cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
best
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots best (“best”), Cimbrian peste, péste (“best”), Dutch best (“best”), German beste (“best”), Yiddish בעסט (best, “best”), Danish bedst (“best”), Faroese bestur (“best”), Icelandic bestur, beztur (“best”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk best (“best”), Swedish bäst (“best”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (batists, “best”).
Senses: examples: text: A popular aphorism says it best: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
text: Out of my ſight, thou Serpent, that name beſt
 Befits thee with him leagu'd, thy ſelf as falſe
 And hateful;
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, 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 867–869:
text: But had we beſt retire, I ſee a ſtorm?
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 65, line 1072:
text: He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small.
ref: 1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC:
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: superlative form of well: most well
examples: text: You'd best save a backup copy, just in case the morons lose the one that you sent and then try to act like you never sent one.
text: Had I not best go to her?
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
Related terms: word: best off
best
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: bests
Etymology: From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots best (“best”), Cimbrian peste, péste (“best”), Dutch best (“best”), German beste (“best”), Yiddish בעסט (best, “best”), Danish bedst (“best”), Faroese bestur (“best”), Icelandic bestur, beztur (“best”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk best (“best”), Swedish bäst (“best”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (batists, “best”).
Senses: examples: text: I did my best.
text: My personal best in that race is eighteen minutes, four seconds.
text: Home defender Per Mertesacker had to be at his best to stop a dangerous cross from Vassilis Torossidis reaching Djebbour, but moments later Arsenal doubled their lead through Santos.
ref: 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
examples: text: I was somewhat distant lately, and my lady promised me head every Tuesday of the week when I’m nice to her, so I better be on my best.
glosses: One's best behavior.
examples: text: Even the best of us makes mistakes, but only a few with the best of intentions...
text: We're (the) best of friends, who fortunately enjoy the best of health.
text: I love it so much! It's the best.
text: Mel Gussow reviews the bests of off off Broadway
ref: 1994, Otis L. Guernsey, Jeffrey Sweet, The Best Plays of 1993-1994, page vii:
text: But in true Cincinnati style, the bests consistently outnumber the worsts.
ref: 1995 October, Cincinnati Magazine, page 5:
text: There are the bests for each institution, the bests for coalitions, and, of course, the bests for the group as a whole.
ref: 2011, G. Edward Evans, Sheila S. Intner, Jean Riddle Weihs, Introduction to Technical Services, page 149:
text: If he's one of the bests, he should be fighting the bests, NOT the pipitsugins.
ref: 2013, Jesse Jose, Collections Of My Best And Most-Hated, "A Cup O' Kapeng Barako" Writings, page 209:
glosses: The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
Synonyms: word: all that and a bag of chips
word: antelope's cantaloupes
word: ant's pants
word: bee's knees
word: bollocks
word: cat's ass
word: cat's meow
word: cat's pajamas
word: cat's pyjamas
word: cat's whiskers
word: cream of the crop
word: crème de la crème
word: da bomb
word: dog's bollocks
word: dog's dangly bits
word: finger-lickin' good
word: finger-licking good
word: flea's eyebrows
word: fox's socks
word: greatest thing since sliced bread
word: gold standard
word: kitty's titties
word: llama's pajamas
word: mutt's nuts
word: ne plus ultra
word: spider's ankles
word: the bomb
word: the business
word: the shit
word: the tits
Derived terms: first best
hope for the best, prepare for the worst
level best
personal best
Related terms: word: good
word: excellent
best
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: bests
form: besting
form: bested
form: bested
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: best
form: best
form: bested
form: best
form: bested
form: bests
form: bested
form: best
form: bested
form: best
form: bested
form: best
form: -
form: besting
form: bested
Etymology: From Middle English beste, best, from Old English betst, betest, from Proto-Germanic *batistaz.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots best (“best”), Cimbrian peste, péste (“best”), Dutch best (“best”), German beste (“best”), Yiddish בעסט (best, “best”), Danish bedst (“best”), Faroese bestur (“best”), Icelandic bestur, beztur (“best”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk best (“best”), Swedish bäst (“best”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍃 (batists, “best”).
Senses: glosses: To surpass in skill or achievement.
examples: text: The Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm left New York on May 3 [1904], at 3.10 p.m. and reached Plymouth Sound on May 9 at 8 a.m. This was then a very fast crossing of the Atlantic, but it was not the record. The same ship had held the "Blue Riband" in 1902, but had been slightly bested by the Kaiser Wilhelm II, a larger vessel of the same line, in 1903, and that stood as the record until the Cunard Line secured the honours in 1909 with the Mauretania and held them for an unbroken period of 20 years.
ref: 1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, pages 201–202:
text: "You did not win because I was sloppy. You bested me, Uncle. I've never seen you fight like that before.”
ref: 2010, T. William Phillips, Restless Heart, page 16:
glosses: To beat in a contest.
Derived terms: word: unbested
word: all for the best
word: all the best
word: as best one can
word: at best
word: best of the best
word: for one's best
word: get the best of
word: had best
word: have the best of
word: make the best of
word: the best part of
english: of them
translation: of them
word: with the best
Related terms: better
bestest
best
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: Shortening of had best
Senses: examples: text: It's getting late. You best get on home.
text: 'We best be going,' she said, looking at the clock.
ref: 1935, Edward Joseph O'Brien, John Cournos, editors, The Best British Short Stories of 1935, page 37:
text: Brother, you best be gone when I return.
ref: 2010, Mary B. Morrison, Somebody's Gotta Be On Top:
glosses: Had best.
pyrotechnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpaɪɹoʊˈtɛknɪk/
Etymology: From Latin pyrotechnica, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “skillful, workmanlike”). Analyzable as pyro- + technic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to fireworks.
glosses: Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.
examples: text: They had spent much of June and July walking about the plateau near Poronin and discussing Kuba’s pyrotechnic schemes for making money. Possibly because of his bourgeois origins, Hanecki had a remarkable financial flair, and extraordinary grasp of money matters—a quality as valuable as it was rare in a revolutionary.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 178:
text: [T]he Weston clan, whose dysfunctions are pyrotechnic in their scale and intensity.
ref: 2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: Resembling fireworks.
glosses: Of or relating to pyrotechny.
Derived terms: pyrotechnic composition
pyrotechnic initiator
pyrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From pyro- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An fear or hatred of fire or flames.
Synonyms: arsonphobia
Derived terms: pyrophobic
pyro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: pīʹrō
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ɹoʊ/
Forms: form: pyr-
Etymology: From Latin pyr, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Senses: glosses: Fire, heat.
glosses: Fever.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Orthoacid.
Related terms: pyracanth
pyracantha
pyracanthus
pyre
pyrene
pyretic
pyro
pyrography
pyro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ɹoʊ/
rhymes: -aɪɹəʊ
Forms: form: pyros
Etymology: Shortening of a word starting with pyro-, ultimately from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Senses: glosses: A pyromaniac.
glosses: Pyrocellulose.
glosses: A pyrotechnician.
glosses: Pyrotechnics.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Pyrogallol, pyrogallic acid.
pyro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ɹoʊ/
rhymes: -aɪɹəʊ
Forms: form: more pyro
form: most pyro
Etymology: Shortening of a word starting with pyro-, ultimately from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).
Senses: glosses: Pyromaniac, pyromaniacal.
examples: text: “I had told the guy a couple of weeks earlier that the pyro flames were getting too close,” he laughs.
ref: 2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 24, column 4:
glosses: Pyrotechnic.
Related terms: pyromania
Latin America
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of French Amérique latine. Thought to be coined by French Emperor Napoleon III.
Senses: glosses: Those parts of the Americas which speak Romance (Latin-derived) languages, namely Spanish, Portuguese, French, or creoles based on these.
raw_tags: in practice rare
examples: text: Young Indians looking for work opportunities have made up a sizeable portion of undocumented migrants in the US, many after making the dangerous trek through Latin America to reach the US southern border.
ref: 2025 February 7, Esha Mitra, Aishwarya S Iyer and Ross Adkin, “‘Treated like criminals’: Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage against Trump”, in CNN:
qualifier: most often
glosses: A continental region consisting of those parts of the Americas located south of the United States where Spanish or Portuguese is predominantly spoken; sometimes including areas speaking French or French-based creoles.
qualifier: by narrowing
glosses: Ibero-America (excluding all French-speaking areas).
qualifier: by broadening
glosses: umbrella term for South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean (including English and Dutch-speaking areas).
Related terms: latino
Latin American
Central America
Ibero-America
North America
South America
Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Petrograd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Петрогра́д (Petrográd). The portion Петро (Petro, “Petros”), from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros) and German Peter, from Dutch Pieter, from Sankt Pieter (“Saint Peter”), from Apostle Peter and Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia and then Emperor. The portion град (grad, “city”), from German Burg (“city, castle”), from Dutch burch (“town, fortress”). Петрогра́д (Petrográd, “Petrograd”) from German Sankt Petersburg (“Санкт-Петербургъ (Sankt-Peterburg)”), from Dutch Sankt-Pieter-Burch (“Сант-Питер-Бурхъ (Sant-Piter-Burx)”), the Russian city was named in Dutch instead of Russian by Peter the Great.
Senses: synonyms: Leningrad
Saint Petersburg
Sankt Petersburg
Saint Petersburgh
glosses: The former name, from 1914 (when Russia entered World War I) to 1924 (when Lenin died), of Saint Petersburg, a major city in Russia.
glosses: A region of Saint Petersburg city, Saint Petersburg, Northwest Russia district, European Russia, Russia.
Leningrad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛn.ɪnˌɡræd/
ipa: /ˈlɛn.ənˌɡræd/
ipa: /ˈlɛn.ɪnˌɡrɑd/
ipa: /ˈlɛn.ənˌɡrɑd/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ленингра́д (Leningrád), from Ле́нин (Lénin, “Lenin”) + град (grad, “city”). Named in honour of Vladimir Lenin.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Saint Petersburg: a major city in Russia, from the time of Lenin's death in 1924 until 1991.
glosses: An oblast of Russia, which surrounds, but no longer contains, Saint Petersburg, its former administrative centre.
Synonyms: Petrograd
Saint Petersburg
fealty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.əlti/
ipa: /ˈfiːlti/
rhymes: -iəlti
Forms: form: fealties
form: fielty
Etymology: From Middle English feaute, feute, from Anglo-Norman fëauté, fëuté, from Latin fidēlitās (“faithfulness”; “homage, fealty” in Medieval Latin), from fidēlis (“faithful”) + -tās (noun suffix); the modern form (for expected *feauty /ˈfjuːti/) is due to learned influence. Equivalent to obsolete feal + -ty. Doublet of fidelity.
Senses: examples: text: I doubt whether the most devoted fidelity would bear strict examination as to the short reposes even the most entire fealty permits itself.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 111:
text: And yet the war has come, full of double-crossing, internecine accusations of lying and incompetence, and a bitter cleavage into factions over the question of how much fealty should be shown to President Trump — and the extent to which Republicans should amplify his false argument that the election in this fast-changing Southern state was stolen from him.
ref: 2020 November 18, Richard Fausset, Jonathan Martin, “In Georgia, a Republican Feud With Trump at the Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In one recent video, he said the problem posed by a Russian military led by people who demand nothing but blind fealty would need to be dealt with — “or one day the Russian people will solve it themselves.”
ref: 2023 May 16, Paul Sonne, Anton Troianovski, “As Ukrainian Attack Looms, Putin Faces Setbacks and Disunity in Russian Forces”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: I think the central characteristic Trump seems to be looking for in all of the appointees we’ve seen so far is fealty to him.
ref: 2025, January, John Bolton, quoted in: Cameron Joseph, John Bolton says he’s faced Trump’s retribution. He worries what Kash Patel might do.,, in: The Christian Science Monitor, January 27 2025
synonyms: fidelity
allegiance
faithfulness
glosses: Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.
Related terms: fidelity
schwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shwä
ipa: /ʃwɑ/
ipa: /ʃwə/
ipa: /ʃwʌ/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ʌ
Forms: form: schwas
form: shwa
form: schwə
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schwa, from Hebrew שווא / שְׁוָא (shva, šəwā, “(mark indicating reduction or absence of a vowel)”), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫ̈ܘܰܝܳܐ (š'wayyā, literally “even, equal”), in Syriac a term for a sign consisting of two vertical dots used to separate parts of a sentence. Doublet of shva.
Senses: examples: text: The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.
ref: 1882, B. W. Wells, “The Ablaut in English”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, page 67:
text: However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]
ref: 2006 April 27, Sylvia Moosmüller, Theodor Granser, “The spread of Standard Albanian: An illustration based on an analysis of vowels”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 18, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: natural vowel
neutral vowel
coordinate_terms: a-schwa
e-schwa
schwar
schwi
schwu
glosses: An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter Ə/ə.
schwa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shwä
ipa: /ʃwɑ/
ipa: /ʃwə/
ipa: /ʃwʌ/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ʌ
Forms: form: schwas
form: schwaing
form: schwaed
form: schwaed
form: shwa
form: schwə
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schwa, from Hebrew שווא / שְׁוָא (shva, šəwā, “(mark indicating reduction or absence of a vowel)”), borrowed from Classical Syriac ܫ̈ܘܰܝܳܐ (š'wayyā, literally “even, equal”), in Syriac a term for a sign consisting of two vertical dots used to separate parts of a sentence. Doublet of shva.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To be reduced to schwa.
raw_tags: of a vowel sound
Derived terms: a-schwa ⟨ɐ⟩
e-schwa ⟨ə⟩
schwa deletion
schwa indogermanicum
schwaless
schwa primum
schwar ⟨ɚ⟩
⟨ɝ⟩
schwi ⟨ᵻ⟩
⟨ɨ⟩
schwu ⟨ᵿ⟩
⟨ɵ⟩
schwa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shwä
ipa: /ʃwɑ/
ipa: /ʃwə/
ipa: /ʃwʌ/
rhymes: -ɑː
rhymes: -ʌ
Forms: form: schwas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shva.
fuga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːɡə/
Forms: form: fugas
Etymology: From Italian fuga. Doublet of fugue.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A fugue.
vallum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæləm/
Forms: form: vallums
form: valla
Etymology: From Latin vallum. Doublet of wall comes from this word via a Proto-Germanic borrowing from Latin.
Senses: glosses: A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The eyebrow.
Related terms: vallar crown
wynn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: win
homophone: Nguyen
Forms: form: wynns
form: wen
form: win
Etymology: From Middle English wynne, winne, wenne, wunne, wyn, from Old English wynn (“joy, pleasure; runes were named using words beginning with their sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂, from *wenh₁- (“desire, wish, love”).
Senses: examples: text: The Norman scribes gradually replaced wynn by u, uu, vv, and w itself.
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 175:
glosses: A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.
wikipedia: wynn
Related terms: eth
edh
eð
ð
thorn
þorn
þ
automobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbiːl/
ipa: /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/
ipa: /ˌɔː.tə.məˈbil/
ipa: /ˌɔː.təˈmoʊ.bil/
ipa: /ˈɑː.tə.məˌbil/
ipa: /ˈɑː.tə.məˈbil/
ipa: /ˈɑː.təˈmoʊ.bil/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔʈo.mɵˈbajl/
Forms: form: automobiles
Etymology: From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile.
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: see list of auto parts
text: Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.
ref: 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
synonyms: car
auto
motorcar
motor
hypernyms: motor vehicle
<
vehicle
coordinate_terms: truck
van
bus
coach
SUV
minivan
;
wagon
cart
trailer
tractor
;
aircraft
airplane
boat
ship
vessel
glosses: A type of motor vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load.
Synonyms: word: automobile
word: car
word: cah
word: devil wagon
word: horseless carriage
word: motor car
word: auto
word: ride
word: wheels
word: whip
Hypernyms: word: vehicle
Hyponyms: word: coupe
word: limousine
word: microcar
word: cabriolet
word: convertible
word: flivver
word: jalopy
word: slab
word: tin Lizzie
Meronyms: word: backseat
word: body
word: brake
word: chassis
word: dashboard
word: door
word: four-on-the-floor
word: gearbox
word: motor
word: seat
word: steering wheel
word: three-on-the-tree
word: tire
word: transmission
word: tyre
word: wheel
word: window
Derived terms: antiautomobile
automobile battery
automobile car
automobile graveyard
automobileless
automobile racing
automobilery
automobile-weed
automobiliana
automobilism
automobilist
automobility
automobilization
automobilize
automocar
Related terms: word: automatic
word: automotive
word: old car
word: :Category:Auto parts
automobile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbiːl/
ipa: /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/
ipa: /ˌɔː.tə.məˈbil/
ipa: /ˌɔː.təˈmoʊ.bil/
ipa: /ˈɑː.tə.məˌbil/
ipa: /ˈɑː.tə.məˈbil/
ipa: /ˈɑː.təˈmoʊ.bil/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔʈo.mɵˈbajl/
Forms: form: automobiles
form: automobiling
form: automobiled
form: automobiled
Etymology: From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile.
Senses: examples: text: The misguided youngsters are yachting, attending the races, playing the "stage Johnny," automobiling, playing poker for high stakes, overliving at home, on expensive shopping tours, attending box parties to the theatre, visiting high-priced restaurants, etc., etc.
ref: 1909, “"How Can He Do It?"”, in Notions and Fancy Goods, volume 43, page 30:
glosses: To travel by automobile.
automobile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbiːl/
ipa: /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/
ipa: /ˌɔː.tə.məˈbil/
ipa: /ˌɔː.təˈmoʊ.bil/
ipa: /ˈɑː.tə.məˌbil/
ipa: /ˈɑː.tə.məˈbil/
ipa: /ˈɑː.təˈmoʊ.bil/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔʈo.mɵˈbajl/
Etymology: From French automobile, from Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós, “self”) + French mobile (“moving”), from Latin mōbilis (“movable”), equivalent to auto- (“self”) + mobile.
Senses: examples: text: As early as 1898 I proposed to representatives of a large manufacturing concern the construction and public exhibition of an automobile carriage which, left to itself, would perform a great variety of operations involving something akin to judgment.
ref: 1919, Nikola Tesla, My Inventions:
synonyms: autokinetic
glosses: Self-moving; self-propelled.
edh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛð
Forms: form: edhs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eth.
arme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of arm.
arme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: armes
form: arming
form: armed
form: armed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of arm.
lid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
ipa: /lɛd/
Forms: form: lids
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).
Senses: glosses: The top or cover of a container.
examples: text: “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: A cap or hat.
glosses: One ounce of cannabis.
examples: text: Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.
ref: 2001, realsurf.com message board:
text: the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders
ref: 2003 August, Kneelo Knews:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An operculum or other lid-like cover.
glosses: A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
glosses: In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
examples: text: But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 2:
text: Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth[…].
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Clipping of eyelid.
glosses: A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
examples: text: Basically he says that there is a lid on my organization and on my future, and that lid is me. I am the problem with my company and you are the problem with your company.
ref: 2011, Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership, page 11:
glosses: A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
Derived terms: blow one's lid
blow the lid off
bootlid
call a lid
decklid
delid
earlid
eyelid
flip one's lid
flip the lid
flip your lid
keep a lid on
keep the lid on something
someone
lidder
lidful
lidless
lid-lifter
lidlike
lidlock
lift the lid
potlid
put a lid on it
put the lid on
put the tin lid on it
skid lid
Sutton Hoo purse-lid
there is a lid for every pot
there's a lid for every pot
tin lid
trunklid
lid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
ipa: /lɛd/
Forms: form: lids
form: lidding
form: lidded
form: lidded
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).
Senses: antonyms: unlid
glosses: To put a lid on (something).
Derived terms: unlid
unicorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːnɪkɔːn/
ipa: /ˈjunɪkɔɹn/
Forms: form: unicorns
form: unicorning
form: unicorned
form: unicorned
Etymology: From Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, and their source, Latin ūnicornis, from ūnus (“one”) + cornū (“horn”).
Other senses from either rarity (e.g., possessing multiple skills) or by physical resemblance to having a horn (e.g., howitzer). The finance sense was coined by American investor Aileen Lee and first used in a 2013 article.
Senses: examples: text: Katja*, 27, has unicorned on two separate occasions.
ref: 2017 January 13, E.J. Dickson, “This is why you haven't had a threesome yet”, in New York Post:
text: “In Annie’s unicorning, she’s really able to try out other people’s relationships and see how they function from within,” Gillespie tells me.
ref: 2017 September 16, Anna Fitzpatrick, “'The Ethical Slut': Inside America's Growing Acceptance of Polyamory”, in Rolling Stone:
text: “Everyone wants the party, but nobody likes to plan,” explains Vixen Vu, a cam model who has been unicorning since she became sexually active.
ref: 2018 August 14, Allison Tierney, How to Be a Great Third in a Threesome:
text: Also, Dan speaks with a bisexual man, whose first attempt at unicorning (yes, we verbed the word "unicorn,") went poorly, mainly due to his straight couple maybe getting a little too drunky?
ref: 2019 September 10, “New Savage Lovecast: Dental Dams Spoiler Alert! (Nobody Uses Them.)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To participate in a sexual threesome as a bisexual addition to an established heterosexual couple.
examples: text: Since Waze, Soluto and Onavo, both Israeli startups, have had great exits in consumer tech, and Wix “unicorned” through its IPO.
ref: 2014 November 3, Itay Hod, “The Airbnb of Home-Cooked Meals”, in Daily Beast:
text: For eager investors looking to score in a future IPO, the eight still-private martech unicorns might be tempting. That list includes Domo, Slack, Sprinklr, Shopify, and EventBrite, all of which have “unicorned,” or surpassed the billion-dollar valuation mark, in the past year or two.
ref: 2015 April 30, John Koetsier, “29 martech unicorns: There are now almost 30 $1B+ marketing technology vendors”, in Venture Beat:
text: For instance, at the same time as Intercom was announcing its unicorning moment, a young Dublin tech company called Let's Get Checked (letsgetchecked.com) raised €10m in a funding round.
ref: 2018 April 1, Adrian Weckler, “Admit it: Irish tech is on the up”, in The Independent:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To exceed a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars, while solely backed by venture capitalists.
unicorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːnɪkɔːn/
ipa: /ˈjunɪkɔɹn/
Etymology: From Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, and their source, Latin ūnicornis, from ūnus (“one”) + cornū (“horn”).
Other senses from either rarity (e.g., possessing multiple skills) or by physical resemblance to having a horn (e.g., howitzer). The finance sense was coined by American investor Aileen Lee and first used in a 2013 article.
Senses: glosses: Having one horn.
glosses: Rare and hard to find.
Derived terms: unicornity
Related terms: alicorn
bicorne
blessing
monoceros
qilin
kirin
reem
tricorn
tricorne
caiman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.mən/
rhymes: -eɪmən
Forms: form: caimans
form: cayman
Etymology: From Spanish caimán or Portuguese caimão, from Kari'na acayouman.
Senses: examples: text: Caimans are reptiles that are closely related to their Central and South American neighbors, the alligators. Adult caimans are usually four to six feet (1.8 m) in length.
ref: 1995, Laurie Agopian, Extended Thematic Unit: Rain Forest, page 32:
text: 2002, International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Brown bear - Cheetah, 3rd Edition, page 358,
The caimans are found in South America, mainly in the Amazon basin, with one species extending into the southern part of Mexico and another reaching northern parts of Argentina.
text: Newly hatched caimans eat insects. Young caimans are eaten by Jabirus, Wood Storks, Great Egrets, and raccoons. Adult caimans have no predators except human poachers.
ref: 2010, Carrol L. Henderson, Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, page 164:
qualifier: strictly
glosses: Any of the relatively small crocodilians of the genus Caiman, within the family Alligatoridae.
glosses: A crocodilian of the subfamily Caimaninae, which includes the very large black caiman.
glosses: A semi-aquatic lizard, of the genus Dracaena, found in South America. To differentiate from caimans, they are referred to as caiman lizards.
Derived terms: caiman lizard
Cayman Islands
Cuvier's dwarf caiman
spectacled caiman
yacare caiman
Related terms: alligator
gator
crocodile
croc
gavial
gharial
dragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drăg'ən
ipa: /ˈdɹæɡən/
ipa: /ˈdɹæɡɪn/
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈdɹeɪɡən]
rhymes: -æɡən
Forms: form: dragons
form: dwagon
Etymology: Derived from drag queen.
Senses: examples: text: May 2017 Michael Connelly shares excerpt from The Late Show
Ballard felt her phone vibrate in her hand and turned away from the nurse. She saw a return text from Mendez. She read his answer out loud to Jenkins. “‘Ramona Ramone, dragon. Real name Ramón Gutierrez. Had him in here a couple weeks back. Priors longer than his pre-op dick.’ Nice way of putting it.” “Considering his own dimensions,” Jenkins said. Drag queens, cross-dressers, and transgenders were all generally referred to as dragons in vice. No distinctions were made. It wasn’t nice but it was accepted.
text: October 2017 Drag Star VIZIN is back with new single Blasting News
My favorite part was probably the ‘de-dragging.’ Taking the Dragon off (that’s what I call her) is always my favorite. In all honesty, the entire experience was amazing and I wouldn’t change it for the world. Being felt up by Michael Silas wasn’t bad either...
text: Yes. Butt shots. Everybody can't afford lipo and fat transfers. Especially dragons. So if they want to pay me top dollar to pump their ass up that's what I'm gonna do, and you've benefited from it.
ref: December 2017 Miss Lawrence as Miss Bruce, "Climax" Star episode 21
glosses: A man who does drag or crossdresses, or sometimes by extension a male-to-female transgender person.
skid lid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skid lids
Senses: glosses: motorcycle helmet
gar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑː/
ipa: /ɡɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: gars
Etymology: Clipping of garfish.
Senses: examples: text: Gars are long, slender, predatory fishes of quiet waters east of the Rockies.
ref: 1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
glosses: A garfish, Belone belone.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Atractosteus spatula
word: alligator gar
taxonomic: Atractosteus spp.
word: broadhead gar
taxonomic: Atractosteus tristoechus
word: Cuban gar
taxonomic: Lepisosteus platyrhincus
word: Florida gar
word: freshwater gar (Xenentodon cancila
taxonomic: Lepisosteidae spp.
word: garfish
taxonomic: Lepisosteidae spp.
word: garpike
taxonomic: Atractosteus spatula
word: gator gar
taxonomic: Scomberesox scombroides
word: king gar
taxonomic: Lepisosteus osseus
word: longnose gar
taxonomic: Lichnochromis acuticeps
word: Malawi gar
taxonomic: Lepisosteus osseus
word: needle-nose gar
taxonomic: Makaira nigricans
word: ocean gar
taxonomic: Lepisosteus platostomus
word: shortnose gar
taxonomic: Strongylura maritima
word: silver gar
taxonomic: Lepisosteus spp.
word: slender gar
taxonomic: Lepisosteus oculatus
word: spotted gar
taxonomic: Atractosteus tropicus
word: tropical gar
gar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑː/
ipa: /ɡɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: gars
form: garring
form: gart
form: gart
Etymology: From Middle English garren, gerren, from Old Norse gera, gerva (Swedish göra, Danish gøre), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną. Compare yare; but also Old Cornish gorra (“put, place, set”).
Senses: examples: text: I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:
text: Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15:
glosses: To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).
Related terms: atgar
by gar
skid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: skids
Etymology: From Middle English *skid, from Old Norse skíð (“a billet of wood, a beam or plank on which something rests”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, clapboard”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey-t-, *skey- (“to split, divide, separate”). Cognate with English shide, from Middle English schyd, schyde, schide (“plank, beam”), German Scheit (“piece of wood, log”). Doublet of ski.
Senses: examples: text: Just before hitting the guardrail the driver was able to regain control and pull out of the skid.
glosses: An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
synonyms: drag
skidpan
glosses: A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
glosses: A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
examples: text: In the hours before daylight he sharpened the skids and tightened the lashings to prepare for the long dogsled journey.
glosses: A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
A runner of a sled.
examples: text: Due to frequent arctic travel, the plane was equipped with long skids for snow and ice landings.
glosses: A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
examples: text: He unloaded six skids of boxes from the truck.
glosses: A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
examples: text: His head was away up in the shadows of lifeboats that stood on skids above the deck.
ref: 1897, Joseph Conrad, Niger of the Narcissus:
text: If the boat had been further out, we could not get to work at the wheel without beaching her further up; or either dry docking her or putting her on skids.
ref: 1882, New York Court of Appeals:
glosses: A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
examples: text: The team snapped a 3-game skid with a win over their biggest rival.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A losing streak.
Derived terms: antiskid
front-wheel skid
hit the skids
Murphy-Lane bone skid
non-skid
on the skids
skid car
skidder
skid flip
skid lid
skid loader
skid mark
skid road
skid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: skids
form: skidding
form: skidded
form: skidded
Etymology: From Middle English *skid, from Old Norse skíð (“a billet of wood, a beam or plank on which something rests”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, clapboard”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey-t-, *skey- (“to split, divide, separate”). Cognate with English shide, from Middle English schyd, schyde, schide (“plank, beam”), German Scheit (“piece of wood, log”). Doublet of ski.
Senses: glosses: (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
examples: text: They skidded around the corner and accelerated up the street.
glosses: To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
examples: text: Don't use excessive rudder when turning, especially at low airspeed, as this causes your plane to skid through the turn, which can cause you to very rapidly enter a spin if the inner wing stalls.
text: Because of the jammed ailerons, the pilot had to use careful rudder inputs to skid his plane in order to turn it so he could get lined up with the runway.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
glosses: To protect or support with a skid or skids.
glosses: To cause to move on skids.
examples: text: The horses stopped to breathe again, and the guard got down to skid the wheel for the descent, and open the coach-door to let the passengers in
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “The Mail”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 4:
glosses: To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
Derived terms: skid row
skid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: skids
Etymology: Shortening of stepkid.
Senses: glosses: A stepchild.
skid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: skids
Etymology: Shortened from script kiddie, probably via skiddie.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is something that differentiates an elite hacker from skids (script kiddies).
ref: 2022, Anas Zakir, Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics, page 105:
glosses: A script kiddie.
skid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: skids
form: skidding
form: skidded
form: skidded
Etymology: Shortened from script kiddie, probably via skiddie.
Senses: glosses: To steal or copy, especially computer code.
skid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: skids
Senses: glosses: A sovereign (old coin).
centaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.tɔː/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.tɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.tɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɛntɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: centaurs
form: Centaur
Etymology: From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kéntauros), from Κένταυρος (Kéntauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: hippocentaur
glosses: A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.
examples: text: This was not Kasparov's approach. Instead of rejecting the machines, he returned the year after his defeat to Deep Blue with a different kind of chess, which he called ‘Advanced Chess’. Other names for Advanced Chess include ‘cyborg’ and ‘centaur’ chess.
ref: 2018, James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology, Knowledge and the End of the Future, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 159:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A chess-playing team comprising a human player and a computer who work together.
examples: text: The first—termed “cyborgs” by the authors—intertwined with the AI, moulding, checking and refining its responses, while the second—“centaurs”—divided labour, handing off more AI-suited subtasks while focussing on their own areas of expertise.
ref: 2023 November 11, John Burn-Murdoch, “Generative AI and white-collar jobs: reasons to be wary”, in FT Weekend, The FT View, page 8:
text: Programming has not yet gone the way of chess. But the centaurs have arrived. GPT-4 on its own is, for the moment, a worse programmer than I am. Ben is much worse. But Ben plus GPT-4 is a dangerous thing.
ref: 2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
text: A centaur goes in circles if the human half doesn’t know what it’s doing. That’s where the panic over pedagogy comes in.
ref: 2025 October 26, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Age of De-Skilling”, in The Atlantic:
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: A human and an AI who work together.
Derived terms: centaurdom
centauresque
centauress
centaurette
centaurial
centaurian
centauric
centauroid
ichthyocentaur
onocentaur
taur
Related terms: faun
hippotaur
horseman
minotaur
satyr
mensch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛnʃ
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: mensches
form: menschen
form: mensh
form: mentsch
form: mentsh
form: mentch
form: mench
Etymology: From Yiddish מענטש (mentsh, “an honorable person”), from Middle High German mensch, mensche, mennische, from Old High German mennisko (“man, human being”), from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”). The spelling mensch was influenced by German Mensch; compare the alternative spellings. Doublet of mennish; compare also mense. For the semantics, compare Latin humanē (“kindly, courteously”), English humane.
Senses: examples: text: […]Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch[…]
ref: 1956, Allen Ginsberg, “America”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 33:
text: Doctor Dreyfuss [to C. C. Baxter]: Be a mensch!
ref: 1960, Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond, The Apartment:
text: Lionel Kessler, relaxing perhaps on a Louis Quinze day bed, garlanded all round with lines of beauty, seeing welcome proof that his clever maligned young friend was a mensch.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 428:
text: Where have all the mensches gone? The character of the administration reflects the character of the man at its head.
ref: 2006 February 20, Paul Krugman, “The Mensch Gap”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Olie Kolzig: Goalie for the Washington Capitals who spent most of 16 seasons between the pipes for the team until being released in 2008. Had the longest career of any Capital. Now plays for Tampa Bay. The ultimate mensch, in my book.
ref: 2008 December 28, George Solomon, “My Little Red Book”, in The Washington Post, page D01:
text: She was an Amerindian, and stout. She was a real mensch, […] a hard working person, who took pride in her job, which was to spray from an aerosol can a particular base.
ref: 2008, Dwight S. Huggins, Into the Greenhouse Vol. VI: Dreams, →ISBN:
glosses: A person (chiefly male) of strength, integrity, and honor or compassion.
glosses: A gentleman.
Derived terms: menschlike
menschy
polaris
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polari
Angkor Wat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑŋ.kɔɹ ˈwɑt/
Etymology: From Khmer អង្គរវត្ត (ʼɑɑʼɑngkɔɔ vŏət, “City of Temples”),
from អង្គរ (ʼɑɑʼɑngkɔɔ, “royal city”) + វត្ត (vŏət, “temple”),
from Sanskrit नगर + वाट (nagara + vāṭa, “city + enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: A complex of temples in Cambodia.