cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
miller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɚ/
ipa: /ˈmɪlə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: millers
Etymology: From Middle English myllere, mellere, from earlier mylnere, possibly from an Old English *mylnere, from Proto-West Germanic *mulīnārī (“miller”), equivalent to mill + -er; cf. also Late Latin molīnārius (“miller”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Muller, Dutch mulder, molenaar, German Low German Möller, German Müller, Müllner, Danish møller, Norwegian Bokmål møller, Norwegian Nynorsk mylnar, møllar, Swedish mjölnare, Icelandic mylnari.
Compare also Middle English milward, mulward (“miller”), from Old English mylenweard (“miller”, literally “mill-keeper”) (> English Millward (surname)).
Senses: examples: text: Constable's father, a wealthy miller, operated the mill at Flatford, which still stands 1 mile south of the village.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 160, about East Bergholt:
glosses: A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flourmill.
examples: text: Besides the usual run of machines, planers, millers, automatics, centre lathes, cranes, etc., there were several power stations, the rolling mills for strip material and for 60 ft. rails, and all the steel furnaces with their complicated systems of flues. If variety is the spice of life, then there was plenty here.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
glosses: A milling machine.
glosses: Any of several moths that have powdery wings, especially Acronicta leporina and moths of the genus Agrotis.
glosses: A floury-smelling mushroom, Clitopilus prunulus.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A rat.
Derived terms: drown the miller
dusty miller
every miller draws water to his own mill
floury miller
milleress
miller moth
molly miller
sawmiller
too much water drowned the miller
undermiller
watermiller
windmiller
Related terms: milling
millstone
wtfpwn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wtfpwns
form: wtfpwning
form: wtfpwned
form: wtfpwned
Etymology: From WTF + pwn.
Senses: examples: text: Up until the point where some uninvited guests show up to act as assholes and wtfpwn them.... during the wake.
ref: 2006 April 15, Lazarhat, “When virtual funerals for real people go bad....”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet):
text: Either way if your gear is good 400+ resil, you should be able to live at least for 60s, ample time for a mage to wtfpwn both of them.
ref: 2008 August 20, Osoris, “Stealth teams in 2v2”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet):
text: Firstly you have an external problem: somehow those hateful bunnies wtfpwn in the story world, denying you your place in the sun.
ref: 2011, Julian Hoxter, Write What You Don't Know: An Accessible Manual for Screenwriters, →ISBN:
glosses: To dominate or defeat thoroughly (as in a video game).
Murphy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɝfi/
ipa: /ˈmɜːfi/
homophone: murphy
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fi
Forms: form: Morphis
Etymology: From Irish Ó Murchadha (“descendant of Murrough”), Mac Murchaidh (“Son of Murrough”), etc. See Muircath.
Senses: examples: text: After a long talk between these two, and a little broken English from the Frenchmen, our visitors took leave; but Father Murphy had hardly gone a dozen rods when back he came, inquiring whether we were in want of anything.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A common surname from Irish, the anglicized form of Irish Ó Murchadha
examples: text: Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy, to go. She'd named her baby Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London.
ref: 2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place, the county seat of Owyhee County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Jefferson County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Cherokee County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Collin County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
glosses: A town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
Derived terms: in the arms of Murphy
murphy
Murphy bed
Murphy drip
Murphy game
Murphy-Lane bone skid
Murphysboro
Murphy's button
Murphy's law
Murphy's punch
Murphy's test
Murphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɝfi/
ipa: /ˈmɜːfi/
homophone: murphy
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fi
Forms: form: Murphies
form: Morphis
Etymology: From Irish Ó Murchadha (“descendant of Murrough”), Mac Murchaidh (“Son of Murrough”), etc. See Muircath.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Murphy game (“type of confidence trick”).
Murphy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɝfi/
ipa: /ˈmɜːfi/
homophone: murphy
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)fi
Forms: form: Murphies
form: Murphying
form: Murphied
form: Murphied
form: Morphis
Etymology: From Irish Ó Murchadha (“descendant of Murrough”), Mac Murchaidh (“Son of Murrough”), etc. See Muircath.
Senses: glosses: To swindle by means of the Murphy game confidence trick.
enthusiastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enthusiastically
form: most enthusiastically
Etymology: From enthusiastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?"
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 16:
text: The new sea wall may stop the waves from the sea, but not from the children who enthusiastically greet our train as it passes. It's great to see this ages-old habit is still going strong.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: In an enthusiastic manner.
Saint Valentine's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌseɪntˈvælənˌtaɪnzˌdeɪ/
ipa: /ˌsəntˈvælənˌtaɪnzˌdeɪ/
Forms: form: St. Valentine's Day
form: St Valentine's Day
Senses: examples: text: Tomorrow is S. Valentines day, all in the morning betime, / And I a Maid at your Window, to be your Valentine.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 273:
synonyms: Valentine's Day
Valentine's
glosses: A holiday in remembrance of Saint Valentine, February 14th, celebrated by sending cards or similar tokens of love.
Derived terms: Galentine's Day
Palentine's Day
White Day
St. Valentine's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Saint Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvælənˌtaɪnzˌdeɪ/
Forms: form: Valentine's Days
Senses: examples: text: On the long time line of the so-human search for a profound and lasting happiness, many of us will still have our romances. Of the senses and the mind. We will have our spring dances, our candlelight dinners, our Valentine’s Days, our ear when we need to talk, our moonlit hand-holdings, our horizon gazings. our car rides in sensual silence.
ref: 1994, Wynton Marsalis, Frank Stewart, Sweet Swing Blues on the Road, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Valentine’s Day is a time for love and affection. I do not know anyone who wants to spend Valentine’s Day alone. I love to spend my Valentine’s Days with the person I am dating or my family. I love buying and giving gifts during this holiday but the most important thing is being with the people I care about and love. [F, Diary]
ref: 2006, Cornelia Pechmann, Linda L. Price, editors, ACR in San Antonio 2005 (Advances in Consumer Research; XXXIII), Association for Consumer Research, →ISBN, page 361, column 1:
text: The idea of matching outfits suddenly seems like a great way to show our compatibility, so we eat breakfast in heart-covered pajamas, but this willingness to embarrass ourselves for amour is what makes our Valentine’s Days truly romantic.
ref: 2013, Mike Bender, Doug Chernack, “Valentine’s Day”, in Awkward Family Holiday Photos, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 13:
text: The massacre that ripped apart 17 families in Parkland, Florida, five years ago on Valentine’s Day ignited a wave of student-led protests and bipartisan legislation to combat the plague of school shootings devastating the country.
ref: 2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in CNN:
glosses: Saint Valentine's Day.
topics: bingo
games
glosses: Fourteen.
Derived terms: Chinese Valentine's Day
Simpson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪmp.sən/
rhymes: -ɪmpsən
Forms: form: Simpsons
form: Simson
Etymology: From Middle English Sympson, equivalent to Sim, the short form of Simon, + -son.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish and northern English patronymic surname derived from Sim, the short form of Simon.
glosses: An English habitational surname for someone who lived in any of several places in Devon.
glosses: A suburban village in Simpson and Ashland parish, Milton Keynes borough, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8836).
glosses: A hamlet in Nolton and Roch community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8818).
glosses: A village in the Rural Municipality of Wood Creek, No. 281, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A locality in the south of the Northern Territory, Australia.
glosses: A town mostly in Corangamite Shire, in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pope County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Johnson County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Huntington County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Cloud County and Mitchell County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Vernon Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Pitt County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Four townships, in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma (2), listed under Simpson Township.
examples: text: Each of his family members reminded me of a Simpson in some way: his sister was a bit like Lisa and his dad was a bit like Homer.
glosses: A character from the TV series The Simpsons.
Derived terms: Simpson County
Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome
Young-Simpson syndrome
Simpsonville
Sim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: Simm
Etymology: From Middle English Sym, diminutive of Simeon and Simon.
Senses: examples: text: The other [witness] was one Sim Doolittle, the fish hawker from Allerfoot, jogging home in his fish cart from Gledsmuir fair.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: A male given name, diminutive of Simeon and Simon.
glosses: A Scottish surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name.
Derived terms: Simpson
Sim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: Simm
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 沈 (Sím) or Teochew 沈 (sim2).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hokkien.
Sim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: Simm
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 심(沈) (Sim).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Korean.
Sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: Sims
form: Simm
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Simeonite (follower of Charles Simeon).
topics: Christianity
glosses: A person with Methodist tendencies.
Sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: Sims
form: Simm
Etymology: From the title of The Sims, which most likely came from clipping of simulation, as The Sims, SimCity, and related franchises are simulation games; compare sim (“simulator, simulation”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
video-games
glosses: Any of the characters in the video game The Sims, which simulates aspects of a human social environment.
examples: Near-synonym: NPC
topics: Christianity
glosses: Someone who is, or is accused of, acting like a bumbling fool.
Derived terms: Simblr
Simguru
Simlish
Simmer
Anderson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.dɚ.sən/
Forms: form: Enderson
Etymology: From earlier Anderston, from Middle English Andreuston, equivalent to Andrew + -s- + -ton.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish (served by Lower Winterborne Parish Council) in Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY8797).
Ellis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛ.lɪs/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈɛ.ləs/
rhymes: -ɛlɪs
rhymes: -ɛləs
Forms: form: Ellises
form: Ellice
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French form of Elias. Compare Elijah, Lias, Ely. Also sometimes from the Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth.
* As a Welsh surname, shortened from the personal name Elisse, Elisedd, from the archaic elus (“benevolent, kind”).
Senses: examples: text: Trump campaign adviser Jenna Ellis intentionally misgendered Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, on Twitter early Monday morning.
ref: 2020, Tim Fitzsimons, “Trump campaign adviser 'won't apologize' for misgendering trans health official”, in NBC News:
glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic from Elis, the Middle English form of Elijah.
glosses: A surname from Welsh [in turn originating as a patronymic] and A male given name from Welsh, an anglicization of Elisedd.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stockton Township, Greene County, Indiana; named for politician William Ellis Niblack.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Scott Township, Steuben County, Indiana.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A city in Ellis County, Kansas; named for American Civil War veteran George Ellis.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A township in Cheboygan County, Michigan.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Byron Township, Cass County, Minnesota.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Vernon County, Missouri.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Gage County, Nebraska; named for banker John R. Ellis.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Muskingum County, Ohio; named for a local family.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Minnehaha County, South Dakota; probably named for railroad worker A. B. Ellis.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Sharon, Portage County, Wisconsin; named for politician Albert G. Ellis.
Derived terms: Ellisburg
Ellis County
Ellis Island
Elliston
Ellistown
Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome
Wilkinson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪlkɪnsən/
/ˈwɪlkənsən/
Forms: form: Wilkinsons
form: Wilkenson
Etymology: From Wilkin + -son.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Brown Township, Hancock County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Cass County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
Synonyms: Wilk
Wilke
Wilkes
Wilkey
Wilkie
Wilks
Will
William
Williams
Williamson
Wills
Derived terms: County of Wilkinson
Wilkinson County
Wilkinsonian
Related terms: Wilkin
Wilkins
Wilkin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlkɪn/
Forms: form: Wilkins
form: Wilkins
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Wilkin, a pet form of William.
* As a north/Low German surname, variant of Wilken.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Synonyms: Will
William
Williams
Williamson
Wills
Derived terms: County of Wilkin
Wilk
Wilke
Wilkes
Wilkey
Wilkie
Wilkin County
Wilkins
Wilkinson
Wilks
Ahmed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːχ.mɛd/
ipa: /ˈɑː.mɛd/
ipa: /ɑːˈmɛd/
rhymes: -ɑːmɛd
rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad)
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmad.
glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Derived terms: Ahmedabad
Forster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun forester.
* Also as an English surname, borrowed from French fustrier (“blockmaker”), from fustre (“baulk of timber”).
* As a French and Norman surname, from Old French forcetier (“cutter”), from forcettes (“scissors”).
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Förster and Först (both related to Forst (“forest”)).
Senses: glosses: An occupational or topographic surname originating as an occupation for someone who worked or lived in a forest.
glosses: A coastal town in MidCoast council area, Mid North Coast region, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Forsterian
Related terms: Forester
Forrest
Forrester
Foster
Powell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊl/
ipa: /pəʊl/
ipa: /ˈpaʊ.(w)əl/
rhymes: -aʊl
rhymes: -əʊl
rhymes: -aʊəl
rhymes: -aʊwəl
Forms: form: Powells
form: Powel
Etymology: The anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel (“son of Hywel”). Related to Howell and Huell. Sometimes also associated with Paul by folk etymology.
Senses: examples: text: President Donald Trump said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is no longer being considered as a replacement for Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair.
ref: 2025 August 5, Elisabeth Buchwald, “Trump says Scott Bessent no longer in the running for Fed chair”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
glosses: An English and Welsh surname from Welsh.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in DeKalb County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Cass County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Delaware County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Edmunds County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Haakon County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Navarro County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Sherman, Iron County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Park County, Wyoming.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Ellipsis of Powell County.
Derived terms: Powell County
Powellian
Powellism
Powellist
powellite
Powellite
powellize
Powelltown
Related terms: Howell
Hywel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Hywel.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Chapman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃæpmən/
Etymology: From Middle English chapman, chepman, meaning merchant or trader; equivalent to cheap (noun) + man. Doublet of Kaufman and Koopman.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation for a merchant.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Butler County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A neighbourhood of Pasadena, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A township in Clay County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A city in Dickinson County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Montana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A township and village therein, in Merrick County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A township in Saunders County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
A township in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia.
glosses: A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Derived terms: Chapman code
chapman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæpmən/
Forms: form: chapmen
Etymology: From Middle English chapman, chepman, from Old English ċēapmann (“dealer, merchant”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaupamann, equivalent to cheap (noun) + man.
Cognate with synonymous West Frisian keapman, Dutch koopman, German Low German Koopmann, German Kaufmann, Swedish köpman.
Senses: examples: text: Done. They are gone: the sum is here in bank, my Face. I would we knew another chapman now would buy 'em outright.
ref: c. 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, act 3:
text: When chapmen billies leave the street, / And drouthy neibors, neibors meet, / As market days are wearing late, / An' folk begin to tak the gate
ref: 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter:
synonyms: word: cheapjack
alt: cognate
word: peddler
glosses: A dealer or merchant, especially an itinerant one.
glosses: A purchaser.
Derived terms: chap
shortened form (16th century)
chapmanhood
chapmanship
Related terms: chapbook
Singh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: Sing
Etymology: From Hindi सिंघ (siṅgh, “lion”) or Punjabi ਸਿੰਘ (siṅgh, “lion”). Doublet of Sinha.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Punjabi.
glosses: A surname common in the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in India.
Related terms: Sing
Webb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wɛb/
Senses: examples: text: The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with Earth as our planet orbits the sun.
ref: 2021 December 24, Don Lincoln, “The telescope that will replace Hubble will launch on Christmas. Here’s why it matters”, in CNN:
glosses: An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a weaver.
glosses: A rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Webb No. 138.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan within the rural municipality.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Houston County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A populated place in Maricopa County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Clay County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Herkimer County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Webb County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Billy Webb
Webb County
Related terms: Webber
Weber
Webster
Rogers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒd͡ʒəz/
ipa: /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚz/
Forms: form: Rogerses
Etymology: From Roger + -'s, equivalent to Rogerson. Doublet of Rutgers.
Senses: glosses: A surname; an English patronymic surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Benton County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Ford County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Pike County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chautauqua County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wolfe County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Presque Isle County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cass County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Colfax County, Nebraska, named after a railroad official.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Roosevelt County, New Mexico.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city and township in Barnes County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Columbiana County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Bell County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Synonym of Petroleum, West Virginia.
synonyms: word: Petroleum
word: West Virginia
Derived terms: Buck Rogers time
Rogers City
Rogers County
Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction
Rogers test
Rogersville
Urban-Rogers-Meyer syndrome
Related terms: Hodge
Hodges
Hodgkin
Rodgers
Rodrigues
Rodriguez
Roger
Rogerson
Rogers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒd͡ʒəz/
ipa: /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Roger
Rogerson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒd͡ʒəsən/
ipa: /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚsən/
Forms: form: Rogersons
Etymology: From Roger + -son.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States.
Machen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Machens
form: Meacham
form: Meachum
Etymology: Occupational surname for a stonemason, from Anglo-Norman machun, dialectal Norman variant of Old French maçon. Compare Mason.
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation].
Machen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh ma (“place (of)”) + the personal name Cein.
Senses: glosses: A village in Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen community, Caerphilly borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST2189).
welt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: welts
form: welting
form: welted
form: welted
Etymology: From Middle English welten, from Old English weltan, wieltan, from Proto-Germanic *waltijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”). Cognate with German wälzen, Danish vælte, Swedish välta, Icelandic velta.
Senses: glosses: To roll; revolve
Derived terms: welter
welt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: welts
form: welting
form: welted
form: welted
Etymology: Circa 1425, a shoemaker's term. Perhaps related to Middle English welten (“to overturn, roll over”), from Old Norse velta (“to roll”). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.
Senses: examples: text: Well, gentlemen, I was standing with her just inside the window, in all innocence, as God is my judge, when he rushed like a madman into the room, called her the vilest name that a man could use to a woman, and welted her across the face with the stick he had in his hand.
ref: 1904 September, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
text: "Cover your scut, or I'll welt the skin off it."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 113:
glosses: To cause to have welts; to beat.
glosses: To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
welt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: welts
form: welting
form: welted
form: welted
Senses: glosses: To decay.
glosses: To become stringy.
Related terms: wilt
glitterati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glitteratus
Etymology: Blend of glitter + literati.
Senses: examples: text: Fifty Seven Fifty Seven—The country's entertainment-industry glitterati make themselves right at home at I. M. Pei's monumental dining room.
ref: 1997 June 2, “Restaurants”, in New York, volume 30, number 21, page 132:
text: “Where can we find a celebrity, and fast?” “Well, this is Staten Island, which is a veritable playground for the glitterati.”
ref: 2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (16:03 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
text: The far-right glitterati were not impressed with Trump’s Epstein jiu-jitsu.
ref: 2025 July 16, Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a ‘hoax’ and turns on Maga ‘weaklings’”, in Rolling Stone, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2025:
glosses: Celebrities or people with a lot of money; the smart set.
umbonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more umbonic
form: most umbonic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an umbo.
unhygienic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːnɪk
Forms: form: more unhygienic
form: most unhygienic
Etymology: From un- + hygienic.
Senses: glosses: Lacking hygiene; unclean.
Synonyms: dyshygienic
Derived terms: unhygienically
uneconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒmɪk
Forms: form: more uneconomic
form: most uneconomic
Etymology: From un- + economic.
Senses: examples: text: Barker believed that evidence was emerging that a "solid proportion" of operations were "grossly uneconomic", and that no amount of improvement in equipment would make them viable. He suggested that "while the superstructure of the report is correct, the foundations require radical re-examination".
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42:
glosses: Financially inefficient, costly, wasteful, or loss-making.
Derived terms: uneconomically
Tariq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæɹɪk/
rhymes: -æɹɪk
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic طَارِق (ṭāriq, “messenger, nocturnal visitor, or morning star”), from طَرَقَ (ṭaraqa, “to knock, to rap”)
Senses: glosses: The 86th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
tautologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Forms: form: more tautologic
form: most tautologic
Senses: glosses: tautological
facebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹfās'bo͝ok
ipa: /ˈfeɪsˌbʊk/
Forms: form: facebooks
Etymology: From face + book, likely modelled after namebook.
Senses: examples: text: He had gotten the call from the casino-a client who had recognized them from the facebook-and had flown down to the Bahamas to teach them a lesson.
ref: 2002, Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House:
glosses: A reference book or electronic directory containing the photographs and names of various individuals.
examples: text: The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.
text: In the last month, since he’d embarked on projects like digitally scanning Melissa Paquette’s face from a freshman facebook and suturing her head to obscene downloaded images and tinkering with these images pixel by pixel (and the hours did fly by when you were tinkering with pixels), he’d read no books at all.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: Kevin was surprised to see his own face on the card. It was an authentic California ID under the name Oliver Chen. "Where'd you get the picture?" Kevin asked. "Your MIT facebook."
ref: 2002, Ben Mezrich, Bringing Down the House:
text: There is no interests section in the facebook. You know why? No one wants to flip through a book to find out which girls play chess.
ref: 2003, Steve Hofstetter, Student Body Shots: A Sarcastic Look at the Best 4-6 Years of Your Life:
glosses: A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students become acquainted with each other.
Synonyms: sense: a book containing pictures of faces
word: mug book
Derived terms: Facebook
Related terms: english: traditionally published at the end of the academic year
translation: traditionally published at the end of the academic year
word: yearbook
facebook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹfās'bo͝ok
ipa: /ˈfeɪsˌbʊk/
Forms: form: facebooks
form: facebooking
form: facebooked
form: facebooked
Etymology: From face + book, likely modelled after namebook.
Senses: examples: text: A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.
ref: 2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 6, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Facebook.
Related terms: facebooker
tautological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tautological
form: most tautological
Etymology: From tautology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or using tautology.
glosses: Using repetition or excessive wordiness; pleonastic or circumlocutionary.
Related terms: tautologically
teleologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Forms: form: more teleologic
form: most teleologic
Etymology: From teleology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to teleology; teleological
tetradic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ædɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετρᾰδῐκός (tetrădĭkós).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a tetrad.
glosses: Having four-fold symmetry; used especially of the digits 0, 1 and 8.
raw_tags: of a shape
theologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Etymology: From theology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to theology.
Synonyms: theological
thermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɜː(ɹ)mɪk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɪk
Etymology: Mid 19th century, from Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “heat”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or associated with heat; thermal.
Derived terms: antithermic
athermic
autothermic
electrothermic
euthermic
geothermic
heliothermic
homeothermic
idiothermic
macrothermic
magnesiothermic
mesothermic
metallothermic
micathermic
microthermic
mucothermic
ombrothermic
parathermic
photothermic
pluviothermic
thermically
thermic lance
thermic siphon
thermic syphon
xerothermic
theriomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɪəɹ.i.əˈmɔɹ.fɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk
Etymology: From therio- + -morphic. Originating from Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a beast.
thermogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more thermogenic
form: most thermogenic
Etymology: From thermo- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to thermogenesis
Derived terms: antithermogenic
thermogenics
Thomæan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thomæans
Senses: glosses: A member of an early Christian church supposedly founded by the Apostle Thomas on the Malabar coast of India.
Thomean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thomeans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Thomæan.
thoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹɪk
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: relating to, or containing thorium
tippet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪpɪt/
rhymes: -ɪpɪt
Forms: form: tippets
Etymology: From Middle English tippet, Old English tæppet, from Latin tapete (“cloth”).
Senses: examples: text: Drygoods shops did not have much that was Christmassy to display except red flannel and rabbit fur baby coats and muffs and tippets.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Christmas”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: In practice, this "sunshine roof" did not prove so attractive, since a correspondent wrote to the Railway Times on September 4, 1839, recording that a third-class lady passenger "had her tippet set on fire, and, in extinguishing the same, severely burnt her hand.
ref: 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: The Eastern Counties Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 182:
glosses: A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.
examples: text: […] so this Iesuitical sect is descrired by their long [i]ackets, their course stockinges, their thicke cobled shoes, their long clokes with claspe vnder the chin, their sorbonical tippet […]
ref: 1581, Meredith Hanmer, chapter 3, in The Iesuites Banner, London:
glosses: A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.
examples: text: We are inclined to think this warrior wears his camail over the upper part of the surcoat, which would account for the sudden disappearance of the shield strap or guige when it reaches the mail tippet.
ref: 1908, Archaeologia Cambrensis, page 379:
text: Taking the place of the mail coif is the “camail” or mail tippet, which is fastened to the edge of the bascinet. His arm defences show circular plates or “palettes,” which guard the inside of the arm at pit and elbow.
ref: 2012, Mary G. Houston, Medieval Costume in England and France: The 13th, 14th and 15th Centuries, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 221:
text: Hence this leader wears a richly decorated fur hat and a large gold neck chain, as well as a full steel cuirass over a padded mail tippet. The armour has the horizontally ridged breastplate characteristic of Germany […]
ref: 2014, David Nicolle, Forces of the Hanseatic League: 13th–15th Centuries, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: A piece of mail armor protecting the shoulders and neck; a camail.
glosses: A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
examples: text: The school constituency[…]provded “tippets” of straw to repair the thatch
ref: 1882, David Douglas, Life & Work:
glosses: A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.
glosses: A bird's ruffle.
glosses: One of the patagia, or pieces at the side of the pronotum of a moth.
Derived terms: english: great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus
translation: great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus
word: tippet grebe
alt: ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus
word: tippet grouse
word: turn tippet
word: Tyburn tippet
Tonkinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tonkin + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Tonkin, the northern part of Vietnam.
Tonkinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tonkinese
form: Tonkineses
Etymology: From Tonkin + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: The Occidental who lives in that splendid house on the Phù-Cam is married to a Tonkinese. It's more than ten years ago he brought her here. He has never had any second wives. He gave his father-in-law a teakwood coffin.
ref: 1925, Cl Chivas-Baron, Three Women of Annam, page 124:
text: A great number of Legionaires had married Tonkineses and had children by them. According to French law, a child born on French soil is a citizen of France, whether the father and mother are French or not, so also in Indo-China[…]
ref: 1962, Anuruddha, The Protecting Hand:
glosses: A person from Tonkin.
examples: text: Do not consider bringing home a Tonkinese unless you have time in your life for games[…]
ref: 2001, Lorraine Shelton, The Guide to Owning a Tonkinese Cat, TFH Publications, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: Tonk
glosses: A domestic cat of a breed that is a cross between the Siamese and Burmese.
Tonkinese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tonkin + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The language of Tonkin; northern Vietnamese.
tonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: tonks
Etymology: Origins are unknown, but definitely predate the use of metal flashlights, contrary to the most quoted description of origin.
It is probable that the origin relates to Chinese immigration, as the first law to restrict immigration from a particular country was enacted in 1882 to limit the numbers of Chinese coming to the United States. It is said that many of the illegal immigrants made their way to the US via the Gulf of Tonkin area of what is now Vietnam. It is also possible that the term is related to the Chinese "tong" mob.
Senses: examples: 1990: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee - An agent, Larry Moy, when asked to define the derivation of the term “tonk,” replied: “...it's the sound of flashlight hitting somebody's head, tonk". [This "derivation" is incorrect - see Etymology]
1998: Cirenio Rodriguez & Enrique T Trueba, Leadership, education and political action, in Ethnic Identity and Power: Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society - "Catch as many tonks as you guys can. Safely. An alien is not worth busting a leg."
2005: EMF (poster on The QandO Blog in response to Illegal immigration made easy, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060528001651/http://www.qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=789 on 27 May 2006) - The pissed off Arizona land owner who snipes the tonks with a high powered rifle.
glosses: An illegal immigrant of any country.
tonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: tonks
Senses: examples: text: How much tonk have we got to shift?
glosses: An item or items of value, or of perceived value, especially for sale.
tonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: tunk
Etymology: Compare Tagalog tong-its, Ilocano tong-it, Pangasinan tung-it.
Senses: examples: text: It has big deep-down chairs and a card table by the window covered with jade, dracena and doctor plants until they want to have card games or play tonk between themselves.
ref: 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 13:
glosses: A matching card game, combining features of knock rummy and conquian.
tonk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋk
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: In one of those stampings into the yard he suddenly rushed at the tank and tapped it. Tonk, tonk, tonk, tab. One rung left. Only one rung; about a week's supply of water.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 153:
glosses: Representing a sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
tonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: tonks
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: A sound produced by knocking on something hollow.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A resounding strike of the ball; a powerful hit of the ball with the bat.
tonk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: tonks
form: tonking
form: tonked
form: tonked
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Then your dad would step up and spend 45 minutes repeatedly tonking the ball over the shower block […]
ref: 2012, Iain Macintosh, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cricket But Were Too Afraid to Ask:
text: Moments later, Sehwag tonked the ball and it travelled some distance.
ref: 2014, Makarand Waingankar, Guts & Glory:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To knock or strike (a ball) so that it flies through the air.
tonk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: tonks
Etymology: Alteration of tank.
Senses: glosses: A tank.
tonk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋk
Forms: form: tonker
form: tonkest
Senses: examples: text: In this new paradigm of masculine excellence, anyone can achieve physical perfection if they put in the hours. It is an aspirational narrative, accompanied by a specific vernacular. Men are hench, wammo or tonk. […] Whereas the vest-wearing action stars of the 80s needed physical strength to hoik themselves into lift shafts and avert terrorism, today’s uber-tonk males wear their six-packs like beautiful, pointless feathers: this is a cosmetic muscularity, rather than a functional one.
ref: 2018 June 27, Sirin Kale, “‘Get shredded in six weeks!’ The problem with extreme male body transformations”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: hench
word: able-bodied
word: athletic
word: Atlantean
word: beefy
word: beefed out
word: brawny
word: brolic
word: buff
word: built
word: built like a brick shithouse
word: built like a tank
word: buirdly
word: burly
word: Cyclopean
word: deep-rooted
word: dench
word: diced
word: fit
word: gigantic
word: Herculean
word: hale
word: hearty
word: hench
word: husky
word: in shape
word: jacked
word: lusty
word: like a giant refreshed
word: made of iron
word: muscular
word: muscled
word: muscleful
word: ripped
word: rugged
word: sculpted
word: sinewy
word: strapping
word: strong as a lion
word: strong as a horse
word: strong as an ox
word: strong as brandy
word: swole
word: toned
word: virile
word: well-built
word: well-fed
word: well-knit
word: wiry
glosses: Big, muscular, massive.
Related terms: honky-tonk
tinkety-tonk
lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːjəz/
ipa: /ˈlɔɪ.əz/
ipa: /ˈlɔɪ.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈlɔ.jɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of lawyer
lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːjəz/
ipa: /ˈlɔɪ.əz/
ipa: /ˈlɔɪ.ɚz/
ipa: /ˈlɔ.jɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lawyer
topologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Etymology: From topology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to topology; topological.