a narrowly tailored law
synonyms: shape
glosses: To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.
Related terms: Taylor
depose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpəʊz/
ipa: /diˈpoʊz/
ipa: /dəˈpoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: deposes
form: deposing
form: deposed
form: deposed
Etymology: Recorded since c.1300, from Middle English, from Old French deposer, from de- (“down”) + poser (“to put, place”). Deposition (1494 in the legal sense) belongs to deposit, but that related word and depose became thoroughly confused.
Senses: examples: text: additional mud deposed upon it
ref: 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:
glosses: To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.
examples: text: A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.
text: a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed
ref: 1643, William Prynne, “(please specify |part=1 to 4, or Appendix)”, in The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes: […], London: […] Michael Sparke Senior, →OCLC:
text: The 1840s saw a further escalation, with new laws treating most slave ships captured as pirates, and a number of military expeditions being mounted to destroy slaving centres on the African coast and depose, or even kill, remaining local kings and chiefs who had refused to end slavery in their territory.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:35 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: To remove (a leader) from (high) office without killing (them).
topics: law
glosses: To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition.
examples: text: After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
text: Depose him in the justice of his cause.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: Did he really take Beatrice out for pizza on March 10, 2001, as he claimed? If we deposed the princesses, his family members could potentially poke holes in his alibi.
ref: 2025 October 20, Caroline Davies, quoting Virginia Giuffre, “Prince Andrew tried to hire ‘internet trolls’ to hassle Virginia Giuffre, book claims”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition, typically by a lawyer.
glosses: To take or swear an oath.
examples: text: to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands
ref: c. 1598, Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations:
glosses: To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.
Synonyms: english: testify
translation: testify
word: depone
Derived terms: deposable
deposal
indeposable
undeposable
undeposed
Related terms: deponent
deposit
deposition
depositio de bene esse
employee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛmplɔɪˈiː/
ipa: /ˌɛmˈplɔɪiː/
ipa: /ɪm-/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: employees
form: employe
form: employé
Etymology: From employ + -ee. First attested in the early 19th century, possibly modeled after French employé.
Senses: examples: text: One way to encourage your employees to work harder is by giving them incentives.
text: No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: The concepts of emotional intelligence (EI), self-worth, authenticity and employee meditation rooms might conjure up thoughts of new age healing centers. […] Now, Nielsen is sending all hotel employees through EI training to help them become more open and confident, understand their own limitations and fears, and to boost their self-worth and comfort in dealing with other people.
ref: 2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN:
synonyms: member of staff
;
associate#Noun[euphemism|euphemistically]] synonymous>
hypernyms: worker
holonyms: business
company
coordinate_terms: word: employer
word: ;
english: in some contexts hyponymous
translation: in some contexts hyponymous
word: boss
word: manager
glosses: A person who provides labor to a company or another person.
Derived terms: antiemployee
business-to-employee
coemployee
employee benefit
employee handbook
employeeless
ghost employee
nonemployee
unemployee
W-2 employee
Related terms: employ
employé
employée
employer
employment
payroll
taxes
work
profit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prŏfʹit
ipa: /ˈpɹɒfɪt/
note: of Canada
enpr: prŏʹfit
ipa: /ˈpɹɑfɪt/
note: of Canada
note: of the US
enpr: prŏfʹit
ipa: /ˈpɹɒfɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈpɹɔfɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒfət/
ipa: [ˈpɹɔ̟fət]
homophone: prophet
rhymes: -ɒfɪt
Forms: form: profits
form: profiting
form: profited
form: profited
form: ꝓfit
Etymology: From Middle English profit, from Old French profit (Modern French profit), from Latin prōfectus (“advance, progress, growth, increase, profit”), from proficiō (“to go forward, advance, make progress, be profitable or useful”). Doublet of profect.
Senses: examples: text: The word preached did not profit them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 4:2:
text: It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently those excellent pieces and beautiful designs.
ref: 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To benefit (somebody), be of use to (somebody).
glosses: To benefit, gain.
raw_tags: construed with from
glosses: To take advantage of, exploit, use.
raw_tags: construed with from
Derived terms: book profit
for fun and profit
for-profit
nonprofit
not-for-profit
paper profit
profitable
profitably
profiteer
profit from
profit margin
profit sharing
profit taking
Related terms: proficiency
proficient
fertilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/
ipa: /ˈfɜːɹtəlaɪzəɹ/
Forms: form: fertilizers
form: fertiliser
Etymology: From fertilize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer spread fertiliser across the fields.
text: Organic fertilisers are usually better for the environment.
glosses: A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound created to have the same effect.
Synonyms: word: fertilizer
Hyponyms: word: biofertilizer
word: chemical fertilizer
word: organic fertilizer
word: inorganic fertilizer
word: mineral fertilizer
word: synthetic fertilizer
word: manure
word: guano
Meronyms: word: nitrogen
word: phosphorus
word: potassium
Derived terms: antifertilizer
biofertilizer
microfertilizer
nanofertilizer
nonfertilizer
over-fertilization
Related terms: word: fertilize
word: dung
word: lawn food
word: manure
word: natural gas
word: phosphate
word: potash
maintenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪnt(ə)nəns/
ipa: /ˈmeɪntɪnəns/
other: [ˈmẽɪ̃(n)ʔ(ə)nəns]
Forms: form: maintenances
Etymology: From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus tenēre (“to hold in the hand”). By surface analysis, maintain + -ance.
Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence is spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.
Senses: examples: text: They are all preventable by proper maintenance, but non-safety critical maintenance has to be evaluated, so failures are an accepted penalty for keeping maintenance costs down.
ref: 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:
glosses: Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
topics: law
glosses: A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
topics: law
glosses: Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
topics: law
glosses: Child support.
examples: text: From Pond to Pond he roamed, from moor to moor; / Housing, with God's good help, by choice or chance: / And in this way he gained an honest maintenance.
ref: 1815 [1802], William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence:
glosses: Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
examples: text: a maintenance release; a maintenance version
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
Derived terms: automaintenance
cap of maintenance
data maintenance
facilities maintenance
facility maintenance
health maintenance organization
high-maintenance
low-maintenance
maintenance-free
maintenance hole
maintenance margin
maintenance medicine
maintenance window
nonmaintenance
percussive maintenance
postmaintenance
premaintenance
preventative maintenance
separate maintenance
telemaintenance
undermaintenance
profit margin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profit margins
Senses: examples: text: If a company has $10,000 net income and $100,000 net sales, then the profit margin equals ($10,000 : $100,000) .10, or 10%.
text: A letter demanding payment costs her £75. A knock on the door from a company representative: another £235. Taking her car: an extra £110. Then there’s a daily storage charge, so that she pays £24 for every day she can’t drive. These were fees set by the government, using the industry’s sums. The result is that the firms chasing some of the poorest people in the country can rake in handsome profit margins.
ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The ratio of net income to net sales of a company expressed as a percentage.
feasible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.zɪ.bəl/
ipa: [ˈfiː.zɪ.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈfiː.zə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈfiː.zə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈfi.zə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈfi.zə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈfiː.zə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈfiː.zə.bɫ̩]
note: cultivated
ipa: [ˈfɪi.zə.bɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈfiː.zə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈfiː.zə.bɫ̩]
rhymes: -iːzəbəl
Forms: form: more feasible
form: most feasible
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman fesable, from Latin facere, Old French fesable, faisable (“doable”), from fere, faire (“to do”) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: His plan to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by bringing in peregrine falcons to eat them was dismissed as not feasible.
synonyms: achievable
doable
possible
practicable
workable
antonyms: infeasible
unfeasible
glosses: Able to be done in practice.
Derived terms: feasibleness
feasibly
nonfeasible
Related terms: feasibility
awareness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwɛɚ.nəs/
ipa: /əˈwɛə.nəs/
ipa: /əˈweː.nəs/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈweə.nəs/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /əˈwiə.nəs/
ipa: /əˈweɹ.nəs/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /əˈwɜː(ɹ).nəs/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)nəs
Forms: form: awarenesses
Etymology: From aware + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I gradually passed from sleep to full awareness.
glosses: The state or level of consciousness where sense data can be confirmed by an observer.
examples: text: raise awareness of a topic
text: The awareness of one type of idea naturally fosters an awareness of another idea
text: Like a mind moving on a Möbius strip of events, one's consciousness goes over the same territory again and again without ever becoming aware of the nature of awareness.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 8:
text: With the growing awareness of climate change, congestion, and regional inequality, rail transport has re-emerged as a solution.
ref: 2025 July 9, Oliver Wheeler, “Action stations...”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 68:
glosses: The state or quality of being aware of something.
Synonyms: sense: state of consciousness
word: consciousness
sense: state of consciousness
word: wakefulness
sense: state of being aware of something
word: knowledge
sense: state of being aware of something
word: consciousness
Hyponyms: word: mindfulness
Derived terms: aided awareness
awareness band
awareness bracelet
awareness ribbon
brand awareness
choiceless awareness
coawareness
cyberawareness
ecoawareness
large group awareness training
large-group awareness training
locale-awareness
meta-awareness
nonawareness
self-awareness
situational awareness
situation awareness
terrain awareness and warning system
top of mind awareness
top-of-mind awareness
unaided awareness
well-awareness
Related terms: word: alertness
word: consciousness
word: knowledge
word: mind
word: perceptivity
word: sentience
Tasmanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæzˈmeɪniən/
rhymes: -eɪniən
Etymology: From Tasmania + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the state of Tasmania, Australia.
Derived terms: Tasmanian boobook
Tasmanian nativehen
Tasmanian oak