cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: stains
form: staining
form: stained
form: stained
Etymology: From Middle English steinen, steynen (“to stain, colour, paint”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse steina (“to stain, colour, paint”), from steinn (“stone, mineral blue, colour, stain”), from Proto-Norse ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ (stainaʀ), from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (“stone”), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”). Cognate with Old English stān (“stone”). More at stone.
Replaced native Middle English wem (“spot, blemish, stain”), from Old English wamm (“spot, stain”).
In some senses, influenced by unrelated Middle English disteynen (“to discolor, remove the colour from"; literally, "de-colour”), from Anglo-Norman desteindre (“to remove the colour from, bleach”), from Old French destaindre (“to remove the color from, bleach”), from des- (“dis-, de-, un-”) + teindre (“to dye”), from Latin tingo.
Senses: examples: to stain the hand with dye
armour stained with blood
glosses: To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
examples: text: of Honour void,
Of Innocence, of Faith, of Puritie,
Our wonted Ornaments now soild and staind
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, 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:
glosses: To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
examples: to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
the stained glass used for church windows
glosses: To coat a surface with a stain
glosses: To become stained; to take a stain.
topics: biology
cytology
histology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
examples: text: She stains the ripest virgins of her age.
ref: c. 1607–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Cupid’s Revenge”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii:
text: that did all other beasts in beauty stain
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier. […], London: […] [Thomas Orwin] for William Ponsonby, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
filth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlθ/
rhymes: -ɪlθ
Forms: form: filths
Etymology: From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.
glosses: Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
examples: text: He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.
text: Novv all theſe Precepts do not only tend to beget in us ſuch vertues and diſpoſitions, as are reaſonable and ſuitable to our nature, and every vvay for our temporal convenience and advantage; but ſuch, as do likevviſe exceedingly diſpoſe us to piety and religion, by purifying our ſouls from the droſs and filth of ſenſual delights.
ref: 1671, John Tillotson, “Phil[ippians] iij. 8.”, in Sermons Preach’d upon Several Occasions, London: […] A[nne] M[axwell] for Sa[muel] Gellibrand, […], →OCLC, pages 190–191:
glosses: Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
examples: text: I think you're scum, I think you're filth. And as far as Elaine's concerned you're to get her out of your filthy mind right now.
ref: 1963, Charles Webb, The Graduate:
text: They were filth, utter filth. I mean, and this tops it. She even bought the video of her sister dying, or at least the sex act that killed her.
ref: 2011, Jeremy Robert Hall, Summer Days:
glosses: A vile or disgusting person.
examples: text: Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Weeds growing on pasture land.
filth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlθ/
rhymes: -ɪlθ
Forms: form: the filth
Etymology: From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: We were in the middle of stashing the money when the filth arrived.
glosses: The police.
Derived terms: befilth
Filthadelphia
filthen
filthify
filthless
filthmonger
filthy
Philthadelphia
read someone for filth
read someone to filth
smut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smʌt/
ipa: /smʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: smuts
Etymology: From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz.
Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).
Senses: glosses: Soot.
examples: text: She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.
ref: 1915, Edgar Jepson, “The Reluctant Duke”, in Happy Pollyooly: The Rich Little Poor Girl, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 135:
text: “You can rely on me!” Varya said, still more earnestly and enthusiastically, still leaning heavily on the counter, noticing briefly and forgetting at once that her bare elbow had crushed a stray smut from the Primus mender's booth.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Harry Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 56:
text: “Do I have a smut on my nose, Mr. Donovan? You've been staring at me for a full minute. It's most disconcerting, you know.”
ref: 2012, Kasey Michaels, A Masquerade in the Moonlight:
glosses: A flake of ash or soot.
examples: text: It is no use to say, well, your anthrostate requires smut to be shielded, but your neighbor’s antrhostate^([sic]) says he can show anything anywhere. The neighbor’s behavior affects you, so you have to have the same rules.
ref: 2014 June 9, Hans Noel, “Polystate: A Not-So-Bad Book About a Very Bad Idea”, in Washington Monthly:
glosses: Sexually vulgar material; something that is sexual in a dirty way; pornographic material.
examples: text: He does not stand upon decency […] but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.
ref: 2025 December 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, May 25, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 39; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
glosses: Any of a range of fungi, mostly Ustilaginomycetes, that cause plant disease in grasses, including cereal crops; the disease so caused.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
glosses: A copper boiler.
Synonyms: sense: soot
word: filth
sense: sexually vulgar or pornographic material
word: filth
Derived terms: barley smut
corn smut
false loose smut
loose smut
onion smut
smut-ball
smutty
smut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smʌt/
ipa: /smʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: smuts
form: smutting
form: smutted
form: smutted
Etymology: From Middle English smutten (“to defile, debase”), related to German Schmutz (“filth, dirt, smut”) and schmutzen (“to make dirty, stain”). Doublet of schmutz.
Compare also Old English smitta (“smear; blot; mark; stain; pollution”), Old English besmītan (“to besmut; defile; dirty; pollute; contaminate”).
Senses: examples: text: it bears a very good Crop , and seldom smuts
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
text: But the Nis did not forget it to the maids; for the following Sunday when they were going to the dance, be contrived, unknown to them, to smut their faces all over, so that when they got up to dance, every one that was there burst out a laughing at them.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 231:
glosses: To stain (or be stained) with soot or other dirt.
examples: text: Mildew also falls upon Corn, and smuts it
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To taint (grain, etc.) with the smut fungus.
examples: text: It smutted to a far greater degree than the year before, say three fourths, or more. I obtained but little more than the seed sown, and that was handsome wheat. This failure I imputed to the same supposed cause which operated the last year.
ref: 1836, New England Farmer, volume 14, page 313:
glosses: To become tainted by the smut fungus.
examples: text: to smut grain for the mill
glosses: To clear of the smut fungus.
vulgar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌl.ɡə/
enpr: vŭlʹgər
ipa: /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/
rhymes: -ʌlɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vulgars
form: vulgare
Etymology: From Middle English vulgare, from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k-. Compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”), εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).
Senses: examples: text: Popular antiquarian writings […] frequently focused on the regional vulgars' superstitious beliefs regarding the dead and their ongoing presence—such as popular funeral rites or the vulgars' fear of church yards.
ref: 2016, Evan Gottlieb, Juliet Shields, Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830:
glosses: A common, ordinary person.
glosses: The common people.
examples: text: Therefore you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female: which in the common, is woman: which together, is, abandon the society of this Female, […]
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies; Published according to the True Originall Copies, London, act 5, scene 1, page 204, Internet Shakespeare Editions:
synonyms: vulgate#Noun
vernacular#Noun
glosses: The language of a people, especially the commoners.
soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: sōlʹjə
note: r
enpr: sŏlʹjə
ipa: /ˈsəʊld͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈsɒld͡ʒə/
enpr: sōlʹjər
ipa: /ˈsoʊld͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -əʊldʒə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒldʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: soldiers
form: soldiering
form: soldiered
form: soldiered
form: soldior
form: soldiour
form: souldier
form: souldior
form: souldiour
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soudeour, from Old French soudier or soudeour (“mercenary”), from Medieval Latin soldarius (“soldier (one having pay)”), from Late Latin solidus, a type of coin. Displaced Old English cempa (whence obsolete kemp).
(red herring): An allusion to soldiers' red uniforms; red herring is, reciprocally, a slang term for "soldier".
Senses: glosses: To continue steadfast; to keep striving.
glosses: To serve as a soldier.
synonyms: dog it
;
fuck the dog
glosses: To intentionally restrict labor productivity; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.
examples: text: It was the first time I had ever “soldiered” a horse. Soldiering means using a horse without the owner's leave or knowledge. Two of our lost horses we never found. Probably some one was soldiering them!
ref: 1917, Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh, After many days: being the reminiscences of Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh:
glosses: To take a ride on (another person's horse) without permission.
Synonyms: sense: work at slowest rate
word: dog it
sense: work at slowest rate
word: goldbrick
Derived terms: soldierly
Related terms: buffalo soldier
child soldier
chocolate soldier
Christian soldier
construction soldier
dog soldier
footsoldier
freshwater soldier
gallant soldier
horse soldier
junior soldier
nonsoldier
old soldier
presoldier
soldier ant
soldier bee
soldier of fortune
soldier on
toy soldier
plastic soldier
bathe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bāth
ipa: /beɪð/
note: Indic
ipa: /beð/
note: Indic
ipa: /bɑð/
rhymes: -eɪð
Forms: form: bathes
form: bathing
form: bathed
form: bathed
Etymology: From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask.
Senses: examples: text: A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 123:
glosses: To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
glosses: To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim.
examples: text: We bathe our baby before going to bed; other parents do it in the morning if they have time.
glosses: To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath.
examples: text: She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical.
text: The nurse bathed his wound with a sponge.
text: The incoming tides bathed the coral reef.
text: All subtle thought, all curious fears,
⁠Borne down by gladness so complete,
⁠She bows, she bathes the Saviour’s feet
With costly spikenard and with tears.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 51:
text: Vorpal, eupeptically bubbling greetings, bathed a sausage in a swimming plate of sauce.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 22:
glosses: To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid.
examples: text: The room was bathed in moonlight.
text: A dense fog bathed the city streets.
text: Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.
ref: 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To cover or surround.
examples: text: The women bathed in the sun.
glosses: To sunbathe.
Derived terms: word: batheable
word: bather
english: swimsuit; in parts of Australia
translation: swimsuit; in parts of Australia
word: bathers
word: bebathe
word: dustbathe
word: embathe
word: firebathe
word: forbathe
word: imbathe
word: moonbathe
word: overbathe
word: rebathe
word: sandbathe
word: starbathe
word: sunbathe
word: sunbather
Related terms: bath
bathe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bāth
ipa: /beɪð/
note: Indic
ipa: /beð/
note: Indic
ipa: /bɑð/
rhymes: -eɪð
Forms: form: bathes
Etymology: From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask.
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to have a midnight bathe tonight.
text: I do not feel disposed to ask any questions, but devote myself entirely to the Governoress, who takes me over to the bathing-house in her boat. I have had my bathe, and am strolling along the sands, waiting for the Countess.
ref: 1885, Mrs. Forrester, “Retribution”, in Although He Was a Lord and Other Tales (Collection of British Authors, Tauchnitz Edition; volume 2327), Leipzig: [Christian] Bernhard Tauchnitz, page 140:
glosses: The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath.
blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪndnəs/
rhymes: -aɪndnəs
Forms: form: blindnesses
Etymology: From Middle English blyndnes, blyndnesse, from Old English blindnes (“blindness”), equivalent to blind + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks.
ref: 1989 February 5, Judy Harris, “Untitled image caption”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 3:
glosses: The condition of being blind; unable to see.
examples: text: A tormenting hunger shuddered through her and she wished she could put aside the power. Oh, to be as others were — blind in that safest of all blindnesses, living only the hypnoidal half-life into which birth-shock precipitated most humans.
ref: 1976, Frank Herbert, Children of Dune:
glosses: Want of intellectual or moral discernment; mental darkness; ignorance, heedlessness.
glosses: concealment
Synonyms: word: ablepsy
word: blindhood
word: cecity
word: sightlessness
Coordinate terms: ageusia
anosmia
deafness
Derived terms: ad blindness
banner blindness
color-blindness
colour-blindness
colour blindness
color blindness
day blindness
day-blindness
deafblindness
deaf-blindness
domestic blindness
face blindness
fire blindness
hysterical blindness
inattentional blindness
legal blindness
letter blindness
moon blindness
motion blindness
night blindness
nose blindness
perceptual blindness
place blindness
race-blindness
river blindness
smell blindness
snow blindness
snow-blindness
stereoblindness
time-blindness
voice blindness
willful blindness
word-blindness
word blindness
dissent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛnt/
ipa: /dɪˈsɛnt/
ipa: /dəˈsɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: descent
Forms: form: dissents
form: dissenting
form: dissented
form: dissented
Etymology: From Middle English dissenten, from Latin dissentire (“to differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel”), from dis- + sentire (see sense).
Senses: examples: text: Where a trustee refuses either to assent or dissent, the Court will itself exercise his authority.
ref: 1827, Thomas Jarman, Powell's Essay on Devises, section 2.293:
text: Those who openly dissented from the acts which the King had carried through the Parliament.
ref: 1830, Isaac D'Israeli, Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, 3.9.207:
glosses: To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).
examples: text: Some are so eristical and teasty, that they will not ... bear with any that dissent.
ref: 1654, John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon the Book of Job, section 33.32:
text: Natural reason dictates, that motion ought to be assigned to the bodies, which in kind and essence most agree with those bodies which do undoubtedly move, and rest to those which most dissent from them.
ref: 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
text: If the public dissent from our views, we say that they ought to concur with us.
ref: 1871, George Grote, Fragments on Ethical Subjects, section 2.37:
glosses: To differ from, especially in opinion, beliefs, etc.
examples: text: it was wholly unlawful, in any thing to dissent from him
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To be different; to have contrary characteristics.
Synonyms: sense: disagree
word: disagree
sense: disagree
word: take exception
sense: disagree
word: refute
sense: disagree
word: reject
dissent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛnt/
ipa: /dɪˈsɛnt/
ipa: /dəˈsɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: descent
Forms: form: dissents
Etymology: From Middle English dissenten, from Latin dissentire (“to differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel”), from dis- + sentire (see sense).
Senses: examples: text: ethnopolitical dissent
text: A system that suppresses dissent is fault-intolerant, ignorant and fragile.
ref: 2013 June 28, Charles Hugh Smith, Why Centralization Leads to Collapse:
glosses: Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion.
glosses: An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority.
qualifier: Anglo-American common law
glosses: A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome of the majority of the court in that case
examples: text: City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.
ref: 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A violation that arises when disagreement with an official call is expressed in an inappropriate manner such as foul language, rude gestures, or failure to comply.
Derived terms: dissensus
dissental
dissenter
dissentious
dissentism
dissentive
Related terms: minority report
majority opinion
great-grandson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-grandsons
form: great grandson
form: greatgrandson
Etymology: From great- + grandson.
Senses: glosses: A son of a grandchild.
Hypernyms: great-grandchild
Coordinate terms: great-granddaughter
Related terms: great-great-grandson
grandson
son
wedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛdɪŋ/
homophone: wetting (flapping)
homophone: whetting (flapping, wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English wedding, weddynge, from Old English weddung (“betrothal, espousal”), equivalent to wed + -ing. Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly the Prince, accepting her largesse, sought the King to whom he had pledged his parents (and they were still with him in all weal and welfare) and going in to him made his salam and kissed ground and told him the whole tale of the past and the conditions of death or marriage he had made with the King's daughter and of his wedding her after overcoming her in contention.
ref: 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 14:
glosses: present participle and gerund of wed
wedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛdɪŋ/
homophone: wetting (flapping)
homophone: whetting (flapping, wine–whine merger)
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
Forms: form: weddings
form: weddinging
form: weddinged
form: weddinged
Etymology: Conversion of wedding (noun) to verb.
Senses: examples: text: "Snowball" was the name of this good steed, and great care had evidently been taken in her grooming to make her worthy of her name, her bridle being also gaily decked with coloured ribbons, for, as John said, when attending to these duties, "You don't go out a weddinging every day, do you, old gal?"
ref: 1905, Hubert Garle with George Morland and Percy Fairclough, A driving tour in the Isle of Wight, page 116:
text: "Where you goin' get weddinged?" she inquired one day. / "We shall be married at the Episcopal Church, Yin Yang,"
ref: 1909, Daisy E. M. F. Campbell, “Miss Yin Yang, of Shanghai”, in The New England magazine, volume 40:
text: Getting married is entirely different than getting weddinged.
ref: 1998 July 3, “NET-HAPPENINGS Digest”, in schl.news.nethappen (Usenet):
text: (In her private life this year, three of her children have been married, in quick succession, leaving her "weddinged out.")
ref: 2002, Whitney Balliett, Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954-2001, page 78:
text: It was the most opportune time; I had my agenda and she had hers, and I suspected that she and Susan would be “weddinged” out by the time they got home
ref: 2010, Edward Anchel, Lost in Vegas:
text: Wasn't he the dude she weddinged with in her "Love All Over Me" vid? Sure was. . .
ref: 2010 October 20, “Sideshow: Stop the press:...”, in Philadelphia Inquirer, The:
glosses: To participate in a wedding.
gata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatas
form: kata
form: katah
form: gatah
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian գաթա (gatʻa).
Senses: glosses: A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.
gata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatas
Senses: glosses: A police officer.
anima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænɪmə/
ipa: /ˈænəmə/
Forms: form: animas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin anima (“a current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, soul”), sometimes equivalent to animus (“mind”), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”); see animus. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”), Old English anda (“anger, envy, zeal”). More at onde.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e cannot chuse but admire the exceeding vividness of the governing faculty or Anima of the Insect, which is able to dispose and regulate so the motive faculties, as to cause every peculiar organ, not onely to move or act so quick, but to do it also so regularly.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXVIII:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
examples: text: In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31:
text: Dorothy is bodiless and sexless in Tintern Abbey because she is Wordsworth's Jungian anima, an internal aspect of self momentarily projected.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
qualifier: Jungian psychology
glosses: The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.
examples: The projection-making factor is the anima, or rather the unconscious as represented by the anima.
qualifier: Jungian psychology
glosses: The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.
Related terms: animal
animate
animus
dominus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɒmɪnəs/
Forms: form: domini
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dominus (“master”). Doublet of dan, dom, domine, dominie, and don.
Senses: examples: text: The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
ref: January 1848, The New Sporting Magazine, volume 15, page 23:
glosses: master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor, castle or an academic master
Derived terms: dominicide
Related terms: domina
don
donzel
cede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːd/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: sede
homophone: seed
Forms: form: cedes
form: ceding
form: ceded
form: ceded
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin cēdō (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyesdʰ- (“to drive away; to go away”). Cognate with Tocharian B kätk- (“to cross, pass”).
Senses: examples: text: Edward decided to cede the province.
text: In the late nineteenth century, the Chinese ceded Taiwan to the Japanese.
ref: 2005, Jesse Helms, “Foreign Relations Experiences”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 227:
info_templates: extra_data: words: to
expansion: [with to]
glosses: To give up; yield to another.
examples: text: After figuring out the seating arrangement and ceding him the window seat, I took my own seat by the aisle.
info_templates: extra_data: words: to
expansion: [with to]
expansion: [with dative]
glosses: To give up; yield to another.
Same as above.
synonyms: word: above
glosses: To give way.
Derived terms: cede the field
retrocede
unceded
Related terms: accede
antecedent
cession
concede
excede
exceed
intercede
precede
proceed
recede
secede
succeed
supercede
supersede
chillun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪl.ən/
rhymes: -ɪlən
Senses: examples: text: [Pogo, to kids:] All right, chillun! The Sunday school lesson is on page 4.
ref: 1960 April 3, Walt Kelly, Pogo, Sunday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 280:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of children (plural of chile (“child”)), representing Southern US and African-American Vernacular English
Related terms: chirren
well done
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well done
form: most well done
form: well-done
Senses: examples: text: It was a job well done.
text: "We've never looked on the Borders Railway as it stands as a job well done. It's part one of a job well done."
ref: 2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 52:
text: They survived a poor second half in Italy and a drab first half-hour here but the end results certainly count as a job well done.
ref: 2023 March 26, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Performed well.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Well-cooked.
examples: text: She liked her steaks well done.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Well-cooked.
Cooked through to the center.
raw_tags: of meat
Coordinate terms: sense: of cooked meat
word: medium well
sense: of cooked meat
word: medium
sense: of cooked meat
word: pink
sense: of cooked meat
word: medium rare
sense: of cooked meat
word: rare
sense: of cooked meat
word: bloody
sense: of cooked meat
word: raw
sense: of cooked meat
word: underdone
well done
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: well-done
Senses: examples: Well done, John. Here's a biscuit for you.
glosses: An exclamation of praise or endorsement of an achievement.
Synonyms: sense: exclamation of praise
word: bravo
word: encore
word: well done
word: bravissimo
word: bully
word: cock on
word: congrats
word: congratulations
word: fair fucks
word: full marks
word: get you
word: good for someone
word: good for you
word: good going
word: good job
word: good on you
word: good show
word: good work
word: hats off
word: hon
word: hoorah
word: hooray
word: hurrah
word: hurray
word: huzza
word: huzzah
word: jolly good show
word: keep it up
word: kudos
word: mazal tov
word: mazel tov
word: nice one
word: proper job
word: right on
word: shabash
word: there you go
word: way to go
word: well said
Hyponyms: word: brava
word: brave
word: bravi
word: come on
Related terms: word: applause
raise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāz
ipa: /ɹeɪz/
homophone: rase
homophone: rays
homophone: raze
homophone: rehs
homophone: réis
homophone: res
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: raises
Etymology: From Middle English reysen, raisen, reisen, from Old Norse reisa (“to raise”), from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną, *raizijaną (“to raise”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to rise, arise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to stir, rise”).
Cognate with Old English rāsian (“to explore, examine, research”), Old English rīsan (“to seize, carry off”), Old English rǣran (“to raise”). Doublet of rear.
Senses: examples: text: The boss gave me a raise.
glosses: Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A bet that increases the previous bet.
examples: 1944 United States. Bureau of Mines • War Minerals Report 386. Google books
It was necessary to spile through the vug, as it was filled with mud. A raise was driven 55 feet to the surface in this vug for ventilation, and it was completed just as the demand for optical calcite ceased. The underground drifts were left well timbered, and mining of this deposit could be started with very little preliminary work.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
Synonyms: sense: increase in wages or salary
word: rise
sense: increase in wages or salary
word: pay rise
Derived terms: calf raise
check-raise
draw raise
knee raise
lateral raise
leg raise
reraise
side raise
value raise
raise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rāz
ipa: /ɹeɪz/
homophone: rase
homophone: rays
homophone: raze
homophone: rehs
homophone: réis
homophone: res
rhymes: -eɪz
Forms: form: raises
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse hreysi; the spelling came about under the influence of the folk etymology that derived it from the verb.
Senses: glosses: A cairn or pile of stones.
fold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊld/
ipa: [ˈfɔʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: [ˈfɒʊ(ɫ)d]
enpr: fōld
ipa: /foʊld/
ipa: /fəʉld/
ipa: [fəʉɫd]
ipa: /faʉld/
ipa: [faʉɫd]
homophone: foaled
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: folds
form: folding
form: folded
form: folded
Etymology: The noun is from Middle English fold, fald, from Old English fald, falæd, falod (“fold, stall, stable, cattle-pen”), from Proto-West Germanic *falud, from Proto-Germanic *faludaz (“enclosure”).
Akin to Scots fald, fauld (“an enclosure for livestock”), Dutch vaalt (“dung heap”), Middle Low German valt, vālt (“an inclosed space, a yard”), Danish fold (“pen for herbivorous livestock”), Swedish fålla (“corral, pen, pound”).
The verb is from Late Middle English fooldyn, itself derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The star that bids the shepherd fold,
Now the top of heaven doth hold.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: On the same day [Midsummer Eve] people in the Isle of Man were wont to light fires to the windward of every field, so that the smoke might pass over the corn; and they folded their cattle and carried blazing furze or gorse round them several times.
ref: 1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 289:
glosses: To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
glosses: To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
glosses: To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
Derived terms: unfold
fold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊld/
ipa: [ˈfɔʊ(ɫ)d]
ipa: [ˈfɒʊ(ɫ)d]
enpr: fōld
ipa: /foʊld/
ipa: /fəʉld/
ipa: [fəʉɫd]
ipa: /faʉld/
ipa: [faʉɫd]
homophone: foaled
rhymes: -əʊld
Etymology: From Middle English folde, from Old English folde (“earth, land, country, district, region, territory, ground, soil, clay”), from Proto-Germanic *fuldǭ, *fuldō (“earth, ground; field; the world”). Cognate with Old Norse fold (“earth, land, field”), Norwegian and Icelandic fold (“land, earth, meadow”).
Senses: glosses: The Earth; earth; land, country.
jade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: jades
Etymology: Borrowed from French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'éjade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”). (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.)
Senses: examples: text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
synonyms: jadestone
jade stone
yu
jade-stone
glosses: A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
synonyms: jade green
glosses: A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
synonyms: jade plant
lucky plant
money plant
money tree
glosses: A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.
Derived terms: bejade
Caledon jade green
dwarf jade
golden jade
hard jade
imperial jade
Jade City
jade egg
jade gate
jade green
jadeite
jadelike
jade plant
jadesheen
jade stalk
jade vine
jadeware
jadish
jadite
jady
new jade
nonjade
pseudojade
red jade
soft jade
vat jade green
vesuvianite jade
Vesuvian jade
Related terms: agate
californite
greenstone
nephrite
quartz
serpentine
yulan
jade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Etymology: Borrowed from French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'éjade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”). (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.)
Senses: glosses: Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
jade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: jades
form: jading
form: jaded
form: jaded
Etymology: From Middle English jade, chade, either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (elde) or Erzya эльде (elde). See yaud for more.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Mind once jaded by an attempt above its Power, it either is diſabl'd for the future, or elſe checks at any vigorous Undertaking ever after, at leaſt is very hardly brought to exert its Force again on any Subject that requires Thought and Meditation.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC, § 27, page 84:
synonyms: word: beleaguer
word: exhaust
word: fatigue
word: fordo
word: do for
word: gas out
word: get down
word: jade
word: knock up
word: poop
word: run someone ragged
word: tire
word: tire out
word: wear
word: wear down
word: wear out
word: weary
glosses: To fatigue, tire, or weary (someone or something).
examples: text: The nere-yet beaten Horſe of Parthia, / We haue iaded out o'th' Field.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 352, column 1:
glosses: To treat (someone or something) like a jade; to spurn.
examples: text: I do not now foole my ſelfe, to let imagination iade mee; for euery reaſon excites to this, that my Lady loues me.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v], page 264, column 1:
glosses: To make (someone or something) contemptible and ridiculous.
Derived terms: jaded
gong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒŋ/
ipa: /ɡɔŋ/
ipa: /ɡɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: gong ]
form: gongs
Etymology: From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
examples: text: This grooming of the national mindset explains the retention of 92 "hereditary peers" in the House of Lords: individuals who are gifted a right to sit in the nation's upper chamber and facilitate laws for no other reason than that their ancestor was the illegitimate child of some prince, or willing to spaff a few quid on the title when David Lloyd Gorge was selling of gongs for bribes.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 114:
glosses: A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor..
glosses: A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.
Derived terms: gong bath
gonglike
gongman
gong show
gongster
nipple gong
slit-gong
sprinkler gong
gong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒŋ/
ipa: /ɡɔŋ/
ipa: /ɡɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: gongs
form: gonging
form: gonged
form: gonged
Etymology: From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake!
ref: 1903, H. G. Wells, The Truth About Pyecraft:
glosses: To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
examples: text: As she was gonged, host Daryl Somers swept rapidly across and salvaged an embarrassing situation by putting his arm around her and asking her whether she had children.
ref: 1996, Stephanie Holt, Maryanne Lynch, Motherlode:
glosses: To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
To halt (originally, a contestant in a talent show; later, a performer, a speaker).
examples: text: The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop.
glosses: To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
To warn.
examples: text: In 1972 he was awarded the British Red Cross Silver Medal for his services to the Red Cross. In 1978 he was 'gonged' once again, this time with the Queen's Jubilee Medal, marking the 25th year of her reign.
ref: 1997, Peter Stone, The Lady and the President, page 147:
glosses: To give an award or medal to.
gong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒŋ/
ipa: /ɡɔŋ/
ipa: /ɡɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: gongs
form: gang
form: gonge
form: goonge
form: goung
form: gounge
form: gung
form: gunge
Etymology: From Middle English gong, from Old English gong, where it was originally a variant of the noun gang (“a going, walk, journey, way, etc.”), derived from the verb gangan (“to go, walk, travel”), whose relation to go in Proto-Germanic remains unclear. Doublet of gang.
Senses: examples: text: The Iewe of Tewkysbury which fell into a Gonge vpon the Satyrday.
ref: a. 1513, Robert Fabyan, New Cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, volume II, page xxxii:
text: A stately Toye, a preciows peece of pellfe,
A gorgeous gong, a worthles painted wall...
ref: a. 1577, George Gascoigne, Grief of Joye, Vol. II, § lxii:
glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
glosses: The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.
Synonyms: sense: outhouse
word: gonghouse
word: outhouse
sense: feces
word: feces
Derived terms: sense: gong
word: gong farmer
sense: gong
word: gong-farmer
sense: gong
word: gong-fayer
sense: gong
word: gong-fower
sense: gong
word: gong-hole
sense: gong
word: gong-house
sense: gong
word: gong-man
sense: gong
word: gongpit
sense: gong
word: gong-pit
sense: gong
word: gong scourer
sense: gong
word: gong-thurl
gong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒŋ/
ipa: /ɡɔŋ/
ipa: /ɡɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Etymology: From Mandarin 功 (gōng, “merit; achievement”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
glosses: An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "gong"
word: gong bao
sense: etymologically unrelated terms containing "gong"
word: qi gong
digital camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital cameras
Senses: examples: text: The good thing about digital cameras and digital backs is that they allow you to change ISO in the middle of shooting. You can't do that with film.
ref: 2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: An electronic, often battery-powered device for recording and storing photographs in digital format, especially on a flash card.
Derived terms: digital still camera
consolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɒn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: consolations
Etymology: From Old French consolacion (French consolatio), from Latin cōnsōlātiō, from the deponent verb cōnsōlor (“I console, encourage”) with the -tiō suffix, while cōnsōlor comprises the intensifying prefix con- with the deponent verb sōlor (“I comfort, console”). Equivalent to console + -ation. Doublet of consolatio.
Senses: examples: text: Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in all true chriſten people, aloue to continue in this vnitie, and afeare to be caſte out of the ſame, and it worketh in them that be ſinners and repentant, great comforte, and conſolacion, to obteine remiſſion of ſinne, by vertue of Chriſtes paſſion, and adminiſtracion of his ſacramentes at the miniſters handes, ordained for that purpoſe, [...]
ref: 1543 June 8, Henry VIII of England, “The Nynthe Article. The Holy Catholike Churche.”, in A Necessary Doctrine and Erudicion for Any Chrysten Man, Set furth by the Kynges Maiestye of Englande, &c., imprinted at London: […] by Thomas Berthelet, […], →OCLC:
text: [I]f Charles is undone, He'll find half his Acquaintance ruin'd too, and that, you know, is a consolation—
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:
synonyms: relief
solace
glosses: The act or example of consoling; the condition of being consoled.
glosses: The prize or benefit for the loser.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A consolation goal.
Synonyms: word: alleviation
word: comfort
word: consolation
word: ease
word: liss
word: release
word: relief
word: respite
word: solace
Hypernyms: word: cessation
word: easement
word: easing
word: mitigation
word: support
word: compassion
Derived terms: consolational
consolation final
consolation goal
consolation prize
Dutch consolation
self-consolation
Related terms: solace