cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɑpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: loppings
Etymology: From lop + -ing.
Senses: glosses: gerund of lop: the cutting off of branches, etc.
examples: text: […] I ſhall only throvv the ſtrong Point of Light upon that Part vvhich coincides vvith Roman Hiſtory, and of that Part only on the Point of Time vvhen they received the great and final Stroke vvhich made them no more a Nation; […] I ſay nothing of the Loppings made from that Stock whilſt it ſtood; nor from the Suckers that grevv out of the old Root ever ſince.
ref: 1756, [Edmund Burke], A Vindication of Natural Society: Or, A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society. […], London: […] M. Cooper […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which is cut off; leavings.
lopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɑpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Etymology: From lop + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lop
yellowback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellowbacks
Etymology: From yellow + back, from their bright covers, often printed by chromoxylography.
Senses: glosses: A cheap sensational novel.
Related terms: yellowback fusilier
lopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lop
loanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loanins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lonnen.
loanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loanin
leathery jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leathery jacket
inukshuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnʊkˌʃʊk/
Forms: form: inukshuks
form: inukshuit
form: inuksuit
form: inuksuk
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ (inoksok, “in the likeness of a human”).
Senses: examples: text: The Nunavut Territory flag bears a rendering of an inukshuk in the form of a crucifix.
ref: 2004, Pamela R Stern, Historical Dictionary of the Inuit, page 74:
text: This is a miniature copy of an inukshuk that actually stands up on a ridgeline far away in the interior, rocks piled in roughly the shape of a human, not to threaten the stranger but to guide him in country where landmarks are either too few or too many to keep straight.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 140:
ref: 6 March 2008, Inuit Inuksuit to be crafted and sold for 2010 Games. [headline of the article], The Globe and Mail:
glosses: A structure of piled stones, used as a landmark and traditionally constructed by the Inuit, often resembling a humanoid figure.
asininely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more asininely
form: most asininely
Senses: glosses: In an asinine manner; very foolishly.
assumptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assumptive
form: most assumptive
Senses: glosses: Held as true or valid without evidence.
glosses: Forward or presumptuous.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Originally, being arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College.
raw_tags: of arms
Derived terms: assumptively
assort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɔːt/
ipa: /əˈsɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: assorts
form: assorting
form: assorted
form: assorted
Etymology: Middle French assortir.
Senses: examples: text: They appear […] no way assorted to those with whom they must associate.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
examples: text: She wore a peruke of very fair golden hair; and herein was shown the lurking spirit of female vanity: her own tresses had been very beautiful; in some whim she had had them shaven off, but the colour of the peruke had been most assiduously assorted to them.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217:
glosses: To be of a kind with, to harmonise or match.
glosses: To be associated with; to consort with.
examples: to assort a cargo
glosses: To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods.
Derived terms: assortation
assortative
assorter
assortment
ill-assorted
reassort
assonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assonant
form: most assonant
Etymology: From Latin assonāns, present participle of assonō.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Characterized by assonance; having successive similar vowel sounds.
Derived terms: assonantal
assonantly
assonant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assonants
Etymology: From Latin assonāns, present participle of assonō.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A sound that is assonant.
assize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: assizes
form: aßize
Etymology: From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, feminine plural participle of Old French asseoir (“to sit”), from Latin assidere.
Senses: glosses: A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
glosses: The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
glosses: An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
examples: text: the assize of bread and other provisions
glosses: A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
examples: text: rent of assize
text: the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole
ref: 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus:
glosses: Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.
examples: text: an hundred cubits high by just assize
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visons”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Measure; dimension; size.
Derived terms: Great Assize
maiden assize
assize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: assizes
form: assizing
form: assized
form: assized
form: aßize
Etymology: From Middle English assise, from Old French assises, feminine plural participle of Old French asseoir (“to sit”), from Latin assidere.
Senses: glosses: To assess; to set or fix the quantity or price.
Derived terms: assizer
assizor
lassies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lassie
assizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assize
glosses: The regional courts of England and Wales, which were replaced by the Crown Courts in 1971.
assizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assizes
Senses: glosses: A trial or hearing before such a court.
assignor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assignors
Etymology: From assign + -or.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The person or party which makes an assignment.
assigner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: assigners
Etymology: From assign + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, assigns.
assiduousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From assiduous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Finding that his health was failing, because of the assiduousness which a proper discharge of the duties of the position demanded the year round, he acquainted the President with his desire to withdraw from public duties.
ref: 1856, William L. G. Smith, The Life and Times of Lewis Cass, page 323:
text: I found his assiduousness alarming at first, then gradually endearing. When I remarked, after a few long days together, that he never seemed to visit the men’s room, he said, “I will practice going to the bathroom more often so you humans don’t realize that I’m the A.I.”
ref: 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: The state or property of being assiduous; industriousness.
assessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛsə/
ipa: /əˈsɛsɚ/
ipa: /əˈsesə/
Forms: form: assessors
form: assessour
Etymology: From Middle English assessour, from Old French assessour, from Latin assessor (“assistant judge; assessor of taxes”). Cognate with French assesseur.
Senses: glosses: One who assesses a property for tax or insurance evaluation.
topics: law
glosses: A specialist who assists the court in determining a matter.
synonyms: tax assessor
glosses: A civil servant entrusted with checking the veracity of data and criteria used by a taxpayer to complete a tax return.
glosses: One who assesses a project for cost evaluation.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: An official responsible for student welfare.
Derived terms: assessorship
coassessor
interassessor
assiduity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæs.ɪˈdjuː.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /-ˈdʒuː-/
other: /ˌæs.əˈd(j)u.ə.ti/
rhymes: -uːɪti
Forms: form: assiduities
Etymology: From Latin assiduitas, from Latin assiduus. Equivalent to assiduous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref: 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
text: Her coyneſs was conquered by aſſiduity, and at laſt ſhe conſented to reſign the treaſure of her charms to my paſſion.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 15:
text: With the most patient assiduity he peered into the intricacies of unrevealed structure. No object was too minute, none too large, for his attention.
ref: 1845, Jordan Roche Lynch, The Hunterian Oration, page 8:
text: After a hurried and frugal meal we were introduced with loving assiduity upon the part of the manager to the contents of his engine-house, and to the miscellaneous scrap-heap of disused implements with which the grass was littered.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: Great and persistent toil or effort.
examples: text: With difficulty could man be born into the world, or as soon as born would he die, leaving life at the very threshold of existence, unless the friendly hand of the careful matron, and the affectionate assiduities of the nurse, lent their aid to the helpless babe.
ref: 1559, translated by Thomas Paynell: Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace (1521)
text: I will stay even contrary to your wishes; and though you should persist to shun me, I will make my respectful assiduities atone for the levity of my past conduct.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
text: Disgusted with the insipid boastings of him who continued his unceasing assiduities to Miss Airey, without any advancement towards that issue doubtless anticipated by herself and friends—...
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 226:
glosses: Constant personal attention, solicitous care.
Derived terms: disassiduity
assertiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assertivenesses
Etymology: From assertive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being assertive.
Derived terms: self-assertiveness
Standard Mandarin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Mandarin
Standard Chinese
glosses: A standard variety of Mandarin, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, used as a lingua franca in the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan) and among some Chinese communities in South East Asia and elsewhere.
Derived terms: Standarin
assailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈseɪləbl̩/
Forms: form: more assailable
form: most assailable
Etymology: From assail + -able.
Senses: examples: text: There’s comfort yet; they [Banquo and Fleance] are assailable; / Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown / His cloister’d flight […] there shall be done / A deed of dreadful note.
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 III, scene ii]:
text: 1791, Hannah Brand, Huniades, or, The siege of Belgrave, Act IV, Scene 3, in Plays and Poems, Norwich, 1798, p. 82,
Plant the ordnance ’gainst the postern, / North of the Eastern tower; for there I deem / The wall is most assailable.
text: Indeed, he lived among a generation of sinners, whose consciences were not assailable by smooth circumlocutions, and whose vices required the scourge and the hot iron.
ref: 1849, Edwin Percy Whipple, “South’s Sermons”, in Essays and Reviews, volume I, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, published 1887, page 385:
text: All that most maddens and torments ; all that stirs up the lees of things ; all truth with malice in it ; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain ; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought ; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 41, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 203:
text: What is assailable is that in the process of achieving that goal [equality], you level everybody down.
ref: 1993 February 16, James Dao, quoting Michael V. McGill, “Politics Complicates Formulas for Aid to Schools”, in The New York Times, page B1:
synonyms: exposed
vulnerable
pregnable
susceptible
glosses: Able to be assailed or attacked.
Derived terms: assailableness
unassailable
aspirator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspirators
Etymology: From aspirate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A pump which draws gas through a liquid.
glosses: A pump for removing gases or liquids.
glosses: A pooter (device for collecting insects).
Derived terms: microaspirator
overuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈjuːz/
enpr: ō'vərjo͞oz
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈjuːz/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈjuːs/
enpr: ō'vərjo͞os
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈjuːs/
Forms: form: overuses
form: overusing
form: overused
form: overused
Etymology: From over- + use.
Senses: examples: text: Another group argues that the diagnosis is being overused and that many of the diagnosed cases are iatrogenic, or unintentionally shaped or caused by the practitioner
ref: 2003, Michael L. Raulin, Abnormal Psychology, Pearson Education, Inc., page 494:
text: On a summer visit back to the farm here where I grew up, I think I figured out the central problem with modern industrial agriculture. It’s not just that it produces unhealthy food, mishandles waste and overuses antibiotics in ways that harm us all.
ref: 2009 August 22, Nicholas Kristof, “Food for the Soul”, in The New York Times:
text: Therapeutic zeal is express in a number of ways, some of them quite obvious, others subtle. A therapeutic manner that is too self-assured and controlling is a dead giveaway. Other obvious signs of therapeutic zeal include getting annoyed or openly frustrated with patients who do not change in the way the therapist desires; "blaming" the patient by vidictively attributing lack of results to more severe pathology than was intially assumed; or overusing such terms as passive aggressive and poorly motivated.
ref: 2018, John W. Barnhill, Approach to the Psychiatric Patient, page 451:
synonyms: overwork
glosses: To use too much of (something); to use (it) too often.
overuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈjuːz/
enpr: ō'vərjo͞oz
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈjuːz/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈjuːs/
enpr: ō'vərjo͞os
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈjuːs/
Etymology: From over- + use.
Senses: examples: text: There’s an occasional schmaltziness, aggravated by the overuse of a twangy score, but more than enough moments of genuine heartbreak, joy and suspense to make up for it.
ref: 2015 July 5, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘Tough Love’ on PBS Examines Custody Battles With the State”, in The New York Times:
glosses: excessive use
oughta
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːtə/
ipa: /ˈɔtə/
ipa: [ˈɔɾə]
ipa: /ˈɑtə/
ipa: [ˈɑɾə]
rhymes: -ɔːtə
Forms: form: orter
Senses: examples: text: There oughta be a law against that.
text: It's not fair to deny me / Of the cross I bear that you gave to me / You, you, you oughta know
ref: 1995, “You Oughta Know”, in Jagged Little Pill, performed by Alanis Morissette:
glosses: Contraction of ought to.
examples: text: You oughta been here an hour ago.
glosses: Contraction of ought to have.
Related terms: word: to
growing pains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: generalized pains in the limbs or joints of children or adolescents (from many causes)
glosses: emotional or social problems associated with adolescence
glosses: difficulties that arise in the early stages of any project
Related terms: teething troubles
growth spurt
ascetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ascetically
form: most ascetically
Etymology: From ascetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an ascetic manner.
ascription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascriptions
Senses: examples: text: And was thy breath
A pure and sweet ascription to His praise?
ref: 1846, Lydia Sigourney, Voice of Flowers, The Winter Hyacinth, page 7:
text: Since antiquity, Jewish tradition has softened the image by interpreting the word [zonah] as "innkeeper," one who "provides food" (/zun/). There is no reason, however, to doubt the ascription of harlotry.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary:
glosses: The act, or an instance, of ascribing a quality, characteristic, quotation, artistic work, or other thing to someone or something.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The stratification of people according to inborn characteristics (such as race or sex) outside of their control.
Derived terms: misascription
nonascription
pyramidology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyramid + -ology. Evidently coined by Charles Piazzi Smyth in 1870.
Senses: synonyms: pyramidism
glosses: The study of pyramids (especially the Egyptian pyramids) from a supernatural or new-age perspective, rather than the historical or archaeological viewpoint.
wikipedia: pyramidology
Related terms: pyramidologist
pyramidologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyramidologists
Etymology: From pyramidology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies pyramidology, who studies pyramids from a supernatural viewpoint.
Sudovia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from the Old Prussian name for the region, Sūdawa.
Senses: glosses: A region of the Baltic, initially inhabited by the Sudovians (also called the Yotvingians), which later formed part of Prussia and is now split between north-eastern Poland and southern Lithuania.
Sudovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sudovia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or from Sudovia.
glosses: Of or relating to the Sudovian language.
glosses: Of or relating to the Sudovian tribe.
Sudovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sudovians
Etymology: From Sudovia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Prussian tribe that inhabited Sudovia.
glosses: A person from Sudovia or of Sudovian descent.
Synonyms: Jatvingian
Sudovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sudovia + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Western Baltic language of the Sudovian people, related to Old Prussian.
like it's going out of style
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlaɪk ɪts ˈɡəʊɪŋ aʊt əv ˈstaɪl/
ipa: /ˌlaɪk ɪts ˈɡoʊɪŋ aʊt əv ˈstaɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: as if it had been going out of style
form: as if it is going out of style
form: as if it's going out of style
form: as if it was going out of style
form: as if it were going out of style
form: like it is going out of style
form: like it were going out of style
Etymology: A reference to someone engaging in an activity intensely, as if afraid that it will become unavailable or unpopular before they can get the most out of it.
Senses: examples: text: Jason has been drinking like it’s going out of style.
text: to spend money like it’s going out of style
synonyms: as if there were no tomorrow
like crazy
like it's going out of fashion
like nobody's business
like water
qualifier: simile
glosses: Of engaging in an activity: enthusiastically; to an excessive degree.
aseptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aseptically
form: most aseptically
Etymology: From aseptic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aseptic manner.
anopheles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɒfɪliːz/
ipa: /əˈnɑfəliz/
Forms: form: anopheles
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Anopheles (“genus of mosquitoes”), coined by the German entomologist Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764–1845), from Ancient Greek ἀνωφελής (anōphelḗs, “unprofitable, useless; hurtful, prejudicial”), from ἀν- (an-) (a variant of ᾰ̓- (ă-, prefix forming terms having senses opposite to stems or terms to which it is attached)) + ὄφελος (óphelos, “advantage, benefit, good”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰel-) + -ης (-ēs, suffix forming third-declension adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: Analogy with the malaria-carrying mosquito points to the various kinds of anopheles, and perhaps to some species of the ordinary mosquito or culex, as being possible bearers of the disease.
ref: 1901 May 24, H[erbert] Watkins-Pitchford, “Horse-sickness Investigations (Continued)”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume IV, number 6, Maritzburg: The Times Printing and Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 162, column 1:
text: [T]he whole business was a silly mistake due to a murderous-mouthed ignorance of the ease with which the same result could have been obtained by inoculation with anopheles vaccine and stegomyia emulsion.
ref: 1915 July 10, G[eorge] Bernard Shaw, “Doctors’ Delusions. Sanitation versus Inoculation.”, in Doctors’ Delusions, Crude Criminology, and Sham Education, Standard edition, London: Constable and Company, published 1931 (1950 printing), →OCLC, pages 128–129:
text: They slept again, then woke, and drowsed their way slowly towards the late afternoon when the unexpected fever awoke in him—an onslaught so sudden that the symptoms for her seemed instantly recognisable as a rogue attack of malaria. […] "I brought it back from the desert—they have been planting rice like fools, and now you get anopheles right up to the gates of Alexandria!"
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, “The Return Journey”, in Sebastian: Or Ruling Passions […] ([The Avignon Quintet; 4]), London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 155:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: culex
glosses: A mosquito of the genus Anopheles, some insects of which transmit various parasites of the genus Plasmodium that are the cause of malaria.
Derived terms: anophelicide
anopheline
Related terms: Anopheles
anopheline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anophelines
Senses: glosses: Any mosquito of the genus Anopheles
anopheline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the anopheles mosquitoes.
Derived terms: antianopheline
Related terms: anophelin
aphaeresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphaereses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of apheresis.
Serena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of an early Christian saint, Latin serena (“serene”).
Senses: examples: text: Of which whilest they discoursed both together, / The faire Serena (so his lady hight)
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: serene
Serene
serenity
Serenity
La Serena
Siobhan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈvɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: Shavaughn
form: Shavon
form: Shavonne
form: Shvon
form: Shvonne
Etymology: Anglicized spelling of Irish Siobhán, from Middle Irish Sibán, from Anglo-Norman Jehane or Jehanne, from Old French Jehanne, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Senses: examples: text: I think
about biblical names, Tamara, Michaela,
Mira, Shoshana, and Celtic names I can
barely pronounce, Siobhan tangling
between teeth and tongue.
ref: 2002, Dave Margoshes, “Faith, Hope, Charity”, in Purity of Absence, Dundurn Press Ltd., →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: A female given name from Irish.
Related terms: Sinead
Simonetta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Italian feminine diminutive form of Simone ( =Simon).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Italian.
Sinead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈneɪd/
Forms: form: Shinead
form: Sinéad
Etymology: Anglicization of Irish Sinéad, from Old Northern French Jeanette, from Middle French Jehanne + -ette, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Latin Ioanna under influence from Latin Iōhannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sioned, and Vanna.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
Related terms: Seonaid
Shanae
Simona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latinized from French Simone, or borrowed from Italian Simona.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Simone.
unpronounceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpronounceable
form: most unpronounceable
form: unpronouncible
Etymology: From un- + pronounceable.
Senses: examples: text: A Hungarian baron, with an unpronounceable name, had that very morning been so struck with Lady Penrhyn's beauty, that, not knowing she was married, he laid himself, castle, sabre, and fur pelisses at her feet, for immediate acceptance.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 166:
text: In many ways, the salarian political network functions like the noble families of Earth's Medieval Europe. Structurally the government consists of fiefdoms, baronies, duchies, planets, and marches (colonization clusters). These are human nicknames; the original salarian is unpronounceable.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: Government Codex entry:
glosses: Impossible or difficult to pronounce or articulate.
Derived terms: unpronounceably
unpronounceability
unpronounceable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unpronounceables
form: unpronouncible
Etymology: From un- + pronounceable.
Senses: examples: text: Synthetic fragrances can contain a laundry list of chemicals — hormone disrupters, petroleum-derived unpronounceables, asthma triggers and on and on.
ref: 2009 March 13, “Natural Selection”, in New York Times:
text: Finally, if there are some “unpronounceables” in the list, ensure that they are minimal and not artificial anything—artificial colors, preservatives, flavors, or sweeteners.
ref: 2010, Deanna M. Minich, An A-Z Guide to Food Additives:
synonyms: mouthful
jawbreaker
glosses: Something, especially an ingredient, that is difficult or impossible to pronounce.
Sonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Со́ня (Sónja), pet form of Софи́я (Sofíja, “Sophia”).
Senses: examples: text: Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.
ref: 2024 April 3, Stephen Breyer, “Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2024:
glosses: A female given name from Russian (the usual UK spelling of the name which is spelled Sonya in the US).
Related terms: Sonja
Sonya
Stace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /steɪs/
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stacey.
glosses: A surname.
Steffi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
Stef
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Stefan.
Steff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I had a show in New York and it did poorly—the art critics beat me over the head with my father. A year later I was supporting myself and Steff with the commercial stuff.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
Steffie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
Steffy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
Symone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French, variant of Simone.
Tasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, diminutive of Natasha
Tess
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕs
ipa: /tɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Senses: examples: text: Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them. Her older daughter had fared better. Tess, modern and sleek for Teresa, which conjured up cobblestoned streets in a mountain village in Potenza.
ref: 1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
Tess
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕs
ipa: /tɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: Tesses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Tess, a variant of Tesch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Tessa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tessas
Etymology: Contraction of Teresa.
Senses: examples: text: This, ladie-e-e-s and gentleme-e-n, is Tessa Kosta. Her name sounds like the title of an old-fashioned Italian Opera and she looks like her grandmother, on her father's side.
ref: 1920 The Judge, Judge Publishing Company, 1920, v.79, page 27
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Teresa, from Ancient Greek.
Trisha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪʃə/
rhymes: -ɪʃə
Forms: form: Tricia
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
Valarie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a nonstandard spelling variant of Valerie.
Vanessa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnɛsə/
rhymes: -ɛsə
Etymology: Coined by Jonathan Swift for a lady friend named Esther ("Essy") Vanhomrigh.
Senses: examples: text: Vanessa be the Name / By which thou shalt be known to Fame. / Vanessa, by the Gods enroll'd: / Her Name on Earth - shall not be told.
ref: 1726, Jonathan Swift, Cadenus and Vanessa:
text: A kind of girl that May had before only seen in the pages of fashion magazines, bored, disdainful, elegant, reluctantly admitted her. - - - She was asked to see Vanessa on the way out. She knew that the girl would be called something like Vanessa.
ref: 1978, Maeve Binchy, Victoria Line, Central Line, Arrow, published 1993, →ISBN, pages 178, 179:
text: Vanessa likes the ultrapopular Madison as a girl's name, which tells you everything you need to know about her personality.
ref: 2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News:
text: Democrats called for investigation, not resignation, after Vanessa Tyson accused Justin Fairfax of sexual assault earlier this week.
ref: 2019 February 8, Dan Merica, “Key supporters tell Justin Fairfax to step down after 2nd sexual assault allegation”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
wikipedia: Esther Vanhomrigh
Vicki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, variant of Vicky.
roborative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more roborative
form: most roborative
Etymology: From Latin rōbŏro (“to strengthen, to invigorate”).
Senses: examples: a roborative beverage
glosses: Giving strength; invigorating.
Synonyms: restorative
roborant
corroborant
Related terms: roborate
Vickie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, variant of Vicky.
Polypheme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Polyphème, from Latin Polyphemus, from Ancient Greek Πολύφημος (Polúphēmos).
Senses: examples: text: Slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan Thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like Polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of Odysseus.
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
glosses: Polyphemus.
Vickey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Victoria, variant of Vicky.
Vivien
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "This habit you have contracted of being a little boy," his mamma said to him, "is most inconvenient. Your name was to be Vivien. Vivien is early English, and picturesque and full of color; Vivian, which is a boy's name, I don't think so much of. - - -
ref: 1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Piccino and Other Child Stories, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 161:
text: He didn't like her first name. '"Vivian" - it's neither one thing nor the other. It'll confuse people. They won't know if you're a man or a woman. Will you agree to spelling it "Vivien"?'
ref: 1987, Alexander Walker, The Life of Vivien Leigh, Grove Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 54:
glosses: A female given name from Latin, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.
Polyphemus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒlɪˈfiːməs/
Etymology: From Latin Polyphēmus, from Ancient Greek Πολύφημος (Polúphēmos, from πολύ (polú) + φήμη (phḗmē) + -ος (-os), literally “many-voiced”, “much spoken of”, or “abounding in songs and legends”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A cyclops in Homer's Odyssey.
Derived terms: Polyphemus caterpillar
shyly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shyly
form: most shyly
Etymology: From shy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The moon went slowly down in chastened loveliness; she departed like some sweet bride into her chamber, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars peeped shyly out.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: In a shy manner.
bollixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bollix
bollix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒlɪks/
ipa: /ˈbɒləks/
rhymes: -ɒləks
homophone: bollocks
Forms: form: bollixes
form: bollixing
form: bollixed
form: bollixed
Etymology: Alteration of bollocks.
Senses: glosses: To confuse.
glosses: To botch or bungle.
Derived terms: bollix up
bollix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒlɪks/
ipa: /ˈbɒləks/
rhymes: -ɒləks
homophone: bollocks
Forms: form: bollixes
Etymology: Alteration of bollocks.
Senses: glosses: Confusion.
glosses: Mess.
examples: text: He put his arm around me, eyes half-closed from alcohol, and smiled blearily: “You're a bollix.” And then, for emphasis: “You're a right fuckin’ bollix.” I'm not entirely sure, but I'd like to think that this was a friendly greeting; […]
ref: 1995, David A. Wilson, Ireland, a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Just at this moment a mad, hard-faced pensioner in black zip-up flying jacket, flared jeans and trainers hovers into view, spitting expletives. He sees me watching him and shouts across the cobbled street ‘Ye bollix!’ […] I look up at him and say ‘Sorry?’
ref: 2000, Tim Bradford, Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive?: Travels in Irishry, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: A fool; a jerk.
portability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portabilities
Etymology: From portable + -ity.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The quality of being portable.
The ability of a program (or software system) to execute properly on multiple hardware platforms.
glosses: The quality of being portable.
The ability of an employee to move between different social security schemes without losing their contributions.
examples: text: […] number portability is crucial for competition, because it enables consumers to change service providers without being forced to change their phone number. Number portability is a statutory requirement, and it imposes costs on all[…]
ref: 1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Reauthorization of the Federal Communications Commission: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, March 17, 1999, page 117:
glosses: The quality of being portable.
The ability of a telephone subscriber to keep their number when switching to a different network.
Derived terms: nonportability
portage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /pɔːrˈtɑːʒ/
Forms: form: portages
Etymology: From Middle English portage, borrowed from Middle French portage, from Old French portage, from Early Medieval Latin portāticum. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -age.
Senses: glosses: An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
glosses: The route used for such carrying.
examples: text: gaining thereby the charge of portage; was a great benefit to them
ref: 1661, John Fell, The life of the most learned, reverend, and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
glosses: A charge made for carrying something.
examples: text: Onely the shippe that came thither payde a small thing according to her portage, aud euery yeere in the port of Orisa were laden fiue and twentie or thirtie ships great and smal with ryce and diuers sortes of fine white bumbaste cloth[…]
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Carrying capacity; tonnage.
glosses: The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
examples: text: Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: A porthole.
Derived terms: Cranberry Portage
Portage County
Portage la Prairie
portage pack
portage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /pɔːrˈtɑːʒ/
Forms: form: portages
form: portaging
form: portaged
form: portaged
Etymology: From Middle English portage, borrowed from Middle French portage, from Old French portage, from Early Medieval Latin portāticum. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Two months have now elapsed since the work was first begun, viz: from the 20th of last December to the 20th instant, fully one month of which has been occupied in exploring, and the remainder in camping, portageing and measuring; […]
ref: 1858 February 22, G. F. Baillargé, “I.”, in General Report of the Commissioners of Public Works, for the Year Ending 31st December, 1857: Furnished in Compliance with the Provisions of the Act, 9 Vict. Cap. 7, Toronto, Ont.: John Lovell, […], pages 74–75:
text: You’d better leave it to him to decide whether it’s worth lumping a canoe along and portageing.
ref: 1958, Hammond Innes, “The Labrador Railway”, in The Land God Gave to Cain: A Novel of the Labrador, London: Collins […], page 171:
text: Those who haven’t experienced an overnight canoe trip can’t imagine the joys, tensions and learning packed into three days of canoeing, portageing, cooking meals in the open and sleeping under the stars.
ref: 1996, Edward Mann, “Camp Counsellor”, in A Mann for All Seasons: A Memoir, Toronto, Ont.: Lugus Publications, →ISBN, page 28:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To carry a boat overland
Related terms: porterage
porterhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porterhouses
form: porter house
Etymology: From porter + house.
Senses: glosses: A cut of beef taken from the thick end of the short loin; it has a T-shaped bone and a large piece of tenderloin; a porterhouse steak.
examples: text: He contrived the same afternoon to introduce himself to one of the footmen of Lady Horatia at the porter house he frequented […].
ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 372:
glosses: A public house where porter was sold; often also served steaks, chops etc.
Derived terms: Tuscan porterhouse
portiere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portieres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of portière.
portière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poɹˈtjɛɹ/
ipa: /poɹ.tiˈɛɹ/
ipa: /ˌpɔːtɪˈɛə/
Forms: form: portières
form: portiere
Etymology: From French portière, derived from porte (“door”) + -ière.
Senses: glosses: A car door.
examples: text: Carefully unfolding it, he spread it on the floor. It proved to be a curtain or portière, beautifully stencilled with a design on roses.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A hanging, such as a heavy curtain, placed over a door or doorway; a door curtain.
Synonyms: door curtain
Derived terms: portièred
glairigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glairigenous
form: most glairigenous
Etymology: From glair + -genous.
Senses: glosses: producing slime, mucus or glairin
geriatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geriatric
form: most geriatric
Etymology: From geriatrics. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) + -iatric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the elderly.
synonyms: word: hoary
word: long in the tooth
word: on in years
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
raw_tags: in this metonymic sense
word: gerontologic
raw_tags: in this metonymic sense
word: gerontological
raw_tags: in this metonymic sense
word: long in the tooth
word: matured
word: of a certain age
word: old as Methuselah
word: on in years
word: over the hill
word: senior
word: superannuated
word: ivy-covered
word: preserved
word: wintry
glosses: Elderly, old.
examples: text: At that moment he was practicing one of his professions—that of geriatric psychiatrist.
ref: 2020, Georgi Gospodinov, chapter 2, in Time Shelter, page 12:
glosses: Relating to geriatrics.
Derived terms: Buffyatric
ethnogeriatric
geriaction
geriatric chair
geriatrician
geriatricide
geriatric millennial
geriatric pregnancy
gerrie
neurogeriatric
nongeriatric
oncogeriatric
orthogeriatric
psychogeriatric
suprageriatric
geriatric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geriatrics
Etymology: From geriatrics. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) + -iatric.
Senses: synonyms: word: genarian
word: oldster
word: silver top
word: ager
word: antique
word: badge-cove
word: cheeser
word: coffin dodger
word: crinkly
word: eld
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
word: genarian
word: geezer
word: grayhead
word: greyhead
word: hoarhead
word: mzee
word: old
word: no spring chicken
word: old timer
word: old-timer
word: oldtimer
word: older adult
word: oldie
word: oldster
word: senior
word: senior citizen
word: silver top
word: twirly
word: weazen
word: wrinkly
glosses: An old person.
FDC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FDCs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Initialism of first day cover.
glosses: Initialism of federal detention center.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of follicular dendritic cell.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of fixed-dose combination.
glosses: Initialism of fire department connection.
FDC
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: BDC
BDW
DC
DW
FDW
glosses: Initialism of facing diagonally to the center.
chirurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kaɪˈɹɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəɹi/
Forms: form: chirurgeries
form: chyrurgery
form: chirurgy
Etymology: From Old French cirurgerie. Compare surgery.
Senses: examples: text: A Student in Chirurgery is admitted to practise throughout England, if he has been honestly and skilfully exercent therein for seven Years, and has gone through two Operations in Anatomy, and performed three Cures (at the least) […]
ref: 1714, John Ayliffe, The Antient and Present State of the University of Oxford:
glosses: Synonym of surgery.
synonyms: word: surgery
Related terms: chirurgeon
chirurgic
chirurgical
stateside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Stateside
Etymology: From state + -side.
Senses: examples: text: I'll be stateside for the next month.
text: You'll need a valid stateside motorcycle license.
text: They made their stateside debut in the late 1970s.
text: Q: Why do I need a new stateside driver’s license if my expired license is good as long as I am in military?
A current, valid stateside driver’s license is required to get a USAREUR driving permit and international driving permit.
ref: 2018, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs Office, “Sponsorship & Newcomers-FAQs”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 20 Aug 2018:
text: “Yonks,” he replies when I ask how long he's been stateside. “It's not like I've become American. I'm in England every year.”
ref: 2024 February 17, John Wright, quoting John Lydon, “I terrified a nation. Not bad for an 18-year-old”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 16:
qualifier: chiefly outside USA
glosses: In the United States.
qualifier: Alaska
glosses: In the 48 contiguous states.
glosses: imported (especially of goods)