cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
revenue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛvənjuː/
enpr: rĕvʹə-n(y)o͞oʹ
ipa: /ˈɹɛvəˌn(j)u/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɛnjuː/
Forms: form: revenues
Etymology: Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue, from Old French [Term?] (“a return”) (modern French revenu), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir (“come back”) (=modern French), from Latin revenire (“to return, come back”), from re- (“back”) + venire (“to come”).
Senses: examples: text: In the seventh series of The X Factor in the UK, it's estimated the phone votes brought in more than £5.4 million in revenue.
ref: 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC:
glosses: The income returned by an investment.
glosses: The total income received from a given source.
glosses: All income generated for some political entity's treasury by taxation and other means.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The total sales; turnover.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The net income from normal business operations; net sales.
examples: a. 1892, Charles Spurgeon, a sermon
What, no revenue of praise for him who is our gracious Lord and King! He doth not exact from us any servile labor, but simply saith, “Who so offereth praise glorifieth me.”
glosses: A return; something paid back.
Synonyms: topics: accounting
finance
business
word: net sales
topics: accounting
finance
business
word: turnover
Derived terms: daily average revenue trades
inland revenue
non-revenue
nonrevenue
revenue act
revenue bill
Revenue Canada
revenue cutter
revenue ensign
revenue land
revenue management
revenuer
revenue raising
revenue recognition
revenue sharing grant
revenue stamp
tax revenue
total revenue
revenue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛvənjuː/
enpr: rĕvʹə-n(y)o͞oʹ
ipa: /ˈɹɛvəˌn(j)u/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvɛnjuː/
Forms: form: revenues
form: revenuing
form: revenued
form: revenued
Etymology: Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue, from Old French [Term?] (“a return”) (modern French revenu), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir (“come back”) (=modern French), from Latin revenire (“to return, come back”), from re- (“back”) + venire (“to come”).
Senses: glosses: To generate revenue.
glosses: To supply with revenue.
price
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪs
enpr: prīs
ipa: /pɹaɪs/
ipa: /pɹɑjs/
note: Canadian raising
ipa: /pɹʌɪs/
Forms: form: prices
form: pricing
form: priced
form: priced
form: prize
Etymology: From Middle English price (“price, prize, value, excellence”), borrowed from Old French pris, preis, from Latin pretium (“worth, price, money spent, wages, reward”); compare praise, precious, appraise, appreciate, depreciate, etc.
Senses: glosses: To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on.
examples: text: Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To pay the price of; to make reparation for.
glosses: To set a price on; to value; to prize.
examples: text: to price eggs
glosses: To ask the price of.
Derived terms: budget-priced
asset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsɛt/
ipa: /ˈæsɛt/
ipa: /ˈæsət/
rhymes: -æsɛt
ipa: /ˈæset/
note: Indic
ipa: /aˈseʈ/
Forms: form: assets
Etymology: Back-formation from assets, from Anglo-Norman asetz, from Old French assez (“enough”). Compare Middle English asseth.
Senses: examples: text: My assets consist of stocks in companies that pay a dividend, and a few apartments that pay me rental income.
text: January 31 2020, Boris Johnson, Brexit Day speech
And when I look at this country’s incredible assets. Our scientists, our engineers, our world-leading universities, our armed forces. When I look at the potential of this country waiting to be unleashed, I know that we can turn this opportunity into a stunning success.
coordinate_terms: liability
glosses: A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.
topics: accounting
business
finance
coordinate_terms: liability
liability
glosses: A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows.
Any item recorded on the left-hand side of a balance sheet.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Any component, model, process or framework of value that can be leveraged or reused.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: An intelligence asset.
examples: text: Perhaps it is simply common for wives to want their female friends to see their husband nude – especially if he has nice assets. Honestly, I also wanted to see the dick of Brian and Andrew.
ref: 2009, Kaitlynn Maguire, Margaret Tingley, Serendipitous Moments of Female Sensuality, page 27:
text: “Slave Alexi has nice assets.”
ref: 2009, Cheyenne McCray, The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel, page 189:
text: Muse studied Ida May's breasts for a moment, then reached out and grabbed the left one. “Good size. Firm. Yeah, you got some nice assets.”
ref: 2016, Deanna Chase, Spirits, Rock Stars, and a Midnight Chocolate Bar: Pyper Rayne, Book 2:
glosses: A woman's breasts or buttocks or a man's genitalia.
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of asset
word: asset class
sense: Hyponyms of asset
word: capital asset
sense: Hyponyms of asset
word: current asset
sense: Hyponyms of asset
word: financial asset
sense: Hyponyms of asset
word: fixed asset
sense: Hyponyms of asset
word: intangible asset
sense: Hyponyms of asset
word: intelligence asset
sense: Hyponyms of asset
word: physical asset
sense: Hyponyms of asset
word: tangible asset
Derived terms: asset-backed
asset-backed commercial paper
asset-backed security
asset flip
assetization
assetize
assetless
asset management
asset-strip
asset strip
asset stripping
asset-stripping
concealed asset
cryptoasset
cultural asset
cyberasset
hidden asset
hydroasset
idle asset
liquid asset
multiasset
net tangible assets
toxic asset
troubled asset
Related terms: ownership equity
deposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɒzɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈpɑzɪt/
rhymes: -ɒzɪt
Forms: form: deposits
form: deposite
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Italic *pozinō
Latin pōnō
Latin dēpōnō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin deposituslbor.
English deposit
Learned borrowing from Latin depositus, past participle of depono (“put down”). Doublet of depot.
Senses: examples: text: Newly discovered oil and gas deposits at Nan-ch'ung in Szechwan also promise to be of increasing importance.
ref: 1963, Yuan-li Wu, “The Infant Petroleum Industry”, in Economic Development and the Use of Energy Resources in Communist China, Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 178:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
topics: law
glosses: Bailment of personal property to be kept gratuitously for the bailor (depositor) and without any benefit to the bailee (depositary), e.g. for storage, carriage, repair, etc.
topics: banking
business
glosses: Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
examples: text: a mineral deposit
text: a deposit of seaweed on the shore
text: a deposit of jam on my countertop
glosses: Anything left behind on a surface.
examples: text: They put down a deposit on the apartment.
topics: business
finance
synonyms: earnest money
down payment
glosses: A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
glosses: A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
glosses: A place of deposit; a depository.
Derived terms: biodeposit
bottle deposit
brickdust deposit
can deposit
certificate of deposit
container deposit
credit-deposit ratio
demand deposit
deposit account
deposit contract
deposit insurance
deposit interest retention tax
deposit money
deposit protection
deposit slip
direct deposit
downposit
immunodeposit
microdeposit
nanodeposit
rhizodeposit
safe-deposit
safe deposit box
safe-deposit box
safety deposit
safety-deposit box
security deposit
statutory deposit
subdeposit
term deposit
time deposit
time deposit account
Related terms: depose
depositary
depository
repository
suppository
refundable
deposit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɒzɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈpɑzɪt/
rhymes: -ɒzɪt
Forms: form: deposits
form: depositing
form: deposited
form: deposited
form: deposite
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Italic *pozinō
Latin pōnō
Latin dēpōnō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin deposituslbor.
English deposit
Learned borrowing from Latin depositus, past participle of depono (“put down”). Doublet of depot.
Senses: examples: text: A crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand.
text: The waters deposited a rich alluvium.
text: This fear is deposited in conscience.
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
text: The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire.
ref: 1958 February 23, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
glosses: To lay down; to place; to put.
examples: text: to deposit goods in a warehouse
synonyms: reposit#Verb
glosses: To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
glosses: To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
examples: text: I had to deposit two months' rent into my landlord's account before he gave me the keys.
glosses: To put money or funds into an account.
examples: text: reform and deposit his error
ref: 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Schism: or a Defence of the Church of England:
glosses: To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
Derived terms: biodeposit
codeposit
depositee
depositor
electrodeposit
electrodeposited
misdeposited
predeposit
predeposited
redeposit
rhizodeposited
undeposited
loan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊn/
ipa: /loʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: lone
Forms: form: loans
form: loaning
form: loaned
form: loaned
Etymology: From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- (“to leave (over)”).
Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English lǣn. More at lend.
Senses: examples: text: In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.
ref: 1820 June 1, William King, Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King:
text: All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—were loaned to him.
ref: 1992, Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, page 30:
text: Upon maturity of the debt, the investment bank returns the loaned shares.
On the date of issuance, the entity should record the loaned shares at their fair value and recognize them as an issuance cost, with an offset to additional paid-in capital.
ref: 2015, Joanne M. Flood, Wiley GAAP 2015: Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, page 574:
qualifier: dated and occasionally proscribed in UK
glosses: To lend (something) to (someone).
Derived terms: loanability
loanable
reloan
loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊn/
ipa: /loʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: lone
Forms: form: loans
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic lòn (“marshy meadow”) (compare lèana (“wet meadow, marsh, meadow”)).
Senses: examples: text: the Loan of Turchloy, the Black Loan
text: [...] The herds upon the loan, As if a sheep had fled, wi' speed, At Grumphy tykes hound on Wi' loud huzza!
ref: 1800, Alexander Pennecuik, Lintoun Green; Or, the Third Market-day of June, 1685: A Poem, in Nine Cantos, page 38:
text: [...] meeting in the loan above the house his own great plough with the six oxen, which were the pride of his heart.
ref: 1856 [1822?], Sir Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, page 315:
text: When the dews begin to fauld the flowers, and the gloaming shades draw on, When the star comes stealing through the sky, and the kye are in the loan, He whistles[…]
ref: 1871, Henry Scott Riddell, The Poetical Works of Henry Scott Riddell, page 26:
glosses: An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse.
withdrawal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɔː(ə)l/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɔː(ə)l/
ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɔ(ə)l/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɔ(ə)l/
ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɑ(ə)l/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɑ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈwɪθˌdɹɔːl/
note: intrusive R
ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɔːɹəl/
note: intrusive R
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɔːɹəl/
Forms: form: withdrawals
Etymology: From withdraw + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In view of the second aspect of its control function, the Federal Reserve Board prohibits, with specified limited exceptions, the wisthdrawal of securities from general accounts where such withdrawals would undermargin such accounts.
ref: 1973, American jurisprudence: a modern comprehensive text statement of American Law, State and Federal, Volume 69, page 852:
glosses: Receiving from someone's care what one has earlier entrusted to them. Usually refers to money.
glosses: A method of birth control which consists of removing the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.
examples: heroin withdrawal
nicotine withdrawal
caffeine withdrawal
glosses: A type of metabolic shock the body undergoes when a substance (such as a drug) on which a patient is dependent is withheld.
examples: text: On withdrawal [from service], it was restored to its Caledonian blue livery, and is now preserved at St. Rollox.
ref: 1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:
text: But in terms of the result, the performance and the management of the players' workloads, the match could not have gone much better for the hosts, save for Wes Burns' first-half withdrawal with what looked like a dislocated shoulder.
ref: 2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An act of withdrawing or a state of being withdrawn.
glosses: The sum of money taken from a bank account.
Derived terms: alcohol withdrawal syndrome
benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome
drug withdrawal
pervasive arousal withdrawal syndrome
phantom withdrawal
withdrawal symptom
ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ōr
ipa: /o(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /oə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: oar
homophone: o'er
homophone: or (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: ores
Etymology: From Middle English or, oor, blend of Old English ōra (“ore, unwrought metal”) and ār (“brass, copper, bronze”), the first a derivate of ear (“earth”), the second from Proto-West Germanic *aiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *aiz, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos.
Compare Old Norse eir (“brass, copper”), German ehern (“of metal, of iron”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌶 (aiz, “ore”); also Dutch oer (“ferrous hardpan; bog iron ore”). Compare Latin aes (“bronze, copper”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬵 (aiiah), Sanskrit अयस् (áyas, “copper, iron”).
Senses: examples: text: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:
text: Stepnohirsk grew into a town from the village of Sukhoivanivka in the 1980s after vast deposits of manganese ore nearby were discovered.
ref: 2024 February 4, Sergey Panashchuk, Jannik Läkamp, Rebecca Jayne Husselbee, “On frontline in Ukrainian town making ‘final stand’ against Putin where bodies lie everywhere & shelling never stops”, in The Sun, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024:
glosses: Rock or other material that contains valuable or utilitarian materials; primarily a rock containing metals or gems for which it is typically mined and processed.
Derived terms: bell-metal ore
bog iron ore
bog ore
copper ore
feather ore
gold-copper ore
green iron ore
green lead ore
horseflesh ore
iron ore
kidney ore
morass-ore
needle ore
olive ore
ore belt
ore body
orebody
ore-bulk-oil carrier
ore car
ore dressing
orefield
oreforming
ore hearth
orehouse
oreless
oreshoot
ore tenus
peacock ore
pea ore
pottern ore
potter's ore
sulfur ore
sulphur ore
swamp ore
tile ore
tin ore
wheel ore
white lead ore
ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ōr
ipa: /o(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /oə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: oar
homophone: o'er
homophone: or (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: ores
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ora.
Senses: examples: text: In the time of Æthelred the Unready when the pound contained 240 pence, the ore was reckoned at 16 pence, but in earlier times there was probably much variation.
ref: 1956, Peter Hunter Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, London; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 295:
synonyms: ora
glosses: A unit of currency used in England around the 10th to 12th centuries.
ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ōr
ipa: /o(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /oə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: oar
homophone: o'er
homophone: or (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: woar
Etymology: A southern variant of ware (“seaweed”).
Senses: glosses: Seaweed, especially that which is washed up ashore.
ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ōr
ipa: /o(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /oə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: oar
homophone: o'er
homophone: or (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: Possibly originating as a figurative use of Etymology 1, with Leominster's "ore" representing the wealth of the town.
Senses: examples: text: But then the ore of Lempſter / By Got is never a Sempſter; / That when he is ſpun, ore did, / Yet match him with hir thrid
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Ben Jonson, “For the Honour of Wales”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, page 608, column 1:
glosses: A type of fine wool, especially of the type historically produced in the market town of Leominster, Herefordshire.
ore
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ōr
ipa: /o(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /oə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: oar
homophone: o'er
homophone: or (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Senses: examples: text: When I behold the violet paſt prime, / And ſable curls or ſiluer'd ore with white: […]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature B3, recto:
glosses: Obsolete form of over.
ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôr
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ōr
ipa: /o(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /oə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: oar
homophone: o'er
homophone: or (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: ore
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of öre.
Related terms: ore rotundo
gem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛm/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: gems
form: gemming
form: gemmed
form: gemmed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gemme, gimme, yimme, ȝimme, from Old English ġimm, from Proto-West Germanic *gimmu (“gem”) and Old French gemme (“gem”), both from Latin gemma (“a swelling bud; jewel, gem”). Doublet of gemma and Gemma.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.
ref: 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: A few bright and beautiful stars gemmed the wide concave of heaven[…].
ref: 1827, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,:
text: Above was the firmament, gemmed with worlds, and sublime in immensity.
ref: 1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo:
text: The rain Shook from fruit bushes in new showers again As I brushed past, and gemmed the window pane.
ref: 1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old:
text: And those salt tears your lashes gemmed / Were but the breath of flame distilled; / Flame white and pure, and diademmed / With suffering,—pain with joy fulfilled.
ref: 1922 February, Miriam Campbell, “A Dream of Brittany”, in The Educational Times: A Review of Ideas and Methods, volume IV (new series)/LXXIV (old series), page 64, column 1:
glosses: To adorn with, or as if with, gems.
Synonyms: begem
gemstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛmˌstoʊn/
rhymes: -ɛmstoʊn
Forms: form: gemstones
Etymology: From Middle English gimstone, alteration (due to Middle English gemme) of earlier ȝimston, ȝimstan, from Old English ġimstān, ġymstān (“gem; jewel; precious stone”), equivalent to gem + stone. Compare Icelandic gimsteinn (“jewel; gem”), Faroese gimsteinur (“jewel, precious stone”).
Senses: glosses: A gem, usually made of minerals.
Synonyms: word: gemstone
word: gem
word: jewel
Hyponyms: word: almondine
word: amber
word: amethyst
word: agate
word: aquamarine
word: azure
word: balas-ruby
word: beryl
word: cabochon
word: carbuncle
word: citrine
word: diamond
word: durangite
word: emerald
word: first water
word: garnet
word: heliotrope
word: jade
word: lapis lazuli
word: moonstone
word: onyx
word: opal
word: pearl
word: peridot
word: ruby
word: sapphire
word: spinel
word: tanzanite
word: topaz
word: turquoise
Derived terms: gemstoned
gemstone tree
plasma gemstone
Related terms: word: jeweler
word: gemologist
word: lapidary
word: lapidarian
word: :Category:Gems
kin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭn
ipa: /kɪn/
ipa: [k̟ʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: kins
form: kin
Etymology: From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
Senses: glosses: Race; family; breed; kind.
examples: text: c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.
text: Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
examples: text: Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
ref: 2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana, Women Workers in Urban India, page 280:
glosses: One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
examples: text: Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 248:
glosses: Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
Derived terms: akin
alkin
erfkin
fictive kin
kind
kindom
kindred
kinfolk
king
kinhood
Kinism
Kinist
kinless
kinly
kinomics
kin selection
kinsfolk
kinship
kinslayer
kinsman
kinsperson
kin state
kinstate
kinswoman
kinterm
kintype
kissing kin
kith and kin
mankind
next of kin
nonkin
otakukin
otherkin
totem kin
Related terms: kith
clan
kin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭn
ipa: /kɪn/
ipa: [k̟ʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology: From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
Senses: examples: text: It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
text: ... and our feeling together had made us forget what-ever there'd been between us to forget about. And I ain't ever in my life felt so kin to folks. I felt kinner than I knew I was. That night, tired as I was, I walked[…]
ref: 1914, Zona Gale, Neighborhood Stories, page 155:
text: How serenely Earth keeps on her business! […] Yielding powers to man's hand / While he burrows in her sand, / […] How kin is she to man, who sips / Nourishment with boasting lips, / Detached, but inalienably bound /To be suckled[…]
ref: 1925, Therese Kayser Lindsey, Blue Norther: Texas Poems, page 53:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kin.
glosses: Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)
kin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭn
ipa: /kɪn/
ipa: [k̟ʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: kins
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).
Senses: examples: text: Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.
ref: 1899, Hugo Riemann, Catechism of Musical History: History of musical instruments and history of tone-systems and notation:
text: If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.
ref: 1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”).
kin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭn
ipa: /kɪn/
ipa: [k̟ʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: kins
form: kinning
form: kinned
form: kinned
Etymology: Clipping of fictionkin.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
kin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭn
ipa: /kɪn/
ipa: [k̟ʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: kins
form: kin
Etymology: Clipping of fictionkin.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
topics: lifestyle
related: word: kinnie
glosses: Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.
raw_tags: in the form (character name) kin
kin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭn
ipa: /kɪn/
ipa: [k̟ʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: kins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of k'in.
kin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭn
ipa: /kɪn/
ipa: [k̟ʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
Senses: examples: text: [Owl:] Oh I ain't stealin' this dime... I just took it for safe-keepin'.
 [Turtle:] Ain't much you kin do with it—'cept make a phone call.
ref: 1959 January 5, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of can.
kin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭn
ipa: /kɪn/
ipa: [k̟ʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
Senses: glosses: Clipping of kinesiology.
kith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪθ/
rhymes: -ɪθ
Forms: form: kiths
Etymology: From Middle English kith (“kinsmen, relations”), from Old English cȳþþ, cȳþþu (“kinship, kinsfolk, relations”), from Proto-Germanic *kunþiþō (“knowledge, acquaintance”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Old High German kundida (“kith”), kundī (“knowledge”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌹 (kunþi, “knowledge”). More at couth, -th.
Senses: examples: text: Alack, would that Edward listened more to me and less to the queen’s kith! These Woodvilles!
ref: 1843, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, The Last of the Barons, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons […], →OCLC:
text: The demography-crossing thing that undergirds this election year, I think, is a strong, broad desire to punish Clinton and his kith with a denial of further power.
ref: 2000 August 3, Michael Kelly, “New Hope For Nice Guys”, in Orlando Sentinel, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2013:
glosses: Friends and acquaintances.
qualifier: rustic
glosses: An acquaintance or a friend.
Synonyms: friend
acquaintance
Derived terms: kith and kin
kith and kine
kithfolk
kithless
Related terms: kin
kinfolk
yon
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒn/
ipa: /jɑn/
homophone: yawn (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒn
Etymology: From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Cognate with German jener.
Senses: examples: text: He went to climb yon hill.
text: Read thy lot in yon celestial sign.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: "[…] Yet first let me close yonder shutters; the slanting rain is beating through the sash. I will bar up." "Are you mad? Know you not that yon iron bar is a swift conductor? Desist."
ref: 1856, Herman Melville, The Lightning Rod Man:
text: "Do my eyes deceive me, or is yon object a Puddin'?" he cried.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 158:
text: His head... his head... his face... it wisnae there. Nae black curly hair, nae eyes - I've never seen eyes sae blue as Joe's. Irises blue as yon sky. Blown tae smithereens... his gorgeous, bonny head, no there.
ref: 2012 Spring, Gerda Stevenson, “Federer versus Murray”, in Salmagundi:
glosses: Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.
yon
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒn/
ipa: /jɑn/
homophone: yawn (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒn
Etymology: From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Cognate with German jener.
Senses: glosses: yonder.
Derived terms: hither and yon
yon
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒn/
ipa: /jɑn/
homophone: yawn (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒn
Etymology: From Middle English yon, from Old English ġeon, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Cognate with German jener.
Senses: examples: text: As soon as old Andrew came home, his wife and he, as was natural, instantly began to converse on the events of the preceding night; and in the course of their conversation Andrew said, "Gudeness be about us' Jean, was not yon an awfu' speech o' our bairn's to young Jock Allanson last night?"
ref: 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
glosses: That one or those over there.
yon
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒn/
ipa: /jɑn/
homophone: yawn (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒn
Senses: examples: text: Buttonhole row: (K1, p1) 3 times, yon, k2tog, (k1,p1) 5 times, yon, k2tog, […]
ref: 2006, Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting, page 222:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Acronym of yarn over needle.
yonder
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɑndəɹ/
ipa: /ˈjændə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɛndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: younder
Etymology: From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).
Senses: examples: text: See who yonder is.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 149:
text: "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there."
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Whose doublewide is that over yonder?
glosses: At or in a distant but indicated place.
examples: text: As for me and the childe, we wyl go yonder.
ref: 1535, Bible (Coverdale), Genesis, 22
text: They headed on over yonder.
glosses: Synonym of thither: to a distant but indicated place.
synonyms: word: thither
extra: to a distant but indicated place
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: there
sense: all senses
word: over there
sense: all senses
word: away there
Derived terms: absence makes the heart go yonder
here and yonder
hither and yonder
wild blue yonder
yonder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɑndəɹ/
ipa: /ˈjændə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɛndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more yonder
form: most yonder
form: younder
Etymology: From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).
Senses: examples: text: "You have all necessary proofs in your possession, though you may not be aware of their existence," replied Arden; "will you allow me to open yonder box?"
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 163:
glosses: The farther, the more distant of two choices.
Synonyms: farther
yonder
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɑndəɹ/
ipa: /ˈjændə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɛndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: younder
Etymology: From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).
Senses: examples: text: Yonder lass, who be she?
text: But ſoft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the Eaſt, and Iuliet is the Sunne[…]
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Fire, the Sword, and Plagueǃ They may all be found in the yonder city; on my head alone may they fallǃ
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: "You have all necessary proofs in your possession, though you may not be aware of their existence," replied Arden; "will you allow me to open yonder box?"
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 163:
text: I wish I were on yonder hill
and there I’d sit and I’d cry my fill,
and ev’ry tear would turn a mill,
And a blessing walk with you, my love
ref: 2006, Cécile Corbel, “Siúil a Ruin”, in Songbook 1, performed by Cécile Corbel, Brittany: Keltia Musique:
glosses: Who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.
raw_tags: as an adjective
examples: text: The yonder is Queen Niobe.
glosses: One who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.
raw_tags: as a pronoun
Synonyms: sense: distant but within sight
word: yon
Derived terms: that yonder
this yonder
yonderly
yondermair
yondermost
yonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒndə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɑndəɹ/
ipa: /ˈjændə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈjɛndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: yonders
form: younder
Etymology: From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).
Senses: examples: text: Off we go in to the wild blue yonder,
Climbing high into the sun...
ref: 1939, Robert MacArthur Crawford, Army Air Corps::
glosses: The vast distance, particularly the sky or trackless forest.
Derived terms: into the wide blue yonder
yonderward
yonderway
Related terms: yon
beyond
one hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: Univerbation of one + hundred.
Senses: glosses: The number 100.
Derived terms: one hundred and one
one thousand
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: One one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand, ...
glosses: Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which each iteration is sequentially numbered and supposed to be approximately one second in length.
Synonyms: Mississippi
alligator
ten hundred
one thousand
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: synonyms: mul:1000
mul:M
glosses: Ten times a hundred: ten hundreds.
Derived terms: one-thousander
Related terms: thousand
henry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henries
form: henrys
Etymology: Named after American scientist Joseph Henry (1797–1878).
Senses: glosses: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H
Derived terms: abhenry
megahenry
microhenry
millihenry
nanohenry
henry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henries
Etymology: Rhyming slang, from Henry the Third.
Senses: glosses: A turd.
henry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henries
Etymology: From Henry the Eighth.
Senses: glosses: A quantity of marijuana weighing one-eighth of an ounce.
Synonyms: eighth
henry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initial letter.
Senses: synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
glosses: Heroin.
tenno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛnəʊ/
rhymes: -ɛnəʊ
Forms: form: tennos
form: Tenno
form: Tennou
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 天皇(てんのう) (tennō), from Middle Chinese 天皇 (then hwang) with the original sense of “heavenly sovereign”.
Senses: glosses: The emperor of Japan as head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.
Synonyms: mikado
God Emperor
Related terms: Chrysanthemum Throne
hanja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑn.d͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈhɑn.d͡ʒɑ/
Forms: form: hanja
form: Hanja
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 한자(漢字) (hanja), from Middle Chinese 漢字 (MC xanH dziH, “Chinese character”, literally “Han Chinese + character”).
Compare Cantonese 漢字 /汉字 (hon³ zi⁶), Japanese 漢字 (kanji), Mandarin 漢字 /汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự. Doublet of kanji and Hanzi.
Senses: glosses: The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in classical literature.
glosses: Any individual Han character as used in the Korean language.
Related terms: hanjaeo
hanmun
hanzi
kanji
Hán tự
hanzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanzi
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Hanzi.
Governator
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌvɚneɪtɚ/
Etymology: Blend of governor + terminator. In his acting career, Schwarzenegger played a "Terminator" robot in the Terminator film series.
Senses: examples: text: [Title:] Vote for the Governator?
ref: 2003 June 30, “Vote for the Governator?”, in RedEye, page 40:
glosses: Nickname for Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California.
Related terms: Ahhnold
Manchu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænˈt͡ʃuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Manchus
form: Mandchou
Etymology: Borrowed from Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju), most likely from a native Proto-Tungusic word used to mean "a large river, Amur River" which is reconstructed as *Maŋgu by Benzing and *Mamgo by Hölzl. Alternatively might be from Sanskrit मञ्जुश्री (mañjuśrī, “Manjushri”).
Senses: glosses: A person belonging to or descended from the indigenous people of Manchuria.
glosses: A person belonging to the Qing Dynasty (Manchu Dynasty) of China.
Manchu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænˈt͡ʃuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Mandchou
Etymology: Borrowed from Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju), most likely from a native Proto-Tungusic word used to mean "a large river, Amur River" which is reconstructed as *Maŋgu by Benzing and *Mamgo by Hölzl. Alternatively might be from Sanskrit मञ्जुश्री (mañjuśrī, “Manjushri”).
Senses: glosses: The indigenous language of the Manchu people, spoken in Manchuria.
glosses: The Qing Dynasty (Manchu Dynasty).
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Manjuristics
Manchu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænˈt͡ʃuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Mandchou
Etymology: Borrowed from Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju), most likely from a native Proto-Tungusic word used to mean "a large river, Amur River" which is reconstructed as *Maŋgu by Benzing and *Mamgo by Hölzl. Alternatively might be from Sanskrit मञ्जुश्री (mañjuśrī, “Manjushri”).
Senses: glosses: Manchurian, referring to the Manchu(rian) people.
glosses: Manchurian, referring to the Manchu language.
Synonyms: Manchurian
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Manchu terms
urls: https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mnc
word: ISO 639-2 code mnc
alt: SIL
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https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mnc
word: mnc
eloquence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.ə.kwəns/
Forms: form: eloquences
Etymology: From Middle English eloquence, from Old French eloquence, from Latin ēloquentia. Doublet of eloquency, directly from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: speak with eloquence
text: express oneself with eloquence
text: Thy paleneſſe [var. plainness] moues me more then eloquence,
And heere chooſe I, ioy be the conſequence!
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], signature F2, recto:
synonyms: eloquency
eloquentness
glosses: The quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
synonyms: eloquency
glosses: An eloquent utterance.
Derived terms: eloquently
ineloquence
Jyutping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jut pʰɪŋ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 粵拼 /粤拼 (jyut⁶ ping³).
Senses: glosses: A romanisation system for Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK).