equal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːkwəl/
ipa: /ˈiːkəl/
rhymes: -iːkwəl
Forms: form: equals
form: æquall
form: æqual
Etymology: From Middle English equal, from Latin aequālis. Doublet of aequalis and egal.
Senses: examples: text: We're all equals here.
text: This beer has no equal.
text: Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.
ref: 1712 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, December 24, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 256; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: The two who have no equals become friends without equal.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 192:
text: They had hoped their son, a stockbroker, would marry a financial equal, but Suzette, a teacher, did not come from money.
ref: 2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: A person or thing of equal status to others.
examples: text: Thou that presum'st to weigh the world anew,
And all things to an equall to restore.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: State of being equal; equality.
Synonyms: sense: person or thing of equal status to others
word: peer
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: adequal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: all else being equal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: all other things being equal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: all things being equal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: coequal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: comedy equals tragedy plus time
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equal-area
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equal detour point
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word: equal hour
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word: equal-interval chord
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word: equalisation
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word: equalism
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word: equalist
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equalize
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equalise
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equally
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equal marriage
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equalness
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equal-opportunity
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word: equal opportunity
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equal pay
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word: equal pay for equal work
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word: equal rights
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word: equal sign
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equal temperament
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equal-tempered
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equal time
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: equal weight
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: first among equals
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: inequal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: in equal measure
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: nonequal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: not equal sign
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: on an equal footing
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: on equal footing
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: on equal terms
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: other things being equal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: subequal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: two plus two equals five
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: unequal
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: unequalable
Related terms: equality