cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bean curd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean curds
Etymology: Loose calque of Chinese 豆腐 (dòufu), from Middle Chinese 豆 (duwᴴ, “bean”) + 腐 (bju^X, “rotten, fermented”).
Senses: glosses: Tofu.
beancurd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beancurds
Senses: examples: text: King Chef (2F Main Mall, 0932 323 1871) serves healthy food and authentic Cantonese cuisine in a fine dining setup. For Father's Day, treat the whole family to its dim sum platters! It has a roasted platter which includes soyed chicken, roast duck, barbecued pork asado, fried five-spice roll, and soyed cucumber with century egg. Another option is the steamed dim sum platter, where you can devour a spread of hakaw, pork & shrimp siomai, Japanese siomai, beancurd roll, and Taosi spareribs.
ref: 2022 June 18, “Go on a Binondo food trip this Father's Day at Lucky Chinatown”, in Manila Bulletin, Manila: Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2022:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bean curd.
interlude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)luːd/
ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ljuːd/
Forms: form: interludes
form: enterlude
Etymology: Latin inter- (“between”) + ludo (“to play”)
Senses: glosses: An intervening episode, etc.
examples: text: [O]ur ovvne Statutes […] preciſely prohibit the ſatyricall depraving, traducing, or derogation of the Common Prayer-Booke, and of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in any Enterludes, Playes or Rimes, (in vvhich kinde Playes had been formerly peccant) under ſevere penalties.
ref: 1632 (indicated as 1633), William Prynne, “Actus 3, Scena Sexta”, in Histrio-mastix. The Players Scourge, or, Actors Tragædie, […], London: […] E[lizabeth] A[llde,] [Thomas Cotes, Augustine Matthews] and W[illiam] I[ones] for Michael Sparke, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 123:
glosses: An entertainment between the acts of a play.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition.
Derived terms: interluder
interludial
Quaalude
interlude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)luːd/
ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ljuːd/
Forms: form: interludes
form: interluding
form: interluded
form: interluded
Etymology: Latin inter- (“between”) + ludo (“to play”)
Senses: examples: text: Jimmy Jam, co-producer of Ms. Jackson’s heavily interluded and influential 1989 album, “Rhythm Nation 1814” (and producer of a forthcoming album by Usher with interludes), also defended them.
ref: 2007 February 18, Tammy La Gorce, “Between Songs, Interludes That Fall Upon Deaf Ears”, in New York Times:
glosses: To provide with an interlude.
examples: text: During some brief, interluding, silent pauses in their interview thus far, Pierre had heard a soft, slow, sad, to-and-fro, meditative stepping on the floor above; […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: To serve as an interlude.
Related terms: intermezzo
intermission
station break
reminisce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs/
Forms: form: reminisces
form: reminiscing
form: reminisced
form: reminisced
Etymology: Back-formation from reminiscence, from Latin reminīscēns, present participle of reminīscor (“remember”).
Senses: examples: text: But in the blink of an eye, you kissed me goodbye
And I reminisced of a better time
ref: 2022, Vane, “Six Feet Under”:
glosses: To recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically.
glosses: To talk or write about memories of the past, especially pleasant memories.
examples: text: And now when life begins to get the best of me
I reminisce these childhood memories
ref: 1994, Iris Dement, "Childhood Memories" (on the album My Life)
text: He reminisced the old Parvati who was now this Parvati.
ref: 2006, Amitava Bhattacharya, Selected Novels of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, page 34:
text: She fondly reminisced the two years before marriage when Frank served in the US Army.
ref: 2012, Satish C. Bhatnagar, Epsilons and Deltas of Life: Everyday Stories, volume 1, page 16:
glosses: To remember fondly; to reminisce about.
Synonyms: hark back
Related terms: remember
reminiscence
reminiscent
reminiscential
reminisce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛm.əˈnɪs/
Forms: form: reminisces
Etymology: Back-formation from reminiscence, from Latin reminīscēns, present participle of reminīscor (“remember”).
Senses: examples: text: I met up with Alastair McQueen [former Mirror colleague] and we had a reminisce.
ref: 2017, Alastair Campbell, Diaries Volume 6: From Blair to Brown, 2005 – 2007:
glosses: An act of reminiscence.
sixty-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭks'tē-nīnʹ
ipa: /ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
raw_tags: number
Synonyms: word: 69
word: LXIX
Derived terms: sixty-niner
sixtyniner
sixty-ninth
sixty-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭks'tē-nīnʹ
ipa: /ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: sixty-nines
form: 69
Etymology: Calque of French soixante-neuf, from the rotational symmetry of the numeral 69 — if rotated a half-turn (by 180°), the numeral remains the same, and a couple both giving oral sex at once have, in principle, a similar rotational symmetry.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sexuality
synonyms: soixante-neuf
coordinate_terms: cunnilingus
fellatio
clusterfuck
glosses: A sex position where two people perform oral sex on each other simultaneously.
sixty-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭks'tē-nīnʹ
ipa: /ˌsɪkstiˈnaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: sixty-nines
form: sixty-nining
form: sixty-nined
form: sixty-nined
form: 69
Etymology: Calque of French soixante-neuf, from the rotational symmetry of the numeral 69 — if rotated a half-turn (by 180°), the numeral remains the same, and a couple both giving oral sex at once have, in principle, a similar rotational symmetry.
Senses: examples: text: One of my old lovers liked to sixty-nine because the distraction of what she was doing kept her mind off what she was feeling so that her anxieties about what right she had to feel so good could not as easily keep her from feeling it.
ref: 1976, Marilyn Gayle, What Lesbians Do, Amazon Reality Collective:
text: You pat me on the head / You took me out to wine, dine, sixty-nine me / But didn't hear a damn word I said
ref: 1995, Alanis Morissette, “Right Through You”, in Jagged Little Pill:
glosses: To have sex in the sixty-nine position: to engage in mutual oral sex.
Related terms: *69
69
Zimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zimmers
Senses: examples: text: As the day passes away, and body clocks begin to stutter, there are also physical assaults with Zimmers locked in combat like the horns of fighting stags.
ref: 2014, Roger Kirkpatrick, Final Chapters: Writings About the End of Life, page 52:
text: He cites Rockers Reunion, in January, the first big rock’n’roll all-dayer of the year. “My reviewer made the point that everybody seems to be on sticks and Zimmers.”
ref: 2025 October 20, Michael Hann, “‘Everyone seems to be on Zimmers’: after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Ellipsis of Zimmer frame.
Zimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
disparate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/
ipa: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/
ipa: /dɪˈspæɹət/
ipa: /dɪˈspɛɹət/
rhymes: (US) -æɹət
rhymes: (US) -ɛɹət
Forms: form: more disparate
form: most disparate
Etymology: First attested in 1586; either borrowed from Middle French desparat or directly from Latin disparātus, perfect passive participle of disparō (“to divide”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from dis- (“apart”) + parō (“to arrange”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”) and the root *per- (“carry forth”).
Senses: examples: text: The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.
text: The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 269:
text: Although third-rail operation in the region dates back more than a century, it was in the 1970s that tunnels under Liverpool's city centre opened to bring together previously disparate routes.
ref: 2023 February 8, Tony Streeter, “Kirkdale: home to Merseyrail's new '777s'”, in RAIL, number 976, page 36:
synonyms: incongruous
mismatched
uncoordinated
glosses: Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
synonyms: different
dissimilar
unalike
glosses: Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.
examples: text: Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.
ref: 1898, John Wesley Powell, Truth and Error:
text: M. Bergson’s philosophy, unlike most of the systems of the past, is dualistic: the world, for him, is divided into two disparate portions, on the one hand life, on the other matter, or rather that inert something which the intellect views as matter.
ref: 1912, Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Bergson:
synonyms: incommensurable
glosses: Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.
Derived terms: disparency
nondisparate
Related terms: dispair
disparately
disparateness
disparity
disparate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/
ipa: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɪsp(ə)ɹət/
ipa: /dɪˈspæɹət/
ipa: /dɪˈspɛɹət/
rhymes: (US) -æɹət
rhymes: (US) -ɛɹət
Forms: form: disparates
Etymology: First attested in 1586; either borrowed from Middle French desparat or directly from Latin disparātus, perfect passive participle of disparō (“to divide”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from dis- (“apart”) + parō (“to arrange”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”) and the root *per- (“carry forth”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.
Related terms: english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: desperate
station break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: station breaks
form: station identification break
Senses: glosses: a short intermission between programmes in a radio or television broadcast to identify the network, station or channel
heptalogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛpˈtæləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: heptalogies
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From hepta- + -logy, in imitation of trilogy.
Senses: head_nr: 2
synonyms: septology
glosses: A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works.
wikipedia: C. S. Lewis
Garth Nix
Harry Potter
In Search of Lost Time
J. K. Rowling
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Licht
Marcel Proust
Stephen King
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Dark Tower (series)
The Keys to the Kingdom
Related terms: dilogy
trilogy
tetralogy
pentalogy
hexalogy
octalogy
ennealogy
decalogy
polylogy (2+)
seminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmɪnəl/
rhymes: -ɛmɪnəl
homophone: Seminole
Forms: form: more seminal
form: most seminal
Etymology: From Middle English seminal, semynal, from Old French seminal, seminale, from Latin sēminālis.
Senses: examples: text: During the summer, he studied calmars at Lisbon, but found no appearance of any roe, nor any reservoir which appeared to be destined for the reception of the seminal liquor; and it was in the middle of December, that he began to discern the first traces of a new vessel replete with a milty juice.
ref: 1792, George Louis Le Clerc, Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History, page 126:
glosses: Of or relating to seed or semen.
glosses: Creative or having the power to originate.
examples: text: "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science.
text: The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
ref: 1827, Julius Hare, Augustus William Hare, Guesses at Truth:
text: The opening strains of "Left to My Own Devices" puts this album directly in the company of two of the most seminal dance albums of this decade, ABC's The Lexicon of Love and Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
ref: 1988 December 18, Christopher Wittke, “Why I Loved Marc Almond From The Minute I First Read About Him”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 23, page 11:
text: For a seminal contribution to the economics of fertility, ....
ref: 2000, Walter Nicholson, Intermediate microeconomics and its application:
synonyms: influential
pioneering
glosses: Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.
Synonyms: sense: relating to seed
word: germinal
sense: creative
word: innovative
sense: creative
word: primary
sense: highly influential
word: influential
sense: highly influential
word: innovative
sense: highly influential
word: formative
Derived terms: human seminal plasma protein hypersensitivity
nonseminal
seminal fluid
seminality
seminally
seminal vesicle
seminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmɪnəl/
rhymes: -ɛmɪnəl
homophone: Seminole
Forms: form: seminals
Etymology: From Middle English seminal, semynal, from Old French seminal, seminale, from Latin sēminālis.
Senses: examples: text: the seminals of spiders and scorpions
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A seed.
majestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɛstɪk/
rhymes: -ɛstɪk
Forms: form: more majestic
form: most majestic
Etymology: From majesty + -ic, 1600s.
Senses: examples: text: The gymnast performed a majestic vault.
text: As the Indian languages are numerous, so do they greatly vary in their effect on the ear. We have the rapid Cóotoonay of the Rocky Mountains, and the stately Blackfoot of the plains, the slow embarrassed Flat-head of the mountains, the smooth-toned Pierced-nose, the guttural difficult Sússee and Chépewyán, the sing-song A'ssinneboigne, the deliberate Cree, and the sonorous majestic Chíppeway.
ref: 1844, Joseph Howse, A Grammar of the Cree Language: with which is Combined an Analysis of the Chippeway Dialect:
text: Equally I can stand in a station like Lucerne in Switzerland, and watch with ill-concealed admiration the majestic entry of one of the latest Gotthard "Ae 6/6" electrics, packing 6,000 horsepower within its 60 ft. of length and 121 tons of weight, with its sleek dark green sides and handsome stainless steel bands and front wings.
ref: 1955 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 261:
synonyms: majestical
glosses: Having qualities of splendor or royalty.
Derived terms: majestically
majestic flap flap
majesticness
majestic plural
majestic sea flap flap
supermajestic
unmajestic
lichee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lichees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lychee.
kidding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kid
Derived terms: just kidding
kiddingly
kidding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: kiddings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb kid.
examples: text: Attended kiddings allow owners to remove the kids from their dams prior to suckling and ingestion of colostrum.
ref: 2006, Robert S. Youngquist, Walter R. Threlfall, Current Therapy in Large Animal Theriogenology:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The act of a goat giving birth.
Derived terms: no kidding
grovel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡrɒvəl/
ipa: /ˈɡrʌvəl/
rhymes: -ɒvəl
rhymes: -ʌvəl
Forms: form: grovels
form: groveling
form: grovelling
form: groveled
form: groveled
form: grovelled
form: grovelled
Etymology: From Middle English *grovelen, from Old Norse grufla, grœfla (“to grovel”), from Proto-Germanic *grubilōną (“to dig, delve into”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ‑ (“to dig, scrape, scrabble, scratch”); akin to Old Norse á grufu (“on one's belly”) ( > Old Norse grúfa (“to lie face down, grovel”)). Cognate with Scots grovel, gruvil (“to grovel”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”), Norwegian Nynorsk gruvla (“to grovel”). Compare also West Frisian groebeltsje (“to make a mess, skip school, skive”), Dutch grobbelen (“to grope, root, grub”).
Senses: glosses: To be prone on the ground.
examples: text: In the tube station, the old ones who were on the way out / Would dribble and vomit and grovel and shout
ref: 1985, Shane MacGowan, “The Old Main Drag”, in Rum Sodomy & the Lash, performed by The Pogues:
glosses: To crawl.
examples: text: She refused to grovel in front of the bully, standing her ground.
glosses: To abase oneself before another person.
examples: text: He had to grovel before his boss after missing the important meeting.
text: He hated to grovel, but he knew it was the only way to save his job.
glosses: To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
glosses: To take pleasure in mundane activities.
Derived terms: groveler
groveller
grovelingly
grovellingly
grovelsome
dialectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktəl/
Forms: form: more dialectal
form: most dialectal
Etymology: From dialect + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a dialect.
examples: text: Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.
ref: 1908, “lay v.¹”, in James A. H. Murray et al., editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: Peculiar to a (nonstandard) variety or lect.
Derived terms: adialectal
bidialectal
dialectality
dialectally
extradialectal
interdialectal
intradialectal
monodialectal
multidialectal
non-dialectal
nondialectal
pandialectal
semidialectal
transdialectal
Related terms: dialectical
lectal
dialectical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dialectical
form: most dialectical
Etymology: From Latin dialecticus + -al. By surface analysis, dialectic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.
ref: 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025:
synonyms: dialectic#Adjective
glosses: Of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
Derived terms: dialectical behavioral therapy
dialectical behavior therapy
dialectical behavioural therapy
dialectical behaviour therapy
dialecticalisation
dialecticalization
dialectical materialism
dialectical method
nondialectical
undialectical
Related terms: dialect
dialectic
dialectically
dialectical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dialectical
form: most dialectical
Etymology: From dialect + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dialectal (“of or pertaining to a dialect”).
synonyms: word: dialectal
extra: of or pertaining to a dialect
church affiliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church affiliations
Senses: glosses: The religious denomination or part of a religious denomination a person, institute, business, or other organization has joined or supports.
Coordinate terms: mosque affiliation
hard-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹdɑn/
Forms: form: hard-ons
form: hardon
form: hard on
Senses: examples: text: Look at this place! I'm in hell! I may never get a hard-on again!
ref: 1997, Face/Off, spoken by Castor Troy (John Travolta):
glosses: An erection of the penis.
examples: text: ... and corporations duke it out with the kind of military tactics and apparatus that would give anybody who appreciates the Navy SEALs a hard-on.
ref: 2012 August 27, Wayne Alan Brenner, “Capitalism, Weaponized: Sun Tzu Gets Cyberpunk’d”, The Austin Chronicle, section Daily Chronolog
glosses: A desirous arousal based on a fascination or obsession.
Synonyms: erect penis
Derived terms: hate-on
soft-on
Related terms: wide-on
chubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: chŭbʹē
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌbi/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʊbi/
rhymes: -ʌbi
Forms: form: chubbier
form: chubbiest
Etymology: Recorded since 1611, from chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), equivalent to chub + -y. Cognate with dialectal Swedish kubbug (“fat, plump, chubby”). More at chub.
Senses: examples: text: Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.
text: Slowly Skye wrapped her arms around the chubby woman's frame and rested her head on Rita's chest drenched with perspiration.
ref: 2010, Marsha Hubler, The Long Ride Home, Zonderkidz, →ISBN, page 97:
synonyms: chunky
plump
podgy
tubby
glosses: Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
examples: text: It’s quite normal for babies to have chubby cheeks.
text: The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.
ref: 1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter I, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons […], New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, →OCLC, page 1:
synonyms: chunky
plump
podgy
glosses: Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.
Derived terms: chubber
chubbily
chubbiness
chubby bunny
chubby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chŭbʹē
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌbi/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʊbi/
rhymes: -ʌbi
Forms: form: chubbies
Etymology: Recorded since 1611, from chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), equivalent to chub + -y. Cognate with dialectal Swedish kubbug (“fat, plump, chubby”). More at chub.
Senses: examples: text: Today there is no color or fabric that is out for girl or teen chubbies. Plaids, big, bold block designs, dark or light grounds, heavy textured wools, fleeces and brilliant colors of red, kelly or green, odd or off shades of rust, lavender, and other colors in the fashion cycle are now adapted in designing. Designers themselves have learned that the chubby is more truly eager for a fashionable dress[…]
ref: 1947, Girls' and Teens' Merchandiser: The National Trade Magazine for the Girls' and Teens' Industrypage=31:
text: The chubby is the girl who cannot be fitted in the regular 7 to 14 size range because she is too stout. Sizes for these girls are 7*4 to 141/^, and are specially styled and designed to give them better proportions.
ref: 1949, R. Duffy Lewis, Dorothy Stote, How to build an infant's, girls' and teens' wear business: a manual for retailers and prospective shop owners:
text: The chubby is especially taken for granted: "Hey, can you watch my purse while I dance?"
ref: 2007, Jackie Guerra, Under Construction: How I've Gained and Lost Millions of Dollars and Hundreds of Pounds, New American Library, →ISBN:
glosses: A chubby, plump person.
topics: LGBT
glosses: A chubby, plump person.
An overweight or obese gay man.
examples: text: Hey, Lucius, I just wanted to share a piece of personal information with you. I've got a... a chubby right now because [starts screaming] This is one of the most awesome experiences of my life!
ref: 2006, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby:
glosses: A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner.
glosses: A type of thickly-padded fur jacket.
Derived terms: english: plump person
translation: plump person
word: chub
word: chubby chaser
cogenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cogenial
form: most cogenial
Senses: glosses: Synonym of congenial.
synonyms: word: congenial
congenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒiːniəl/
Forms: form: more congenial
form: most congenial
Etymology: From con- + genial.
Senses: examples: text: No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIX:
glosses: Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.
examples: text: The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.
glosses: Friendly or sociable.
examples: text: What was it that made this notion of mimesis, in spite of its inherent difficulties that only the dialectical method enables him to avoid, seem so useful and congenial to Plato?
ref: 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato”, in Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92, pages 453–468:
glosses: Suitable to one’s needs.
Derived terms: congeniality
congenialize
congenially
congenialness
incongenial
popo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popos
form: popo
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of po-po.
docketing software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software for use in scheduling legal matters, for example ex parte proceedings, litigation, and other legal matters.
filing system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filing systems
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of file system.
ghost prisoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost prisoners
Senses: glosses: A prisoner not included in official prison records, and not reported to the Red Cross as a detainee.
gynephilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynophilia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek; equivalent to gyne- + -philia; see gyne.
Senses: glosses: The love of women; a sexual attraction to women, in general; female-oriented teleiophilia.
Coordinate terms: androphilia
Related terms: autogynephilia
gynephile
gynephilic
usury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞o'zhə-rē
ipa: /ˈjuːʒəɹi/
Forms: form: usuries
Etymology: From Middle English usurie, from Latin ūsūria, from ūsūra (“lending at interest, usury”) from ūsus (“use”), from stem of ūtī (“to use”). Compare usurp and use.
Senses: glosses: An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
examples: text: As a practical matter, California usury laws do not seriously inconvenience most lenders, and offer little protection to most borrowers.
ref: 2018 May 24, June Lin, “California Usury Laws”, in Niesar & Vestal LLP, page 1:
glosses: The practice of lending money at such rates.
examples: text: The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.
ref: 4th century BCE, Aristotle, translated by Benjamin Jowett, Politics, Book I, Part X:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The practice of lending money at interest.
examples: text: Then will we march to all thoſe Indian Mines,
My witleſſe brother to the Chriſtians loſt:
And ranſome them with fame and vſurie.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:
glosses: Profit.
Synonyms: oker
Hyponyms: payday loan
Related terms: usurance
usurer
usuress
usurial
usurious
usuriously
usuriousness
curvilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From curve + -i- + linear, compare curve, linear.
Senses: examples: text: the curvilinear motion of a thrown stone
glosses: Having bends; curved; curvilineal.
examples: text: In early art rectilinear decoration marks an advance on curvilinear, which, in the long ages before pottery was thought of, would naturally be associated with the fibrous baskets that served as vessels.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 52:
topics: art
arts
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Formed by curved lines.
Derived terms: curvilinearity
curvilinearly
semicurvilinear
caldron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caldrons
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of cauldron.
jive turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jive turkeys
Etymology: Coined in the 1970s, originally African-American.
Senses: examples: text: [1970s school principal:] You girls better get with what's going down! I am not a jive turkey and this school is not a jive turkey! Any questions?
ref: 1989, Lynda Barry, “String Heads”, in Ernie Pook's Comeek:
glosses: A fool, a chump, a target for jiving.
glosses: Someone who performs the jive dance, especially in an amusing or showy manner.
glosses: Someone who behaves in a glib and disingenuous fashion, a jiver.
Synonyms: jive-ass
jiver
bullshitter
strapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strap
strapping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: more strapping
form: most strapping
Senses: examples: text: But while the two strapping front men battered Foster, they could not better him, and in the absence of tangible reward for his creative efforts, Pennant almost took matters into his own hands, curling a low free-kick inches wide of Foster's left-hand upright.
ref: 2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC:
text: As he waited for his seminar to begin, a “very tall, handsome” man walked in. “He was strapping,” Browde recalled decades later, and everyone looked up and clocked him.
ref: 2023 December 2, Jonny Steinberg, “The Mandela behind the mask”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:
glosses: Having a sturdy muscular physique; robust.
glosses: Of a young woman: full of vigor; lusty.
Synonyms: word: able-bodied
word: athletic
word: Atlantean
word: beefy
word: beefed out
word: brawny
word: brolic
word: buff
word: built
word: built like a brick shithouse
word: built like a tank
word: buirdly
word: burly
word: Cyclopean
word: deep-rooted
word: dench
word: diced
word: fit
word: gigantic
word: Herculean
word: hale
word: hearty
word: hench
word: husky
word: in shape
word: jacked
word: lusty
word: like a giant refreshed
word: made of iron
word: muscular
word: muscled
word: muscleful
word: ripped
word: rugged
word: sculpted
word: sinewy
word: strapping
word: strong as a lion
word: strong as a horse
word: strong as an ox
word: strong as brandy
word: swole
word: toned
word: virile
word: well-built
word: well-fed
word: well-knit
word: wiry
Hypernyms: word: big
word: bulky
word: great
word: heavy
word: heavyset
word: heavyweight
word: hefty
word: large
word: stalwart
word: stocky
word: stout
word: thickset
word: physique
Hyponyms: word: chiseled
word: mesomorphic
word: manly
word: man-like
word: manful
word: masculine
word: peeled
word: shredded
Meronyms: word: broad-shouldered
word: caked up
word: yoked
Related terms: word: beautiful man
word: beautiful woman
strapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æpɪŋ
Forms: form: strappings
Senses: examples: text: Jones had heavy strapping on his left thigh and it was tempting to wonder what José Mourinho, his manager at Manchester United, will have made of it in a week of withdrawals from Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur players.
ref: 2017 November 10, Daniel Taylor, “Youthful England earn draw with Germany but Lingard rues late miss”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: Adhesive plaster for strapping injuries.
glosses: A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.
glosses: A beating with a strap.
glosses: The act of fastening with a strap.
Derived terms: strapping tape
wunderkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʊn.də.kɪnd/
ipa: /ˈwʊn.də.kɪnd/
ipa: /ˈvʊn.dɚ.kɪnt/
ipa: /ˈvʊn.dɚ.kɪnd/
ipa: /ˈwʊn.dɚ.kɪnd/
ipa: /ˈwʌn.dɚ.kɪnd/
Forms: form: wunderkinder
form: wunderkinds
form: Wunderkind
form: Wünderkind
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Wunderkind, from Wunder (“wonder”) + Kind (“child”). Compare native wonderchild.
Senses: synonyms: word: boy wonder
word: golden boy
word: phenom
word: quiz kid
word: whiz kid
word: wonderboy
word: wonderchild
word: wonderkid
word: wunderkind
glosses: A child prodigy; a wonderchild.
examples: text: Harriet Pappenheim, a psychotherapist at Park Avenue Relationship Consultants who wrote “For Richer or Poorer,” a 2006 book on money in marriage, said that the repercussions could be acute for Wall Street wunderkinds who define their identities through their job titles and the size of their bonuses.
ref: 2009 January 28, Ravi Somaiya, “It’s the Economy, Girlfriend”, in New York Times:
text: The downfall of Austria’s onetime political Wunderkind put a spotlight on the cozy, sometimes corrupt, relationship between right-wing populists and parts of the news media.
ref: 2021 October 17, Katrin Bennhold, “Fake Polls and Tabloid Coverage on Demand: The Dark Side of Sebastian Kurz”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: When the verdict comes down, the transformation of the wunderkind founder of Theranos from black-clad genius to besuited milquetoast will be an integral part of the story.
ref: 2021 December 17, Vanessa Friedman, “The Verdict on the Elizabeth Holmes Trial Makeover”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: brain
word: brain surgeon
word: brainbox
word: brainiac
word: deep thinker
word: Einstein
word: egghead
word: genius
word: intellectual
word: mind
word: rocket scientist
word: superbrain
word: thinker
glosses: A highly talented or gifted individual, especially one who is successful at a young age.
wassail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑseɪl/
ipa: /ˈwɒseɪl/
ipa: /ˈwɒsl/
ipa: /ˈwæsl/
rhymes: -ɑseɪl
rhymes: -ɒseɪl
rhymes: -ɒsəl
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: wassails
form: wasseil
Etymology: From Middle English wassail, from Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), from the imperative of vesa (“to be”) + heill (“healthy”). The earliest documented use of the term is from the first part of the 12th century CE, in Geoffroy of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (see page's citations).
Senses: glosses: A toast to health, usually on a festive occasion.
examples: text: Add ſugar, nutmeg and ginger, / VVith ſtore of ale too; / And thus ye muſt doe / To make the vvaſſaile a ſvvinger.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Twelfe Night, or King and Queene”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 377:
glosses: The beverage served during a wassail, especially one made of ale or wine flavoured with spices, sugar, roasted apples, etc.
examples: text: In merry wassail he […] peals his loud song.
ref: 1813, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail.
ref: 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
text: A blinding light against a garish blue sky made vision difficult, thanks to the previous night's wassail.
ref: 1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the Last Laugh, page 39:
text: Then as dawn brightened and the day broke
Grendel's powers of destruction were plain:
their wassail was over, they wept to heaven
and mourned under morning.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 6:
glosses: Revelry.
examples: text: Have you done your wassail? 'Tis a handsome, drowsy ditty, I'll assure you.
ref: 1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A festive or drinking song or glee.
wassail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑseɪl/
ipa: /ˈwɒseɪl/
ipa: /ˈwɒsl/
ipa: /ˈwæsl/
rhymes: -ɑseɪl
rhymes: -ɒseɪl
rhymes: -ɒsəl
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: wassails
form: wassailing
form: wassailed
form: wassailed
form: wasseil
Etymology: From Middle English wassail, from Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), from the imperative of vesa (“to be”) + heill (“healthy”). The earliest documented use of the term is from the first part of the 12th century CE, in Geoffroy of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (see page's citations).
Senses: examples: text: The next morning he much regretted the gusto with which he had wassailed the night before.
glosses: To toast, to drink to the health of another.
glosses: To drink wassail.
examples: text: Schoolchildren around the globe have gleefully sung Torches at Christmastime for half a century. Many of those in Birmingham have wassailed the carol at the front door of a cosy Victorian house in Moseley, unaware that behind that front door lives its composer.
ref: 2002 February 21, Christopher Morley, “Culture: Children carry a torch for carol king; John Joubert will be 75 next month”, in The Birmingham Post:
text: During the Christmas season, carolers traveled from house to house, bringing good wishes and carrying an empty bowl. The master of the house being wassailed was expected to fill the bowl with hot, spicy ale.
ref: 2006, Ronald M. Clancy, Best-Loved Christmas Carols: The Stories Behind Twenty-Five Yuletide Favorites, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., published 2006, →ISBN, page 81:
text: "I wish someone would come to my house and wassail!" Jessica P. of Howland said.
ref: 2010 December 26, Burton Cole, “Holiday mysteries to roast in your wassail”, in Tribune Chronicle:
glosses: To go from house to house at Christmastime, singing carols.
Synonyms: sense: go from house to house, singing carols
word: carol
Related terms: hail
Wassail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
phthalo green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phthalo and green, from phthalocyanine.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic pigment (full name phthalocyanine) of a bright, high intensity, used in oil- and acrylic-based artists' paints, and in other applications.
spadroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spadroons
Etymology: Compare French and Spanish espadon, Italian spadone. See espadon, spade.
Senses: glosses: A single-handed, lightweight sword.
glosses: A long heavy sword for both hands; a spadone.
tribal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪbəl/
rhymes: -aɪbəl
Forms: form: more tribal
form: most tribal
Etymology: From Latin tribālis. By surface analysis, tribe + -al, first attested in the 1630s. The specific adjectival sense under the defunct theory of recapitulation derives from tribal history as an overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.
Senses: examples: text: social order through tribal law
glosses: Of or relating to tribes.
examples: text: a tribal society
glosses: Based on or organized according to tribes.
examples: text: tribal history
topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: theory of recapitulation
glosses: Phylogenic.
examples: text: tribal techno music
text: a purse with a tribal design
glosses: Incorporating designs or styles typical of an indigenous people.
Derived terms: extratribal
intertribal
intratribal
multitribal
tribal chief
tribalism
tribalist
tribalistic
tribal tattoo
tribal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪbəl/
rhymes: -aɪbəl
Forms: form: tribals
Etymology: From Latin tribālis. By surface analysis, tribe + -al, first attested in the 1630s. The specific adjectival sense under the defunct theory of recapitulation derives from tribal history as an overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.
Senses: glosses: A design or image that has been influenced by indigenous peoples; especially such a tattoo.
examples: text: This right had been accepted by relative tribals but misobeyed and effaced by non-tribals and foreign peasants.
ref: 1983, Human Science: Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India, page 141:
text: […] the legendary Adivasi leader Jaipal Singh Munda who came to represent the tribals not just of his native plateau, but also of all of India […]
ref: 2018, Vaijayanta Anand, Geeta Balakrishnan, Purnima George, Community Practices in India: Lessons from the Grassroots, page 66:
glosses: A member of a tribe.
Derived terms: tribal tattoo
regulome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regulomes
Etymology: From regulation + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: Regulation materials of cells vary greatly: even water can be an important regulome entity.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The whole set of regulation components in a cell, tissue, organ, organism, and species, usually used in the context of a signal transduction.
Related terms: regulomics
specular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛk.jʊ.lə/
ipa: /ˈspɛk.jə.lɚ/
Forms: form: more specular
form: most specular
Etymology: From Latin speculāris, from speculum; and in some senses from speculārī (“to watch, observe”). Some later senses via French spéculaire.
Senses: examples: text: a perfect likeness would rather suggest a specular, and hence speculatory, phenomenon [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 14:
glosses: Pertaining to mirrors; mirror-like, reflective.
examples: text: a specular examination
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum.
examples: text: Thy specular orb / Apply to well-dissected kernels; lo! / In each observe the slender threads / Of first-beginning trees.
ref: 1708, John Philips, Cyder:
glosses: Assisting sight, like a lens etc.
examples: text: Calm as the Universe, from specular towers / Of heaven contemplated by Spirits pure.
ref: 1833, William Wordsworth, Hope Smiled:
text: Look once more, e're we leave this specular mount.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
glosses: Offering an expansive view; picturesque.
Derived terms: despecularize
specular iron
specularity
specularize
specular stone
dudgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌd͡ʒən/
rhymes: -ʌdʒən
Etymology: Uncertain:
* Perhaps the same as Etymology 2, below
* Perhaps from Welsh dygen (“anger, grudge”) (from dy- + cwyn (“complaint”)), though the OED rejects this.
* Possibly from dudgen (“trash, something worthless”).
* Possibly borrowed from Italian aduggiare (“to overshadow”), similar to the semantic development of umbrage.
Senses: examples: text: All gentle folks who owe a grudge / To any living thing, / Open your ears and stay your trudge / Whilst I in dudgeon sing.
ref: 1818, John Keats, “The Gadfly”, in Letter to Tom Keats:
text: To crown his discontent, his approach was utterly unnoticed by that capricious damsel. He dashed away in dudgeon from the house at an early hour, certainly less regretted by the maid than by the master of the inn.
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XVIII, page 224:
text: […] I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon; for I saw her, with my own discomfited eyes, shake her fist at me once […]
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I am Sent Away from Home”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: You may take the whole damned houseful if you like. Except the jewels. Theyre hired. Will that satisfy you? [He turns on his heel and is about to go in extreme dudgeon].
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act IV, page 167:
text: [W]ith girls of high and haughty spirit you have to watch your step, especially if they have red hair, like Bobbie. If they think you're talking out of turn, dudgeon ensues, and dudgeon might easily lead her to reach for the ginger ale bottle and bean me with it.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: In her typical appearances on Fox News, Jeanine Pirro, a former Republican district attorney, reserves her highest dudgeon for castigating liberals and lamenting the demise of law and order.
ref: 2020 May 30, Michael M. Grynbaum, Annie Karni, Jeremy W. Peters, “What Top Conservatives Are Saying About George Floyd and Police Brutality”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A feeling of anger or resentment, especially haughty indignation.
Derived terms: clapperdudgeon
dudgeoned
humdudgeon
in high dudgeon
dudgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌd͡ʒən/
rhymes: -ʌdʒən
Forms: form: dudgeons
Etymology: From Middle English dogeon, apparently from Anglo-Norman or Middle French, but the ultimate origin is obscure. Compare French douve (“stave”).
Senses: examples: text: Turners and Cutlers, if I mistake not the matter, doe call this wood Dudgeon, wherewith they make Dudgeon hafted daggers.
ref: 1597, John Gerard, Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes:
glosses: A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives; the root of the box tree.
examples: text: And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A hilt made of this wood.
glosses: A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.
Elysium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪz.i.əm/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪʒ.i.əm/
ipa: /ɪˈli.ʒi.əm/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪz.i.əm/
ipa: /ɪˈli.zi.əm/
Forms: form: Elysiums
form: Elysia
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον (Πεδῐ́ον) (Ēlŭ́sĭon (Pedĭ́on)).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The home of the blessed after death.
examples: text: Joseph seemed sitting in a sort of elysium alone, beside a roaring fire; a quart of ale on the table near him, bristling with large pieces of toasted oat-cake; and his black, short pipe in his mouth.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXIII, in Wuthering Heights:
glosses: A place or state of ideal happiness; paradise.
glosses: A region in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
Derived terms: Elysian
Related terms: Elysian Fields
heaven