cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
philosopher's stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosopher's stones
form: Philosopher's Stone
form: philosophers' stone
form: philosophers stone
form: stone of the philosophers
Etymology: A misconstruction of philosophers' stone, from Middle English philosophres ston, a calque of Latin lapis philosophōrum.
Senses: examples: text: […] I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 54:
text: 1997, Christopher McIntosh, The Rosicrucians: The History, Mythology, and Rituals of an Esoteric Order, Weiser Books, 3rd Revised Edition, 1998, Paperback, page 51,
The Rosicrucianism of the Andreae era was only partly concerned with alchemy, but later revivals of the Rosicrucian idea were to lay great stress on their claims to possess the secrets of transmutation and the knowledge of the Philosopher's Stone or the Elixir of Life.
text: The Cleopatra of this early alchemical dialogue is not the famous Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC), last queen of the Ptolemy dynasty and lover of Mark Antony. Along with Mary Prophetess and Zosimos's Theosebia, this Cleopatra occupies a high place in alchemical lore as one of very few ancient female adepts who possessed the secret of the philosopher's stone.
ref: 2003, Stanton J. Linden, The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, page 44:
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
synonyms: word: philosopher's egg
glosses: A supposed substance able to turn base metals, such as lead or mercury, into gold or silver, also sometimes claimed to cure any illness (as panacea) or confer immortality (as elixir of life), among other functions.
glosses: A piece of such a substance.
Synonyms: sense: putative substance able to turn base metals into gold
word: sorcerer's stone
Related terms: Adamic earth
azoth
chrysopoeia
elixir of life
fountain of youth
panacea
quintessence
surface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːfɪs/
ipa: /ˈsɝːfəs/
note: Indic
ipa: /sə(r)ˈfes/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsɜ(r).fəs/
Forms: form: surfaces
form: surfacing
form: surfaced
form: surfaced
Etymology: From French surface. Doublet of superficies.
Senses: examples: text: The crew surfaced the road with bitumen.
glosses: To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.
examples: text: There was great relief when the missing diver finally surfaced.
glosses: To rise to the surface.
examples: text: Sage went immediately to work; Damien surfaced the submarine and readied the group to meet outside the hatch.
ref: 2007, Patrick Valentine, The Sage of Aquarius, page 182:
glosses: To bring to the surface.
glosses: To come out of hiding.
examples: text: Subordinate clauses, by contrast, exhibit V1 or V2 only around 35% of the time, with the verb usually surfacing later.
ref: 2013, George Walkden, “The status of hwæt in Old English”, in English Language and Linguistics, volume 17, number 3, →DOI:
text: They're not growing. Why would I surface them to new people? [...That] makes our video surface less, and that makes the next video surface less.
ref: 2024 May 24, Keith Habersberger, "The Try Guys Tell All" (video on Anthony Padilla's YouTube channel), 5:20
qualifier: facts; content; etc; facts; content; etc
glosses: To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.
raw_tags: of information
examples: text: They're not growing. Why would I surface them to new people? [...That] makes our video surface less, and that makes the next video surface less.
ref: 2024 May 24, Keith Habersberger, "The Try Guys Tell All" (video on Anthony Padilla's YouTube channel), 5:20
glosses: To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
glosses: To work a mine near the surface.
data
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dät'ə
rhymes: -ɑːtə
homophone: darter (non-rhotic)
ipa: /ˈdɑː.tə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɑʈa/
ipa: [ˈdäː.ɾə]
enpr: dā'tə
rhymes: -eɪtə
homophone: dater (non-rhotic)
ipa: /ˈdeɪ.tə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖeʈa/
note: US, flapping
ipa: [ˈdeɪ.ɾə]
enpr: dăt'ə
rhymes: -ætə
ipa: /ˈdæt.ə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖæ.ʈa/
Forms: form: D
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin data, nominative plural of datum (“that is given”), neuter past participle of dō (“I give”). Doublet of date.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: data set
text: First from these Data, let us obtain the Breadth of the Glass e z
ref: 1692, William Molyneux, Edmund Halley, Dioptrica nova, London: Benj. Tooke, page 100:
synonyms: data points
glosses: plural of datum
wolf down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wolfs down
form: wolfing down
form: wolfed down
form: wolfed down
form: wolve down
Senses: examples: text: He wolfed down a ham sandwich.
text: Carefully choosing a seat that gave him a good view of the action in the lobby, he started a non-stop barrage of questions as he wolfed down cups of coffee.
ref: 1975, Mountain, numbers 45–52, Youth Hostels Association (England & Wales), page 32, column 1:
text: Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]
ref: 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: To consume (food) quickly or greedily, without regard for table manners.
Related terms: bolt
scarf down
hoover up
gorge
canned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Senses: examples: text: canned tomatoes
text: If you don't have fresh cardoon I'll take canned.
glosses: Preserved in cans.
examples: text: canned laughter
text: The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.
text: And the punch-lines seem to disappear like clouds across the sky / And the laughter could be real or could be canned
ref: 1996, Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray, “Liar's Bar”, in Blue Is the Colour, performed by The Beautiful South:
text: Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.
ref: 1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer:
text: The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagi­nation.
ref: 2005, James Howard Kunstler, chapter 7, in The Long Emergency, page 279:
text: Throughout the evening, Mr. Christie’s admonition about canned lines and rehearsed speeches hovered and seemed to recalibrate how the crowd — and television viewers — processed what Mr. Rubio said (and resaid, over and over).
ref: 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization.
glosses: Drunk.
glosses: Terminated, fired from a job.
examples: text: The raider story was canned by the censor on instructions from the naval authorities.
ref: 1997, Frederick T. Smith, Backroom Briefings: John Curtin's War:
glosses: Cancelled or thrown away, said of a project or news article.
Synonyms: sense: preserved in cans
word: tinned
sense: prepared or standard
word: boilerplate
sense: prepared or standard
word: stock
sense: drunk
word: drunk
Derived terms: canned air
canned benchmark
canned cheese
canned heat
canned hunt
canned hunting
canned laughter
canned opener
canned response
noncanned
uncanned
canned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of can
cheep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chēp
ipa: /t͡ʃiːp/
homophone: cheap
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: cheeps
form: cheeping
form: cheeped
form: cheeped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: […] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […]
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.
examples: text: O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves.
ref: 1847, Tennyson, “O Swallow, Swallow, flying South”, in The Princess, lines 7–9:
glosses: To express in a chirping tone.
cheep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chēp
ipa: /t͡ʃiːp/
homophone: cheap
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: cheeps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
examples: text: The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound
cheep
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: chēp
ipa: /t͡ʃiːp/
homophone: cheap
rhymes: -iːp
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
Derived terms: cheeper
cheepy
courgette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊɚˈʒɛt/
ipa: /kɔɹˈʒɛt/
ipa: /kʊəˈʒɛt/
ipa: /kɔːˈʒɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: courgettes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita.
Senses: glosses: A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: The edible fruit of this marrow/squash.
Synonyms: word: zucchini
Derived terms: courgetti
Related terms: cucumber
gherkin
marrow
pickle
squash
zucchini
zucchini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zo͞o-kē'nē
ipa: /zuːˈkiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: zucchinis
form: zucchini
form: zucchina
form: zucchino
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zucchini, plural of zucchino, diminutive of zucca (“squash”). Ultimately related to courgette through the original Latin cucurbita. Compare Sicilian cucuzza.
Senses: glosses: A courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit.
glosses: The edible fruit of this variety of squash.
Synonyms: word: courgette
word: zuke
Derived terms: zoodles
Related terms: zucchetto
zucchini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zo͞o-kē'nē
ipa: /zuːˈkiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: zucchina
form: zucchino
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zucchini, plural of zucchino, diminutive of zucca (“squash”). Ultimately related to courgette through the original Latin cucurbita. Compare Sicilian cucuzza.
Senses: glosses: plural of zucchino
zucchino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuˈkinoʊ/
ipa: /zuˈkiːnəʊ/
Forms: form: zucchini
Etymology: From Italian zucchino, singular of zucchini.
Senses: examples: text: After a prolonged session with a cookbook, she selected two or three recipes she considered promising, went to her grocer’s, and read off her list of ingredients: a quarter pound of white seedless grapes, three oranges, two tart apples, three cloves, the breast of a chicken, a can of pigs’ feet, a spring onion, a zucchino, three leeks, and a half pint of dried black-eyed peas. The grocer paled as he listened. “Lady,” he said, “what are you making—a painting?”
ref: 1947, The New Yorker, volume 23, page 21:
text: Two members of another family became ill after eating a zucchino—a marrow-like plant grown in their garden; a bitter ether-soluble substance was extracted from a sample of the vegetable (Frizelle 1961).
ref: 1962, Monthly Bulletin of the Ministry of Health and Public Health Laboratory Service, page 188:
text: A zucchino is a small marrow, but there can be no connection with Shelley’s ‘The Zucca’, which was not drafted until 1821.
ref: 1986, Keats-Shelley Review, page 87:
glosses: Alternative form of zucchini.
placenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: plə-sĕn'tə
ipa: /pləˈsɛntə/
rhymes: -ɛntə
Forms: form: placentae
form: placentas
Etymology: Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: afterbirth
clean
glean
glosses: An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: trophosperm
glosses: In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
Coordinate terms: amnion
amnio-
chorion
chorio-
Derived terms: word: placenta cake
word: placental
word: placenta praevia
word: placentary
word: placentation
word: placentiferous
word: placentiform
word: placentitis
english: and derivatives therefrom
translation: and derivatives therefrom
word: placento-
word: placentome
word: pseudoplacenta
word: subplacenta
antique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn′tēk′
ipa: /ˌanˈtiːk/
ipa: /ˌænˈtik/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation; General Australian
ipa: /ˌænˈtiːk/
ipa: /ˌɛnˈtiːk/
ipa: /ˌanˈtik/
ipa: /ˌanˈʈiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: antiques
form: antic
form: anticke
form: antiq.
Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
Senses: glosses: In general, anything very old; specifically:
An old object perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance.
glosses: In general, anything very old; specifically:
An object of ancient times.
glosses: In general, anything very old; specifically:
The style or manner of ancient times, used especially of Greek and Roman art.
glosses: In general, anything very old; specifically:
An old person.
examples: text: They supposed that they had seene those most beutyfull Dryades, or the natyue nymphes or fayres of the fountaynes whereof the antiques spake so muche.
ref: 1577, Richarde Eden, Richarde Willes, The History of Trauayle in the VVest and East Indies, and other countreys lying eyther way, towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes: […], London: Richarde Iugge, folio 31:
text: Wee eas'ly limme, some louely-Virgin face, / And can to life, a Lantscip represent, / Afford to Antiques, each his proper grace, / Or trick out this, or that compartement : / […]
ref: [1612], Henry Peacham, Minerva Britanna or a Garden of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impres'as of sundry natures, London, page 114:
glosses: In general, anything very old; specifically:
A man of ancient times.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A style of type of thick and bold face in which all lines are of equal or nearly equal thickness.
examples: text: […] I do implore secretie, that the King would haue me present the Princesse (sweete chuck) with some delightfull ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or fierworke : […]
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 i]:
glosses: Synonym of antic, specifically:
Grotesque entertainment; an antic.
glosses: Synonym of antic, specifically:
A performer in an antic; or in general, a burlesque performer, a buffoon.
Synonyms: sense: old person
word: coffin dodger
word: geriatric
word: oldster
word: old person
sense: man of ancient times
word: ancient
Derived terms: antiquarium
antiquedom
antiquehood
antiqueness
antiquey
mantique
modern antique
nonantique
antique
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn′tēk′
ipa: /ˌanˈtiːk/
ipa: /ˌænˈtik/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation; General Australian
ipa: /ˌænˈtiːk/
ipa: /ˌɛnˈtiːk/
ipa: /ˌanˈtik/
ipa: /ˌanˈʈiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: antiques
form: antiquing
form: antiqued
form: antiqued
form: antic
form: anticke
form: antiq.
Etymology: Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.
Senses: examples: text: Once our daughter-in-love, Janis, went antiquing with us because she and our firstborn, Matthew, were in the market for some bedroom furniture.
ref: 1999, Ron McAdoo, Caryl McAdoo, Antiquing in North Texas, page 103:
glosses: To search or shop for antiques.
glosses: To make (an object) appear to be an antique in some way.
topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To emboss without gilding.
Derived terms: antiquer
bugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡə/
ipa: /ˈbʌɡəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: buggers
Etymology: From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar.
Senses: glosses: A heretic.
examples: text: The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
topics: law
glosses: Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
examples: text: He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.
text: The bugger’s given me the wrong change.
text: My computer's being a bit of a bugger.
text: 1928, Frank Parker Day, Rockbound, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500721h,
“I’ll take it out on dat young bugger,” he thought viciously.
text: Here the cheers and shouts of the gallery were interrupted by a shabby little man in the back row who yelled out with piercing distinctness: “Don't matter what you call ’im now, George. The bugger’s dead.”
ref: 1947, James Hilton, So Well Remembered, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600371h:
glosses: A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
examples: text: So you're stuck out in the woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of a bugger.
glosses: A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
examples: text: How are you, you old bugger?
text: 1946, Olaf Stapledon, Arms Out of Hand, in Collected Stories, Gutenberg Australia eBook #0601341,
Good luck, you old bugger!
text: 1953 February-March, Henry Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire, Null-ABC, in Astounding Science Fiction, Gutenberg eBook #18346,
“And if Pelton found out that his kids are Literates—Woooo!” Cardon grimaced. “Or what we've been doing to him. I hope I’m not around when that happens. I’m beginning to like the cantankerous old bugger.”
glosses: Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
examples: text: I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
glosses: A damn, anything at all.
examples: text: I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
glosses: Someone who is very fond of something
examples: text: What is that little bugger up to now?
glosses: A whippersnapper, a tyke.
Synonyms: sense: sodomite
word: male homosexual and Thesaurus:fudge packer
Derived terms: buggeration
buggeree
buggeress
bugger factor
buggersome
Edinbugger
embugger
give a bugger
play silly buggers
rugger bugger
sandbugger
bugger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡə/
ipa: /ˈbʌɡəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: buggers
form: buggering
form: buggered
form: buggered
Etymology: From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar.
Senses: examples: To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore (Attributed to Harry Mclintock's 1920s era Big Rock Candy Mountain)
glosses: To have anal sex with, sodomize.
examples: text: This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.
glosses: To break or ruin.
examples: text: Bugger Bognor. (Alleged to be the last words of King George V of the United Kingdom in response to a suggestion that he might recover from his illness and visit Bognor Regis.)
text: Oh, bugger this! I'm going out for a beer instead.
glosses: Expressing contemptuous dismissal of the grammatical object.
Derived terms: bugger about
bugger all
bugger around
buggerer
bugger me
bugger me backwards
bugger off
bugger that for a joke
bugger up
buggery
bugger
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡə/
ipa: /ˈbʌɡəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar.
Senses: examples: text: Bugger, I've missed the bus.
text: Dear Lord, forgive me for what I am about to, ah, say in this magnificent place of worship. Bugger. Bugger! Bugger-bugger-bugger-bugger!
ref: 1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Charles (Hugh Grant):
glosses: An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
Synonyms: bummer
damn
rats
whoops
bugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡə/
ipa: /ˈbʌɡəɹ/
rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: buggers
Etymology: From bug (noun) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.
Related terms: buggee
ma'am
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæm/
ipa: /mɑːm/
ipa: /mæm/
ipa: [mɛəm]
ipa: [meəm]
rhymes: -æm
rhymes: -ɑːm
Forms: form: ma'ams
form: ma'aming
form: ma'amed
form: ma'amed
Etymology: The noun is a contraction of madam, and represents a regional pronunciation of that word in the United Kingdom. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: ["]And, fellas, I've got to tell you that your Texas manners are perfect. Y'all have about ma'amed me to death. But you can call me Lucy from here on out. Got it?" / "Yes, ma'am—I mean, Lucy," Joseph complied, taking the sledgehammer and grinning as he looked from it to the blue wall.
ref: 2014, Debra Clopton, Her Unexpected Cowboy, New York, N.Y.: Harlequin Love Inspired, →ISBN, page 42:
coordinate_terms: madam
sir
glosses: To address (a woman) as "ma'am".
med
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛːd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Senses: examples: text: I'm in med school.
glosses: Clipping of medical.
glosses: Clipping of median
Derived terms: medcouple
med-evac
medkit
medlab
med mal
med school
medspeak
transmed
med
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛːd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: meds
Senses: examples: text: He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds.
text: Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Eden Prime:
text: Take a med. […] BECAUSE you took a med you did not have a full-blown panic attack and faint.
ref: 2015, Jennifer Shannon, The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Overcome Fear, Worry & Panic, Oakland, Calif.: Instant Help Books, New Harbinger Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:
text: “What meds?”
“It's a long story.”
“What meds?”
“He's bipolar, Mark. Diagnosed a few years back.”
ref: 2018, John Grisham, The Reckoning, Anchor, →ISBN:
text: “I'd been trying to get my anti-depressants right and taking the meds,” he said. “That was my feeling at the time — of worrying if this was the right choice,” he added.
ref: 2023 January 16, Emma Bowman, quoting KC Green, “A decade on, the ‘This is fine’ creator wants to put the famous dog to rest”, in NPR:
glosses: Medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
examples: text: My brother studied med at Cambridge.
glosses: Clipping of medicine, as an academic subject.
examples: text: A stray dachshund the meds are keeping as a mascot.
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Waterston, Blitzkrieg and Jitterbugs: College Life in Wartime, 1939-1942, page 41:
glosses: A medic; a doctor.
Derived terms: medcouple
medkit
medlab
medspeak
off one's meds
pre-med
transmed
med
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛːd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Senses: glosses: Clipping of medicate
Derived terms: self-med
med
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛːd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Senses: examples: text: You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.
ref: 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of might.
madame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdæm/
ipa: /məˈdɑːm/
ipa: /ˈmæ.dəm/
ipa: /məˈdæm/
ipa: /məˈdɑm/
ipa: /mæˈdæm/
ipa: /mæˈdɑm/
ipa: /ˈmæ.dəm/
rhymes: -æm
rhymes: -ɑm
rhymes: -ædəm
Forms: form: madames
form: mesdames
form: Madame
Etymology: Borrowed from French madame, from Old French ma dame (“my lady”). Doublet of madam and Madonna.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of madam.
Derived terms: Madame Bishop
Madame Mao
Related terms: croque-madame
grande madame
Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
Madame Jeanette
Madame Tussaud's
trou madame
monsieur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈsjʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /məˈsjɜː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: monsieurs
form: messieurs
Etymology: From French monsieur. Doublet of monseigneur and monsignor.
Senses: examples: text: Pass round the decanters; glad to see ye; fill up, monsieurs!
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Cabin”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 589:
glosses: A man, especially a French gentleman.
Related terms: croque-monsieur
senex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛnɛks/
Forms: form: senexes
Etymology: From Latin senex.
Senses: examples: text: 6. Old Men or Senexes. Frequently these characters have a beautiful young ward who, often, they wish to marry (or wish to marry off to someone the ward doesn’t like) and it is the task of the hero, the male lead, often helped by a shrewd servant or slave (or similar figure) to outwit the senex and marry the girl. Sometimes the senex figure is actually married to a young wife and that poses numerous complications: the old husband is jealous, the young wife unsatisfied in various ways with a different perspective on life.
ref: 1997, Arthur Asa Berger, The Art of Comedy Writing, published 2017, →ISBN:
text: Now for more about the four birds, explicitly identified with the four evangelists as the four old men or Senexes. Notice the repetition on four as the four Gospel books repeat much of the same history of Christ, perhaps as a result of an editorial effort to achieve uniformity.
ref: 2013, John P. Anderson, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah, volume 7, Universal Publishers, →ISBN, page 53:
text: It concludes, though, not with an image of resigned heads or rebellious newcomers: instead, after the camera lifts for the final credits to the heavens—the only site for the senexes’ social and educational ideals?—it descends on the playing fields where the school’s ration-book-resourceful porter Rainbow (Edward Rigby) and his youthful assistant are seen collapsed under the frequently-removed rugby posts.
ref: 2016, Stephen Glynn, The British School Film: From Tom Brown to Harry Potter, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: An older or old man, chiefly as a stock character.
senate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnɪt/
ipa: /ˈsɛnət/
ipa: /ˈsɛnɪt/
ipa: /ˈsenət/
rhymes: -ɛnɪt
rhymes: -ɛnət
Forms: form: senates
Etymology: From Middle English senat, from Old French senat, from Latin senātus (“council of elders; a senate”), from senex (“old”). Doublet of Senedd.
Senses: glosses: In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
examples: text: Before the Tyrant's throne
All night his aged Senate sate.
ref: 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 11, stanza 13, lines 4338-9:
glosses: A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age.
glosses: In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.
Derived terms: senate-house
Related terms: senator
senatorial
senatus
senescent
senile
senior
interval cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interval cycles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: That which unfolds a single recurrent interval in a series that closes with a return to the initial pitch class.
Related terms: interval class
basso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æsəʊ
Forms: form: bassos
form: bassi
Etymology: From Italian basso, from Latin bassus (“short, low”). Doublet of base and bass.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bass singer, especially in opera.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An instrumental part written for a bass instrument.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The double bass, or contrabasso.
Related terms: basso cantante
basso continuo
basso ostinato
basso profondo
basso profundo
basso-relievo
basso-rilievo
basso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æsəʊ
Forms: form: bassoes
Senses: examples: text: Great Kings of Barbary, and my portly Baſſoes,
we heare, the Tartars & the Eaſterne theeues:
Under the conduct of one Tamburlaine,
Preſume a bickering with your Emperour: […]
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=II or III), scene i:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bashaw and pasha.
haircut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/
Forms: form: haircuts
form: hair cut
Etymology: From hair + cut.
Senses: glosses: The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician.
synonyms: hairstyle
glosses: The style into which the hair is cut.
examples: text: to take a haircut
text: And he needs to make sure that any American bank that was involved in loans to Asia, and now wants to share in the I.M.F. bailout, takes a haircut. And I'm not just talking about a trim.
ref: 1998 January 17, Thomas L. Friedman, “Haircut Time”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Its president, Nestor Kirchner, was expected to confirm overnight that about 75% of the country's bondholders had agreed to swap their old debt for new at a loss of up to 70 cents in the dollar—also a record and one that Mr Kirchner has called “the biggest haircut in history” for investors.
ref: 2005 March 4, Ashley Seager, “Argentina says debt default is over”, in The Guardian:
text: Something similar was happening at the same time in Greece. In the spring of 2012 Greece's public debt did, eventually, take a haircut, confirming that an unpayable debt will receive a haircut whatever the dogmas of European officials.
ref: 2016, Yanis Varoufakis, And the Weak Suffer What They Must? […] , Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: And there is a growing consensus that it is finally time for founders to swallow their pride, accept a huge haircut to valuation and help establish a new floor for their stock to start growing again, helping to encourage all the companies coming up behind them to do the same.
ref: 2024 March 16, Tabby Kinder, “Reddit IPO reveals reality check for Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 14:
topics: business
law
glosses: A partial loss, financially: thus, in a bankruptcy proceeding, the proportional reduction in the debt that will be paid to each creditor (based on an evaluation of the total debt owed and the total assets of the debtor); among investors, the negative return on investment from a losing proposition.
examples: text: Government securities having high credit rating such as Treasury bonds and Treasury bills are usually subjected to 1% to 10% haircut, while for more risky, volatile or illiquid securities, such as a stock option, the haircut might be as high as 30%.
ref: 2012, Samuel N. Cohen et al., editors, Stochastic Processes, Finance and Control […] , World Scientific, →ISBN, page 190:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: margin
glosses: The difference between the value of a loan and the value of its collateral.
Derived terms: bob haircut
bowl haircut
broccoli haircut
can I speak to the manager haircut
Chelsea haircut
crock haircut
haircut band
haircutted
I want to speak to the manager haircut
Karen haircut
meet me at McDonald's haircut
mushroom haircut
never ask the barber if you need a haircut
not here for a haircut
pudding basin haircut
shave and a haircut
two-block haircut
Related terms: haircutter
haircutting
fractus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fracti
Etymology: From Latin fractus.
Senses: examples: text: FIGURE 5.17[…]The ragged-appearing clouds beneath the nimbostratus are stratus fractus, or scud.
ref: 2013, C. Donald Ahrens, Robert Henson, Meteorology Today, 11th edition, Cengage Learning, page 130:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cloud species which consists of broken shreds of cloud; scud.
Derived terms: stratus fractus
Related terms: fractocumulus
fractostratus
repent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
ipa: /ˈɹiːpənt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology: From Latin rēpēns, present participle of rēpō (“I creep”).
Senses: examples: text: The pennated, repent and ferine entities of the boscage, are ousels, shellducks, […] and ursine quadrupeds.
ref: 1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, page 54:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Creeping along the ground.
Synonyms: reptant
duet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /djuˈɛt/
ipa: /duˈɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: duets
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
examples: text: The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...
ref: 2005, James Henderson, Caribbean and the Bahamas:
glosses: A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
Synonyms: sense: musical composition in two parts
word: duo
sense: pair or couple
word: couple
word: pair
word: twosome
word: duo
Derived terms: duetist
duetlike
duetter
duettist
virtual duet
Related terms: dual
duo
duet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /djuˈɛt/
ipa: /duˈɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: duets
form: duetting
form: dueting
form: duetted
form: duetted
form: dueted
form: dueted
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Italian duetto (“short musical composition for two voices”), diminutive of due (“two”).
Senses: examples: text: 1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.
text: He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol […]
ref: 1879, George Meredith, chapter 20, in The Egoist:
text: ‘Ti-yi-yi-yime is on my side, yes it is,’ I used to yodel, duetting with Mick Jagger as I gyrated alone in my student room.
ref: 2011, Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending, Random House Canada, page 45:
glosses: To perform a duet.
examples: text: 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223,
Duetting species are typically monogamous.
text: In several dozen species of birds there has been found a phenomenon known as duetting, or antiphonal singing: the first part of a song is executed by one partner of a pair, then the other partner very promptly chimes in to sing the second part.
ref: 1986, Thomas A. Sebeok, chapter 7, in I Think I Am a Verb: More Contributions to the Doctrine of Signs, New York: Springer Science+Business, published 2013, page 87:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
raw_tags: of pairs of animals
examples: text: Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
text: After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck:
glosses: To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
examples: text: “My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present.
ref: 1864, Charles Whitehead, “The Stock-Broker”, in Heads of the People: or, Portraits of the English, volume I, London: Henry G. Bohn, page 23:
text: 1884, Anonymous, A Speculation, Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50, https://books.google.ca/books?id=RsFQAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
“A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward.
“A bear!” dueted the Doctor and Right Rev., pressing hastily to the front.
glosses: (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
Related terms: solo
trio
quartet
quintet
sextet
septet
octet
nonet
imbroglio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɹəʊljəʊ/
ipa: /ɪmˈbɹoʊljoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊljəʊ
Forms: form: imbroglios
form: imbrogli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian imbroglio (“tangle, entanglement, muddle”) (im-, alternative form of in- (prefix forming verbs denoting derivation) + broglio (“confusion; intrigue, fraud, rigging, stuffing”); see also imbrogliare (“to tangle”)), cognate with and probably from an earlier form of French embrouiller (“to embroil, muddle”) (em- (“em-”), a form of en- (“en-”, prefix meaning ‘caused’) + brouiller (“to confuse, mix up”)).
Senses: examples: text: Into the drawers and china pry, / Papers and books, a huge imbroglio! / Under a tea-cup he might lie, / Or creased, like dogs-ears, in a folio.
ref: 1816, Thomas Gray, “A Long Story”, in John Mitford, editor, The Works of Thomas Gray; Vol. I Containing the Poems, with Critical Notes; a Life of the Author; and an Essay on His Poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford, volume I, London: Printed for J. Mawman, 39, Ludgate-Street, by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey, →OCLC, page 133, lines 65–68:
text: Your trip here will never quite go as planned. […] There may be strikes, mixed-up reservations, maddening imbrogli of all sorts. But they will be charming imbrogli because the Italian people are charming, down to the whimsical tone of their language.
ref: 2010 July, Erica Jong, “My Italy”, in Barrie Kerper, editor, Tuscany and Umbria: The Collected Traveler (An Inspired Companion Guide), New York, N.Y.: Vintage Departures, Vintage Books, →ISBN:
text: I could have phoned you with all this, Tallulah, but knowing you as I have over the years, when you and I have both been a party to some of Duncan's little imbroglios, I thought I should talk to you in person.
ref: 2013, Frances Whiting, chapter 19, in Walking on Trampolines, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan Australia; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, February 2015 page 207
text: He [Edward Michael Adler] was inducted into the imbroglio of the Vietnam War, which so many of his age group and middle class Orthodox Jewish upbringing easily avoided by staying in university or going into the clergy. He didn't.
ref: 2015, Judith Bendheim Guedalia, “Stop and Smell the Flowers”, in A Neuropsychologist’s Journal: Interventions and “Judi-isms”, Jerusalem; New York, N.Y.: Urim Publications, →ISBN, page 240:
text: [David] Cameron's decision to hold a referendum alters the chemistry of politics. The casual way he offered a simple Yes–No referendum to Scotland in 2011 has led to a quasi-insoluble imbroglio over the future of the British Constitution.
ref: 2015, Denis MacShane, “A Centrifugal Europe”, in Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A complicated situation; an entanglement.
Synonyms: word: snarl
Related terms: embroil
Minnesota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊtə/
ipa: [ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊɾə]
rhymes: -əʊtə
Etymology: From Lakota mní šóta (literally “cloudy water”).
Senses: examples: text: “I think allowing this moniker, ‘Defund the police,’ to ever get out there, was not a good thing,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel on Thursday.
ref: 2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN:
text: The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.
ref: 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN:
text: On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.
ref: 2024 February 7, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Harris set to host Democratic governors this weekend to discuss 2024 campaign”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: North Star State
english: nickname
translation: nickname
glosses: A state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Capital: Saint Paul. Largest city: Minneapolis.
glosses: A tributary of the Mississippi River in southern Minnesota.
glosses: A former territory (1849–1858) of the United States, encompassing the modern state and part of the Dakotas. Capital: Saint Paul.
glosses: The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Derived terms: Minnesota ice
Minnesotan
Minnesota nice
Minnesota whist
MN
yonks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒŋks/
rhymes: -ɒŋks
Etymology: Unknown. First seen in print around 1960. One theory is that it comes from donkey's ears; another is that it is an abbreviation of years, months and weeks.
Senses: examples: text: Haven’t seen him in yonks!
text: I’ve been a teacher for yonks–I should really try another career.
text: This egg is taking yonks to boil.
text: I rang singer Julie Driscoll […] She said: "I haven't heard from you for yonks[…]"
ref: 1968 August 27, Christopher Ward, “The Christopher Ward Page”, in Daily Mirror, London, page 7:
text: Alas, the comics for that age group have nearly all picture stories today—and of course the ones for younger readers have been that way for yonks (sorry, years).
ref: 1975 January 28, Bill Stewart, “Comic Cuts”, in Evening Chronicle, number 30393, Newcastle, page 7:
text: It's what Miss Brunskill calls ‘our little backwater’. We're more or less fixtures there and have been for yonks.
ref: 1982, Alan Bennett, “A Woman of No Importance”, in The Complete Talking Heads, Picador, published 2010, →ISBN, page 14:
text: “Yonks,” he replies when I ask how long he's been stateside. “It's not like I've become American. I'm in England every year.”
ref: 2024 February 17, John Wright, quoting John Lydon, “I terrified a nation. Not bad for an 18-year-old”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 16:
glosses: A long time (especially a longer time than expected); ages
possessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pə-zĕs′ĭv
ipa: /pəˈzɛs.ɪv/
ipa: /pəˈzes.ɪv/
ipa: /pəˈzes.əv/
ipa: /poˈzɛs.ɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more possessive
form: most possessive
Etymology: From Middle French possessif, from Latin possessivus (“of or pertaining to possession”), from possessiō (“possessing”), from possidēre (“to possess”). By surface analysis, possess + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ownership or possession.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicating ownership, possession, origin, etc.
examples: text: He is very possessive of his car.
glosses: Unwilling to yield possession of.
Derived terms: nonpossessive
overpossessive
possessival
possessivity
unpossessive
possessive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pə-zĕs′ĭv
ipa: /pəˈzɛs.ɪv/
ipa: /pəˈzes.ɪv/
ipa: /pəˈzes.əv/
ipa: /poˈzɛs.ɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: possessives
Etymology: From Middle French possessif, from Latin possessivus (“of or pertaining to possession”), from possessiō (“possessing”), from possidēre (“to possess”). By surface analysis, possess + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The possessive case.
examples: text: Take the rule about pronouns and possessives that Mr. Keegan cited in his challenge to the testing service.
ref: 2023 January 6, Geoffery Nunberg, “The Nation: Parts of Speech; The Bloody Crossroads of Grammar and Politics”, in The New York Times:
text: The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal all do the opposite, opting for ’s to mark a singular possessive and a simple apostrophe for plural possessive (Harrises’ and Walzes’).
ref: 2024 October 8, Remy Tumin, “Is It Harris’ or Harris’s? Add a Walz, and It’s Even Trickier.”, in The New York Times:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word used to indicate the possessive case.
Derived terms: double possessive
independent possessive
possessively
possessiveness
Related terms: possessive pronoun
possessive adjective
possessive determiner
possessive suffix
comitative
genitive
ktetic
proprietive
proprietary
proprietorial
Purmerend
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in North Holland, Netherlands.
glosses: A municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.