cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ben
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛn/
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: ben
homophone: been (some accents)
homophone: bin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
rhymes: -ɪn
Senses: examples: text: Ben wolved down a digestive biscuit, then stretched out on his stomach on the flagstones beside them.
ref: 1990, Peter James, Sweet Heart, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, →ISBN, page 156:
text: After a moment of comfortable silence, with Ben tenderly rubbing his thumb gently over the back of her hand, he asked, “So what do you want to do now that you’re all stuffed full of waffley goodness?”
ref: 2013, Victoria J. Hyla, Running in the Mists (Hearts Drawn Wyld Trilogy; 2), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 300:
text: When mathematicians face a question they cannot answer, they sometimes devise a less stringent question, in the hope that solving it will provide insights. This is the path that Tao took in 2004, in collaboration with Ben Green of Oxford.
ref: 2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2020:
text: But Andy and Ben, they are lovers, not fighters … and they are going the battered sav.
ref: 2016 September 11, Emily Power, “Main bathroom reveals on The Block: hold on for the bathroom without a toot”, in Domain News:
glosses: A shortening of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.
Derived terms: Ben Franklin effect
Ben Hill County
Big Ben
Ben
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛn/
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: ben
homophone: been (some accents)
homophone: bin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: Bens
Senses: glosses: A US$100 bill, which bears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Often used in the plural form to indicate large sums of money.
Synonyms: Ben Franklin
Benjamin
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Ben
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛn/
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: ben
homophone: been (some accents)
homophone: bin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
rhymes: -ɪn
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Ben County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.
glosses: A county of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.
Ben
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛn/
ipa: /bɪn/
homophone: ben
homophone: been (some accents)
homophone: bin (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛn
rhymes: -ɪn
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Beng (“Mande language of Ivory Coast”).
Benedict
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕ'nədĭkt
ipa: /ˈbɛnədɪkt/
Forms: form: Benedicts
form: Bene't
Etymology: From Saint Benedict, founder of the Benedictine Order, from Late Latin benedictus (“blessed, well spoken of”), from Latin benedīcō (“I bless, I speak well of”). Doublet of Bennett, Benoit, and Benito.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin, particularly of the sixth-century founder of the Benedictine order, and of several popes.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A placename:
A minor city in Wilson County, Kansas, United States, named after S. S. Benedict.
glosses: A placename:
A census-designated place in Maryland, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city and village in North Dakota, United States.
Related terms: Benedick
Benedicta
Benedictine
benediction
Bennet
bennet
Bennett
Benjamin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnd͡ʒəmɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɛnd͡ʒɚmɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪnd͡ʒəmɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪnd͡ʒɚmɪn/
Forms: form: Benjamins
Etymology: From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right/south or son of days”). Authorities differ on the meaning of the original Hebrew. Philo of Alexandria, the Samaritan Pentateuch The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs and Midrash Leḳaḥ-Ṭob understand יָמִין to mean "days" (a meaning attested in Daniel 12:13) understanding the name to mean "son of days (i.e. old age)" (compare to the direct translations into Arabic بِنْ يَومِين (bin yawmīn) "son of the days" and Arabic بِنْ يَمِين (bin yamīn) "son of the right hand"), a formula paraphrased in Genesis 40:22 where Benjamin is described as a child of Jacob's old age. Rashi in his commentary on Genesis also gives this as a possible meaning but favors an understanding of יָמִין to mean "right" in the sense of "the south", noting that Benjamin was the only son of Jacob born in the south. Jerome understood the name to mean "son of the right hand" and Gesenius speculated that this expression might have meant "son of good fortune".
Senses: examples: text: And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
text: What about the youngest child - the Benjamin - the child of its parents' mature strength and charity, always better treated than the unfortunate eldest children of their youthful ignorance and wilfulness?
ref: 1908, George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The youngest of the sons of Jacob and Rachel in the Bible.
examples: text: "Well, who the hell ever thinks some boy with a name like Benjamin is going to kill someone?" I said. "It's like someone named Winnie the Pooh taking hostages!"
ref: 2007, Mark Schreiber, Starcrossed, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Knox County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A patrilineal surname transferred from the given name.
Derived terms: Benjamin Button
Benjamin Constant
Benjamin syndrome
gum Benjamin
Harry Benjamin syndrome
Related terms: Jamin
Benjamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnd͡ʒəmɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɛnd͡ʒɚmɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪnd͡ʒəmɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪnd͡ʒɚmɪn/
Forms: form: Benjamins
form: benjamin
Etymology: From Late Latin Benjamin, from Ancient Greek Βενιαμίν (Beniamín), from Biblical Hebrew בִּנְיָמִין (binyamīn, literally “son of the right/south or son of days”). Authorities differ on the meaning of the original Hebrew. Philo of Alexandria, the Samaritan Pentateuch The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs and Midrash Leḳaḥ-Ṭob understand יָמִין to mean "days" (a meaning attested in Daniel 12:13) understanding the name to mean "son of days (i.e. old age)" (compare to the direct translations into Arabic بِنْ يَومِين (bin yawmīn) "son of the days" and Arabic بِنْ يَمِين (bin yamīn) "son of the right hand"), a formula paraphrased in Genesis 40:22 where Benjamin is described as a child of Jacob's old age. Rashi in his commentary on Genesis also gives this as a possible meaning but favors an understanding of יָמִין to mean "right" in the sense of "the south", noting that Benjamin was the only son of Jacob born in the south. Jerome understood the name to mean "son of the right hand" and Gesenius speculated that this expression might have meant "son of good fortune".
Senses: examples: text: Fuck the past, let's dwell on the 500SL, the E&J and ginger ale / The way my pockets swell to the rims with Benjamins
ref: 1994, “One More Chance”, in Ready to Die, performed by The Notorious B.I.G.:
text: Swimmin' in women wit they own condominiums / Five plus fives, who drive millenniums / It's all about the Benjamins, what?
ref: 1997, “It's All About the Benjamins”, in No Way Out, performed by Puff Daddy ft. Lil' Kim, the Lox, and The Notorious B.I.G.:
text: Health Care: It's All About the Benjamins [title]
ref: 2006 April 12, Dean Ornish, “Health Care: It's All About the Benjamins”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2006:
text: Sneering through gold grillz, inked to the neck in bad tattoos and representing my area code, Franco leads the spring breakers through a stylized, mtv version of thug life, replete with drugs, guns, Benjamins and booty call.
ref: 2015, Thomas Hallock, “City Creeks: Lessons in Sustainable Environmental Discourse from a Florida Boom Town”, in Mark Luccarelli, Sigurd Bergmann, editors, Spaces in-between: Cultural and Political Perspectives on Environmental Discourse, Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill-Rodopi, →ISBN, part 1 (Lived Spaces and Political Contexts), page 89:
text: He pursed his lips, went to the cash register, and opened it. He pulled out two Benjamins and a US Grant, which he set down on the glass case before me.
ref: 2019, Vincent Zandri, chapter 2, in The Caretaker’s Wife, Hoboken, N.J.: Polis Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: Ben
Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
glosses: A $100 bill, which bears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
Related terms: word: dead president
word: Washington
word: Lincoln
word: Hamilton
word: Jackson
word: Robert Borden
sense: pet forms
word: Ben
sense: pet forms
word: Benji
sense: pet forms
word: Benjy
sense: pet forms
word: Benny
Benny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: Bennys
form: Bennies
Etymology: Clipping of Benjamin + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for a man named Benjamin.
Benny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: Bennys
form: Bennies
Etymology: Clipping of Bernice; Bernadette
Senses: glosses: A nickname for a woman named Bernice or Bernadette.
Benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: Bennies
Etymology: From the name of a dull-witted character, Benny Hawkins, in the British soap opera Crossroads.
Senses: glosses: A stupid or dull-witted person.
glosses: A temper tantrum.
synonyms: still
glosses: A native of the Falkland Islands.
Benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: Bennies
Etymology: From the name of Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait is on the bill.
Senses: examples: text: Money coming in plenty / Twenties, fifties and Bennies
ref: 2012, “Vision of Excellence”, performed by Purpose & Confidence:
glosses: A one-hundred-dollar bill.
Benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: Bennys
form: Bennies
Etymology: Clipping of eggs Benedict.
Senses: examples: text: This special version of eggs Benedict will win the hearts of all the Benny fans out there.
ref: 2011, Debbie Harding, Go Nuts, page 4:
text: This would definitely be a Becca-approved Benedict, which sings high praise. The girl knows her Bennys.
ref: 2014 June 17, Ally, “Chalk Point Kitchen Brunch”, in Bitches who Brunch, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2019:
glosses: Synonym of eggs Benedict.
synonyms: word: eggs Benedict
Benny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A community in Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada, named after W. W. Benny.
Benny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛni/
rhymes: -ɛni
Forms: form: Bennies
form: Bennys
Etymology: Uncertain, with myriad competing theories, some quite fanciful. Compare other mainly-Jersey Shore slang shoobie (“awkward beach tourist”).
Senses: qualifier: slightly derogatory
glosses: A beach tourist; especially an irritating or gaudy one from Northern New Jersey, New York, or other states.
Bent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bents
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Bent County
Bentleigh
Berg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Berg or Swedish berg, either term meaning "hill/mountain".
Senses: glosses: A place name, notably of:
A former duchy and later grand duchy in North Rhine-Westphalia (Western Germany).
glosses: A place name, notably of:
A municipality of Troms, Norway.
glosses: A surname from German common in the US, associated with German or Scandinavian ancestry.
Bergen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːɡən/
ipa: /ˈbəɹɡən/
Etymology: From Norwegian Bergen, from Old Norse Bjǫrgvin (“meadow between the mountains”).
Senses: examples: text: Bergen, in Vestland county, is Norway's second-largest city.
glosses: A port city, municipality, and former county of the county of Vestland, Norway, formerly part of the county of Hordaland.
glosses: A Catholic diocese named after the above see.
glosses: A city and hamlet in North Dakota.
Bergen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːɡən/
ipa: /ˈbəɹɡən/
Etymology: From Dutch Bergen, from Middle Dutch bergen.
Senses: glosses: A municipality and village in Limburg province, Netherlands.
glosses: A municipality and town in North Holland province, Netherlands.
glosses: A town and village in Genesee County, New York, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A part of New Netherland, the name survives in Bergen County.
Related terms: word: Bergen aan Zee
word: Bergen County
word: Bergen op Zoom
word: North Bergen
Berk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As a Dutch, Czech, and Polish surname, from a Germanic personal name stemming from Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”). Also see Bernhard.
* As a Dutch and north German surname, from the word for birch tree, from Proto-West Germanic *berku.
* As a Jewish surname, spelling variant of Berg.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Beryl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛɹəl
Forms: form: Berel
Etymology: From beryl or an anglicization of Yiddish בערל (berl, literally “little bear”).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from English derived from the gem beryl.
A female given name from English derived from the gem beryl.
glosses: A unisex given name from English derived from the gem beryl.
A male given name from English derived from the gem beryl.
Besser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the German surname, from Middle High German bezzerære, agent noun from Old High German bezzern (“to collect fines”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Beta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The digital revolution is changing these rules, but as of this writing, generally you submit your music video to the network for review on Beta tape.
ref: 2011, Anthony Q. Artis, The Shut Up and Shoot Freelance Video Guide:
glosses: Clipping of Betamax
Beta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Betas
Senses: examples: text: With an estimated 90% of all online content expected to be generated in some way shape or form by AI by as early as 2026, theorists predict Betas will grow up in a world heavily fraught by deepfake content, truth will no longer be a fixed concept, and they will spend their lives searching for reality.
ref: 2024 April, Lisa Morgan, “Move over Gen Alpha – is your business ready for the Artificials?”, in Toy World: The Business Magazine with a Passion for Toys, volume 13, number 8, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire: Alakat Publishing, page 22, column 2:
text: For the Betas, AI and robots will be a normal part of life for them.
ref: 2024 December 31, Aliyya Sawadjaan, “Buhbye, Gen Alpha! Babies born from this moment on will be from Generation Beta”, in Daily Tribune, Makati: Concept and Information Group, Inc., archived from the original on 10 Apr 2025:
text: Members of Gen Z are the first digital natives, but individual experiences varied depending on their families’ economic circumstances, a barrier no longer applicable for the Betas, she [Melissa Clark-Reynolds] says.
ref: 2025 January 18, Cherie Howie, “Generation Beta: What’s the future in health, tech, education and climate change for our newest Kiwis?”, in The New Zealand Herald, Auckland: New Zealand Media and Entertainment, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2025:
text: Millennials will almost certainly spend it on luxuries such as family homes and trying to retire before they are 90 (and the odd bit of avocado toast, of course) before they can pass it on to Betas.
ref: 2025 January 31, Juliet Schooling Latter, “BLOG: Investing for Generation Beta”, in Yourmoney.com, London: AE3 Media Ltd, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2025:
synonyms: Gen Beta
Generation Beta
glosses: A member of Generation Beta.
Beth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛθ/
rhymes: -ɛθ
Senses: examples: text: Ogles, an entrepreneur, will defeat state House Speaker Beth Harwell and retired Brig. Gen. Kurt Winstead.
ref: 2022 August 4, Rachel Janfaza, “Andy Ogles will win GOP nomination in redrawn Tennessee 5th District, CNN projects”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Elizabeth or Bethany.
Betty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Senses: examples: text: People in the last century weren't afraid of homely names; now we are all so smart and fine: no more "Lady Bettys" now.
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 10, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
text: But Mrs. Betty Carver respects tradition, and this, I'm afraid, is ours. - - - She smells like expensive soap and her teeth are shiny-white. She does not in any way look like her name. It's not her fault that she was born in a time when people believed in names like Wanda, Dottie and Betty. She's more of a Vanessa or Paulina.
ref: 1991, Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Simon & Schuster, published 1999, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
Derived terms: Betty Boop
Betty lamp
Betty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: Betties
Senses: glosses: A girl who hangs out with skateboarders or surfers.
Bianca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈæŋkə/
ipa: /biˈɑŋkə/
Forms: form: Biancas
Etymology: From Italian Bianca, equivalent of English Blanche.
Senses: examples: text: Sweet Bianca! Happy man be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the ring.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night.
ref: 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Italian.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of Uranus.
Related terms: Blanche
Bible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪbəl/
rhymes: -aɪbəl
Forms: form: Bibles
form: bible
Etymology: From Middle English bible, from Medieval Latin biblia (“book”) (misinterpreted as a feminine from earlier Latin neuter plural biblia (“books”)), from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía, “books”), plural of βιβλίον (biblíon, “small book”), originally a diminutive of βίβλος (bíblos, “book”), from βύβλος (búblos, “papyrus”) (from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material).
Old English used biblioþēce (from βιβλιοθήκη) and ġewritu (whence English writs) for "the Scriptures".
Senses: examples: text: He had just become able to read, with much effort, short sentences in his Bible, and was constantly engaged during his leisure hours in studying its pages.
ref: 1842, A. D. Eddy, Black Jacob, page 38:
text: An American imprisoned for nearly six months in North Korea has admitted that he deliberately left a Bible in a nightclub, in one of his first major interviews since his release.[…]“I felt once I left the Bible somewhere that God would take it the rest of the way into the hands of some kind of Christian organisation, and I’d be able to waltz out of country fat, dumb and happy, no problem... But God had other plans.”
ref: 2014 November 1, Tony Bonnici, “US tourist held in North Korea felt ‘compelled to leave Bible’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2023:
glosses: A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.
Bible
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪbəl/
rhymes: -aɪbəl
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Isabel.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
Biblical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Biblical
form: most Biblical
Senses: examples: text: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of biblical.
Bikini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkiː.ni/
ipa: /bɪˈki.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
homophone: bikini
Etymology: From German Bikini, the colonial name of the atoll as part of German New Guinea, and this was derived from Marshallese Pikinni.
Senses: glosses: Bikini atoll.
Derived terms: bikini
Bikini gauge
Bill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪl/
ipa: [bɪɫ]
enpr: bîl
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: Bills
Etymology: Hypocorism of William. It is unclear how the initial W became a B; this could have been part of the medieval trend of swapping letters, similar to Dick for Rick.
Senses: examples: text: "My other name's Bill," he said. "I was christened Bill but Mr Thursgood calls me William." / "Bill, eh. The unpaid Bill. Anyone ever call you that?" / "No, sir." / "Good name, anyway." / "Yes, sir." / "Known a lot of Bills. They've all been good 'uns."
ref: 1974, John le Carré, Tinker. Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Simon&Schuster, published 2002, →ISBN, page 7:
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: Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule. Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences … of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”
ref: 2024 August 26, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name William.
examples: text: Bill Essayli, Trump’s pick in April to temporarily lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, should have departed the post by July 31 under a 120-day limit imposed by federal law, U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright concluded.
ref: 2025 October 28, Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein, “Judge rules LA’s top federal prosecutor was illegally appointed”, in POLITICO:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Bilal.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A nickname for the British constabulary. Often called "The Bill" or "Old Bill"
Derived terms: Bill Williams River
Billary
Billy
Related terms: Will
Billy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
homophone: Billie
homophone: billy
Forms: form: Billie
Etymology: Diminutive and pet-form; from Bill + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s your other name? You never told me.” “Stubbs,” said Billy, “William Stubbs!”.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year.
ref: 2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name William.
examples: text: Just then a squadron of "Billys" -- twin-engined B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers -- flew overhead ….
ref: 2003 Bradley, James Flyboys. New York: Little, Brown and Company. Ch 7
qualifier: nickname
glosses: The B-25 twin-engine bomber aircraft used during World War Two, commonly called the "B-25 Mitchell" in honor of U.S. Army General William "Billy" Mitchell.
Derived terms: word: Bashful Billy
word: Billster
word: Billy Big Bollocks
word: Billy Boy
word: Billy Dee
word: Billygate
word: billy goat
word: Billyish
word: Billyjean
word: Billy no mates
word: Billy Pugh
word: Billy Webb
word: Billy Wigglestick
word: King Billy
word: puffing Billy
word: Silly Billy
Related terms: Billie
Bingo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Bingo! Bingo! Where is the rascal, I wonder. […] ENTER Bingo, r. 2, with glass of cream, […]
ref: 1903, Charles Walcott Russell, “Act I”, in The Prisoner of Andersonville: A Military Drama in Four Acts, New York, N.Y.: Dick & Fitzgerald, […], →OCLC, pages 7–8:
text: Our dog, Bingo, was determined not to be left behind; […]
ref: 1945, Ernest M. Wampler, “Living in a Cave Home and Moving to Liao”, in China Suffers or My Six Years of Work During the Incident, Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, →OCLC, part 1 (The Coming of the Japanese Army), page 45:
text: Marco stopped to talk with a boy named Bingo Brown. Bingo was eating frozen peas from a supermarket package.
ref: 1956, Jean Merrill, The Travels of Marco, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →LCCN:
glosses: A male given name.
examples: text: We like playing Bingo, which is good because Beth is in special ed classes in school now, and they’re teaching her letters and numbers, and Mommy tries to help her by playing Bingo.
ref: 2002, Rachel Simon, “Into Out There”, in Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, section “March”, page 71:
text: Help her talk about the simple things she enjoys in life—her favorite television program, donuts on Friday mornings, playing Bingo with her friends.
ref: 2009, Donnie J. Wilbanks, “Being a Caregiver”, in Applied Psychology in Health Care, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 90:
text: She was a nice person, but she was blind as a bat. She couldn’t see a Bingo card if it was as big as a barn. Poor Lois Fratelli used to play Bingo there too.
ref: 2013, Janet Evanovich, chapter 5, in Takedown Twenty (A Stephanie Plum Novel), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bingo (“game of chance”).
Bingo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: The discovery of this woman’s body suddenly threw a complex of apparently unrelated incidents into an integrated whole. You grind away at routine, you collect a vast amount of data ninety-per-cent of which is useless and then—some thing happens and Bingo—the other ten-per-cent sits up like Jacky and Bob’s your uncle.
ref: 1968, Ngaio Marsh, “Ramsdyke”, in Clutch of Constables, London: The Companion Book Club, →OCLC, page 125:
text: I have this feeling of inadequacy because I can’t have any children. As a little girl, you’re playing with dolls and all this and you’re prepared right from when you are a little one. […] You’re prepared for this whole thing and then Bingo!—you can’t and you have to start thinking differently.
ref: 1989, Kerry Daly, quoting Andrea, “Anger Among Prospective Adoptive Parents: Structural Determinants and Management Strategies”, in Clinical Sociology Review, volume 7, East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, section “Theories and Methods of Clinical Sociology”, page 84:
text: "Hey Doug, what if you draw a line connecting each location; what does it look like to you?" / Doug mulls over the question for a second, sensing Marcello may be onto something. Then the light bulb goes on. "It looks like a set up for your basic three prong attack, is what it looks like." / "Exactly, Bingo . . . If you were going to hit the U.S. from the South, you would cut off the major transportation arteries and then make your push northward at three points to provide maximum flexible response."
ref: 2015 October 13, Robert Dudley; Marc A. DeSimone, Sr., “Around 3:00 A.M. Mount Weather, VA”, in Last Shepherd: A Novel, Middletown, Del., →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bingo.
Bio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of biology.
Bit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Austroasiatic language spoken in China and Laos.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Bit terms
Bit-os
Bière
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Vaud canton, Switzerland, located in the district of Aubonne.
Blackamoor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Blakemor (first recorded use in 1210), from Old English blæc (“black”) + mór (“moor”).
Senses: glosses: A village in Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6925).
Blackamoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blackamoors
Senses: examples: text: highly discontented to understand the great numbers of negars and Blackamoors which (as she is informed) are crept into this realm... who are fostered and relieved [i.e. fed] her to the great annoyance of her own liege people, that want the relief [i.e. food], which those people consume, as also for that the most of them are infidels, having no understanding of Christ or his Gospel.
ref: 1601, pronouncement of Queen Elizabeth I in 1601, Staying Power: the History of Black People in Britain, Peter Fryer
text: […] Mrs. Milford broke the thread of his soliloquy by desiring he would not talk about nasty Blackamoors any more, for she should dream of them at her bed-side.
ref: 1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVI, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 87:
text: "Although, as we now realize, no Blackamoor at any 18th century European court was merely decorative, in Ibrahim's case, Peter's expectations for him were as loaded with responsibility as those he would have had for his own son."
ref: 1995, The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families: Pushkin Genealogy:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of blackamoor.
Blanc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Blanche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blanch
Etymology: From Old French blanc (“white”). The surname originated as a nickname, or as a matronymic.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
glosses: A surname from French.
Related terms: Dent Blanche
Bianca
Blase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rather rare spelling variant of Blaise, from Latin Blasius.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
Blau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Blau gas
Blau syndrome
Blessed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Blessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: An epithet indicating that a person has been beatified.
examples: text: This emendation is echoed in Thekla's reunion with Paul outside the city, where she offers the following prayer of thanksgiving: God, King and Blessed Creator of everything, and Father of your great and only begotten Child, I give you thanks.
ref: 2012, Charles M. Stang, Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of blessed used when referring to an important figure, such as God, or to an important item or event.
Derived terms: Blessed Virgin Mary
Blimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blimps
Etymology: From Colonel Blimp, a comic character created by David Low and first appearing in London's Evening Standard in April 1934.
Senses: examples: text: One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, Part I:
glosses: A person considered similar to Colonel Blimp in appearance, thought, or expression, particularly (historical or archaic, derogatory) a reactionary middle-class Englishman during the Interwar Period.
wikipedia: Colonel Blimp
David Low (cartoonist)
Evening Standard
Bliss
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: Blish
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
examples: text: "Mother doesn't seem to especially like her little granddaughter as it is, even named 'Edna Louise'. D'you think she's going to like her better, named 'Bliss' like some sexpot pop star or some Indian-mystic asshole-charlatan?"
Betsey winced. "Bliss" was a beautiful name!
ref: 2008, Joyce Carol Oates, My Sister, My Love, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: A unisex given name from English.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Gooding County, Idaho.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Emmet County, Michigan, named after Aaron T. Bliss.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in the town of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York.
glosses: A place in the United States:
Former name of Old Bliss, Oklahoma.
Blitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: the Blitz
Etymology: Specific use of blitz. The Blitz was in truth not a blitzkrieg, which is a rapid ground offensive based on superior tank forces. However, the word was current at the time for the successful German campaigns in Poland and France, and was transferred to the attacks on Britain, perhaps by association of Blitz (“lightning”) with the bombings.
Senses: synonyms: Baedeker raids
glosses: The series of air raids launched on various cities in the United Kingdom by the German air force in 1940–41 during World War II.
Block
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blocks
Etymology: * A Germanic surname (German, Dutch and English), from German Block and Dutch blok respectively. As an English surname from the same cognate, block.
* As a Jewish surname, Americanized from Bloch. Also see Vlach.
Senses: examples: text: The major themes in Francesca Lia Block's books include the necessity of love and the acceptance of and celebration of racial and sexual difference.
ref: 1994, Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast, Gay & Lesbian Literature: Introduction to gay male literature, page 37:
text: Zachary Block chats with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen about their new show, Portlandia, which airs on IFC, Fridays at 10:30.
ref: 2011 January 25, “Portlandia”, in BOMB:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from the Germanic languages
A surname from German
glosses: A surname.
A surname from the Germanic languages
A surname from Dutch
glosses: A surname.
A surname from the Germanic languages
An English surname
glosses: A surname.
A Jewish surname
glosses: An unincorporated community in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Miami County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States.
Blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bloods
form: blood
Senses: examples: text: My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.
ref: 2009, DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris, War of the Bloods in My Veins
glosses: A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.
Coordinate terms: Crip
Blood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: blood
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bloody Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bloody Marys
form: Bloody Maries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bloody mary.
Bloody Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Mary I of England.
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A ghost, witch or demonic spirit said to appear in a mirror if her name is chanted repeatedly.
Bloom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bluːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Etymology: English and Jewish surname converged from several origins:
* Middle English blom (“ingot”), from Old English blōma (“lump of iron”)
* Swedish Blom
* Dutch Bloem, see bloem (“flower”)
* Spelling variant of Blum
Senses: examples: text: Jay Bloom described the experience of learning what happened to the Titan as “very surreal”.
ref: 2023 June 24, Chris Lau and Sara Smart, “‘That could’ve been us,’ say father and son who pulled out of doomed Titan trip out of safety concerns”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bloomsday
Blower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blowers
Etymology: From blower, an occupational surname for someone who operated a bellows, or alternatively for someone who blew a horn.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Blowfish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbloʊˌfɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈbləʊˌfɪʃ/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A symmetric block cipher encryption algorithm used in modern cryptographic software, designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993.
Related terms: Twofish
Threefish
Blue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From the German surname, Americanized from Blau or its French cognate Bleu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German. An anglicization of German Blau.
glosses: A female given name from English, typically used in conjoined names like Bonnie Blue or Blue Bell.
glosses: A male nickname, occasionally used as a formal given name. (Australia) Nickname for a person with ginger hair.
Blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: Blues
Etymology: From the German surname, Americanized from Blau or its French cognate Bleu.
Senses: glosses: A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.
examples: text: Have you heard any news / Of that chap in the Blues / Was it Prosser, or Pyecroft, or Pimm?
ref: 1944, Noël Coward, I Wonder What Happened to Him?, first verse:
glosses: A member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)
examples: text: This Blue shows the remarkable, sleek bodyline of the breed.
ref: 2001, Alan Edwards, The New Guide to Cat Breeds, page 89:
glosses: Synonym of British Blue (“a breed of cat”).
synonyms: word: British Blue
extra: a breed of cat
Blues
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin venetī (“Sea-Blues”) or factio veneta (“the sea-blue faction”) and Byzantine Greek Βένετοι (Bénetoi, “Blues”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Constantinople adopted the follies, though not the virtues of ancient Rome,' wrote Edward Gibbon, 'and the same factions which had agitated the circus raged with redoubled fury in the Hippodrome.' Gibbon's judgment was that what produced the 'redoubled fury' in the Hippodrome was senseless hooliganism, and even though the Blues and Greens could be politicized upon occasion, they had no coherent aims, religious or political. Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism.
ref: 2002, James Allan Stewart Evans, The Age of Justinian..., p. 38
glosses: Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore blue.
glosses: Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
Carlton Football Club.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
New South Wales.
qualifier: rugby league
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
Birmingham City FC.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
Everton FC.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
Chelsea FC.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly blue, such as:
Manchester City FC.
Coordinate terms: sense: charioteering faction
word: Greens
sense: charioteering faction
word: Reds
sense: charioteering faction
word: Whites
sense: charioteering faction
word: Golds
sense: charioteering faction
word: Purples
Blunt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blunts
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* From Anglo-Norman blunt (“blond”), a nickname for someone with fair hair or a light complexion.
* From Middle English blunt (“dull, stupid”), a nickname for a stupid person.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A minor city in Hughes County, South Dakota, United States.
Bo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Either borrowed from modern Danish Bo or Swedish Bo, or a spelling variant of the male given name Beau.
Senses: glosses: A male given name of occassional usage since the 1970s.
A male given name from the Germanic languages
glosses: A male given name of occassional usage since the 1970s.
A male given name from French, variant of Beau
A diminutive of the male given name Beauregard
glosses: A male given name of occassional usage since the 1970s.
A male given name from French, variant of Beau
A diminutive of the male given name Beaumont
Bo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sierra Leone.
Bo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bomu (“Gur language”).
synonyms: word: Bomu
extra: Gur language
Boa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boas
form: Boa
Senses: synonyms: Ababua
glosses: A member of a Bwa-speaking ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Bob
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏb
ipa: /bɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: bäb
enpr: bôb
ipa: /bɑb/
ipa: /bɔb/
Forms: form: Bobs
Etymology: Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.
Senses: examples: text: Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.
ref: 2005 March 30, “Miramax founders leave Disney”, in The Guardian:
text: For the last decade at least, the trend seems to be that more untraditional names are being chosen over the Bobs, the Toms, the Sues and the Marys.
ref: 2009 April 25, “Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter”, in Austin Daily Herald, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2025:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
examples: text: The key that Alice and Bob are to share cannot be transmitted in the clear. Either it must be enciphered when sent, or Alice and Bob must derive it without an exhange of data from which the key can be derived.
ref: 2003, Matt Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 247:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
synonyms: Party B
coordinate_terms: Alice
Eve
Mallory
Peggy
Victor
glosses: The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.
Derived terms: Baghdad Bob
Bob Hope
Fighting Bob
Related terms: Bobby
Dobbin
Rob
Robbie
Bob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŏb
ipa: /bɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: bäb
enpr: bôb
ipa: /bɑb/
ipa: /bɔb/
Forms: form: Bobs
head_nr: 1
Etymology: Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A generic male person.
Synonyms: english: generic male
translation: generic male
word: Jack
english: generic male
translation: generic male
word: Joe
Derived terms: Bob's your uncle
Related terms: Alice
Bobby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑbi/
ipa: /ˈbɒbi/
rhymes: -ɒbi
Forms: form: Bobbie
form: Bobbi
Etymology: From Bob + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him.
ref: 1944, Mazo de la Roche, The Building of Jalna, Dundurn Press Ltd, published 2009, →ISBN, page 163:
text: Legendary soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday, Womack’s publicist said. He was 70.
ref: 2014 June 27, Holly Yan, “Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bobby Womack dies”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
Related terms: Bob
Dobbin
Rob
Robbie
Bobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A people indigenous to Burkina Faso, Africa.
Bobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bobos
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bobo (“bourgeois-bohemian”)
Bobo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Piagapo, Lanao del Sur, Philippines.
Bock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bocks
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Minnesota.
Bogart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Dutch surname Bogaert, derived from bogaard, contraction of boomgaard (“orchard”), from boom (“tree”) + gaard (“garden”). Doublet of Baumgart, Bangert, and Bungert, all from German.
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Dutch, most famously borne by American actor Humphrey Bogart.
Bogart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Bogarts
form: Bogarting
form: Bogarted
form: Bogarted
Etymology: From the Dutch surname Bogaert, derived from bogaard, contraction of boomgaard (“orchard”), from boom (“tree”) + gaard (“garden”). Doublet of Baumgart, Bangert, and Bungert, all from German.
Senses: glosses: To behave in a manner similar to the on-screen characters portrayed by Humphrey Bogart.
Derived terms: Bogart-Bacall syndrome
bogart
Boiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Boilers
Senses: examples: text: Our Patent Museum now forms a portion of "The Boilers," but, although in them, it is not of them.
ref: 1866, Saturday Review: Politics, Literature, Science and Art, page 781:
text: The quadrangle, unlike the Boilers (which were later moved to house the Bethnal Green Museum), still stands as part of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
ref: 2007, Hannah Gay, The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007, page 62:
glosses: Ellipsis of Brompton boiler.
Bois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boises
Etymology: Borrowed from French Bois.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, related to Dubois.
Related terms: Bois Brule
Bois-Joli
Clichy-sous-Bois
Fontenay-sous-Bois