cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mordant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːdn̩t/
ipa: /ˈmoɹd(ə)nt/
homophone: mordent
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dənt
Forms: form: more mordant
form: most mordant
Etymology: From French mordant, from Latin mordeō. Doublet of mordent.
Senses: synonyms: biting
caustic
keen
sarcastic
severe
glosses: Having or showing a sharp or critical quality.
glosses: Serving to fix a dye to a fibre.
Derived terms: mordantly
Related terms: morsel
remorse
mordant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːdn̩t/
ipa: /ˈmoɹd(ə)nt/
homophone: mordent
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dənt
Forms: form: mordants
Etymology: From French mordant, from Latin mordeō. Doublet of mordent.
Senses: examples: text: In dyeing two mediums are required, the colouring matter and the mordant which fixes the dye in the wool.
ref: 1964, L.F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, page 208:
glosses: Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts with the dye using chelation.
glosses: Any corrosive substance used in etching.
glosses: A glutinous size used as a ground for gilding, to make the gold leaf adhere.
Synonyms: sense: substance for etching
word: etchant
Derived terms: acid mordant
mordant dye
mordant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːdn̩t/
ipa: /ˈmoɹd(ə)nt/
homophone: mordent
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dənt
Forms: form: mordants
form: mordanting
form: mordanted
form: mordanted
Etymology: From French mordant, from Latin mordeō. Doublet of mordent.
Senses: examples: text: Mordant these goods for dyeing.
glosses: To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.
Derived terms: remordant
unmordanted
Related terms: mordent
prolixity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/
ipa: /pɹəʊˈlɪk.sɪ.ti/
Forms: form: prolixities
Etymology: From Old French prolixite, from Latin prolixitas. By surface analysis, prolix + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Of Skelton's one excursion into dramatic form, Magnificence, not much need be said. [...] Its fault, a fatal one in drama, is its prolixity, but cut by at least two-thirds it might act very much better than one imagines.
ref: 1935, W. H. Auden, “John Skelton”, in Katharine Garvin, editor, The Great Tudors, London: Ivor Nichols & Watson Limited:
text: Must I then for twenty-three mortal days endure the prolixity of that tedious woman?
ref: 1954, W Somerset Maugham, The World Over, The Collected Stories, volume 2, London: The Reprint Society, page 1268:
glosses: Long-windedness, tiresome length, excess of words.
Synonyms: verbosity
col
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒl/
ipa: /kɑl/
rhymes: -ɒl
homophone: coll
homophone: call
homophone: caul (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: cols
Etymology: Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of collum.
Senses: examples: text: We spent half an hour on the summit before returning to our camp, where we stuffed the frozen tent and all the gear into our packs and started the long descent of the southwest ridge to rejoin Harish and others who were still encamped on the col at the foot of it.
ref: 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:
text: I recall one specific trip when we climbed to Madison Hut which is located in the col between Mount Madison and Mount Jefferson.
ref: 2012, Paul Lee, Vignettes: Musings and Reminiscences of a Modern Renaissance Man, page 344:
text: Turn left through a gate in the right angle of the wall and drop down to a col before climbing up the hill.
ref: 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 74:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: nek
coordinate_terms: bealach
mountain pass
pass
saddle
hause
glosses: A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: saddle point
glosses: A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.
Derived terms: North Col
Related terms: hausse-col
col
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒl/
ipa: /kɑl/
rhymes: -ɒl
homophone: coll
homophone: call
homophone: caul (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: cols
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: Clipping of column.
glosses: Abbreviation of color.
4WD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4WDs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of four-wheel drive.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of four-wheel drive.
A four-wheel drive vehicle.
Related terms: english: two-wheel drive; usually coordinate
translation: two-wheel drive; usually coordinate
word: 2WD
english: four-by-two; usually coordinate
translation: four-by-two; usually coordinate
word: 4x2
english: four-by-four; usually synonymous
translation: four-by-four; usually synonymous
word: 4x4
english: all-wheel drive; usually coordinate
translation: all-wheel drive; usually coordinate
word: AWD
english: four-wheel drive; usually synonymous
translation: four-wheel drive; usually synonymous
word: FWD
english: front-wheel drive; usually coordinate
translation: front-wheel drive; usually coordinate
word: FWD
english: rear-wheel drive; usually coordinate
translation: rear-wheel drive; usually coordinate
word: RWD
word: 4D
aerofoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəɹ.əˌfɔɪl/
Forms: form: aerofoils
Etymology: From aero- + foil.
Senses: examples: text: We may look upon this figure as representing in section a theoretical wing-form, or aerofoil
ref: 1907, Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight, page 163:
glosses: British standard form of airfoil.
Derived terms: aerofoiled
airfoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airfoils
form: aerofoil
Etymology: From air + foil.
Senses: synonyms: foil
glosses: A structure shaped to produce lift when moving in air.
synonyms: wing
glosses: A wing of an aircraft.
Derived terms: airfoiled
jail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪ(ə)l/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: jails
form: jailing
form: jailed
form: jailed
form: gaol
Etymology: From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, from Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, from Late Latin caveola (“small cage, cell”), a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole.
Fully displaced native Middle English quartern (“prison, jail, cell”), from Old English cweartern (“jail, prison”).
Partially displaced native Middle English lok, from Old English loc (“enclosure, pen; jail, prison”), whence lock; and Middle English carcern, from Old English carcern, from Latin carcer (“prison, jail”).
Compare these Old English words, all meaning “jail”: heaþor, heolstorloca (means also “jail cell”), clūstorloc, dung (also “dungeon”), hlinræced, nirwþ, nīedcleofa, hearmloca, and nearu.
Senses: examples: text: It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
text: A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.
ref: 2020 September 9, “Network News: Man jailed for Hillingdon murder”, in Rail, page 25:
glosses: To imprison.
Synonyms: imprison
incarcerate
Derived terms: enjail
jailable
jailee
rejail
unjailed
gaol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪ(ə)l/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: gaols
Etymology: From Middle English gayole, gaiol, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). See also cage.
Senses: examples: text: There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning – he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way —
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 42:
text: There was a simple reason for Sirius' complete absence from Harry's life until then – Sirius had been in Azkaban, the terrifying wizard gaol guarded by creatures called Dementors, […]
ref: 2000 July 8, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], “The Scar”, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter; 4), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Dated spelling of jail.
Derived terms: engaol
gaolable
gaolbird
gaol-bird
gaolbreaker
gaoldom
gaol fever
gaolish
gaolkeeper
gaolless
gaolmate
gaolward
gaolwards
gaolyard
Related terms: gaoler
gaol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪ(ə)l/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: gaols
form: gaoling
form: gaoled
form: gaoled
Etymology: From Middle English gayole, gaiol, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, via Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, for Late Latin caveola, a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). See also cage.
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of jail.
out of the box
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɔt əv ðə bɒks/
ipa: /æʊt əv ðə bɒks/
ipa: /ʌʊt əv ðə bɑːks/
ipa: /aʊt əv ðə bɒks/
ipa: /ɘʉt əv ðə bɒks/
ipa: /aʊt əv ðə bɑːks/
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: out-of-the-box
Senses: examples: text: This software has to work out of the box, without any fancy installation.
text: As well as trade union opposition when the new Class 195s arrived, they could not work 'out of the box' due to gauge clearance issues.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Industry Insider: Blame the policymakers”, in Rail, page 76:
synonyms: off the shelf
glosses: Immediately, without intervention from the customer.
raw_tags: of a product
examples: text: He started out with the rather obvious alternative of talking to Junior; Hesh’s scheme was more imaginative; and Tony’s idea of torching the restaurant really is out of the box.
ref: 2004, Deborrah Himsel, Leadership Sopranos Style: How to Become a More Effective Boss, Kaplan Publishing, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Mom and dad didn’t have a ready answer to Mort’s out of the box idea, but Mickey did.
ref: 2005, John Campbell Self, Faeries’ Dance, Cupid’s Dream, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 16:
text: She: You’re not trying to think out of the box!
ref: 2007, Allan Wolf, Zane's Trace, Candlewick Press, →ISBN, page 63:
text: She said the agency was happy to review “out-of-the-box pitches,” particularly those that celebrate “what it means to be an American.”
ref: 2025 May 16, Hamed Aleaziz, quoting Tricia McLaughlin, “A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: laterally
outside the box
outside of the box
OOTB
glosses: Outside the box; unconventionally: outside the limits of conventional thinking.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See out of, the, box.
Derived terms: out-of-box experience
Related terms: knock out of the box
cider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ̯.dɚ/
enpr: sīʹdər
ipa: [ˈsʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈsaɪ̯.də/
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ciders
Etymology: From Middle English sider, cidre, sidre, from Old French cisdre, sidre (“beverage made from fermented apples”), from Medieval Latin sīcera, from Ancient Greek σίκερα (síkera, “fermented liquor, strong drink”), from Hebrew שֵׁכָר (šēḵār, “liquor”). Doublet of cyser. Displaced native English apple wine.
Senses: examples: text: The procedures for cyser are identical to cider with a notable exception: honey is a much more complex sugar than cane or corn sugars, meaning honey takes a long time to clear and an even longer time (at least six months) to ferment out[…]
ref: 1995, Paul Correnty, The Art of Cidermaking, Brewers Publications:
glosses: An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented apples; hard cider; apple cider.
examples: text: She liked an aged cider. He liked a harder cider.
glosses: A non-alcoholic still beverage consisting of the juice of early-harvest apples, usually unfiltered and still containing pulp; apple cider; sweet cider (without pulp such a beverage is called apple juice).
glosses: A non-alcoholic carbonated beverage made from apples or pears.
glosses: A non-alcoholic, lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage.
glosses: A cup, glass, or serving of any of these beverages.
Synonyms: sense: alcoholic beverage
word: hard cider
sense: alcoholic beverage
word: pomade
sense: alcoholic beverage
word: pomatum
sense: alcoholic beverage
word: pomace
sense: US: non-alcoholic beverage
word: sweet cider
word: apple cider
word: pomatum
Derived terms: all talk and no cider
apple cider
cider-and
cider-apple
cider brandy
cider cart
cider-cellar
cider-cup
cidered
cider gum
cider house
cider-house
ciderish
ciderist
ciderkin
ciderless
ciderlike
cidermaking
cider-man
cider-marc
cider-master
cider-mill
cider oil
cider press
cider-pressings
cider punk
cider royal
cider vinegar
cider-wring
cidery
dry cider
fire cider
hard cider
ice cider
mulled cider
pear cider
sparkling apple cider
sparkling cider
sparkling ice cider
sweet cider
white cider
Related terms: calvados
perry
scrumpy
WAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæn/
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: WANs
Senses: examples: text: Message latency is much more of an issue on a WAN than on a LAN.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of wide area network.
Related terms: Internet
LAN
network
sparkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɑɹkl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɑɹklɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɑːkl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɑːklɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, sparkle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sparkle
sparkling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɑɹkl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɑɹklɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɑːkl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɑːklɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, sparkle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: "Methinks 't were sweet once more to see
Our native forest shade,
And the wild streamlet leaping free
Along the sparkling glade,...
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Carloman and Merovee, page 78:
glosses: Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks or flashes of light.
glosses: Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.
examples: text: The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:
text: While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.
ref: 2014 October 30, Ben Brantley, “When the head leads the heart: 'The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, opens on Broadway [print version: When the witty head is far ahead of the heart: Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor star in revival of 'Real Thing', International New York Times, 4 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Brilliant and vivacious.
Synonyms: sense: of an object, reflecting light
word: glistening
sense: of an object, reflecting light
word: twinkling
sense: of a beverage
word: fizzy
word: carbonated
word: effervescent
Derived terms: sparkling cider
sparkling perry
sparkling water
sparkling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɑɹkl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɑɹklɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɑːkl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈspɑːklɪŋ/
Forms: form: sparklings
Etymology: By surface analysis, sparkle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew.
ref: 1820, Nathaniel John Hollingsworth, “Song”, in The Renegade and Other Poems:
glosses: Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.
examples: text: Wines like this struggle to stand out on the show circuit, where the judges are more likely to be searching for sparklings designed in the classic Champagne mould.
ref: 2011, Michael Cooper, 100 Must-try New Zealand Wines, page 208:
glosses: A sparkling wine.
antonyms: still
flat
glosses: Ellipsis of sparkling water (“fizzy drinking water”).
limpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪm.pɪt/
Forms: form: limpets
form: limpin
Etymology: From Middle English lempet, from Old English lempedu (“lamprey”), borrowed from Medieval Latin lampreda, alteration of Late Latin lampetra (“lamprey”), whose further origin is unknown, though is traditionally thought to derive from lambō (“I lick, lap”) + petra (“stone, rock”). Doublet of lamprey, which came through Old French.
Senses: glosses: Any of various gastropods with a conical shell shape patelliform and a strong, muscular foot that they use to create strong suction to cling onto rocks or other hard surfaces.
examples: text: He stuck to me like a limpet all day!
glosses: Someone clingy or dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space.
Derived terms: black limpet
duck's-bill limpet
keyhole limpet
keyhole limpet hemocyanin
limpetlike
limpet mine
limpet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪm.pɪt/
Forms: form: limpets
form: limpeting
form: limpeted
form: limpeted
form: limpin
Etymology: From Middle English lempet, from Old English lempedu (“lamprey”), borrowed from Medieval Latin lampreda, alteration of Late Latin lampetra (“lamprey”), whose further origin is unknown, though is traditionally thought to derive from lambō (“I lick, lap”) + petra (“stone, rock”). Doublet of lamprey, which came through Old French.
Senses: examples: text: Mother visited the little cottage over the hill, and found Lisette's story to be quite correct; and many times the Frenchwoman blessed the day when Margie went limpeting and Lisette lent the old knife to the golden-haired little English lady.
ref: 1890 JUNE, THE GUERNSEY MAGAZINE A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL of INFORMATION, INSTRUCTION & ENTERTAINMENT, volume XVIII, number 6, page 1:
text: Razor-fishing, sand-eeling and limpeting used to be popular activities but have declined in importance.
ref: 2024 December 22, Wikipedia contributors, “Culture of Jersey”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
glosses: To gather limpets.
sandcastle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæn(d)ˌkæsəl/
Forms: form: sandcastles
Etymology: From sand + castle.
Senses: examples: text: Children learn the importance of water in soil mechanics from an early age. They learn on the beach while making sandcastles. When they use dry sand, their castle flows into a heap even as they lift the bucket. The particles of sand have no cohesion and little friction between them.
ref: 2023 June 14, Philip Haigh, “Landslips: NR strives to turn back the tide”, in RAIL, number 985, page 32:
glosses: A sculpture made of sand and resembling a miniature castle; typically, but not always, made for fun by a child on a beach.
Derived terms: sandcastler
sandcastling
Related terms: bucket and spade
TNT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TNTs
Etymology: All senses by acronymy or initialism formation or by metonymic relation thereto. The third sense is an initialism of the Tagalog phrase, tago nang tago (literally, “hide and hide”).
Senses: examples: text: "We have grown accustomed to a deadly paradox: the world's greatest megatonnage of TNT is buried in the heart of the earth's most productive agricultural area.
ref: 1988 September 9, Harold Henderson, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader:
hypernyms: explosive#Noun
coordinate_terms: TNG
glosses: Abbreviation of trinitrotoluene (an explosive substance used in blasting)
qualifier: erroneous
glosses: Dynamite.
examples: text: These illegal immigrants are popularly known as “TNTs,” or tago ng tago (literally, “hide and hide”). Some married American citizens to legalize their stay, while others paid for “green card” marriages.
ref: 2009, Joaquin Jay Gonzalez, Filipino American Faith in Action: Immigration, Religion, and Civic Engagement, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: An illegal immigrant.
Derived terms: TNT equivalent
ton of TNT
TNT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: All senses by acronymy or initialism formation or by metonymic relation thereto. The third sense is an initialism of the Tagalog phrase, tago nang tago (literally, “hide and hide”).
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Turner Network Television, a U.S. television channel.
SKU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛsˌkeɪˈjuː/
ipa: /skjuː/
ipa: /skuː/
homophone: skew
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: SKUs
Senses: examples: text: In general, however, it is clear that attributes like SKU cube and weight, SKU maximum and average inventory, SKU retrieval rate, SKU environmental requirements, etc., will be important. What also may be important is information such as what SKUs often appear together in customer orders.
ref: 2012, Leon F. McGinnis, “An Object Oriented and Axiomatic Theory of Warehouse Design”, in Progress in Material Handling Research, United States, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2024, page 9:
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of stock-keeping unit.
Coordinate terms: part number
product code
product ID number
Derived terms: picking by SKU
trinitrotoluene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinitrotoluenes
Etymology: From tri- + nitro- + toluene.
Senses: related: word: TNT
synonyms: tolite
glosses: A highly explosive yellow crystalline substance, (CH₃C₆H₂(NO₂)₃), obtained by reacting nitric acid with toluene.
Derived terms: TNT
knock out of the box
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks out of the box
form: knocking out of the box
form: knocked out of the box
form: knocked out of the box
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To cause a pitcher to be replaced by heavy hitting.
glosses: To cause something to be replaced by something else.
Synonyms: sense: cause something to be replaced by something else
word: oust
Related terms: out of the box
straw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɔː/
ipa: /stɹɔ/
ipa: /stɹɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: straws
Etymology: From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German Low German Stroh (“straw”), German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).
Senses: glosses: A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
coordinate_terms: hay
stover
shaw
trash
glosses: Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
glosses: A drinking straw.
glosses: A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
examples: text: to not care a straw
translation: to not care at all
english: to not care at all
text: ‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw,
Nor all thine arrows to boot;
If I get a knop upon thy bare scop,
Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
ref: 1889, “Robin Hood and the Tanner”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 3, page 138:
text: He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
text: To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw.
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
glosses: Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
raw_tags: in the negative
examples: text: The Bromfield Street offices were housed in a dilapidated but heavily-insured building, owned by a straw for a wealthy downtown real estate developer, surrounded by expensive new commercial developments, and in a city renowned for arson-for-profit.
ref: 1984 August 4, Larry Goldsmith, “Cops Charged With Setting GCN Fire”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
glosses: A straw owner.
Synonyms: sense: dried grass
word: litter
Derived terms: a drowning man will clutch at a straw
a straw shows how the wind blows
a straw shows which way the wind blows
bang-straw
bang straw
bendy straw
buy straw hats in winter
clutch at a straw
crazy straw
drinking-straw
grab at a straw
grasp at a straw
in the straw
onion straw
poppy straw
sampling straw
soda straw
spoon straw
straw bail
straw ballot
straw bed
straw-bed
strawberry
straw bid
straw-bottomed
straw-clutchingly
straw-colored
straw donor
straw-grasping
straw-hat
straw-hatted
strawhead
straw itch
straw lily
strawman
straw nail
straw-necked ibis
straw owner
strawpedo
straw purchase
straw purchaser
straw shoe
straw stem
straw that stirs the drink
straw tick
straw
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɔː/
ipa: /stɹɔ/
ipa: /stɹɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Etymology: From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German Low German Stroh (“straw”), German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).
Senses: examples: text: straw hat
synonyms: strawen
glosses: Made of straw.
glosses: Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
examples: text: A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.
glosses: Imaginary, but presented as real.
Derived terms: cheese straw
drinking straw
draw the short straw
grasp at straws
jackstraw
the last straw
the final straw
make bricks without straw
man of straw
pine straw
silly straw
straw boss
straw buyer
straw hat
straw in the wind
straw man
straw mushroom
straw poll
the straw that broke the camel's back
straw that stirs the drink
straw vote
straw wine
strawboard
straw-coloured
strawflower
strawworm
windlestraw
Related terms: balibuntal
buntal
corn dolly
etiolated
fescue
huarache
leghorn
paillasse
paillette
pallet
parabuntal
rick
sacaton
skep
stipule
stubble
zori
straw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɔː/
ipa: /stɹɔ/
ipa: /stɹɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: straws
form: strawing
form: strawed
form: strawed
Etymology: From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn, straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (“to spread around, strew”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sträi (“straw”), West Frisian strie (“straw”), Dutch stro (“straw”), German Low German Stroh (“straw”), German Stroh (“straw”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish strå (“straw”), Icelandic strá (“straw”), Walloon strin, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).
Senses: glosses: To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
examples: text: It was the custom for the disaffected of those days to make known their grievances by distributing papers on doors of public buildings, and even strawing them in the high way, for the benefit of the chance passenger.
ref: 1846, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Letters of the kings of England, page 116:
text: I have already alluded to "strawing," which can hardly be described as quackery. It is rather a piece of mountebankery. […] The strawer offers to sell any passer by in the streets a straw and give the purchaser a paper which he dares not sell. Accordingly as he judges of the character of his audience, so he intimates that the paper is political, libellous, irreligious, or indecent.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor:
text: Forasmoche as there be diverse lewd and sedicious [folks] personnes [being so given to sedicon as they care not f] whiche do labor nowe to mayntain the traitorous doings of the duke of Somerset, and for that purposed do ivise the most vile false and traitorous bills, papers, and boks that ever were harde off, strawing the same in the stretes, aswel within the Citie of London [and] as in diverse [other] townes and other places in the cuntrey; wherein they do falsly and traitorously travail to slaunder the kings mat Counsail, thinking therby to amase and abuse his Mat good subgietts, which be in a redynes to joyne with the said counsail for the delyverey of the king our soveraign Lords most Royal person, remayning to his great peril and damage in the said dukes custody, and for the restoring of this noble Realme to some better order and quietnes, whiche shalbe the benefite [of every man] of us all universally;
ref: 1884, Nicholas Pocock, Troubles Connected with the Prayer - Book 1549, page 108:
text: Townspeople who saw 'strawing' and 'following the wran' as invasions by 'lusty young men of the country' saw Volunteer events in the same way.
ref: 1998, Peter Hart, The I.R.A. and Its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
drinking straw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drinking straws
form: drinking-straw
Senses: synonyms: straw
glosses: A long tube (usually made out of plastic or paper) through which a beverage is drunk via suction.
stripe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪp/
ipa: /stɹaɪp/
rhymes: -aɪp
Forms: form: stripes
form: striping
form: striped
form: striped
Etymology: From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”), Danish stribe (“stripe”).
Senses: glosses: To mark with stripes.
examples: text: I did try to ask questions and talk to Nanny but different things but that was considered "Talking back" or sassing which resulted in the striping of the legs or mashing of one's mouth, and then being put in the dark closet until the crying stopped.
ref: 2010, Susan Gore, A Blessing of Sunshine & Wrath, →ISBN, page 13:
text: But when practice yielded no improvement, curses and the crack of a whip followed. Stripped, lying face down on the ground, Platt absorbed the master's rage, lash after lash striping his buttocks, shoulders, and back.
ref: 2012, Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States, →ISBN:
glosses: To lash with a whip or strap.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
Derived terms: self-striping
Related terms: candy striper
restripe
Stars and Stripes
striped
striper
stripy
themself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛmˈsɛlf/
rhymes: -ɛlf
Forms: form: of they
Etymology: From Middle English theimself. Equivalent to them + -self. Reinforced by analogy with the singular-plural distinction between yourself and yourselves.
Senses: examples: text: Someone could hurt themself.
text: Anyone who wants a car like mine can buy one themself.
text: […] they woulden't ^([sic]) always be trying to make Themself Look Diffarunt ^([sic]) from what nature made Them.
ref: 1899 December 6, “Paw Baldness”, in Shiner Gazette:
text: THE author who masqueraded as Helen Demidenko yesterday urged the hoaxer who deceived the respected right-wing journal Quadrant to unmask themself.
ref: 2009 January 8, Samantha Maiden, “Hoaxer, out yourself: 'Demidenko'”, in The Australian, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2012:
text: ... somedays there will be an odd number of quadders and so somebody might have to sit by themself in the back.
ref: 2013 January 8, John Stoltenberg, Gonerz:
text: Someone set themself on fire Friday at the plaza in front of the US Supreme Court building, a court spokesperson said.
ref: 2022 April 22, Jessica Schneider, “Person sets self on fire at Supreme Court plaza”, in CNN:
text: Sometimes in modern usage They_(sg) has the reflexive form themself, as in Sometimes a person can surprise themself. (Microsoft Word’s grammar-checking tool doesn’t like this, and peremptorily changes it to themselves – what a nerve!)
ref: 2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: The reflexive form of they, the third-person singular personal pronoun. The single person previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition (also used for emphasis).
examples: text: […] and the same is here thought of al men to be so vailable and sufficient, as can be required, accept and take the said commission and dispensation so thankfully, and themself so satisfied with the same, that they repute and think themself not only singularly obstringed and bound to the Popes […]
ref: 1822, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, Relating Chiefly to Religion, page 119:
glosses: Synonym of themselves (the third-person plural).
synonyms: word: themselves
extra: the third-person plural
Synonyms: word: themselves
word: theirself
word: theirselves
word: himself
english: gender-specific
translation: gender-specific
word: herself
word: thonself
word: other attested gender-neutral pronouns
straw poll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw polls
Etymology: It may allude to a straw (thin plant stalk) held up to see in what direction the wind blows: in this case, the metaphorical wind of group opinion.
Senses: examples: 2002: I don't think it was innocence that made me want to carry out a straw poll of women friends on the plausibility of this passage — James Meek in London Review of Books, Vol. 24 No. 22, 14 November 2002
glosses: A survey of opinion or a vote that is nonbinding, unofficial, casual, or ad hoc.
Synonyms: straw ballot
straw vote
prepend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: prepends
form: prepending
form: prepended
form: prepended
Etymology: From pre- + (ap)pend, back-formation from append.
Senses: examples: text: The final cleaned assemblies in GenBank were downloaded, and the contig identifiers were pre-pended with the sample name and haplotype integer (where 1 = paternal and 2 = maternal).
ref: 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI:
topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To attach (an expression, phrase, etc.) to another, as a prefix.
prepend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: prepends
Etymology: From pre- + (ap)pend, back-formation from append.
Senses: glosses: The act of prepending.
Related terms: append
postpend
prefix
postfix
prepend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: prepends
form: prepending
form: prepended
form: prepended
Etymology: From pre- + Latin pendere (“weigh”).
Senses: glosses: To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.
bygone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪɡɒn/
ipa: /-ɡɔːn/
ipa: /ˈbaɪɡɔn/
ipa: /-ɡɑn/
homophone: bigon (depending on the dialect)
Forms: form: by-gone
Etymology: From by (adverb) + gone.
Senses: examples: text: I had thought (Sir) to haue held my peace, vntill
You had drawne Oathes from him, not to ſtay: you (Sir)
Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are ſure
All in Bohemias well: this ſatisfaction,
The ''by-gone-day proclaym'd, ſay this to him,
He's beat from his beſt ward.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 277, column 2:
text: Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.
ref: 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
text: Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.
ref: 1962 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 399:
text: The modern, glass-fronted buildings surrounding the massive skyscraper Taipei 101 in the Xinyi District suggest a shift toward cleaner, starker development, but a trip to older parts of the city reveals hidden corners untouched by modernity.
The oldest section, Wanhua, with its winding corridors and quiet decay, offers a glimpse of the city’s bygone days. At its bustling heart is the busy Longshan Temple. I bump past a flurry of tourists, worshipers and monks selling prayer beads outside the gates to reach the controlled chaos within, where hundreds of faithful light incense and present offerings at myriad shrines to Buddha and other deities.
ref: 2011 April 8, Erin Meister, “Reveling in the real Taiwain^([sic – meaning Taiwan])”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023, Travel:
glosses: Having been or happened in the distant past.
Synonyms: foregone
historical
past
bygone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪɡɒn/
ipa: /-ɡɔːn/
ipa: /ˈbaɪɡɔn/
ipa: /-ɡɑn/
homophone: bigon (depending on the dialect)
Forms: form: bygones
form: by-gone
Etymology: From by (adverb) + gone.
Senses: examples: text: Jennie Fox watched it with thoughtful pleasure, and the rest were chatting and telling of bygones, enjoying a glass of egg-hot; it being a custom for them to partake of this beverage on this particular night.
ref: 1881, Pearl Hyem, The fisherman's cove; or, Christianity realised, page 54:
glosses: An event that happened in the past.
examples: text: And now just as the Victorians collected the minute objects with which to fill these houses, so today grown-ups are paying large sums for these bygones, while the children are given more modern houses to play with.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 200:
glosses: An object from the past; a relic, antique, etc.
Derived terms: let bygones be bygones
teaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: teachings
form: teachyng
Etymology: From Middle English teching, techinge, from Old English tǣċing, tǣċung (“instruction, direction, teaching”), equivalent to teach + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Many follow the teachings of Confucius.
glosses: Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.
examples: text: Teaching has seen continual changes over the past decades.
text: I have found a teaching job.
text: a teaching assistant
synonyms: tutelage
glosses: The profession of educating people; the activity that a teacher does when he/she teaches.
Derived terms: action teaching
book-teaching
distance teaching
e-teaching
flip teaching
home teaching
hybrid teaching
learning by teaching
speed teaching
teaching assistant
teaching hospital
toilet teaching
teaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: teachyng
Etymology: From Middle English techinge, techynge, techende, techand, from Old English tǣċende, from Proto-Germanic *taikijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *taikijaną (“to show, point out”), equivalent to teach + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teach
Related terms: teach
token
parafoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parafoils
Senses: glosses: A parachute, kite or glider with an aerofoil-shaped fabric canopy or wing.
glosses: The wing or sail of such an apparatus.
cords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːdz/
ipa: /kɔɹdz/
homophone: chords
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dz
Etymology: From cord + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of cord
cords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːdz/
ipa: /kɔɹdz/
homophone: chords
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dz
Etymology: From cord + -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cord
Related terms: wires
cords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːdz/
ipa: /kɔɹdz/
homophone: chords
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dz
Etymology: Shortening of corduroys
Senses: glosses: Corduroys.
corduroys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Trousers made from corduroy.
-na
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: Balgruntie wasna that—
ref: 1892, William Carleton, Amusing Irish Tales:
glosses: -n't
examples: text: I'm tryna (trying to) figure this one out.
qualifier: on a verb
glosses: -ing to (with infinitive); indicates the grammatical present continuous active mood
exegesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕkˌ-sĭ-jēˈ -sĭs
ipa: /ɛksɪˈdʒiːsɪs/
ipa: /ɛksɪˈd͡ʒisɪs/
Forms: form: exegeses
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐξήγησις (exḗgēsis, “interpretation”), from ἐξηγέομαι (exēgéomai, “I explain, interpret”), from ἐξ (ex, “out”) + ἡγέομαι (hēgéomai, “I lead, guide”).
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly Athanasius complains loudly of their exegesis (Ep. Æg. 3–4, cf. Orat. i. 8, 52), and insists (id. i. 54, cf. already de Decr. 14) on the primary necessity of always conscientiously studying the circumstances of time and place, the person addressed, the subject matter, and purpose of the writer, in order not to miss the true sense.
ref: 1885, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (original translators and editors), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (editor of American edition), Philip Schaff (also credited as editor), Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II:
text: As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis.
ref: 1913, Francis Aveling, “Rationalism”, in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913):
text: Historical scholarship bears exclusively on interpretive reading; when it is properly subordinated as a means, its end is exegesis; all of its techniques are of service to the grammatical art. But exegesis is not the end; nor is grammar the highest art. Exegesis is for the sake of a fair critical judgment, grammar for the sake of logic and rhetoric.
ref: 1940, Mortimer J. Adler, Two Essays on Docility:
text: It is a fitting device for an artist who has long seen herself as the creator of a parallel world: one where fans can go “down a rabbit hole,” as she has put it, hunting for clues to the star’s next move and subjecting her every word to endless exegesis.
ref: 2025 October 16, Mitch Therieau, “Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe. But the Magic Is Fading.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text.
glosses: An explanatory note; a gloss.
Related terms: eisegesis
epexegesis
exegete
exegetic
exegetical
exegetics
exegetist
hermeneutics
textual criticism
gitano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gitanos
form: gitanoes
Senses: coordinate_terms: gitana
glosses: A male gypsy.
DASK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Acronym from Danish Dansk Aritmetisk Sekvens Kalkulator ("Danish Arithmetic Sequence Calculator").
Senses: glosses: A computer of the late 1950s, the first to be developed and built in Denmark.
climate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪ.mɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈklaɪ.mət/
note: Indic
ipa: /klaj.meʈ/
Forms: form: climates
form: climating
form: climated
form: climated
Etymology: From Middle English climat, from Old French climat, from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “latitude”, literally “inclination”).
Senses: examples: text: The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 169:
glosses: To dwell.
scripting language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scripting languages
Senses: examples: text: It's a great application, but the scripting language is hard to learn.
glosses: A computer language designed to be used as part of a larger application.
Derived terms: prototype-based scripting language
pilgrimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlɡɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: pilgrimages
Etymology: From Middle English pilgrimage. By surface analysis, pilgrim + -age.
Senses: examples: text: In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.
text: Rome, the mighty mother of the Christian faith, whose amphitheatres had been red with the blood of the saints, and where the pilgrimage and the miracle still testified to the truth.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 187:
text: It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 204:
text: Quarians are surgically fitted with their various immunity-boosted implants in preparation for leaving on Pilgrimage.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Pilgrimage Codex entry:
glosses: A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.
examples: text: Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.
text: The Berghof, too, was largely reduced to ash, sparing it the indignity of the tour guides Hitler so dreaded, and leaving a place of pilgrimage for future generations of Hitler worshippers—exactly how Adolf Hitler would have wanted it.
ref: 2005 April 24, Timothy W. Ryback, “The Hitler Shrine”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: For fans, the shows are a pilgrimage, and a rediscovery of the joys of mass gatherings.
ref: 2023 August 5, Ben Sisario, “How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World”, in New York Times:
text: Earlier this year, the resident was granted permission to install a gate to deter them from making what has become a sort of pilgrimage [Carrie Bradshaw's stoop].
ref: 2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
glosses: A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.
Derived terms: pilgrimager
protopilgrimage
Related terms: pilgrim
pilgrimage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlɡɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: pilgrimages
form: pilgrimaging
form: pilgrimaged
form: pilgrimaged
Etymology: From Middle English pilgrimage. By surface analysis, pilgrim + -age.
Senses: examples: text: in descent, as now, he always had a holy sense of having pilgerimaged, of returning having seen behind a veil.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 78:
glosses: To go on a pilgrimage.
Related terms: peregrinate