cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
barley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹli/
ipa: /ˈbɑːli/
homophone: Bali (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: barleys
Etymology: From Middle English barly, barli, from Old English bærlīċ (“barley-like”, adjective) (later referring to barley itself and grain crops of similar appearance), from bere (“barley”) (compare Scots bere (“six-rowed barley”)), from Proto-Germanic *baraz (compare Old Norse barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”). Equivalent to bere + -ly. See English brew.
Senses: glosses: A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.
glosses: The seed of Job's tears. (Coix lacryma-jobi)
Hypernyms: sense: grain crop
word: grain
sense: grain crop
word: cereal
Derived terms: word: barley beer
word: barley-bird
word: barleybrake
word: barley bread
word: barley-bree
word: barley-broo
word: barley-broth
word: barley coal
word: barleycorn
word: barley fork
taxonomic: Hordeum murinum
word: barley grass
word: barley-hood
word: barley itch
alt: Harmolita hordei
word: barley jointworm
word: barleylike
word: barleymeal
taxonomic: Phytophaga destructor
word: barley midge
word: Barley mild mosaic bymovirus
word: barley moon
word: barleymow
word: barley reel
word: barley sack
word: barley sandwich
taxonomic: Fusarium roseum
word: barley scab fungus
alt: Rhynchosporium secalis
word: barley scald
taxonomic: Ustilago nuda
alt: U. hordei
word: barley smut
word: Barley stripe mosaic virus
word: barley-sugar
word: barley sugar
word: barley twist
word: barley-water
word: barley water
word: barley-wine
word: barley wine
word: Barley yellow striate mosaic virus
word: caustic barley
taxonomic: Hordeum vulgare
alt: H. distichon
word: common barley
english: Hordeum vulgare L.
translation: Hordeum vulgare L.
word: four-rowed barley
taxonomic: Hordeum jubatum
word: foxtail barley
taxonomic: Hordeum aegiceras
alt: H. distichon
word: Himalayan barley
word: hulled barley
english: from Schoenocaulon officinale
translation: from Schoenocaulon officinale
word: Indian caustic barley
taxonomic: Hordeum pusillum
word: little barley
taxonomic: Hordeum nodosum
word: meadow barley
taxonomic: Hordeum murinum
word: mouse barley
word: nonbarley
word: pearl barley
word: Scotch barley
taxonomic: Hordeum marinum
word: sea barley
taxonomic: Hordeum vulgare
alt: H. distichon
word: six-rowed barley
taxonomic: Hordeum zeocriton
alt: now H. disticon or H. vulgare
word: sprat barley
taxonomic: Hordeum spp.
word: squirreltail barley
taxonomic: Hordeum aegiceras
alt: H. distichon
word: Tibetan barley
taxonomic: Hordeum vulgare
alt: H. distichon
word: two-rowed barley
taxonomic: Hordeum murinum
word: wall barley
taxonomic: Hordeum spp.
word: wild barley
millet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɪlət/
rhymes: -ɪlɪt
ipa: /ˈmɪlɛt/
ipa: /ˈmɪlɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɪlət/
rhymes: -ɪlɪt
Forms: form: millets
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ملت (millet), from Arabic مِلَّة (milla).
Senses: examples: text: The special duties of these millet organizations are to care for the educational and other moral wants of the people […]
ref: 1880, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, page 963:
text: […] in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co, published 2007, page 14:
text: Christians and Jews as People of the Book […] were organized into separate communities, or millets, defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 262:
glosses: A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
sorghum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔ(ɹ).ɡəm/
Forms: form: sorghums
form: sorgum
form: sourgum
Etymology: From New Latin genus name Sorghum, from Italian sorgo, from Vulgar Latin *syricum (“Syrian”), from Sȳricus. Doublet of the synonyms sorgho (via French) and sorgo (via Italian).
Senses: examples: 1936, Harry Nelson Vinall, Joseph Charlworth Stephens, John Holmes Martin, Identification, History, and Distribution of Common Sorghum Varieties, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 506, page 2,
The sorghum crop has four uses — forage, grain, sirup, and industrial (such as the manufacture of brooms, wallboard, etc.).
1978, US Department of Agriculture, Watch out for witchweed, a serious pest of corn, sorghum, and other crops, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Program Number 1212, unnumbered page,
Witchweed (Striga spp.) is a parasitic plant that attacks corn, sorghum, sugarcane, rice, and more than 60 different species of the grass family.
2008, Lamissa Diakité, Amadou Sidibé, Melinda Smale, Mikkel Grum, Seed Value Chains for Sorghum and Millet in Mali: A State-based System in Transition, International Food Policy Research Institute, Discussion Paper 00749, page 2,
Archaeological evidence suggests that economies based on cattle, goats, sorghum, and pearl millet were established in this region between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago (Smith 1998).
hypernyms: millet
glosses: A cereal, Sorghum genus and species, the grains of which are cultivated to make flour and feed cattle. Almost all cultivated ones as well as some wild ones belong to the species Sorghum bicolor (syn. Sorghum vulgare).
glosses: Sorghum syrup.
Synonyms: sense: cereal
word: guinea corn
sense: cereal
word: kafir corn
sense: cereal
word: mtama
sense: cereal
alt: Sudan
word: durra
sense: cereal
word: juar
sense: cereal
word: jowar
sense: cereal
word: cholam
sense: cereal
word: kaoliang
sense: cereal
word: milo
sense: cereal
alt: Sudan
word: feterita
Derived terms: word: sorghum downy mildew
alt: Stenodiplosis sorghicola
word: sorghum midge
word: sorghum syrup
word: sorghum molasses
word: sweet sorghum
word: sorghum rum
word: sorghum whiskey
word: sorghum whisky
word: yellow sorghum stunt
Related terms: sorgolactone
rye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: wry
Forms: form: ryes
Etymology: From Middle English rie, reighe, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrugʰís.
Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.
Senses: glosses: A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
glosses: The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
glosses: Rye bread.
examples: text: “Gimme a shot of rye.” The whiskey stung his throat hot and fragrant.
ref: 1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 2nd section, page 146:
text: I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 159:
text: Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey ’n rye/Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die."
ref: 1971, “American Pie”, in American Pie, performed by Don McLean:
glosses: Rye whiskey.
examples: text: It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 17:
glosses: A drink of rye.
glosses: Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
glosses: Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
examples: text: And if it [vndeꝛ the peꝛch] be grene ſhe engenderith the Ry. The condicion of this euell is this, it wil ariſe in the hede and make the hede to ſwell, ⁊ the iyen all glaymous, and dyrke, and bot it haue helpe: it will downe in to the legges, and maake the legges to rancle, and if it goo fro the legges in to the hede a gayne, thi hawke is bot looſt.
ref: 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:
text: Of all the diseases that belongs to these Hawkes, there bee onely three that they bee most subiect vnto, which is the Rye, the Crampe, and the Craye.
ref: 1618, Symon Latham, Latham's Falconry:
glosses: A disease of hawks.
Derived terms: Robin's rye
rock and rye
Romany rye
rye bread
rye flake
rye flour
ryeflour
ryegrass
rye seed
rye wolf
rye-worm
Virginia wild rye
wild rye
kymatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of wave motion.
fodder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒdə/
ipa: /ˈfɑdɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fodders
form: foddering
form: foddered
form: foddered
Etymology: From Middle English fodder, foder, from Old English fōdor (“feed; fodder”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdr, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from *fōdô (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”).
Compare Saterland Frisian Fodder, West Frisian foer, Dutch voer (“pasture; fodder”), German Futter (“fodder; feed”), Danish foder, Swedish foder. More at food.
Senses: examples: text: Straw will do well enough to fodder them with
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
text: "When I had foddered the horse, I went into the barn and took the handle of an old rake to chase the dog out with."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 34:
glosses: To feed animals (with fodder).
vetch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛtʃ
Forms: form: vetches
form: fitch
Etymology: From Middle English vecche, fecche, ficche, from Old Northern French veche, variant of Old French vece, from Latin vicia. Doublet of fitch.
Senses: glosses: Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.
glosses: Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae.
Synonyms: word: tare
Derived terms: taxonomic: Vicia americana
word: American vetch
taxonomic: Vicia articulata
word: bard vetch
taxonomic: Vicia bithynica
word: Bithynian vetch
word: bitter vetch
taxonomic: Vicia ervilia
word: blister vetch
taxonomic: Vicia nigricans
word: black vetch
taxonomic: Vicia sepium
word: bush vetch
taxonomic: Vicia caroliniana
word: Carolina wood vetch
taxonomic: Vicia sativa
word: common vetch
taxonomic: Vicia cracca
word: cow vetch
taxonomic: Vicia tenuifolia
word: fine-leaved vetch
taxonomic: Vicia villosa
word: fodder vetch
taxonomic: Vicia serratifolia
word: French vetch
taxonomic: Vicia sativa
word: garden vetch
taxonomic: Vicia nigricans
word: giant vetch
taxonomic: Vicia villosa
word: hairy vetch
taxonomic: Vicia menziesii
word: Hawaiian vetch
taxonomic: Vicia pannonica
word: Hungarian vetch
taxonomic: Vicia cassubica
word: Kashubian vetch
taxonomic: Vicia americana
word: mat vetch
taxonomic: Vicia sativa
word: narrow-leaved vetch
taxonomic: Vicia pisiformis
word: pea-flowered vetch
taxonomic: Vicia americana
word: purple vetch
taxonomic: Vicia minutiflora
word: pygmyflower vetch
taxonomic: Vicia monantha
word: single-flowered vetch
taxonomic: Vicia parviflora
word: slender vetch
taxonomic: Vicia tetrasperma
word: smooth vetch
taxonomic: Vicia lathyroides
word: spring vetch
taxonomic: Vicia cracca
word: tufted vetch
taxonomic: Vicia orobus
word: upright vetch
taxonomic: Vicia villosa
word: winter vetch
taxonomic: Vicia orobus
word: wood bitter-vetch
taxonomic: Vicia sylvatica
word: wood vetch
taxonomic: Vicia lutea
word: yellow vetch
taxonomic: Lathyrus sativus
word: chickling vetch
taxonomic: Acmispon glaber
word: deervetch
taxonomic: Hippocrepis spp.
word: horseshoe vetch
taxonomic: Anthyllis vulneraria
word: kidney vetch
taxonomic: Astragalus spp.
word: milkvetch
taxonomic: Astragalus spp.
word: poisonvetch
taxonomic: Lathyrus spp.
word: vetchling
word: vetchy
hatred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hetɹɪd/
ipa: /ˈheɪtɹɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɹɪd
Forms: form: hatreds
Etymology: From Middle English haterede, hatrede (“hatred”), from hate (“hate”) + -rede (“suffix denoting state or condition”), equivalent to hate + -red; compare sibred, Scots luferent. Related to Icelandic hatri (“hatred”).
Senses: examples: text: Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.
ref: 1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 39:
text: the very circumstance which renders it so innocent is what chiefly exposes it to the public hatred
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34:
text: It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Fears and hatreds pay no attention to facts.
ref: 2000, David Crystal, Language Death:
synonyms: hate
antipathy
hostility
antonyms: love
amity
glosses: A strong aversion; an intense dislike.
Derived terms: antihatred
hatredful
hatredless
hatredly
love-hatred
race hatred
self-hatred
Related terms: disgust
hate
hateful
heinous
veiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪni/
rhymes: -eɪni
Forms: form: veinier
form: veiniest
Etymology: From vein + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Jason's throbbing veiny cock proudly telepathing his arousal for all to witness.
ref: 2016, Scarlett Steele, Tammy Tames Her Man:
glosses: Having prominent veins.
virginity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /və(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒɪnɪti/
rhymes: -ɪnɪti
Forms: form: virginities
Etymology: From Middle English virginite, from Old French virginite, from Latin virginitas. Equivalent to virgin + -ity. Displaced native Old English mæġeþhād (compare modern English maidhood), originally meaning “girlhood.”
Senses: examples: text: to lose one's virginity
text: She had a lot of dark hair pinned untidily back from a small well-formed brow, and her tilted nose and large embarrassed eyes had survived intact from the mistrusts and agitations of a schoolgirl, which maturity had striven to defeat by lengthening her chin and tightening her lips, while giving her skin the faintly furred matt surface of pickled virginity.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128:
synonyms: word: maidenhood
word: maidenhead
word: maidhood
word: V card
word: cherry
glosses: The state or characteristic of being a virgin.
Derived terms: born-again virginity
butt virginity
lose one's virginity
nonvirginity
other virginity
secondary virginity
second virginity
virginity pledge
virginity test
scarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑːf/
ipa: /skɑːɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: scarves
form: scarfs
Etymology: Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.
Senses: examples: text: Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
hypernyms: garment
glosses: A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
glosses: A headscarf.
glosses: A neckcloth or cravat.
Derived terms: Ascot scarf
head scarf
head-scarf
infinity scarf
Möbius scarf
Palestinian scarf
pioneer scarf
red scarf
scarf-skin
scarf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑːf/
ipa: /skɑːɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: scarfs
form: scarfing
form: scarfed
form: scarfed
form: scarve
Etymology: Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”), which see). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.
Senses: examples: text: Vp from my Cabin, / My ſea-gowne scarft about me in the darke / Gropt I to find out them, […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature N, recto:
glosses: To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
examples: text: She scarfed her head.
text: The back of her tan trenchcoat swished from left to right as she scarfed her head and disappeared into the dusk.
ref: 1994, Arthur Johnson, “Chinese Arithmetic”, in Tony Grima, editor, Not the Only One: Lesbian and Gay Fiction for Teens, Boston, Mass.: Alyson Publications, published January 1995, →ISBN, page 144:
glosses: To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
examples: text: A cowl scarfed her shoulders.
text: She was trying to keep the silken veil scarfing her shoulders in order.
ref: 1999, Isolde Martyn, chapter 12, in The Knight and the Rose, Sydney, N.S.W.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 125:
text: Transfixed on the smaller branches, intensely black against the moon, were organs harvested from the body cavity – heart, spleen, kidneys and liver. […] A length of slippery bowel scarfed my neck.
ref: 2006, Jim Younger, chapter 21, in High John the Conqueror, London: Vintage Books, published 2007, →ISBN, section 1, page 276:
text: A large red ribbon scarfed her neck and seemed to have its own strange glow of the same hue.
ref: 2011, Falling Rain [pseudonym], “Fire on the Sacred Land”, in Ouroboros: Road of Legend, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: To cover as or like a scarf.
scarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑːf/
ipa: /skɑːɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: scarfs
Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.
glosses: A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
glosses: A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
scarf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑːf/
ipa: /skɑːɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: scarfs
form: scarfing
form: scarfed
form: scarfed
Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: To shape by grinding or oxyfuel torch cutting.
glosses: To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
glosses: To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
Derived terms: scarfer
scarf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑːf/
ipa: /skɑːɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: scarfs
form: scarfing
form: scarfed
form: scarfed
Etymology: Generally thought to be a variant, attested since the 1950s, of scoff (“eat (quickly)”) (of which scorf is another attested variant), itself a variant of scaff. Sometimes alternatively suggested to be a dialectal survival of Old English scearfian, sceorfan (“gnaw, bite”) (compare scurf).
Senses: examples: text: You sure scarfed that pizza.
text: We dug in. We ate everything there was to eat on the table. We ate like there was no tomorrow. We didn't talk. We ate. We scarfed. We grazed that table. We were into serious eating. We finished everything, including half a strawberry pie.
ref: 1983, Raymond Carver, Cathedral:
text: Me: scarfing my daughter’s macaroni and cheese, now chilly, over the sink while halfheartedly rinsing dishes.
ref: 2015 December 11, Lara Bazelon, “Who Said ‘Game of Thrones’ Wasn’t for Kids?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2015:
synonyms: scarf down
scarf up
scoff
guzzle
glosses: To eat very quickly.
Derived terms: scarf and barf
scarf down
scarfer
scarf up
scarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑːf/
ipa: /skɑːɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: scarfs
form: scart
form: skart
Etymology: From Old Norse skarfr.
Senses: glosses: A cormorant.
scarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɑːf/
ipa: /skɑːɹf/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: scarfs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of scurf (“skin disease; skin flakes”).
garment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.mənt/
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
Forms: form: garments
Etymology: From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from Old French garnir, guarnir (“to protect, fortify, clothe, garnish, adorn”), from Frankish *warnijan (“to ward off, refuse, deny”). More at English garnish.
Senses: examples: text: The woman ſhall not weare that which pertaineth vnto a man, neither ſhall a man put on a womans garment: foꝛ all that doe ſo, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 22:5:
text: This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A single item of clothing.
examples: text: The highest state in which the soul completely casts away its garment of flesh and becomes a disembodied spirit.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 241:
glosses: The visible exterior in which a thing is invested or embodied.
glosses: Ellipsis of temple garment.
Derived terms: constant-wear garment
foundation garment
garment bag
garmentless
garmentmaker
garmentmaking
garmento
garmenture
garmentworker
kiss the hem of someone's garment
lower garment
nethergarment
outer garment
outgarment
overgarment
rend one's garments
touch the hem of someone's garment
undergarment
ungarment
upper garment
Related terms: garnish
garrison
garment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.mənt/
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
Forms: form: garments
form: garmenting
form: garmented
form: garmented
Etymology: From Middle English garment, garement, garnement, from Old French garnement, guarnement, from Old French garnir, guarnir (“to protect, fortify, clothe, garnish, adorn”), from Frankish *warnijan (“to ward off, refuse, deny”). More at English garnish.
Senses: glosses: To clothe in a garment.
conjugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒndʒʊɡəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑnd͡ʒəɡəl/
ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒuːɡəl/
Forms: form: conjugial
Etymology: From Middle French conjugal, from Latin coniugālis (“con- + iugum ('yoke')”).
Senses: examples: text: "Lawgivers were never more mistaken," said Lady Mary, "than when they ordained that the conjugal tie should last through life for better and worse; the last injunction being strictly complied with. There should be septennial marriages, as well as septennial parliaments!"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Act of Parliament”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 189:
glosses: Of or relating to marriage, or the relationship of spouses; connubial.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to marriage
word: connubial
Derived terms: conjugality
conjugally
conjugal rights
conjugal rite
conjugal visit
conjugal visitation
extraconjugal
nonconjugal
unconjugal
Related terms: word: conjugate
alarm clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alarm clocks
Senses: glosses: A clock with an alarm that can be set to sound at a determined time.
Derived terms: alarm clock headache
radio alarm clock
duplicitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /djʊˈplɪsɪtəs/
ipa: /duːˈplɪsətəs/
ipa: /djuːˈplɪsətəs/
Forms: form: more duplicitous
form: most duplicitous
Etymology: From duplicity + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: It reunites the horribly duplicitous skag-addicted non-heroes of the first movie about twentysomethings trying to get off heroin in Edinburgh, and finding that they have nothing very much to put in its place.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in The Guardian:
text: Russia played on those feelings by attacking the French president, Emmanuel Macron[…], saying Moscow still remembered the fate of Napoleon Bonaparte and accusing the French president of duplicitous diplomacy with the Kremlin.
ref: 2023 February 19, Patrick Wintour, “Ukraine war ‘over’ unless EU boosts military support, says top diplomat”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “(chuckles) That duplicitous genius. She's betraying me! She's probably already on Plymeria, subjugating its feeble populace. -Quick, to the shuttle.”
ref: 2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (14:06 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by AGIMUS (Jeffrey Combs):
glosses: Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
Synonyms: deceitful
double-dealing
two-faced
Derived terms: unduplicitous
Related terms: duplicate
duplicitously
duplicitousness
duplicity
photophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊbiə
Forms: form: photophobias
form: photophobism
Etymology: From photo- + -phobia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excessive sensitivity to light and the aversion to bright light; abnormal fear of light.
photophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊbiə
Forms: form: photophobism
Etymology: From photo (“photograph”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Photophobia was the latest affliction of Afghan officialdom—by contagion, probably, from Persia which tries to nip in the bud pictures that show her not yet entirely modern.
ref: 1947, Ella K. Maillart, The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939, University of Chicago Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 152:
text: Craig Armstrong doesn't want to be photographed. His record company wouldn't like it, he says, and besides he has flu so he looks a little puffy. So "orders" and vanity combine to stop the shoot, due to take place in a trendy bar in Glasgow's West End.
The cynic may see alternative reasons for the 39-year-old composer's photophobia, […]
ref: 1998 April 2, Barry Didcock, “How to score with Madonna (or U2 or Leonard DiCaprio)”, in The Scotsman:
text: He concludes that Mapplethorpe blocks racist photophobia by making the nudes whose penises are not visible highly erotic, while using blatantly penis-focused images to force white viewers to recognize that when they see a black man, they see him not just in possession of a large penis, but actually as a penis (Mercer 1991; Fanon 1952/2008).
ref: 2013, Douglas Crimp, “'Tell a Story, Save a Life' (Montage 1987-89)”, in Brenda Longfellow, Scott MacKenzie, Thomas Waugh, editors, The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: An aversion to or fear of being photographed, the dissemination of personal photographs, or viewing photographs.
recapitulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːkəˌpɪtjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
enpr: re·kə·pĭ·chə·lāʹshən
ipa: /ɹiː.kəˌpɪ.t͡ʃəˈleɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: recapitulations
form: re-capitulation
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman recapitulaciun et al., Middle French recapitulacion et al., or their source, from Late Latin recapitulatio (“summing up, summary”), from the participle stem of recapitulare (“recapitulate”), from re- + capitulum (“chapter, section”), diminutive of caput (“head”).
Senses: examples: text: The dolorous effects of the second world war on train services, and its protracted legacies of over-age equipment and shortages of material for replacement, are too fresh in memory to require recapitulation here; […].
ref: 1957 July 24, D. S. M. Barrie, “Sixty Years of British Express Trains”, in Railway Magazine, pages 455-456:
synonyms: summary
glosses: A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
examples: text: one would expect God's final purpose to be expressed in his created world, since the doctrine of recapitulation showed that this is where his plans had worked out before.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 144:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
Derived terms: recap
recapitulation theory
Related terms: recapitulate
aciculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aciculate.
aciculiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin acicula (“needle”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Needle-shaped; acicular.
aciculite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin acicula, diminutive of acus (“needle”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfide of bismuth, lead, and copper.
Synonyms: topics: mineralogy
geology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
geography
word: aikinite
topics: mineralogy
geology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
geography
word: needle ore
topics: mineralogy
geology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
geography
word: needle-ore
topics: mineralogy
geology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
geography
word: acicular bismuth
topics: mineralogy
geology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
geography
word: cupreous bismuth
topics: mineralogy
geology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
geography
word: patrinite
Hypernyms: sulfide
acidiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æsɪˈdɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more acidiferous
form: most acidiferous
Etymology: From Latin acidus (“sour, acid”) + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: Containing or yielding an acid.
pentagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕn′tə-grăm′
ipa: /ˈpɛn.təˌɡɹæm/
rhymes: -ɛntəɡɹæm
Forms: form: pentagrams
form: pentagramme
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πεντάγραμμον (pentágrammon), noun form of the adjectives πεντάγραμμος (pentágrammos) and πεντέγραμμος (pentégrammos, “five-lined, having five lines”). Equivalent to penta- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Prove that the circles so belonging to the 6 pentagrams formed by 6 lines meet in a point, and so on; the series of theorems being interminable.
ref: 1871, W. J. C. Miller, editor, Mathematical Questions and Solutions, volume XV, page 47:
text: The passive pentagrams of spirit are drawn first in the quarters of the passive elements—water and earth—and likewise followed by the appropriate traditional elemental pentagram.
ref: 2007, Christopher Penczak, The Temple of High Witchcraft: Ceremonies, Spheres, and the Witches' Qabalah, page 345:
text: Four figures involve 12 pentagrams arranged as in the faces of a dodecahedron with their vertices touching.
ref: 2012, John Barnes, Gems of Geometry, page 59:
glosses: The shape of a five-pointed star constructed of five intersecting lines meeting at the vertices, such that a central pentagon and five surrounding isosceles triangles are formed; often with magical connotations; a 5/2 (or 5/3) star polygon.
Synonyms: pentacle
pentalpha
pentangle
Derived terms: inverted pentagram
Pentagram
pentagrammic
Related terms: sense: star shape
word: hexagram (6-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: heptagram (7-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: octogram (8-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: nonagram (9-pointed)
sense: star shape
word: decagram (10-pointed)
axiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axiologies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄξιος (áxios, “worthy”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The study of value(s), as regards origin, nature, functions, types, and interrelations; value theory.
examples: text: In his axiology, G. E. Moore maintains that "good" is the name of a simple, indefinable quality.
glosses: The particular value-theory of a philosopher, school of thought, etc.
Derived terms: axiologize
Related terms: axiological
axiologist
axiologization
smashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smæʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Etymology: From smash + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smash
soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊp/
ipa: /səʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: soaps
form: sope
Etymology: From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).
Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap”), Saterland Frisian Seepe (“soap”), West Frisian sjippe (“soap”), Dutch zeep (“soap”), German Low German Seep (“soap”), German Seife (“soap”), Danish sæbe (“soap”), Swedish såpa (“soap”), Norwegian Bokmål såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“soap”), Finnish saippua (“soap”), Finnish suopa (“soft soap”). Related also to Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin sāpō (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
examples: text: I tried washing my hands with soap, but the stain wouldn't go away.
text: She went to the shop to buy soap, but they had run out.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
glosses: Money, specially when used as a bribe.
glosses: A soap opera.
glosses: A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.
Derived terms: Aleppo soap
bar soap
bile soap
body soap
carbolic soap
Castile soap
curd soap
dish soap
docusoap
don't drop the soap
drop the soap
facial soap
ghar soap
glass soap
green soap
handsoap
hand soap
hard soap
hospital soap
household soap
Joe Soap
know from a bar of soap
laundry soap
laurel soap
liquid soap
lithium soap
mahogany soap
marine soap
Marseille soap
Marseilles soap
mercury soap
metallic soap
mountain soap
Nabulsi soap
nonsoap
no soap
paste soap
poor man's soap
potassium soap
quicksilver soap
rock soap
saddle soap
saltwater soap
sandsoap
shave soap
shaving soap
soap acacia
soapball
soap bar
soapbark
soapberry
soapbloom
soap box
soapbox
soap boy
soap brick
soap bubble
soapcurd
soap dish
soapdish
soap dispenser
soap dodger
soap-dodging
soapdom
soapen
soapery
soap film
soapfish
soap flake
soapflake
soap foam
soap gourd
soapie
soapify
soapland
soapless
soapless soap
soaplike
soaplock
soapmaker
soapmaking
soapman
soapmonger
soap night
soapnut
soap opera
soap-operatic
soap pad
soap pan
soap plant
soap ring
soaprock
soaproot
soap scum
soap shaker
soapstar
soapstock
soapstone
soapsuds
soap suds
soap test
soap tree
soaptree
soap up
soapweed
soapwell
soapwood
soapworker
soapworks
soapwort
soapy
sodium soap
soft soap
soft-soap
Spanish soap
stainless steel soap
sugar soap
sulfur soap
sulphur soap
supersoap
Syrian soap
Venetian soap
Venice soap
wash one's brain out with soap
Windsor soap
yellow soap
Related terms: body wash
shampoo
shower gel
wash-ball
soap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊp/
ipa: /səʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: soaps
form: soaping
form: soaped
form: soaped
Etymology: From Middle English sope, sape, from Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), from Proto-West Germanic *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).
Cognate with Scots saip, sape (“soap”), Saterland Frisian Seepe (“soap”), West Frisian sjippe (“soap”), Dutch zeep (“soap”), German Low German Seep (“soap”), German Seife (“soap”), Danish sæbe (“soap”), Swedish såpa (“soap”), Norwegian Bokmål såpe (“soap”), Norwegian Nynorsk såpe (“soap”), Faroese sápa (“soap”), Icelandic sápa (“soap”), Finnish saippua (“soap”), Finnish suopa (“soft soap”). Related also to Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, fat, grease”). See seep. Latin sāpō (“soap”) is a borrowing from the Germanic.
Senses: examples: text: Be sure to soap yourself well before rinsing.
glosses: To apply soap to in washing.
examples: text: Those kids soaped my windows!
glosses: To cover, lather, or in any other manner treat with soap, often as a prank.
synonyms: soft-soap
soft-pedal
sugar soap
downplay
glosses: To be discreet about (a topic).
glosses: To flatter; to wheedle.
Derived terms: resoap
soap down
soap off
Related terms: soaper
saponification
soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊp/
ipa: /səʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Etymology: Probably an abbreviation of sodium pentothal.
Senses: examples: text: 'Time? Doesn't have much meaning when they're trying to dry you out. I rather think they gave me a shot of soap at one point.' Soap is intelligence speak for sodium pentathol.
ref: 2013, John Gardner, James Bond: The John Gardner Years:
glosses: thiopental (sodium pentothal)
temporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛmpəɹəl
Forms: form: more temporal
form: most temporal
Etymology: From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) + -ālis.
Senses: examples: text: temporal power, temporal courts
raw_tags: The official title of the House of Lords
text: The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled
text: The [papal] train was in use until 1871, when the Pope [Pius IX] lost his temporal power.
ref: 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252:
text: Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England, Penguin Books, page 166:
synonyms: secular
lay
civil
antonyms: spiritual
ecclesiastical
glosses: Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
examples: text: The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 4:18:
glosses: Relating to time:
Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
glosses: Relating to time:
Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
Lasting for a short time only.
glosses: Relating to time:
Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
glosses: Relating to time:
Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
synonyms: chronological
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to time:
Relating to or denoting time or tense.
Derived terms: abtemporal
antitemporal
atemporal
biotemporal
contemporal
cotemporal
extratemporal
geotemporal
hypertemporal
intertemporal
isotemporal
metatemporal
microtemporal
monotemporal
multitemporal
nontemporal
omnitemporal
phylotemporal
physiotemporal
pretemporal
pseudotemporal
retrotemporal
sociotemporal
spatiotemporal
spatio-temporal
spectrotemporal
supertemporal
supratemporal
temporal case
temporal dead zone
temporal deixis
temporal distributive
temporal hour
temporalism
temporality
temporalize
temporalise
temporal logic
temporally
temporalness
temporal organ
temporalty
transtemporal
unitemporal
visuotemporal
temporal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛmpəɹəl
Forms: form: temporals
Etymology: From Middle English temporal, temporel (“transitory, worldly, material, of secular society”), from Old French temporel or Latin temporālis (“of time (in grammar), temporary, relating to time as opposed to eternity”), from tempus (“time, period, opportunity”) + -ālis.
Senses: examples: text: for God's people love always to be dealing as well in temporals as spirituals
ref: 1684, John Dryden, The History of the League, translation of Histoire de la Ligue by Louis Maimbourg:
text: He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.
ref: 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Dante”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
temporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French timporal, temporal, from Late Latin temporālis, from tempora (“the temples of the head”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of temporalis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
Derived terms: anterotemporal
auriculotemporal
basotemporal
basitemporal
bitemporal
centrotemporal
corticotemporal
deep temporal nerve
dorsotemporal
extratemporal
frontotemporal
inferotemporal
infratemporal
intratemporal
laterotemporal
mediotemporal
mesiotemporal
midtemporal
nasotemporal
occipitotemporal
ophthalmotemporal
orbitotemporal
parietotemporal
posttemporal
rostrotemporal
septotemporal
sphenotemporal
subtemporal
superotemporal
temporal apophysis
temporal artery
temporal bone
temporal fossa
temporal lobe
temporal muscle
temporalward
temporalwards
temporo-
tempor-
ventrotemporal
zygomaticotemporal
temporal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛm.pə.ɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛmpəɹəl
Forms: form: temporals
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French timporal, temporal, from Late Latin temporālis, from tempora (“the temples of the head”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of temporalis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of temporal bone.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.
ultimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌl.tɪm.ət/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈʌl.tɪm.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
note: Indic
ipa: /ăl.ʈɪm.eʈ/
Forms: form: ultimates
Etymology: * From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), perfect passive participle of ultimō (“to come to an end”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from ultimus (“last, final”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See ultra-.
* (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.
Senses: glosses: The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
glosses: The final or most distant point; the conclusion
glosses: The greatest extremity; the maximum
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee or ultimate disc.
ultimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌl.tɪm.ət/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈʌl.tɪm.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
note: Indic
ipa: /ăl.ʈɪm.eʈ/
Forms: form: ultimates
form: ultimating
form: ultimated
form: ultimated
Etymology: * From Medieval Latin ultimātus (“furthest, last”), perfect passive participle of ultimō (“to come to an end”) (see -ate (1,2 and 3)), from ultimus (“last, final”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See ultra-.
* (ultimate frisbee): The sport was renamed to avoid the use of the Frisbee trademark.
Senses: examples: text: These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.
ref: 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine, volume 41, page 36:
glosses: To finish; to complete.
web hosting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web-hosting
form: webhosting
Senses: glosses: The service of hosting a web site on the Internet, making it viewable by other users.
Related terms: webhost
eye of the beholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
ref: 1878, Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Molly Bawn:
text: September 16 2009,Anita Dunn, Reality Check: The Truth About "Czars"
Since czar isn't an official job title, the number is somewhat in the eye of the beholder.
glosses: The subjective perception and judgement of the person seeing or considering something.
Related terms: honi soit qui mal y pense
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
ronin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ronins
form: ronin
form: rōnin
Etymology: From Japanese 浪人 (rōnin), in turn from Middle Chinese 浪人 (MC langH nyin, “dissolute, wasteful, unrestrained + person”).
Senses: examples: text: Back at Asano’s home in Ako, his chancellor, Oishi (Tatsuo Ichikawa), rallies the samurai, now known as ronin because they are without a master, in a campaign to avenge Asano and restore his clan’s honor.
ref: 2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A masterless samurai (who often becomes a mercenary to make ends meet).
glosses: A student who has failed the entrance examination for the high school or university of their choice: if the student does not wish to take the exam the following year or is unable to, the student becomes a ronin, assuming full responsibility for their own training and survival.
raw_tags: in Japan