cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
besmirch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈsmɜːtʃ/
ipa: /bɪˈsmɝːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: besmirches
form: besmirching
form: besmirched
form: besmirched
Etymology: From Middle English besmorchen (attested in besmorchid), equivalent to be- + smirch. Compare Middle English bismotered (“bespattered, soiled”).
Senses: synonyms: soil
glosses: To make dirty.
examples: text: The newspaper was on a campaign to besmirch the actor.
text: Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd
With rainy marching in the painful field
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: "It may be," he replied, "because I will not encounter the dishonor that besmirches the husband of a faithless woman.[…]"
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: Sir Guy might still have slain him without besmirching his knightly honor
ref: 1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle:
synonyms: debase
smear
slander
libel
blacken
antonyms: unbesmirch
glosses: To tarnish something, especially someone's reputation.
Derived terms: besmircher
besmirchment
unbesmirch
unbesmirchable
unbesmirched
resonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛzənənt/
Forms: form: more resonant
form: most resonant
Etymology: Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonāre (“to resound”).
Senses: examples: text: From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.
text: strike a resonant note
text: “Cheops gave us this resonant configuration that allowed us to predict all the other periods. Without that detection from Cheops, it would have been impossible,” Luque said.
ref: 2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN:
glosses: Resounding, echoing.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.
raw_tags: of a circuit
Synonyms: sense: resounding
word: booming
word: remugient
word: sonorous
Derived terms: microwave resonant cavity thruster
resonant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛzənənt/
Forms: form: resonants
Etymology: Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonāre (“to resound”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: sonorant
glosses: A sonorant vowel or consonant.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: sonorant
glosses: A sonorant vowel or consonant.
Any of the Proto-Indo-European consonants *l, *m, *n, *r, *w (*u̯), and *y (*i̯) or its descendants in an Indo-European language, capable of syllabic pronunciation in the zero grade and represented by the cover symbol ⟨R⟩ in structural notation.
T3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtiː ˈθɹiː/
Forms: form: T3s
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of triiodothyronine.
glosses: A tax reporting form used by estates and trusts.
glosses: A transit lane restricted to vehicles with a minimum of three occupants.
Related terms: T4
T3
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtiː ˈθɹiː/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A proprietary network protocol.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A network backbone connection equivalent to 28 T1 lines, typically fiber optic.
homeslice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeslices
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of home slice (Someone from one's home town.)
glosses: A close friend from the neighborhood
Synonyms: homeboy
homedawg
progenitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From progenitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Crèche is the place where the poor mothers leave their children in the morning, in the care of some kind women who have a large philo-progenitiveness and no other means of gratifying it than by pet cats or dogs, or other people's children, and go off to their work until night.
ref: 1849, European Life and Manners, page 164:
text: There is another difficulty in the way of accepting metaphysical peculiarity or progenitiveness as isolating species.
ref: 1867, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 293:
text: The aspect of progenitiveness leaves space for the interpretation of the mythical bear as either male or female.
ref: 2008, Harald Haarmann, Introducing the Mythological Crescent:
glosses: The state or quality of being progenitive (able to produce offspring).
shvitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃvɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: shvitzes
form: schvitz
form: schwitz
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn), from Old High German swizzen (Modern German schwitzen), from Proto-Germanic *swait- (English sweat), from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”). Doublet of sweat.
Senses: glosses: Sweat.
examples: text: It was not, or not only, the heat and ripeness of the shvitz that were making Litvak’s pulse thrum and his head spin.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 343:
glosses: A traditional Jewish steambath of Eastern European origin.
examples: text: “Hey, hey, Jimmy Brogan. Thanks for meeting me.” “Welcome to the schvitz, kid. The most comfortable place on Earth. It's like crawling back into your mother.” “Is that something people wanna do?”
ref: 2013 November 12, Gabe Liedman, “Old School” (15:48 from the start), in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Jimmy Brogan (Stacy Keach):
glosses: A sauna or sauna session.
shvitz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃvɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: shvitzes
form: shvitzing
form: shvitzed
form: shvitzed
form: schvitz
form: schwitz
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn), from Old High German swizzen (Modern German schwitzen), from Proto-Germanic *swait- (English sweat), from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”). Doublet of sweat.
Senses: examples: text: Soon, the '80s and '90s guy was finding drums to pound and sweat lodges in which to shvitz out rivulets of shame.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
glosses: To sweat.
zanja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɑn.hə/
Forms: form: zanjas
Etymology: From Spanish zanja.
Senses: glosses: An irrigation canal in Latin America.
Related terms: zanjero
zar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zaar
Etymology: From Arabic زَار (zār).
Senses: glosses: A religious set of beliefs and practices in parts of northern Africa and the Middle East, involving the possession of an individual (usually female) by a type of spirit.
zorrillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zorrillos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zorillo (“striped skunk”).
zopilote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zopilotes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish zopilote, from Classical Nahuatl tzopīlōtl.
Senses: examples: text: I was laying absolutely still in the cab of the wrecked truck —I had the crazy idea that if I did not move, I would bleed less—and I looked out of the hole where the windshield had been and saw a zopilote perched on the hood of the truck.
ref: 2016, Lawrence Swaim, Dangerous Pilgrims:
glosses: A New World vulture of the family Cathartidae, especially the black vulture (Coragyps atratus).
zombi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zombis
Senses: examples: text: The spirit zombi, or the zombi of the ti bon ange alone, is carefully stored in a jar and may later be magically transmuted into insects, animals, or humans in order to accomplish the particular work of the bokor.
ref: 2010, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, page 186:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zombie.
Related terms: zombi apple
benedict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benedicts
Etymology: From Benedicke (normalized to the usual spelling, Benedict), a character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1598).
Senses: examples: text: The benedict, drearily superfluous to the festivities, had hardly been noticed by her as he lurked about the walls and sought what entertainment was possible to one under the social disabilities of matrimony.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 50:
text: A quarter of a mile inland we came upon the holluschickie -- sleek young bulls, living out the loneliness of their bachelorhood and gathering strength against the day when they would fight their way into the ranks of the benedicts
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
glosses: A newly married man, especially one who was previously a confirmed bachelor.
benedict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more benedict
form: most benedict
Etymology: From Latin benedictus, past participle of benedicere (“to bless”). See benison. Doublet of bennet.
Senses: examples: text: And it is not a ſmall thing won in Phyſick, if you can make rhubarb, and other medicines that are benedict, as ſtrong purgers, as thoſe that are not without ſome malignity.
ref: 1622, Francis Bacon, “Natural History”, in The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, volume 3, published 1740, page 5:
glosses: Having mild and salubrious qualities.
Derived terms: benedictive
Amish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.mɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈæ.mɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.mɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːmɪʃ
rhymes: -eɪmɪʃ
Etymology: From Pennsylvania German Amisch or German Amische, after the name of the Swiss preacher Jakob Amman (1645-1730). The surname is a contraction of Old High German ambahtman.
Senses: glosses: A strict Anabaptist sect living mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
Amish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.mɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈæ.mɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.mɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːmɪʃ
rhymes: -eɪmɪʃ
Etymology: From Pennsylvania German Amisch or German Amische, after the name of the Swiss preacher Jakob Amman (1645-1730). The surname is a contraction of Old High German ambahtman.
Senses: glosses: Relating to this sect.
Derived terms: Amish friendship bread
Amishman
Amishness
Amishperson
Amishwoman
vodcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vodcasts
form: vodcasting
form: vodcast
form: vodcast
form: vodcasted
form: vodcasted
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
Proto-Italic *widēō
Latin videōbor.
English video
Proto-West Germanic *ana
Old English on
Middle English on
English on
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.
Proto-Italic *-ðō
Proto-Italic *manuðō
Latin mandō
Latin dēmandō
Old French demanderbor.
Middle English demaunden
English demand
English VoD
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English broadcast
English -cast
English vodcast
From VoD (“video on demand”) + -cast.
Senses: synonyms: vidcast
videocast
glosses: To deliver video on demand via a podcast.
vodcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vodcasts
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
Proto-Italic *widēō
Latin videōbor.
English video
Proto-West Germanic *ana
Old English on
Middle English on
English on
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.
Proto-Italic *-ðō
Proto-Italic *manuðō
Latin mandō
Latin dēmandō
Old French demanderbor.
Middle English demaunden
English demand
English VoD
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English broadcast
English -cast
English vodcast
From VoD (“video on demand”) + -cast.
Senses: synonyms: vidcast
videocast
glosses: A podcast consisting of video recordings, instead of solely audio.
Hanyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 漢語／汉语 (Hànyǔ).
Senses: glosses: Chinese; the Chinese language(s)
Hanyu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hanyus
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 羽生 (Hanyū).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
coffee liqueur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee liqueurs
Senses: glosses: A liqueur with coffee, such as Tia Maria or Kahlua
inscription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈskɹɪpʃən/
rhymes: -ɪpʃən
Forms: form: inscriptions
Etymology: From Latin īnscrīptiō.
Senses: examples: text: The inscription of the Temple of Preah Vihear on the World Heritage list shall be without prejudice to the rights of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Thailand on the demarcation works of the Joint Commission for Land Boundary (JBC) of the two countries;
ref: 2008 June 18, Joint Communiqué, Council of Ministers of Cambodia, page 3:
glosses: The act of inscribing.
examples: text: He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; […]
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone, or on some other item.
examples: text: The coin bears an inscription in Latin.
synonyms: legend
glosses: The text on a coin.
glosses: Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.
Synonyms: epigraphy
Derived terms: inscriptional
inscriptioned
inscriptionist
inscriptionless
reinscription
Related terms: epigraph
residential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/
Forms: form: more residential
form: most residential
Senses: examples: text: They live in a residential neighborhood.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places.
glosses: Used as a residence or by residents.
examples: text: There is a residential requirement for obtaining a marriage license here.
glosses: Of or pertaining to residency.
Derived terms: multiresidential
residential college
residential treatment
residential school
residentially
residential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/
Forms: form: residentials
Senses: examples: text: The youth group organises annual residentials.
glosses: A trip during which people temporarily live together.
zelkova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzɛlkəvə/
Forms: form: zelkovas
form: zelcova
form: zelcoua
Etymology: From New Latin (genus name) from Russian дзе́льква (dzélʹkva, “tree, wood”), from Georgian ძელქვა (ʒelkva), from Old Georgian ძელქვაჲ (ʒelkvay), from ძელი (ʒeli, “beam”) + ქვაჲ (kvay, “stone”).
Senses: examples: text: While she waits for the doctor to come down from the consultation room, she turns to look at the zelkova tree which stands in the hospital's front garden.
ref: 2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 135:
glosses: A kind of tree in the elm family (genus Zelkova).
Synonyms: Caucasian elm
Japanese elm
keaki
keyaki
kiaki
Derived terms: taxonomic: Zelkova carpinifolia
word: Caucasian zelkova
taxonomic: Zelkova sinica
word: Chinese zelkova
taxonomic: Zelkova abelicea
word: Cretan zelkova
alt: Zelkova × verschaffeltii
word: cut-leafed zelkova
taxonomic: Zelkova serrata
word: Japanese zelkova
taxonomic: Zelkova serrata
word: saw-leaf zelkova
taxonomic: Zelkova schneideriana
word: Schneider's zelkova
taxonomic: Zelkova sicula
word: Sicilian zelkova
Related terms: elm
gollywog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gollywogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of golliwog.
jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʊmpə/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jumpers
form: jumpering
form: jumpered
form: jumpered
Etymology: From jump + -er.
Senses: glosses: To connect with an electrical jumper.
jumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʊmpə/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jumpers
Etymology: From the term jump (“short coat”) + -er, originally in sailors' jargon, ultimately of uncertain origin. Jump is possibly from Scottish English jupe (“man's loose jacket or tunic”), from Middle English juype, gype, joupe, from Old French jupe, juppe, from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba); see also jibba. Cognate with Middle Low German jōpe, gōpe (“waistcoat, jacket”), German Joppe (“jacket”). Alternatively, perhaps derived from jump.
Senses: examples: text: The hideous holiday jumper became a big trend in the 1980s, influenced as we were by the TV-am gang, Gordon the Gopher and memories of Andy Williams singing to girls as they walked by on his Christmas specials. (Can't blame 'em, given he was wearing one of his knitted monstrosities.)
ref: 2012 December 16, Robert Epstein, “Bring Modern: Christmas jumpers”, in The Independent:
glosses: A woollen sweater or pullover.
glosses: A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
glosses: A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
qualifier: jumpers
glosses: Rompers.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
Derived terms: jumperless
jumperlike
Related terms: jumpster
syllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
ipa: /sɪˈlɑːbɪk/
rhymes: -æbɪk
Forms: form: more syllabic
form: most syllabic
Etymology: From Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Ancient Greek συλλαβικός (sullabikós), from συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).
Senses: examples: text: Most final consonants have been lost, resulting in a tonal language with a rich consonantal and vocalic inventory, but with a relatively simple syllabic structure..
ref: 2014, Guillaume Jacques, “V: Cone”, in Jackson Sun, editor, Phonological Profiles of Little-Studied Tibetic Varieties, Taipei: Academia Sinica, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
glosses: Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle ([ɹɪdl̩]), the two syllabic sounds are [ɪ] and [l̩].
glosses: Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
Derived terms: accentual-syllabic
alphasyllabic
ambisyllabic
anisosyllabic
anisosyllabism
asyllabic
bisyllabic
brachysyllabic
decasyllabic
dissyllabic
disyllabic
dodecasyllabic
duodecasyllabic
duosyllabic
endecasyllabic
extrasyllabic
graphosyllabic
hendecasyllabic
heptasyllabic
heterosyllabic
hexasyllabic
imparisyllabic
infrasyllabic
intersyllabic
intrasyllabic
isosyllabic
isosyllabicity
isosyllabism
logosyllabic
monosyllabic
monosyllabicity
morphosyllabic
multisyllabic
nonasyllabic
nonpolysyllabic
nonsyllabic
non-syllabic
octasyllabic
octosyllabic
oligosyllabic
parasyllabic
parisyllabic
pentasyllabic
plurisyllabic
polysyllabic
presyllabic
protosyllabic
quadrisyllabic
quindecasyllabic
quinquesyllabic
semantosyllabic
semisyllabic
septasyllabic
sesquisyllabic
sexasyllabic
sexisyllabic
subsyllabic
suprasyllabic
syllabic abbreviation
syllabical
syllabically
syllabication
syllabic break
syllabic consonant
syllabicity
syllabicness
syllabic rhyme
tautosyllabic
tetradecasyllabic
tetrasyllabic
tridecasyllabic
trisyllabic
undecasyllabic
unsyllabic
varisyllabic
syllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
ipa: /sɪˈlɑːbɪk/
rhymes: -æbɪk
Forms: form: syllabics
Etymology: From Medieval Latin syllabicus, from Ancient Greek συλλαβικός (sullabikós), from συλλαβή (sullabḗ, “syllable”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A syllabic sound.
Julian date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Julian dates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Julian day.
synonyms: word: Julian day
Darlington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːlɪŋtən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋtən
Etymology: From Middle English Dearnington, Derlinton, from Old English Dēornōþingtūn, supposedly “the settlement of Dēornōþ's people”, from an unclear root + -ing + tūn. Compare Old English dīerling. The transistor configuration is named for its inventor, Sidney Darlington.
Senses: glosses: A large market town in County Durham, England.
glosses: A unitary authority and borough in County Durham, the Borough of Darlington, which includes the town.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Indiana; named for the town in England.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Missouri; named for a railroad employee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough of Pennsylvania; named for S. P. Darlington, a merchant from Pittsburgh.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Darlington County, South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Lafayette County, Wisconsin; named for landowner Joshua Darling.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, which surrounds the city.
glosses: A community and rural municipality in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in Australia:
A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia; named for the town in England.
glosses: A number of places in Australia:
A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
glosses: A number of places in Australia:
A suburb of Sydney in New South Wales; named for either Richard Darling or William Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington.
glosses: A number of places in Australia:
A town in Victoria.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Darlington County
Darlington
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːlɪŋtən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋtən
Forms: form: Darlingtons
Etymology: From Middle English Dearnington, Derlinton, from Old English Dēornōþingtūn, supposedly “the settlement of Dēornōþ's people”, from an unclear root + -ing + tūn. Compare Old English dīerling. The transistor configuration is named for its inventor, Sidney Darlington.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Ellipsis of Darlington pair.
Synonyms: Darlington amplifier
Darlington pair
Darlington transistor
Derived terms: photodarlington
circular definition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular definitions
Senses: examples: text: Saying that obscenity is indecent and then saying something is indecent if it's obscene is a circular definition.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: A definition relying directly or indirectly on the term being defined.
Related terms: word: statement
word: recursive definition
reflexive statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflexive statements
Senses: examples: text: Reflexive statements like "this sentence is false" present interesting problems in the study of logic.
glosses: A statement which refers to itself.
Related terms: self-reference
self-referential meaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-referential meanings
Senses: glosses: Meaning that relies on self-reference in the text being understood.
Related terms: word: circular definition
word: statement
polysynthetic twinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysynthetic twinnings
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of contact twinning, typically observed in plagioclase, in which the composition surfaces are parallel to one another
sea-gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea-gulls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seagull.
progenitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more progenitive
form: most progenitive
Etymology: From Latin prōgenitus (past participle of prōgignō) + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Being able to produce offspring; reproductive.
Synonyms: procreative
Derived terms: philoprogenitive
polyphiloprogenitive
Related terms: progenitor
progeny
yate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yates
Etymology: From Middle English ȝate, yate, ȝeat, alternative forms of gate, gat, from Old English ġeat (“a gate, door”), from Proto-Germanic *gatą (“hole, opening”).
Senses: examples: text: Syn he of helthe hath opned me the yate
ref: c. 1420, Thomas Hoccleve, Dialogue:
text: For thy my Kiddie, be ruled by me,
 And never give trust to his trechery:
 And if he chance come when I am abroad,
 Spar the yate fast, for fear of fraud.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, “May”, in The Shepheardes Calender; republished as The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser, London: Henry Hills, 1679, page 21:
text: He's left th' yate at t' full swing, and Miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs o' corn , and plottered through, raight o'er into t' meadow!
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1870, page 69:
glosses: Obsolete form of gate.
yate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yates
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of Eucalyptus.
milpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milpas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish milpa, from Classical Nahuatl.
Senses: examples: text: Milpa is based on seed crops, particularly the uniquely productive combination of maize, beans and squash, and in the past its techniques were normally those of swidden cultivation.
ref: 2007, Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby, The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 13:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A cyclical crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica.
examples: text: These three plants are often grown together in a single field called a milpa, the beans creeping up the corn stalks while the squash plants catch along the lower leaves of the corn plants.
ref: 1993, Richard E. Blanton, Stephen A. Kowalewski, Ancient Mesoamerica: A Comparison of Change in Three Regions, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 40:
text: That means that no one can get rich or make someone else rich by farming a milpa. Since it works against capital accumulation, it is antithetical to entrepreneurship. In short, planting a milpa optimizes resources in a very particular way.
ref: 2010, Sheldon Annis, God and Production in a Guatemalan Town, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 37:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A small field, especially in Mexico or Central America, that is cleared from the jungle, cropped for a few seasons, and then abandoned for a fresh clearing.
cornfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːnfiːld/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹnˌfild/
Forms: form: cornfields
Etymology: From corn + field.
Senses: hypernyms: field#Noun
glosses: A field of corn: maize, wheat, or other cereal crop.
examples: text: "Your Silver Shoes will carry you over the desert," replied Glinda. "If you had known their power you could have gone back to your Aunt Em the very first day you came to this country."
"But then I should not have had my wonderful brains!" cried the Scarecrow. "I might have passed my whole life in the farmer's cornfield."
ref: 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
hypernyms: field#Noun
cornfield
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field#Noun
glosses: A field of corn: maize, wheat, or other cereal crop.
A field of corn (maize).
coordinate_terms: wheatfield
Derived terms: cornfield meet
Related terms: corncob
cornhusk
cornhusker
cornhusking
cornrow
cornstalk
paloma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palomas
Etymology: From Spanish paloma (“dove”).
Senses: examples: text: Martini, Bellini, Negroni, Baileys, Kahlúa, sambuca
Soju, paloma, mojito, gimlet, Frangelico, Guinness
Tequila, Manhattan, a margarita, old-fashioned
Dry vermouth and something I can't taste 'cause I'm so trashed
ref: 2020, Yoav Landau, Sam Haft, “Drunk”, in zero_one, performed by The Living Tombstone:
glosses: A cocktail made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda.
rancho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɑːnt͡ʃoʊ/
Forms: form: ranchos
form: ranchoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish rancho (“mess, mess room”). Compare ranch.
Senses: glosses: A simple hut, such as one with posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm workers would lodge at night.
examples: text: The nearest house, they told us, was a rancho, or cattle-farm, about three miles off.
ref: 1840, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast:
glosses: A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.
Related terms: ranchero
vaquero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaqueros
form: vaqueroes
Etymology: From Spanish vaquero (“cowherd”), from vaca (“cow”). Doublet of buckaroo.
Senses: examples: text: A day or two before a number of vaqueroes set out for the Santa Cruz Mountains and lassoed a very big grizzly.
ref: 1925, Quarterly of the Society of California Pioneers, page 232:
text: Voices from the Wild Horse Desert is the story of vaquero families who have lived and worked on the prominent King and Kenedy Ranches of South Texas for six generations. Vaqueros (Mexican cowboys) are the highly skilled work force that cares for and works the cattle day by day.
ref: 1997, Jane Clements Monday, Betty Bailey Colley, Voices from the Wild Horse Desert: The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches, University of Texas Press, page ix:
text: Of course the vaqueros do not help: because of his weight and his high voice they call him Don Castrado behind his back.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 11:
text: Cattle drives became common between Mexico and California and Mexico and Texas. Vaqueros were the drivers. In time, as vaqueros worked for a particular ranch or within the confines of a particular territory, regional styles evolved. In essence, two types were prominent: that of the California vaquero and that of the vaquero from Texas.
The Texas vaquero was identified as a free spirit, lived out in the open range, and went from ranch to ranch as work opportunities surfaced. The Californian vaquero remained loyal to a ranch or ranching family.
ref: 2015, Danilo H. Figueredo, Revolvers and Pistolas, Vaqueros and Caballeros: Debunking the Old West, ABC-CLIO (Praeger), page 50:
glosses: A cowboy; a herdsman.
Related terms: caballero
charro
oso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoːsoː/
ipa: [ˈoː˧.soː˦]
Senses: examples: text: u watch 0:44 why they children oso wanna torture and kill???
ref: 2009 September 18, liez, “children oso they kill”, in lowyat.net:
text: Even the newspaper recommendation oso anyhow one.
ref: 2024 December 13, gwbasic, “Is it all the food influencers cannot make it?”, in HardwareZone Forums:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of also, representing Singapore English.
yola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Northern California slang, said to be from a blend of Spanish yo and hola.
Senses: examples: text: From servin' yola and mobbin' in drop tops to gangsta tales and flat-out Westside anthems, it doesn't take much thought as to whom the target audience is […]
ref: 1997, Rap Pages, volume 6, numbers 1-5:
text: We yayo experts, we been whippin' the yola / Since the crackas decided to take the coke from Coca-Cola.
ref: 2004, Lil' Jon and the East Side Boyz (Jonathan Mortimer Smith), Grand Finale (rap song)
text: Ooh I throw the yola in the pot, let it simmer and bake / Add a li'l bakin' soda, make it foam like aftershave.
ref: 2006, E-40 (Earl Stevens), White Gurl (rap song)
glosses: cocaine
yoyo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoyos
Etymology: Genericized trademark. Likely from Ilocano yóyo or another Philippine cognate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yo-yo.
yoyo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yoyos
form: yoyoing
form: yoyoed
form: yoyoed
Etymology: Genericized trademark. Likely from Ilocano yóyo or another Philippine cognate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yo-yo.
yuca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yucas
form: yuka
Etymology: Via Spanish yuca (also historically juca), frequently said to be of Taíno origin. While the word is almost certainly from an indigenous American language, the source is not known. Perhaps from Kari'na yuca (“cassava”) , but this appears to be a ghost word. Doublet of yucca.
Senses: glosses: cassava
examples: text: In the equatorial regions of South America, starch is abundantly prepared from the Yuca (Jatropha manihot), and from several species of palm.
ref: 1845, Jean Baptiste J.D. Boussingault, Rural Economy, in Its Relations with Chemistry, Physics and Meteorology, Tr. with an Intr. and Notes by G. Law, page 95:
text: She spooned out yuca into what I assume was my plate, and chorizo from a red frying pan.
ref: 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 485:
glosses: cassava root
Derived terms: yucca
diety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diety
form: most diety
Etymology: From diet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: If the meal looks too small, then you should add more food to the plate. If the meal feels too “diety,” then you should adjust it to look more balanced.
ref: 2018, Casey Crosbie, Wendy Sterling, How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder, New York: The Experiment, →ISBN:
text: I suggested easing into some changes very slowly by following the least 'diety' approach, and part-day fasting for just a few days of the week to get a feel for it.
ref: 2019, Jaime Rose Chambers, 16:8 Intermittent Fasting, Sydney: Macmillan, →ISBN, page 77:
text: Get pre-prepared meals delivered. If you're not up for shopping or cooking yet, allow someone to do it for you! There are plenty of services around. Try to stay away from the big weight-focused ones (or, if they're the only option and you feel you can do them without your mind becoming too diety, do the higher-calorie options so your body doesn't rebel).
ref: 2020, Glenn Mackintosh, Thinsanity, Sydney: Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: Having the quality of a diet.
diety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of deity.
yute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yutes
Etymology: From youth.
Senses: examples: text: you know I got something for a paigon yute (skang)
Hmm, I'm very important
So I never beg endorsement
ref: 2021, Norf Face, “Baitest Sound”:
text: 2024, Ceechynaa, Peggy
I got an Asian yute from West tryna pick me up in a Lambo truck
glosses: A youth, a young person, often a young black person.
Derived terms: wasteyute
ranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹænt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
rhymes: -æntʃ
Forms: form: ranches
Etymology: Recorded since 1808, farm sense since 1831. From American Spanish rancho (“small farm, group of farm huts”), in Spanish originally “group of people who eat together." Cognate with English rank.
Senses: examples: text: There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
glosses: A large plot of land used for raising cattle, sheep or other livestock.
glosses: A small farm that cultivates vegetables or livestock, especially one in the Southwestern United States.
glosses: A house or property on a plot of ranch land.
glosses: Ranch dressing.
Derived terms: bet the ranch
bunny ranch
cattle ranch
dude ranch
guest ranch
raised ranch
ranchboy
ranchburger
ranch dressing
rancher
ranchette
ranchgirl
ranchhand
ranch house
ranchhouse
ranchland
ranchlike
ranchman
ranch-sieve
ranch slider
ranchslider
ranchstead
ranch-style
ranchwoman
ranchy
splanch
ranch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹænt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːntʃ
rhymes: -æntʃ
Forms: form: ranches
form: ranching
form: ranched
form: ranched
Etymology: Recorded since 1808, farm sense since 1831. From American Spanish rancho (“small farm, group of farm huts”), in Spanish originally “group of people who eat together." Cognate with English rank.
Senses: examples: text: Formally the widow still ranches, but in fact she leaves all ranching to the foreman.
glosses: To operate a ranch; to engage in ranching.
examples: text: Bill had ranched only five years when his dad made him foreman.
glosses: To work on a ranch.
cowgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊˌɡɝl/
Forms: form: cowgirls
Etymology: From cow + girl.
Senses: glosses: A woman who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
glosses: A woman who identifies with cowboy culture, including clothing such as the cowboy hat.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A playing card of queen rank.
glosses: A sex position where the receptive partner is on top; the cowgirl position.
glosses: The receptive partner in the cowgirl position.
Synonyms: sense: woman tending cattle
word: dudess
sense: woman tending cattle
word: dudette
topics: position
sex
sexuality
lifestyle
word: woman-on-top
Hypernyms: cowhand
cowperson
cowpoke
cowpunch
Coordinate terms: cowboy
Derived terms: cowgirl boot
cowgirl hat
cowgirl position
reverse cowgirl
reverse cowgirl position
cowgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊˌɡɝl/
Forms: form: cowgirls
form: cowgirling
form: cowgirled
form: cowgirled
Etymology: From cow + girl.
Senses: examples: text: She also cowgirled and hired out to do ranch and timber work.
ref: 1998, Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis, Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West:
text: Only 250 miles down the road a reclusive beauty named Joann Brebner was living the bucolic life, cowgirling, helping out at her family's remote ranch-based resort.
ref: 2007, American Cowboy (volume 13, number 5, Jan-Feb 2007, page 56)
glosses: To work as a cowgirl, herding cattle.
examples: text: Once recovered I cowgirled him to a torturously slow climax, having him begging for release as I took him to the edge […]
ref: 2016, Angela Goodnight, My Life, My Loves: True, Explicit Autobiography:
glosses: To mount someone and have sexual intercourse in the cowgirl position.
victrola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victrolas
Etymology: From the brand name Victrola.
Senses: glosses: Any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays 78 rpm records using a steel needle.
baile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪli/
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese baile (“dance”).
Senses: examples: text: The irreverent banger "Hey You" repos Balkan brass and sets it to pure Chicago juke step, which bleeds into a colossal baile beat and, for good measure, some trashy Eurotrance.
ref: 2006 August 25, Jessica Hopper, “Stick This in Your iTunes”, in Chicago Reader:
text: He has been borrowing from Brazilian baile funk for years, and the first release on his new record label, Mad Descent, is by the Brazilian group Bonde do Role.
ref: 2007 March 30, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: A specific genre of dance music originating in Rio de Janeiro, also known as Funk Carioca
baile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪli/
ipa: /ˈbeɪl/
ipa: /ˈbaɪli/
Forms: form: bailes
Etymology: See bail.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of bail.
mural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjʊɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmjɝəl/
ipa: /ˈmjʊəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmjʉːɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmjuːɹəl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
Forms: form: murals
Etymology: Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”).
Senses: glosses: A large painting, usually drawn on a wall.
mural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjʊɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmjɝəl/
ipa: /ˈmjʊəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmjʉːɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmjuːɹəl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
Etymology: Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”).
Senses: examples: text: a mural quadrant
text: Disburd’nd Heav’n rejoic’d, and soon repaird / Her mural breach, returning whence it rowld.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 878–879:
text: [Y]et in the Nectarine and like delicate Mural-fruit, the later your Pruning, the better, [...]
ref: 1669, John Evelyn, “Kalendarium Hortense: OrThe Gard’ners Almanac; […] [February.]”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: Of or relating to a wall; on, or in, or against a wall.
examples: text: a mural precipice
text: Soon the swift horses drew this fair god and goddess nigh the wooded hills, whose distant blue, now changed into a variously-shaded green, stood before them like old Babylonian walls, overgrown with verdure; while here and there, at regular intervals, the scattered peaks seemed mural towers; […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep.
Derived terms: epimural
intermural
mural circle
mural crown
muralism
muralist
muralistic
murally
paramural
photomural
transmural
mural
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjʊɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmjɝəl/
ipa: /ˈmjʊəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmjʉːɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmjuːɹəl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
Forms: form: murals
form: muraling
form: muralling
form: muraled
form: muraled
form: muralled
form: muralled
Etymology: Borrowed from French mural, from Latin muralis, from murus (“wall”).
Senses: examples: text: Today savvy operators and designers are stenciling, streaking, stippling, spattering, sponging, mirroring, muraling and marbleizing their way to wonderful walls.
ref: 1987, Cahners Publishing Company, Restaurants & Institutions, Volume 97, Issues 5-7
text: Its walls were devoutly muraled by artists from the John Reed Club, a Communist-controlled cultural organization.
ref: 2014, Whittaker Chambers, Witness:
glosses: To create a mural.
trunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋks/
rhymes: -ʌŋks
Senses: glosses: plural of trunk
trunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋks/
rhymes: -ʌŋks
Senses: glosses: Shorts or briefs used especially for sports.
examples: text: Spread your legs and hang on till your trunks rip right up the back.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
glosses: Swimming trunks.
glosses: Trunkhose.
examples: text: Roger came through, rustling up four shirts and trousers, two belts, pointed out the underwear selections, where Alex riffled through the boxers, boxer-briefs, and trunks, choosing a package of each.
ref: 2021, Shirley Goldberg, Eat Your Heart Out:
glosses: Trunk briefs.
glosses: Men’s or boys’ boxer shorts or boxer briefs.
Derived terms: bathing trunks
swim trunks
trunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋks/
rhymes: -ʌŋks
Senses: glosses: The game of nineholes.
trunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹʌŋks/
rhymes: -ʌŋks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trunk
beatitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈætɪtjuːd/
ipa: /biˈætɪtud/
Forms: form: beatitudes
Etymology: From Middle English beatitude, beatytude, from Middle French béatitude, from Latin beātitūdō (“happiness, blessedness”), from beātus (“happy, blessed”).
Senses: examples: text: Here is Gregson coming down the road with beatitude written upon every feature of his face.
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter VI (Tobias Gregson shows What He Can Do), page 37:
glosses: Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.
synonyms: makarism
glosses: Any of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5).
preterite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛtəɹɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈpɹɛtəɹət/
Forms: form: preterit
form: praeterite
form: præterite
form: pret.
Etymology: From Middle English preterit, from Old French preterit (13th century), from Latin praeteritum (as in tempus praeteritum (“time past”)), the past participle of praetereō (“I go by, go past”), itself from praeter (“beyond, before, above, more than”) (comparative of prae (“before”)) + itum (the past participle of eō (“I go”)).
Senses: examples: text: The Dravidian preterite tense is ordinarily formed, like the present, by annexing the pronominal signs to the preterite verbal participle.
ref: 1913 [1856], Robert Caldwell, edited by J.L. Wyatt and T. Ramakrishna Pillai, A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian, or, South-Indian Family of Languages, 3rd edition, London: Kegan Paul, →OCLC, page 496:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Showing an action at a determined moment in the past.
raw_tags: of a tense
examples: text: Without leaving your elbow-chair, you shall go back with me thirty years, which will bring you among things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa.
ref: 1890, James Russell Lowell, “Cambridge Thirty Years Ago”, in The Writings of James Russell Lowell, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 52:
text: Boas, Benedict, Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Murdock, Evans-Pritchard, Griaule, Levi-Strauss, to keep the list short, preterite, and variegated, […]
ref: 1988, Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author, page 19:
glosses: Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
Synonyms: sense: belonging wholly to the past
word: bygone
word: foregone
word: past