cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
infanticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/
Forms: form: infanticides
Etymology: From French infanticide, from Latin īnfanticīdium. By surface analysis, infant + -i- + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.
ref: 1827, Robley Dunglison, Syllabus of the Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, page 93:
text: A recent government survey shows that 65 per cent of the families in Japan today are nuclear families, and a report on infanticide published this year by the Criminal Sience Club of Chuo University here indicates that eight out of ten infanticides today occur in nuclear families.
ref: 1973 August 12, “Infanticide in Japan: Sign of the Times?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The murder of an infant.
glosses: The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
topics: law
glosses: The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.
Derived terms: autoinfanticide
infanticidal
infanticider
infanticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/
Forms: form: infanticides
Etymology: From French infanticide, from Latin īnfanticīda. By surface analysis, infant + -i- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
Related terms: filicide
genocide
homicide
matricide
neonaticide
patricide
prolicide
regicide
suicide
uxoricide
tone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tōn
ipa: /təʊn/
enpr: tōn
ipa: /toʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: tones
form: toning
form: toned
form: toned
Etymology: From Middle English ton, tone, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”) (possibly through Old French ton), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”). Doublet of tune, ton, tonos, and tonus.
Senses: glosses: to give a particular tone to
glosses: to change the colour of
glosses: to make (something) firmer
glosses: to utter with an affected tone.
Synonyms: sense: change the colour of
word: color
sense: change the colour of
word: colour
sense: change the colour of
word: dye
sense: change the colour of
word: paint
sense: change the colour of
word: tint
sense: make firmer
word: firm
sense: make firmer
word: firm up
sense: make firmer
word: tone up
Derived terms: word: betone
word: toned
word: tone down
word: tone in
word: toner
word: tone up
word: tone with
word: tony
english: affected tone
translation: affected tone
word: toney
tone
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: tōn
ipa: /təʊn/
enpr: tōn
ipa: /toʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Etymology: From Middle English tone, ton, toon, from the incorrect division of thet one (“the/that one”). Compare Scots tane in the tane; see also tother.
Senses: glosses: the one (of two)
muscle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭʹsəl
ipa: /ˈmʌs.əl/
ipa: [ˈmʌs.l̩]
homophone: mussel
rhymes: -ʌsəl
Forms: form: muscles
form: muscling
form: muscled
form: muscled
Etymology: From Middle English muscle, muscule, muskylle, and in part from Middle French muscle, from Latin mūsculus (“a muscle”, literally “little mouse”) because of the mouselike appearance of some muscles, from mūs (“mouse”). Doublet of mussel. More at mouse.
Senses: examples: text: He muscled his way through the crowd.
text: Hensel and Wilson hit a series of leg shots simultaneously as Christian muscles between them with Quinn right on his heels.
ref: 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
text: Nothing the Nebraskans ever again recorded managed to muscle more than minimal attention.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 236:
text: "Here!" I passed out stacks of money. T.C. hadn't had time to batch it up, so some of it was just laying loose in money bags and I passed all that shit out to Rome while Pimp muscled Miss Lady around.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: To use force to make progress, especially physical force.
examples: text: She muscled through the ruins.
glosses: To move forcefully or with great strength.
Derived terms: muscle in
muscle in on
muscle-up
muscle up
outmuscle
Related terms: mouse
mussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌsəl/
rhymes: -ʌsəl
homophone: muscle
Forms: form: mussels
Etymology: From Middle English muscle (“mussel”), from Old English muscle, from Proto-West Germanic *muskulā, from Late Latin muscula, from Latin mūsculus (“mussel, muscle”, literally “little mouse”). Doublet of muscle.
Senses: glosses: Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells.
A freshwater mussel, usually edible, of the order Unionida in subclass Palaeoheterodonta.
glosses: Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells.
A saltwater mussel, usually edible, of the order Mytilida in subclass Pteriomorphia.
glosses: Any of several groups of bivalve shellfish with elongated, asymmetrical shells.
Any of certain other bivalves of somewhat similar appearance, such as the zebra mussel and quagga mussel of the family Dreissenidae in subclass Heterodonta.
Derived terms: word: arc-form pearly mussel
word: Australian mussel
word: bay mussel
word: bearded mussel
word: blue mussel
word: California mussel
word: Chilean blue mussel
word: Chilean mussel
word: common mussel
word: date mussel
word: duck mussel
word: fan mussel
word: foolish mussel
word: freshwater pearl mussel
word: horse mussel
word: Korean mussel
word: Magellan mussel
word: Mediterranean mussel
word: Musselburgh
word: musselcracker
word: mussel-crusher
word: musselcrusher
word: mussel digger
english: River, County, CDP
translation: River, County, CDP
word: Musselshell
word: mussel shrimp
word: quagga mussel
word: ribbed mussel
word: river mussel
word: robomussel
word: swan mussel
word: zebra mussel
Related terms: mouse
niche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
ipa: /nɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: /niʃ/
ipa: /nɪʃ/
ipa: /nɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: niches
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French niche, from Middle French niche, from Old French niche, from nicher (“to make a nest”) (modern French nicher), from Vulgar Latin *nīdicāre, from Latin nīdus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nide via Latin and nest via Proto-Indo-European; also related to nyas.
Senses: examples: text: On the margin of this long tract, are abundance of shrines and images, defended from the injuries of the weather by niches of stone wherein they are placed.
ref: 1641, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, John Evelyn's Diary, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, published 1850, page 34:
topics: architecture
synonyms: nook
glosses: A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
glosses: Any similar position, literal or figurative.
glosses: Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
examples: text: Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse.
ref: 2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: specialty
specialization
glosses: Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
Derived terms: econiche
enniche
fundamental niche
macroniche
meganiche
microniche
multiniche
nicheless
niche market
niche marketing
nicheness
nichey
nichification
subniche
unniche
niche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
ipa: /nɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: /niʃ/
ipa: /nɪʃ/
ipa: /nɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: niches
form: niching
form: niched
form: niched
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French niche, from Middle French niche, from Old French niche, from nicher (“to make a nest”) (modern French nicher), from Vulgar Latin *nīdicāre, from Latin nīdus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nide via Latin and nest via Proto-Indo-European; also related to nyas.
Senses: examples: a niched vase
glosses: To place in a niche.
examples: text: Product differentiation will be mostly limited to market niching and fashion.
ref: 2002, Frederick Betz, Executive Strategy, page 92:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: To specialize in a niche, or particular narrow section of the market.
niche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
ipa: /nɪt͡ʃ/
ipa: /niʃ/
ipa: /nɪʃ/
ipa: /nɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: more niche
form: nicher
form: most niche
form: nichest
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French niche, from Middle French niche, from Old French niche, from nicher (“to make a nest”) (modern French nicher), from Vulgar Latin *nīdicāre, from Latin nīdus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nide via Latin and nest via Proto-Indo-European; also related to nyas.
Senses: examples: text: niche products
text: niche audience
text: You can go even more niche if you like though and choose 'crocheting' or 'bird sewing patterns' but the 'more niche' you go, the more you narrow your audience.
ref: 2016, BookLover, How to Become A Massive YouTube Celebrity:
glosses: Pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal; obscure.
Related terms: niché
agnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɡˈnɒstɪk/
ipa: /æɡˈnɑstɪk/
ipa: /æɡˈnɔstɪk/
rhymes: -ɒstɪk
Forms: form: more agnostic
form: most agnostic
Etymology: Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870. Either from Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos, “ignorant, not knowing”), or from a- + Gnostic, deriving (either way) from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”).
Senses: examples: text: She left the church when she had become agnostic.
glosses: Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity.
examples: text: I'm agnostic on whether ethanol is a green fuel.
text: He says he's agnostic concerning the Secretary's claims.
glosses: Having no firmly held opinions on something.
raw_tags: with a prepositional phrase
examples: text: His agnostic viewpoint is summarized in his book.
text: In matters of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him.
ref: 1889, Thomas Henry Huxley, Agnosticism:
glosses: Of or relating to agnosticism or its adherents.
examples: text: The socket communications layer is agnostic with regard to its underlying transport mechanism—it is “transport-agnostic”.
text: The software's registration key is platform agnostic and will work on both x86 and ARM processors.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components or input with which it interacts.
raw_tags: of a software component etc.
Hyponyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: view agnostic
Derived terms: agnostically
agnosticize
antiagnostic
anti-agnostic
language-agnostic
location-agnostic
nonagnostic
vendor agnostic
vendor-agnostic
Related terms: agnosia
agnosticism
agnosy
apatheism
gnostic
ignostic
ignosticism
agnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɡˈnɒstɪk/
ipa: /æɡˈnɑstɪk/
ipa: /æɡˈnɔstɪk/
rhymes: -ɒstɪk
Forms: form: agnostics
Etymology: Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870. Either from Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos, “ignorant, not knowing”), or from a- + Gnostic, deriving (either way) from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “I know”).
Senses: examples: text: The Agnostic is one who asserts—what no one denies—that there are limits to the sphere of human intelligence.
ref: 1876 June 1, Leslie Stephen, “An Agnostic's Apology”, in The Forthnightly Review, volume 25/19, number 114, page 840:
text: An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned.
ref: 1953 November 3, Bertrand Russell, “What is an Agnostic?”, in Look:
text: When I say I'm an agnostic, I only mean that the evidence isn't in. There isn't compelling evidence that God exists — at least your kind of god — and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't.
ref: 1985, Carl Sagan, Contact: a novel, New York: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.
Related terms: word: atheist
english: Mainly UK & Commonwealth
translation: Mainly UK & Commonwealth
word: sceptic
english: Mainly US
translation: Mainly US
word: skeptic
dulcet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌl.sɪt/
ipa: /ˈdʌl.sət/
Etymology: From Middle English doucet, from Old French doucet, from dulz, dulce (“sweet, pleasant”) + diminutive -et, from Latin dulcis (“sweet, pleasant”). Cognate with Spanish dulce, French doux, Italian dolce, Portuguese doce, and Romanian dulce. Doublet of dolcetto and doucet.
Senses: examples: text: Her name was Michaela, but the men called her filthy things in dulcet, ingratiating voices, and she giggled with childish joy because she understood no English and thought they were flattering her and making harmless jokes.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433:
text: Matthew "MattKC" Wong (actor) (2024), 6s from the start, in I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95: “Ah, yes, the dulcet tones of Windows 95.”
synonyms: birdsweet
mellifluous
glosses: Sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious.
synonyms: agreeable
soothing
glosses: Generally pleasing; agreeable.
examples: text: […]for drink the Grape / She crushes, inoffensive must, and meads / From many a berry, and from sweet kernels prest / She tempers dulcet creams[…]
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:
synonyms: sugary
sweet
glosses: Sweet to the taste.
Derived terms: dulcetly
Related terms: billet-doux
dolce far niente
dolce vita
dulciana
dulcify
dulcimer
dulcinea
edulcorate
dulcimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌl.sɪ.mɚ/
ipa: /ˈdʌl.sɪ.mə/
Forms: form: dulcimers
Etymology: From Old French doulcemelle, probably from Latin dulce melos (“sweet song”), from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “melody, song”).
Senses: examples: text: A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw: / It was an Abyssinian maid / And on her dulcimer she played, / Singing of Mount Abora.
ref: 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems, Courier Dover Publications, published 1992, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Accompanying himself with his dulcimer, a plectrum instrument of his own handicraft, Niles harks back to the balladeers of old.
ref: 1947 January 25, “Album Reviews: The Seven Joys of Mary—John: Jacob Niles (Disc 732)”, in The Billboard, volume 59, number 4, Nielsen Business Media, →ISSN, page 32:
text: Played traditionally, the dulcimer sounds delightful with drones acenting the melody you are playing.
ref: 2004, Madeline MacNeil, You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer, Mel Bay Publications, →ISBN, Introduction, page 4:
coordinate_terms: zither
glosses: A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
Derived terms: alt: fretted dulcimer, lap dulcimer, dulcimore, mountain dulcimer
word: Appalachian dulcimer
word: bowed dulcimer
word: dulcijo
word: banjo dulcimer
word: dulcimerist
word: dulcimerlike
word: electric dulcimer
word: hammered dulcimer
word: hammer dulcimer
goalkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goalkeepers
form: goal-keeper
form: goal keeper
Etymology: From goal + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.
ref: 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
text: Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team.
ref: 2018, Ace Banking And Static Awareness, page 273:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: goalie
word: goalminder
word: goaltender
word: keeper
word: netkeeper
word: netminder
word: stopper
glosses: A designated player that attempts to prevent the opposing team from scoring by protecting a goal.
Derived terms: nongoalkeeper
-ie
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-i/
Forms: form: -ee
form: -ey
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English -ie
Variant spelling of -y (nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: "Polly, I wish you 'd let me call you Marie," said Fanny one day, as they were shopping together.
"You may call me Mary, if you like; but I won't have any ie put on to my name. I'm Polly at home and I'm fond of being called so; but Marie is Frenchified and silly."
"I spell my own name with an ie, and so do all the girls."
"And what a jumble of Netties, Nellies, Hatties, and Sallies there is. How 'Pollie' would look spelt so!"
ref: 1869, Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl:
text: dear → dearie
text: sweet → sweetie
text: smile → smilie (also smiley)
text: Catherine → Cathie (also Cathi, Cathy); Katherine → Kathie (also Kathi, Kathy)
text: Bill → Billie (also Billi, Billy)
glosses: Forming diminutive or affectionate forms of nouns or names.
examples: Jesse → Jessie
Bill → Billie
James → Jamie
glosses: Forming feminine or gender-neutral forms of given names.
examples: bike → bikie
road → roadie
surf → surfie
town → townie
qualifier: occasionally derogatory
glosses: Forming colloquial nouns signifying the person associated with suffixed noun or verb.
examples: slow → slowie
small → smallie
tough → toughie
glosses: Forming nouns relative to an adjective.
examples: alright → alrightie
eww → ewwie
good → goodie
oops → oopsie
ow → owie
glosses: Forming colloquial interjections or phrases.
-ie
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-i/
Forms: form: -ee
form: -ey
Etymology: Variant spelling of -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: hug → huggie
glosses: Alternative spelling of -y (adjectival suffix).
-y
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /i/
Forms: form: -e
form: -ey
form: -ie
form: -i-
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
From Middle English -y, -i, from Old English -iġ (“-y, -ic”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-g, from Proto-Germanic *-īgaz (“-y, -ic”), from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ikos, *-iḱos (“-y, -ic”).
Cognate with Scots -ie (“-y”), West Frisian -ich (“-y”), Dutch -ig (“-y”), Low German -ig (“-y”), German -ig (“-y”), Swedish -ig (“-y”), Gothic -𐌹𐌲𐍃 (-igs, “-y”), Latin -icus (“-y, -ic”), Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós), Sanskrit -इक (-ika). Doublet of -ac and -ic.
Senses: examples: text: mess + -y → messy
text: mouse + -y → mousy
text: blue + -y → bluey
text: clay + -y → clayey
text: tree + -y → treey
text: hole + -y → holey
text: sponge + -y → spongy
text: cake + -y → caky
text: dice + -y → dicey
text: guts + -y → gutsy
text: Tim keeps trying to make it all more impressionistic, less computer-y.
ref: 2003, Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving the referent” or “analogous to it”.
examples: text: run + -y → runny
text: panic + -y → panicky
text: twiddle + -y → twiddly
glosses: Added to verbs to form adjectives meaning "inclined to".
Synonyms: sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “involving the referent”
word: -al
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “involving the referent”
word: -an
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “involving the referent”
word: -ial
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “involving the referent”
word: -ian
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “involving the referent”
word: -ly
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “involving the referent”
word: -ous
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “analogous to the referent”
word: -esque
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “analogous to the referent”
word: -ish
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “analogous to the referent”
word: -like
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “analogous to the referent”
word: -ly
sense: form “having quality of” adjectives, denoting “analogous to the referent”
word: -oid
-y
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /i/
Forms: form: -e
form: -ey
form: -ie
form: -i-
form: -e
form: -ey
form: -ie
form: -i-
form: -ie
form: -ey
form: -ee
Etymology: Cognate with Scots -ie, being inherited directly from the same source Middle English -ie, -i, from Old English -iġ (“-ie, -y”, diminutive suffix), possibly from Proto-West Germanic *-ij-, *-j- (diminutive suffix).
Not related with Dutch -je, -ie, regional Low German -je, which are from Proto-West Germanic *-ikīn (English -kin as in lambkin), nor with German -i, which is from Proto-West Germanic *-īn (English -en as in maiden). The vowel /i/ has an onomatopoeic quality to it, which may reinforce its occurrence in diminutives.
Senses: examples: text: gran(nam) + -y → granny
text: pin(afore) + -y → pinny
text: (s)tom(ach) + -y → tummy
glosses: Forming diminutive nouns.
examples: text: And(rew) + -y → Andy
text: Bill + -y → Billy
text: John + -y → Johnny
text: Jones + -y → Jonesy
text: love + -y → lovey
glosses: Forming familiar names, pet names, nicknames and terms of endearment.
glosses: Added for metrical reasons to songs, often in children's music where it may carry diminutive associations.
examples: text: bald + -y → baldy
text: dum(b) + -y → dummy
text: right + -y → righty
glosses: Forming nouns relative to an adjective.
examples: text: alright + -y → alrighty
text: oops + -y → oopsy
text: right + -y → righty
text: wake + -y → wakey
glosses: Forming colloquial interjections or phrases.
Synonyms: word: mini-
word: micro-
word: nano-
word: -ette
word: -ee
word: -icle
word: -cule
word: -ule
word: -ole
-y
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /i/
Forms: form: -e
form: -ey
form: -ie
form: -i-
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin -ia
Old French -ieder.
Middle English -ie
Middle English -y
English -y
From Middle English -y, -ie, -ee, -e, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French -ie and -é, from Latin -ia, -ium, -tās, Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā), -ειᾰ (-eiă), -ιον (-ion).
Cognate (as far as Latin -ia is involved) with German -ei and Dutch -ij.
Senses: examples: text: modest + -y → modesty
text: honest + -y → honesty
text: -nym + -y → -nymy
text: as in toponym + -y → toponymy
text: -logue + -y → -logy
text: as in analogue + -y → analogy
glosses: Forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state.
examples: Italy, Germany, Saxony, Hungary, Sicily, Lombardy, Tuscany, Albany, Brittany, Gascony, Burgundy, Picardy, Normandy, Romandy, Savoy, Muscovy, Tartary, Arcady, Thessaly, Troy, Turkey.
glosses: Used in the name of some locations which end in -ia in Latin.
-y
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /i/
Forms: form: -e
form: -ey
form: -ie
form: -i-
form: -e
form: -ey
form: -ie
form: -i-
form: -ee
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English -y, -ie, for earlier -ien, from the Old English weak class 2 infinitival suffix -ian, -iġan, by syncope from earlier *-ōjan, North Sea Germanic form of Proto-West Germanic *-ōn, from Proto-Germanic *-ōną; reinforced by the suffix -ian, -ġan in Old English verbs of weak class 1 with roots ending in -r (and the exceptional strong class 6 verb swerian). Compare -en (infinitive ending).
Senses: examples: text: But thee, thee wut ruckee, and ſquattee, and doatee in the chimly coander lick an axwaddle; and wi’ the zame tha wut rakee up, and gookee, and tell doil, tell dildrams and buckingham jenkins.
ref: June 1746, “An Exmoor Scolding”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 16, London: Edward Cave, page 354:
text: Where's your Tom now? Au! he do worky down to factory— he've a-workèd to the gig's two year
ref: 1886, Frederic Thomas Elworthy, “Gig, Gig-mill”, in The West Somerset Word-Book, volume 1, London: Trübner & Co., page 284:
text: d. wiː də ˈbɽɪŋ æʊɽ ˈʃiːp ɪn l̴ami / ‘We bring our sheep in (to) lamb.’ (36 Co 6, book I)
ref: 2008 March 18 [c. 1955], Suzanne Wagner, “English dialects in the Southwest: morphology and syntax”, in Bernd Kortmann, Clive Upton, editors, Varieties of English, volume 1: The British Isles, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 432:
glosses: Denotes the infinitive of verbs when used intransitively.
antiquated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntɪˌkweɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more antiquated
form: most antiquated
Etymology: From antiquate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Coming to the third proposition, von Hertling says, with justice, that the doctrine of the balance of power is a more or less antiquated doctrine.
ref: 1918, Arthur Balfour, Response to Woodrow Wilsons Speech of 11 February 1918:
text: A root-and-branch reform of our antiquated passenger fares system is urgently needed if the rail industry is to fill the £2 billion annual black hole in its finances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
ref: 2022 November 16, Howard Johnston, “Network News: Haines: fares reform essential to reclaim lost revenue”, in RAIL, number 970, page 20:
glosses: old-fashioned, out of date
Synonyms: backward
disused
outdated
obsolete
Derived terms: antiquatedly
antiquatedness
unantiquated
Related terms: ancient
antic
antiquarian
antiquary
antiquation
antique
antiquity
antiquated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæntɪˌkweɪtɪd/
Etymology: From antiquate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antiquate
zither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈzɪ.ðɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zithers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zither, from Old High German zithara, from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára, “a kind of harp”). Doublet of cithara, cither, and guitar.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings placed on a horizontal surface, played with a plectrum or fingertips.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: translations
glosses: Related or similar instruments in other cultures, such as the Chinese guqin or Norwegian harpeleik; especially any chordophone without a neck, and with strings that pass over the body.
Derived terms: box zither
moon zither
zitherist
Related terms: sense: similar instruments
word: autoharp
word: dulcimer
word: harpeleik
zither
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪ.ðə/
ipa: /ˈzɪ.ðɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: zithers
form: zithering
form: zithered
form: zithered
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zither, from Old High German zithara, from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára, “a kind of harp”). Doublet of cithara, cither, and guitar.
Senses: examples: text: […] the fluting began again. Not alone this time, but, to Rosalie’s infinite surprise, accompanied on a zither. […] At this moment the fluting and zithering began again.
ref: 1892, Edmund Gosse, chapter 3, in The Secret of Narcisse, New York: United States Book Company, page 100,102:
text: We wandered and fiddled and zithered and tambourined through France till the chills and rains of autumn rendered our vagabondage less merry.
ref: 1906, William John Locke, chapter 9, in The Belovéd Vagabond, New York: John Lane, published 1911, pages 120–121:
text: 1999, Richard Hacken (translator), “Mary in Misery” by Peter Rosegger in Into the Sunset: Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Austrian Prose, Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, pp. 413-414,
We traveled far and wide: he played the zither while I sang an accompaniment. […] He keeps zithering, and I sing like before, and before long we’ve put together a pretty good pile of money . . .
glosses: To play a zither.
examples: text: c. 1890, May Ostlere, Dead! London: Trischler, Chapter 3, p. 76,
Now [the wind] swithered through the badly-fixed windows, making zithering sounds as of an army of cold and frozen-out mosquitoes […]
text: The olives seemed weighed down under the weight of their fruit, smooth drops of green jade among which the choirs of cicadas zithered.
ref: 1956, Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals, Penguin, published 2000, Part Two, Chapter 10, p. 123:
text: Once I owned a bike […] It had no fenders and one gear only, and on the forks, both fore and aft, I clipped some plastic playing cards to zither loudly through the spokes.
ref: 1985, Kim Chapin, chapter 19, in Dogwood Afternoons, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 178:
text: ‘Look at that!’ she shouted, already backing up the Jeep, its tyres zithering on the crusty surface.
ref: 1996, Carl Huberman, chapter 38, in Eminent Domain, London: Macmillan, page 328:
text: The other men opened fire with pistols, slugs zithering past him with a dull whine.
ref: 2004, Matt Braun, chapter 15, in Black Gold, New York: St Martin’s Paperbacks, page 158:
glosses: To make a sound similar to that made by a zither; to move while making such a sound.
Amerindian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæməˈɹɪndɪən/
ipa: /ˌæməɹˈɪndiən/
rhymes: -ɪndiən
Forms: form: more Amerindian
form: most Amerindian
Etymology: Blend of American + Indian, attested since about 1900.
Senses: glosses: American Indian.
Amerindian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæməˈɹɪndɪən/
ipa: /ˌæməɹˈɪndiən/
rhymes: -ɪndiən
Forms: form: Amerindians
Etymology: Blend of American + Indian, attested since about 1900.
Senses: glosses: An American Indian.
Related terms: word: Amerind
word: Amerindianness
word: American Indian
word: Indian
english: Asian Indian
translation: Asian Indian
word: Hindian
word: Euro-American
luxuriant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌɡˈzjʊəɹi.ənt/
ipa: /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.ənt/
ipa: /ləɡ-/
ipa: /-ɔːɹi.ənt/
ipa: /ləɡˈʒʊɹi.ənt/
ipa: /ləkˈʃʊɹi.ənt/
ipa: /-ɝi.ənt/
Forms: form: more luxuriant
form: most luxuriant
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūxuriāns, present participle of lūxuriō, itself from lūxuria (“luxury, excess”). Equivalent to luxury + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: She wore a dress of azure blue velvet, with a deep border of gold; her luxuriant hair was put back from her brow in a style which no face but the most perfect could have borne, and was then gathered in a form like that of an ancient helmet, every plait glittering with diamonds: it was peculiar, but it suited her.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 309–310:
text: Thus, to find luxuriant growths of seaweeds unaffected by man, one must go to the Channel Islands where pollution has not taken its toll.
ref: 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 7:
text: in the midst of luxuriant gardens
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: Abundant in growth or detail.
Derived terms: luxuriance
luxuriancy
luxuriant flower
luxuriantly
luxuriantness
overluxuriant
unluxuriant
Related terms: luxury
luxurious
ornamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːnəˈmɛntl/
ipa: /ˌɔɹnəˈmɛntl/
Forms: form: more ornamental
form: most ornamental
Etymology: From ornament + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
text: We shall leave to the reader to determine with what judgment we have chosen the several occasions for inserting those ornamental parts of our work.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
text: There were ornamental ponds and shrubs clipped into animal shapes, painted concrete gnomes sitting on mushrooms, pink flamingos standing on one leg[.]
ref: 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 20:
synonyms: beautifying
embellishing
decorative
glosses: Serving as an ornament; having no purpose other than to make more beautiful.
examples: text: Those pine trees on the lawn are the fastest-growing ornamentals we could find.
topics: biology
fish
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Bred for aesthetic or decorative purposes.
raw_tags: of a plant
Derived terms: nonornamental
ornamentalism
ornamentalist
ornamentality
ornamentalize
ornamentalness
unornamental
Related terms: ornamentation
ornamentally
ornamental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːnəˈmɛntl/
ipa: /ˌɔɹnəˈmɛntl/
Forms: form: ornamentals
Etymology: From ornament + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favored ornamental from the steppes of central Asia.
ref: 1991 October 10, Jackson Granholm, “In praise of the tumbleweed”, in News Chronicle, Thousand Oaks, Calif., page B-7, column 3:
glosses: An ornamental plant.
ornament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)nəmənt/
ipa: /ˈɔɹnəmənt/
enpr: ôrʹnə-mənt
ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)nəˌmɛnt/
ipa: /ˈɔɹnəˌmɛnt/
enpr: ôrʹnə-mĕnt'
Forms: form: ornaments
Etymology: From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornāre (“to equip, adorn”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride / Looks only for a moment whole and sound; / Like that long-buried body of the king / Found lying with his urns and ornaments, / Which at a touch of light, an air of heaven, / Slipt into ashes and was found no more.
ref: 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 51:
text: I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use.
ref: 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:
text: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
ref: 2012 March 24, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 106:
synonyms: word: adornment
word: decoration
word: embellishment
word: ornament
word: ornamentation
glosses: An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
glosses: A Christmas tree decoration.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The articles used in church services.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
Derived terms: block ornament
hood ornament
neither use nor ornament
ornamental
ornamentary
ornamentist
ornamentless
tooth ornament
Related terms: ornate
ornamentation
adorn
suborn
ornament
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)nəmənt/
ipa: /ˈɔɹnəmənt/
enpr: ôrʹnə-mənt
ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ)nəˌmɛnt/
ipa: /ˈɔɹnəˌmɛnt/
enpr: ôrʹnə-mĕnt'
Forms: form: ornaments
form: ornamenting
form: ornamented
form: ornamented
Etymology: From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornāre (“to equip, adorn”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: We will ornament the windows with trim to make the room seem brighter.
glosses: To decorate.
examples: text: The editor ornamented his plain writing, making it fancier but less clear.
text: Not a scene goes by that hasn't been ornamented with a split screen, a freeze frame, a caption, a voice-over, a switch between monochrome and colour, or a change of the aspect radio^([sic – meaning ratio]).
ref: 2021 July 12, Nicholas Barber, “The French Dispatch: Four stars for Wes Anderson's latest”, in BBC:
glosses: To add to.
Synonyms: sense: decorate
word: adorn
sense: decorate
word: bedeck
sense: decorate
word: decorate
sense: decorate
word: embellish
sense: decorate
word: trim
Derived terms: ornamentor
overornament
reornament
preemptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈɛmp.tɪv/
Forms: form: more preemptive
form: most preemptive
form: preëmptive
form: pre-emptive
form: præemptive
Etymology: From preempt + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to preemption.
examples: text: a preemptive attack on the enemy
text: Extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws, sometimes known as gun violence restraining order or "red-flag" laws, are risk-based, temporary, and preemptive protective orders that authorize the removal of firearms from individuals determined to be at risk for committing gun violence against others or themselves. With ERPO laws in place, law enforcement, family members, or medical professionals can petition a court to temporarily restrict a person's access to firearms if they believe that person is at risk of hurting him or herself or others.
ref: 2023 January 10, “The Effects of Extreme Risk Protection Orders”, in RAND Corporation:
glosses: Made so as to deter an anticipated unpleasant situation.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: Intended to interfere with an opponent's bidding.
raw_tags: of a high-level bid
Derived terms: preemptively
preemptive right
preemptive self-defence
preemptive strike
preemptive therapy
cymbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪmbəl/
ipa: [ˈsɪmbɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
homophone: symbol
Forms: form: cymbals
Etymology: From Middle English cymbal, from Old English cimbal, cimbala and Old French cimbale, both from Latin cymbalum (“cymbal”), from Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon), from κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”). See also chime.
Senses: examples: text: The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,
Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,
Make the sun dance.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 13::
text: Trumpets and Drums shall fright her from the Throne,
As sounding Cymbals aid the lab'ring Moon.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act I, page 5:
text: I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang […]
ref: 1881–82, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, The Mystic Trumpeter":
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.
Hyponyms: china
Derived terms: China cymbal
Chinese cymbal
clash cymbal
crash cymbal
cymbalist
cymballike
flying cymbal
pang cymbal
ride cymbal
sizzle cymbal
sock cymbal
splash cymbal
suspended cymbal
swish cymbal
trash cymbal
step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛp/
homophone: steppe
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: steps
Etymology: Clipping of stepchild and stepsibling.
Senses: examples: text: [Krazy Kat, after complimenting a woman on her nice polite little child:] Boy or girl?
 [Woman:] Step – but well brung up.
ref: 1934 September 6, George Herriman, Krazy Kat, comic strip, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: A stepchild.
examples: text: So for Richard and Barbara, Jeff and Kari, the impossibly varied collection of steps and halves that is another legacy of my father.
ref: 2016, Robert M. Herzog, A World Between:
glosses: A stepsibling.
Related terms: step-
steppe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
homophone: step
Forms: form: steppes
Etymology: From German Steppe or French steppe, in turn from Russian степь (stepʹ, “flat grassy plain”). There is no generally accepted earlier etymology, but there is a speculative Old East Slavic reconstruction *сътепь (sŭtepĭ, “trampled place, flat, bare”), related to топот (topot), топтать (toptatĭ).
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless be it remarked, that even a Russian steppe has tumuli and gold ornaments […]
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Preliminary”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 3:
text: Enkidu was the hairy man of the wild steppes, and Gilgamesh was the hero of civilization; but now the contrast is between Gilgamesh, the king, the man of political power, the heroic man of action, the extrovert, and Utnapishtim, the man of religious authority, the introvert, the sage.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 187:
coordinate_terms: pampas
plain
prairie
savanna
veld
glosses: The grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia.
examples: text: Grasslands: The Steppe biome is a dry, cold, grassland that is found in all of the continents except Australia and Antarctica. It is mostly found in the USA, Mongolia, Siberia, Tibet and China. There isn't much humidity in the air because Steppe is located away from the ocean and close to mountain barriers.
ref: 2000, Mary Elizabeth v. N., “Steppe”, in Blue Planet Biomes, West Tisbury Elementary School:
glosses: A vast, cold, dry, grassy plain.
Derived terms: forest steppe
mammoth steppe
shrubsteppe
steppe bison
steppe cat
steppe eagle
steppe fox
steppe lemming
steppe lion
steppe mammoth
steppe murrain
steppe-tundra
steppe vole
steppe wisent
steppe-witch
steppic
flatbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætˌbɛd/
Forms: form: flatbeds
form: flat bed
form: flat-bed
Etymology: From flat + bed.
Senses: glosses: An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads.
examples: text: The Rotrac E2 shunter was built by German manufacturer Zwiehoff and has been subject to a 14-month trial to prove it can replace diesel traction for moving flatbed wagons in and out of the depot.
ref: 2021 December 29, “Network News: DRS acquires compact electric shunter”, in RAIL, number 947, page 14, photo caption:
glosses: A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar.
glosses: Clipping of flatbed trolley.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A document scanner with a flat bed.
Derived terms: flatbed lorry
flatbed editor
flatbed truck
Related terms: dray
stakebody
flatbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætˌbɛd/
Etymology: From flat + bed.
Senses: examples: text: I can't scan the whole document quickly because I only have a flatbed scanner.
text: The accident left the contents of a flatbed trailer scattered across all three lanes.
glosses: Having a flat bed.
flatbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætˌbɛd/
Forms: form: flatbeds
form: flatbedding
form: flatbedded
form: flatbedded
Etymology: From flat + bed.
Senses: examples: text: Tatiana went from working the pulley that lifted the treadless tank and placed it on tread, to painting the red star on a finished tank ready to be flatbedded and put into production.
ref: 2000, Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman, →ISBN:
text: 'Well, we won't know about prints till we can flatbed his SUV back to Middle Street and check, but given he left the car in a hurry, my guess is we'll find something, maybe quite a lot.
ref: 2011 -, James Hayman, The Cutting, →ISBN:
text: “I'm going to have to flatbed this vehicle,” Larry said with an air of importance that irritated Pytel.
ref: 2012, Rus Bradburd, Make It, Take It, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: To transport by flatbed.
cultural wealth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cultural wealths
Senses: glosses: The collection of arts, architecture, etc. that help to define the culture of a region.
Related terms: cultural patrimony
adulterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʌltəɹəs/
Forms: form: more adulterous
form: most adulterous
Senses: examples: text: adulterous behaviour
text: adulterous man
text: adulterous woman
text: The novel told the story of an adulterous affair.
text: He was accused of living in an adulterous relationship.
text: Her adulterous behavior led to the collapse of the marriage.
synonyms: unfaithful
adulterate
glosses: Of, or characterized by adultery.
Derived terms: adulterously
adulterousness
nonadulterous
koti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kotis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kothi (“Indian gender role”).
lapsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Apostates who renounced their faith under persecution by the Ancient Roman authorities.
omena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The women grow maize, beans, peas and sorghum, and are particularly happy with weaning foods taught by the Agricultural Extension staff because these foods are within their reach physically and economically: maize and bean flour, sorghum and pea flour, or flour from maize and omena (the omena fish is easily gotten from Lake Victoria).
ref: 1986, Hunger Notes: A Newsletter of World Hunger Education Service:
text: Well dried tiny fish (omena) can be mixed with grain such as maize or millet and milled into flour. The flour should be prepared in amounts which should not be kept for longer than 2 weeks since it is likely to go bad. The dried omena can also be prepared into powder separately and this can be added in spoonfuls to the food during preparation.
ref: 1988, Ruth K. Oniang'o, Feeding the Child, page 99:
text: However local people recognize that the omena should preferably be eaten shortly after drying. They report that if the omena becomes too old the taste becomes bitter, so they tend to purchase omena only in the quantities which can be used up quickly.
ref: 1986, Miriam S. Chaiken, Traditional Patterns and Modern Dilemmas: Designing Locally Appropriate Health Interventions:
glosses: In Kenya, small fish dried and milled into flour.
Fuchs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːks/
rhymes: -uːks
Etymology: From German Fuchs. Doublet of Fox and Vos.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: fuchsia
Fuchsian group