cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tussling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tusslings
Senses: examples: text: Yes; and they will have their difficulties, their extensive tusslings in Italian War and otherwise, to make an adjustment of it, and will give Belleisle (at least the Door-keeper will) an immensity of trouble in years coming.
ref: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of one who tussles; a struggle.
tussled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tussle
teletypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletype
teletypes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teletype
teletyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teletype
teletyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teletype
torpedos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpedoes
Senses: glosses: plural of torpedo
torpedos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: torpedoes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of torpedo
tinderboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinderbox
thrashings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrashing
totters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of totter
totters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of totter
trashier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of trashy: more trashy
trashiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of trashy: most trashy
trumpeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trumpeter
trellises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trellis
trellises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trellis
trellising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trellis
trellised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trellis + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The station has only one platform, mostly of wooden construction, covered by a light trellised roof of timber and glass, with a single line on each side of it.
ref: 1946 September and October, D. J. Rowett, “Stamford L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
glosses: Having, or formed as, a trellis.
trellised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trellis
turfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turf
tattings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatting
tatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtætɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tat
tatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtætɪd/
Forms: form: more tatted
form: most tatted
Senses: examples: text: Most "tatted up" convicts wear long sleeve shirts to cover the tattoos and track marks.
ref: 1994, The Voice of California Justice, volume 41, number 3, California State Judges, Marshals and Constables Association:
text: The heavily tatted singer and multi-instrumentalist traces his lineage to two Polynesian tribes — the Maori and the Nuiean.
ref: 1997 December 24 – 1998 January 24, Vibe, volume 5, number 10, page 72:
text: In short, “Cruise” is bro-country: music by and of the tatted, gym-toned, party-hearty young American white dude.
ref: 2013 August 11, Jody Rosen, “Jody Rosen on the Rise of Bro-Country”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: Tattooed.
tricepses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triceps
toffees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toffee
toffees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toffee
thoraxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoraces
Senses: glosses: plural of thorax
thriftier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of thrifty: more thrifty
thriftiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thrifty: most thrifty
kabloona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbluːnə/
Forms: form: kabloonas
form: kabloona
form: kabloonat
form: kabluna
form: kadloona
Etymology: Borrowed from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallunaaq, “foreigner”) or Greenlandic kablunâk (“white person, Dane”) (now spelled qallunaaq), or a combination of the two.
Senses: examples: text: After food and pleasantries had been exchanged, the old man asked what they were doing so far from the God-Walking People's northern lands, and when one of the hunters explained that they were looking for living or dead kabloona […]
ref: 2007, Dan Simmons, The Terror: A Novel:
glosses: A non-Inuit person in Canada or Greenland, especially a European or someone of European descent.
thirsts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thirst
thirsts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He's an adrenaline junkie: he thirsts for excitement the way an alcoholic thirsts for beer.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thirst
thickeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thickener
tenderises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tenderise
tenderising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tenderise
tenderised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tenderise
thighbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thighbone
toreadors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toreador
torsos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsi
Senses: glosses: plural of torso
threshers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thresher
thornier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of thorny: more thorny
thorniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thorny: most thorny
transacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transact
transacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transact
teenier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of teeny: more teeny
kudlik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːdlɪk/
Forms: form: kudliks
form: qudlik
form: qulliq
Etymology: Borrowed from Greenlandic ĸutdleĸ, now spelled qulleq; cognate to Inuktitut ᖁᓪᓕᖅ (qolliq).
Senses: glosses: A type of soapstone lamp used by the Inuit, a qulliq.
teeniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of teeny: most teeny
tightwads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tightwad
tickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ticker
tombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tomb
tombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tomb
tobaccos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tobacco
tobaccos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tobacco
twinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twinge
twinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twinge
muktuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌktʌk/
Forms: form: muktuks
form: maktak
form: maktaaq
form: maqtaq
Etymology: From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᒪᖅᑕᖅ (maqtaq) and Inupiaq maktak (“whaleskin with attached blubber”). Spelling influenced by English muck and tuck.
Senses: examples: text: "Nathan, my baby!" Martha said. "Come get your muktuk! This my Cousin Clara, Clara Stone."
ref: 2003, Stan Jones, White Sky, Black Ice:
text: The two species of whale from which muktuk is most often sliced are the bowhead and the beluga, or white whale.
ref: 2006, Nancy Gates, The Alaska Almanac: Facts about Alaska, page 130:
glosses: The skin and blubber of a whale, traditionally used as food by the Inuit.
tippling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tipple
tippling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipplings
Senses: glosses: A session of drinking alcohol.
tippled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tipple
trilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trill
trilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: trillings
Senses: examples: text: It was pretty close quarters, but I had conversed with her at such length during the nest-building time, that she knew my voice and soon began to answer me in low trillings — trillings that could scarcely be heard — and turn her head to look at me in a friendly way.
ref: 1906, Jennie Brooks, “ways of the Kentucky Cardinal”, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 112, number 670, page 627:
text: During the singing act these wing surfaces are moved rapidly on each other, producing the familiar strident trillings of midsummer.
ref: 1910, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington:
glosses: The production of a trill sound.
trilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: trillings
Etymology: Compare German Drilling.
Senses: examples: text: Diametrically opposed rays of these stellate groups are of the same optical orientation and the twins are, therefore, trillings ( fig. 29 ).
ref: 1966, Geological Survey Professional Paper - Issues 509-510, page 55:
text: Chrysoberyl is orthorhombic in symmetry. Like many orthorhombic minerals, it readily forms an intergrowth with two other individual crystals to make trillings with six sides or, at least, V-shaped twins.
ref: 1974, Mineral Digest, volumes 6-8, page 148:
text: In the embryonic stage, pseudohexagonal trillings resemble those of the post-embryonic stage (Figure 2D,E), and are 1 to 3 μm in diameter.
ref: 2013, Federico Olóriz, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar, Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods, page 235:
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound crystal consisting of three individuals.
examples: text: Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings.
ref: 1842, “Sweden as it is; Moral, Political and Statistical”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 28, number 55, page 449:
text: this breed is prominent for its remarkable fecundity and yield of milk; as a rule, this goat litters once a year and drops 2 kids; occasionally trillings and fourlings.
ref: 1922, The Goat World, Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Goat Industry, page 67:
text: About twins and trillings.
ref: 1926, Medicina fennica - Volumes 1-5, page 14:
glosses: One of three offspring born at the same birth; a triplet.
trilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trill
tourneys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourney
tourneys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tourney
tourneying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tourney
tourneyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tourney
Musil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Musils
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Musilesque
piblokto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈblɒktəʊ/
Forms: form: piblockto
form: pibloktoq
Etymology: Borrowed from an Inuktitut word such as *pivliRuRtuq "is mad, has hysteria or fever".
Senses: examples: text: A piblockto dog gave us considerable trouble today; yelping and barking he repeatedly changed out of the darkness, biting right and left, throwing the different teams into utter confusion.
ref: 1884, D. B. MacMillan, The Shield: official publication of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity, Volume 27: With Peary in the Arctic, page 19:
glosses: A condition affecting dogs or other animals in the Arctic, characterized by aggressive behavior and seizures.
glosses: A condition affecting the Inuit peoples in winter, characterized by a period of frenzied activity or irrational behavior, followed by unconsciousness or stupor.
Synonyms: Arctic hysteria
Dnieper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːpəɹ/
ipa: /(də)ˈniːpə/
rhymes: -iːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: the Dnieper
form: Dniepr
form: Dnepr
form: Dnipr
form: Dneiper
form: Dneipr
Etymology: From French Dnieper, from Russian Днепр (Dnepr), from Old East Slavic Дънѣпръ (Dŭněprŭ), from Proto-Slavic *Dъněprъ, from Proto-Sarmatian *Dānu *Apara ("Far River") or *Dānapr (“Deep River”). The former derivation would pair it with the Dniester (“Near River”), while the latter would refer to its lack of fords. Doublet of Dnipro and Danasper. See also Latin Danapris and Ancient Greek Δάναπρις (Dánapris).
Senses: glosses: A major river in Eastern Europe which flows south through Belarus, Russia and Ukraine into the Black Sea. (see usage notes)
wikipedia: Dnieper basin
Derived terms: Dnieper Lowland
Dnieper Ukraine
Dnieper Upland
Dnieper Valley
night bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night birds
form: nightbird
Senses: examples: text: Some night-bird, belike, or a sea-gull squalling below the headland.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 39:
text: Far out in the scrubs a solitary nightbird was calling.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 290:
glosses: A bird that is active in the night; a nocturnal bird.
examples: text: Bradley assenting, went with him into an early public-house, haunted by unsavoury smells of musty hay and stale straw, where returning carts, farmers' men, gaunt dogs, fowls of a beery breed, and certain human night-birds fluttering home to roost, were solacing themselves after their several manners; and where not one of the night-birds hovering about the sloppy bar failed to discern at a glance in the passion-wasted night-bird with respectable feathers, the worst night-bird of all.
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:
glosses: A human denizen of night.
Donbas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒnbæs/
ipa: /ˈdɒnbɑːs/
ipa: /dɒnˈbɑːs/
ipa: /ˈdɑːnbɑːs/
ipa: /-bæs/
ipa: /dʌnˈbæs/
ipa: /-ˈbɑːs/
Forms: form: Donbass
Etymology: From Ukrainian Донба́с (Donbás), abbreviation of Доне́цький басе́йн (Donécʹkyj baséjn, “Donets Basin”), after Доне́ць (Donécʹ, “Donets River”) + басе́йн (baséjn, “basin”). Compare Donbass, from Russian.
Senses: glosses: An industrial region in eastern Ukraine.
glosses: The two Russian separatist enclaves, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic.
raw_tags: without definite article
Synonyms: Donets Basin
Related terms: word: Don
word: Don Cossacks
word: Donets
word: Donets Basin
word: Donetsk
word: Donets River
word: Don River
english: referring to the Russian separatist enclaves located there, especially by the Ukrainian government
translation: referring to the Russian separatist enclaves located there, especially by the Ukrainian government
word: ORDLO
lemon sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon soles
Etymology: Probably from French sole limande. See Wikipedia article for more theories.
Senses: glosses: A European flatfish of the species Microstomus kitt (not a true sole).
Crimean peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Crimean peninsula
form: Crimean Peninsula
Senses: glosses: A geographic region and peninsula in Eastern Europe, jutting out into the Black Sea; contested between Ukraine and Russia.
Azov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːzɒv/
ipa: /ˈæzɔf/
ipa: /ˈeɪzɔf/
ipa: /ˈɑzɑf/
ipa: /ˈeɪzɑv/
Forms: form: Azof
form: Azoff
form: Azoph
form: Asaph
Etymology: From Russian and Ukrainian Азо́в (Azóv), presumably from Kipchak Azaq (“lowlands”), a name applied to the region around the present town.
Senses: glosses: A town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Don River.
glosses: A village in Ukraine (de jure)
glosses: A sea and gulf of the Black Sea, Europe; in full, Sea of Azov.
Related terms: Azov Sea
Sea of Azov
Buh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bug.
staller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stallers
Etymology: From stall + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Stallers and procrastinators are indecisive people who sincerely want to help.
ref: 1993, Richard S. Johnson, TQM: Leadership for the Quality Transformation, page 322:
glosses: One who stalls.
glosses: A standard-bearer.
glosses: A rank of noble introduced by King Cnut
Cherkasy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cherkassy
Etymology: From Ukrainian Черка́си (Čerkásy).
Senses: glosses: A port city, administrative centre, and raion of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, on the Dnipro/Dnieper.
glosses: An oblast in central Ukraine.
Synonyms: sense: province
word: Cherkasy Oblast
Chernihiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃəˈniːhiːv/
ipa: /t͡ʃəɹˈnihiv/
ipa: /t͡ʃɛɹ-/
ipa: /-ˈnihɪv/
other: /ˈt͡ʃəɹnəˌhiv/
Forms: form: Chernigiv
form: Chernihov
form: Chernigov
form: Czernihów
form: Czernihow
Etymology: Transliteration of Ukrainian Черні́гів (Černíhiv).
Senses: glosses: A port city, the administrative centre of Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, in northern Ukraine, on the Desna River.
glosses: A raion of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine. Seat: Chernihiv.
examples: text: We switch to the developments along the front line and, uh, the Ukrainians are reporting that the Russians do reconnaissance forces… send reconnaissance forces over the border in Chernihiv, in Sumy, as well as in Kharkiv, so basically along the whole northern border.
ref: 2025 April 23rd, Torsten Heinrich, “Trump wants Ukraine’s Capitulation. He won’t get it. Ukraine SITREP”, in Military & History, via YouTube, 4:21–4:37:
glosses: An oblast of Ukraine. Seat: Chernihiv.
Chernivtsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃəniːvˈtsiː/
ipa: /t͡ʃəˈniːvtsi/
ipa: /t͡ʃəɹnivˈtsi/
ipa: /t͡ʃəɹˈnivtsi/
Forms: form: Chernovtsy
form: Cernăuţi
form: Csernovic
form: Czernowitz
Etymology: From Ukrainian Чернівці́ (Černivcí), from the legendary name Чернь (Černʹ). Compare чорний (čornyj, “black”).
Senses: glosses: A city, administrative centre, and raion of Chernivtsi Oblast in the Bukovyna region, Ukraine, on the Prut river.
glosses: An oblast in southwestern Ukraine.
Ivano-Frankivsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Іва́но-Франкі́вськ (Iváno-Frankívsʹk), after the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko, Іва́н Франко́ (Iván Frankó).
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative center of Ivano-Frankivsk urban hromada, Ivano-Frankivsk Raion and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine; formerly, Stanislaviv, Stanislav, and Stanisławów.
glosses: An urban hromada of Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A raion of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: An oblast of Ukraine; in full, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast; formerly, Stanislav Oblast.
Synonyms: Ivano-Frankovsk
Kherson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜː(ɹ)ˈsɔːn/
ipa: /xɜː(ɹ)ˈsɔːn/
ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)ˈsɔːn/
Etymology: From Ukrainian Херсо́н (Xersón), named in memory of the Ancient Greek colony of Χερσόνησος (Khersónēsos). Compare Russian Херсоне́с (Xersonɛ́s, “the city of Chersonesos”), Old East Slavic Корсу́нь (Korsúnĭ, “Chersonesos”), Russian Херсо́н (Xersón, “Kherson”).
Senses: glosses: A port city, a municipal and regional administrative centre of Kherson raion, Kherson oblast, Ukraine, located on the Dnieper/Dnipro.
glosses: A raion of Kherson, Ukraine. Seat: Kherson. It is also illicitly claimed by Russia.
glosses: An oblast in southern Ukraine. Seat: Kherson.
Derived terms: Khersonian
Khersonite
Khmelnytskyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /k(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/
/x(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/
Forms: form: Khmelnytsky
form: Khmel’nyts’ky
form: Khmelnytskyy
form: Khmel’nyts’kyy
form: Khmelnitskiy
form: Khmel’nitskiy
form: Khmelnitsky
form: Khmel’nitsky
form: Chmelnitzki
form: Chmielnicki
form: Chmielnitsky
form: Chmielnitzky
Etymology: From Ukrainian Хмельни́цький (Xmelʹnýcʹkyj), after the Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky. Derived from хміль (xmilʹ, “hops, humulus”).
Senses: glosses: A city, raion, and oblast of Ukraine.
glosses: Khmelnytskyi raion in Khmelnytskyi oblast
glosses: Khmelnytskyi oblast, in south-eastern Ukraine.
glosses: Bohdan Khmelnytsky (c. 1595–1657), a Ukrainian Cossack hetman who led an uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and signed the Treaty of Pereyaslav with Czar Alexis I of Russia.
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Proskuriv
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Proskurov
Khmelnytskyi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /k(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/
/x(ə)mɛlˈnɪtski/
Forms: form: • Khmelnytskyi
form: Khmelnytskyis
form: Khmelnytsky
form: Khmel’nyts’ky
form: Khmelnytskyy
form: Khmel’nyts’kyy
form: Khmelnitskiy
form: Khmel’nitskiy
form: Khmelnitsky
form: Khmel’nitsky
form: Chmelnitzki
form: Chmielnicki
form: Chmielnitsky
form: Chmielnitzky
Etymology: A transliteration of Ukrainian Хмельницький (Xmelʹnycʹkyj)
Senses: glosses: A surname from Ukrainian
Kirovohrad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Кіровогра́д (Kirovohrád), after Bolshevik leader Sergey Kirov + град (hrad, “walled city”). Compare Russian Кировогра́д (Kirovográd).
Senses: glosses: Former name of Kropyvnytskyi: a city and raion of Kirovohrad Oblast, in central Ukraine.
glosses: An oblast in central Ukraine. Administrative center: Kropyvnytskyi.
Synonyms: word: Kirovograd
word: Fort St. Elizabeth
word: Yelisavetgrad
word: Yelizavetgrad
word: Yelysavethrad
word: Zinovievsk
word: Zinovevsk
word: Zynovievsk
word: Kirovo
sense: province
word: Kirovohrad Oblast
Luhansk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈhænsk/
ipa: /luːˈhɑːnsk/
Forms: form: Luhans’k
form: Luhans'k
form: Luhanske
form: Lugansk
form: Lugans’k
form: Lugans'k
Etymology: From Ukrainian Луга́нськ (Luhánsʹk), a hydronym.
Senses: topics: cities
city
location
region
glosses: A city, the administrative capital of Luhansk Raion, Luhansk Oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine, former administrative capital of the eponymous provonce.
qualifier: district
glosses: A raion of Luhansk Oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Luhansk. The district is not recognized in Luhansk by the separatist government, as it was imposed from Kiev, which was not in control of the region at the time of its formation.
qualifier: province
glosses: An oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Sievierodonetsk; former seat: Luhansk (prior to the Donbas War, where Russia occupied and set up puppet countries)
topics: country
location
region
glosses: A country in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Luhansk; occupying 1/3 of the province, but claiming all the province, before the Russian invasion of all of Ukraine in 2022.
Synonyms: sense: historical (1935-1958)
english: from Russian
translation: from Russian
word: Voroshilovgrad
sense: historical (1935-1958)
english: from Ukrainian
translation: from Ukrainian
word: Voroshylovhrad
sense: city (historical) (1882-1935; since 1958)
word: Luhansk City
sense: city (historical) (1882-1935; since 1958)
word: Luhanske City
sense: city (historical) (1795-1882)
word: Luganskiy Zavod
sense: disputed district (since 2020)
word: Lugansk Raion
sense: disputed district (since 2020)
word: Luhansk Raion
sense: province (since 1958)
word: Lugansk Oblast
sense: province (since 1958)
word: Luhanshchyna
sense: province (since 1958)
word: Luhansk Oblast
sense: province (historical) (1938-1958)
word: Voroshilovgrad Oblast
sense: province (historical) (1938-1958)
word: Voroshilovhrad Oblast
sense: disputed country (since 2014)
word: LPR
sense: disputed country (since 2014)
word: Luganshchine
sense: disputed country (since 2014)
word: Lugansk People's Republic
sense: disputed country (since 2014)
word: Lugansk Region
sense: disputed country (since 2014)
word: Luhanshchina
sense: disputed country (since 2014)
word: Luhansk People's Republic
sense: disputed country (since 2014)
word: Luhansk Region
Derived terms: LPR
Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk People's Republic
Luhansk Raion
Luhansk Region
Related terms: Luhanshchina
Luhanshchyna
Luhanske
Crimea
Donetsk
Rivne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Рі́вне (Rívne).
Senses: glosses: An oblast in northwestern Ukraine.
glosses: A city, the administrative centre of Rivne Oblast, Ukraine.
Synonyms: word: Rovno
sense: oblast
word: Rivne Oblast
Simferopol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪmfəˈɹoʊpəl/
/sɪmfəˈɹɒ.pəl/
Forms: form: Simferopil
form: Simferopil’
Etymology: From Ukrainian Сімферо́поль (Simferópolʹ) and Russian Симферо́поль (Simferópolʹ), from Ancient Greek Συμφερούπολις (Sumpheroúpolis), from συμφέρων (sumphérōn, “to be useful”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”).
Senses: examples: text: ... the Scythians came and on the site of present-day Simferopol stood their capital, Neapolis, repeatedly mentioned by ancient writers. Neapolis reached its apogee in the 2nd century BC during the reign of King Skilur.
ref: 1987, Victor E. Louis et al., Louis Motorist's Guide to the Soviet Union..., page 348:
glosses: The capital city and raion of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine and capital city of the Republic of Crimea, Russia.
Synonyms: word: Neapolis
word: Scythian Neapolis
word: Kermenchik
word: Aqmescit
Sumy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːmɪ/
ipa: /ˈsumi/
Etymology: Transliterations of Ukrainian Су́ми f inan pl (Súmy, “Sumy”, literally “Sumas”) and Russian Су́мы f inan pl (Súmy, “Sumy”, literally “Sumas”).
Senses: glosses: A city and municipal administrative centre in Sumy Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, on the Psel river.
glosses: A raion of Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. Seat: Sumy.
examples: text: We switch to the developments along the front line and, uh, the Ukrainians are reporting that the Russians do reconnaissance forces… send reconnaissance forces over the border in Chernihiv, in Sumy, as well as in Kharkiv, so basically along the whole northern border.
ref: 2025 April 23rd, Torsten Heinrich, “Trump wants Ukraine’s Capitulation. He won’t get it. Ukraine SITREP”, in Military & History, via YouTube, 4:21–4:37:
glosses: An oblast in northern Ukraine. Seat: Sumy.
Synonyms: sense: province
word: Sumshchyna
sense: province
word: Sumy Oblast
Sumy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːmɪ/
ipa: /ˈsumi/
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Sumaya.
Ternopil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Терно́піль (Ternópilʹ).
Senses: glosses: A city, administrative center, and raion of Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: An oblast of Ukraine.
Synonyms: word: Tarnopol
word: Ternopol
word: Ternopol’
word: Cebrów
sense: province
word: Ternopil Oblast
Vinnytsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪnɪts(j)ə/
/ˈviːnɪts(j)ə/
Forms: form: Vynnytsia
form: Vynnytsya
form: Vinnitsa
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Ві́нниця (Vínnycja).
Senses: examples: text: The Ukrainian government says Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other cities have suffered a barrage of drone attacks, and pleaded with Western countries to step up their assistance in the face of the new challenge.
ref: 2022 October 17, Ivana Kottasová, “‘Kamikaze’ drones are the latest threat for Ukraine. Here’s what we know”, in CNN:
glosses: A city, municipal and regional administrative centre in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: An oblast in central Ukraine. Seat: Vinnytsia.
glosses: A raion in Vinnytsia oblast in central Ukraine. Seat: Vinnytsia.
Lutsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Luts’k
Etymology: From Ukrainian Луцьк (Lucʹk).
Senses: glosses: A city and raion of Volyn Oblast, Ukraine.
wikipedia: Lutsk Raion
Synonyms: word: Luchesk
Uzhhorod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian У́жгород (Úžhorod), from Уг (Uh), Уж (Už, “Uzh River”) + го́род (hórod, “walled town, garden”).
Senses: glosses: A city in the Carpathian Mountains, municipal and regional administrative centre of Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine.
glosses: A raion of Zakarpattia Oblast, in western Ukraine. Seat: Uzhhorod
Synonyms: word: Uzhgorod
word: Ungvar
word: Ungvár
Zhitomir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Жито́мир (Žitómir), after a legendary Slavic prince. Compare Ukrainian Жито́мир (Žytómyr, “Zhytomyr”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zhytomyr.
Volyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Volyn’
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian Воли́нь (Volýnʹ).
Senses: glosses: An oblast in northwestern Ukraine.
glosses: Volhynia, a historic region between the Prypiat and Buh rivers in northwestern Ukraine and part of Poland (Chełm).
Synonyms: word: Wołyń
sense: oblast
word: Volyn Oblast
sense: oblast
word: Volyn’ Oblast
Related terms: Halych-Volyn
Halych-Volyn’
Galicia-Volhynia
Lutsk
Easter eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Easter egg
Schwartz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schwartz. Doublet of Swart.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Schwartz-Jampel syndrome
Related terms: Schwarz
Zakarpattia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zakarpatia
form: Zakarpattya
form: Zakarpatye
form: Zakarpats'ka
Etymology: From Ukrainian Закарпа́ття (Zakarpáttja, “Transcarpathia”), from за- (za-, “beyond”) + Карпа́ти (Karpáty, “Carpathians”) + -ття (-ttja, “denoting a place”).
Senses: glosses: An oblast in western Ukraine.
glosses: Carpathian Ruthenia, a historic region in the Carpathian Mountains in then-westernmost of Ukraine, -eastern Slovakia, -southeastern Poland, and -northwestern Romania.
Synonyms: sense: oblast
word: Transcarpathia
sense: oblast
word: Transcarpatia
sense: oblast
word: Transcarpathian Oblast
sense: oblast
word: Zakarpatia Oblast
sense: oblast
word: Zakarpattia Oblast
sense: oblast
word: Zakarpattya Oblast
topics: region
location
word: Carpathian Rus
topics: region
location
word: Carpathian Ukraine
topics: region
location
word: Carpatho-Ukraine
topics: region
location
word: Subcarpathia
topics: region
location
word: Subcarpathian Rus
topics: region
location
word: Subcarpathian Ukraine
topics: region
location
word: Transcarpathia
topics: region
location
word: Transcarpathian Rus
topics: region
location
word: Transcarpathian Ukraine
Related terms: Uzhhorod
QSG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Quasi-Stellar Galaxy, a quasar
DRAGN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DRAGNs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of double radio-source associated with a galactic nucleus.
Coordinate terms: radio galaxy
Derived terms: spiral DRAGN
Related terms: AGN
quasar
AGN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AGNs
form: AGNe
form: AGNi
Senses: glosses: Initialism of active galactic nucleus.
Related terms: DRAGN
LINER
unca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That's from the poem of the legend of Kubla Kahn's palace in the lost valley of Xanadu! Alph was the river in the legend! Unca Scrooge, this is the road to Xanadu!
ref: 1991, Don Rosa, “Return to Xanadu”, in Uncle Scrooge, volumes 261-262, page 5:
glosses: Uncle (especially as a term of address).
Havarti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Havartis
form: havarti
Etymology: From Danish havarti. Named in 1952 after Havartigården near Holte, where the Danish cheese pioneer Hanne Nielsen worked in the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A semi-soft Danish cow's milk cheese.
glosses: A sample, brand, or variety of such cheese.
Related terms: cream Havarti
rhinosinusitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinosinusitises
form: rhinosinusitides
Etymology: From rhino- + sinusitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A rhinitis combined with sinusitis.
Related terms: rhinorrhea
sinonasal
wars of words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of war of words
mucous membranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucous membrane
nasal congestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The blockage of the nasal passages usually due to membranes lining the nose becoming swollen from inflamed blood vessels.
Related terms: nasal obstruction
nasal obstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal obstructions
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An obstruction of the nasal cavity that reduces the flow of the air, regardless of the cause.
Related terms: nasal congestion
phenylephrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfiː.nʌɪlˈɛf.ɹɪn/
ipa: /ˌfɛn.ɪlˈɛf.ɹɪn/
ipa: /ˌfiː.nʌɪlˈɛf.ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌfɛn.ʌɪlˈɛf.ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌfɛn.əlˈɛf.ɹiːn/
ipa: /ˌfɛn.əlˈɛf.ɹɪn/
Forms: form: phenylephrines
Etymology: Blend of phenyl + epinephrine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An α-adrenergic receptor agonist related to adrenaline, used as a vasoconstrictor and nasal decongestant; 3-(1-hydroxy-2-methylamino-ethyl)phenol, with the formula C₉H₁₃NO₂.
Synonyms: phenylephedrine
Derived terms: etilefrine
norfenefrine
amoxicillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌmɒk.sɪˈsɪl.ɪn/
ipa: /əˌmɑk.sɪˈsɪl.ɪn/
rhymes: -ɪlɪn
Forms: form: amoxicillins
form: amoxycillin
Etymology: From am(picillin) + (hydr)oxy + -cillin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A moderate-spectrum, bacteriolytic beta-lactam antibiotic C₁₆H₁₉N₃O₅S closely related to ampicillin and with similar properties, but more readily absorbed when taken orally. It is used to treat bacterial infections caused by susceptible microorganisms.
Derived terms: amoxiclav
aspoxicillin
co-amoxiclav
trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A combination of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole in the ratio of 1 to 5.
Synonyms: TMP-SMX
co-trimoxazole
ZOMFG
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: emphatic form of OMFG
Synonyms: ZOMG
OMG
OMFG
white pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white pages
Senses: glosses: The telephone directory (or section of a larger directory) that lists residential numbers.
Related terms: yellow pages
cross sections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross section
Gujjar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gurjar
form: Gujar
form: Gurjara
form: Gajar
form: Goojar
Etymology: From Hindi गूजर (gūjar)/गुज्जर (gujjar), from Sanskrit गुर्जर (gurjara). Compare Gujarat.
Senses: glosses: An agricultural tribe in India and Pakistan mainly focus on farming.
Related terms: Gujarati
Gujjar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gujjars
form: Gurjar
form: Gujar
form: Gurjara
form: Gajar
form: Goojar
Etymology: From Hindi गूजर (gūjar)/गुज्जर (gujjar), from Sanskrit गुर्जर (gurjara). Compare Gujarat.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Gujjar.
tupik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtuːpɪk/
Forms: form: tupiks
form: topek
form: tupek
form: tupiq
Etymology: From Inupiaq, compare Greenlandic tupeq.
Senses: glosses: A tent or other building made from animal skins, used by the Inuit during the summer.
Related terms: sense: traditional Native American dwellings
alt: used by the Navajo in the southwestern United States
word: hogan
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used by the Inuit, made of snow
translation: used by the Inuit, made of snow
word: igloo
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the Great Plains
translation: used in the Great Plains
word: teepee
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
alt: used by the Wampanoag in the northeastern United States
word: wetu
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the southwestern and western United States
translation: used in the southwestern and western United States
word: wickiup
sense: traditional Native American dwellings
english: used in the northeastern United States
translation: used in the northeastern United States
word: wigwam
Inupiaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Inupiak.
Qallunaaq
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaˈluːnak/
ipa: /hadluˈnax/
Etymology: From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallonaaq) and Greenlandic qallunaaq. Compare kabloona.
Senses: glosses: Not Inuit; of European descent.
Qallunaaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaˈluːnak/
ipa: /hadluˈnax/
Forms: form: Qallunaaqs
form: Qallunaat
Etymology: From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅ (qallonaaq) and Greenlandic qallunaaq. Compare kabloona.
Senses: glosses: A non-Inuit, especially someone of European descent.
Related terms: kabloona
machicote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mætʃəˈkoːdi/
ipa: /matʃɪˈkəʊti/
Forms: form: machicotes
Etymology: Borrowed from Ojibwe majigoodenh (“dress”), from Proto-Algonquian *-iko·tay (“skirt”), with an empty prefix and contemptive suffix.
Senses: glosses: An underskirt worn by some Native American girls and women.
Related terms: matchcoat
machicotage
manitou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmanɪtuː/
Forms: form: manitous
Etymology: From Pidgin Delaware Manétto, from Unami manëtu (/⁠manətːu⁠/) and Munsee manútoow (/⁠manə́toːw⁠/), later influenced by French manitou, from Cree/Montagnais manito꞉w; from Proto-Algonquian *maneto·wa (“supernatural being”).
Senses: examples: text: The favourite abode of this Manitou is still shown. It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and, … is known by the name of the Garden Rock.
ref: 1819, Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, Rip Van Winkle:
text: If it were possible to translate the comprehensive and melodious language in which he spoke, the ode might read something like the following: "Manitou! Manitou! Manitou! Thou art great, thou art good, thou art wise: Manitou! Manitou! Thou art just."
ref: 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, published 1888, page 319:
text: Each Ojibway shaman's method of communication with the manitou patron is unique and is related to a personal dream experience.
ref: 1987, John A Grim, The Shaman, page 143:
text: My father strung it high in a tree for the manitous to watch over.
ref: 2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 43:
glosses: A god or spirit as the object of religious awe or ritual among some American Indians.
Mississauga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɔː.ɡə/
ipa: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɑ.ɡə/
Forms: form: Mississaugas
form: Mississauga
Etymology: From French Mississague, from Ojibwe misizaagii (“inhabitant of large river mouth”) (with reference to the area where the Mississauga River drains into Lake Huron). Doublet of massasauga.
Senses: examples: text: The Mississaugas also named many of the major watercourses that drained into Lake Ontario along the present-day Toronto shore.
ref: 2013, M. Jane Fairburn, Along the Shore: Rediscovering Toronto's Waterfront Heritage, page 39:
glosses: A member of an Algonquian people now living in southern Ontario, Canada; also a member of this race.
Mississauga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɔː.ɡə/
ipa: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɑ.ɡə/
Etymology: From French Mississague, from Ojibwe misizaagii (“inhabitant of large river mouth”) (with reference to the area where the Mississauga River drains into Lake Huron). Doublet of massasauga.
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Ontario; a suburb of Toronto.
Synonyms: word: Sauga
Derived terms: Mississaugan
muskimoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌskɪmuːt/
Forms: form: muskimoots
Etymology: From Ojibwe mashkimod (“bag, sack”), Plains Cree maskimot / Cree ᒪᐢᑭᒧᐟ (maskimot, “bag”).
Senses: glosses: A woven bag traditionally used by certain tribes native to northeastern North America.
nitchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːtʃiː/
ipa: /ˈnit͡ʃi/
Forms: form: nitchies
form: neechee
form: neechie
form: neechi
Etymology: From Ojibwe niijii (“my friend”); its further origin is not entirely clear. Eugene Stillday says it is a short form of niijikiwenh (“my brother, my fellow man”).
Also from Cree [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A Native North American.
glosses: (my) friend
raw_tags: used among ethnic Ojibwe and Cree
quickhatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪkhatʃ/
Forms: form: quickhatches
form: quickehatch
form: quickèhatch
form: quiquehatch
form: queequehatch
form: quequahatch
form: quequehatch
form: quiquahatch
form: quiquihatch
form: quickahash
Etymology: From East Cree *ᑸᐦᑾᐦᐋᒉᐤ (*kwiihkwahaacew) (modern Cree ᑮᐦᑿᐦᐋᐦᑫᐤ (kiihkwahaahkew, “wolverine”); compare Ojibwe gwiingwa'aage); assimilated to quick + hatch, omitting the middle syllable present in older forms.
Senses: glosses: The wolverine.
latte macchiato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latte macchiatos
form: latte macchiati
Etymology: From Italian latte macchiato.
Senses: examples: text: I was told by Leno Meiorin, proprietor of the original Caffè Mediterraneum in Berkeley, that he invented it [caffè latte] in 1959 when customers complained that the latte macchiati and cappuccini he was serving were too stingy in size.
ref: 2001, Kenneth Davids, “The Espresso Side of It”, in Coffee: A Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying, 5th edition, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 153, column 1:
text: • Prepare 2 coffees or 2 latte macchiati at once / • 12 pre-programmed Barista specialty recipes / SUPER PREMIUM MACHINE FOR THE HOME!
ref: 2012 November, “GIGA 5 by jura”, in The Journal (Naples Daily News), Naples, Fla., page 50:
text: When one observes a group of people with iPads and latte macchiati sitting at the adjoining table in a cafe, one may rightly ask whether offices will be needed at all in 20 years’ time.
ref: 2013, best of DETAIL: Büro/Office, →ISBN, page 38, column 1:
text: He was as crisp and blue as ever, and as I approached him, a young waiter delivered two espressos, two latte macchiatos, two bottles of fizzy water, and a heaping plate of cornetti.
ref: 2015, Michael Downing, The Chapel: A Novel, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, page 242:
text: ‘Coffee?’ interrupted an old man with a trolley, peeking his head into our compartment with a wide smile that showcased his golden teeth. He poured two cups of latte macchiato and gave us another golden smile before leaving.
ref: 2016, Ragini Gupta, chapter XVIII, in What I Lost in His Grave, Partridge India, →ISBN:
text: Slashing expenditures turned out to be an easy task, since most of my money went to supporting a lifestyle I’d no longer be living. Those latte macchiatos I guzzled to stay alert while hopping time zones? Deleted.
ref: 2017, Kristin Rockaway, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the World: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Center Street, Hachette Book Group, →ISBN, page 261:
text: She and her new guy obviously could afford trips like that. She had uploaded a whole photo gallery to the Web. The two of them smooching, or laughing at beachside cafés, with foamy latte macchiatos in front of them.
ref: 2018, Klaus-Peter Wolf, translated by Bradley Schmidt, The Oath, London: Zaffre, published 2019, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: A coffee-based beverage, prepared by "staining" the steamed "pure" white milk by the addition of espresso, using half or less of the espresso shot of caffè macchiato.
Related terms: caffè macchiato
sword and sorcery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sword-and-sorcery
form: swords and sorcery
Senses: examples: text: In the typical Sword and Sorcery novel, the setting resembles the misty landscape of Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, in that larger-than-life heroes struggle against strange and nightmarish antagonists.
ref: 1972, Don Davidson, “Sword and Sorcery Fiction: An Annotated Book List”, in The English Journal, volume 61, number 1, page 44:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a genre of narratives—including short stories, novels, television shows, films, and computer games—which combines wizardry and other fantastical supernatural elements with violent combat using pre-modern weaponry.
sword and sorcery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sword-and-sorcery
form: swords and sorcery
Senses: glosses: A genre of narratives—including short stories, novels, television shows, films, and computer games—which combines wizardry and other fantastical supernatural elements with violent combat using pre-modern weaponry.
Related terms: sword and sandal
sword and planet
sword-and-sorcery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sword and sorcery.
sword-and-sorcery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sword and sorcery.
hissen
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: It 'ud be a sight better if he kept they to hissen.
ref: 1902, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: H-L:
text: 1893-1937, J. Keighley Snowden, "A Ghost Slayer", in A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror
It rade ower my father t' week afore he henged hissen—Aw mind him t—tellin' on 't.
glosses: Himself.
sleep disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleep disorders
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal.
Synonyms: somnipathy
somnipathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somnipathies
Etymology: From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Any sleep disorder.
glosses: Sleep induced by hypnosis or similar.
Chronist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: At a later stage, this initial collection was redacted by the Chronist, whose work resulted in the present form of Haggai. (Likewise, the Chronist transformed the extant text of Zech 1–6, thus creating the final form of Zech 1–8.
ref: 2020, The Book of the Twelve: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, BRILL, →ISBN, page 46:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chronist.
glosses: The Chronicler (presumed author/redactor of the Book of Chronicles).