cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒp/
enpr: shäp
ipa: /ʃɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: shops
form: shopping
form: shopped
form: shopped
Etymology: From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Why don’t you come shopping for gifts with me, early before the Christmas rush?
text: He’s (goen) shopping for clothes.
glosses: To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise.
examples: text: Shop our new arrivals.
text: You fantasized about having unhurried afternoons before the baby arrived to leisurely shop your favorite boutiques. Then the first crash hits — you no longer have the money to shop your favorite boutiques.
ref: 1988, Sylvia Harney, Married beyond recognition: a humorous look at marriage, page 90:
glosses: To browse or purchase products from (a catalog, an internet website, etc.), mostly from home.
examples: text: He shopped his mates in to the police.
glosses: To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
glosses: To imprison.
glosses: To photoshop; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
synonyms: fire
sack
glosses: To dismiss from employment.
examples: text: A grocery clerk who, after he had been "shopped" on occasions, was discharged because he had admitted that on one occasion he had not rung up a sale immediately after the transaction, as required by the company rule, but had recorded it later when he had remembered it, held discharged, but not for misconduct connected with his work […]
ref: quoted in 1970, United States. Bureau of Employment Security, Benefit Series Service: Unemployment Insurance (page 221-7)
text: Because mystery shoppers' reports are presented to employees some time (often several days) after they have "been shopped," employees may not be able to recall who the mystery shopper was, even after the fact — and, consequently, they may be unable to judge the accuracy and fairness of these reports.
ref: 2001, Stuart Tannock, Youth at Work: The Unionized Fast-food and Grocery Workplace, page 50:
glosses: To investigate or evaluate as a mystery shopper.
Synonyms: sense: to report a criminal to authority
word: grass up
Derived terms: outshop
shop around
shoppability
shoppable
shopper
shop till you drop
vaccine-shop
window shopping
shop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒp/
enpr: shäp
ipa: /ʃɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology: From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.
Senses: glosses: Used to attract the services of a shop assistant
acclimatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acclimatements
Senses: glosses: acclimation
acclimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æk.ləˈmeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
homophone: acclamation
Forms: form: acclimations
Etymology: From acclimate + -ion. First attested in 1801.
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate, surroundings, or situation; especially, acclimatization.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The adaptation of an organism to its natural climatic environment.
Derived terms: acclimational
photoacclimation
preacclimation
reacclimation
acclimatizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acclimatize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being acclimatized
strafe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹeɪf/
ipa: /stɹɑf/
ipa: /stɹæf/
rhymes: -eɪf
Forms: form: strafes
form: strafing
form: strafed
form: strafed
Etymology: From German strafe (“punish”) (a conjugated form of strafen), from phrases like Gott strafe England (“God punish England”) which the British saw during the First World War.
Senses: examples: text: These should be especially useful against low-flying planes that "strafe" infantry and transport columns with machine-gun fire and light bombs.
ref: 1929, Frank Thone, “‘Thinking Machine’ Aims Guns”, in The Science News-Letter, volume 16, number 437, pages 107-09:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.
examples: text: Laffey, fresh off from strafing Hiei, ran straight into a quarter of the Japanese navy's remaining destroyers, and, along with Kirishima, between gunfire and another successful Type 93 torpedo strike that tore off the ship's stern, the hapless destroyer was left drifting, ablaze, and would eventually sink.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 20:16 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 Oct 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To rake (a target) with rapid or automatic gunfire.
examples: text: You will get an officer sometimes fu'l of shout and swank, an' 'e 'll put 'em through it, an' strafe 'em, an' walk off parade feelin' that 'e 'as put the fear o' God into 'em.
ref: 1933, Thomas Clement Lonergan, “Private 19022”, in The Military Engineer, volume 23, number 132, page 582:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To reprimand severely.
examples: text: Strafe — Press the Alt key and the left or right Arrow key to slide side to side instead of turning left or right.
ref: 1992, id Software, Wolfenstein 3D (game manual), page 4
text: If the NPC is close to the player, he may also try using the tried-and-true Quake circle-strafing technique.
ref: 2001, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games:
text: A strafe is a side-to-side camera movement. If you're a fan of first-person shooter games, you know how fundamental strafing can be to a game.
ref: 2007, Stephen Cawood, Pat McGee, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide:
topics: video-games
glosses: To sidestep; to move sideways without turning (a core mechanic of most first-person shooters).
Derived terms: circle-strafe
strafe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹeɪf/
ipa: /stɹɑf/
ipa: /stɹæf/
rhymes: -eɪf
Forms: form: strafes
Etymology: From German strafe (“punish”) (a conjugated form of strafen), from phrases like Gott strafe England (“God punish England”) which the British saw during the First World War.
Senses: examples: text: They were unfortunate, for a well-aimed shell during a German evening strafe demolished the apple tree and the nest.
ref: 1917, H.Thoburn-Clarke, “Nesting Mothers of Battle Zone: Bird Life Where Cannons Roar”, in Current History, volume 6, number 1, page 142:
glosses: A heavy artillery bombardment.
glosses: An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft.
examples: text: We also have added a new game control called the "defensive strafe," in which the user can press a button and stay facing forward.
ref: 2004, Marc Saltzman, Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts:
topics: video-games
glosses: A sideways movement without turning.
igneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪɡ.ni.əs/
Etymology: From Latin igneus (“fiery”).
Senses: examples: text: The stone had an igneous appearance.
glosses: Pertaining to or having the nature of fire; containing fire; resembling fire.
examples: text: Granite and basalt are igneous rocks.
text: All formations, whether igneous or aqueous, which can be shown by any such proofs to be of a date posterior to the introduction of man, will be called Recent.
ref: 1835, Charles Lyell, chapter V, in Principles of Geology […] , 4th edition, volume III, London: John Murray, Book IV, page 385:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Resulting from, or produced by, great heat. With rocks, it could also mean formed from lava or magma.
Coordinate terms: sedimentary
metamorphic
Derived terms: igneously
igneousness
igneous rock
large igneous province
ignescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈnɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Etymology: Latin ignescens, present participle of ignescere (“to become inflamed”), from ignis (“fire”): compare French ignescent.
Senses: examples: ignescent stones
glosses: Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating.
Related terms: pyrophoric
sparking
ignescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈnɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: ignescents
Etymology: Latin ignescens, present participle of ignescere (“to become inflamed”), from ignis (“fire”): compare French ignescent.
Senses: glosses: A stone that emits sparks of fire when struck with steel.
Related terms: igneous
ignite
ignition
ignicolist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈnɪkəlɪst/
Forms: form: ignicolists
Etymology: From igni- + Latin colere (“to worship”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Van was delighted and shocked to distinguish, right there in the inky shrubbery, Ada in her long nightgown passing by with a lighted candle in one hand and a shoe in the other as if stealing after the belated ignicolists.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 88:
glosses: A worshiper of fire.
igniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈnɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more igniferous
form: most igniferous
Etymology: From Latin ignifer.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: fire-breathing, flammivomous
synonyms: flammiferous
glosses: Producing fire
ignifluous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈnɪf.lu.əs/
Etymology: From Latin ignifluus, from ignis (“fire”) + fluere (“to flow”).
Senses: examples: text: This process of filling up continued till the latter part of May 1840, when, as many natives testify, the whole area of the crater became one entire sea of ignifluous matter
ref: 1840, William T. Brigham, Notes on the Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands:
glosses: Flowing with fire.
onus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊnəs/
ipa: /ˈoʊnəs/
rhymes: -əʊnəs
Forms: form: onuses
form: onera
form: oweness
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃enh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os
Proto-Italic *onos
Latin onuslbor.
English onus
Learned borrowing from Latin onus (literally “burden”).
Senses: examples: text: The onus is on the landlord to make sure the walls are protected from mildew.
glosses: A legal obligation.
examples: text: The argument is founded on a principle which is now acknowledged to be universal; and the onus of disproof must lie with those who may be bold enough to take up the position that a region exists where at last the Principle of Continuity fails.
ref: 1883, Henry Drummond, Natural Law in the Spiritual World:
topics: law
glosses: Burden of proof, onus probandi.
examples: text: Geraldine evades the onus of ambition by subordinating it to the service of her family, and escapes the onus of sexuality by bodily mutilation
ref: 1993, Dorothy Mermin, Godiva's Ride: Women of Letters in England, 1830-1880, page 19:
glosses: Stigma.
examples: text: ... what might be called "onus-shifting" — each side trying to make a record and place blame on the other for the division of Europe and the Cold War itself.
ref: 1977, Daniel Yergin, Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State, page 6:
glosses: Blame.
examples: text: The onus is on those who disagree with my proposal to explain why.
text: The onus isn't on us to produce something great every time. The onus is on the public to decide whether they like it or not.
ref: 2000, Beatles with Brian Roylance, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, The Beatles Anthology, page 174:
text: This throws the onus on freight operators' train planners to devise ingenious solutions to finding new paths.
ref: 2023 September 6, Anthony Lambert, “Train paths: more space for freight?”, in RAIL, number 991, page 34:
text: “A lot of the quarterbacks in this day and age, they try to take advantage of the rule where they slide late, and they try to get an extra yard. And now you’re a defender, a lot of onus is on the defender, right?”
ref: 2024 December 2, David Close, “Houston Texans head coach defends Azeez Al-Shaair as the NFL leans toward suspending the linebacker, source says”, in CNN:
glosses: Responsibility; burden.
Brittany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪ.tə.ni/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪt.ni/
Forms: form: Britney
form: Brittney
form: Britanny
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Bretany, Brytany, itself borrowed from Medieval Latin Britannia, applied to Brittany from at least the 6th century, and reinforced by Middle French Bretagne. See Britannia for more. Doublet of Britain and Britannia.
Senses: examples: text: First, will I see the Coronation, / And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, / To effect this marriage, so it please my Lord.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]:
text: So Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon fled away to that part of France called Brittany, where they remained in saftey for many years.
ref: 1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 35:
glosses: A cultural region, historical province, and peninsula in northwest France.
glosses: An administrative region of northwest France, including most of the historic region of Brittany.
examples: text: The noble Thamis […] seem'd to stoupe afore / With bowed backe, by reason of the lode / And auncient heavy burden which he bore / Of that faire City, wherein make abode / So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, / And with their braunches spred all Britany […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The British Isles.
examples: text: - - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers." "I have a granddaughter named Brittany," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino." "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?"
ref: 1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany now an unscrupulous Burke, the generous Pamela a refitted, urbanized Parker.
ref: 1999, Andrew Pyper, chapter 10, in Lost Girls:
text: The leading voices of the womanosphere are using a similar strategy. As Brittany Hugoboom put it in an op–ed for the rightwing outlet Quillette: “Conservatives will never win if they imagine themselves as combatants atop defensive battlements, hurling abuse on the mass media. We need to involve ourselves in the creation of pop culture.”
ref: 2025 April 24, Anna Silman, “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name, of 1980s and 1990s American usage.
Related terms: word: Breton
english: coordinate name
translation: coordinate name
word: Brett
word: Britain
word: British
word: Briton
Brittany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪ.tə.ni/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪt.ni/
Forms: form: Brittanies
form: Britney
form: Brittney
form: Britanny
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Bretany, Brytany, itself borrowed from Medieval Latin Britannia, applied to Brittany from at least the 6th century, and reinforced by Middle French Bretagne. See Britannia for more. Doublet of Britain and Britannia.
Senses: glosses: A coward.
examples: text: A dish face is not desirable in the Brittany. A dished or upturned muzzle is considered a fault in the Redbone Coonhound.
ref: 2013, Edward M. Gilbert Jr, Patricia H. Gilbert, Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology:
glosses: A gun dog of a particular breed.
Related terms: Countries of the world
Christian name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christian names
form: christen name
form: christian name
Etymology: From Christian + name.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A first name formally given to a child at a Christian baptism.
examples: text: This was all overheard by Miss Dashwood; and in the whole of the sentence, in his manner of pronouncing it, and in his addressing her sister by her christian name alone, she instantly saw an intimacy so decided, a meaning so direct, as marked a perfect agreement between them.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 137–138:
text: On 8th November Anthony cabled them, ‘Your great-grandson Randal Lewis Casson arrived to-day. Both well,’ and we sent, ‘Congratulations on becoming great-grandparents.’ Anthony and Janneke had kept the proposed Christian names a complete secret, and we were all so touched that they had chosen two which belonged so much to the family.
ref: 1972, John Casson, “‘When We Are Old, Are Old’”, in Lewis & Sybil: A Memoir, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 320:
glosses: Any forename.
glosses: An English given name, particularly for ethnic Chinese who usually have a separate Chinese name.
examples: text: At the convent he is known as "Andrew." This is Shin's baptismal name. Korean Catholics baptized as infants take on a Christian name which also acts as their confirmation name.
ref: 2000, U.S. Catholic Historian:
text: Many of these, however, thoughtfully join their given names with a hyphen, or even write them solid, so that Lee Soo Man may present himself as Soo-Man Lee or Sooman Lee. A Korean who is a Christian will additionally take a Christian name, and so our Mr Lee may present himself as Noah Lee.
ref: 2003 January 30, R L Trask, Mind the Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: An Chung-gun (baptized Thomas as his Christian name), Korean 'national hero,' who assassinated the Japanese Prime Minister and was a criminal from the Japanese point of view[…]
ref: 2011, Manfred Schmeling, Hans-Joachim Backe, From Ritual to Romance and Beyond: Comparative Literature and Comparative Religious Studies : Proceedings of the ICLA Conference at Jacobs University, Bremen, August 6-8, 2008, Königshausen & Neumann, →ISBN, page 46:
qualifier: chiefly Korea
glosses: A baptismal name or confirmation name used in religious contexts, but not part of the legal name.
Synonyms: first name
forename
given name
front name
Derived terms: word: Christian-name
Related terms: Sunday name
surname
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sûrʹnām'
ipa: /ˈsɝˌneɪm/
enpr: sûʹnām'
ipa: /ˈsɜːˌneɪm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)neɪm
Forms: form: surnames
form: surnaming
form: surnamed
form: surnamed
form: sirname
form: sur-name
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English surname, a partial calque of Old French surnum, surnoun (“surname; nickname”) (whence Middle English surnoun), from Late Latin supernōmen, suprānōmen (“surname”), from super- (“over, above, beyond”) and nōmen (“name”), equivalent to sur- + name.
Senses: glosses: To give a surname to.
examples: text: “Lord,” said Sir Launcelot, “I am hight Launcelot, and am surnamed ‘He of the Lake.’”
ref: 1905, Howard Pyle, “The Story of Launcelot”, in The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 66:
glosses: To call by a surname.
Related terms: Wiktionary appendix of surnames
Breton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛtən/
rhymes: -ɛtən
Forms: form: Bretons
Etymology: From French Breton. Doublet of Briton and Brython.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the region of Brittany, France.
glosses: The Celtic language of Brittany.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Breton terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/bre
word: br
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/bre
word: bre
word: bre ⁠
Breton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛtən/
rhymes: -ɛtən
Etymology: From French Breton. Doublet of Briton and Brython.
Senses: glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
Breton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛtən/
rhymes: -ɛtən
Etymology: From French Breton. Doublet of Briton and Brython.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the region of Brittany, France.
Derived terms: Cape Breton
Le Breton
Related terms: far breton
far Breton
tile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪl/
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.əl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: tiles
form: tiling
form: tiled
form: tiled
Etymology: From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tegula.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel, tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick; tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Swedish tegel (“brick; tile”), Icelandic tigl (“tile; brick”).
Senses: examples: text: The handyman tiled the kitchen.
text: White marble tiled the bathroom.
text: Some professionals begin tiling a wall by setting a full tile in the most visually prominent corner […]
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: To cover with tiles.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
glosses: To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
Derived terms: tiler
tile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪl/
ipa: /ˈtaɪ.əl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: tiles
form: tiling
form: tiled
form: tiled
form: tyle
Etymology: See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).
Senses: examples: text: to tile a Masonic lodge
text: tile the door
glosses: To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
Related terms: Tile Hill
ceramic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹæmɪk/
rhymes: -æmɪk
Forms: form: more ceramic
form: most ceramic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κεραμικός (keramikós, “potter's”), from κέραμος (kéramos, “potter's clay”), perhaps from a pre-Hellenic word or from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₂- (“to heat, burn, fire”).
Senses: examples: text: A ceramic vase stood on the table.
text: And over the past year, a new crop of collaborations between designers and artists has turned a spotlight on ceramic sculptures characterized by organic and biomorphic forms.
ref: 2021 May 4, Jessica Bumpus, “Ceramics Are in Fashion”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.
Derived terms: aceramic
bioceramic
ceramal
ceramer
ceramically
ceramicist
ceramicware
cermet
electroceramic
nanoceramic
nonceramic
photoceramic
piezoceramic
preceramic
psychoceramic
vitroceramic
ceramic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹæmɪk/
rhymes: -æmɪk
Forms: form: ceramics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κεραμικός (keramikós, “potter's”), from κέραμος (kéramos, “potter's clay”), perhaps from a pre-Hellenic word or from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₂- (“to heat, burn, fire”).
Senses: examples: text: Joan made the dish from ceramic.
glosses: A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high temperature.
examples: text: Joe had dozens of ceramics in his apartment.
text: Photographed by Juergen Teller, the project included a series of JW Anderson women’s wear looks, still-life images and sketches of Ms. Odundo and Ms. Corbett’s ceramics, as well as their portraits, and blankets designed as part of the collaboration.
ref: 2021 May 4, Jessica Bumpus, “Ceramics Are in Fashion”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An object made of this material.
Derived terms: comb ceramic
glass-ceramic
Related terms: kaolin
kaoline
ceramics
Achaean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈkiːən/
Forms: form: Achaeans
form: Achæan
form: Achaian
form: Achean
form: Akhaian
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin achaeus, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιός (Akhaiós), + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or resident of Achaea, especially a member of an ancient Hellenic tribe that inhabited the region of Achaea.
synonyms: Greek
glosses: In Homeric usage, a Greek person, especially of the Mycenaean era.
Achaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈkiːən/
Forms: form: Achæan
form: Achaian
form: Achean
form: Akhaian
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin achaeus, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιός (Akhaiós), + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Achaea or the Achaeans.
synonyms: Greek
glosses: In Homeric usage, of or relating to Greece, especially of the Mycenaean era.
pilot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.lət/
homophone: pielet
homophone: Pilate
rhymes: -aɪlət
Forms: form: pylote
form: pylot
Etymology: From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).
Senses: examples: text: a pilot run of the new factory
text: The pilot plant showed the need for major process changes.
glosses: Made or used as a test or demonstration of capability.
examples: a pilot light
glosses: Used to control or activate another device.
examples: a pilot vehicle
glosses: Being a vehicle to warn other road users of the presence of an oversize vehicle/combination.
pilot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.lət/
homophone: pielet
homophone: Pilate
rhymes: -aɪlət
Forms: form: pilots
form: piloting
form: piloted
form: piloted
form: pylote
form: pylot
Etymology: From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).
Senses: examples: text: I have visited more than half a dozen carrier training facilities, spent over 150 hours on jumpseats, piloted a Lockheed 1011 from MIA to LAX, visited numerous towers, rapcons, and centers, and discussed our commercial Air Transport System with everyone involved.
ref: 1975, John H. Reed, Transportation Safety Board, Safety Information, page 30:
glosses: To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
glosses: To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
glosses: To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
examples: text: One of the Midland Lines' Birmingham R.C.W. Type 2 diesels, No. D5403, made the debut of its class in the Manchester area on July 28 when it appeared in the early hours on freight; after four days in the area it left for the south piloting B.R./Sulzer Type 4 diesel No. D88 on the 2.25 Manchester Central-St. Pancras.
ref: 1962 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region: Midland Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 279:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
raw_tags: of a locomotive
examples: text: Thus it came about that, three days later, I descended from the train at Styles St. Mary, an absurd little station, with no apparent reason for existence, perched up in the midst of green fields and country lanes. John Cavendish was waiting on the platform, and piloted me out to the car.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 7:
glosses: To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
champion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæmpiən/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæmpjən/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæmp.jɪn/
rhymes: -æmpiən
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Frankish *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Frankish *-jan
Frankish *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Frankish *-jō
Frankish *kampijōbor.
Medieval Latin campiō
Old French champiunbor.
Middle English champioun
English champion
From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”). By surface analysis champ + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: a champion bodybuilder
glosses: Acting as a champion; having defeated all one's competitors.
glosses: Excellent; beyond compare.
examples: text: "That rollercoaster was champion," laughed Vinny.
glosses: Excellent; brilliant; superb; deserving of high praise.
Related terms: championship
champion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæmpiən/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæmpjən/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæmp.jɪn/
rhymes: -æmpiən
Forms: form: champions
form: championing
form: championed
form: championed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *kampos
Latin campusbor.
Frankish *kamp
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Frankish *-jan
Frankish *kampijan
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Frankish *-jō
Frankish *kampijōbor.
Medieval Latin campiō
Old French champiunbor.
Middle English champioun
English champion
From Middle English champioun, from Old French champion, from Medieval Latin campio (“combatant in a duel, champion”), from Frankish *kampijō (“fighter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampijō (“combat soldier”), a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kampijan (“to battle, to campaign”), itself a derivative of Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“battlefield, battle”), ultimately a borrowing in West-Germanic from Latin campus (“a field, a plain, a place of action”). By surface analysis champ + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: While obviously championing the Bluebell [Railway], Beardmore is keen for the 'big railway' to consider utilising what preserved railways can provide.
ref: 2024 April 3, Richard Foster, “Training the next generation of engineers”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 49:
glosses: To promote, advocate, or act as a champion for (a cause, etc.).
glosses: To challenge.
Derived terms: championer
real
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: rēl
enpr: rēəl
ipa: /ɹiːl/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: UK
ipa: /ɹil/
ipa: /ˈɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: US
homophone: reel stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːəl
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.
Senses: examples: text: When I told him the truth, he got real mad.
text: Se looked at me real strange.
text: We were meeting in the Oval Office and I saw the morning news report and I just happened casually to mention to George I says- 'Well I'll betcha that President Johnson is gonna be real pleased when he finds that now they are calling me the number one bomber.' And George Christian said 'Oh don't be too sure.' He says, 'You know LBJ- he never likes to be number two.'
ref: 1977, Nixon interviews, spoken by Richard Nixon, →OCLC:
glosses: Really; very.
real
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēl
enpr: rēəl
ipa: /ɹiːl/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: UK
ipa: /ɹil/
ipa: /ˈɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: US
homophone: reel stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːəl
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: reals
Etymology: From Middle English real, from Old French reel, from Late Latin reālis (“actual”), from Latin rēs (“matter, thing”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís (“wealth, goods”). Doublet of realis.
Senses: glosses: A commodity; see realty.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
examples: text: There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these problems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts and Cauchy Sequences, named respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."
ref: 2007, Mark Bridges, REAL ANALYSIS: A Constructive Approach, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, page 11:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A real number.
examples: text: Scotists, Thomists, Reals, Nominals
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: A realist.
real
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēl
enpr: rēəl
ipa: /ɹiːl/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: UK
ipa: /ɹil/
ipa: /ˈɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: US
homophone: reel stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːəl
rhymes: -iːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑl/
rhymes: -ɑl
enpr: rēl
enpr: rēəl
ipa: /ɹiːl/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: UK
ipa: /ɹil/
ipa: /ˈɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: US
homophone: reel stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːəl
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: reals
form: reales
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
Senses: glosses: Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
glosses: A coin worth one real.
real
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēl
enpr: rēəl
ipa: /ɹiːl/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: UK
ipa: /ɹil/
ipa: /ˈɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: US
homophone: reel stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːəl
rhymes: -iːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑl/
rhymes: -ɑl
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -ɑl
enpr: rēl
enpr: rēəl
ipa: /ɹiːl/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: UK
ipa: /ɹil/
ipa: /ˈɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: US
homophone: reel stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːəl
rhymes: -iːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑl/
rhymes: -ɑl
Forms: form: reis
form: réis
form: reals
Etymology: From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
Senses: synonyms: rei
glosses: A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942.
glosses: A coin worth one real.
real
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēl
enpr: rēəl
ipa: /ɹiːl/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: UK
ipa: /ɹil/
ipa: /ˈɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: US
homophone: reel stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːəl
rhymes: -iːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑl/
rhymes: -ɑl
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -ɑl
enpr: rēl
enpr: rēəl
ipa: /ɹiːl/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: UK
ipa: /ɹil/
ipa: /ˈɹi.əl/
ipa: /ɹɪl/
ipa: [ɹɪɫ]
text: US
homophone: reel stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːəl
rhymes: -iːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
enpr: rāäl'
ipa: /ɹeɪˈɑl/
rhymes: -ɑl
Forms: form: reais
form: reals
Etymology: From Portuguese real (“royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“regal; royal”). Doublet of ariary, regal, riyal, and royal.
Senses: examples: text: Within weeks of this bombshell, an aide to the brother of the chairman of the PT, José Genoino, was arrested boarding a flight with 200,000 reais in a suitcase and $100,000 in his underpants.
ref: 2011, Perry Anderson, “Lula's Brazil”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
meronyms: centavo
glosses: A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.
glosses: A coin worth one real.
Related terms: regal
royal
milreis
truth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trōōth
ipa: /tɹuːθ/
rhymes: -uːθ
Forms: form: truths
form: truthing
form: truthed
form: truthed
form: trewth
Etymology: From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).
Senses: examples: c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.
glosses: To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
examples: text: A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth.
ref: 1974, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, page 226:
text: As is shown in this table, APG images in the validation subset were only truthed with box models, and the 29P images in this subset were never truthed at all.
ref: 1990, Advanced Infrared Technology - Part 2, page cxxvi:
text: This database, which consisists of nearly 180,000 characters, was manually truthed.
ref: 2003, Advances in Pattern Recognition ICAPR2003, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
examples: text: You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'
ref: 1966, Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walkin':
glosses: To tell the truth.
mysophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mysophobes
Etymology: From myso- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
macrocosm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæk.ɹə(ʊ)ˌkɒz.əm/
ipa: /ˈmæk.ɹəˌkɑz.əm/
Forms: form: macrocosms
Etymology: From Middle French macrocosme (from Old French macrocosme) and Medieval Latin macrocosmus, formed from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “great, long”) + κόσμος (kósmos, “universe, order”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.
glosses: The universe.
raw_tags: used absolutely
Derived terms: macrocosmic
macrocosmology
Related terms: cosmos
macroworld
cognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
note: General American, lot–cloth split
ipa: /kɔɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
note: of Canada
ipa: /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
note: of the US
ipa: /kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /koɡˈnɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /kɒɡˈnəʃ.ən/
ipa: [kɔ̟ɡˈnəʃ.ən]
Forms: form: cognitions
Etymology: From Middle English cognicion, cognicioun from Latin cognitio (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.
Senses: glosses: The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
glosses: Children develop cognition rapidly in their early years.
glosses: The study focused on animal cognition.
glosses: human cognition
glosses: social cognition
glosses: cognition research
glosses: A result of a cognitive process.
glosses: Knowledge; awareness.
Derived terms: biocognition
cognification
cognite
cognitional
cognitohazard
cognitologist
cognitology
commognition
enclothed cognition
hypocognition
implicit cognition
incognition
intercognition
intracognition
metacognition
miscognition
neurocognition
noncognition
postcognition
precognition
recognition
retrocognition
Related terms: cognitive
cognizant
cognometrics
recognize
augmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: augmentations
Etymology: From Middle English augmentation, augmentacion, augmentacioun, from Old French augmentacion, from Latin augmentātiō, verbal noun from augmentō (“increase”, verb).
Senses: glosses: The act or process of augmenting.
examples: text: A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased. This custom proves a very happy augmentation to some of the very poor vicars, and is often the best part of their maintenance.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 23:
glosses: An addition or extra, something that is added to something else.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
Synonyms: word: accretion
word: augmentation
word: elevation
word: enlargement
word: expansion
word: extension
word: increase
word: increment
word: promotion
Derived terms: augmentation cystoplasty
augmentationer
autoaugmentation
bioaugmentation
boob augmentation
coaugmentation
neuroaugmentation
preaugmentation
reaugmentation
Related terms: augmentative
augmented
auxiliary
diminution
eukaryote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈkæɹi.əʊt/
ipa: /juˈkæɹi.ɒt/
ipa: /juˈkæɹi.oʊt/
ipa: /juˈkæɹi.ət/
ipa: /juˈkɛəɹi.oʊt/
Forms: form: eukaryotes
form: eukarya
form: eucaryot
form: eucaryote
form: eukaryot
Etymology: Borrowed from French eucaryote; equivalent to eu- + karyon + -ote.
Senses: examples: text: It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.
ref: 1962 March, Roger Stanier, “The concept of a bacterium”, in Archiv für Mikrobiologie, volume 42, number 1, page 17:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.
Synonyms: word: eukaryote
Hypernyms: word: organism
Hyponyms: word: bikont
word: unikont
word: animal
word: plant
word: fungus
Derived terms: eukaryogenesis
microeukaryote
nanoeukaryote
picoeukaryote
protoeukaryote
Related terms: word: eukaryal
word: eukaryocyte
word: eukaryon
word: eukaryotic
word: prokaryote
word: alga
word: microorganism
Thracian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/
ipa: /ˈθɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Thrace + -ian.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to Thrace or the Thracians or the extinct Thracian language.
Synonyms: Thraco-
Thracian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/
ipa: /ˈθɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: Thracians
Etymology: From Thrace + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Thrace, regardless of ethnicity.
glosses: A member of a group of tribes who spoke the language Thracian. (See Wikipedia's article on the Thracians.)
Thracian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/
ipa: /ˈθɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Thrace + -ian.
Senses: glosses: the extinct language formerly spoken in Thrace.
Derived terms: Daco-Thracian
Related terms: Dacia
Dacian
Dacians
Dacic
Thrace
Thracians
Thracic
Texan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛksən/
rhymes: -ɛksən
Forms: form: more Texan
form: most Texan
Etymology: From Texas + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of the U.S. state of Texas.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the U.S. state of Texas in general.
Derived terms: Texan English
Texan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛksən/
rhymes: -ɛksən
Forms: form: Texans
Etymology: From Texas + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.
ref: 2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker:
text: In 2012, over three million Texans voted Democrat.
ref: 2015 November 9, “Why The Electoral College Ruins Democracy” (00:02:08 from the start), in Adam Ruins Everything (television production), spoken by himself (Adam Conover), truTV, via truTV:
text: Even though the mandatory inspections have been eliminated, Texans with vehicles registered in emissions counties are required to have emissions tests.
ref: 2024 October 2, Julianna Russ, “Texas vehicle safety inspections going away, but you’ll still have to pay”, in KXAN, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2024:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the state of Texas, United States.
Hypernyms: American
North American
Hyponyms: Texpat