cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Zaire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /zaɪˈɪə/
ipa: /zɑːˈɪəɹ/
ipa: /ˈzɑːɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Zaïre
Etymology: Truncation of Kongo nzadi o nzere (“river swallowing rivers”) which refers to the Congo river; adopted in accordance with the Authenticity Movement.
Senses: glosses: Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a country in Central Africa; used from 1971–1997.
glosses: Synonym of Congo (major river in Central Africa)
synonyms: word: Congo
extra: major river in Central Africa
glosses: A province of Angola, named after the river
Related terms: zaire
zazen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɑːˈzɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: zazens
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 坐(ざ)禅(ぜん) (zazen), from 坐(ざ) (za, “sitting”) + 禅(ぜん) (zen, “meditation”).
Senses: examples: text: If Professor Jaynes had extended his studies of introspection into zazen or yogic forms of meditation, he would understand that the ego is just such a construction that is extended over the gaps in time from moment to moment.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 269:
text: They had sent out scouts to try and locate the original cave where the practice of Zazen was first initiated.
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, page 1226:
text: In the practice of Zen there is an exercise called zazen—similar, I think, to the Theravedic practice of vipassana. One sits facing a blank wall. No matter the emotion one feels, no matter how strong or violent, one remains motionless. Facing the wall. The discipline, of course, is in continuing to sit.
ref: 1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History:
text: For everyone—everyone—who first takes it up, zazen is tedious and awful... Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brainwave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.
ref: 2003, Brad Warner, Hardcore Zen, page 92:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A form of seated meditation in Zen Buddhism.
Synonyms: Zen meditation
zester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zesters
Etymology: From zest + -er.
Senses: glosses: A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit.
Hypernyms: sense: kitchen implement
word: bar tool
sense: kitchen implement
word: implement
sense: kitchen implement
word: kitchen implement
zig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: zigs
Etymology: Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zag.
Senses: glosses: A sudden or sharp turn or change of direction.
examples: text: Zigs at Kfar Hanassi were rooted firmly in the history of British comedy.
ref: 2025, Gavin Schaffer, An unorthodox history: British Jews since 1945:
glosses: A kind of Jewish comedy skit.
zig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: zigs
form: zigging
form: zigged
form: zigged
Etymology: Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zag.
Senses: glosses: To make such a turn.
Derived terms: zigger
ziggy
zig when one should zag
Related terms: zigzag
zag
zig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: zig
form: zigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ZiG.
zircon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɜː(ɹ)kən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kən
Forms: form: zircons
Etymology: From German Zirkon, possibly via French zircon, formed in the 1780s from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn). Doublet of jargoon.
Senses: examples: text: […] salamanders, mermaids, chimaeras, wild men o’ the woods, leviathans, all hewn from faultless gems, thrice the bulk of a big man’s body, velvet-dark sapphires, chrysolite, beryl, amethyst, and the yellow zircon that is like transparent gold.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […]. (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
glosses: A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or grey colour and consisting of silica and zirconia.
examples: text: A zircon princess, seemed to lost her senses
ref: 1982, “The Message”, performed by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five:
glosses: A crystal of zircon, sometimes used as a false gemstone.
Derived terms: zircon blue
zirconite
zirconium
zircon light
zircon-syenite
Related terms: jacinth
jargon
jargoon
hutted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hut
hutted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The main, hutted section of Brockenhurst consisted of two 10-ward wings, each with 36 beds; there was also a central administration block, an operating theatre, an X-ray room, a dental surgery and a dispensary.
ref: 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: Containing or composed of huts.
inter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɚ/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜː/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɛr/
ipa: /ɪnˈtøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɪnˈteː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɪnˈtɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: inters
form: interring
form: interred
form: interred
form: enter
Etymology: From Middle English enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer, enterer, from Vulgar Latin *interrāre (“to put in earth”).
Senses: synonyms: bury
inearth
entomb
inhume
antonyms: dig up
disentomb
disinter
exhume
unearth
glosses: To bury in a grave.
glosses: To confine, as in a prison.
Derived terms: cointer
interrer
reinter
Related terms: donatio inter vivos
inter alia
inter alios
inter nos
inter partes
inter pocula
res inter alios acta
mazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪzi/
rhymes: -eɪzi
Forms: form: mazier
form: maziest
form: mazey
Etymology: From maze + -y.
Senses: synonyms: labyrinthine
glosses: Mazelike; like a maze.
examples: text: Five miles meandering with a mazy motion,
 Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
 Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
 And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: [...]
ref: 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 57:
text: Deep into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill-side blue.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Loomings”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 3:
text: England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.
ref: 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41 – 10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Not straight; zigzagging.
examples: text: I am a fool—a purblind, mazy fool,
And do not know my right hand from my left.
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, Romiero, Act 2
glosses: Confused.
Derived terms: mazily
maziness
laker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lakers
Etymology: From Middle English *lakere, *leikere, from Middle English laken, leiken (“to play, sport”), equivalent to lake (“play, sport”) + -er. More at lake.
Senses: glosses: One engaged in sport; a player; an actor.
Derived terms: lakering
laker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lakers
Etymology: From lake (“body of water”) + -er (“inhabitant”) or + -er (relational suffix).
Senses: glosses: A wharfman who resides near a lake.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship used on the Great Lakes.
Hyponyms: sense: watercraft
word: straight decker
sense: watercraft
word: stern-ender
sense: watercraft
word: whaleback
Coordinate terms: sense: watercraft
word: saltie
leone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leones
Senses: glosses: A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents.
spume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spjuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: spumes
Etymology: From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.
Senses: examples: text: Materials dark and crude, / Of spiritous and fiery spume.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, 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:
text: No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIX:
text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Roaring, leaping, pouncing, the tempest raged about the wanderers, drowning and blotting out their forms with sandy spume.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
text: Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter I, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1 (The Wild):
text: The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 337, about St Abbs:
text: A strong sea wind lashed at his city suit, salt rain stung his eyes, balls of spume skimmed across his path.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
Derived terms: spumous
spumy
spume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spjuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: spumes
form: spuming
form: spumed
form: spumed
Etymology: From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.
Senses: glosses: To froth.
misogynist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ən.ɪst/
ipa: /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ən.ɪst/
Forms: form: misogynists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μῑσογύνης (mīsogúnēs), from μῑσέω (mīséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”), equivalent to misogyny + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: "Confound all women, I say!" muttered the young misogynist.
ref: 1857–1858, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume I, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858, →OCLC, page 327:
text: Job, like myself, is a bit of a misogynist - I fancy chiefly owing to the fact of his having been one of a family of seventeen - and the feelings expressed upon his countenance when he realised that he was not only being embraced publicly, and without authorisation on his own part, but also in the presence of his masters, were too mixed and painful to admit of accurate description.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: To combat perceived misrepresentation, incels attempt to distinguish themselves both from violent misogynists and from right-wing extremists.
ref: 2023 January 24, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic Dialogue, page 14:
glosses: One who professes misogyny; a hater of women.
glosses: One who displays prejudice against or looks down upon women.
Synonyms: word: misogyne
word: woman hater
word: woman-hater
word: womanhater
Derived terms: antimisogynist
anti-misogynist
neo-misogynist
nonmisogynist
transmisogynist
trans-misogynist
Related terms: misandrist
misogynist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈsɒd͡ʒ.ən.ɪst/
ipa: /mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ən.ɪst/
Forms: form: more misogynist
form: most misogynist
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μῑσογύνης (mīsogúnēs), from μῑσέω (mīséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”), equivalent to misogyny + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Authors push back against criticism by formulating a boundary so contributors can be viewed as serious, rational individuals, rather than misogynist extremists.
ref: 2023 January 24, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic Dialogue, page 14:
glosses: Misogynistic; relating to or exhibiting misogyny.
taffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæ.fi/
rhymes: -æfi
Forms: form: taffies
form: toffee
Etymology: Probably related to tafia (“a type of rum”).
Senses: glosses: A soft, chewy candy made from boiled sugar, molasses, or corn syrup and butter.
examples: text: […] if these statistices should seem to fail to tally with the facts, in places, do not nudge your neighbor, or press your foot upon his toes, or manifest, by any other sign, your awareness that taffy is being distributed.
ref: 1881, Mark Twain, Unfinished Burlesque on Books of Etiquette:
text: Cut out the taffy. Who's your friend?
ref: 1912, Upton Sinclair, The Machine:
glosses: Flattery.
examples: text: "Some people may find Taffy a bit derogatory but a lot of people are interested in displaying that on their vehicles. That's a way they can express their Welshness. But we haven't sold any plates with combinations of 'boyo'."
ref: 30-03-2013, Rhodri Clark, quoting Louise Pierpoint, “Why there's still mileage in the name 'Taffy'”, in WalesOnline:
qualifier: Mainly UK; usu. derogatory; Mainly UK; usu. derogatory
glosses: Welsh person.
Derived terms: laffy taffy
maple taffy
saltwater taffy
salt water taffy
taffy pull
coquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒˈkɛt/
ipa: /koʊˈkɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: coquettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French coquette.
Senses: examples: text: Though, I confeſs, Paris has its Charms; but to me they are like thoſe of a Coquette, gay and gavvdy; they ſerve to amuſe vvith, but a Man vvould not chuſe to be marry'd to them.
ref: 1721, [Colley] Cibber, The Refusal; or, The Ladies Philosophy: A Comedy. […], London: […] B[arnaby Bernard] Lintot, […]; W[illiam] Mears, […]; and W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 2:
text: She was a big, sexy brunette—as Garcia said, «Something straight out of Degas,» and generally like a beautiful Parisian coquette.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 3:
text: I was playing with him, leading him on, sending him messages of encouragement then turning away from him. I was a tease, a coquette.
ref: 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage, published 1998, page 141:
text: Knox takes us through the lives of memorable seducers and their critics, in sometimes academic and sometimes rococo prose dappled with doges, coups de foudre, rakes, bawds, coquettes, coxcombs and procuresses — with guest appearances by members of the Frankfurt School sunning themselves in La Jolla.
ref: 2020 April 2, Alex Kuczynski, “Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A woman who flirts or plays with people's affections.
glosses: Any hummingbird in the genus Lophornis.
Derived terms: coquetry
coquettish
coquettishly
coquettishness
spangled coquette
coquette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒˈkɛt/
ipa: /koʊˈkɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: coquettes
form: coquetting
form: coquetted
form: coquetted
Etymology: Borrowed from French coquette.
Senses: examples: text: Nobber has no small opinion of himself: he considers himself the Adonis of the Pondaati eleven, and he contemplates society as though it were Venus, and it was his mission to posturize before it, and coquette and toy with it.
ref: 1875, Herbert Eastwick Compton, Semi-tropical trifles:
glosses: Alternative form of coquet.
coquette
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒˈkɛt/
ipa: /koʊˈkɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: Borrowed from French coquette.
Senses: examples: text: Frills, lace, bows, hearts, and ribbon (in excess!) are all part of the coquette look. […]”
ref: 2023 January 12, Hannah Oh, “What Exactly is the Coquette Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet Right Now?”, in Seventeen, retrieved 05 Jan 2024:
text: Are you a Lana Del Rey fan who lives for ultra-romantic fashion pieces and clings to trends that involve ribbons, lace, and Bridgerton-esque motifs? Then the coquette aesthetic is most definitely for you. […]”
ref: 2023 October 24, Sierra Mayhew, “The Coquette Aesthetic Has Its Hold on Gen Z—15 Pieces That Define the Look”, in Who What Wear, retrieved 05 Jan 2024:
qualifier: aesthetic
glosses: Of or relating to a feminine style of clothing involving ribbons, frills, and bows.
bribery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪbəɹi/
Forms: form: briberies
Etymology: From bribe + -ery.
Senses: hypernyms: venality#Noun
<
corruption#Noun
<
crime#Noun
glosses: The act of giving an illegal payment (a bribe) to a person in an official position as a means of influencing their decisions.
examples: text: accept bribery
text: combat bribery
text: accused of bribery
text: The official was arrested on charges of bribery.
topics: law
synonyms: bribe
hypernyms: venality#Noun
<
corruption#Noun
<
crime#Noun
glosses: The activity of offering, giving, or accepting such bribes.
Derived terms: antibribery
anti-bribery
embroider
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdɚ/
ipa: /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdə/
rhymes: -ɔɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: embroiders
form: embroidering
form: embroidered
form: embroidered
Etymology: From Middle English embrouderen, frequentative of embrouden (“to decorate, embroider”), equivalent to embroid + -er. Middle English embrouden itself comes from Anglo-Norman embrouder, from Old French embrosder (“to embroider”), ultimately of Germanic origin, though the exact pathway is uncertain. Possibly an intensive of Old French brosder, brouder (compare Norman broudaïr), from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌶𐌳𐍉𐌽 (*bruzdōn), related to English bristle and brad. Alternatively, perhaps from Frankish *anbroʀdōn (“to embroider, stitch”), related to Old High German anabrortōn (“to embroider”), Old English onbryrdan (“to prick, incite”).
Senses: glosses: To stitch a decorative design on fabric with needle and thread of various colours.
glosses: To add imaginary detail to a narrative to make it more interesting or acceptable.
Derived terms: embroiderer
embroideress
embroidery
overembroider
reembroider
broider
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: broiders
form: broidering
form: broidered
form: broidered
Senses: examples: text: [T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.
ref: 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 30:
text: ‘When I was a little child [...] the cardinal brought me a doll. It was an image of myself, in a robe all broidered over with the arms of England and France.’
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 87:
glosses: To embroider.
Derived terms: broiderer
strait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: straight
Forms: form: straits
form: streit
form: streight
Etymology: From Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“compress, tighten”). Doublet of stretto and strict.
Senses: examples: text: the Strait of Gibraltar
text: […] we steered directly through a large Out-let, which they call a Streight, tho’ it be fifteen Miles broad […]
ref: 1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC, pages 232–233:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
examples: text: He brought him through a darksom narrow strayt, / To a broad gate all built of beaten gold:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 282:
text: For honour travels in a strait so narrow, / Where one but goes abreast:
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: A narrow pass, passage or street.
examples: text: The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him, / Sir Bedivere, the last of all his knights, / And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, / A broken chancel with a broken cross, / That stood on a dark strait of barren land.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: A neck of land; an isthmus.
examples: text: to be in dire straits
text: 1684, Robert South, “A Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey” in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 420,
[…] let no man, who owns the Belief of a Providence, grow desperate or forlorn, under any Calamity or Strait whatsoever […]
text: Plutarch is of opinion that this sleep of Ulysses was feigned; and that he made use of the pretence of natural infirmity to conceal the streights he was in at that time in his thoughts […]
ref: 1725, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: A difficult position.
Derived terms: Bougainville Strait
Carquinez Strait
Cook Strait
cross-strait
Davis Strait
Denmark Strait
dire straits
Florida Strait
Florida Straits
Foveaux Strait
Hudson Strait
Kara Strait
McClure Strait
M'Clure Strait
Menai Strait
Strait of Canso
Strait of Sangar
Straits of Florida
Tsugaru Strait
strait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: straight
Forms: form: straits
form: straiting
form: straited
form: straited
form: streit
form: streight
Etymology: From Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“compress, tighten”). Doublet of stretto and strict.
Senses: examples: text: After Bardus, the Celtes […] were in short tyme, and with small labour broughte vnder the subiection of the Giaunt Albion, the sonne of Neptune, who altering the state of things here in this yland, straited the name of Celtica and the Celtes within the boundes of Gallia […]
ref: 1577, Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed’s Chronicles, volume 1, London: The Historie of Englande, page 3:
text: […] If your lass / Interpretation should abuse and call this / Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited / For a reply […]
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: The King, Duke of York, Prince Rupert and Maurice are still at Oxford closely surrounded by the Parliaments Forces, and the other not well resolving what course to take, all their Horse being about Faringdon, in expectation of the Lord Ashley with his Foot to joyn in a Body, if they be not prevented by Colonel Fleetwood and Rainsborough, straiting and allarming Oxford very often […]
ref: 1658, William Sanderson, A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, London: Humphrey Moseley, et al, page 885:
glosses: To confine; put to difficulties.
glosses: To tighten.
strait
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
homophone: straight
Forms: form: straiter
form: straitest
form: streit
form: streight
Etymology: From Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (modern form étroit), from Latin strictus, perfect passive participle of stringō (“compress, tighten”). Doublet of stretto and strict.
Senses: examples: text: Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all, / Proceed no straiter ’gainst our uncle Gloucester / Than from true evidence of good esteem / He be approved in practise culpable.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Strictly; rigorously.
moider
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: moiders
form: moidering
form: moidered
form: moidered
Etymology: Probably from the same source as mither (“to harass, pester”)
Senses: glosses: to toil
glosses: to muddle
glosses: to pester
glosses: to perplex or bewilder
Related terms: moither
mither
moider
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: moiders
form: moidering
form: moidered
form: moidered
Etymology: Representing the pronunciation by New York City English speakers with the curl-coil vowel merger.
Senses: glosses: murder
moider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: moiders
Etymology: Representing the pronunciation by New York City English speakers with the curl-coil vowel merger.
Senses: glosses: murder
toil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɪl/
ipa: /ˈtɔɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
rhymes: -ɔɪəl
Forms: form: toils
form: toyle
Etymology: From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, work, labour”)), from Proto-Germanic *tilōną (“to strive, reach for, aim for, hurry”). Cognate with Scots tulyie (“to quarrel, flite, contend”).
An alternate etymology derives Middle English toilen, toylen directly from Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to work, labour, till”), from tuyl ("agriculture, labour, toil"; > Modern Dutch tuil (“toil; work”)). Cognate with Old Frisian teula (“to labour, toil”), teule (“labour, work”), Dutch tuil (“toil, labour”). Compare also Dutch telen (“to grow; raise; cultivate, till”). More at till.
Senses: examples: text: […] he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
synonyms: word: derve
word: drudgery
word: swink
word: sweat
word: chores
word: drudgery
word: drudgework
word: fatigue
word: razzmatazz
word: scut
word: scutwork
word: swink
word: toil
glosses: Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
glosses: Trouble, strife.
examples: text: Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found.
ref: 1697, Virgil, translated by John Dryden, Georgics:
text: I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness.
ref: 1823, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
text: That I was going to sit still, and let you sulk, while mademoiselle walked blindfold into the toils?
ref: 1893, Stanley J. Weyman, “XIX. Men call it chance”, in A Gentleman of France:
text: She had waited overlong, and now it was like that Ailie would escape her toils.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
Derived terms: toiler
toilsome
toil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɪl/
ipa: /ˈtɔɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
rhymes: -ɔɪəl
Forms: form: toils
form: toiling
form: toiled
form: toiled
form: toyle
Etymology: From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, work, labour”)), from Proto-Germanic *tilōną (“to strive, reach for, aim for, hurry”). Cognate with Scots tulyie (“to quarrel, flite, contend”).
An alternate etymology derives Middle English toilen, toylen directly from Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to work, labour, till”), from tuyl ("agriculture, labour, toil"; > Modern Dutch tuil (“toil; work”)). Cognate with Old Frisian teula (“to labour, toil”), teule (“labour, work”), Dutch tuil (“toil, labour”). Compare also Dutch telen (“to grow; raise; cultivate, till”). More at till.
Senses: glosses: To labour; work.
glosses: To struggle.
examples: text: places well toiled and husbanded
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
text: [I] toiled out my uncouth passage.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, 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: To work (something); often with out.
examples: text: toiled with works of war
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To weary through excessive labour.
Derived terms: toil and moil
toil and moil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toils and moils
form: toiling and moiling
form: toiled and moiled
form: toiled and moiled
Senses: glosses: To work hard; to drudge; to toil, to moil.
drudge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: drudges
Etymology: From Middle English druggen, perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).
Senses: examples: text: drudge work
synonyms: peon
minion
glosses: A person who works in a low servile job.
glosses: Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
Derived terms: drudgery
drudgy
Related terms: dree
adree
drudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: drudges
form: drudging
form: drudged
form: drudged
Etymology: From Middle English druggen, perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).
Senses: examples: text: Rise to our Toils and drudge away the day.
ref: 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd:
text: He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged.
ref: 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
glosses: To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
Derived terms: drudger
drudgerie
drudgework
drudgingly
servile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)ˌvaɪl/
ipa: /ˈsəɹ.vəl/
ipa: /ˈsəɹˌvaɪl/
Forms: form: more servile
form: most servile
Etymology: From Middle English servyle, from Old French servil, servile, from Latin servīlis, from servus (“slave”).
Senses: examples: text: British “subjects” (not citizens, note) are just that: gleefully servile to the monarchy’s institutionalised inequality...
ref: 2021, Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian:
glosses: Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
examples: text: servile flattery    servile obedience
text: Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
ref: c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
synonyms: abject
antonyms: arrogant
authoritarian
glosses: Slavish or submissive.
synonyms: abject
antonyms: arrogant
authoritarian
glosses: Slavish or submissive.
Of or pertaining to a slave.
examples: text: a servile letter
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not belonging to the original root.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
Synonyms: word: abject
word: servile
word: slavish
word: submissive
word: subservient
Hypernyms: word: obedient
Hyponyms: word: ingratiating
word: parasitical
word: sycophantic
word: crawling
word: cringing
word: crouching
word: fawning
word: groveling
word: prostrate
word: sneaking
word: sniveling
word: cajoling
word: coaxing
word: wheedling
Derived terms: servility
Related terms: word: serve
word: servant
word: slave
word: BDSM
word: sadomasochism
word: sycophant
servile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)ˌvaɪl/
ipa: /ˈsəɹ.vəl/
ipa: /ˈsəɹˌvaɪl/
Forms: form: serviles
Etymology: From Middle English servyle, from Old French servil, servile, from Latin servīlis, from servus (“slave”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An element which forms no part of the original root.
glosses: A slave; a menial.
servility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌsɜːˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/
ipa: /sɚˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌsɝˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/
Forms: form: servilities
Etymology: From servile + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 425:
glosses: The condition of being servile.
moil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔɪl/
homophone: mohel
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: moils
form: moiling
form: moiled
form: moiled
form: moile
form: moyle
Etymology: From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).
Senses: examples: text: Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things..
ref: 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations:
text: Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
ref: 1693, John Dryden, “Tenth Satire of Juvenal”, in Juvenal and Persius:
text: Why for sluggards cark and moil?
ref: 1849, Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke's Song:
text: There are strange things done in the midnight sun
 By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
 That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
 But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
 I cremated Sam McGee.
ref: 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses:
glosses: To toil, to work hard.
examples: text: A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, chapter 23, in Invisible Man:
glosses: To churn continually; to swirl.
glosses: To defile or dirty.
Derived terms: moiler
toil and moil
unmoiled
moil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔɪl/
homophone: mohel
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: moils
form: moile
form: moyle
Etymology: From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).
Senses: examples: text: I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil and moil of a collier's existence.
ref: 1928, Harry Lauder, chapter VII, in Roamin' in the Gloamin',:
glosses: Hard work.
examples: text: Croft no longer saw anything clearly; he could not have said at that moment where his hands ended and the machine gun began; he was lost in a vast moil of noise out of which individual screams and shouts etched in his mind for an instant.
ref: 1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, Part I, Chapter 5:
glosses: Confusion, turmoil.
examples: text: You'd suppose
A finished generation, dead of plague,
Swept outward from their graves into the sun,
The moil of death upon them.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh:
glosses: A spot; a defilement.
Synonyms: sense: hard work
word: labour
sense: hard work
word: labor
sense: hard work
word: toil
sense: hard work
word: work
Derived terms: bemoil
moil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔɪl/
homophone: mohel
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: moils
form: moile
form: moyle
Etymology: Of unclear origin; possibly from French meule or Hebrew מוהל (mohel, “ritual circumciser”), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
qualifier: blow molding
glosses: The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
Synonyms: sense: excess glass
english: blow molding
translation: blow molding
word: overblow
sense: excess glass
word: scrap
Related terms: gather
mold seam
pontil mark
struggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstrʌɡəl/
ipa: [ˈstɹʌɡl̩]
rhymes: -ʌɡəl
Forms: form: struggles
form: stroggell
form: strogell
Etymology: From Middle English struglen, stroglen, strogelen, of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strugil (“to struggle, grapple, contend”). Perhaps from a variant of *strokelen, *stroukelen (> English stroll), from Middle Dutch struyckelen ("to stumble, trip, falter"; > Modern Dutch struikelen), the frequentative form of Old Dutch *strūkon (“to stumble”), from Proto-Germanic *strūkōną, *strūkēną (“to be stiff”), from Proto-Indo-European *strug-, *ster- (“to be stiff; to bristle, strut, stumble, fall”), related to Middle Low German strûkelen ("to stumble"; > Low German strükeln), Old High German strūhhēn, strūhhōn ("to stumble, trip, tumble, go astray"; > German strauchen, straucheln).
Alternative etymology derives the base of struggle from Old Norse strúgr (“arrogance, pride, spitefulness, ill-will”) + -le (frequentative suffix), from Proto-Germanic *strūkaz (“stiff, rigid”), ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European root above, which would make it cognate with dialectal Swedish strug (“contention, strife, discord”), Norwegian stru (“obstinate, unruly”), Danish struende (“reluctantly”), Scots strug (“difficulty, perplexity, a laborious task”).
Senses: glosses: A contortion of the body in an attempt to escape or to perform a difficult task.
examples: text: The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground. He worked night and day to supplement it.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle and change.
ref: 2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:
glosses: Strife, contention, great effort.
Derived terms: armed struggle
class struggle
counterstruggle
death-struggle
power struggle
struggle-buggy
struggle bus
struggleful
struggleism
struggle kid
struggleless
struggle meal
struggle session
strugglesome
struggly
the struggle is real
difficulty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/
Forms: form: difficulties
Etymology: From Middle English difficulte, from Middle French and Anglo-Norman difficulte and their etymon Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile and difficult. Equivalent to dis- + facile + -ty. Also analysable as difficult + -y, though the adjective is historically a backformation from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: My mom is old and has a lot of difficulty (in) remembering all her grandchildren's names.
glosses: The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
examples: text: We faced a difficulty in trying to book a flight so late.
text: The difficulties of photoheliography consist principally in the rapidity with which the sun's image acts upon the sensitive film.
ref: 1860, Photographic news for amateur photographers, volumes 3-4, page 113:
text: The two-hour debate was briefly stalled by a technical difficulty with the moderators’ microphones.
ref: 2019 June 27, Lauren Gambino, “Democratic 2020 candidates clash on healthcare, immigration and economy in first debate”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: trouble
glosses: An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
examples: text: 2012 August 2, "Children rescued after getting into difficulties in Donegal" BBC Online
ref: 2016 March 30, Alan Thompson, “Diver taken to hospital after getting into difficulties at Stoney Cove diving centre”, in Leicester Mercury:
text: The three teenagers, a girl and two boys, were playing by the river when it is believed they got into difficulty.
ref: 2016 February 24, Catherine Shanahan, “Boy, 13, drowns after getting into difficulty in river”, in Irish Examiner:
text: Members of the public had called 999 as they were concerned the kayaker was in difficulty around the headland race due to very strong spring tides and choppy seas with the kayaker making no headway.
ref: 2016 March 14, “Kayaker rescued after getting into difficulty”, in Bournemouth Echo:
text: A group of young people had to be rescued from Dartmoor on Friday night after getting into difficulty during a Duke of Edinburgh exercise. […] A 16-year-old girl required medical attention and a medic was winched down to the site by helicopter.
ref: 2016 March 19, Neil Shaw, “Teens rescued from Dartmoor after getting into difficulty”, in Plymouth Herald:
glosses: Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning
glosses: An objection.
glosses: That which cannot be easily understood or believed.
glosses: An awkward situation or quarrel.
Derived terms: counterdifficulty
difficulty level
in difficulty
learning difficulty
personality difficulty
technical difficulty
with difficulty
with great difficulty
Related terms: difficile
difficult
contention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɛnʃən/
Forms: form: contentions
Etymology: From Middle English contencion, borrowed from Old French contencion, from Latin contentio, contentionem, from contendō (past participle contentus); equivalent to contend + -tion (similar formation to attention).
Senses: glosses: Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
examples: text: It is my contention that state lotteries are taxes on stupid people.
glosses: A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.
Synonyms: gainstrife
gainstriving
wrangling
Hyponyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: resource contention
Derived terms: bone of contention
contentional
contention system
in contention
noncontention
point of contention
resource contention
Related terms: sense: Related terms of contention
word: contend
sense: Related terms of contention
word: contender
sense: Related terms of contention
word: contentious
sense: Related terms of contention
word: contentiousness
contest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.tɛst/
enpr: kŏn'tĕst
ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɛst/
rhymes: -ɒntɛst
Forms: form: contests
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From French contester, from Old French, from Latin contestor (“to call to witness”).
Senses: examples: text: no contest
synonyms: controversy
debate
discussion
glosses: Controversy; debate.
synonyms: battle
combat
fight
glosses: Struggle for superiority; combat.
examples: text: The child entered the spelling contest.
synonyms: competition
pageant
glosses: A competition.
Hyponyms: beauty contest
bikini contest
cutting contest
dick-measuring contest
dick-waving contest
fashion contest
pissing contest
popularity contest
precontest
staring contest
subcontest
swearing contest
talent contest
wet t-shirt contest
will contest
Derived terms: contest competition
contest shape
no contest