cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Wairakei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A small settlement and geothermal area in Taupo district, Waikato region, in the centre of the North Island, near the town of Taupo, New Zealand, and the location of Wairakei Power Station.
Midhirst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Midhurst
Senses: glosses: A small village in Taranaki, New Zealand.
Mount Maunganui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and port in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, named after an extinct volcano, and situated across Tauranga Harbour from Tauranga itself.
jack-all
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: “[…], or do you mean her reward is having to do jack-all?”
ref: 2015, Amalie Berlin, Breaking Her No-Dating Rule, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 53:
text: They'd stripped off most of their usual I'm so badass vinyl in deference to the heat, sporting enhanced muscles, chrome accessories that did jack-all but look cool, and throwback pompadours they thought made them seem dangerous.
ref: 2018, Sean Grigsby, SA Sidor, Peter McLean, K C Alexander, Pulped Fiction: an Angry Robot Sampler, Watkins Media Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of jack all.
Helensville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Helen + -s- + -ville, altered from the original Helen's Villa.
Senses: glosses: A town north-west of Auckland, New Zealand.
Paraparaumu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /paɹəˈpaɹəˈuːmuː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori Paraparaumu.
Senses: glosses: A town in Kapiti Coast district, Wellington region, New Zealand.
Tokomaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /təʊkəʊˈmɑːɹuː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori; also in Maori legend Tokomaru was a migration canoe.
Senses: glosses: A small town in Horowhenua district, Manawatū-Whanganui, North Island, New Zealand.
Old South Arabian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: related to the Old South Arabian languages.
glosses: related to the Ancient South Arabian script.
Synonyms: Ancient South Arabian
Old South Arabian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A subfamily of extinct West Semitic languages formerly spoken in southern Arabia.
glosses: The Ancient South Arabian script.
Synonyms: Ancient South Arabian
Epigraphic South Arabian
Sayhadic
Hyponyms: word: Sabaic
word: Minaic
word: Qatabanic
word: Hadramitic
word: Awsanian
word: Razihi
word: Faifi
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Old South Arabian terms
Ancient North Arabian
meadow bright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: kingcup
marsh marigold
May blob
cowslip
water dragon
glosses: A swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups; Caltha palustris.
meadow clary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meadow claries
Senses: synonyms: meadow sage
glosses: A tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands, Salvia pratensis.
San Juan Colorado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish San Juan Colorado.
Senses: glosses: A town in Oaxaca, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Oaxaca, Mexico.
concedence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From concede + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: All I had to apprehend, was, that a daughter, so reluctantly carried off, would offer terms to her father, and would be accepted upon a mutual concedence; they to give up Solmes; she to give up me.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of conceding; concession.
parcel shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parcel shelves
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
synonyms: word: cargo shelf
word: package tray
coordinate_terms: decklid
glosses: A usually removable shelf lying behind the back seats or over the trunk of a car.
acrostick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrosticks
Senses: examples: text: [L]et him that is melancholy [...] apply his minde I ſay to Heraldry, Antiquity, invent Impreſſes, Emblemes; make Epithalamiums, Epitaphs, Elegies, Epigrams, Palindrona Epigrammata, Anagrams, Chronograms, Acroſticks, upon his friends names; [...]
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Exercise Rectified of Body and Minde”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 4, page 282:
text: And afterwards gives as many reaſons for it, as there are letters in Hibernaculum Ciconiarum, and that too in the Acrostick way, each ſentence beginning with a letter of thoſe words, according to their order.
ref: 1684 August 30, “Disquisitio de Magia Divinatrice & Operatrice &c. Auctore Francisco Moncæio 4º Francofurti & Lipsiæ 1683 [book review]”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XIV, number 162, London: Printed by T. R. for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society; […], published 1670, →OCLC, pages 707–708:
text: But ſhould this Method fail, recourſe might be had to others more effectual, by Learned Men called Acroſticks and Anagrams. Firſt, might be found Men of Skill and Penetration who can diſcern that all initial Letters have political Meanings.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 92:
text: The Whole [of the Book of Zephaniah] is wrote in a very lively, tender, and pathetic Stile; and all the Chapters, except the laſt, (which ſeems to have been of later Compoſition than the reſt) are in Acroſtick Verſe, i.e. every Line, or Couplet, begins, in an Alphabetical Order, with ſome Letter in the Hebrew Alphabet.
ref: 1744, Thomas Stackhouse, “From the Death of Josiah to the Babylonish Captivity”, in A New History of the Holy Bible, from the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity. […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for Stephen Austen, […], →OCLC, book VI, footnote, page 950:
text: I became a contributor to things monthly. I produced charade upon charade, rebus upon rebus, and acrostick upon acrostick, to the admiration of every body except my parents. Poor people! they were devoid of taste, and knew not the value of such a son.
ref: 1828 March 1, “Confessions over a Bottle”, in The Paisley Magazine, volume I, number 3, Paisley, Renfrewshire: David Dick, →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of acrostic.
acrosticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrostick
acrosticke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrostickes
Senses: examples: text: He [Judas Maccabeus] was termed Mackabæus, becauſe he carried in his ſtandard, or vexillum militare, theſe four Hebrew letters, Mem, Chaph, Beth, and Jod, or M. C. B. and J. whereunto their points being added, which are their vowells, (for others they have none) his mott was Mackabai, whereof he took his name. Theſe four letters are the acroſtickes or initiall letters of theſe four wordes in the fifteenth chapter of the book of Exodus, Mi Chamocha Baalim Jehovah, which is in Latin Quis ſicut tu Deorum Jehova? ["Who among the gods is like you, O Adonai?", Exodus 15:11.]
ref: 1600 December 8, Abraham Hartwell, “Nº LXXXV. Of the Same [i.e., Of the Antiquity, Variety, and Reason of Motts, with Arms of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England].”, in Thomas Hearne, editor, A Collection of Curious Discourses Written by Eminent Antiquaries upon Several Heads in Our English Antiquities. […] In Two Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed by and for W. and J. Richardson, published 1771, →OCLC, pages 278–279:
text: I have written an acroſticke ſonet to his Maieſtie, a canzonet to the Queene, and another acroſticke unto the Price; whoſe ſervant I am by vow, and ſubordinate ſubject by birth.
ref: 1603, Hugh Holland, “To Sir Robert Cotton, Knight, Lord of Cunnington”, in Pancharis: The First Booke. Containing the Preparation of the Loue betweene Ovven Tudyr, and the Queene, long since Intended to Her Maiden Maiestie: […], printed at London: By V[alentine] S[immes] for Clement Knight, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Pancharis: The First Booke. … (Illustrations of Old English Literature [Green Series]; volume 2, number 1), [London]: [Privately printed], 1866, →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of acrostic.
acrostickes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrosticke
Tuzbulok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tuz-Bulak
Senses: glosses: A ruin in Murghob district, Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region, Tajikistan.
wikipedia: Defense Mapping Agency
Great Barrier Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Aotea
glosses: A large island in the Hauraki Gulf off the coast of the North Island, New Zealand. The smaller Little Barrier Island is to the west of it.
spills the tea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spill the tea
spilling the tea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spill the tea
spilled the tea
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spill the tea
fellowess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fellowesses
Etymology: From Middle English felawesse; equivalent to fellow + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Who can have patience with such fellows and fellowesses?
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: A female fellow.
fellowesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellowess
Dargaville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Northland, New Zealand, named after Joseph Dargaville.
Kumara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkuːməɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A small town on the West Coast, South Island, New Zealand.
chg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of change.
glosses: Abbreviation of charge.
cement arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cement arms
Senses: examples: text: […] this use of codeine causing, in underworld parlance, a “cement arm”, hard lumps forming at the point of injection.
ref: 1932, Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, page 8:
text: As the “cement arms” became more common, the earlier patients began to fall away. Some of them thought that the iron in the mixture was responsible, and asked Dr. Lilliendahl to leave it out of their prescriptions. But he never did.
ref: 1953, Leroy Street (pseudonym), I was a Drug Addict (page 153)
glosses: A person's arm that has scarred and hardened from the repeated injection of recreational drugs.
cement arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cement arm
cemetery vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cemetery votes
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A fraudulent vote cast in the guise of a deceased person.
Related terms: cemetery voting
cemetery votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cemetery vote
cemetery voting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊtɪŋ
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The casting of a cemetery vote.
Naseby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪz.bi/
Senses: glosses: A village in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP6878).
glosses: A small town in Otago, New Zealand.
panéing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pané
Edgecumbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Edgcumbe, from Edgecomb, which is a topographic surname, from Old English eċġ (“edge”) + cumb (“narrow valley”).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, named after Edgcumbe in Cornwall, England.
Edgcumbe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Edgcumbes
Etymology: Variant of Edgecomb.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Wendron parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7233).
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: word: Edgecumbe
Murupara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /muːɹuːpɑːɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town serving the forestry industry in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
IBI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Imperial Bank of India.
glosses: Initialism of Information Based Indicia.
glosses: Initialism of Irish Bible Institute.
IBI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IBIs
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of index of biological integrity.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of inquiry-based instruction.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of interbeat interval.
Kawerau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɑːwəɹaʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: An industrial town in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
Kinleith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɪnliːθ/
Etymology: Of Scottish origin.
Senses: glosses: An industrial location with a pulp and paper mill near Tokoroa, Waikato, New Zealand.
Tokoroa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /təʊkəʊɹəʊə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A town in Waikato, New Zealand.
Ngaruawahia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ŋɑːɹuːəˈwɑːhiːə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori Ngāruawāhia.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Waikato, New Zealand.
dullahan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈduː.ləˌhɑːn/
Forms: form: dullahans
form: Dullahan
form: dullaghan
form: Dullaghan
Etymology: From Irish dulachán, from dubh (“black”) + another word (compare lucharachán (“elf, dwarf”)), possibly originally a term for a dark or sullen person (compare the surname Dullahan) and only subsequently applied to the spirit.
Senses: examples: text: The dullahans always came in a mist. But Devin wasn't afraid of dullahans. If he saw one, he would club it over the head. But then Devin remembered that dullahans didn't have heads. He grasped his stick a little tighter in his hand, […]
ref: 1990, Elona Malterre, The Last Wolf of Ireland, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 3:
text: “A dullahan,” both Phelan and Coriel whispered. Coriel looked her square in the eye, “You did remember the gold, right?” ML blushed, “No, I didn't. I was so scared I just started running.” “Then how did you escape?” “My pocket tore on a bush. […] “You're lucky you're not dead anyway. The dullahan could have stopped or spoken your name, or both.”
ref: 2008, Jessica Borchardt, A Fairy Yarn, →ISBN, page 53:
text: There is no way to bar the road against a dullahan. All locks and gates open on their own when it approaches. Dullahans do not appreciate being watched while on their errands, throwing a basin of blood on those who dare to do so […]
ref: 2014, Tony Locke, Mayo Folk Tales, The History Press, →ISBN:
text: But the values of a fairy manifested into physical form in this city—a dullahan.” Celty Sturluson was not a human being. Celty was a type of fairy known as a dullahan that appeared to those close to death, signaling their impending demise.
ref: 2015, Ryohgo Narita, Durarara, volume 1, Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:
text: Because she is a dullahan, her head is not connected to her body—it's held in place by her gear.
ref: 2017, Kugane Maruyama, Satoshi Oshio, Overlord, volume 4, Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A black-clad (usually male) horserider in Irish folklore which carries its severed head like a lantern and may be repelled by gold; when it stops riding (or calls out someone's name), someone will die. (Also called the Gan Ceann, Irish for "[one] without a head".)
Dullahan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dullahans
Senses: examples: text: “With the Bodach defeated, no one thought to protect Gwen. A Dullahan discovered her and used the necklace to control her. Through her, it learned everything about Arthur's defenses.”
ref: 2012, Armen Pogharian, Misaligned: The Celtic Connection, SynergEbooks, →ISBN, page 111:
text: It was never fully clear to Irving whether the Dullahan and the Gan Ceann were the same entity [...]. Most feared of all the Unseelie, the Dullahan is a bringer of dismay and death. The Dullahan is a headless rider, clad in a flowing black cape and usually mounted upon a black horse that spews flames from its nostrils […] The Dullahan carries its rotting head aloft in one hand like a lantern, the better to see immense distances, while it holds a whip made from a human spinal cord in the other.
ref: 2016, Mark Latham, Hunting the Headless Horseman, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of dullahan.
Dullahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Dullahans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dullahan
dullahans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dullahan
RNZAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ar.ɛn.zɛd.eɪ.ɛf/
ipa: /ar.ɛn.zi.eɪ.ɛf/
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Related terms: RAF
RAAF
RCAF
Dullaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduː.ləˌhɑːn/
ipa: /ˈdʌl.ə.hæn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: Dullaghans
Senses: examples: text: Ballindolaghan, in the parish of Baslick, Roscommon, must be a horrible place to live in, if the Dullaghan that gave it the name ever shows himself now to the inhabitants. Every one knows that a ghost without a head is [horrible].
ref: 1869, The Athenaeum, page 238:
text: There is another gruesome spirit, of the hobgoblin species, who is generally seen without his head—in fact, it is doubtful if the Dullaghan has ever been observed with his cranium properly placed on his body, as be generally carries it ...
ref: 1897, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, page 250:
text: "And, maybe, too, against the Dullaghan." Light broke. This was the local name for the ghost of a suicide who might anticipate the grave's rightful tenant. No Dullaghan was supposed to dare the daylight, but on a stormy winter's afternoon,[…]
ref: 1958, Leonard Alfred George Strong, Light Above the Lake:
glosses: Alternative form of dullahan.
Dullaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduː.ləˌhɑːn/
ipa: /ˈdʌl.ə.hæn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
rhymes: -æn
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
dullaghan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dullaghans
Senses: examples: text: Ballindollaghan in the parish of Baslick, Roscommon, must be a horrible place to live in, if the dullaghan that gave it the name ever shows himself now to the inhabitants. Every one knows that a ghost without a head is [horrible].
ref: 1870, Patrick Weston Joyce, The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, page 186:
text: His head is doubtless, as is usual with dullaghans, under his arm, but where are the heads of the four horses?
ref: 1892, William Gregory Wood-Martin, History of Sligo, County and Town, page 382:
text: They heard the sound of hooves – big beasts, galloping fast. As the three highwaymen slowly struggled to sit up, one turned and screamed. Coming towards them out of the night were two huge, fierce, fire-breathing black dullaghans, ...
ref: 2017, Doug Wilson, The Time Road: Part 2: the Changeling Warriors, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: The Pooka, who appeared in the shape of a horse, and whom Shakespeare has adapted as “Puck,” was a goblin who combined “horseplay” with viciousness. The dullaghan was a churchyard demon whose head was of a movable kind, ...
ref: 1909, The Irish Fairy Book, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of dullahan.
dullaghans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dullaghan
Dullaghans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dullaghan
Whenuapai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fɛnuːəpaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, and an RNZAF base.
Remuera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹɛmuːɪəɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
Vacaville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Vaca + -ville, named after Juan Manuel Vaca.
Senses: glosses: A city in Solano County, California, United States.
Derived terms: Vacavillian
Suisun City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Solano County, California, United States.
Benicia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Solano County, California, United States.
Rio Vista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Solano County, California, United States.
Green Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æli
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Solano County, California, United States.
glosses: A barangay of Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines.
examples: text: From Baguio, near the market in Session road you can find the Jeepney terminal going to Green Valley and some of them can take you up to Mt.Cabuyao but we preferred to climb on longer route to enjoy the view. [...] Once the jeep arrived at U-turn slot in Green Valley, get down in the jeep and from here you can start to trek up to this cemented road.
ref: 2014 January 23, Ceferino Calosa, “Mt. Sto Tomas Traverse (Andolor), Tuba, Benguet”, in CEF'S NATURE ADVENTURE:
glosses: Synonym of Dontogan (a barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines)
synonyms: word: Dontogan
extra: a barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines
Derived terms: Lower Green Valley
Upper Green Valley
Northgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of Fremont, Alameda County, California, United States.
San Anselmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Marin County, California, United States.
Tamalpais-Homestead Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Corte Madera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔɹ.də.məˈdɛ.ɹə/
Senses: glosses: A town in Marin County, California, United States. Former name: Adams.
Lucas Valley-Marinwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Santa Venetia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Marin City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Sleepy Hollow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
glosses: A village in Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York, United States.
Lagunitas-Forest Knolls
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Black Point-Green Point
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Point Reyes Station
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compound of Point Reyes + station.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Stinson Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
San Geronimo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Muir Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
Dillon Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
American Canyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Napa County, California, United States.
Deer Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Napa County, California, United States.
glosses: A hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, United States.
Related terms: Deerfield
Deerpark
Raleigh
Tiergarten
Silverado Resort
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Napa County, California, United States.
Moskowite Corner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Napa County, California, United States.
Yakutat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tlingit Yaakwdáat, from Eyak diyaʼqudaʼt.
Senses: glosses: A borough of Alaska, United States.
glosses: A dialect of the Tlingit language.
Derived terms: Yakutat bear
Yakutat Block
Yakutat hut
Prvt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Prvts.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pvt..
Private
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Privates
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of private.
Pvt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pvts.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Private.
little name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little names
Etymology: From little + name.
Senses: examples: text: Most children have some little name that they are called by besides their Christian name — their pet name, it is called.
ref: 1881, Eleanor A. Bulley, Great Britain for Little Britons, page 11:
text: "Do I have a little name?" "Yes. You have two. Ash or Ashtor."
ref: 2004, Marilyn Mattie Brahen, Claiming Her, page 72:
text: What was I supposed to be now, bouncy? In true irony my “little” name had inspired me to become my own version of one of the Seven Dwarfs!
ref: 2007, Debra Borden, A Little Bit Married, page 35:
glosses: A pet name one is called when one is little or young.
little names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little name
NHI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: As incensed as the public gets at appallingly brutal killings–the ones that blow away innocents–police expend little sympathy on criminal-to-criminal mayhem. An acronym drifts unwritten about the system; those are NHI crimes–No Human Involved. Such talk is severely not part of official policy […]
ref: 1989 May 14, Los Angeles Times, page 1:
text: The cops got an actual rubber stamp that says NHI.
ref: 2002, Lynn Breedlove, Godspeed, page 24:
text: According to the old unwritten code of the Los Angeles Police Department, Dovon's was a nothing murder. “NHI-No Human Involved,” the cops used to say.
ref: 2015, Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: Acronym of no human involved (“describing a crime committed against a person deemed societally undesirable”).
NHI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: Initialism of non-human intelligence.
ooches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ooch
ooches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ooch
ooching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ooch
ooched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ooch
Seelie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.li/
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: Seelie
Etymology: From Scots sely, seelie (“holy, good”), from Middle English seely, from Old English sǣliġ, gesǣlig. Doublet of silly.
Senses: examples: text: Okay, so that sounded like the Seelie hated the Unseelie and vice versa. But not quite. There was something more here. I puzzled over it several moments. Did it mean the Seelie couldn't actually touch the Unseelie, and vice versa? I read on.
ref: 2008, Karen Marie Moning, Faefever: Fever Series, Delacorte Press, →ISBN:
text: We like the Seelie court and the humans lived, loved and laughed. As the war between the Seelie and the Unseelie escalated and the Seelie gained the upper hand we Unseelie were forced to hide in the shadows and fear for our lives.
ref: 2015, Selena Thana, Sidhe Megalomania: Tuath Dé - Tome 4, K. George, →ISBN:
topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A benevolent or beneficially-inclined fairy.
Seelie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiː.li/
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: more Seelie
form: most Seelie
Etymology: From Scots sely, seelie (“holy, good”), from Middle English seely, from Old English sǣliġ, gesǣlig. Doublet of silly.
Senses: examples: text: “Like Sleeping Beauty, you mean,” I said. Henry nodded. His handsome face was very worried, and I didn't know him long enough to read him that well. “They came and saw the garden, and it was very Seelie, my lord. More than that, none.”
ref: 2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness: A Novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
text: “Altruism is very Seelie.” “The sidhe were all Seelie once,” Shock said. “Either we resign ourselves to that part of our history or we go mad. I do not fight my impulses toward love and beauty the way my father does. But enough of that.”
ref: 2018, Mishell Baker, Impostor Syndrome, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Seelie; benevolent (as a fairy, etc).
Unseelie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Unseelie
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.
Senses: topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A malevolent or malicious fairy.
Unseelie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Unseelie
form: most Unseelie
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots unseely (“mischievous, evil-doing”), from Middle English unsely, from Old English unsǣliġ. Doublet of unsilly.
Senses: examples: text: Unseelie wights
text: “That is not very Unseelie, and most definitely not very sluagh.”
“I cannot always choose how the magic will come.”
“It is wild magic, and it chooses its own way like water finding a cleft in a rock,” he said.
ref: 2008, Laurell K. Hamilton, Swallowing Darkness: A Novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:
text: “I am very Unseelie Tuatha Dé. Almost one hundred percent, in fact. Only a drop of Seelie to muddy the pool. Do you have a problem with that, Shining One?”
ref: 2010, Nalini Singh, Erin McCarthy, Jean Johnson, Lora Leigh, Linda Winstead Jones, Angela Knight, Anya Bast, Allyson James, Paranormal Holiday Anthology Trio, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the unseelie; malevolent (as a fairy, etc).
conscioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conscion
fleekier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fleeky: more fleeky
fleekiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of fleeky: most fleeky
Isthmus Nahuatl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Spanish náhuatl del Istmo.
Senses: synonyms: Isthmus Nahua
Isthmus Nahuat
glosses: The variety or varieties of Nahuatl spoken in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Hyponyms: Mecayapan Nahuatl
Pajapan Nahuatl
do wonders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does wonders
form: doing wonders
form: did wonders
form: done wonders
Senses: glosses: Synonym of work wonders.
synonyms: word: work wonders
Ellerslie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛləzliː/
Etymology: Most places were named after Elderslie in Scotland, the reason for the spelling variation is unclear.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A community in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Harris County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland, United States.
right the ship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rights the ship
form: righting the ship
form: righted the ship
form: righted the ship
form: steady the ship
Senses: synonyms: put things right
glosses: Correct a process that is not proceeding properly.
Related terms: set aright
set right
bilge pump
even keel
tight ship
Meadowbank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛdəʊbaŋk/
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2874).
glosses: A community in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
glosses: A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
sign-on bonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sign-on bonuses
form: sign on bonus
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: signing bonus
glosses: A one-time payment provided by one contracting party to the other as a financial inducement to formalize and execute the contractual agreement.
sign on bonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sign on bonuses
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of sign-on bonus.
sign on bonuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sign on bonus
sign-on bonuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sign-on bonus
Papakura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɑːpəˈkuːɹə/
Senses: glosses: An outer suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
Corstorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Corstorphines
form: Carstarphen
Etymology: Perhaps from Scottish Gaelic cros (“cross”) + Torfin, a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse personal name Þorfinnr.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2073).
glosses: A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
glosses: A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn from Old Norse].
St Clair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: St. Clair
form: Saint Clair
form: Saint-Clair
form: St-Clair
form: St.-Clair
Etymology: An abbreviation of Saint Clair, variant of Saint Clare under influence from French Claire, a calque of Latin Sancta Clara (“holy Clara”), chiefly in reference to Italian Chiara Offreduccio, St. Clare of Assisi. The placenames listed below are typically spelt St Clair—abbreviated without punctuation—following Commonwealth practice.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sinclair, a surname.
glosses: Alternative form of Sinclair, a male given name.
glosses: A seaside suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
glosses: An outer suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A business and residential district in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Papanui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɑːpəˈnuːi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
vidcall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vidcalls
Senses: examples: text: Glad you called,” Ygara said, coming over to companionably grip Cora’s forearm as she stepped out of the airlock. “Just when I was starting to get bored with your little system. Welcome aboard! Come meet the team.”
Over the vidcall, Ygara had explained to Cora that she’d bought and refurbished a small surplus asari destroyer a few years back, with some of her earnings from three hundred years in the Daughters.
ref: 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 2, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: videocall
Related terms: vidchat
vidnumber
vidphone
Wingatui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wɪŋɡətuːi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A settlement near Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand.
interprable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It lacks all nomenclature on the St. Lawrence system, but that of our outer Atlantic coast is conformable to other maps of the group, except for a few differences readily interprable.
ref: 1964, Royal Society of Canada, Special Publications - Royal Society of Canada:
text: The components of the matrix function B(s)G-1 thus are still interprable as responses to "shocks" in particular variables, but now the shocks are of a more typical sort and, ...
ref: 1981, Jan Kmenta, James Bernard Ramsey, Large-scale macro-econometric models: theory and practice, North-Holland:
text: This is interprable as "He who is at rest..."
ref: 2001, Francis E. Williams, Mental Perception, BRILL, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Fóti points out that the first form of homecoming is one that rejects any concern for the enigma of being and "seeks its abode among beings in their familiar and fully interprable interrelationships, rejecting any concern with being's enigma ...".
ref: 2011, Jules Simon, Art and Responsibility: A Phenomenology of the Diverging Paths of Rosenzweig and Heidegger, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 242:
synonyms: interperable
glosses: Interpretable.
third age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Third Age
Senses: glosses: The age after retirement but while one is still young enough to be active; young old age.
interperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The following tables show the monthly observations and linear interperable observations of the parameters used in the statistical analysis: […]
ref: 1971, Air-sea Interaction in the Tropical Pacific Ocean, page 25:
text: The results of high field magnetization experiments are complex and are not readily interperable without additional information. This requirement provided the motivation for a direct examination of the spin structure evolution […]
ref: 1972, Robert Sague Carter, Reactor Radiation Division: Annual Progress Report for the Period Ending October 31, 1971, page 43:
text: Moreover, if the binding of some ions to a multi-site protein molecule changes the spectral characteristics in opposite directions, then the shape of the spectrally determined binding curve is never unambiguously interperable as indicating cooperativity of binding.
ref: 1981, Doris Ménaché, Douglas Surgenor, Harlan D. Anderson, Hemophilia and Hemostasis, page 46:
text: Like language itself, these events remain un-decodable, a metaphor only of the world's inability to supply interperable meanings. As an editing principle Godard employs the "jump-cut" which excises the middle portions of shots and actions, ...
ref: 1994, Stephen Snyder, The transparent I: self/subject in European cinema, Peter Lang Pub Inc:
synonyms: interprable
glosses: Interpretable.
Middlemarch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪdəlˌmɑːt͡ʃ/
Senses: glosses: A small town in Otago, New Zealand.
Bichatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bichatian
form: most Bichatian
Etymology: From Bichat + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology.
Kurow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kuːɹaʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori Te Kohurau, a nearby mountain.
Senses: glosses: A small town in Waitaki district, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand.
Duntroon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /dʌnˈtɹuːn/
Etymology: Apparently of Scottish origin.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, and the location of the Royal Military College, Duntroon.
glosses: A small town in Waitaki district, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A community in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
Pukeuri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pʊkiˈuːɹi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: A settlement in North Otago, New Zealand, also (formerly) known as Pukeuri Junction.
Theale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /θiːl/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU6471).
glosses: A village in Wedmore parish, Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4646).
Aldermaston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːldəˈmɑːstən/
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5965).
Midgham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5567).
Thatcham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU5167).
Leptines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛptɪniːz/
ipa: /ˈlɛptɪniz/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λεπτίνης (Leptínēs).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Λεπτίνης (Leptínēs).
Encino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish encino.
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.
glosses: A village in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Brooks County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A town and municipality in Santander department, Colombia.
Northridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Kintbury
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS SU3866).
Patney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in mid Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0758).
San Fernando Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the San Fernando Valley
Senses: synonyms: The Valley
Valley
glosses: A valley and region of Los Angeles County, California north of the Santa Monica Mountains, including the northern part of the city of Los Angeles and the cities of Calabasas, Burbank, Glendale, Hidden Hills, and San Fernando.
Derived terms: San Pornando Valley
Related terms: valley girl
Silicone Valley
Calabasas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish calabazas.
Senses: glosses: A city in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, California, United States on the northwest edge of the city of Los Angeles
all nighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all nighters
Senses: examples: text: If I need to pull an all nighter, all I have to do is pop more pills and I'll be good to go, concentration and everything.
ref: 2011, Amber Hunt, All-American Murder, page 228:
text: He is still suffering from the after effects of the 'all nighter' of a few days ago.
ref: 2011, Vaughan Landless, Am I Getting a Lift?.:
text: We've spent several all nighters together.
ref: 2014, James W. Snyder Jr., Tales of the Wild, Wild West: The Lady and the Gent, page 50:
glosses: Alternative spelling of all-nighter.
all nighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of all nighter
Santa Monica Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Santa Monica Mountains
Etymology: Probably from the city of Santa Monica
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Los Angeles County and Ventura County, California, United States.
Rodham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rodhams
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Brewham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district, containing the villages of North Brewham and South Brewham (OS grid ref ST73).
McConnell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McConnells
form: M'Connell
form: M'connell
form: Maconnell
form: MaConnell
form: Mac Connell
form: MacConnell
form: Macconnell
form: Mcconnell
form: Mc Connell
form: M'Connel
form: M'connel
form: Maconnel
form: MaConnel
form: Mac Connel
form: MacConnel
form: Macconnel
form: Mcconnel
form: McConnel
form: Mc Connel
form: McWhannell
Senses: examples: text: Walker – a Republican frontrunner in the race for Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s seat who has racked up high-profile endorsements from both former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – released a statement to the AJC on his college trajectory.
ref: 2021 December 17, Rachel Janfaza, “Herschel Walker campaign deletes a false claim saying the Republican candidate for Senate graduated from college”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Waddams Township, Stephenson County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Logan County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: McConnellsburg
McConnelsville
Related terms: Connel
Connell
Connelly
O'Connell
Los Angeles River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
Synonyms: LA River
L.A. River
L. A. River
Los Angeles
Athelney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Æþelinga īeġ (“noble island”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Burrowbridge parish and Stoke St Gregory parish, Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district and Taunton Deane district (OS grid ref ST3428).
wikipedia: Athelney
Yeovil-Taunton line#+
Honolulu County
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county of Hawaii, United States. County seat: Honolulu.
Halawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Hālawa.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States.
Waimalu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States.
Wailea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Wailea. Compound of wai (“water”) + Lea (“a goddess of canoe builders”)
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Manele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Kualapuu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Kualapuʻu.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Maalaea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian Māʻalaea.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Ualapue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻUalapuʻe.
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Rohnert Park
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sonoma County, California, United States.
Healdsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sonoma County, California, United States.
Cloverdale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From clover + dale.
Senses: glosses: A city in Sonoma County, California, United States.
Cotati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Coast Miwok [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A city in Sonoma County, California, United States.
Larkfield-Wikiup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A census-designated place in Sonoma County, California, United States.