cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
provost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒvəst/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒvɒst/
ipa: /pɹəʊˈvəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊvoʊst/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑvəst/
rhymes: (military police) -əʊ
Forms: form: provosts
form: provosting
form: provosted
form: provosted
Etymology: From Middle English, from late Old English prōfost, prāfost, from Late Latin prōpositus, variant of Latin praepositus (“[one] placed in command”). In some senses, via Anglo-Norman provolt; via Anglo-Norman and Old French provost (modern French prévôt). As a Central European ecclesiastical office, via German Propst, Danish provst, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Around the time of the Rebellions of 1837 and the First Anglo-Afghan War, British servicemen spoke of being provosted.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To be delivered to a provost marshal for punishment.
raw_tags: used in passive
tenure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛn.jʊə/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.jə/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.jɚ/
ipa: /ˈten.jə/
Forms: form: tenures
Etymology: From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.
Senses: examples: text: All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.
ref: 1781 (date written), William Cowper, “Expostulation”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1782, →OCLC:
text: It will be rather entertaining to watch Merriman when he first faces the Transport Select Committee, with his former colleagues likely to be merciless in their questioning. During his tenure, Merriman was pretty sharp, which was no bad thing, and they will make sure he gets a dose of his own medicine.
ref: 2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45:
text: Carsley ended his six-game tenure as England's interim manager in the same way he started it, with a comfortable victory over the nation he represented with distinction as a player.
ref: 2024 November 17, Phil McNulty, “England 5-0 Republic of Ireland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
glosses: A period of time during which something is possessed.
glosses: A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
glosses: A right to hold land under the feudal system.
Synonyms: sense: a status of possessing a thing or an office
word: incumbency
Derived terms: land tenure
tenure-track
Related terms: tenant
tenurial
tenure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛn.jʊə/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.jə/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.jɚ/
ipa: /ˈten.jə/
Forms: form: tenures
form: tenuring
form: tenured
form: tenured
Etymology: From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.
Senses: glosses: To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
coach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊtʃ/
ipa: [kʰəʊ̯tʃ]
ipa: /koʊt͡ʃ/
ipa: [kʰoʊ̯t͡ʃ]
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: coaches
form: coaching
form: coached
form: coached
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest.
The meaning "instructor/trainer" is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a "tutor" who "carries" one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To train.
examples: text: She has coached many opera stars.
glosses: To instruct; to train.
glosses: To study under a tutor.
examples: text: Affecting genteel fashions, coaching it to all quarters
ref: 1653, Edward Waterhouse, A humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men:
glosses: To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
examples: text: The needy poet sticks to all he meets,
Coached, carted, trod upon, now loose, now fast.
And carried off in some dog's tail at last
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
glosses: To convey in a coach.
Derived terms: coachable
outcoach
overcoach
recoach
uncoach
coach
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊtʃ/
ipa: [kʰəʊ̯tʃ]
ipa: /koʊt͡ʃ/
ipa: [kʰoʊ̯t͡ʃ]
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French coche, from German Kutsche, from Hungarian kocsi. According to historians, the coach was named after the small Hungarian town of Kocs, which made a livelihood from cart building and transport between Vienna and Budapest.
The meaning "instructor/trainer" is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a "tutor" who "carries" one through an exam; the athletic sense is from 1861.
Senses: examples: text: John flew coach to Vienna, but first-class back home.
glosses: Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.
Derived terms: coachability
trainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪnə/
enpr: trāʹnər
ipa: /ˈtɹeɪnɚ/
rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trainers
Etymology: From train + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It was [Roger] Federer’s ability to pull him around the court that put the lactic acid and debilitating weight in those legs and he should not have been allowed the luxury of his trainer’s help.
ref: 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2016:
glosses: A person who trains another; a coach.
examples: text: He served Nelson wholeheartedly as a player, coach and trainer in a lengthy association, the highlights being his involvement in two championship-winning sides.
ref: 2009, Garth Dykes, Nelson FC in the Football League, page 22:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person responsible for treating injuries sustained by players during matches; a physiotherapist.
glosses: A running shoe or sneaker.
examples: text: I actually never got a trainer for RCT, but needed one for my brother when I installed it on his computer. He is 10, and is only concerned with making "cool" coasters. I also completed CF before getting trainers.
ref: 2000, Phil, “I need trainer for version 1.10.021”, in alt.games.rctycoon (Usenet):
text: Are there any sites that have original copies of games? (ie: Summer/Winter/World Games with Fast Loading). Just looking for games without the trainers/intros.
ref: 2001, LJames4728, “Good C64 Game Sites?”, in alt.c64 (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: A patch for a video game that applies cheats.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A piece of indoor equipment allowing a bicycle to be ridden while stationary.
examples: text: There was chewing gum stuck to my trainer soles.
glosses: Attributive form of trainers.
Synonyms: sense: person who trains another, coach
word: coach
sense: running shoe
word: dap
word: plimsoll
word: running shoe
word: tennis shoe
word: sports shoe
Derived terms: cross-trainer
elliptical trainer
penguin trainer
personal trainer
trainer bra
trainer liner
trainer sock
turbo trainer
X-trainer
Related terms: train
moist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔɪst/
rhymes: -ɔɪst
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle English moist, moiste [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman moist, moiste, moste, Middle French moiste, and Old French moiste, muste (“damp, moist, wet”) (modern French moite); further etymology uncertain, perhaps a blend of a Late Latin variant of Latin mūcidus (“mouldy, musty”) + a Late Latin derivative of Latin mustum (“unfermented or partially fermented grape juice or wine, must”).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey launch'd the ship, the mast it bore
Advanc'd, sails hoised, every seat his oar
Gave with a leather thong. The deep moist then
They further reach'd.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Eighth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 171, lines 65–68:
text: Th' Arch-Angel Uriel, one of the ſeav'n
[…]
That run through all the Heav'ns, or down to th' Earth
Bear his [God's] ſwift errands over moiſt and dry,
O're Sea and Land: […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 658 and 661–663:
qualifier: obsolete except US
glosses: Moistness; also, moisture.
Derived terms: word: moistless
Aargau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːɡaʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹˌɡaʊ/
Senses: synonyms: word: canton of Aargau
word: Argovia
english: the Italian name
translation: the Italian name
word: canton of Argovia
glosses: A canton of Switzerland (the German name)
Argovia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: canton of Argovia
word: Aargau
english: the German name
translation: the German name
word: canton of Aargau
glosses: A canton of Switzerland (the Italian name)
Appenzell Innerrhoden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Appenzell Inner Rhodes.
synonyms: word: Appenzell Inner Rhodes
Appenzell Inner Rhodes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A canton of Switzerland.
Synonyms: Appenzell Innerrhoden
Related terms: Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Appenzell Outer Rhodes.
synonyms: word: Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A canton of Switzerland.
Synonyms: canton of Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Related terms: Appenzell Inner Rhodes
canton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæntən/
ipa: /ˈkæntɒn/
Forms: form: cantons
form: kanton
Etymology: 1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.
Senses: examples: text: These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people
ref: 1912, Joseph McCabe (translator), We Must Take Sides; or, The Principle of Action (originally by Voltaire)
text: 20 May, 1686, Gilbert Burnet, letter from Nimmengen
There is another piece of Holbein's, […] in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Saviour's passion are represented.
glosses: A division of a political unit.
glosses: A division of a political unit.
One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
glosses: A division of a political unit.
A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.
glosses: A division of a political unit.
A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
glosses: A division of a political unit.
A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.
glosses: A small community or clan.
glosses: A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
examples: text: The king gave us the arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms.
ref: 1662 August 31 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 21 August 1662]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
Derived terms: cantoner
cantonise
cantonize
canton of Zurich
canton
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæntən/
ipa: /ˈkæntɒn/
Forms: form: cantons
form: cantoning
form: cantoned
form: cantoned
form: kanton
Etymology: 1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.
Senses: glosses: To delineate as a separate district.
glosses: To divide into cantons.
examples: text: To the end of husbanding the supplies, he will cause to be cantoned in the cities and villages the greatest possible numbers of troops
ref: 1854, O. F. Winship, E. E. McLean (translators), Summary of the Art of War (originally by Antoine-Henri Jomini)
glosses: To quarter troops by requisitioning housing from the civilian population.
examples: text: An army, falling back upon its lines of magazines, may … make its retreat with more security than one which has to canton, to subsist, and to extend itself to find cantonments.
ref: 1854, O. F. Winship, E. E. McLean (translators), Summary of the Art of War (originally by Antoine-Henri Jomini)
glosses: To be allotted such quarters.
canton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæntən/
ipa: /ˈkæntɒn/
Forms: form: cantons
Senses: examples: text: Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: A song or canto.
Related terms: pancit canton
Basel-Stadt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Basel-Stadt.
Senses: glosses: A canton of Switzerland.
Synonyms: word: canton of Basel-Stadt
word: Basel-City
alt: anglicized
word: canton of Basel-City
word: Basle-City
alt: anglicized
word: canton of Basle-City
Related terms: Basel-Landschaft
Basel-City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of German Basel-Stadt.
Senses: glosses: Basel-Stadt (a canton of Switzerland).
Basel-Country
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of German Basel-Landschaft.
Senses: glosses: Basel-Landschaft (a canton of Switzerland).
Basel-Landschaft
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːzəɫ ˈlændʃæft/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Basel-Landschaft.
Senses: glosses: A canton of Switzerland.
Synonyms: word: canton of Basel-Landschaft
word: Basel-Country
alt: anglicized
word: canton of Basel-Country
Related terms: Basel-Stadt
Bern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bû(r)n
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)n/
ipa: /bɝn/
homophone: burn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
note: local
enpr: bârn
ipa: /bɛ(ɹ)n/
note: local
homophone: bairn
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: Berns
form: Berne
Etymology: From Alemannic German Bärn, of uncertain further origin.
A popular folk etymology says it was named by its founder, Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen, after the first animal he saw in the area, a Bär(in) (“bear”) (compare Berlin, subject to a similar folk etymology).
The name is now thought to be connected to a Celtic word, Proto-Celtic *berna (“cleft”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to carve out, cut”)) and *branos (“raven”) (compare the name ΒΡΕΝΟΔΩΡ (BRENODŌR), on the Bern zinc tablet, which has also been connected with the Gaulish name Brennus). More at Bern.
Senses: glosses: A placename
A federal city of Switzerland; the capital city of Bern canton.
glosses: A placename
A canton of Switzerland.
glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Bernese
New Bern
Bern
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bû(r)n
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)n/
ipa: /bɝn/
homophone: burn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
note: local
enpr: bârn
ipa: /bɛ(ɹ)n/
note: local
homophone: bairn
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: Berns
Etymology: Abbreviations
* Clipping of Bernard.
* Clipping of Bernadette.
* Clipping of Bernice.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name, variant of Bernie.
A diminutive of the male given name Bernard, variant of Bernie.
glosses: A unisex given name, variant of Bernie.
A diminutive of the female given names Bernadette or Bernice, variant of Bernie.
exclamation point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclamation points
Senses: glosses: The symbol !; an exclamation mark.
examples: text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation-point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the Sawmill at Beaverton.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: An elongated shape like an exclamation point.
Synonyms: exclamation mark
Derived terms: inverted exclamation point
Related terms: english: inverted exclamation mark/point
translation: inverted exclamation mark/point
word: ¡
english: double exclamation mark/point
translation: double exclamation mark/point
word: ‼
roman: interrobang
word: ‽
word: ⁈
word: ⁉
english: small exclamation mark/point
translation: small exclamation mark/point
word: ﹗
roman: dingbat
word: ❢
roman: dingbat
word: ❣
alt: !
word: ՜
word: ᥄
alt: '; ’
word: apostrophe
word: curly brackets
word: brace
word: square bracket
word: bracket
alt: :
word: colon
alt: ,
word: comma
alt: ‒; –; —; ―
word: dash
alt: …
word: ellipsis
alt: !
word: exclamation mark
alt: ⁄
word: fraction slash
alt: « »; ‹ ›
word: guillemet
alt: -; ‐
word: hyphen
alt: ·
word: interpunct
alt: ‽
word: interrobang
word: bracket
word: parentheses (US
alt: ( )
word: Canada)
word: full stop
alt: .
word: period
alt: ?
word: question mark
alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „
word: quotation marks
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: "; '
word: quotation marks
alt: ;
word: semicolon
word: slash
alt: /
word: stroke
alt: ] [
word: space
Berne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bernes
Etymology: From Alemannic German Bärn.
Senses: glosses: A placename
Alternative spelling of Bern: the capital city of Switzerland; the capital city of Bern canton.
glosses: A placename
Alternative spelling of Bern: a canton of Switzerland.
glosses: A surname
Fribourg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: canton of Fribourg
word: Freiburg
english: the German name
translation: the German name
word: canton of Freiburg
glosses: A canton of Switzerland. (the French name)
synonyms: word: Freiburg
english: the German name
translation: the German name
glosses: The capital city of Fribourg canton, Switzerland. (the French name)
Geneva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈniːvə/
rhymes: -iːvə
Etymology: Mentioned in Latin texts as Genava. Probably via a Proto-Celtic *genwā from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénw-eh₂ (“knee”), a derivative of *ǵónu in the sense of a bending river or estuary, possibly akin to Genoa.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Geneva canton, Switzerland.
synonyms: canton of Geneva
glosses: A canton of Switzerland.
glosses: The largest lake in Switzerland: see Lake Geneva.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Geneva County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Planada, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Seminole County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Talbot County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bear Lake County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Kane County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Kane County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Wabash Township, Adams County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Noble Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Franklin County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Allen County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Midland County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Van Buren County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city and township in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Fillmore County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Fillmore County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city and town in Ontario County, New York, an area of water in the city is in Seneca County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Ashtabula County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Jefferson County, Oregon, named after the founder's wife.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Greenwood Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Whatcom County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Walworth County, Wisconsin; see also Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, a city nearby.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name or confused with Genevieve or Ginevra.
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: The Geneva Convention.
Derived terms: Geneva Convention
Geneva County
Geneva cross
Geneva mechanism
Genevan
Geneva wheel
Lake Geneva
Geneva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈniːvə/
rhymes: -iːvə
Forms: form: Genevas
Senses: examples: text: Let our actor, in the true spirit of imitating his betters, follow the example of the great Mr. K⁠—⁠n; that is, let him roll about through the day from pot-house to pot-house like a rumbling old beer barrel, with ten or a dozen noggins of Geneva in his pate.
ref: [c. 1800], J. Bisset, “Dandy Actors”, in Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of geneva (gin, jenever)
middleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭdʹəlmănʹ
ipa: [ˈmɪdɫ̩ˌmæn]
rhymes: -ɪdəlmæn
Forms: form: middlemen
form: middle man
form: middle-man
Etymology: From Middle English myddil man, equivalent to middle + man.
Senses: glosses: An intermediary, agent between two (or more) parties.
glosses: An intermediate dealer between the manufacturer and the retailer or customer.
glosses: One who rents land in large tracts, and lets it in small portions to the peasantry.
Synonyms: word: intermediary
word: go-between
word: mediator
sense: intermediate dealer
word: grocer
Coordinate terms: middlewoman
Derived terms: cut out the middleman
middlemanism
middlemanship
middleman
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭdʹəlmănʹ
ipa: [ˈmɪdɫ̩ˌmæn]
rhymes: -ɪdəlmæn
Forms: form: middlemans
form: middlemanning
form: middlemanned
form: middlemanned
form: middle man
form: middle-man
Etymology: From Middle English myddil man, equivalent to middle + man.
Senses: glosses: To act as a middleman or intermediary.
middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdl̩/
ipa: [ˈmɪ.dəɫ]
ipa: [ˈmɪ.dʊ]
ipa: /ˈmɪdl̩/
ipa: [ˈmɪ.ɾɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈmɪdəl/
ipa: [ˈmɪ̝.dəɫ]
ipa: [ˈmɪ̝.dʊ]
ipa: [ˈmɪ̝.ɾ-]
ipa: /ˈmɘdɘl/
ipa: [ˈmə.dɯ(ɫ)]
ipa: [ˈmə.ɾ-]
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: middles
form: myddle
Etymology: From Middle English middel, from Old English middel (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Middel (“middle”), West Frisian mul (“middle”), Dutch middel (“means; medicine, cure”), German mittel (“middle”, adjective), Mittel (“means; medicament, remedy”, noun), Luxembourgish Mëttel (“means, method; medicament”), Vilamovian mytuł (“middle”), Yiddish מיטל (mitl, “middle”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk middel (“means”), Icelandic meðal (“average; means, medicine”), Swedish medel (“average, mean, middle”). See also mid.
Senses: examples: text: The middle of a circle is the point which has the same distance to every point of circle.
glosses: A centre, midpoint.
examples: text: I woke up in the middle of the night.
text: In the middle of the marathon, David collapsed from fatigue.
text: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The part between the beginning and the end.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The middle stump.
examples: text: If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.
ref: 2012, Caroline Moore, Fasting In A Fast World:
glosses: The central part of a human body; the waist.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The middle voice.
examples: text: As part of his successful re-election strategy, Clinton began governing from the middle.
topics: government
politics
glosses: the center of the political spectrum.
Synonyms: sense: centre
word: centre
word: center
word: midpoint
sense: part between the beginning and the end
word: centre
sense: part between the beginning and the end
word: center
sense: part between the beginning and the end
word: midst
middle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdl̩/
ipa: [ˈmɪ.dəɫ]
ipa: [ˈmɪ.dʊ]
ipa: /ˈmɪdl̩/
ipa: [ˈmɪ.ɾɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈmɪdəl/
ipa: [ˈmɪ̝.dəɫ]
ipa: [ˈmɪ̝.dʊ]
ipa: [ˈmɪ̝.ɾ-]
ipa: /ˈmɘdɘl/
ipa: [ˈmə.dɯ(ɫ)]
ipa: [ˈmə.ɾ-]
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: middles
form: middling
form: middled
form: middled
form: myddle
Etymology: From Middle English middel, from Old English middel (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midlą, *midilą, *medalą (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midjō (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Middel (“middle”), West Frisian mul (“middle”), Dutch middel (“means; medicine, cure”), German mittel (“middle”, adjective), Mittel (“means; medicament, remedy”, noun), Luxembourgish Mëttel (“means, method; medicament”), Vilamovian mytuł (“middle”), Yiddish מיטל (mitl, “middle”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk middel (“means”), Icelandic meðal (“average; means, medicine”), Swedish medel (“average, mean, middle”). See also mid.
Senses: examples: text: And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: To take a middle view of.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.
centre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntə/
ipa: /ˈsɛntəɹ/
ipa: [ˈsɛɾ̃əɹ]
note: pin–pen merger, nt-flapping
ipa: [ˈsɪɾ̃ɚ]
homophone: sinner (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping)
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: centres
form: center
Etymology: From Middle English center, centre, from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
Senses: examples: text: So after a short spell in the brass foundry the wisest course was to follow with a similar period in the steel foundry, where much important work was done, including the manufacture of centres for wheels.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
text: The phrase 'Imperial Manila' is used throughout the archipelago to denote the capital-heavy decision-making and the imposition of the will and culture of the political and economic centre on the peripheries.
ref: 2018, Balázs Áron Kovács, Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins, Springer, →ISBN, page 280:
text: As Dodd wrote in ‘The Empty Nest,’ “To me, it was glaringly obvious that parting from a child who has been the centre of your life for twenty-odd years is a really big deal. Yet while new parents are bombarded with advice, empty nest parents are left to muddle through what is arguably the most challenging phase of parenting.”
ref: 2025 August 10, Don Riddell, “Now that my kids are off to college, what’s this empty nester dad to do?”, in CNN:
glosses: Australia, British, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center.
Derived terms: acentrous
barycentre
biocentre
Catapult centre
centrebit
centreboard
Centre County
centredness
centrefield
centrefold
centre forward
centreground
Centre Hastings
centre-left
centreline
Centrelink
centreman
centre mark
centremost
centre of attention
centre of buoyancy
centre of curvature
centre of effort
centre of gravity
centre of inertia
centre of lift
centre of mass
centrepiece
centrepin
centrepunch
centre-right
centreright
centre stage
Centreville
centreward
centrish
centrism
centroid
chromocentre
civic centre
concentre
cooling centre
daycare centre
day centre
decentre
ecocentre
epicentre
friendship centre
front-and-centre
garden centre
hypocentre
isocentre
Jobcentre
megacentre
metacentre
metallocentre
Middlesex Centre
multi-centre
Nickel Centre
oculocentre
orthocentre
pericentre
photocentre
playcentre
reception centre
Rockville Centre
stereocentre
supercentre
telecentre
Thames Centre
uncentre
centre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntə/
ipa: /ˈsɛntəɹ/
ipa: [ˈsɛɾ̃əɹ]
note: pin–pen merger, nt-flapping
ipa: [ˈsɪɾ̃ɚ]
homophone: sinner (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping)
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: centres
form: centring
form: centreing
form: centred
form: centred
form: center
Etymology: From Middle English center, centre, from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
Senses: examples: text: One controversy which has not had an airing in discussion of the new Transport Bill is that centring on the status of the Pullman Car Co.
ref: 1962 February 24, “Talking of Trains: The "Midland Pullman"”, in Modern Railways, page 77:
text: A contribution to a wall newspaper of which I was an editor in our sector poked fun at the never-changing menu in the school cafeteria. It centred on the various and devious methods used in serving us hamburger. One time it would be called hamburger, another time bifshtek, then cutlet, and sneakiest of all, schnitzel—the only difference among them was usually only in their shape or whether bread crumbs had been used.
ref: 1988, Peter Hunter, “Back to School: Dealing with Dissent”, in Which Side Are You On, Boys: Canadian Life on the Left, Toronto, Ont.: Lugus Productions Ltd., →ISBN, page 96:
qualifier: Australian spelling
glosses: Alternative spelling of center.
Derived terms: recentre
manufacturer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃəɹə/
ipa: /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚɚ/
ipa: [ˌmɛənjəˈfækt͡ʃɚɚ]
Forms: form: manufacturers
Etymology: From manufacture + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The manufacturer produces parts for the car industry.
text: Always return faulty goods to the manufacturer.
text: The clothing manufacturer expanded overseas.
glosses: A person or company that manufactures.
Derived terms: biomanufacturer
demanufacturer
nonmanufacturer
hoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hō
ipa: /həʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: ho
Forms: form: hoes
Etymology: From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.
Senses: examples: text: For their organic row crops, they do the weeding with hoes. They get in there often, but it goes fast, and the weeds never get ahead.
text: It was obvious that it consisted of several blows to the head from the hoe.
ref: 2009, TRU TV, 28 March
glosses: Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
synonyms: hand hoe
coordinate_terms: wheel hoe#Noun
backhoe#Noun
trackhoe#Noun
qualifier: when not otherwise specified
examples: text: The grading is on hold. In the meantime, get that hoe over here and work on this utility trench. [Instructions issued to a worker who will operate a backhoe]
glosses: Any of various tools for scraping, scratching, digging, or stirring soil or other materials.
Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
Derived terms: action hoe
adze hoe
adz hoe
backhoe
clam hoe
collineal hoe
collinear hoe
double hoe
draw hoe
drill hoe
Dutch hoe
eye hoe
flower hoe
fork hoe
grab hoe
grubbing hoe
grub hoe
hand hoe
hoecake
hoedad
hoedown
hoe-farming
hoelike
hoe nightshade
hoop hoe
horse hoe
Italian hoe
mortar hoe
pattern hoe
Paxton hoe
prong hoe
rakehoe
ridging hoe
scuffle hoe
swivel hoe
swoe
Warren hoe
wheel hoe
hoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hō
ipa: /həʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: ho
Forms: form: hoes
form: hoeing
form: hoed
form: hoed
Etymology: From Middle English howe, from Anglo-Norman houe, from Frankish *hauwā, derivative of Frankish *hauwan (“to hew”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną. More at hew.
Senses: examples: text: to hoe the earth in a garden
text: Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.
text: I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.
glosses: To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
examples: text: to hoe corn
glosses: To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
Derived terms: hard row to hoe
hoe in
hoe into
hoe one's row
long row to hoe
row to hoe
tough row to hoe
unhoed
Related terms: mattock
pick
rake
hoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hō
ipa: /həʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: ho
Forms: form: hoes
form: hoeing
form: hoed
form: hoed
form: ho
Etymology: From a non-rhotic pronunciation of whore.
Senses: examples: text: Pimpin’ came so naturally to MT when he and his sisters played pimp and hoe games that one of his sisters wanted to hoe for him when they grew up.
ref: 2003, Da’rel the Relentless One, M. T. Pimp:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ho (“to prostitute”).
Derived terms: hoe around
hoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hō
ipa: /həʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: ho
Forms: form: hoes
form: hough
Etymology: From Middle English hough, hogh, from Old English hōh.
Senses: glosses: A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
hoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hō
ipa: /həʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʊ/
enpr: hō
ipa: /hoʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: ho
Forms: form: hoes
Etymology: Cognate with Dutch haai (“shark”), qv.
Senses: glosses: The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
shovel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌvl̩/
ipa: /ˈʃʌv(ə)l/
rhymes: -ʌvəl
Forms: form: shovels
Etymology: From Middle English shovele, schovel, showell, shoule, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English scofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix).
Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).
Senses: examples: text: It was said that such train crews kept a spare shovel on board because, on numerous occasions, the beginner had not only zealously thrown coal into the firebox but had let the shovel go as well.
ref: 1943 July and August, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 233–234:
coordinate_terms: spade#Noun
glosses: A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
glosses: A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
glosses: Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
examples: text: No one seems to like the offer, and the umpire is just coming down, when a queer old hat, something like a doctor of divinity's shovel, is chucked on to the stage […]
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: Ellipsis of shovel hat.
Derived terms: banker's shovel
call a shovel a shovel
call a spade a shovel
call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel
coal shovel
fire shovel hat
mechanical shovel
picks and shovels
power shovel
put to bed with a shovel
shot with a shovel
shoveler
shovelful
shovel-handed
shovel-nosed
shovel-ready
shovel test
sleigh shovel
snow shovel
snow sled shovel
steam shovel
winnowing-shovel
winnowing shovel
shovel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌvl̩/
ipa: /ˈʃʌv(ə)l/
rhymes: -ʌvəl
Forms: form: shovels
form: shoveling
form: shovelling
form: shoveled
form: shoveled
form: shovelled
form: shovelled
Etymology: From Middle English shovele, schovel, showell, shoule, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English scofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix).
Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).
Senses: examples: text: The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
text: After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
text: I don't mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.
text: Off again, a fierce light now trailing out behind us from the open furnace door, lighting up the fireman as he shovelled more coal on to the furnace, [...].
ref: 1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 134:
text: The coal is then transferred to broad-gauge wagons for transport to Dublin. The transhipment is a rather laborious business, the coal being shovelled by hand from one wagon to another.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
glosses: To move materials with a shovel.
examples: text: Already late for work, I shovelled breakfast into my mouth as fast as possible.
text: The keeper then seemed to claw it out with fabulous reflexes only for TV replays to show the ball had most probably crossed the line before Forster had shovelled it away.
ref: 2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:
glosses: To move with a shoveling motion.
Derived terms: shovel out
shovel up
Related terms: shove
scoop
adze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ădz
ipa: /ædz/
rhymes: -ædz
homophone: adds
homophone: ads
Forms: form: adzes
form: adz
Etymology: From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).
Senses: examples: text: ...if I wanted a board, I had no other way but to cut down a tree, set it on an edge before me, and hew it flat on either side with my axe, till I brought it to be thin as a plank, and then dub it smooth with my adze.
ref: 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
glosses: A cutting tool that has a curved blade set at a right angle to the handle and is used in shaping wood.
Derived terms: adzebill
adze-eye hammer
adze hoe
adzelike
adzer
adzework
hand-adze
Related terms: axe
mattock
adze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ădz
ipa: /ædz/
rhymes: -ædz
homophone: adds
homophone: ads
Forms: form: adzes
form: adzing
form: adzed
form: adzed
form: adz
Etymology: From Middle English adse, adese, from Old English adesa, eadesa (compare the oldest forms: adosa, adosan), assumed from Proto-Germanic *adisô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃edʰḗs (compare Hittite [script needed] (atešša, “axe, hatchet”)).
Senses: glosses: To shape a material using an adze.
Derived terms: unadzed
mattock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætək/
rhymes: -ætək
Forms: form: mattocks
Etymology: From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettoc (“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”). Related to Old High German medela (“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz (“knife”), Latin mateola (“implement for digging in the soil”), Polish motyka (“hoe, mattock”), Russian моты́га (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas (“mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.
Senses: examples: text: Workmen, breaking up an old floor, have come to him, mattocks in their hands, dismayed: ‘Mr Richard, see what we have turned up ...’
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 695:
glosses: An agricultural tool whose blades are at right angles to the body, similar to a pickaxe.
mattock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætək/
rhymes: -ætək
Forms: form: mattocks
form: mattocking
form: mattocked
form: mattocked
Etymology: From Middle English mattok (“mattock, pickaxe”), from Old English mattuc, meottoc, mettoc (“mattock, fork, trident”), from Proto-West Germanic *mattjuk (“mattock, ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”). Related to Old High German medela (“plough”), Middle High German metze, metz (“knife”), Latin mateola (“implement for digging in the soil”), Polish motyka (“hoe, mattock”), Russian моты́га (motýga, “hoe, mattock”), Lithuanian matikkas (“mattock”), Sanskrit मत्य (matyà, “harrow, roller, club”). More at mason.
Senses: glosses: To cut or dig with a mattock.
Related terms: adze
hoe
pick
twibill
Uranus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʊɹənəs/
ipa: /jʊˈɹeɪnəs/
ipa: /juˈɹeɪnəs/
rhymes: -ənəs
rhymes: -eɪnəs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Ūranus, from Ancient Greek Οὐρανός (Ouranós), from οὐρανός (ouranós, “sky, heaven”).
Senses: examples: text: The giving the name of Uranus, however, to the planet of M. Herſchel, in which M. Bode ſtill perſiſts, is an act of ingratitude to the author of that noble diſcovery, and an affront to that auguſt and munificent patron of aſtronomy, the King of Great Britain ; whoſe name ought to be preferred to every other, if that of the author had not a ſtill more forcible claim on our acknowledgements. Beſides, the name of Uranus is an impropriety, even according to the mythological ſyſtem. Sanchoniathon and Diodorus, it is true, ſay, that Saturn was the ſon of Uranus; but this is now allowed to be purely allegorical.
ref: 1789 June, “LETTER from M. DE LA LANDE, on the NAME of the PLANET HERSCHEL, to the EDITORS of the JOURNAL des SCAVANS.”, in The European Magazine, page 437, column 1:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: Georgian planet
word: Georgium Sidus
word: Herschel
word: Urectum
word: mul:♅
glosses: The seventh planet in our solar system, discovered in 1781 by William Herschel.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Father Sky
glosses: The Greek god who personified the sky and heavens and fathered the Titans. Roman counterpart: Caelus.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
astrology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: ⛢
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
astrology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: ♅
Related terms: Uranian
uranic
uranist
uranistic
uranium
giant planet
Jovian planet
outer planet
superior planet
Neptune
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛptjuːn/
ipa: /ˈnɛptʃuːn/
ipa: /ˈnɛptuːn/
ipa: /ˈneptʃʉːn/
Etymology: From Middle English Neptune, Neptunus, a borrowing from Latin Neptūnus, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰ-tu-s (“damp, cloudy”) (source of Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), etc.), with the sense of "wet, moist."
Puhvel, however, connects it with Proto-Italic *nepōts from Proto-Indo-European *népōts by analogy to Portūnus, cognate with Vedic Apām Napāt and Avestan Apąm Napāt, Child (cf: neve, nephew) of the Water as part of an Indo-European 'Fire in the Water' myth.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The eighth planet in our solar system, represented in astronomy and astrology by ♆.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of the ocean and of earthquakes, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology.
glosses: A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Ithaca, Richland County, Wisconsin.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
astrology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: ♆
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ⯉
Derived terms: mini-Neptune
Neptune City
Neptune grass
Neptune powder
Neptune's cup
Neptune's Fix
Neptunian
Neptunicentric
Neptunism
Neptunist
neptunite
neptunium
super-Neptune
Related terms: Poseidon
Pluto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpluːtəʊ/
ipa: /ˈplutoʊ/
ipa: [ˈpluɾoʊ]
rhymes: -uːtəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Plūtō, from Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “god of the underworld”). Venetia Burney is often credited as having suggested the name for the celestial body.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Greco-Roman god of the underworld.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: mul:♇
word: mul:⯓
word: ;
word: Planet X
word: ;
word: (134340) Pluto
word: 134340 Pluto
hypernyms: dwarf planet
glosses: The largest dwarf planet and formerly the ninth planet, represented by the symbol ♇ or ⯓, both now used mostly in astrology.
topics: art
arts
broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The American cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Norm Ferguson.
Derived terms: word: 134340 Pluto
word: anti-Pluto
word: plutino
word: pluto
word: Pluto-facing
word: Pluto I
word: plutoid
word: Pluto II
word: Pluto III
word: Pluto IV
word: Plutonian
word: plutonic
word: plutonism
word: plutonium
word: Plutophile
word: post-Pluto
Related terms: Cerberus
Hades
underworld
plutonium