cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
SSE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Standard Scottish English/Scottish Standard English.
examples: text: 2012, Django push: Using Server-Sent Events and WebSocket with Django, Curella. https://web.archive.org/web/20121115183325/http://curella.org/blog/django-push-using-server-sent-events-and-websocket/
There are currently a few alternative technologies for pushing events to the browser: Server-Sent Events (SSE) and WebSocket.
SSEs are a simpler protocol and are easier to implement, but they provide communication only in one direction
text: WebSockets is the optimal transport, but other techniques like Server-Sent Events (SSE) and Long Polling are used when other options aren't available. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/azure-signalr/signalr-overview
ref: 2024, What is Azure SignalR Service?, Microsoft:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Server-sent events, a technique for pushing events from HTTP server to client, specified in HTML5.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Secure site exploitation, the process of gaining information from a location.
Coordinate terms: x87
3DNow!
MMX
Derived terms: SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4
SSW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of south-southwest.
SSW
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of south-southwest.
SSW
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of south-southwest.
WSW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of west-southwest.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Initialism of Western Sydney Wanderers FC.
WSW
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of west-southwest.
glosses: Initialism of white sidewall.
WSW
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of west-southwest.
WSW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:WSW.
glosses: Initialism of women who have sex with women.
WNW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of west-northwest.
WNW
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of west-northwest.
WNW
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of west-northwest.
NW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: North Rhine-Westphalia, a federal state of Germany.
NW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NWs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of northwest.
glosses: Abbreviation of nanowire.
Derived terms: AgNW
NW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of now watching.
NNW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of north-northwest.
NNW
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of north-northwest.
NNW
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of north-northwest.
LES
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LESs
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of launch escape system.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of lower esophageal sphincter.
glosses: Initialism of lake effect snow.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Leave and Earnings Statement.
LES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: UES
glosses: Acronym of Lower East Side.
ext.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exts.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of extension.
examples: text: Exts. of yeast or Aspergillus niger contain an enzyme […]
ref: 1961, Chemical Abstracts, volume 6, numbers 1-6, page 760:
glosses: Abbreviation of extract.
ext.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of exterior.
glosses: Abbreviation of external.
glosses: Abbreviation of extant.
P.O.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of post office.
glosses: Abbreviation of postal order.
omicron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒmɪkɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈɒmɪkɹən/
ipa: /ˈəʊmɪkɹɒn/
ipa: /əʊˈmaɪkɹɒn/
ipa: /əʊˈmaɪkɹən/
ipa: /əˈmaɪkɹɒn/
ipa: /əˈmaɪkɹən/
ipa: /ˈoʊməˌkɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈoʊmɪˌkɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈɑməˌkɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈɑmɪˌkɹɑn/
rhymes: -aɪkɹɒn
homophone: Omicron
Forms: form: omicrons
form: omicra
form: Omicron
form: omikron
form: Omikron
form: o
form: O
form: Ο
form: ο
Etymology: From Latin omicron, from Koine Greek ὂ μῑκρόν (ò mīkrón, “little o”), named in contrast with omega (“big o”). The uncommon form omicra is similarly borrowed from Latin and Greek. The use for designating stars in a constellation—typically in order of apparent brightness—began with Johann Bayer's 1603 Uranometria.
Senses: examples: text: Your Majestie knows that unfortunate I [...] was the first who when I published my Poem of Italia Liberata endeavoured to bring the Omicron, Eupselon, Omega, and other Greek Letters, which I thought very requisite for that language, into my own Tongue;
ref: 1656 [1612], Henry, Earl of Monmouth, transl., I Raggvagli di Parnasso: or Advertisements from Parnassus, London: Humphrey Moseley, translation of De Ragguagli di Parnaso by Traiano Boccalini, page 180:
text: The E serves both for the Epsilon and Eta; the O, both for the Omicron and Omega, and likewise for the dipthong OΥ.
ref: 1750 [1748 January 10], James Russel, “Letter LI”, in Letters from a Young Painter Abroad to his Friends in England, volume II, London: W. Russel, page 120:
text: ... They include Mira itself (omicron Ceti) which can be seen shortly before dawn.
ref: 1992 July, Astronomy Now, No. 36, p. 1
text: There are now seven “variants of interest” or “variants of concern” and they each have a Greek letter, according to a W.H.O. tracking page. Some other variants with Greek letters do not reach those classification levels, and the W.H.O. also skipped two letters just before Omicron — “Nu” and “Xi” — leading to speculation about whether “Xi” was avoided in deference to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
ref: 2021 November 27, Vimal Patel, "How Omicron, the New Covid-19 Variant, Got Its Name", New York Times
glosses: The 15th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (16th in Ancient and Old Greek), used in ordering lists as in naming (astronomy) the 15th star of a constellation or (epidemiology) the 15th discovered major variant of a disease.
omicron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒmɪkɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈɒmɪkɹən/
ipa: /ˈəʊmɪkɹɒn/
ipa: /əʊˈmaɪkɹɒn/
ipa: /əʊˈmaɪkɹən/
ipa: /əˈmaɪkɹɒn/
ipa: /əˈmaɪkɹən/
ipa: /ˈoʊməˌkɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈoʊmɪˌkɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈɑməˌkɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈɑmɪˌkɹɑn/
rhymes: -aɪkɹɒn
homophone: Omicron
Forms: form: Omicron
form: omikron
form: Omikron
form: o
form: O
form: Ο
form: ο
Etymology: From Latin omicron, from Koine Greek ὂ μῑκρόν (ò mīkrón, “little o”), named in contrast with omega (“big o”). The uncommon form omicra is similarly borrowed from Latin and Greek. The use for designating stars in a constellation—typically in order of apparent brightness—began with Johann Bayer's 1603 Uranometria.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
virology
glosses: Ellipsis of Omicron variant.
Derived terms: deltacron
omicron strain
omicron variant
omicron virus
omnicron
eur.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Europe.
amer.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of American.
glosses: Abbreviation of Amerindian.
S.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of South Africa.
glosses: Initialism of South America.
S.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sub anno.
S.A.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sex appeal.
Achaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: Achæa
form: Achaia
Etymology: From putative Latin *Achaea (the attested Latin word is Achaia), from Ancient Greek Ἀχαΐα (Akhaḯa).
Senses: glosses: An ancient region in the northern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece, occupying the coastal strip north of Arcadia, contanining mostly mountains.
A former prefecture in West Greece, Greece, largely corresponding to the ancient region.
glosses: An ancient region in the northern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece, occupying the coastal strip north of Arcadia, contanining mostly mountains.
A regional unit in West Greece, Greece, largely corresponding to the ancient region.
Derived terms: Achaean
Corinthia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪnθiə
Etymology: From Corinth + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A region or a prefecture in the northeast Peloponnese, with a population of over 200,000.
Arcadia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈkeɪ.di.ə/
ipa: /ɑːˈkeɪ.dɪ.ə/
rhymes: -eɪdiə
Forms: form: Arcadias
form: arcadia
Etymology: From Latin Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).
Senses: examples: text: The homosexual visitors to these southern Mediterranean regions may have been influenced by an imagined geography circulated through classical understandings of homosexuality in their search for a kind of Arcadia where homosexual love and lust could be played out without fear of persecution.
ref: 2006, Kevin Markwell, Gay Tourism: Culture and Context:
glosses: An ideal region of rural and idyllic contentment; a pastoral utopia.
Derived terms: Arcadian
Arcadic
Arcady
Related terms: Shangri-La
Attica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈætɪkə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀττική (Attikḗ).
Senses: related: word: Attika
glosses: A periphery where Athens, the capital of Greece, is located.
glosses: A peninsula southeast of Athens, Greece.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Fountain County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Harper County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community, census-designated place, and township in Lapeer County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Wyoming County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Wyoming County and Genesee County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
The Attica Correctional Facility, scene of the Attica Prison riots
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Seneca County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Brooklyn, Green County, Wisconsin.
Related terms: Attic
Central Greece
Central Macedonia
Crete
East Macedonia and Thrace
Epirus
Ionian Islands
North Aegean
Peloponnese
South Aegean
Thessaly
West Greece
West Macedonia
Boeotia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈəʊʃə/
Forms: form: Bœotia
form: Boiotia
form: Beotia
Etymology: From Latin Boeotia, from Ancient Greek Βοιωτία (Boiōtía).
Senses: glosses: A historical region and modern regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism. Capital: Livadeia.
Derived terms: Boeotian
courtisanerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtisaneries
Etymology: From French courtisanerie, from Middle French, from courtisane + -erie, from Italian cortigiana, feminine of cortigiano (“courtier”), from corte (“court”).
Senses: glosses: The practice or profession of being a courtesan.
LMAO
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛlˌɛmˌeɪˈoʊ/
ipa: /ləˈmaʊ/
ipa: /l̩ˈmaʊ/
ipa: /ˈɛlˌmaʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
rhymes: -aʊ
Senses: examples: text: “LMAO. Cook him,” one said. “Grass needs to be touched,” another added.
ref: 2024 April 9, Connor Bennett, “Rockstar dev claps back at GTA 6 fans finding “mistakes” in trailer”, in Dexerto:
glosses: Initialism of laughing my ass/arse off; used to indicate great amusement, usually exaggerated.
Related terms: ayy lmao
LMDO
LMFAO
LMNO
LMVO
LOAO
LOL
ROFL
roflcopter
ROFLMAO
ROFLOL
ROTFLACGU
ROTFLAHMS
ROTFLBTC
ROTFLGO
ROTFLMAO
ROTFLOL
ROTFLSHIWMP
LMAO
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛlˌɛmˌeɪˈoʊ/
ipa: /ləˈmaʊ/
ipa: /l̩ˈmaʊ/
ipa: /ˈɛlˌmaʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: LMAOs
form: LMAOing
form: LMAOed
form: LMAOed
Senses: examples: text: Reading this website will have you ROFLing, LMAOing, and LOLing every time you read it.
ref: 2009 October 2, Jessica Hunter, Katherine Shamburger, “One Week at a Time: Jessica and Katherine’s Top 10”, in Todd Johnson, editor, The Conglomerate, volume 86, number 5, Shreveport, La.: Centenary College of Louisiana, →OCLC, page 12, column 4:
text: Even if you don’t win, this slumber party quiz will have you LOL, ROFL, and LMAOing with your friends all the way into the night while you do everything you can to show them ALL that YOU are the ultimate Taylor Swift fan!
ref: 2014 September 12, Serenity Starr, “Introduction”, in Unofficial Taylor Swift Trivia Slumber Party Quiz Game! Who’s the Ultimate Fan?, Volumes 1–4 Super Pack, Houston, Tex.: Starr Ignition Systems, →ISBN, page 3:
text: You’re girls. Whatever it is you want to kill each other over now, you’ll be LMAOing about on group chat in two hours. Trust me.
ref: 2017 September 12, Daniel José Older, chapter 20, in Shadowhouse Fall (Shadowshaper Cypher; 2), New York, N.Y.: Arthur A. Levine Books, →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: To laugh one's ass off.
bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒlt/
ipa: /bəʊlt/
ipa: [bɔʊɫt]
ipa: /boʊlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Etymology: From Middle English bolt, from Old English bolt, from Proto-West Germanic *bolt, from Proto-Germanic *bultaz, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeld- (“to knock, strike”). Compare Lithuanian beldu (“I knock”), baldas (“pole for striking”). Akin to Dutch and West Frisian bout, German Bolz or Bolzen, Danish bolt, Swedish bult, Icelandic bolti.
Senses: examples: text: The soldiers stood bolt upright for inspection.
text: [He] came bolt up against the heavy dragoon.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
Derived terms: bolt upright
bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒlt/
ipa: /bəʊlt/
ipa: [bɔʊɫt]
ipa: /boʊlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Forms: form: bolts
form: bolting
form: bolted
form: bolted
Etymology: From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.
Senses: glosses: To sift, especially through a cloth.
examples: text: Graham flour is unbolted flour; in contrast, some other flours have been bolted.
glosses: To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
examples: text: ill schooled in bolted language
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Time and Nature will Bolt out the Truth of Things.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
examples: text: […]the old habits of mooting or bolting caſes (i.e. of public disputations), might make the ſtudent more ſubtle and acute
ref: 1781, “The History and Antiquities of the Four Inns of Court”, in The Monthly Review:
topics: law
glosses: To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
Derived terms: bolt to the bran
unbolted
bolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒlt/
ipa: /bəʊlt/
ipa: [bɔʊɫt]
ipa: /boʊlt/
rhymes: -əʊlt
rhymes: -ɒlt
Forms: form: bolts
Etymology: From Middle English bulten, from Anglo-Norman buleter, Old French bulter (modern French bluter), from a Germanic source originally meaning "bag, pouch" cognate with Middle High German biuteln (“to sift”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel.
Senses: examples: text: The combination, in a flour bolt, of a reel head having a throat near its outer edge for the passage of the tailings and a series of revolving adjustable beaters, substantially as set forth.
ref: 1885, Canada. Patent Office, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks, page 279:
text: We have a number of these reels in different mills that are bolting the break flour direct from the scalping reels and scalped through No. 8 cloth. […] Now, gentlemen, they require a much less number to do a given amount of work than any other known machine or bolt, and require less space and power.
ref: 1886, The Mechanical News, page 120:
text: As the material is agitated by the motion of the bolt, the flour falls through, while the smaller particles of bran are taken up by the current of air and carried off.
ref: 1896, United States. Patent Office, Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases., page 493:
glosses: A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
bolthole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boltholes
form: bolt-hole
Etymology: From bolt + hole.
Senses: glosses: A hole in an animal’s den, or through a wall or fence, used for escape or emergency exit, i.e., a hole the animal may bolt through.
examples: text: There was a guard at the front doors. He was smoking a cigarette; she'd seen the light from a great distance. They'd grown incautious in the absence of her continual raids, probably imagining she'd died of some viral infection alone in one of the countless caves ringing the forest. She'd seen their hunting parties canvassing the area, had prepared a few extra boltholes in case they found the one she'd shared with Yésica, but it hadn't proven necessary. Maybe they didn't really want to find her.
ref: 2023 October 12, Harry Blank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
glosses: A hidden place of emergency refuge.
examples: text: a bolthole in the Dordogne
text: “We’ll find a home among the Fremen,” Paul said, “where your Missionaria Protectiva has bought us a bolt hole.”
They’ve prepared a way for us in the desert, Jessica told herself. But how can he know of the Missionaria Protectiva?
ref: 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 205:
text: In the 1950s, Hollywood decamped to the desert – bankrolling the world’s most daring modernist architects to create ever more experimental boltholes.
ref: 2016 February 29, Oliver Wainwright, “Two pools, 13 bathrooms and 300 for dinner: the modernist fun palaces of Palm Springs”, in The Guardian:
text: Because even a modernist villa on a hillside on the island of Aegina – a fast ferry ride from the port of Piraeus and the summer bolthole of chic Athenians – is not the sanctuary from the modern world that it might once have been.
ref: 2023 September 24, Carole Cadwalladr, “‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: It was on this "beautiful terrace" that "George III, and the royal family resided". Bradshaw tells me that George stayed at the Royal Lodge, which I believe was his nearby holiday bolthole - Gloucester Lodge.
ref: 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 55:
glosses: A second home, etc., where one can seek an escape or refuge from the stresses of everyday life.
vat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /væt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: vats
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).
Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.
Senses: examples: text: a vat of liquid
text: a vat of acid
text: a vat of wine
text: a vat of olives
text: a vat of fat
text: a vat of glue
glosses: A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
glosses: A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A vessel for holding holy water.
glosses: A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
Derived terms: junk vat
vat dye
vat jade green
vat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /væt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: vats
form: vatting
form: vatted
form: vatted
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).
Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.
Senses: glosses: To put into a vat.
examples: text: He was thinking of the grape arbor in Kingston, of summer twilight and the murmur of voices darkening into silence as he approached, who meant them, her, no harm; who meant her less than harm, good God; darkening into the pale whisper of her white dress, of the delicate and urgent mammalian whisper of that curious small flesh which he had not begot and in which appeared to be vatted delicately some seething sympathy with the blossoming grape.
ref: 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 114:
glosses: To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
vat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /væt/
rhymes: -æt
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).
Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See fat.
Senses: examples: text: vat red
text: vat jade green
glosses: Designating a vat dye.
Cs
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: cirrostratus
Cs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C
la
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: las
form: lah
Etymology: From Glover's solmization, from Middle English la (“sixth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian la in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip's”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
Senses: examples: text: And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
Coordinate terms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: do
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: re
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: mi
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: fa
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: sol
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: ti
la
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Sound used to form meaningless song refrains. Of imitative origin. Compare Old English lā (a common exclamation), Ancient Greek λαλαγε (lalage, “babble”), German lallen (“to babble”).
Senses: examples: text: "La la la la, I can't hear you!" Jimmy said, sticking his fingers in his ears.
text: The only part Lucy had to sing was the interlude, which was a bunch of la la la's, and the last verse of the song, which was only four lines, and the chorus, which was just as short.
ref: 2019, Keira Brown, Between the Lines: Never in Plain Sight:
glosses: Represents the sound of music or singing.
Derived terms: La-La Land
la
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: law
Etymology: From Middle English la, from Old English lā. More at lo.
Senses: glosses: Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
examples: text: La, ma'am, what doth your la'ship think? the girl that your la'ship saw at church on Sunday, whom you thought so handsome; though you would not have thought her so handsome neither, if you had seen her nearer, but to be sure she hath been carried before the justice for being big with child.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: “Oh, la! here come the Richardsons. I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them any longer.”
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 2, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: "La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with us. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Expressing surprise, anger. etc.
la
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From French la, Italian la.
Senses: examples: text: Following lukewarm on the heels of an article a few weeks ago, where (I paraphrase due to having filed the relevant copy in the recycling bin) Victoria Beckham made a "well-meaning" remark that the other Spice Girls might want to lose a few pounds, we now have a new incidence of La Beckham's scintillating and entirely well-meaning humour.
ref: 2007 November 22, Kate Carter, “Graziawatch”, in The Guardian:
text: By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 232:
text: (You have to wonder where la Wintour finds the time for all this styling: maybe it's a displacement activity to fill the void left by her failure to get the Democratic party into power?)
ref: 2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:
glosses: Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
la
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: las
Etymology: Possibly a shortened form of lad.
Senses: qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: lad, kid
Related terms: word: lid
raw_tags: for kid
la
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /lɑː˥/
ipa: /lɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From Cantonese 啦 (laa¹). Doublet of lah.
Senses: examples: text: Sleep la!
translation: [You should] go to bed.
english: [You should] go to bed.
text: Eat shit la you!
translation: You're going to hell! (calque of 食屎啦你！)
english: You're going to hell! (calque of 食屎啦你！)
glosses: Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
examples: text: ok la
translation: not bad; good enough
english: not bad; good enough
glosses: Used to tone down comments.
Related terms: lor
wor
la
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /lɑː˥/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lah.
ce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sē
ipa: /siː/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: C
homophone: sea
homophone: see
Forms: form: ces
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat spelling, but not the pronunciation, supplies our own name for the letter: “ce” or “cee.”
ref: 2003, David Sacks, The Alphabet: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z, page 89:
glosses: Alternative form of cee (“the letter C”).
Pr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of propyl.
Sm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of small.
Sm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Magellanic spiral; an irregular galaxy with spiral characteristics
Related terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Im
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: Irr
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: IrG
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: dI
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: dIG
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: DIG
Tb
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Tbit.
dy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English dyen, variant of dien (“to die”). More at die.
Senses: examples: text: The lether-winged Bat, dayes enimy, / The ruefull Strich, still waiting on the bere, / The Whistler shrill, that who so heares, doth dy […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of die.
dy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Clipping of already.
Senses: glosses: already
dy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of deputy.
Senses: examples: text: SBI dy manager in police net for helping cyber cons, 15th banker to be held this yr
ref: 2024 July 4, Mahesh Buddi, “SBI dy manager in police net for helping cyber cons, 15th banker to be held this yr”, in Times of India, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2024:
glosses: Abbreviation of deputy.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: dy-no-mite
ho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊ/
ipa: /hoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: hoe
homophone: hoh
Etymology: From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).
Senses: examples: text: There is no ho with them.
ref: 1604, Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore:
glosses: A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
ho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊ/
ipa: /hoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: hoe
homophone: hoh
Forms: form: hos
form: hoes
form: heaux
form: hoe
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of whore in non-rhotic accents with the dough–door merger, such as some varieties of African American Vernacular English; compare mo (“more”), fo' (“for; four”). The noun first appears c. 1964, whereas the verb first appears c. 1972.
Senses: examples: text: Bros before hoes!
text: So you want to see the show? You really don't have to be a ho.
ref: 2001, “Psycho”, in Toxicity, performed by Serj Tankian with System of a Down:
text: They was saying the jawn freaked out and called the cops cause all her sorority sistahs started ragging on her and calling her a stank ho for fucking half the basketball team.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 204:
text: "You looking for one of my ho's?" the diminutive man asked Sigmund.
"A hoe?" Sigmund asked, wondering why the little man wished to sell him farming equipment in the city.
"You know, a ho. A tute. A honey, A righteous bit of poontang, my brother," he said.
"I don't follow," Sigmund said.
"Indubitably, I means a ho, a whore. I can tell you is a player. You want a whore?" he asked.
ref: 2010, Dennis Shields, God Went Fishing, page 69:
glosses: A whore; a sexually promiscuous woman; in general use as a highly offensive term of abuse for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.
glosses: A woman in general; a bitch.
Derived terms: hoeish
hoism
ho stroll
ho tag
thot
video ho
ho
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊ/
ipa: /hoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: hoe
homophone: hoh
Forms: form: hoes
form: hoeing
form: hoed
form: hoed
form: hoe
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of whore in non-rhotic accents with the dough–door merger, such as some varieties of African American Vernacular English; compare mo (“more”), fo' (“for; four”). The noun first appears c. 1964, whereas the verb first appears c. 1972.
Senses: examples: text: She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.
ref: 2003 November 18, Greywolf Johnson, “Do you know any of these? ”, in alt.strange.days (Usenet):
glosses: To act as a ho, to prostitute.
ho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊ/
ipa: /hoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: hoe
homophone: hoh
Forms: form: hos
form: hoe
Etymology: From Middle English howe, houwe, hoȝe, from Old English hogu and hoga, from Proto-Germanic *hugô, *hugiz, *huguz (“mind, thought, understanding”), akin to Old High German hugu, hugi (Middle High German hüge), Old Saxon hugi (Middle Dutch höghe, Dutch heug), Old Norse hugr, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐍃 (hugs).
Senses: examples: text: Though there bee A thousand cares that heape my hoe.
ref: 1567, George Turberville, “A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres”, in Heroycall Epistles of Ovid, 155v:
text: Him that..this gentlewoman is in such a hoe about.
ref: 1798, Charlotte Turner Smith, The Young Philosopher, I. 195:
text: But by day to the zun they must rise
To their true lives o' tweil an' ov ho.
ref: 1869-70, William Barnes, “The Widow’s House”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
text: I doänt see as you've any call to putt yourself in no such terrible gurt hoe over it.
ref: 1875, William Douglas Parish, A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect (at cited word):
glosses: Care, anxiety, trouble, sorrow.
ho
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊ/
ipa: /hoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: hoe
homophone: hoh
Forms: form: hoe
Etymology: From Middle English howen, hoȝen, hogien, from Old English hogian, hugian, from Proto-Germanic *hugjaną. Cognate with Middle Scots huik, Old High German hucken, Old Saxon huggjan, Dutch heugen, Old Norse hyggja, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hugjan).
Senses: examples: text: To ho for anything, to long for any thing. Berks.
ref: 1787, F. Grose, Provinc. Gloss (at cited word)
text: Ho...to long for anything; to be careful and anxious. West.
ref: 1847-78, J. O. Halliwell, Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words
text: But still 'tis happiness to know That there's a God above us; An' he, by day an' night do ho Vor all ov us an' love us.
ref: 1869-70, William Barnes, The Bells of Alderburnham, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
text: To ho and hanker after thik woman.
ref: 1874, T. Hardy, Far from Madding Crowd, II. xxiii. 289:
text: Ho, to long for; to care greatly for.
ref: 1888, B. Lowsley, Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases:
glosses: To care, be anxious, to long.
Tm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of tubular maximum: a scale used in the study of kidney function.
Yb
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Ybit.
lu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of loo (“card game”).
lu
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lus
form: luing
form: lued
form: lued
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of loo (“beat at card game”).
lu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lus
Etymology: A romanization of Chinese 路 (lù, “route”)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of route or circuit, an administrative division of imperial China.
synonyms: word: route or circuit
extra: an administrative division of imperial China
po
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: pos
Etymology: From Middle English po (found also in pocock), from Old English pāwa, pēa (“peacock”), from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō. Cognate with Dutch pauw, German Pfau. See also peacock.
Senses: glosses: A peacock.
po
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: pos
Etymology: A diminutive of pot.
Senses: examples: text: Ma's out, Pa's out, let's talk rude-- Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers!
ref: 1961, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, “P** P* B**** B** D*******”, in The Bestiary of Flanders & Swann:
text: ‘Pos’ or ‘chamber pots’ were provided under the beds.
ref: 1988, Richard Hoggart, A Local Habitation, 1918-40, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 67:
text: There are always several spitoons & pos [chamber pots] about the room & a loathesome smell of consumption, which I expect I shall catch.
ref: 1989, Leonard Woolf, edited by Frederic Spotts, Letters of Leonard Woolf, page 86:
text: Shaking the last few drops from off the end he looked down in surprise at the great head of steam that brimmed above the po, belatedly apprised of just how icy the October garret was.
ref: 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 44:
glosses: A chamberpot.
Synonyms: chamber pot
Derived terms: po-face
po-faced
po
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: po'
Etymology: Clipping of police.
Senses: examples: text: "Basically it's a celebration of all the gearheads in the area," Rob told him. "Sometimes we get busted by the po, but we always find a new place to show off our rides. Enjoy this lot while we have it."
ref: 2008, Megan T. White, Rounding the Finish Line, Baltimore, M.D.: PublishAmerica, →ISBN, page 209:
text: "'Bout time the po' got here," someone said loud enough for Bree to hear.
ref: 2009, Debra Webb, Secrets in Four Corners, Toronto, Ont. […]: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 155:
text: Now, one of the rules I had—this is another reason why certain police probably respected us dudes—when it was hot, when I saw certain po, we would shut it down. We left. I would just leave. I would give them they space and let them go.
ref: 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: The police.
Related terms: po-po
po
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: [p˭o]
ipa: /pəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: poh
Etymology: From Hokkien 薄 (po̍h / po̍k, “weak”).
Senses: glosses: Thinner; with more water added to dilute it.
raw_tags: used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)
Related terms: word: C
word: di lo
word: gah dai
word: gau
word: kosong
word: O
word: peng
word: siew dai
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "po"
word: Hine-nui-te-po
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "po"
word: jan ken po
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "po"
word: kung po
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "po"
word: Ning-po
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "po"
word: po-mo
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "po"
word: po po
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "po"
word: Tzu-po
Phocis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Phokis
Senses: glosses: A regional unit of the administrative region of Central Greece, in modern Greece. Capital and largest city: Amphissa. It is located north northeast of the Peloponnese, which included Delphi.
glosses: An ancient region in the central part of ancient Greece that included Delphi.
Tuscany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tŭsʹkənē
ipa: /ˈtʌskəni/
Etymology: Late 14c., from Middle English Tuscan, Tuscane, from Old French Toscane or Italian Toscana, from Late Latin Tuscānus (“belonging to the Tusci”), a people of ancient Italy, from Tuscus, earlier *Truscus, shortened form of Etruscus (“Etruscan”).
Senses: glosses: An administrative region of Italy, located north of Lazio and south of Emilia-Romagna.
Meronyms: Arezzo
Florence
Grosseto
Livorno
Lucca
Massa Carrara
Pisa
Pistoia
Prato
Siena
Related terms: Tuscan
Etruria
Lombardy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒmbədi/
ipa: /ˈlɑmbəɹdi/
Etymology: From Latin Langobardia, named after Langobards, a Germanic tribe that invaded the region along with much of northern Apennine Peninsula in 6th century.
Senses: glosses: An administrative region in northern Italy, where its capital and the largest city Milan is founded in the Po Valley.
Meronyms: Bergamo
Brescia
Como
Cremona
Lecco
Lodi
Mantua
Milan
Monza and Brianza
Pavia
Sondrio
Varese
Derived terms: Lombardy poplar
Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.ʒən/
ipa: /ˈpɝʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
Etymology: From Middle English Persien, from Middle French persien, from Italian persiano, from Medieval Latin Persiānus, from Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”) (compare Early Classical Persian پارس (pārs) or modern Iranian Persian فارس (fârs), where the shift p > f. Equivalent to Persia + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The resulting Belter creole is a crazy mix of English, Chinese, romance languages like French, German, Persian, Hebrew, Zulu, and a few other surprises. Farmer says he has over 1,000 Belter words in his personal dictionary, and he keeps adding more as the show’s producers and fans request them.
ref: 2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars Technica:
synonyms: Farsi
Dari
Tajik
Classical Persian
glosses: The Persian language, or a family of languages spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.ʒən/
ipa: /ˈpɝʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
Forms: form: Persians
Etymology: From Middle English Persien, from Middle French persien, from Italian persiano, from Medieval Latin Persiānus, from Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”) (compare Early Classical Persian پارس (pārs) or modern Iranian Persian فارس (fârs), where the shift p > f. Equivalent to Persia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An Iranian.
glosses: A person from Persia.
glosses: A person of Persian descent.
glosses: Short for Persian cat
glosses: A pastry local to the Thunder Bay region in Canada often compared to either a cinnamon bun or a donut topped with pink icing.
glosses: A sheep of the Blackhead Persian breed.
examples: text: There is of those Persians several lengths.
ref: 1696, J. F. Merchant?, The merchant's ware-house laid open:
glosses: A thin silk fabric, formerly used for linings.
topics: architecture
glosses: Any of a set of male figures used instead of columns to support an entablature.
Derived terms: Afghan Persian
Classical Persian
Dari-Persian
Judeo-Persian
Law of the Medes and Persians
Tajiki-Persian
Related terms: perse
Farsi
Iranian
Perse
persophone
Wiktionary’s coverage of Persian terms
Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.ʒən/
ipa: /ˈpɝʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
Forms: form: more Persian
form: most Persian
Etymology: From Middle English Persien, from Middle French persien, from Italian persiano, from Medieval Latin Persiānus, from Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”) (compare Early Classical Persian پارس (pārs) or modern Iranian Persian فارس (fârs), where the shift p > f. Equivalent to Persia + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: MOHAMMAD REZA SHAJARIAN (Thursday) Renowned in his native Iran, the vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been performing since the 1960s, and is now widely considered one of the finest classical Persian singers in the world. Mr. Shajarian’s son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum).
ref: 2008 May 30, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2022:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Persia.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Persian people.
synonyms: Farsi
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Persian language.
Derived terms: word: Colourpoint Persian
word: Himalayan Persian
word: Penglish
word: Persian arch
word: Persianate
alt: Rhamnus saxatilis et al.
word: Persian berry
word: Persian blue
word: Persian cat
word: Persian column
taxonomic: Carum carvi
word: Persian cumin
taxonomic: Lolium persicum
word: Persian darnel
word: Persian drill
word: Persian fire
word: Persian flaw
word: Persian Gulf
word: Persian Gulf oxide
word: Persian gum
word: Persian insect powder
word: Persianist
word: Persianization
word: Persianize
word: Persian lamb
alt: Syringa × persica or Melia azedarach
word: Persian lilac
word: Persianness
taxonomic: Equus hemionus onager
word: Persian onager
word: Persian orange
word: Persian powder
word: Persian red
word: Persian relapsing fever
word: Persian rummy
word: Persian violet
word: Persian walnut
word: Persian Wars
word: Persian wheel
taxonomic: Equus hemionus onager
word: Persian wild ass
taxonomic: Equus hemionus onager
word: Persian zebra
word: Persification
word: Pinglish
Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.ʒən/
ipa: /ˈpɝʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)si.ən/
ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
homophone: Persean
ipa: /ˈpɜː.ʒən/
ipa: /ˈpɝʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
Forms: form: more Persian
form: most Persian
Etymology: From Persius + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: ...as it seems from an Ovidian or Persian standpoint and also, perhaps, from the comic standpoints of Plautus or Caecilius...
ref: 1998, Stephen Hinds, Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman Poetry:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Persius (Roman writer)