cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
corrugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔɹ.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: corrugations
Senses: examples: text: According to the pilot, ships were taking hard punishment in the storm. But from this altitude the corrugations of the seas looked no higher to the eye than the ridges of your palate feel to the tongue.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, pages 391–92:
glosses: The process of corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
glosses: washboarding (the appearance of ripples or bumps on a dirt or gravel road)
convocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: convocations
Etymology: From Middle English convocacioun, from Old French convocation, from Latin convocatio, convocationem.
Senses: glosses: The act of calling or assembling by summons.
glosses: An assembly or meeting.
examples: text: Convocation will sit in York too, so the northern church can have its say in how we worship God.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 409:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
glosses: An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted.
glosses: A flock of eagles.
Coordinate terms: sense: academic assembly
word: commencement
Derived terms: convocational
convocationist
klonvocation
reconvocation
Related terms: convoke
convocate
co-relation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-relations
form: corelation
Etymology: From co- + relation.
Senses: glosses: Corresponding relation.
Related terms: correlation
corollary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɒɹələɹi/
enpr: kôr'əlĕrē
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/
ipa: /kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/
Forms: form: corollaries
Etymology: From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).
Senses: glosses: A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
examples: text: Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.
glosses: An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
examples: text: We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.
Derived terms: corollarial
corollarily
corollary relief
subcorollary
corollary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɒɹələɹi/
enpr: kôr'əlĕrē
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəˌlɛɹi/
ipa: /kɔˈɹoʊˌlɛɹi/
Etymology: From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).
Senses: examples: text: However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
glosses: Occurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.
glosses: Forming a proposition that follows from one already proved.
corroboration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: corroborations
Etymology: From Middle English corroboracioun, borrowed from Late Latin corrōborātiō (“strengthening”).
Senses: examples: text: Fallacious enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in The Confidence-Man:
text: Social media lighted up with corroborations that lower Manhattan was the meteorological equivalent of the jungles of Borneo.
ref: September 16 2016, Jonah Goldberg writing in the Baltimore Sun, Hillary's health is a valid issue
glosses: The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation
examples: text: Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:
glosses: That which corroborates.
Derived terms: corroborational
noncorroboration
corvette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːɹˈvɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: corvettes
form: corvet
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French corvette.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A flush-decked warship of the 17th-18th centuries having a single tier of guns; it ranked next below a frigate; – called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.
topics: literature
media
nautical
publishing
science-fiction
transport
glosses: In a modern navy, a lightly armed and armoured blue water warship, smaller than a frigate, capable of transoceanic duty.
A starship of comparable role
Derived terms: Corvette
corvette captain
corvette lieutenant
cottage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɑt.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈkɑɾ.ɪd͡ʒ]
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈkɑt.əd͡ʒ/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: [ˈkɑɾ.əd͡ʒ]
rhymes: -ɒtɪdʒ
Forms: form: cottages
form: cottaging
form: cottaged
form: cottaged
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutan, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut.
Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin.
Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.
Senses: glosses: To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
glosses: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
raw_tags: of men
counteract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntəɹˌækt/
ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹˈækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: counteracts
Etymology: From counter- + act.
Senses: examples: text: This flesh and blood of Christ's human body, as the redeeming substance, should have been eaten by man as an act of obedience to the command, 'Take, eat,' &c., as a counteract to the act of disobedience, and as a work meet for repentance.
ref: 1859, James Fletcher, A synthesis or conjoint view of the points of doctrine connected with the institution of the Lord's Supper:
text: Every time there is a march by the Ku Klux Klan or a swastika painted on a Jewish building, there could be a counteract of reconciliation within twenty-four hours.
ref: 2006, John Danforth, Faith and Politics, →ISBN:
glosses: An action performed in opposition to another action.
counteract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntəɹˌækt/
ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹˈækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: counteracts
form: counteracting
form: counteracted
form: counteracted
Etymology: From counter- + act.
Senses: examples: text: Another tide is raised at the same time on the opposite side of the revolving earth; which is owing to the greater centrifugal motion of that side of the earth, which counteracts the gravitation of bodies near its surface.
ref: 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life:
text: 1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica - Dome
In India, in the “great mosque” of Jama Masjid (a.d. 1560) and the Gol Gumbaz, or tomb of Mahommed Adil Shah (a.d. 1630) at Bijapur, the domes are carried on pendentives consisting of arches crossing one another and projecting inwards, and their weight counteracts any thrust there may be in the dome.
synonyms: offset
glosses: To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on someone or something.
examples: text: It took a long time for the place to warm up and to counteract the cold and enable their fingers to cope with the delicate task of moulding, the men would often surround themselves with blocks of iron heated in the furnace.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 342:
text: 2016, Margaret Corvid writing in the New Statesman, Five practical things you can do to fight Donald Trump if you live in the UK
When people hear my American accent, they want to talk to me about Donald Trump. They want to ask me what happened, and why. But most of all, they ask me – with fear filling their voices – what they can do, as individuals, to counteract him, here, from the United Kingdom.
glosses: To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.
Synonyms: word: counteract
word: countervail
word: counterwork
word: remedy
Hyponyms: word: offset
word: balance out
word: cancel out
word: neutralise
word: nullify
word: detoxicate
word: detoxify
word: countercharm
word: counterspell
word: countercheck
word: countervote
word: fight
word: override
Derived terms: counteractant
counteracter
counteractingly
counteraction
counteractive
counteractively
counteractor
recounteract
uncounteracted
couple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌpəl/
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Forms: form: copel
Etymology: From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula.
Senses: examples: text: Put any couple guys in a tricked out car and a couple of bandannas […]" He trailed off.
ref: 2005, Deirdre Savoy, Body of Truth, page 179:
text: Since we were now living so close, at least those couple hours of talking together helped boost our spirits.
ref: 2005, Elaine Bonzelaar, Those First Two Years, page 47:
text: Apparently, Ann in particular liked these couple pages of the character thing.
ref: 2006, Eric Nolen-Weathington, George A. Khoury, Arthur Adams, Modern Masters: Arthur Adams, volume six, page 22:
glosses: Two or (a) small number of.
couple
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌpəl/
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Forms: form: copel
Etymology: From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula.
Senses: examples: text: A couple fewer people show up every week.
text: I'll be there in a couple minutes.
text: Q. (Mr. Feldman, atty) You say you lived upstairs? A. (Emma Moore) I lived upstairs. Q. Until when? A. About couple months we lived upstairs. Q. Up until couple months ago? A. No, couple months after we moved in there because the down stairs was not finished.
ref: 1922, “Lewis J. Bennett et al vs. Sebastien L. Petrino”, in State of New York Supreme Court Appellate Division - Fourth Department:
text: Couple boys from way downcountry come for a summer in the woods. Isaac Cole talked to em.
ref: 2007, Jeffrey Lent, Lost Nation, page 182:
text: [At a pizza parlor] "Couple slices would be great. […]
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom and Prejudice:
coordinate_terms: a few
several
various
glosses: Two or a few, a small number of.
couple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌpəl/
rhymes: -ʌpəl
Forms: form: couples
form: coupling
form: coupled
form: coupled
form: copel
Etymology: From Middle English couple, from Old French couple, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copula.
Senses: examples: text: Now the conductor will couple the train cars.
text: I've coupled our system to theirs.
text: Some gritty defence at the death, coupled with some key big moments from individual players at critical times helped secure the win as the All Blacks fought with 14 men for a big chunk of the final after a red card to captain Sam Cane.
ref: 2023 October 28, Leighton Koopman, “YES!!! The Springboks beat the All Blacks to win another Rugby World Cup title”, in Independent Online:
glosses: To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
examples: text: I am just going to perform a very good office, it is to assist with the archbishop, in degrading a parson who couples all our beggars
ref: 1801, Jonathan Swift, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 14, page 59:
glosses: To join in wedlock; to marry.
examples: text: On their wedding night they coupled nine times.
ref: 1987, Alan Norman Bold, Robert Giddings, Who was really who in fiction, Longman:
text: She had the brilliant inventor and craftsman Daedalus construct her an artificial cow, in which she hid and induced the bull to couple with her […]
ref: 2001, John Fisher, Geoff Garvey, The rough guide to Crete,, page 405:
glosses: To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
examples: text: The Parilia was generally considered to be the best time for coupling the rams and the ewes.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 328:
glosses: To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.
Synonyms: sense: to join together
word: affix
word: attach
word: put together
word: join
sense: to join in wedlock
word: bewed
word: espouse
word: marry
sense: to join in sexual intercourse
word: have sex
word: make love
word: copulate
Derived terms: word: accouple
word: couplable
word: coupling
english: a rod that couples
translation: a rod that couples
word: coupling rod
word: decouple
word: decoupled
word: outcouple
word: recouple
word: uncouple
covet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌvɪt/
rhymes: -ʌvɪt
Forms: form: covets
form: coveting
form: coveted
form: coveted
Etymology: From Middle English coveten, coveiten, coveyten, from Old French covoitier (modern French convoiter), from covoitié (“desire”), presumably modified from Latin cupiditas.
Senses: examples: text: No! He covets. That is his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now.
ref: 1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins):
glosses: To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
glosses: To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
glosses: To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.
Synonyms: hanker
Derived terms: covetess
coveting
covetingly
uncoveting
Related terms: covetable
coveter
covetous
glade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: glades
Etymology: From Middle English glade, glode, glede (“a gleam of light, bright space, an open space; an open or cleared space in a forest; a bright patch of sky; a bright surface of snow or ice”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old English *glǣd, *glād, related to Old English glæd (“shining, bright”), (compare Old Norse glaðr (“bright”)).
Senses: examples: text: […] are creating more "glades," or cleared trails through the woods, for less experienced (blue) skiers. They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.
ref: 2003 November 23, Newsweek, Travel, In The Trees:
text: […] and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 22”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.
glosses: An everglade.
glosses: An open space in the ice on a river or lake.
examples: text: a glade of ice
glosses: A bright surface of ice or snow.
glosses: A gleam of light.
glosses: A bright patch of sky; the bright space between clouds.
Synonyms: sense: cleared space in a forest
word: clearing
sense: cleared space in a forest
word: leigh
Derived terms: Belle Glade
gladed
gladelike
Gladesville
Gladeville
glady
moonglade
sunglade
glamour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlæmə/
ipa: /ˈɡlæmɚ/
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: glamours
form: glamouring
form: glamoured
form: glamoured
form: glamor
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots glamour (“magic”), alteration of Middle English gramere (“grammar”), from Old French gramaire. Doublet of glamoury, gramarye, grammar, and grimoire.
A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (“the moon", also "the name of a ghost”, poetic byname, literally “the pale one”) and glámsýni (“glamour, illusion”, literally “glam-sight”). From Grettir's Saga aka Grettis Saga, one of the Sagas of Icelanders, after the hero has been cursed by Glam, aka Glamr:
"...he was become so fearsome a man in the dark, that he durst go nowhither alone after nightfall, for then he seemed to see all kinds of horrors.
And that has fallen since into a proverb, that "Glam lends eyes", or gives Glamsight to those who see things nowise as they are."
Senses: glosses: To enchant; to bewitch.
glaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡleɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: glazes
form: glase
Etymology: From Middle English glasen, from glas (“glass”) (Modern English glass), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Related to glazen. In the sense of "overcompliment", originated in November 2021 and popularized throughout 2022.
The noun is from the verb.
Senses: topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing.
glosses: A transparent or semi-transparent layer of paint.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A smooth coating of ice formed on objects due to the freezing of rain; glaze ice.
examples: text: […] In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there, […]
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: Any smooth, transparent layer or coating.
glosses: A smooth edible coating applied to food.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Broth reduced by boiling to a gelatinous paste, and spread thinly over braised dishes.
glosses: A glazing oven; glost oven.
glosses: Excessive complimenting or praise, especially in a cringeworthy way.
Derived terms: alkaline glaze
black glaze
Bristol glaze
confectioner's glaze
confectioners' glaze
deglaze
glaze coat
glazework
glazy
onglaze
overglaze
salt glaze
star the glaze
underglaze
Related terms: deglaze
glare
glass
glazen
glazier's fallacy
glazier's point
glazier's putty
glazier
glaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡleɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: glazes
form: glazing
form: glazed
form: glazed
form: glase
Etymology: From Middle English glasen, from glas (“glass”) (Modern English glass), from Old English glæs, from Proto-Germanic *glasą. Related to glazen. In the sense of "overcompliment", originated in November 2021 and popularized throughout 2022.
The noun is from the verb.
Senses: glosses: To install windows.
examples: text: to glaze a doughnut
text: An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.
ref: 2004, Frank Hamer with Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating.
glosses: To become glazed or glassy.
glosses: Of eyes: to take on an uninterested appearance; to glaze over.
glosses: To ejaculate onto someone's body.
synonyms: suck up
kiss ass
dickride
meatride
glosses: To compliment or praise excessively in a cringeworthy way.
Synonyms: glacé
Derived terms: double-glaze
glazeable
glaze coat
glaze over
glazer
glazery
glaze up
double glazing
double-glazing
glazing agent
glazing bar
glazing
overglaze
reglaze
underglaze
unglaze
gleam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːm/
ipa: /ɡlim/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: gleams
form: gleaming
form: gleamed
form: gleamed
Etymology: A variant of Middle English gleimen, gleym (“to smear; to make slimy or sticky; to fill up (the stomach); to nauseate; of a slimy or viscous substance: to be stuck together; (figuratively) to captivate, ensnare; to infect with heresy”) [and other forms], probably a blend of glet (“slimy or viscous matter produced by animals; mucus, phlegm; congestion of mucus or phlegm in the body; viscosity”), gleu (“substance used to stick things together, glue; viscous medicine made from plants”), etc. + Old Norse kleima (“to daub, smear”) (whence Old English clǣman (“to smear”)) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *klaimijaną (“to smear with clay, to mortar”), from *klaimaz (“clay; mortar”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to glue, stick; to smear”)).
Senses: examples: text: Gleam, a term uſed after a hawk hath caſt and gleameth, or throweth up filth from her gorge.
ref: 1800, “Gleam”, in The Sportsman’s Dictionary; or, The Gentleman’s Companion: For Town and Country. […], 4th edition, London: […] G. G. and J. Robinson, […]; by R. Noble, […], →OCLC, column 1:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.
glee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: glē
ipa: /ɡliː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: glees
Etymology: From Middle English gle, from Old English glēo, glīġ, glēow, glīw (“glee, pleasure, mirth, play, sport; music; mockery”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīw, from Proto-Germanic *glīwą (“joy, mirth”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlew- (“to joke, make fun, enjoy”).
Cognate with Scots gle, glie, glew (“game, play, sport, mirth, joy, rejoicing, entertainment, melody, music”), Icelandic glý (“joy, glee, gladness”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, jest, scorn”). A poetic word in Middle English, the word was obsolete by 1500, but revived late 18c.
Senses: examples: text: I watched with glee while your kings and queens fought for ten decades for the gods they made.
ref: 1968, “Sympathy for the Devil”, in The Rolling Stones (music), Beggars Banquet:
text: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
synonyms: word: merriment
word: mirth
word: gaiety
word: gloat
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
glosses: Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
examples: text: Sometimes they had glees, when Captain Strong’s chest was of vast service, and he boomed out in a prodigious bass, of which he was not a little proud.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
qualifier: singing
glosses: An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
Derived terms: glee-beam
glee club
gleecraft
gleeful
gleefully
gleefulness
gleeish
gleek
gleeless
gleemaiden
gleeman
gleesome
gleewoman
glee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: glē
ipa: /ɡliː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: glees
form: gleeing
form: gleed
form: gleed
Etymology: From Middle English gleen, glewen, from Old English glēowian (“to sing, play an instrument, jest”), from Proto-West Germanic *glīwōn, from Proto-Germanic *glīwōną. Cognate with Icelandic glýja (“to be gleeful”).
Senses: glosses: To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).
glitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡlɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈɡlɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: glitters
Etymology: From Middle English gliteren, from Old Norse glitra, from Proto-Germanic *glitrōną (“to glitter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-.
Senses: examples: text: As yet there had been no symptom of the news having any better foundation than in the fears of those who brought it, but The Boot had not been deserted five minutes, when there appeared, coming across the fields, a body of men who, it was easy to see, by the glitter of their arms and ornaments in the sun, and by their orderly and regular mode of advancing.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 57.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: This to them seems most like mother earth in color, and therefore best, as it is, to enhance the beauty of flowers instead of detracting from their exquisite shades. What a contrast to the glitter and show of our silver vases, which represent generally little else but their cost.
ref: 1913, Mary Averill, Japanese flower arrangement, Chapter 20:
glosses: A bright, sparkling light; shininess or brilliance.
glosses: A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
glosses: Glitz.
Derived terms: glitterball
glitterbilly
glitter bomb
glitter family
glitterful
glitter rock
glittersome
glittery
glitter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡlɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈɡlɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: glitters
form: glittering
form: glittered
form: glittered
Etymology: From Middle English gliteren, from Old Norse glitra, from Proto-Germanic *glitrōną (“to glitter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-.
Senses: examples: text: a glittering sword
text: the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
text: The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
examples: text: the glittering scenes of a court
glosses: To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
Derived terms: aglitter
all that glitters is not gold
glitterance
glitterant
glitterati
glitterer
outglitter
gloomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡluːmi/
ipa: /ˈɡlumi/
rhymes: -uːmi
Forms: form: gloomies
Etymology: From gloom + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian glumig (“dark, gloomy”).
Senses: examples: text: A word, finally, on how to go about this publicity business. If it should prove difficult to announce casts in the dailies, or at least in the weekly gloomies, it could surely be arranged that information be available, as soon as the casts are settled, at the opera house in question.
ref: c. 1946–1947, Hans Keller, edited by Christopher Wintle and Alison Garnham, Music and Psychology: From Vienna to London, 1939–52 (The Hans Keller Archive), London: Plumbago Books, published 2003, →ISBN, page 240:
text: As well, Russians did not use the confusion of Y2K to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States, as Internet "gloomies" had cautioned, now wagging their online tails in Internet chat rooms as "pollies" (Pollyannas) rubbed salt in their paranoid wounds.
ref: 2009, Lawrence R. Samuel, “The Matrix, 1995–”, in Future: A Recent History, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, pages 178–179:
text: He lately sports a look known as "Goth," the most outre aspect of which is, in his case, black nail polish. Really serious Goths, who wear black clothing and spectral makeup, are known as "gloomies," or so Owen tells me. He's not one of them.
ref: 2012, Tetman Callis, High Street: A Memoir: Lawyers, Guns & Money in a Stoner’s New Mexico, San Francisco, Calif.: Outpost 19, →ISBN, page 200:
text: Yikes! I was to be alone with the smacker and my non-smiling sister. After all the joy with my two boys in our family, I was to be left alone with the two gloomies. Well, I guess I will have to find something else to keep me busy.
ref: 2020 May 22, Wynter Rose Thorne, “And Then It Happened …”, in The Passions of Rosie, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone or something that is gloomy or pessimistic.
glorification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: glorifications
Etymology: From Middle French glorification, from Latin glōrificātiō.
Senses: glosses: The act of glorifying or the state of being glorified.
examples: text: Christ was guiding evolution toward a state of glorification so that humanity could finally merge with God in eternal perfection.
ref: 2017 April 18, Meghan O'Gieblyn, The Guardian:
glosses: Specifically, the ascension (of Christ or humans) to the glory of heaven.
glosses: The worshiping of a deity; extolment or laudation.
glosses: The portrayal of something as being ideal; idealization.
Derived terms: deglorification
overglorification
goad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊd/
ipa: /ɡoʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: goads
Etymology: From Middle English gode, from Old English gād (“goad”), from Proto-Germanic *gaidō (compare Old Norse gedda (“pike (fish)”), Lombardic gaida (“spear”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (compare Old Irish gath (“spear”), Sanskrit हिन्वति (hinvati), हिनोति (hinoti, “to urge on, throw”), हेति (heti, “missile, projectile”)). Doublet of gad and yard; see also xyston.
Senses: examples: text: the daily goad urging him to the daily toil
ref: 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
glosses: A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
examples: text: I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter IV, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: That which goads or incites; a stimulus.
Derived terms: cattle goad
geddock
goader
goadlike
goadman
goadster
goad stick
oxgoad
goad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊd/
ipa: /ɡoʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: goads
form: goading
form: goaded
form: goaded
Etymology: From Middle English gode, from Old English gād (“goad”), from Proto-Germanic *gaidō (compare Old Norse gedda (“pike (fish)”), Lombardic gaida (“spear”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (compare Old Irish gath (“spear”), Sanskrit हिन्वति (hinvati), हिनोति (hinoti, “to urge on, throw”), हेति (heti, “missile, projectile”)). Doublet of gad and yard; see also xyston.
Senses: glosses: To prod with a goad.
synonyms: bield
embolden
hearten
glosses: To encourage or stimulate.
examples: text: goading a boy to fight
synonyms: word: actuate
word: spur
word: abet
word: actuate
word: goose
word: send
word: sting
word: bring about
word: cheer
word: drive
word: encourage
word: egg on
word: engender
word: evoke
word: excite
word: foment
word: goad
word: grill
word: ignite
word: impel
word: incite
word: induce
word: inflame
word: instigate
word: invoke
word: lash
word: motive
word: motivate
word: move
word: obligate
word: oblige
word: push
word: promote
word: prompt
word: provoke
word: rouse
word: set off
word: spark off
word: spur
word: spur on
word: stimulate
word: stir
word: stir up
word: stoke
word: tempt
word: urge
word: whet
word: whip up
glosses: To incite or provoke.
Derived terms: goadingly
overgoaded
ungoaded
Related terms: goat
gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: goun
ipa: /ɡaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: gowns
Etymology: From Middle English gowne, from Anglo-Norman goune, gune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”). Cognate with Manx gooyn, Irish gúna.
Senses: glosses: A loose, flowing upper garment.
glosses: A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
examples: text: VVhat is he an honeſt man? the deuill he is, he is the Parſon of the Towne,
You thinke ther’s no knauerie hid vnder a black gowne, […]
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
glosses: The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
glosses: The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
examples: text: In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.
glosses: The university community, especially as contrasted with the local populace.
glosses: A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
glosses: Any sort of dress or garb.
glosses: The robe worn by a surgeon.
Derived terms: ballgown
bedgown
begown
begowned
Bluegown
bouffant gown
Brunswick gown
cap and gown
carriage gown
commoner's gown
disgown
dressing gown
dressing-gown
evening gown
fire-gown
Geneva gown
gownie
gownless
gownlet
gownlike
gownmaker
gownmaking
gownman
gownsman
green gown
hospital gown
mandarin gown
Maria Clara gown
morning gown
nightgown
old gown
overgown
powdering gown
scholar's gown
sea gown
shortgown
stuff gown
suicide gown
surgical gown
tea gown
tea-gown
town and gown
town-and-gown
undergown
ungown
ungowned
wedding gown
wrapping gown
gown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: goun
ipa: /ɡaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: gowns
form: gowning
form: gowned
form: gowned
Etymology: From Middle English gowne, from Anglo-Norman goune, gune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”). Cognate with Manx gooyn, Irish gúna.
Senses: glosses: To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.
grabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæb.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: grabbers
Etymology: From grab + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Another money grabber, according to Ms. Chapman, is the woman who makes $30,000-$40,000 or more a year, but lives as though she makes twice as much.
ref: 1985, Ebony, volume 40, number 12, page 130:
glosses: One who, or that which, grabs or seizes.
examples: text: The one new tune that was a real grabber had a great slow chanting chorus, "Stand up, you have a right to fight!"
ref: 1982 August 14, Mary Ann Peacott, Liz Nania, “BT's In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 12:
text: Get to the story and make sure that line 6 or 7 is a grabber. TV viewers have attention spans of fifteen seconds, and then they hit the remote.
ref: 2001, Lydia Wilen, Joan Wilen, How to Sell Your Screenplay, page 166:
glosses: Something that captures one's attention.
glosses: A machine in an amusement arcade containing prizes which the player must attempt to pick up with a mechanical grabbing arm.
Derived terms: code grabber
cookie grabber
frame grabber
gun grabber
headline-grabber
landgrabber
video grabber
grader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdə/
rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: graders
Etymology: From grade + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4).
Senses: examples: text: The blade-grader is a long steel-framed carriage under which is fixed a steel blade capable of being tilted at various angles: its principal use is in trimming cutting-slopes.
ref: 1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
hypernyms: heavy equipment
coordinate_terms: bulldozer
dozer
front-end loader
glosses: A machine used in road maintenance, construction, and mining for leveling large surfaces.
glosses: A machine used to sort food by size or quality.
examples: text: the graders of a school examination
glosses: One who grades, or that by means of which grading is done or facilitated.
examples: text: a first-grader
text: The episode follows two different stories: in one, the show’s resident bigot, Eric Cartman, is outraged to learn that fellow fourth grader Clyde has risen to prominence as a white nationalist podcaster who makes offensive claims about women, Jewish people, Black people and other minority groups to goad them into debating him in exploitative viral videos (“WOKE STUDENT TOTALLY PWNED”).
ref: 2025 August 7, Zach Vasquez, “From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: One who belongs to a certain grade at school.
Derived terms: 10th grader
11th grader
12th grader
13th grader
1st grader
2nd grader
3rd grader
4th grader
5th grader
6th grader
7th grader
8th grader
9th grader
eighth grader
eleventh grader
fifth grader
first grader
fourth grader
intergrader
intragrader
ninth grader
reserve grader
second grader
seventh grader
sixth grader
tenth grader
third-grader
third grader
thirteenth grader
twelfth grader
Related terms: gradation
grading
grail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: grails
Etymology: From Middle English graal, greal, from Old French graal, greal (“cup”), from Medieval Latin gradalis, possibly corrupted over time from Latin crater (“bowl”).
Senses: examples: text: The quest for the Grail is not archeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me?
ref: 1989, 1:06:54 from the start, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade^(https://archive.org/details/movie-hollywood-720p-sub-indonesia_202209/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Last+Crusade+(1989)+BR/Indiana+Jones+and+the+Last+Crusade.mp4) (Action-Adventure), spoken by Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery), →OCLC:
glosses: The Holy Grail.
examples: text: Becoming an astronaut was his grail.
text: How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?
ref: 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 214:
glosses: Something eagerly sought or quested for.
Derived terms: engrail
Related terms: Sangrail
grail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: grails
Etymology: From Middle English grayel, from Old French grael, ultimately from Latin graduale. Doublet of gradual.
Senses: examples: text: antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.
ref: 1694, John Strype, the Memorials of Thomas Cranmer:
glosses: A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
grail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a reduced form of gravel.
Senses: examples: text: Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Small particles of earth; gravel.
grail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: grails
Etymology: Compare Old French graite slender.
Senses: glosses: One of the small feathers of a hawk.
grainy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪni/
rhymes: -eɪni
Forms: form: grainier
form: grainiest
Etymology: From Middle English greyny, equivalent to grain + -y.
Senses: examples: text: grainy image
text: grainy sound
glosses: Resembling grains; granular.
glosses: Coarsely ground or gritty.
Derived terms: grainily
graininess
nongrainy
ungrainy
grand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: grands
form: grand
form: grande
Etymology: From Middle English grand, grond, graund, graunt, from Anglo-Norman graunt, from Old French grant, from Latin grandis. Doublet of grande and grandee.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:grand.
synonyms: large
qualifier: plural "grand"
glosses: A thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. (Compare G.)
examples: text: One grand, two grand RPM
ref: 1979, The Four Speeds, “R.P.M.”:
text: The engine, with more compression, carburetion, and cam timing than the Ambassador, could lounge comfortably below four grand and then rush to 7500 rpm, aided and abetted by a light flywheel and a close-ratio five-speed box.
ref: 1999, Cycle World Magazine, October 1999 edition, page 60:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
qualifier: plural "grand"
glosses: A thousand RPM.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: plural "grands"
glosses: A grand piano
grand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: grands
Etymology: From granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother, grandson, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Once, in Maryland, he met four families of slaves who had all been together for a hundred years: great-grands, grands, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, children.
ref: 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, page 269:
text: Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones. Did I ever tell you that she had six grands and two great-grands? […] And Emily agrees with me it's a shame that I don't even have a grand.
ref: 2012, Brenda Jackson, Texas Wild & Beyond Temptation, page 47:
glosses: A grandparent or grandchild.
grant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gränt
ipa: /ɡɹɑːnt/
enpr: grănt
ipa: /ɡɹænt/
enpr: grŏnt
ipa: /ɡɹɒnt/
rhymes: -ænt
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Forms: form: grants
form: graunt
Etymology: From Middle English granten, graunten, grantien, grauntien, from Anglo-Norman granter, graunter, from Old French granter, graunter, graanter, greanter (“to promise, assure, guarantee, confirm, ratify”), from a merger of Old French garantir, guarantir (“to guarantee, assure, vouch for”) (see English guarantee) and earlier cranter, craanter, creanter (“to allow, permit”), from an assumed Medieval Latin *credentāre, from Latin credere (“to believe, trust”). Alternatively, a regular reflex of Medieval Latin *credentāre with regular voicing of /k/ before a liquid plus low vowel. More at guarantee, credit.
Senses: examples: text: the grant of permission for a project
synonyms: concession
allowance
glosses: The act of granting or giving
glosses: The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
examples: text: I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.
glosses: The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
examples: text: a grant of land or of money
topics: law
glosses: A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government.
glosses: The deed or writing by which such a transfer is made.
glosses: An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).
Derived terms: block grant
capital grant
demogrant
direct grant grammar school
foregrant
grant-back
grant-forward
grant-in-aid
grant-in-kind
grant in kind
grantless
grantmaker
grantmaking
grantsman
land-grant
land grant
microgrant
revenue sharing grant
subgrant
granulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: granulations
Etymology: From Late Latin grānulum (“granule”) + -ation. Attested earlier than granule and granulate. By surface analysis, granulate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The formation of granules, or of cereal grains.
glosses: The formation of granules, or of cereal grains.
The forming of metals into granules by pouring them through a sieve into water while hot.
glosses: The condition of being granulated.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Granulated tissue on the surface of a healing wound; granulation tissue.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A bright, transient granular marking on the Sun's photosphere.
glosses: The attachment of granules of precious metal to underlying metal of jewellery.
Derived terms: degranulation
granulation tissue
hypergranulation
magnetogranulation
mesogranulation
overgranulation
regranulation
supergranulation
Related terms: grain
granular
granularity
granulate
granulatory
granule
graticulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: graticulations
Etymology: From graticule + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The division of a design or draught into squares, in order to reproduce it more easily in larger or smaller dimensions.
gratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɹætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: gratifications
Etymology: From Latin grātificātiō either directly or through Middle French gratification, from Latin grātificō (“to do a favor to, oblige, please, gratify”), from grātus (“kind, pleasing”) + faciō (“to make”).
Senses: examples: text: gratification of the heart    gratification of the palate
text: I know nothing of Mr. Courtenaye; but I can perceive enough of this affair to see that he is one of those who, for a moment's selfish gratification, or for the yet meaner love of gratified vanity, will excite the deepest feelings, and trifle with the dearest hopes of all who trust them!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 295–296:
text: Many of the so-called rites of these secret societies were so patently ridiculous, that it is quite obvious that they were merely an excuse for men and women to indulge in sex-play and lustful gratification, frequently of an abnormal kind.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161:
synonyms: gladness
glosses: The act of gratifying or pleasing, either the mind, or the appetite or taste.
glosses: A gratuity; a reward.
examples: text: I will tell you all my faults frankly beforehand. I am very vain, for I cultivate my vanity on a principle, and cannot understand why we should neglect such a source of gratification.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Confidence”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 102:
text: To my gratification he told me I could reënter the institution, and that he would trust me to pay the debt when I could.
ref: 1900, Booker T[aliaferro] Washington, “Helping Others”, in Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 66:
synonyms: delight
enjoyment
gladness
fruition
glosses: A feeling of pleasure; satisfaction.
Derived terms: oral gratification
self-gratification
Related terms: gratify