cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Wall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Walls
Etymology: Of various origins, principally from Old English wælisc etc. ("non-Germanic speaker, stranger") from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner, stranger”), the source of numerous other surnames such as Walsh and Wales and from Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, rampart”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz or *wallą (“wall, rampart”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German Wahl and Swedish Wahlberg.
Senses: examples: text: Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Wall taught karate at a local nursing home.
ref: 2020 June 10, Ashley Vaughan, “This teenage martial artist creates videos to help superhero seniors stay active while in quarantine”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in England:
A village in Gwinear-Gwithian parish, south-west Cornwall (OS grid ref SW6036).
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in south Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9169); part of Hadrian's Wall is in the parish.
glosses: A place in England:
A village and civil parish in the City of Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0906).
examples: text: The new yearbooks at Wall Township High School in Wall, New Jersey – with the original, unaltered photos – will be available for students to pick up in about two weeks, Cheryl Dyer, the superintendent of Wall Township schools, said in a letter to students and parents.
ref: 2017 June 16, Doug Criss and Ellie Kaufman, “School issues new yearbooks after Trump’s name is removed from photos”, in CNN:
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tom Green County, Texas.
Wall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Wall
Etymology: See wall.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: the Berlin Wall.
glosses: the Trump Wall.
glosses: the Great Wall of China.
Wall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Mandarin 壁宿 (Bìxiù).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A Chinese constellation located near Pegasus and Andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.
Related terms: Waal
Wahl
Wal
Walle
Whal
Wand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wands
Etymology: Various origins:
* A nickname for a shy or short-sighted person, from Old English wand (“mole”).
* Borrowed from German Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a weaver or cloth cutter, from Middle High German gewant (“cloth, garment”) (representing modern Gewand (“garment”)).
* Borrowed from Dutch Wand, a metonymic occupational surname for a glove maker, from Middle Dutch want (“glove”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wanderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wanderers
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: someone connected with any number of soccer clubs known as the Wanderers.
Wang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæŋ/
ipa: /wɔŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
rhymes: -ɔŋ
homophone: wang
Forms: form: Wangs
Etymology: From Chinese 王 (Wáng) or 汪 (Wāng). Doublet of Wong, Heng, Ong, and Vuong.
As a Korean surname, from 왕 (wang), from the above.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Chinese.
glosses: A surname from Korean [in turn from Chinese].
Wang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæŋ/
ipa: /wɔŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
rhymes: -ɔŋ
homophone: wang
Forms: form: Wangs
Etymology: As a Danish surname, from Vang.
As a German and Dutch surname, from wang (“cheek”) and obsolete derivatives of Proto-Germanic *wangaz (“field, meadow”).
As a Jewish surname, from the German sense, and also a nickname for someone from Hungary (compare Russian Венгрия (Vengrija)).
As a North Germanic surname, spelling variant of Vang.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Danish, variant of Vang.
Wang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæŋ/
ipa: /wɔŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
rhymes: -ɔŋ
homophone: wang
Etymology: Borrowed from Manipuri ꯋꯥꯡ (wāng).
Senses: glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri, variant of Wangjam, Wangkheimayum, Wangkheimayum, or Wangmayum.
Ward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːd/
ipa: /wɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: Wards
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun ward and related cognates such as warden, guard etc.
* As an Irish surname, reduced from McWard, from mac an bard (“son of the poet”).
* As a Jewish surname, adapted from Warshawski, named after Warsaw. Comparable to Warszawski.
* As a French surname, Americanized from Guerin.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation for a guard or watchman.
glosses: An English male given name.
glosses: A placename
A parish of Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland.
glosses: A placename
A river in Ireland; in full, Ward River.
glosses: A placename
A small town in Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand, named after Joseph Ward.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Ward Beach: a coastline in Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sumter County, Alabama.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A city in Lonoke County, Arkansas.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A town in Boulder County, Colorado.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Boone County, Indiana.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A township in Todd County, Minnesota.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A town in Allegany County, New York.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A township in Hocking County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A township in Tioga County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A town in Saluda County, South Carolina.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
A town in Moody County, South Dakota.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stevens County, Washington.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States:
Ellipsis of Ward County.
Derived terms: Romano-Ward syndrome
Ward Beach
Ward County
Wardian
Wardian case
Ward River
Ward's pill
Ward Township
Ward
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːd/
ipa: /wɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: Wards
Etymology: A shortened form.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Edward (a corruption of the name Edward).
glosses: Clipping of Howard.
Ware
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wares
form: Wares
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A hamlet in Uplyme parish, East Devon district, Devon, next to Lyme Regis in Dorset (OS grid ref SY3291)
glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A town and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3614).
glosses: A placename:
A place in England:
A hamlet in Ash parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2860).
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Union County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sherman Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
Ellipsis of Ware County.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Ware County
Ware Opening
Warren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒɹən/
ipa: /ˈwɔɹən/
rhymes: -ɒɹən
rhymes: -ɔɹən
Forms: form: The Warren
Etymology: From the Anglo-Norman surname (de) Warenne, a reference to a place called Varenne, a hamlet near Arques-la-Bataille, along the river Varenne in Normandy, from Medieval Latin Warinna, a hydronym of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from *var-, *ver- (“river, water”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the Latin river Avara. Phonetic Germanic influence is shown by the [v] > [w].
Senses: glosses: * see: The Warren.
Derived terms: Day-Stout-Warren algorithm
Warren County
Warren Hill
Warren hoe
Warrensburg
Wat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A medieval English given name, short for Walter or from the Anglo-Saxon name Watt.
Related terms: Watson
watercolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watercolors
Etymology: From water + color.
Senses: examples: text: “Champion Victory Wreath No. III,” a watercolor by Richard Yarde in which he applies his inventiveness to the prizefighter Jack Johnson.
ref: 1977 December 16, Hilton Kramer, “Art: Requiem For a Heavyweight”, in The New York Times:
text: Bonnie Lucas further anthropomorphizes the flower in her watercolors, combining it surreally with the human female figure[…]
ref: 1988 January 15, Kathryn Hixson, “On Exhibit: a gallery full of flowers”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of watercolour.
watercolor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From water + color.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of watercolour.
Watt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Watts
Senses: glosses: Watt, a king of Sussex.
glosses: An Anglo-Saxon given name.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Walter, of medieval usage, variant of Wat.
glosses: An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A ghost town in California, United States.
Derived terms: watt
Way
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From specific instances of way. In Christian contexts, a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós) used with that meaning in the Acts of the Apostles (for example, Acts 9:2). In Chinese contexts, a semantic loan from Chinese 道 (Dào).
Senses: examples: text: But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
ref: 1946, The Bible, Revised Standard Version, Acts 9:1-2:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Christianity.
raw_tags: with the definite article
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Tao: the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life.
synonyms: word: Tao
extra: the way of nature and/or the ideal way in which to live one's life
raw_tags: with the definite article
examples: text: We're walking along the Way now.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: Clipping of South Downs Way.
raw_tags: with the definite article
Way
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. See Way, Mississippi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Derived terms: Waycest
Weald
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
homophone: wealed
homophone: weald
homophone: wheeled
homophone: wield
Forms: form: the Weald
Etymology: From weald.
Senses: glosses: The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.
Derived terms: Wealden
Wealdish
Wear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're
Etymology: Probably identical with British Latin Vedra, itself of Celtic origin.
Senses: examples: text: The train then proceeded along the wagonway in the direction of the Wear.[…] The ladies remained at the house, while the men walked to the staith on the Wear, and were shown the process of unloading the wagons into the keels by means of the coal-drop.
ref: 1948 January and February, “Notes and News: Duke of Wellington's Early Railway Journey”, in Railway Magazine, pages 55–56:
glosses: A river in the counties of County Durham and Tyne and Wear, north east England. The cities of Durham and Sunderland are situated upon its grand banks.
Derived terms: Tyne and Wear
Weardale
Wearhead
Wearside
Witton-le-Wear
Web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
homophone: web
Forms: form: the Web
form: web
Etymology: Ellipsis of World Wide Web.
Senses: examples: text: Some of that content is now only available on the Web.
raw_tags: attributive use
text: Web page
text: Content on the Web is divided into individual computer files called pages.
ref: 2008, Timothy D. Green, Abbie Brown, LeAnne Robinson, Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom, Corwin Press, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: The World Wide Web.
Hyponyms: Web 1.0
Web 2.0
Web 3.0
Derived terms: Mark of the Web
Web browser
Weblog
Web page
Web site
Weber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛbər/
ipa: /ˈwiːbər/
ipa: /ˈweɪbər/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Weber.
Senses: examples: text: Ironically, the German university became more bourgeois just when contemporaries like Weber began to criticize the "social aristocratic tendency of our time" among the cultivated and when student subculture in the duelling corporations was becoming more neofeudal!
ref: 1982, Konrad H. Jarausch, Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism, Princeton University Press, page 121:
text: Armed with shovels, gloves and headlamps, the team followed their map to the dig site. The vibe was “very piratey,” Dr. Weber said. Dr. Telewski set to digging a neat, squared-off hole.
ref: 2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2021:
glosses: A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from Weber (“weaver”).
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Missouri; named for local merchant William Weber.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Washington; named for early settler Jacob Weber.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
glosses: A river in Utah, United States; running 201 km from the Uinta Mountains into the Great Salt Lake; named for fur trader and explorer John Henry Weber.
glosses: A hamlet in Tararua district, Manawatū-Whanganui region, North Island, New Zealand; named for surveyor Charles H. Weber.
Derived terms: Klippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome
Osler-Rendu-Weber disease
Osler-Weber-Rendu disease
Parkes Weber syndrome
Rendu-Osler-Weber disease
Sturge-Weber syndrome
weber
Weber-Cockayne syndrome
Weber contrast
Weber County
Weberian
weberite
Weber's corpuscle
Weber's law
Weber's line
Weber test
Wed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Wed..
Wellington boot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wellington boots
form: wellington boot
Senses: glosses: One of a pair of Wellington boots.
Synonyms: word: welly
Wen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: To find out more, I spoke with CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen. Wen, a mother of two young kids, is an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at the George Washington University.
ref: 2024 May 1, Katia Hetter, “Why is a mother’s mental health so important? A doctor explains”, in CNN:
glosses: A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.
Wend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wends
Etymology: From German Wende, from Proto-Germanic *Winidaz, the same source as Old English Winedas (“Slavs”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Slavic people from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub.
glosses: A Slavic person living anywhere in the vicinity of German-speaking areas.
Derived terms: Wendish
Western
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛs.tən/
ipa: /ˈwɛs.təɹn/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: more Western
form: most Western
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of western.
examples: text: As Western culture became increasingly mechanized in the 1600s, the female earth and virgin earth spirit were subdued by the machine.
ref: 1989, Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, page 2:
text: He would be as happy with her as he would be with Jennie—almost—and he would have the satisfaction of knowing that this Western social and financial world held no more significant figure than himself.
ref: 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter LVI, in Jennie Gerhardt:
text: Born in Penglai, on the coast of Shandong, in 1888, Miss Pruitt grew up in an inland village where for many years hers was the only Western family.
ref: 1985 August 11, Robert D. McFadden, “Ida Pruitt, 96, who fostered friendship with the Chinese”, in The New York Times (Section 1 section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page 36:
antonyms: non-Western
glosses: Of, situated in, or related to the West.
antonyms: non-Western
glosses: Of, situated in, or related to the West.
Of or pertaining to a certain genre of fiction dealing with the American Old West.
synonyms: Northern
antonyms: non-Western
glosses: Of, situated in, or related to the West.
Originating from Europe.
antonyms: non-Western
glosses: Of, situated in, or related to the West.
Referring to the cultures and traditions of Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand.
Western
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛs.tən/
ipa: /ˈwɛs.təɹn/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: Westerns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of western.
examples: text: If, again, after studying the life and words of Christ, and comparing them with the Christianity which they see practised in the West, or in the Westerns who reside among them, they are not drawn to Western Christianity […]
ref: 1909, Theodore Leighton Pennell, Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier:
glosses: An inhabitant of a western region or country; a westerner.
Derived terms: acid Western
Australian Western
contemporary Western
cracker Western
Dacoit Western
electric Western
epic Western
fantasy Western
fasolada Western
Florida Western
Gothic Western
horror Western
kangaroo Western
meat-pie Western
neo-Western
Northern
Ostern
Red Western
revisionist Western
science fiction Western
singing cowboy
space Western
spaghetti Western
urban Western
weird Western
Western romance
Zapata Western
Western
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛs.tən/
ipa: /ˈwɛs.təɹn/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)n
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.
what's more
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Contraction of what is more.
Whetstone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛtstəʊn/
Etymology: The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at a English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.
Senses: glosses: An area of the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2693).
glosses: A large village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5597).
glosses: A census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A surname.
examples: text: Developed in the early 1970s by Harold Curnow and Brian Wichmann, Whetstones was originally released in Algol and Fortran versions but was later translated into several other languages.
ref: 2016, Joseph D. Dumas II, Computer Architecture: Fundamentals and Principles of Computer Design, second edition, CRC Press, →ISBN:
text: Whetstone reflects mostly numerical computing, using a substantial amount of floating-point arithmetic.
ref: 2018, Sajjan G. Shiva, Advanced Computer Architectures, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 67:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: Dhrystone
glosses: A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
Whetstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛtstəʊn/
Forms: form: Whetstones
Etymology: The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at a English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.
Senses: examples: text: The Prodigy 4 does 500,000 Whetstones.
ref: 1994, Binod C. Agrawal, Larry R. Symes, Future of Computerisation in Institutions of Higher Learning, Concept Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 92:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A single instruction of the Whetstone benchmark, often expressed as a value per second.
Derived terms: kWIPS
MWIPS
Whig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɪɡ/
ipa: /wɪɡ/
enpr: hwĭg
enpr: wĭg
rhymes: -ɪɡ
homophone: whig
homophone: wig (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: Whigs
Etymology: From Whiggamore, possibly from Scots whiggamore (“horse driver”), from whig (“to drive”) + mare.
Senses: examples: text: One was a piece, Two Cheers for the Whig Interpretation of History, by William Cronon, president of the American Historical Association.
ref: 2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
antonyms: Tory
glosses: A member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party in Britain that was opposed to the Tories, and eventually became the Liberal Party.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member (especially a politician) of the former Liberal Party or its successor, the Liberal Democrats.
topics: government
politics
antonyms: Tory
glosses: An advocate of war against, or independence from, Britain during the American Revolution.
topics: government
politics
antonyms: Democrat
Jacksonian Democrat
glosses: A member of a 19th-century US political party opposed to the Democratic Party.
Derived terms: Whig history
Whiggery
Whiggish
Whiggishness
Related terms: word: Tory
word: Federalist
word: Lib Dem
word: Labour
word: Grit
Whit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whits
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Pentecost, Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit (season)
synonyms: Pentecost
Whitsun
glosses: Whitsunday.
examples: Meronyms: Pentecost, Whitsun, Whit (day)
synonyms: Pentecost
Whitsun
Whitsuntide
glosses: The season of Whitsuntide.
Derived terms: Whit Monday
Whit Saturday
Whit Sunday
Whitsun
Whitsunday
Whit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Whit
Etymology: Shortening of the surname of Dick Whittington, London mayor who funded the rebuilding of the prison.
Senses: examples: text: A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."
ref: 1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman:
text: One of the strong drinks brewed in the Whit, a place as noted for the variety of its potions as the irony of its expressions, was called 'South Sea'. The gin brewed in Newgate was […]
ref: 2020 May 5, Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Verso Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Newgate Prison in London, England (particularly as it was in the 15- and 1600s).
White
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Whites
form: Whyte
form: Wight
Etymology: * As an English surname, from Middle English White, as a nickname for someone with white hair or pale complexion; in some cases from a personal name of the same meaning. See the modern adjective white.
* Also as an English surname, from Old English *wiht (“bend”), found only in placenames, a derivative of the verb wican (“to yield, bend”); compare Wight.
* As a Scottish Gaelic and Irish surname, used as a translation of several Gaelic names containing the element bán and geal, including Mac Giolla bháin (McElwain, Kilbane), Ó Gealagáin (Galligan), Bán (Bane), and Ó Banáin (Bannon).
* Also as a Scottish and Irish surname, an Anglicization of Irish de Faoite, itself from Anglo-Norman le White, le Whyte, from the same source as the English surname.
Senses: examples: text: When Dana White barreled up to the microphone, at Donald Trump’s request, to say his piece on election night, it represented confirmation of the UFC CEO’s status as one of the key members of the president-elect’s inner circle.
ref: 2024 November 16, Aaron Timms, “How UFC head Dana White became the glue between Maga and the manosphere”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A common British and Irish surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A minor city in Bartow County, Georgia; named for its first postmaster.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A city in South Dakota; named for its first European settler.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington; named for a Washington state judge.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A ghost town in Missouri; named for a local mining official.
Derived terms: Bland-White-Garland syndrome
Marshall-White syndrome
May-White syndrome
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
White
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Capitalized due to this racial sense's connotation of (current or historical) European origin, so as to follow the capitalization rules for nationalities and ethne, known in former centuries as “races” (e.g., “the Chinese race”, “the English race”), and also, perhaps, as a way to explicitly distinguish it from the color sense, which is never capitalized outside proper nouns.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, many White people have been raised to believe that their race is intrinsically more prejudice than others.
ref: 2025 April 8, Sarah Stock, “Five Common Myths About White People — Debunked”, in Rift TV:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of white (“of or relating to white complexion or Europeans”).
White
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whites
Etymology: Capitalized due to this racial sense's connotation of (current or historical) European origin, so as to follow the capitalization rules for nationalities and ethne, known in former centuries as “races” (e.g., “the Chinese race”, “the English race”), and also, perhaps, as a way to explicitly distinguish it from the color sense, which is never capitalized outside proper nouns.
Senses: examples: text: The Whites on the mission were a special kind of white person, special in the way that my grandmother had explained to me, for they were holy.
ref: 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 155:
text: To add insult to injury, not only do Whites shame each other but every other race joins in because they are also educated to believe Whites have somehow screwed them over and are still screwing them over.
ref: 2025 April 8, Sarah Stock, “Five Common Myths About White People — Debunked”, in Rift TV:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of white (“European”).
topics: government
politics
hypernyms: anticommunist
glosses: An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.
examples: text: The eight files (from left to right for White and from right to left for Black) are indicated by the small letters, a, b, c, d, e, f, g and h, respectively.
ref: 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 21:
topics: board-games
chess
games
coordinate_terms: Black
glosses: The player moving the white pieces.
Wicca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə
homophone: wicker (non-rhotic)
Etymology: A twentieth-century borrowing of Old English wiċċa (“male witch”) (from Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“sorcerer”)) with a spelling pronunciation. The modern use of the term was introduced first as Wica, mentioned briefly in chapter 10 of Gerald Gardner's book Witchcraft Today (1954), as a collective noun ("the Wica"), allegedly used as a self-designation by practitioners of witchcraft. The spelling Wicca, again as a collective noun, was introduced and popularized by Gerald Gardner's later book, The Meaning of Witchcraft (1959).
Senses: glosses: A neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observance of eight Sabbats, and the performance of various rituals.
Hyponyms: Gardnerian Wicca
Alexandrian Wicca
Celtic Wicca
Dianic Wicca
Eclectic Wicca
Faery Wicca
Odyssean Wicca
Reclaiming Wicca
Seax-Wicca
Trojan Wicca
Derived terms: Wiccan
Wiccanism
Wiccanist
Wiccanize
Wiccanizing
Wiccaphobia
wiccaphobe
Wiccan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪkən/
rhymes: -ɪkən
Etymology: From Wicca + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The pentacle is sometimes worn as a Wiccan symbol.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the neo-pagan religion of Wicca.
Wiccan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪkən/
rhymes: -ɪkən
Forms: form: Wiccans
Etymology: From Wicca + -an.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Wicca.
Synonyms: Wiccanist
Hypernyms: pagan
religionist
Hyponyms: Eclectic Wiccan
Alexandrian Wiccan
Gardnerian Wiccan
Odyssean Wiccan
Dianic Wiccan
Celtic Wiccan
Faery Wiccan
Derived terms: Wiccanness
Wiener
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Related terms: Wiener filter
Wiener-Hopf method
Wiener Neustadt
Wikipedians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wikipedian
Wild
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English originally referring to a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land.
Related terms: Wyld
Wilde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪld/
ipa: [ˈwaɪə̯ɫd]
rhymes: -aɪld
homophone: wild
homophone: wiled
homophone: Wild
homophone: Wylde
homophone: whiled stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
examples: text: A dread sunny day / So I meet you at the cemetry [sic] gates / Keats and Yeats on your side / While Wilde is on mine
ref: 1986, The Smiths, “Cemetry Gates”, in The Queen is Dead:
glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Ellipsis of Oscar Wilde, Irish author, playwright, and poet (1845–1900), whose contemporary literary success, notably A Picture of Dorian Gray, was eventually soured by a gross indecency trial that became a cause célèbre.
Derived terms: Wildean
Wildesque
Wile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English wile, an occupational surname for a trapper or a nickname for a wily person.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Related terms: Wiles
Wyles
Will
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪl/
homophone: will
rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology: Clipping of William or, less often, other given names beginning with Wil-, such as Wilfred or Willard.
Senses: examples: text: Make but my name thy loue, and loue that ſtill, / And then thou loueſt me for my name is Will.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 136”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature I, recto:
text: One of his neighbours opposite, a nice old guy with a stoop and a horrible little Yorkshire terrier, called him Bill - always had done and presumably always would, right up till the day he died. It actually irritated Will, who was not, he felt, by any stretch of the imagination, a Bill. Bill wouldn't smoke spliffs and listen to Nirvana. So why had he allowed this misapprehension to continue? Why hadn't he just said, four years ago, "Actually my name is Will"?
ref: 1998, Nick Hornby, About A Boy, Victor Gollancz, published 1998, →ISBN, page 208:
text: Jada Pinkett Smith found herself at the center of conflict when her husband Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony March 27. Rock joked about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – a look she has said is more than a style preference.
ref: 2022 June 1, Kristen Rogers, “What causes alopecia, a ‘devastating’ hair loss condition affecting Jada Pinkett Smith”, in CNN:
text: Will Stancil was a relatively anonymous researcher at the University of Minnesota until he forced his way into circles of intellectual and political elites on Twitter during the Biden reelection campaign.
ref: 2025 January 9, Adam Platt, “In Conversation with Will Stancil”, in Mpls.St.Paul, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2025:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name William or, less often, other given names beginning with Wil-, such as Wilfred or Willard, from the Germanic languages; also used as a formal given name.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: Will County
Willie
Will Rogers phenomenon
Willy
Related terms: Bill
Will
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪl/
homophone: will
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: Wills
Etymology: Clipping of William or, less often, other given names beginning with Wil-, such as Wilfred or Willard.
Senses: examples: text: Will linebacker drops to turn-in, QB dropping dumps the ball off to HB.
ref: 1997, F Henderson, M Olson, Football's West Coast Offense, page 7:
text: Our Will linebacker, because he is away from the formation or to the split end, should be a great pursuit man and pass defender.
Will covers the back side hook zone on the weak side.
ref: 2000, American Football Coaches Association, Defensive Football Strategies, page 25:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A weak-side linebacker.
Related terms: Sam
Willie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: Willy
Etymology: From Will + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Well agreed, Willie; then sit thee down, swain;
Such a song never heardest thou but Colin sing.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar: August:
text: Not one of his old friends but had been taken to task, in Willie's familiar note of boyish plaintiveness: "Why don't you call me by my own name? I never did like 'Willie' - 'William' isn't so bad. But the other sounds like pinafores and bed sheets."
ref: 1921 George Jean Nathan, Henry Mencken: The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness. Item notes:v64:1(Jan.1921):page 4
text: But the professor's voice had risen slightly in a question as he read "Jimmy Willie Hall" off the class card. The professor had intended no rudeness and he made this clear by nodding in acknowledgement to Jim's "Heah", but someone in the back of the room had sniggered and this churlishness to a stranger had embarrassed Ellen, embarrassed all the more because she, too, had smiled at the ludicrous sound.
ref: 1970, Tony Hillerman, The Blessing Way, page 139:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name William.
examples: text: Most of the names sounded white. There was Willie Mae Jones, Leroy Washington, Roosevelt Tucker, Bessie Lou Bean, and a few other black names. But the list looked awfully pale.
ref: 1989, John Grisham, A Time To Kill, Island Books, published 1996, →ISBN, page 308:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Wilhelmina or a feminine diminutive of William, often in the form Willie Mae.
Derived terms: Slick Willie
whining Willie
Willie Peter
Willow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From willow.
Senses: examples: text: Before he died her father had run a nursery just outside the town. He loved trees so much he'd even named his two daughters and one son after them: Willow, Ashley and Oak.
ref: 1992, Martha Grimes, The End of the Pier, page 132:
glosses: A female given name from English of modern usage.
glosses: A census-designated place in Alaska.
glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
glosses: A town in Wisconsin.
Related terms: Willows
Willy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: Willys
form: Willies
form: Willie
Etymology: From Will + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the unknown-gender given name William
Derived terms: whining Willy
Wind
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English surname, from wind (both senses). This surname also appears in Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and German with the same senses, such as Wint. Compare De Wind.
* Also as a German surname, variant of Wendt.
Senses: glosses: A surname
Windisch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Windisches
form: Windish
Etymology: Borrowed from German Windisch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Winker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Winkers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Winker.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Winter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Winters
form: Wintour
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A unisex given name.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Senlac, No. 411, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A small town and village in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: The personification of winter, wintertime.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Drimys winteri
word: Winter's bark
word: Winter's law
Winter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winters
form: Wintour
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of winter.
Wisdom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Wisdom of Solomon, a book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
Wo
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion
Synonyms: Gliese
Gl
GJ
Related terms: NN
Wobbly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒb(ə)li/
Forms: form: Wobblies
form: wobbly
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: The gray man didn’t think I had any right to the card I had showed him, nor to the other one I had mentioned. He didn’t think I was a good wobbly. As chief muckademuck of the I. W. W. in Personville, he considered it his duty to get the low-down on me, and to not let himself be pumped about radical affairs while he was doing it.
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 1, in Red Harvest:
text: I drew myself up taller. I gave a beautiful account of my career with the Wobblies.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 318:
synonyms: word: Wob
glosses: A member of the Industrial Workers of the World, a militant, radical labor union.
Related terms: IWW
Wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From wolf.
Senses: glosses: The constellation Lupus.
Wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English and German short forms of given names containing the Germanic element "wolf".
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A male given name.
Derived terms: Wolf number
Wonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wonders
Senses: glosses: Any of the Wonders of the World.
Wonderbra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wonderbras
form: wonderbra
Etymology: A proprietary name, from wonder + bra.
Senses: examples: text: The time has come, writes Germaine Greer, to burn our Wonderbras and slip into something more comfortable.
ref: 2000 May 7, The Observer:
glosses: A type of padded, underwired bra designed to enhance the wearer's cleavage.
Wood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
homophone: wood
Forms: form: Woods
Senses: glosses: An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood.
glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for a woodsman.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Clark County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clayton County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An inactive township in Wright County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Franklin County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bedford County, Fulton County and Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small town in Mellette County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Wood County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Wood County
Wood effect
Wood's glass
Wood's metal
Related terms: Woods
Woods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wʊdz/
Forms: form: Woodses
Senses: glosses: A topographic surname from Middle English, variant of Wood. Possibly patronymic.
glosses: A number of places:
An unincorporated community in Liberty County, Florida, United States.
glosses: A number of places:
An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A number of places:
An unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A number of places:
A community in Carling township, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places:
A locality near Owen, South Australia.
Derived terms: word: Woods County
word: Woodsfield
english: Kansas
translation: Kansas
word: Woodston
Woods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /wʊdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Wood
Woody
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdi/
homophone: woody
homophone: woodie
rhymes: -ʊdi
Etymology: Clipping of Woodrow + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Woodrow.
Wool
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wʊl/
rhymes: -ʊl
homophone: wool
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY8486).
Derived terms: Woolford
Woomera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From woomera, borrowed from Dharug wumara.
Senses: glosses: An area of South Australia used in Australia's rocket launch program.
glosses: A town in South Australia, Australia located on the Nullarbor Plain about 150 miles north of Adelaide.
Worms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɔːmz/
ipa: /vɔɹmz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mz
Etymology: From German Worms, from Old High German Wormazia, Warmazia, etc., from Latin Vormatia, from a Gaulish name attested in Latin as Borbetomagus and Bormitomagus with influence from Latin -ātus (adjective-forming suffix) and -ia (toponym-forming suffix), of uncertain origin but usually conjectured to refer to the Celtic god Borvo or a river, spring, or other waters named for him + Proto-Celtic *magos (“field, plain”). Has no relation to worm.
Senses: examples: text: Diet of Worms... Edict of Worms...
glosses: An independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Worship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Worships
Senses: glosses: A form of address of a mayor and other dignitaries
glosses: A form of address of a mayor.
Worship
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wright
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: right
homophone: rite
homophone: write
homophone: wright
Forms: form: Wrights
Etymology: English and Scottish occupational surname, from the archaic noun wright (“builder, maker”). Found as the second element of compounds such as Wainwright, Cartwright, etc.
Senses: glosses: A British surname originating as an occupation from a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright.
glosses: An American surname from French; also a confused anglicization of the French le droit.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Okaloosa County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mahaska County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ford County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Carlton County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Schoharie County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Campbell County, Wyoming.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships, in Indiana, Iowa (2), Michigan (2), Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and South Dakota.
glosses: A former municipality, now part of Gracefield, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
glosses: Places in the Philippines, named after Luke Edward Wright:
A barangay of Tapaz, Capiz, Philippines.
glosses: Places in the Philippines, named after Luke Edward Wright:
Former name of Paranas: a municipality of Samar, Philippines.
Derived terms: word: Fort Wright
word: Homer-Wright rosette
word: Wright County
word: Wright-Giemsa stain
word: Wrightian
taxonomic: Aloysia wrightii
word: Wright's beebrush
word: Wright's stain
word: Wrightstown
word: Wrightsville
Wunderkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wunderkinder
form: Wunderkinds
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of wunderkind.
Xantippe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zænˈtɪpi/
Forms: form: Xantippes
Senses: examples: text: RICHARD HOOKER, that rare and admirable Theologiſt, [...] married a clowniſh ſilly Woman and withal a meer Xantippe, [...]
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], “RICHARD HOOKER”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume I (Extending to the 16th Year of King Charles I. Dom. 1640), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […], →OCLC, column 262:
text: [page 235] He was prudent and induſtrious, and ſo good a Huſbandman, that he might have led a very eaſy and comfortable Life, had not an errant Vixen of a Wife ſoured his domeſtic Quiet. [...] [page 236] By this Xantippe (ſo was the Wife of Socrates called, ſaid Partridge) By this Xantippe he had two Sons, of which I was the younger.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “In which the Man of the Hill Begins to Relate His History”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, pages 235–236:
text: What have we seen in our own personal walks through life to make us believe that women are devils? There may possibly have been a Xantippe here and there, but Imogenes are to be found under every bush.
ref: 1858, Anthony Trollope, “Louis Scatcherd”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 185–186:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Xanthippe.
Derived terms: Xantippean
Xerox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xeroxes
Etymology: Genericized trademark.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of xerox.
Xerox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Xeroxes
form: Xeroxing
form: Xeroxed
form: Xeroxed
Etymology: Genericized trademark.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of xerox.