cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kutya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Lesia put a bowl of kutya, its boiled wheat grains mixed with honey and ground poppy seed, in the center of the table. Papa dipped a wooden spoon into the kutya and tossed it into the air.
ref: 1954 December, Olive Knox, “The Evening Star”, in H[arold] S[tanley] Fry, editor, The Country Guide, Winnipeg, Man.: The Public Press Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33, column 1:
text: The next day, Christmas Day, Elise tried to have as little to do with Nikholai as possible. The day was celebrated with the traditional feast that ended with a pot of kutya, rice boiled with raisins and nuts.
ref: 1989 October, Linda Madl, “Your Army and Mine”, in Sweet Ransom, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 232:
text: The kutya is eaten from a common dish to symbolize unity. Some families used to throw a spoonful of kutya up to the ceiling. According to tradition, if the kutya stuck, there would be a plentiful honey harvest.
ref: 2009, Alisa White Karwowski, “The ‘Holy Supper’”, in A Guide to Russian Adoption: Professional Counseling and Personal Insights, Westport, Conn.: Praeger, →ISBN, chapter 8 (Personal Challenges and Joys: John Sergei and Charlie Vitalij), page 150:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kutia.
EFTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛf.tɑː/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of European Free Trade Association.
Related terms: BAFTA
CEFTA
CISFTA
ISBN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ISBNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Standard Book Number.
Related terms: ISSN
Special:Booksources to look up ISBN codes
BTW
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: bee tee dubs
form: btw
Senses: examples: text: Last I heard, the books could not be copied in any part nor seen by non-licensees. BTW – Irma Biren has been promoted (she deserved it) and the new contact would be Francine Glick.
ref: 1981 June 14, harpo!ber, “Lion's Book”, in fa.unix-wizards (Usenet), retrieved 02 Jul 2016, message-ID <anews.Aharpo.261>:
text: BTW – By The Way
ref: 1989 May 8, Vince Perriello (Editor in Chief), “Volume 6, Number 19”, in FidoNews, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2005:
glosses: Initialism of by the way.
ttyl
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of TTYL (“talk to you later”).
lol
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl.əʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɒl/
ipa: /ˌɛlˌoʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɑl/
ipa: /loʊl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of LOL.
lol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl.əʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɒl/
ipa: /ˌɛlˌoʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɑl/
ipa: /loʊl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: lols
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of LOL.
lol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl.əʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɒl/
ipa: /ˌɛlˌoʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɑl/
ipa: /loʊl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: lols
form: lol's
form: loling
form: lolling
form: lol'ing
form: loled
form: loled
form: lolled
form: lolled
form: lol'd
form: lol'd
form: lol'ed
form: lol'ed
form: lold
form: lold
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of LOL.
lol
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl.əʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɒl/
ipa: /ˌɛlˌoʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɑl/
ipa: /loʊl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Senses: examples: text: Are you really that bad lol?
glosses: Neutralises the tone of a message; denotes that a message is light-hearted or casual.
Derived terms: lolcat
lolfan
lollercoaster
lollerskates
lolly
lolsies
lolspeak
LOLWUT
lol
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛl.əʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɒl/
ipa: /ˌɛlˌoʊˈɛl/
ipa: /lɑl/
ipa: /loʊl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Senses: examples: text: And all the way to Dublin, whack fol lol le rah!
ref: 19th c., D. K. Gavan, “Rocky Road to Dublin”:
glosses: Used in song as a nonsense syllable.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: ice lol
english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: tol-lol
RTFM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: rtfm
Senses: glosses: Initialism of read the fucking manual.
glosses: Initialism of read the fucking man page.
Derived terms: RTFA
Related terms: STFW
language
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lăngʹgwĭj
ipa: /ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈle(ɪ)ŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlæːŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlaŋɡwed͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlaŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlaŋɡwed͡ʒ]
note: Indic
ipa: /laŋɡˈweːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: languages
form: languaging
form: languaged
form: languaged
Etymology: From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
Senses: examples: text: Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: To communicate by language; to express in language.
language
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: lăngʹgwĭj
ipa: /ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈle(ɪ)ŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlæːŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlaŋɡwed͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlaŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlaŋɡwed͡ʒ]
note: Indic
ipa: /laŋɡˈweːd͡ʒ/
Etymology: From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
Senses: examples: text: You're a pile of shit!
Hey! Language!
glosses: An admonishment said in response to vulgar language.
Related terms: bilingual
lexis
linguistics
multilingual
term
trilingual
word
language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lăngʹgwĭj
ipa: /ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: [ˈlæŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
note: see /æ/ raising
ipa: [ˈle(ɪ)ŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlæːŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlaŋɡwed͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlaŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]
ipa: [ˈlaŋɡwed͡ʒ]
note: Indic
ipa: /laŋɡˈweːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: languages
Etymology: Alteration of languet.
Senses: examples: text: A flue-pipe is one in which the air passes through the throat, or flue, which is the narrow, longitudinal aperture between the lower lip and the tongue, or language. […] The language is adjusted by slightly elevating or depressing it, […]
ref: 1896, William Horatio Clarke, The Organist's Retrospect, page 79:
glosses: A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
Synonyms: word: language
word: leid
word: lingo
word: speech
word: tongue
Hypernyms: word: medium
Hyponyms: word: creole
word: pidgin
word: lingua franca
word: link language
word: dead language
word: extinct language
word: heritage language
word: living language
word: endangered language
word: natural language
word: constructed language
word: sign language
word: computer language
word: birthtongue
word: first language
word: L1
word: mother language
word: mother tongue
word: native language
word: native tongue
word: vernacular
word: vulgate
word: father tongue
word: L2
word: second language
word: Sino-Tibetan language
word: Indo-European language
word: Romance language
word: Slavic language
word: Germanic language
word: Celtic language
word: isolating language
word: analytic language
word: synthetic language
word: fusional language
word: agglutinative language
word: polysynthetic language
word: inflected language
Meronyms: word: acrolect
word: argot
word: basilect
word: cant
word: chronolect
word: cryptolect
word: dialect
word: ecolect
word: ethnolect
word: idiolect
word: idiom
word: isolect
word: jargon
word: lect
word: matrilect
word: mesilect
word: mesolect
word: mimolect
word: paralect
word: parlance
word: patois
word: patrilect
word: similect
word: slang
word: sociolect
word: topolect
word: xenolect
word: expression
word: grammar
word: phrase
word: sign
word: statement
word: symbol
word: term
word: vocabulary
word: word
word: wording
Related terms: word: languoid
bot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒt/
enpr: bŏt
ipa: /bɑt/
homophone: bought (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: bots
form: bott
Etymology: Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”).
Senses: examples: text: One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
ref: 1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page 76:
text: Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.
ref: 1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature, page 157:
glosses: The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
Derived terms: rodent bot
bot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒt/
enpr: bŏt
ipa: /bɑt/
homophone: bought (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: bots
form: botting
form: botted
form: botted
Etymology: From bottom.
Senses: glosses: To bugger.
examples: text: Can I bot a smoke?
text: Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.
synonyms: word: bum
glosses: To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
bot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒt/
enpr: bŏt
ipa: /bɑt/
homophone: bought (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: bots
Etymology: From bottom.
Senses: glosses: The bottom or backside.
bot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒt/
enpr: bŏt
ipa: /bɑt/
homophone: bought (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: bots
form: botting
form: botted
form: botted
form: 'bot
Etymology: Clipping of robot.
Senses: examples: text: Players caught botting will be banned from the server.
topics: video-games
glosses: To use a bot, or automated program.
Derived terms: viewbot
transitive verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transitive verbs
Etymology: Coined between 1580 and 1590.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb that is accompanied (either clearly or implicitly) by a direct object in the active voice. It links the action taken by the subject with the object upon which that action is taken. Consequently, transitive verbs can also be used in the passive voice when the direct object of the equivalent active-voice sentence becomes the subject.
Related terms: monotransitive verb
ditransitive verb
intradirective verb
labile verb
adverb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.vɜːb/
ipa: /ˈæd.vɝb/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖˈvɜ(r)b/
Forms: form: adverbs
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words. By surface analysis, ad- + verb.
Senses: examples: text: 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
ref: 1844, E. A. Andrews, First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, 6th edition, Boston, page 91:
text: ‘Fortunately your papa appreciates it; he appreciates it immensely’—that was one of the things Miss Overmore also said, with a striking insistence on the adverb.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
text: I often went outside hiking during my stay in Japan.
text: It was often cold outside.
text: Not often.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.
Hyponyms: sense: words that modify verbs
word: intransitive preposition
Derived terms: adverbative
adverbhood
adverbial
adverbially
adverbify
adverbize
adverbless
adverbophobia
adverb phrase
conjunctive adverb
flat adverb
locative adverb
manner adverb
modal adverb
proadverb
pronominal adverb
relative adverb
sentence adverb
adverb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd.vɜːb/
ipa: /ˈæd.vɝb/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖˈvɜ(r)b/
Forms: form: adverbs
form: adverbing
form: adverbed
form: adverbed
Etymology: From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words. By surface analysis, ad- + verb.
Senses: examples: text: Considering these postpositional phrases to be adverbed phrases would be an insufficient analysis, since the postpositions are determined by the verb.
ref: 1973, Indian Linguistics, volume 34, page 241:
text: Even if, in the case of native speakers of English in particular, bonded adverbed verbs are always understood and used as entities, the different stages of théir formation are probably those I have just described.
ref: 1998, English linguistics:
text: Then, post-adverbially, they start over again from Square One, explaining that queer name of hers and who and where she is and what's going on here besides adverbing.
ref: 2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories, page 8:
glosses: To make into or become an adverb.
Synonyms: adverbialize
transitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trăn'zĭtĭv
ipa: /ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/
Etymology: From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
ref: 1841-1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet:
glosses: Making a transit or passage.
examples: text: By far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy.
ref: 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive:
glosses: Affected by transference of signification.
examples: text: The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticed a problem".
text: Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
ref: 1908, G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: intransitive
glosses: Taking a direct object or objects.
raw_tags: of a verb
examples: text: "Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
antonyms: intransitive
nontransitive
glosses: Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.
raw_tags: of a relation on a set
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
raw_tags: of a group action
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
raw_tags: of a graph
topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
glosses: Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
Derived terms: ambitransitive
bitransitive
complex transitive
ditransitive
doubly transitive
indirect transitive
monotransitive
quasi-transitive
semi-transitive
transitive animate
transitive closure
transitive dependency
transitively
transitiveness
transitive set
transitive verb
transitivity
unitransitive
Related terms: reflexive
symmetric
transitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trăn'zĭtĭv
ipa: /ˈtɹænzɪtɪv/
Forms: form: transitives
Etymology: From Latin trānsitīvus, from trānsitus, from trāns (“across”) + itus, from eō (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: This means that subcategorization properties do not allow us to distinguish between transitives and intransitives (both types of verbs are allowed, but not obliged, to take a direct object).
ref: 2011, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, The Syntax of Romanian: Comparative Studies in Romance, page 136:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A transitive verb.
peccaminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈkæmɪnəs/
Forms: form: more peccaminous
form: most peccaminous
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin peccaminōsus, from peccāmen (“sin”), from peccō (“to sin”).
Senses: examples: text: a volume of peccaminous pornographical tendency entitled Sweets of Sin.
ref: 1918, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: Sinful.
Esperanto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛspəˈɹæntəʊ/
other: /ˌɛspəˈɹɑːntəʊ/
ipa: /ˌɛspəˈɹæntoʊ/
other: /ˌɛspəˈɹɑntoʊ/
rhymes: -æntəʊ
rhymes: -ɑːntəʊ
Etymology: A learned borrowing from Esperanto Esperanto. Originally, this was the pseudonym assumed by the creator of the language, L. L. Zamenhof, and the language was called Lingvo Internacia (“international language”). The term first appears in the publication Science in 1892.
Senses: examples: text: Speakers of toki pona have formed a large online community. On Discord, the largest toki pona community claims approximately 13,000 members (as of February 1, 2024), more than the largest Na’vi community at approximately 9,600 members, the largest Interslavic community at approximately 8,000 members, or the largest Esperanto community at approximately 7,400 members.
ref: 2024 April 16, Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), et al., “Preliminary proposal to encode sitelen pona in the UCS”, in Unicode, pages 2-3:
glosses: An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.
examples: text: The U.S. dollar is the Esperanto of currency.
text: [Compared] to the Esperanto of the Eye, [cinema], [Esperanto's] conquest of the Earth is painfully slow[.]
ref: 1923, Edward Sims Van Zile, “The Movie as a World Language”, in That Marvel—the Movie, page 193:
text: I think there is increasingly a homogenized voice, an Esperanto in the ear.
ref: 1981, Ellen Goodman, “Where did all the accents go?”, in Sarasota Journal, page 6A:
text: […]making its usual explicit request in the Esperanto of brutality.
ref: 1994, Terry Pratchet, Interesting Times:
text: The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
ref: 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post:
text: There may have been a few slippages when the show's American English was translated for foreign audiences—Alerte à Malibu! Mishmar Ha-Mifratz!—but the theme song was pure Esperanto, a joyous surge of energy and desire that was instantly comprehensible from Quito to Tehran.
ref: 2022, James Brooke-Smith, Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s, The History Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Anything that is used as a single international medium in place of plural distinct national media.
Derived terms: Esperantic
Esperantist
because
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: weak form
ipa: /bɪkəz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɒz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔːz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔːs/
note: strong form
ipa: /biˈkɔz/
note: strong form
ipa: /biˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bəˈkɔz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bəˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔz/
note: weak form
ipa: /bəˈkɔːz/
note: weak form
ipa: /bəˈkɒz/
note: strong form
ipa: /biːˈkɔːz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɑːz/
note: strong form, obsolete
ipa: /bɪˈkeɪz/
rhymes: -ɒz
rhymes: -ʌz
rhymes: -ɔːz
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: bycause
form: becos
form: 'cause
form: cos
form: cuz
form: coz
form: 'cos
form: 'cuz
form: 'coz
form: b/c
form: bc
form: bcos
form: bcoz
form: bcs
form: bcz
form: bcus
form: ∵
Etymology: From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
Senses: examples: text: My life is ruined because of you!
info_templates: extra_data: words: of
expansion: [with of]
glosses: On account, for sake [with of].
examples: text: And God blessed the seuenth day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God created and made.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:3:
info_templates: extra_data: words: that
expansion: [with that]
glosses: For the reason [with that].
Derived terms: becauseness
because of
because one can
because you say so
just because
no because
because
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: note: weak form
ipa: /bɪkəz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɒz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔːz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔːs/
note: strong form
ipa: /biˈkɔz/
note: strong form
ipa: /biˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bəˈkɔz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bəˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔz/
note: weak form
ipa: /bəˈkɔːz/
note: weak form
ipa: /bəˈkɒz/
note: strong form
ipa: /biːˈkɔːz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɑːz/
note: strong form, obsolete
ipa: /bɪˈkeɪz/
rhymes: -ɒz
rhymes: -ʌz
rhymes: -ɔːz
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: bycause
form: becos
form: 'cause
form: cos
form: cuz
form: coz
form: 'cos
form: 'cuz
form: 'coz
form: b/c
form: bc
form: bcos
form: bcoz
form: bcs
form: bcz
form: bcus
form: ∵
Etymology: From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
Senses: glosses: Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer to a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".
because
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: note: weak form
ipa: /bɪkəz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɒz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔːz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔːs/
note: strong form
ipa: /biˈkɔz/
note: strong form
ipa: /biˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bəˈkɔz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bəˈkʌz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɔz/
note: weak form
ipa: /bəˈkɔːz/
note: weak form
ipa: /bəˈkɒz/
note: strong form
ipa: /biːˈkɔːz/
note: strong form
ipa: /bɪˈkɑːz/
note: strong form, obsolete
ipa: /bɪˈkeɪz/
rhymes: -ɒz
rhymes: -ʌz
rhymes: -ɔːz
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: bycause
form: becos
form: 'cause
form: cos
form: cuz
form: coz
form: 'cos
form: 'cuz
form: 'coz
form: b/c
form: bc
form: bcos
form: bcoz
form: bcs
form: bcz
form: bcus
form: ∵
Etymology: From Middle English bi cause, from bi (“by”) + cause, modelled on Old French par cause.
Senses: examples: text: He rejected me because revenge, I guess.
text: It doesn't work because reasons.
text: You probably know it better, however, as explanation by way of Internet—explanation that maximizes efficiency and irony in equal measure. I'm late because YouTube. You're reading this because procrastination. As the language writer Stan Carey delightfully sums it up: “‘Because’ has become a preposition, because grammar.”
ref: 2013 November 19, Megan Garber, “English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: On account of, because of.
Derived terms: because reasons
World Exposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: World Expositions
Senses: glosses: Any of various large international expositions held since the mid 19th century, often called "Expo".
Synonyms: world's fair
World Fair
Universal Exposition
Expo
World Expo
feist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪst/
rhymes: -aɪst
Forms: form: feists
form: fist
form: fice
Etymology: Earliest sense is “fart”, and later “stink” as abbreviation for fysting cur “stinking dog” (1520s). From Middle English fysten (mid-15th century), from Old English. Cognate with Middle Dutch veest and Dutch vijst. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *fistiz (“a fart”), presumably from Proto-Indo-European *pesd-, though this is disputed.
One explanation for the association of farting with small dogs is given in an 1811 slang dictionary, which suggests that the dogs were blamed for farting, specifically defining fice as “a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs.”
Cognate terms include German Fist (“soft fart”), Danish fise (“to blow, to fart”) and Middle English askefise (“bellows”, literally “fire-blower, ash-blower”), from Old Norse; originally “a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner”.
Senses: glosses: A small, snappy, belligerent mixed-breed dog; a feist dog.
examples: text: Sultry Joan Collins says she likes her men feisty and her beau Peter Holm is full of feist.
ref: 1985, Weekly World News, volume 6, number 36:
text: She looked at him, all eagerness and trust, full of feist and fun, unlike any woman he'd met before. After only a few hours, he felt as if he'd known her forever.
ref: 2009, Cindy Causey, A Different Drum:
glosses: Feisty behavior.
synonyms: SBD
glosses: Silent (but pungent) flatulence.
Derived terms: feisty
noli illegitimi carborundum
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: illegitimi non carborundum
form: nolite te bastardes carborundum
Etymology: Humorous pseudo-Latinism, from noli (“do not permit”) [singular] and illegitimi (“bastards”) [in the wrong grammatical case] and from the Latinate brand name Carborundum for a silicon carbide abrasive.
The phrase is similar to the real Latin phrase nil desperandum (“do not despair”, literally “nothing to be despaired of”), which would be known to many English speakers. The -rundum ending of carborundum recalls the word desperandum, although such a gerundive suffix makes no sense for this phrase.
This form of the saying was popularized in English by the US general "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell during World War II, reputed to have been taught it by British army intelligence. It later became the motto for the 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater, who displayed it as a sign in his senatorial office. The plural form nolite te bastardes carborundum was popularized by Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale and its subsequent TV adaptation.
Senses: glosses: Don't let the bastards grind you down
Carborundum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of carborundum.
flute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: flo͞ot
ipa: /fluːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: flutes
form: fluting
form: fluted
form: fluted
Etymology: From Middle English fleute, floute, flote, from Old French flaute, fleüte, from Old Provençal flaüt, of uncertain origin. Perhaps ultimately from three possibilities:
* Blend of Provencal flaujol (“flageolet”) + laüt (“lute”)
* From Latin flātus (“blowing”), from flāre (“to blow”)
* Imitative.
Doublet of flauta and fluyt.
Senses: glosses: To play on a flute.
examples: text: The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
ref: 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:
glosses: To make a flutelike sound.
examples: text: “Oh, there's my precious Poppet,” said Phyllis, as a distant barking reached the ears. “He's asking for his dinner, the sweet little angel. All right, darling, Mother's coming,” she fluted, and buzzed off on the errand of mercy.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: To utter with a flutelike sound.
glosses: To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).
Related terms: word: flute around
word: champagne flute
word: flautist
word: fluted
flute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flo͞ot
ipa: /fluːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: flutes
Etymology: Compare French flûte (“a transport”)?, Dutch fluit.
Senses: glosses: A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
interwiki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈwɪki/
Etymology: From inter- + wiki.
Senses: examples: text: interwiki link
translation: a link from one wiki to a page on another wiki
english: a link from one wiki to a page on another wiki
glosses: Between wikis.
interwiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈwɪki/
Forms: form: interwikis
Etymology: From inter- + wiki.
Senses: glosses: An interwiki link.
interwiki
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈwɪki/
Forms: form: interwikis
form: interwikiing
form: interwikied
form: interwikied
Etymology: From inter- + wiki.
Senses: examples: text: Any page, not just articles, can be interwikied.
ref: 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 415:
coordinate_terms: transwiki
glosses: To create interwiki links (hyperlinks between wikis).
Related terms: transwiki
railway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪlˌweɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹælˌweɪ/
rhymes: -eɪlweɪ
Forms: form: railways
Etymology: From rail + way.
Senses: examples: text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.
examples: text: His interest in railways is not the quality that marks Pearson out. Everyone was interested in railways. Over a thousand miles of them opened between 1837 and 1845, most of what would become the national network. [...] You needed an Act of Parliament to build a railway; but that wasn't very hard to obtain if you could give the appearance of adequately funded competence.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 14–15:
glosses: A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which wheeled vehicles such as trains may travel.
Synonyms: sense: track
word: railroad track
sense: track
word: railway track
sense: track
word: railway line
sense: track
word: rails
sense: system
word: railroad
sense: system
word: rail
word: rwy
word: RY
word: Ry.
word: ry
Derived terms: aerial railway
atmospheric railway
cash railway
cliff railway
cog railway
elevated railway
funicular railway
heritage railway
light railway
mineral railway
model railway
rack railway
railwayac
railwayana
railway beetle
railway bridge
railway buff
railway carriage
railway company
railway crossing
railway gun
railwayist
railway key
railwayless
railway line
railwayman
railway signal
railway sleeper
railway spine
railway stamp
railway station
railway tie
railway time
railway track
railway train
railway truck
railway vehicle
railway wagon
railway wrapper
rope railway
ship railway
street railway
Trans-Siberian Railway
underground railway
zigzag railway
Related terms: railbuff
railfan
monorail
permanent way
right of way
streetcar
subway
trackway
train
tramway
woodwind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdwɪnd/
Forms: form: woodwinds
Etymology: From wood + wind.
Senses: examples: text: The seven-member Bell Orchestre was indeed a miniorchestra, with strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion along with occasional guitar and analog electronic noise.
ref: 2009 February 28, Jon Pareles, “Turf-Sharing, When Indie Met Classical”, in The New York Times:
text: The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch.
ref: 2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in The New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
Derived terms: woodwind instrument
woodwindist
woodwinder
Related terms: brass instrument
keyboard instrument
percussion instrument
string instrument
tighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.tən/
ipa: [ˈtʰaɪ̯tn̩]
ipa: [ˈtʰaɪ̯ʔn̩]
rhymes: -aɪtən
homophone: titan
homophone: Titan
Forms: form: tightens
form: tightening
form: tightened
form: tightened
Etymology: Synchronically equivalent to tight + -en, but actually derived from Middle English tighten, from Old English tyhtan, thus originally unrelated to tight (Old English *þiht).
Senses: examples: text: Please tighten that screw a quarter-turn.
text: Just where I please, with tighten;d rein / I'll urge thee round the dusty plain.
ref: 1760, Francis Fawkes, Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musæus translated into English by a gentleman of Cambridge:
glosses: To make tighter.
examples: text: That joint is tightening as the wood dries.
glosses: To become tighter.
examples: text: If the government doesn't tighten the money supply, inflation is certain to be harsh.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To make money harder to borrow or obtain.
examples: text: The Fed is expected to tighten by a quarter-point.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To raise short-term interest rates.
Synonyms: word: bind
word: brace
word: cinch
word: clench
word: constrict
word: squeeze
word: tighten
word: taughten
topics: nautical
transport
word: tauten
word: tense
Hyponyms: word: overtighten
word: collar
word: flex
word: pull in
topics: nautical
transport
word: screw up
word: sinch
topics: equestrianism
horses
pets
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: swifter
topics: nautical
transport
word: take in
topics: climbing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: wind up
word: wrench
Derived terms: belt-tighten
retighten
tighten down
tightener
tighten one's belt
tighten the purse strings
tighten up
Related terms: tight
peso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪsəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɛso/
rhymes: (UK) -eɪsəʊ
rhymes: (Philippines) -ɛso
Forms: form: pesos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish peso.
Senses: glosses: A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
examples: text: The value of the peso has plummeted 858% against the US dollar over the past five years as the central bank printed more of the currency to help the country’s spendthrift government avoid defaulting on its debts. […] To dollarize its economy, Argentina would need to exchange all pesos held by its people and businesses for US dollars, and assign a dollar value to all of its assets and contracts.
ref: 2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business:
glosses: The circulating currency of various Spanish-speaking American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Uruguay) and the Philippines.
Synonyms: english: former Spanish coin
translation: former Spanish coin
word: adarme
word: Spanish dollar
Derived terms: pesoization
pesoize
peso ley
South Pacific peso
Related terms: avoirdupois
pansy
pensive
poise
centavo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛnˈtɑːvoʊ/
Forms: form: centavos
Etymology: From Spanish or Portuguese.
Senses: glosses: Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
glosses: A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
glosses: The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).
trillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: trĭl'yən
ipa: /ˈtɹɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: trillions
Etymology: Borrowed from French trillion, from French tri- (“three”) + -illion, equivalent to tri- + -illion.
Senses: examples: text: Javik: Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Their silence is your answer.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
text: Data published by the Treasury Department showed that “total public debt outstanding” rose to $34.001 trillion on December 29.
ref: 2024 January 3, Hanna Ziady and Tami Luhby, “US national debt hits record $34 trillion”, in CNN:
text: As President Donald Trump prepares to order the dismantling of the Department of Education, the financial arm of the agency – which makes loans directly to borrowers and manages trillions of dollars in student debt – faces an uncertain future, with steep staff cuts and lack of communication exacerbating the uncertainty, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former department employees.
ref: 2025 March 7, Kayla Tausche, “Dismantling of Education Department puts future of trillions of dollars in student loans in question”, in CNN:
glosses: Either of two large amounts:
A million (times a) million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10¹².
synonyms: billion[long scale]]>
qualifier: short scale
glosses: Either of two large amounts:
A million (times a) million (times a) million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.
synonyms: quintillion
qualifier: long scale
examples: text: Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion
text: There were trillions of people at the concert.
glosses: An unspecified very large number.
Coordinate terms: thousand
million
milliard
thousand million
billion
quadrillion
quintillion
sextillion
Related terms: sense: short scale
word: Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
sense: long scale
word: Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
sense: SI prefix
word: tera-
trillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trĭl'yən
ipa: /ˈtɹɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: trillions
Etymology: Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score.
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.
libero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪbəɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈlɪbəɹoʊ/
ipa: /lɪˈbɛɹoʊ/
Forms: form: liberos
Etymology: From Italian libero (literally “free one”). So called because he has no direct opponent to mark and is therefore free to join in the offensive. The volleyball use is younger.
Senses: examples: text: Nicknamed “Der Kaiser”, Beckenbauer was as elegant as he was dominant, and such was his assurance in possession that he came to master the modern sweeper role, or libero. More so, he is credited with creating it.
ref: 2024 January 8, Sachin Nakrani, “Franz Beckenbauer, World Cup-winning captain and manager, dies aged 78”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: sweeper
glosses: A central defender to whom no forward is assigned for marking, forming the last line of defence and often initiating the offensive play.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: A designated back-row player intended to be used as a ball-control specialist.
morpheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.fiːm/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.fim/
ipa: /ˈmoː.fiːm/
Forms: form: morphemes
Etymology: From French morphème. Ultimately from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “shape, form”). By surface analysis, morph + -eme.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise.
Synonyms: word: morpheme
Hypernyms: word: linguistic unit
Hyponyms: word: affix
word: infix
word: prefix
word: suffix
word: free morpheme
word: bound morpheme
word: root
word: cranberry morpheme
word: circumfix
word: confix
word: suprafix
word: derivational suffix
word: inflectional suffix
Derived terms: bimorpheme
bound morpheme
cranberry morpheme
empty morpheme
free morpheme
monomorpheme
morphemed
morphemehood
morphemic
morphemics
morphemize
null morpheme
root morpheme
submorpheme
tonomorpheme
zero morpheme
Related terms: word: allomorph
word: lemma
word: word form
word: cat
word: sharp
word: smart
word: anti-
word: pre-
word: re-
word: non-
word: un-
word: -able
word: -hood
word: -ity
word: -ness
word: -o-
word: -s-
word: -bloody-
word: Anglo-
word: biblio-
word: bio-
word: chrono-
word: electro-
word: geo-
word: hemato-
word: mechano-
word: nucleo-
word: techno-
word: thermo-
word: -archy
word: -centric
word: -cephalic
word: -cracy
word: -metre
word: -philia
word: -phobia
word: -graphy
word: -logy
word: cran
word: luke
word: morph
word: interfix
word: :Category:Morphemes by language
word: :Category:English morphemes
tetrachromat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrachromats
Etymology: From tetra- + chromatic.
Senses: examples: text: Blood on the berries―red on red―but to you, a tetrachromat, the two reds are distinctive.
ref: 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 340:
glosses: One who is capable of identifying four primary colors; one whose vision exhibits tetrachromacy.
Related terms: tetrachromacy
tetrachromatic
eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: āt
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /eɪt/
ipa: /eʈ/
ipa: /ɛ(j)ʈ/
homophone: ait (general)
homophone: ate
homophone: eyot (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: aught
Etymology: PIE word
 *oḱtṓw
From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).
Senses: examples: text: Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
ref: 2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024:
text: The statement did not specify the location of that trip, but provided further details of her romantic life, stating that Saroukos and her husband spent eight days together before she returned to Australia on Dec. 21.
ref: 2025 May 30, Riley Cedar, “Soldier’s wife deported to Australia after detainment in Hawaii”, in Military Times, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2025:
glosses: A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
examples: text: He works eight hours a day.
glosses: Describing a group or set with eight elements.
Related terms: eighth
Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: āt
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /eɪt/
ipa: /eʈ/
ipa: /ɛ(j)ʈ/
homophone: ait (general)
homophone: ate
homophone: eyot (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: eights
form: aught
Etymology: PIE word
 *oḱtṓw
From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).
Senses: glosses: The digit/figure 8.
qualifier: playing cards
glosses: Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: A race in which such craft participate.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.
examples: text: About eight on the Saturday morning, she purchases a large sheath-knife in the Palais Royal [...]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter I, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book IV (Terror):
text: Sharp at eight we were waiting on the wharf where the Messagerie boats lie, and wondering what the deuce was going to happen.
ref: 1905, Guy Newell Boothby, “The Treasure of Sacramento Nick”, in A Crime of the Under-Seas, London: Ward Lock & Co Limited, →OCLC, →OL:
text: Miranda showed him in at a quarter to eight, accompanied by a pretty young woman she introduced as Erin d'Angelo.
ref: 1997 February 1 [1981 April 12], John Dunning, Deadline, New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263:
glosses: Eight o'clock.
Derived terms: aces and eights
big eight
crazy eight
crazy eights
Cuban eight
Eight Ash Green
eight-ball
eight ball
eight-bar blues
eight-day clock
eighteen
eight figures
eight-hooter
eightish
eight-jewel
eight-legged essay
eightlike
eight-lined keelback
eightling
eight-masted
eightness
eight-oar
eight o'clock
eight-pack
eight pack
eight-pager
eightpence
eightpenny
eight-penny nail
eight penny nail
eightplex
eight-precious
eights and aces
eightscore
eightsies
eightsman
eight-spotted flea beetle
eight-thousander
eight-top
eight-treasure
eighty
eighty-eight
feel eight feet tall
figure-eight
figure eight
figure-eight hitch
figure of eight
figure-of-eight
grade eight
last eight
lazy eight
middle eight
number eight
one over the eight
piece of eight
standing eight
straight-eight
straight eight
twenty-five-eight
two and eight
Related terms: section 8
eight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: āt
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /eɪt/
ipa: /eʈ/
ipa: /ɛ(j)ʈ/
homophone: ait (general)
homophone: ate
homophone: eyot (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: aught
Etymology: PIE word
 *oḱtṓw
From Middle English eighte, aught, eahte, ahte, from Old English eahta, from Proto-West Germanic *ahtō, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Cognate with Scots aucht (“eight”), West Frisian acht (“eight”), Dutch acht (“eight”), Low German acht (“eight”), German acht (“eight”), Norwegian åtte (“eight”), Swedish åtta (“eight”), Icelandic átta (“eight”), Latin octo (“eight”), Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ), Irish ocht (“eight”).
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of eighth.
eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: pane–pain merger
enpr: āt
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /eɪt/
ipa: /eʈ/
ipa: /ɛ(j)ʈ/
homophone: ait (general)
homophone: ate
homophone: eyot (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: eights
Etymology: See ait.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ait (island in a river)