cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
avowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Etymology: From avow + -ed.
Senses: glosses: openly acknowledged
examples: text: There was considerable scepticism as to whether the line would pay, but its avowed intention was to put an end to the slave trade.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 262:
text: An avowed aim of the 1962 Transport Act was to concentrate the BRB's attention on running trains.
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
glosses: positively stated
examples: text: His first avowed intent, to be a pilgrim - Who would true valour see
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
glosses: asserted under oath, or vow
Derived terms: avowedly
avowedness
unavowed
Related terms: avowable
backpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.pæk/
Forms: form: backpacks
form: back pack
Etymology: From back + pack.
Senses: examples: text: Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her backpack that were important to her, nobody would know about them because they would be hidden. These important things included a small round rock that she had found […]
ref: 2011, Thelma J. Miller, What's in Your Backpack?, page 8:
text: Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77:
glosses: A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
glosses: A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life-support equipment.
Synonyms: word: haversack
word: knapsack
word: packsack
word: rucksack
word: bookbag
Hyponyms: english: shoulder-slung types
translation: shoulder-slung types
word: creel
Derived terms: backpack funding
backpack nuke
backpack rap
fastpack
I lost my backpack
slackpack
backpack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæk.pæk/
Forms: form: backpacks
form: backpacking
form: backpacked
form: backpacked
form: back pack
Etymology: From back + pack.
Senses: glosses: To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
glosses: To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
examples: text: I planned to go to jungle today and backpacked my things which contained ^([sic]) food and a note book.
ref: 2020, Akara September 2020 Magazine, page 103:
glosses: To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.
Derived terms: word: backpackable
word: backpacker
word: backpacking
word: packing
baddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbædi/
rhymes: -ædi
Forms: form: baddies
form: baddy
Etymology: From bad + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: In a western, the baddie typically wears a black hat.
text: What really gets to me in these goodies versus baddies movies is just how useless the baddies are.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 127:
text: Have you noticed that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them… Hans, are we the baddies?
ref: 2006, That Mitchell and Webb Look, season 1, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Fritz (Robert Webb):
text: It’s important not to brand all the Russians as the baddies in the world.
ref: 2022 May 2, Peter Coy, quoting Alexandra Vacroux, “Putin’s Failure to Hold on to the Educated Could Be the World’s Gain”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: antagonist
evildoer
villain
antonyms: goodie
glosses: A person of bad character, especially in a work of fiction.
examples: text: Aside from all of the abstract aspects (things we cannot see), you do not have to be an Instagram model/baddie to be a bad bitch.
ref: 2020, Kenshi Hayabusa, The Road to Becoming a Bad Bitch: How I Overcame Low-Self Esteem and Negativity, Hayabusa Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:
text: All day long, she can immerse herself in the world of crop tops and contour and IG “baddies” that do not look like any Indian girl she knows.
ref: 2021, Priya-Alika Elias, Besharam: On Love and Other Bad Behaviors, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:
text: Miriam noted that Instagram had “Insta baddies,” who made names for themselves by posing “with scandalous clothes on and maybe they'll have a bunch of makeup on.”
ref: 2021, Shauna Pomerantz, Miriam Field, “A TikTok Assemblage: Girlhood, Radical Media Engagement, and Parent–Child Generativity”, in Fiona Blaikie, editor, Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging, Abingdon, England: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:
text: On Instagram, baddies and models of every ethnicity rock fashion and beauty trends that Black women either created or popularized: cornrows, oversized door knocker earrings, long, intricately designed acrylic nails, artfully sculpted baby hairs.
ref: 2021, Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:
glosses: An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.
Related terms: badling
blithering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Talking incoherently; jabbering.
Derived terms: blitheringly
blithering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blither
blithering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blitherings
Senses: examples: text: the blitherings of a madman
glosses: Incoherent or foolish talk.
examine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæmɪn/
Forms: form: examines
form: examining
form: examined
form: examined
form: examin
Etymology: From Middle English examinen, examenen, from Old French examiner, from Latin exāmināre.
Senses: examples: text: He examined the crime scene for clues.
text: She examined the hair sample under a microscope.
text: Well, nobody knows about the little things / Nobody knows what they really mean / Nobody ever wants to take the time / To examine what's on your mind
ref: 1979, Ashford & Simpson, “Nobody Knows”, in Stay Free (album):
text: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
text: The new study examines development activities for different AI technologies worldwide.
ref: 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019:
glosses: To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
examples: text: The doctor examined the patient.
glosses: To check the health or condition of something or someone.
glosses: To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
examples: text: The witness was examined under oath.
glosses: To interrogate.
Synonyms: word: pore over
word: undersee
word: analyze
word: check
word: examine
word: inspect
word: thresh
word: look over
word: luster
word: lustrate
word: overlook
word: probe
word: scrutinate
word: scrutinize
word: study
word: survey
Hyponyms: word: cross examine
word: re-examine
word: copyedit
word: proof
word: proofread
word: prooflisten
Derived terms: cross-examine
examinability
examinable
examinee
examiner
examinership
examiningly
overexamined
preexamine
reexamine
re-examine
underexamined
unexamined
Related terms: exam
examen
examinant
examinate
examination
examinator
examinatorial
look at
examine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæmɪn/
Forms: form: examines
form: examin
Etymology: From Middle English examinen, examenen, from Old French examiner, from Latin exāmināre.
Senses: examples: text: Soutar scratched the back of his neck then had a quick examine of his nails. Deep-ingrained purple they were.
ref: 2014, J. David Simons, The Liberation of Celia Kahn:
glosses: An act of examining.
grey area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey areas
form: gray area
Etymology: Because grey is a blend of black and white, and thus a metaphor for how an imperfect nature is a blend of perfection and perfidy.
Senses: examples: text: It exists in a grey area between legal and illegal.
glosses: An area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories, where the border between the two is fuzzy or ill-defined.
examples: text: Fame is a grey area[.]
ref: 2007 May, Men's Health, volume 22, number 4, page 94:
glosses: A topic that is not clearly one thing or the other, that is open to interpretation.
Synonyms: sense: an area intermediate between two mutually exclusive states or categories
word: penumbra
Related terms: grey hat
grey literature
greyline
grey market
black and white
fall between two stools
twilight zone
posterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: /poʊˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
ipa: /pɑˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /pɑˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
note: of the US
ipa: /pɒsˈtɪɹ.i.ɚ/
ipa: /pɔsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: /pɒsˈtiːə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: [pɔ̟sˈtiːə.ɹi.ə]
ipa: /pɒsˈtiə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: [pɔ̟sˈtiə.ɹi.ə]
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more posterior
form: most posterior
form: posteriour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: back
hinder
rear
antonyms: anterior
glosses: Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: back
hinder
rear
antonyms: anterior
glosses: Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
synonyms: later
antonyms: prior
glosses: Following in order or in time.
Derived terms: anteroposterior
apicoposterior
centroposterior
distoposterior
dorsoposterior
duplicitas posterior
frontoposterior
inferoposterior
lateroposterior
long posterior ciliary artery
medioposterior
mentoposterior
mesioposterior
midposterior
nonposterior
occipitoposterior
posterior auricular artery
posterior auricular muscle
posterior cerebral artery
posterior chamber
posterior cingulate cortex
posterior communicating artery
posterior cricoarytenoid muscle
posterior cruciate ligament
posterior ethmoidal artery
posterior inferior cerebellar artery
posteriorisation
posterioristic
posteriority
posteriorization
posteriorize
posteriorly
posterior mal
posterior malleolus
posteriormost
posterior naris
posteriorness
posterior probability
posterior scalene muscle
posterior spinal artery
posterior superior alveolar artery
posterior triangle
posteriorward
postero-
posterio-
proximoposterior
sacroposterior
short posterior ciliary artery
sinistroposterior
subposterior
superoposterior
ventroposterior
Related terms: auricularis posterior
post-
postical
posticous
posterior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: /poʊˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
ipa: /pɑˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /pɑˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
note: of the US
ipa: /pɒsˈtɪɹ.i.ɚ/
ipa: /pɔsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: /pɒsˈtiːə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: [pɔ̟sˈtiːə.ɹi.ə]
ipa: /pɒsˈtiə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: [pɔ̟sˈtiə.ɹi.ə]
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: posteriors
form: posteriour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).
Senses: examples: text: Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.
ref: 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52:
synonyms: word: 'tocks
word: arse
word: arse cheeks
word: ass
word: ass cheeks
word: back
word: backside
word: batty
word: behind
word: blessed assurance
word: booty
word: botty
word: bottom
word: bum
word: bum cheeks
word: buns
word: butt
word: butt cheeks
word: buttocks
word: caboose
word: cheeks
word: derriere
word: fanny
word: fourth point of contact
word: gluteus maximus
word: glutes
word: gooseberry-grinder
word: gyatt
raw_tags: used jokingly by generation alpha preteens
word: heinie
word: hiney
word: hinderlin
word: hurdies
word: jacksie
word: keester
word: keister
word: moon
word: moneymaker
word: nates
word: nether cheeks
word: patootie
word: peach
word: posterior
word: rear
word: rear end
word: rump
word: seat
word: sit upon
word: tail
word: toches
word: tush
word: tushie
glosses: The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: posterior probability
antonyms: prior#Noun
prior probability
glosses: The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).
fall between two stools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls between two stools
form: falling between two stools
form: fell between two stools
form: fallen between two stools
Etymology: From an old proverb, "Between two stools, one falls to the ground", which dates from 1390. This, in turn, is most likely a translation of the medieval Latin proverb labitur enitens sellis herere duabus ("he falls trying to sit on two seats").
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, it fell between two stools: it was not good enough to be a competition car and those who wanted a roadburner preferred the Iso Grifo, which was better equipped.
ref: 1996, Mike Lawrence, A to Z of Sports Cars, 1945-1990:
text: Even Henry's will embodies that suspension between two poles, or falling between two stools, which characterises so much of his church's history from the point.
ref: 2006, Richard Rex, Henry VIII and the English Reformation:
text: Patterson's therory has profound implications for any critical interpretation of the play: if, as she argues, we should recognise two distinct versions of the play with very different political effects, an interpretation which ignores the differences is likely to fall between two stools.
ref: 2014, Robert Watt, Shakespeare's History Plays, page 184:
qualifier: issues; problems; items; issues; problems; items
glosses: To fit into neither of two categories and, hence, be neglected or fail.
raw_tags: of tasks
examples: text: “[…] She Dido] could not bear to lose the land she had got by a swindle; and then she could not bear the loss of her lover. So she fell between two stools. […]”
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, “Barchester Towers”, in The Century Co., published 1902, page 252:
text: Failing to get rid of the old love Medea] before taking on the new—in other words, wasting his strength over a new and untried method before having fully established the old—he Jason] fell between two stools.
ref: 1910, Sydney Humphries, Oriental Carpets, Runners and Rugs and Some Jacquard Reproductions, READ BOOKS, published 2010, →ISBN, page 22:
text: The Council, by trying to combine its functions as the responsible executive of the League with some of the representative attributes of the Assembly, has to some extent fallen between two stools, and gives the impression of not being certain of its rôle.
ref: 1929, Charles Howard Ellis, The Origin, Structure & Working of the League of Nations, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., published 2004, →ISBN, page 153:
text: As your chances of mega-success increase so do your chances of falling between two stools, and if you get it wrong, you could end up with a dog’s dinner that satisfies no one.
ref: 2003, Chris Jones, The Guerilla^([sic]) Film Makers Movie Blueprint, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: To attempt two roles and fail at both, when either could have been accomplished singly.
Synonyms: fall in a grey area
Related terms: out of the frying pan, into the fire
neither
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: nī′thə
enpr: nē′thə
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈniː.ðə/
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈni.ðɚ/
note: r
enpr: nā′thə
note: in use until the 20th c.
ipa: /ˈneɪ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /nɛj.d̪ɐ(r)/
Etymology: Alteration (after either) of nauther, from Middle English neiþer, from Old English nāwþer, contraction of nāhwæþer, corresponding to no + whether. Compare Latin neuter (“neither”). By surface analysis, not + either.
Senses: examples: text: Neither definition seems correct.
text: She was neither learned nor intelligent, but she contrived to dress both herself and her daughter out of a meagre jointure, supplying with her clever fingers what her purse could not buy;[…].
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
glosses: Not one of two; not either; not one or the other.
neither
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: nī′thə
enpr: nē′thə
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈniː.ðə/
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈni.ðɚ/
note: r
enpr: nā′thə
note: in use until the 20th c.
ipa: /ˈneɪ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /nɛj.d̪ɐ(r)/
Etymology: Alteration (after either) of nauther, from Middle English neiþer, from Old English nāwþer, contraction of nāhwæþer, corresponding to no + whether. Compare Latin neuter (“neither”). By surface analysis, not + either.
Senses: examples: text: Neither you nor I likes it.
text: For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]
ref: 2025 June 19, Rami Kaminski, ““Otroverts” and why nonconformists often see what others can’t”, in Big Think:
glosses: Not either (used with nor).
Derived terms: common sense is neither common nor sensical
make neither head nor tail of
me neither
neither a borrower nor a lender be
neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring
neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring
neither fish nor flesh
neither fish nor fowl
neither here nor there
neither this nor that
neither use nor ornament
neither … nor
neither
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: nī′thə
enpr: nē′thə
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈniː.ðə/
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈni.ðɚ/
note: r
enpr: nā′thə
note: in use until the 20th c.
ipa: /ˈneɪ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /nɛj.d̪ɐ(r)/
Etymology: Alteration (after either) of nauther, from Middle English neiþer, from Old English nāwþer, contraction of nāhwæþer, corresponding to no + whether. Compare Latin neuter (“neither”). By surface analysis, not + either.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve tried on both shirts, but neither fits properly.
text: Her words of advice will help neither of us.
glosses: Not either one of two.
neither
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: nī′thə
enpr: nē′thə
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈniː.ðə/
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈni.ðɚ/
note: r
enpr: nā′thə
note: in use until the 20th c.
ipa: /ˈneɪ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /nɛj.d̪ɐ(r)/
Etymology: Alteration (after either) of nauther, from Middle English neiþer, from Old English nāwþer, contraction of nāhwæþer, corresponding to no + whether. Compare Latin neuter (“neither”). By surface analysis, not + either.
Senses: examples: text: Just as you would not correct it, neither would I.
text: Neither can she stop him, nor can he stop her.
text: Neither now, nor ever will he forsake his mother.
text: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
glosses: Similarly not.
neither
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: nī′thə
enpr: nē′thə
rhymes: -aɪðə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːðə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈniː.ðə/
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.ðɚ/
ipa: /ˈni.ðɚ/
note: r
enpr: nā′thə
note: in use until the 20th c.
ipa: /ˈneɪ.ðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /nɛj.d̪ɐ(r)/
Etymology: Alteration (after either) of nauther, from Middle English neiþer, from Old English nāwþer, contraction of nāhwæþer, corresponding to no + whether. Compare Latin neuter (“neither”). By surface analysis, not + either.
Senses: examples: text: But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Nor.
improve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹuːv/
rhymes: -uːv
Forms: form: improves
form: improving
form: improved
form: improved
Etymology: From Latin improbō (“disapprove, reject”). Doublet of improbate.
Senses: examples: text: One ſayth this and a nother that / but can not agre. Nether can any of them make ſo ſtronge a reaſon vvhich a nother can not improve.
ref: 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “[Of the Sacramentes.] Of Order.”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folios xciij, recto – xciij, verso:
glosses: To disprove or make void; to refute.
examples: text: [W]hen he reherſed his preachinge and his doynges vnto the hye Apoſtles / they coulde improve no thinge […]
ref: 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “The .IIIJ. Senses of yͤ Scripture”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio cxlix, recto:
text: You would improve his negligence, too oft to ease retir’d: […]
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book X”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
Synonyms: word: ameliorate
word: aprimorate (non-native speakers’ English (chiefly Portuguese))
word: amend
word: batten
word: better
word: enhance
word: hone
word: improve
word: meliorate
word: refine
word: get better
word: look up
Hypernyms: word: alter
Hyponyms: word: bling out
word: prettify
word: sex up
word: spark up
word: spiff up
word: spice
word: spice up
word: spruce up
word: sprucen up
word: sweeten
word: tart up
word: titivate
word: zhoosh
Related terms: word: repair
word: empower
worsen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜːsn̩/
ipa: /wɔːsn̩/
ipa: /ˈwɝsn̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sən
Forms: form: worsens
form: worsening
form: worsened
form: worsened
Etymology: From Middle English wursnen; equivalent to worse + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate; degrade, deteriorate; see also Thesaurus:aggravate
text: Global warming has worsened the weather.
text: As for further retaliation: adding such fuel to the fire, as it were, will only worsen the already unpleasant state of affairs.
text: It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened.
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
antonyms: ameliorate
improve
meliorate
mitigate
glosses: To make worse; to impair.
examples: text: The weather has worsened.
text: During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Flooding at Lewes”, in Trains Illustrated, page 5:
text: TPE's cancellation score worsened from 7.2% to 23.8% when adjusted to include pre-cancellations (P*-coded) owing to a shortage of train crew.
ref: 2023 April 5, Mel Holley, “Network News: TPE faces uncertain future after high cancellation rate”, in RAIL, number 980, page 8:
synonyms: decline
deteriorate
;
go downhill
go south
;
antonyms: improve
coordinate_terms: recover
glosses: To become worse; to get worse.
synonyms: better#Verb
defeat#Verb
overpower
glosses: To get the better of; to worst.
Synonyms: word: atrophy
word: break down
word: crack
word: decline
word: deteriorate
word: degenerate
word: devolve
word: fade
word: fall off
word: go bad
word: go downhill
word: go left
word: go off
word: go pear-shaped
word: go sideways
word: go south
word: go to hell
word: go to pot
word: go to seed
word: go to the dogs
word: go wrong
word: lapse
word: molder
word: pejorate
word: retrograde
word: suffer
word: spend
word: sweal
word: shrivel
word: tabefy
word: wither
word: wither away
word: wane
word: wanse
word: worsen
Hypernyms: word: happen
Hyponyms: word: burn
word: consume
word: disintegrate
word: dissipate
word: forpine
word: make matters worse
word: squander
word: waste away
word: wear away
Related terms: word: aggravate
word: bad
word: deteriorated
ageism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪd͡ʒ.ɪzm̩/
ipa: /ˈeɪd͡ʒ.ɪz.əm/
Forms: form: ageisms
form: agism
Etymology: From age + -ism. Coined by American academic Robert N. Butler in 1969.
Senses: examples: text: But a half-hour into this third Democratic debate, many Democrats had to be wondering: Can he [Joe Biden] go three hours? It’s our own collective ageism.
ref: 2019 September 13, Timothy Egan, “It Will Take More Than Cheap Shots to Knock Off Biden”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age.
Hypernyms: bias
discrimination
inequity
injustice
prejudice
Hyponyms: youthism
Coordinate terms: ableism
antireligiousness
antisemitism
bigotry
chauvinism
ethnocentrism
heterosexism
homophobia
islamophobia
racism
sexism
transphobia
Related terms: age
ageist
ageist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ̯.dʒɪst/
Forms: form: more ageist
form: most ageist
Etymology: From age + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Upon hearing that his employer would soon require yearly physical examinations and vision screening, my father exclaimed that the policy was ageist.
text: Even though she had succeeded in the phone interview, when the ageist employer learned that the candidate was only 18 years old, she became hesitant.
text: Finally, the participants expressed an ageist and ableist view of romantic relationships as unsuitable for autistic people under the age of 18, thus explaining why this issue is not, or should not, be addressed as part of the curriculum. Alex, for example, thought it was important to engage autistic students with this subject only from age 19, as part of preparing them for independent living: […]
ref: 2025 May 14, Carmit-Noa Shpigelman, Gal Hodara Hassan, ““The System Sweeps it Under the Rug”: Educational Staff’s Perspectives on Romantic Relationships Among Autistic Adolescents”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
glosses: Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
ageist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ̯.dʒɪst/
Forms: form: ageists
Etymology: From age + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He didn’t like to think of himself as an ageist, but he had to admit that he hadn’t considered the needs of some of the more elderly participants.
glosses: A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
Derived terms: ageistly
antiageist
Related terms: word: age
word: ageism
sense: Other entries of interest
word: ableist
sense: Other entries of interest
word: bigot
sense: Other entries of interest
word: bigotry
sense: Other entries of interest
word: chauvinism
sense: Other entries of interest
word: chauvinist
sense: Other entries of interest
word: discrimination
sense: Other entries of interest
word: heterosexist
sense: Other entries of interest
word: homophobe
sense: Other entries of interest
word: homophobic
sense: Other entries of interest
word: -ist
sense: Other entries of interest
word: racist
sense: Other entries of interest
word: sizeist
sense: Other entries of interest
word: veganist
for the nonce
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒn(t)s/
enpr: nŏn(t)s
ipa: /nɑn(t)s/
Etymology: From Middle English for þe nones, for þe nanes, a rebracketing of earlier for þen ānes (literally “for the once”).
Senses: examples: text: That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
text: 'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, chapter 6, in Barchester Towers:
text: For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: 'We part, then, for the nonce, do we?'
'I fear so, sir.'
'You take the high road, and self taking the low road, as it were?'
'Yes, sir.'
'I shall miss you, Jeeves.'
'Thank you, sir.'
ref: 1946, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 11, in Joy in the Morning, →OCLC:
glosses: For the time being, for now, with the expectation that the situation may change.
obeisaunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obeisaunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of obeisance.
Chaldean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kælˈdi.ən/
Forms: form: Chaldaean
form: Chaldæan
form: Chaldee
Etymology: From Latin chaldaeus [from Ancient Greek Χαλδαῖος (Khaldaîos)] + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Honour me! Chaldean priests / Bow to me in adoration
ref: 2009, “Daimonos”, performed by Behemoth:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Chaldea specifically, or ancient Babylonia in general.
Chaldean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kælˈdi.ən/
Forms: form: Chaldeans
form: Chaldaean
form: Chaldæan
form: Chaldee
Etymology: From Latin chaldaeus [from Ancient Greek Χαλδαῖος (Khaldaîos)] + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Chaldeans had great faith in Ea, their god of healing, to whom prayers were said in case of sickness, but herb remedies were also given the patient by the god's representative in the community.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 254:
text: The Chaldeans worshipped the seven planets. These seven planets were the "Seven Great Gods" of the ancients, and constituted a polytheism, the component members of which varied in importance, with the moon occupying the premier position.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 14:
text: Astrologers, when they observe this pattern, insist that it corresponds to the zodiacal progression. I am not an astrologer and I hold no brief for it, but I do believe the origins of astrology are not with the Chaldeans of Mesopotamia but with the hunters and gatherers of the Stone Age.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.
glosses: A member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A diviner or astrologer.
Chaldean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kælˈdi.ən/
Forms: form: Chaldaean
form: Chaldæan
form: Chaldee
Etymology: From Latin chaldaeus [from Ancient Greek Χαλδαῖος (Khaldaîos)] + -an.
Senses: glosses: The West Semitic language of the ancient Chaldeans.
glosses: Synonym of Biblical Aramaic (now considered a misnomer).
synonyms: word: Biblical Aramaic
extra: now considered a misnomer
glosses: Synonym of Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.
synonyms: word: Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
Chaldea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kælˈdi.ə/
Forms: form: Chaldaea
form: Chaldæa
form: Chaldee
Etymology: From Latin Chaldaea, from Ancient Greek Χαλδαία (Khaldaía).
Senses: glosses: An ancient geographic region of West Asia, in the southern portion of Babylonia in modern eastern Iraq and southwestern Iran, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain.
Related terms: Chaldaic
Chaldean
narwhal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑːʍəl/
ipa: /ˈnɑːwəl/
ipa: /ˈnɑːˌʍeɪl/
ipa: /ˈnɑːˌweɪl/
ipa: /ˈnɑɹʍəl/
ipa: /ˈnɑɹwəl/
ipa: /ˈnɑɹˌʍeɪl/
ipa: /ˈnɑɹˌweɪl/
ipa: /ˈnɑɹʍɔl/
ipa: /ˈnɑɹwɔl/
ipa: /ˈnɑɹʍɑl/
ipa: /ˈnɑɹwɑl/
Forms: form: narwhals
form: narwhal
form: narwal
form: narwhale
Etymology: From Dutch narwal or Danish/Norwegian Bokmål narhval, from Old Norse náhvalr, from nár (“corpse”) + hvalr (“whale”). Compare Icelandic náhvalur.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, both narwhals and bowheads can occur in late summer in southern Prince Regent Inlet (coming from Lancaster Sound) and may reach Fury and Hecla Strait and northern Foxe Basin.
ref: 1986, D. E. Sergeant, “Chapter 16: Sea Mammals”, in I. P. Martini, editor, Canadian Inland Seas, page 337:
text: Often, in the morning, narwhals played around the boat and reminded me of the dolphins, so far away in the North Atlantic. But these narwhals were not like the Atlantic sea-dogs; they had little of their flashing vibrancy; these Turkish narwhals were much more relaxed, and rolled over lazily, with a sigh, as if they were going to retire to a sofa and smoke a hookah.
ref: 1988, Tristan Jones, Somewheres East of Suez:
text: At over 2.5 m in length, the tusk of the male narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is one the most impressive instruments of male-male competition among mammals.
ref: 2000, Richard C. Connor, Andrew J. Read, Richard Wrangham, edited by Janet Mann, Cetacean Societies: Field Studies of Dolphins and Whales, 10: Male Reproductive Strategies and Social Bonds, page 247:
synonyms: sea unicorn
glosses: Monodon monoceros, an Arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward.
Derived terms: narluga
cetacean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: more cetacean
form: most cetacean
Etymology: From translingual Cetacea, from Latin cētus (“whale”), + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.
text: She was not as demure as she was in Roanoke; she seemed at the beginning rather like she felt more comfortable in the oceanic atmosphere harpooning her opponent. Indeed, at times, it seemed she was Ahab and the witherwin Allen was her Moby Dick; but while she sails her Pequod just as intently toward a singular goal, her alastor is much less clear and she bears no visible scars of a cetacean attacker.
ref: 2012, Hampton Roads Republican US Senate Debate Summary:
glosses: Pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.
examples: text: The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water.
text: […] I would propose that external dependencies to the document would be automatically downloaded if a local copy doesn't exist so that the core distribution no longer is quite so cetacean in size.
ref: 2023 December 18, Don Hosek, “Re: LaTeX v.s. Typst: What is TeX Community's Future Plan? [closed]”, in TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange:
glosses: Resembling or relating to large aquatic mammals.
Synonyms: sense: belonging to infraorder Cetacea
word: cetaceous
cetacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: cetaceans
Etymology: From translingual Cetacea, from Latin cētus (“whale”), + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The tour promised spiritual experiences with humpback whales and other cetaceans, but all we saw were seagulls and a dead sea otter.
glosses: An animal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales.
Derived terms: cetology
noncetacean
notch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒtʃ/
ipa: /nɑt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: notches
form: notching
form: notched
form: notched
Etymology: Recorded since 1577, probably a rebracketing of an otch, from Middle French oche (“notch”), itself from the Old French verb ochier (“to notch”), of uncertain origin, but possibly related to French hocher and English nick (“small cut, notch”).
Senses: glosses: To cut a notch in (something).
examples: text: The tribe's hunters notch their kills by notches on each's axe's handle.
glosses: To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
glosses: To join by means of notches.
examples: text: The team notched a pair of shutout wins on Sunday.
text: Jenkins booted a pair of field goals, Hopkins and George Nwokoji each notched a touchdown.
ref: 2010 October 21, “Panthers' football team”, in Portland Leader:
synonyms: notch up
glosses: To achieve (something); to add to one's score or record of successes.
examples: text: Notching an arrow on the string of his tried and unerring bow, he raised his sinewy arms […]
ref: 1885, John Niles Hubbard, An Account of Sa-go-ye-wat-ha, Or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830, page 31:
text: As Uncle Bunse threw his armful of stuff into the canoe, half a dozen other Indians crept forward, notching their arrows to shoot.
ref: 1913, Massachusetts Reformatory (Concord, Mass.), Our Paper, page 530:
glosses: Synonym of nock (“to fit (an arrow) to a bow”).
synonyms: word: nock
extra: (“to fit (an arrow) to a bow”)
Derived terms: notchable
notcher
informal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɔɹm(ə)l/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɔːm(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)məl
Forms: form: more informal
form: most informal
Etymology: From in- + formal.
Senses: examples: text: an informal get-together
text: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Students and faculty members lunch at the cafeteria and naturally communicate freely with one another in a relaxed and informal setting.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:
text: Participants emphasized the importance of their social network in facilitating their strength training experiences. Family members served as informal coaches who introduced the participants to basic exercises. This role, where family members model healthy behaviors, has been identified as being important to help supporting PA participation among autistic individuals in prior work (Ku et al., 2020; Shields et al., 2012).
ref: 2025 August 20, Ashlyn Barry, Justin A. Haegele, Daniel Schaefer, Kristen A. Pickett, Luis Columna, “Autistic Young Adults’ Experiences and Recommendations for Strength Training”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
glosses: Not formal or ceremonious.
examples: text: an informal agreement
glosses: Not in accord with the usual regulations.
examples: text: informal clothes
glosses: Suited for everyday use.
examples: text: When I returned to the movie Ghilli, a Kollywood classic (Kollywood being the informal name for Tamil cinema) that I loved as a kid, I couldn’t help but question why the story continues romantically, without question, after the heroine is slapped by the supposed love of her life.
ref: 2025 August 14, Saranka Maheswaran, “Cheer up, Ice Cube, your War of the Worlds movie may be really bad, but it’s not worthless”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Reflecting everyday, non-ceremonious usage.
raw_tags: of language
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: Not organized; not structured or planned.
Synonyms: word: not formal
word: ceremonious
word: not in accord with the usual regulations
word: suited for everyday use
sense: language: reflecting everyday, non-ceremonious usage
word: colloquial
Derived terms: informal fallacy
informal group
informalism
informalist
informality
informalize
informal learning
informal logic
informally
informal settler
informalwear
semi-informal
superinformal
everyday
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/
Etymology: From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of every day (compare everywhere, everyway, etc.).
everyday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/
Etymology: From Middle English everidayes, every daies, every dayes (“everyday, daily, continual, constant”, adjective, literally “every day's”), equivalent to every + day.
Senses: glosses: Literally every day in succession, or every day but Sunday.
examples: text: Putting away the tableware for everyday, a chore which is part of the everyday.
glosses: The ordinary or routine day or occasion.
unofficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌn.əˈfɪʃ.əl/
rhymes: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: more unofficial
form: most unofficial
Etymology: From un- + official.
Senses: examples: text: the unofficial results of the ballot
text: And even though their numbers have been halved—that’s the unofficial tally given in one of the strategy sessions—everyone from Sansa to Daenerys to Varys is wondering who is going to rule over which pile of smoking ruins.
ref: 2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2021:
glosses: Not officially established.
examples: The unofficial reason for invading the nation, however, was to control their resources.
glosses: Not officially established.
Implicitly true but withheld and/or contradicted by authority.
examples: text: an unofficial adviser
text: Drivers' union ASLEF bluntly rebuffed the claim of unofficial action, calling it a lie. And Avanti West Coast was unable to provide any proof for its assertion, when questioned by RAIL.
ref: 2022 August 24, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Union slams Avanti West Coast: 'lie' as services slashed”, in RAIL, number 964, page 6:
glosses: Not acting with official authority.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Not listed in a national pharmacopeia etc.
Synonyms: word: inofficial
Derived terms: unofficial farthing
unofficiality
unofficially
unofficialness
pharmacopeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharmacopeias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pharmacopoeia.
Derived terms: pharmacopeial
pharmacopeic
pharmacopeist
carton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːtən/
ipa: /ˈkɑːtn̩/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹtn̩/
ipa: [ˈkʰɑɹʔn̩]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tən
Forms: form: cartons
Etymology: Borrowed from French carton, from Italian cartone. Doublet of cartoon.
Senses: examples: text: a carton of milk or eggs
synonyms: cardboard box
container
package
glosses: An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.
meronyms: pack
glosses: A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.
examples: text: Mr Yunupingu was referred to the clinic where I was working at that time, Northside Clinic, for treatment of his alcohol problem. I think he described drinking between one and four cartons every single day - it's quite a phenomenal amount.
ref: 2009 October 19, Oliver O'Connell, Message From Mr Yunupingu:
synonyms: case
glosses: A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
glosses: A kind of thin pasteboard.
glosses: A small disc within the bullseye of a target.
glosses: A shot that strikes this disc.
Derived terms: cartoner
cartonful
carton girl
cartonless
cartonlike
carton-pierre
egg carton
juice carton
milk carton
pick-to-carton
carton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːtən/
ipa: /ˈkɑːtn̩/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹtn̩/
ipa: [ˈkʰɑɹʔn̩]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tən
Forms: form: cartons
form: cartoning
form: cartoned
form: cartoned
Etymology: Borrowed from French carton, from Italian cartone. Doublet of cartoon.
Senses: glosses: To put in a carton.
malapropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæləpɹɒpˌɪzəm/
enpr: mălʹə-prä-pĭzʹ-əm
ipa: /ˈmæləpɹɑpˌɪzəm/
Forms: form: malapropisms
form: Malapropism
form: malapropoism
Etymology: From the name of Mrs. Malaprop, a character in the play The Rivals (1775) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan + -ism. As dramatic characters in English comic plays of this time often had allusive names, it is likely that Sheridan fashioned the name from malapropos (“inappropriate; inappropriately”), from French mal à propos. Mrs. Malaprop is perhaps the best-known example of a familiar comedic character archetype who unintentionally substitutes inappropriate but like-sounding words that take on a ludicrous meaning when used incorrectly.
Senses: examples: text: The script employed malapropism to great effect.
glosses: The blundering use of an absurdly inappropriate word or expression in place of a similar-sounding one.
examples: text: The translator matched every malapropism in the original with one from his own language.
text: The humor comes from all the malapropisms.
glosses: An instance of this; malaprop.
Synonyms: sense: instance of malapropism
word: malaprop
sense: instance of malapropism
word: catachresis
Derived terms: malaphor
malapropic
Related terms: word: examples of malapropisms
word: acyrologia
word: eggcorn
word: folk etymology
english: a word that is well-known to seem to refer to something other than its referent but is nonetheless usually correct
translation: a word that is well-known to seem to refer to something other than its referent but is nonetheless usually correct
word: misnomer
word: mondegreen
english: a word that invites catachrestic use because of its sound or appearance
translation: a word that invites catachrestic use because of its sound or appearance
word: phantonym
word: spoonerism
shogunate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shogunates
form: shōgunate
Etymology: From shogun + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: glosses: The office or dignity of a shogun.
Synonyms: bakufu
good evening
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: good-evening
Etymology: An ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good evening.".
Senses: examples: text: Good evening everyone and welcome to our 34th annual general meeting.
synonyms: good-den[Appendix:Glossary#obsolete|obsolete]]>
qualifier: generally formal in US
glosses: Used as a greeting in the evening.
Coordinate terms: good afternoon
good morning
good night