cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
suwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʊwaɹ/
Etymology: From the Arabic سُوَر (suwar), the plural form of سُورَة (sūra), whence sura.
Senses: examples: text: Most of these essentially uninflected syllables (CV̄C) are names of the letters of the alphabet and introduce some of the suwar of the Qurʾanic text.
ref: 1985, Kristina Nelson, The Art of Reciting the Qurʾan, Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press (2001), chapter 2: “Tajwīd”, page 25
glosses: plural of sura
suwar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʊwaɹ/
Forms: form: suwars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sowar.
mid-drift
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + drift.
Senses: examples: text: Sure, using the brakes will slow the car, but just as with throttle input, there is a finite amount of brake input available to you mid-drift.
ref: 2006, Paul Morton, How to Drift: The Art of Oversteer, CarTech, page 54:
glosses: During the act of drifting.
mid-drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-drifts
Etymology: By confusion, based on the pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: Be careful with the casual clothes that you wear in China - no bare mid-drifts, or revealing fashion.
ref: 2003, Lawrence Frank Deangelo, “China Survival Information”, in Business International, page 17:
text: Other women — human and alien alike — wear sheer, light, revealing outfits, exposing skin (pink, brown, or green), mid-drifts, ample cleavage, and rear ends.
ref: 2009, Michael Hemmingson, Star Trek: A Post-structural Critique of the Original Series, Wildside Press, page 53:
glosses: Eggcorn of midriff.
Esslinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Esslingers
form: Eslinger
Etymology: Borrowed from German Esslinger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hendersonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛn.dəˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌhɛn.dɚˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Hendersonian
form: most Hendersonian
Etymology: From Henderson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to anybody with the surname Henderson.
Freiburger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Freiburgers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Freiburger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Freiburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Freiburger
Romaniot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romaniots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Romaniote.
Romaniots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romaniot
Romaniotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romaniote
Romaniote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Romaniotes
form: Romaniot
Etymology: Ancient Greek Ῥωμανιῶτες (Rhōmaniôtes).
Senses: examples: text: Native (Romaniote) Jews submerged hy increasing numbers of Sephardi Jews plus the Karaites constituted the three main communities.
ref: 1954, The Middle East Journal, page 359:
text: Gradually, however, the greater wealth and more dynamic culture of the Sephardim overwhelmed the Romaniotes, most of whom merged with the newcomers.
ref: 2012, Bernard Wasserstein, On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War:
glosses: A member of a Jewish population living in Greece, historically distinct from the Sephardim, who settled in Greece later.
finiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finiffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of finif.
finnif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finnifs
Senses: examples: text: Five of them finniffs makes a quarter of a hundred dollars.
ref: 1884, George Alfred Townsend, The Entailed Hat, or Patty Cannon's Times, Harper & Brothers, p. 182 (Google preview)
text: Thank you gentlemen, and here is ... some finnifs for your trouble.
ref: 1969, Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down:
text: "You bet much on the fights, Mr. Boyle?" . . .
"Oh, I dunno. A finniff here, a deuce there."
ref: 2013, Kevin Baker, The Big Crowd, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: Alternative form of finif.
finniff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finniffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of finif.
vyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vye
vyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vye
pan-Serbism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan-Serb + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrine that Serb people across the Balkan peninsula should be culturally or politically united.
Synonyms: pan-Serbianism
pan-Serbianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + Serbian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Baron Alexander von Musulin […] saw in the post-Sarajevo crisis the last opportunity to halt the advance of pan-Serbianism with the support of the empire's Croats.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 395:
glosses: Pan-Serbism.
alternative press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternative presses
Senses: examples: text: Despite shortages of money and supplies, a Government monopoly on printing presses and occasional police harassment, a new generation of samizdat, or self-published, journals is offering an open challenge to the official press. The alternative press now includes dozens of magazines in Moscow and Leningrad, with others reported in the Baltic republics, the Ukraine and Armenia.
ref: 1988 January 12, Bill Keller, “For Soviet Alternative Press, Used Computer Is New Tool”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Feb 2014:
text: Nonobjective writers gravitate to the alternative press—or to the editorial page.
ref: 1999 December 5, M. Lewis Stein, “Letters to the Editor: Just the Facts, Ma'am”, in Newsweek, retrieved 04 Feb 2014:
text: "A lot of the issues in the magazine were the things we cared about in the early Seventies: racial equality, non-discrimination against gays, police harassment, housing. There weren't a lot of voices flying the flag for all those issues. Time Out, like others in the alternative press, flew all those flags."
ref: 2006 June 26, Ian Burrell, “Tony Elliott: Time Lord”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 04 Feb 2014:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Collectively, newspapers or other printed publications which provide an editorial perspective and information differing from—and often dissenting from—the outlook and information provided by more established, conventional, or official publications.
examples: text: "If it were not for the existence of feminist-controlled alternative presses, many works of creation and social criticism by women writers would not be published at all," said Ms. Aidoo.
ref: 1997 October 22, Lena Williams, “Celebrating Writers Who Defy All the Odds”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Feb 2014:
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A particular publisher or publication of this type.
dwarfen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dwarfen
form: most dwarfen
Etymology: From dwarf + -en.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dwarven.
dwarfen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dwarfens
form: dwarfening
form: dwarfened
form: dwarfened
Etymology: From dwarf + -en.
Senses: glosses: To make or become dwarfed.
glosses: To dwarf.
Mixean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mixe + -an.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a primary branch of the Mixe-Zoquean language family of southern Mexico.
milkwoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkwood
moepel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moepels
Senses: glosses: Mimusops zeyheri, the milkwood.
moepels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moepel
milkwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkwoods
Etymology: From milk + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of trees with milky sap:
Sideroxylon inermis, the white milkwood
glosses: Any of a number of trees with milky sap:
Mimusops zeyheri, the Transvaal red milkwood.
glosses: Any of a number of trees with milky sap:
Alstonia scholaris (scholar tree, milky pine), and other species in the genus Alstonia.
glosses: Any of a number of trees with milky sap:
Trimeris scaevolifolia, a tree endemic to the Atlantic island of St. Helena.
glosses: Any of a number of trees with milky sap:
Many species of the genus Tabernaemontana, that are native to the Americas.
Synonyms: sense: Mimusops zeyheri
word: moepel
Derived terms: hard milkwood
Mixe-Zoque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a language family whose living members are spoken in and around the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico.
Related terms: Mixean
Mixe-Zoquean
Zoque
Zoquean
mleccha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mlecchas
form: mlechchha
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit म्लेच्छ (mleccha).
Senses: glosses: A person of foreign extraction in ancient India; a foreign barbarian.
mlecchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mleccha
Moche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moche
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient agricultural civilization of northern Peru.
modulization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From module + -ization.
Senses: glosses: division into separate modules
mobed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mobad.
mobad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobads
form: mobed
form: mobud
Etymology: From Classical Persian موبَد (mōbad).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Zoroastrian cleric of a particular rank, qualified to serve as celebrant priest at the Yasna ceremony and to train other priests.
mobeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mobed
mobads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mobad
moistured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moistured
form: most moistured
Etymology: From moisture + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: All situations do not suit this tree alike; a dry bank, for example, not so well as a moistured earth[…]
ref: 1789, John Nichols, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 66, page 699:
glosses: Supplied with moisture.
Molniya orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Molniya orbits
Etymology: From Russian мо́лния (mólnija, “lightning”) + orbit. The Russian word was used as the name for a series of Soviet/Russian communications satellites, and the orbits which they were placed in.
Senses: glosses: A highly elliptical orbit with an eccentricity of 0.74, inclination of 63.4 degrees, an argument of perigee of −90 degrees, and an orbital period of half a sidereal day, around the Earth.
glosses: By analogy, the equivalent orbit for the southern hemisphere, with the argument of perigee changed to +90 degrees.
glosses: Both the northern and southern hemisphere orbits for the Earth.
glosses: By analogy, equivalent orbits for other bodies, which provide low apparent motion across the dome of the sky at apoapsis, allowing long duration communications/observation with low tracking rates at polar latitudes.
glosses: The orbits around Earth and other bodies with these qualities.
Coordinate terms: sense: tundra orbit
english: a type of geosynchronous orbit
translation: a type of geosynchronous orbit
word: a similar orbit with the orbital period extended to one day
Molniya orbits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Molniya orbit
Vietnameseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Vietnamese + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Vietnamese.
Laoness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lao + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being Lao.
Ainuness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ainu + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: According to Japanese stereotypes, for the Ainu to become fully part of the Japanese nation they had to modernize, which was defined as losing their Ainuness and becoming Japanese.
ref: 2008, Kate Barclay, A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific, page 46:
glosses: The quality of being Ainu.
chicken à la king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They had [...] begun the chicken à la king lunch over which Alice had taken the greatest pains.
ref: 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 69:
glosses: Alternative form of chicken à la King.
corkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)kəbəl
Etymology: From cork + -able.
Senses: examples: a corkable bottle
glosses: Capable of being sealed with a cork.
LAGNAF
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Then Spooge yelled, "LAGNAF!" just as we were walking by the girl's locker room!
text: LAGNAF
ref: 2012, Kansas Department of Revenue, The State of Kansas list of prohibited or banned personalized license plates, State of Kansas, page 12
glosses: Acronym of let's all get naked and fuck.
gimchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kimchi.
accreditated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accreditate
accreditated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of accredited.
Derived terms: unaccreditated
acequia madre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish, literally "mother ditch". See acequia, madre.
Senses: glosses: A canal that supplies water for irrigation.
adhocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /adhəˈkɹatɪk/
ipa: /ædhəˈkɹædɪk/
Forms: form: more adhocratic
form: most adhocratic
Etymology: From ad hoc + -cratic, by analogy with bureaucratic.
Senses: examples: text: The adhocratic unit comes in and goes out of existence as circumstances or opportunities dictate, with resources and personnel assignments reflecting the special problem the unit is to face.
ref: 1973, Fields Within Fields Within Fields: A Quarterly Forum for Ongoing Creative Thinking about Solutions to Mankind Problems, New York, N.Y.: World Institute Council, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63:
text: A huge weight of philosophical argument is assembled in order to yield the notion of the adhocratic school as the best response to student diversity – then huge claims are made about the capacity of the adhocratic school to reconcile equity with excellence and, ultimately, to save democracy.
ref: 2000, Alan Dyson, Alan Millward, “Inclusion, Special Education and Schools as Organisations”, in Schools and Special Needs: Issues of Innovation and Inclusion, London: Paul Chapman Publishing, →ISBN, page 27:
text: An adhocratic organization is able to adapt to environmental changes constantly. For example, responsibilities might shift to different people in response to external changes, the organizational structure might be altered from time to time, etc.
ref: 2007 July, Manoj A. Gupte, Success of University Spin-offs: Network Activities and Moderating Effects of Internal Communication and Adhocracy, Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, →ISBN, page 194:
text: Since conflict and aggression reproduce rapidly within the adhocratic environment, your role should be to focus these emotions into productive project and organizational ends. Without this management, inefficiency soon becomes embedded into the project (and practice), which enjoys few or no standards. The adhocratic practice also suffers from unbalanced workloads between its members, as each project team protects itself from the chaos occurring in other teams[…].
ref: 2013, Cliff Moser, Architecture 3.0: The Disruptive Design Practice Handbook, Abingdon Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 138:
topics: business
qualifier: organizational theory
glosses: Relating to adhocracy; adhocratical.
Synonyms: word: adhocratical
Related terms: adhocrat
adhocracy
adhocratically
Adirondacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adirondackers
Etymology: From Adirondack + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Adirondacks.
Adirondackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adirondacker
adjustably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adjustably
form: most adjustably
Etymology: From adjustable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is adjustable.
adultoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adultoids
Etymology: From adult + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: An adultoid is a mature alate that remains in the colony, sheds its wings and becomes a functional reproductive.
ref: 2002, V. M. Uys, A guide to the termite genera of Southern Africa, page 6:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A premature adult form of an insect.
examples: text: Greenberger and Steinberg coined the term “adultoid” to describe adolescents who engage in activities, often “risky” activities, that symbolize adult status (e.g., smoking, drinking, staying out late, having sex).
ref: 2005, Francis J. Turner, Social Work Diagnosis in Contemporary Practice, page 29:
text: This link between an older subjective age and engagement in problem behaviors supports the existence of adultoid or pseudomature adolescents who have been described in theoretical literature, but until recently, remained unidentified empirically.
ref: 2011, Margaret Kerr, Understanding Girls' Problem Behavior:
text: Personal conversations I had with teachers/counsellors in different high schools responsible for overseeing RAP certainly indicated that, at least initially, students' confidence about their newly discovered sense of maturity was closer to pseudomaturity or adultoid behaviour.
ref: 2014, Wolfgana Lehmann, Choosing to Labour?: School-Work Transitions and Social Class:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: An adolescent who engages in activities that symbolize adult status.
adultoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adultoid
juvenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juvenoids
Etymology: From juveno- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A juvenile hormone analogue.
Related terms: juvenomimetic
ecdysoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecdysoids
Etymology: From ecdysis + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A moulting hormone analogue.
juvenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juvenoid
ecdysoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecdysoid
Aberdeen hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aberdeen hooks
Senses: glosses: A simple J-shaped hook used in fishing.
adversariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adversary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being adversary.
sovereign wealth fund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovereign wealth funds
Senses: synonyms: SWF
glosses: A state-owned investment fund investing in real and financial assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, etc.
nonadjacency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + adjacency.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being adjacent.
aedeagal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /iˈdi.ə.ɡəl/
/i.diˈeɪ.ɡəl/
Etymology: From aedeagus + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the aedeagus.
communication accommodation theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A theory of communication arguing that people adjust their speech and gestures to accommodate to others with whom they are interacting.
acquaintanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acquaintance + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: “I should be unwilling to have her know we were ever acquaintanced with Mr. Fitzgerald,” responded Mrs. King.
ref: 1867, Lydia Maria Child, Rosa and Flora: A Romance, volume 2, page 167:
text: He had read all the books within his reach, and at the age of thirteen had made himself acquaintanced with most of the principal English writers, especially the poets; […]
ref: 1885, Georgiana Fullerton, Lady-Bird: A Tale, page 12:
text: His knowledge of its principles and developments was considerable, and probably few men were better acquaintanced with the great European churches, either through having visited them or through books and photographs.
ref: 1913, M. A. Bayfield, “Memoir”, in A. W. Verrall, Collected Literary Essays Classical and Modern, page xcv:
text: He was also well acquainted with three kings of Britain and with at least ten prime ministers, and was acquaintanced with Wellington, Napoleon, Talleyrand, and Metternich.
ref: 1987, Herbert F. Thompson, “The Scottish Enlightenment and Political Economy”, in S. Todd Lowry, editor, Pre-Classical Economic Thought: From the Greeks to the Scottish Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 251:
text: He or she has either met with you “one on one” or became acquaintanced with you and your firm via a seminar.
ref: 2006, Raymond J. Ohlson, Until Next Time... Good Selling!, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: Synonym of acquainted.
synonyms: word: acquainted
acousticolateralis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A system of hearing and vibration detection in fishes.
Related terms: acousticolateral
accouri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʊəri/
ipa: /əˈkuri/
Forms: form: accouris
Senses: glosses: agouti
acclimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acclimators
Etymology: From acclimate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which acclimates.
acclimators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acclimator
Tuyuhun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chinese 吐谷渾／吐谷浑 (tǔyùhún).
Senses: glosses: A powerful Mongolic kingdom established by nomadic tribes related to the Xianbei in the Qilian Mountains and upper Yellow River valley.
Tuyuhun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Chinese 吐谷渾／吐谷浑 (tǔyùhún).
Senses: glosses: The language of the Tuyuhun kingdom.
Xianbei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃjænˈbeɪ/
Forms: form: Hsien-pi
form: Hsien-pei
form: Syanbi
Etymology: From Mandarin 鮮卑／鲜卑 (Xiānbēi).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Mongolic nomadic people who resided in what is now eastern Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and northeast China.
Synonyms: Särbi
icterus neonatorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin icterus neonatorum (literally “icterus of newborns”).
Senses: glosses: neonatal jaundice
icterometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icterometers
Etymology: From icterus + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for gauging hyperbilirubinemia by measuring the yellowness of the skin.
icterometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of icterometer
Stolichnaya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stolichnayas
Etymology: A brand name, from Russian Столи́чная (Stolíčnaja).
Senses: examples: text: When Ewan McGregor was but a wee lad in a sleepy town in Scotland in the ’70s, some 3,200 miles away in a Manhattan townhouse on East 63rd Street, Roy Halston Frowick was living on a diet of baked potatoes with beluga caviar, chilled Stolichnaya, rent boys and mounds of cocaine piled in Elsa Peretti silver ashtrays.
ref: 2021 May 7, Maureen Dowd, “Ewan McGregor: Dahling, He’s Halston!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A brand of vodka made of wheat and rye grain.
Synonyms: word: Stoli
word: Stolly
Stolichnayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stolichnaya
Paixhans gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paixhans guns
Etymology: Named after the inventor, Henri-Joseph Paixhans (1783–1854).
Senses: glosses: An early naval gun for firing explosive shells.
wikipedia: Henri-Joseph Paixhans
Synonyms: canon-obusier
Padroado
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Portuguese, literally "patronage".
Senses: glosses: An arrangement between the Holy See and the kingdom (and later republic) of Portugal, by which the Vatican delegated to the kings of Portugal the administration of the local churches.
Derived terms: Padroadist
geohistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geohistories
Etymology: From geo- + history.
Senses: glosses: geographical history
geohistories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geohistory
geohelminths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geohelminth
George Sandism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the French novelist George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, 1804–1876), who had various romantic affairs and scandalously wore male clothing and smoked tobacco in public; + -ism.
Senses: glosses: moral transgression and independence among women
wikipedia: George Sand
K Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the alphabetic naming of streets when the road grid of Washington was laid down.
* (politics): After K Street in Washington, D.C.
Senses: glosses: A street in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Gucci Gulch
qualifier: by restriction
glosses: The section of K Street, D.C., USA, where political lobbyists have their offices.
examples: text: As Scrutiny of Cryptocurrency Grows, the Industry Turns to K Street [title]
ref: 2021 May 9, Eric Lipton, “As Scrutiny of Cryptocurrency Grows, the Industry Turns to K Street”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Gucci Gulch
glosses: The people and firms that lobby the United States Congress.
public trustee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public trustees
Senses: glosses: A public office which acts as a trustee, usually when a sum is required to be deposited as security by legislation, when courts remove another trustee, or for estates where either no executor is named by will or the testator elects wishes to appoint one.
public trustees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public trustee
step pyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step pyramids
form: stepped pyramid
Senses: glosses: A pyramid composed of several stacked platforms or mastabas so that each face has steps.
step pyramids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of step pyramid
stepped pyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepped pyramids
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of step pyramid.
stepped pyramids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepped pyramid
mace head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mace heads
form: macehead
Senses: glosses: The blunt ball or ornament on the top of a mace, usually made of metal.
mace heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mace head
macehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maceheads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mace head.
maceheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macehead
lung volume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lung volumes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The volume of air associated with different phases of the respiratory cycle.
Synonyms: lung capacity
Related terms: vital capacity
lung capacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lung capacities
Senses: glosses: lung volume
glosses: vital capacity
lung volumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lung volume
lung capacities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lung capacity
eotens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eoten
patellofemoral pain syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patellofemoral pain syndromes
Senses: glosses: A syndrome characterized by pain or discomfort seemingly originating from the contact of the posterior surface of the patella (back of the kneecap) with the femur (thigh bone).
Sawndip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Zhuang Sawndip.
Senses: glosses: The traditional Chinese character-derived script used to write the Zhuang language.
hijabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈd͡ʒɑːbi/
rhymes: -ɑːbi
Forms: form: hijabis
Etymology: From hijab + -i.
Senses: examples: text: The findings and implications of this study have been categorized into themes in order to illustrate the essence of how hijabi youth experience social activities in Ottawa secondary schools.
ref: 2008, Saba Alvi, An Analysis of how Hijabi Youth Experience Social Activities in Ottawa Secondary Schools, →ISBN:
ref: 2011, Farheen Khan, From Behind the Veil: A Hijabi's Journey to Happiness, →ISBN:
text: […] state that their motivation for blogging is to promote Islamic-appropriate dress, modest fashion options, and pride in the American hijabi identity. They blog to share ideas about designing couture that is both fashionable and modest, […]
ref: 2014, Nitin Agarwal, Online Collective Action, →ISBN, page 219:
text: Almost all hijabis I encountered—except Intisar, Elizabeth, Sharmila, and Muna—were chic hijabis typically garbed in attractive, elegant, yet modest ensembles.
ref: 2014, Shabana Mir, Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life, →ISBN:
glosses: A person, usually a woman, who wears a hijab.
Derived terms: hoejabi
hijabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈd͡ʒɑːbi/
rhymes: -ɑːbi
Forms: form: hijabis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hausa hijabi, from Arabic حِجَاب (ḥijāb).
Senses: examples: text: Unlike sheer veils that hug shoulders suggestively and espouse their wearer's movements gracefully, the stiff brocade of the hijabi hides a woman's upper torso so completely as to render impossible the definition of her body contours.
ref: 1999, Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa, →ISBN, page 239:
text: As an example of the way dress functions as “public display” (LeBlanc 2000:448), the hijabi is worn when going out— whether on top of one's “good clothes” or over one's everyday faded clothes. One would not wear a hijabi to attend a […]
ref: 2009, Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town, →ISBN, page 228:
text: […] if I waited for it to dry I would be wasting my time. So I asked if there was anyone in the house who had a hijabi. There was not one, except a […]
ref: 2013, African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: Alternative form of hijab.
raw_tags: in a West African context
mu'min
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mu'mins
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مُؤْمِن (muʔmin)
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: iman
glosses: A believer in Islam.
zindeeq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zindeeqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zindiq.
murtad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murtads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of murtadd.
mushrik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʊʃ.ɹɪk/
Forms: form: mushriks
form: mushrikun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Arabic مُشْرِك (mušrik).
Senses: examples: text: And do not marry mushrik women until they believe, for a believing bondmaid is better than a mushrik woman, even though you may admire her.
ref: 1999, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, quoting The Qur'an, translated by Kamal El-Helbawy, M. Moinuddin Siddiqui, Syed Shukry, and Ahmad Zaki Hammad, The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam (Al-Halal Wal Haram Fil Islam), →ISBN:
text: A person can have committed shirk in their lifetime and still find forgiveness (especially by saying the Shahada and becoming a Muslim). The concept is that if one dies in this state (as a mushrik, an idolator, one who engages in and does not repent shirk), there is no forgiveness.
ref: 2013, James R. White, What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur'an, Baker Books, →ISBN:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who rejects tawhid; an idolater, a polytheist.
Synonyms: associationist
Related terms: shirk
Friedberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Friedbergs
Senses: examples: text: Brian Friedberg and Joan Donovan, researchers at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, documented how the campaign to inject IOTBW into the national consciousness through fliers was highly organized.
ref: 2023 February 28, Judd Legum, “Is it "OK to be white"?”, in Popular Information:
glosses: A surname.
sidies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From side + -ie + -s.
Senses: examples: text: I see you shuffle in the courtroom
With your rings upon your fingers
And your downy little sidies
And your silver-buckle shoes.
ref: 1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:
glosses: sideburns
bachelor apartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bachelor apartments
Senses: glosses: An apartment consisting mainly of one large room which is the living room, dining room, and bedroom combined.
Synonyms: bachelor
studio apartment
studio flat
bachelor flat
bed-sitting room
bed-sit
bedsit
efficiency
efficiency apartment
bachelor apartments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bachelor apartment
Jim Crower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jim Crowers
Etymology: From Jim Crow + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 2012, Robert Cottrell, Two Pioneers: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball
Landis, by contrast, was “not insulting Adolf Hitler, the master Jim Crower of all time
text: Americans in this year of the grim fight against the biggest Jim Crower of them all— Hitler.
ref: 2001, Larry Lester, Black Baseball's National Showcase:
text: 1995, Christopher De Santis, Langston Hughes and the Chicago defender
Nobody likes riots, but when an over-zealous white Jim Crower collides with a too- much Jim Crowed Negro, hysteric sparks might fly capable of lighting dangerous emotional fires.
glosses: A proponent of Jim Crow laws
Synonyms: Jim Crowist
hyenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyena + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a hyena
hyaenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyaenoid
form: most hyaenoid
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyenoid.
prolinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prolinate
phoneyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phoney + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phoniness.
correction line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correction lines
Etymology: From correction + line.
Senses: glosses: A place where a north–south grid road jogs to correct for the northward convergence of meridians.
correction lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correction line
swingboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swingboats
Etymology: From swing + boat.
Senses: glosses: A fairground ride consisting of an open gondola which swings back and forth.
swingboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swingboat
swingarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swingarm
box-cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box-cutters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boxcutter.
grid road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grid roads
Etymology: From grid + road.
Senses: glosses: A road that follows the one-mile section grid established by government land survey.
Synonyms: mile road
section road
whirlpool galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirlpool galaxies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spiral galaxy.
synonyms: word: spiral galaxy
revver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revvers
Etymology: From rev + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that revs (an engine).
maneki neko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maneki neko
form: maneki nekos
Senses: examples: text: A maneki neko was nestled inside white foam padding.
ref: 1999, Bruce Sterling, “Maneki Neko”, in A Good Old-Fashioned Future, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 6:
text: One of the clerks gave me an information sheet about maneki nekos.
ref: 2013, Christine Reiko Yano, “Global Kitty: Here, There, Nearly Everywhere”, in Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 127:
text: Maneki neko are Japanese talismans and are thought to bring good fortune and wealth to their owners.
ref: 2017, Heather Galler, “Maneki Neko”, in Folk Art Fusion: Learn to Paint Colorful Contemporary Folk Art in Acrylic, Walter Foster Publishing, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Alternative form of maneki-neko.
serekh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serekhs
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Egyptian s-r:x-O33 (srḫ, “palace façade”).
Senses: glosses: In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a rectangular enclosure consisting of a depiction of a palace façade and a top-down view of a royal courtyard containing the Horus name of a pharaoh, usually topped by a Horus falcon.
Derived terms: serekh name
Related terms: cartouche
serekhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serekh
Horus name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Horus names
Etymology: From the depiction of a falcon representing Horus on the top of a serekh.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of serekh name: the first and oldest of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally enclosed in a serekh surmounted by the figure of a god
synonyms: word: serekh name
extra: the first and oldest of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally enclosed in a serekh surmounted by the figure of a god
glosses: specifically, a serekh name featuring Horus atop the serekh, as opposed to those featuring a different god such as Set
Horus names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Horus name
Beatlesmania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Beatles + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Beatlemania.
Egyptomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Egypto- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: Obsessive interest shown by Westerners for ancient Egyptian culture, especially during the 19th century.
Related terms: Egyptology
Iranology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Iran + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of Iran and its culture and history; Iranian studies.
Synonyms: Iranistics
Hypernyms: Oriental studies
Derived terms: Iranologist
menu cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menu costs
Etymology: From the fact that in the case of a restaurant owner, the only costs of this kind would be those incurred in printing new menus.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A cost incurred by a firm when it changes its prices.
menu costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menu cost
photoshopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoshoppers
Etymology: From photoshop + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who photoshops
Basses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Basse
Ani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Անի (Ani).
Senses: glosses: a ruined medieval Armenian city-site in the Turkish province of Kars near the border with Armenia.
ELs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EL
Beets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Beet + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Beet
Beets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Beets.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Related terms: Beet
beet
ohmigosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of oh my gosh.
Nunamiut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nunamiuts
form: Nunamiut
form: Nunatamiut
Etymology: Inupiaq, literally "people of the land".
Senses: glosses: A member of a seminomadic inland people of northern and northwestern Alaska.
Nunamiuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nunamiut
leptosporangiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lepto- + sporangiate.
Senses: examples: text: […]which being leptosporangiate cannot be closely related to Isoetes, the sporangia appear late in the history of the leaf.
ref: 1900, Robert Wilson Smith, Structure and Development of Sporangia and Sporophylls of Isoetes, page 330:
text: In fact, it seems that in the Primary rocks the distinctive Leptosporangiate annulus was at least rare, if it existed at all.
ref: 1908, Frederick Orpen Bower, The Origin of a Land Flora, page 639:
text: Most of his material, which includes a variety of leptosporangiate species, was obtained from greenhouses.
ref: 1922, John Merle Coulter, Sir Humphry Davy, M.S. Coulter, The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy: Discourses Delivered before the Royal Society: Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, Part 1, page 264:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having sporangia that were each formed from a single epidermal cell; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of ferns of this kind.
leptosporangiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptosporangiates
Etymology: From lepto- + sporangiate.
Senses: glosses: Such a fern
Coordinate terms: eusporangiate
Derived terms: leptosporangiate fern
Vígríðr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vigridr
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A plain that will be the site of a battle between the gods and Surtur during Ragnarok.
wikipedia: Vígríðr
Synonyms: word: Vigrid
word: Wigrid
Wigrid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Vígríðr (plain that will be the site of a battle during Ragnarok)
pro-anas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pro-ana
Greisen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Greisens
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit
GZK
Loegrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Loegrian
wannarexic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wannarexics
Etymology: Blend of wannabe + anorexic
Senses: examples: text: While some experts say these girls likely have body image issues or could develop a more serious eating disorder, wannarexics usually range between healthy and overweight.
ref: 2007 August 4, Valerie Bauman, “'Wannarexic' girls yearn for eating disorders”, in AP/USA Today:
text: Wannarexics draw anger and derision from people with anorexia and bulimia.
ref: 2007 September 8, Deborah Cohen, “Worrying world of eating disorder wannabes”, in BMJ, volume 335, number 7618, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 516:
text: When one trolls it becomes clear that wannarexics are a much-maligned population, and that many people, most notably diagnosed anorexics but others, too, characterize them as wholly superficial, flippant, vapid, and clearly more interested in having the reputation of being anorexic than in legitimately acquiring the disorder.
ref: 2013 November 14, Kelsey Osgood, How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia, New York: Overlook Press, →ISBN, →OL:
glosses: One who does not have the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, but wishes to.
Related terms: pro-ana
pro-mia
wannarexics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wannarexic
Gallen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Saint Gallen
Golds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gold
Griffen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A market town and municipality in Völkermarkt district, Carinthia, Austria.
glosses: A surname.
back-benchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-bencher
front bencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front benchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frontbencher.
front-bencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front-benchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frontbencher.
front benchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front bencher
front-benchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of front-bencher
Labs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lab
Laiches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Laiche
ancient lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It was reſolved by the Opinion of the aforeſaid Judges, That the Cuſtom of London will not enable a Man to erect a new Houſe upon a void Space of Ground, whereby the ancient Lights of an old Houſe are ſtopp'd up.
ref: 1723, William Bohun, Privilegia Londini: Or, The Rights, Liberties, Privileges, Laws, and Customs, of the City of London, 3rd edition, page 103:
text: If a house or wall is erected so near to mine that it stops my ancient lights, which is a private nuisance, I may enter my neighbour's land, and peaceably pull it down.
ref: 1823, Sir William Blackstone (author), Vincent Wanostroch (editor), The British Constitution, or an Epitome of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, for the Use of Schools, p. 403 (Google preview)
text: At home he might hang himself out of window, and nobody would mind much, provided he did not obstruct anybody's ancient lights or break away and injure any passer underneath.
ref: 1900, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 9, in Three Men on the Bummel:
text: Writing the majority decision, Judge Shirley S. Abrahamson noted that the English common law "doctrine of ancient lights" entitled a landowner to an unobstructed access to sunlight across an adjoining property if the landowner had already enjoyed the privilege for some time.
ref: 1982 July 10, “Landmark Decision on Sun Access”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Feb 2014:
text: Those who have successfully claimed the right to “ancient lights” down the years, understood this in a way today’s development-hungry councils do not.
ref: 2013 February 26, Mary Dejevksy, “Don’t let the developers take your last civil right–the right to light”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 06 Feb 2014:
topics: law
glosses: The right, based in English common law, of a property owner to retain an accustomed, unobstructed view and satisfactory illumination from his or her window(s), restricting nearby construction that would obstruct such a view or such illumination; the window(s) providing such an accustomed view or satisfactory illumination.
Hypernyms: light
Huber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hubers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Huber.
Senses: examples: text: Anthony Huber, 26, then came at him, struck him with a skateboard, and grabbed his gun, he testified. Rittenhouse shot him once in the chest, killing him.
ref: 2021 November 10, Kyle Rittenhouse testifies he knew Joseph Rosenbaum was unarmed but acted in self-defense during fatal shooting, CNN:
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Huber Heights
iqama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈkɑːmə/
Forms: form: iqamas
form: ikamet
form: iqamat
form: iqamah
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic إِقَامَة (ʔiqāma).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The second call to prayer, made immediately before Muslims pray.
Related terms: adhan
azan
seigniorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seigniorizes
form: seigniorizing
form: seigniorized
form: seigniorized
form: seignorize
form: signiorise
form: signorise
Etymology: From seignior + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To preside, hold sway.
glosses: To lord it over.
brandscaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of brand + landscaping.
Senses: examples: text: Brandscaping turns the brand itself into a location - an attraction.
ref: 2002, Otto Riewoldt, Brandscaping: Worlds of Experience in Retail Design, Birkhauser Verlag AG (June 2002), page 8
glosses: The organization of physical space as an extension or representation of a brand.
Related terms: brandscape
sap-woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sap-wood