cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
antiyuppie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + yuppie.
Senses: examples: text: This is the world--the only world, alas--in which Carpenter's antiyuppie and anti-Reagan satire has meaning.
ref: 1988 November 18, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Liberals Kick Ass”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Few people can blend comedy with drama as artfully as American playwright Richard Greenberg, who's best known for his 80s antiyuppie hit Eastern Standard.
ref: 2000 November 3, Jack Helbig, “Three Days of Rain and The Author's Voice”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposed to yuppies or yuppie culture
anybodies
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: […] she pleased me with her account of you whom she had lately seen--dwelling upon your retrograde passage into youth, and the delight you were taking in the presence and society of some still more youthful, fair, and gay monstrum amandum, some prodigy of intellectual accomplishment, some little Circe who never turned anybodies into pigs.
ref: 1840, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “To H. S. Boyd”, in Frederic G. Kenyon, editor, The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2), published 1898:
text: And it's only fathers who love anybodies; Nurse told me they always did.
ref: 1908, Amy Le Feuvre, 'Me and Nobbles':
synonyms: anyones
glosses: plural of anybody
examples: text: When a man was as clever as John, he was anybodies equal--one saw that every day.
ref: 1910, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Fenwick's Career:
text: Well, Mable, Id have bet anybodies money before I went out that none of those shots had lit more than ten feet away.
ref: 1919, Edward Streeter, "Same old Bill, eh Mable!":
glosses: possessive form of anybody
antilynching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + lynching.
Senses: examples: text: Writing from London, to the Chicago Inter Ocean, Nov. 25, 1894, the distinguished compiler of our last census, Hon. Robert P. Porter, gives the American people a most interesting review of the antilynching crusade in England, submitting editorial opinions from all sections of England and Scotland, showing the consensus of British opinion on this subject.
ref: 1895, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, The Red Record:
glosses: Opposed to the practice of lynching
examples: text: The year before, he donated his earnings from his performance in Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings to Jewish refugees fleeing Germany, and in 1945 he worked to get Harry Truman to support an antilynching law.
ref: 1998 March 27, Cara Jepsen, “Days of the Week”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: law
glosses: Prohibiting the practice of lynching
antimachine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + machine.
Senses: examples: text: His antimachine politicking helped get him fired from the Chicago Defender, a frequent supporter of organization candidates.
ref: 1988 March 25, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “Where Vernon Jarrett Is Coming From”, in Chicago Reader:
text: He recalls when Harold Washington, who ran for mayor on an antimachine, antipatronage platform, was a stalwart member of the regular organization. "
ref: 2000 July 21, Ben Joravsky, “Drivin' 'Em Crazy”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing the political machine of a region
antiintellectualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antiintellectual + -ism, or anti- + intellectualism.
Senses: examples: text: Chicago's campuses tend to evolve into enclaves anyway, as their inhabitants turn inward in a protective reaction against Chicago's pride in its buffoonery and its elevation of antiintellectualism to a cultural style.
ref: 1991 May 17, James Krohe Jr., “Who's Afraid of Paula Wolff?”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative form of anti-intellectualism.
antinudity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + nudity.
Senses: examples: text: In a 3-to-2 vote, town officials in Brattleboro passed an emergency antinudity ordinance for main roads and near schools and places of worship.
ref: 2007 July 19, The Associated Press, “Vermont: City Known for Nudity Opts for Emergency Coverage”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prohibiting or restricting public nudity
antienvironmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antienvironmental
form: most antienvironmental
Etymology: From anti- + environmental.
Senses: examples: text: When Walter Dudycz casts antienvironmental votes, when he votes against gun control--which I think is essential in this country--when he represents the interests of big financial institutions, I don't see that as in our interests.
ref: 1991 July 12, Bryan Miller, “The Art of the Campaign”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Grassroots environmental activism still flourishes here, as does grassroots antienvironmental activism.
ref: 2000 March 31, Harold Henderson, “Where the Wild Things Are”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposed to or contrary to the positions of environmentalism
antiformalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiformalisms
Etymology: From anti- + formalism.
Senses: examples: text: What I liked was the modesty that underlies Jacobson's antiformalism.
ref: 1997 July 18, Fred Camper, “Don't Fence Me In”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposition to formalism
antipeddling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + peddling.
Senses: examples: text: Alderman Richard Mell then pushed through antipeddling ordinances in the 33rd and 47th wards.
ref: 1997 May 9, Neal Pollack, “The Pushcart War”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Prohibiting or restricting peddling
antipolice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipolice
form: most antipolice
form: anti-police
Etymology: From anti- + police.
Senses: examples: text: It is increasingly apparent that the editors of your publications have an antipolice agenda.
ref: 1991 July 26, Karen M. Lang, “Support Your Local Police”, in Chicago Reader:
synonyms: counterpolice
glosses: Opposed to or prejudiced against the police.
antipolitician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipoliticians
Etymology: From anti- + politician.
Senses: examples: text: With little political experience, Hofeld is portraying himself as an outsider, an antipolitician.
ref: 1992 February 21, James Hawking, “More Than 30 Seconds With Al Hofeld”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In many ways, he could be the model of the antipolitician: he does not like coalition-building, negotiating or even socializing.
ref: 2008 April 29, Susan Saulny, “An Irascible Firebrand, Quieted by Term Limits”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Someone who is the opposite of a typical politician
antiprostitution
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + prostitution.
Senses: examples: text: The HIV/AIDS problem came late to China because of its limited contacts with other countries, the government's strict enforcement of antidrug and antiprostitution laws, and culturally conservative attitudes about sex in general.
ref: 2000 June 30, Dennis Normile, “INFECTIOUS DISEASES:China Awakens to Fight Projected AIDS Crisis”, in Science, volume 288, number 5475, →DOI, pages 2312–2313:
text: The police, conducting what they said was an antiprostitution raid, reported finding him in bed with a stripper.
ref: 2007 November 10, Richard Goldstein, “George Ratterman, Football Star and Sheriff, Dies at 80”, in New York Times:
glosses: Acting against or prohibiting prostitution
antipsychological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipsychological
form: most antipsychological
Etymology: From anti- + psychological.
Senses: examples: text: The psychology of the influence of external forms on the conscious reactions of the masses is so far usually considered only when, as often happens, the most fundamental demands are violated; for instance, when objects which are to give the impression of ease are painted in colors which give a heavy, clumsy appearance, or vice versa, when book-bindings are lettered in archaic type which makes the reading of the title impossible for a passer-by, and in many similar antipsychological absurdities which any stroll through the streets of a modern city forces on us.
ref: 1913, Hugo Muensterberg, Psychology and Industrial Efficiency:
glosses: Contrary to human psychology
examples: text: Though it was enthusiastically reviewed by the Reader and WBEZ, Montgomery felt that only some of his cast understood his minimalist, antipsychological method.
ref: 2006 April 7, Justin Hayford, “Giving It All Away”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposed to psychological approaches
antiformalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiformalist
form: most antiformalist
Etymology: From anti- + formalist.
Senses: examples: text: Such references suggest an antiformalist position.
ref: 1996 December 20, Fred Camper, “Abandoned Beauty”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposed to formalism
antiformalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiformalists
Etymology: From anti- + formalist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes formalism.
antihandgun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + handgun.
Senses: examples: text: […] thanks to an almost entirely unpublicized component of Oak Park's antihandgun ordinance, anyone willing to sign up with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as a collector and plunk down $30 for a Federal Firearms Owner's License can legally collect and hold virtually any kind of weapon she or he pleases for the next three years.
ref: 1988 July 8, Bryan Miller, “Gun Man”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Prohibiting or restricting the possession of handguns
antihumanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + humanistic.
Senses: examples: text: Here is a philosophy which obviously may be both as antihumanistic and as irreligious as any which could well be conceived.
ref: 1920, Albert Parker Fitch, Preaching and Paganism:
text: Robert Zemeckis, a director previously known more for brittle, antihumanistic comedy (Used Cars, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Death Becomes Her) than heartwarming sentiment, moves into Oscar territory with an accomplished tearjerking comedy (1994) about a slow-witted southerner (Tom Hanks in the title role) living through an alternately auspicious and absurdist half-century of American history.
ref: 1995 March 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Don Druker, Pat Graham, Dave Kehr, Peter Keough, Henry Sheehan, “Movies”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposed to humanism
first cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first cousin
antirock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + rock.
Senses: examples: text: In their darkest hour, the antirock interests received a gift from the gods: the quiz-show scandal of 1958.
ref: 2002 October 11, Cliff Doerksen, “Same Old Song and Dance”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Opposed to rock music
antirock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + rock.
Senses: examples: text: Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.
ref: 2006 November 10, Jessica Hopper, “Ten Under the Radar”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Rock music that deliberately goes against the usual conventions of the genre
antioccupation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + occupation.
Senses: examples: text: NIMNers have participated in post-September 11 peace rallies in Chicago and New York and maintain a weekly antioccupation vigil at noon Fridays outside the Tribune Tower.
ref: 2001 October 12, S.L. Wisenberg, “Lecture Notes: Jews united against violence”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In the incendiary speech delivered by his clerics on Friday, Mr. Sadr called for a peaceful antioccupation mass protest on April 9, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to American forces.
ref: 2007 March 31, Edward Wong, “Shiite Cleric Condemns U.S. as His Militia Takes to Streets”, in New York Times:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Opposed to a particular military occupation
antirealistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + realistic.
Senses: examples: text: The antirealistic stance of the School of the Art Institute continued to influence him. "
ref: 1995 January 6, Harold Henderson, “Are We Missing Something?”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Opposed to realism
antisex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + sex.
Senses: examples: text: It is critical to understand that these pictures are not an antisex statement.
ref: 1989 March 17, Catherine Edelman, “Power and Beauty”, in Chicago Reader:
text: And don't comfort yourself with the notion that these are just some antisex religious wackos[…]
ref: 2006 May 19, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Opposed to sexual activity
antitheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitheatre
Etymology: From anti- + theater.
Senses: examples: text: A.R.T. is a theater group, or rather an antitheater group.
ref: 1993 February 5, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: broadcasting
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: Works of theater that go against theatrical conventions
anticharm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + charm.
Senses: examples: text: And yet, just as it made FunHouse look daring, that peculiar Bogosian anticharm managed to turn Talk Radio into an intriguingly nasty, itchy piece of work.
ref: 1989 September 29, Anthony Adler, “Talk Radio”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The opposite of charm, or of charm as usually understood.
anticharm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticharm
form: most anticharm
Etymology: From anti- + charm.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, any charm quarks produced in the collision have many more partners to choose from; they don't have to run away with an anticharm partner, which causes the number of J/psi mesons to drop. "
ref: 1999 August 20, David Voss, “PHYSICS:Making the Stuff of the Big Bang”, in Science, volume 285, number 5431, →DOI, pages 1194–1197:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to an anti-charm quark.
sex positions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex position
epigraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: epigraphic
Derived terms: pseudepigraphical
creepy-crawlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creepy-crawly
glosses: A creeping sensation; formication.
-phil
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: -fĭl
ipa: /-fɪl/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of -phile.
Derived terms: aelurophil
ailourophil
ailurophil
ailourophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ailourophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ailurophile.
ailourophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ailourophile
ailurophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: īlyo͝oəʹrəfĭl
ipa: /aɪˈljʊəɹəfɪl/
Forms: form: ailurophils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ailurophile.
ailourophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ailourophils
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ailurophile.
ailurophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ailurophil
ailourophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ailourophil
aelurophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēlyo͝oəʹrəfīl'
ipa: /iːˈljʊəɹəˌfaɪl/
Forms: form: aelurophiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ailurophile.
aelurophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēlyo͝oəʹrəfĭl
ipa: /iːˈljʊəɹəfɪl/
Forms: form: aelurophils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ailurophile.
aelurophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aelurophile
aelurophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aelurophil
AFAIAC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: synonyms: word: AFAIAA
english: all either synonymous or nearly so
translation: all either synonymous or nearly so
word: AFAIC
word: AFAICMO
word: AFAICT
word: AFAIK
word: AFAIR
word: SFAIAA
word: SFAICT
word: SFAIK
word: TMK
word: to my knowledge
word: to the best of my knowledge
word: TTBOMK
glosses: Initialism of as far as I am concerned.
arthritically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more arthritically
form: most arthritically
Etymology: From arthritic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: As Lehman, Breuler is sluggish, coarse, and lumpy, huffing and puffing his way arthritically about the stage like some 1930s crime-movie heavy.
ref: 1989 October 20, Albert Williams, “The Butter and Egg Man”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But as time went by the inert human creature became so wholly opprobrious to the gecko, who valued a good hunt, that at last, as the small ceiling fan continued to turn arthritically, churning an unnoticeable, fetid draft of warm air in the direction of the man and the beast […].
ref: 2008, Steven Sills, An Apostate: Nawin of Thais:
glosses: In an arthritic fashion: in a way that is characteristic of a person with arthritis
artillerist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artillerists
Etymology: From artillery + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: artilleryman, artillerywoman, gunner, bombardier
text: Pelham was, in spite of his youth, an artillerist of the first order of excellence, and his loss was a serious one, in spite of his inferior rank.
ref: 1876, John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee:
text: The experiments were not very satisfactory. Mr. Coffin, perhaps, possibly, because he was not a skilled artillerist, had the mortifying experience of seeing the apparatus in front of his cannon blown into fragments, but he made notes of the other reports.
ref: 1898, William Elliot Griffis, Charles Carleton Coffin:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person who operates artillery.
artmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artmakings
Etymology: From art + making.
Senses: examples: text: Art we do not need; artmaking should be made so difficult an occupation that only the most dedicated practitioners would persist.
ref: 1991 November 29, Harold Henderson, quoting Quentin Crisp, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader:
text: THE artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 at age 35, loved to cook, but he could never quite unbraid his culinary passions from those of artmaking, with sometimes bizarre dinner party results.
ref: 2007 February 21, Randy Kennedy, “When Meals Played the Muse”, in New York Times:
glosses: The production of art.
worst comes to worst
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: form only
form: the worst comes to the worst
form: worse comes to worst
form: bad comes to worst
form: bad comes to worse
form: worse comes to worse
Etymology: Originally in the form "if the worst come to the worst" with the subjunctive "if it come to" in the sense of "if the worst possible outcome should become the worst possible reality". Often used even today with the same two definite articles, and this is the only form recorded for British English in some dictionaries.
Senses: examples: text: “Worst comes to worst, we'll make it to Cleveland and we can set down there and wait things out.” Gordon Rand nearly sneered, “Worst comes to worst? We'll crash and die, isn't that closer to the worst end of the possibility spectrum?
ref: 2010, Cherie Priest, Dreadnought: A Novel of the Clockwork Century:
text: You aren't doing anything anyway. Worst comes to worst you can give her some money and send her on her way.
ref: 2014, Eric Drouant, Fatal:
text: Worst comes to worst ...” Eddie finished it. “Worst comes to worst, we try Dr. One's patented homemade miracle vaccine. Stops hair loss. Stops gout. Builds muscles. Kills flus.”
ref: 2015, James Abel, White Plague:
text: Worst comes to worst, Curtis says I can use his room.
ref: 2018, Clare London, With A Kick Collection 2:
text: You said a couple of them are predators? Well, worst comes to worst, they can shift and eat.
ref: 2017, Crista Crown, Harper B. Cole, The Outcast Chronicles Bundle:
glosses: If a possible worst-case scenario actually occurs.
Coordinate terms: push comes to shove
worse comes to worse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: form only
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of worst comes to worst.
assimilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assimilation
aroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aroids
Senses: examples: text: They made their way slowly to the great Palm House and thence up twisty iron steps to a nook like a tree refuge in New Guinea, among palm boles and extravagant aroid growths.
ref: 1920, Sir Harry Johnston, Mrs. Warren's Daughter:
text: Jack-in-the-pulpit is the only other aroid native to our part of the world.
ref: 1997 March 7, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The majority of aroids are climbers and epiphytes of tropical rainforests.
ref: 2000, Anton Ivancic, Vincent Lebot, The Genetics and Breeding of Taro, page 15:
glosses: Any plant of the family Araceae, found chiefly in the tropics.
Hyponyms: english: plant of genus Arum
translation: plant of genus Arum
word: arum
Related terms: english: subfamily of Araceae
translation: subfamily of Araceae
word: Aroideae
aroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aroid
asthmalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asthmalike
form: most asthmalike
Etymology: From asthma + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A team led by Carol Ober[…] has linked asthma or asthmalike conditions to specific regions on chromosomes 2, 13, and 21.
ref: 2025 June 13, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 276, number 5319, →DOI:
text: And in July, a bronchoscopy revealed that the asthmalike condition of Mike Russell, 60, of Bath, England, was caused by his four-tooth dental plate, which was lodged just above his right lung.
ref: 1999 October 15, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling asthma
artillerists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artillerist
autocritique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocritiques
Etymology: From auto- + critique.
Senses: examples: text: There's still plenty of narcissism involved in this autocritique.
ref: 1991 December 20, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Hook and Crook”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A self-criticism.
autocritique
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autocritiques
form: autocritiquing
form: autocritiqued
form: autocritiqued
Etymology: From auto- + critique.
Senses: glosses: To criticize one's own ideas.
awakeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From awake + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "I sat up in bed with that feeling of broad awakeness and alertness which comes to us sometimes, and caught my breath as I listened, for through the stillness of the night came the unmistakable sound of a gentle tapping from behind the paneling of the wall.
ref: 1922, Angela Brazil, The Jolliest School of All:
text: The kind of awakeness that allows you to be appropriate to whatever moment you're in.
ref: 1991 March 22, John Brizzolara, “Equal Temperament”, in Chicago Reader:
text: By that measure, Nehlig's team found, the brain activity of animals given caffeine rose in brain regions involved in locomotion, mood, and awakeness.
ref: 1999 April 9, Robert F. Service, “Chemists Mix It Up in California”, in Science, volume 284, number 5412, →DOI, pages 243–244:
glosses: The quality or state of being awake
Related terms: wakefulness
wakeup
wokeness
blind alleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blind alley
autocritiques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autocritique
atonalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atonalisms
Etymology: From atonal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: No matter how melodramatic the story behind the music might be, most audiences won't buy atonalism; Arnold Schoenberg could have been devoured by escaped circus tigers while he was finishing the Variations for Orchestra and it would still get booed off the stage.
ref: 1998 February 27, Lee Sandlin, “Over Powered”, in Chicago Reader:
text: As a young composer, he wandered for years in the desert of atonalism and then, following the example of John Cage, he detoured through the wilderness of music based on an aesthetic of randomness and anarchy.
ref: 2008 October 8, Charles Mcgrath, “Musical Odyssey: Circus Marches as a Boy, Grand, Topical Operas as a Man”, in New York Times:
glosses: The school of atonal musical composition
epigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛpɪɡˈɹafɪk/
Etymology: From New Latin epigraphicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπῐγρᾰφῐκός (epĭgrăphĭkós). By surface analysis, epigraph + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: How well does it work? The team behind Aeneas asked 23 people with epigraphic expertise, ranging from masters students to professors, to try the system out.
ref: 2025 July 28, Trevor Evans, “AI for the ancient world: how a new machine learning system can help make sense of Latin inscriptions”, in The Conversation:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy.
Derived terms: epigraphical
epigraphically
Related terms: anepigraphic
pseudepigraphic
bleep censors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bleep censor
athenaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aθɪˈniːəm/
Forms: form: athenaeums
form: athenaea
form: atheneum
form: athenæum
form: Athenaeum
form: Athenæum
Etymology: From Latin Athenaeum, from Ancient Greek Ἀθηναῖον (Athēnaîon), from Ἀθήνη (Athḗnē, “Athene”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Athenaeum: a temple primarily dedicated to Athena or her Roman equivalent Minerva.
examples: text: A panel of architects who might loosely be described as the local athenaeum of their profession are awaiting, anxiously, the next edition of the bimonthly journal that bears their names.
ref: 1994 June 3, Michael Miner, “Will This Man Save Inland Architect?/A Simple Process”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An association or institution for the advancement of learning, particularly in science or literature.
examples: text: And this, too, may have been not unconnected with the gracious influence of the other sex as exhibited in a neighbouring athenaeum; and was accompanied by a gruesome spate of florid lyrics: some (happily) secret, and some exposed with needless hardihood in a college magazine.
ref: 1921, Christopher Morley, Plum Pudding:
glosses: The reading room or library of such an association; (by extension) any reading room or library.
hypernyms: journal#Noun
magazine#Noun
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periodical#Noun
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publication
glosses: A literary or scientific periodical, especially one similar to the London Athenaeum.
B-drinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-drinkers
Etymology: From B-drink + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "That po gal." Jones explored a booth with the broom. "Hustlin water, runnin erran. Whoa!" "Ring up the precinct about her. She's a B-drinker."
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who drinks a B-drink; a young woman hired to sit at a bar and induce the customers to buy her drinks, or spend money at the bar; a B-girl.
Synonyms: sense: bar girl
word: B-girl
give-away shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of give-away shop
numerical noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numerical nouns
Senses: synonyms: personal number
glosses: A type of noun in Scottish Gaelic used as a numeral, only applied to persons. They exist for the numbers 1-10 only.
moving the yardsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of move the yardsticks
moves the yardsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of move the yardsticks
moved the yardsticks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of move the yardsticks
ailurophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: īl'yo͝oərəfĭʹlĭăk
ipa: /ˌaɪljʊəɹəˈfɪlɪ.æk/
enpr: īlo͝o'rəfĭʹlēăk
ipa: /aɪˌlʊɹəˈfɪliæk/
Forms: form: aelurophiliac
form: ailourophiliac
form: elurophiliac
Etymology: From ailuro- (“cat”, from Ancient Greek αἴλουρος (aílouros)) + -philiac.
Senses: examples: text: The year 1927 also produced a splendidly ailurophiliac Black Cat, with woodcuts by Gyula Zilzer, in Middle European style.
ref: 1981, American Book Collector, volume 2, Moretus Press, page 15:
text: She dies, he dies. They become transfigured in some sort of ailurophiliac heaven and live happily ever after.
ref: 1989, Nicolas Slonimsky, Lectionary of Music, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Gautier’s love of cats was notable even in his ailurophiliac time and place: Nadar made a famous caricature of him sitting plump and happy in his study with a crowd of cats occupying every inch of available space.
ref: 2001, Katharine M. Rogers, The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 24 May 2011, page 95:
text: Théophile Gautier’s love of cats was notable even in his ailurophiliac time and place. One of his favourites, Madame Théophile, was ‘so called because she lived with me on a footing of conjugal intimacy’, following him everywhere and at mealtime often hooking morsels ‘on their way from my plate to my mouth’.
ref: 2006, Katharine M. Rogers, Cat, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2006, page 91:
glosses: Appropriate or pleasing to ailurophiles.
Related terms: ailurophile
ailurophilia
ailurophilic
chresmologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chresmologue
carpometacarpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to carpometacarpus, fusion of digits.
copypasta
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpiˌpæstə/
ipa: /ˈkɑpiˌpɑstə/
ipa: /ˈkɒpiˌpeɪstə/
Forms: form: copypastas
form: copypastaing
form: copypastaed
form: copypastaed
Etymology: Blend of copy-paste + pasta.
Etymology tree
Middle English copien
English copy
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
English copy-paste
Late Latin pasta
Italian pastabor.
English pasta
blend
English copypasta
Senses: examples: text: You didn't read the paper. You dully copypastaed the abstract. The abstract is not the paper.
ref: 2008 March 3, Rudy Canoza, “Re: Meat is a prominent part of chimpanzee diet; pre-human hominids ate meat for 2.25 million years (biologically adapted to meat)”, in alt.food.vegan (Usenet):
text: Copypasta-ing from my last New Years Challenge, because I'm not feeling creative enough to come up with new teams (and really, I don't think I can top myself with the ones I did get together).
ref: 2008 November 4, dot_wa...@hotmail.com, “Re: [FLUFF] Omake challenge time...”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
text: He probably meant what Bob Minton used to talk about in the post he used to copypasta and repost all the time […]
ref: 2009 September 7, "Voltaire's Child", “Re: Assuming it is all true..”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
glosses: To copy and paste data from one website to another, usually text.
carpometacarpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carpometacarpus
disavails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disavail
disavailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disavail
disavailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disavail
pogo sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pogo stick
bego
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begoes
form: begoing
form: bewent
form: begone
Etymology: From Middle English begon, from Old English begān (“to go over, traverse, get to, come by, fall into, go to, visit, care for, cultivate, inhabit, occupy, surround, beset, overrun, practice, do, engage in, perform, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess”), from Proto-Germanic *bi + *gāną, corresponding to be- + go. Cognate with Dutch begaan, German begehen, Danish begå.
Senses: examples: text: Thy prysemen ar sore begone and put undir, for they ar oversette with Sarazens mo than fyve hondred.
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
text: False love, I bego, I bego. Ere something still worse come down.
ref: 1892, Albany Law Journal, volumes 44-45, page 166:
glosses: To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
glosses: To clothe, dress.
examples: text: He was woe begone.
qualifier: obsolete except in set phrases
glosses: To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
Derived terms: umbego
bego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: begoes
Etymology: From Middle English begon, from Old English begān (“to go over, traverse, get to, come by, fall into, go to, visit, care for, cultivate, inhabit, occupy, surround, beset, overrun, practice, do, engage in, perform, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess”), from Proto-Germanic *bi + *gāną, corresponding to be- + go. Cognate with Dutch begaan, German begehen, Danish begå.
Senses: examples: text: “As I was passing by a vineyard on the Earth where some of mankind were taking their lunch, I heard them complaining and grumbling about these things they called 'ants'. Oh the woes and begoes of mankind,” smiled the good lord.
ref: 2011, Loretto Gubernatis, Dimitrius and the Gladiolas:
glosses: That which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.
bego
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begoes
form: begoing
form: bewent
form: begone
Etymology: Back-formation from begone, originally an imperative but now an interjection, construed as a past participle.
Senses: examples: text: He bewent speedily, and as he vanished I heard him again calling, " Not she, not she ! Ha, ha ! "
ref: 1902, Carolyn Wells, Abeniki Caldwell, page 178:
text: “Begone!” I shouted. They bewent, asmirking,
 And I, awakening, fell straight aworking.
ref: 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “A Vision of Climate”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, volume 5, page 199:
glosses: To go away, to disappear.
Related terms: bewend
slade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: slayed
homophone: slaid
homophone: sleid
Forms: form: slades
Etymology: From Middle English slade (“low-lying ground, a valley; a flat grassy area, glade; hollows of clouds; a creek, stream; a channel”), from Old English slæd (“valley, glade”), from Proto-West Germanic *slad, from Proto-Germanic *sladą (“glen, valley”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sladaną (“to glide, slip”) or Proto-Germanic *sladdaz (“to be slack, droop”). Compare Old Norse slóð (“track, trail”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet he slow in the slade of men of armys mo than syxty with his hondys.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
text: The thick and well-growne fogge doth matt my smoother slades,
And on the lower Leas, as on the higher Hades
The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke)
That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 222:
glosses: A valley, a flat grassy area, a glade.
glosses: A hillside.
slade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: slayed
homophone: slaid
homophone: sleid
Forms: form: slades
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A spade for digging peat.
examples: text: The Bishop, wearing a gleaming cape of green and gold, raised his hand over the plough and the kneeling farmers: "God speed the plough: the beam and the mouldboard, the slade and the sidecap, the share and the coulters[…]in fair weather and foul, in success and disappointment, in rain and wind, or in frost and sunshine. God speed the plough."
ref: 1945 January 29, “Pattern Prays”, in Time Magazine:
glosses: The sole of a plough.
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: if it ain't broken, don't fix it
Etymology: Attested since c. 1962, originally Southern United States English; popularized by T. Bert Lance in May 1977.
Senses: examples: text: I know it’s an ugly-looking antenna, but it gets the job done, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
glosses: It is wise to leave something alone and to avoid attempting to correct, fix, or improve what is already sufficient (often with an implication that is the attempted improvement is risky and might backfire).
Synonyms: don't mess with success
if it ain't busted, don't fix it
leave well enough alone
if it works, it works
Coordinate terms: don’t change a winning team
don’t change horses in midstream
don’t mess with success
let sleeping dogs lie
lie by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies by
form: lying by
form: lay by
form: lain by
Senses: examples: text: Than he lete make a cry thorow all the oste that uppon layne of lyff and lymme […] that no lyege man that longyth to his oste sholde lye be no maydens ne ladyes nother no burgessis wyff that to the cité longis.
ref: , Book V
glosses: To have sex with.
glosses: To rest from labour; to take a break.
Synonyms: sense: have sex with
word: lie with
word: go to bed with
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
sense: take a break
word: have a break
sense: take a break
word: take five
Qomolangma Feng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque from Mandarin 珠穆朗瑪峰／珠穆朗玛峰 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng); created by combining Qomolangma (“Tibetan Pinyin spelling of Tibetan ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (jo mo glang ma)”) and Mandarin 峰 (Fēng, “mountain, summit”).
Senses: examples: text: A series of four pictures showing Chinese male and female climbers scaling the Qomolangma Feng--the highest peak in the world--is featured in the PEOPLE'S DAILY and all other Peking papers today.
ref: 1975 May 29, Xinhua News Agency:
text: Not only is Qomolangma Feng towering and grand, but very powerful.
ref: 1999, Shi Zhaochun, A Guide to Mountaineering in China, page 21:
text: In 2005 China carried out a new geodetic campaign for the height determination of Qomolangma Feng—Mt. Everest (QF in short).
ref: 2006, Junyong Chen, Janli Yuan, Chunxi Guo, Yanping Zhang, Peng Zhang, “Progress in technology for the 2005 height determination of Qomolangma Feng (Mt. Everest)”, in Science China Earth Sciences:
glosses: Mount Qomolangma; Mount Everest
soil pollution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hookworm disease is closely associated with the soil. It may fairly be considered an infection the result of soil pollution.
ref: 1913, Milton Joseph Rosenau, Preventive medicine and hygiene, D. Appleton and Company, published 1914, page 688:
text: The major kinds of soil pollution are:
Acidification,
Salinisation and sodification,
Agrochemical pollution
Contamination by metalliferous water
ref: 2006, S. V. S. Rana, Environmental pollution: health and toxicology, Alpha Science International, Ltd., p. 89
glosses: The pollution of soil, for example by sewage or toxic chemicals.
resting-places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resting-place
amero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ameros
Etymology: From America, perhaps modelled on euro; coined by Canadian politician Herb Grubel in 1999.
Senses: examples: text: The amero notes and coins will have in common abstract designs on one side. Notes and coins will be produced in each of the three countries […]
ref: 2003, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Mario Seccareccia, Dollarization: lessons from Europe and the Americas:
text: From the US point of view, the key benefit of the amero model - reduced transactions costs - would be fully duplicated by the dollarization alternative.
ref: 2006, Amy Verdun, Britain and Canada and their large neighboring monetary unions:
text: The Amero would increase the GDP of the US by only roughly 15%.
ref: 2006, Vasu Brown, Digital Xchange - Boring Ways to Learn the DX Market:
glosses: A proposed unified currency of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.
Pottermania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Potter + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: The stage and state of Pottermania, though, vary greatly by country.
ref: 2004, Lana A Whited, The ivory tower and Harry Potter: perspectives on a literary phenomenon:
text: God's last book warns, "by sorcery all the nations were deceived" (Revelation 18:23). Will Pottermania contribute to the fulfillment of this prediction?
ref: 2005, Steve Wohlberg, End Time Delusions:
text: Pottermania Good, Clean Fun or Cultural Hegemony?
ref: 2008, Elizabeth E Heilman, Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter:
text: In the wake of Pottermania, many children's books have been repackaged for an adult market.
ref: 2008, Sandra L Beckett, Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives:
glosses: Enthusiasm for the Harry Potter franchise.
tin-plates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tin-plate
tin-plated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tin-plate
choux pastries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choux pastry
athletic protector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: athletic protectors
Senses: glosses: A jockstrap (or similar)
bathing box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathing boxes
Senses: examples: text: Boatsheds and bathing boxes were strung along the beaches of Port Phillip Bay for the shelter of boats as well as the bodies of the affluent.
ref: 1999, Clarice Beckett, Rosalind Hollinrake, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Clarice Beckett: Politically Incorrect, page 28:
text: She watched until her father reached the wreck, waiting until he turned and began the return swim, then she started up the beach toward the tea-trees and the line of gaily painted bathing boxes.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Conditions of Faith, page 3:
text: His father had a franchise from the Burnaby estate that allowed only him to put bathing boxes on the south beach for which he paid a rent of perhaps a shilling per box.
ref: 2004, Peter McNiff, Stories from a Small Town: Anecdotal History Of Greystones, County Wicklow, page 45:
glosses: A beach hut.
beach hut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach huts
Senses: examples: text: 2000, Michael Dregni, 101 Uses for an Old Farm Tractor, Voyageur Press, British Columbia, page 29,
Kenneth Anderson's 1940s John Deere Model H could also double as a beach hut or lifeguard stand.
text: Beach huts, owned or leased, are not habitable but can be used as a shelter and changing room on the beach.
ref: 2003, Barbara Segall, Jerry Harpur, Gardens by the Sea, page 123:
text: Installed in a stark London gallery, Emin's work symbolized the beach hut as icon of the seaside.
ref: 2006, Fred Gray, chapter C, in Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature, page 176:
text: As you travel further south there is a string of mellow beach huts with Buddhist names such as Shanti and Nirvana, catering for small numbers of hip, adventurous young Israelis.
ref: 2010, Amelia Thomas, Michael Kohn, Miriam Raphael, Dan Savery Raz, Israel & the Palestinian Territories, Lonely Planet, page 395:
text: But you'll have to wait in line in the morning to reserve a beach hut, and one never gets used to the sad sight of parrots, toucans, and cockatoos squawking in their cages.
ref: 2011, Darwin Porter, Frommer's Caribbean, page 77:
glosses: A small, single-room building above high-water mark on a beach that is used for changing into swimming clothes, for recreation, or for temporary storage.
Related terms: bathing machine
athletic protectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of athletic protector
bathing boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathing box
beach huts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach hut
bladder campion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladder campions
Senses: examples: text: Every season brought fresh discoveries: in July, when they came out of school, the children would collect bladder campion[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 13:
glosses: A perennial European herb, Silene vulgaris, having an inflated calyx
earth pillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth pillars
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A conical column of soil formed by erosion of the surrounding material
free hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free hands
Senses: examples: text: "Since I've been here, I've been given a fairly free hand by the GCR board to get on with things, properly understand the organisation from a different perspective, and develop a new business plan for the future," he tells RAIL.
ref: 2023 August 23, Malcom Holmes tells Paul Stephen, “A mission to develop GCR's legacy”, in RAIL, number 990, page 38:
glosses: Synonym of free rein.
synonyms: word: free rein
examples: text: Wreck divers as well as night divers and cave divers have found that having a light or lights mounted on their head allows the divers to have free hands while being able to see.
ref: 1991, Daniel Berg, Shipwreck Diving, page 26:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see free, hand.
grounded theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grounded theories
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Any theory that is based on observation of social phenomena
hedge garlic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plant garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
Synonyms: sense: garlic mustard
word: Jack-by-the-hedge
sense: garlic mustard
word: garlic root
sense: garlic mustard
word: sauce-alone
sense: garlic mustard
word: Jack-in-the-bush
sense: garlic mustard
word: penny hedge
sense: garlic mustard
word: poor man's mustard
garlic mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A woodland herb (Alliaria petiolata) that has a garlic-like aroma, considered highly invasive in New World.
CFU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CFUs
form: cfu
form: Cfu
Senses: examples: text: The three water samples for total coliform bacteria were 57,000 CFUs, 43,000 CFUs and 45,000 CFUs. (Colony-forming units, or CFUs, estimate the number of bacteria or fungal cells that have the ability to multiply in a sample.)
ref: 2017 September 1, Susan Scutti, “Sewage, fecal bacteria in Hurricane Harvey floodwaters”, in CNN:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of colony-forming unit.
social media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsowʃal ˈmid͡ʒa/
Senses: glosses: plural of social medium