cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ave
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːveɪ/
ipa: /ˈæveɪ/
ipa: /ˈeɪvi/
rhymes: -ɑːveɪ
rhymes: -æveɪ
rhymes: -eɪvi
Etymology: From Latin ave.
Senses: glosses: A reverential salutation.
ave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːveɪ/
ipa: /ˈæveɪ/
ipa: /ˈeɪvi/
rhymes: -ɑːveɪ
rhymes: -æveɪ
rhymes: -eɪvi
ipa: /æv/
ipa: /ˈɑːveɪ/
ipa: /ˈæveɪ/
ipa: /ˈeɪvi/
rhymes: -ɑːveɪ
rhymes: -æveɪ
rhymes: -eɪvi
Forms: form: aves
form: ave.
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: examples: text: Eleven blocks up the ave from his parents but a different city.
ref: 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 267:
glosses: Abbreviation of avenue.
glosses: Abbreviation of average.
avel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: avels
form: avelling
form: avelled
form: avelled
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin āvellō.
Senses: glosses: To pull away.
avel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: avels
form: avelim
form: ovel
Etymology: From Hebrew אבל (avel).
Senses: glosses: A mourner.
Related terms: avelut
avellane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: avellan
Etymology: From Italian avellana (“filbert”), from Latin Avella or Abella, a city of Campania.
Senses: examples: an avellane cross
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In the form of four unhusked filberts.
avellane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avellanes
form: avellan
Etymology: From Italian avellana (“filbert”), from Latin Avella or Abella, a city of Campania.
Senses: examples: text: Cross double fruitagée, or a mascle with four fruitages, or avellanes, joined to the points thereof in cross. See Pl. 5, fig. 19.
ref: 1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: An unhusked hazel filbert.
Ave Maria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːveɪ̯ məˈɹiːə/
Forms: form: Ave Marias
form: Ave Mary
Etymology: From Middle English Ave Maria, Ave Marie, Ave Mary(e), from Latin Avē Marīa.
Senses: glosses: Hail Mary (Catholic prayer, part of the rosary)
Synonyms: Angelical salutation
Derived terms: ave
avenaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more avenaceous
form: most avenaceous
Etymology: Latin avena + -aceous
Senses: glosses: Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.
Related terms: avena
avenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French avenage, from avene, from Latin avena (“oats”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
avener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aveners
Senses: glosses: An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.
Related terms: avena
avenge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛndʒ
Forms: form: avenges
form: avenging
form: avenged
form: avenged
Etymology: From Middle English avengen, borrowed from Old French avengier, from a- (“upon”) + vengier, from Latin vindicō, vindicāre.
Senses: examples: text: to avenge the murder of his brother
text: Avenge O Lord thy ſlaughter'd Saints, whoſe bones / Lie ſcatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold,
ref: 1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XV. On the late Massacher in Piemont.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 58:
text: Father, today I will avenge your death.
ref: 1984, 2:01:42 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Paul Atreides, →OCLC:
glosses: To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
glosses: To revenge oneself (on or upon someone).
examples: text: Thou shalt not auenge nor beare any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt loue thy neighbor as thy selfe: I am the Lord.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 19:18:
glosses: To take vengeance.
examples: text: thy judgment in avenging thine enemies
ref: 1609, Bishop Hall, Some few of David's Psalmes Metaphrased:
glosses: To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
Synonyms: sense: take vengeance
word: bewreak
sense: take vengeance
word: get back at
sense: take vengeance
word: retaliate
sense: take vengeance
word: take revenge
sense: treat revengefully
word: spite
word: avenge
word: even the score
word: settle the score
word: get one's own back
Derived terms: avengeable
avengeance
avengeful
avengement
avenger
avengingly
unavenged
unavenging
Related terms: word: revenge
avenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛndʒ
Forms: form: avenges
Etymology: From Middle English avengen, borrowed from Old French avengier, from a- (“upon”) + vengier, from Latin vindicō, vindicāre.
Senses: glosses: An act of vengeance; a revenge.
avengeance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avengeaunce
Etymology: From avenge + -ance.
Senses: glosses: vengeance.
Synonyms: sense: vengeance
word: avengement
sense: vengeance
word: revenge
avengeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more avengeful
form: most avengeful
Etymology: From avenge + -ful?
Senses: synonyms: word: vengesome
word: vindictive
word: avengeful
word: pluckcrow
word: revengeful
word: vengeable
word: vengeful
word: vengesome
word: vindical
word: vindictive
word: wreakful
glosses: vengeful
avengement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avengements
Etymology: From avenge + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Nought may thee save from heavens avengement.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: God's avengement of his repulse at Hull
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
text: Of St. Edmund’s fearful avengements have they not the remarkablest instance still before their eyes?
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XIV, Henry of Essex”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
Synonyms: avengeance
vengeance
avenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛndʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: avengers
Etymology: From Middle English avengere; equivalent to avenge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: an avenger of blood
glosses: One who avenges or vindicates.
glosses: One who takes vengeance.
Derived terms: avengeress
blood avenger
Related terms: revenger
venger
avengeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avengeresses
Etymology: From avenger + -ess. Compare Middle English vengeresses pl, vengerisse pl, vengerousses pl, veniouresse, veynjowresse, from Anglo-Norman vengeresse, vengerresse.
Senses: examples: text: That cruell Queene avengeresse
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Here you see the torch of Althaea, the avengeress; she was a good sister, but a bad mother.
ref: 2004, Brian P. Levack, The Witchcraft Sourcebook, page 323:
glosses: A female avenger.
avenious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.
avens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈævɪnz/
Forms: form: avenses
Etymology: From Middle English avence, from Anglo-Norman avance, Old French avence, from Medieval Latin avencia (“a kind of clover”).
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.
glosses: A plant of the genus Dryas.
Synonyms: cloveroot
Derived terms: taxonomic: Geum vernum
word: spring avens
aventail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈævənteɪl/
Forms: form: aventails
form: aventaile
Etymology: From Middle English aventayle, from Old French esventail (“air-hole”), from esventer (Modern French éventer), from Latin ex (“out”) + ventus (“wind”). Related to ventail.
Senses: examples: text: […] the hood was increasingly replaced with a mail curtain (the camail or aventail) suspended from the outside of the bascinet, and the bascinet thus augmented gradually replaced the clumsy great helm as the principal defense […]
ref: 1995, William W. Kibler, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 126:
synonyms: word: camail
word: ventail
english: piece of chainmail
translation: piece of chainmail
glosses: A curtain or flap of mail, fastened to a helmet, or to a coif (hood) of mail, covering the lower face, neck, and shoulders.
glosses: Synonym of ventail (“movable (solid plate) front to a helmet”).
synonyms: word: ventail
extra: (“movable (solid plate) front to a helmet”)
Aventine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈævəntaɪn/
Etymology: From Latin Aventinus.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Aventine Hill, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.
Aventine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈævəntaɪn/
Forms: form: Aventines
Etymology: From Latin Aventinus.
Senses: glosses: A post of security or defense.
Aventine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈævəntaɪn/
Etymology: From Latin Aventinus.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Aventine Hill.
aventre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈvɛntɚ/
Forms: form: aventres
form: aventring
form: aventred
form: aventred
Etymology: From Old French venter (“to cast to the wind”).
Senses: examples: text: She mightily aventred towards one ,
And downe him smot ere well aware he weare
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
aventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aventures
Etymology: See adventure.
Senses: glosses: accident; chance; adventure
glosses: a mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire
Derived terms: paraventure
aventure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aventures
form: aventuring
form: aventured
form: aventured
Etymology: See adventure.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of adventure.
aver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɜː/
ipa: /əˈvɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈeɪvə/
homophone: Ava
ipa: /ˈeɪvɚ/
ipa: /əˈvɜː/
ipa: /əˈvɝ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: avers
Etymology: From Middle English aver, avere (“workhorse; any beast of burden (?); things which are owned, possessions, property, wealth; state of being rich, wealth; ownership, possession”) [and other forms], and then either:
* from Old French aver, aveir, avoir (“possession, property; (collectively) beasts of burden; domestic animals; cattle”) (modern French avoir (“asset, possession”)), from aveir, avoir (“to have”), from Latin habēre (“to have, hold; to have, own (possessions)”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-, *ǵʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab, take”); or
* from Old English eafor (“workhorse; tenant’s obligation to transport goods”), further etymology uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A beast of burden; chiefly a workhorse, but also a working ox or other animal.
examples: text: […] Gilbert has but two half-starved cowardly peasants to follow him, and but an auld jaded aver to ride upon, fitter for the plough than for manly service; […]
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 214:
glosses: An old, useless horse; a nag.
avercorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.
averment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: averments
Etymology: From Middle English averement, from Old French averrement, averement, from averer (Modern French avérer).
Senses: examples: text: And for some of these averments, he added, substantiating proof was not far.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: The act of averring, or that which is averred; positive assertion.
glosses: verification; establishment by evidence.
glosses: A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
Synonyms: sense: act of averring
word: affirmation
sense: act of averring
word: asseveration
sense: act of averring
word: assertion
sense: act of averring
word: declaration
Avernian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Avernian
form: most Avernian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.
averpenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: averpennies
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.
Averroism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Averroisms
Senses: examples: text: The first concerns the problem that Latin Averroism presented to Western philosophy in connection with its doctrine that there is only one mind for all human beings—a doctrine that has come to be called monopsychism.
ref: 2014, Markus Führer, Echoes of Aquinas in Cusanus's Vision of Man, page 115:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The tenets of the Averroists, having to do with the doctrine of monopsychism.
Averroist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Averroists
Etymology: From Averroes, one name of a celebrated Arabian philosopher who held the doctrine of monopsychism, + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Any peripatetic philosopher belonging to a certain sect that appeared in Italy before the Renaissance.
averruncate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ævəˈɹʌŋkeɪt/
Forms: form: averruncates
form: averruncating
form: averruncated
form: averruncated
Etymology: From Latin āverruncāre (“to avert”), from āb (“off”) + verruncāre (“to turn”), but interpreted as being āb + ēruncāre (“to weed out”), and spelled accordingly.
Senses: glosses: To avert; to ward off.
examples: text: Unless by providential wit, / Or force, we averruncate it.
ref: 1859, Samuel Butler, “Canto 1, Line 758”, in Henry George Bohn, editor, Hudibras, page 31:
glosses: To root up.
Derived terms: aberuncator
averruncation
Related terms: averruncator
averruncation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: averruncations
Etymology: From averruncate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Quest[ion]. Whether averruncation of Epidemicall diseases, by Telesmes, be feisable and lawfull ? Answ[er]. [etc.]
ref: 1649, Iohn Robinson, Miscellaneous Propositions and Quæres, R. Royston, ch. 10, page 29:
text: BY Theurgick or Telestick Rites they conceived that they could procure a communication with the good Dæmons, and expulsion or averruncation of the bad.
ref: 1662, Thomas Stanley, The History of the Chaldaick Philosophy, Thomas Dring, page 52:
text: […] Pliny allows them [sc. mice] to have been always an ill omen, and therefore you should be advised to prepare against it either by averruncation or traps.
ref: 1726, Jonathan Swift, The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., volume III, G. Bell and Sons, published 1912, page 349:
text: There are, we presume, different forms in different rituals; for in another that we heve seen, the bishop, while anointing and crossing the bell, prays God will send his Holy Spirit, that the bell may become sanctified for the repelling of all the power, snares, and illusions of the devil, for the souls of the dead, and especially for the averruncation of storms, thunder, and tempests!
ref: 1827, “Catholicism in Silesia”. (review), The Foreign Quarterly Review, Nº II., Art. XI., page 545 (footnote)
text: […] I believe / many failed in their averruncation / of Rodomonte's assaults and they would achieve / nothing more than the early termination / of lives they could have enjoyed or put to use.
ref: 2009, David R. Slavitt tr. Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation, Harvard University Press →ISBN, Canto XXIX.38., page 589
roman: Molti fra pochi dì vi capitaro: / Alcuni la via dritta vi condusse, / Ch’a quei che verso Italia o Spagna andaro / Altra non era che più trita fusse; / Altri l’ardire, e, più che vita caro, / L’onore, a farvi di sé prova indusse. / E tutti, ove acquistar credean la palma, / Lasciavan l’arme, e molti insieme l’alma.
glosses: (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil).
glosses: Eradication, uprooting.
aversation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aversations
Senses: glosses: A turning from with dislike; aversion.
averse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: more averse
form: most averse
Etymology: From Latin aversus, past participle of avertere (“to avert”).
Senses: examples: text: “I assure you, cousin,” replied the old gentleman, “that the Baron, notwithstanding his unpleasant manner, […] is not, after all, so bad as you make him out to be; and further, I should like to know why you are so averse to him.”
ref: 1885, E. T. A. Hoffmann, The Entail, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2011:
text: This is why the most eminent intellects have always been strongly averse to any kind of disturbance, interruption and distraction, and above everything to that violent interruption which is caused by noise; other people do not take any particular notice of this sort of thing.
ref: 2004, Arthur Schopenhauer, chapter 2, in Essays of Schopenhauer:
synonyms: disliking
disinclined
fromward
unwilling
reluctant
loath
glosses: Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.
examples: text: The tracks averse a lying notice gave, / And led the searcher backward from the cave.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Turned away or backward.
glosses: Lying on the opposite side (to or from).
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Aversant; of a hand: turned so as to show the back.
Derived terms: aversely
averseness
aversity
risk-averse
unaverse
Related terms: avert
aversion
averse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɜː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: averses
form: aversing
form: aversed
form: aversed
Etymology: From Latin aversus, past participle of avertere (“to avert”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and, in this panegyrick of the Teutonick blood, I have so prolixly insisted, not only to vindicate our own, as being a stream of the same, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withal to convince the folly of those wretches among us, who aversing ours do so much adhere unto, and dote upon descents from France and Normandy.
ref: 1808, The Harleian miscellany:
text: The inconveniences aversing from clandestine marriages are pointedly depicted in the last two lines, teaching lessons of morality to all romantic babies.
ref: 1859, The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 24, number 7, page 302:
glosses: To turn away.
Related terms: adverse
aversely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aversely
form: most aversely
Etymology: From averse + -ly.
Senses: examples: emitted aversely
glosses: Backward; in a backward direction
glosses: With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly.
averseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aversenesses
Etymology: From averse + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Oh the stubburnnesse of iniquitie, and mans auersenesse from his maker.
ref: 1600, George Abbot, An Exposition upon the Prophet Jonah, London, Lecture 4, p. 65:
text: […] the Fondness or Averseness of the Child to some Servants […] will at any time let one know, whether their Love to the Baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present.
ref: 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, London, Volume 4, Letter 56, p. 363:
text: There were tones in it [his fiddling] which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between 'Mop' and the career of a second [Niccolò] Paganini.
ref: 1893 April, Thomas Hardy, “The Fiddler of the Reels”, in Life’s Little Ironies […], London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], published 1894, →OCLC, page 181:
synonyms: aversion
disinclination
unwillingness
glosses: The quality of being averse; opposition of mind.
aversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɜːʒən/
ipa: /əˈvɜːʃən/
ipa: /əˈvɝʒən/
ipa: /əˈvɜʒən/
Forms: form: aversions
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin āversiō, āversiōnem. Doublet of aversio.
Senses: examples: text: Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.
text: Live with aversion to classic men's wear, likely die with aversion to classic men's wear.
text: The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
synonyms: antipathy
disinclination
reluctance
glosses: Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
examples: text: Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.
synonyms: abomination
glosses: An object of dislike or repugnance.
glosses: The act of turning away from an object.
Derived terms: ambiguity aversion
aversion therapy
change aversion
chemoaversion
photoaversion
risk aversion
uncertainty aversion
Related terms: averse
avert
adverse
avert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɝt/
ipa: /əˈvɜːt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: averts
form: averting
form: averted
form: averted
Etymology: From Middle English averten, adverten, from Old French avertir (“turn, direct, avert; turn the attention, make aware”), from Latin āvertere, from ab + vertō (“to turn”).
Senses: examples: text: I averted my eyes while my friend typed in her password.
text: When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Unity in Religion”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To turn aside or away.
examples: text: How can the danger be averted?
text: Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.
ref: 1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Seculare. for the Year 1700:
text: Indeed, there was some highly questionable jiggery-pokery with couplings and continuous brakes in this agreeable story, which featured Moore Marriott as an old driver who averts a disaster on his last run.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
synonyms: forestall
glosses: To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
examples: text: Cold and averting from our neighbour's good.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: To turn away.
Synonyms: hinder
Derived terms: word: avertable
word: averter
word: avertible
word: avertress
averted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɝtɪd/
ipa: /əˈvɜːtɪd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪd
Forms: form: more averted
form: most averted
Senses: examples: text: It will not come as a surprise that Paul experiences much oppositional, averted anger, which is partly an adequate answer to the intrusions he has experienced and partly makes[…]
ref: 2021 June 22, Annelies Verheugt-Pleiter, Jolien Zevalkink, Mentalizing in Child Therapy: Guidelines for Clinical Practitioners, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Turned away, especially as an expression of feeling.
examples: text: [...] : for Mompelgard, two barbels endorsed with tails averted, in a field gules : for Heydenheim, a Saracen's head, with a kind of hussar's cap gules[…]
ref: 1765, Daniel Fenning, Joseph Collyer, A New System of Geography, Or a General Description of the World, page 265:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Turned or directed away (from something).
Derived terms: avertedly
unaverted
Related terms: avert
averted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɝtɪd/
ipa: /əˈvɜːtɪd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avert
averter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: averters
Etymology: From avert + -er.
Senses: examples: averters of evil
glosses: One who, or that which, averts.
Related terms: word: avertress
avertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more avertible
form: most avertible
form: avertable
Etymology: From avert + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being averted; preventable.
Derived terms: inavertible
unavertible
avertiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avertiments
Senses: examples: text: And by whom this law was abrogated, or how long after, I do not find ; but that those other causes remained in force as long as the Greek empire subsisted, and were assented to by that church, is to be read in the canons and edicts compared by Photius the patriarch, with the avertiments of Balsamon and Matthaeus Monachus thereon.
ref: 1645 March 4, John Milton, Tetrachordon:
glosses: advertisement (public notice).
Avesta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛstə/
rhymes: -ɛstə
Forms: form: the Avesta
Etymology: From Iranian Persian اوستا (avestâ), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾp(y)stʾk' /⁠abestāg⁠/), of uncertain meaning.
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language.
Avesta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛstə/
rhymes: -ɛstə
Etymology: From Iranian Persian اوستا (avestâ), from Middle Persian [script needed] (ʾp(y)stʾk' /⁠abestāg⁠/), of uncertain meaning.
Senses: glosses: Avestan language.
Related terms: Zend-Avesta
avian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪvi.ən/
Etymology: From Latin avis (“bird”) + -ian.
Senses: coordinate_terms: birdly
feathered
plumed
winged
glosses: Characteristic of or pertaining to birds, or to bird-like or flying creatures.
Derived terms: antiavian
avian dinosaur
avian flu
avian influenza
avian ingestion
avianize
avianlike
non-avian
nonavian
proavian
unavian
avian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪvi.ən/
Forms: form: avians
Etymology: From Latin avis (“bird”) + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A bird.
glosses: A bird-like or flying creature.
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: feathery
glosses: Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a bird or bird-like animal character with human characteristics.
aviary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪvɪəɹi/
ipa: /ˈeɪviˌɛəɹi/
Forms: form: aviaries
Etymology: From Latin aviārium, from avis (“bird”).
Senses: glosses: A house, enclosure, large cage, or other place for keeping birds confined; a birdhouse.
Derived terms: aviarian
aviarist
caviary
aviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ā′vē-ā′shən
enpr: ăv′ē-
ipa: /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌav.iː-/
note: older
ipa: /ˌæv.iː-/
ipa: /ˌeɪ̯.viˈeɪ̯.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌæv.i-/
ipa: /ˌæɪ̯.viːˈæɪ̯.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌæv.iː-/
ipa: /ˌɛv.iː-/
ipa: /ˌe.viˈe.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌav.i-/
ipa: /ˌeː.viːˈeː.ʃon/
ipa: /ˌav.iː-/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: aviations
Etymology: Borrowed from French aviation, derived from Latin avis (“bird”). By surface analysis, avi- + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
examples: text: The history of aviation is full of daring pioneers.
text: He works in the aviation industry as a pilot.
text: Military aviation played a crucial role in the war.
glosses: Flying, operating, or operation of aircraft.
glosses: Industry that produces aircraft.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Aircraft.
glosses: A cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette, and lemon juice.
Derived terms: av
avgas
aviation blonde
aviation cruiser
aviation fuel
avionics
civil aviation
general aviation
general of aviation
NADEP
nonaviation
aviator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aviators
Etymology: Borrowed from French aviateur.
Senses: examples: text: Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version of transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.
ref: 2016 November 15, Karla Pequenino, “The women pilots that history forgot”, in CNN:
text: Two missing US Navy aviators have been declared dead, several days after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier, Washington, during a training flight, the Navy said Sunday.
ref: 2024 October 20, Haley Britzky, “Two missing Navy aviators declared dead days after aircraft crash in Washington state”, in CNN:
glosses: An aircraft pilot, especially a military pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs. air force pilot.
glosses: An experimenter in aviation.
glosses: A flying machine.
Synonyms: flier
flyer
Hyponyms: word: aviatrix
Derived terms: aviator glasses
aviator shades
aviator sunglasses
avicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Senses: synonyms: avian
glosses: Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.
aviculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avicultures
Etymology: From avi- + culture.
Senses: glosses: The rearing and care of birds (especially poultry)
Derived terms: avicultural
aviculturist
avidious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more avidious
form: most avidious
Senses: glosses: avid; eager; greedy.
Derived terms: avidiously
avidiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more avidiously
form: most avidiously
Etymology: From avidious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: eagerly; greedily.
avidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɪdɪti/
Forms: form: avidities
Etymology: From Middle English avidite, from Old French avidite (modern French avidité), from Latin aviditās (“avidity, covetousness”), equivalent to avid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Greediness; strong appetite.
examples: text: to eat with avidity
text: Still, there was an inquiry after me, the 'who was she?' that never can, that never must be answered; and it was pursued with only the more avidity, because my accomplishments proved that I had been expensively educated, and nature had stamped me with her own kindly distinctions.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 46:
text: Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity, / Overcome your diffidence and natural timidity.
ref: 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience:
text: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
glosses: Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.
Synonyms: sense: intenseness of desire
word: eagerness
sense: intenseness of desire
word: alacrity
sense: intenseness of desire
word: enthusiasm
sense: intenseness of desire
word: liveliness
avie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more avie
form: most avie
Etymology: From French à l'envie.
Senses: glosses: emulously
avifauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avifaunas
form: avifaunae
Etymology: From New Latin, from Latin avis (“bird”) + New Latin fauna (“animals”), from Latin Faunus (“god of herdsmen”).
Senses: glosses: The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.
Related terms: avifaunal
Avignon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈævɪnjɒn/
Etymology: Borrowed from French Avignon, Occitan Avinhon.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Related terms: Avignon berry
Avignon berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Avignon berries
Etymology: Named after Avignon in France.
Senses: glosses: The fruit of rock buckthorn, or Avignon buckthorn, of the species Rhamnus saxatilis, Rhamnus infectorius, and others of the same genus, used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow.
Synonyms: French berry
Persian berry
avile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aviles
form: aviling
form: aviled
form: aviled
Senses: examples: text: Want makes us know the price of what we avile.
ref: 1610, Ben Jonson, Prince Henry's Barriers:
glosses: To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
avise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: avises
form: avising
form: avised
form: avised
Senses: examples: text: Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched bee,
Auise thee well, and chaunge thy wilfull mood,
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 282:
text: Be auis’d sir, and passe good humours:
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of advise.
Derived terms: aviseful
misavise
aviseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aviseful
form: most aviseful
Etymology: From avise + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of adviceful.
avisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avisements
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of advisement.
avision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avisions
Etymology: From Middle English avisioun, from Old French avision.
Senses: examples: text: When the Emperour with great humilitie had thus earnestly prayed, the same night after, by the great mercy of God, an auision was shewed vnto hym to his comforte. Wherin it séemed, that [302] béeing solemnly cited to appere, he heard a voyce from heauen, as it were of oure Lorde Iesus Chryst, saying: Bring me hither Mauricius.
ref: 1572, Edward Cradock, The shippe of assured safetie, page 460:
text: Obelisci or Pyramids[…]The First of them was instituted by Mitres[…]being commanded by avision to make it[…]
ref: a. 1581, Polydore Vergil, translated by Thomas Langley, De rerum inventoribus, published 1686, page 90:
text: 26. After which therefore the Eternal willing of the Abyss of the Deity hath pleased to Long, from whence the divine Imagination hath existed, so that the Abyssal will of the Deity, hath thus from Eternity, in the Imagination, with the power of the Avision or Aspect, or form of the Looking-Glass of Wonders, impregnated it self.
ref: 1659, Jakob Böhme, translated by John Sparrow, The fifth book of the authour, in three parts the first, Of the becoming man or incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Sonne of God, that is, concerning the Virgin Mary […] and how the Eternal word is become man: the second part is of Christ's suffering, dying, death, and resurrection […] : the third part is of The tree of Christian faith […] , part 2, chapter 3, page 132:
glosses: A vision of a prophetic or admonitory nature.
aviso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avisos
form: avisoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aviso (“advice”). Doublet of advice.
Senses: examples: text: I am not foot-poaſt, / No pedlar of Aviſo's, no monopoliſt / Of forged Corantos, monger of Gazets.
ref: c. 1638 May 13 (date licensed; Gregorian calendar), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Ladies Triall. […], London: […] E. G. for Henry Shephard, […], published 1639, →OCLC, Act I, signature B, recto:
glosses: Advisory; information; advice; intelligence.
glosses: A kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication; an advice boat, or dispatch boat.
glosses: A mid-sized colonial warship
Synonyms: adviso
avocat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avocats
Etymology: From French avocat (lawyer).
Senses: glosses: An advocate, a lawyer
avocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: avocates
form: avocating
form: avocated
form: avocated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin avoco, avocatus. Doublet of avoke.
Senses: examples: text: Stage-playes and dancing avocate and with-hold men from Gods worſhip
ref: 1632 (indicated as 1633), William Prynne, Histrio-mastix. The Players Scourge, or, Actors Tragædie, […], London: […] E[lizabeth] A[llde,] [Thomas Cotes, Augustine Matthews] and W[illiam] I[ones] for Michael Sparke, […], →OCLC, 1st part, folio 539, verso:
text: for what is a scholar, but one who retireth his person, and avocateth his mind from other occupations and worldly entertainment
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “Sermon LIV”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume III, London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1831, →OCLC, page 346:
glosses: To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
Related terms: advocate
avocative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Calling off.
avocative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avocatives
Senses: glosses: That which calls aside; a dissuasive.
avoset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avosets
form: avocet
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of avocet.
Coordinate terms: sense: bird
word: Recurvirostra americana
avoidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɔɪdəbl̩/
Forms: form: more avoidable
form: most avoidable
Etymology: From avoid + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
examples: text: The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.
glosses: Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
Synonyms: sense: capable of being vacated
word: annullable
sense: capable of being vacated
word: voidable
sense: capable of being avoided
word: evitable
word: avertable
word: avoidable
word: dodgeable
word: escapable
word: evadable
word: fleeable
word: nonmandatory
word: nonobligatory
word: optional
word: preventable
word: preventible
word: resistible
word: skippable
Hypernyms: word: possible
Derived terms: avoidability
avoidableness
avoidably
nonavoidable
avoidable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɔɪdəbl̩/
Forms: form: avoidables
Etymology: From avoid + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Though Mrs Golson re-appeared regularly at the Twyborns', she was on my list of avoidables from the night of the corked moustache until she sprang upon us yesterday.
ref: 1980, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair, page 38:
glosses: Something that can or should be avoided.
avoidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɔɪdəns/
Forms: form: avoidances
form: avoidaunce
Etymology: From Middle English avoidaunce, from avoid + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
topics: law
glosses: The act of annulling; annulment.
glosses: The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant, specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
glosses: The act of dismissing a person.
glosses: The act of quitting a position or benefice.
examples: text: In the Upper Gallery too I wish that there may be, if the Place will yield it, some Fountains running in divers Places from the Wall, with some fine Avoidances.
ref: a. 1626, Francis Bacon, “XLV. Of Building”, in The essays, or councils, civil and moral […] with a table of the colours of good and evil, and a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients, published 1696, page 122:
glosses: The course by which anything (especially water) is carried off.
Derived terms: anti-avoidance
avoidance speech
avoision
chemoavoidance
cost avoidance
isoneuronal avoidance
nonavoidance
photoavoidance
taboo avoidance
tax avoidance
zone of avoidance
avoider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: avoiders
Etymology: From avoid + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.
glosses: One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
avoidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more avoidless
form: most avoidless
Etymology: From avoid + -less.
Senses: glosses: Unavoidable; inevitable.
avoirdupois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌævədəˈpɔɪz/
ipa: /ˌævwɑːdjuːˈpwɑː/
ipa: /ˌævɚdəˈpɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: avoirdupoises
form: averdupois
Etymology: From Middle English avoir de pois, aver de peis, haburdy poyse, haburdepays, haburdepeyse, from Old French aveir + de + peis (“asset of weight”), influenced by Middle French avoir + du + pois; compare French poids (“weight”).
Senses: glosses: The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300.
glosses: The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959.
examples: text: It seems humanly reasonable that the three of us can woman-handle a mere man of your elderly and insulting avoirdupois.
ref: 1915, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House:
text: The detective sergeant, who was called Munro, more than made up for Cullen's advance in the avoirdupois department. Lean to the point of emaciation, Munro was also a paragon of contemporary fashion. He was clad in a hideous brown suit […]
ref: 2012, Frank Lean, Boiling Point:
glosses: Weight; heaviness.
examples: text: From that mountain go men to the city of Thauriso that was wont to be clept Taxis, that is a full fair city and a great, and one of the best that is in the world for merchandise; thither come all merchants for to buy avoirdupois, and it is in the land of the Emperor of Persia.
ref: 1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, modernized spelling edition:
glosses: Merchandise.
Derived terms: avoirdupois ounce
avoirdupois pound
Related terms: AF
metric
troy weight
COIN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of counterinsurgency.
isiZulu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Isizulu
form: IsiZulu
Etymology: From Zulu isiZulu
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Zulu (“Zulu language”)
synonyms: word: Zulu
extra: Zulu language
adj.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjs.
form: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of adjective.
adj.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of adjustment.
glosses: Abbreviation of adjunct.
adj.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of adjacent.
glosses: Abbreviation of adjusted.
adv.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advv.
form: adv
form: ad.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of adverb.
c.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: In English law, in the sense of "chapter", a preservation of Latin capitulum or caput (“head; heading, chapter”).
Senses: examples: text: The document was written in the Middle Ages, c. 1250.
glosses: Abbreviation of circa.
c.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In English law, in the sense of "chapter", a preservation of Latin capitulum or caput (“head; heading, chapter”).
Senses: examples: text: By the statute 1 and 2 Phil. and Mary c. 12 (1554), no distress of cattle can be driven out of the hundred where taken unless to a pound within 3 miles of the place of seizure. Where cattle are impounded the impounder is bound to supply them with sufficient food and water (12 and 13 Vict. c. 92, and 17 and 18 Vict. c. 60)…
ref: 1885, "Pound" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XIX, p. 648
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of chapter or chapters.
glosses: Abbreviation of city.
glosses: Abbreviation of cancer.
glosses: Abbreviation of cent or cents.
examples: text: 17th c.
glosses: Abbreviation of century.
glosses: Abbreviation of cell phone.
examples: text: Published: 1913, c.1909
translation: (first print of this edition in 1909, reprinted in 1913)
english: (first print of this edition in 1909, reprinted in 1913)
glosses: Abbreviation of copyright.
æ
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Pronunciation: enpr: ă
note: Classical Latin approximation
ipa: [ae̯]
note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical approximation
ipa: [ɛː]
ipa: /a/
note: conservative Received Pronunciation; General American, Canada, General Australian
ipa: /æ/
ipa: /ɛ/
Forms: form: Æ
form: æs
form: æ's
Senses: synonyms: ae
e
glosses: The letter ash, a ligature of vowels a and e.
Related terms: ash
œ
ciel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ciels
form: cieling
form: cieled
form: cieled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ceil.
heavens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛvənz/
rhymes: -ɛvənz
Senses: examples: text: For what obſcured light the heauens did grant,[…]
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 66, column 2:
text: […]the Heauens, which are carryed in 24 houres from Eaſt to Weſt,[…]
ref: 1625, Nathanæl Carpenter, Geography delineated forth in two bookes, I iv 77:
text: The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.
ref: 1930 March, Nature, volume 179, number 2:
text: […]in an infinitely large universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed.
ref: 1981, E.R. Harrison, Cosmology, XII 250:
glosses: The distant sky of the sun, moon, and stars.
raw_tags: with 'the'
examples: text: Like the Buddhas, they [the Jains] believe that there is a plurality of heavens and hells;
ref: 1832, Charles Coleman, The Mythology of the Hindus, XIII 220:
text: Christ's coming from the heavens has entered into the life of humanity as the Founder of the world to come.
ref: 1906 July 30, Washington Post, 12 4:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: plural of heaven: the abode of God or the gods; the abode of the blessed departed.
glosses: plural of heaven: the near sky of the weather, etc.
examples: text: […]after that thou ſhalt haue knowen that the heauens doe rule.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 4:26, column 1:
glosses: plural of heaven the will of God or the gods, Providence.
Derived terms: heaven of heavens
heavens to Murgatroyd
the heavens open
the heavens opened
though the heavens fall