cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
brain drain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brānʹ-drān
Forms: form: brain drains
form: brain draining
form: brain drained
form: brain drained
form: brain-drain
Etymology: Coined by spokesmen for the Royal Society of London in the early 1950s to describe the outflow of scientists and technologists to the United States and Canada.
Senses: glosses: Of a nation or society, to be deprived of educated or talented people, who in turn migrate to larger cities or more developed nations.
glosses: To become mentally or psychologically fatigued or exhausted.
bald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːld/
ipa: /bəʊld/
ipa: [bɒʊld]
ipa: /bɑːld/
ipa: /bɔld/
ipa: /bɑld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
homophone: balled
homophone: bawled
Forms: form: balds
Etymology: From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare Old Danish bældet (“bald”).
An alternate etymology has Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”) (from Proto-Germanic *bēlą), Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ballë (“forehead”).
Senses: glosses: A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
examples: text: Brn hair eyes & stache sks same 28-38 for gd times fun frndship & or possibly more near Waltham area no balds drugs queens kinky scenes fats or pot smokg.
ref: 1982 December 4, “GWM 32 6 165 North Of Bos (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 18:
glosses: A bald person.
bald
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːld/
ipa: /bəʊld/
ipa: [bɒʊld]
ipa: /bɑːld/
ipa: /bɔld/
ipa: /bɑld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
homophone: balled
homophone: bawled
Forms: form: balds
form: balding
form: balded
form: balded
Etymology: From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare Old Danish bældet (“bald”).
An alternate etymology has Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”) (from Proto-Germanic *bēlą), Albanian balë (“white spot on the forehead”) and ballë (“forehead”).
Senses: glosses: To become bald.
Related terms: callow
nott
feckless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛkləs/
ipa: /ˈfɛklɪs/
rhymes: -ɛkləs
rhymes: -ɛklɪs
Forms: form: more feckless
form: most feckless
Etymology: From Scots feckless, variant of Scots fectless (“ineffectual”) (an aphetic variant of effectless), equivalent to effect + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It is the beauty of great games when they are played at their highest level and the extraordinary thing now is that we do not have to trawl back through all the years of your inexorable progress from feckless beach boy to master sportsman.
ref: 2005 September 10, Canberra Times:
glosses: Lacking purpose.
examples: text: “Lana, when I want you to talk, I will tell you. And until then, zip it.” “Wha-- what did I do?” “Nothing.” “Yeah, Lana.” “Which is why these feckless idiots lost 200 kilos of cocaine.” “Yeah, Lan-- oh. OK. Technically. But then we stole a plane loaded with, like, twice as much cocaine.” “Is this the part where you tell me to look under my seat?”
ref: 2014 March 24, Adam Reed, “On the Carpet” (4:14 from the start), in Archer, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Malory Archer (Jessica Walter):
text: Across the country, Democratic voters who have been reeling from Mr. Trump’s sweeping and possibly illegal cuts to government, his head-spinning policy moves, and his politicization of federal law enforcement are growing more and more incensed at their own party’s seemingly feckless response.
ref: 2025 March 20, Cameron Joseph, “Panicked Democratic voters are turning on their own leaders”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Without skill, ineffective, incompetent.
glosses: Lacking the courage to act in any meaningful way.
glosses: Lacking vitality.
Synonyms: sense: ineffective
word: futile
sense: ineffective
word: hopeless
sense: ineffective
word: ineffective
sense: ineffective
word: ineffectual
sense: ineffective
word: feeble
sense: ineffective
word: meaningless
sense: ineffective
word: useless
sense: worthless, irresponsible
word: unpurposed
sense: worthless, irresponsible
word: worthless
sense: worthless, irresponsible
word: aimless
sense: worthless, irresponsible
word: careless
sense: worthless, irresponsible
word: reckless
sense: worthless, irresponsible
word: irresponsible
Related terms: fecklessly
fecklessness
grandee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹænˈdiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: grandees
form: grande
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish grande (adjective), from Latin grandis (“large, great”). Doublet of grand and grande.
Senses: examples: text: Grandees of Spain are of two sorts, this Honour being sometimes personal, sometimes hereditary. The first, the King bids be covered themselves; the second, themselves and Heirs for ever. This is all the Ceremony in making a Grandee, neither do any other priviledges belong to it; so that it is but a Chimerical and Airy Honour, without any profit; they which marry the Heiress of a Family of a Grandee of Spain, that is such hereditarily, become Grandees in right of their Wives.
ref: 1670, Antoine de Brunel, François van Aerssen, A Journey Into Spain, page 38:
glosses: A high-ranking nobleman in Spain or Portugal.
examples: text: I indicated a chair, and he sat down. This grandee was the grandson of an American of considerable note in his day, and not wholly forgotten yet,—a man who came so near being a great man that he was quite generally accounted one while he lived.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XXXVIII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 441:
text: Whereupon most did desist; but some, secreting their cigars in the hollow of their hands, took whiffs by stealth, and blushed to find it fame; while others, who were such grandees and big pots that their own convenience was the first and foremost desideratum, continued to smoke with lordliness and indifference.
ref: 1897, Thomas Anstey Guthrie, “X”, in Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A., page 78:
text: For some DSA grandees, like NYC chapter co-chair Bianca Cunningham, socialism means a planned economy that replaces market capitalism.
ref: 2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2019:
text: It is hard to see a good ending to the story of Peng Shuai, a Chinese tennis champion who on November 2nd accused a former Communist Party grandee more than twice her age of subjecting her to a coercive sexual relationship.
ref: 2021 November 27, “What Peng Shuai reveals about one-party rule”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 02 May 2024:
synonyms: magnate
glosses: A person of high rank.
Derived terms: grandeeism
grandeeship
querulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛɹ(j)ʊləs/
ipa: /ˈkwɛɹ(j)ələs/
ipa: /ˈkwiːɹ(j)ələs/
Forms: form: more querulous
form: most querulous
Etymology: From Old French querelos, from Late Latin querulōsus, from Latin querulus, from queror (“I complain”).
Senses: examples: text: “Nay, you said as much before,” said the querulous old man, “and yet I was put forth from Kinross, and pillaged by troopers on the road.—[…]”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Abbot. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 350:
text: "But how am I to obtain such treaty?" asked Monsieur, in a querulous tone.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 101:
text: The nights were now cold, gemmed with a multitude of bright stars, uncanny with the querulous wail of coyotes and the occasional deep voices of wolves.
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
text: In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving information and advice to the querulous passengers... to the porter the Christmas season means a continuous round of heavy labour, extremely tiring to both nerves and temper, and this fact the public too often seem either to forget or ignore."
ref: 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:
glosses: Often complaining; suggesting a complaint in expression; fretful, whining.
Synonyms: irritable
peevish
sad
Derived terms: querulously
querulousness
Related terms: quarrel
quarrelsome
querela
querent
querulist
querulity
equanimity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛkwəˈnɪmɪti/
ipa: /ˌiːkwəˈnɪmɪti/
Forms: form: equanimities
form: æquanimity
Etymology: From French équanimité, from Latin aequanimitās (“calmness, equanimity”), from aequus (“even; calm; fair”) + animus (“mind, soul”) + -itās. By surface analysis, equ- + anim(us) + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: No doubt you are right, my best of friends, there would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men—and God knows why they are so fashioned—did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
ref: 1779, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther:
text: In the very heart of the herd the din was terrific. It was almost dizzying in its effect. I paused and smiled reassuringly at Maud, for I had recovered my equanimity sooner than she.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
ref: 1954, Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions:
text: We find Hudson himself, a vision of unwavering equanimity, admitting that as a child he didn’t dare mention his acting dreams for fear they would be dismissed as “sissy stuff”.
ref: 2023 October 6, Ryan Gilbey, “The double life of Rock Hudson: ‘Let’s be frank, he was a horndog!’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress.
Synonyms: composure
calmness
even-mindedness
Related terms: equanimous
draconian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɹækˈəʊ.ni.ən/
enpr: drə-kō'ni-ən
enpr: drā-
ipa: /dɹəˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɹækˈoʊ.ni.ən/
other: /dɹeɪˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more draconian
form: most draconian
form: Draconian
Etymology: From Latin Dracō (stem Dracōn-) + -ian, from Ancient Greek Δράκων (Drákōn), after the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws. See δράκων (drákōn, “dragon”).
Senses: examples: text: The mayor announced draconian budget cuts today.
text: The conflict in the countryside resulted in a far more draconian punishment. The Southern Cross flag flew over the camps of striking shearers, who in revenge for their victimisation burned grass, fences, buildings and even riverboats[…]
ref: 2009, Stuart Macintyre, A Concise History of Australia, page 125:
text: Perhaps lessons had already been learned from the Draconian infrastructure cuts on the Waterloo-Exeter route.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 65:
text: And that movement, while it was eventually crushed through the extensive use of the draconian lese majeste law, shattered the taboo, by calling openly, for the first time, for the powers and financing of the monarchy to be accountable.
ref: 2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World):
synonyms: draconic
draconical
Orwellian
rigid
rigorous
strict
stringent
glosses: Very severe, cruel, or harsh.
Derived terms: draconianism
draconianly
Related terms: word: Draconian
english: of or relating to Draco
translation: of or relating to Draco
word: Drakonian
draconian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɹækˈəʊ.ni.ən/
enpr: drə-kō'ni-ən
enpr: drā-
ipa: /dɹəˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɹækˈoʊ.ni.ən/
other: /dɹeɪˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more draconian
form: most draconian
Etymology: From Latin dracō (“dragon”) (stem dracōn-) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The dragon came low to the earth. It defied every image of a draconian being Kulp had ever seen.
ref: 2006, Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates, Book Two, →ISBN, page 384:
text: A large sandwyrm (which isn't to be confused with a sandworm) popped its draconian head from the earth.
ref: 2009, Jacob Silvia, Qhoenix, page 73:
qualifier: except in fiction
glosses: Of or resembling a dragon.
Synonyms: sense: resembling a dragon
word: draconic
sense: resembling a dragon
word: draconine
sense: resembling a dragon
word: dragonish
sense: resembling a dragon
word: dragonlike
sense: resembling a dragon
word: dragony
draconian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹəˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɹækˈəʊ.ni.ən/
enpr: drə-kō'ni-ən
enpr: drā-
ipa: /dɹəˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /dɹækˈoʊ.ni.ən/
other: /dɹeɪˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: draconians
Etymology: From Latin dracō (“dragon”) (stem dracōn-) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: ... Draconians are fast. They'll fly to meet us no doubt. I remember after a few moments that the human queen is here as well. I call out to her, “Human queen, you are rescued by the Draconians. Come forth and know that you are safe under[…]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Miranda Martin, Draconians Queen, Looking Glass Publications INC:
text: ... Draconians keep for pets . Vithacan - Symbionts that attach themselves to other creatures and survive off their emotional energy . Soul suckers is a disrespectful term for their race . Zelerians Race of squid like creatures with few[…]
ref: 2021 August 31, Miranda Martin, Draconians Shared Bride, Looking Glass Publications INC:
text: ... draconians lifted the webbed bodies of the kender's friends and bore them away . Other draconians followed behind , carrying the companions ' packs and their weapons . As the draconians marched along a path very near the hidden kender[…]
ref: 2006, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Dragonlance Chronicles, →ISBN:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A creature resembling a dragon.
execrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksɪkɹəbl/
ipa: /ˈɛksəkɹəbl/
ipa: /ˈɛkskɹəbl/
Forms: form: more execrable
form: most execrable
Etymology: From Old French execrable, from Latin execrabilis.
Senses: examples: text: As execrable as the Supreme Court’s decisions have been, they are of a piece with the conservative rulings from lower court judges who see no issue with laundering a revanchist policy agenda through contorted rulings.
ref: 2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024
glosses: Of the poorest quality.
examples: text: But is an enemy so execrable, that, though in captivity, his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
ref: 1779, Jefferson, letter to Patrick Henry written on March 27
text: The arcanely evil words of that despicable, loathsome, suppressed, vile, pululating ^([sic]), odious, nictating, repellent, repugnant, noxious, abhorrent, abominable, tory, execrable, nauseous work, Ye Boke of Guts, moved as if on a conveyor belt before his eyes.
ref: 2001 June 1, David Langford with John Grant, Guts: A Comedy of Manners, Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Hateful, disgusting.
Synonyms: abhorrent
abominable
atrocious
deplorable
despicable
detestable
disgusting
foul
heinous
horrific
loathsome
low
monstrous
repulsive
revolting
sickening
vile
wretched
Derived terms: inexecrable
Related terms: execrableness
execrably
execration
execrate
somnambulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒmˈnæm.bjʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /sɑmˈnæm.bjuˌleɪt/
ipa: /sɑmˈnæm.bjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /səmˈnæm.bjəˌleɪt/
rhymes: -æmbjʊleɪt
Forms: form: somnambulates
form: somnambulating
form: somnambulated
form: somnambulated
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from somnambulism.
Senses: glosses: To walk while sleeping.
Synonyms: sleepwalk
Related terms: somnambular
somnambulation
somnambulator
somnambulism
somnambulist
somnambulistic
rigmarole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪɡməɹəʊl/
ipa: /ˈɹɪɡməɹoʊl/
Forms: form: rigamarole
Etymology: From ragman roll (“long list; catalogue”).
Senses: examples: text: This is a most rigmarole letter, for after each sentence, I take breath[…]
ref: 1838 September 14, Charles Darwin, To Charles Lyell; republished as “Letter no. 428”, in Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge, 2023, retrieved 23 May 2024:
text: "This officer has ended at last," said the Prime Minister. "Another story of calamity, and told in a very rigmarole way, I must confess; but he never can shorten his reports by only inserting the weighty matter. 'Reports annexed,' indeed!—yes, six of them; and underneath sixteen other reports—all, no doubt, much in the same strain."
ref: 1886, “The Nation's Progress”, in Albion and Ierne, London: Marcus Ward & Company, page 133:
synonyms: word: long-winded
word: palaverous
word: circumlocutory
word: diffuse
word: periphrastic
word: palaverous
word: pleonastic
word: prolix
word: rigmarole
word: sesquipedalian
word: verbose
word: wordy
word: drudgerous
word: irksome
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: tedious
word: torporific
word: wearing
word: tiresome
word: wearisome
glosses: Characterized by rigmarole; prolix; tedious.
prosaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Forms: form: more prosaic
form: most prosaic
Etymology: From Middle French prosaïque, from Medieval Latin prosaicus (“in prose”), from Latin prosa (“prose”), from prorsus (“straightforward, in prose”), from Old Latin provorsus (“straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), from vertō (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn, to bend”).
Senses: examples: text: The tenor of Eliot's prosaic work differs greatly from that of his poetry.
antonyms: poetic
glosses: Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
examples: text: I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.
glosses: Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
raw_tags: of writing or speaking
examples: text: His account of the incident was so prosaic that I nodded off while reading it.
text: She lived a prosaic life.
text: Our people are the most prosaic in the world, but the most faithful; and with curious reverence we keep up and transmit, from generation to generation, the superstition of what we call the education of a gentleman.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: Their steepness and abruptness were even greater than I had imagined from hearsay, and suggested nothing in common with the prosaic objective world we know.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
text: Ultimately, though, the more prosaic goals carried the greater significance in this contest. Madrid have managed only one clean sheet on their way to winning this competition.
ref: 2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London):
synonyms: word: humdrum
word: dull
word: unimaginative
word: banal
word: beat
word: blah
word: bland
word: boring
word: cold
word: colourless
word: drab
word: dreich
word: drowsy
word: dull
word: dull as dishwater
word: flat
word: ho-hum
word: humdrum
word: insipid
word: lackluster
word: lame
word: languid
word: lifeless
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: mundane
word: no fun at parties
word: plain
word: plodding
word: prosaic
word: prosy
word: pedantic
word: pedestrian
word: static
word: straightforward
word: snoozeworthy
word: soporific
word: tedious
word: uncool
word: wan
word: weaksauce
word: wooden
word: uninteresting
word: stodgy
word: vapid
word: vanilla
qualifier: main usage
glosses: Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
raw_tags: of writing or speaking but also figurative
Related terms: prosaically
prosaicness
prose
malfeasance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmælˈfiːzəns/
Forms: form: malfeasances
Etymology: From Old French malfaisance, derived from malfaire, maufaire (“to do evil”), from Latin malefaciō (“I do evil”), from male (“evilly”) + faciō (“do, make”).
Senses: examples: text: For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.
ref: 2024 August 14, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “US weapons help Ukraine advance. Will concerns about corruption put that at risk?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Wrongdoing.
examples: text: By then, Mr. Altman had gathered more allies. Mr. Nadella, now confident that Mr. Altman was not guilty of malfeasance, threw Microsoft’s weight behind him.
ref: 2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: law
coordinate_terms: misfeasance
nonfeasance
glosses: Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.
Synonyms: sense: wrongdoing
word: misconduct
sense: wrongdoing
word: wrongdoing
Related terms: feasance
malefactor
maleficence
maleficent
malfeasant
Jakarta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈkɑː(ɹ)tə/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə
Forms: form: Djakarta
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian Jakarta, from Sanskrit जयकर्ता (jayakartā, “that which causes victory”).
Senses: examples: text: And in fact, forgetting the past was easy to do in Indonesia. Jakarta was still a sleepy backwater in those days, with few buildings over four or five stories high, cycle rickshaws outnumbering cars, the city center and wealthier sections of town—with their colonial elegance and lush, well-tended lawns—quickly giving way to clots of small villages with unpaved roads and open sewers, dusty markets, and shanties of mud and brick and plywood and corrugated iron that tumbled down gentle banks to murky rivers where families bathed and washed laundry like pilgrims in the Ganges.
ref: 2006, Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 273:
text: Authorities in the capital of Jakarta adopted a similar idea earlier this month. A man there was required to sit in a coffin in public after being caught not wearing a mask.
ref: 2020 September 17, Mochamad Andri, “Indonesians caught without a mask forced to dig graves for Covid-19 victims”, in CNN:
synonyms: Batavia
glosses: A province and capital city of Indonesia.
examples: text: In an effort to make sure the referendum would not take place or that the Timorese would at least approve the outcome desired by Jakarta, the Indonesians launched yet another campaign of terror and killings, the violence dramatically increasing in the months before the UN agreement and culminating in the weeks after the vote on August 30.
ref: 2010, Edward Herman, David Peterson, The Politics of Genocide, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: The Indonesian government.
Derived terms: Jakartan
Java
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑːvə/
enpr: jäʹ-və
rhymes: -ɑːvə
homophone: java
Forms: form: Javas
Etymology: Borrowed from Javanese Jawa, possibly from Sanskrit यव-द्वीप (yava-dvīpa, “island of barley”), used in reference to the coffee grown on Java and nearby islands since at least 1850. The programming language (initially called Oak) is a reference to java, the blend of coffee from the island.
Senses: glosses: A chicken of the Java breed which was developed in the United States.
Juneau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒunoʊ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːnəʊ/
rhymes: -uːnəʊ
Forms: form: Juneaus
Etymology: From French Juneau.
The Alaskan city was named after Joe Juneau, whose French surname derives from jeune (“young”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A placename
The capital city of Alaska, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city, the county seat of Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms: Juneau City and Borough
Juneau County
Kabul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːbəl/
enpr: käʹbəl
ipa: /ˈkɑːˌbʊl/
enpr: käʹbo͝ol
ipa: /kəˈbuːl/
enpr: kə-bo͞olʹ
rhymes: -ɑːbəl
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: Cabool
form: Cabul
form: Caubool
form: Caubul
form: Kabol
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian کَابُل (kābul), of unknown origin. See the Persian entry for more.
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
glosses: A province of Afghanistan.
glosses: A river rising in the Hindu Kush of northeastern Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan and flowing roughly 700 kilometers before merging into the Indus river at Attock, Pakistan.
Derived terms: word: Kabulese
word: Kabuli
Kathmandu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæt.mænˈduː/
ipa: /ˌkæt.mænˈdu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Katmandu
form: Káthmándú
Etymology: From Nepali काठमाडौं (kāṭhmāḍa͠u), from Sanskrit काष्ठमण्डप (kāṣṭhamaṇḍapa), from काष्ठ (kāṣṭha, “wood”) + मण्डप (maṇḍapa, “pavilion”).
Senses: examples: text: Nepal’s new road connecting the Everest region to Kathmandu promises to transform travel and commerce, fueling hopes for economic growth while raising environmental concerns.
ref: 2025 January 19, Sangam Prasain, “Road to Everest: Nepal opens new link to the top of the world”, in EFE, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2025:
glosses: The capital city of Nepal.
Khartoum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑː(ɹ)ˈtuːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Etymology: Possibly from Arabic خُرْطُوم (ḵurṭūm, “elephant trunk”), but more likely from Arabic قُرْطُم (qurṭum, “safflower”).
Senses: examples: text: But while the capture of Khartoum marks an important moment in the conflict, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) deeply embedded elsewhere in Sudan and attempting to form a parallel government, analysts warn there is little likelihood of a swift resolution to the war.
ref: 2025 March 27, Nimi Princewill, “Sudan’s army has captured the capital. Is it a turning point in the devastating conflict?”, in CNN:
glosses: The capital city of Sudan.
Derived terms: Khartoum North
Khartoumer
Khartoumian
Kiev
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːɛv/
ipa: /ˈkiːɛf/
ipa: /ˈkiːɪv/
ipa: /ˈkjɛv/
ipa: /ˈkjɛf/
rhymes: -ɛv
Etymology: From Russian Ки́ев (Kíjev), from Old East Slavic Кꙑевъ (Kyjevŭ), which folk-etymology derives from the name of city's legendary founder Kyi. Other proposals derive it from Proto-Slavic *kyjь (“stick, club, hammer”) (compare to Russian кий (kij)). See also at the article about Old East Slavic Кꙑевъ (Kyjevŭ).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kyiv:
The capital city of Ukraine and the administrative centre of Kyiv Oblast.
glosses: Alternative form of Kyiv:
An oblast of Ukraine. Seat: Kyiv.
glosses: Alternative form of Kyiv:
The government of Ukraine.
glosses: Synonym of Kievan Rus: a former principality in Europe centered on Kyiv.
synonyms: word: Kievan Rus
extra: a former principality in Europe centered on Kyiv
Synonyms: sense: province
word: Kiev Oblast
sense: province
word: Kyiv Oblast
sense: principality
word: Kievan Rus
sense: principality
word: Kyivan Rus
sense: principality
word: Principality of Kiev
sense: principality
word: Principality of Kyiv
Derived terms: chicken cutlet Kiev-style
chicken Kiev
chicken Kiev-style
cutlet Kiev-style
Kievan
Kiev-style chicken
Kiev-style chicken cutlet
Kiev-style cutlet
supreme de volaille a la Kiev
suprême de volaille à la Kiev
Kiev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːɛv/
ipa: /ˈkiːɛf/
ipa: /ˈkiːɪv/
ipa: /ˈkjɛv/
ipa: /ˈkjɛf/
rhymes: -ɛv
Forms: form: Kievs
Etymology: From Russian Ки́ев (Kíjev), from Old East Slavic Кꙑевъ (Kyjevŭ), which folk-etymology derives from the name of city's legendary founder Kyi. Other proposals derive it from Proto-Slavic *kyjь (“stick, club, hammer”) (compare to Russian кий (kij)). See also at the article about Old East Slavic Кꙑевъ (Kyjevŭ).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:chicken Kiev.
glosses: Alternative form of kiev (“chicken Kiev or similar dish”).
Lagos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪɡɒs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Lagos (literally “lakes”). Piecewise doublet of Lakes.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Lagos is just a noise-making place with too much light and glass.’
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 120:
text: “Covid has ramped up the level of work we do because hospitals are too busy,” he told CNN over the phone from his home in Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city.
ref: 2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN:
glosses: The largest city and former capital of Nigeria, in Lagos State.
glosses: A state of Nigeria in the South West geopolitical zone. Capital: Ikeja. Largest city: Lagos City.
glosses: A city and municipality of Faro district, Portugal.
La Paz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lə ˈpæz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish La Paz (literally “the peace”).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Bolivia.
glosses: A department in Bolivia. Capital: La Paz.
glosses: The capital city of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
glosses: A ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Keene, Kern County, California, United States.
glosses: A town in North Township, Marshall County, Indiana, United States, named after the Bolivian city.
glosses: A department of El Salvador.
Derived terms: La Paz County
La Paz East
La Paz Proper
La Paz West
Lhasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːsə/
enpr: läʹsu̇
enpr: lǎʹsu̇
rhymes: -ɑːsə
Forms: form: Lh'asa
form: Lasa
form: La-sa
Etymology: From Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa), from Old Tibetan ར་ས (ra sa).
Senses: examples: text: The earliest historical relic of the Tibetans—like that of many, perhaps of most, other races—is a weather-beaten stone, the Do-ring. It stands in the center of Lhasa, across the courtyard in front of the western doors of the Cathedral or Jokang, beneath the famous willow-tree.
ref: 1905, Perceval Landon, The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 3:
text: The 37bn-yuan ($5.7bn) track extends from the region’s capital Lhasa eastward to the city of Nyingchi, which is Tibetan for “Throne of the Sun”.
ref: 2021 June 5, “Fast track to the throne”, in The Economist, volume 439, number 9248, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:
text: The most notable stop on the president's itinerary was the Lhasa, the Tibetan city that was once home of the Dalai Lama.
Xi visited the public square in front of the Potala Palace, the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama's power. Tibet's religious leader has been living in exile since 1959 following a failed uprising against the Chinese rule. While in Lhasa, Xi visited a monastery and "inspected ethnic religion" and Tibetan cultural heritage protection,[…]
ref: 2021 July 23, “China: Xi visits Tibet for the first time as president”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2021, News:
text: There has been a widespread outcry from the residents of Lhasa, the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet, about how local authorities are managing a Covid-19 lockdown, instated on August 9.
ref: 2022 September 30, “How China uses zero-Covid policy to crack down on Tibetans”, in France 24, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2022:
text: Prayers are a part of daily life in Tibet, and in counties such as Nyemo, on the outskirts of Lhasa, its inhabitants try to make a living by making incense to be used in temples.
ref: 2023 August 4, Jesus Centeno, “Tibet prays under the Chinese flag”, in EFE, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2023:
glosses: The capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
tomato sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomato sauces
Senses: examples: text: Russian Tomato Sauce will keep, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for 10 days.
ref: 2002, Steve Brill, The Wild Vegetarian Cookbook, page 186:
text: Classical tomato sauce, as explained by Escoffier, is made with a roux, but this is rarely done in modern kitchens.
ref: 2007, Wayne Gisslen, Professional Cooking, 6th edition, page 176:
text: But in the summer, fresh tomato sauce should be a staple; peeling the tomatoes—which is optional—is undeniably a bit of work (seeding takes only a second), but the flavor of the sauce is much better than canned, thee texture is rich and silky, and the color much prettier.
ref: 2007, Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food, page 445:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A thick sauce made from tomatoes for pasta etc.
examples: text: A plastic tomato sauce bottle, which could have been cut in half to make a flower pot, was quickly surveyed along with other trophies, and received the death sentence. “In the bin, Bob.”
ref: 1979 June, Peter C. Harper, Robert Alexander Falla K.B.E., C.M.G., M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.N.Z.: An Appreciation, page 356:
text: 1980 January-May, Laurence Le Guay, Cruising World, page 98,
I quickly learned that there is a hell of a difference between tomato sauce and ketchup and that there is an even greater difference when it comes to mayonnaise: real American or the pseudo Australian — and I had always believed this to be a French concoction.
text: The event was a BBQ in the peaceful and picturesque System Garden at the University of Melbourne, Parkville campus. Food was plentifil and included a variety of sausages and veggie burgers, onions, bread and tomato sauce in addition to soft drinks.
ref: 2003 March, Microbiology Australia, page 46:
glosses: Tomato ketchup, used as a condiment.
Hypernyms: sense: pasta sauce
word: pasta sauce
Hyponyms: pomodoro sauce
marinara sauce
arrabbiata sauce
Coordinate terms: meat sauce
siracha
mustard
relish
mayonnaise
chili sauce
Derived terms: tomato-saucy
Related terms: catsup
ketchup
red sauce
red gravy
temple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕm'p(ə)l
ipa: /ˈtɛmp(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɛmpəl
Forms: form: temples
form: templing
form: templed
form: templed
Etymology: From Middle English temple, from Old English templ, tempel, borrowed from Latin templum (“shrine, temple, area for auspices”). Compare Old High German tempal (“temple”), also a borrowing from the Latin.
Senses: examples: text: though the Heathen (in many places) Templed and adored this drunken God
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god
temple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕm'p(ə)l
ipa: /ˈtɛmp(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɛmpəl
Forms: form: temples
Etymology: From Middle English temple, from Old French temple, from Vulgar Latin *temp(u)la, from Latin tempora (“the temples”), plural of tempus (“temple, head, face”). See temporal bone.
Senses: examples: text: Then Iael Hebers wife, tooke a naile of the tent, and tooke an hammer in her hand, and went softly vnto him, and smote the naile into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asleepe, and weary;) so he died.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 4:21:
text: Biblical criteria of sexual seductiveness include a white skin, black hair, or henna-dyed, scarlet lips, a prominent nose, rosy temples, long straight neck, firm breasts, round thighs, an erect posture.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 219:
text: A few days after the electrodes were implanted, Bennett welcomed visitors into his hospital room. His head is wrapped in bandages. A thick braid of wires hangs from his left temple.
ref: 2013 December 9, Amy Standen, “Epilepsy Patients Help Decode The Brain's Hidden Signals”, in NPR:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head of a vertebrate, including a human, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
Synonyms: word: fane
word: house of worship
word: temple
word: shrine
Hypernyms: word: building
Hyponyms: word: basilica
word: cathedral
word: chapel
word: church
word: gurdwara
word: masjid
word: mosque
word: synagogue
word: ziggurat
Meronyms: word: altar
word: Holy Book
word: Holy of Holies
word: minbar
word: pulpit
word: sanctum sanctorum
Derived terms: temple fade
temple ring
Related terms: word: temporal
word: :Category:en:Places of worship
temple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕm'p(ə)l
ipa: /ˈtɛmp(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɛmpəl
Forms: form: temples
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin templum (“a small timber, a purlin”); compare templet and template.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
synonyms: template
glosses: A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
Synonyms: word: fane
word: house of worship
word: temple
word: shrine
Hypernyms: word: building
Hyponyms: word: basilica
word: cathedral
word: chapel
word: church
word: gurdwara
word: masjid
word: mosque
word: synagogue
word: ziggurat
Meronyms: word: altar
word: Holy Book
word: Holy of Holies
word: minbar
word: pulpit
word: sanctum sanctorum
Related terms: word: :Category:en:Places of worship
hallmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːlmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈhɔlmɑɹk/
ipa: [ˈhɑɫmɑɹk]
Forms: form: hallmarks
Etymology: 1721. From hall + mark, from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, the site of the assay office, official stamp of purity in gold and silver articles. The general sense of “mark of quality” first recorded 1864. Use as a verb from 1773.
Senses: examples: text: You know what a university is, and a university degree? It is the necessary hallmark of a man who wants to do anything in teaching.
ref: 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:
text: The inference appears to be that there is some subtle connection between immorality and art, as if the handling of the lewd, or the depicting of it, were in some sort the hallmark of the true artist.
ref: 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter VII, in Through the Magic Door, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 147:
text: A man needs only to be careful—and lucky—to live a long time in the Solomons; but he must also be of the right sort. He must have the hall-mark of the inevitable white man stamped upon his soul.
ref: 1910 March, Jack London, “The Terrible Solomons”, in South Sea Tales, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, page 200:
text: In everything Brent said and did and wore, in all his movements, gestures, expressions, there was the unmistakable hallmark of the man worth while.
ref: a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:
text: Arsene Wenger's side showed little of the style and fluidity that is their hallmark but this was about digging deep and getting the job done, qualities they demonstrated and that will serve them well as the season reaches its climax.
ref: 2011 February 1, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Everton”, in BBC:
text: And this is where the larger problem lies: when states try to enforce impossible bans, everyone loses. 3D printing farragoes have all the hallmarks of the absolute worst kind of ineffectual ban: one which encourages overly draconian laws that carry huge side effects, and that ultimately to have little to no effect.
ref: 2013 May 10, James Ball, “US government attempts to stifle 3D-printer gun designs will ultimately fail”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A distinguishing characteristic.
examples: text: It can highlight our embodiment, a qualitative step away from the hallmark machines that work so resolutely to disembody us.
ref: 2007, John Zerzan John, Silence:
glosses: An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals.
hallmark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːlmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈhɔlmɑɹk/
ipa: [ˈhɑɫmɑɹk]
Forms: form: hallmarks
form: hallmarking
form: hallmarked
form: hallmarked
Etymology: 1721. From hall + mark, from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, the site of the assay office, official stamp of purity in gold and silver articles. The general sense of “mark of quality” first recorded 1864. Use as a verb from 1773.
Senses: examples: text: The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: […]everything on my plate those forks and fishslicers were hallmarked silver too I wish I had some I could easily have slipped a couple into my muff when I was playing with them[…]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[18]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To provide or stamp with a hallmark.
Related terms: benchmark
Mountie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aʊnti
Forms: form: Mounties
Etymology: From mounted + -ie.
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
synonyms: Queen's cowboy
gravel road cop
hypernyms: Mounties
glosses: A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A member of the North West Mounted Police
topics: government
law-enforcement
coordinate_terms: statie
Statie
trooper
Trooper
state trooper
State Trooper
ranger
Ranger
CHiP
glosses: A law officer, particularly one patrolling rural highways.
solstice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒl.stɪs/
ipa: /ˈsəʊl.stɪs/
ipa: /ˈsɑl.stɪs/
ipa: /ˈsoʊl.stɪs/
rhymes: -ɒlstɪs
rhymes: -əʊlstɪs
Forms: form: solstices
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥
Latin sōl
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Italic *sistō
Latin sistō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sōlstitiumlbor.
Old French solsticebor.
Middle English solstice
English solstice
From Middle English solstice, from Old French solstice, from Latin sōlstitium.
Senses: examples: text: The point at which the sun is nearest to the south pole we call the winter solstice, and the opposite point, the summer solstice.
ref: 2010, Capt Sp Meek, The Solar Magnet:
synonyms: sunstead
coordinate_terms: equinox
lunistice
glosses: One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.
wikipedia: solstice
Derived terms: December solstice
June solstice
northern solstice
southern solstice
summer solstice
winter solstice
Related terms: solstitial
Liguria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈɡjʊəɹiə/
ipa: /lɪˈɡjʊɹiə/
Etymology: From Occitan Ligúria, from Latin Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus).
Senses: glosses: An administrative region of northwest Italy.
Meronyms: Cinque Terre
Genoa
Imperia
La Spezia
Riviera di Levante
Riviera di Ponente
Savona
Limassol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and port in Cyprus.
Lisbon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪzbən/
rhymes: -ɪzbən
Etymology: As the capital of Portugal, from French Lisbonne, from Arabic لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna), from Latin Olisīpō, the origin of which is uncertain. Older spellings include Ulixbona and Ulixbuna (in the Visigothic era); Ὀλισσιπών (Olissipṓn) or Ὀλισσιπόνα (Olissipóna) (by Greek writers), Olisippo (by Pliny the Elder), and Ulyssippo (by Pomponius Mela of Hispania), the last of which relates to the first-century Roman folk etymology that it was founded by and named after Ulysses; another common folk etymology is the Phoenician 𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤑 𐤏𐤁𐤀 (ʿlyṣ ʿbʾ /⁠ʿaliṣ-ʿuboʾ⁠/, “safe harbour”), but there is not much evidence for such words. Another possibility, based on hydronymy of the area, derives the name from Paleo-Hispanic's appellation for the Tagus, Lisso or Lucio.
In other senses, with reference to the Portuguese city.
More at Lisbon.
Senses: glosses: A port city on the Iberian Peninsula, at the mouth of the Tagus River on the Atlantic Ocean; the capital city of Portugal.
glosses: A district of Portugal around the capital.
glosses: The Portuguese government.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Ransom County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A village, the county seat of Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.
Synonyms: sense: capital of Portugal
word: Olisipo
sense: capital of Portugal
word: Lisboa
sense: village in Ohio
word: New Lisbon
Derived terms: Lisboner
Lisbonite
New Lisbon
Lisbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪzbən/
rhymes: -ɪzbən
Etymology: As the capital of Portugal, from French Lisbonne, from Arabic لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna), from Latin Olisīpō, the origin of which is uncertain. Older spellings include Ulixbona and Ulixbuna (in the Visigothic era); Ὀλισσιπών (Olissipṓn) or Ὀλισσιπόνα (Olissipóna) (by Greek writers), Olisippo (by Pliny the Elder), and Ulyssippo (by Pomponius Mela of Hispania), the last of which relates to the first-century Roman folk etymology that it was founded by and named after Ulysses; another common folk etymology is the Phoenician 𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤑 𐤏𐤁𐤀 (ʿlyṣ ʿbʾ /⁠ʿaliṣ-ʿuboʾ⁠/, “safe harbour”), but there is not much evidence for such words. Another possibility, based on hydronymy of the area, derives the name from Paleo-Hispanic's appellation for the Tagus, Lisso or Lucio.
In other senses, with reference to the Portuguese city.
More at Lisbon.
Senses: examples: text: We had plenty of port wine and Lisbon, which, with uninterrupted good humour, made the hours glide rapidly away.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 165
glosses: A sweet, light-coloured wine from Portugal.
Related terms: Lisboa