cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
linen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪnɪn/
Forms: form: linens
Etymology: From Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Old English līnen (“linen", "made of flax”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”), equivalent to line + -en. Cognate with Latin līnum (“flax”) and thus also Linum. More at line.
Senses: examples: text: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
examples: text: She put the freshly cleaned linens into the linen closet.
text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.
glosses: A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.
Hyponyms: bedlinen
dirty linen
fair linen
table linen
underlinen
Derived terms: bedlinen
body linen
Irish linen
lack-linen
linen cupboard
linendraper
linen-draper
linener
linenette
linenfold
linen hall
linenless
linenlike
linen prover
linens
linen tester
lineny
linish
linoleum
nonlinen
prelinen
Russia linen
shaving linen
table-linen
tow linen
underlinen
Related terms: linen basket
linen closet
linen draper
linen paper
linen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪnɪn/
Etymology: From Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Old English līnen (“linen", "made of flax”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”), equivalent to line + -en. Cognate with Latin līnum (“flax”) and thus also Linum. More at line.
Senses: glosses: Made from linen cloth or thread.
glosses: Having the colour linen, light beige.
Related terms: fustian
lingerie
muslin
flaxen
dons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of don
glosses: plural of dom (title of Portuguese and Brazilian nobility)
dons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of don
underpants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌpænts/
Forms: form: underpant
Etymology: From under- + pants.
Senses: examples: text: The Italian fashion of wearing red underpants on December 31 is becoming popular, reputedly to guarantee luck for the new year.
ref: 1994, Marketing in Europe, Issues 380-385, page 77:
text: She takes off her fatigue pants and throws them in the washer and the surgical greens and her bloodstained bra and turns on the machine. She is wearing socks and underpants and a .38 Special with a shrouded hammer in an ankle holster.
ref: 1999, Thomas Harris, Hannibal, page 19:
text: He wore khakis slung so low that five inches of his underpants showed—dark blue boxers with big white polka dots.
ref: 2011, Les Roberts, The Cleveland Creep: A Milan Jacovich Mystery, page 87:
synonyms: see at Thesaurus:underwear § Hyponyms
hypernyms: word: underwear
word: clothing
glosses: Underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.
Derived terms: underpants gnome
don
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒn/
ipa: /dɑn/
homophone: Don
homophone: dawn (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: dons
form: donning
form: donned
form: donned
Etymology: From Middle English don (“to put on”), from Old English dōn on; equivalent to do + on. Compare also doff, dup, dout.
Senses: examples: text: To don one's clothes.
text: Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.
ref: 1886-88, Richard Francis Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
text: Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:
synonyms: word: put on
word: clothe
word: dight
word: enrobe
word: accouter
word: address
word: apparel
word: array
word: attire
word: beclothe
word: clothe
word: dight
word: don
word: dress
word: enrobe
word: equip
word: invest
word: put on
word: robe
word: slip on
word: vest
antonyms: doff
glosses: To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.
Derived terms: donner
redon
Related terms: word: put on
word: wear
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: ram-don
papa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pə-päʹ
ipa: /pəˈpɑː/
enpr: päʹ-pə
ipa: /ˈpɑːpə/
homophone: poppa (father-bother merger)
homophone: popper (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ɑːpə
Forms: form: papas
Etymology: From French papa, from Middle French papa, from Old French papa, from Latin papa, probably originally a reduplicated imitation of a child's early efforts at vocalising Latin pater (“father”). Compare Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).
Senses: glosses: Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
glosses: A pet name for one's grandfather.
examples: text: they are all of the Orthodox Church, and obey devoutly the precepts of Papa Athanasius
ref: 1892, Fergus Hume, The Island of Fantasy: A Romance:
glosses: A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
qualifier: international standards
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Papa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Derived terms: come to papa
godpapa
grandpapa
papa-bear
papa bear
papahood
papaji
papa's girl
papaship
Related terms: father
pa
pappy
pater
paw
pop
poppa
da
dad
daddy
hagiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhæɡiˈɒɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ˌheɪd͡ʒiˈɒɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ˌhæɡiˈɒɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: hagiographies
Etymology: From hagio- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: The second half of the eleventh century saw a notable surge of interest in hagiography throughout England, which meant that many of the Anglo-Saxon saints of earlier eras were furnished, often for the first time, with a Latin Vita.
ref: 2004, Rosalind C. Love, Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely, →ISBN:
text: Jacques LeGoff remarks, 'Hagiography tells us much about the mental infrastructure [of the middle ages]: the interpenetration between the tangible world and the supernatural world, the common nature of the corporeal and psychic, are the conditions which make miracles and related phenomena possible.
ref: 2005, Thomas Head, Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orléans, 800-1200, →ISBN:
text: Charters, wills, and monastic rules offer evidence for this transformation, but it is hagiography and its double-scoped discourse that illuminates it best, and we will start with a vita that pursued the question of peroperty and prestige more comprehensively than the rest, the Vita Sadalbergae.
ref: 2014, Jamie Kreiner, The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: The study of saints and the documentation of their lives.
glosses: A biography of a saint.
examples: text: Churchill revisionism, of course, is almost as much of a cottage industry as Churchill hagiography.
ref: 2021 October 26, Peter Baker, “The Case Against Winston Churchill”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject.
examples: text: For an obsequious hagiography of [William] Byrd, see L. Wright 1940. For a more critical assessment, see Lockridge 1987, 1992.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 151:
text: This 'cultivated characteriology' (ibid., p. 117) is one that she suggests has been reduced to the cult of the theorist's personality in many of the hagiographies written about Foucault, missing how he cultivated his ethos or characteriology in order to persuade, seduce, unsettle, question, and so forth.
ref: 2016, Britta Timm Knudsen, Carsten Stage, Affective Methodologies, page 29:
glosses: A biography which is uncritically supportive of its subject, often including embellishments or propaganda.
Derived terms: autohagiography
hagiographer
hagiographic
Related terms: mash note
paean
preference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹɛns/
rhymes: -ɛfəɹəns
Forms: form: preferences
Etymology: From Middle French preference, from Medieval Latin preferentia. Doublet of preferans. Morphologically prefer + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: He has a preference for crisp wines.
glosses: The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")
examples: text: Can I keep my preferences when I upgrade to the new version of this application?
text: Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
glosses: The option to so select, and the one selected.
glosses: The state of being preferred over others.
glosses: A strong liking or personal valuation.
glosses: A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
Synonyms: word: forechoice
sense: preferential bias
word: predilection
Derived terms: affectional preference
depreference
dispreference
enantiopreference
in preference to
isopreference
nonpreference
photopreference
preference cascade
preference share
preference stock
preferendum
revealed preference
sexual preference
stereopreference
subpreference
thermopreference
time preference
preference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹɛns/
rhymes: -ɛfəɹəns
Forms: form: preferences
form: preferencing
form: preferenced
form: preferenced
Etymology: From Middle French preference, from Medieval Latin preferentia. Doublet of preferans. Morphologically prefer + -ence.
Senses: glosses: To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
Related terms: preferences
preference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹɛns/
rhymes: -ɛfəɹəns
Senses: glosses: Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
heater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhitɚ/
ipa: /ˈhiːtə/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: heaters
Etymology: From heat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Turn on the heater; I'm cold.
text: “First you've got to sit up and go into the tackroom, because you are soaking wet. And shivering.” […] The tackroom was cold, so Sam turned on the kerosene heater and found a wool cooler and wrapped her in it.
ref: 2001, Jane Smiley, Horse Heaven, New York, NY: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
glosses: A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
examples: text: The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.
glosses: A gun.
examples: text: Jones threw a heater under his chin.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
examples: text: Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: An extended winning streak.
examples: text: It can be assumed that as the earlier kite shield transformed into the heater shape, there must have been versions in between the two styles. Indeed, in artwork of the Medieval period, shields are rarely present after 1450 and even then are quite small. The development of flattop heaters from larger kite shields is likely the result of increased fighting on horseback and the use of improved armor.
ref: 1998, John Clements, Medieval Swordsmanship: Illustrated Methods and Techniques:
glosses: A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
glosses: Synonym of banger (“powerfully energetic or very good song”).
synonyms: word: banger
extra: powerfully energetic or very good song
Derived terms: block heater
closed feedwater heater
dry heater
fan heater
feed heater
feedwater heater
foot heater
head-bolt heater
headbolt heater
head bolt heater
heaterless
hot water heater
immersion heater
induction heater
iron heater
masonry heater
microheater
oil heater
open feedwater heater
orchard heater
point heater
quartz heater
space heater
steam heater
storage heater
water heater
wet heater
Related terms: heating
thong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thŏng
ipa: /θɒŋ/
ipa: /θɔŋ/
ipa: /θɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: thongs
Etymology: From Middle English thong, thwong, thwang, from Old English þwong, þwang (“thong, band, strap, cord, strip of leather; phylactery”), from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz, *þwanguz (“coercion, constraint, band, clamp, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to squeeze, press, pressure”). Cognate with Scots thwang, thwayng, thang (“thong”), Middle Low German dwenge (“clamp, jaws, steel-trap”), German Zwinge (“vise, clamp”), Danish tvinge (“clamp”), dialectal Norwegian tveng (“shoestrap, shoelace”), Icelandic þvengur (“strap, thong, latchet”).
Senses: glosses: A narrow strip of material, typically leather, used to fasten, bind, or secure objects.
examples: text: Because of August he wears shorts and sandals, the Japanese geta sort called thongs.
ref: 1963 March 16, Hal Porter, “Little old lady passing by”, in The Bulletin, page 22, column 3:
text: T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
ref: 1964, The Beach Boys, All Summer Long:
text: 2006, Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Thomson, page 108,
Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs, shorts and T-shirts.
text: Thongs are the favoured footwear for many Aussies, especially near the beaches, but most people in the Outback find that they can't put a foot wrong with a tough, nicely worn-in pair or workboots.
ref: 2008, Steve Parish, Eccentric Australia, page 104:
text: You shouldn′t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you've splashed $5000 on daddy's credit card.
ref: 2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 126:
glosses: An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
examples: text: She was impressed by her friend's confidence to wear a thong on the crowded beach.
glosses: An item of clothing, usually an undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.
glosses: The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.
Synonyms: sense: an item of footwear
word: list in flip-flop
sense: an undergarment or swimwear
word: G-string
sense: an undergarment or swimwear
word: butt floss
Derived terms: sea thong
Related terms: sandal
jandal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jăn'dəl
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒændəl/
rhymes: -ændəl
Forms: form: jandals
Etymology: Blend of Japanese + sandal, originally a genericized trademark.
Senses: glosses: A flip-flop (type of footwear)
Synonyms: sense: an item of footwear
word: list in flip-flop
flip-flop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flĭp'flŏp"
ipa: /ˈflɪpˌflɒp/
ipa: /ˈflɪpˌflɑp/
Forms: form: flip-flops
form: flip flop
form: flipflop
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.
Senses: examples: text: the necessity for yet another place at which to buy a polo shirt or a pair of flip-flops may not be apparent to the town's residents
ref: 30 August 2004, The New Yorker,, page 38
glosses: A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
examples: text: On the break for strong left, everything remains the same, except for the flip-flop of positions.
ref: 1964, Scholastic Coach, volume 34, page 18:
text: BR's flip-flop attitude towards the two options can be observed in comments made by the BR chairman in September 1967, which were interpreted as meaning that the facts now have to be "adjusted" to prove the electrification case.
ref: 2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 61:
glosses: A change of places; an inversion or swap.
glosses: A change of places; an inversion or swap.
An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter.
examples: text: Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators […]
ref: 2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 72:
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
glosses: The sound of a regular footfall.
glosses: A somersault.
examples: text: We'll catch you on the flip-flop. This here's the Rubber Duck on the side. We gone, 'bye, 'bye.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
qualifier: truck driving
glosses: A return trip.
glosses: A person or inhabitant of the Middle East, or a Muslim nation, particularly Afghanistan.
Synonyms: sense: footwear
word: go-ahead
sense: footwear
word: jandal
sense: footwear
word: thong
sense: footwear
word: plugger
sense: footwear
word: slop
sense: footwear
english: Latin American culture
translation: Latin American culture
word: chancla
sense: footwear
word: zori
sense: footwear
word: beach sandal
sense: footwear
word: slipper
Derived terms: flip-flop operator
flip-flopper
Related terms: sandal
flip-flop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: flĭp'flŏp"
ipa: /ˈflɪpˌflɒp/
ipa: /ˈflɪpˌflɑp/
Forms: form: flip-flops
form: flip-flopping
form: flip-flopped
form: flip-flopped
form: flip flop
form: flipflop
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.
Senses: synonyms: U-turn
vacillate
glosses: To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.
Derived terms: flip-floppy
Nahuatl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑːwɑːt(ə)l/
ipa: /nɑːˈwɑːt(ə)l/
ipa: /nəˈwɑːt(ə)l/
Forms: form: Nahuatls
form: Nahuatl
Etymology: From Spanish náhuatl, from Classical Nahuatl nahuatl, nahuatlatolli (“the clear or understandable language”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a group of people indigenous to the Central Mexico region spanning multiple tribal groups including the Aztecs.
Nahuatl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑːwɑːt(ə)l/
ipa: /nɑːˈwɑːt(ə)l/
ipa: /nəˈwɑːt(ə)l/
Etymology: From Spanish náhuatl, from Classical Nahuatl nahuatl, nahuatlatolli (“the clear or understandable language”).
Senses: glosses: The polysynthetic Aztecan language spoken by an indigenous people of Mexico.
Synonyms: Aztec
Mexican
Nahuatlato
Derived terms: Nahuatlan
Nahuatlist
Central Nahuatl
Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Classical Nahuatl
Nahuatlism
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Nahuatl terms
awe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ô
ipa: /ɔː/
enpr: ô
ipa: /ɔ/
enpr: ä
ipa: /ɑ/
homophone: aw
homophone: oar
homophone: or
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: awes
Etymology: From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
Senses: examples: text: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref: 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 172:
glosses: A feeling of fear and reverence.
examples: text: For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
ref: 2025 October 1, Richard Evans, “The value of the railway effect”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 58:
glosses: A feeling of amazement.
glosses: Power to inspire awe.
Derived terms: aweful
awe-inspiring
aweless
awesome
awestricken
awestrike
awestruck
awe walk
awful
inawe
overawe
shock and awe
underawe
awe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ô
ipa: /ɔː/
enpr: ô
ipa: /ɔ/
enpr: ä
ipa: /ɑ/
homophone: aw
homophone: oar
homophone: or
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: awes
form: awing
form: aweing
form: awed
form: awed
Etymology: From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
Senses: examples: text: That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: To inspire fear and reverence in.
examples: text: While a sense of outrage is the only rational response to atrocity, if that outrage is maintained at too high a level over too long a time it can generate feelings of impotence, as we permit ourselves to be awed by this irrational act of violence.
ref: 1982 August 21, Bob Nelson, “Harnessing Our Anger”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 6, page 5:
glosses: To control by inspiring dread.
Synonyms: sense: inspire reverence
word: enthral
sense: inspire reverence
word: enthrall
sense: inspire reverence
word: overwhelm
Derived terms: awed
awe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ô
ipa: /ɔː/
enpr: ô
ipa: /ɔ/
enpr: ä
ipa: /ɑ/
homophone: aw
homophone: oar
homophone: or
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: awes
Etymology: From French auve.
Senses: glosses: A bucket (blade) attached to water wheels.
GCSE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GCSEs
Senses: examples: text: You need GCSEs in Maths and English to work here.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of General Certificate of Secondary Education: a British qualification taken by secondary school students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Coordinate terms: IGCSE
GCE
CSE
O-level
A-level
AS-level
Related terms: topics: education
word: GED
peanut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pē'nŭt"
ipa: /ˈpiːnʌt/
ipa: /ˈpiˌnʌt/
Forms: form: peanuts
form: pea nut
form: pea-nut
Etymology: From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).
Senses: examples: text: He always liked eating peanuts along with tea before biscuits came into his life.
glosses: A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
glosses: Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
synonyms: word: countneck
extra: very small hard clam
glosses: See peanuts (“very small amount”).
Synonyms: word: goober
word: goober pea
word: monkey nut
word: pinder
Hypernyms: earthnut
groundnut
Derived terms: word: chocnut
word: circus peanut
word: cocktail peanut
taxonomic: Amphicarpaea bracteata
word: hog peanut
word: if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
word: packing peanut
word: peanut ball
word: peanut brittle
word: peanut bunker
word: peanut butter
word: peanut butter and jelly
word: peanut butter cup
word: peanut cactus
word: peanut gallery
taxonomic: Fulgora laternaria
word: peanut-headed lanternfly
word: peanutless
word: peanutlike
word: Peanut Man
word: peanut marzipan
word: peanut milk
word: peanut oil
word: peanut paste
word: peanut table
taxonomic: Sterculia quadrifida
word: peanut tree
word: peanut tube
word: peanutty
word: peanut whistle
taxonomic: Sipuncula spp.
word: peanut worm
word: Peanut yellow mosaic virus
Related terms: beer nut
peanut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pē'nŭt"
ipa: /ˈpiːnʌt/
ipa: /ˈpiˌnʌt/
Forms: form: peanuts
form: peanutting
form: peanutted
form: peanutted
form: pea nut
form: pea-nut
Etymology: From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).
Senses: glosses: To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.
ad infinitum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd ĭn′fə-nī′təm
ipa: /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
ipa: /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
ipa: /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnʌɪ.təm/
ipa: /æd ˌɪn.fəˈnɑɪ.təm/
ipa: /ɛd ˌən.fəˈnaɪ.təm/
ipa: /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnʌi.təm/
ipa: /ad ˌɪn.fəˈnəi.təm/
ipa: /æɖ ˌin.fiˈnaj.ʈəm/
ipa: /ˌæd ɪnfɪˈnaɪtəm/
rhymes: -aɪtəm
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad īnfīnītum (“to infinity”).
Senses: examples: text: The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!
ref: 1984, Milan Kundera, part I (Lightness and Weight), chapter I, in Michael Henry Heim, transl., The Unbearable Lightness of Being, London: Faber and Faber, translation of Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí, published 1985, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Endlessly; for ever; neverendingly.
Canadianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈneɪ.di.ə.naɪz/
/kəˈneɪ.djə.naɪz/
Forms: form: Canadianizes
form: Canadianizing
form: Canadianized
form: Canadianized
form: Canadianise
Etymology: From Canadian + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To become naturalized as a citizen of Canada.
glosses: To make Canadian as to custom, culture, or style.
glosses: To localize a medium for sale or use in Canada.
Derived terms: Canadianization
Canadianized
Canadianizing
de-Canadianize
re-Canadianize
Australianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɒˈstɹeɪljənaɪz/
Forms: form: Australianizes
form: Australianizing
form: Australianized
form: Australianized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Australianise.
Francophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæŋkɒfəʊn/
Forms: form: francophone
Etymology: Altered and reinterpreted from French Francophonie, with semantic influence from Latin Franco- (“French”) + Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ), Franco- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: French-speaking.
Francophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæŋkɒfəʊn/
Forms: form: Francophones
form: francophone
Etymology: Altered and reinterpreted from French Francophonie, with semantic influence from Latin Franco- (“French”) + Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ), Franco- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A person who speaks French, especially as their mother tongue.
Related terms: Francophonic
Francophonie
Francophony
Anglophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn'glə-fōn
ipa: /ˈæŋɡləˌfəʊn/
enpr: ăn'glə-fōn
ipa: /ˈæŋɡləˌfoʊn/
ipa: /ˈeɪŋɡləˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: anglophone
Etymology: From Anglo- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: the Anglophone media
text: Ireland is an unusual anglophone location in that it is an island of some size with a population large enough for internal dialectal variation. It can be compared in this respect with Newfoundland and possibly with Jamaica and New Zealand (two islands, of course). Other anglophone locations are either much larger (United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia) or so small that an internal differentiation of varieties is not recognisable, cf. the many anglophone islands of the Caribbean as well as such islands as Malta or Tristan da Cunha.
ref: 2012, Raymond Hickey, Areal Features of the Anglophone World, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: English-speaking.
Anglophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn'glə-fōn
ipa: /ˈæŋɡləˌfəʊn/
enpr: ăn'glə-fōn
ipa: /ˈæŋɡləˌfoʊn/
ipa: /ˈeɪŋɡləˌfoʊn/
Forms: form: Anglophones
form: anglophone
Etymology: From Anglo- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: When we consider the situation of Anglophones in Quebec, we quickly realize that the vitality of this group depends upon its geographical location. In and around Montreal, Anglophones have good access to English-language resources and services. They also have their own institutions, although French is now part of these institutions. Anglophones living in and around Montreal are better served in their language than anywhere else in the province.
ref: 1953, Diane Gérin-Lajoie, Youth, Language, and Identity, Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc., →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: One who speaks English, generally natively.
Derived terms: english: Canadian: an English speaker
translation: Canadian: an English speaker
word: Anglo
Related terms: Anglophonic
Anglosphere
AS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Anglo-Saxon.
glosses: Abbreviation of Assam: a state of India.
AS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Supplementary.
examples: text: AS-level
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Subsidiary.
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of aortic stenosis.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Asperger's syndrome.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ankylosing spondylitis.
glosses: Initialism of autonomous system.
coordinate_terms: AD
glosses: Initialism of auxiliary submarine: a naval tender, a submarine tender that tends to submarines.
qualifier: Java programming language
glosses: Initialism of application server.
glosses: Initialism of Alström syndrome.
AS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Arabic عَلَيْهِ ٱلسَّلَامُ (ʕalayhi s-salāmu, “peace be upon him”), placed after the name of holy persons in Islamic texts.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: PBUH
SAW
peace be upon him
glosses: Initialism of alayhi as-salaam.
Australianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɒˈstɹeɪljənaɪz/
Forms: form: Australianises
form: Australianising
form: Australianised
form: Australianised
form: Australianize
Etymology: From Australian + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To make Australian as to custom, culture, or style.
glosses: To localise a medium for sale or use in Australia.
Related terms: Australianisation
Australianiser
da
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: das
Etymology: From child language; compare dad and dada.
Senses: examples: text: Oh where is yer da son? The man said it to me and was grumpy. Is yer da here?
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 55:
text: Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins.
ref: 2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 48:
text: I was twelve when the das started killing themselves all around me
ref: 2025, CMAT, “Euro-Country”:
related: word: da'
glosses: Father.
Synonyms: pa
Pa
daddy
da
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian да (da, “yes”). Doublet of too.
Senses: glosses: Yes; an affirmative response.
da
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian да (da, “yes”). Doublet of too.
Senses: glosses: Yes.
da
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /diː/
ipa: /dʌ/
ipa: /də/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -ʌ
ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Representing pronunciation of the in informal speech.
Senses: examples: text: Da New York Times
text: Da Bears
text: "So I catch you. You stealer! Ho! Ho!" He seized the girl's wrist. "No, no, you don't run. Hey! Where is-a da cop?"
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 11:
text: They are both holding onto their caps in the stiff breeze, and Zang is shouting, "Where is da main hotel going to be?"
ref: 2012, Jeffrey Arnold, Nobody's Laughing, page 157:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of the.
Related terms: tha
da
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ɑː
ipa: /diː/
ipa: /dʌ/
ipa: /də/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -ʌ
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: You know that tune that goes "da da da di-dum di-dum"?
glosses: A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
dis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: dis-
homophone: diss
homophone: dys-
Forms: form: disses
form: dissing
form: dissed
form: dissed
Etymology: Abbreviation of disrespect.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the neo-Luddite resistance is remarkably disparate. Some flee to the woods; others, taking a less courageous stand, are content to dis the microwave oven and cellular phone.
ref: 1995 July, Bob Ickes, “Die, Computer, Die!”, in New York, →ISSN, page 24:
glosses: Alternative spelling of diss.
dis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: dis-
homophone: diss
homophone: dys-
Forms: form: disses
Etymology: Abbreviation of disrespect.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diss.
dis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: dis-
homophone: diss
homophone: dys-
Forms: form: disir
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Norse dís.
Senses: examples: text: In Norway the Dîsir appear to have been held in great veneration.
ref: 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, E Lumley, page 116:
text: A number of places in Norway and Sweden were also named after the Disir
ref: 1993, Hilda Ellis Davidson, The Lost Beliefs of Northern Europe, Routledge, page 113:
text: Bard had prepared a feast for him, because a sacrifice was being made to the disir.
ref: 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 67:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of minor female deities in Scandinavian folklore.
dis
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: dis-
homophone: diss
homophone: dys-
Forms: form: 'dis
Etymology: Representing a colloquial or dialectal pronunciation with th-stopping of this.
Senses: glosses: This.
dis
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: dis-
homophone: diss
homophone: dys-
Forms: form: 'dis
Etymology: Representing a colloquial or dialectal pronunciation with th-stopping of this.
Senses: glosses: This.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: dis legomenon
fo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fos
Etymology: Clipping of folio.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
qualifier: paper
glosses: Abbreviation of folio, page and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20").
Synonyms: sense: page and book size
word: f
sense: book size
word: F
fo
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fo'.
pale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pāl
ipa: /peɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: pail
Forms: form: pales
form: paling
form: paled
form: paled
Etymology: From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”), from palleō (“I am pale; I grow pale; I fade”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelito-, from *pelH- (“gray”). Doublet of pallid. Displaced native Old English blāc.
Senses: examples: text: But a man— / Note men !—they are but women after all, / As women are but Auroras !—there are men / Born tender, apt to pale at a trodden worm, / Who paint for pastime, in their favourite dream, / Spruce auto-vestments flowered with crocus-flames / There are, too, who believe in hell and lie : […]
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Browning, Aurora Leigh, New York: C. S. Francis & Co., published 1857, page 282:
glosses: To turn pale; to lose colour.
examples: text: (Although the conditions are rather different, the generosity of the offer certainly pales by comparison with the "Eurailpass" now available to tourists from North and South America at $125 (£44 13s.), which allows two months' unlimited first class travel throughout the railway systems of thirteen countries—[...].)
ref: 1959 May, “Talking of Trains: "Rail-rovers" again”, in Trains Illustrated, page 236:
text: Its financing pales next to the tens of billions that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will have at its disposal, especially with the coming infusion of some $3 billion a year from Warren E. Buffett, the founder of Berkshire Hathaway.
ref: 2006 September 14, Katie Hafner, “Philanthropy Google’s Way: Not the Usual”, in The New York Times:
text: 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
glosses: To become insignificant.
examples: text: The Glow-worme ſhowes the Matine to be neere, / And gins to pale his vneffectuall Fire : / Adue, adue, Hamlet : remember me.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 258, column 1, lines 89–91:
glosses: To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Derived terms: pale in comparison
pale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pāl
ipa: /peɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: pail
Etymology: From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”), from palleō (“I am pale; I grow pale; I fade”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelito-, from *pelH- (“gray”). Doublet of pallid. Displaced native Old English blāc.
Senses: examples: text: The boare (quoth ſhe) whereat a ſuddain pale, / Like lawne being ſpred vpon the bluſhing roſe, / Vſurpes her cheeke, ſhe trembles at his tale, / And on his neck her yoaking armes ſhe throwes.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, lines [589–592]:
glosses: Paleness; pallor.
pale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pāl
ipa: /peɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: pail
Forms: form: pales
form: paling
form: paled
form: paled
Etymology: From Middle English pale, pal, borrowed from Old French pal, from Latin pālus (“stake, prop”). English inherited the word pole (or, rather Old English pāl) from a much older Proto-Germanic borrowing of the same Latin word.
Doublet of peel and pole.
Senses: examples: text: […] your iſle, which ſtands / As Neptunes Parke, ribb’d, and pal’d in / With Oakes vnſkaleable, and roaring Waters, / With Sands that will not bear your Enemies Boates, / But ſuck them vp to th’ Top-maſt.
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 III, scene i]:
glosses: To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
Related terms: impale
palisade
pallescent
hoarse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hôs
ipa: /hɔːs/
enpr: hôrs
other: /hoɹs/
other: [ho̞ɹs]
homophone: horse (horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
enpr: hōrs
ipa: /hoː(ə)ɹs/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /hoəs/
other: /hoːɹs/
Forms: form: hoarser
form: hoarsest
Etymology: From Middle English hors, hos, from Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz, akin to Old Norse háss (West Norse) and heiss (East Norse) (whence Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes).
Senses: examples: text: I am old and my voice is hoarse […]
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:
glosses: Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.
Derived terms: hoarse as a crow
hoarsely
hoarsen
hoarseness
horse-hoarse merger
hoarse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hôs
ipa: /hɔːs/
enpr: hôrs
other: /hoɹs/
other: [ho̞ɹs]
homophone: horse (horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
enpr: hōrs
ipa: /hoː(ə)ɹs/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /hoəs/
other: /hoːɹs/
Forms: form: hoarses
form: hoarsing
form: hoarsed
form: hoarsed
Etymology: From Middle English hors, hos, from Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz, akin to Old Norse háss (West Norse) and heiss (East Norse) (whence Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes).
Senses: examples: text: "[...] Madame! Is—that—your—horse?!"
"Ain't no horse!" she hoarses. "Thassa thuruly bred Great Dane!" The thuruly bred Great Dane's balls shine like big , bald onions as he squeezes to deposit 4 1⁄2 pounds of vitamin - enriched apcray near the lamp-post.
ref: 1980, Leo Rosten, King Silky!, HarperCollins Children's Books:
text: "See anything, mum?" she hoarsed. “No—I think it's lower down. Go back to bed, Jane. I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. Someone's forgotten something, that's all.” She wanted to get rid of Jane without knowing exactly.
ref: 2022 August 1, J. Jefferson Farjeon, Back to Victoria, DigiCat:
text: "Helene," he croaked, reaching out his arms—his voice tensed with the infinity of his desire. "Back," she iced. And then, "Why have you come here?" she hoarsed. "What business have you here?"
ref: 2022 September 16, Stephen Leacock, Further Foolishness, DigiCat:
glosses: To utter hoarsely; to croak.
hoarse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hôs
ipa: /hɔːs/
enpr: hôrs
other: /hoɹs/
other: [ho̞ɹs]
homophone: horse (horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
enpr: hōrs
ipa: /hoː(ə)ɹs/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /hoəs/
other: /hoːɹs/
Forms: form: hoarses
Senses: examples: text: The 15. 3 mo. 1668 - An act maid in a Towne Meting to provent hoarses and meares from doinge damage, as foloeth. All such hoarses and meares, as comonly kepes about the towne, or in the towne stretes, or comonly doth goe in to the towne neck, […]
ref: 1668, act, quoted in 1912, Sandwich and Bourne, Colony and Town Records, page 20
text: […] we got in to Town after Dark on the 18th I staid in Town Mr. Newnon's hoarse got Lame and him & I swapt'd hoarses and Drank whiskey on the 19th he Started home I staid in Town Expecting some intillegence from Mr.Taylor on the 20th we made a Party and went to the Paths and Run every turkey in […]
ref: , quoted in 1934, The North Carolina Historical Review (and also in 1981, Doris Cline Ward, Charles D. Biddix, The Heritage of Old Buncombe County)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of horse.
course
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kôs
ipa: /kɔːs/
enpr: kôrs
ipa: /kɔɹs/
other: /koɹs/
homophone: coarse
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
enpr: kōrs
ipa: /koːɹs/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /koəs/
ipa: /kɜːs/
homophone: curse stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /kuːɹs/
ipa: /kʊɹs/
Forms: form: courses
form: coursing
form: coursed
form: coursed
Etymology: From Middle English cours, from Old French cours, from Latin cursus (“course of a race”), from currō (“run”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of cursus and cour.
Senses: examples: text: The oil coursed through the engine.
text: Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
text: Sudden anger rose in him. “What I’m looking for,” he barked, “is to be left in peace.” His voice trembled with a rage far bigger than her intrusion merited, the rage which shocked him whenever it coursed through his nervous system, like a flood.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:
text: He is a South American, so perhaps revolutionary spirit courses through Francis's veins. But what, pray, does the Catholic church want with doubt?
ref: 2013 September 20, Martina Hyde, “Is the pope Catholic?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
glosses: To run through or over.
examples: text: We coursed him at the heels.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:
glosses: To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
examples: text: to course greyhounds after deer
glosses: To cause to chase after or pursue game.
Derived terms: coursing joint