cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pogonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pogonia
vanilloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanilloid
nyctotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nyctitropic.
oculocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oculo- + cephalic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the eyes and head; applied to the Vestibulo–ocular reflex.
vestibulocerebellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From vestibulo- + cerebellar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the vestibulocerebellum.
nohkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nohkan
Etymology: From Japanese 能管 (nōkan).
Senses: glosses: A transverse flute used to accompany Japanese noh theater.
Mondego
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Mondego.
Senses: glosses: A river in Portugal, the longest entirely in the country.
spindle tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spindle trees
form: spindle-tree
Senses: examples: text: The most dangerous pests that develop and feed in mid-field woodlots are aphids. In some seasons they lay eggs and feed within woodlots on woody plants, such as spindle trees (Euonymus spp.), guelder rose (Viburnum opulus), mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius) and buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), which are rare in woodlots, or hawthorns (Crataegus spp.) and bird cherry (Prunus padus), which are more common there.
ref: 2000, Józef Banaszak, Ecology of Forest Islands, Bydgoszcz University Press, →ISBN, page 291:
synonyms: euonymus
spindle
glosses: Any of certain trees or any species belonging to the Euonymus genus, a group of flowering plants in the staff vine family.
Japanese spindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese spindles
Senses: synonyms: evergreen spindle
glosses: A spindle tree of species Euonymus japonicus, native to Japan, Korea and China.
rockness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rock + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We do not have to become a rock to study rocks, but we do have to understand the nature of “rockness.”
ref: 2009, Robert C. Atchley, Spirituality and Aging, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 26:
text: You can't impact the treeness of a tree, the skyness of the sky, or the rockness of a rock.
ref: 2011, Max Lucado, The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 190:
text: He asked, how can you truly know the rockness of a rock by categorizing it? Simply dividing it into smaller pieces, weighing it, and looking at its properties may tell you a great deal about what it is like, but what it is, its essence, its rockness, escapes such analysis […]
ref: 2011, C. Alexander Simpkins, Annellen M. Simpkins, Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy: Techniques for Clinical Practice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: The essence of what it means to be a rock; the qualities that make a rock what it is.
glosses: The quality of music being rock music, or generally "rocking" (being excitingly good).
skyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] the sky surrounding us, so alive and immediate I felt I could almost put out my hand and immerse it in 'skyness'.
ref: 2007, Helen McCann, Other Lives - Other Learning, Lulu, →ISBN, page 119:
text: You can't impact the treeness of a tree, the skyness of the sky, or the rockness of a rock.
ref: 2011, Max Lucado, The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 190:
text: There is no latent structure incarnated, no inherent skyness or lakeness in an abstract structural relation. The sky or the lake is not structured, only the film.
ref: 2013, Silke Panse, “Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Ecoasthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning's Land Films”, in Anat Pick, Guinevere Narraway, editors, Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: The essence of what it means to be the sky; the qualities that make the sky what it is.
deerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deer + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, he praised the work of the cave painters and their “contemplative intuition” in portraying the animals in their surroundings, in particular their illumination of the essential being of these animals, their “'deerness,'” for example.
ref: 2001, Ross Labrie, Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 36:
text: In spite of the general features discussed above, the Filippovka stags remain enigmatic. That they were conceived of as supernatural is shown by their exaggerated features and their gold- and silver-foil covering, as well as by the fact that they are only realistic enough to indicate their “deerness,” as noted by Farkas.
ref: 2006, The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Perspectives on the Steppe Nomads of the Ancient World, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
text: […] that which makes each particular being the very kind of being which it is, e.g., the chair's chairness, the tree's treeness, the sky's skyness, the deer's deerness, or the human's humanness.
ref: 2008, Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 27, Issues 1-3, page 79
glosses: The state or quality of being a deer.
chairness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛənəs/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹnəs/
Etymology: From chair + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There was, according to him [an artificial monster created by a Swedish scientist], a 'goodness' that made things good, an 'evil principle' that made them bad, [...] and a 'chairness' or 'boxness' that made things chairs and boxes.
ref: 1870 December 29, “A New Adam in Sweden”, in Daily Telegraph, Harrisburg, PA, page 1:
text: Similarly when we call triangularity or chairness an idea or notion or concept, we do not mean to deny that these natures are really manifested in particulars; we are only saying that their reality, like that of the particulars, presupposes a thinking subject.
ref: 1907, H. A. Prichard, “A Criticism of the Psychologists' Treatment of Knowledge”, in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, volume 16, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 34:
text: He extended his finger and outlined the shape of the chair. "It's about forms and negative space—she's taken the chairness away from the chair and left it purely object."
ref: 2003, Ann Packer, chapter 18, in The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Contemporaries, →ISBN, page 177:
text: I can identify the pattern of wood grain on my chair at Mom and Dad's kitchen table, but I don't try to sketch it in my mind. For me, chairness is nonvisual; it's the feel of a seat connected to four legs and a backrest.
ref: 2011, Thad Nodine, chapter 3, in Touch and Go: A Novel, [Lakewood, Colo.]: Unbridled Books, →ISBN, page 39:
text: When you look at a chair, you are aware of its shape from a particular point of view, but defenders of this objection insist that you are also aware of its chairness.
ref: 2012, Jesse J. Prinz, “Where is Consciousness? The Intermediate Level”, in The Conscious Brain: How Attention Engenders Experience (Philosophy of Mind), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: The essence of what it means to be a chair; the qualities that make a chair what it is.
wikipedia: Vincent van Gogh
lakeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lake + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Children who have seen a small lake surrounded by a white sand beach have beginning ideas of what lakeness is.
ref: 1977, J. Bryan Moffet, Teaching Elementary School Social Studies, Little, Brown, published 1977, page 184:
text: Sam was painting big abstract landscapes in those days — masses of green and brown and blue plucked from the world around here — and he would tell me the right way to look at the lake, how to empty myself of all thoughts of lakeness, and just see the thing.
ref: 1995, Ralph Lombreglia, Make Me Work, Penguin, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Ahead stretched miles of the unknown, lands and waters resembling my home waters, yet not quite it. There was a disturbing feeling of lakeness: unlike four-doored Possession Sound and multi-doored Puget, Port Susan had but a single door.
ref: 2002, Harvey Manning, Walking the Beach to Bellingham, Oregon State University Press, →ISBN, page 113:
glosses: The state or quality of being a lake.
inari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 稲荷.
Senses: glosses: A type of sushi with rice wrapped in a pouch of fried tofu (aburaage).
Related terms: Inari
Romas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Romases
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Ukrainian Ромась (Romasʹ).
* Borrowed from Greek Ρώμας (Rómas).
* Borrowed from Catalan Romàs.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Romas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roma
Mordor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːdɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹdɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈmoːdoː(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Mordor, a bleak realm ruled by the dark lord Sauron, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth. Tolkien created the name in his constructed language Sindarin, from morn (“dark, black”) and dôr (“land”). Compare with Old English morþor (“murder”), murder, Greek μαυρός (mavrós, “dim”) and Latin mors (“death”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian Мо́рдор (Mórdor) or Russian Мо́рдор (Mórdor), both of those from the English word, alluding to it being the land of orcs.
Senses: examples: text: It is a “Mordor” sort of anthropology, dark rather than light, swampland rather than solid ground.
ref: 2007, Paul F. M. Zahl, Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., published 2007, →ISBN, page 94:
text: Nevertheless, this book is about the truth, the good and the bad, so I will tread into the forbidden territory, the Mordor of motherhood.
ref: 2007, B. Erin Wylde, Where Did I Go?, →ISBN, page 100:
text: “OK, can we go back now?” asked their guide and expert on the underground, whose restless eyes implied that he was on the edge of panic. “I for one am not venturing a step further into this Mordor.”
ref: 2012, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, A Grain of Truth: A Second Case for State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki, Bitter Lemon Press (2012; original Polish book published 2011), page 290
text: It’s impossible to find harmony in an outfit when you have to schlep five kilos of kit with you in order to manage the post-workout transformation. Of course, I could change at work. But this would entail using the office showers. And I would sooner venture into Mordor.
ref: 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:
text: “I fled from Moscow, which has turned into Mordor.[…]”
ref: 2022 April 17, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, quoting Antonina Baever, “Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia’s cultural uncoupling from the west”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: They are out in nature for hours a day – despite the fact that the weather’s terrible (we’re talking Mordor from October to March).
ref: 2024 February 25, Helen Russell, “Play outside and sing together: what living in Denmark taught me about raising ‘Viking’ children”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: wasteland
hellscape
glosses: An area of peril, darkness, or evil, which people fear to visit or explore.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Russia.
speciesm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Despite his analysis of animal traits within the human psyche and his emphasis on diversity of species, […] and his plea for animal protection, Canetti seems to have felt that he was not able to overcome speciesm, the least recognized form of intellectual prejudice of his time.
ref: 2004, Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti, Camden House Publishing, →ISBN, page 244:
text: This has generated a reluctance to award ontological priority to any shared characteristics of human beings, and has triggered the radical criticism of speciesm and human exceptionalism […]
ref: 2019 November 14, Giulia Maria Chesi, Francesca Spiegel, editors, Classical Literature and Posthumanism, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
text: […] but not all major currents of feminism could tolerate the inclusion of speciesm as a form of oppression in feminist considerations and thus declared the consideration of nonhuman animals within feminism essentialist.
ref: 2024 February 2, Goran Đurđević, Suzana Marjanić, editors, Ecofeminism on the Edge, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of speciesism.
Nazgul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæzɡul/
Forms: form: Nazgul
form: Nazgûl
Etymology: From nazgûl (“ringwraith”) in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional language Black Speech, a compound of nazg (“ring”) and gûl (“wraith; spirit”).
Senses: examples: text: The West Hampstead studio flat looks like the Nazgul have just thundered through it […]
ref: 2007, Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer, page 55:
text: The last thing she wanted was for Zach to come storming out of the house like a Nazgul, telling her to get the hell away from his daughter.
ref: 2011, Kristin Hannah, Night Road, page 282:
text: There's three blokes who look like the Nazgul in pinstripes, and a skinny hatchetfaced bird who keeps saying “Well?” at me every time she asks me a question and I don't answer her inside half a second.
ref: 2012, Tom Holt, You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps, page 133:
topics: fantasy
glosses: An evil force which heedlessly destroys everything in its path, and appears like a horseman dressed all in black.
Nazgul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæzɡul/
Forms: form: Nazguls
form: Nazgûl
Etymology: From nazgûl (“ringwraith”) in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional language Black Speech, a compound of nazg (“ring”) and gûl (“wraith; spirit”).
Senses: examples: text: (On Lost Souls there is a Ringwraith guild; Nazguls are members at levels 26-29.)
ref: 1994, Chiaroscuro, “Re: ColdMUD, interesting career(class,guild)-systems, and thoughts about mudding”, in rec.games.mud.misc (Usenet):
text: In the Touist^([sic]) quest, there was a polymorph trap on the first level, and one of the non-peaceful buggers polyed into a Nazgul (ugh!).
ref: 1994, The Nowhere Man, “Re: Only 9 Nazguls? (was: Ascension (long))”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
text: AFAIK Moria itself has never had uniques, though some variants do (Morgul has the nine Nazguls, for instance) or artifacts.
ref: 1999, Jonathan Ellis, “Re: unique version of moria”, in rec.games.roguelike.moria (Usenet):
text: Scrolls of mass genocide, scrolls of teleport, and a kick-ass bow generally are prerequisites for killing Nazguls in Pernband.
ref: 2001, Pat Gunn, “Re: [Pern] YASD (#$# Nazguls)”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet):
text: Soulcrusher established his power in Valhalla itself where he trained the Nazguls and built a guardian to protect his privacy.
ref: 2000, Fuzzy, “AD: [rom] Dawn of Empires - mud.dawnofempires.com”, in rec.games.mud.misc (Usenet):
text: While poking around on level 20, I came across an object I've never seen before, a Short Bow of the Nazgul (x2) (-7,-7) {cursed}.
ref: 2002, Matthew Murray, “Short Bow of the Nazgul”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet):
topics: fantasy
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A type of demonic or undead creature.
Gandalfesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gandalfesque
form: most Gandalfesque
Etymology: Gandalf + -esque, with the name having been taken by J. R. R. Tolkien from the Old Norse Gandálfr, from gandr (“magic staff”) + alfr (“elf”).
Senses: examples: text: […] there is radical Evil here (distilled in its purest form in Lord Voldemort), as much as there is Good (figured in the Gandalfesque Dumbledore).
ref: 2007, William MacNeil, Lex Populi: The Jurisprudence of Popular Culture, page 25:
glosses: With qualities resembling those of Gandalf, a wise old wizard in The Lord of the Rings with a long white beard.
wikipedia: Gandalf
J. R. R. Tolkien
Synonyms: Gandalfian
Gandalfish
Nazguls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nazgul
Bilboesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌbɪlboʊˈɛsk/
Forms: form: more Bilboesque
form: most Bilboesque
Etymology: From Bilbo + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Mississippi voters gave Bilboesque Senator James O. Eastland a resounding vote of confidence; […]
ref: 1994, John Egerton, Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South, Knopf, →ISBN:
text: […] writing in 1968, Robert Sherrill commented upon this apparent contradiction between Eastland's public image as a Bilboesque demagogue and his private geniality: […]
ref: 2008, Chris Myers Asch, The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer, University of North Carolina Press (2011), page 329 (endnote)
text: It touches every possible nerve of a progressive Californian, whether black or white, by linking the right-to-work movement to the worst excesses of southern extremism: absurd, Bilboesque miscegenation fears; […]
ref: 2011, Reuel Schiller, “Singing 'The Right-to-Work Blues': The Politics of Race in the Campaign for 'Voluntary Unionism' in Postwar California”, in Nelson Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, editors, The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, University of Pennsylvania Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Reminiscent of Theodore G. Bilbo’s racist sentiment.
examples: text: At the same time, Bilboesque proverbs like "Every worm has his weak spot" and "Never laugh at live dragons" use the familiar proverb form to make the unfamiliar inhabitants of the secondary world seem more matter-of-fact.
ref: 1981, Katharyn W. Crabbe, J. R. R. Tolkien, Frederick Ungar Publishers, →ISBN, page 60:
text: So here goes: much as Alex Ferguson and Manchester United could not afford to let their Bilboesque, talismanic striker leave the football club, Key and New Zealand could not afford to let this production take flight.
ref: 2010 October 29, Toby Manhire, “The Hobbit hullabaloo”, in The Guardian:
text: “He’s Bilbo-esque,” the filmmaker said. “You might not always want to say that about you, right? But seriously he has the essential features of this little English gent, this country gent who is slightly old-fashioned and has to go around in the world and try to cope with it. That’s not exactly who Martin [Freeman] is as a person, but as an actor he does that so well. […]
ref: 2011 August 23, Geoff Boucher, “‘The Hobbit’: Peter Jackson and the one true Bilbo Baggins”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: Of, relating to, or reminiscent of the character Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Tolkienist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tolkien + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Tolkienian
Tolkienist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tolkienists
Etymology: From Tolkien + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A Tolkienite or Tolkienologist.
Synonyms: Tolkiendil
Tolkienite
Hyponyms: Ringer
Ringnut
Tolkienists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tolkienist
Tolkienologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tolkienologists
Etymology: From Tolkien + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies Tolkien and his creations.
Synonyms: Tolkienist
Related terms: Tolkienology
Tolkienologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tolkienologist
Diu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːuː/
rhymes: -iːuː
Senses: glosses: A city in the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India.
glosses: A district of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India.
-ception
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formed from words such as nociception and proprioception.
Senses: glosses: Neural reception.
-ception
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Rebracketing of inception coined with reference to the 2010 science fiction film of the same title, the plot of which involves a team of people infiltrating someone's subconscious mind, proceeding through several layers of dreams in the process.
Senses: examples: text: Adapted from David Mitchell's novel of the same name, Cloud Atlas is a story-ception; a post apocalyptic campfire story about a guy watching a movie in which someone reads a novel whose main character follows a series of letters.
ref: 2012 September 10, Timothy Morrise, “Reviewer previews his top picks for fall movie season”, in University Journal, page 6:
text: Playception: Each actor must portray a character playing another character.
ref: 2012, Maura Breen, "Latest play presents challenge for actors", Tan & Cardinal (Otterbein University), Volume 94, Issue 5, 26 September 2012, page 4 (image caption)
text: Seen any horrendous foodceptions you just can't wrap your head around (like pasta burritos)?
ref: 2013 November, Kelly Herman, “Foodception: A Review”, in Campus Talk, published 2013, page 9:
glosses: Combined with a noun to indicate a layering, nesting, or recursion of the referent.
cobaltine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobaltines
Senses: examples: text: The observation of Schrauf and Dana, that the same thermoelectrical peculiarities are shown by a holohedral mineral of the same crystalline system to which iron pyrites and cobaltine belong, will clearly not strengthen the position taken up by Rose.
ref: 1882, Philosophical Magazine, page 477:
text: Norway possesses important cobalt deposits at Skuttemd, where be ore is chiefly cobaltine, associated with arsenical and iron pyrites, in bands of quartz-schist and mica-schist, which Prof. Le Neve Foster defines as beds in altered sedimentary strata, while others describe the formation as gneissic.
ref: 1895, Charles George Warnford Lock, Economic Mining, page 411:
text: The massive magnetite ores of the South Dashkesan deposit contain up to 12 per cent of sulphides being represented by a range of 70-80 per cent of pyrite, up to 10 per cent of chalcopyrite, cobaltine, rare pyrrhotite arsenopyrite, glaucodote, bornite, sphalerite and galenite.
ref: 2000, Geology and Mineral Resources of Azerbaijan, page 69:
glosses: Synonym of cobaltite.
synonyms: word: cobaltite
lepidoptera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lepidopteron
Derived terms: microlepidoptera
marginalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marginalia
Senses: glosses: singular of marginalia
Mauras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Maura
novenae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novena
orthogonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthogonium
orthogonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthogonia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρθογώνιος (orthogṓnios, “right-angled”).
Senses: glosses: right-angled triangle
parsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parsa
pterygoidei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛɹ.əˈɡɔɪ.diˌaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of pterygoideus
recordative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of recordatory.
synonyms: word: recordatory
unctuose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unctuose
form: most unctuose
Senses: glosses: Synonym of unctuous (“greasy, oily”).
synonyms: word: unctuous
extra: greasy, oily
vacuolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vacuolates
form: vacuolating
form: vacuolated
form: vacuolated
Etymology: From vacuole + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To develop or form vacuoles.
vacuolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vacuolate
form: most vacuolate
Etymology: From vacuole + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vacuolated.
obediencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obediency
-alia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From the noun paraphernalia.
Senses: examples: text: kitchenalia
translation: objects typically found or used in a kitchen
english: objects typically found or used in a kitchen
glosses: Objects associated with a particular thing.
-alia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin -ālia.
Senses: qualifier: occurs in loanwords from Latin
glosses: Appears in the names of Roman festivals.
ovo-lacto-vegetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəʊˌlæk.təʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.voʊˌlæk.toʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: ovo-lacto-vegetarians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ovolactovegetarian.
ovo-lacto-vegetarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovo-lacto-vegetarian
Sauron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊ(ə)ɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈsɔːɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈsaʊɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈsæoɹɔn/
ipa: /ˈsoːɹɔn/
Forms: form: Saurons
Etymology: From the Quenya name of the dark lord Sauron in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose name Tolkien created in his constructed language Quenya, from saura (“foul, putrid”).
Senses: examples: text: 'I don't think there are any Saurons around today but, in 1939 there was one, sitting in the middle of Europe. […]
ref: 2004 January 8, “The story goes on being relevant”, in Birmingham Evening Mail:
text: For aspiring Saurons and Darth Sidiouses, the game allows the player to fill the boots of a big evil Overlord with a handful of minions to start out with.
ref: 2007 February, “Overload”, in GameAxis Unwired, page 12:
text: Torture, indeed, like enslavement, has traditionally been iconic of pure evil, the practice of a Sauron or a Saddam Hussein.
ref: 2013, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander G. Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, & Alexander Jenkins, Post-Ethical Society: The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular, University of Chicago Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: An evil, tyrannical, or widely disliked person.
Derived terms: SAURON
Sauronesque
Sauron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊ(ə)ɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈsɔːɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈsaʊɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈsɔɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈsæoɹɔn/
ipa: /ˈsoːɹɔn/
Etymology: From the Quenya name of the dark lord Sauron in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, whose name Tolkien created in his constructed language Quenya, from saura (“foul, putrid”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of SAURON.
fraudsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraudsmen
Etymology: From fraud + -s- + man.
Senses: glosses: A male fraudster.
fraudsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fraudsman
Sauronesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sauronesque
form: most Sauronesque
Etymology: From Sauron + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: This crew faces the Sauronesque embodiment of evil, the Shadow, its minions, the savage Reavers, and treachery in the usurper of Arlen's throne.
ref: 1984, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 104, numbers 10-14, page 146:
text: And it's not the only Sauronesque Bush program
ref: 2003 January 2, Noah Shachtman, “Bush's Year of U.S. Surveillance”, in Wired:
text: Their Sauronesque motto—Join us, and we can rule the Middle East together—doesn't have quite the catchy ring it once did.
ref: 2008, Chronicles, volume 32, page 36:
glosses: Having similar traits to the fictional character Sauron from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, including evilness, tyrannicalness, or all-seeingness.
idu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Romanization of Korean 이두 (idu).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of itwu.
Mercurios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mercurio
Messian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Messiah + -an.
Senses: examples: text: That to Earth's utmost lands I may set forth / Thy grace supreme, in sending her, else lost, / Messiah, saviour from the yoke of Hell; / And prove the pure Messian scheme, a scheme / Not mortal man's, but all throughout Thine own.
ref: 1842, Simon Gray, Esq., The Messiad: Or, the Life, Death, Resurrection, and Exaltation of Messiah, the Prophet of the Nations, London: Longman, Brown, and Co., Book I, lines 39–43, page 4:
topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Messianic
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Messiah.
Messian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Messi + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Every game, every attempted dribble, every pass, every goal (all of which, together, create the Messian mode of jouissance), is an “experiment” in which Messi seeks to conserve himself at the highest possible level, with the greatest amount of integrity.
ref: 2019, Grant Farred, Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page unknown:
text: This week Lothar Matthaus compared him to Lionel Messi. […] His goal was typically Messian, he dribbled to the edge of the box before presenting the ball to a team-mate, and telegraphing with his run where he wanted the ball played back to him before sending an unerring shot at goal.
ref: 2022 October 29, “Bayern Munich 6-2 Mainz: Sadio Mane one of six different players to score as Julian Nagelsmann's team move top”, in Eurosport:
text: There is a kind of melancholy to the final from a Messian perspective. Argentina are favourites to win their first World Cup since 1986, reaching this point after playing some of the most impressive and effective football of the tournament.
ref: 2022 December 18, Samantha Lewis, “Argentina and France might be playing in the final but Qatar is the real winner of the FIFA World Cup”, in ABC News:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Of or pertaining to Lionel Messi (born 1987), Argentine professional footballer, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
panopticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From panoptic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario.
ref: 2008, Ilan Kapoor, The Postcolonial Politics of Development, Routledge, →ISBN, page 69:
text: The goal of police panopticism is to minimize the severe costs of managing the police by leveraging data-driven surveillance from multiple institutional points and actors.
ref: 2012 March, Mary D. Fan, “Panopticism for Police: Structural Reform Bargaining and Police Regulation by Data-Driven Surveillance”, in Washington Law Review, volume 87, number 93, page 102:
text: Today's panopticism (in the West, at least) hasn't had anything like this effect, as Angwin notes, because it can be quite crude in displaying its own invasive footprints: You shop for cameras online, and then find yourself haunted for weeks by camera ads each time you visit a new website.
ref: 2014, Clive Thompson, "Whose Life Is It Anyway?", BookForum, February/March 2014, page 12
glosses: The state or quality of being panoptic; all-seeingness.
all-seeingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From all-seeing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: omniscience
text: The notion of pan-opticon—as used by Jeremy Bentham—comes from this presumption of all-seeingness proper to the Supreme Being.
ref: 2001, Roberto Harari, Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety: An Introduction, Other Press, published 2001, →ISBN:
text: These two attributes, along with the other four identified — omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, and all-seeingness — portray God's character and abilities, as well as the qualities of his nature.
ref: 2009, Prince Sorie Conteh, Traditionalists, Muslims, and Christians in Africa: Interreligious Encounters and Dialogue, Cambria Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 60:
text: How do its values relate to the values of the camera's eye, its truthfulness and all-seeingness?
ref: 2011, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements, Viking, published 2011, →ISBN:
synonyms: omnividence
glosses: The state or quality of being all-seeing.
Related terms: all-knowing
all-seeing eye
astrophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: One wonders but cannot even approximate, just what percentage of earth's population in any given century in the past has tried to go high into the sky. I suspect that the incidence of astrophilia may have been constant throughout our complicated evolution.
ref: 1979 July, Charles S. Houston, “Introductory Address: Lessons to be Learned from High Altitude”, in Postgraduate Medical Journal, volume 55, number 645, page 447:
text: I still follow astronomical research with interest and participate in discussions on sci.astro. But as I matured I stopped believing in miracles. I liken the exuberance of astrophiles to the desperation of cancer patients. Ask doctors what they can do about cancer, and they can't yet offer much hope. Yet patients believe that somewhere, something that already exists must help. So they disbelieve the doctors and start popping shark cartilage or laetrile or whatever. So it is with astrophilia. Impatient with the slow pace of the careful space research that actually allows us to get a few people off this rock and return them safely, they propose hasty schemes that probably will not work, and pooh-pooh the stodgy establishment scien-tists.
ref: 1997 January 12, John Ladasky, “Re: Space junk??? Not here. Time for a new newsgroup?”, in alt.politics.greens (Usenet):
text: DO you really believe you have a handle on anything, let alone astrophilia and allegorical texts?
ref: 2004 June 2, Leigh_Bee, “Min's Apocalypse & Commentary - TOC (update 2 June 2004)”, in alt.astronomy (Usenet):
glosses: Love of and/or obsession with planets, stars, and outer space.
Related terms: astrophilic
astrophile
hatchetfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hatchetfaced
form: most hatchetfaced
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hatchet-faced.
pro-gun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-gun
form: most pro-gun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of progun.
pro-control
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-control
form: most pro-control
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of procontrol.
gun rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider any new cases seeking to expand gun rights, including two challenges to restrictions on young adults.
ref: 2014, Richard Wolf, Justices won't hear challenge to young adult gun limits, USA Today:
text: Gun rights advocates are urging the Canadian government to drop charges against a retired U.S. soldier who says he mistakenly brought a gun into the country due to a faulty GPS directions during a weekend getaway.
ref: 2014, National Rifle Association, "U.S. Army vet faces 3 years in Canadian prison after mistakenly bringing gun to border", NRA Institute for Legislative Action
glosses: The entitlement of individuals to own and carry guns.
Related terms: pro-gun
gun control
pro-control
gun-control
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gun control.
gun-rights
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gun rights.
skiïng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ski + -ïng.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skiing.
Ruston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Wykeham parish, Scarborough district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9583).
glosses: A city, the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: A city in Pierce County, Washington, United States.
Derived terms: Sco Ruston
Weed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
NiMH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: type of rechargeable battery
glosses: nickel metal hydride
Related terms: Li-Ion
nicad
SLA
diagnosticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagnosticity
suffragators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suffragator
Li-Ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: type of rechargeable battery
glosses: lithium ion
Related terms: nicad
NiMH
SLA
Steinmetzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Steinmetzian
form: most Steinmetzian
Etymology: From Steinmetz + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923), German-American mathematician and electrical engineer.
neuroesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neuroesthetic
form: most neuroesthetic
Etymology: From neuro- + esthetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to neuroesthetics.
neuroesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + esthetics.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of the neural bases for the contemplation and creation of artworks.
neuroaesthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + aesthetics.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroesthetics.
neuroaesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neuroaesthetic
form: most neuroaesthetic
Etymology: From neuro- + aesthetic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neuroesthetic.
turpentiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turpentiners
Etymology: From turpentine + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who drains resin from trees to produce turpentine.
turpentiners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turpentiner
turpentining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turpentine
turpentines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of turpentine
turpentines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turpentine
turpentined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turpentine
printing frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printing frames
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are made by exposure to light.
manifoldnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manifoldness
simultaneous equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: finite set of equations whose common solutions are sought
sunset shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunset shells
Etymology: So-called due to its shell
Senses: synonyms: sunrise tellin
glosses: A marine bivalve (Tellina radiata) found in the Caribbean, having a smooth shell marked with radiating bands of varied colours.
Synonyms: rising sun
in sunder
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 46:9:
glosses: asunder; into parts
Synonyms: asunder
spawn eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spawn eaters
Senses: synonyms: spottail shiner
spottail minnow
glosses: A small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis hudsonius) allied to the dace.
maraudings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marauding
curtain lecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curtain lectures
Etymology: An allusion to the curtains that hung around old-fashioned beds.
Senses: examples: text: I have pawn'd already her Tuftaffaty Peticote and all her Child-bed linnen, besides two tiffiny Aprons, and her bearing-cloth, for which I have had already two curtaine Lectures, and a black and blue eye.
ref: 1649, Francis Quarles, Virgin Widow, act II, scene 1:
text: I still prevailed, and would be in the right, / Or curtain lectures made a restless night.
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, The Wife of Bath:
text: A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.
ref: 1819, Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle:
text: Yes, she may toss her head and hector, / But she shall have a curtain lecture ...
ref: 1829, William Combe, The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of a Wife, Canto 1:
text: ... in a curtain lecture, I say, Mrs. Sedley took her husband to task for his cruel conduct to poor Joe.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Before she went, she gave Robert several curtain lectures; but he had little time for her and avoided her.
ref: 1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 201:
glosses: A scolding given by a wife to her husband in bed.
West India tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A shrubby plant (Capraria biflora) having oblanceolate toothed leaves sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
Frodoesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Frodoesque
form: most Frodoesque
Etymology: From Frodo + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: The young Bates embarks on a Frodoesque mission to reclaim the kingdom of Middlefinger, of which he is the rightful heir.
ref: 2003 December 1, “Names & Faces”, in The Washington Post:
text: It doesn't have a schoolboy wizard, hobbits or a talking lion but ticks most of the genre's boxes with its tale of friendship between the Frodoesque Eragon (Edward Speleers) and his dragon (voiced by Rachel Weisz).
ref: 2006 December 22, “FILM ; ARTS & BOOKS REVIEW”, in The Independent:
text: One Web site, www.ourhobbithole.com, charts the progress of a Frodoesque fantasy.
ref: 2009, Ethan Gilsdorf, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: Having similar traits to the fictional character Frodo Baggins from the Lord of the Rings, such as unexpectedly being sent on a quest.
undesirablenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undesirableness
desirablenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desirableness
facilitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more facilitatively
form: most facilitatively
Etymology: From facilitative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a facilitative manner.
nonfacilitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + facilitative.
Senses: glosses: Not facilitative.
interactionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interactionists
Etymology: From interaction + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies or subscribes to interactionism.
interactionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interactionist
Coventry blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Blue cloth made with a high-quality dye, made in Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.
volcanic bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcanic bombs
Senses: examples: text: Fragment of a spherical volcanic bomb, with the interior parts coarsely cellular, coated by a concentric layer of compact lava, and this again by a crust of finely cellular rock
ref: 1844, Charles Darwin, Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands, visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
synonyms: lava bomb
glosses: A tephra, larger than 64 mm (2.5 inches) in diameter, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption.
volcanic bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volcanic bomb
somewhiles
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English somwhiles, somwhyles, equivalent to somewhile + -s (adverbial suffix).
Senses: glosses: sometimes; on occasion
sufferaunces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sufferaunce
Gandalfian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gandalfian
form: most Gandalfian
Etymology: From Gandalf + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Weary Betsy blew a Gandalfian smoke-ring.
ref: 2002, Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer, Scribner, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Above the beard his face was unmasked and very thin, concave cheeks falling away from jutting bones, his eyes sunken deep in their sockets under tufted Gandalfian brows.
ref: 2007, Amanda Hemingway, The Poisoned Crown, Del Rey, →ISBN, page 291:
text: A giraffe-like man, Gandalfian, nearly ninety, Uncle Leo wore his summer uniform, madras shorts and a polo shirt.
ref: 2011, Patricia Henley, Other Heartbreaks: Stories, Engine Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Gandalf from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Synonyms: Gandalfesque
Gandalfish
phenyldiazomethanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenyldiazomethane
eyewaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyewater
gyle tan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyle tans
Senses: glosses: A large vat in which wort ferments as part of brewing.
gyle tans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyle tan
still and anon
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: And like the watchful minutes to the hour,
Still and anon cheered up the heavy time.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: It seem’d as if hell had burst forth in a crowd,
And fury permitted to range;
When still and anon was re-echo’d aloud—
“Come forth, thou base tyrant! thou Odo the Proud!
For Morcar and Hilda, revenge!”
ref: 1810, John Stagg, “Odo the Proud”, in The Minstrel of the North: or, Cumbrian Legends, London: for the author, page 374:
text: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Yes, I remember, and, Still Remember Wailing” published posthumously in George S. Hellman and William P. Trent (eds.), Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Chicago, 1921, p. 121,
And as across the smoothing sea we roam,
Still and anon we sang our songs of home.
glosses: Now and then.
Synonyms: ever and anon
sulfosalts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulfosalt
sulphosalts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphosalt
Dumbledorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Dumbledorian
form: most Dumbledorian
form: Dumbledorean
Etymology: From Dumbledore (itself from the noun dumbledore) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: “Now I believe it’s someone’s birthday today,” Michael [Gambon] said in his finest Dumbledorian tones.
ref: 2010, Warwick Davis, Size Matters Not: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Warwick Davis, John Wiley & Sons, published 2011, →ISBN, page 374:
text: The all-important Guildmaster, a Dumbledorian, Gandalfian character of infinite wisdom, martial experience, untainted moral integrity and a white Western phenotype, speaks with a standard RP stage accent featuring the characteristic alveolar trill – or ‘rolled [r]’.
ref: 2011, Astrid Ensslin, edited by Garry Crawford, Victoria K. Gosling, and Ben Light, Gamers: The Social and Cultural Significance of Online Games, Routledge, →ISBN, Recallin’ Fagin: linguistic accents, intertextuality and othering in narrative offline and online video games, page 229:
text: I found my way to it by following a gentleman with a Rip Van Winkle beard and a Pedersen bicycle, which is a bike of Swedish design that looks like the illegitimate offspring of a penny farthing and a hammock, and between his vaguely Dumbledorian appearance […].
ref: 2013, Eben Weiss, Bike Snob Abroad: Strange Customs, Incredible Fiets, and the Quest for Cycling Paradise, Chronicle Book, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: Of, related to, or characteristic of the fictional wizard Albus Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series
wikipedia: Dumbledore
Related terms: Voldemortesque
Voldemortian
Voldemortish
blue jaundice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cyanosis