cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
burlywood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brown sandy colour, of RGB hexadecimal value #DEB887.
burlywood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a brown sandy colour.
burnt umber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnt umbers
Senses: glosses: A deep brown colour.
burnt umber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a deep brown colour.
Related terms: burnt sienna
raw umber
burnt sienna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnt siennas
Senses: examples: text: We drink the last of the spring water in our canteens and, still thirsty, look to the river, that sombre flow the color of burnt sienna, raw umber, muy colorado, too thin to plow–as the Mormons say–and too thick to drink.
ref: 1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 160:
glosses: dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.
burnt sienna
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a dark reddish brown colour, like that of roasted sienna.
Related terms: burnt umber
raw sienna
butterscotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈbʌtəˌskɒtʃ/
Forms: form: butterscotches
Etymology: From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.
Senses: glosses: A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.
glosses: A sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients.
glosses: A light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.
Derived terms: butterscotched
butterscotchlike
butterscotchy
butterscotch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɚˌskɑt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈbʌtəˌskɒtʃ/
Etymology: From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.
Senses: glosses: Of a light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.
glosses: Having the flavour of butterscotch.
cadet blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadet blues
Senses: glosses: A blue colour, tinted with grey.
cadet blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a blue colour, tinted with grey.
Cambridge blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cambridge blues
Etymology: Perhaps related to the colour of a body of water: Cambridge has a famous boating club, and at one time used light blue as a school colour. "The greening of Cambridge blue is often attributed to Alf Twinn, university boatman between 1934 and 1984, who, either because he wanted to distinguish the rowing colours from the rugby union team's, or because his eyesight was deteriorating, began adding subtle amounts of yellow to the blue paint used for oar blades."
Senses: examples: text: There are both trailing and compact border edging varieties, in a range of colors. The border-edging compact types include 'Cambridge Blue' (pale blue), 'Crystal Palace' (dark blue) and 'Mrs. Clibran' (brilliant blue).
ref: 1991, David Squire, The complete guide to using color in your garden:
glosses: A light, bright blue.
glosses: A medium spring green colour used by sports teams from the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Perhaps related to the colour of a body of water: Cambridge has a famous boating club, and at one time used light blue as a school colour. "The greening of Cambridge blue is often attributed to Alf Twinn, university boatman between 1934 and 1984, who, either because he wanted to distinguish the rowing colours from the rugby union team's, or because his eyesight was deteriorating, began adding subtle amounts of yellow to the blue paint used for oar blades."
Senses: glosses: Of a light bright blue color.
dormer window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dormer windows
Senses: examples: text: Many of the houses have neat little dormer windows and tall stone chimneys, and Corfe's older buildings include the fine old manor house.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:
glosses: Alternative form of dormer-window.
carroty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carroty
form: most carroty
form: carrotty
Etymology: From carrot + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years years^([sic]) old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled sun-burnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes, […]
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 239:
text: "All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
ref: 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, chapter VIII, in Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, book V, page 101:
synonyms: carrotish
glosses: Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.
examples: text: My soup has the positive constitutive property of being carroty, of having carrots in it; of carrotiness; it has the negative constitutive property of lacking meat, of meatlessness.
ref: 1998, George Englebretsen, Line Diagrams for Logic: Drawing Conclusions:
glosses: Containing carrots; made of carrots.
Derived terms: carrotiness
hind leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪnd.lɛɡ/
Forms: form: hind legs
form: hindleg
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: foreleg
text: “Can you hop on your hind legs?” asked the furry rabbit.
That was a dreadful question, for the Velveteen Rabbit had no hind legs at all! The back of him was made all in one piece, like a pincushion. He sat still in the bracken, and hoped that the other rabbits wouldn’t notice.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: hind limb
glosses: Either of the two legs towards the rear of a multilegged animal.
Derived terms: crooked as a dog's hind leg
stand up on one's hind legs
talk the hind leg off a donkey
talk the hind legs off a donkey
cinereous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sɪˈnɪəɹi.əs/
Forms: form: more cinereous
form: most cinereous
Etymology: Latin cinereus, from cinis, cineris (“ashes”).
Senses: examples: text: With a bill two inches and a half long , very ſlender , and a little recurvated : head , and upper part of neck , cinereous , with dusky lines : over each eye a white line
ref: 1784, Thomas Pennant, Arctic Zoology:
text: Coluber cinereus, the cinereous viper; a native cf South America and India; of a cinereous grey colour; the abdomen white, angulated ; the scales of the tail ferruginous at the edges.
ref: 1810, Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature, Volume 4:
text: Wings tailed, white, with a brown border; beneath varied with ferruginous and yellow, the lower ones with two cinereous streaks.
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, Volume 26:
text: […] breast and front of the neck cinereous brown; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, pure white […]
ref: 2014, Leonard Jenyns, A Manual of British Vertebrate Animals:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
synonyms: ashen
glosses: Of an ash-gray colour.
glosses: Like ashes.
examples: text: We likewise see by the valuable Work of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […]
ref: 1802, Maria Guthrie, Matthew Guthrie, A tour performed in the years 1795-6 through the Taurida, or Crimea, the ancient kingdom of Bosphorus, the once-powerful republic of Tauric Cherson, and all the other countries on the north shore of the Euxine, ceded to Russia by the peace of Kainardgi and Jassy, page 439:
glosses: Containing ashes.
Derived terms: cinereous bunting
cinereous tinamou
cinereous tit
cinereous vulture
cinnabar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭnʹ-ə'bär
ipa: /ˈsɪn.əˌbɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɪn.əˌbɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsɪn.əˌbɑɹ/
Forms: form: cinnabars
Etymology: First attested in the mid-15th century. From Middle English cynabare, from Old French cinabre, from Latin cinnabaris, from Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari), of unknown origin.
Senses: synonyms: word: æthiops mineral
glosses: A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.
glosses: A bright red colour tinted with orange.
examples: text: There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.
ref: 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:
synonyms: cinnabar moth
glosses: A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
glosses: Synonym of dragon's blood (“type of resin”).
synonyms: word: dragon's blood
extra: type of resin
glosses: The Elixir of Life.
raw_tags: in “Cinnabar Panacea”
Derived terms: cinnabar boobook
cinnabaric
cinnabar moth
green cinnabar
hepatic cinnabar
hypercinnabar
inflammable cinnabar
metacinnabar
cinnabar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭnʹ-ə'bär
ipa: /ˈsɪn.əˌbɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɪn.əˌbɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsɪn.əˌbɑɹ/
Forms: form: more cinnabar
form: most cinnabar
Etymology: First attested in the mid-15th century. From Middle English cynabare, from Old French cinabre, from Latin cinnabaris, from Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari), of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.
Related terms: mercury
citrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹin/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹən/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹain/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹin/
rhymes: -ɪtɹiːn
rhymes: (General American) -ɪtɹən
homophone: Citroën (UK)
homophone: citron (General American)
Forms: form: citrines
form: citrean
form: citrinous
Etymology: From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.
Senses: examples: text: […] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]
ref: 1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […] :
text: dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.
ref: c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242
glosses: A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
glosses: A brownish-yellow quartz.
Derived terms: ametrine
citrination
citrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹin/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹən/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹain/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹiːn/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɹin/
rhymes: -ɪtɹiːn
rhymes: (General American) -ɪtɹən
homophone: Citroën (UK)
homophone: citron (General American)
Forms: form: citrean
form: citrinous
Etymology: From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.
Senses: examples: text: The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Of a goldish-yellow colour.
Derived terms: citrine ointment
citrine wagtail
Related terms: false topaz
clair de lune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French clair de lune (“moonlight”).
Senses: glosses: A pale bluish-gray colour.
clair de lune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French clair de lune (“moonlight”).
Senses: glosses: Of a pale bluish-gray colour.
cosmologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: cosmologists
Etymology: From cosmology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies cosmology.
foreleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔrˌlɛɡ/
Forms: form: forelegs
form: fore
form: leg
Etymology: From fore- + leg.
Senses: examples: text: For example, the foreleg of the mole is admirably suited for digging underground. A similar modification is found in an entirely different group of the animal kingdom, namely, in the mole cricket[…] In both of these cases the adaptation is the more obvious, because, while the leg of the mole is formed on the same general plan as that of other vertebrates, and the leg of the mole cricket has the same fundamental structure as that of other insects, yet in both cases the details of structure and the general proportions have been so altered, that the leg is fitted for entirely different purposes from that to which the legs of other vertebrates and of other insects are put.
ref: 1903, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Evolution and adaptation:
text: Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg[…]
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
synonyms: forelimb
glosses: Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal such as a horse, or towards the front of a many-legged animal such as most insects, or of a piece of furniture, etc.
Derived terms: forelegged
cosmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑzˈmɑləd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: cosmologies
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cosmologia, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + -λογία (-logía, “treating of”), combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “one who speaks (in a certain manner)”). By surface analysis, cosmo- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref: 2012 January 24, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:
glosses: The study of the physical universe, its structure, dynamics, origin and evolution, and fate.
glosses: A metaphysical study into the origin and nature of the universe.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: cosmovision, worldview
text: But the work of Marshack and Leroi-Gourhan enable us to see that these later religions of the civilized period are elaborations of the cosmologies from the universal religion of the Upper Paleolithic.
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 particular view (cultural or religious) of the structure and origin of the universe.
Hyponyms: black hole cosmology
concordance cosmology
macrocosmology
microcosmology
psychocosmology
Schwarzschild cosmology
Related terms: cosmic
cosmogony
cosmologic
cosmological
cosmologist
cosmos
eschatology
big bang theory
steady state theory
gamete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæmiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: gametes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γαμετή (gametḗ, “wife”), γαμέτης (gamétēs, “husband”), ultimately from γάμος (gámos, “marriage”).
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: sex cell
reproductive cell
germ cell
hyponyms: spermatozoon
sperm
ovum
egg
glosses: A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.
Synonyms: word: gamete
Hypernyms: word: germ cell
word: cell
Hyponyms: word: spermatozoon
word: sperm
word: ovum
word: egg
Derived terms: agamete
anisogamete
aplanogamete
gametal
gametic
gametically
gametocide
gametocyte
gametogenesis
gametogenic
gametogony
gametoid
gametologue
gametophyte
heterogamete
isogamete
macrogamete
macrogametophyte
megagamete
megagametophyte
merogamete
microgamete
microgametophyte
oogamete
planogamete
zoogamete
Related terms: meiosis
oocyte
spermatid
syngamy
chromoblastomycosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Long-term fungal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
Synonyms: chromomycosis
cladosporiosis
Fonseca's disease
Pedroso's disease
phaeosporotrichosis
astromathematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + mathematics.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branches of mathematics used in the study of astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology.
fait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fate.
cool gray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cool grays
form: cool grey
Senses: glosses: A light gray colour.
cool gray
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cool grey
Senses: glosses: Of a light gray colour.
Pitcairnese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: From Pitcairn + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Pitcairn Islands.
Pitcairnese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: From Pitcairn + -ese.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A creole spoken in the Pitcairn Islands, formed from an eighteenth-century dialect of English and the Tahitian language.
Synonyms: Pitkern
Pitcairn-Norfolk
Pitcairn Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pitcairn Islands
Senses: glosses: A small archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Derived terms: Pitcairn Islander
daemonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more daemonic
form: most daemonic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demonic.
Derived terms: daemonical
dæmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dæmonic
form: most dæmonic
Etymology: From dæmon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of demonic.
Derived terms: dæmonical
cornsilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlk
Forms: form: cornsilks
Etymology: From corn (“maize”) + silk.
Senses: glosses: A very light yellow colour, like that of corn silk.
glosses: Alternative form of corn silk (the thready fibres of stigmata of corn (maize))
cornsilk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlk
Etymology: From corn (“maize”) + silk.
Senses: glosses: Of a very light yellow colour, like that of corn silk.
puits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puits
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:puits.
glosses: Alternative form of puit.
puits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puit
cupreous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːpɹi.əs/
Etymology: From Latin cupreus, from cuprum (“copper”).
Senses: glosses: A reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper.
cupreous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːpɹi.əs/
Forms: form: more cupreous
form: most cupreous
Etymology: From Latin cupreus, from cuprum (“copper”).
Senses: glosses: Of or of the nature of copper.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing copper.
glosses: Of a reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper.
Synonyms: sense: of or of the nature of copper
word: cuprous
sense: of a reddish-brown color
word: auburn
sense: of a reddish-brown color
word: brassy
sense: of a reddish-brown color
word: coppery
sense: of a reddish-brown color
word: russet
Related terms: cuprea
cuprea bark
cupreine
cupric
cuprous
e-rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-right
Pitkern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language Pitcairnese.
Synonyms: Pitcairnese
Akan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
Akan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Akan people.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Akan language and other related languages.
Akan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Niger-Congo language spoken by these people.
glosses: A group of languages spoken in Ghana.
glosses: A volcano in Hokkaido, Japan.
Derived terms: Akan states
Related terms: word: Kramanti
word: Koromanti
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Akan terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/aka
word: ak
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/aka
word: aka
word: aka ⁠
word: a macrolanguage including:
word: fat ⁠
word: twi ⁠
tabontabon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabontabons
Etymology: From Cebuano tabontabon.
Senses: glosses: A fruit, Atuna racemosa, used to make kinilaw.
essayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essayers
Etymology: From essay + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who performs an essay; an experimenter.
viceregal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vaɪsˈɹiːɡəl/
Forms: form: vice-regal
Etymology: From vice- + regal.
Senses: examples: text: This engine was used for hauling Viceregal trains, and was painted royal blue.
ref: 1953 September, G. R. Mahon, “Irish Railways in 1853”, in Railway Magazine, page 627:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, a viceroy or viceroyalty.
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, a viceregent or viceregency.
Synonyms: viceroyal
Related terms: regal
viceregal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vaɪsˈɹiːɡəl/
Forms: form: viceregals
form: vice-regal
Etymology: From vice- + regal.
Senses: examples: text: Most viceregals choose themes to promote during their mandate, such as David Johnston's pursuit of innovation and education, Clarkson's focus on arts, culture and diversity, and Michaëlle Jean's work on youth, the environment and violence against women, particularly Indigenous women.
ref: 2017 October 1, Kathleen Harris, “Pomp, ceremony, scrutiny: What Julie Payette should expect as Canada's next GG”, in CBC News:
glosses: a viceroy
examples: text: March is a month of farewells for the Governor of Victoria and his wife (Earl and Countess of Stradbroke). who are leaving early in April for England, via America.
ref: 1926 March 18, “DEPARTING VICEREGALS”, in The Register, Adelaide, page 3:
glosses: a viceroy or vicereine
Related terms: vicegeral
out of touch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out of touch
form: most out of touch
Senses: examples: text: I had been out of touch with my old friend for a long time when she called.
text: I don't feel a single thing / Have the pills done too much / Haven't caught up with my friends in weeks / And now we're outta touch
ref: 2022 January 28, Em Beihold, Nick Lopez, Dru DeCaro, “Numb Little Bug”, in Egg in the Backseat, performed by Em Beihold:
glosses: No longer maintaining contact or communications.
examples: text: Did his answer strike you as out of touch with reality?
text: Bought a ticket for a runaway train / Like a madman laughing at the rain / A little out of touch, a little insane
ref: 1992, Dave Pirner, “Runaway Train”, in Grave Dancers Union, performed by Soul Asylum:
glosses: No longer conversant with something, especially facts, reality, or the world; not aware or realistic.
examples: text: They're so out of touch that all they can do all day is compare yacht sizes.
glosses: Disconnected or insulated from the everyday experiences and concerns of ordinary people.
Synonyms: in the dark
out of the loop
conversant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɜːsənt/
ipa: /kənˈvɝsənt/
ipa: /ˈkɒnvə(ɹ)sænt/
ipa: /ˈkɒnvə(ɹ)sənt/
Forms: form: more conversant
form: most conversant
form: conversaunt
Etymology: From Old French conversant, present participle of converser.
Senses: examples: text: VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
ref: 1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by Andrewe Wise, […], →OCLC, folio 60, verso:
glosses: Closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.
examples: text: She is equally conversant with Shakespeare and the laws of physics.
text: We ſee in all things how deſuetude do's contract and narrow our faculties, ſo that we may apprehend only thoſe things wherein we are converſant.
ref: 1674, [Richard Allestree], “Of Boasting”, in The Government of the Tongue. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Theater, →OCLC, page 168:
text: c. 1694, John Dryden, letter to Mr. John Dennis
deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy
text: 1720, Thomas Parnell, corrected by Alexander Pope, "Essay on Homer", published with Pope's translation of the Iliad
He uses the different dialects […] as one who had been conversant with them all.
glosses: Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
examples: text: If any think education, because it is conversant about children, to be but a private and domestick duty, he has been ignorantly bred himself.
ref: 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education:
text: Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, 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 26:
glosses: Concerned; occupied.
Derived terms: conversancy
conversantly
inconversant
nonconversant
unconversant
conversant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɜːsənt/
ipa: /kənˈvɝsənt/
ipa: /ˈkɒnvə(ɹ)sænt/
ipa: /ˈkɒnvə(ɹ)sənt/
Forms: form: conversants
form: conversaunt
Etymology: From Old French conversant, present participle of converser.
Senses: synonyms: interlocutor
conversational partner
glosses: One who converses with another.
holiday home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holiday homes
Senses: examples: text: Located on the northbound platform, the detached, timber-clad waiting room (a period Furness Railway structure) has been adapted into a pet-friendly, self-catering, two-bedroom holiday home complete with sun lounge and garden for those sunny Cumbrian days.
ref: 2025 October 15, Stephen Roberts, “Top 10: Railway retreats: St Bees, Cumbria”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 57:
glosses: A second home used for holidays.
viceregent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vaɪsˈɹiːd͡ʒənt/
Forms: form: viceregents
Etymology: From vice- + regent.
Senses: glosses: the official administrative deputy of a regent; vicegerent
Related terms: viceregal
viceregency
viceroy
nail biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail biters
form: nailbiter
form: nail-biter
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: One who habitually bites or chews their fingernails.
examples: text: It was a real nail biter waiting for the test results.
text: And in a shockingly misogynistic ad, Republicans placed an image of O’Connor in a huddle of three supposedly nightmarish mascots of liberalism, all women: Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton. O’Connor absorbed all of this and still turned the race into a nail-biter.
ref: 2018 August 8, Frank Bruni, “A Nail-Biter in Ohio Is a Democratic Triumph”, in New York Times:
synonyms: cliffhanger
glosses: A situation which causes anxiety, suspense, nervousness or discomfort.
chews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃuːz/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪʊ̯z/
rhymes: -uːz
homophone: choose
Senses: glosses: plural of chew
chews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃuːz/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪʊ̯z/
rhymes: -uːz
homophone: choose
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chew
fingernails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fingernail
biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˈbaɪtə/
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: byter
Forms: form: biters
Etymology: From Middle English biter, bitere, equivalent to bite + -er. Cognate with West Frisian biter (“biter”), Dutch bijter (“biter”), German Low German Bieter (“biter”), German Beißer (“biter”).
Senses: examples: text: Not all dogs are biters.
text: My dislike was reinforced in 2016 when researchers discovered that more than three-quarters of the domestic boars and 40 per cent of wild boars they examined had bite injuries to their penises. The photos are horrific. Just who the biters were remains a mystery, but I think something goes wrong when a fundamentally herbivorous creature acquires a taste for flesh.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87:
glosses: Agent noun of bite; someone or something who bites or tends to bite.
examples: text: She tried the same cast several times. I signaled her to switch flies. After two such changes we still couldn't move the fish. Some steelhead are biters; some are not.
ref: 2007, John Shewey, On the Fly Guide to the Northwest, page 79:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fish that tends to take bait.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
glosses: One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
glosses: A cheat or fraudster.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A zombie.
Derived terms: ankle biter
ankle-biter
backbiter
back biter
crib-biter
cross-biter
day-biter
leg biter
nail-biter
nail biter
neckbiter
night-biter
night biter
ox-biter
pillar-biter
pillow-biter
sheep-biter
the biter bit
toe-biter
toe biter
tyre biter
wart-biter
biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˈbaɪtə/
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: byter
Forms: form: biters
Etymology: From bit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The first microprocessor was a 4-bit device called the 4004. Today you can buy 1-bit machines, 4-biters, 8-biters, 12-biters and 16-biters. Which one should you buy, and why?
ref: 1978, Product Engineering, volume 49, page unknown:
text: Didn't know it was an 8-biter first, cool. The ST Star Raiders is pretty cool - my fav one yet & worth any $5.
ref: 1994 July 22, Jonathan T. Hunt, “ST Star Raiders”, in rec.games.video.atari (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.
Related terms: bitter
byter
viceregency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vaɪsˈɹiːd͡ʒən(t)si/
Forms: form: viceregencies
Etymology: From vice- + regency.
Senses: glosses: the office or position of a viceregent
glosses: the area ruled by a viceregent
Related terms: viceregal
regency
viceroyalty
cantilever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkantɪliːvə/
Forms: form: cantilevers
form: cantilevering
form: cantilevered
form: cantilevered
form: cantalever
form: cantaliver
Etymology: First attested in the 1660s, probably from cant (“slope, edge, corner”) + lever, but the earliest form (c. 1610) was cantlapper. First element may also be Spanish can (“dog”), an architect's term for an end of timber jutting out of a wall, on which beams rested.
Senses: examples: text: Just above, the museums top floor seems to shift slightly, its corners cantilevering over the edge of the story below as if it is sliding off the top of the building.
ref: 2007 October 28, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Where Gods Yearn for Long-Lost Treasures”, in New York Times:
glosses: To project (something) in the manner of or by means of a cantilever.
lachrymation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lachrymations
Etymology: From the Medieval Latin form lachryma. By surface analysis, lachrymate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lacrimation.
lachrymator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lachrymators
Etymology: From lachrymate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that causes tears, such as tear gas.
Related terms: lachrymatory
stabile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪ.baɪl/
ipa: /ˈsteɪˌbil/
Forms: form: stabiles
Etymology: Coined by German-French artist Jean Arp in 1932 from Latin stabilis (“firmly fixed or established”) to describe the stationary works of Alexander Calder as opposed to his better known mobiles.
Senses: glosses: abstract sculpture or structure of wire, sheet metal, etc.
starship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑɹʃɪp/
Forms: form: starships
Etymology: From star + ship.
Senses: synonyms: star vessel
glosses: A type of spacecraft capable of traveling to the solar systems of other stars.
Related terms: airship
ship
spaceship
stardrive
starline
starliner
timeship
Cookie Monster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In the first four years I worked at QVC I was a cookie monster and ate myself up twenty-two pounds — that's a lot of chocolate chips.
ref: 1995, Kathy Levine, It's Better to Laugh, page 25:
text: The cookie monster program would lock up your terminal and endlessly prompt you to "Give me a cookie (or "I WANT A COOKIE" or some variation), and no matter what you typed, it would always insist it wanted a cookie.
ref: 2002, Laura Lemay with Rafe Colburn, Sams teach yourself Perl in 21 days, page 20:
text: A gene involved in cell division which is named because it makes the cells look like a `whole bunch of cookie monster eyes'.
ref: 2008, Paul W. May, Molecules with Silly Or Unusual Names, page 150:
text: In his Cookie Monster voice, he screamed, "Bing-go! Jack-pot! Koo-key!"
ref: 2009, Denise Dietz, Throw Darts at a Cheesecake, page 182:
glosses: A blue creature from the children's television show Sesame Street who is intensely fond of cookies.
bhikkhu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪkuː/
Forms: form: bhikkhus
form: bhikku
form: bikkhu
form: bhikshu
form: bhiksu
form: bhikkhuni
form: bhikshuni
Etymology: Transliteration of Pali bhikkhu (“beggar, Buddhist monk”), from Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣu, “mendicant”).
Senses: glosses: A male Buddhist monk or priest; one who follows all Buddhist precepts as a full member of the sangha.
Synonyms: word: bonze
Coordinate terms: word: samana
english: ascetic hermits
translation: ascetic hermits
word: sramana
english: Buddhist nun
translation: Buddhist nun
word: bhikkhuni
ballyhoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæliˈhuː/
Forms: form: ballyhoos
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a shortening of the Irish village, "Ballyhooly" known for its rowdiness.
Senses: glosses: Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
examples: text: Talk, it's only talk / Babble, burble, banter / Bicker, bicker, bicker / Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo / It's only talk / Back talk
ref: 1981, “Elephant Talk”, in Discipline, performed by King Crimson:
glosses: Noisy shouting or uproar.
Synonyms: hoopla
Derived terms: ballyhooer
ballyhoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæliˈhuː/
Forms: form: ballyhoos
form: ballyhooing
form: ballyhooed
form: ballyhooed
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a shortening of the Irish village, "Ballyhooly" known for its rowdiness.
Senses: examples: text: Industry has picked up, railroads are carrying more freight, farm prices are better, but I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of over-enthusiastic assurance. We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity.
ref: 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat (7 May):
glosses: To sensationalize or make grand claims.
Related terms: word: ballyhooed
ballyhoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæliˈhuː/
Forms: form: ballyhoos
Etymology: From Spanish balajú.
Senses: glosses: Certain species in family Hemiramphidae, inshore, surface-dwelling needlefish forming sizeable schools.
glosses: Certain species in family Hemiramphidae, inshore, surface-dwelling needlefish forming sizeable schools.
Hemiramphus brasiliensis
ballyhoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæliˈhuː/
Forms: form: ballyhoos
Etymology: Possibly from Spanish balahú (“schooner”).
Senses: glosses: An unseaworthy or slovenly ship.
bhikshu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhikshus
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit भिक्षु (bhikṣu, “beggar, mendicant, religious mendicant”).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A bhikkhu.
uploaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upload
uploaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having been uploaded; having been digitally sent from one's computer to someone else's.
routes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːts/
ipa: /ɹaʊts/
ipa: [ɹʌʊts]
rhymes: -aʊts
homophone: roots stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: routs stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: plural of route
routes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːts/
ipa: /ɹaʊts/
ipa: [ɹʌʊts]
rhymes: -aʊts
homophone: roots stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: routs stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of route
photographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæfs/
ipa: /ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːfs/
Senses: glosses: plural of photograph
photographs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊ.təˌɡɹæfs/
ipa: /ˈfəʊ.təˌɡɹɑːfs/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photograph
corrected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛktɪd/
rhymes: -ɛktɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of correct
potentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/
Forms: form: more potentially
form: most potentially
Etymology: From potential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
ref: 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:
text: Its impending end has rung alarm bells across social media, with a baseline tariff as high as 145% depending on the carrier set to take effect on Chinese imports, potentially more than doubling the cost for all those cheap products deal-hungry Americans scooped up.
ref: 2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN:
glosses: In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.
examples: text: I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life, point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Powerfully, strongly.
Derived terms: equipotentially
potentially hazardous object
establishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈstæblɪʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of establish
Derived terms: establishing shot
establishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈstæblɪʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: establishings
Senses: examples: text: This course consists of the overturnings and establishings of the various successive empires under which the Church of Christ, both in its Jewish and Christian state, should exist […]
ref: 1845, Matthew Habershon, The Shadows of the Evening, page 6:
glosses: The act by which something is established; establishment.
desired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪəd/
ipa: /dɪˈzaɪɹd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desire
desired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪəd/
ipa: /dɪˈzaɪɹd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more desired
form: most desired
Senses: examples: text: This is a highly desired holiday home.
text: Her surprise gift of chocolates didn't have the desired effects
glosses: wished-for, longed-for
Derived terms: desiredly
desiredness
nondesired
undesired
ham it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hams it up
form: hamming it up
form: hammed it up
form: hammed it up
form: ham up
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: camp it up
text: You can count on him to ham it up for the camera.
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
synonyms: ham#Verb
chew the scenery#Verb
melodramatize#Verb
overact#Verb
tear a cat#Verb
glosses: To deliberately exaggerate one's emotions or movements, or to overact or act hammily.
bodhisattva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊ̯diːˈsʌtvə/
ipa: /boʊ̯diːˈsɑtvə/
Forms: form: bodhisattvas
form: boddhisatva
form: bodhisvatta
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit बोधिसत्त्व (bodhisattva, “enlightened existence”).
Senses: examples: text: Kimi was a true bodhisattva, and her English skills were excellent.
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 414:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who has taken specific lay or monastic vows and who is on the road to perfect knowledge; specifically, one who foregoes personal nirvana in order to help others achieve enlightenment.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An enlightened being existing in a form of existence beyond the ordinary forms of physical reality understood and acknowledged by scientific thought, resembling the Western notion of angels, but with a wealth of its own nuances and expectations. These include the compassionate working for enlightenment of all sentient beings.
Synonyms: mahasattva
Derived terms: bodhisattva vows
boddhisatva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boddhisatvas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bodhisattva.
up-and-coming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more up-and-coming
form: most up-and-coming
form: up and coming
Senses: examples: text: The theater likes to feature up-and-coming singers and comedians.
glosses: Emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim.
Related terms: up-and-comer
on the up
upcoming
aspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition.
text: Time and time again the people were foolish enough to trust, believe, and support with their last farthing aspiring politicians, only to find themselves betrayed and cheated.
ref: 1910, Emma Goldman, “Anarchism”, in Anarchism, and Other Essays, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, page 70:
text: Here three aspiring young seamstresses—diplomas in dressmaking from the People’s College of Zimbabwe hung on the wall—bicker and scowl at each other.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 16, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press:
synonyms: ambitious
wannabe
would-be
glosses: Hoping to become.
Derived terms: aspiringness
nonaspiring
unaspiring
aspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aspire
Derived terms: aspiringly
aspiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: aspirings
Senses: examples: text: […] if we contemplate a vegetable in its material principle, and look on it as made of earth; we muſt have the true Theory of the nature of that Element, or we miſerably fail of our Scientifical aſpirings, […]
ref: 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXII, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC, pages 214–215:
text: […] to the aſpirings of unaſſuming truſt and filial confidence, are ſet no bounds.
ref: 1750 August 29 (Gregorian calendar), Samuel Johnson, “No. [44]. Saturday, August 18. 1750.”, in The Rambler, volume II, Edinburgh: [[…] Sands, Murray, and Cochran]; sold by W. Gordon, C. Wright, J. Yair, […], published 1750, →OCLC, page 142:
text: From whatsoe’er my wakened thoughts create
Out of the hopes of thine aspirings bold,
Have I collected language to unfold
Truth to my countrymen; […]
ref: 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto Fourth”, in The Revolt of Islam; […], London: […] [F]or C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier, […]; by B[uchanan] M‘Millan, […], →OCLC, stanza XII, page 81:
glosses: Aspiration.
lightsaber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪtˈseɪ.bə(ɹ)/
ipa: /laɪtˈseɪ.bɚ/
Forms: form: lightsabers
form: light saber
form: lightsabre
Etymology: From light + saber; coined by American filmmaker George Lucas for the Star Wars film franchise. First mentioned in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope) which was released on May 25, 1977.
Senses: examples: text: [Obi-Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker] Your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
ref: 1977 May 25, George Lucas, Star Wars, spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness):
text: Wielding his flashlight like a lightsaber, Kyle sent golden shafts slicing through the swirling vapors.
ref: 2004, Rob N. Hood, Beyond the Wind, Binghamton, N.Y.: Southern Tier Editions/Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, page 1:
text: This was the era of Star Wars, the reinvention of science fiction with the homely Luke Skywalker. But even Luke had the Force and a tie-fighter. The Doctor was a humanist, and his spacecraft was an obsolete phone box redolent of bobbies with whistles. He would never resort to lightsabre against villains, preferring to confront them with jelly babies.
ref: 2006 September, Steve Tomkins, “Icon of the Month No. 82: Dr Who”, in Simon Jones, editor, Third Way, volume 29, number 7, Harrow, London: Third Way Trust, →ISSN, page 24:
text: Poster Power / Get the scheme behind the scene with Star Wars Blueprints: The Ultimate Collection. This boxed set includes five double-sided posters with blueprints of the Death Star, R2-D2, and C-3PO, lightsabers and blasters, Darth Vader and the Millennium Falcon.
ref: 2008 November, “Collecting”, in Boys' Life, volume XCVIII, number 11, Irving, Tx.: Boy Scouts of America, →ISSN, page 52:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A sword having a blade made of a powerful beam of light or energy.
glosses: A real-world toy, prop, or device fashioned after the fictional lightsaber.