cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈfo̞ɹɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: /ˈfɑɹɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ
Forms: form: forages
Etymology: From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”).
Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food.
Senses: examples: text: “The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage, which he spread before the knight's charger.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, “[HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS?ID=LDIRAAAAYAAJ&PG=PA410&DQ=FORAGE ?]”, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: To invade the corn, and to their cells convey
The plundered forage of their yellow prey
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
examples: text: He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Mawhood completed his forage unmolested.
ref: 1803, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington:
text: ‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars: […]
ref: 1860 September, “A Chapter on Rats”, in The Knickerbocker, volume 56, number 3, page 304:
glosses: An act or instance of foraging.
glosses: The demand for fodder etc by an army from the local population.
Derived terms: forage cap
foragemaster
forage radish
hyperforage
Related terms: foray
forage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈfoɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈfo̞ɹɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: /ˈfɑɹɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ
Forms: form: forages
form: foraging
form: foraged
form: foraged
Etymology: From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”).
Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food.
Senses: examples: text: The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.
ref: 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 8, in The Deerslayer:
glosses: To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
examples: text: And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
examples: text: Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, “The Cabin of the ‘Flying Scud’”, in The Wrecker, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: To rummage.
glosses: Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.
Derived terms: forageable
foragement
forager
unforaged
foreign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈfɒɹən/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹən/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈfɔrɪn/
note: father-bother merger
ipa: /ˈfɑrɪn/
note: Indic
ipa: /-ɛ(j)n/
rhymes: -ɒɹən
rhymes: -ɒɹɪn
Forms: form: foreigns
form: forane
form: forraine
Etymology: From Middle English foreyn, forein, from Old French forain, from Vulgar Latin *forānus (“outsider, outlander”), from Latin forās (“outside, outdoors”) or forīs (“outside, outdoors”).
Displaced native Old English elþēodiġ (“foreign”) and now-dialectal English fremd, from Old English fremde (“strange, foreign”).
The silent -g- added perhaps by analogy with reign (compare also sovereign which was similarly altered).
Senses: examples: text: The messaging instructions come in two sets: one for domestics, another for the foreigns.
ref: 2011 August 30, “White House Extremely Worried About People Saying Dumb Stuff on 9/11”, in Gawker:
glosses: A foreign person
A foreigner: a person from another country.
glosses: A foreign person
An outsider: a person from another place or group.
glosses: A foreign person
A non-guildmember.
glosses: A foreign vehicle
A foreign ship.
examples: text: In the foreign switching lanes and we riding
[…]
A island I wanna live somewhere silent
I'm shining I'm bout to flood my neck with diamonds
Yeah I've been spitting facts these niggas lying
I'm driving stolens, foreigns, yeah I'm riding
ref: 2019 August 28, Yb Tak30ver, “Island”, 1:16:
glosses: A foreign vehicle
A foreign whip, a car produced abroad.
examples: text: Ful foule ys þat forreyne
Þat ys comoun for al certeyne.
ref: 1303, Richard Mannyng, Handlyng Synne, l. 7436 f:
synonyms: word: backhouse
word: backside
word: bog
word: boggard
word: boghouse
word: carsey
word: chamber foreign
word: common house
word: commons
word: Cousin John
word: craphouse
word: danna
word: draught
word: draught-house
word: dunnekin
word: dunny
word: earth closet
word: foreign
word: gang
word: gingerbread office
word: gong
word: gonghouse
word: House of Commons
word: house of ease
word: house of easement
word: house of office
word: issue
word: jacques
word: jakes
word: jakeshouse
word: johnny house
word: karzy
word: khazi
word: kocay
word: little house
word: long drop
word: longhouse
word: necessary
word: necessary house
word: necessary place
word: necessary vault
word: neddy
word: netty
word: outhouse
word: passage house
word: petty
word: petty-house
word: privy
word: privy house
word: purging place
word: retreat
word: shield
word: shithouse
word: shouse
word: siege
word: siegehouse
word: thunderbox
word: usual offices
word: vault
word: wardrobe
word: withdraught
glosses: An outhouse; an outdoor toilet.
glosses: A foreign area
An area of a community that lies outside the legal town or parish limits.
glosses: A foreign area
An area of a monastery outside its legal limits or serving as an outer court.
glosses: Short for various phrases, including foreign language, foreign parts, and foreign service.
native
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪtɪv/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈneɪtəv/
note: US, weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ˈneɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: natives
form: natiue
form: natyf
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif.
Senses: glosses: A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
examples: text: Mail trains are limited to first and second class passengers, but on the mixed trains third class is also provided, and this is patronised exclusively by natives.
ref: 1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:
text: Dr John Reid, a historian called to testify for Mr Marshall, distinguished between the fur trade at the truckhouses and a smaller scale trade between natives and settlers: "It seems that there were native persons who were selling small amounts […]"
ref: 2009, Alex M. Cameron, Power without Law: The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN:
text: As for the wars between natives and settlers, far from having “ceased,” they would continue well into the twentieth century, and over much the same things that had always sparked them—trade, land, and settler arrogance.
ref: 2013, James Ciment, Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It, Hill and Wang, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
raw_tags: in particular
glosses: A native speaker.
glosses: An oyster of species Ostrea edulis.
Synonyms: word: homeling
Derived terms: digital native
the natives are restless
Related terms: native cat
nativisation
nativity
nativization
nirvana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪəˈvɑːnə/
ipa: /nɪɹˈvɑnə/
ipa: /nɚˈvɑnə/
ipa: /nɚˈvænə/
ipa: /nɪɾˈʋɑːn(ə)/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: nirvanas
head_nr: 1
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from निस् (nis, “out”) + वा (vā, “to blow”), the second part cognate with Russian ве́тер (véter, “wind”), weather, vent and wind.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
head_nr: 2
glosses: Complete cessation of dukkha; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
examples: text: Welcome to this celebration of legal abortion. I wish January 22 meant more than that. The truth is that we are not winging our way to a state of nirvana for reproductive rights.
ref: 1988 February 7, Stephanie Poggi, “What's Choice Got To Do With It?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 5:
text: Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self.
ref: 2014 February 14, Bonnie Tsui, “The Self-Reflecting Pool”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2021:
head_nr: 2
qualifier: non-Buddhist
glosses: State of paradise; heightened or great pleasure or peace.
Derived terms: Beervana
goonvana
nerdvana
nirvana fallacy
nirvanic
nirvanol
parinirvana
sororal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹɔːɹ(ə)l/
ipa: /səˈɹɔɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin sororlbor.
English -al
English sororal
 PIE word
 *swésōr
Learned borrowing from Latin soror (“sister”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
Senses: synonyms: sororial
antonyms: nonsororal
unsisterlike
unsisterly
coordinate_terms: avuncular
filial
fraternal
grandfilial
grandmaternal
grandparental
grandpaternal
marital
maternal
materteral
nepotal
parental
paternal
uxorial
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a sister or sisters; sisterlike, sisterly.
examples: text: sororal nephew
glosses: Related through a sister.
Derived terms: nonsororal
sororally
sororal nephew
sororal niece
sororal polygyny
sororal twin
Related terms: sororate
sororial
sororially
sororicide
sorority
once removed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: once-removed
Senses: examples: text: Phil and Andre are first cousins once removed.
glosses: One generation apart.
Derived terms: first cousin once removed
Related terms: cousin
first cousin
quarry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkwɑɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɒɹi
Forms: form: quarries
form: currie
form: curry
Etymology: From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadrō (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).
Senses: examples: text: Michelangelo personally quarried marble from the world-famous quarry at Carrara.
text: Yet theſe are the men cry'd out againſt for ſchiſmaticks and ſectaries; as if, while the Temple of the Lord was building, ſome cutting, ſome ſquaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there ſhould be a ſort of irrationall men who could not conſider there muſt be many ſchiſms and many diſſections made in the quarry and the timber, ere the houſe of God can be built.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 32:
text: There have been found certain Cements under Earth, that are very ſoft, and yet taken forth into the Sun, harden as hard as Marble: There are alſo ordinary Quarries in Sommerſet-shire, which in the Quarry cut ſoft to any bigneſs, and in the Building prove firm, and hard.
ref: 1670, Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [Francis Bacon], “Century V”, in Sylva Sylvarum, or, A Natural History, in Ten Centuries. Whereunto is Newly Added, the History Natural and Experimental of [Life] and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life. Published after the Authors Death. By William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, One of His Majesties Chaplains. Whereunto is Added Articles of Inquiry, Touching Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. As also the Life of the Right Honorable Francis Bacon, Never Added to this Book before. [...] With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things Contained in the Ten Centuries, 9th and last edition, London: Printed by J[ohn] R[edmayne] for William Lee, and are to be sold by George Sawbridg [et al.], →OCLC, paragraph 850, page 183:
text: There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm […]
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
ref: 1954 August, H. M. Madgwick, “The Blaenau Festiniog Tunnel”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
Synonyms: delf
Derived terms: Quarry Bank
quarry car
quarry-faced
quarrylike
quarryman
quarry water
quarry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkwɑɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɒɹi
Forms: form: quarries
form: quarrying
form: quarried
form: quarried
form: currie
form: curry
Etymology: From Middle English quyrre, querre, quirre, from Anglo-Norman quiree (“entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward”) (influenced by cuir (“skin (of an animal)”), from Latin corium (“a hide”)), from coree (“entrails, viscera”), from Vulgar Latin corata (“entrails”), from Latin cor (“heart”).
Senses: examples: text: What's an Eternal Circulation of the ſame Things, as well as the ſame Steps, without Advancing one Inch of Ground towards his Journey's End, but Ixion in the Wheel? And all this while, with Cares, and Horrors at his Heart, like the Vultur that's Day and Night Quarrying upon Prometheus's Liver.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] VI. A Dog and a Shadow.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
quarry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈk(w)ɔɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkwɑɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɒɹi
Forms: form: quarries
form: currie
form: curry
Etymology: Alteration of quarrel (“diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window; square tile”).
Senses: examples: text: The boyes playing at ſtooleball, by chaunce broke a quarry of the glaſſe, whereupon he complayned to the Towneſhip, and either had, or did his utmoſt to haue the poor boy whipt, […]
ref: 1615, Anthony Nixon, The Scovrge of Corruption. Or A Crafty Knave Needs No Broker, London: Printed at London, for Henry Gosson, and William Houlmes, and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Pallace, →OCLC, page 20:
text: A window towards the eaſt (whoſe fractured quarries proclaimed the ravages of time) admitted a dim, ſhadowy light, over the whole manſion.
ref: 1767 April, “a pen” [pseudonym], “The Adventures of a Pen”, in William Phorson, editor, The Berwick Museum, or, Monthly Literary Intelligencer. Being a View of the History, Politics, and Literature of the Times. Forming an Universal Repository of Amusement and Instruction, volume III, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberlnd: Printed by W. Phorson, →OCLC, page 155:
glosses: A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
Derived terms: quarry light
quarry tile
once-removed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of once removed.
kibbutz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈbʊts/
ipa: /kɪˈbuːts/
ipa: /kiː-/
rhymes: -ʊts
rhymes: -uːts
Forms: form: kibbutzim
form: kibbutzes
Etymology: From Hebrew קִבּוּץ (kibúts), derived from the verb קָבַץ (kaváts, “to gather, collect, assemble”).
Senses: examples: text: The kibbutzim along the Gaza border have been socialist communes and some of the most tenacious bastions of the Israeli left. I know people from those kibbutzim who, after years of almost daily rocket attacks from Gaza, still clung to the hope of peace, as if to a religious cult.
ref: 2023 October 12, Yuval Noah Harari, “Israelis and Palestinians are facing their moment of greatest danger since 1948”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023:
glosses: A community, usually an agricultural one in Israel, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations.
Derived terms: kibbutzer
Related terms: kibbutznik
Michaelmas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪkəlməs/
Forms: form: Michaelmases
form: Mihilmas
Etymology: From Middle English Michelmasse, Myghelmesse; equivalent to Michael + -mas.
Senses: examples: text: To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […]
ref: 1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and Other Parts of England: Shewing how Great Savings may be Made in Housekeeping: … With Variety of Curious Matters … The Whole Founded on Near Thirty Years Experience, London: Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge; and B. Collins, bookseller, at Salisbury, →OCLC, page 157:
glosses: A Christian feast celebrated on the 29th of September in honour of the archangel Michael.
topics: education
law
glosses: Ellipsis of Michaelmas term.
Synonyms: Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels
Derived terms: word: Michaelmas blackbird
taxonomic: Aster amellus
word: Michaelmas daisy
word: Michaelmas term
word: Old Michaelmas Day
iff
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪf ən(d)ˈəʊn.li ɪf/
ipa: /ɪf ən(d)ˈoʊn.li ɪf/
Senses: examples: text: A rectangle is a square iff all four of its sides have the same length.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of if and only if.
Related terms: if
iff
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪf ən(d)ˈəʊn.li ɪf/
ipa: /ɪf ən(d)ˈoʊn.li ɪf/
Senses: examples: text: For iff the patient be aſhamed to diſcloſe hiſ wounde to the phyſician which knoweth it not , phyſicke can not helpe him.
ref: 1565, Thomas Stapleton, A Fortreſſe of the Faith &c., Ihon Laet, the 2. part. 112
glosses: Obsolete spelling of if.
cleistogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλειστός (kleistós, “closed”) + -gamy.
Senses: examples: text: In a species that produces fruits from self-pollination and from cross-pollination, self-pollinated fruits generally produce many more seeds than fruits produced from cross-pollination. This suggests the likelihood that cleistogamy arose in those species because cross-pollination was not always effective.
ref: 2001, Richard Dwight Porcher, Douglas Alan Rayner, A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina, University of South Carolina, page 47:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of flowers which do not open and are self-fertilized in the bud.
Derived terms: cleistogamic
cleistogamically
cleistogamous
cleistogamously
Related terms: cleistothecium
cleistopholine
heading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Etymology: From head + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of head
heading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Forms: form: headings
Etymology: From head + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: put the information under the "Advantages" heading
glosses: The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
qualifier: nautical and aeronautical
glosses: The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
glosses: Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
examples: http://undergroundcoal.com.au/fundamentals/01_process.aspx
Once access has been gained into the coal seam, workings are developed by mining a series of roadways (or headings). These roadways are tunnels largely, if not totally, within the seam, usually rectangular in shape though on occasions they may have an arched or even circular profile.
topics: business
mining
synonyms: roadway
glosses: A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
qualifier: flags
glosses: A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
Derived terms: double-heading
letterheading
nonheading
running heading
single-heading
subheading
subject heading
treble-heading
belong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈlɒŋ/
enpr: bĭ-lôngʹ
ipa: /bɪˈlɔŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈlɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: belongs
form: belonging
form: belonged
form: belonged
Etymology: From Middle English belongen, bilongen, from Middle English be- + longen (“to be fitting, be suitable”), from Old English langian (“to pertain to, suit”), equivalent to be- + long (“to belong”). Compare Saterland Frisian beloangje (“to attain, reach, meet”), Dutch belangen (“to concern”), German belangen (“to sue, concern”).
Senses: examples: text: Where does this book belong? It belongs on the top shelf.
synonyms: go
glosses: To have its proper place.
examples: text: You don’t belong here — get out.
synonyms: go
glosses: To have its proper place.
To be accepted in a group.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: I don’t belong to them!
synonyms: go
glosses: To have its proper place.
To be a part of a group.
examples: text: That house belongs to me.
text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.
ref: 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
glosses: To be part of, or the property of.
glosses: To be the spouse or partner of.
examples: text: Suppose x belongs to #92;mathbb#123;R#125;…
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: (followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol ∈ means belongs to.
examples: text: More evils belong us than happen to us.
ref: 1953, Ben Jonson, Timber: Or, Discoveries, page 70:
glosses: To be deserved by.
Derived terms: all your base are belong to us
belonger
belonginess
belonging
belongingness
belong
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈlɒŋ/
enpr: bĭ-lôngʹ
ipa: /bɪˈlɔŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈlɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: blung
form: b'longta
form: b'longa
form: belonga
form: blonga
Etymology: Compare Australian Kriol blanga, Bislama blong, Tok Pisin bilong, and Torres Strait Creole blong.
Senses: examples: text: Jim Campbell, Charlie, Dick, ... Fred, lubra b’longa him, me, thass all.
ref: 1915, E. R. Masson, Untamed Territory:
text: By an’ bye ’im grow ’m up make ’m good fella stockman b’longta you.
ref: 1936, M. & E. Durack, Chunuma:
text: Those who had persevered with the course and had acquired some skill were now almost deferentially called ‘Maban (expert) belonga clay’.
ref: 1977, N. Kolig, Playing Alonga Mud:
text: Them two bin help’m too, and that father blung to this one old Frank.
ref: 1986 December, Kowanyama News:
text: There’s the bloke that’s kill that feller, uncle belong you an me.
ref: 1986, B. Shaw, Countrymen:
text: Get that fire [wood] stacked up like that tree there, that high ... It wasn’t wood belong to that fire pile. Might be for station, or somebody else, you know.
ref: 1991, D. B. Rose, Hidden Histories:
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal; optionally followed by to; Australian Aboriginal; optionally followed by to
glosses: Of, belonging to.
dirigiste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪɹəˈʒist/
ipa: /dɪɹɪˈʒist/
Forms: form: more dirigiste
form: most dirigiste
form: dirigist
Etymology: Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“to direct, to steer”).
Senses: examples: text: The repeated crises in dirigiste systems are in essence crises of information since the abolition of the market leaves the central planner bereft of that economic knowledge which is required for harmony.
ref: 1982, Norman Barry, “The Tradition of Spontaneous Order”, in Literature of Liberty, volume 5, number 2, page 10:
text: Certainly, popular demands and the force of circumstances have already pushed the Biden administration towards a dirigiste programme of government-led recovery that has no real precedent since the 1960s.
ref: 2022, Jeremy Gilbert, Alex Williams, “Strange Times”, in Hegemony Now, London: Verso, →ISBN, part III:
glosses: Controlled or guided by a central authority, as in an economy.
Related terms: statist
dirigiste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪɹəˈʒist/
ipa: /dɪɹɪˈʒist/
Forms: form: dirigistes
form: dirigist
Etymology: Borrowed from French dirigiste, from diriger (“to run, to direct”), from Latin dirigere (“to direct, to steer”).
Senses: examples: text: Warren wants to centralize economic decisions, creating a Department of Economic Development — a top-down council of government dirigistes.
ref: 2019 July 1, David Brooks, “Moderates Have the Better Story”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An advocate or practitioner of dirigisme.
Related terms: dirigisme
definitely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛf.ɪ.nɪt.li/
ipa: /ˈdɛf.ə.nɪt.li/
ipa: /ˈdɛf.nɪt.li/
Forms: form: more definitely
form: most definitely
Etymology: From definite + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Joe definitely doesn't know how to drive a tractor.
text: She said she wasn't coming, definitely.
glosses: Without question and beyond doubt.
examples: text: It was really impossible on board that ship to get away definitely from Almayer
ref: 1912, Joseph Conrad, “Chapter IV”, in A Personal Record:
text: And the Nose definitely turned away.
ref: 1916, Nikolai Gogol, translated by Claud Field, The Nose, published 1836:
text: And these Elders were men of good standing in that community, and they swore definitely before the counsel that this lady committed this impropriety, and there was nobody to gainsay that, except the lady herself, […]
ref: 2003, Herbert Mitgang, Once Upon a Time in New York, page 187:
glosses: In a definite manner; decisively.
Synonyms: by all means
positively
Related terms: definitively
absolutely
Chinatown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃaɪnətaʊn/
enpr: chīʹnə-toun'
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪnəˌtaʊn/
Forms: form: Chinatowns
Etymology: From China + town.
Senses: examples: text: She grabbed his hand again and marched him under the fake Oriental archway that heralded the beginning of Chinatown.
ref: 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 185:
glosses: A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses.
glosses: By extension, such a district filled with stereotypical "Chinese" people, of East Asians and Southeast Asians.
Coordinate terms: Koreatown
Little Tokyo
Little Saigon
Little India
French Quarter
Latin Quarter
Derived terms: have got more chins than Chinatown
dreadlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛdlɒks/
ipa: /ˈdɹɛdˌlɑks/
Forms: form: dreadlock
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole dreadlocks, from dread (“of or relating to a dread”, adjective) (from dread (“(usually black) male member of the Rastafarian movement who wears his hair in dreadlocks”, noun), from English dread (“reverential or respectful fear; awe”), referring to the awe inspired by God) + English locks (plural of lock (“length or tuft of hair”)). The English word is analyzable as dread (“Rastafarian”, attributive) + locks.
Senses: examples: text: The patient history may point to the use of tight hairstyles that put tension on the hair root or hair treatments that increase the vulnerability to traction-related damage. The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
ref: 2021, Oma N. Agbai, Jodie Raffi, “Hair Loss in Women of Color”, in Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, editors, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations (Updates in Clinical Dermatology), Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 154, column 2:
synonyms: dreads
locks
glosses: A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings.
Derived terms: word: dreadhawk
word: dreadlocked
Related terms: brotherlocks
sisterlocks
braids
dreadlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛdlɒks/
ipa: /ˈdɹɛdˌlɑks/
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole dreadlocks, from dread (“of or relating to a dread”, adjective) (from dread (“(usually black) male member of the Rastafarian movement who wears his hair in dreadlocks”, noun), from English dread (“reverential or respectful fear; awe”), referring to the awe inspired by God) + English locks (plural of lock (“length or tuft of hair”)). The English word is analyzable as dread (“Rastafarian”, attributive) + locks.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dreadlock
dreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Forms: form: dreds
Etymology: Abbreviation of dreadlocks. Sense of “Rastafarian person” by synecdoche.
Senses: glosses: dreadlocks
Synonyms: dreadlocks
locks
Derived terms: dreadtalk
dready
dreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Forms: form: dreads
form: dreds
Etymology: Abbreviation of dreadlocks. Sense of “Rastafarian person” by synecdoche.
Senses: glosses: A Rastafarian person.
dreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Etymology: From dread + -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dread
locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒks/
ipa: /lɑks/
homophone: lox
Senses: glosses: plural of lock
locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒks/
ipa: /lɑks/
homophone: lox
Senses: glosses: A head of hair; tresses.
related: word: 'locs
word: locs
glosses: Dreadlocks.
Synonyms: sense: dreadlocks
word: dreads
Derived terms: brotherlocks
goldilocks
loctician
sisterlocks
locks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒks/
ipa: /lɑks/
homophone: lox
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lock
coenure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coenures
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Senses: glosses: the larva of Taenia coenurus, the canine tapeworm - causes staggers in sheep
lido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ.dəʊ/
ipa: /ˈliː.dəʊ/
rhymes: -aɪdəʊ
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: lidos
Etymology: After Lido (Lido di Venezia), an island with a long beach in Venice, Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), from Italian lido (“beach, shore”), from Latin litus (“shore”) (hence also English littoral (“of the shore”)). The name is aspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compare Venetian Pool, another outdoor pool named for Venice.
Senses: glosses: Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
glosses: An outdoor swimming pool.
Derived terms: lido deck
Related terms: Lido
boeuf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːf/
rhymes: -ɜːf
Forms: form: boeufs
Etymology: Borrowed from French bœuf (“ox”).
Senses: examples: text: Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VIII.] Of Scythian beasts, and those that are bred in the North parts.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, pages 199–200:
glosses: A bovine.
Related terms: sang de boeuf
Babylon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæb.ɪ.lɒn/
ipa: /ˈbæb.ɪ.lɑn/
ipa: /ˈbæb.ɪ.lɔn/
ipa: /ˈbɛb.ə.lɒn/
ipa: [ˈbɛb.ə.lɔ̟n]
rhymes: -æbɪlɒn
Etymology: Partially inherited from Old English Babilōn/Babȳlōn, partially from Latin Babylōn, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλών (Babulṓn), from Akkadian 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābilim, literally “Gate of God”); the name of the ancient Chaldean capital and Biblical city of the Apocalypse. Doublet of Babel.
Senses: examples: text: Standing afarre off for the feare of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great citie Babylon, that mighty citie: for in one houre is thy iudgement come.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 18:10:
glosses: An ancient city, the ancient capital of Babylonia in modern Iraq, built on the banks of the Euphrates.
glosses: A governate in Iraq.
examples: text: Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
glosses: Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion.
examples: text: When I was the first officer on the scene at a nightclub brawl, I was picked up by the throat and strangled by a huge Rastafarian who was trying to kill me. I was losing consciousness when Marlon told him to let me go.
I remember him saying, ‘She’s alright for Babylon. Put her down.’ He dropped me and I ran to the station with massive bruises around my neck.
ref: 2017 September 24, Emma Jones, “Crime, sexism and a near death experience - former police officer lifts the lid on the hidden secrets of the force”, in Daily Mirror:
glosses: The police.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A town and village therein, in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States.
Synonyms: topics: police
law-enforcement
word: police
Derived terms: Babylonia
Babylonian
Babylonize
Babylon the Great
Babylon willow
Whore of Babylon
vermiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈmɪk.jʊlˌeɪt/
ipa: /vəˈmɪk.jəlˌeɪt/
ipa: /vɜː-/
ipa: /vɚˈmɪk.jəlˌeɪt/
Forms: form: vermiculates
form: vermiculating
form: vermiculated
form: vermiculated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vermiculatus (“inlaid in wavy lines”), past participle of vermiculor (“to be full of worms or worm-eaten”), from vermiculus (“little worm”).
Senses: glosses: To decorate with lines resembling the tracks of worms.
vermiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈmɪk.jʊl.ət/
ipa: /vəˈmɪk.jəl.eɪt/
ipa: /vɜː-/
ipa: /vɚˈmɪk.jəlˌət/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊleɪt
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlɪt
Forms: form: more vermiculate
form: most vermiculate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vermiculatus (“inlaid in wavy lines”), past participle of vermiculor (“to be full of worms or worm-eaten”), from vermiculus (“little worm”).
Senses: glosses: Like a worm; resembling a worm.
glosses: Vermiculated.
dread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drĕd
ipa: /dɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: dreads
form: dreading
form: dreaded
form: dreaded
Etymology: From Middle English dreden, from Old English drǣdan (“to fear, dread”), aphetic form of ondrǣdan (“to fear, dread”), from Proto-West Germanic *andarādan, equivalent to Old English and- + rǣdan (whence read); corresponding to an aphesis of earlier adread.
Akin to Old Saxon antdrādan, andrādan (“to fear, dread”), Old High German intrātan (“to fear”), Middle High German entrāten (“to fear, dread, frighten”).
Senses: glosses: To fear greatly.
examples: text: I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.
text: Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 105:
glosses: To anticipate with fear.
examples: text: Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 1:29:
glosses: To be in dread, or great fear.
glosses: To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
Derived terms: a burnt child dreads the fire
the burnt child dreads the fire
dreadable
dreadingly
dreadly
dreadworthy
fordread
indread
misdread
undreading
dread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: drĕd
ipa: /dɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: dreader
form: dreadest
Etymology: From Middle English drede, dredde, dradde, ydreddyd (“feared, dreaded, honoured”), past participle of Middle English dreden (“to fear, dread”). See above.
Senses: examples: text: With cat-like tread / Upon our prey we steal / In silence dread / Our cautious way we feel
ref: 1879, Arthur Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan:
text: I even remember thinking that no human being would go down that dread path again.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: 1980, Donald Fagen; Walter Becker (lyrics and music), "Glamour Profession" in Gaucho, track 3: "Jack with his radar / Stalking the dread moray eel"
glosses: Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
examples: text: The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles [I], by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […] [book title]
ref: 1633, John Hay, editor, The Acts Made in the First Parliament of our Most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.: Holden by Himselfe, Present in Person, with His Three Estates, at Edinburgh, upon the Twentie Eight Day of Iune, Anno Domini 1633, Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, →OCLC:
glosses: Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
Derived terms: dreadly
dreadness
Related terms: dreadlocks
dreadnought
shinjitai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinjitai
Etymology: Transliteration from Japanese 新(しん)字(じ)体(たい) (shinjitai).
Senses: examples: text: However, when a traditional “correct” radical has been obscured by the postwar adoption of a simplified form (shinjitai), that radical is simply ignored.
ref: 1992, The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, volume 26, issue 1, page 47:
coordinate_terms: kyūjitai
glosses: The simplified form of Japanese kanji used after 1947.
wikipedia: shinjitai
Derived terms: extended shinjitai
vast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: väst
ipa: /vɑːst/
ipa: /vast/
ipa: /væst/
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -ɑːst
Forms: form: vaster
form: more vast
form: vastest
form: most vast
Etymology: From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
Senses: examples: text: The Sahara desert is vast.
text: There is a vast difference between them.
text: They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement.
ref: 2022 December 30, Gregory Wallace, “Insiders at Southwest reveal how the airline’s service imploded”, in CNN:
glosses: Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
examples: text: The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 136:
text: Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
text: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
ref: 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2013, page 172:
glosses: Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
examples: text: the empty, vast, and wandering air
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
vast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: väst
ipa: /vɑːst/
ipa: /vast/
ipa: /væst/
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -ɑːst
Forms: form: vasts
Etymology: From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
Senses: examples: text: they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: A vast space.
Derived terms: ultravast
vastly
vast majority
vastness
belonging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈlɑŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋɪŋ
Forms: form: belongings
Etymology: From belong + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I have a feeling of belonging in London.
text: A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
glosses: The feeling that one belongs.
examples: text: Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.
text: […] Thyself and thy belongings
Are not thine own so proper as to waste
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.
ref: 1939 April 14, John Steinbeck, chapter 9, in The Grapes of Wrath, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 88:
text: Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch […]
ref: 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, published 1992, Part I, p. 22:
synonyms: possession
thing
glosses: Something physical that is owned.
examples: text: When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.
ref: 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], chapter XXXIII, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 322:
text: As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.
ref: 1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part II, page 121:
glosses: Family; relations; household.
Derived terms: belongingly
belongingness
nonbelonging
belonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈlɒŋɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈlɔŋɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈlɑŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English belonginge, belanging, belangand, equivalent to belong + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belong