cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lô
ipa: /lɔː/
enpr: lôr
ipa: /loɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: lōr
ipa: /lo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /loə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: law (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: lure (some accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: lores
Etymology: From Latin lorum (“thong, strap”).
Senses: examples: text: He’s sticky and encrusted on one side below his beak and amongst the lores around his eyes by the pips and juices he has dined upon, the pith and pulp of feeding.
ref: 2022, Jim Crace, eden, Picador, page 40:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
Derived terms: loral
loreal
lored
lore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lô
ipa: /lɔː/
enpr: lôr
ipa: /loɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: lōr
ipa: /lo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /loə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: law (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: lure (some accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lose
examples: text: Neither of them she found where she them lore.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44:
glosses: simple past and past participle of lose, used in the sense of "left"
glosses: simple past and past participle of lese
ersatz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəzæts/
ipa: /ˈɜːsæts/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹsɑts/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹzɑts/
ipa: /ɛəɹˈsɑːts/
ipa: /ɛəɹˈzɑːts/
ipa: /ˈɝsæts/
rhymes: (US) -ɑːts
Forms: form: more ersatz
form: most ersatz
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ersatz (“replacement”); and from the German ersetzen (“to replace”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: Back then, we could only get ersatz coffee.
text: In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten.
ref: 1923, Arthur Michael Samuel, “Pinchbeck”, in The Mancroft Essays, page 164:
text: Ersatzgas, Ersatzpfennige. Ersatz has become a brave word in Germany. As a substantive it means War Reparations. As part of compounded words it means substitute.
ref: [1929 September 16, “Zeppelining”, in Time:
text: They forge documents indicating that Winston Churchill plotted World War I; they manufacture an ersatz fossil suggesting that humans have been around as long as apes; they create a pseudo-Gospel supposedly written by Paul in which he claims that Jesus never performed miracles..
ref: 2000 December 10, Daniel Zalewski, “The Misinformation Age”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022:
text: The avant-garde's opposite number, in Greenberg's scheme, is kitsch, "ersatz culture"—art for capitalism's new man (who turns out to be no different from Fascism's or Communism's new man).
ref: 2001 October 15, The New Yorker:
text: The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance (complete with powdered wigs and simulated copulation) that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing.
ref: 2003 February 17, David Remnick, “Exit the Castle: Václav Havel”, in The New Yorker:
text: The crowd wandered out to a huge party on the ersatz city blocks of the Paramount lot.
ref: 2004 May 31, The New Yorker:
text: If all goes according to plan, the ersatz city hall will soon be relocated to a former lumber warehouse in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista, at which point construction on the rest of Town Square will start.
ref: 2016 December 12, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Time-Travel Therapy”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2017:
synonyms: word: fake
word: faux
word: imitation
word: inauthentic
word: knockoff
word: rip-off
word: gingerbread
glosses: inauthentic or inadequate substitute or imitation
ersatz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəzæts/
ipa: /ˈɜːsæts/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹsɑts/
ipa: /ˈɛəɹzɑts/
ipa: /ɛəɹˈsɑːts/
ipa: /ɛəɹˈzɑːts/
ipa: /ˈɝsæts/
rhymes: (US) -ɑːts
Forms: form: ersatzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ersatz (“replacement”); and from the German ersetzen (“to replace”, verb).
Senses: examples: text: The important point I want to emphasize here is that, regardless of a Government agency's conception of what a consumer expects of a food item, by and large the consumer detests the use of chemicals in foods as substitutes for nutritious, wholesome natural ingredients which improve flavor and quality. The consumer has little to gain in purchasing a product containing questionable ersatzes if his life is to be endangered or he will suffer ill effects.
ref: 1951, United States. Congress, Chemicals in Food Products, U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 400:
text: What intrigues us is what will happen when the ersatzes for the ersatzes come along. Will characters start substituting for actors, bona fide dogs for barking ladies; will people start looking at people again instead of television and at nature instead of at documentaries?
ref: 1955 June 30, “Ersatzes for Ersatzes”, in The Christian Science Monitor, volume 47, number 182:
text: They don't have the skills to tell ersatz magic from the real thing, for as children they daily invested the ersatz with what imagination they had.
ref: 2003 July 7, A. S. Byatt, “Harry Potter and the Childish Adult”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2020:
text: “You do Berlin a disservice, baron. We too have mastered a few things: ersatzes, for instance, and the metaphysics of fictionalism—”
ref: 2016 [c. 1927], Joanne Turnbull, The Return of Munchausen, New York: New York Review of Books, translation of Возвращение Мюнхгаузена by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, →ISBN, page 5:
synonyms: imitation
knock off
glosses: Something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute.
Derived terms: Captain Ersatz
ersatzer
ersatzism
ersatzist
ersatzness
Related terms: topics: mathematics
sciences
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ansatz
kissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissa
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 喫茶 (kissa, “tea house”).
Senses: examples: text: jazz kissa
text: Jazz kissa are niche Japanese cafes stacked with whisky, vinyl and high-end audio systems.
ref: 2023 October 5, Philip Arneill, “One kissa is all it takes: Tokyo’s finest jazz haunts – in pictures”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Synonym of kissaten, a type of Japanese café.
synonyms: word: kissaten
extra: a type of Japanese café
seas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēz
ipa: /siːz/
homophone: sees
homophone: seize
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: plural of sea
Related terms: seven seas
sees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēz
ipa: /siːz/
homophone: seas
homophone: seize
homophone: C's
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of see
sees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēz
ipa: /siːz/
homophone: seas
homophone: seize
homophone: C's
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: plural of see
sans
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænz/
note: uncommon outside French idioms
ipa: /sɑ̃/
rhymes: -ænz
homophone: sands (some speakers)
Etymology: From Middle English saunz, sans, borrowed from Old French sans, senz, sens, from Latin sine (“without”) conflated with absēns (“absent, remote”). Compare French sans, Italian senza, Portuguese sem, and Spanish sin.
Senses: examples: text: Bero[wne]. […] And to begin Wench, ſo God helpe me law,
My loue to thee is ſound, ſance cracke or flaw.
Roſa[line]. Sans, ſans, I pray you.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature H3, recto, lines 414–416:
text: Those with brooms started to sweep literally, at the feet of the crowd, driving it back into the side streets from which it had emerged to form this assembly – now riders sans steeds.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Qutet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 766:
text: But regardless of when Wally had parked himself out in that backyard—sans coat or jacket—somehow, the old lady must have known where Wally would be before he drove out to the Isaacs trailer—or else she followed him out there from his house.
ref: 1991, A. R. Morlan, The Amulet, page 212:
text: Skin needs ultraviolet radiation to begin the synthesis of vitamin D, but dermatologists say you can probably get the necessary electromagnetic input from a mere 20 minutes of sun exposure a week, as you go about your daily affairs, sunblocked and sans beach.
ref: 2007 September 4, Natalie Angier, “A Supple Casing, Prone to Damage”, in New York Times:
text: The fella in question was still sitting at his table, sans everything above the neckerchief. There was blood everywhere, and brain matter, and bits of skull, and what looked like very expensive bone china.
ref: 2023 June 25, HarryBlank, “Transposthumousism”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2024:
synonyms: minus
without
glosses: Without; lacking.
Related terms: belle dame sans merci
retour sans protêt
sans-culotte
sans-culotterie
sans-culottic
sans-culottide
sans-culottish
sans-culottism
sans-culottist
sans doute
sans égal
sans gêne
sans nombre
sans rival
sans-serif
sans-souci
sans
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænz/
note: uncommon outside French idioms
ipa: /sɑ̃/
rhymes: -ænz
homophone: sands (some speakers)
Etymology: From Middle English saunz, sans, borrowed from Old French sans, senz, sens, from Latin sine (“without”) conflated with absēns (“absent, remote”). Compare French sans, Italian senza, Portuguese sem, and Spanish sin.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Ellipsis of sans serif.
sans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sænz/
note: uncommon outside French idioms
ipa: /sɑ̃/
rhymes: -ænz
homophone: sands (some speakers)
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of san
red violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red violets
form: red-violet
Etymology: From red + violet.
Senses: glosses: A purplish red colour, like that of a red violet flower.
red violet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: red-violet
Etymology: From red + violet.
Senses: glosses: Of a purplish red colour, like that of a red violet flower.
Murrinh-Patha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʊrɪn-paːtaː/
Senses: glosses: A small tribe of Australian Aboriginal people living in Australia's Northern Territory.
Murrinh-Patha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʊrɪn-paːtaː/
Senses: glosses: The language spoken by these people; Murinypata.
horseshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːs.ʃuː/
ipa: /ˈhɔː.ʃuː/
ipa: /ˈhɔːɹs.ʃuː/
ipa: /ˈhɔːɹ.ʃuː/
Forms: form: horseshoes
form: horseshoeing
form: horseshoed
form: horseshoed
form: horseshod
form: horseshod
Etymology: From Middle English horsscho, horssho, horscho, hors schoo, equivalent to horse + shoe.
Senses: glosses: To apply horseshoes to (a horse).
Synonyms: sense: to apply horseshoes
word: shoe
Related terms: farrier
horse race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hô(r)sʹrās
ipa: /ˈhɔː(ɹ)sɹeɪs/
Forms: form: horse races
Senses: glosses: A competitive race for horses carrying jockeys; often the subject of betting
glosses: An exciting and arduous competition (as in a political campaign).
horse racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseracing
Senses: glosses: A sport where horses and their jockeys compete to race around a track the fastest.
Related terms: steeplechase
derby
horse race
racetrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪsˌtɹæk/
Forms: form: racetracks
form: race track
Etymology: From race + track.
Senses: examples: text: During the 2018-2019 season, a staggering 56 horses died at one of the most glamorous racetracks in the country, Santa Anita Park, once home to the famous 1940s thoroughbred Seabiscuit. […] Most of the horse deaths Battuello has identified are based on state records, although a handful are based on news reports or verbal confirmation he received from racetrack officials.
ref: 2023 June 10, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Allison Gordon and Pamela Brown, “As horse racing’s best trainers rake in millions, records show they’ve violated rules aimed at keeping the animals safe”, in CNN:
glosses: A course over which any type of races are run.
glosses: A characteristic circular erosion pattern in deposition processes.
Synonyms: sense: a course over which races are run
word: circuit
sense: a course over which races are run
word: racecourse
Hyponyms: english: for dirt racing
translation: for dirt racing
word: dirt track
english: for drag racing
translation: for drag racing
word: dragstrip
english: for horse racing
translation: for horse racing
word: hippodrome
english: for bicycle racing
translation: for bicycle racing
word: velodrome
Derived terms: off-track
racetracker
racetracking
racetrack table
trackside
speedway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːdweɪ/
Forms: form: speedways
Etymology: From speed + way.
Senses: synonyms: motorcycle speedway
glosses: A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
synonyms: cycle speedway
bicycle speedway
glosses: A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
synonyms: motor speedway
motospeedway
motorway
glosses: A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
synonyms: motor speedway
motospeedway
motorway
glosses: A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
synonyms: motor speedway
motospeedway
motorway
glosses: A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.
glosses: A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
Derived terms: superspeedway
spaceport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪs.pɔːt/
rhymes: -eɪspɔːt
Forms: form: spaceports
Etymology: From space + port; compare airport.
Senses: examples: text: Ashley: You're Dr. Warren, the one in charge of the excavation. Do you know what happened to the beacon?
Dr. Warren: It was moved to the spaceport this morning. Manuel and I stayed behind to help pack up the camp.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
glosses: A site for launching spacecraft.
Synonyms: cosmodrome
skater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪ.tə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: skaters
form: sk8r
Etymology: From skate + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who skates.
glosses: A skateboarder.
glosses: A member of skateboarding subculture, characterized by dingy and baggy clothes, and often wallet chains.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A player who is not a goaltender.
glosses: Synonym of water strider.
synonyms: word: water strider
Synonyms: sense: in ice hockey
word: field player
sense: insect
word: water strider
Derived terms: figure skater
ice skater
in-line skater
pond-skater
sea skater
skater dress
speed skater
water skater
tea cosy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea cosies
form: tea cozies
form: teacosy
form: tea cosey
form: tea-cosy
form: tea cozy
Senses: examples: text: She had just finished knitting a tea cosy decorated with a floral pattern.
glosses: An insulating cloth covering, shaped to fit over a teapot to maintain warmth.
Related terms: egg-cosy
teapot
teabag
tea leaf
teaspoon
puce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːs/
ipa: /ˈpjʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: puces
Etymology: From French couleur puce, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).
Senses: examples: text: For blacks, browns, puces, and violets, the acetate or tartrate of iron must be employed.
ref: 1881, Alvin Wood Chase, Dr. Chase's Recipes Or, Information for Everybody, page 596:
glosses: A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
puce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːs/
ipa: /ˈpjʉs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: pucer
form: pucest
Etymology: From French couleur puce, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).
Senses: glosses: Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
turf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɝf/
ipa: /tɜːf/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f
homophone: TERF
Forms: form: turfs
form: turfing
form: turfed
form: turfed
Etymology: From Middle English turf, torf, from Old English turf (“turf, sod, soil, piece of grass covered earth, greensward”), from Proto-West Germanic *turb, from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“turf, lawn”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”).
Cognate with Dutch turf (“turf”), Middle Low German torf (“peat, turf”) (whence German Torf and German Low German Torf), Swedish torv (“turf”), Norwegian torv (“turf”), Icelandic torf (“turf”), Russian трава (trava, “grass”), Sanskrit दर्भ (darbhá, “a kind of grass”), दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “bent grass”).
Senses: glosses: To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
qualifier: Ultimate Frisbee
glosses: To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
examples: text: Eight managers were turfed after the merger of the two companies.
topics: business
glosses: To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
examples: text: The company turfed the concept car because the prototype performed poorly.
topics: business
glosses: To cancel a project or product.
examples: text: He has the mistaken idea that he is a lap dog, and loves to be nursed, especially by ladies, but eighty-five pounds on your lap is no joke, and he can never understand why he gets turfed off.
ref: 1968, Eric Herne, The Haunted Islands, page 18:
text: At the same time as College was being unceremoniously turfed from their premises, a similar process was affecting the Estcourt School.
ref: 1988, Simon Haw with Richard Frame, For Hearth and Home: The Story of Maritzburg College, 1863-1988, page 166:
glosses: To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
examples: text: "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" […] They want to transfer responsibility for her to another branch of the hospital (turf her).
ref: 1996, Jeffrey E. Nash, James M. Calonico, The Meaning of Social Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology, page 139:
qualifier: medical slang
glosses: To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
Derived terms: turfer
turf out
clitoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪtəɹɪs/
ipa: /klɪˈtɔːɹɪs/
Forms: form: clitorises
form: clitorides
Etymology: From post-classical Latin clītoris (16th century), or its source, Koine Greek κλειτορίς (kleitorís), probably from Ancient Greek κλείω (kleíō, “I sheathe, shut”), in reference to it being covered by the labia minora.
The related noun form κλείς (kleís) has a second meaning of "a key, a latch or hook (to close a door)." Wooden pegs were the original keys; a connection also revealed in Latin clavis (“nail”) and claudere (“to shut”) (see close). Some medical sources give a supposed Greek verb κλειτοριάζω (kleitoriázō, “touch or titillate lasciviously, tickle”) literally "to be inclined (toward pleasure)" (compare German Kitzler (“clitoris”, literally “tickler”), related to Greek κλειτύς (kleitús, “shut, closed”), a variant of κλιτύς (klitús, “hillside”), related to κλίνω (klínō, “I slope”), from the same root as κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder”). But many sources take κλειτορίς (kleitorís) literally as Ancient Greek "little hill".
Senses: examples: text: stimulate the clitoris
text: She complains that her boyfriend can't find her clitoris.
text: Juſt before them, towards the upper Part of the C—t, is a Thing they call Clitoris, which, is a little like a Man's P—k, for it will ſwell, and ſtand like his […].
ref: 1740, anonymous author, A Dialogue Between a Lady and a Maid:
text: The average infant clitoris, when measured from the base of the shaft to the top of the glans, is about 4 or 5 millimeters, the height of a pencil eraser.
ref: 1999, Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography, page 65:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A sensitive elongated erectile sex organ at the anterior part of the vulva in female humans and other mammals.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of female amniotes.
Synonyms: word: bean
word: butter bean
word: boy in the boat
word: button
word: clit
word: clitoris
word: devil's doorbell
word: happy button
word: jewel
word: kernel
word: knob
word: little man in the boat
word: lovebud
word: love button
word: nub
word: nubbin
word: panic button
word: pearl
word: skittle
word: sugar plum
word: sweet spot
Hypernyms: genital tubercle - embryological precursor
Derived terms: clit
cliterati
clitoral
clitoral foreskin
clitoral glans
clitoral hood
clitorectomy
clitorial
clitoric
clitoridectomy
clitoridotomy
clitorised
clitorislike
clitorism
clitorist
clitoritis
clitorize
clitoromegaly
hemiclitoris
macroclitoris
shitoris
Related terms: word: glans clitoridis
word: glans clitoris
word: os clitoridis
word: praeputium clitoridis
word: glans
word: vulva
word: penis
HK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Meronyms: HK (“Hong Kong Island”), Kln (“Kowloon”), NT (“New Territories”)
text: An investigation is underway after some HK$800,000 in valuables was stolen from a detached house in Pok Fu Lam.
ref: 2023 June 9, “Burglars grab HK$800,000 in valuables from detached house in Pok Fu Lam”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2023, Local:
glosses: Initialism of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region.
synonyms: HKSAR
examples: Holonyms: HK, HKSAR
glosses: Initialism of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Island.
related: word: Kln[Kowloon#English:_Q239143|Kowloon]]>
word: NT[New Territories#English:_Q596660|New Territories]]>
related: word: H&K
glosses: Initialism of Heckler and Koch.
Derived terms: HKer
HK-pop
bury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕr'ē
rhymes: -ɛɹi
homophone: berry
homophone: Berry
homophone: (Mary–marry–merry merger) Barry
homophone: beary
ipa: /ˈbɛ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbe.ɹiː/
enpr: bû'rē
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
ipa: /ˈbɜː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbɚ.i/
enpr: bŭ'rē
rhymes: -ʌɹi
ipa: /ˈbʌ.ɹi/
note: Middlesbrough, Lancashire, Yorkshire
ipa: /ˈbʊ.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbə.ri/
enpr: bâr'ē
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
homophone: beary
ipa: /ˈbeəɹiː/
Forms: form: buries
Etymology: Middle English burien, berien, from Old English byrġan, from Proto-West Germanic *burgijan, from Proto-Germanic *burgijaną (“to keep safe”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ- (“to defend, protect”).
Cognate with Icelandic byrgja (“to cover, shut; to hold in”); West Frisian bergje (“to keep”), German bergen (“to save/rescue something”), Danish bjerge (“to save/rescue something or somebody”); also Eastern Lithuanian bir̃ginti (“to save, spare”), Russian бере́чь (beréčʹ, “to spare”), Ossetian ӕмбӕрзын (æmbærzyn, “to cover”).
The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects, while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɛ/ is from the Kentish dialects.
Senses: examples: text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The conies had hundreds of buries under these trees, so close together that the problem was not to find a rabbit, but to find a rabbit far enough away from its hole.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
glosses: A burrow.
bury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕr'ē
rhymes: -ɛɹi
homophone: berry
homophone: Berry
homophone: (Mary–marry–merry merger) Barry
homophone: beary
ipa: /ˈbɛ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbe.ɹiː/
enpr: bû'rē
rhymes: -ɜːɹi
ipa: /ˈbɜː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈbɚ.i/
enpr: bŭ'rē
rhymes: -ʌɹi
ipa: /ˈbʌ.ɹi/
note: Middlesbrough, Lancashire, Yorkshire
ipa: /ˈbʊ.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbə.ri/
enpr: bâr'ē
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
homophone: beary
ipa: /ˈbeəɹiː/
Forms: form: buries
Etymology: See borough.
Senses: examples: text: Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury, Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: A borough; a manor
Derived terms: Bushbury
Samothracian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæməʊˈθɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /sæməʊˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/
ipa: /sæmoʊˈθɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /sæmoʊˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/
Forms: form: Samothracians
Etymology: Borrowed from French Samothracien, from Latin Samothraciensis. Alternatively, it could be analyzed Samothrace + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Samothrace.
Samothracian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæməʊˈθɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /sæməʊˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/
ipa: /sæmoʊˈθɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /sæmoʊˈθɹeɪʃi.ən/
Forms: form: more Samothracian
form: most Samothracian
Etymology: Borrowed from French Samothracien, from Latin Samothraciensis. Alternatively, it could be analyzed Samothrace + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Samothrace.
Pepsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕpʹsē
ipa: /ˈpɛpsi/
Forms: form: pepsi
Etymology: Originally short for Pepsi-Cola, coined in 1898 as a renaming of the brand from "Brad's Drink", in order to imply that the fizzy drink could cure dyspepsia. While some have suggested Pepsi is short for the digestive enzyme pepsin, sometimes with the assumption that pepsin was used as an ingredient in Pepsi, this is a folk etymology, as there is no official confirmation of it nor any evidence for a link between the enzyme and the beverage.
Nonetheless, both the words pepsin and dyspepsia ultimately derive from Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis), which means “cooking, fermentation or digestion”. (Compare Italian pepsi, from the same source.)
(person from Quebec): In reference to their supposed love of junk food.
Senses: glosses: A brand of carbonated cola non-alcoholic drink produced by the company PepsiCo.
Derived terms: Pepsi Challenge
Pepsi paradox
pilk
Pepsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕpʹsē
ipa: /ˈpɛpsi/
Forms: form: Pepsis
form: pepsi
Etymology: Originally short for Pepsi-Cola, coined in 1898 as a renaming of the brand from "Brad's Drink", in order to imply that the fizzy drink could cure dyspepsia. While some have suggested Pepsi is short for the digestive enzyme pepsin, sometimes with the assumption that pepsin was used as an ingredient in Pepsi, this is a folk etymology, as there is no official confirmation of it nor any evidence for a link between the enzyme and the beverage.
Nonetheless, both the words pepsin and dyspepsia ultimately derive from Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis), which means “cooking, fermentation or digestion”. (Compare Italian pepsi, from the same source.)
(person from Quebec): In reference to their supposed love of junk food.
Senses: examples: text: I'll have a Pepsi with that.
glosses: A serving of Pepsi.
examples: text: […] and to maintain a relatively superior, paternalistic position from which French Canadians are for the most part regarded as 'peasoups' or 'Pepsis,' as fellow citizens requiring benevolent supervision […]
ref: 1993, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, volume 20, page 276:
glosses: A person from Quebec, Canada.
ars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ar
tenet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛnɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɛnət/
rhymes: -ɛnɪt
Forms: form: tenets
form: tenant
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tenet (“he, she, or it holds”), from teneō (“hold; have”). Compare obsolete tenent. See tenable.
Senses: examples: text: The Buddhist concept of tanha, for example — roughly translated as “blind demandingness” — encapsulates many tenets of R.E.B.T. and points the way toward emotional equanimity: stop asking more of the universe than it can possibly deliver.
ref: 2009 October 5, “Enlightenment Therapy”, in The New York Times:
text: Opposition to climate science has become not just the badge of honour for far-right politicians like Ukip’s Paul Nuttall. It has become the central tenet of their appeal to unreason.
ref: 2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
snooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: sno͞oʹkə
ipa: /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
enpr: sno͝oʹkər
ipa: /ˈsnʊkɚ/
rhymes: -uːkə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snookers
Senses: glosses: A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
examples: text: She put her opponent in a snooker.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.
Derived terms: Chinese snooker
Savile snooker
snooker ball
snooker table
volunteer snooker
snooker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: sno͞oʹkə
ipa: /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
enpr: sno͝oʹkər
ipa: /ˈsnʊkɚ/
rhymes: -uːkə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snookers
form: snookering
form: snookered
form: snookered
Senses: glosses: To play the game of snooker.
examples: text: But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.
ref: 2018, Ezra Klein, “Paul Ryan's Long Con”, in Vox.com:
text: Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.
ref: 2023 August 6, Daniel Duane, “It’s August. Californians Are Still Skiing. Don’t Ask.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To fool or bamboozle.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
examples: text: Sam McDougall, Operations Director for NR's East Coast Route, explains: "Until recently, if anything went wrong in the two-track section between Stoke and Doncaster, we were snookered.
ref: 2023 July 12, Ben Jones, “'Thunderbirds' are go on the ECML...”, in RAIL, number 987, page 34:
glosses: To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
glosses: To become or cause to become inebriated.
Related terms: billiards
pool
billiards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlɪədz/
ipa: /ˈbɪl.jɚdz/
rhymes: -ɪlɪədz
rhymes: -ɪljə(ɹ)dz
Etymology: From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
Senses: examples: text: He was playing billiards in the casino.
topics: games
synonyms: English billiards
glosses: A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.
topics: games
glosses: Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
Derived terms: bar billiards
billiards room
bowlliards
carambole billiards
carom billiards
lawn billiards
pocket billiards
pyramid billiards
Russian billiards
Related terms: pool
snooker
billiards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪlɪədz/
ipa: /ˈbɪl.jɚdz/
rhymes: -ɪlɪədz
rhymes: -ɪljə(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: plural of billiard
pool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːl/
ipa: /pul/
ipa: /pʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
homophone: Poole
homophone: pull (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: pall (accents with fool-fall merger)
homophone: Paul (accents with fool-fall merger)
Forms: form: pools
form: pooling
form: pooled
form: pooled
form: poole
Etymology: From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”).
Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).
For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).
Senses: glosses: To form a pool.
raw_tags: of a liquid
pool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːl/
ipa: /pul/
ipa: /pʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
homophone: Poole
homophone: pull (accents with FOOT-GOOSE merger or full-fool merger)
homophone: pall (accents with fool-fall merger)
homophone: Paul (accents with fool-fall merger)
Forms: form: pools
form: pooling
form: pooled
form: pooled
form: poole
Etymology: 1. From French poule (“collective stakes in a game”). The French word "poule" in this context is an abbreviation of "poulain, pouliche" (foal, filly), and referred to races with female horses under 3 years old. It then became used by punters to designate bets on that race, and started to be used from the racetrack to the stadiums.
2. The OED suggests that this may be a transferred use of poule (“hen”), which has been explained anecdotally as deriving from an old informal betting game in France - 'jeu de poule' - Game of Chicken (or Hen, literally) in which poule became synonymous with the combined money pot claimed by the winner.
Senses: examples: text: We must pool our resources.
text: “She must be exceedingly clever to have beaten the police the way she has for the last few years; and—er—I worship at the shrine of cleverness—especially if it be a woman’s. The idea struck me last night that if she and I should—er—pool our resources, we should not have to complain of the reward.”
“Oh, so youse wants to work wid her, eh?” sniffed Rhoda Gray. “So dat’s it, is it?”
ref: 1920, Frank L. Packard, chapter 4, in The White Moll:
text: It all started 6 years ago, as Rutgers University scientists Allan Conney, Ph.D., and George C. Wagner, Ph.D., chatted at an office get-together. […] From this conversation, the two decided to pool their knowledge and join forces.
ref: 2007 November, Elizabeth Drake, “Combine and conquer: Use these winning food pairings to protect your health”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 124:
text: 27 February 2010, Barack Obama, Presidential Weekly Address - Time for Us to Act
Many on both sides agreed that we should give small businesses and individuals the ability to participate in a new insurance marketplace – which members of Congress would also use – that would allow them to pool their purchasing power and get a better deal from insurance companies.
glosses: To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
glosses: To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
Derived terms: poolable
repool
pirate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪɹət/
ipa: [ˈpaɪ̯(ə)ɹɪt]
ipa: /ˈpaɪɹət/
text: -
note: Indic
ipa: /paiɾeːʈ/
Forms: form: pirates
form: pirating
form: pirated
form: pirated
form: pyrate
Etymology: From Middle English pirate, pirat, pyrat, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta (“pirate”), from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".
Senses: examples: text: They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
glosses: To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
examples: text: If a book is pirated there is a remedy for the author and publisher; if a photograph or an engraving is made of a picture without permission the law protects the painter.
ref: 1904, Edward Elgar, in a speech on 4 July, 1904:
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
examples: text: Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
text: In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
ref: 2002, John Sayle Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, page 343:
text: College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
ref: 2004, Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing:
text: Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate, movies, music, software, and TV programs.
ref: 2007, Diane Kresh, Council on Library, Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook, page 85:
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
examples: text: He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
glosses: To engage in piracy.
glosses: To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
Synonyms: sense: make illegal copy
word: plagiarize
sense: make illegal copy
word: counterfeit
Derived terms: unpirateable
pirate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪɹət/
ipa: [ˈpaɪ̯(ə)ɹɪt]
ipa: /ˈpaɪɹət/
text: -
note: Indic
ipa: /paiɾeːʈ/
Forms: form: pyrate
Etymology: From Middle English pirate, pirat, pyrat, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta (“pirate”), from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".
Senses: glosses: Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
Synonyms: pirated
counterfeit
Related terms: Jolly Roger
skull and crossbones
buccaneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʌkəˈnɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: buccaneers
form: bucanier
form: buccanier
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Tupian *mo-
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mo-
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaʔẽ
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mokaʔẽ
Old Tupi moka'ẽbor.
French boucan
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -ier
French boucanierbor.
English buccaneer
From French boucanier, from boucaner (“to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins”), from boucan (“(Tupi-style) grill”), from Old Tupi moka'ẽ, mboka'ẽ (“wooden grill”). By surface analysis, buccan + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: “Heard of him!” cried the squire. “Heard of him, you say! He was the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed.[…]”
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 48:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century, who were similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation.
glosses: A pirate.
Synonyms: privateer
pirate
Derived terms: buccaneering
buccaneerish
buccaneerism
buccaneer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʌkəˈnɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: buccaneers
form: buccaneering
form: buccaneered
form: buccaneered
form: bucanier
form: buccanier
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Tupian *mo-
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mo-
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaʔẽ
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mokaʔẽ
Old Tupi moka'ẽbor.
French boucan
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -ier
French boucanierbor.
English buccaneer
From French boucanier, from boucaner (“to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins”), from boucan (“(Tupi-style) grill”), from Old Tupi moka'ẽ, mboka'ẽ (“wooden grill”). By surface analysis, buccan + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: In 1596 and 1597 he bucaneered against Sao Thomi, the Portuguese slaving settlement off the coast of West Africa, and in the Spanish Main
ref: 1963, John Day, edited by Arthur Henry Bullen, The Works of John Day, page v:
glosses: To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships.
Related terms: Jolly Roger
skull and crossbones
buccaneering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more buccaneering
form: most buccaneering
Senses: glosses: bold, reckless and unscrupulous
buccaneering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buccaneerings
Senses: glosses: robbery on the high seas; piracy
buccaneering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buccaneer
mourn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: môrn
ipa: /mɔɹn/
enpr: môn
ipa: /mɔːn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: mōrn
ipa: /mo(ː)ɹn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /moən/
note: rare, rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: mo͝orn
ipa: /mʊɹn/
note: rare, rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger
note: rare, non-rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: mo͝orn
ipa: /mʊən/
note: rare, non-rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: mourne
homophone: morn
homophone: morne (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: mourns
form: mourning
form: mourned
form: mourned
form: morne
Etymology: From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
Senses: examples: text: For two months, she mourned her father's passing.
text: We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First 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 I, scene i]:
text: Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 23:2:
text: Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nightmare:
synonyms: word: grieve
word: lament
word: weep
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
glosses: To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
glosses: To utter in a sorrowful manner.
glosses: To wear mourning.
Derived terms: bemourn
mourner
mournful
mourning
mourning dove
mourningly
mournsome
overmourn
remourn
unmourned
unmourning
mourn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: môrn
ipa: /mɔɹn/
enpr: môn
ipa: /mɔːn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: mōrn
ipa: /mo(ː)ɹn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /moən/
note: rare, rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: mo͝orn
ipa: /mʊɹn/
note: rare, rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger
note: rare, non-rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: mo͝orn
ipa: /mʊən/
note: rare, non-rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: mourne
homophone: morn
homophone: morne (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: mourns
form: morne
Etymology: From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
Senses: examples: text: Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book II:
synonyms: word: dejection
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: Sorrow, grief.
glosses: A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
Related terms: grieve
lament
sorrow
autopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôʹtŏpsē
ipa: /ˈɔːtɒpsiː/
ipa: /ˈɔtɑpsi/
ipa: /ˈɑtɑpsi/
Forms: form: autopsies
form: autopsia
Etymology: From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- + -opsy.
Senses: examples: text: The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.
synonyms: necropsy
necrotomy
postmortem
glosses: A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.
examples: text: This lack of built-in clutter makes the system easy to comprehend. Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.
ref: 1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in the Undergraduate Curricula (issue 8)
text: Understanding exactly what happened and why is an essential first step to winning back the White House. ¶ In addition to the autopsy, the DNC should abandon the penchant for secrecy and embrace the principles of transparency and accountability that helped inspire and engage millions of people to participate in the 2008 Obama campaign.
ref: 2017 January 19, Steve Phillips, “The Next DNC Chair Must Abandon Color-Blind Politics”, in The Nation, new York, N.Y.: The Nation Company, L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2022:
synonyms: postmortem
glosses: An after-the-fact examination, especially of the causes of a failure.
glosses: An eyewitness observation, the presentation of an event as witnessed.
Derived terms: autopsic
autopsist
postautopsy
preautopsy
psychological autopsy
reautopsy
social autopsy
unautopsied
virtopsy