cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ennui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒnˈwiː/
ipa: /ɑnˈwi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ennuis
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (modern French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiō, from Latin in odiō (“hated”). Doublet of annoy.
Senses: examples: text: There have always been individuals who toy with the political extremes out of a sort of high-class ennui.
ref: 2025 June 14, Janan Ganesh, “How boredom gave us chaos”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20:
glosses: A gripping listlessness or melancholia caused by boredom; depression.
Synonyms: acedia
Weltschmerz
boredom
ennui
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒnˈwiː/
ipa: /ɑnˈwi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ennuis
form: ennuying
form: ennuied
form: ennuied
form: ennuyed
form: ennuyed
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French ennui, from Old French enui (“annoyance”), from enuier (modern French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiō, from Latin in odiō (“hated”). Doublet of annoy.
Senses: glosses: To make bored or listless; to weary.
pension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕn'shən
ipa: /ˈpɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: pensions
Etymology: From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”).
Senses: examples: text: Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes.
glosses: A wage or fee.
glosses: A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
glosses: A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
glosses: A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
Synonyms: sense: regularly paid gratuity
word: superannuation
sense: payment for accommodations
word: rent
Hyponyms: sense: UK retirement schemes
word: AVC
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: buyout policy
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: FSAVC
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: GPP
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: GSHP
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: GSIPP
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: personal pension
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: retirement annuity contract
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: S2P
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: SERPS
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: SIPP
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: SSAS
sense: UK retirement schemes
word: stakeholder pension
Derived terms: full pension
old age pension
outpension
pensionary
pension book
pensionee
pensioneering
pensioner
pension fund
pension house
pensionless
pension plan
preserved pension
top-hat pension
pension
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕn'shən
ipa: /ˈpɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: pensions
form: pensioning
form: pensioned
form: pensioned
Etymology: From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”).
Senses: glosses: To grant a pension to.
glosses: To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
Synonyms: sense: to force to retire
word: pension off
Derived terms: pensionable
pension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕn'shən
ipa: /ˈpɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
ipa: /pɑ̃ˈsjɔ̃/
ipa: /pɑnˈsjoʊn/
ipa: /ˈpɒ̃sjɒ̃/
rhymes: -əʊn
enpr: pĕn'shən
ipa: /ˈpɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: pensions
Etymology: From French pension, from Old French pencion, as etymology 1 above. Doublet of pensione.
Senses: examples: text: A pension had somewhat less to offer than a hotel; it was always smaller, and never elegant; it sometimes offered breakfast, and sometimes not
ref: 1978, John Irving, The World According to Garp:
glosses: A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
glosses: A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Synonyms: word: hotel
word: hostel
word: bed and breakfast
word: lodging place
Hyponyms: bed and breakfast
half-pension
full-pension
Coordinate terms: inn
motel
hotel
board
half-board
full-board
Firenze
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Firenze. Doublet of Florence.
Senses: examples: text: But it would have been so nice to have a private income, and to be able sometimes to go to Venezia, Firenze, Roma, those places with the beautiful names.
ref: 1896, W[alter] D[elaplaine] Scull, “Mrs. Platt”, in The Garden of the Matchboxes and Other Stories, London: Elkin Mathews, page 94:
text: When you plan your first visit to Italy, you will likely put Roma, Firenze, and Venezia at the top of your list, perhaps adding Milano and Napoli as well. These destinations make sense because they are all world-class cities with great history, art, architecture, culture, and food.
ref: 1996, Fred Plotkin, “Introduction: Garibaldi with a Fork”, in Italy for the Gourmet Traveler, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 5:
text: His black slacks were the handiwork of his British tailor of a wool-and-Angora blend; his thick-soled shoes were made in Firenze of black leather, and fitted more like gloves than shoes.
ref: 2014 December, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, chapter 2, in Sustenance: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of Florence
glosses: Alternative form of Florence:
A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany, Italy.
glosses: Alternative form of Florence:
A metropolitan city of Tuscany, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Florence.
battologism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battologisms
Etymology: From battology + -ism.
Senses: examples: 2001 February 1, Battologism alert: Silly cyber surfers can give their mouths a workout at the 1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters USA Today hotsites
glosses: A sentence or phrase in which a syllable or short sequence of syllables is repeated, often with different meanings. Example: Wright did not write "rite" right.
glosses: A tongue-twister.
Related terms: tongue-twister
tongue twister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue twisters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tongue-twister.
at random
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It was a long, difficult business, for the coins were of all countries and sizes — doubloons, and louis d’ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides, all shaken together at random.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: Randomly, haphazardly.
empirical formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: empirical formulas
form: empirical formulae
Senses: examples: text: The molecular formula for ethane is C₂H₆, while the empirical formula is CH₃.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A notation indicating the ratios of the various elements present in a compound, without regard to the actual numbers.
Related terms: molecular formula
molecular formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular formulas
form: molecular formulae
Senses: examples: text: The molecular formula for ethane is C₂H₆, while the empirical formula is CH₃.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A notation indicating the number of atoms of each element present in one molecule of a substance.
Related terms: empirical formula
10-20
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 10-20s
Etymology: From a citizens' band radio reinterpretation of "10-20" from the 1940 ten-codes devised by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO), which in turn was based on an unnamed standard invented by Charles "Charlie" Hopper for the Illinois District 10 State Police in 1937 that subsequently spread to the rest of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota and was documented by APCO in 1939. The syllable "ten" was originally chosen to help novice operators fill an appropriate amount of time so that the dynamotor used to power 1930s and 1940s radio transmitters could spin up to full power before the semantically meaningful second number was transmitted. These second numbers were assigned with the aim that more useful common messages would be given smaller numbers, and similar messages would be roughly grouped into "brackets". The message "what is your location?" was placed in a 13–20 squad-car management bracket by the 1940 committee as one of its stated goals was to move these meanings to lowest of the situational numbers, but the reason for its placement at the end is not recorded. Its meaning subsequently generalized from the specific question to just "location" with the advent of CB radio.
Senses: examples: text: Do you know the 10-20 of that smokey?
qualifier: CB slang
glosses: Location.
wikipedia: Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International
Related terms: 10-4
10-4
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛnˈfɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: ten-four
Etymology: From the 1940 ten-codes devised by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO), based on an unnamed standard invented by Charles "Charlie" Hopper for the Illinois District 10 State Police in 1937 that subsequently spread to the rest of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota and documented by APCO in 1939. "Ten" was originally chosen to help novice operators fill an appropriate amount of time so that the dynamotor used to power 1930s radio transmitters could spin up to full power before the second number was transmitted. The second numbers were assigned with the aim that more useful common messages would be given smaller numbers, and similar messages would be roughly grouped into "brackets". The message "acknowledged" was expected to be extremely common and useful, and so was mapped to "four", the first available number after the three codes used to report and manage connection quality, which the committee gave highest priority.
Senses: examples: text: “Are you pulling in at the next truckstop?” “That's a big 10-4 on that.”
text: By golly, it's clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon
Yeah, that's a big 10-4 there, Pig Pen.
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
qualifier: CB slang
glosses: Affirmative.
examples: text: Ten-four, good buddy.
text: Dingo: 'Look, that's just what my gut is telling me, OK?! Yon! Cure this one for me tomorrow!' / Yonny: 'Copy that, roger, ten-four, and so on. I'll begin preparing the medicine right away.'
ref: 2023 July 21, Nintendo EPD, Pikmin 4, Nintendo, level/area: Rescue Command Post:
glosses: Message received, understood, acknowledged.
Related terms: 10-20
CB radio
attenuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: attenuations
Etymology: From Middle English attenuacioun, a borrowing from Latin attenuātiō (“a diminishing”). Equivalent to attenuate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: A gradual diminishing of strength.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A weakening in the virulence of a pathogen or other microorganism.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The tapering of a leaf etc to a fine point.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fabrication process in which a material is stretched out into a thin shape.
topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The reduction of the active principles of medicines to minute doses.
topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: The proportion of sugar that is converted to ethanol by a yeast.
Derived terms: deattenuation
diattenuation
disattenuation
hyperattenuation
hypoattenuation
isoattenuation
neuroattenuation
nonattenuation
space attenuation
underattenuation
vasoattenuation
Related terms: attenuate
tenuous
thin
rame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /reɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: raim
form: rane
form: rhame
Etymology: From Northern Middle English ramen (“to cry out, scream”), from Old English *hrāmian, from Proto-West Germanic *hraimōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraimōną (“to scream”), *hraimaz (“a scream”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerey- (“to scream, screech”). Cognate with Old Norse hreimr (“a scream, cry”), and possibly to Old English hrēam (“a cry, outcry, tumult, noise”).
Senses: examples: text: "Does he ever mention the king in his prayer?"
 "O yes: always."
 "What does he say about him?"
 "Something about the sceptre of righteousness, and the standard of truth. I ken he has some rhame about him."
ref: 1818, James Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck:
glosses: A remark or complaint repeated incessantly.
rame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /reɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: rames
form: raming
form: ramed
form: ramed
form: raim
form: rane
form: rhame
Etymology: From Northern Middle English ramen (“to cry out, scream”), from Old English *hrāmian, from Proto-West Germanic *hraimōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraimōną (“to scream”), *hraimaz (“a scream”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerey- (“to scream, screech”). Cognate with Old Norse hreimr (“a scream, cry”), and possibly to Old English hrēam (“a cry, outcry, tumult, noise”).
Senses: examples: text: The münelicht sea—It rugs at the he'rt o' me, An' rames an' rames eternally.
ref: 1936, J. G. Horne, Flooer o' the ling:
glosses: To complain or cry incessantly.
examples: text: Yiss, ramin, ravin mad at Betty sood be abune her edder wan wye or da idder.
ref: 1919, Thomas Manson, Humours of a Peat Commission:
glosses: To talk nonsensically.
Derived terms: rame over
raming
rame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /reɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: rames
Etymology: From late Middle English rame, from or akin to Middle Dutch raem, rame (“framework, frame”), from Old Dutch *hrama, from Proto-West Germanic *hramu (“frame, support”). Possible doublet of frame.
Senses: examples: text: Twice in thy pleasant year the wattles crown
 With golden down
 Their somber rames, and with the gums' stiff leaves
 A dusk-white fragrant bloom May interweaves
ref: 1886, Thomas Heney, Fortunate Days:
glosses: A stalk or branch, especially when dried.
glosses: A framework or skeleton.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bones of the body; skeleton.
raw_tags: of a human or animal
that'll be the day
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌðætl̩ biː ðə ˈdeɪ/
ipa: /ˌðætl̩ bi ðə ˈdeɪ/
Etymology: Originally referring to a significant day in the future regarded as worth waiting for.
Senses: examples: text: I’m going to get into work on time today. — That’ll be the day!
text: Transmission from Klingon ship: Federation ship Enterprise. Surrender and prepare to be boarded. / Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart): That will be the day.
ref: 1990, Trent Christopher Ganino, Eric A. Stillwell, “Yesterday's Enterprise”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3, episode 15, spoken by Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart):
synonyms: that'll be the frosty Friday
glosses: Said in reply to something that one believes will never happen.
Related terms: a cold day in hell
a week from next Tuesday
until the cows come home
when hell freezes over
when pigs fly
state-of-the-art
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more state-of-the-art
form: most state-of-the-art
Senses: examples: text: A basic hands-on kit that introduces you to good soldering techniques while working on state-of-the-art printed circuit board circuits. You will learn the basics of digital multimeters and circuit troubleshooting.
ref: 2018 January 24, “Toy Catalog”, in Elenco, number 38, page 52:
text: Announcing the deal on December 9, Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps said: "Today's announcement places Britain firmly at the forefront of the high-speed rail revolution, with these state-of-the-art trains serving communities right across the country from London to Glasgow."
ref: 2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Alstom-Hitachi secures £2bn HS2 rolling stock deal”, in RAIL, number 947, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of state of the art.
state-of-the-art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of state of the art.
state of the art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state-of-the-art
Senses: examples: text: The foregoing may be considered to present perhaps a very gloomy outlook both for the would-be inventor, the actual patentee, or for those having capital invested in a patent, since it is easy to see that it is quite impossible in the ordinary run of cases fully to ascertain beyond peradventure that the state of the art does not somewhere contain an instance of anticipation.
ref: 1903 August 15, “Supplement, No. 1441”, in Scientific American, page xlii:
text: which is not only not advancing the state-of-the-art of management but also is believed to be regressing the state-of-the-art.
ref: 2002, D. G. Carmichael, Disputes and International Projects, page 164:
synonyms: SOTA
glosses: The condition of scientific or technical knowledge, particularly the peak or highest level thereof, at a particular time.
state of the art
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more state of the art
form: most state of the art
form: state-of-the-art
Senses: examples: text: state-of-the-art technology
text: In other words, what I am saying is that when you plan to put into a future aircraft something that is state of the art you are putting in something as far advanced as present technology will allow and that is very much further advanced than things that are in present aircraft.
ref: 1964, U.S. Government Printing Office, Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments, →OCLC, page 7606:
text: The components considered applicable to the design of a power train for a state-of-the-art electric vehicle are: Induction motor and 3-phase AC controller[…]
ref: 1978, [United States] Department of Energy, Preliminary Power Train Design for a State-of-the-art Electric Vehicle, page A-29:
text: How good are DCGs from a linguistic perspective? Well, mixed. At one stage (in the early 1980s) they were pretty much state of the art. […]
ref: 2006, Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §8.3
glosses: At the highest level of development at a particular time; cutting-edge.
Related terms: state of play
state of affairs
sagesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French sagesse.
Senses: glosses: wisdom
progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
ipa: /pɹoʊ-/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹesɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹesəv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more progressive
form: most progressive
form: prog.
form: prog
Etymology: From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe. By surface analysis, progress + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
glosses: Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
examples: text: a progressive politician
text: progressive business leadership
glosses: Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
examples: text: Conservative movements were far more progressive than the standard religious narrative of the decade alleges and the notoriously progressive ethos of the era was far more conservative than our collective memory has recognized.
ref: 2016, Richard Lints, Progressive and Conservative Religious Ideologies, page i:
text: Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Wednesday called for “action, not words” from Democrats, criticizing the approach of some in the progressive wing of the party.
ref: 2025 March 19, Alison Main, “Michigan Democrat says she ‘can’t just be an activist’ and calls on party to act”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Liberal.
examples: text: a progressive school
topics: education
glosses: Of or relating to progressive education.
glosses: Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
raw_tags: of an income tax or other tax
examples: text: progressive paralysis
glosses: Advancing in severity.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Continuous.
Derived terms: word: antiprogressive
word: atheroprogressive
word: brogressive
word: fauxgressive
word: hyperprogressive
word: improgressive
word: neoprogressive
word: neuroprogressive
word: nonprogressive
word: oligoprogressive
word: progressive aspect
topics: phonology
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: progressive assimilation
word: progressive bluegrass
word: progressive creationism
word: progressive creationist
word: progressive dinner
word: progressive enhancement
word: progressive euchre
word: progressive house
word: progressive infantile poliodystrophy
word: progressive jazz
word: progressive longways formation
word: progressive love
word: progressively
word: progressive metal
word: progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
word: progressiveness
word: progressive overload
word: progressive rap
word: progressive rock
word: progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy
word: progressive stack
word: progressive supper
word: progressive tax
word: progressive tense
word: progressive war
word: progressive web app
word: progressive web application
word: progressivism
word: progressivist
word: progressivity
word: pseudoprogressive
word: technoprogressive
word: ultraprogressive
word: ultra-progressive
word: unprogressive
Related terms: progress
progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
ipa: /pɹoʊ-/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹesɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹesəv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: progressives
form: prog.
form: prog
Etymology: From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe. By surface analysis, progress + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The progressives want to legalise gay marriage.
text: Not long ago, few progressives imagined this day would come. They assumed the MAGA movement had been discredited by the shocking images that emerged from the January 6 insurrection, and that Trump was politically weakened by the barrage of criminal charges against him.
ref: 2025 January 19, John Blake, “What MLK knew that today’s progressives keep forgetting”, in CNN:
glosses: One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
ipa: /pɹoʊ-/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹesɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹesəv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: progressives
form: prog.
form: prog
Etymology: From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe. By surface analysis, progress + -ive.
Senses: glosses: A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
Derived terms: future perfect progressive
future progressive
past perfect progressive
past progressive
present perfect progressive
present progressive
progressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/
ipa: /pɹoʊ-/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹesɪv/
ipa: /pɹəˈɡɹesəv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: progressives
form: prog.
form: prog
Etymology: From the Middle French progressif, from the Latin prōgressīvus, from prōgredior (perfect participial stem: prōgress-) + -īvus. Displaced native Old English forþgenġe. By surface analysis, progress + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of progressive dinner
moonshine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːnʃaɪn/
Forms: form: moonshines
form: moonshining
form: moonshined
form: moonshined
Etymology: From Middle English mone schyne, mone-schyne, moone shone; equivalent to moon + shine. Illegally distilled liquor is so named because its manufacture may be conducted without artificial light at night. The verb sense is a back-formation from moonshiner.
Senses: examples: text: His grandfather started to moonshine when things got really bad in 1933; when he got caught moonshining, he did a bit of time.
text: Tommy is seventy-seven years old. He started moonshining at the age of seven. He was working for an outfit by the age of eight. He worked for the outfit fulltime until he was sixteen. He moonshined off and on until his mid-twenties. He works at a sawmill now as well.
ref: 2007, Jason Sumich, “It's All Legal Until You Get Caught: Moonshining in the Southern Appalachians”, in Ethnographic and Linguistic Field Schools, volume 1: Summer 2007: Alleghany County, Appalachian State University, retrieved 15 Dec 2023:
glosses: To make homemade (especially, illicit) alcohol, especially distilled spirits.
examples: text: A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions.
ref: 1985 June 6, “Opinion: Topics: Lean and Rich History: Ancient Eatings”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Dec 2023, Section A, page A26:
glosses: To make (an ingredient) into such a drink.
manky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋki/
rhymes: -æŋki
Forms: form: mankier
form: mankiest
Etymology: From mank + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "He don't want those," his father said, holding a bag of apples at the end of an outstretched arm as if they were a danger to his health, "they're all... manky."
ref: 2005, Justin Peter Beaney, Kasdeja's Children:
text: "Speaking of which—" Fionn starts foostering in the pocket of his manky old jacket—"I've probably got something for you."
ref: 2010, Marian Keyes, The Brightest Star in the Sky:
text: I bet your fanny's fucking minging / Sort out your manky Scouse brow
ref: 2016 December 3, Millie B, “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B:
glosses: Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
examples: text: On that occasion, we left Punta Arenas blue-eyed shags beat their way across the icy waves; when you glimpse at close quarters as I did one manky morning in the Lemaire Channel the blurred shape of a humpback whale […]
ref: 2007, The Spectator, volume 305, numbers 9342-9350, page 44:
synonyms: mank
antonyms: dingle
qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: Being or having bad weather.
Derived terms: mankily
mankiness
manky mallard
Passover
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Passovers
form: Passeouer
form: passover
Etymology: Deverbal from pass over. Coined by William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), the first translator of the Bible into modern English, as a calque of Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésakh).
Senses: examples: text: ⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. ⁶ Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. ⁸ But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.
ref: Leviticus 23:5–6 (New American Standard Bible)
glosses: The one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight at the beginning of the fourteenth day of the first month (Abib 14 / Nisan 14), during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed; this feast day is then immediately followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 to 21; the first and seventh days are holy days or annual or yearly Sabbaths).
glosses: The seven-day (Reform Judaism) or eight-day (Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) Jewish festival of Pesach (also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (מַצּוֹת (matsót)), commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus.
Synonyms: word: Feast of Matsot
english: from Hebrew
translation: from Hebrew
word: Feast of Matzot
word: Feast of Unleavened Bread
word: Festival of Matsot
english: from Hebrew
translation: from Hebrew
word: Festival of Matzot
word: Festival of Unleavened Bread
Derived terms: Christian Passover
First Passover
Jewish Passover
Lord's Passover
Passover feast
passoverish
Passover lamb
Passover meal
Passover of the Jews
Passover of the Lord
Passover sacrifice
Passover seder
Second Passover
Related terms: word: paschal
word: Paschal
english: Fourteenther
translation: Fourteenther
word: Quartodeciman
word: Quartodecimanism
word: seder
acquaint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkweɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Etymology: From Middle English aqueynten, acointen, from Old French acointier, from Early Medieval Latin accognitāre, from Late Latin accognitus, past participle of accognoscō, from Latin cognoscō, from nōscō. See also quaint, know.
Senses: examples: text: [I]f you have skimmed through even a paragraph of my poor neglected little magnum opus you will know I am unusually acquaint with my inner workings.
ref: 1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 317:
glosses: Acquainted.
Related terms: acquaintance
acquainted
Holy Communion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Christian sacrament of the Eucharist; (in particular) the reception of the body and blood of Christ (the consecrated bread and wine), which is believed to bring about communion between the recipient and Christ.
Synonyms: Blessed Sacrament
Breaking of Bread
Communion
Divine Service
Eucharist
Holy Mass
Lord's Supper
Lord's Table
Mass
Sacrament
Related terms: communion wafer
Spiritual Communion
Shabbat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈbɑːt/
ipa: /ʃəˈbɑt/
Forms: form: Shabbath
form: shabbath
form: Shabbos
form: shabbos
form: Shabbas
form: shabbas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שבת (shabát, “rest”). Variants ending in -s were influenced by the Yiddish form שבת (shabes). Doublet of Sabbath.
Senses: examples: text: I leave early on Fridays, as I don't work on Shabbat.
glosses: The Jewish Sabbath, from sundown Friday to nightfall Saturday, commemorating God's rest on the seventh day in the book of Genesis.
examples: text: Please join us for Shabbat tonight.
glosses: The ceremonial first meal of Shabbat.
glosses: Alternative form of Sabbath (“witches' meeting”).
Related terms: sabbat
Sabbat
Sabbatarian
Sabbatarianism
sabbath
Sabbath
sabbatize
sabbatizer
Shabbat elevator
Shabbat Hagadol
Shabbat lamp
shabbos goy
Arvak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arvaker
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the two horses drawing the chariot bearing the sun.
Related terms: Alsvid
wikipedia:Arvak and Alsvid
cognize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɡˌnaɪz/
ipa: /ˈkɒɡnʌɪz/
ipa: /ˌkɒɡˈnaɪz/
Forms: form: cognizes
form: cognizing
form: cognized
form: cognized
form: cognise
Etymology: Back-formation from cognizance.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey must possess organs of sight—some method of cognizing their environment—akin to that of vision in man.
ref: 1934, George Henry Weiss, The Mentanicals:
glosses: To know, perceive, or become aware of.
examples: text: Cognizing about mind is a ubiquitous human activity; we consistently construe each other as agents undertaking intentional action based on our underlying beliefs and desires (and not as "bags of skin stuffed into pieces of cloth")
ref: 2011, Usha Goswami, The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development:
text: “Thinking a lot” also involves other types of cognizing as well, such as cognizing about depressive themes such as being left by a wife for another man or being separated from relatives.
ref: 2015, Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good, Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective:
text: The act of consciously knowing about consciousness is the act of the brain mirroring its own organizations, cognizing about its own cognizing.
ref: 2016, Robbie Davis-Floyd, P. Sven Arvidson, Intuition: The Inside Story: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, page 28:
glosses: To make into an object of cognition (the process of acquiring knowledge through thought); to cogitate.
Derived terms: word: cognizable
word: cognization
word: cognizer
word: hypercognize
word: miscognize
word: precognize
alt: re-cognize
word: recognize
word: uncognized
Related terms: recognize
license
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ.səns/
rhymes: -aɪsəns
Forms: form: licenses
form: licence
Etymology: From Middle English licence, licens, lisence, lissens, licance, from Old French licence, from Latin licentia (“license”), from licens, present participle of licere (“to be allowed, be allowable”); compare linquere, Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave”).
Senses: examples: text: Hello. I would like to buy a fish licence please.
ref: 1970, 0:1:15 from the start, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, season 2, episode 10, John Cleese (actor):
glosses: A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
examples: text: Thus, while the license will grant the user the right to use the software, a major concern is the scope of that use. For example, will the user be granted the right to copy, modify, or transfer the software?
ref: 1986, Thomas Smedinghoff, The Legal Guide to Developing, Protecting, and Marketing Software, page 166:
glosses: The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
examples: text: In some instances, the author took license to include events which never happened, or to purposely create events which may run in the face of popular conjecture if the author felt it would help the story along.
ref: 2012, Chris Seepe, The Conspiracy to Assassinate Jesus Christ, page 5:
glosses: Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
examples: text: I envy not the beast that takes
⁠His license in the field of time,
⁠Unfetter’d by the sense of crime,
To whom a conscience never wakes; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 44:
text: When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
ref: 1936, Will Durant, Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, page 520:
glosses: Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
examples: text: In order to enter the building, I need to show my license.
glosses: Ellipsis of driver's license.
Derived terms: artistic license
bare license
beginner's license
BSD license
clickwrap license
colicense
crayon license
dramatic license
driver's license
driving license
end user license agreement
high license
learner's license
licensee
license fee
license laundering
licenseless
licenselike
license plate
license to print money
licensor
licensure
licentious
licentiously
licentiousness
MIT license
multilicense
multi-license
naked license
off-license
perpetual license
poetic license
provisional license
public license
shrinkwrap license
shrink-wrap license
sublicense
sub-license
vanity license plate
Related terms: licensure
licentious
license
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ.səns/
rhymes: -aɪsəns
Forms: form: licenses
form: licensing
form: licensed
form: licensed
form: licence
Etymology: From Middle English licencen, licensen, lisensen, licent, from Old French licencer, licencier, licenciier, licenser, from Medieval Latin licentiō (cf. English licentiate).
Senses: examples: text: I am licensed to practice law in this state.
glosses: To authorize officially.
examples: text: It was decided to license Wikipedia under the GFDL.
text: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
glosses: (applied to a piece of intellectual property)
To give formal authorization to use.
examples: text: The filmmakers licensed several iconic 80's songs for the soundtrack.
text: As part of the strategic relationship, Microsoft has licensed the image segmentation, compression and viewing technology from ScanSoft.
ref: 2000, International Journal of Micrographics & Optical Technology:
text: They changed their campaign, licensed the song and used it for over six years in all of their advertising.
ref: 2007, Steve Swayne, How Sondheim Found His Sound:
glosses: (applied to a piece of intellectual property)
To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.
examples: text: Intruders there were in Harley Street, of whom it was not aware; but Mr and Mrs Merdle it delighted to honour. Society was aware of Mr and Mrs Merdle. Society had said ‘Let us license them; let us know them.’
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: To give permission or freedom to; accept.
examples: text: No English adverbs have mandatory complements, and most don't even license optional ones.
text: Kayne argues that the crucial fact which licenses preposition stranding in English but not in French is the fact that in English verbs and prepositions assign Case similarly, and hence they govern similarly.
ref: 2014, Hagit Borer, Parametric Syntax: Case Studies in Semitic and Romance Languages:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To permit (as grammatically correct).
Derived terms: crosslicense
delicense
licensable
licensee
licenser
licensor
relicense
sublicense
unlicense
dogge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogges
Etymology: From Middle English dogge, from Old English docga, dogga.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey ſay he has dialogues, and diſcourſes betweene his horſe, himſelfe, and his dogge; […]
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, signature E ij, verso:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of dog.
pederast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛd.ɚ.ɹæst/
ipa: /ˈpi.də.ɹæst/
enpr: pĕd'ə-răst'
Forms: form: pederasts
form: paederast
form: pæderast
Etymology: Borrowed from French pédéraste, from Ancient Greek παιδεραστής (paiderastḗs, “lover of boys”), from παῖς (paîs, “boy”) and ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”).
Senses: synonyms: word: Uranian
hypernyms: pedophile
coordinate_terms: korephile
glosses: A man who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy; a practitioner of pederasty.
Derived terms: federast
Related terms: pederasty
pederastic
paederast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paederasts
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of pederast.
Derived terms: paederastic
pedophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pēd'-ə-fīl'
ipa: /ˈpiː.dəˌfaɪl/
enpr: pĕd'-ə-fīl'
ipa: /ˈpɛ.dəˌfaɪl/
ipa: /ˈpɛ.doʊˌfaɪl/
enpr: pĕd'-ə-fīl'
ipa: /ˈpe.dəˌfɑel/
ipa: /ˈpɛ.dəʉˌfɑel/
Forms: form: pedophiles
form: paedophile
form: pædophile
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -phile, after Ancient Greek παιδοφῐ́λης (paidophĭ́lēs) (from παῖς (paîs, “boy, child”) + φιλέω (philéō, “to love”)).
Senses: examples: text: Apart from his sexual behavior, the pedophile is typically law abiding.
ref: 1982, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice Abstracts, volume 14, page 253:
text: The pedophile, a particular type of child molester, is an adult whose conscious sexual interests and overt sexual behavior are directly either partially or exclusively toward children.
ref: 1986, Patrick B. McGuigan, Jon S. Pascale, Crime and Punishment in Modern America, page 109:
text: He uses trolling techniques to fight back against trolls that he particularly finds malevolent—specifically pedophiles and RIP trolls.
ref: 2018, Jill Anne Morris, The Internet as a Game:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
sexology
sexuality
glosses: An adult or older adolescent who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children.
examples: text: Although the Holy See publicly expressed its rejection of sexual abuse and pedophilia and expressed its commitment to cooperate with civil authorities when cases of pedophile priests were found¹², there are no known cases of bishops or cardinals, being found responsible for abusing children or covering up for pedophilia in their parishes. […] These ecclesiastic norms were the basis of the behaviors displayed by the religious authorities of Mexico and other countries, in order to cover up for pedophiles and their crimes committed against many children for a long time and in many different places.
ref: 2013 December 24, “Clerical Pedophilia by Mexicans in Mexico and Other Countries”, in CNN en Español, pages 10, 23:
text: Multiple users on Truth Social responded to Trump’s post, calling for him to release more information. “You’re losing your most loyal followers and voices Mr President,” said one post. “Why are you protecting pedophiles?” said another post.
ref: 2025 July 17, Oliver Holmes, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: common use
glosses: An adult who is sexually attracted to or engages in sexual acts with a child under the age of consent.
Synonyms: word: childlover
Hyponyms: english: a sadistic pedophile
translation: a sadistic pedophile
word: mysoped
word: korephile
word: nepiophile
Derived terms: word: antipedophile
word: paedophilophile
word: PDF file
word: Pedoblox
word: Pedocrat
word: pedocriminal
word: pedophile ring
word: pedophilish
word: pedophocracy
word: pedosaur
word: pedo-stache
word: Pedowood
word: predophile
word: reverse pedophile
Related terms: ephebophile
hebephile
pederast
paederast
pedophilia
paedophilia
pedophilic
paedophilic
pedosexual
pedosexuality
hierarchically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌɑː(ɹ)k.ɪk.æli/
ipa: /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌɑː(ɹ)k.ɪkli/
ipa: /ˈhaɪə(ɹ)ˌæk.ɪkli/
Forms: form: more hierarchically
form: most hierarchically
Etymology: From hierarchical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike, say, botany or zoology, or even in a thesaural structure of a knowledge database, where the syntactical and semantic relationships between concepts is often highly ordered (e.g. hierarchically, cohyponymically), the central concepts and meanings in the field of management are more consensually negotiated.
ref: 1987 May 1, Stuart Hannabuss, “Collaborating over Meanings in Management: Drucker Looks at Effectiveness”, in Personnel Review, volume 16, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 34:
glosses: Of, relating to, or arranged in a hierarchy.
glosses: Pertaining to a transitive relation between objects by which they may be ordered into a hierarchy.
Derived terms: nonhierarchically
hierarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪəˈɹɑː(ɹ)kəl/
Etymology: From hierarch + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the great hierarchal standard
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to a hierarch.
Synonyms: hierarchic
Related terms: hierarchical
hierarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪ.əˈɹɑː.kɪk/
ipa: /haɪˈɹɑɹ.kɪk/
Etymology: From hierarchy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: hierarchal
Derived terms: monohierarchic
hierarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hierarchs
Etymology: From Medieval Latin hierarcha, from Ancient Greek ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs) Derived from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + -άρχης (-árkhēs, “ruler”, “leader”).
ἱερός from Proto-Hellenic *iherós, from Proto-Indo-European *ish₁ros. There are a number of candidate cognates with this word. Compare Sanskrit इषिर (iṣira, “vigorous, fresh, blooming”) and Oscan 𐌀𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌔𐌉𐌔 (aisusis).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.
examples: text: The law states that the local ordinary can give to any Catholic priest the faculty to bless the marriages of non-Catholic Eastern Christians if the faithful voluntarily ask for it and the priest prudently informs the appropriate hierarch.
ref: 2016 October 11, Peter Jesserer Smith, “Pope’s Canon-Law Change Strengthens East and West”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), National Catholic Register:
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.
Synonyms: ordinary
Derived terms: hierarchal
hierarchate
hierarchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪəɹɑː(ɹ)kɪzəm/
Forms: form: hierarchisms
Etymology: From hierarchy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The more dominant hierarchism of the West.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: The principles or authority of a hierarchy.
hand-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand-works
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of handiwork.
Matthew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: măthʹ-yo͞o
ipa: /ˈmæθjuː/
ipa: /-(j)ɪu̯/
Forms: form: Matthews
form: Mathew
form: Matt.
form: Matth.
Etymology: From earlier Matheu, from Old French Mathieu, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Aramaic מַתַּי (mattay). Compare Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū, literally “gift of the Lord”). Doublet of Mattathias.
Senses: examples: text: - - - My name is Matthew Bramble, at your service. The truth is, I have a foolish pique at the name of Matthew, because it savours of those canting hypocrites, who in Cromwell's time, christened all their children by names taken from the Scripture."
ref: 1771, Tobias George Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Harper&Brothers, published 1836, page 231:
text: People with incorruptible names like Matthew are always calling people named Charles, Charlie. I wish my folks had named me Matthew. Matt is the worst that can be made of it.
ref: 1979 Charles Kuralt, Dateline America, Harcourt Brace Jovanocich, page 184
text: The men, 37-year-old Matthew Allison and 34-year-old Dallas Humber, are the leaders of an online White supremacist group called the Terrorgram Collective, prosecutors say.
ref: 2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
examples: text: And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 9:9:
synonyms: Levi
glosses: Matthew the Evangelist, one of the twelve Apostles. A publican or tax-collector at Capernaum and credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Matthew.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Mat.
related: word: Mark
word: Luke
word: John
glosses: The Gospel of St. Matthew, the first book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the first of the four gospels, a book attributed to Matthew the Evangelist.
Derived terms: St. Matthews
Related terms: word: Matthean
word: Matthias
sense: pet forms
word: Mat
sense: pet forms
word: Matt
sense: pet forms
word: Matty
sense: pet forms
word: Mattie
word: Matheson
word: Mathieson
word: Matthews
word: Matthew principle