cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
labium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lā'bē-əm
ipa: /ˈleɪ.bi.əm/
rhymes: -eɪbiəm
Forms: form: labia
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin labium (“a lip”). Doublet of lip.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A liplike structure; especially one of the vulva's two pairs of folds of skin on either side.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The lip of a labiate corolla.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A lower mouthpart of an insect that is formed by the second pair of maxillae united in the middle line.
A liplike part of various invertebrates.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The lip against which pressured air is driven to produce sound in a recorder and in a pipe organ with flue pipes.
Derived terms: eclabium
labial
labiate
labiose
labium inferius oris
labium superius oris
pseudolabium
Related terms: labrum
saccolabium
north northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of north-northeast.
north northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of north-northeast.
north northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of north-northeast.
mundus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mundu
east northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of east-northeast.
east northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of east-northeast.
east northeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of east-northeast.
east southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of east-southeast.
east southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of east-southeast.
east southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of east-southeast.
south southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of south-southeast.
south southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of south-southeast.
south southeast
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of south-southeast.
south southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of south-southwest.
south southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of south-southwest.
south southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of south-southwest.
west southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of west-southwest.
west southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of west-southwest.
west southwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of west-southwest.
west northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of west-northwest.
west northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of west-northwest.
west northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of west-northwest.
north northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of north-northwest.
north northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of north-northwest.
north northwest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of north-northwest.
up
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭp
ipa: /ʌp/
ipa: [ɐʔp]
ipa: [ʊp]
enpr: ŭp
ipa: /ʌp/
ipa: [ʌp̚]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ʌp]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ʊp]
ipa: /ɐp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Etymology: From Middle English up, op, oup, from Old English upp, up, ūp (“up”), from Proto-West Germanic *upp, *ūp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, *eup (“up”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian ap (“up”), West Frisian op (“up”), Dutch op (“up”), German Low German up, op (“up”), German auf (“up”), Danish op (“up”), Swedish upp (“up”), Icelandic upp (“up”), Gothic 𐌹𐌿𐍀 (iup, “up”).
Senses: examples: text: The cat climbed up the tree.
text: They walk up the steps.
text: Her eyes scanned up and down the page.
text: Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Toward the top of.
examples: text: The information made its way up the chain of command to the general.
text: I felt something crawling up my arm.
glosses: Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
examples: text: We sailed up the East Coast of England from Ipswich to South Shields.
text: Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
ref: 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2012:
glosses: From south to north of.
examples: text: Go up the street until you see the sign.
glosses: Further along (in any direction).
examples: text: He led an expedition up the Amazon.
glosses: From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
examples: text: Phwoar, look at that bird. I'd love to be up her.
glosses: Of a person: having sex with.
examples: text: I'll see you later up the snooker club.
text: “I'll tell you how I got on in the fight if I should see you up the Smokers.”
ref: 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 94:
glosses: At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
Related terms: give up
pick up
put up
ring up
send up
take up
throw up
up a creek
up a tree
Up Holland
Upholland
up on one's ear
up someone's alley
up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭp
ipa: /ʌp/
ipa: [ɐʔp]
ipa: [ʊp]
enpr: ŭp
ipa: /ʌp/
ipa: [ʌp̚]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ʌp]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ʊp]
ipa: /ɐp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: ups
Etymology: From Middle English up, op, oup, from Old English upp, up, ūp (“up”), from Proto-West Germanic *upp, *ūp, from Proto-Germanic *upp, *eup (“up”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian ap (“up”), West Frisian op (“up”), Dutch op (“up”), German Low German up, op (“up”), German auf (“up”), Danish op (“up”), Swedish upp (“up”), Icelandic upp (“up”), Gothic 𐌹𐌿𐍀 (iup, “up”).
Senses: examples: text: Up is a good way to go.
glosses: The direction opposed to the pull of gravity.
examples: text: I hate almost everything about my job. The only up is that it's so close to home.
text: There are many ups to caravanning, but also many downs.
text: I've been on an up all this week.
text: One last impression — and one of the biggest "ups" for me — was the Saturday night cultural presentations.
ref: 1976 February 14, Michael Bumblebee, “Gay Folks and The 'Hard Times'”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 3:
glosses: A positive thing, or a time or situation when things are going well.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: flavor
glosses: An up quark.
examples: text: She lives in a two-up two-down.
glosses: An upstairs room of a two story house.
Derived terms: mark-up
on the up-and-up
Related terms: ups and downs
three-point line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-point lines
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An arc on the floor of a basketball court beyond which a successful shot is worth three points.
three-point shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-point shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot attempted from beyond the three-point line.
free throw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free throws
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot, worth one point, taken from the free-throw line and without opposition.
qualifier: water polo
glosses: A throw taken without interference from the opposition. Such a throw is generally taken after an infringement by the opposing team.
Synonyms: foul shot
Derived terms: free-throw lane
free-throw line
free throw percentage
free-throw line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free-throw lines
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: charity stripe
foul line
glosses: A line parallel to the baseline, fifteen feet from the plane of the backboard, from behind which a free throw may be taken.
backboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backboards
Etymology: From back + board.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A spine board.
examples: text: The L.B.S.C.R. favoured backboards for signals wherever these helped visibility. The Great Eastern also made extensive use of backboards.
ref: 1957 June 24, S. C. Crowther-Smith, “Lower Quadrant”, in Railway Magazine, page 422:
glosses: A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, behind a signal, etc.
backboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backboards
form: backboarding
form: backboarded
form: backboarded
Etymology: From back + board.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To place (a patient) on a spine board.
backboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backboards
Etymology: Likely a borrowing from Dutch bakboord (“portside”) or from Middle Low German backbort, bakbōrt (“portside”). Old English bæcbord (“larboard, portside”) did not survive (in that form) into Middle English; Scottish texts of the 1500s have forms like bawbord, baburd and babord, possibly borrowed from French bâbord; later texts with Scots backburd, backber may have borrowed it from Old Norse bakborði (“portside”). Cognate with West Frisian bakboard (“portside”), German Backbord (“portside”), Danish bagbord (“portside”).
Senses: examples: text: And to delight in the fact that a hole on the backboard side means that you're safe because you're sitting on the starboard side seems to me to be less than clever.
ref: 2013, Klaus Backhaus, Hurdle Race Marketing:
text: But the gangplank was no longer in place. It had folded itself in half and clamped into storage position, becoming part of the starboard rail. Big Tom peered over the rail and saw nothing but sea. All around. Starboard, backboard, forward, aft.
ref: 2014, Jeff Bredenberg, The Dream Vessel:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: port
larboard
leeboard
left
antonyms: starboard
glosses: The port or larboard side of a ship
March Madness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the month of March, during which most of the tournament matches take place. The "madness" part is probably an allusion to the phrase mad as a March hare.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The NCAA Division I basketball championship tournaments.
Derived terms: Arch Madness
Related terms: Final Four
Elite Eight
Sweet Sixteen
hoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Senses: glosses: plural of hoop
hoops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Senses: examples: text: Let's shoot some hoops!
glosses: Basketball.
hoops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoop
roundball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From round + ball, to contrast with the elliptical ball in American football. Attested from the 1980s.
Senses: glosses: The sport of basketball.
Final Four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Final Fours
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The four regional champions of the NCAA Division I tournament, one of whom will become the national champion.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The final two rounds of the NCAA Division I tournament.
examples: text: These two teams have an amazing number of Final Fours between them.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An appearance in the Final Four.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The final round of the continent-wide Euroleague club basketball competition, featuring four teams with one becoming champion.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The semifinal round, or an appearance in it generally.
Related terms: Elite Eight
March Madness
Sweet Sixteen
Frozen Four
point guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point guards
Senses: examples: text: Many current NBA coaches are former point guards.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A guard who is usually the shortest of the five basketball positions, and specializes in handling the ball, distributing it to the other players and generally running the team's offense.
shooting guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shooting guards
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A guard who is usually the taller of the two guard positions, and sometimes specializes in shooting from outside, particular from beyond the three-point line.
alright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɑːˈɹiːt/
ipa: /ɔːˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ɒˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /əˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ʔ]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔl ˈraɪʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /əlˈraɪʈ/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: all right
Forms: form: aight
form: alreet
form: alrite
form: awright
form: oright
form: o-rite
form: orite
Etymology: Univerbation from all + right. Compare Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”) (from eall + riht), equivalent to al- (“all”) + right.
Senses: examples: text: Where ever I go, both to and fro
You have my heart alright.
ref: 1662 : Cantus, songs and fancies, to three, four, or five parts, both apt for voices and viols : with a brief introduction to musick, as is taught by Thomas Davidson, in the Musick-School of Aberdene by Thomas Davidson, iii. sig. B/1
text: [I]f I went by his advices every blessed hat I put on does that suit me yes take that thats alright the one like a wedding cake standing up miles off my head […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: You did alright in your day, I reckon—
But that day's gone now.
ref: 1932, Langston Hughes, Goodbye, Christ:
text: Bladyughfoulmoecklenburgwhurawhorascortastrumpapornanennykocksapastippatappatupperstrippuckputtanach, eh? You have it alright.
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 40:
text: "You're alright Johnny," she said in a way that actually made him feel alright. At least for a little while.
ref: 2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, page 105:
synonyms: word: acceptable
word: adequate
word: fine
word: acceptable
word: adequate
word: all right
word: average
word: close enough
word: close enough for government work
word: close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades
word: decent
word: favoursome
word: fair
word: fine
word: jake
word: good enough
word: good enough for government work
word: hunky dory
word: kosher
word: mustn't grumble
word: nonbad
word: not bad
word: not half bad
word: OK
word: okay
word: okayish
word: passable
word: pretty good
word: tolerable
word: up to par
word: up to scratch
word: up to snuff
word: reasonable
word: respectable
word: satisfactory
word: snug
word: sufficient
word: suitable
word: tickety-boo
glosses: Alternative form of all right; satisfactory; okay; in acceptable order.
Synonyms: word: adequate
word: alright
word: average
word: comme ci comme ça
word: dandy
word: decent
word: fair
word: fine
word: it's going
word: medium
word: mid
word: middling
word: not bad
word: not half bad
word: OK
word: okay
word: passable
word: reasonable
word: satisfactory
word: so-so
word: swell
Hypernyms: word: neutral
Derived terms: bit of alright
you're alright
alright
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɑːˈɹiːt/
ipa: /ɔːˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ɒˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /əˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ʔ]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔl ˈraɪʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /əlˈraɪʈ/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: all right
Forms: form: aight
form: alreet
form: alrite
form: awright
form: oright
form: o-rite
form: orite
Etymology: Univerbation from all + right. Compare Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”) (from eall + riht), equivalent to al- (“all”) + right.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of all right.
alright
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːlˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɑːˈɹiːt/
ipa: /ɔːˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ɒˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /əˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɔlˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˌɑlˈɹaɪt/
ipa: /ɒːlˈɹʌɪt/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɒː(ɫ)ˈɹəi̯t]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ə(ɫ)ˈɹiːt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈɒː(ɫ)ɹɪt]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [-ʔ]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔl ˈraɪʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /əlˈraɪʈ/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: all right
Forms: form: aight
form: alreet
form: alrite
form: awright
form: oright
form: o-rite
form: orite
Etymology: Univerbation from all + right. Compare Old English eallriht (“all-right, just, exactly”) (from eall + riht), equivalent to al- (“all”) + right.
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance; OK.
synonyms: word: ciao
word: good morning
word: good day
word: good evening
word: good morrow
word: greetings
word: heaveno
word: hello
word: hello there
word: heyday
word: hi
word: hi there
word: hiya
word: hey hey
word: heyo
word: how
word: how are you
word: salaam
word: salaam alaikum
word: salutations
word: shalom
word: shalom aleichem
word: sup
word: wassup
word: well met
word: what's doing
word: what's going on
word: what's new
word: what's up
word: yello
word: yo
word: g'day
word: hey
word: howdy
word: cheerio
word: how's it going
word: top of the morning
word: namaste
word: wagwan
word: ayubowan
word: privet
word: howzit
word: alright
word: alright me babber
word: alright me lover
word: ay up me duck
word: ey up
word: hallo
word: hullo
word: wotcher
word: aloha
word: ayo
glosses: A generic greeting; hello; how are you.
Derived terms: alrightnik
alrighty
Related terms: sense: greeting
word: alright me babber
sense: greeting
word: alright me lover
she-wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: she-wolves
Etymology: From Middle English she wolf. By surface analysis, she- + wolf.
Senses: examples: text: In some trepidation the priest and his friend accompanied the wolf to his den, where lay a she-wolf on the point of death.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 212:
glosses: A female wolf.
glosses: A predatory woman.
Synonyms: wolfess
Hypernyms: wolf
wolf cub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlfkʌb/
Forms: form: wolf cubs
form: wolfcub
Senses: glosses: A young wolf.
Synonyms: sense: young wolf
word: wolf-child
sense: young wolf
word: wolfkin
sense: young wolf
word: wolfling
sense: young wolf
word: wolf pup
sense: young wolf
word: wolf whelp
wolfling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊlflɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɔlflɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʊlflɪŋ
rhymes: -ɔlflɪŋ
Forms: form: wolflings
Etymology: From wolf + -ling. Compare Middle English wolfling (“a creature which is part human and part wolf”).
Senses: glosses: A wolf cub.
Synonyms: wolfkin
turkey-cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey-cocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of turkeycock.
Related terms: turkey-hen
turkey-hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey-hens
form: turkey hen
form: turkeyhen
Etymology: Equivalent to turkey + hen; see turkey.
Senses: coordinate_terms: turkeycock
glosses: A female turkey.
turkey-chick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey-chicks
Senses: glosses: A young turkey.
caterpillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætəˌpɪlə/
ipa: /ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/
ipa: /ˈkætəˌpɪlɚ/
Forms: form: caterpillars
form: caterpiller
Etymology: From Middle English catirpel, catirpeller, probably from Old Northern French catepeluse (Modern French chatte + pileuse (“hairy cat”)), from Late Latin catta + pilōsa. The sense "rapacious, extortionate person" arose by association with obsolete piller (“plunderer”). See Modern Norman cattepeleuse.
Senses: examples: text: The bird just ate that green caterpillar.
text: A caterpillar is letting itself down on a thread, twirling slowly like a rope artist, spiralling towards his chest. It’s a luscious, unreal green, like a gumdrop, and covered with tiny bright hairs.
ref: 2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Virago Press (2013), page 46:
glosses: The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
glosses: A vehicle with a caterpillar track; a crawler.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of subtrees of a tree.
examples: text: Bristow Castle, which they say is held
By Busbie, Bagot, and their Complices,
The Caterpillers of the Commonwealth,
Which I haue sworne to weed, and plucke away.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 33:
glosses: A rapacious, extortionate person preying upon the community.
Derived terms: alfalfa caterpillar
caterpillar catcher
Caterpillar Club
caterpillar eater
caterpillared
caterpillar fungus
caterpillar hunter
caterpillarization
caterpillarize
caterpillarlike
caterpillar roll
caterpillar searcher
caterpillar skiing
caterpillar track
caterpillar tree
Christmas caterpillar
eastern tent caterpillar
forest caterpillar hunter
hog caterpillar
looper caterpillar
monarch caterpillar
Polyphemus caterpillar
processionary caterpillar
pseudocaterpillar
puss caterpillar
red-humped caterpillar
saddleback caterpillar
salt-marsh caterpillar
sea caterpillar
slug caterpillar
tent caterpillar
vegetable caterpillar
woolly bear caterpillar
zebra caterpillar
caterpillar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætəˌpɪlə/
ipa: /ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/
ipa: /ˈkætəˌpɪlɚ/
Forms: form: caterpillars
form: caterpillaring
form: caterpillared
form: caterpillared
form: caterpiller
Etymology: From Middle English catirpel, catirpeller, probably from Old Northern French catepeluse (Modern French chatte + pileuse (“hairy cat”)), from Late Latin catta + pilōsa. The sense "rapacious, extortionate person" arose by association with obsolete piller (“plunderer”). See Modern Norman cattepeleuse.
Senses: glosses: To move along slowly, drawing one's body up, in the manner of a caterpillar.
Related terms: pillar
tomcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomcats
form: tom cat
form: tom-cat
form: Tom cat
Etymology: From Tom + cat, popularised by The Life and Adventures of a Cat (1760), by an anonymous author, in which the male cat was called Tom.
Senses: glosses: A tom (male cat).
synonyms: word: benedick
word: cad
word: drabber
word: fuck boy
word: fuck-boy
word: fuckboy
word: gallant
word: goat
word: he-bitch
word: himbo
word: homme fatal
word: horndog
word: loverboy
word: loverman
word: man ho
word: man whore
word: man-whore
word: manslut
word: manwhore
word: muttonmonger
word: philanderer
word: pimp
word: playboy
word: player
word: rakehell
word: rake
word: rip
word: rolling stone
word: salty dog
word: satyriasist
word: satyromaniac
word: satyr
word: shag bandit
word: sleaze
word: smell-smock
word: striker
word: stringer
word: stud
word: swordsman
word: tart
word: tomcat
word: whoremonger
glosses: A promiscuous man.
qualifier: Southeast Asia
glosses: An insect of the order Coleoptera referring to certain species of rove beetles, particularly in the genus Paederus. Known for secreting a potent irritant, pederin, which can cause severe skin irritation and blistering when contacted.
tomcat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tomcats
form: tomcatting
form: tomcatted
form: tomcatted
form: tom cat
form: tom-cat
form: Tom cat
Etymology: From Tom + cat, popularised by The Life and Adventures of a Cat (1760), by an anonymous author, in which the male cat was called Tom.
Senses: examples: text: He would not go roaming the streets tom-catting like Mr Schick.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 539:
glosses: To prowl for sexual gratification.
raw_tags: of a man
Derived terms: tomcat around
Related terms: caterwaul
elver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛlvə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: elvers
Etymology: Variant of eelfare, originally "brood of young eels", from Middle English *elfare, *elvare, from el (“eel”) + fare (“group of journeyers”). Equivalent to eel + fare.
Liberman instead connects the second element of this word to a putative Old English suffix *-for(e), but there is no need to posit such a suffix when the traditional etymology suffices. Furthermore, such a suffix is not securely attested, and the spelling of the word's earliest attestation (as yele fare, ell vare) implies Middle English /aː/.
Senses: examples: text: When these glass eels enter freshwater they transform again into elvers – miniature versions of the adult eels.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 69:
glosses: A young eel.
Bucharest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌb(j)uːkəˈɹɛst/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Бухаре́ст (Buxarést), from Romanian București, from Bucur (personal name) + -ești (patronymic, personal name suffix).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Romania.
glosses: The capital and largest city of Ilfov County, Romania.
examples: text: In Romania the acrimonious deliberations over the commercial treaty with Germany prevented Bucharest from considering official participation at Leipzig before 1935.
ref: 2015, Stephen Gross, chapter 5, in Export Empire: German Soft Power in Southeastern Europe, 1890–1945, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: The Romanian government.
Derived terms: Bucharester
Bucharestian
powerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊəfl̩/
ipa: /ˈpaʊɚfl̩/
Forms: form: more powerful
form: most powerful
form: powreful
form: powrefull
Etymology: From Middle English pouerful, powarfull. By surface analysis, power + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The powerful grace that lies / In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: [T]he ſubſtance of gold is indeed invincible by the povverfulleſt action of natural heat, […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of Sundry Tenents Concerning Minerall and Terreous Bodies, which Examined, Prove either False or Dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, paragraph 3, page 85:
text: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Dear Political Activists
All your chanting, marching, voting, picketing, boycotting and letter-writing will not change a thing; you will never right the wrongs of this world. The only thing your activity will accomplish is to make some of you feel better. Such activity makes powerless people feel useful, and provides them the illusion that they're making a difference. But it doesn't work. Nothing changes. The powerful keep the power. That's why they're called the powerful.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “NOTHING CHANGES”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 106:
text: Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.
ref: 2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, in CNN:
glosses: Having, or capable of exerting, power or influence.
examples: text: a powerful set of postulates
text: a powerful theorem
glosses: Leading to many or important deductions.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: squareful
glosses: Being a powerful number.
Synonyms: word: mightful
word: mighty
word: potent
word: powersome
word: strengthful
word: strong
word: forceful
Derived terms: all-powerful
nonpowerful
overpowerful
powerfully
powerfulness
powerful owl
semipowerful
superpowerful
ultrapowerful
unpowerful
Related terms: strong
powerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊəfl̩/
ipa: /ˈpaʊɚfl̩/
Forms: form: more powerful
form: most powerful
form: powreful
form: powrefull
Etymology: From Middle English pouerful, powarfull. By surface analysis, power + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: "She was stinkin' hot down here that summer, an' we were powerful dry."
ref: 1972, John O'Grady, It's Your Shout, Mate, Ure Smith, page 59:
glosses: very; extremely
op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒp/
ipa: /ɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: ops
Senses: examples: text: His ops went to his court hearing today.
glosses: Clipping of opponent.
examples: text: My mother's going in for her knee op today.
glosses: Clipping of operation.
examples: text: Even given the same direction, two camera ops will see and shoot somewhat differently. A good eye and an ability to concentrate and quickly follow directions are necessary for this position.
ref: 2015 September 14, Doug Matthews, Special Event Production: The Resources, Routledge, →ISBN, page 159:
text: Give the camera op a wide berth when he or she is shooting on Steadicam. When doing so, camera ops usually have virtually no peripheral vision, and their spatial awareness may be impaired by the giant, heavy camera attached to [them].
ref: 2017 November 21, Kristina Sexton, Acting in LA: How to Become a Working Actor in Hollywood, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Clipping of operator.
glosses: Clipping of operator.
An amateur radio operator.
glosses: Clipping of operator.
An operator on IRC, who can moderate the chat channel, ban users, etc.
examples: text: Ops on my new drawing?
glosses: Clipping of opinion.
examples: text: an op painting; op artworks
glosses: Ellipsis of op art.
Derived terms: black op
chanop
exaop
gigaop
grow op
half-op
IRCop
nonop
non-op
no-op
opcode
opless
opster
petaop
post-op
pre-op
psyop
siteop
teleop
teraop
Related terms: coin-op
co-op
op-amp
op
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒp/
ipa: /ɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: ops
form: opping
form: opped
form: opped
Senses: examples: text: True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem. Suppose someone joins the room after the user is opped and before the user is deopped.
ref: 1999, Cory McWilliams, “IRC Oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet):
antonyms: deop
glosses: To promote (an IRC user) to an operator.
Derived terms: reop
op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒp/
ipa: /ɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: ops
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of OP.
op
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒp/
ipa: /ɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: more op
form: most op
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of OP.
op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒp/
ipa: /ɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: ops
Senses: qualifier: among criminal gangs
glosses: Alternative form of opp (“opponent; opposition”).
op
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒp/
ipa: /ɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: ops
form: opping
form: opped
form: opped
Etymology: From op shop.
Senses: glosses: To buy (something) from an op shop.
glosses: To shop at op shops.
Related terms: photo op
dom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒm/
ipa: /dɑm/
ipa: /dɔm/
ipa: /dɔm/
rhymes: -ɒm
homophone: Dom
homophone: domme
homophone: Domme
homophone: dom/me
homophone: Dom/me
Forms: form: doms
Etymology: Clipping of dominance, dominant, dominate, and domination.
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
related: word: Dom
coordinate_terms: domme
dom/me
;
sub
switch
glosses: A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: sub
switch
glosses: Domination.
Derived terms: daddy dom
-dom
dom/me
dom drop
domme
dommy
Domward
hyperdom
dom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒm/
ipa: /dɑm/
ipa: /dɔm/
ipa: /dɔm/
rhymes: -ɒm
homophone: Dom
homophone: domme
homophone: Domme
homophone: dom/me
homophone: Dom/me
Forms: form: doms
form: domming
form: dommed
form: dommed
Etymology: Clipping of dominance, dominant, dominate, and domination.
Senses: examples: text: Nola is actually "Nurse Nola," a dominatrix who specializes in medical role playing. […] "After that," she continues, "I started domming, which I did for a long time, but have never liked much."
ref: 2006, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture, numbers 31-34:
topics: BDSM
games
gaming
lifestyle
sexuality
coordinate_terms: sub
switch
glosses: To dominate.
dom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒm/
ipa: /dɑm/
ipa: /dɔm/
ipa: /dɔm/
rhymes: -ɒm
homophone: Dom
homophone: domme
homophone: Domme
homophone: dom/me
homophone: Dom/me
Forms: form: doms
form: dons
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese dom. Doublet of domine, dominie, dominus, and don.
Senses: glosses: A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil.
glosses: A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders.
Related terms: word: donzel
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: dom palm
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: non-dom
som
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soms
form: sum
form: soum
Etymology: From Kyrgyz сом (som) and Uzbek сўм (soʻm) (Cyrillic) / soʻm (Roman), both of which come from the Turkic root *som ("pure [gold]").
Senses: glosses: The currency of Uzbekistan.
glosses: The currency of Kyrgyzstan.
som
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: U cared to try som of my snax
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Kimberly Kubus (K.Okkerstrøm), Airport Manager:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of some.
som
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of some.
som
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soms
Senses: examples: text: The som who first introduced me to it leaned in close and whispered the news, as if he were offering me something illegal.
ref: 2013, Jay McInerney, The Juice: Vinous Veritas, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of somm (“sommelier”).
Related terms: som tam
som tum
oom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʊəm/
ipa: /ʊm/
rhymes: -ʊəm
rhymes: -ʊm
Forms: form: ooms
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans oom. Doublet of eam and ohm.
Senses: examples: text: He raised his glass. ‘Here's to you, Oom Ben,’ he said. ‘Give them hell.’
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 73:
glosses: An older man, especially an uncle. (Frequently as a respectful form of address.)
Related terms: oom-pah
ook
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːk/
ipa: /uk/
rhymes: -uːk
Etymology: Imitative of the cry of an ape or monkey.
Senses: examples: text: He tapped the Librarian on the shoulder. "Excuse me —" "Ook?" "Those guys just called you a monkey," said Glod.
ref: 1995, Terry Pratchett, Soul Music:
text: The irate ape cries, "Ook ook! Ai ai ai!" He springs off the edge of the stone basin, clawing Cantare across the face and bursting through the door.
ref: 2004, Robert Arellano, Don Dimaio of La Plata:
text: Fingers pinched my eyelashes and lifted one eyelid. I looked straight into a big, leathery black face surrounded by brown fur. “Ook?” asked the monkey.
ref: 2014, Victoria Wessex, Shipwrecked with the Billionaire Rock Star:
synonyms: ooh-ah-ah
ooh ah ah
ooh ooh aah aah
oo oo aa aa
glosses: Used to represent the sound of the cry of an ape or monkey.
Related terms: eek
ook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːk/
ipa: /uk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: ooks
form: ooking
form: ooked
form: ooked
Etymology: Imitative of the cry of an ape or monkey.
Senses: glosses: To make the cry of an ape or monkey.
examples: text: Starts ooking and eeking About Slavery, Racism, Hair Salons, etc!
ref: 2012 August 19, Trending Now, “Huge Feral Nigger Sheboon Chimps Out at Gas Station”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
text: On Saturday, April 27, 2013 11:40:40 PM UTC+10, nigger brndy ooked:
> You all have AIDS, cock suckers.
ref: 2013 April 27, farkya...@live.com, “Im the only normal person on here”, in alt.music.michael-jackson (Usenet):
text: Weird spectacle, to be expected of simians.
The grieving mudda is wearing dark sunglasses even though it is night
and appears highly medicated, she ooks and eeks and you can tell she is
in her glory in front of the cameras.
ref: 2014 November 26, Jesse, “'Burn this b---- down!'”, in alt.france (Usenet):
text: Meanwhile, the first nigger interviewed on the scene said she saw
the whole thing. She ooked that the "boy" dint do nuffins" .
ref: 2015 May 4, Debby teh Dikeman, “Re: NIGGER LOGIC REVISITED”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):
text: WASHINGTON -- A California coongressboon ooked today that it would be
"preparing the nigger resistance" instead of apetending human
President-elect Trump's inauguration.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D/Nigger-Calif.) ooked its chimpout in a statement:
"I will not be celebrating or honoring an incoming president who rode
racism, sexism, xenophobia and bigotry to the White House."
ref: 2017 January 16, Rick Mathers, “Sow in Coongress will be preparing for chimpout instead of attending inaguration”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
text: Schenee started getting into chimpouts with its husboon Freddie, and at
one point ooked to it: 'The only thing you do is wipe my ass and wash
me up'.
ref: 2018 April 11, Dindu Nuffin, “Morbidly obese sheboon felt like it was "drowning in her own fat"”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):
text: Ugly disgusting jungle chimp go back to the mudaland Ápefrica u came from u ooking eeking nigger ape piece of shit
ref: 2018 June 3, asgo...@gmail.com, “Re: 10 Reasons Why I Hate NIGGERS”, in alt.politics (Usenet):
text: Castle Hill, Bronx … 51-year-old C&R nigger Gary Mallette is wanted for
attempted muhdik on an 83-year-old female in her apartment. The nigger
posed as a repair-nig and ooked it was going to fix a leak.
ref: 2019 March 30, Robert Wolfe, “Catch and release (80 times) nigger assaults an 83 year old woman”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):
glosses: Of a black person: to speak gibberish or nonsense.
boor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bʊə/
note: pour–poor merger, rare
ipa: /bɔː/
enpr: bo͝or
ipa: /bʊɹ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /boɹ/
ipa: /bʉːɹ/
ipa: /buːɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
homophone: Boer (one pronunciation)
homophone: boar (pour–poor merger)
homophone: bore (pour–poor merger)
homophone: Bohr (pour–poor merger)
Forms: form: boors
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch boer (“peasant”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and bower (“peasant, farmer”).
For the meaning development compare with Russian обыва́тель (obyvátelʹ, “the average man/citizen, the man in the street, philistine, resident, inhabitant”), Polish bydło (“cattle, rabble”) (whence Russian бы́дло (býdlo, “rabble, uncultured or stupid people, sheeple”)).
Senses: examples: text: Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and franklins say it, I’ll swear it.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], line 155:
text: For all the rich array and goodly port and countenance of Corinius, he seemed but a very boor beside the Lord Brandoch Daha, and dearly did each hate the other.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: A peasant.
glosses: A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
glosses: A yokel, country bumpkin.
examples: text: I question if any man ever saw his absent friend more clearly than did Shakespeare his Falstaff, for instance, or Scott his Balfour of Burleigh. But does it, therefore, follow that either of these great writers would, when hungry, have summoned up before him a clearer picture of his approaching dinner, than does the equally hungry or very much hungrier boor? This I doubt; and on the same principle I doubt if the said boor would see his dinner more clearly than a wolf, bear, or tiger would theirs when in quest of it.
ref: 1905, Edmund Selous, The Bird Watcher in the Shetlands, p. 107
glosses: An uncultured person; a vulgarian.
Related terms: boorish
boorishly
boorishness
zit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: zits
Etymology: Uncertain origin, first attested as 1960s North American English teenagers' slang. Compare English chit (“pimple, wart”), German Zitze (“teat, nipple”).
Senses: examples: text: I can't help thinking how little good all that working out did him. I think the only thing he ever got out of it was more zits.
ref: 1968, J. Lawrence Hagen, “Pinball 1959”, in Generation, volumes 20-21, page 182:
text: Brad: Sara, did you take my Clearasil again? Sara: I ran out of brown (paint). Brad: Great. How am I supposed to cover up my zits?
ref: 1987 Adventures in Babysitting, 00:06:35
glosses: Pimple
wikipedia: North American English
Synonyms: word: acker
word: akker
Derived terms: zitso
zitty
Related terms: acne
blackhead
pimple
spot
kaas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kas.
baas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baases
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans baas. Doublet of boss.
Senses: examples: text: ‘That's not what I'm complaining about, Baas,’ said Gordon.
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 40:
text: ‘Excuse me, baas,’ she said, 'you have knowing eyes.'
ref: 1932, George Bernard Shaw, The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God, Hesperus Press Limited, published 1961, page 11:
glosses: An employer, a boss (frequently used as a form of address).
baas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Inflected forms.
Senses: glosses: plural of baa
baas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Inflected forms.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of baa
jas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ja
rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕnt
ipa: /ɹɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: rents
Etymology: From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.
Senses: examples: text: I am asking £300 a week rent.
text: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: We never ever argue, we never calculate / The currency we've spent / I love you, you pay my rent
ref: 1987, “Rent”, in Actually, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
glosses: A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
glosses: A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
examples: text: A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
glosses: An object for which rent is charged or paid.
examples: text: So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
ref: 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
glosses: Income; revenue.
topics: video-games
glosses: An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.
Derived terms: base rent
black rent
chief rent
dry rent
economic rent
for rent
ground rent
high-rent
live rent-free in someone's head
live rent-free in someone's mind
low-rent
pay the rent
peppercorn rent
quasi-rent
quit rent
quit-rent
rack-rent
rack rent
rental
rent boy
rent control
rent-controlled
rent-free
rent freeze
renting
rent money
rent party
rent review
rent roll
rent seck
rent-seeker
rent-seeking
rent seeking
rent-stabilized
rent strike
water-rent
white rent
rent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕnt
ipa: /ɹɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: rents
form: renting
form: rented
form: rented
Etymology: From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.
Senses: examples: text: I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
glosses: To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
examples: text: We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
glosses: To grant a lease in return for rent.
glosses: To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
examples: text: The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
glosses: To be leased or let for rent.
Derived terms: rent-a-car
rent-a-cop
rent-a-crowd
rent-a-dread
rent-a-gob
rent-a-john
rent-a-mob
rent-a-mouth
rent-a-quote
rent-a-thug
rent-a-womb
rent out
rent-to-own
rentvest
Related terms: hire