cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: nests
form: nesting
form: nested
form: nested
Etymology: From Middle English nesten, nisten, from Old English nistan, nistian, from Proto-West Germanic *nistijan (“to nest, build a nest”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian näästje (“to nest”), Dutch nesten (“to nest”), German Low German nüsten (“to nest”), German nisten (“to nest”).
Senses: glosses: To build or settle into a nest.
raw_tags: of animals
examples: text: We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
glosses: To settle into a home.
examples: text: I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
glosses: To successively neatly fit inside another.
glosses: To place in, or as if in, a nest.
examples: text: There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
glosses: To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
examples: text: After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting.
ref: 1895, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
Derived terms: misnest
nestable
renest
Related terms: Nest in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
joystick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: joi′stĭk′
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪ.stɪk/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoɪ.stɪk/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoɪ.stək/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒj.sʈik/
Forms: form: joysticks
form: joysticking
form: joysticked
form: joysticked
form: joy-stick
form: joy stick
Etymology: From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.
Senses: examples: text: Marketing your home isn't as difficult as joysticking a Mars rover through a crater, despite what many people believe.
ref: 2006, Sid Davis, Home makeovers that sell, page 124:
text: Therefore, part of the errors in the localization results is due to the problem of joysticking the robot exactly onto the marked positions.
ref: 2007, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Elizabeth Sklar, Domenico G Sorrenti, Tomoichi Takahashi, RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, page 254:
text: It can run in autonomous mode or be manually joysticked using a radio controller.
ref: 2007, Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Robotics: Science and Systems II, page 106:
glosses: To manoeuvre by means of a joystick (sense 1).
elevator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛləˌveɪtə/
ipa: /ˈɛləˌveɪtəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛləveɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: elevators
Etymology: From elevate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: And then the foaming flagons raised on high, with that best of all beverages, that elevator of spirits, that foaming sunshine, that grand and glorious brew of ale.
ref: 1902, Life, volume 39, page 559:
text: Bulk loading of grain in progress from road to rail at Biggleswade using a portable elevator.
ref: 1962 May, “Talking of Trains: Portable grain elevators at E.R. stations”, in Modern Railways, page 302, photo caption:
glosses: Anything that raises or uplifts.
synonyms: word: lift
glosses: A permanent construction with a built-in platform or cab that can be raised and lowered, used to transport people and goods, as between different floors of a building.
examples: text: The harvest is now in full swing in the Great Plains and efforts are being made to rush the grain from the fields to the country elevators and then to the large terminals, such as Kansas City, Houston, Galveston and New Orleans.
ref: 1964 June 16, “Surprise Strike Stops Traffic On 6 Railroads”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 3:
glosses: A silo used for storing wheat, corn or other grain (grain elevator).
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.
glosses: A dental instrument used to pry up ("elevate") teeth in difficult extractions, or depressed portions of bone.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any muscle that serves to raise a part of the body, such as the leg or the eye.
glosses: A type of shoe having an insert lift to make the wearer appear taller.
Derived terms: ailevator
elevator authority
elevator butt
elevatorful
Elevatorgate
elevatorless
elevatorlike
elevatorman
elevator music
elevator operator
elevator pitch
elevator shaft
elevator shoe
elevator surfer
elevator surfing
elevator talk
elevon
express elevator
fart in an elevator
grain elevator
inclinator
inclined elevator
incline elevator
jetevator
nonelevator
one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top
ruddervator
Sabbath elevator
screw elevator
Shabbat elevator
Shabbos elevator
sidewalk elevator
silk elevator
space elevator
transelevator
elevator
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛləˌveɪtə/
ipa: /ˈɛləˌveɪtəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛləveɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: elevators
form: elevatoring
form: elevatored
form: elevatored
Etymology: From elevate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: He elevatored up to the third floor.
glosses: To move in an elevator.
silo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪloʊ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪləʊ/
rhymes: -aɪləʊ
Forms: form: silos
form: siloes
Etymology: From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A vertical building, usually cylindrical, used for the production of silage.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: granary
grain elevator
glosses: From the shape, a building used for the storage of grain.
examples: text: As a rule of thumb, to reliably destroy a hardened missile silo or communications bunker, a one megaton warhead should land within a 600 foot radius of its target. This will ensure that the enemy silo lies within the crater gouged out by the nuclear blast.
ref: 1987, Michio Kaku, Daniel Axelrod, To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 203:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An underground bunker used to hold missiles which may be launched.
examples: text: A silo is created when members in one department or function do not interact with those in another department, even though there might be operational benefits to the interaction.
ref: 2006, Albert J. Mills, Jean C. Helms Mills, John Bratton, Organizational Behaviour in a Global Context, page 116:
text: Graeme Bickerdike, a member of campaign organisation The HRE Group, told RAIL: "This infilling and demolition programme - costing much more than repair - has been conceived with no thought for its impact beyond the silos where distant, unaccountable officials manage their spreadsheets.
ref: 2021 May 5, Tony Streeter, “Network News: Disused structures "assets to be preserved", say MPs”, in RAIL, number 930, page 23:
text: "And the mindset of a silo of rail engineers, and a silo of highway engineers, and a silo of bus experts, and a silo of active travel people, you're not going to integrate just because you put them in one organisation.
"You have to actively look at ways to cross-fertilise that thinking, to get multi-modal projects hard-wired in. And from our view, I see TfW as a behaviour change organisation.
ref: 2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 34:
topics: management
glosses: An organizational unit that has poor interaction with other units, negatively affecting overall performance.
examples: text: Our networking is organized in silos, and employees lose time manually transferring data.
topics: computing
engineering
informatics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: information silo
glosses: A structure in the information system that is poorly networked with other structures, with data exchange hampered.
synonyms: echo chamber
glosses: A group of like-minded individuals who are not exposed to outside opinions or input.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In Microsoft Windows operating systems, a kernel object for isolating groups of threads.
Derived terms: bag silo
missile silo
sack silo
silo bag
siloisation
siloism
siloization
silolike
silo truck
silo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪloʊ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪləʊ/
rhymes: -aɪləʊ
Forms: form: siloes
form: silos
form: siloing
form: siloed
form: siloed
Etymology: From Spanish silo, of unclear origin. See Spanish silo for more.
Senses: synonyms: ensile
glosses: To store in a silo.
examples: text: Then there’s the fact that platforms like TikTok tend to silo users based on interests. Niche communities (insert hobby here plus Tok) are thriving, and so a person who may be famous on FarmTok or BookTok may have trouble breaking out of the mold.
ref: 2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, in Glamour:
text: Sheel Mohnot, a venture capitalist friend of Bi’s who has commissioned twiblings, said the problem is that information is siloed when “each agency has their own database of wombs.”
ref: 2025 September 3, Emi Nietfeld, Wired, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2025:
glosses: To separate; to isolate.
stairway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛɹweɪ/
ipa: /ˈstɛəweɪ/
ipa: /ˈsteːwæɪ/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈsteəwæɪ/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈstiəwæɪ/
ipa: /ˈsteɹwe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈstɜː(ɹ)weː/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)weɪ
Forms: form: stairways
Etymology: stair + way
Senses: examples: text: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down.
Synonyms: staircase
stairs
Derived terms: fire tower stairway
Related terms: stair
stairwell
WAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæp/
rhymes: -æp
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Wireless Application Protocol, an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication, such as Internet access from a cellular phone.
WAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: WAPs
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of wireless access point.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of whey acidic protein.
examples: text: “You're worried about this dude? Seriously? The boy is whipped on that WAP. Whipped, I tell you.”
ref: 2021, Cassia Leo, Savage Love, unnumbered page:
text: "I gotcha, Doc. I won't bother her for another week or so, but after that, I'm all in that WAP!" Jamal said, pumping the air like he was having sex.
ref: 2021, Alicia Reynolds, Grown Little Girl 2: Taking Over the Reigns, unnumbered page:
text: After some light finger work and his admiration of my WAP, it became clear we needed a more secure spot.
ref: 2021, “Moaningful Confessions: The Wrong Kind of Bang”, in Critic, number 8, Otago University, page 45:
glosses: Initialism of wet-ass pussy.
aphelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfiː.lɪ.ən/
ipa: /æpˈhiː.lɪ.ən/
ipa: /əˈfi.li.ən/
ipa: /əˈfil.jən/
ipa: /æpˈhi.li.ən/
ipa: /æpˈhil.jən/
homophone: Ophelian (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -iːliən
Forms: form: aphelia
form: aphelions
Etymology: From New Latin aphēlium (whence English aphelium, now displaced) + -ion (used in the names of other apsides). Aphelium was formed from Ancient Greek ἀπο- (apo-, prefix meaning ‘away, from, off’) + ἥλῐος (hḗlĭos, “the sun”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“the sun”)), modelled after New Latin apogaeum (“apogee”).
The plural form aphelia is from aphelion + -a (plural form of the suffix -on).
Senses: examples: text: [I]t follows from the theory of gravity, that the aphelia of Mercury, Venus, the Earth, and Mars, slightly progress.
ref: 1837, William Whewell, “The Inductive Epoch of Newton—Discovery of the Universal Gravitation of Matter, according to the Law of the Inverse Square of the Distance”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, book VII (History of Physical Astronomy), page 170:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
antonyms: perihelion
glosses: The point in the elliptical orbit of a comet, planet, or other astronomical object, where it is farthest from the Sun.
Hypernyms: apoapsis
apside
apsis
Related terms: parhelion
apoapsis
atlatl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈatlat(ə)l/
Forms: form: atlatls
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl ahtlatl.
Senses: examples: text: While large game was still hunted, mainly using projectile spears but later enhanced by atlatls (spear-throwers) and bows and arrows, evidence for the exploitation of small game such as tortoises, rabbits, wild fowl and eggs increased.
ref: 2011, Chris Stringer, The Origin of Our Species, Penguin, published 2012, page 144:
text: World's oldest weapon delivery system. It's called an atlatl. Developed over 30,000 years ago.
ref: 2020, Robin Pront, 31:36 from the start, in The Silencing, spoken by Jim Needles (Patrick Garrow):
glosses: A spearthrower consisting of a wooden stick with a thong or perpendicularly protruding hook on the rear end that grips a grove or socket on the butt of its accompanying spear (or dart), intended to steady the spear immediately prior to throwing, to increase its potential range when thrown, and to increase its force of penetration of the target.
Derived terms: atlatlist
Related terms: spearthrower
woomera
saga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑːɡə/
rhymes: -ɑːɡə
Forms: form: sagas
Etymology: From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).
Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at say; Doublet of saw.
Senses: glosses: An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
examples: text: The latest Fire Emblem, developed by the makers of Advance Wars and available in the U.S., is the seventh game in an epic saga that began 13 years ago on the NES.
ref: 2003 December 24, “Fire Emblem”, in Nintendo Power, volume 174, A Long and Fiery Tradition, page 32:
text: Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.
ref: 2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0-4 Man City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2012:
text: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2020, page 55:
glosses: Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
Derived terms: Aga saga
saga boy
saga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑːɡə/
rhymes: -ɑːɡə
Etymology: From Latin saga, plural of sagum.
Senses: glosses: plural of sagum
Anglice
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋ.ɡlɪ.siː/
Forms: form: Anglicé
form: Anglicè
Etymology: From Latin Anglicē.
Senses: examples: text: Botticelli was born in the city of Firenze, Anglice Florence.
text: An old gin (Anglice, black woman) said that in the interior - as far as she could explain it, about 200 miles S.S.W. from the head of the river - there were two large lagoons where a very old white man had been camped for years, waited upon by two old black gins.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 333:
glosses: In the English language; in plain English.
determinant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝmɪnənt/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝmənənt/
Forms: form: more determinant
form: most determinant
Etymology: Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant.
Senses: glosses: Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Derived terms: self-determinant
Related terms: permanent
singular
eigenvalue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īʹgən'vălyo͞o
ipa: /ˈaɪɡənˌvæljuː/
Forms: form: eigenvalues
Etymology: From eigen- + value, a partial calque of German Eigenwert.
Senses: examples: text: The eigenvalues #92;lambda of a square transformation matrix #92;mathrm#123;M#125; may be found by solving #92;det(#92;mathrm#123;M#125;-#92;lambda#92;mathrm#123;I#125;)#61;0.
text: In the extension, one associates eigenvalues, sets of scalars, with arrays of matrices by considering the singularity of linear combinations of the matrices in the various rows, involving the same coefficients in each case. Attention to this area was called in the early 1920's by R. D. Carmichael, who pointed out in addition the enormous variety of mixed eigenvalue problems with several parameters.
ref: 1972, F. V. Atkinson, Multiparameter Eigenvalue Problems, Volume I: Matrices and Compact Operators, Academic Press, page x:
text: For many quantum-mechanical problems it is important to investigate the change of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions with the continuous change of one or more parameters. The case in which one knows the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for two special values of the parameters, and is interested in the region in between is particularly interesting.
ref: 2000, John von Neumann, E. Wigner, “On the Behaviour of Eigenvalues in Adiabatic Processes”, in Hinne Hettema, transl., edited by Hinne Hettema, Quantum Chemistry: Classic Scientific Papers, World Scientific, published 1929, page 25:
text: Problems that require an investigation of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions arise in connection with numerous topics in mechanics, the theory of vibrations and stability, hydrodynamics, elasticity, acoustics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, etc.
ref: 2005, Leonid D. Akulenko, Sergei V. Nesterov, High-Precision Methods in Eigenvalue Problems and Their Applications, CRC Press (Chapman & Hall), page 1:
text: To find all the eigenvalues of A, solve the characteristic equation.
For each eigenvalue λ, to find the corresponding set of eigenvectors, solve the linear system of equations […]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Lesson 12”, in University College London, page 1:
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A scalar, λ, such that there exists a non-zero vector x (a corresponding eigenvector) for which the image of x under a given linear operator A is equal to the image of x under multiplication by λ; i.e. Ax=λx.
Synonyms: sense: scalar multiplier of an eigenvector
word: characteristic root
sense: scalar multiplier of an eigenvector
word: characteristic value
sense: scalar multiplier of an eigenvector
word: eigenroot
sense: scalar multiplier of an eigenvector
word: latent value
sense: scalar multiplier of an eigenvector
word: proper value
Related terms: eigenbasis
eigenbrain
eigendecomposition
eigen decomposition
eigenface
eigenfunction
eigenhead
eigenmode
eigenpair
eigenspace
eigenspinor
eigenstate
eigensystem
eigentheory
eigenvector
eigenvector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenvectors
Etymology: From eigen- + vector, a partial calque of German Eigenvektor.
The prefix eigen- (also used in eigenvalue) was first used in 1904, by David Hilbert, and was possibly inspired by a related usage by Hermann von Helmholtz.
Senses: examples: text: Both equations give the relation x₁ = −x₂. Therefore the set of eigenvectors corresponding to λ = 2 is given by: […] An eigenvector corresponding to λ₁ = 2 is ( −1 1 ).
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Lesson 11”, in University College London, 8.2 Method to find eigenvalues and eigenvectors, page 1:
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: characteristic vector
latent vector
proper vector
glosses: A vector that is only scaled (not rotated out of its span) under a particular linear transformation; a left or right eigenvector depending on context; (more formally) given a linear transformation A, a vector x such that Ax=λx [or xA=λx] for some scalar λ (called the eigenvalue).
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A right eigenvector; given a matrix A, the eigenvector of the transformation "left-side multiplication by A."
Derived terms: eigenvectorial
eigenbivector
left eigenvector
right eigenvector
Related terms: word: eigenbasis
word: eigenbrain
word: eigendecomposition
word: eigenface
word: eigenfunction
word: eigenhead
word: eigenmode
word: eigenpair
word: eigenspace
word: eigenspinor
word: eigenstate
word: eigensystem
word: eigentheory
word: eigenvalue
urls: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Eigenvector.html
word: Mathworld article on eigenvectors
irrumator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrumators
Senses: glosses: One who irrumates.
Michal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /miˈxɑl/
Etymology: From Hebrew מִיכַל (mikhál, “Michal”).
Senses: examples: text: And as the Arke of the Lord came into the citie of Dauid, Michal Sauls daughter looked through a window, and saw king Dauid leaping and dauncing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 6:16:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A daughter of Saul and wife of David in the Old Testament.
qualifier: rather rare
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
hippy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĭp'ē
ipa: /ˈhɪpi/
rhymes: -ɪpi
Forms: form: hippies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hippie.
Derived terms: antihippy
hippiness
hippyish
neohippy
nonhippy
hippy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hĭp'ē
ipa: /ˈhɪpi/
rhymes: -ɪpi
Forms: form: hippier
form: hippiest
Senses: examples: text: The girls were hefty, big-breasted and strong and their blonde hair was in slight disarray. […] They were full-lipped, broad-nosed, hippy girls and they were very tired.
ref: 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:
glosses: Having large or prominent hips.
rest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕst
ipa: /ɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: wrest
rhymes: -ɛst
enpr: rĕst
ipa: /ɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: wrest
Etymology: From Middle English reste, from Old French reste, from Old French rester (“to remain”), from Latin restō (“to stay back, stay behind”), from re- + stō (“to stand”). Replaced native Middle English lave (“rest, remainder”) (from Old English lāf (“remnant, remainder”)).
Senses: examples: text: She ate some of the food, but was not hungry enough to eat it all, so she put the rest in the refrigerator to finish later.
synonyms: lave
remainder
glosses: That which remains.
examples: text: Plato and the rest of the philosophers
ref: 1676, Bishop Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome:
text: Arm'd like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: The rest of us were engaged in various occupations: Mr. Trevor relating experiences of steamboat days on the Ohio to Mrs. Cooke; Miss Trevor buried in a serial in the Century; and Farrar and I taking an inventory of the fishing-tackle, when we were startled by a loud and profane ejaculation.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter XI, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
text: It also showed that 26 of the top 30 AI patent requests came from businesses. Universities or public research organizations made up the rest.
ref: 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019:
glosses: Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
Derived terms: and all the rest of it
for the rest
rest of the UK
rest operator
rest parameter
the rest is gravy
the rest is history
rest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕst
ipa: /ɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: wrest
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: rests
form: resting
form: rested
form: rested
Etymology: From Middle English resten, from Old French rester, from Latin restō.
Senses: examples: text: You can rest assured that a sick child will say when it's again ready to eat, so it won't starve and doesn't need to be cajoled into eating.
text: Rest you merry.
qualifier: no object
glosses: To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
raw_tags: with complement
examples: text: God rest you merry, gentlemen.
glosses: To keep a certain way.
Derived terms: rest assured
rest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕst
ipa: /ɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: wrest
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: rests
form: resting
form: rested
form: rested
Etymology: Aphetic form of arrest.
Senses: glosses: To arrest.
bairn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /bɛərn/
ipa: [bern]
ipa: [bɛrn]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: [bɜːɹn]
ipa: [bɛəʁn]
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /bɛən/
ipa: [bɛːn]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: [bɜːn]
ipa: /ˈbaːn/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: bairns
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.
Senses: examples: text: She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: They say that a shag is good for an unborn child, they get the circulation of blood, or some shite. The least ah kin dae is take an interest in the bairn’s welfare.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219:
text: Bobby Shaftoe's getten a bairn
For to dandle in his arm;
In his arm and on his knee,
Bobby Shaftoe loves me.
ref: 1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Bobby Shaftoe, page 87:
qualifier: and parts of Northern England
glosses: A child or baby.
Derived terms: bairnhood
bairnie
bairny
bairnish
bairnless
bairnlike
bairnly
bairn-time
god-bairn gift
knave bairn
shy bairns get nowt
shy bairns get noot
stepbairn
bairn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /bɛərn/
ipa: [bern]
ipa: [bɛrn]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: [bɜːɹn]
ipa: [bɛəʁn]
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /bɛən/
ipa: [bɛːn]
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: [bɜːn]
ipa: /ˈbaːn/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: bairns
form: bairning
form: bairned
form: bairned
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots bairn, from Middle English bern, barn, from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Doublet of barn. Compare West Frisian bern.
Senses: examples: text: Go and kick the man that bairned your Nancy.
ref: 1992, Robin Jenkins, Happy for the Child, page 108:
text: Just because he's signed up fir the fuckin army again, six bastard years this time, and bairned some slag.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: To get (someone) pregnant.
plat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: plait
homophone: Platte
Forms: form: plats
form: platting
form: platted
form: platted
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”), probably a variant of Middle English plot, (modern English plot) and influenced by Middle English plat, plate (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat. See platy-, plaice, flat.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: A husband can not, without authority from his wife, plat her land, and the fact that the land which he assumes to plat was omitted by mistake from a previous plat made and acknowledged by her can make no difference.
ref: 1888, John W[orth] Kern, official reporter, “The City of Indianapolis v. Patterson”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, […], volume 112, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bowen-Merrill Co., law publishers, →OCLC, headnote:
text: He platted his land, extending the lateral lines of the lots south of Shore, or India street, indefinitely out into the river.
ref: 1902 June 19, Justice Horatio Rogers Jr.; Edward C. Stiness, reporter, “Ellen Dawson et al. vs. Robert Broome”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, volume 24, Providence, R.I.: E. L. Freeman & Sons, printers to the state, published 1903, →OCLC, page 371:
text: [...] it may vacate a street where the original Owner has merely platted his land to conform to streets already located and established by the municipality, where no lot has been sold by such owner prior to such vacation.
ref: 1913 January 6, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, “Tesson v. H. K. Porter Co.”, in The Atlantic Reporter (National Reporter System, State Series), permanent edition, volume 86, St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 278:
text: Vistas in San Francisco—a city whose real estate development platted out land geometrically and gridded over a series of hills—offer vertical, stunning viewscapes of architecture and the Bay, natural and built environments.
ref: 2005, Carolyn Cartier, “San Francisco and the Left Coast”, in Carolyn Cartier, Alan A. Lew, editors, Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (Critical Geographies; 19), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.
Derived terms: replat
unplat
plat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: plait
homophone: Platte
Forms: form: plats
Etymology: The noun is a variant of plait.
The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat (a variant of plait), Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”).
Senses: examples: text: Her haire nor looſe nor ti'd in formall plat, / Proclaimd in her a careleſſe hand of pride; [...]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch some small ornament to a small plat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads.
ref: c. 1806, record in the journals of Lewis and Clark, recorded in The United States Exploration Anthology (2013)
text: […] hair ornamented with a bandeau of gold on one side of the forehead, with a large pearl in the centre of the bandeau; on the opposite side is a plat of hair.
ref: 1830, The Ladies’ Museum, volume 31, page 59:
glosses: A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
examples: text: The large silver medal and twenty guineas, were this Session given to Miss Sophia Woodhouse, (Mrs. Wells,) of Weathersfield, in Connecticut, United States, for a new Material for Straw Plat.
ref: 1824, “New Material for Straw Plat”, in The New England Farmer, volume 2, page 316:
text: Her Ladyship, in a letter to A. Aikin, Esq., […] dated Castle Bernard, Ireland, Oct. 19, 1827, states that she has made some improvement in the mode of preparing the rye-straw, which is the material for plat employed in the school under her ladyship’s patronage.
ref: 1829, “On British Leghorn Plat for Hats and Bonnets, by Lady Harriet Bernard”, in Gill’s Technological Repository, volume 4, page 381:
text: Mr. Corston states that 781,605 straw hats had been imported from 1794 to 1803; and that in the last four years of that period 5281 lbs. of straw-plat, which was equal to 26,405 hats, had also been brought to this country.
ref: 1842, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 23:
text: Eleuthera made palmetto plat for hats, arrowroot, and casaba starch.
ref: 2000, Whittington Bernard Johnson, Race Relations in the Bahamas, 1784–1834:
text: The most detailed example of this particular mode of production occurs in the section of Cottage Economy devoted to the making of straw plat for hats, fashioned from raw material grown in England.
ref: 2002, John McAllister Ulrich, Signs of Their Times, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
plat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: plait
homophone: Platte
Forms: form: plats
form: platting
form: platted
form: platted
Etymology: The noun is a variant of plait.
The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat (a variant of plait), Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”).
Senses: examples: text: And when they had platted a crowne of thornes, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, ſaying, haile king of the Jewes.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 27:29:
text: A customer hailed him; he placed the stool on the ground, and the customer seated himself upon it, while the barber shaved his face, platted his hair, and washed his hands [...]
ref: 1844, Thomas Jefferson Jacobs, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, page 349:
text: She platted her hair in segments the night before, so that today she’d have a rippling effect through her hair.
ref: 2006, Elka Paquette, Taboo, →ISBN, page 100:
text: She carried in her hand a broad belt of wampum, and a white honeycomb from the hollow oak, and on her way she stopped and platted a garland of the gayest flowers of the season.
ref: 1828, William Cullen Bryant, “The Cascade of Melsingah”, in The Talisman, volume 1, New York, page 206:
qualifier: dated except regional England
glosses: To braid, to plait.
plat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: plait
homophone: Platte
Forms: form: more plat
form: most plat
Etymology: From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”), from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French plat (“(adjective) flat, level; calm; blunt, plain; (adverb) in a flat position; directly, straight; bluntly, plainly”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat; smooth”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat; wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”).
The English word is cognate with French plat, Italian piatto, Middle Dutch plat (modern Dutch plat (“flat”)), Middle High German blat, plat, Middle Low German plat (modern German platt (“flat”)), Old Danish plat (modern Danish plat), Old Occitan plat (modern Occitan plat), Old Swedish plat (modern Swedish platt); and is a doublet of flat and pleyt.
Senses: examples: text: But else, hold alway^([sic]) your tail fast between your legs that he catch you not thereby; and hold down your ears lying plat after your head that he hold you not thereby; and see wisely to yourself.
ref: 1889, Henry Morley, Early Prose Romances: The history of Reynard the Fox, page 149:
text: But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me. Let things be plat and plain between us. I am a man who shoots straight at his mark.
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:
text: The whirling wheel and speedy swift axle-tree / Smat down to ground, and on the earth lay plat.
ref: 2011, Gordon Kendall, MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, volume 7.II: Gavin Douglas, The Aenid (1513) →ISBN, page 638
qualifier: obsolete except Scotland
glosses: Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
Derived terms: platly
platness
Related terms: bureau plat
plat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: plait
homophone: Platte
Forms: form: more plat
form: most plat
Etymology: From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”), from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French plat (“(adjective) flat, level; calm; blunt, plain; (adverb) in a flat position; directly, straight; bluntly, plainly”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat; smooth”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat; wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”).
The English word is cognate with French plat, Italian piatto, Middle Dutch plat (modern Dutch plat (“flat”)), Middle High German blat, plat, Middle Low German plat (modern German platt (“flat”)), Old Danish plat (modern Danish plat), Old Occitan plat (modern Occitan plat), Old Swedish plat (modern Swedish platt); and is a doublet of flat and pleyt.
Senses: examples: text: Fourth, see [that] thou hide nothing, nor dissemble, but speak plat, and plainly as much as thou knowest.
ref: c. 1547‒1555, John Hooper, A Declaration of the Ten Commandments, published by the Parker Society in 1843
text: But single out, and say once plat and plain / That coy Matrona is a courtesan;
ref: c. 1584‒1656, Joseph Hall
synonyms: bluntly
directly
straightforwardly
qualifier: obsolete except Scotland
glosses: Flatly, plainly.
plat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: plait
homophone: Platte
Forms: form: plats
Etymology: Clipping of platform.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of platform
topics: video-games
glosses: Clipping of platform game
Derived terms: x-plat
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: plat-eye
mnemonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈmɒn.ɪks/
ipa: /nəˈmɑn.ɪks/
rhymes: -ɒnɪks
Forms: form: mnemonicks
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μνημονικά (mnēmoniká, “mnemonics”), plural of μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “mnemonics”), neuter of μνημονικός (mnēmonikós, “mnemonic”); see mnemonic.
Senses: glosses: The study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.
mnemonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈmɒn.ɪks/
ipa: /nəˈmɑn.ɪks/
rhymes: -ɒnɪks
Forms: form: mnemonicks
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μνημονικά (mnēmoniká, “mnemonics”), plural of μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “mnemonics”), neuter of μνημονικός (mnēmonikós, “mnemonic”); see mnemonic.
Senses: glosses: plural of mnemonic
mnemonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈmɒnɪk/
ipa: /nə-/
ipa: /nəˈmɑnɪk/
ipa: /ni-/
homophone: pneumonic stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: mnemonick
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin mnemonicus or its etymon Ancient Greek μνημονῐκός (mnēmonĭkós, “pertaining to memory or remembrance, memorial”) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Mνημονῐκός (Mnēmonĭkós) is derived from μνήμων (mnḗmōn, “mindful, remembering”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives); while μνήμων (mnḗmōn) is from μνάομαι (mnáomai, “to be mindful, remember”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to mind; to think”)) + -μων (-mōn, suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns).
Cognates
* French mnémonique (adjective)
* German mnemonisch
* Italian mnemonico
* Portuguese mnemónica
Senses: synonyms: word: anamnestic
word: memorial
word: mnemonical
antonyms: antimnemonic
glosses: Especially of a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.: intended to help in remembering.
glosses: Of or relating to mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”).
synonyms: mnestic
glosses: Of or relating to memory.
Derived terms: anamonic
antimnemonic
metamnemonic
mnemonician
mnemonist
mnemonize
non-mnemonic
nonmnemonic
promnemonic
Related terms: word: anamnestic
word: mneme
word: mnemenic
word: mnemic
word: mnemon
word: mnemonical
word: mnemonicalist
word: mnemonically
word: mnemonicon
word: Mnemosyne
word: mnemotechnic
word: mnemotechnical
word: mnemotechnically
word: mnemotechnist
word: mnemotechny
word: mnestic
mnemonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈmɒnɪk/
ipa: /nə-/
ipa: /nəˈmɑnɪk/
ipa: /ni-/
homophone: pneumonic stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: mnemonics
Etymology: Noun sense 1 (“something used to help in remembering a thing”) is borrowed from Latin mnēmonicum (“something used to help in remembering a thing”), from Ancient Greek μνημονικόν (mnēmonikón, “something used to help in remembering a thing”), a noun use of the neuter form of μνημονῐκός (mnēmonĭkós, adjective): see etymology 1. Noun sense 3 (“synonym of mnemonics”) is borrowed from Late Latin mnemonica, a noun use of the feminine form of mnemonicus: see etymology 1.
Cognates
* French mnémonique (noun)
* German Mnemonik
* Italian mnemonica
* Portuguese mnemónico
Senses: examples: text: Mr Avery was a great believer in mnemonics; he had one for every possible aspect of flying – which was as good a way as any for student pilots to familiarise themselves with their new environment, but unless used on a daily basis could also be dangerous, for there were so many of them.
ref: 2003, Alex Kimbell, chapter 3, in The Unbridgeable Divide: A Love Story, Market Harborough, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, section I, page 54:
synonyms: word: aide-mémoire
word: mnemonicon
glosses: Something (especially a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.) used to help in remembering a thing; a memory aid.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.
glosses: Synonym of mnemonics (“the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily”).
synonyms: word: mnemonics
extra: the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily
Hyponyms: anamonic
memory palace
mimetic
Derived terms: mnemonics
neuro-mnemonic
Related terms: english: collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort
translation: collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort
word: crib
mathematician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæθ(.ə)məˈtɪʃ.ən/
note: Indic
ipa: /mat̪ʰ(ə)maʈiʃ(ɪ)jən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: mathematicians
form: mathematitian
Etymology: From Middle English mathematicion, from Middle French mathematicien, from mathematique f sg (“mathematics”) (from Latin mathēmatica, feminine of mathēmaticus, from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “fond of learning”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, learning”) + -ικός (-ikós)) + Middle French -ien (from Latin -iānus). Displaced native Old English rīmcræftiga. By surface analysis, mathematic + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: I suspect that in their hearts most working mathematicians are Platonists, in that they take it as a matter of unassailable if unprovable fact that mathematical reality stands apart from the world, and is at least as real as the world, and possibly gives shape to the world, as Plato suggested. Most mathematicians would probably agree that the ratio of the circle to its diameter exists brilliantly in the nature beyond nature, and would exist even if the human mind was not aware of it, and might exist even if God had not bothered to create it.
ref: 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2020:
text: The true work of the mathematician is not experienced until the later parts of graduate school, when the student is challenged to create knowledge in the form of a novel proof.
ref: 2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2020:
glosses: An expert on mathematics; someone who studies mathematics.
Synonyms: mathematicist
Hyponyms: algebraist
analyst
arithmetician
calculator
combinatorialist
computer
geometer
number theorist
statistician
topologist
Derived terms: biomathematician
ethnomathematician
geomathematician
iatromathematician
mathemagician
metamathematician
nonmathematician
physicomathematician
wastrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪstɹəl/
Forms: form: wastrels
Etymology: 1847, waste + -rel (pejorative).
Senses: examples: text: And so with one thing and other the auld witch raised the fiends of jealousy in that innocent heart. She would cry out that Heriotside was an ill-doing wastrel, and had no business to come and flatter honest lassies.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Mary’s mother—if that was her picture—may have been a wastrel in her spare time (she had thirteen children by a minister of the church), but if so her gay and dissipated life had left too few traces of its pleasures on her face.
ref: 1929 September, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, […], published 1931 (April 1935 printing), →OCLC, page 32:
text: Party politics didn’t come naturally to me. I was a twentysomething crypto-anarchist wastrel from the outer suburbs of Bristol who’d spent five years after university moving between jobs and getting distracted.
ref: 2019 November 19, Tom Meadowcroft, “Unite to Remain could hurt the anti-Brexit cause. That’s why I’m no longer a Green candidate”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.
glosses: A neglected child.
glosses: Refuse; rubbish.
Moabite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊ.əˌbaɪt/
ipa: /ˈmoʊ.əˌbaɪt/
Forms: form: Moabites
Etymology: From Moab + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Moab.
Moabite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊ.əˌbaɪt/
ipa: /ˈmoʊ.əˌbaɪt/
Etymology: From Moab + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An extinct Canaanite Semitic language, spoken in Moab (modern-day northwestern Jordan). Extinct since 5th century BCE.
Derived terms: Moabite Stone
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Moabite terms
The ancient kingdom of Moab
The Moabite language
Moabitess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moabitesses
Etymology: From Moabite + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female Moabite.