cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dudette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d(j)uːˈdɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: dudettes
Etymology: From dude + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: It's an album [by George Strait] with ballads and toe-tappers for those "dudes and dudettes" reminiscing about high school football games, family and life over a cold beer.
ref: 2015 September 23, Kimberly Pierceall, “Strait releases new album, will play Las Vegas in 2016”, in Associated Press, reproduced on Yahoo! Music:
text: As my (metal) knees set off all the security thingies, I am subjected to touchy, feely sessions—usually by a dudette with fat, sweaty hands—before being allowed to wait at the gate for hour after hour. The Joy Of Watching Hockey It is a lovely fall.
ref: 2013, Judy Faust, Punch Faust, The MOTs File: Memories, Observations, and Thoughts, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: A girl or woman, especially a masculine one.
examples: text: Most memorable thing about the first branding work a dude or a dudette witnesses is likely to be the heart-rending " BAWR- R-R-R-R!" of the calf or other animal under the hot iron.
ref: 1940, Oren Arnold, John Prentiss Hale, Hot irons: heraldry of the range:
text: "Dudettes" in cowgirl outfits combed the business district of Phoenix
ref: 1944, Minute Man:
text: The dudettes met their horses that morning.
ref: 2000, Ruth Jean Dale, Almost a Cowboy, →ISBN:
glosses: A cowgirl, especially a tenderfoot.
examples: text: I'll be cow—hooked if she ain't the best looking thing that's come over the mountains since I married my own dudette!
ref: 1941, Travel:
text: Saturday evening, March 11, the Dudettes (wives and sweethearts of the Jaycees ) will give their annual all- Western dance at Bud Brown's Barn.
ref: 1949, Arizona Cattlelog:
text: Visiting dudettes found the shy man of the land irresistible.
ref: 2005, Lesley Poling-Kempes, Ghost Ranch, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 48:
text: I can't believe a month ago I was living my life as usual, and now I'm a dudette about to become a pioneer traveling on a wagon train.
ref: 2015, Verna Clay, Forever Kisses: Book 7 of Romance on the Ranch Series, M.O.I. Publishing, page 92:
glosses: A cowboy's wife, or a woman who moves out west with the intention of marrying a cowboy.
examples: text: Maddy was a dainty and feminine tomboy with a disposition both loving and tough as nails. She was a “dudette” and a debutant. What could have been clashing opposites were perfectly blended in her.
ref: 2013, Sam Kauffman, MADDY - Courage and Heart: Life Lessons From a Puppy Handbook, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: A girl or woman who is noted for being tough or capable.
Synonyms: dudess
junior bridesmaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junior bridesmaids
Senses: glosses: A young woman who is too young to be a full bridesmaid, but too old to be a flower girl. The junior bridesmaid usually walks down the aisle unaccompanied by a groomsman, but can be accompanied if the wedding party has an uneven number of people.
darkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːkli/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹkli/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kli
Forms: form: darklier
form: more darkly
form: darkliest
form: most darkly
Etymology: From Middle English derkely, equivalent to dark + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A Scanner Darkly
text: Earth's noblest sons are schooled in hut and cell,
As purest gems in darkliest caverns dwell.
ref: 1864, John Greet, Poems, page 8:
text: A clue of lilies was I bid to find,
Where the green alleys most obscurely wind;
Where tall oaks darkliest canopy o'erhead,
And moss and violet make the softest bed; […]
ref: 1919, Ernest Christopher Dowson, Arthur Symons, The Poems of Ernest Dowson, page 81:
glosses: Relating to darkness or obscurity.
kanoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kanoodles
form: kanoodling
form: kanoodled
form: kanoodled
Senses: examples: text: He was a truly good man, and did not believe there were any bad men in the world, who would kanoodle him with a stone crusher.
ref: 1880, [George Wilbur] Peck, “Buying a Stone Crusher”, in V. W. Richardson, compiler, Peck’s Fun: Being […] the Cream of Mr. Peck’s Writings of the Past Ten Years, Chicago, Ill.: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 29:
text: And above all things, do not let her kanoodle you with soft words and looks of love, because she is full of 'em. If she can't scare you, with her indignation at the outrage of arresting and searching her, she will try to capture you and make you love her. You must be as firm as adamant.
ref: 1887, Geo[rge] W[ilbur] Peck, chapter XII, in How Private Geo. W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion, Or The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 156:
text: My mouth opened, ostensibly to tell him to stop this right now, I refused to kanoodle with anyone who wasn't my true love. I'd never know what I would have actually said, because he crushed his lips on mine, and my brain short-circuited.
ref: 2007 November, Jackie Kessler, “Paul’s Apartment”, in The Road to Hell, 1st mass-market paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, published November 2009, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: Rare spelling of canoodle.
Kees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
kicking ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kick ass
manstress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manstresses
Etymology: Blend of man + mistress, not attested before 1980.
Senses: examples: text: Tom and Nicole had been married for several years, but it was well known that she was keeping a manstress on the side.
text: 4. Thou shalt commit adultery, or preadultery: If it feeleth good, do it. Particularly if you're French, and keeping a mistress or manstress is expected.
ref: 1997 March 25, Edward P. Moser, “Words to Live By”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2020:
glosses: A male equivalent of "mistress"; a male object of one's affections who lies outside of one's primary relationship.
kourotrophos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kourotrophoi
Etymology: Presumably from Kourotrophos, itself from Ancient Greek κουροτρόφος (kourotróphos). Assigned by Elizabeth B. French, c. 1970
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of Mycenaean terracotta figurines depicting women carrying children.
mammologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammologists
Etymology: From mammology + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mammalogist.
flauta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊtə/
rhymes: -aʊtə
Forms: form: flautas
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish flauta, with same meaning, because of its shape, resembling a flute. Doublet of flute and fluyt.
Senses: glosses: A type of fried cylindrical tortilla or taco.
swole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swəʊl/
ipa: /swoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: swoll
Etymology: From earlier swoll, from Middle English swal, swall, swalle (simple past tense), and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle (past participle), inflected forms of swellen (“to swell”), from Old English sweall (simple past tense), from Proto-Germanic *swall, first and third person singular preterite of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”); further origin uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: His arm just swole up.
text: I ate until my belly had swole.
text: Mildly it [the wind] kiſt our ſailes, and, freſh, and ſweet, / As, to a ſtomack ſterv’d, whoſe inſides meete, / Meate comes, it came; and ſwole our ſailes, when wee / So joyd, as Sara’ her ſwelling joy’d to ſee.
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “The Storme. To Mr. Christopher Brooke.”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC, page 57:
text: If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you'll just go like my pore young sister goed, [...] Pop she did not. She swole … swole and swole. [...] I say she swole—and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy.
ref: 1914, Percival Christopher Wren, “Lucille”, in Snake and Sword: A Novel, London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co. […], →OCLC, part II (The Searing of a Soul), page 78:
text: [M]y tongue swole up and gagged me and my eyes blurred over with blood […].
ref: 1966 [1961], William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy), New York: Grove Press, page 15:
text: Then they had this guy with clap, a light case of clap, and they gave him inoculations and his balls swole up, they swole up as big as basketballs, they swole and swole so he couldn't walk and they had to take him out of here on a board with these big globes sticking up in the sheet.
ref: 1977, John Cheever, Falconer (A Borzoi Book), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 185:
text: [A] man from White County had the dropsy? You know, somethin' wrong with his heart and him swole up all over? Uncle Alva said the man at the ho-tel said the man come up there swole up all over like he'd bust if you stuck a pin in him.
ref: 1992, Olive Ann Burns, chapter 9, in Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy Tree, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor and Fields, →ISBN, page 99; 1st Mariner Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007, →ISBN:
text: She had overheard her Mom and Mrs. Thomas from across the street talking about someone who was allergic to stings, and Mrs. Thomas had said, "Ten seconds after it gut im, poor ole Frank was swole up like a balloon. If he hadn't had his little kit with the hyperdermic^([sic]), I guess he woulda choked to death."
ref: 1999 April 6, Stephen King, The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, May 2017, →ISBN, pages 67–68:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: simple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen.
raw_tags: in other English varieties in the simple past tense until early 20th c.
lifting gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifting gases
form: lifting gasses
Senses: glosses: A gas, such as helium or hydrogen, that is used to produce buoyancy for e.g. balloons or airships.
lantzman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lantzmen
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish לאַנדסמאַן (landsman). Doublet of landsman.
Senses: glosses: A fellow Jew who grew up in the same Eastern European shtetl as the speaker.
glosses: A countryman, cohort or sympathizer.
glosses: A man respected in the community for his wisdom or knowledge of Torah and Jewish teachings.
letter carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letter carriers
form: letter-carrier
Senses: synonyms: mail carrier
postal carrier
mailperson
postperson
glosses: An employee of the post office who delivers mail (post) to, and collects it from, a residence or business, or from public mailboxes.
Related terms: letterbox
letter opener
mailbag
postbag
Lowri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊ̯.ɹi/
ipa: /loʊ̯.ɹi/
Forms: form: Lowrie
form: Lowry
Etymology: From Welsh Lowri.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
minatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minatory
form: most minatory
form: miniatory
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French minatoire, from Late Latin minātōrius, from Latin minor, minārī (“to threaten, speak or act menacingly, hold out the threat of”, verbal derivative of minae, plural only, "threats, menaces, portents of evil") + -tōrius, deverbal adjective suffix originally forming derivatives from agent nouns ending in -tōr-, -tor; minae probably, if originally "projecting points, overhang," noun derivative of the verbal base *men- seen in ēminēre (“to stick out, protrude”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate to menace.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Place de Greve, with its thirty thousand Regulars, its whole irregular Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, is one minatory mass of clear or rusty steel […]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter III (The Lauriston Gardens Mystery), page 17:
text: [H]er father quietly addressed a few words, by letter, to George Flack. This communication was not of a minatory order; it expressed on the contrary the loose sociability which was the essence of Mr. Dosson's nature.
ref: 1888, Henry James, The Reverberator, Macmillan and Co.:
text: She shook hands firmly with Adam Dalgleish and gave him a minatory glance as if welcoming a new patient from whom she expected trouble
ref: 1995, P. D. James, The Black Tower:
text: In the cottage next to the post office Alma Crumble broke her wrist stirring batter, at which the Bug declared in a minatory tone that 'That was enough of that.'
ref: 1997, Edward Gorey, The Haunted Tea-Cosy:
glosses: Threatening, menacing.
Synonyms: minacious
ominous
sinister
Derived terms: minatorily
malparry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malparries
Etymology: From mal- (“bad”) + parry.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A parry that insufficiently removes the incoming blade from the target area.
final cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: final cuts
Etymology: From the fact that in the days of physical film for cinema, the strips of film on which various scenes and takes were recorded had to be cut into pieces and spliced together into a resultant composite strip.
Senses: glosses: In the movie industry, the final released version of a film.
glosses: The group that remains when a selection process has eliminated other candidates.
Derived terms: make the final cut
Related terms: on the cutting room floor
swivel gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swivel guns
Senses: examples: text: On this roof a heavy swivel-gun was to be placed to command shipping, while howitzers on each side were to form a flanking defense in connection with the neighboring towers.
ref: 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer:
glosses: A small cannon attached to a swivel or pivot. It was usually located on a ship's rail so it could have a large range of fire, and could fire anything ranging from small round balls of lead to cannon balls.
swillking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swillkings
Senses: qualifier: Lancashire
glosses: A drunkard; said of someone who drinks until the alcohol can be heard swillking about in their stomach.
Synonyms: drunkard
tambou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tambous
Etymology: From Haitian Creole, variant of tanbou.
Senses: glosses: A type of drum in the French Caribbean, made of a hollowed-out tree trunk covered in animal skin.
telesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέλεσις (télesis, “accomplishment”).
Senses: glosses: Directed social advancement via education and the scientific method.
toodeloo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtuːdəˈluː/
Forms: form: toodle-oo
form: toodaloo
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly from French à tout à l'heure (“see you later”, literally “until shortly”) or from toot.
Senses: glosses: goodbye, farewell, see you soon
Synonyms: sense: goodbye
word: farewell
sense: goodbye
word: goodbye
Related terms: word: hooroo
word: toodle pip
word: toodles
word: tooraloo
word: tooroo
word: tourlou
RAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æf
-ɛf
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Air Force, the British RAF.
examples: text: This paper discusses ongoing military reforms in the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and tries to determine[…]
ref: 1998, Issues & Studies:
text: Russia's military intervention in the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Crimea and the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) display of military might[…]
ref: 2019 August 9, Yi Edward Yang, Challenges to China's Economic Statecraft: A Global Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 26:
text: While the military was pulled into power conflicts between Gorbachev and his opponents inside the communist nomenclature in 1991, and between Yeltsin and the Duma in 1993, the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) did not develop an organizational[…]
ref: 2023 March 1, David Kuehn, Aurel Croissant, Routes to Reform: Civil-Military Relations and Democracy in the Third Wave, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 123:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Russian Armed Forces (To avoid confusing with the preceding sense, the Russian Armed Forces are more often abbreviated in other ways, like RuAF.)
glosses: The German Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Russian Automobile Federation.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Russian Automobile Federation.
The national identifier for Russians in international motorsport while Russia is under ban by the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport supporting the ban enacted by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
coordinate_terms: ROC
RPC
RHF
Derived terms: word: RAFA
Related terms: word: RFC
word: RNAS
word: FAA
word: RAAF
word: RCAF
word: RNZAF
poodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuː.dəl/
ipa: /ˈpu.dəl/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: poodles
Etymology: From German Pudel, a shortened form of Pudelhund, a compound of Hund (“dog”) and the German Low German term Pudel, Pūdel (“puddle”), from the onomatopoeic term pudeln (“to splash about”). First attested in 1773 in the sense 1.
The verb sense references the appearance a poodle with shaved legs, displaying its skin.
Senses: examples: text: Unnamed Vato 1: Maybe I do have more issues than a magazine stand, but all those magazines are puro fancy. I never wanted to be a vato. I just want to groom and train poodles.
Mocho: I secretly groom and train poodles.
Chalaza: Are you guys messing with me? Whenever you turn your back, I secretly groom and train poodles. Watch. Turn your back. I'm doing it. I'm doing it!
Unnamed Vato 1: I can't see. My back is turned.
ref: 2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 2:
synonyms: word: Canis aviarius aquaticus
glosses: A breed of dog originating in Europe as hunting dogs, and having heavy, curly coat in a solid color; their shoulder height indicates their classification as standard, medium, miniature, or toy.
synonyms: word: acolyte
word: adjutant
word: aide
word: bootlicker
word: disciple
word: flunkey
word: footman
word: follower
word: henchman
word: hireling
word: inferior
word: lackey
word: lap dog
word: lickspittle
word: man Friday
word: minion
word: myrmidon
word: poodle
word: retainer
word: right-hand man
word: right-hand woman
word: servant
word: stooge
word: subordinate
word: sycophant
word: toady
word: underling
word: vassal
word: yes man
glosses: A person servile towards someone whom they consider their superior.
Derived terms: word: Bernedoodle
word: cockerpoo
word: empoodled
word: miniature poodle
word: newfypoo
word: poodle cloth
word: poodledom
word: poodle-faker
word: poodleish
word: poodlelike
word: poodle shooter
word: poodle skirt
word: poodly
word: sheepadoodle
word: sod poodle
word: standard poodle
word: toy poodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: Aussiedoodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: Cavapoo
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: Cavoodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: choodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: cockadoodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: cockapoo
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: corgipoo
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: Goldendoodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: Labradoodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: maltipoo
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: peekapoo
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: Pomapoo
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: poogle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: Schnoodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: shihpoo
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: spoodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: Westiepoo
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: whoodle
sense: Poodle crossbreeds
word: Yorkipoo
poodle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuː.dəl/
ipa: /ˈpu.dəl/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: poodles
form: poodling
form: poodled
form: poodled
Etymology: From German Pudel, a shortened form of Pudelhund, a compound of Hund (“dog”) and the German Low German term Pudel, Pūdel (“puddle”), from the onomatopoeic term pudeln (“to splash about”). First attested in 1773 in the sense 1.
The verb sense references the appearance a poodle with shaved legs, displaying its skin.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: To wear a partial fursuit, typically the head and hands, while showing one's skin.
Related terms: poodling
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wingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wing + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.
ref: 2010, Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle, page 145:
text: I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.
ref: 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: apterous
unwinged
antonyms: winged
coordinate_terms: brachypterous
subapterous
glosses: Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
Related terms: featherless
flightless
winged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭng(ĭ)d
ipa: /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
rhymes: -ɪŋɪd
Forms: form: wingèd
Etymology: From Middle English winged, wenged (“having wings”), past participle of wingen, from the noun winge, wenge.
Senses: examples: text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
antonyms: apterous
unwinged
wingless
glosses: Having wings.
examples: text: weak-winged
antonyms: apterous
unwinged
wingless
glosses: Having wings.
Having wings of a specified kind.
examples: text: The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.
antonyms: apterous
unwinged
wingless
glosses: Having wings.
Having the specified number of wings.
glosses: Flying or soaring as if on wings.
examples: text: Come Tamburlain, now whet thy winged ſword
And lift thy loftie arme into the cloudes,
That it may reach the King of Perſeas crowne,
And ſet it ſafe on my victorious head.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
glosses: Swift.
Derived terms: word: angular-winged katydid
word: bar-winged rail
word: bay-winged hawk
word: black-winged kite
word: black-winged pratincole
word: black-winged stilt
word: blue-winged grasshopper
word: blue-winged kookaburra
word: blue-winged laughingthrush
word: blue-winged macaw
word: broad-winged hawk
word: bronze-winged jacana
word: crimson-winged woodpecker
word: gossamer-winged butterfly
word: green-winged
word: grey-winged trumpeter
word: hand-winged
word: light-winged
word: narrow-winged tree cricket
word: net-winged beetle
word: orange-winged amazon
word: orange-winged parrot
word: picture-winged fly
word: plain-winged
word: plain-winged antshrike
word: red-winged blackbird
word: red-winged fairywren
word: red-winged parrot
word: red-winged tinamou
word: rufous-winged antshrike
word: scimitar-winged piha
word: spoon-winged lacewing
word: spot-winged antshrike
word: spur-winged
word: spur-winged goose
word: spur-winged lapwing
word: spur-winged plover
word: toe-winged beetle
word: unwinged
word: white-winged black tit
word: white-winged coot
word: white-winged crossbill
word: white-winged dove
word: white-winged fairywren
word: white-winged parakeet
word: white-winged scoter
word: white-winged tern
word: winged bean
word: winged monkeys
word: winged rat
word: winged T
word: winged word
word: wrist-winged glider
winged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭng(ĭ)d
ipa: /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
rhymes: -ɪŋɪd
ipa: /wɪŋd/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
enpr: wĭng(ĭ)d
ipa: /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
rhymes: -ɪŋɪd
Etymology: See wing (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wing
winged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭng(ĭ)d
ipa: /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
rhymes: -ɪŋɪd
ipa: /wɪŋd/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
ipa: /wɪnd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɪndʒd
homophone: whinged
enpr: wĭng(ĭ)d
ipa: /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
rhymes: -ɪŋɪd
ipa: /wɪŋd/
rhymes: -ɪŋd
Etymology: See winge (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of winge
optimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑptɪmɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈɒptɪmɪzəm/
Forms: form: optimisms
Etymology: From French optimisme, equivalent to Latin optimus + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I love her youth, her beauty and above all her optimism that everything will turn out fine.
text: Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome
glosses: the doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds
glosses: the belief that good will eventually triumph over evil
Derived terms: cyberoptimism
optimist
optimistic
overoptimism
poptimism
techno-optimism
Related terms: optimal
optimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑptɪmɪst/
ipa: /ˈɒptɪmɪst/
Forms: form: optimists
Etymology: From French optimiste, from Latin optimus (“best”) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.
ref: 1947 September 27, Richard R. Werry, “An American Beginning for International Education”, in School and Society, volume 66, number 1709, Lancaster, Pa.: The Society for the Advancement of Education, Inc., page 238:
text: People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.;
ref: 2017, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think:
glosses: A person who expects a favourable outcome.
glosses: A believer in optimism.
Derived terms: antioptimist
cyberoptimist
optimistic
pessoptimist
poptimist
skeptimist
techno-optimist
Related terms: optimism
optimal
determined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnd/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝmɪnd/
Forms: form: more determined
form: most determined
Senses: examples: text: I'm determined to get a good grade on my exam.
text: The result of this is that today in most parts of the Western World even the most determined opponents of socialism derive from socialist sources their knowledge on most subjects on which they have no firsthand information.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 422:
glosses: Decided; resolute, possessing much determination; dogged.
Synonyms: robust
Hyponyms: predetermined
Derived terms: aforedetermined
determinedly
determinedness
indetermined
multidetermined
nondetermined
overdetermined
self-determined
underdetermined
undetermined
determined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnd/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝmɪnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of determine
determining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɝmɪnɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝmənɪŋ/
Forms: form: more determining
form: most determining
Senses: examples: text: This is suggestive that financial clout is a more determining factor in trade policy outcomes than voting power.
ref: 2009, Georges De Menil, Richard Portes, Hans-Werner Sinn, Economic Policy 53, page 103:
text: The discourse of the community economy thus questions the practice of singling out certain activities as necessarily or invariably more important, more independent, more determining of economic “health” and distinguishing them from those that are more expendable, dependent, and less determining or potentially destructive within the economy.
ref: 2012, Trevor J. Barnes, Jamie Peck, Eric Sheppard, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography, page 258:
text: He suggested that social factors are even more determining than biological factors and emphasized that low levels of stress and high levels of social connection are more protective than not smoking, eating a good diet, and exercising regularly.
ref: 2023, Rosalynn A. Vega, Nested Ecologies, page 151:
glosses: Determinative; causal.
Derived terms: enantiodetermining
stereodetermining
determining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɝmɪnɪŋ/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝmənɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of determine
optional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒp.ʃə.nəl/
ipa: /ˈɑp.ʃə.nəl/
Etymology: From option + -al.
Senses: examples: text: On that beach clothing is entirely optional.
text: Do you need to wear eyeliner? As with any makeup step, eyeliner is completely optional. From an artistic perspective, if you are wearing eyeshadow, I almost always recommend wearing eyeliner, unless your eyelids and eyelashes are obscured by the eyebrow area. Eyeliner is a basic part of an eye-makeup design because it shapes and defines the eyes and makes the eyelashes look thicker.
ref: 2004, Paula Begoun, The Complete Beauty Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Smart Beauty, Rodale Inc., →ISBN, page 419:
synonyms: facultative
antonyms: word: compulsory
word: mandatory
word: necessary
word: obligatory
word: optional
glosses: Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
Synonyms: word: discretionary
word: elective
word: facultative
word: free
word: noncompulsory
word: nonmandatory
word: nonobligate
word: nonobligatory
word: nonrequired
word: nonrequisite
word: optional
word: optionary
word: unrequired
word: volitional
word: voluntary
Derived terms: clothing optional
optionalize
unoptional
Related terms: word: option
word: optionality
word: optionally
word: acquiescent
optional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒp.ʃə.nəl/
ipa: /ˈɑp.ʃə.nəl/
Forms: form: optionals
Etymology: From option + -al.
Senses: glosses: Something that is not compulsory, especially part of an academic course.
examples: text: In functional languages, there is a data type called the option type, also called the maybe type. Its purpose is to encapsulate a value, which is returned from a function. […] In Java 8, the Optional class has been added to serve as an option type.
ref: 2015, Richard M Reese, Learning Java Functional Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 147:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In various programming languages, a kind of variable that is assigned a specific data type but may or may not hold an actual value.
optometrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑpˈtɑmətɹɪst/
ipa: /ɒpˈtɒmətɹɪst/
Forms: form: optometrists
Etymology: From opto- + -metry + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person trained and skilled in examining and testing the eyes for defects, in order to prescribe corrective lenses or treatment.
Related terms: ophthalmologist
optometry
necromancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛkɹə(ʊ)ˌmænsə/
ipa: /ˈnɛkɹəˌmænsɚ/
Forms: form: necromancers
form: nigromancer
form: necromance
Etymology: An alteration of nigromancer after necromancy, equivalent to necromancy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Necromancers were thought to have the power of restoring activity to the dead, either temporarily or permanently[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:
synonyms: necromant
sciomancer
glosses: A person who practices or performs necromancy.
Derived terms: necromanceress
necromancess
Related terms: necromance
necromantic
hellraiser
raise hell
raise the dead
RGB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: CMY
glosses: Initialism of red, green, blue; a color model in which colors are represented by adding varying amounts of red, green, and blue light.
examples: text: RGB wallpaper
text: You're about to get lost in the RGB forest and make sensory associations you would never think of in Oscar López Rocha's animation Synesthetic Locked.
ref: 2013 February 28, Kevin Holmes, “Experience Synesthesia In Animated Form”, in VICE, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2023:
text: This threshold of expectations is promptly forgotten in the RGB world of in-game tactical menus in web-friendly, tightly-kerned sans serifs.
ref: 2013 August 28, Colin Snyder, “'The Bureau: XCOM Declassified' Is the Sears Roebuck Catalog of Alien-Invasion Period Shooters”, in VICE, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2023:
text: Destiny 2 newest shader adds an RGB effect to the player's equipment
ref: 2022 May 18, Soumyadeep Banerjee, “The newest shader in Destiny 2 Eververse store applies RGB to the player's gear”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2023:
glosses: Something extending across the RGB color space; (especially) something having a wide variety of vivid colors.
examples: text: An RGB keyboard
text: The earcups are light aluminum with a classy silver look, accented by an RGB-lit Corsair logo in the center.
ref: 2021 May 13, Matt Safford, “Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless XT Review: Expensive Excellence”, in Tom's Hardware:
text: Its next step seems to be gaming, as new code changes hint at full RGB support for keyboards, because we all know the more RGB you have on your computer, the better your frame rates will be.
ref: 2022 January 27, Arol Wright, “Gaming Chromebooks might soon become a reality, complete with RGB keyboards”, in Android Police, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2022:
text: So if lots of RGB isn't extremely high on your list of wants, this case doesn't make sense. This is a case for RGB fanatics who don't mind paying a high price for a whole lot of color-controlled glow.
ref: 2022 February 15, Myles Goldman, “Corsair iCue 5000T Review: Lit and Loud”, in Tom's Hardware:
text: As a result, the LL120s are the brightest and showiest fans we tested and a perfect fit for any RGB addict.
ref: 2022 September 12, Dave James, “The best PC fans in 2022”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2022:
glosses: RGB lighting; lights (especially LEDs) able to display a wide range of colors by being able to individually adjust the strength of the red, green, and blue channels.
opulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒpjʊlənt/
Forms: form: more opulent
form: most opulent
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin opulēns, opulentus, from ops (“wealth, power, resources”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃op- (“to work; produce in abundance”).
Senses: examples: text: He saw himself, in a smart suit and a songkok, bowed into the opulent suites of Ritzes and Waldorfs and baring, under dark glasses, a hairy chest to a milder sun by a snakeless sea.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 302:
text: It is a glossy film with gross, opulent opticals and little comic, or any, relief; it has the jaundiced complexion of an early 60s underground film, which it is; it is ponderous, Wagnerian, and feels about five hours long (its running time is about an hour).
ref: 1976 August 14, Gary Jane Hoisington, “Locker Room As The Site Of Religious Ecstasy”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 9:
glosses: Luxuriant, and ostentatiously magnificent.
examples: text: The outdoor setting around the lily ponds in the twin courtyards of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is opulent with maples in radiant hues, and a veritable forest of conifers and bamboo with underplantings like bush-clover, silver grass and balloon flowers from the “seven flowers of autumn” cited in early Japanese poems.
ref: 2007 October 19, Paula Deitz, “In Autumn, a Garden Lover’s Thoughts Turn to Kiku”, in New York Times:
text: For all England was his fief, held in vassalage to God and to no man alive, his heart now sang; allwhither his empire spread, opulent in grain and metal and every revenue of the earth, and in stalwart men (his chattels), and in strong orderly cities, where the windows would be adorned with scarlet hangings, and women (with golden hair and red lax lips) would presently admire as King Edward rode slowly by at the head of a resplendent retinue.
ref: 2012, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry, page 138:
glosses: Rich, sumptuous and extravagant.
Derived terms: inopulent
opulently
unopulent
Related terms: opulence
or else
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: Go now, or else you'll have to stay all night.
text: If you wil willingly remaine with me,
You ſhall haue honors, as your merits be:
Or els you ſhal be forc’d with ſlauerie.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=I or II), scene ii:
text: He shall do this, or else I do recant / The pardon that I late pronounced here.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Otherwise or as an alternative.
or else
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Clean up your room, or else!
text: "You’d better not" "Or else?"
text: Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else [title]
ref: 2022 June 1, Ryan Mac, “Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Joy Behar, who has called the MAGA movement a cult, poked her head into the room and demonstrated how invested she was in Ms. Farah Griffin’s success by offering some advice aimed squarely at me: “Be nice — or else.”
ref: 2024 March 9, Jacob Bernstein, “A Former Trump Aide Becomes a Liberal Favorite”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Implies an unspecified threat if a preceding command is not fulfilled.
oracle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɹəkəl/
ipa: /ˈɒɹəkəl/
homophone: auricle
Forms: form: oracles
form: oracling
form: oracled
form: oracled
Etymology: From Middle English oracle, from Old French oracle m, from Latin ōrāculum n.
Senses: examples: text: But this thy glory shall be soon retrench'd;
No more shalt thou by oracling abuse
The Gentiles; henceforth Oracles are ceast
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
text: Primarily seen as a publicity vehicle for late-year releases, the awards show and its promoters have lately made pretensions to Oscar oracling: Jamie Foxx won the “breakthrough actor of the year” prize for “Ray” in 2004, after all, and Paul Haggis and his ensemble cast were honored for “Crash” four months before it won best picture.
ref: 2006 October 18, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Film Chain’s Latest Link”, in New York Times:
glosses: To utter oracles or prophecies.
Orangeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹɪnd͡ʒmən/
ipa: /ˈɒɹənd͡ʒmən/
Forms: form: Orangemen
Etymology: From orange + -man.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Orange Order, a Protestant society in the United Kingdom (especially Northern Ireland).
glosses: Any Protestant unionist Irishman.
orange squash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange squashes
Senses: glosses: A sweetened drink, made with oranges but often containing additional flavourings, that is served diluted with water.
oration
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɔɹˈeɪʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɵˈɾeʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: orations
form: orationing
form: orationed
form: orationed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ōrātiō, ōrātiōnem, from ōrō (“I orate”) + -ātiō (“action (nominalizer)”). Cognate with and doublet of orison.
Senses: examples: text: 1633, John Donne (attributed translator), The Auncient History of the Septuagint. Written in Greeke, by Aristeus 1900. yeares since, London, p. 80, cited in Henry Todd, A Dictionary of the English Language, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818, Volume 3,
They gave answers with great sufficiency touching all difficulties concerning their own law, and had marvellous promptitude both for orationing and giving judgement.
text: 1764, Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garratt, Act II, in The Dramatic Works of Samuel Foote, Dublin: S. Price et al., 1778, Volume 1, p. 286,
[…] Master Primmer is the man for my money; a man of learning; that can lay down the law: why, adzooks, he is wise enough to puzzle the parson: and then, how you have heard him oration at the Adam and Eve of a Saturday night, about Russia and Prussia […]
text: What right have you to be lecturing and orationing? You’ve no knowledge.
ref: 1876, George Meredith, chapter 10, in Beauchamp’s Career, volume 2, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 129:
glosses: To deliver an oration; to speak.
Synonyms: hold forth
orate
sermonize
speechify
orator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒ.ɹə.tə(ɹ)/
enpr: ôr'ə-tər
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.ə.tɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɵˈɾeʈə(ɾ)/
Forms: form: orators
form: oratour
Etymology: From Middle English oratour, from Anglo-Norman oratour, from Latin ōrātor.
Senses: glosses: Someone who orates or delivers an oration.
examples: text: Tam[burlaine]. Then ſhall we fight couragiouſlye with them?
Or looke you, I ſhould play the Orator?
Tech[elles]. No: cowards and faint-hearted runawaies,
Looke for orations when the foe is neere.
Our ſwordes shall play the Orators for vs.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: […] when it becomes obvious that I have not the slightest skill as a speaker – unless, of course, by skilful speaker they mean one who speaks the truth. If that is what they mean, I would agree that I am an orator, though not after their pattern.
ref: 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: A skilled and eloquent public speaker.
glosses: Someone sent to speak for someone else; an envoy, a messenger.
glosses: A petitioner, a supplicant.
Synonyms: speaker
Derived terms: oratorize
oratorlike
oratorship
oratory
oratress
public orator
stump orator
oratorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒɹəˈtɒɹɪkəl/
Etymology: From orator or oratory + -ical, or else from Latin ōrātōrius.
Senses: examples: text: A to'oto'o is a Sāmoan oratorical staff.
text: I reached up without thinking, actually a desperate oratorical gesture of disagreement and defiance.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 558:
glosses: of, or relating to oratory or an orator.
Derived terms: oratorically
unoratorical
oratory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɔ.ɹəˌtɔ.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɵˈreʈ(ɵ)ri/
Forms: form: oratories
form: Oratory
Etymology: From Middle English oratorie, from Anglo-Norman oratorie, Middle French oratoire, and their source, Late Latin ōrātōrium. Doublet of oratorio.
Senses: examples: text: I will retire to my oratory, and pray to the blessed Virgin to inspire you with her holy counsels […].
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, “chapter II”, in The Castle of Otranto:
glosses: A private chapel or prayer room.
examples: text: By public oratories are meant those attached to monasteries, convents, seminaries, etc., having a public entrance by which the faithful have access to them.
ref: 1876, Michael Comerford, The Book of Holy Indulgences […] , page 29:
glosses: A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
examples: text: They had been given the old Oscott College premises as a temporary home, but were content there until Oratories could be established in the cities. St Philip Neri had specifically intended that the Oratory should be a city-based form of communal and missionary life.
ref: 2006, Judith F. Champ, William Bernard Ullathorne, 1806–1889: A Different Kind of Monk, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.
Derived terms: oratorical
oratory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒɹət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɔ.ɹəˌtɔ.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɵˈreʈ(ɵ)ri/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ōrātōria, from the feminine of ōrātōrius (“oratorial”).
Senses: glosses: The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
examples: text: Rising from humble farmhand to community organizer to a leader of the national Fatah party, Mr. Barghouti became known for his soaring oratory and common touch.
ref: 2024, Taylor Luck and Fatima AbdulKarim, Palestinian Mandela? Marwan Barghouti, imprisoned preacher of unity., in: The Christian Science Monitor, April 1 2024
glosses: Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
Synonyms: sense: art of public speaking
word: public speaking
oratorio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oratorios
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian oratorio (“oratorical”), from Latin ōrātōrius. Doublet of oratory.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical composition, often based on a religious theme; similar to opera but with no costume, scenery or acting.