cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
FG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Fine Gael, an Irish political party.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Family Guy.
Related terms: FG syndrome
PPG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPGs
Senses: examples: text: This comes after the center topped the charts last year, becoming the first player at the position since four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal to win the scoring title and the first center to average over 30 PPG in 40 years – Embiid averaged 30.6.
ref: 2023 April 5, Thomas Schlacher, “Joel Embiid vs. Nikola Jokić vs. Giannis Antetokounmpo: What’s the latest in the race to become the NBA MVP?”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of points per game.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Initialism of power play goal, as used in hockey box scoring.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of pupil premium grant.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of polypropylene glycol.
snakebite and black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakebite and blacks
Senses: glosses: A drink made by accenting a snakebite (hard cider and lager) with a dash of blackcurrant syrup or crème de cassis.
Synonyms: diesel
purple nasty
snakey B
Derived terms: snakey B
tranquil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæŋ.kwɪl/
Forms: form: tranquiler
form: tranquilest
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus, from trāns- + the root of quiēs (“rest, quiet, peace”), ultimately from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”).
Senses: examples: text: Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVIII, in Jane Eyre:
synonyms: word: calm
word: peaceful
word: serene
word: steady
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
antonyms: agitated
glosses: Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
examples: text: […]that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.
ref: 1921, Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography, page 262:
synonyms: word: peaceful
word: fixed
word: immobile
word: immotile
word: immovable
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: lifeless
word: sessile
word: static
word: rigid
word: stationary
word: stuck
word: unmovable
word: unmoveable
word: dumb
word: silent
word: silential
word: still
word: mute
word: noiseless
word: soundless
word: quiet
glosses: Calm; without motion or sound.
Related terms: tranquillity
tranquillize
tranquilly
tranquilness
achi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʔɐ.t͡ʃɪ/
ipa: /ˈɑ.t͡ʃi/
Forms: form: achis
Etymology: From Hokkien 阿姊 (á-chí).
Senses: qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: the eldest sister
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: an elder sister
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: a young female senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: respectful term of address for the eldest sister
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: respectful term of address for an elder sister
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: respectful term of address for a young female senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)
Related terms: Achi
ahiya
Ahiya
dichi
dihia
aiya
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: ai yah
form: aiyah
form: aiyoh
Etymology: From Chinese 哎呀 (āiyā).
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t need to hear any idle gossip.”
“Aiyah, it’s not idle gossip! These are important details I’ve learned just from being around them, and from what Mr. Wong found out—”
ref: 2015, Kevin Kwan, chapter 3, in China Rich Girlfriend, Doubleday, →ISBN:
text: Aiyah, dun ask me why their name all so funny, can or not? You ask me, I ask who?
ref: 2023 September 8, Devyani Sharma, From Deficit to Dialect: The Evolution of English in India and Singapore, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: haiya
qualifier: Chinese Filipino
glosses: ah; oh; exclamation of surprise, blame, dismay, shock, or fear.
waka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakas
form: waka
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 和歌 (waka), from Middle Chinese 和 (ɣwa), a gloss for 倭 (ʔwa, “Japan”) + 歌 (ka, “song”).
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.”
ref: 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 122:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A kind of classical Japanese poem.
waka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌkʌ/
ipa: /ˈwʌkə/
ipa: /ˈwakə/
rhymes: -ɒkə
rhymes: -ʌkə
Forms: form: wakas
form: waka
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori waka.
Senses: glosses: A Maori canoe.
examples: text: On occasion this orientation would extend to wider tribal units […] or even to waka federations such as Tainui, Te Arawa or Mataatua.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 235:
glosses: A broad Maori community consisting of numerous Maori tribes, all sharing common ancestors thought to have come to New Zealand in a particular canoe. (A waka is divided into several iwi.)
Derived terms: waka-jumper
waka-jumping
Related terms: waka gashira
human chattel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Where is the man of intelligence who does not instantly see that this provision of human law […] makes the relation, between father and mother, that of mere agents for increasing the gains of him who claims a right of property in the human chattel, whose offspring, by law, are his?
ref: 1863, Harper Twelvetrees, preface to The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave, William Tweedie (publisher), page ix
glosses: Human beings considered property, that is, slaves.
adjourn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈd͡ʒɝn/
ipa: /əˈdʒɜːn/
Forms: form: adjourns
form: adjourning
form: adjourned
form: adjourned
Etymology: From Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomé) ("to an (appointed) day").
Senses: examples: text: The trial was adjourned for a week.
glosses: To postpone.
examples: text: It is a common practice […]to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Danger and Mischief of delaying Repentance”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
examples: text: The court will adjourn for lunch.
text: The Form of this motion is, “When this assembly adjourns, it adjourns to meet at such a time.”
ref: 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., Article III, Section 10, pp. 25-26:
text: When it's time for the fallout / And Saint Peter calls us all out / We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn
ref: 1959, Tom Lehrer, “We Will All Go Together When We Go”:
glosses: To end or suspend an event.
examples: text: After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.
glosses: To move as a group from one place to another.
Derived terms: adjournment
nonadjournment
readjournment
wi
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪ/
rhymes: -ɪ
Etymology: Variant of we.
Senses: examples: text: Are yee commin with wi or not?
glosses: us
wi
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪ/
rhymes: -ɪ
Etymology: Variant of with.
Senses: examples: text: Are-ta doin owt wi this?
glosses: with
mon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑn/
ipa: /mɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: mons
form: mon
Etymology: From Japanese 文 (mon).
Senses: examples: text: The shimonsen or shimon, originally worth four mon, but debased to two mon.
ref: 1902, Walter Del Mar, Around the World Through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 136:
glosses: The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.
glosses: The badge or emblem of a Japanese family, especially a family of the ancient feudal nobility; typically circular and consists of conventionalized forms from nature.
mon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑn/
ipa: /mɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of man; compare West Midland Middle English mon (alongside East Midland Middle English man).
Senses: examples: text: Ee I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee. That's as welcome lad, as welcome as can be. Fotch thi cheer up t'table. Stop as long as th'art able. Fer I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee.
ref: 1974, “A Mon Like Thee”, in Best o't' Bunch, performed by The Oldham Tinkers:
text: I am a Black Country mon. Yow dow know and the Brummies woh understond.
ref: 2020, “Black Country Mon”performed by Johnny Cole:
glosses: Man; used in places such as Jamaica, and Lancashire, Shropshire and the Black Country in England.
Related terms: word: mate
raw_tags: for a man
word: dude
mon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑn/
ipa: /mɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: mons
form: 'mon
Etymology: Clipping of monster, via Japanese モン (mon) in Pokémon, Digimon, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Here they are, the fans voted for them, and here they are, the Mons that can...
ref: 2000 November 25, Thomas Conner, “Digimon Top Ten Choice List”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):
text: When a mon attacks him, he returns the same strike with the world "Reflection" after it, double the original strength.
ref: 2003 February 15, sirSTACK, “Digimon #429”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):
text: And thus did it come to pass that the boy and the two mons, after a brief final discussion began the training.
ref: 2011 June 6, Clayton, “PW! - Training Interlude”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles.
examples: text: Pokemon, digimon and all other merchandised mons, what good parent will disagree with me that those little invading, mind rotting things should be tolerated... those should be illegal, too...
ref: 2001 May 27, Travis Anton, “Cigarette Smoke”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):
text: And dont buy Pokemon or Digimon or any other bloody Mons or you will never hear the ned^([sic]) of it :-)
ref: 2001 May 24, Horace Wachope, “Kids Toys”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet):
text: At any rate Digimon was the best mon/collector series we've seen yet, to the point its popularity was prolly bigger here than its marketing.
ref: 2003 December 9, tito, “Main difference between anime and U.S. cartoons?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element.
mon
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑn/
ipa: /mɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
ipa: [mon]
ipa: /mɑn/
ipa: /mɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: 'mon
Etymology: Clipping of come on.
Senses: glosses: come on; come along with me
examples: text: 'Sing up, runt,' he goes, slapping my back friendly/forceful. 'Mon the Rangers!'
ref: 2011 September 1, Alan Bissett, Pack Men, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Narrator: Jack's a Celtic fan.
Jack: Mon the hoops!
ref: 2014 April 14, Martin Travers, Scarfed For Life: 2nd edition, A&C Black, →ISBN:
text: I caught sight of a lake of faces chanting 'Mon the Biff! Mon the Biff!" – come on the Biffy Clyro – with a startling and percussive unity. 'Mon. The. Biff!' 'Mon. The. Biff!' 'Mon. The. Biff!'
ref: 2022 April 19, Ian Winwood, Bodies: Life and Death in Music, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: come on! Part of a chant for a team or band.
glosses: An expression of defiance or as a challenge; often as "mon then"
mon
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑn/
ipa: /mɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
ipa: [mon]
Etymology: Clipping of month.
Senses: examples: text: 12 yr 4 mon 17 d
related: word: mo
word: mo.
word: mul:m
word: mul:M
glosses: month
tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tank
tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tank
tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Respectable girl meet after mass. Tanks awfully muchly.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 253:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of thanks
about-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaʊtˌfeɪs/
Forms: form: about-faces
form: about face
Etymology: From about + face, first attested in 1861, used in the imperative in the military.
Senses: examples: text: The soldier did an about-face and marched off.
text: Deciding that he hasn't had enough action for one day, Captain Evans of the Johnston orders another 180-degree about-face to give gunfire support to the new arrivals, this time picking on the heavy cruiser Tone.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 22:11 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An abrupt turn to face the opposite direction.
examples: text: When Luke heard the news, he did an abrupt about-face on the policy.
text: Sidney Powell does an about-face on her Stop the Steal claims [title]
ref: 2021 March 23, David Von Drehle, “Sidney Powell does an about-face on her Stop the Steal claims”, in Washington Post, →ISSN:
text: In yet another about-face decision on speech, Mr. Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was planning to de-emphasize political content in the News Feed because, he said, “people don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our service.”
ref: 2021 July 8, Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, quoting Mark Zuckerberg, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: His about-face is such that he is even taking his case back to court to ask his guilty plea to be reversed. And he is far from the alone in changing his mind about the events at the Capitol.
ref: 2023 July 15, “The ‘QAnon Shaman’ and other Capitol rioters who regret pleading guilty”, in BBC News:
glosses: A reversal in direction; a reversal of attitude or opinion.
about-face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaʊtˌfeɪs/
Forms: form: about-faces
form: about-facing
form: about-faced
form: about-faced
form: about face
Etymology: From about + face, first attested in 1861, used in the imperative in the military.
Senses: examples: text: The soldiers would about-face immediately after the order was given.
glosses: To turn 180 degrees to face the opposite direction.
examples: text: A politician will about-face at the drop of a hat if he thinks there are votes in it.
glosses: To change opinion or attitude drastically.
Related terms: word: about turn
word: arse about face
word: backpedal
word: heel/face turn
word: turnabout
word: turn around
word: volte-face
word: 180
dexter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛks.tə/
ipa: /ˈdɛks.tɝ/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dexter (“right”).
Senses: examples: text: my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers:
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], column 2:
text: Displaying his dexter palm, he exclaimed that there was a hand that never took a bribe; whereupon a smart auditor cried "How about the one behind your back?"
ref: 1887, George William Foote with J. M. Wheeler, Crimes of Christianity, London: Progressive Publishing:
text: Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid.
ref: 1911, Saki, ‘The Match-Maker’, The Chronicles of Clovis:
text: The shield was divided into five, with two coats of arms on the dexter side (the right-hand side from the point of view of the bearer of the shield)—London and Southampton—and three on the sinister side—Salisbury, Winchester and Portsmouth.
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 477:
text: […] the dexter lion being gorged […]
ref: 1998 July 6, Auguste Vachon, Claire Boudreau, Daniel Cogné, Genealogica & Heraldica: Ottawa 1996, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, page 324:
antonyms: sinister
qualifier: archaic outside heraldry
glosses: Right; on the right-hand side. (In heraldry, specifically the bearer's right, which is the viewer's left.)
Derived terms: bend dexter
dexter chief
dexterous
dexterwise
dexter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛks.tə/
ipa: /ˈdɛks.tɝ/
Forms: form: dexters
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dexter (“right”).
Senses: examples: text: Subtracting the second from the first, the third from the second and the first from the third successively, we obtain, after transposition, the following identities: — [several equations]
But, the sinisters being exact differentials, the dexters are so. Consequently [...]
ref: 1879, London Mathematical Society, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, page 112:
text: On the dexter of the court is a long hall with an arched ceiling and a door, leading to a small oblong shrine with a vaulted ceiling.
ref: 1971, Debala Mitra, Buddhist Monuments:
qualifier: archaic outside heraldry
glosses: The right side (of a building, an equation, a heraldic shield [from the wearer's perspective], etc).
Related terms: sinister
lait
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laits
form: laiting
form: laited
form: laited
form: late
Etymology: From Middle English laiten, leiten, from Old Norse leita (“to seek, search, inquire”), from Proto-Germanic *wlaitōną (“to look out, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk leita (“to search”), Icelandic leita (“to search”), Swedish leta (“to search, hunt, forage”), Old English wlātian (“to gaze, observe, look upon, behold”).
Senses: examples: text: By neeght, o' my bed, I laited him, at my sowl luvs : I laited him, but I dudn't find um.
ref: 1862, Song of Solomon, in Twenty-four English Dialects, page 282 (Westmorland dialect)
text: The other day I heard a girl hailing from the moorlands of Yorkshire remark that she had "laited a long time for the children, but could not find them," evidently meaning she had sought for them. Is this word common to Yorkshire?
ref: 1877, John Frances, quoting a girl from the moorlands of Yorkshire, Notes and queries, page 10
glosses: To seek; search for; inquire.
Derived terms: laitand
Related terms: café au lait
sac-a-lait
n00b
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: n00bs
Etymology: Leetspeak rendering of noob, from newbie.
Senses: examples: text: A common way to start any kind of flaming is mini-modding. Many people think mini-modding is annoying and they'd say, "You stupid n00b, stop mini-modding or I'll report you."
ref: 2007, “WHAT IS FLAMING?”, in news.etiquette-update today (Usenet):
glosses: A beginner, someone lacking skill, or someone who uses beginner tactics.
Synonyms: word: novice
word: newcomer
word: rookie
word: newbie
word: nub
word: nubcake
ki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: kis
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ki.
Senses: glosses: A plant native to the Pacific islands and China (Cordyline fruticosa); ti.
ki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: kis
Senses: examples: text: And that's what I think happened to Joe. Someone who worked for him walked in and asked to buy a ki of heroin and he went, 'I don't do that.' Then a bit later someone else walked in and offered to sell him some a ta stupid price and he went, 'Hang about, I've got a buyer for that.'
ref: 2005, Dave Courtney, Dave Courtney's Heroes and Villains, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 113:
text: But the buzz wasn't enough, though. It's nothing like the feeling you get with a hundred kis of heroin in the boot of your car.
ref: 2006, Graham Johnson, Druglord: Guns, Powder and Pay-Offs, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, published 2007, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Hopefully, she would be able to save up just enough to buy her own half a ki of coke. And from there, the sky would be the limit.
ref: 2012, Kim K., Rise of an American Gangstress, Bellport, N.Y.: Melodrama Publishing, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: Alternative form of key (a kilogram)
ki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: examples: text: At sea a special cauldron of 'ki,' prepared by the ship's cook, is sent round action stations in 'fannies' or large pitchers.
ref: 1917, The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, volumes 34-35, page 217:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Alternative form of kye (“cocoa”).
ki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From dated romanizations of Mandarin 氣 /气 (qì) without the k-q merger, or from Japanese 気 (ki), both ultimately from the same Middle Chinese origin.
Senses: examples: text: If you are calm and relaxed it will be easier for you to accept and use his ki, helping him to reach his goal. In other words, you will redirect his ki or enhance it with your own to bring your attacker down in the direction he was directing his ki.
ref: 1983, George A. Kirby, Jujitsu: Basic Techniques of the Gentle Art, page 19:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of chi.
Related terms: reiki
oda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odas
form: odah
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اوطه (oda) (Turkish oda)
Senses: glosses: A room within a harem.
ide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Forms: form: ides
form: id
Etymology: Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.
Senses: examples: text: a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’
ref: 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLVII:
glosses: A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
Synonyms: orfe
silver orfe
Related terms: ides
e-quaintance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-quaintances
form: ecquaintance
Etymology: From acquaintance, replacing ac- (ad) with e- (“electronic”), by analogy with e-mail.
Senses: glosses: a person known exclusively online, usually from instant messaging such as AIM, or through internet dating personals.
glosses: the state of knowing exclusively online
Related terms: e-quaint
e-quainted
factoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæk.tɔɪd/
Forms: form: factoids
Etymology: From fact + -oid (“similar, but not the same”); coined by American writer Norman Mailer in 1973 in Marilyn: A Biography, defined as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority".
Senses: examples: text: Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:
text: Wikipedia-derived factoids can be so important that there is a well-known feedback loop, called citogenesis, in which the mainstream news finds some claim made in a Wikipedia article, and publishes it (without citing Wikipedia). Then Wikipedia itself makes use of the news article. By means of this loop, an ultimately “sourceless” factoid gains a spurious authority.
ref: 2025 September 30, Larry Sanger, “6. Reveal who Wikipedia’s leaders are.”, in larrysanger.org:
synonyms: misconception
coordinate_terms: urban legend
glosses: An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.
examples: text: Given a large enough storehouse of words and a fine filter, would it be possible to see cultural change at the micro level, to follow minute fluctuations in human thought processes and activities? Tiny factoids, multiplied endlessly, might assume imposing dimensions.
ref: 2013 December 24, William Grimes, “Big Data Becomes a Mirror”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
text: Don't parade in front of the audience spewing every factoid you know on your topic. Only share the right information for that exact moment with that specific audience.
ref: 2013, Nancy Duarte, Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
synonyms: factlet
glosses: An interesting item of trivia; a minor fact.
Derived terms: facturd
Related terms: verisimilitude
correlated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of correlate
correlated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more correlated
form: most correlated
Senses: examples: text: The variable "age15-24" was not included as this is highly correlated with the variable "students" and "students" were thought to be a more distinct group than the whole of the 15-24 age group.
glosses: Mutually related in a correlation.
Derived terms: anticorrelated
correlatedly
correlatedness
countercorrelated
discorrelated
multicorrelated
noncorrelated
uncorrelated
albatross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.bəˌtɹɒs/
ipa: /ˈæl.bəˌtɹɔs/
ipa: /ˈæl.bəˌtɹɑs/
Forms: form: albatross
form: albatrosses
form: albie
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz (“pelican, gannet, albatross”), probably derived from Arabic الْغَطَّاس (al-ḡaṭṭās, “the diver”) (compare Alcatraz); or from Portuguese alcatruz (“water wheel bucket”), from Arabic الْقَادُوس (al-qādūs), from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos, “pail, jar”), in reference to the pouch of a pelican. In either case, altered under the influence of Latin albus (“white”). Not derived from modern Arabic قَطْرَس (qaṭras, “albatross”), which is perhaps borrowed from Spanish.
For sense development of "burden", see albatross around one’s neck.
Senses: glosses: Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
glosses: Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.
examples: text: 2006 March 13, Richard Lugar, speech to the Brookings Institution,
[…] energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.
text: Project 2025 could be an albatross for Trump
ref: 2024 August 9, Tia Yang, Nathaniel Rakich, Mary Radcliffe, Cooper Burton, “Americans don't like Project 2025”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2024:
synonyms: albatross around one's neck
glosses: A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
Synonyms: gooney bird
gooney
goonie
mollymawk
Coordinate terms: buzzard
bogey
par
birdie
eagle
condor
ostrich
Derived terms: albatross around one's neck
Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross
black-browed albatross
great albatross
Laysan albatross
royal albatross
snowy albatross
sooty albatross
wandering albatross
flatulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflætjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ˈflæt͡ʃəleɪt/
Forms: form: flatulates
form: flatulating
form: flatulated
form: flatulated
Etymology: Attested since the 19th century; either a back-formation from flatulence or borrowed from French flatuler, either way, see-ate (verb-forming suffix); ultimately from New Latin flātulentus, from flō (“to blow, breeze”).
Senses: examples: text: 1985, James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,” in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=kfmXSIJPvqEC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&sig=b3bCCRJV6GdT6XexcyD0xVyRv88,
Where else but in his own castle, with his own family, can a person pick his nose, flatulate, lose his temper with impunity, whine, let the child in him emerge—in short, regress and “be himself”?
text: Horses defecate and flatulate on the move.
ref: 2001, David Kerans, Mind and Labor on the Farm in Black-Earth Russia:
text: While in the bathtub, he thought that he had to flatulate, but defecated instead. His mother had berated him mercilessly.
ref: 2003, Vamik D Volkan, The Third Reich in the Unconscious:
text: This, reader, is where the true meaning of #Fartgate came alive. Arguing over who flatulated on MSNBC—or whether anyone did at all—isn’t the point. The point is that Twitter used to be about goofing off and making each other laugh.
ref: 2019 November 19, Angela Watercutter, “With #Fartgate, Twitter Was a Gas Once Again”, in WIRED:
text: Coordinate term: queef
synonyms: see Thesaurus:flatulate
glosses: To fart, to emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound and smell.
Synonyms: word: badger
word: blow off
word: break ass
word: break wind
word: crepitate
word: curmur
word: cut one loose
word: cut the cheese
word: drop a bomb
word: fart
word: flatulate
word: grunt
word: guff
word: let fluffy off the chain
word: let one go
word: let one rip
word: pass gas
word: pass wind
word: poop
word: poot
word: pump
word: rip ass
word: rip one
word: step on a duck
word: step on a frog
word: toot
word: trump
Derived terms: flatulater
flatulation
flatulator
Related terms: word: blaat
word: braap
word: frrt
word: phrrp
word: phrrt
word: pht
word: prrt
word: splorp
word: flatulent
word: flatus
word: defecate
word: he who smelt it dealt it
ASIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASISs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: PSIS
AIIS
PIIS
glosses: Initialism of anterior superior iliac spine.
ASIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Australian Secret Intelligence Service.
glosses: Acronym of American Society for Information Science, pre-2000 name of the Association for Information Science and Technology, still abbreviated as ASIS&T.
glosses: Initialism of American Society for Industrial Security.
glosses: Abbreviation of Ada Semantic Interface Specification.
Related terms: sense: Australian secret intelligence service
word: AIO
sense: Australian secret intelligence service
word: ONA
sense: Ada Semantic Interface Specification
word: Ada
e-quainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more e-quainted
form: most e-quainted
Etymology: Blend of e- + acquainted
Senses: examples: text: People I was thrilled to meet after being e-quainted forever: […]
ref: 1997 February 22, Kathleen Swanholt, “Correction and LCC”, in bit.listserv.dorothyl (Usenet):
text: I'm e-quainted with someone who goes to the VA there and he says he sees Indian groceries when he goes there.
ref: 1997 September 12, TJ, “Re: basmati rice”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):
text: 2000, Russell Merris, Graph Theory, Wiley-IEEE, →ISBN, page 195,
Let’s say two people are e-quainted if, during the past year, they participated together in one or more of the same chat room discussions. Otherwise, call them e-stranged. Then any two people attending the convention’s introductory cocktail party will be either e-quainted or e-stranged.
text: I am e-quainted with a Catherine who became Cathrin, also for Goff reasons.
ref: 2004 December 7, Dave Larrington, “Re: Cynical? moi?”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):
glosses: Acquainted by means of online communication.
Related terms: e-quaintance
SN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of screen name.
glosses: Initialism of social network.
glosses: Initialism of social networking.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of steric number.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of substantia nigra.
synonyms: STM-N
specific transmission module, national
coordinate_terms: SE
STM-E
specific transmission module, European
qualifier: train control
glosses: Initialism of STM National.
glosses: Initialism of serial number.
SN
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of shared-nothing.
SN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SNe
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of supernova.
Coordinate terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: GRB
Derived terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: SNR
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: CCSN
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: PISN
Related terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: LRN
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: PN
SN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of South Sulawesi: a province of Indonesia.
ez
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: LOL too ez. ur so bad
text: Just use a courier to send your phone/laptop back every once a week it's that ez ¶ /s
ref: 2023 February 1, @Dooter18769429, Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023:
text: this game is too ez
ref: 2023 November 13, @6klvs, Twitter, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023:
topics: video-games
glosses: Abbreviation of easy.
Derived terms: ezpz
ggez
diaphoresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.ə.fəˈɹiː.sɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: diaphoreses
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin diaphorēsis, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰφόρησῐς (dĭăphórēsĭs, “evaporation, dissipation, perspiration”); by surface analysis, dia- (“through, across”) + -phoresis (“transmission”); also synchronically held to end in the suffix -esis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: sweating#Noun
word: perspiration
word: ;
english: in medical usage
translation: in medical usage
word: hidrosis
word: sudation
word: sudoresis
antonyms: adiaphoresis
anhidrosis
ischidrosis
glosses: The formation and excretion of sweat.
examples: text: The train of symptoms which mark the typhoid variety of scarlatina generally begin to decline about the tenth or twelfth day, when the case often lapses into a condition similar to rheumatic fever, without its characteristic diaphoreses.
ref: 1865, William J. Cummins, “Remarks on Scarlatina”, in The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, volume 39, number 1, page 14:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: sweating#Noun
word: perspiration
word: ;
english: in medical usage
translation: in medical usage
word: hidrosis
word: sudation
word: sudoresis
word: hyperhidrosis
word: hidrosis
antonyms: adiaphoresis
anhidrosis
ischidrosis
hypohidrosis
glosses: The formation and excretion of sweat.
Excessive sweating; excessive perspiration (more than would be expected in response to a given stimulus; especially when profuse as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug).
qualifier: sometimes more particularly
Derived terms: adiaphoresis
diaphoretic
scared stiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He was scared stiff, like a deer in the headlights, by the vampire walking toward him.
text: I was scared stiff when I saw the car coming; it came like lightning;
ref: 1895, “Wicke v Albany Railway”, in New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.:
glosses: scared to the point of being unable to move, or (figuratively) very scared.
Synonyms: word: petrified
word: scared to death
word: scared shitless
Related terms: bored stiff
'sblood
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zblʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Etymology: Minced form of God's blood. Primarily from the Middle Ages up to the early modern era, and to a rare extent today, people would curse on God's or Christ's body parts rather than breaking the Second Commandment (not to use the Lord's name in vain oaths). In this case, the exclamation refers to Christ's blood shed during the crucifixion, and the Eucharist in the form of wine.
Senses: examples: text: 'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: "'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?"
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: "S'blood; does that astonish you?"
ref: 1846, Alexandre Dumas, chapter 5, in William Barrow, transl., The Three Musketeers, page 62:
qualifier: minced oath
glosses: An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression of anger or wonder.
Related terms: blimey
bloody
gadzooks
ods bodikin
'sdeath
'sheart
'struth
strewth
'zounds
zounds
felch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛltʃ/
rhymes: -ɛltʃ
Forms: form: felches
form: felching
form: felched
form: felched
form: feltch
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps imitative in origin. Earliest occurrence in print, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is found in the paper The Argot of the Homosexual Subculture by Ronald A. Farrell in 1972, where it was defined as a synonym to anilingus.
Senses: glosses: To suck semen out of a sexual partner's vagina or anus.
glosses: To perform anilingus.
stationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪʃ(ə)n(ə)ɹi/
enpr: stāʹshə-nĕr'ē
ipa: /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛɹi/
homophone: stationery
Etymology: From Latin stationarius, from statio, ultimately from stō (“to stand”). Doublet of stationer.
Senses: examples: text: The train remained stationary for a few moments, before lurching forward along the track.
synonyms: fixed
immobile
motionless
still
stock-still
unmoving
antonyms: word: in motion
word: moving
word: on the move
word: stationary
glosses: Not moving.
synonyms: word: immobile
word: unmoveable
word: fixed
word: immobile
word: immotile
word: immovable
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: lifeless
word: sessile
word: static
word: rigid
word: stationary
word: stuck
word: unmovable
word: unmoveable
antonyms: word: mobile
word: moveable
word: immobile
glosses: Incapable of being moved.
synonyms: word: changeless
word: constant
word: immutable
word: unchanging
word: constant
word: changeless
word: equal
word: nonchanging
word: static
word: stationary
word: unaltering
word: unchanging
word: unvarying
antonyms: word: changing
word: mutable
word: variable
word: changeless
glosses: Unchanging.
Synonyms: word: at rest
word: dull
word: impassive
word: inanimate
word: lifeless
word: motionless
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: stationary
word: still
word: stock-still
word: torpid
word: unmoved
word: unmoving
Hypernyms: word: inactive
word: movable
Hyponyms: word: stagnant
Derived terms: cyclostationary
geostationary
hydrostationary
non-stationary
nonstationary
photostationary
quasistationary
semistationary
stationary air
stationary bicycle
stationary bike
stationary distribution
stationary engine
stationary front
stationary phase
stationary phase approximation
stationary point
stationary wave
strict-sense stationary
Related terms: word: immobile
stationary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪʃ(ə)n(ə)ɹi/
enpr: stāʹshə-nĕr'ē
ipa: /ˈsteɪʃəˌnɛɹi/
homophone: stationery
Forms: form: stationaries
Etymology: From Latin stationarius, from statio, ultimately from stō (“to stand”). Doublet of stationer.
Senses: examples: text: As also, that then they [the planets] are Stationaries in their houses which be in the middle points of the latitudes, which they cal eclipticks.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
glosses: Misspelling of stationery.
Related terms: stationary point
stationery
stationery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪʃ(ə)n(ə)ɹi/
enpr: stāʹshə-nĕr-ĭ
ipa: /ˈsteɪʃənɛɹi/
homophone: stationary
Forms: form: stationeries
Etymology: From stationer + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When the school year finished, he put all of his stationery away in the loft, as he would have no need for pencils and exercise books during the holidays.
text: We can pick up more paper and pens at the stationery store.
glosses: Writing materials, envelopes, office materials.
Synonyms: word: stationery
Hypernyms: word: artifact
Hyponyms: word: pen
word: pencil
word: ink
word: marker
word: highlighter
word: crayon
word: eraser
word: pin
word: envelope
word: binder
word: ring binder
word: binder clip
word: paper clip
word: compass
word: ruler
word: stencil
word: tape
word: glue
word: leaf
word: sheet
word: scratchpad
Related terms: word: :Category:Writing instruments
stationery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪʃ(ə)n(ə)ɹi/
enpr: stāʹshə-nĕr-ĭ
ipa: /ˈsteɪʃənɛɹi/
homophone: stationary
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of stationary.
stationary point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationary points
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point on a curve where the gradient is zero. This point can be a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection.
Odinism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Odin + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Heathenry, Germanic neopaganism, especially a variety devoted to the Norse pantheon.
Synonyms: Wodenism
Related terms: word: Odin
word: Odinic
word: Odinist
english: white supremacist variant
translation: white supremacist variant
word: Wotanism
word: Asatru
hike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: hikes
head_nr: 1
form: hiking
head_nr: 1
form: hiked
head_nr: 1
form: hiked
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”).
Senses: examples: text: Don't forget to bring the map when we go hiking tomorrow.
text: When Dick Hudson hiked the trail between 1966 and 1970, he met so few hikers that he can still recall nearly all of them.
ref: 1994, Larry Luxenberg, “Pioneer Thru-Hikers”, in Walking the Appalachian Trail, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 33:
head_nr: 1
glosses: To take a long walk (on something) for pleasure or exercise.
head_nr: 1
glosses: To unfairly or suddenly raise a price.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
head_nr: 1
glosses: To snap the ball to start a play.
topics: nautical
transport
head_nr: 1
glosses: To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
examples: text: She hiked her skirt up.
head_nr: 1
glosses: To pull up or tug upwards sharply.
Synonyms: sense: to take a long walk
word: tramp
sense: to lean to the windward side
word: lean out
sense: to lean to the windward side
word: sit out
Derived terms: hikeable
hike out
hiker
hike the Appalachian Trail
hike up
hiking
hitch-hike
outhike
thru-hike
unhiked
hike
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Etymology: From English dialectal hyke (“to walk vigorously”), probably a Northern form of hitch, from Middle English hytchen, hichen, icchen (“to move, jerk, stir”). Cognate with Scots hyke (“to move with a jerk”), dialectal German hicken (“to hobble, walk with a limp”), Danish hinke (“to hop”).
Senses: glosses: Let's go; get moving. A command to a dog sled team, given by a musher.
Related terms: hitchhike
hitchhiker
take a hike
cutting edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutting edges
Senses: glosses: The sharp edge of the blade of a knife or other cutting tool.
examples: text: The company prides itself for staying at the cutting edge of technology.
text: Looking far from overawed throughout, they frequently took the game to the visitors, but it was Saints' lack of a cutting edge and United's superior finishing that proved the difference in the end.
ref: 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:
text: Creating the incentives for new ideas to be introduced, through competitions like this one, allows the UK's railway to stay at the cutting edge of technology.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:
glosses: The forefront, or position of greatest advancement in some field.
raw_tags: with "on the"
Synonyms: innovation
Related terms: bleeding edge
leading edge
sharp end
cutting edge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cutting edge
form: most cutting edge
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cutting-edge.
avant-garde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈvɑ̃t.ɡɑːd/
ipa: /æˈvɑ̃.ɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˌæ.vɑ̃ˈɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˈæ.vn̩t.ɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˌɑˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /əˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˌæ.vɑntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˌɑˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /əˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˌɑˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˌæˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/
Forms: form: avant-gardes
form: avantgarde
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French avant-garde (“vanguard”). Doublet of vanguard and vaward.
Senses: antonyms: arrière-garde
glosses: The vanguard of an army or other force.
antonyms: arrière-garde
glosses: Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.
avant-garde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈvɑ̃t.ɡɑːd/
ipa: /æˈvɑ̃.ɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˌæ.vɑ̃ˈɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˈæ.vn̩t.ɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˌɑˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /əˌvɑntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˌæ.vɑntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˌɑˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /əˌvæntˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˌɑˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˌæˌvɑ̃ˈɡɑɹd/
Forms: form: more avant-garde
form: most avant-garde
form: avantgarde
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French avant-garde (“vanguard”). Doublet of vanguard and vaward.
Senses: examples: text: It was a very avant-garde production.
text: I fear she will pay a heavy price for the avant garde ideas she has been sold.
ref: 2014 November 24, James Dobson, Modesty and Self-Esteem, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2025:
text: There’s a moment, for instance, in the competition show Beast Games that struck me as something close to avant garde. Donaldson lays out a million dollars in cash in a big pile, and instructs each of the 10 remaining contestants to come out of their little houses one by one, and to choose how much money they want to take from the pile.
ref: 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025:
synonyms: underground
glosses: Innovative and pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.
Derived terms: avant-dance
avant-garage
avant-gardism
avant-gardist
avantgardist
avantgardistic
avant-metal
avantpop
avant-pop
transavantgarde
Related terms: leading edge