cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
sexual partner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual partners
Senses: examples: text: They had dozens of sexual partners before they married each other. Dance-floor romances, Ibiza flings. The Nineties, ecstatic decade!
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 23:
synonyms: sex pal
sex partner
glosses: A person with whom someone has sex.
Synonyms: word: bedfellow
word: bedmate
word: fuck
word: hookup
word: lover
word: paramour
word: mate
word: root
word: sex partner
word: sexual partner
Hypernyms: word: copulator
Hyponyms: word: Female partner:
word: promiscuous woman
word: bit of crumpet
word: concubine
word: fuckdoll
word: fucklet
word: mistress
word: piece of ass
word: sprunk
word: Male heterosexual partner:
word: promiscuous man
word: boy toy
word: salty dog
word: Male homosexual partner:
word: blowbuddy
word: bum chum
word: buttbuddy
word: Casual sexual partner:
word: fuckbuddy
word: fuckfriend
word: fuckmate
word: friend with benefits
word: fubu
word: lay
word: screw
word: shag
word: slam piece
word: Other:
word: prostitute's client
word: bitch
word: cocksleeve
word: fucktoy
word: jumpoff
word: notch on one's bedpost
word: one-night stand
word: punk
word: sex object
Related terms: word: copulation
sloppy seconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the way I look at it you're taking my seconds and pretty sloppy seconds at--
ref: 1953, Mark of the Hunter page 45
text: Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic) "Still making threats, eh, Namor?? Stay back Ben! I'm going to ram those mocking words down his throat!! I'm going to make him swish he'd never heard of the human race!! He's my pigeon... mine alone!
Ben Grimm (The Thing) "Okay, tall man! But how's about giving me sloppy seconds?!"
ref: 1964, Fantastic Four issue 27
text: I've got business with Murdock, too-- and I hate to take sloppy seconds!
ref: 1966, Daredevil issue 20
text: 1972, Sloppy Seconds is the 2nd album released by "Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show"
text: 1978, Grease
Danny: You’re looking good, Riz.
Rizzo: Eat your heart out.
Danny: But sloppy seconds ain’t my style.
glosses: Having sex with someone soon after the person has had sex with someone else.
badasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badass
Remak fibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Remak fiber
harness racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of horse racing in which the horses race in a specified gait, usually pulling two-wheeled carts called sulkies.
Atterton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Attertons
Etymology: Variant of Atherton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A hamlet in Witherley parish, Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP3598).
Atherton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæθətən/
ipa: /ˈæθɚtən/
Forms: form: Athertons
form: Atterton
form: Eatherton
form: Etherton
Etymology: From the Old English personal name Æþelhere + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD6703).
glosses: A placename:
A town in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A town in San Mateo County, California, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: Athertonian
Jiles-Atherton model
eye dialect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye dialects
Etymology: From eye + dialect, by analogy with eye rhyme. First used by George Philip Krapp in The English Language in America (1925) in reference to written dialogue that uses nonstandard spelling but does not indicate an unusual pronunciation.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:eye dialect.
glosses: Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
glosses: A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.
Related terms: eye rhyme
pronunciation spelling
literary dialect
dialect spelling
dialect respelling
net worth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net worths
Senses: examples: text: His car company, Tesla, controls two-thirds of the multibillion-dollar electric-vehicle market it pioneered and is valued at a cool $1 trillion. That has made Musk, with a net worth of more than $250 billion, the richest private citizen in history, at least on paper.
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The total assets minus total liabilities of an individual or a company.
Derived terms: your network is your net worth
noble eightfold path
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the noble eightfold path
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The path to the end of suffering, involving eight steps: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.
Related terms: eightfold way
romanticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: romanticised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of romanticize
romanticized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more romanticized
form: most romanticized
form: romanticised
Senses: examples: text: “I know youʼve got this romanticized version of her in your head, but sheʼs got her flaws.”
ref: 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 254:
glosses: Interpreted in an unrealistic, idealized fashion.
paraglottic space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraglottic spaces
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A site within the larynx whose lateral border is the thyroid cartilage and posterior (dorsal) border is the pyriform sinus.
beyond belief
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unbelievable.
synonyms: word: unbelievable
dowdified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I saw the picture of little Toby, & the sketch of you was like you then, though not much now — your figure having dowdified somewhat.
ref: 1945, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, page 359:
glosses: past participle of dowdify
dowdified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dowdified
form: most dowdified
Senses: examples: text: To dream that you look, denotes that not only Emma Vernon, but even that dowdified Rosanna Brown will have new dresses and mantles at the picnic on Tuesday, and you will go in that odious old bonnet.
ref: 1857, “Punch's Pocket-book of Fun”, in London Punch, page 28:
text: She chose to take it as implying that her general appearance was, in her uncle's eyes, dowdified.
ref: 1882, Albert Eubule Evans, The professor's daughter, page 151:
text: This was the guest of honor sitting in the brilliant parlor of the Marigny mansion, "with her dowdified figure, her inelegant conversation, and her total want of refinement," while "the ladies of the Jackson party hovered near her at all times, apparently to save her from saying or doing any thing which might do discredit to their idol."
ref: 1926, Meade Minnigerode, Some American Ladies: Seven Informal Biographies, page 234:
glosses: Made dowdy.
diversely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɝs.li/
ipa: /daɪˈvɝs.li/
Forms: form: more diversely
form: most diversely
Etymology: From diverse + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068:
glosses: In a diverse manner.
Synonyms: word: diversely
word: manywise
word: sundrily
word: variously
hubba hubba
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌbə ˈhʌbə/
Forms: form: hubba-hubba
Senses: examples: text: 1947, My Favorite Brunette (film), around 23 min 20 sec
- Map? Yeah, she even gave me one to hold for her. Mysterious map, missing uncle... pretty corny. You know, there was something about the way she looked that made me suspicious, but the way she looked, I didn't care.
- But you kept the map?
- Oh, sure. Why not? She may not have it up here, but... hubba hubba.
text: [Judy] Grahn and [Marilyn] Monroe are allies, as they literally destroy and prevent smirking men from reducing women to hubba hubba hubba, some like it hot, "brainless cinderellas."
ref: 1979 April 28, Pat M. Kuras, “Uncommon Poetry”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: An expression of appreciation or approval with a strong (positive) sexual connotation.
Related terms: phwoar
gorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːn/
ipa: /ɡɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: See gone.
Senses: examples: text: you know the govner and mater have gorn to Beerits and want us ther too
ref: 1898 January 1, “A Bachelor Uncle’s Diary”, in Punch, page 303:
text: “Don’t mind ’im, sir,” she advised. “’E’s more’n arf-gorn a’ready, a-’itting the jug every blessed stop.”
ref: 1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows, page 209:
text: evry thing seemed to be all quiet and so to day we have gorn up the river again whar we was before
ref: 1928, Arthur Schlesinger, quoting a sailor’s letter dated 1864, Memoranda and Documents: A Blue Bluejacket’s Letters Home, 1863-1864, page 561:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of gone.
gorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːn/
ipa: /ɡɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: gorns
Etymology: Blend of gore + porn
Senses: examples: text: Well, someone should really make a Wikipedia entry coining the term "gore porn" (or better yet, "gorn"), which perfectly describes the movie version of Silent Hill.
ref: 2006, The Official Xbox Magazine, Issues 62-65, numbers 62-65, Future Network USA, page 95:
text: Recent works of gorn include the several Saw and Hostel films and The Devil's Rejects (2005). The glorification of blood and gore is not new, but it has only recently entered the mainstream.
ref: 2010 March 30, Richard W. Kroon, A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms, illustrated edition, McFarland, →ISBN, page 315:
text: Perhaps after the spate of Gorn (Gore and porn) and ‘found footage’ movies over the past ten years (e.g. Saw, Hostel, Paranormal Activity), the film industry is starting to realise we might be getting desensitized.
ref: 2012 June 22, Stephen Sclater, “The Innkeepers (DVD)”, in BigGayPictureShow.com, Big Gay Picture Show, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2024:
text: Discussing the ultra-gore torture porn or "gorn" subgenre, Brenda Cromb considers the audience's reaction to films like Saw.
ref: 2012 September 26, Angela Ndalianis, “5. Payback's a Bitch!”, in The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses, illustrated edition, McFarland, →ISBN, page 120:
text: Perhaps the pro-life movement’s challenges in the future will be to sanctify society and save it from both traditional porn that demeans life-giving sexual love as well as newer “gorn” (gore porn) that turns death (including unjust deaths) into something that piques our curiosity rather than our sense of justice.
ref: 2023 December 18, Trent Horn, “We’re Desensitized to Death”, in Catholic.com, Catholic Answers, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2024:
glosses: A work that dwells upon graphic and realistic scenes of sadistic torture, mutilation, vivisection, cannibalism, etc. to the point of being pornographic.
Related terms: guro
cachectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈkɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more cachectic
form: most cachectic
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cachecticus.
Senses: examples: text: His horse has been restored to him (cachectic as ever, looking like one of the gutted nags the Druids used to impale for decoration) […]
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 44:
glosses: Having cachexia; wasting away from a disease or chronic illness.
Derived terms: anticachectic
procachectic
straiten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: straitens
form: straitening
form: straitened
form: straitened
form: streighten
Senses: examples: text: The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream.
glosses: To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.
examples: text: And the reason why Birds are Oviparous and lay Eggs, but do not bring forth their yong alive, is, because there might be more plenty of them also, and that neither the Birds of prey, the Serpent nor the Fowler, should streighten their generations too much.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67
text: Rising costs put those on fixed incomes in straitened circumstances.
glosses: To restrict or diminish, especially financially.
glosses: Misspelling of straighten.
Synonyms: sense: narrow or confine to a smaller space
word: contract
sense: restrict or diminish
word: check
word: restrain
word: narrow
word: straiten
Hyponyms: word: taper
straitened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of straiten
straitened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more straitened
form: most straitened
Senses: glosses: Squeezed or confined.
Derived terms: straitened times
straitened circumstances
Related terms: straightened
straitlaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more straitlaced
form: most straitlaced
Senses: examples: text: He played the straitlaced partner of the rowdy hero, always nagging him about paperwork and protocol.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 164:
glosses: Alternative spelling of straight-laced.
stressed-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stressed-out
form: most stressed-out
Senses: glosses: Suffering from a high level of fear or stress
strong-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strong-arms
form: strong-arming
form: strong-armed
form: strong-armed
form: strongarm
Etymology: From strong + arm.
Senses: examples: text: One of the boss’ hangers-on
 Comes to call at times you least expect
 Try to bully ya—strong-arm you—inspire you with fear
ref: 2001, Bob Dylan, “Floater (Too Much to Ask)”, in Love and Theft:
text: In a five-part series on the “Extremely Passive Aggressive Roommate,” Ms. Brier […] complains about her roomie coming home at 3:27 a.m.; strong-arms that roommate into renewing their lease and then welcomes a guest to “the common space.”
ref: 2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times:
text: It is difficult to summarise the arrogance, contempt, complacency and incompetence shown by the DfT in a scheme where it strong-armed the rail industry (in the form of the Rail Delivery Group) to 'front up'.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
text: The CEO was often forced back into damage control mode, however, including denying reports from the Wall Street Journal earlier this year that X had strong-armed companies to advertise on the platform by threatening lawsuits against them.
ref: 2025 July 9, Blake Montgomery, Nick Robins-Early, “Linda Yaccarino stepping down as CEO of Elon Musk’s X”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To bully, to intimidate; to coerce, to muscle.
Coordinate terms: arm-twist
jawbone
threaten
strong-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong-arms
form: strongarm
Etymology: From strong + arm.
Senses: examples: text: There used to be a goon I knew in the Bronx—a tough mockie we used to call Yussel the Bricklayer—and you never saw a guy who was more screwed up. This guy Yussel would've been a strongarm for nothing, he enjoyed it so much.
ref: 2000, Irving Shulman, The Big Brokers:
glosses: A person who threatens or intimidates others, especially on behalf of somebody else; a goon or enforcer.
Related terms: by the strong hand
strong-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: strongarm
Etymology: From strong + arm.
Senses: glosses: Bullying; extortionate.
examples: text: "Some applications will fail. ORR does not need strong-arm tactics from DfT muddying the waters."
ref: 2025 July 9, David Stubbings, “Network News: Open access row: DfT accused of "strong-arm tactics"”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 6:
glosses: Coercive, employing force.
strong-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strong-minded
form: most strong-minded
form: strongminded
Senses: examples: text: Recognising that we are strong-minded is not the same as accepting ourselves to be stubborn or obstinate.
ref: 2009, Emmy van Deurzen, Everyday Mysteries: A Handbook of Existential Psychotherapy, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a vigorous, independent will and views.
examples: text: Then there was the widow of a deceased brother of Mr Martin Chuzzlewit, who being almost supernaturally disagreeable, and having a dreary face and a bony figure and a masculine voice, was, in right of these qualities, what is commonly called a strong-minded woman; and who, if she could, would have established her claim to the title, and have shown herself, mentally speaking, a perfect Samson, by shutting up her brother-in-law in a private madhouse, until he proved his complete sanity by loving her very much.
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit:
glosses: Mannish, lacking softness and femininity
raw_tags: of women
Derived terms: strong-mindedly
strong-mindedness
viceroyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viceroyships
Etymology: From viceroy + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Whileſt the Turks thus lorded it in Syria and the leſſer Aſia, the Saracen Caliph commanded in Egypt; under whom, two great Lords, Dargan and Sanar, fell out about the Sultanie or Vice-royſhip of that land.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Dargan and Sanar Two Egyptian Lords, Contending about the Sultanie, Sanar Calleth in the Turks to Help Him. Of the Danger of Mercenary Souldiers; yet How, Well Qualified, They may be Serviceable”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 89:
glosses: The office or term of a viceroy.
strong-willed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strong-willed
form: most strong-willed
form: strongwilled
Senses: examples: text: The railway faces a line-up of strong-willed metro mayors with four-year terms and a new big-majority government covering the same period.
ref: 2024 November 13, Peter Plisner, “Rail's role in Labour's "devolution revolution"”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 61:
glosses: Having a vigorous, independent will.
studding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stud
studding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌdɪŋ
Forms: form: studdings
Senses: glosses: The timber framework for a lath and plaster wall.
glosses: A batten of wood for this framework.
glosses: Anything with which a surface is studded.
Related terms: studdingsail
studding sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studding sails
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of studdingsail.
styling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: stylings
Senses: examples: text: […] some space was given to developing comprehension of the transition from renaissance to baroque styling.
ref: 1972, Robert Arthur Griffin, High baroque culture and theatre in Vienna, page 134:
text: Now known as V-Ice, the rapper has crafted a 24-track collection that features both hardcore and hip-hop stylings.
ref: 2001, Billboard, volume 113, number 50, page 28:
glosses: Any form of decoration or stylistic approach.
Derived terms: food styling
styling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of style
Derived terms: hairstyling
stylistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stylistically
form: most stylistically
Etymology: From stylistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a stylistic manner.
examples: text: The central painting, depicting Circe's palace, is compositionally and stylistically different than the rest of the frieze.
ref: 2009, Umberto Pappalardo, The Splendor of Roman Wall Painting, page 91:
text: Though rooted in jazz, Byron's music is stylistically eclectic.
ref: 2017 August 2, Seth Rogovoy, Don Byron and Friends to Explore Early Soul Music at Helsinki Hudson, archived from the original on 01 May 2025:
glosses: With regard to style.
stylize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪlaɪz/
Forms: form: stylizes
form: stylizing
form: stylized
form: stylized
form: stylise
Etymology: From style + -ize. Probably from German stilisieren.
Senses: glosses: To represent (someone or something) in a particular style.
glosses: To represent (someone or something) abstractly in a conventional manner, commonly fancifully symbolic, to identify a particular item, by omitting most of the detail that is not unique to the item in question.
subconsciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From subconscious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being subconscious.
subcontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + continental.
Senses: examples: text: In the menagerie of subcontinental art, the horse and elephant are most common.
ref: 1997, Henry Glassie, Art and Life in Bangladesh, Indiana University Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 283:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a subcontinent.
examples: text: When a subcontinental plume hits such a thin spot, the result would be voluminous shallow magmatism.
ref: 1995, Brian F. Windley, The Evolving Continents, Wiley, published 1995, →ISBN, page 51:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Located or occurring beneath continental crust.
subcontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subcontinental
form: most subcontinental
Etymology: From subcontinent + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Indian Subcontinent; South Asian.
subcontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcontinentals
Etymology: From subcontinent + -al.
Senses: examples: text: This does not mean that we value Englishmen at a premium and Africans at a moral discount. Nor does it mean that Canadians are intrinsically more precious to us than subcontinentals.
ref: 1965, Charles Burton Marshall, The Exercise of Sovereignty: Papers on Foreign Policy, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press, →LCCN, page 223:
text: If the subcontinentals do go home, it would behove them—and the Emiratis—to ask this question: On balance, did the presence of subcontinentals in Dubai and the UAE do more good than bad? / There can be only one answer to that question: The goodwill and hard work of the subcontinentals forever changed the landscape of the UAE and that of the other six Arab countries of the Gulf.
ref: 2011, Pranay Gupte, Dubai: The Making of a Megapolis, Viking, published 2016, →ISBN:
text: Conversely, there were many subcontinentals informed about Kashmir. Apart from Kashmiris, and the British knew very few of them, most of these subcontinentals in 1846 either were from Punjab or were involved with the Sikh Empire.
ref: 2015, Christopher Snedden, Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A person from the Indian Subcontinent; a South Asian.
subjoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: subjoins
form: subjoining
form: subjoined
form: subjoined
Etymology: From sub- + join.
Senses: examples: text: That he did not glory, however, in his mateless solitude[…] is pleasantly testified in the letter that is now subjoined.
ref: 1848, [William] Wilkie Collins, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A., volume I, London: Longman, […] , page 227:
text: We subjoin an engraving […] which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind.
ref: 1851–1861, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: underjoin#Verb
glosses: To add something to the end; to append or annex.
Derived terms: subjoinder
Related terms: enjoin
subjunction
subjunctive
subjoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: subjoins
Etymology: From sub- + join.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subordinate or secondary join.
subjoinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjoinders
Senses: glosses: Something subjoined to another
submerse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: submerses
form: submersing
form: submersed
form: submersed
Etymology: From Latin submersus, past participle of submergo.
Senses: glosses: To submerge.
submerse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin submersus, past participle of submergo.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Growing entirely under water.
Related terms: submersible
submersion
emerse
substantiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantiations
Senses: glosses: The act of substantiating
glosses: Something which substantiates; evidence, proof
substantively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more substantively
form: most substantively
Etymology: From substantive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a substantive manner, or to a substantive extent.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Employed as a noun.
raw_tags: of a word
summitry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summitries
Etymology: From summit + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: During the same two weeks that we beheld the most comprehensive summitry the 20th century International Gay and Lesbian Movement has so far achieved — the all-inclusive Stonewall 25 celebrations — we also witnessed a fracturing of our movement's middle class underpinnings.
ref: 1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
glosses: The holding of a summit (conference) or summits generally
glosses: Participation in a summit
superintendence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superintendences
Senses: examples: text: While the Supreme Being exercises a general superintendence over affairs, the real administration is in the hands of the ancestral spirits.
ref: 1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 189:
text: The Ashby Canal was built under the superintendence of Robert Whitworth, and the whole length was opened in May, 1805.
ref: 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:
text: […] then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
synonyms: superintendency
glosses: The act of superintending; supervision.
superintendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superintendencies
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a superintendent.
synonyms: superintendence
glosses: The act of superintending.
supermom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermoms
Etymology: From super- + mom.
Senses: coordinate_terms: superdad
glosses: A mother who looks after her home and children whilst being in full-time employment.
superpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞oʹ-pər-pōz'
ipa: /ˈsuː.pəɹˌpəʊ̯z/
ipa: /ˈsuː.pɚˌpoʊ̯z/
ipa: /ˈsuː.pəˌpəʊ̯z/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)pəʊz
Forms: form: superposes
form: superposing
form: superposed
form: superposed
Etymology: From super- + pose.
Senses: synonyms: overlay
superimpose
glosses: To place (an object) on top of another.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To place (one geometric figure) on top of another in such a way that all common parts coincide.
Related terms: word: superposition
word: add on
word: pile on
word: pile up
word: stack up
supervention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superventions
Senses: examples: text: in the solid substance of the stone; […]this compact and ponderous body was made stony, by the supervention of some petrescent liquor upon porous earth
ref: 1672, Robert Boyle, Origin and Virtues of Gems:
glosses: An act, process, or instance of supervening
examples: text: The poor visibility of a dark celestial body follows from its nonradiative character by supervention.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An act, process, or instance of supervening:
Synonym of supervenience.
synonyms: word: supervenience
glosses: An act, process, or instance of supervening:
Synonym of supersession.
synonyms: word: supersession
Related terms: convention
supervenient
supervisory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supervisory
form: most supervisory
Etymology: From supervise + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the capacity of a supervisor
stockholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stockholder
superwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superwomen
Etymology: From super- + woman.
From 1943's Superwoman, published by DC Comics in 1943.
Senses: glosses: A woman who looks after a home and children as well as being employed in a full-time job.
examples: text: "How much sleep will you get tonight?" I asked.
"Three to five hours," she replied, making me feel a bit more like I was talking to someone from my own planet and not a bionic superwoman designed by a genetic engineer.
ref: 1999, J. Allan Hobson, Dreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind, page 229:
glosses: A woman with superhuman powers.
Hyponyms: supermom
supplementation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplementations
Etymology: From supplement + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of supplementing
glosses: Something added as a supplement
Derived terms: supplementational
Geats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Geat
fulvous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊlvəs/
ipa: /ˈfʌlvəs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fulvus (“reddish-brown”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a minute anatomical and generally descriptive account of the large fulvous Ourang-Outang of the East Indian Islands.
ref: 1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 176, column 1:
text: The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of a fulvous hue.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Tawny-colored.
Derived terms: fulvous-headed tanager
fulvous tree duck
fulvous whistling duck
rufofulvous
kisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kisses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kiss.
kisse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses
form: kissing
form: kissed
form: kissed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kiss.
Erenmalm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Swedish surname.
fail-secure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a device: such that, if it fails, it does so in a way that will cause little or no harm to other devices and personnel.
Related terms: fail-safe
Fennicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fennicisms
Senses: examples: ...extensive use of fennicisms is often considered to be a sign of eroding Swedish language skills...
Another difference between the literary usage of Soviet Estonia and émigré Estonians lies in the use of Fennicisms
glosses: A word, phrase or grammatical phenomenon typical of the Finnish language, when used in another language.
examples: text: The cult of Fennicism spread rapidly among the Finnish...
ref: 1947. Tompuri, Elli. Voices from Finland: An Anthology of Finland's Verse and Prose in English... Sanoma: 1947, p. 7
text: Snellman: "the history of Finnish literature is the history of Fennicism...
ref: 1990. Yrjö Varpio. The History of Finnish Literary Criticism. Societas Scientiarum Fennica: 1990, p. 116
glosses: The influence of the Finnish language on another language, especially on Finland Swedish.
Synonyms: Finnicism
Related terms: Fennicize
jus accrescendi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The right of survivorship. This is often applied to survivorship in joint tenancy situations.
presbytera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presbyterae
Etymology: From Latin presbytera, a feminized form of presbyter (“priest”).
Senses: glosses: A female presbyter.
glosses: The wife of a presbyter.
interludes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlude
RFQS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rfqs
Senses: topics: business
real-estate
glosses: reduced for quick sale: Used when advertising houses at a lower than expected price to indicate that the vendor wants to sell the house quickly.
bougainvillaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bougainvillaeas
Senses: examples: text: The Pole sat on the low white wall, scarlet-sweatered against garish bougainvillaea.
ref: 1970, June Kay, “Timber”, in The Thirteenth Moon, London: Hutchinson & Co, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bougainvillea.
bougainvilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bougainvilias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bougainvillea.
southeaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southeasters
form: sou'easter
Etymology: From southeast + -er.
Senses: antonyms: northwester
glosses: A strong wind blowing from the southeast.
Coordinate terms: northeaster
southwester
northwester
Derived terms: southeasterly
southwester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: southwesters
form: sou'wester
Etymology: From southwest + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Have you ever stood at the edge of a great wood on a high ridge when a wild south-wester broke over it in full fury on an autumn evening?
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
antonyms: northeaster
glosses: A strong wind blowing from the southwest.
qualifier: more often sou'wester
glosses: A waterproof hat, often of oilskin and with a long brim at the back covering the neck, designed to repel wind and rain.
qualifier: more often sou'wester
glosses: A long raincoat, often worn at sea.
Synonyms: sense: a waterproof hat
word: cape ann
Coordinate terms: northeaster
southeaster
northwester
Derived terms: southwesterly
southwesterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more southwesterly
form: most southwesterly
form: south-westerly
Senses: glosses: situated in, or pointing to, the southwest
glosses: coming from the southwest
raw_tags: of a wind
southwesterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southwesterly
form: most southwesterly
form: south-westerly
Senses: glosses: From the southwest
southwesterly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southwesterlies
form: south-westerly
Senses: examples: southwester
glosses: A strong wind or storm from the southwest.
Jarrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name of modern usage.
Rahim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rahims
form: Raheem
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic رَحِيم (raḥīm, “kind, compassionate”). The surname is predominantly found in Bangladesh.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
glosses: A surname from Arabic.
governmentalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: governmentalizes
form: governmentalizing
form: governmentalized
form: governmentalized
Etymology: From governmental + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To bring (a private entity, or a decentralized entity) under government control; to nationalize.
Related terms: governmentalization
southeastward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more southeastward
form: most southeastward
Etymology: From southeast + -ward.
Senses: glosses: In or toward the southeast
southeastward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southeastward
form: most southeastward
Etymology: From southeast + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the southeast
Synonyms: southeastwards
southeastward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From southeast + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Task Force 52 approached Makin Atoll from the southeastward.
ref: 1972, George Carroll Dyer, chapter XVII, in The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, volume 2, U.S. Marine Corps, →OL, page 657:
glosses: The southeast
southwestward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more southwestward
form: most southwestward
Etymology: From southwest + -ward.
Senses: glosses: In or toward the southwest
southwestward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southwestward
form: most southwestward
Etymology: From southwest + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward the southwest
Synonyms: southwestwards
southeastwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more southeastwards
form: most southeastwards
Etymology: From southeast + -wards.
Senses: glosses: southeastward
southeastwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southeastwards
form: most southeastwards
Etymology: From southeast + -wards.
Senses: glosses: southeastward
southwestwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more southwestwards
form: most southwestwards
Etymology: From southwest + -wards.
Senses: glosses: southwestward
southwestwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more southwestwards
form: most southwestwards
Etymology: From southwest + -wards.
Senses: glosses: southwestward
sou'wester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sou'westers
Senses: examples: text: For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of southwester (“wind”).
examples: text: As he sat there with a sou'wester down over his ears, in a long pilot coat, his figure appeared in the misty morning air to assume quite supernatural proportions, and you might almost imagine that you had one of the old Vikings before you.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:
text: Joe Crowe was perched in the driving-seat, clad in oil-skins and sou'-wester, crouched in the rain, clutching two iron buckets.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 165:
glosses: Alternative form of southwester (“waterproof hat”).
spiritualistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiritualistic
form: most spiritualistic
Etymology: From spiritual + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of spiritualism.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of spiritism; spiritistic.
spirituous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spirituous
form: most spirituous
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, containing, or made using alcohol.
examples: text: while the per capita consumption of spirituous liquors remained constant, that of malt liquors rose
ref: 1928, Edward A. Ross, World Drift, New York; London: The Century Co., page 22:
glosses: Distilled.
raw_tags: of an alcoholic drink
glosses: Synonym of spiritual.
synonyms: word: spiritual
Synonyms: spiritous
Derived terms: spirituously
spiritous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspɪɹɪtəs/
Forms: form: more spiritous
form: most spiritous
Etymology: From spirit + -ous?
Senses: glosses: spirituous
glosses: high-spirited
glosses: of the nature of spirit
glosses: pure; ardent
splayfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splayfeet
form: splay-foot
form: splay foot
Etymology: From splay + foot.
Senses: glosses: A deformity in which the feet are abnormally flat and turned outwards.
glosses: A foot exhibiting that deformity.
Derived terms: splayfooted
splayfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splayfoot
splayfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splayfooted
form: most splayfooted
form: splay-footed
Etymology: From splay + footed.
Senses: glosses: Having splayfeet.
facilely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈfæs.aɪl.li/
/ˈfæs.ə(l).li/
Forms: form: more facilely
form: most facilely
Etymology: From facile + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a facile manner.
factually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more factually
form: most factually
Etymology: From factual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The DNC organized the petition drive when it became clear this week that the network was prepared to ignore criticism of its decision to air a right-wing, factually inaccurate mocudrama that dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims in order to serve a cheap, callous political agenda two months before the election.
ref: 2006, Bruce R. Lindsey, Douglas J. Band, Comments About ABC Entertainment's 9/11 Film, ABC News, page 1:
glosses: In a factual manner.
faithlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more faithlessly
form: most faithlessly
Etymology: From faithless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a faithless manner
fallibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fallibly
form: most fallibly
Etymology: From fallible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ultimately, these narratives encode for us the fundamental human hope that the mercy of the Almighty will envelop us all, erase all the failings that make us so fallibly human, and allow us to reach our fullest potential […]
ref: 2014, David Marshall, Lucinda Mosher, Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny:
glosses: In a fallible manner
falteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more falteringly
form: most falteringly
form: faulteringly
Etymology: From faltering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She spoke falteringly, and concluded with a heavy sigh.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a faltering manner; hesitantly, making pauses
fancily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fancily
form: most fancily
Etymology: From fancy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fancy manner
fantastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fantastically
form: most fantastically
form: fantasticly
form: phantastically
Etymology: From fantastical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He painted fantastically with everything as if in a dream.
text: "The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.
ref: 1942 March 24, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
glosses: In a fantastic manner.
examples: text: He was fantastically wealthy.
text: The provinces of Liaoning, Heilongjiang and Jilin are fantastically cold in winter, indeed one of the major tourist attractions for the hardy is the display of ice-carved figures in public parks (especially in Haerbin, Heilongjiang province). The long winters have average temperatures between — 20°C and — 27°C, although the short summers are hot.
ref: 1988, Frances Wood, “Town and Countryside”, in A Companion to China, 1st U.S. edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:
text: One must be especially careful when using Google to determine frequency as there is a very real risk of fantastically overestimating the frequency and subsequent importance of a term.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 15:
text: Every guest is appalled and fantastically humourless about the experience, even at this distance. You cannot help but wonder at cultural divides and how differently the British might have approached – or at least recalled – such events, at least in the early days. For us, surely, it would be a story for the ages. You could dine out on it for ever, so to speak.
ref: 2025 June 24, Lucy Mangan, “Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To an extent only in fantasy; outrageously; ridiculously.
farcically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more farcically
form: most farcically
Etymology: From farcical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The mimes were packed with lascivious gestures and movements, and usually presented erotic scenes, on occasion farcically treated.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 209:
glosses: In a farcical manner.
fascinatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fascinatingly
form: most fascinatingly
Etymology: From fascinating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fascinating manner
fastidiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fastidiously
form: most fastidiously
Etymology: From fastidious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fastidious manner.
fatalistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fatalistically
form: most fatalistically
Etymology: From fatalistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Women like Mary and Susan, who have needed to deny their lesbianism in order to retain financial support and avoid physical abuse, fear additional calls. "Pamela," an out lesbian whose parents have not been telephoned, explained that she fatalistically waits, knowing her "deeply religious conservative Southern Baptist" parents would react strongly.
ref: 1985 December 21, Laurie Sherman, “Lesbian Students' Parents Getting Anonymous Calls”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 12:
text: Kyiv has also signaled that any counterattacks in Russia are simply part of a war Russia started, and asked, perhaps fatalistically, what more could Russia do to Ukraine?
ref: 2022 April 30, Andrew E. Kramer, “Ukrainian Official Outlines Intentional Ambiguity on Strikes Inside Russia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: In a fatalistic manner.
fatefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈfeɪtfəli/
Forms: form: more fatefully
form: most fatefully
Etymology: From fateful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fateful manner.