cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aquiline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.wɪˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: more aquiline
form: most aquiline
Etymology: From Latin aquilīnus, from aquila (“eagle”).
Senses: examples: text: Frank's aquiline nose jutted out from underneath his glasses.
text: He was about the age of two-and-twenty, among the tallest of the middle size; had chestnut-coloured hair, which he wore tied up in a ribbon; a high polished forehead, a nose inclining to the aquiline, lively blue eyes, red pouting lips, teeth as white as snow, and a certain openness of countenance—but why need I describe any more particulars of his person?
ref: 1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter 22, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [William Strahan] for J[ohn] Osborn […], →OCLC:
text: Think of a genius not born in every country or every time: a man gifted by Nature with a penetrating, aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit.
ref: 1791, Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, London: J. Dodsley, pages 139–140:
text: Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, but there was a dead-white tinge in his aquiline face which told me that his life recently had not been a healthy one.
ref: 1903 September 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Empty House”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
text: […] Wani, whose smooth sleekness had been part of his charm, seemed to Nick to grow leaner and ever more aquiline.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 283:
text: He once recalled, of the father who called him “dear old boy” and whose aquiline nose and rectilinear figure he inherited, “After having hugged me, which he did rarely, he sent me away after 15 minutes.”
ref: 2024 March 13, Adam Nossiter, “Philippe de Gaulle, Admiral and Son of Charles de Gaulle, Dies at 102”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: eaglelike
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles; resembling that of an eagle.
Derived terms: aquilinely
aquilineness
aquiline nose
aquilinity
ambigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambigrams
Etymology: From ambi- + -gram. Coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1983-1984.
Senses: examples: text: Two nonvisual factors provide dissymmetry and prevent the ambigram from existing in a static equilibrium; most of the letters in an ambigram metamorphose into other letters when reversed; and each of those accompanying sentences provides a different idea of the word's meaning.
ref: 1992, John Langdon, Wordplay, published 2005, page 52:
text: 1997, Research and Education Networking, Volume 8, Issues 1-6, page 290,
An ambigram is a word that reads the same right-side-up and upside-down. MOW is a natural ambigram, for instance, but any word can be flipped if the right graphic artist gets his hands on it.
text: Next, I imagine that Switch #2 causes me every single weekend (and every other spare moment as well) to elect, instead of designing ambigrams or working hard on my book about being a strange loop, to spend hours on end watching professional football games on a huge-screen television and delightedly ogling all the busty babes in the beer ads.
ref: 2007, Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, page 312:
glosses: A calligraphic design that may be read as the same word or phrase (or sometimes different words or phrases) when oriented in two different ways, usually when reflected along a vertical or horizontal axis or when rotated through 180 degrees.
wikipedia: Indiana University Bloomington
Merriam-Webster
sax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæks/
homophone: sacks
homophone: Sacks
homophone: Sachs
homophone: Sax
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: saxes
Etymology: From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.
Senses: glosses: A slate-cutter’s hammer; slate-ax.
glosses: A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.
Related terms: Essex
Middlesex
saw
saxie
Saxon
seax
Sussex
Wessex
sax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæks/
homophone: sacks
homophone: Sacks
homophone: Sachs
homophone: Sax
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: saxes
form: saxing
form: saxed
form: saxed
Etymology: From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.
Senses: glosses: To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.
sax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæks/
homophone: sacks
homophone: Sacks
homophone: Sachs
homophone: Sax
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: saxes
Etymology: Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of saxophone.
Derived terms: alto sax
bari sax
baritone sax
bass sax
contrabass sax
Mississippi sax
sax tuba
sopranino sax
sopranissimo sax
soprano sax
soprillo sax
subcontrabass sax
tenor sax
sax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæks/
homophone: sacks
homophone: Sacks
homophone: Sachs
homophone: Sax
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: saxes
form: saxing
form: saxed
form: saxed
Etymology: Clipping of saxophone. Distantly related to etymology 1 above, because the “Sax” surname is a cognate.
Senses: glosses: To play the saxophone
sax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæks/
homophone: sacks
homophone: Sacks
homophone: Sachs
homophone: Sax
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: saxes
Etymology: Clipping of saxe blue, from the name of the region of Saxony.
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: a shade of colour similar to sky blue
acopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acopic
form: most acopic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόπος (kópos, “weariness”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relieving weariness; restorative.
acopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acopic
form: most acopic
Etymology: a- + cope + -ic, as a pun on the other etymology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Unable to function or cope.
Related terms: acopia
fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭʹshĭz
ipa: /ˈfɪʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪz
Senses: examples: text: Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
text: I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes
ref: 2007, “Weird Fishes”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:
glosses: plural of fish
multiple kinds of fish
examples: text: I caught six fishes today!
text: The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Matthew 14:17: “And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.”
text: "The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of fish
multiple individual fish
fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭʹshĭz
ipa: /ˈfɪʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪz
Senses: examples: text: He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fish
tessellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛsəleɪt/
Forms: form: tesselate
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres
Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores
Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares)bor.
Latin tessera
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin tessella
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin tessellātuslbor.
English tessellate
Learned borrowing from Latin tessellātus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Senses: glosses: tessellated
Derived terms: tessellate moray
tessellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛsəleɪt/
Forms: form: tessellates
form: tessellating
form: tessellated
form: tessellated
form: tesselate
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres
Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores
Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares)bor.
Latin tessera
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin tessella
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin tessellātuslbor.
English tessellate
Learned borrowing from Latin tessellātus, from tessella, diminutive of tessera; from Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (téssares), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres.
Senses: glosses: To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
examples: text: Regular hexagons tessellate.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: to cover a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes.
examples: text: It is possible to tessellate the plane with equilateral triangles and regular hexagons.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge.
Derived terms: tessellately
tessellation
Related terms: tessella
tessera
w00t
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: wo͞ot
ipa: /wuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: woot
Etymology: US, attested 1996, variant of earlier wh00t (1994), leetspeak form of whoot (1993), form standardized and popularized in dancehall anthem by rap song “Whoot, There It Is” (single released March 22, 1993) by group 95 South – compare often-confused “Whoomp! (There It Is)” (single released May 7, 1993) by group Tag Team – both in Miami bass genre (also less common “Whoops, there it is”), from earlier varied oral usage whoo, whoof, woo, woof (compare standard woohoo), notably by studio audience on The Arsenio Hall Show (1989–94) and in movie Pretty Woman (1990). The usage of The Arsenio Hall Show, specifically by the “dogpound” section of the audience, was in turn based on a dog’s bark woof (“(sound of dog barking)”), and derived from chants used at football games by the Cleveland Browns, from Hall’s home town, team nicknamed “The Dogs”.
Many folk etymologies exist, but written record is clear: the term appears widely in popular print use only from 1993, particularly used both in dancehalls and at sporting events, and is credited to the songs. The w00t form gained popularity on the internet from 1996, especially in massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs).
Senses: examples: text: w00t I've won this special item.
text: I talked to some lady at Burton, and she was saying there's all kinds of neat stuff on the disk, like clicking in different places or such gets neat things not otherwise seen.....anyone find any of these?
wh00t!!!!
ref: 1994 November 20, John Paul Brzustowicz, “Widowmaker CD ROM very soon”, in rec.skiing.snowboard (Usenet), archived from the original on 23 Oct 2025:
text: This is a test
w00t
ref: 1996 January 8, Matthew Cable, “Yeah!”, in alt.test (Usenet), archived from the original on 26 Feb 2008:
glosses: Used to express joy, particularly that felt during success or victory.
wikipedia: 95 South
Cleveland Browns
Grant Barrett
Miami bass
Pretty Woman
TV Acres
The Arsenio Hall Show
Whoomp! (There It Is)
Whoot, There It Is
Synonyms: hoorah
hurrah
hurray
huzzah
whoopee
woohoo
yay
yeah
yes
yippee
alright
OMG
Related terms: whoopee
woohoo
SVO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: examples: text: English is an SVO language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: SOV
OSV
VSO
VOS
glosses: Initialism of subject–verb–object [word order]: employing a system of syntax where the subject of a sentence precedes the verb, which is then followed by the object.
raw_tags: of a language
Related terms: absolutive
accusative
active
anastrophe
ergative
fluid-S
nominative
OSV
OVS
SOV
split-S
VOS
VSO
SVO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SVOs
Etymology: An English transliteration from the Russian СВО (SVO), specifically referring to the invasion of Ukraine.
Senses: synonyms: SMO
glosses: Initialism of special military operation.
one-armed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwʌnɑːmd/
ipa: /ˌwʌnɑɹmd/
Etymology: From one + armed.
Senses: examples: text: "Hope I'm not talking out of school but I do feel you acted unwisely by employing a one-armed chauffeur."
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 152:
glosses: Having only one arm; especially having lost an arm.
Derived terms: busy as a one-armed paper hanger
one-armed bandit
one-armed router
Related terms: two-armed
three-armed
four-armed
one-legged
two-armed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From two + armed.
Senses: glosses: having exactly two arms
Related terms: four-armed
one-armed
three-armed
one-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/
Etymology: From one + legged.
Senses: synonyms: monoped
monopedal
uniped
unipedal
glosses: Having only one leg.
examples: text: […] obviously wrong termination is likely to lead to a thin 'one-legged' sound with significant loss of level, and/or distortion.
ref: 2000, Philip Richard Newell, Project Studios: A More Professional Approach, page 40:
text: […] you have to bear in mind that your sound files in these circumstances will have a one legged stereo recording.
ref: 2013, Tim Crook, The Sound Handbook, page 100:
glosses: Of an audio signal: having a thin sound as a result of connection through only one wire of a circuit pair.
Related terms: two-legged
three-legged
four-legged
one-armed
biped
quadruped
one-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌnˌlɛɡəd/
Forms: form: one-leggeds
Etymology: From one + legged.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, people engage in communicative relationships not only with other people, but also with four-leggeds, one-leggeds, and no-leggeds, with trees, plants, and rocks, with the sun, moon, and stars, ...
ref: 2000, Lois J. Einhorn, The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul, →ISBN:
text: We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.
ref: 2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:
text: The arrow, for instance, combines gifts of stone for the head (from no-leggeds, who live within the Earth), wood for the shaft (from one-leggeds, trees, who unite Earth and Sky, and resembling the bole), and feathers (from two-leggeds, who live in the Sky); the stone is its head (Thoreau called arrowheads "fossilized thoughts"), the shaft its body, the feathers its wings.
ref: 2012, James David Audlin, The Circle of Life, →ISBN, page 256:
glosses: A plant, especially a tree.
zein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeins
Etymology: From translingual Zea (“corn genus”) + -in.
Senses: glosses: A protein derived from corn/maize, having many industrial applications.
bad news
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One of the rules of journalism is that news from Africa is always bad news.
ref: 2008 August 5, Alex Perry, “Good News: Gorillas Thrive”, in Time:
text: The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
glosses: News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events.
examples: text: Many are warning Spears that he is bad news and is trying to use her.
ref: 2008 January 12, Lynda Johnson, “Nude Photos: Britney Spears 5150 Leads to Paparazzi Picture Sale”, in National Ledger, retrieved 10 Oct 2008:
synonyms: bad business
glosses: An irritating, troublesome or harmful object, situation or individual.
Derived terms: bad news travels fast
good news
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
antonyms: bad news
glosses: Something or someone pleasant, fortunate, or otherwise positive.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The message of Jesus concerning the salvation of the faithful, as elaborated in the Gospels.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, news.
Derived terms: no news is good news
tessellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛsəˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: tessellations
Etymology: From tessellate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Squares can be used for tessellation.
glosses: The property or fact of tessellating.
examples: text: This is a tessellation of the plane with squares and regular octagons.
text: Decorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.
ref: 2023 October 18, Nick Brodrick, “The grand gateway to Glasgow”, in RAIL, number 994, page 32:
glosses: A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
glosses: polygon tessellation.
Derived terms: polygon tessellation
regular tessellation
semiregular tessellation
Related terms: tessellate
regular tessellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regular tessellations
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A tessellation of the plane by a convex regular polygon.
Related terms: word: semiregular tessellation
urls: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RegularTessellation.html
word: Mathworld article on regular tessellation
semiregular tessellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiregular tessellations
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A tessellation of the plane by two or more different convex regular polygons.
Synonyms: Archimedean tessellation
Related terms: word: regular tessellation
urls: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RegularTessellation.html
word: Mathworld article on regular tessellation
low-carb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more low-carb
form: lower-carb
form: most low-carb
form: lowest-carb
Senses: examples: text: The doctor's recommended low-carb diet meant that the patient would be longing for his morning bagel.
glosses: Of a food or diet, low in carbohydrates.
Derived terms: low-carber
baldare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baldares
Senses: glosses: din
one-armed bandit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwʌnɑːmd ˈbændɪt/
ipa: /ˌwʌnɑɹmd ˈbændɪt/
Forms: form: one-armed bandits
form: one-arm bandit
Etymology: From one-armed (“having only one arm”) + bandit (“one who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group; one who cheats others”), referring to the fact that the machine is operated by a single handle, and “steals” money from losing players.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: A gaming machine having a long arm-like handle at one side that a player pulls down to make reels spin; the player wins money or tokens when certain combinations of symbols line up on these reels.
glosses: Synonym of penny-in-the-slot machine.
synonyms: word: penny-in-the-slot machine
Hypernyms: fruit machine
poker machine
pokie
pokie machine
slot machine
Related terms: multi-armed bandit
inflatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfleɪtəbəl/
rhymes: -eɪtəbəl
Forms: form: more inflatable
form: most inflatable
Etymology: From inflate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be inflated or blown up.
Derived terms: inflatability
inflatable castle
noninflatable
uninflatable
Related terms: inflation
inflatable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfleɪtəbəl/
rhymes: -eɪtəbəl
Forms: form: inflatables
Etymology: From inflate + -able.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A boat or dinghy that may be inflated when needed.
examples: text: Earlier on the Other stage on Friday afternoon, Charli XCX took a more straightforward, rabble-rousing approach, a flurry of confetti cannon, inflatables and exhortations to wild hedonism: “I hope everyone gets really fucked up this weekend!”
ref: 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Any other structure, artwork etc. that is inflated.
Related terms: expandable
balmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː.mi/
ipa: /ˈbɑmi/
ipa: /ˈbɔmi/
ipa: /ˈbɑlmi/
rhymes: -ɑːmi
rhymes: -ɑːlmi
Forms: form: balmier
form: balmiest
Etymology: From balm + -y. Doublet of balsamic.
Senses: glosses: Producing balm.
glosses: Soothing or fragrant.
examples: text: The new mass hysteria is known as the Pyramid Club and began—like so many other strange and wonderful notions—somewhere under the balmy skies of California.
ref: 1949 March 7, “Pyramid Club Craze Sweeps Nation”, in LIFE, volume 26, number 10, →ISSN, page 27:
glosses: Of weather, mild and pleasant.
examples: text: I'm going away. He's off his chump, he is. I dont want no balmies teaching me.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 125:
text: 'I reckon he's balmy,' Claud said, and Bert grinned darkly, rolling his misty eye slowly round in its socket.
ref: 1958 April 1, Roald Dahl, “Parson's Pleasure”, in Esquire, page 148:
synonyms: word: barmy
glosses: Foolish; slightly crazy or mad; eccentric.
Derived terms: word: balmify
word: balmily
word: balminess
english: probably
translation: probably
word: barmy
word: unbalmy
bequest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: bequests
Etymology: From Middle English biqueste, bequeste (“will, testament, bequest”), from be + -quiste, queste (“saying, utterance, testament, will, legacy”), from Old English *cwist, *cwiss (“saying”) (compare Old English andcwiss, ġecwis, uncwisse, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *kwissiz (“saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say”). Related to Old English andcwiss (“answer, reply”), Old English uncwisse (“dumb, mute”), Middle English bequethen (“to bequeath”). More at quoth, bequeath.
Senses: glosses: The act of bequeathing or leaving by will.
examples: 2006 SHERRY CLODMAN & EDWARD H. PEARCE: Well Advised. p.25 Civil Sector Press →ISBN
A specific bequest is the gift of a specific sum of money, or the gift of a specific property or a particular asset. Perhaps the most common type of bequest, and undoubtedly the most certain, it is the first to be paid after the settlement of estate debts.
glosses: The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased.
glosses: That which is left by will; a legacy.
examples: text: Yet some odor of religion is still lingering here, the bequest of pious souls, who had grace to enjoy a foretaste of immortal life.
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: That which has been handed down or transmitted.
glosses: A person's inheritance; an amount of property given by will.
Synonyms: bequeathal
legacy
gift
donation
bequest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: bequests
form: bequesting
form: bequested
form: bequested
Etymology: From Middle English biquesten, from the noun (see above).
Senses: glosses: To give as a bequest; bequeath.
expandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expandable
form: most expandable
Etymology: From expand + -able.
Senses: examples: an expandable baton
an expandable tree of data on a computer display
glosses: Having the capacity to be expanded.
Derived terms: hyperexpandable
nonexpandable
thermoexpandable
unexpandable
expandable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expandables
Etymology: From expand + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Mobile homes include doublewides, expandables, and single units.
glosses: Anything that can be expanded.
Related terms: inflatable
bliss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: blisses
Etymology: From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
Senses: examples: text: The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.
text: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!
ref: a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC, page 188:
text: What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?
ref: 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 116:
text: When they insist on knowing my bliss
I tell them this
When they want to know what the reason is
I only smile when I lie, then I tell them why
ref: 1980, Daryl Hall, Janna Allen, “Kiss on My List”, in Voices, performed by Hall & Oates:
text: So who is this saying that money is bliss?
Your logic remiss
You and the devil about to kiss
ref: 2002, CYNE, “Steady”, in Movements:
glosses: Perfect happiness.
Derived terms: blissdom
blissed
blissed up
blissen
blissful
blissless
bliss ninny
blissome
bliss out
bliss point
blissy
embliss
enbliss
follow one's bliss
ignorance is bliss
unbliss
Related terms: blithe
behind
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/
ipa: /bəˈhaɪnd/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /beˈhəɪn/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /beˈhoɪn/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /beˈhaɪn/
ipa: /ˈbiːˌhaɪnd/
ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/
ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/
ipa: /bəˈhaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: more behind
form: behinder
form: most behind
form: behindest
form: ahind
form: behine
Etymology: From Middle English behinde, behinden, from Old English behindan (“on the back side of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihindan, *bihindini (“on the back side of, in the rear of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bi- + *hindō (“the hind side, back part”), equivalent to be- + hind. Compare Old Saxon bihindan (“behind”, adverb), Middle High German behinter (“behind; back”).
Senses: examples: text: The water flows out through the pipe, and the sediment collects behind.
glosses: At or in the rear or back part of something.
examples: text: We ran and ran, without once looking behind.
glosses: In a rearward direction.
examples: text: The slower runners were left a long way behind.
text: In the cricket match, England finished a long way behind.
text: The worst thing about autumn is that winter follows behind.
text: I shall not lag behind.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
examples: text: I couldn't be bothered to carry the ironing board, so I left it behind.
text: He stayed behind after the war.
text: He left behind a legacy of death and sorrow.
text: The island was inundated by the sea, leaving not a trace behind.
text: Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
 And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
examples: text: […] forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Philippians 3:13:
glosses: Backward in time or order of succession; past.
examples: text: ‘After the performance was over I went behind, and spoke to her.’
ref: 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 68:
glosses: Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
examples: text: We cannot be sure that there is no evidence behind.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 16:
glosses: Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
behind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/
ipa: /bəˈhaɪnd/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /beˈhəɪn/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /beˈhoɪn/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /beˈhaɪn/
ipa: /ˈbiːˌhaɪnd/
ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/
ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd/
ipa: /bəˈhaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: more behind
form: behinder
form: most behind
form: behindest
form: ahind
form: behine
Etymology: From Middle English behinde, behinden, from Old English behindan (“on the back side of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihindan, *bihindini (“on the back side of, in the rear of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bi- + *hindō (“the hind side, back part”), equivalent to be- + hind. Compare Old Saxon bihindan (“behind”, adverb), Middle High German behinter (“behind; back”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm very behind in my schedule.
text: My employer is two paychecks behind on paying my salary.
glosses: Not advanced to the required or expected degree; overdue or in arrears.
examples: text: My watch is behind by four minutes.
glosses: Slow.
raw_tags: of a watch or clock
beggar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɛɡə/
rhymes: -ɛɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: beggars
form: beggaring
form: beggared
form: beggared
form: begger
Etymology: From Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar (“beggar”), from Middle English beggen (“to beg”), equivalent to beg + -ar.
Alternative etymology derives Middle English beggere, beggare, beggar from Old French begart, originally a member of the Beghards, a lay brotherhood of mendicants in the Low Countries, from Middle Dutch beggaert (“mendicant”), with pejorative suffix (see -ard); the order is said to be named after the priest Lambert le Bègue of Liège (French for “Lambert the Stammerer”).
Senses: glosses: To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
examples: text: `Now,' answered Ayesha, with proud humility - `now when my lord doth speak thus royally and give with so free a hand, it cannot become me to lag behind in words, and be beggared of my generosity.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. / Some things beggar likeness, he thought.
ref: 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune, 1st edition, page 109:
text: Taking the ontological temperature of today and of the pre-revolutionary 18th century, Mr. Kundera finds that the speed we love has beggared us of pleasure.
ref: 1996 July 7, Angeline Goreau, “Speed”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.
Synonyms: ruin
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from beggar (verb)
word: beggar belief
sense: Terms derived from beggar (verb)
word: beggar description
sense: Terms derived from beggar (verb)
word: beggar-my-neighbor
sense: Terms derived from beggar (verb)
word: beggar-my-neighbour
sense: Terms derived from beggar (verb)
word: beggar off
sense: Terms derived from beggar (verb)
word: beggar the question
sense: Terms derived from beggar (verb)
word: beggar thy neighbor
sense: Terms derived from beggar (verb)
word: beggar-thy-neighbor
beyond
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈjɒnd/
ipa: /biˈ(j)ɑnd/
ipa: /bɪˈjɛnd/
note: Indic
ipa: /bɪˈjɔɳɖ/
note: father-bother merger
ipa: /bɪˈjɑɳɖ/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Etymology: From Middle English biyonde, from Old English beġeondan, from be- + ġeond; related to yonder.
Senses: glosses: Further away than.
examples: text: No swimming beyond this point.
text: England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: On the far side of.
glosses: Later than; after.
examples: text: Your staff went beyond my expectations in refunding my parking ticket.
text: He was a painter who was trying to get beyond painting, to escape from purely visual experience and lead his art in a more conceptual direction with a systematic approach.
ref: 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Greater than; so as to exceed or surpass.
examples: text: She had no reason for the conviction beyond the very inadequate one that she had seen him around London.
glosses: In addition to; supplementing.
examples: text: You won't last beyond my first punch.
text: The patient was beyond medical help.
text: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The 1300 class (Nos. 1301-16), one of which was damaged beyond repair in an accident, are Co-Cos, weigh 111 tons and have a top speed of 85 m.p.h.
ref: 1962 March, J. M. Tolson, “The Netherlands Railways today—I”, in Modern Railways, page 172:
glosses: Past, or out of reach of.
examples: text: He understood geometry well, but algebraic topology was beyond him.
glosses: Not within the comprehension of.
Synonyms: ayond
ayont
Derived terms: above and beyond
beyond a reasonable doubt
beyond a shadow of a doubt
beyond a shadow of doubt
beyond belief
beyond compare
beyond comparison
beyond dispute
beyond doubt
beyondish
beyond measure
beyondness
beyond one's depth
beyond one's ken
beyond one's pay grade
beyond one's scope
beyond one's wildest dreams
beyond one's years
beyond question
beyond reasonable doubt
beyond redemption
beyond seas
beyond someone's grasp
beyond the black stump
beyond the call of duty
beyond the grave
beyond the pale
beyond the shadow of a doubt
beyondward
beyond words
beyonsense
go beyond
go beyond the pale
live beyond one's means
look beyond
look beyond the end of one's nose
look beyond the tip of one's nose
beyond the end of one's nose
beyond the tip of one's nose
therebeyond
wise beyond one's years
Related terms: para-
beyond
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈjɒnd/
ipa: /biˈ(j)ɑnd/
ipa: /bɪˈjɛnd/
note: Indic
ipa: /bɪˈjɔɳɖ/
note: father-bother merger
ipa: /bɪˈjɑɳɖ/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Etymology: From Middle English biyonde, from Old English beġeondan, from be- + ġeond; related to yonder.
Senses: examples: text: next year and beyond
synonyms: word: ayond
word: ayont
glosses: Farther along or away.
glosses: In addition; more.
examples: text: But to then write about his allegedly fat girlfriend was beyond stupid, because by doing so he was in fact engaging a woman (me) in the “Am I fat?” discussion, which he supposedly realized he should never do.
ref: 2009, Jenny Lee, Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Marvel release stirring new set images of Black Panther and we are BEYOND excited [title]
ref: 2017 July 13, Joseph Gamp, “Marvel release stirring new set images of Black Panther and we are BEYOND excited”, in Metro:
text: “We are BEYOND not ready for climate change,” Mark Levine, a City Council representative, declared on Twitter.
ref: 2021 September 1, Michael Levenson, Anne Barnard, quoting Mark Levine, “Scenes from New York City as Ida paralyzes region”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: acutely
word: awfully
word: beyond
word: damn
word: drastically
word: exceedingly
word: extraordinarily
word: highly
word: hugely
word: immensely
word: insanely
word: intensely
word: jolly
word: murrain
word: severely
word: strikingly
word: terribly
word: violently
word: wicked
word: wildly
glosses: extremely, more than
beyond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈjɒnd/
ipa: /biˈ(j)ɑnd/
ipa: /bɪˈjɛnd/
note: Indic
ipa: /bɪˈjɔɳɖ/
note: father-bother merger
ipa: /bɪˈjɑɳɖ/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: beyonds
Etymology: From Middle English biyonde, from Old English beġeondan, from be- + ġeond; related to yonder.
Senses: glosses: The unknown.
glosses: The hereafter.
examples: text: And that is perhaps why I am constantly searching for great beyonds — beyonds that will permit the application of different theoretical models (be they semiotically-inspired, gender-inspired, sexuality-inspired, and so on) beyond any disciplinary confines.
ref: 2006, Haun Saussy, American Comparative Literature Association, Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization:
glosses: Something that is far beyond.
Derived terms: back of beyond
beyond the beyonds
great beyond
boundless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boundless
form: most boundless
Etymology: From bound + -less.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book III. The Garden.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 133:
text: Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.
ref: 1817 (published 11 January 1818), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Sonnet. Ozymandias.”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume III, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 67:
text: […] still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: Without bounds, unbounded.
Synonyms: bottomless
extentless
limitless
unbottomed
unbounded
infinite
Derived terms: boundlessly
boundlessness
unboundless
blunt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: blunter
form: bluntest
Etymology: From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).
Senses: examples: text: The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:
text: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
examples: text: His wits are not so blunt.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
examples: text: I was taken aback by the blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
text: a plain, blunt man
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
examples: December 30, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
glosses: Hard to impress or penetrate.
glosses: Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
Synonyms: sense: having a thick edge or point
word: dull
sense: having a thick edge or point
word: pointless
sense: having a thick edge or point
word: coarse
sense: dull in understanding
word: stupid
sense: dull in understanding
word: obtuse
sense: abrupt in address
word: curt
sense: abrupt in address
word: short
sense: abrupt in address
word: rude
sense: abrupt in address
word: brusque
sense: abrupt in address
word: impolite
sense: abrupt in address
word: uncivil
sense: abrupt in address
word: harsh
sense: abrupt in address
word: robust
Derived terms: bluntable
blunten
blunt instrument
bluntish
bluntly
bluntness
bluntnose
blunt-nosed viper
bluntslide
blunt-witted
semiblunt
blunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: blunts
Etymology: From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).
Senses: glosses: A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
glosses: A short needle with a strong point.
examples: text: […] to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!”
ref: 2004, Martin Torgoff, “The Temple of Accumulated Error”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 461:
topics: lifestyle
smoking
synonyms: word: bifta
word: bifter
word: blunt
word: bogie
word: bomber
word: bone
word: bun
word: Camberwell carrot
word: doink
word: doinker
word: doob
word: doober
word: doobie
word: exotic cheroot
word: fatty
word: giggle stick
word: hogger
word: hooter
word: J
word: jazz cigarette
word: jay
word: jimmy
word: joint
word: juju
word: left-handed cigarette
word: muggle
word: number
word: phattie
word: reefer
word: roach
word: spiff
word: spliff
word: toke tube
word: torpedo
word: zol
word: zoot
glosses: A marijuana cigar.
examples: text: Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt[…]
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 10, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: ackers
word: bees and honey
word: blunt
word: bones
word: brass
word: bread
word: bread and honey
word: Bugs Bunny
word: cake
word: cheddar
word: cheese
word: ching
word: clams
word: coin
word: cream
word: currency
word: dinero
word: dosh
word: dough
word: feds
word: fedi
word: finances
word: flizz
word: flow
word: funding
word: funds
word: gravy
word: gwop
word: gwolla
word: jack
word: legal tender
word: lolly
word: lovely jubbly
word: mazuma
word: means
word: money
word: moola
word: mozzarella
word: muck
word: oof
word: ooftish
word: paper
word: rhino
word: scratch
word: scrilla
word: shrapnel
word: simoleons
word: smackers
word: smackeroos
word: smackeroonies
word: spend
word: spondulicks
word: swag
word: wampum
word: wonga
word: yenom
glosses: Money.
glosses: A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
blunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: blunts
form: blunting
form: blunted
form: blunted
Etymology: From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).
Senses: glosses: To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
examples: text: It blunted my appetite.
text: My feeling towards her have been blunted.
text: That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.
ref: 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC:
text: I'm not saying that thousands of folk are not being inconvenienced, because they most certainly are, but the impact of strikes on government has been blunted.
ref: 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
glosses: To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
Synonyms: blunten
Related terms: bluntly
dull
bristly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪsli/
Forms: form: bristlier
form: bristliest
form: brisly
Etymology: From Middle English bristli, brustly, equivalent to bristle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered with bristles.
glosses: Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.
Derived terms: bristliness
bristly bellflower
bristly hawksbeard
bristly Matilija poppy
bristly mouse
painted bristly mouse
bristles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bristle
bristles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bristle