cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
standing ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standing grounds
Senses: examples: text: In opposing them we shall proceed […] on that firm standing-ground which all our truly great Divines have marked out, of adherence to the principles of the Ancient Church.
ref: 1848, William Hodge Mill, Five Sermons on the Nature of Christianity, section 2:
text: Those provinces of masculine knowledge seemed to her a standing-ground from which all truth could be seen more truly.
ref: 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 7:
glosses: A place on which someone or something can stand firmly, especially in order to fight a contest or to take a secure view of something; a secure foundation.
Callicoon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Sullivan County, New York, United States.
glosses: A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Delaware, Sullivan County, New York.
Garden Valley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Boise County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A community in Smith County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
oversanitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Excessive sanitization.
princex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: princexes
Etymology: From prince(ss) + -x.
Senses: examples: text: Do you want to be a Princess, Prince, or Princex of Pride?
ref: 2019, Rayceen Pendarvis, "Empress of Pride", The Unleashed Voice Magazine, July/August 2019, page 19
text: The Disney Princex Drag Brunch is today from noon-3.p.m. […]
ref: 2020 February 21, “Calendar”, in Washington Blade, page 29:
text: Another pair of feet treads the stairs - a striking Goblin Princex. The glittering green gems that stud their tiara contrast with their raven hair and coffee complexion. They possess a sultry allure, and my breath catches in the back of my throat.
"I am the Princex Kyler," they say.
ref: 2022, J. Scott Coatsworth, Clarity, unnumbered page:
glosses: A genderless or non-binary prince; a prince whose gender is unknown.
Parisianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Parisianizes
form: Parisianizing
form: Parisianized
form: Parisianized
Senses: glosses: To make Parisian.
Parisianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Parisianize
Parisianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Parisianize
Parisianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Parisianize
Parisianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of making Parisian.
shaved female genitalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Latinxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latinx
Plant City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after railroad developer Henry B. Plant
Senses: glosses: A city in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.
wikipedia: Henry B. Plant
pączkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pączki
Ryland Heights
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States.
Cozaddale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cozad + dale, after John J. Cozad, who platted it.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Hamilton Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States.
ʿIrāq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: One only has to study the ancient historians: all their anecdotes come from ʿIrāq, which also became the decisive area for the state finances.
ref: 2012, Fred McGraw Donner, Lawrence I. Conrad, editors, The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World), Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN:
text: And Bakr—all ʿIrāq’s broad plain is theirs: but if so they will, a shield comes to guard their homes from lofty Yamāmah’s dales.
ref: 2015, Harry Munt, with contributions from Touraj Daryaee, Omar Edaibat, Robert Hoyland, and Isabel Toral-Niehoff, “Arabic and Persian Sources for Pre-Islamic Arabia”, in Greg Fisher, editor, Arabs and Empires before Islam, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 483:
text: In order to keep the support of their new and powerful Persian constituency—on whose backs the Abbasids had come to power—the caliph Manṣūr (considered the founder of the Abbasid state and builder of Baghdad) promoted the thinking that “the ʿAbbāsid dynasty, in addition to being the descendants of the Prophet and hence satisfying the demands of both Sunnī and Shīʿī Muslims, was at the same time the successor of the ancient imperial dynasties in ʿIrāq and Iran, from the Babylonians through the Sasanians, their immediate predecessors.[…]”
ref: 2016, Karen C. Pinto, Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Rare form of Iraq.
Parisianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Parisianisms
Etymology: From Parisian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Parisianism is an intellectual grace as well, and not far removed from a moral quality. It sparkles in the wit which has given the French playwright the sceptre of the European stage from Moliére to Meilhac; […]
ref: 2013, Rowland Strong, Sensations in Paris, page 75:
glosses: Behaviours or attitudes typical of Paris, France.
glosses: A behaviour or utterance that is typical of Paris.
Parisianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Parisianism
parisyllabical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parisyllabic.
cyberflânerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + flânerie.
Senses: examples: text: Cyberflânerie can be seen to represent ideas that are more specific to the medium as such and thus reach further in their utopian longing.
ref: 2004, Maren Hartmann, “Conclusion: the death of technotopias”, in Technologies and Utopias: The Cyberflaneur and the Experience of ‘Being Online’, Verlag Reinhard Fischer, →ISBN, section “User types summary”, page 269:
text: Still, the fact that Brown’s coming-of-age geekness is facilitated in a substratum of a mainstream ISP (Internet Service Provider) underscores my notion of black cyberflanerie and strategic invisibility.
ref: 2009, Anna Everett, “The Revolution Will Be Digitized: Reimaging Africanity in Cyberspace”, in Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 172:
text: The gleeful escape from the city encoded in celebrations of cyberflânerie is equally a feature of the hyper-realisation of urban space which largely depends on representations designed for and perpetuated by ICTs.
ref: 2018, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space, Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., →ISBN, page 89:
text: Cyberflânerie and rag-picking come to mind in Bleeding Edge (2013), where Maxine Tarnow draws on the figure of the bag lady, the crazy woman who rescues the broken and the obsolete from complete destruction, gazing downward instead of upward and scavenging for products cast out in the street.
ref: 2022, Bastien Méresse, ““She Had Only to Drift Tonight”: Drifting as Dissent in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49”, in Marie Bouchet, Nathalie Cochoy, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Mathilde Rogez, editors, The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, →ISBN, part II (Nowhere Land?), page 159:
glosses: The use of the internet as a social hangout.
Related terms: cyberflâneur
banakite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banakites
Etymology: From Bannock + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of trachyandesite
Haydenville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Hayden + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Bear Valley, Mariposa County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Arena Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Green Township, Hocking County, Ohio.
parochialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act or process of parochializing.
coelopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coelopterans
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the Coeloptera genus of moths.
parodistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more parodistically
form: most parodistically
Etymology: From parodistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a parodistic manner.
paroemiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paroemiologists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paremiologist.
paroemiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paroemiologist
parricidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parricide (“killing of a relative or ruler”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of parricide.
parrothood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parrot + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a parrot.
parrotwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From parrot + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In parrot fashion; with thoughtless repetition.
smorrebrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smorrebrod
form: smorrebrods
Senses: examples: text: Three or four small smorrebrods per person are a real appetite creator.
ref: 1965, Home Economics and Domestic Subjects Review, page 32:
text: With “good honest bread” as the base, the smorrebrod are an artistic triumph which delight connoisseurs.
ref: 1970, Volume Feeding Institutions, page 140:
text: Smorrebrod are not delicate tea sandwiches, but meals in themselves.
ref: 1976, Foods with an International Flavor: A 4-H Food-Nutrition Project, Leaders’ Guide, National 4-H Service Committee, Inc., in behalf of the Cooperative Extension Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and the State Land-Grant Universities, page 7:
text: The Scandinavian restaurant Aquavit in New York has seven artful smorrebrods on its menu.
ref: 1988, The New York Times Magazine, page 79:
text: The smorrebrod are exquisite and different from any you will find elsewhere.
ref: 1993, Fielding’s Scandinavia, Fielding Travel Books, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Smorrebrods are a traditional Saturday night dinner in much of Scandinavia.
ref: 2010, Barbara Sheen, Foods of Scandinavia, Kidhaven Press, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Alternative spelling of smørrebrød.
smorrebrods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smorrebrod
parrotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parrot + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of repeating parrot fashion.
parsonhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parson + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of parsonship.
synonyms: word: parsonship
parsonly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parsonly
form: most parsonly
Etymology: From parson + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Of parsons; befitting a parson.
dead internet theory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dead Internet theory
Senses: examples: text: Obviously, the internet is not a government psyop, even though the Department of Defense had a role in its invention. But if it were, the most compelling evidence to me is the dead-internet theory's observation that the same news items about unusual moon-related events seem to repeat year after year.
ref: 2021 August 31, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet 'Died' Five Years Ago”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2023:
text: The Dead Internet theory never said that humans do not have accounts. It made an entirely different point: that most accounts are bot accounts.
ref: 2022, David Sinclair, The Church of the Serpent: The Philosophy of the Snake and Attaining Transcendent Knowledge, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN:
text: He told me about the dead internet theory, and about how some German hackers in 2016 found out that only 3% of humans get 90% of all internet traffic.
ref: 2022, Thorsten J. Pattberg, The Menticide Manual: How To Destroy The Mind, New York, N.Y.: LoD Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: And not only does Dead Internet Theory suggest that the internet is slowly being controlled by bots, but also that it learns your habits and thoughts, tailoring an echo chamber for you. It could even include reactionary bots to craft a digital world of opposing opinions.
ref: 2022 September 24, Isaiah McCall, “"The Dead Internet Theory" is New and Spreading Everywhere”, in Medium, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2022:
text: Dead internet theory posits that this automated sphere of zombie activity has begun to spill over into the layer of digital discourse that's meant to be occupied by real people.
ref: 2025 April 19, Jacob Silverman, “Welcome to Slop World”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 16:
glosses: A conspiracy theory claiming that the vast majority of content that people interact with on the Internet has been produced by bots rather than actual humans.
parsonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parsonships
Etymology: From parson + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: parsonhood
coordinate_terms: curateship
curacy
rectorship
vicarship
priestship
priesthood
glosses: The role, status, or office of a parson.
Related terms: parsonage
benefice
curatage
glebe
glebe-farm
glebe-house
rectorate
rectory
vicarage
vicarate
parsonships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parsonship
parterred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From parterre + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a parterred garden
glosses: Having a parterre.
partialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more partialistic
form: most partialistic
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to partialism.
participatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From participating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to participate.
participatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more participatively
form: most participatively
Etymology: From participative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a participative manner.
somatic cell nuclear transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatic cell nuclear transfers
Senses: glosses: technique used in genetic engineering in which a donor nucleus from a somatic cell is implanted into an enucleated oocyte (egg cell) to achieve cloning (either reproductive or therapeutic)
Synonyms: word: SCNT
participability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being participable.
participatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: participatresses
Etymology: From participator + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female participant.
participatresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of participatress
participiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being participial.
particularistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more particularistically
form: most particularistically
Etymology: From particularistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a particularistic manner.
partisanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: partisanizes
form: partisanizing
form: partisanized
form: partisanized
Etymology: From partisan + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make partisan.
partisanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of partisanize
partisanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of partisanize
partisanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of partisanize
partisanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of partisanizing.
partitionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of partitional (“relating to partitions”).
synonyms: word: partitional
extra: relating to partitions
parturience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being parturient; labour leading to childbirth.
partyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partyists
Etymology: From party + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who is devoted to a party or faction.
partyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partyist
parvenudom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parvenu + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The realm or sphere of parvenus.
parviflorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having small flowers.
parvifolious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having small leaves.
Gounders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gounder
Nelsonville
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname Nelson + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former settlement in Augusta Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former community in South Arm Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Philipstown, Putnam County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in York Township, Athens County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Portage County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
Cape Coral
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: cape + coral
Senses: glosses: A city in Lee County, Florida, United States, on the west coast of Florida peninsula, on the Gulf of Mexico.
Synonyms: english: Cape Coral; a clipping of often used by the city's locals
translation: Cape Coral; a clipping of often used by the city's locals
word: the Cape
pashaship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pashaships
Etymology: From pasha + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or status of a pasha.
pashaships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pashaship
passionfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more passionfully
form: most passionfully
Etymology: From passionful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a passionful manner.
pseudodentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudodentaries
Senses: topics: biology
herpetology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In caecilians, the front tooth-bearing part of the jawbone.
pseudoangular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoangulars
Senses: topics: biology
herpetology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: In caecilians, the rear toothless part of the jawbone.
herpelids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herpelid
herpelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herpelids
Senses: topics: biology
herpetology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Herpelidae family of amphibians
Soulsborne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: SoulsBorne
form: soulsborne
Etymology: Blend of souls + bloodborne, after the Dark Souls trilogy and Bloodborne.
Senses: examples: text: As the director of each of the Soulsborne games, Miyazaki is a strong influence on all aspects of the final product, including visual design, gameplay, and narrative content.
ref: 2019, “Introduction”, in Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, editor, Narrative Design and Authorship in Bloodborne: An Analysis of the Horror Videogame, page 4:
text: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was created by FromSoftware, the developers behind the Soulsborne titles.
ref: 2020, James Palmer, "Why did UK games sales drop in 2019?", The Boar (University of Warwick), 13 February 2022, page 32
text: Sure, “Death's Door” does little to hide its love for both the Zelda and Soulsborne franchises, cramming in dense lore to creepy dungeons filled with puzzles and enemies galore, but it manages to take the best part of these series and form something wholly unique.
ref: 2021 July 29, M. Deitz, “Fighting against your death in 'Death's Door'”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 9:
topics: lifestyle
video-games
glosses: A loose series of dark fantasy action role-playing video games developed by FromSoftware, generally held as including Demon's Souls (2009), the Dark Souls trilogy (2011-2016), Bloodborne (2015), and Elden Ring (2022).
Soulsborne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Soulsbornes
form: SoulsBorne
form: soulsborne
Etymology: Blend of souls + bloodborne, after the Dark Souls trilogy and Bloodborne.
Senses: examples: text: Because FromSoftware's Demon's Souls is the granddaddy of the soulsborne genre, and one of the PlayStation 3's overlooked classics.
ref: 2020 October, “Have Your Say: Demon's Soul”, in PlayStation Official Magazine, page 27:
text: “Blasphemous” is a masterfully crafted game that would entice hardcore fans of Soulsborne and Metroidvania games.
ref: 2022, Gabrielle Cabello Torres, "From The International: Video Games From Different Cultures", Mace & Crown (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA), Spring 2022, page 36
text: The Soulsborne formula has been imitated countless times but mastered by few apart from FromSoftware, the original pioneers.
ref: 2022 December 29, Cameron Rasmusson, “Elden Ring recaptures magic of video game discovery”, in Reader, page 17:
topics: lifestyle
video-games
synonyms: Soulslike
glosses: A video game subgenre influenced by this series, characterized by high difficulty, trial-and-error progression, esoteric enemy movesets, environmental storytelling, and complex lore.
examples: text: Do you have room for another Soulsborne in your life?
ref: 2018, "Team Ninja's Nioh 2 is back for more", PlayStation Official Magazine (UK), August 2018, page 11 (image caption)
text: Diagrammatics allows us to properly think about how something like a “soulsborne” can be created: It is a set of mechanics, modes of storytelling, and player expectations that branch out and proliferate from the original object.
ref: 2020, Cameron Kunzelman, "How we deal with dark souls: The aesthetic category as a method", in Hybrid Play: Crossing Boundaries in Game Design, Players Identities and Play Spaces (eds. Adriana de Souza e Silva & Ragan Glover-Rijkse), unnumbered page
text: Lee confirms it offers the challenge of a soulsborne but with a greater level of flexibility in how you approach that challenge.
ref: 2020 December, “Godfall”, in PlayStation Official Magazine, UK, page 56:
topics: lifestyle
video-games
glosses: An individual game of this genre.
Falklands fritillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Falklands fritillary
45th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of forty-fifth.
46th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The number 86 has also been used by Republicans calling for the impeachment of Joe Biden – for example, T-shirts sold on Amazon reading “8646”, indicating a call to impeach Biden (the 46th president) – with some liberals accusing the right of deliberately misunderstanding Comey’s intent to score political points.
ref: 2025 May 16, Edward Helmore, “What does ‘8647’ really mean? Not what Trump’s supporters are saying”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Abbreviation of forty-sixth.
esthetic information
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aesthetic information.
47th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: (The number 47 could be understood to indicate Trump, the 47th president.)
ref: 2025 May 16, Edward Helmore, “What does ‘8647’ really mean? Not what Trump’s supporters are saying”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Abbreviation of forty-seventh.
48th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of forty-eighth.
49th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of forty-ninth.
50th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fiftieth.
51st
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fifty-first.
52nd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fifty-second.
53rd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fifty-third.
54th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fifty-fourth.
55th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fifty-fifth.
56th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fifty-sixth.
57th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The facility’s name is a nod to Landry, the state’s 57th governor, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security told CNN.
ref: 2025 September 3, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devon M. Sayers, “Trump administration to open new ICE facility at notorious Louisiana prison”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of fifty-seventh.
58th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fifty-eighth.
59th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of fifty-ninth.
60th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixtieth.
61st
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixty-first.
62nd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixty-second.
63rd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixty-third.
64th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixty-fourth.
cobra capella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobra capellas
Senses: examples: text: When a Hindoo has killed or ill-treated an ape, a bird of prey of a certain kind, or a cobra capella, in the presence of the worshippers of Vishnu, he must expiate his offence by the pretended sacrifice and resurrection of a human being.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 1, page 253:
glosses: cobra de capello
65th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixty-fifth.
66th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixty-sixth.
67th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixty-seventh.
68th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixty-eighth.
69th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sixty-ninth.
70th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of seventieth.
71st
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of seventy-first.
72nd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Romania has been downgraded to a "hybrid regime" in the 2024 Democracy Index published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on Thursday, February 27. Its score dropped from 6.45 to 5.99, pushing it out of the "flawed democracy" category and down 12 places to rank 72nd globally, between Moldova and Papua New Guinea, Agerpres reported.
ref: 2025 February 28, Irina Marica, “Romania downgraded to 'hybrid regime' in new democracy index”, in Romania Insider:
glosses: Abbreviation of seventy-second.
73rd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of seventy-third.
74th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of seventy-fourth.
75th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of seventy-fifth.
Truck-kun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From truck + -kun.
Senses: examples: text: What if I was walking across the street when I was summoned, only to be dropped back in front of a speeding truck. Lots of dodgy stories start with Truck-kun, and I don't want mine to end with it.
ref: 2022, Dean Henegar, “The Summoned Life”, in Legendary LitRPG: An All Genres LitRPG Anthology, unnumbered page:
text: While Truck-kun does cause one form of ending—the character is dead in their original world—it's an integral part of the main character's transportation to a new world, one where they can explore, learn, and grow.
ref: 2022, Natasha Yglesias, Anime Tarot Deck and Guidebook: Explore the Archetypes, Symbolism, and Magic in Anime, page 29:
text: So I figure I might as well chuck a "Truck-kun" into my own story too! Gotta get in while the getting's good!!
ref: 2023, Shizuki Fujisawa, translated by Cerridwyn Graffham, The Transcendent One-Sided Love of Yoshida the Catch, volume 3, unnumbered page:
topics: fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
glosses: In the isekai genre, a truck that sets off the plot by hitting the protagonist, transporting them into the fantastical setting (typically by killing them in the real world).
76th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of seventy-sixth.
77th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of seventy-seventh.
78th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of seventy-eighth.
79th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of seventy-ninth.
80th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eightieth.
81st
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighty-first.
82nd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighty-second.
83rd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighty-third.
84th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighty-fourth.
85th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighty-fifth.
86th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighty-sixth.
87th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighty-seventh.
88th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighty-eighth.
89th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of eighty-ninth.
90th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninetieth.
91st
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninety-first.
92nd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninety-second.
arrierepensee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arrière-pensée.
arrièrepensée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arrière-pensée.
93rd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninety-third.
94th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninety-fourth.
95th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninety-fifth.
96th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninety-sixth.
97th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninety-seventh.
dingir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dingir
form: dingirs
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒀭 (dig̃ir, “god”).
Senses: examples: text: Whether we deal with the Indian Rishis or Pitris; with the Chinese Chim-nang and Tchan-gy—their “Divine Man” and Demi-gods; with the Akkadian Dingir and Mul-lil—the Creative God and the “Gods of the Ghost-world”; with the Egyptian Isis-Osiris and Thot; with the Hebrew Elohim; or again with Manco-Capac and his Peruvian progeny—the story varies nowhere.
ref: 1893, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, page 382:
text: They believed that Nannar, the Dingir of the Moon, was moving it, and had put it there for them to count their time by, and they were grateful to him. They also believed that Ur was his special city, and that he looked after them and protected them from the dingirs of all the other cities that lay between the two rivers.
ref: 1964, J. G. Fyson, The Three Brothers of Ur, pages 29-30:
text: So begins his bewildering journey through the land of the mountain Dingirs
ref: 1965, The Junior Bookshelf, volume 29, page 360:
text: The first is Enlil the dingir of dingir, who rules over all from the holy city of Nippur. [...] And seventh is Inanna, the dingir of love and the guardian of the city of Uruk.
ref: 1998, William E. McCommons, The Foundings, page 52:
text: They were far below the bottom-most landing stage and the Dingir were ascending fast.
ref: 2016, Manly Banister, The 7th Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK, page 723:
glosses: Any Sumerian deity.
98th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninety-eighth.
beclammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beclam
beclams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beclam
99th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ninety-ninth.
predirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predirectionals
Etymology: From pre- + directional.
Senses: glosses: The cardinal or ordinal direction preceding a street name in some grid-based address systems.
Coordinate terms: postdirectional
postdirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postdirectionals
Etymology: From post- + directional.
Senses: glosses: The cardinal or ordinal direction following a street name in some grid-based address systems.
Coordinate terms: predirectional
hUTCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of human umbilical tissue derived cells.
junk fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk fees
Senses: glosses: A fee that is not disclosed openly until the time of payment.
Related terms: amenity fee
junk bond
resort fee
service fee
retusoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of spores) having obvious contact areas surrounded by a line called a curvatura.
raising sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raising sims
Senses: examples: text: Thankfully, it was fan-translated in 2001, and should be familiar enough even for those who've never dabbled in raising sims.
ref: 2011 June, “Wonder Project J”, in Retro Gamer, number 91, page 59:
text: The long-running Princess Maker series is a good example of a raising sim, requiring the character to raise a daughter to become a princess.
ref: 2021, Matt Barnes, Dazz Brown, Greg S-C, Region Locked: The Key To Gaming's Buried Treasure, page 208:
text: Those who play these Raising sims are responsible for characters’ clothing, as well as their battle training.
ref: 2021, Selen Çalık Bedir, “Combinatory Play and Infinite Replay: Underdefined Causality in the Neon Genesis Evangelion Anime Series and Games”, in Jose Andres Santiago Iglesias, Soler Baena, editors, Anime Studies: Media-Specific Approaches to Neon Genesis Evangelion, page 316:
topics: video-games
glosses: A life simulation game in which the player acts as the custodian of a subordinate non-player character (typically a child, student, pet, etc.) and manages and develops this character's stats with the goal of achieving a specific outcome.
life simulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life simulations
Senses: examples: text: Activision's Autumn titles were up and running, and some Winter games were previewed, including Alter Ego, a "life simulation" game, and Fast Tracks, a slot car racing program.
ref: 1985 November, Chris Jenkins, “PCW Show: promises, promises!”, in Commodore Horizons, page 10:
text: Life simulations and dating games also influenced Yasuhiro Wada, the designer of the gentile farming sim series Harvest Moon, which first appeared in 1996 on the Super NES.
ref: 2010, Tristan Donovan, Replay: The History of Video Games, page 157:
text: While the mechanics changed very little in the DS version, Nintendo's snarky little life-simulation title [Animal Crossing] found its perfect ally.
ref: 2010, “Animal Crossing: Wild World”, in 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, page 610:
topics: video-games
synonyms: life sim
glosses: A subgenre of simulation game that replicates real-world systems or experiences (such as businesses, communities, ecosystems, or social relationships).
dawdlest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of dawdle
dawdleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dawdle
life sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life sims
Senses: examples: text: Although there are other life sims such as Theme Park, Sim City and so on, they've all had a gameplay objective, a purpose for playing.
ref: 2003 November, “The Usual Suspects”, in Cube, UK, page 35:
text: In fact, as far as full-fledged life sims go, The Sims has pretty much been it for most gamers.
ref: 2005, Sean Carton, 2005 Gamer's Almanac, page 282:
text: Kynseed: The most Fable-y of the games on this list, Kynseed is a life sim currently in early access, from ex-Fable devs PixelCount Studios.
ref: 2019 November 21, Jack Yarwood, “Leaving Albion: The epic making of Fable”, in Wireframe, page 25:
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of life simulation.
synonyms: word: life simulation
clorty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clorty
form: most clorty
Senses: examples: text: She gave him the name of Mole, partly because of the colour of his hide but also she had read a story about a Miss Mole, who throughout life had been dealt the 'clorty end o' the stick': there was a parallel she thought.
ref: 2003, Charlotte Grey, Doon the Road, Long Preston, England: Dales Large Print Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Yesternoon i went down on the ice and broke the knobby bit that goes in the shoulder sockt off the end of my right arm. im r-handed of course. anyone have any idea how long the clorty thing will take to heal in someone in her 70s?
ref: 2015 February 4, A.Reader, “Broken humerous and no it's not funny”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):
text: Knee-high grass in overgrown gardens, clorty curtains, and a general unkempt, down at heel feel gave lie to the notion of community spirit.
ref: 2022 November 1, Jim Spence, “The Kirkton I remember is gone – but there are still too many good folk to let rioting neds win”, in The Courier, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of clarty.
dating sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dating sims
Senses: examples: text: Unlike typical Western games, the goal in Japanese dating sims is to attain true love rather than defeat level bosses.
ref: 2004 September, “Dating Lessons With Anime Play?”, in CPU: Computer Power User, page 9:
text: Tokimeki Memorial was hugely influential not just in kickstarting the entire dating sim genre in Japan but also in the way its gameplay influenced the love mechanics I've already described in Persona 4 and Dragon Age: Origins.
ref: 2015, Nicholas Ware, “Interative romance and button-mashing sex: Gameplay design and video games' Nice Guy Syndrome”, in Evan W. Lauteria, Matthew Wysocki, editors, Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games, page 234:
text: Short had enjoyed playing dating sims in grad school, but grew frustrated by their focus on the desires of cishet men. "I was like, 'Ah, I gotta make a game where you can date whoever you want, because this is ridiculous'," she recalls.
ref: 2021 December, Edwin Evans-Thirwell, “Kitfox Games”, in Edge, page 93:
topics: video-games
glosses: A social simulation game centered on building and maintaining a romantic relationship with one or more NPCs.
farming sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farming sims
Senses: examples: text: Down on the farm... Clear your land, till the soil, plant some seeds – there aren't many farming sims out there, but Harvest Moon proves that they should be more popular than Lara.
ref: 1999 December, “Arcade's Top 10 Game Boy games”, in Arcade, page 119:
text: While many millions of people are wasting away their life on social game Farmville, many of us have been there, done that with the master of the farming sim, Harvest Moon.
ref: 2010, "The Cheat Mistress, The Games of the Decade, unnumbered page
text: Created by Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone, Stardew Valley is an inspiration to indie developers everywhere. Not only did Barone create his much-loved farming sim entirely by himself, but the game's also gone on to become a storming success, with over ten million copies sold to date.
ref: 2020 February, “Interactive: Spirittea”, in Wireframe, page 25:
topics: video-games
synonyms: farm sim
farm simulator
farming simulator
glosses: A simulation game which centers on running a farm and/or raising crops and livestock.
d'y'ave
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /djæv/
/djʌv/
/d͡ʒæv/
/d͡ʒʌv/
Senses: examples: D'y'ave a minute to talk?
glosses: Contraction of do you have.
examples: D'y'ave a good time at the party?
glosses: Contraction of did you have.
farm sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farm sims
Senses: examples: text: A PlayStation update of the SNES and Game Boy cult smash, this is essentially a farm sim in which you have to milk cows, herd sheep, feed chickens and pull up oodles of home-grown veggies.
ref: 2000, "Orient Express", Official PlayStation Magazine (Australia), August/September 2000, page 16
text: The Playstation 2 is quickly becoming a harbor for sequels to nearly every genre that you can come up with—even super-odd, farm sims that only people like ECM and Shidoshi can love.
ref: 2001, Haohmaru, "Harvest Moon 3", GameGo! Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2 (2001), page 21
text: Jenga is by all means a greater tragedy, but in a way, Jenga would never have happened if literally every other possible thing weren't already a game. And farm sims certainly had a role in that.
ref: 2008, Seanbaby, "Nintendo's Party of Pain", Electronic Gaming Monthly, July 2008, page 93
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of farming sim.
synonyms: word: farming sim
wandering whistling ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wandering whistling duck
city-building game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city-building games
Senses: topics: video-games
synonyms: city-builder
city sim
town-building game
glosses: A genre of simulation game in which the player builds and manages a city.
wikipedia: Lincity
city sim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city sims
Senses: examples: text: Caesar II stands a step above common city sims by adding the war element to game play.
ref: 1996, "Et tu, Build Rome!", InterAction, Spring 1996, page 32
text: Most modern city sims content themselves with jazzing up some core element, offering a simpler, more accessible experience, or transplanting the production to an unconventional setting.
ref: 2006 September, “City Life”, in Computer Gaming World, page 98:
text: This is exactly the kind of playfulness I expect from Tropico—it may be a city sim, but it’s never been about building by the book.
ref: 2010 September, Evan Lahti, “Totalitariani-sim”, in PC Gamer, page 84:
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of city-building game.
synonyms: word: city-building game
city-builder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city-builders
form: city builder
Senses: examples: text: Impressions Games' line of historic city-builders like CAESAR and PHARAOH have long appealed to hardcore gamers.
ref: 2000 August, Robert Coffey, “Where All All the Strat Games?”, in Computer Gaming World, page 131:
text: The Tropico series takes the best elements of strategic titles, city builders and manager games and thrusts players into a beautiful tropical paradise where you’ll work to improve the quality of life for your citizens.
ref: 2009 September, Mike Griffin, “Tropico 3”, in Play, page 76:
text: Cities: Skyline excels and delivers the new gold standard of modern city-builders.
ref: 2015 May, Brian Shea, “Cities: Skylines”, in Game Informer, page 92:
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of city-building game.
synonyms: word: city-building game
town-building game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: town-building games
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of city-building game.
synonyms: word: city-building game
brick-buster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brick-busters
Senses: examples: text: Love them or hate them. Breakout clones are released on the market with extraordinary regularity and just when you think the theme has been exploited to the limits, somebody releases the ultimate brick-buster!
ref: 1988 August, “Action Packed”, in ST Action, page 2:
text: Lots of levels and cool power-ups make it last longer than most brick-busters.
ref: 2009, “iPod Click Wheel Games”, in iPod + iPhone Buyers' Guide' 2009, page 102:
text: The Power Glove is indeed bad in the literal sense of the word, but not when used for Super Glove Ball, which put a new slant on such brick-busters as Breakout and Arkanoid.
ref: 2016, Pat Contri, Ultimate Guide to the NES Library 1985-1995, page 313:
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of brick breaker.
synonyms: word: brick breaker
match-four game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: match-four games
Senses: examples: text: Like many match-four games of its ilk, Game of Drones offers plenty of opportunities to generate Bucks (the game's currency), which can be spent to purchase more lives, as well as items that help with particularly tricky puzzles.
ref: 2018, Eddy Webb, “Buy Gems to Woo Your Lover: Free-to-Play Narratives”, in Toiya Kristen Finely, editor, Narrative Tactics for Mobile and Social Games: Pocket-Sized Storytelling, page 238:
text: He looks up from the recliner, where he's idly playing a match-four game on his phone. "What?"
ref: 2021, Ramsey Hootman, Cyril in the Flesh, unnumbered page:
text: I puttered around on the computer for a while, mostly playing match-four games instead of actually doing anything that resembled work.
ref: 2021, Molly Fitz, Pet Whisperer P.I., unnumbered page:
topics: video-games
glosses: A tile-matching game in which sets of four must be matched.
match-three game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: match-four game
form: match-three games
Senses: examples: text: A match-three game built into a very basic RPG framework, Infinite Interactive's title was a sleeper hit, sucking people in before they'd realized they were even in danger.
ref: 2010, “Puzzle Quest”, in 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, page 741:
text: This enjoyable match-three game features warriors with different special moves to help you clear a path on each grid.
ref: 2015, “Quick Hits”, in Android Magazine, number 55, UK, page 85:
text: This great match-three game offers dozens of modes and hundreds of levels, so I'm sure it will keep me busy for quite some time.
ref: 2016, "Around The IPhone Life Office", iPhone Life, Spring 2016, page 12
topics: video-games
glosses: A tile-matching game in which sets of three must be matched.
isohedrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a isohedral manner.
tile-matching game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tile-matching games
Senses: topics: video-games
hyponyms: match-four game
match-three game
glosses: A type of puzzle game in which tiles arranged in columns and rows are shifted or eliminated by the player in order to align a set number (usually three or four) of the same type.
wikipedia: SameGame
Mangaluru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Mangalore: a city in Karnataka, south-western India.
synonyms: word: Mangalore
extra: a city in Karnataka, south-western India