cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unripe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: unriper
form: unripest
Etymology: From Old English unrīpe. Equivalent to un- + ripe.
Senses: examples: text: unripe fruit
glosses: Not ripe.
glosses: Developing too early; premature.
unseam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsiːm/
ipa: /ʌnˈsim/
ipa: /ɐnˈsiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: unseams
form: unseaming
form: unseamed
form: unseamed
Etymology: From un- + seam.
Senses: examples: text: Till he unseam'd him from the nave to th' chaps, and fix'd his head upon our battlements.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut open.
unseen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From Middle English unsen, unseyn, unseien, from Old English unġesewen, from Proto-Germanic *unsewanaz, equivalent to un- + seen. Cognate with Dutch ongezien (“unseen”), German Low German unsehn (“unseen”), German ungesehen (“unseen”).
Senses: examples: text: You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 9, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
text: Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 3”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: When night had fallen, the she-demon stole forth toward the hall, which she entered unheard and unseen.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33:
text: Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
glosses: Not seen or discovered; invisible.
glosses: Unskilled; inexperienced.
examples: text: I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: The advent of COVID passports, so soon after increased check-in bureaucracy post-Brexit, brought major logistical ramifications to St Pancras International, of a kind unseen at any other major station in Britain.
ref: 2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 67:
glosses: Not hitherto noticed; unobserved.
Derived terms: sight unseen
unsight unseen
unseen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From un- + seen.
Senses: examples: text: What has been seen cannot be unseen.
glosses: past participle of unsee
unseen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: unseens
Etymology: From un- + seen.
Senses: examples: text: I have French and Latin unseens this summer.
glosses: An examination involving material not previously seen or studied.
unset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: From un- + set.
Senses: glosses: Not set; not fixed or appointed.
glosses: Not mounted or placed in a setting.
glosses: Not set (broken bone)
examples: text: And many maiden gardens, yet unset
With virtuous wish would bear your living flowers
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 16”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: Not planted.
glosses: uncongealed, unconsolidated (concrete, cement)
unset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: unsets
form: unsetting
form: unset
form: unset
Etymology: From un- + set.
Senses: examples: text: to unset a single bit in a binary pattern
synonyms: clear
glosses: To make not set.
Derived terms: unset the table
unsheathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːð
Forms: form: unsheathes
form: unsheathing
form: unsheathed
form: unsheathed
form: unsheath
Etymology: From un- + sheathe.
Senses: examples: text: When I unsheathe the blade, it makes such a satisfying sound that I do it again.
ref: 2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 76:
text: Yes, Europe shared many of the concerns that had prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to unsheathe the tariff sword and seek to reshape trade with China.
ref: 2024 May 9, Ned Temko, “On rare visit, Xi Jinping tries to rescue China’s relationship with Europe”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: draw
pull out
desheath
glosses: To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword.
unsound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭn-soundʹ
ipa: /ˌʌnˈsaʊnd/
rhymes: -aʊnd
Forms: form: more unsound
form: unsounder
form: most unsound
form: unsoundest
Etymology: From un- + sound.
Senses: examples: text: unsound mind
text: In the ensuing financial panic, many persons sustained heavy losses, and large numbers of unsound schemes succumbed.
ref: 1946 September and October, “Speculation Run Riot”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:
text: A striking example comes to mind, in which a scheme to improve the existing buildings finished up as virtually a complete reconstruction, owing to the unsound condition of the original structure!
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 255:
text: While he is reasonably effusive about inter-city travel, he is heavily disparaging of all types of stopping service, including those on otherwise busy main lines. His analysis is not entirely unsound, and he tackles some of the questions head on.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47:
glosses: Not sound
Not whole, not solid, defective.
examples: text: ... A horse labouring under a temporary injury, capable of being speedily cured, is not unsound within the meaning of a warranty of soundness ...
ref: 1822, Sir John Comyns, Anthony Hammond, A Digest of the Laws of England:
glosses: Not sound
Infirm, diseased.
raw_tags: of equestrianism
examples: text: You would not like Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.
ref: 1919, P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
glosses: Not sound
Not good, unreliable.
raw_tags: of people
Derived terms: unsoundly
unsoundness
untie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: unties
form: untying
form: untied
form: untied
Etymology: From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- + tie.
Senses: examples: text: to untie a knot
text: Haſt thou the pretty vvorme of Nylus [an asp] there, / That killes and paines not? / […] / Come thou mortal vvretch, / VVith thy ſharpe teeth this knot intrinſicate, / Of life at once vntye: Poore venomous Foole, / Be angry, and diſpatch.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 367:
text: Sacharissa's captive fain / Would untie his iron chain.
ref: 1645, Edmund Waller, To Amoret:
glosses: To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.
examples: text: Though you untie the winds, and let them fight / Against the churches.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
examples: text: They quicken sloth, perplexities untie.
ref: 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
glosses: To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
glosses: To become untied or loosed.
examples: text: After you finish with the INI file, all you need to do is untie the hash. Then you really are finished!
ref: 2002, Dave Roth, Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions, page 151:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
Synonyms: unfasten
untold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtəʊld/
ipa: /ʌnˈtoʊld/
ipa: /anˈtəʉld/
homophone: untolled
rhymes: -əʊld
Etymology: From Old English unteald (“not counted or reckoned”), from tellan (“count, relate, tell”).
Senses: examples: text: As Royal Engineers General Mungo Melvin, who has been helping with the draft, put it: "This is the last untold story of the Normandy Invasion."
ref: 2023 June 28, Christian Wolmar, “The railway's crucial role in the Normandy invasion”, in RAIL, number 986, page 45:
glosses: Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
examples: text: Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble.
ref: 2010 January 14, Simon Romero, “Haiti Lies in Ruins; Grim Search for Untold Dead”, in The New York Times:
text: More importantly, there is an untold multitude of Indian English terms that have never been given lexicographical treatment in any dictionary.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 301:
glosses: Not numbered or counted.
examples: text: The South propose to found a Government on servile labor, not as it originally was an accident and an incident, but as the degrading and disgraceful foundation of a Government, and to such a Government as this the Chicago platform offer an armistice, and ask the American men to beg to it for peace. He closed with an appeal to all -- to those at the loom and at the plow, in the army and in the navy, in the workshop and in the counting room to spurn forever from their recognition and their confidence the base men who would not only degrade and disgrace the party they pretend to represent, but would also bring untold disgrace and dishonor upon our country and our flag.
ref: 1864 November 6, “THE WAR DEMOCRACY.; Immense Meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A LARGE AND FASHIONABLE AUDIENCE. A Masterly Speech by Major-Gen. Sickles. MAJ.-GEN. DANIEL E. SICKLES.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2023, page 1:
text: Shih Hung-pi was born a pauper at a poor household in Suichung County, Liaoning. He suffered untold misery in the old society. Then he joined the PLA.
ref: 1975 March 13 [1975 March 7], “Chief of Staff of PLA Air Unit Dies in Training Exercise”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 50, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 6:
glosses: Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible.
unwell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈwɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: more unwell
form: most unwell
Etymology: From un- + well.
Senses: examples: text: feel unwell
synonyms: word: ailing
word: under the weather
word: diseased
word: disease-ridden
word: infect
word: infected
word: morbid
word: morbific
word: morbose
word: unhealthy
glosses: Not in good health; not feeling well; somewhat ill
glosses: Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.
unwilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈwɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more unwilling
form: most unwilling
Etymology: From un- + willing.
Senses: examples: text: an unwilling servant
text: We are unwilling to restore his previous privileges after his betrayal of our trust.
text: There was a prevailing fear of the effect of large undertakings becoming monopolistic, and Parliament showed itself unwilling to sanction any large groupings.
ref: 1948 January and February, “British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 1:
text: [...] but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, [...].
ref: 1960 March, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 184:
text: My son, a Canada-based IT professional who often travels to Ukraine, told me about the exhilarating atmosphere on those Ukraine-bound trains, bringing home hundreds of the unwilling refugees, mostly women and children (including the babies, born in exile on the way to meet their Ukrainian fighter fathers for the first time). The difference between Ukrainian refugees and other reluctant exiles is that Ukrainians are desperate to return.
ref: 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 49:
glosses: Not willing; reluctant
Derived terms: word: unwillingly
unwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: unwraps
form: unwrapping
form: unwrapped
form: unwrapped
Etymology: From Middle English unwrappen, equivalent to un- + wrap.
Senses: examples: text: For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
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 like your glasses,” she says as she unwraps a platter of brownies. “They’re very hip. Retro, even.”
ref: 2015, Carrie Mesrobian, Cut Both Ways, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, pages 6–7:
glosses: To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
glosses: To become unwrapped.
examples: text: Use the SHIFT key to unwrap text.
ref: 1996, Levi Reiss, The Eudora User's Guide, page 246:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove word wrap from.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To flatten (a three-dimensional model) into a two-dimensional plane.
unwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: unwraps
Etymology: From Middle English unwrappen, equivalent to un- + wrap.
Senses: examples: text: Each of us, content within / this yuletide season we begin, / the cheerfulness of eager voices, / at each unwrap, a child rejoices.
ref: 2010, Gilbert Goodman, It's Poetry: Suck it Up!, page 17:
glosses: An act of unwrapping.
uproot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌpˈɹuːt/
ipa: /ˌʌpˈɹut/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: uproots
Etymology: PIE word
 *wréh₂ds
From up- (prefix indicating a higher direction or position) + root (“to tear up by the roots; (figuratively) to remove forcibly from a place; to eradicate, exterminate”, verb). Root is derived from root (“underground part of a plant”, noun), from Middle English rote, from Old English rōt, rōte, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”).
Senses: examples: text: With the uproot of the Chinese commercial system in the 1890s such a crisis was bound to surface.
ref: 2014, Alexander Claver, Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java, page 174:
glosses: The act of uprooting something.
uproot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌpˈɹuːt/
ipa: /ˌʌpˈɹut/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: uproots
form: uprooting
form: uprooted
form: uprooted
Etymology: From up- (prefix indicating a higher direction or position) + root (“of a pig or other animal: to dig or turn up with the snout; to search as if by digging in soil, rummage”, verb). Root is derived from Middle English wroten (“to dig or turn up with the snout; to remove soil, dig up”), from Old English wrōtan (“to dig or turn up with the snout”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōtaną (“to dig or turn up with the snout”); further etymology uncertain.
Senses: glosses: Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
urgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜː.d͡ʒən.si/
ipa: /ˈɝ.d͡ʒən.si/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənsi
Forms: form: urgencies
form: urgence
Etymology: From urgent + -ency or Latin urgentia.
Senses: examples: text: the urgency of a demand
text: Arsenal lacked urgency and inspiration until shortly before half-time, Wheater's block denying Van Persie from close range before Walcott drilled wide.
ref: 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The quality or condition of being urgent.
examples: text: I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.
glosses: Insistence, pressure, urge.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder.
Synonyms: exigency
clamancy
vassal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæsəl/
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: vassals
form: vasal
Etymology: From Middle English vassal, from Old French vassal, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
Senses: examples: text: The manor's vassals owed first fruits and a tithe to the parish church, another 10% to the lord (including at least 50 eels), a week or two each year of service in the manor's upkeep, and service in the local fyrd.
text: It was superimposed on rules of conduct evolved at an earlier date as the spontaneous expression of class consciousness; rules that pertained to the fealty of vassals (the transition appears clearly, towards the end of the eleventh century, in the Book of the Christian Life by Bishop Bonizo of Sutri, for whom the knight is, first and foremost, an enfeoffed vassal ) and constituted above all a class code of noble and 'courteous' people.
ref: 2002, Marc Bloch, Feudal Society: Vol 2: Social Classes and Political Organisation, page 38:
topics: law
synonyms: feudatory
feudal tenant
glosses: The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.
examples: text: The king ordered his vassals to join him on the crusade unless they had a written note signed by the archbishop or pope.
synonyms: subject
dependant
bondsman
villein
serf
helot
thrall
servant
slave
glosses: Any direct subordinate bound by such vows to a superior.
examples: text: The vassals of his anger.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Any subordinate bound by similar close ties.
Derived terms: envassal
vassalage
vassaldom
vassaless
vassalhood
vassalic
vassal-in-chief
vassalize
vassalry
vassalship
vassal state
Related terms: liegeman
valet
varlet
vassal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæsəl/
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: vasal
Etymology: From Middle English vassal, from Old French vassal, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
Senses: examples: text: Did they, quoth you? / Who sees the heavenly Rosaline / That, like a rude and savage man of Inde / At the first opening of the gorgeous east / Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind / Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.
vassal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæsəl/
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: vassals
form: vassaling
form: vassalling
form: vassaled
form: vassaled
form: vassalled
form: vassalled
form: vasal
Etymology: From Middle English vassal, from Old French vassal, from Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).
Senses: glosses: To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
glosses: To subordinate to someone or something.
veal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /viːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: veals
form: veale
form: veel
Etymology: From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.
Senses: synonyms: calfflesh
calfmeat
glosses: The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.
glosses: The female genitalia.
Derived terms: bod veal
rose veal
try the veal
veal crate
veal Orloff
veal Orlov
veal-skin
veal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /viːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: veals
form: vealing
form: vealed
form: vealed
form: veale
form: veel
Etymology: From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.
Senses: examples: text: The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had or is near having calf.
ref: 1811, George B. Worgan, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall, Great Britain: Board of Agriculture, page 144:
text: It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body.
ref: 1852, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Desert Home:
glosses: To raise a calf for meat production.
vedette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈdɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: vedettes
form: vidette
Etymology: From French vedette.
Senses: examples: text: The enemy made no effort to pursue Marshal Blücher. On the contrary, a patrole which I sent to Sombref in the morning found all quiet; and the enemy's vedettes fell back as the patrole advanced.
ref: 1815 June 19, Arthur Wellesley, Wellingon's Waterloo dispatch to Lord Bathurst:
text: My goal was Desolation Peak, the cabin where rookie vedette Jack Kerouac spent 63 eventful days in the summer of 1956.
ref: 2021 February 16, Dan Richards, “Peak cabin: a fire-spotter's lonely vantage point in Washington state”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger.
examples: text: Josephine Baker arrived in Cuba in 1951. When this famous black American vedette arrived—she who had first enraptured Paris and later the rest of Europe—Rita Montaner played a trick on her. La Baker, as well as Cuban vedettes and rumba dancers, had conquered Europe by selling exoticism to an avid European public.
ref: 2005, Coco Fusco, Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas, Routledge, →ISBN, page 44:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A cabaret performer, usually the main female artist of a show.
veil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /veɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: vale
homophone: vail
homophone: Vail
Forms: form: veils
form: veiling
form: veiled
form: veiled
Etymology: From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.
Senses: examples: text: I'm under surface
Towers veiled in silk
I guess I'm not welcome
In this house they built
ref: 2018, “White Hot”, performed by Loathe:
glosses: To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.
examples: text: The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.
glosses: To conceal as with a veil.
verbena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɚˈbinə/
ipa: /vɜːˈbiːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Forms: form: verbenas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin verbēna (“leaves or twigs of olive, myrtle, laurel, or other sacred plants employed in religious ceremonies”), from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-. Doublet of vervain, via French.
Senses: examples: text: Linda pulled a piece of verbena and crumpled it, and held her hands to her mother. -
ref: 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 116)
text: Hidden behind a large stone urn full of verbena, Dottie watched as her enemy greeted Johnny at the door.
ref: 1988, Elizabeth Spencer, “The Legacy”, in On the Gulf (Author and Artist Series), Jackson, Miss.; London: University Press of Mississippi, published 1991, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.
Derived terms: false verbena
lemon verbena
Mojave sand-verbena
roadside verbena
sand verbena
sweet verbena
verbenalin
verbenalol
vestal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛs.t(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɛstəl
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Vestālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth.
examples: text: Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper,
Till gold be at a discount, and ashamed
To show his bilious face, go purge himself,
In emulation of her vestal whiteness.
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
glosses: Pure; chaste.
vestal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛs.t(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɛstəl
Forms: form: vestals
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Vestālis.
Senses: glosses: A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar; a vestal virgin.
glosses: A female virgin; a woman who has never had sexual relations.
glosses: A nun.
Derived terms: Drury Lane vestal
St. John's Wood vestal
vestigial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: vĕ-stĭjʹĭ-əl
enpr: vĕ-stĭjʹəl
ipa: /vɛˈstɪd͡ʒɪəl/
ipa: /vɛˈstɪd͡ʒəl/
Etymology: From Latin vestīgium + -al. By surface analysis, vestige + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past.
glosses: Not fully developed in mature animals.
examples: text: Remnants of the vascular supply of lost organs may be present in the tissues of the receptacle when all external evidence of the organs has disappeared. Only rarely does the vascular supply of a vestigial organ disappear while external remnants are still present.
ref: 2004, Pooja, “Flower” (chapter 1), in Pshysiology of the Angiosperms, New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, →ISBN, Vestigial Vascular Tissue, page 48:
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: Of a vestigial structure; that has lost all or most of its original function in the course of evolution.
Derived terms: vestigial structure
Related terms: vestige
vestigial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vĕ-stĭjʹĭ-əl
enpr: vĕ-stĭjʹəl
ipa: /vɛˈstɪd͡ʒɪəl/
ipa: /vɛˈstɪd͡ʒəl/
Forms: form: vestigials
Etymology: From Latin vestīgium + -al. By surface analysis, vestige + -ial.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A small, degenerate, or imperfectly developed part or organ which has been more fully developed in some past generation.
vicariously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.əs.li/
ipa: /vɪˈkɛəɹi.əs.li/
Etymology: From vicarious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Miller argues convincingly that a majority of Americans shared the romantic nationalism of such expansionists as Theodore Roosevelt and Sen. Albert Beveridge and participated vicariously in their dreams of martial glory and expanding markets.
ref: 1982 November 21, Richard E. Welch Jr., “IMPERIAL ADVENTURE”, in The New York Times:
antonyms: unvicariously
glosses: In a vicarious manner; indirectly; as, by, or through a substitute; by proxy.
vignette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭn-yĕtʹ
ipa: /vɪnˈjɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: vignettes
form: vignetting
form: vignetted
form: vignetted
Etymology: First attested in 1751. From French vignette, diminutive of vigne (“vine”), from Latin vīnea, from vīnum (“wine”). Replaced earlier Middle English vynet.
Senses: examples: text: Long minutes afterwards the sun disclosed itself, high above the earth's rim, over a vignetted bank of edgeless mist.
ref: 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Book Five, Chapter 68:
text: Along the wainscot lie heaps of bolsters and quilts, covered with old-fashioned chintzes. Before the War these chintzes were specially made in Russia for the Central Asian market: one bolster depicts steamships, early motor-cars, and the first aeroplane, vignetted in circles of flowers on a vermilion background.
ref: 1937, Robert Byron, “Saoma”, in The Road to Oxiana:
glosses: To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge gradually fading away.
Derived terms: vignetting
vilayet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪləˈjɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: vilayets
form: vilayat
form: velayat
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish ولایت (vilayet, “province”), from Arabic وِلَايَة (wilāya, “province, administration”). Doublet of wilayah and Blighty.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A province, particularly (historical) the first-level administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire.
Hypernyms: province
Coordinate terms: sanjak
kaza
nahiyah
vinaigrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭn-ə-grĕtʹ
ipa: /vɪnəˈɡɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: vinaigrettes
form: vinegarette
Etymology: Borrowed from French vinaigrette. Sense 4 (“type of Russian salad”) is a semantic loan from Russian винегре́т (vinegrét), whence also the doublet vinegret.
Senses: synonyms: word: vinegarette
glosses: A sauce, made of an acidic liquid such as vinegar or lemon juice; oil; and other ingredients, used as a salad dressing, or as a marinade for cold meats.
examples: text: Lady Selina smells at her vinaigrette, and replies in her softest, affectedest, civilest, and crushingest manner— "Poor—DEAR—OLD MAN!"
ref: 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What will he do with it?:
synonyms: vinegarette
glosses: A small perforated box for holding aromatic vinegar contained in a sponge, or a smelling bottle for smelling salts
glosses: A small, two-wheeled vehicle, like a litter, to be drawn or pushed by a person. They were used in France until the late 18th century.
glosses: Alternative form of vinegret (“type of Russian salad”).
Synonyms: sense: sauce
word: French dressing
sense: sauce
word: Italian dressing
sense: sauce
word: Greek dressing
sense: sauce
word: vinaigrette dressing
sense: sauce
word: vinaigrette sauce
sense: sauce
word: vinaigrette salad sauce
Derived terms: vinaigrette dressing
vinaigrette sauce
vindicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪn.dɪˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: vindicates
form: vindicating
form: vindicated
form: vindicated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vindicātus, perfect passive participle of vindicō (“lay legal claim to something; set free; protect, avenge, punish”), from vim, accusative singular of vīs (“force, power”), + dīcō (“say; declare, state”). See avenge.
Senses: examples: text: to vindicate someone's honor
text: As a man of vision, he understood this. Without Cerberus, humanity was doomed to an existence of groveling subservience at the feet of alien masters. Still, there were those who would call what he did criminal. Unethical. Amoral. History would vindicate him, but until it did he and his followers were forced to exist in hiding, working toward their goals in secret.
ref: 2008, Drew Karpyshyn, Mass Effect: Ascension, Del Rey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: To clear of an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
examples: text: to vindicate a right, claim or title
text: The Ukrainians immediately demanded a goal and their claims were vindicated as replays showed the ball crossed the line before Terry's intervention.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
text: Also see: United National Congress, Trinidad and Tobago
text: Kamla Persad Bissessar: " We have been vindicated, but it is a victory for the people"
glosses: To justify by providing evidence.
examples: text: to vindicate the rights of labor movement in developing countries
text: When Trump's election pulled back the curtain on the rise of the far-right in America, I'd naively assumed the Jewish left would be vindicated.
ref: 2019, Eli Valley, “A Springtime of Erasure”, in Jewish Currents, number Fall 2019, page 14:
glosses: To maintain or defend (a cause) against opposition.
glosses: To be proven reasonable, correct, or justified.
examples: text: The violent history of the suspect vindicated the use of force by the police.
glosses: To provide justification for.
glosses: To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
glosses: To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
examples: text: a war to vindicate infidelity
glosses: To avenge; to punish.
Derived terms: vindication
vindicator
vindictive
volcanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlˈkænɪk/
ipa: /vɔlˈkænɪk/
ipa: /vɑlˈkænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Etymology: From French volcanique, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcan(o) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: volcanic heat
text: volcanic activity
glosses: Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes
examples: text: volcanic tufa
text: volcanic ash
glosses: Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies
glosses: Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.
examples: text: Jo rose indignified, Vanessa following in her volcanic wake.
ref: 1980 August 2, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
text: With that the system was complete, and ready to have its disastrous effect on Martin Luther's volcanic temper.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 556:
glosses: Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.
Synonyms: sense: of or related to volcanoes
word: volcanian
sense: of or related to volcanoes
word: Vulcanian
Hyponyms: cryovolcanic
Derived terms: cryovolcanic
hydrovolcanic
ice-volcanic
metavolcanic
neovolcanic
nonvolcanic
postvolcanic
stratovolcanic
subvolcanic
supervolcanic
transvolcanic
unvolcanic
volcanically
volcanic ash
volcanic block
volcanic bomb
volcanic field
volcanic glass
volcanicity
volcaniclastic
volcanic lightning
volcanic neck
volcanic pipe
volcanic sulfur
volcanic sulphur
volcanic wind
volcanic winter
volcanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlˈkænɪk/
ipa: /vɔlˈkænɪk/
ipa: /vɑlˈkænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: volcanics
Etymology: From French volcanique, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcan(o) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.
glosses: A volcanic rock.
voluminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈl(j)uː.mɪ.nəs/
ipa: /vəˈlu.mə.nəs/
Forms: form: more voluminous
form: most voluminous
Etymology: From Late Latin voluminosus, from volumen, from volvō (“roll, turn about”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). Related to volume.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
examples: text: I remember that the Baroness was clad in a voluminous silk dress, pale grey in colour, and adorned with flounces and a crinoline and train.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VI, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VI):
glosses: Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
examples: text: Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly mis-spend my time in writing so voluminous a work […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: Of great volume, or bulk; large.
examples: a voluminous writer
synonyms: copious
diffuse
glosses: Having written much, or produced many volumes.
Related terms: volumous
volunteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɒl(ə)nˈtɪə/
ipa: /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/
ipa: /-ˈtɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: volunteers
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, voluntary”); or from voluntary + -eer.
Senses: examples: text: The volunteers at the nature reserve meet up ever other Sunday to help its upkeep.
text: The largest age group for volunteers was 35-44, the CNCS survey said, and volunteers were most likely to be parents with children under 18. The typical volunteer may live in Utah, which ranked first in the percentage of people who said they volunteered among all 50 states and Washington, DC.
ref: 2018 July 19, Thom Patterson, “Stats reveal how many Americans volunteer and where”, in CNN:
glosses: One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: One who enters into military service voluntarily (but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers), as opposed to a conscript.
examples: text: That summer and fall the Army organized twenty-five regiments of volunteers, including two black regiments, which would have all-black captains and lieutenants. All officers were to be selected from regulars and volunteers who had distinguished themselves[…]
ref: 2007 April 30, Edward M. Coffman, The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 16:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A voluntary member of the organized militia of a country, as distinguished from a regular or member of the standing army.
topics: law
glosses: A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
glosses: A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
Derived terms: word: army volunteer
word: volunteerism
word: volunteerly
word: volunteership
word: volunteer snooker
Related terms: voluntarism
voluntarist
volunteer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɒl(ə)nˈtɪə/
ipa: /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/
ipa: /-ˈtɪɚ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: volunteers
form: volunteering
form: volunteered
form: volunteered
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, voluntary”); or from voluntary + -eer.
Senses: glosses: To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
examples: text: to volunteer for doing the dishes
text: Miranda: No good. Both routes are blocked. See these doors? The only way past is to get someone to open them from the other side.
Shepard: It's not a fortress; there's got to be something. Here, maybe we can send someone in through this ventilation shaft.
Jacob: Practically a suicide mission. I volunteer.
Miranda: I appreciate the thought, Jacob, but you couldn't shut down the security systems in time. We need to send a tech expert.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
text: The typical volunteer may live in Utah, which ranked first in the percentage of people who said they volunteered among all 50 states and Washington, DC. […] The median amount of time per year spent volunteering was 52 hours.
ref: 2018 July 19, Thom Patterson, “Stats reveal how many Americans volunteer and where”, in CNN:
glosses: To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
examples: text: to volunteer an explanation
glosses: To offer, usually unprompted.
examples: text: My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.
glosses: To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
Derived terms: word: I volunteer as tribute
word: volunteering
word: voluntell
vow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: vows
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vowe, voue, that from Old French vut, in turn from Latin vōtum (“a promise, dedication, vow”), from vovēre (“to promise, vow”). Not related to avow. Doublet of vote.
Senses: examples: text: The old hermit, up in the mountains, took a vow of silence.
text: And Moses spake vnto the heads of the tribes, concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.
If a man vowe a vow vnto the Lord, or sweare an othe to bind his soule with a bond: he shall not breake his word, hee shall doe according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 30:1–2:
glosses: A solemn promise to perform some act, or behave in a specified manner, especially a promise to live and act in accordance with the rules of a religious order.
examples: text: Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
ref: 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
glosses: A declaration or assertion.
examples: text: There are also waxen vows, that represent other parts of the body mixed with them; but of these there are few in comparison of the number of the Priapi.
ref: 1786, Richard Payne Knight, The Worship of Priapus:
glosses: A votive offering.
Derived terms: break-vow
solemn vow
vow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: vows
form: vowing
form: vowed
form: vowed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vowe, voue, that from Old French vut, in turn from Latin vōtum (“a promise, dedication, vow”), from vovēre (“to promise, vow”). Not related to avow. Doublet of vote.
Senses: examples: text: When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 5:4:
text: We do not vow that we will never sin, nor neglect a duty (nor ought we to do so).
ref: 1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory:
glosses: To make a vow; to promise.
examples: text: The wronged woman vowed revenge.
glosses: To make a vow regarding (something).
examples: text: The rebels vowed to continue their fight.
glosses: To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation.
Derived terms: exchange vows
marriage vow
renew one's vows
take vows
vow of celibacy
wedding vow
Related terms: sense: Terms etymologically related to the noun or verb vow
word: devote
sense: Terms etymologically related to the noun or verb vow
word: vote
sense: Terms etymologically related to the noun or verb vow
word: votive
wager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈweɪ.d͡ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈwæɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wagers
Etymology: From Middle English wajour, wageour, wager, from Old Northern French wageure, from wagier (“to pledge”) (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager and contemporary Walloon wadjî), ultimately from Frankish *waddjōn (“to pledge”), from Frankish *wadi ~ *waddī (“pledge”). See also wage.
Senses: examples: 1842-43, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
“This thicket was a singular, an exceedingly singular one. It was unusually dense. Within its naturally walled enclosure were three extraordinary stones, forming a seat with a back and footstool.… , whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras. Would it be a rash wager – a wager of one thousand to one – that a day never passed over the heads of these boys without finding at least one of them ensconced in the umbrageous hall, and enthroned upon its natural throne? Those who would hesitate at such a wager, have either never been boys themselves, or have forgotten the boyish nature."
glosses: A bet; a stake; a pledge.
glosses: The subject of a bet.
examples: text: Besides these Plates, the Wagers may be as the Persons please among themselves, but the Horses must be evidenced by good Testimonies to have been bred in Ireland.
ref: 1673, Sir William Temple, Advancement of Trade in Ireland:
text: If any atheist can stake his soul for a wager against such an inexhaustible disproportion, let him never hereafter accuse others of credulity.
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
topics: law
glosses: A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
topics: law
glosses: An offer to make oath.
Derived terms: Pascal's wager
wager a dollar to a donut
wager a dollar to a doughnut
wager-boat
wager of battel
wager of battle
wager of law
wager
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈweɪ.d͡ʒɚ/
ipa: /ˈwæɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wagers
form: wagering
form: wagered
form: wagered
Etymology: From Middle English wajour, wageour, wager, from Old Northern French wageure, from wagier (“to pledge”) (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager and contemporary Walloon wadjî), ultimately from Frankish *waddjōn (“to pledge”), from Frankish *wadi ~ *waddī (“pledge”). See also wage.
Senses: examples: text: I'd wager my boots on it.
glosses: To bet something; to put it up as collateral.
examples: text: I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.
glosses: To suppose; to dare say.
Synonyms: sense: to daresay
word: lay odds