cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tongs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒŋz/
ipa: /tɔŋz/
ipa: /tɑŋz/
rhymes: -ɒŋz
rhymes: -ɔːŋz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tong
tongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒŋz/
ipa: /tɔŋz/
ipa: /tɑŋz/
rhymes: -ɒŋz
rhymes: -ɔːŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of tong (“Chinese secret society”)
inventorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inventorizes
form: inventorizing
form: inventorized
form: inventorized
form: inventorise
Etymology: From inventory + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make an inventory of.
Synonyms: inventory
Derived terms: uninventorized
rok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of roc.
anno Domini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.əʊ ˈdɒ.mə.nɪ/
ipa: /ˈæn.oʊ ˈdɑ.mə.ni/
Forms: form: annis Domini
form: anno domini
form: Anno Domini
form: AD
form: A.D.
form: a.d.
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin annō Dominī, from annō, (ablative of annus (“year”)) + Dominī (genitive of dominus (“lord”)); literally, in the year of the Lord.
Senses: glosses: The current date era beginning approximately 2000 years ago in the Gregorian calendar, based on the birth of Jesus Christ.
anno domini
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anno Domini.
yakuza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjækuːzə/
ipa: /jəˈkuːzə/
ipa: /ˈjækuzə/
ipa: /ˈjɑː-/
ipa: /ˈjaːkʉːzə/
ipa: /jəˈkʉːzə/
rhymes: -ækuːzə
rhymes: -uːzə
Forms: form: yakuza
form: yakuzas
Etymology: From Japanese やくざ (yakuza). See there for more details.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese organized crime gang.
glosses: A member of that Japanese organized crime gang.
Coordinate terms: english: Russian organized crime
translation: Russian organized crime
word: bratva
english: Latin American organized crime syndicate
translation: Latin American organized crime syndicate
word: cartel
english: Italian organized crime
translation: Italian organized crime
word: mafia
english: organized crime
translation: organized crime
word: mob
english: Chinese organized crime
translation: Chinese organized crime
word: tong
english: Hong Kong organized crime
translation: Hong Kong organized crime
word: triad
romanji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roumanji
form: rōmanji
Etymology: Blend of Roman + romaji, apparently influenced by kanji.
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of romaji.
rōmaji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of romaji.
pomfret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒm.fɹɪt/
Forms: form: pomfret
form: pomfrets
Etymology: Perhaps derived from Portuguese pampano, a kind of fish.
Senses: glosses: A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.
glosses: Any of several species of butterfishes in the genus Pampus.
glosses: A golden pomfret (Trachinotus blochii).
glosses: A black pomfret (Parastromateus niger).
Derived terms: word: pomfret cake
word: silver pomfret
alt: Stromateoides argenteus
word: silvery pomfret
taxonomic: Brama brama
word: Atlantic pomfret
word: white pomfret
Related terms: sea bream
Bramidae
Stromateidae
silvery pomfret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silvery pomfrets
form: silver pomfret
Senses: glosses: An edible fish (Pampus argenteus).
wikipedia: silvery pomfret
Synonyms: white pomfret
utmost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌtməʊ̯st/
ipa: /ˈʌtməst/
enpr: ŭt'mōst
ipa: /ˈʌtmoʊ̯st/
ipa: [ˈʌʔ-]
ipa: [ˈət-]
Forms: form: utmosts
form: uttermost
Etymology: PIE word
 *úd
From Middle English utmost, utemest [and other forms], from Old English ūtmest, ūtemest [and other forms], from ūt, ūte (“out; outdoors, outside”) + -mest (suffix meaning ‘furthest’, used to form superlatives of some adjectives) (and conflated with most). Ūt is derived from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out, outward”), from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“out, outward”). Equivalent to out + -most.
Senses: examples: text: at the utmost    to the utmost
text: [...] I am reſolved to pluck up the heart of a man, and to try my utmoſt to get from under his hand.
ref: 1680, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], 5th edition, Edinburgh: […] Iohn Cairns, […], →OCLC, page 116:
text: [T]he utmoſt they could do, was to perſuade Him to lay aſide all Rancor and Diſcontent againſt thoſe Confederate Lords, and to hearken to their deſires.
ref: 1704, James Tyrrell, “Book XII. Containing the Reign of King Richard II.”, in The General History of England, both Ecclesiastical and Civil: […], volume III, 2nd part, London: […] W. Rogers, […]; J. Taylor, […]; J. Sprint, […]; and A[ndrew] Bell, […], →OCLC, page 912:
text: But Scrooge was all the worse for this. It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 122–123:
text: Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Meeting Point”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 232:
text: We drank martinis, while she gazed into my eyes and talked of Dolores – in tones of the utmost loathing – and of you, in tones of the utmost self-importance.
ref: 2011, Simone de Beauvoir, “January 1947 – October 1951: America”, in Quintin Hoare, transl., Letters to Sartre, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 415:
synonyms: yondermost
glosses: The greatest possible capability, extent, or quantity; maximum.
Derived terms: do one's utmost
stern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stûn
ipa: /stɜːn/
enpr: stûrn
ipa: /stɝn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: sterns
form: sterne
Etymology: Most likely from Old Norse stjórn (“control, steering”), related to stýra (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną, whence also English steer. Also possibly from Old Frisian stiarne (“rudder”), from the same Germanic root. The sense referring to a management post alludes to the fact that a sailing ship's captain would often stand on an aft deck.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
text: Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: aft
poop
antonyms: bow
stem
forestem
fore
prow
prore
glosses: The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
examples: text: and sit chiefest stern of public weal
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: The post of management or direction.
glosses: The hinder part of anything.
examples: text: And all attonce her beaſtly bodie raizd / With doubled forces high aboue the ground: / Tho wrapping vp her wrethed ſterne arownd, / Lept fierce vpon his ſhield, [...]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18, page 8:
glosses: The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
Derived terms: stem to stern
pink stern
square stern
stern chase
stern chaser
stern frame
sternpost
sternwards
torpedo stern
tunnel stern
Related terms: keel
aft
stern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stûn
ipa: /stɜːn/
enpr: stûrn
ipa: /stɝn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: sterns
form: sterning
form: sterned
form: sterned
form: sterne
Etymology: Most likely from Old Norse stjórn (“control, steering”), related to stýra (“to steer”), from Proto-Germanic *stiurijaną, whence also English steer. Also possibly from Old Frisian stiarne (“rudder”), from the same Germanic root. The sense referring to a management post alludes to the fact that a sailing ship's captain would often stand on an aft deck.
Senses: glosses: To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
stern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stûn
ipa: /stɜːn/
enpr: stûrn
ipa: /stɝn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: sterns
form: sterne
Etymology: From a variant of tern.
Senses: glosses: A bird, the black tern.
a la carte
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of à la carte.
a la carte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of à la carte.
photogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfəʊ.təʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌfoʊ.toʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌfoʊ.təˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more photogenic
form: most photogenic
Etymology: From photo- + -genic.
Senses: examples: text: The sunbather developed a photogenic melanoma on her back.
glosses: Generated or caused by light.
examples: text: The photogenic bacteria were visible in the dark room.
glosses: Producing or emitting light; luminescent.
examples: text: The company hired the spokesperson for his photogenic face.
text: Despite being compellingly photogenic, many eagles are difficult photographic targets, particularly when there is bright sunlight.
ref: 2021, Peter Cavanagh, “1. Eagles”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 17:
text: "And besides, you've made it so easy to find reference images of you. You're quite... photogenic."
ref: 2013 July 17, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013:
glosses: Looking good when photographed.
Derived terms: photogenically
photogenicism
photogenicity
unphotogenic
overpriced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpriced
form: most overpriced
Senses: examples: text: The overpriced items would not sell.
text: I have 20 minutes to grab a coffee (from cheaper Greggs, rather than overpriced Starbucks or Costa), then join the 1113 to Lowestoft.
ref: 2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 53:
glosses: Priced higher than its real worth.
Derived terms: overpricedness
overpriced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He overpriced the items to ensure they would not sell.
glosses: simple past and past participle of overprice
Related terms: expensive
overfeatured
$$$
silverfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silverfish
form: silverfishes
Etymology: From silver + fish: from its appearance, in the case of the insect.
Senses: glosses: Certain insects
A small wingless insect of species Lepisma saccharinum, with silvery scales; a type of bristletail.
glosses: Certain insects
Other similar insects in the family Lepismatidae, including:
Ctenolepisma lineata (four-lined silverfish).
glosses: Certain insects
Other similar insects in the family Lepismatidae, including:
Ctenolepisma longicaudata (grey silverfish).
glosses: Certain fish
Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon, tarpum).
glosses: Certain fish
Raiamas senegalensis (silver fish).
glosses: Certain fish
Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum.
glosses: Certain fish
A white variety of the goldfish.
glosses: Certain fish
Aphareus rutilans (rusty jobfish)
glosses: Certain fish
Argentina sphyraena (herring smelt)
glosses: Certain fish
Argyrozona argyrozona (carpenter sea bream)
glosses: Certain fish
Labeobarbus bynni (Niger barb, barbel, Nile barb)
glosses: Certain fish
Enteromius mattozi (papermouth)
glosses: Certain fish
Callorhinchus milii (elephant shark)
glosses: Certain fish
Elops saurus (ladyfish)
glosses: Certain fish
Leptatherina presbyteroides (hardyhead, prettyfish)
glosses: Certain fish
Pseudocaranx dentex (white trevally)
glosses: Certain fish
Steindachnerina argentea (toothless characin)
glosses: Certain fish
Trachinotus ovatus (pompano)
glosses: Certain fish
Trichiurus lepturus (largehead hairtail)
glosses: Certain fish
Ulaema lefroyi (mottled mojarra)
Synonyms: sense: type of bristletail
word: fishmoth
cowabunga
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæɔəˈbaŋɡə/
ipa: /ˌkaʊəˈbʌŋɡə/
enpr: kou'ə-bŭngʹə
ipa: /ˌkaʊəˈbʌŋɡə/
Forms: form: Kowa-Bunga
form: cowabonga
form: kawabonga
form: kowabonga
form: kowabunga
Etymology: Unknown, but was popularized (as Kowa-Bunga) by Chief Thunderthud on the American children's show Howdy Doody in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and became associated with American surfing culture. By the early 1980s, it was used as the catch-phrase of Cookie Monster on the American television show Sesame Street, and gained popularity with a broader audience after its use in the American cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. (For further treatment, see here.)
Senses: examples: text: Cowabunga, dude!
text: Kowa-Bunga! Then Me Fix You Good! You Be Sorry.
ref: 1954 Jan, Howdy Doody:
text: Shouting the surfer's cry ‘Cowabunga!’ they climb a 12-ft. wall of water and ‘take the drop’ off its shoulder.
ref: 1963 August 9, Time:
text: Both words turn up in the same sentence—as in ‘Cowabunga, it's humongous!’—when the children crowd around some toy.
ref: 1991 December 9, The New Yorker, page 115:
glosses: Expressing amazement, enthusiasm, or joy.
wikipedia: Cookie Monster
Howdy Doody
surfing culture
Synonyms: sense: expressing amazement
word: wow
sense: expressing exuberant approval
word: yay
Piemontese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Language spoken in Piedmont, region in the Northwest of Italy.
Synonyms: Piedmontese
Liliana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪliˈɑnə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a Latinate form of Lilian, or borrowed from Italian or Spanish.
morendo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian morendo, present participle of morire (“to die”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Fading away in volume or tempo.
morendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morendos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian morendo, present participle of morire (“to die”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A portion of music that fades away in volume or tempo.
prestissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛˈstɪsɪməʊ/
Etymology: From Italian prestissimo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Extremely fast, the fastest possible tempo.
prestissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛˈstɪsɪməʊ/
Etymology: From Italian prestissimo.
Senses: examples: text: A delegation of Norman gentry boldly requesting in 1771 the calling of the Normandy estates (which had been abolished in 1666) was despatched prestissimo to the Bastille.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 286:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Very quickly.
moderato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moderatos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian moderato. Doublet of moderate.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: comodo
glosses: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at a moderate tempo.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark
moderato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian moderato. Doublet of moderate.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: played in this style
Related terms: allegro moderato
andante moderato
moderato
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian moderato. Doublet of moderate.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: (to be) played in this style
staccato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈkɑːtoʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
Forms: form: staccatos
form: staccati
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to detach”), from Old French destachier (“to detach”), from des- + atachier (“to attach”), alteration of estachier (“to fasten with or to a stake, lay claim to”), from estache (“a stake”), from Low Frankish *stakkā (“stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz, *stakô (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“stick, stake”). Akin to Old High German stecko (“post”) (German Stecken (“stick”)), Old Saxon stekko (“stake”), Old Norse stakkr (“hay stack, heap”), Old English staca (“stake”). More at stake.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark.
examples: text: According to the syllable-timed hypothesis, Spanish syllables as staccato.
text: The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 160:
glosses: Any sound resembling a musical staccato.
staccato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈkɑːtoʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
Forms: form: more staccato
form: most staccato
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to detach”), from Old French destachier (“to detach”), from des- + atachier (“to attach”), alteration of estachier (“to fasten with or to a stake, lay claim to”), from estache (“a stake”), from Low Frankish *stakkā (“stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz, *stakô (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“stick, stake”). Akin to Old High German stecko (“post”) (German Stecken (“stick”)), Old Saxon stekko (“stake”), Old Norse stakkr (“hay stack, heap”), Old English staca (“stake”). More at stake.
Senses: examples: Now, play the same passage very staccato.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: played in this style
staccato
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈkɑːtoʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
Forms: form: more staccato
form: most staccato
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to detach”), from Old French destachier (“to detach”), from des- + atachier (“to attach”), alteration of estachier (“to fasten with or to a stake, lay claim to”), from estache (“a stake”), from Low Frankish *stakkā (“stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz, *stakô (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“stick, stake”). Akin to Old High German stecko (“post”) (German Stecken (“stick”)), Old Saxon stekko (“stake”), Old Norse stakkr (“hay stack, heap”), Old English staca (“stake”). More at stake.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Describing a passage having this mark.
examples: text: The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
text: A kind of tense peace, like the centre of a cyclone, descended. Not for long, of course, for already stealing upon one's hearing would be the staccato bark and thrust of the banker bringing up the rear.
ref: 1953 December, Henry Maxwell, “The Folkestone Harbour Branch: Some Evocations”, in Railway Magazine, page 809:
text: The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!
ref: 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 613:
glosses: Made up of abruptly disconnected parts or sounds.
legato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: lə-gäʹtō
ipa: /ləˈɡɑ.təʊ/
enpr: lə-gäʹtō
ipa: /ləˈɡɑ.toʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian legato, past participle of legare (“to tie up, tie together, to bind”), learned borrowing from Latin ligō (“tie, bind”). Doublet of ligate.
Senses: examples: text: Play this passage legato, not portato.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
antonyms: portato
staccato
glosses: Smoothly, in a connected manner.
Derived terms: nonlegato
Related terms: legatissimo
legato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lə-gäʹtō
ipa: /ləˈɡɑ.təʊ/
enpr: lə-gäʹtō
ipa: /ləˈɡɑ.toʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
Forms: form: legatos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian legato, past participle of legare (“to tie up, tie together, to bind”), learned borrowing from Latin ligō (“tie, bind”). Doublet of ligate.
Senses: examples: text: It is the coördination of the finger and hand as examplified in the proportionate speed of shifting according to the speed of the musical passage, which makes for evenness, continuity, smoothness, and ultimately, a fine legato.
ref: 1936, Edward E. Cramer, The Basis of Artistry in Violin Playing, page 49:
text: At the end of the prelude of Caprice V, there is a chromatic ascending and descending scale of forty-eight notes to be played in one bow in legato.
ref: 1979, Leslie Sheppard, Herbert R. Axelrod ·, Paganini, page 604:
text: Clementi, in his "Introduction to the art of playing the piano-forte" (1801) still had to advise pianists that : "the best general rule is to keep the keys of the instrument suppressed during the whole length of the note" (p.8) and "whenver the composer leaves the legato or staccato to the taste of the performer, the best rule is to use the legato in most cases and to reserve the staccato in order to give particular passages more spirit and to enhance the higher beauties of the legato."
ref: 1989, Siglind Bruhn, Guidelines to Piano Interpretation, page 97:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of performance characterized by smoothly connected notes.
examples: text: It schools the mind to watch for the legato all the time, as its absence at the organ is mor prominent than at the piano; but beyond this point it renders little assitance to the pianist.
ref: 1893, The Organ: Monthly Journal Devoted to the King of Instruments, page 198:
text: A good pianist, however, will make his audience believe that he is as capable of performing a legato as is a singer or violinist.
ref: 1958, József Gát, The Technique of Piano Playing, page 95:
text: Legatos are indicated in both notations by a bow between respective notes.
ref: 2000, Chroma Report, page 15:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage that is played legato.
in altissimo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian in altissimo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One octave higher.
Synonyms: 8va
portato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian portato, past participle of portare (“to bring, carry, bear”), from Latin portō.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In an unconnected manner, as opposed to legato, but not as short as staccato.
portato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portatos
form: portati
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian portato, past participle of portare (“to bring, carry, bear”), from Latin portō.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mark in music notation indicating this style of playing.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark.
arco
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian arco (“bow”). Doublet of arch and arc.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.
arco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archi
Etymology: From Italian arco (“bow”). Doublet of arch and arc.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage to be played in this way.
cantabile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantabiles
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cantabile (“singable, capable being sung”), derived from cantare (“to sing”). See also Latin cantabilis (“worthy to be sung”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a lyrical manner
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark
cantabile
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cantabile
form: most cantabile
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cantabile (“singable, capable being sung”), derived from cantare (“to sing”). See also Latin cantabilis (“worthy to be sung”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played in this style; singingly, lyrically
cantabile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cantabile
form: most cantabile
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cantabile (“singable, capable being sung”), derived from cantare (“to sing”). See also Latin cantabilis (“worthy to be sung”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Describing a passage having this mark; singable, lyrical
dolente
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian dolente, present participle of dolere (“to hurt, regret”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning.
crescendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.dəʊ/
ipa: /kɹəˈʃɛn.dəʊ/
ipa: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.doʊ/
ipa: /kɹəˈʃɛn.doʊ/
Forms: form: crescendos
form: crescendi
form: crescendoes
form: cres.
form: cresc.
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
examples: text: Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
glosses: A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
examples: text: Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
text: With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.
ref: 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The climax of a gradual increase.
Synonyms: word: amplification
word: ascension
word: boost
word: gain
word: growth
word: increase
word: loudening
word: spike
word: surge
word: upsurge
Hypernyms: word: escalation
word: rise
Meronyms: word: volume
crescendo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.dəʊ/
ipa: /kɹəˈʃɛn.dəʊ/
ipa: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.doʊ/
ipa: /kɹəˈʃɛn.doʊ/
Forms: form: crescendoes
form: crescendos
form: crescendoing
form: crescendoed
form: crescendoed
form: cres.
form: cresc.
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”).
Senses: examples: text: The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.
text: And similarly, they are full of tricks: when the imagined stranger calls your name, the music crescendos romantically; when the video freezes on your laugh, it immediately desaturates the candid photo, making you look old-timey or famous or dead.
ref: 2021 November 1, Haley Nahman, “I got a camera to spy on my cat – and it made me question everything about myself”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.
crescendo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.dəʊ/
ipa: /kɹəˈʃɛn.dəʊ/
ipa: /kɹɪˈʃɛn.doʊ/
ipa: /kɹəˈʃɛn.doʊ/
Forms: form: cres.
form: cresc.
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Gradually increasing in force or loudness.
diminuendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/
Forms: form: diminuendos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark
examples: text: Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light on the main text with its own consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism.
ref: 1988, Robert James Nelson, Willa Cather and France: In Search of the Lost Language, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Harlow gazed, like Henry, out the wide corner window, enjoying the diminuendos of the light.
ref: 1998, Edward Abbey, The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel, →ISBN:
text: Jillian haad the kind of charm that wore off. Or after enough romantic diminuendos, that's what she theorized.
ref: 2018, Lionel Shriver, The Standing Chandelier:
glosses: The gradual dying away of something.
diminuendo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/
Forms: form: more diminuendo
form: most diminuendo
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: played in this style
diminuendo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/
Forms: form: more diminuendo
form: most diminuendo
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: describing a passage having this mark
Synonyms: decrescendo
ostinato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒstɪˈnɑtoʊ/
Forms: form: ostinatos
form: ostinati
Etymology: From Italian ostinato (“stubborn”). Doublet of obstinate.
Senses: examples: text: The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano.
ref: 2009 January 26, Anthony Tommasini, “Pricking Up the Ears to Listen for Echoes of California”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment.
Related terms: basso ostinato
twelve-tone technique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the twelve-tone technique
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dodecaphony.
synonyms: word: dodecaphony
sour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊə/
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈsɑːə]
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈsɑː]
ipa: /ˈsaʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈsæɔə/
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
homophone: Saar
homophone: tsar
homophone: sigher
homophone: sire
Forms: form: sours
form: sower
form: sowre
Etymology: From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).
Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”),
Polish ser (“cheese”),
Czech sýr (“cheese”),
Slovak syr (“cheese”),
Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”),
Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”),
Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”).
Senses: glosses: The sensation of a sour taste.
glosses: A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
glosses: Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
examples: text: “You know I like them candies, especially the lemon sours.”
ref: 2022, Michael N. Riley, ARCH BOOK I, page 78:
glosses: A sweet/candy having a sharply sour taste.
examples: text: For many Years of Sorrow can dispense;
A Dram of Sweet is worth a Pound of Sour
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
glosses: The acidic solution used in souring fabric.
Derived terms: amaretto sour
Boston sour
laundry sour
pisco sour
whiskey sour
sour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊə/
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈsɑːə]
note: triphthong smoothing
ipa: [ˈsɑː]
ipa: /ˈsaʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈsæɔə/
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
homophone: Saar
homophone: tsar
homophone: sigher
homophone: sire
Forms: form: sours
form: souring
form: soured
form: soured
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: sour
form: sour
form: soured
form: sour
form: sourest
form: soured
form: souredst
form: sours
form: soureth
form: soured
form: sour
form: soured
form: sour
form: soured
form: sour
form: -
form: souring
form: soured
form: sower
form: sowre
Etymology: From Middle English sour, from Old English sūr (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūr, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”).
Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”),
Polish ser (“cheese”),
Czech sýr (“cheese”),
Slovak syr (“cheese”),
Russian сырой (syroj, “raw”),
Ukrainian сири́й (syrýj, “raw”),
Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ, “moist, cheese”).
Senses: examples: text: Too much lemon juice will sour the recipe.
glosses: To make sour.
examples: text: So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.
ref: 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems:
glosses: To become sour.
examples: text: To sour your happiness I must report, / The queen is dead.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
text: He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
examples: text: We broke up after our relationship soured.
glosses: To become disenchanted.
examples: text: stagnant water , which tends to sour the soil
ref: 1832, Joseph Harrison, Sir Joseph Paxton, The Horticultural Register, page 396:
glosses: To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
glosses: To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
glosses: To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.
Derived terms: besour
unsour
umami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uˈmɑːmi/
rhymes: -ɑːmi
Etymology: From Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami), from 旨い (umai, “delicious”), which describes the quality of a pleasant, savory taste.
Senses: examples: text: Umami is the mysterious “fifth taste”—a flavour that has never seemed to fit into the existing categories of sweet, sour, salty and bitter. South-east Asian chefs have exploited it throughout history—it's an essential part of the taste of seaweed, among other things[…]
ref: 2000 January 28, Oliver Burkeman, “Things that make you go yum”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: But we are, of course, sweaty, fleshy lady-animals – all fur and umami.
ref: 2011, Caitlin Moran, How to be a Woman:
text: A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
ref: 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, “The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel”, in Wired:
text: I quickly realized that I have always been obsessed with umami; I just didn't know it. It's why a sprinkle of Parm on just about anything heightens that dish's flavor; it's why grilled smoky mushrooms taste so good. Umami is a deeply satisfying taste, and luckily for us, umami is everywhere—it's in tomatoes and soy sauce, fresh and dried mushrooms, aged cheese, nutritional yeast […]
ref: 2019, Raquel Pelzel, Umami Bomb: 75 Vegetarian Recipes That Explode with Flavor, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:
synonyms: savoriness
deliciousness
meatiness
brothiness
coordinate_terms: bitterness
saltiness
sourness
sweetness
glosses: One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.
Derived terms: umami bomb
umaminess
Related terms: osmazome
taste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /teɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: tast
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of tasty.
barebacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bareback + -ing.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: The practice of engaging in sexual intercourse, most often anal sex, without using a condom.
Related terms: bareback
barebacker
bareback
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛəbæk/
ipa: /ˈbɛɚbæk/
Etymology: From bare + back.
Senses: examples: text: bareback riding
glosses: Without a saddle.
examples: text: bareback sex
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: Without a condom.
examples: text: ‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.
ref: 1937 March 30, Bareback Bathing Ban Off, The New York Times:
glosses: Without a shirt; shirtless.
bareback
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛəbæk/
ipa: /ˈbɛɚbæk/
Etymology: From bare + back.
Senses: examples: text: I can ride a horse bareback.
glosses: Without a saddle.
examples: text: We had sex bareback.
glosses: Without a condom.
Synonyms: condomless
Coordinate terms: saddleback
bareback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛəbæk/
ipa: /ˈbɛɚbæk/
Forms: form: barebacks
form: barebacking
form: barebacked
form: barebacked
Etymology: From bare + back.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: To have sex (with someone) without using a condom.
Derived terms: barebacker
barebacking
bareback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛəbæk/
ipa: /ˈbɛɚbæk/
Forms: form: barebacks
Etymology: From bare + back.
Senses: examples: text: Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the industry does not end there. Barebacked broilers slow down the pickers in the dressing plants which results in a loss in labor.
ref: 1950, Poultry Digest, volume 9, page 91:
glosses: A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
bug-chasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugchasing
Senses: glosses: The practice of engaging in anal sex with the deliberate intention of contracting HIV.
glosses: The practice of trying to deliberately catch sexually transmitted diseases, usually through sex but sometimes through other methods as well.
Related terms: bug-chaser
barebacking
charge up
poz
barebacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barebackers
Etymology: From bareback + -er.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: A person who engages in barebacking.
bug-chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug-chasers
form: bug chaser
Senses: topics: LGBT
glosses: A man who practises bug-chasing.
Related terms: gift giver
batty man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batty men
form: bawty man
form: bawty mon
form: batty mon
form: bati-man
Etymology: From Caribbean slang batty (“buttocks”) + man (“person”).
Senses: glosses: A homosexual man.
Synonyms: male homosexual
Coordinate terms: scissor sister
Related terms: batty boy
batman
batty boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batty boys
form: batty bwoy
form: bawty boy
Etymology: From Caribbean slang batty (“buttocks”) + boy (“person”).
Senses: glosses: A homosexual man.
Synonyms: male homosexual
Related terms: batty man
batboy
chi chi man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chi chi men
form: chichi man
Senses: glosses: A homosexual man.
Synonyms: male homosexual
closet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒzɪt/
ipa: /ˈklɑzɪt/
rhymes: -ɒzɪt
Etymology: From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.
Senses: glosses: Private.
examples: text: He's a closet case.
text: I wonder if there is another in the world that could produce, among perfectly normal people, this strangest quirk in the agenda of liquordom, the closet drinker.
ref: 1940, Walton Hall Smith with Ferdinand Christian Helwig, Liquor, the servant of man:
glosses: Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
glosses: Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
Related terms: out
closet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɒzɪt/
ipa: /ˈklɑzɪt/
rhymes: -ɒzɪt
Forms: form: closets
form: closeting
form: closeted
form: closeted
Etymology: From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.
Senses: examples: text: The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
glosses: To shut away for private discussion.
examples: text: He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
ref: 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
text: He had been closeted with De Quadra.
ref: 1856–1870, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
examples: text: See what contempt is fallen on human kind; […] See Bedlam's closeted and handcuff'd charge / Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large;
ref: 1784, William Cowper, Tirocinium, or A Review of Schools:
text: […] she had to look twice over her shoulder when the Gay Northeasters and the City Belles strolled down Seventh Avenue, they were so handsome. But this envy-streaked pleasure Alice closeted, and never let the girl see how she admired those ready-for-bed-in-the-street clothes.
ref: 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, page 55:
glosses: To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
Derived terms: closeted
closet oneself
Related terms: come out
come out of the closet
closeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more closeted
form: most closeted
Etymology: From closet (“state of concealment”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Sally Gearhart, an ex-christian from Illinois who in the early seventies abandoned closeted lesbianism on Midwestern church college faculties for radical feminism in San Francisco,
ref: 1979 December 15, Jil Clark, Sally Gearhart, “Spirituality vs. Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 21, page 8:
text: 1992, Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995, Part Two: Perestroika, Act One, Scene 4, p. 156,
Belize: Get out your oven mitts. Guess who just checked in with the troubles? The Killer Queen Herself. New York's number one closeted queer.
glosses: Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.
examples: text: […] the remaining quotations, chiefly from English poetry, interested me only slightly more. They were the elegiac favourites of a closeted Romantic.
ref: 1971, Cynthia Ozick, “The Pagan Rabbi”, in Collected Stories, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, published 2006, page 12:
text: Now he feels a connection between his own closeted, esoteric sufferings and strivings and those of the poor urban working people all around him.
ref: 1982, Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity, Penguin, published 1988, page 45:
text: Sokolsky asks if he realizes that this is a walk-in clinic for closeted reality benders, and he's a disaster-response coordinator, not a therapist.
ref: 2022 September 12, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7000 - The Loser” (10:38 from the start), in The Exploring Series, retrieved 25 Mar 2023:
glosses: Not open about some aspect of one's identity, tendency, or fondness; secret.
Synonyms: sense: not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity
word: in the closet
Hyponyms: sense: not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity
word: stealth
Derived terms: closetedly
closetedness
semicloseted
semi-closeted
uncloseted
Related terms: come out of the closet
closeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See closet (verb)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of closet
closeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See closet (verb)
Senses: examples: text: He's spent all day closeted in his room.
text: After they had been closeted up with the fortune-teller for some time, I knew by their looks, upon their returning, that they had been promised something great.
ref: 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter X, in The Vicar of Wakefield, London: J.C. Nimmo, published 1886, page 68:
text: It was a winter evening of transparent clearness, with an innocent young moon above the house-tops; and he wanted to fill his soul's lungs with the pure radiance, and not exchange a word with any one till he and Mr. Letterblair were closeted together after dinner.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XI, in The Age of Innocence, New York: D. Appleton & Co., page 94:
text: Now when the Foretopman found himself closeted there, as it were, in the cabin with the Captain and Claggart, he was surprised enough.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 17, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Confined.
examples: text: In my salubrious constituency of Cheltenham and in the leafy lanes of Gloucestershire, we are perhaps somewhat closeted from these unpleasant and harsh realities of the urban world of London, Plymouth, Birmingham and other major cities
ref: 1985 January 25, Charles Irving, Hansard:
glosses: sheltered; protected.
Synonyms: sense: confined
word: confined
sense: confined
word: holed up