cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
citified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more citified
form: most citified
Senses: examples: text: 1794, quoted in 2009, Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815,
New York is less citified than Philadelphia.
text: It was not much more citified than it was countrified.
ref: 1922, The Elementary school journal, volume 23, University of Chicago Dept of Education:
text: Isn't he handsome? Isn't he a man of the world? Isn't he citified?
ref: 1928, The Mimes of the Courtesans (English translation of a work by Lucian)
text: As the countryside becomes more and more citified and farming more and more specialized, motorized and businesslike, I suppose that the farmer's mental scope and habits will become more like mine.
ref: 1931, Russell Lord, “Men of Earth”, in American Farmers and the Rise of Agribusiness, reprint edition, published 1975:
text: But he's citified and holds his cup just right and never has to think about it.
ref: 1943, Ann Chidester, No longer fugitive, page 215:
text: The people in this city call me country / Because of how I walk and talk and smile / Well, I don't mind them laughing in the city / But the country folks all say I'm citified
ref: 1969, Dennis Linde, “Where Have All The Average People Gone”, performed by Roger Miller:
text: She is a citified young woman, and the more citified people are the more difficult it is to ask and get answers to personal questions.
ref: 1982, Robert John Smith, Ella Lury Wiswell, The Women of Suye Mura:
glosses: Characteristic of the sophisticated customs or dress associated with city life.
insomuch
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɪnsəʊˈmʌt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: in so much
Etymology: From Middle English insomuche; equivalent to in + so + much.
Senses: examples: text: Insomuch as you have consistently paid the bill on time before, we'll excuse one late payment.
glosses: Because of; since; as a result of.
examples: text: In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]
ref: 1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
text: These weights did not exert their natural gravity […] insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand.
ref: 1712 September 1 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, August 21, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 463; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To the extent that.
Related terms: inasmuch
insofar
civvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪv.is/
Etymology: * (Apparel): From a clipping of civilian clothes.
Senses: glosses: plural of civvy
glosses: plural of civvie
civvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪv.is/
Forms: form: civies
Etymology: * (Apparel): From a clipping of civilian clothes.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: mufti
glosses: Civilian clothes.
dubbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubbins
form: daubing
form: dubbing
Senses: examples: text: He brought me a pail and a stool, and held out the round tin of dubbin for me to grease the teats.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 295:
glosses: A mixture of tallow and oil used to soften leather, and make it waterproof.
dubbin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dubbins
form: dubbining
form: dubbined
form: dubbined
form: daubing
form: dubbing
Senses: glosses: To apply dubbin to
dubiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubieties
Etymology: From Late Latin dubietās.
Senses: examples: text: Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.
ref: 1906, David Graham Phillips, chapter 18, in The Fortune Hunter:
glosses: Doubtfulness.
examples: text: And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety; they are an earnest fact. It was a most real and serious purpose they were built for!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 2, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 4, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.
dubiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdub.i.əs.li/
Forms: form: more dubiously
form: most dubiously
Etymology: From dubious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They had perpetuated a dubiously holy union of Church and State that had refused for centuries to hear the cry of the poor and the oppressed.
ref: 1993, William J. Leonard, The Letter Carrier, page 218:
text: But, this information is relegated to a footnote, and no examples of dubiously English words are provided.
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:
glosses: In a dubious manner.
examples: text: She looked dubiously up the steep path to the vastness of dark wood on either side. “How far is it up to the top?”
ref: 1997, Kelly Joyce Neff, Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson, page 167:
glosses: Accompanied by doubt, or anxious uncertainty.
duckbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duckbills
form: duck-bill
Etymology: From duck + bill.
Senses: glosses: The duck-billed platypus.
glosses: A hadrosaur.
glosses: A fish of the family Percophidae
glosses: A fish of the family Percophidae
Percophis brasiliensis (Brazilian flathead).
glosses: Bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus, now Pteromylaeus bovinus).
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A device used to force padlocks.
glosses: A check valve with two or more flaps, usually shaped like a duck's beak, commonly used in medical applications to prevent contamination due to backflow.
glosses: A kind of surgical mask with a trapezoid pouch-like design with shortened or absent side edges.
glosses: A modern and more streamlined and tighter fitting version of a flat cap
Derived terms: taxonomic: Anatirostrum profundorum
word: dockbill pugolovka
alt: Magnisudis atlantica
word: duckbill barracudina
word: duckbill cat
taxonomic: Polyodon spathula
word: duckbill catfish
taxonomic: Sorubim lima
word: duckbill catfish
word: duckbill choke
taxonomic: Gavialiceps javanicus
word: duckbill conger
taxonomic: Aetobatus narinari
word: duckbill eagle-ray
taxonomic: Saurenchelys fierasfer
alt: Nettastoma parviceps, or Nessorhamphus ingolfianus
word: duckbill eel
alt: Bembrops anatirostris
word: duckbill flathead
word: duckbill garfish
taxonomic: Rhynchorhamphus georgii
word: duckbill gar
taxonomic: Coelorinchus anatirostris
word: duckbill grenadier
taxonomic: Nessorhamphus ingolfianus
word: duckbill oceanic eel
alt: Aetobatus narinari or Pteromylaeus bovinus
word: duckbill ray
taxonomic: Butis butis
word: duckbill sleeper
taxonomic: Coelorinchus anatirostris
word: duckbill whiptail
Related terms: duck-billed cat
duckbilled
duck-billed
duckpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duckpin
glosses: A game played by bowling a small ball at such pins.
duckpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duckpins
Etymology: From duck + pin.
Senses: glosses: A short, squat form of tenpin.
ductless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duct + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no duct.
Derived terms: ductless gland
ductlessness
ductless gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ductless glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any gland that secretes hormones directly into the bloodstream; especially the endocrine gland
dueler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duelers
form: dueller
Etymology: From duel + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person who fights a duel
Synonyms: duelist
duelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duelists
form: duellist
Etymology: From duel + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who fights a duel.
Synonyms: dueler
dumbbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌm.bɛl/
Forms: form: dumbbells
form: dumb-bell
form: dumbell
Etymology: From dumb (“silent”) + bell.
Senses: examples: text: He was exercising with the dumbbells in gym class today.
text: He also had a room strewn with the toys of the trade and what-have-you: ropes and ironmongery, buoyancy aid and bagpipes, fetid socks and half-eaten haggises, dumbbells and ski-instructor sweaters.
ref: 1997, Pete McDonald, Climbing Lessons: Inside Outdoor Education, page 40:
text: On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west. Its best known city is Lanjhou, the capital, and also the gateway to the Silk Road. But we did not go there; we were heading for a relatively unknown city a few hundred miles away from Lanjhou, called Tianshuei.
ref: 2007, “The Years before the End of the War”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical College Alumna, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 35–36:
glosses: A weight training implement consisting of a short bar with weight counterpoised on each end.
glosses: A bell with no clapper, used as bell-striking practice or to strike as a form of physical exercise
examples: text: That's fool's gold, you dumbbell. Iron pyrite. Nobody would give you a dime for a ton of it.
ref: 2015, Floyd Merrell, Enigmas: Gold Fever, Space-Time Warps, Sierra Madre Magic:
glosses: A stupid person.
Derived terms: dumbbell curve
nanodumbbell
Related terms: barbell
kettlebell
dumbbell curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbbell curves
Etymology: From dumbbell + curve, since the shape loosely resembles a dumbbell.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of closed curves having two lobes; they satisfy the general equation y² = α²(x⁴ - x⁶).
dumbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌmli/
rhymes: -ʌmli
Forms: form: more dumbly
form: most dumbly
Etymology: From dumb + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 147:
text: I handed it dumbly to my friend, who had the grace to giggle.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 32:
synonyms: silently
glosses: In a silent way.
glosses: In an unsmart way.
dumbness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbnesses
form: dumbnesse
Etymology: From Middle English dombenesse, from Old English dumbnes; equivalent to dumb + -ness. Cognate with Old Frisian dumbnisse (“folly, dumbness”).
Senses: examples: text: He was a deaf-mute. His dumbness did not seem to matter when we were boys.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Sissy's Job”, in The House of All Sorts:
glosses: The state of being mute: that is, of not communicating vocally, whether from selective mutism (refusal to speak) or from an inability to speak.
examples: text: There was speech in their dumbness.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: Muteness, silence; abstention from speech.
examples: text: To the dumbness of the gesture one might interpret.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Show or gesture without words; pantomime; dumb-show.
glosses: The quality of being stupid or foolish.
Synonyms: dumbhood
Derived terms: artificial dumbness
Related terms: dumb
dumb-show
hereon
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪəɹˈɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Etymology: From here + on.
Senses: glosses: On this place.
glosses: To this place.
glosses: On this subject or basis.
glosses: Hereupon.
Derived terms: hereon out
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
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hereinafter
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herewithout
hitherto
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howbeit
however
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howsomedever
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thereamong
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therearound
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therebeside
therebetween
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therever
therefor
therefore
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wheresoever
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1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
frou-frou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹuːfɹuː/
Forms: form: frou-frous
form: froufrou
form: froo-froo
form: fru-fru
form: froofroo
form: frufru
Etymology: Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: The modern frou-frou of satin and gros-de-Naples skirts is nothing to the rustling of brocaded silks.
ref: 1870 June 4, Athenaeum, page 734:
text: […]the frou-frou of life was lost to her[…]
ref: 1876, William Besant et al., The Golden Butterfly, act I, scene vi, line 108:
text: She was pretty, charming, and, moreover, a widow. And because of this she at once had at heel any number of Eldorado Kings, officials, and adventuring younger sons, whose ears were yearning for the frou-frou of a woman’s skirts.
ref: 1901, Jack London, “The Great Interrogation”, in The God of His Fathers, New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 34:
text: “Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department,” said Holmes, with a smile, when the dwindling frou-frou of skirts had ended in the slam of the front door.
ref: 1904 December, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Second Stain”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
text: Lord Grenville took a hasty farewell of the ladies and slipped back into his box, where M. Chauvelin had sat all through this entr’acte, with his eternal snuff-box in his hand, and with his keen pale eyes intently fixed upon a box opposite to him, where, with much frou-frou of silken skirts, much laughter and general stir of curiosity amongst the audience, […]
ref: 1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March 1912, →OCLC, page 94:
text: Impervious to the cheap perfumes
 and the frou-frou of young ladies' skirts,
he finally and with deepest dread
plunged ahead, banging in his ignorance
on the keys as if they were a snare drum.
ref: 2014 September 6, Tony Roberts, “Poem to a Friend Feeling Out of His Element”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.
frou-frou
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹuːfɹuː/
Forms: form: more frou-frou
form: most frou-frou
form: froufrou
form: froo-froo
form: fru-fru
form: froofroo
form: frufru
Etymology: Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.
examples: text: They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
text: Kinda like a frou-frou dessert at a chichi restaurant, restaurant.
ref: 2009 September 1, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #204: dictionary”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):
text: This is a column for a Sunday paper, designed to be absorbed at leisure, over coffee and frou-frou pastries, at around noon.
ref: 2012 June 30, Miranda Sawyer, “Rewind radio: Love Love Love Like the Beatles; Is It Worth It?; 6-Love-6”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: For the price of a frou-frou Starbucks drink, a Netflix subscriber could binge this content ad nauseam without suffering through a single commercial – the ideal home viewing experience.
ref: 2023 January 21, Andrew Lawrence, “Netflix’s Reed Hastings changed the way we watch TV – for better or for worse”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.
examples: text: Bob was off faffing about doing frou-frou nonsense whilst Edwina kept her nose to the grindstone.
text: Barack Obama, out of touch with the working man as usual, has an aggressive program for carbon emissions reductions and has spoken of the need for such frou-frou measures as increased investment in transit infrastructure, intercity rail, and even bicycling.
ref: 2008 July 15, Matthew Yglesias, “Obama's Elitism Problem, Continued”, in The Atlantic:
text: Dr. Okorie: Those paintings on the walls have a definite effect on people. A very specific definite effect, with wildly variable results. Would you call them de-inhibitors, Lillian?
Dr. Lillihammer: I'd call them cognition divergence vectors. I've already got the paper half-written in my mind.
Dr. Blank: Explain it to us froufrou hard and social scientists.
Dr. Wettle: I'm not froufrou, you're froufrou.
ref: 2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, pages 580–581:
glosses: Unimportant, silly, useless.
frou-frou
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹuːfɹuː/
Forms: form: frou-frous
form: frou-frouing
form: frou-froued
form: frou-froued
form: froufrou
form: froo-froo
form: fru-fru
form: froofroo
form: frufru
Etymology: Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, you funny girl! You look so surprised. Confess, now, there's nothing you can hide from me,” and ruffling my hair as she passed she frou-froued out of the room.
ref: 1894 October, The Vassar Miscellany, volume 26, page 81:
text: […]frou-frouing femininities[…]
ref: 1905 May 18, Truth, page 1289:
glosses: To move with the sound of rustling dresses.
inestimable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɛs.tɪ.mə.bəl/
enpr: ĭnĕsʹtĭməbl
ipa: /ɪnˈɛstɪməbl/
Forms: form: inæstimable
Etymology: From Middle French inestimable, from Latin inaestimābilis, from in (“un-”, “not”) + aestimābilis (“estimable”). Equivalent to in- + estimable.
Senses: examples: text: The Voyager spacecraft explored the solar system and continued into the inestimable space beyond.
text: He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
ref: 1776, United States Declaration of Independence:
glosses: Not able to be estimated; not able to be calculated, computed or comprehended, as because of great scale, degree or magnitude.
examples: text: On my arrival hither I found a letter from the inestimable Mr. Wythe, by which he informs me that in consequence of a late act of our general assembly he remains the sole judge of the high court of chancery.
ref: 1789, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 15:
glosses: Venerable, great.
Derived terms: inestimableness
inestimably
yw
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Living legend Miley Cyrus and songwriter/producer/drummer Maxx Morando have recently ratcheted up their PDA, and if you're new here ("here" being their relationship), don't worry about it. We put together a timeline just for you—yw!
ref: 2024 July 12, Mehera Bonner, “Serena Williams's Daughter Olympia Made an Adorable Appearance on the ESPYS Red Carpet!”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Abbreviation of you're welcome.
Related terms: english: thank you
translation: thank you
word: ty
denary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɛ-/
ipa: /dɪˈneəɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈnɛɹi/
Forms: form: denaries
Etymology: From Middle English denarie, from the Latin dēnārius, used elliptically for dēnārius nummus (“denary coin, coin containing ten asses”). Piecewise doublet of etymology 2 below. Doublet of dinar, denar, and denier.
Senses: examples: text: An hundreth denaries.
ref: 1549, Erasmus, “(please specify the book of the Bible, or other title)”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall; et al.], transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche:
glosses: An ancient coin, the denarius.
denary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɛ-/
ipa: /dɪˈneəɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈnɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈdiːnəɹi/
homophone: deanery
ipa: /ˈdiːnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɛ-/
ipa: /dɪˈneəɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈnɛɹi/
Etymology: First attested in 1577; from the Latin dēnārius (“containing ten”), from dēnī (“ten each, ten at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary).
Senses: synonyms: tenfold
glosses: Containing ten parts.
synonyms: decimal
glosses: Based on the number ten (as ternary is based on number 3)
Related terms: sense: Containing ten parts.
word: primary
sense: Based on the number ten (as ternary is based on number 3)
word: secondary
word: tertiary
sense: Containing ten parts.
word: unary
sense: Based on the number ten (as ternary is based on number 3)
word: binary
word: ternary
word: quaternary
word: quinary
word: senary
word: septenary
word: octonary
word: nonary
word: undenary
word: duodenary
word: quindenary
word: vigenary
allotheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + theism.
Senses: examples: text: I consider that in the first commandment where atheism and polytheism and allotheism are forbidden directly and principally.
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
text: But we should not forget that the world was yet too young to have arrived at the rigid and sharply-defined systems of polytheism or allotheism to which we are accustomed.
ref: 1864, James Gracey Murphy, Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Genesis, page 464:
text: The inhabitants, also, of Ur had fallen into polytheism, or, if we may so speak, allotheism, the worship of other gods.
ref: 1879, John Heyl Vincent, The lesson commentary on the International lessons for 1880, page 164:
text: There is no allotheism in Islam. Muslims do not anthropomorphise or, conversely, encourage belief in anthropolatry.
ref: 1984, Akbar S. Ahmed, David M. Hart, Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus, page 8:
glosses: Worship of a god or gods that are foreign to one's own land.
Derived terms: allotheist
allotheistic
allotheistical
allotheistically
allotheists
Related terms: theism
polytheism
martyrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martyrologies
form: Mart.
Etymology: From martyr + -ology or from Latin martyrologium.
Senses: examples: text: It needs further study for what it suggests of the gender dimension to martyrdom and martyrology.
ref: 21 March 2016, Janet L. Nelson, "The Franks, the Martyrology of Usuard, and the Martyrs of Cordoba", Studies in Church History, Vol. 30: Martyrs and Martyrologies, pp. 67–80
glosses: The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly
examples: text: ... we know that Augustine, a monk in the time of Gregory the Great, took with him into England the martyrology of the Roman Church.
ref: 1883, Alessio Aurelio Pelliccia, The Polity of the Christian Church..., p. 311
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly
A liturgical calendar of days for the commemoration of formally recognized saints, usually including some biographical notes.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly
Synonym of hagiography, a story of a saint's life and death.
synonyms: word: hagiography
extra: a story of a saint's life and death
glosses: The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly
Synonym of Eleh Ezkerah, a midrash concerning the Ten Martyrs killed by the Romans, usually read on both Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av.
synonyms: word: Eleh Ezkerah
extra: a midrash concerning the Ten Martyrs killed by the Romans, usually read on both Yom Kippur and Tisha B'Av
Synonyms: topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
word: martyrologue
topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
word: synaxarium
topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
word: synaxarion
topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
word: menologium
topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
word: menologion
topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
word: menology
topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
english: chiefly Eastern Orthodox contexts
translation: chiefly Eastern Orthodox contexts
word: menologe
Derived terms: martyrologic
martyrological
martyrologist
take into account
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes into account
form: taking into account
form: took into account
form: taken into account
Senses: examples: text: His plan did not take into account the possibility of rain.
synonyms: take account of
take into consideration
glosses: To consider or regard; to include (as in an estimate or plan) or pay attention to; to notice; to allow for, factor in.
cannabidiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kan.əb.ɪˈdʌɪ.ɒl/
ipa: /kæn.əb.ɪˈdaɪ.ɔl/
ipa: /kəˈnæb.ɪˌdaɪˌɔl/
Forms: form: cannabidiols
form: CBD
Etymology: From cannab(is) + -i- + di- + -ol.
Senses: examples: text: We’re aware of the growing public interest in cannabis and cannabis-derived products, including cannabidiol (CBD). This increasing public interest in these products makes it even more important with the passage of this law for the FDA to clarify its regulatory authority over these products.
ref: 2018 December 20, U.S. Food, Drug Administration, “Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on signing of the Agriculture Improvement Act and the agency’s regulation of products containing cannabis and cannabis-derived compounds”, in fda.gov:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: CBD
hypernyms: cannabinoid
coordinate_terms: tetrahydrocannabinol
glosses: A nonintoxicating cannabinoid found in the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.
Derived terms: word: cannabidiolic
alt: CBDA
word: cannabidiolic acid
Related terms: alt: CBN
word: cannabinol
alt: CBG
word: cannabigerol
word: cannabis
dyscalculia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskælˈkjuːli.ə/
rhymes: -uːliə
Forms: form: dyscalculias
Etymology: From dys- (from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”)) + calculate (from Latin calculare).
Senses: examples: text: Some educators think requiring students with dyscalculia to study math in high school is a mistake because the dyscalculic students are unlikely to be capable of learning math.
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: innumeracy
glosses: A learning disability characterized by significantly below average mathematical ability.
Derived terms: dyscalculic
Related terms: acalculia
dyslexia
abstract language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Words that represent concepts rather than physical things
Related terms: concrete language
unweaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + weaned.
Senses: glosses: Not yet weaned; still being suckled.
raw_tags: of an animal
glosses: Naive, wet behind the ears, green, inexperienced.
pound shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pound shops
Senses: synonyms: word: variety store
word: dollar store
word: dime store
word: five-and-dime
word: ten-cent store
word: $2 shop
glosses: A shop selling household groceries, toys, gimmicks etc, that are typically priced at a pound each.
funalicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌnəˈlɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more funalicious
form: most funalicious
Etymology: From fun + -a- + -licious.
Senses: examples: ref: 2000 October 16, Sylvan Migdal, “from Spin.com..the NYC themes!”, in alt.music.tmbg (Usenet):
text: we went to Lake Merritt for Mary Anne's birthday party, which was funalicious. Mmm, curry buns.
ref: 2004 July 27, Tim Pratt, “Wealth”, Tropism, at www.journalscape.com/tim/ http://www.journalscape.com/tim/2004-07-27-11:55
text: > Sure, but is it funalicious?
Over here in Japan, we usually say "Oishii" instead.
Yeah, it is funalicious. I like it is a lot. [sic.]
ref: 2005 January 18, Brian Caswell, Theodore Stout, “Cisco IDS”, in mailing.unix.snort (Usenet):
text: 2005 October 25, David Ponce, “The ePod From Beyond”, OhGizmo!, at www.ohgizmo.com https://web.archive.org/web/20060512041512/http://www.ohgizmo.com/2005/10/25/the-epod-from-beyond/
You get a funalicious 128Mb of internal memory, expandable through SD, plus an MP3 player, a video recorder and a digicam.
text: 2006 October 14, Michael Choi, “KinFit Episode 8”, HobbEs TRaNsMoGRIFiED, at michaeltron.blogspot.com http://michaeltron.blogspot.com/2006/10/kinfit-episode-8.html
For episode 8 we show you the Geek-a-cycle, cool free exercises you can get online and some funalicious ideas with apples and squashes.
glosses: Excitingly fun or enticing.
Related terms: fabulicious
phencyclidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɛnˈsaɪ.klɪ.diːn/
Forms: form: phencyclidines
Etymology: Contraction of phenylcyclohexylpiperidine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic compound derived from piperidine, used as a veterinary anesthetic and in hallucinogenic drugs such as angel dust.
Synonyms: word: angel dust
word: crystal
word: fairy dust
word: ill
word: hog
word: horse tranquilizer
word: KJ
word: love boat
word: magic mist
word: PCP
word: peace pill
word: phencyclidine
word: sherm
word: tic
word: wack
word: zoot
word: zootie
xenagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛnəɡɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈzɛnəˌɡɑɡ/
Forms: form: xenagogues
form: zenagogue
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξεναγωγός (xenagōgós), from ξένος (xénos, “foreigner; guest; stranger”, noun) (possibly ultimately Pre-Greek) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “(adjective) guiding, leading; (noun) escort, guide”) (from ᾰ̓́γω (ắgō, “to bring along, lead”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”)) + -ός (-ós, suffix forming agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns)). By surface analysis, xen- (prefix meaning ‘relating to foreigners or strangers’) + -agogue (suffix denoting something leading to another thing).
Senses: examples: text: […] I vvill be their Xenagogus, or guide, and firſt ſhevv them our Country of Kent, the inhabitants vvhereof, [Julius] Cæſar himſelf in his Commentaries, confeſſeth to be of all others the moſt full of humanity and gentleneſſe.
ref: [1570 (date written), William Lambarde, “The Description and History, of the Shire of Kent”, in A Perambulation of Kent: Conteining the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shire. […], 3rd edition, London: […] R. Hodgkinsonne, for D[aniel] Pakeman, […], published [1640], →OCLC, page 2:
text: They are generally excellent Zenagogues or guides through their Countrie.
ref: 1674, John Josselyn, “The Second Voyage”, in An Account of Two Voyages to New-England. […], London: […] Giles Widdows, […], →OCLC, page 136:
text: Consider popular enthusiasm roused by his demagogues and xenagogues.
ref: 1969 October, Poul Anderson, chapter X, in The Rebel Worlds (Signet Science Fiction; T4041), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →OCLC, page 92:
text: [H]e can't quite get a bead on her instead his swift & anonymous xenagogue points out a bevy of beauties […]
ref: 1988, Alfred A. Yuson, “The Resurrection”, in Great Philippine Jungle Energy Cafe […], 3rd edition, Mandaluyong City, Philippines: Anvil Publishing, published 2015, →ISBN, page 208:
text: A xenagogue also walks alongside, but as a tour guide. […] In these testimonials of online learning parents are depicted as being able to accomplish pedagogical ends while acting like xenagogues. These insights beg the question of whether parents can be mobilized and empowered as pedagogues and online teachers would be more effective if they were empowered instead as xenagogues.
ref: 2015, Mary Frances Rice, “Rhetorical Constructions of Parents by Online Learning Companies: A Study of Parent Testimonials”, in Mary Frances Rice, editor, Exploring Pedagogies for Diverse Learners Online (Advances in Research on Teaching; 25), Bingley, West Yorkshire: Emerald Books, →ISBN, →ISSN, section II (Reimagining Support for Online Learners), page 137:
glosses: One who guides strangers; a guide or tour guide.
Derived terms: xenagogy
xenagogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenagogies
Etymology: From xenagogue by analogy with pedagogy.
Senses: glosses: A guidebook.
Related terms: xenagogue
xerarch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [...] xerarch succession progress is observed from xeric to the mesic condition. III. Xerarch succession if started on bare rock, pioneer species is lichens. IV. In hydrarch and xerarch succession, progress is observed from mesarch to xerarch[…]
ref: 2021 July 26, Janardhanan.T, Sanjay Sharma, The Big Book Of Biology For NEET Volume 2, Arihant Publications India limited, →ISBN, page 532:
glosses: Of or pertaining to xerosere.
glosses: Growing in dry places.
dumdum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumdums
form: dum-dum
form: dum dum
Etymology: From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi दम दम (dam dam) (Bengali দমদম (domodom)), from Hindi दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).
Senses: examples: text: He related to us how the savages make bullets from the heart of a very hard wood cured by a special process. These bullets are only effectual when fired from a short range, and when they lodge in the flesh they explode like dumdum bullets.
ref: March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 267:
glosses: A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.
dumdum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumdums
form: dum dum
form: dumb dumb
form: dumb-dumb
form: dumbdumb
Etymology: A reduplication of the adjective dumb, spelled in a "dumb" way (eye dialect).
Senses: glosses: An ignorant person; an idiot.
dumpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dumpy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being dumpy
dunderhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌn.də.hɛd/
ipa: /ˈdʌn.dɚ.hɛd/
Forms: form: dunderheads
form: dinderhead
Etymology: From dunder + head.
Senses: examples: text: You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses!
ref: 1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “A Cub-pilot's Experience”, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:
text: Poor old fellow's a dunderhead. That's where it is in a nutshell. Never could make a living. […] Nice old chap as ever lived. Only impractical, dreamy. Gentle as a sheep—and no more capable of running that big, expensive plant than a motherly old ewe.
ref: 1915, Basil King, chapter 3, in The Side Of The Angels:
text: Cheney & Company swooned over Mr. Chalabi because he was telling them what they wanted to hear. . . . A half-dozen dunderheads who thought they knew everything assumed they could control Mr. Chalabi and use him as the instrument of their utopian fantasies.
ref: 2004 May 23, Maureen Dowd, “Bay of Goats”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Nov 2017:
glosses: A stupid person; a dunce.
Derived terms: dunderheaded
dunderheadism
dunghill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dunghills
form: dung-hill
form: dunghil
Etymology: From dung + hill.
Senses: synonyms: muckheap
dungheap
glosses: A heap of dung, especially one for agricultural purposes.
examples: text: He raiſeth vp the poore out of the duſt: and lifteth the needie out of the dung-hill:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 113:7:
glosses: Any wretchedly mean, dirty or loathsome place, situation or condition.
Derived terms: dunghilly
duodena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duodenum
duodenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌduəˈdinəl/
ipa: /ˌdjuːəʊˈdiːnəl/
Etymology: From duoden- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine.
Derived terms: antroduodenal
cholecystoduodenal
choledochoduodenal
duodenal ulcer
esophagoduodenal
gastroduodenal
hepatoduodenal
infraduodenal
intraduodenal
jejunoduodenal
mesoduodenal
nasoduodenal
oculodigitoesophagoduodenal
oroduodenal
pancreaticoduodenal
pancreatoduodenal
periduodenal
preduodenal
pyloroduodenal
retroduodenal
supraduodenal
transduodenal
duper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduː.pə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdu.pɚ/
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dupers
Etymology: From dupe + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person who dupes another
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: super-duper
sandman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænd.mæn/
Forms: form: sandmen
Etymology: From sand + -man. The mythological sense may be from German Sandmann, Sandmännchen, as it is apparently first attested in English in the context of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novella The Sandman (1816). The German is attested in the relevant sense since at least the mid-18th century.
Senses: examples: text: This then was the Sandman; but what was his occupation, and what was his purpose ? The nursery-maid being applied to, gave a nursery-maid's explanation, that the Sandman was a bad man, who flung sand in the eyes of little children who did not go to bed.
ref: 1827, “On the Supernatural in Composition; and particularly on the Works of Ernest Theodore William Hoffman”, in Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, volume 11, page 458:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A figure that brings sleep and dreams by sprinkling magical sand into people's eyes.
glosses: Used as a symbol of the passage of time toward death.
examples: text: 1811, Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, Told by the Sultaness of the Indies, Henry Mozley (publ.), page 114.
While I was out, a sandman, who sells scouring sand, which women use to clean the baths with, passed through our street, and called, Any sand ho !
glosses: A seller of sand.
duplicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duplicators
Etymology: From duplicate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Schools joining the cooperative were assessed an initial membership fee to purchase a high-speed tape duplicator and about 200 tapes.
ref: 1975, Wisconsin Library Bulletin, volumes 71-72, page 116:
glosses: A device that reproduces something, such as printed documents or compact discs; a copier.
Derived terms: photoduplicator
spirit duplicator
stencil duplicator
durum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuːɹəm/
ipa: /ˈdʌ.ɹəm/
homophone: Durham
Forms: form: durums
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin dūrum, nominative neuter singular of dūrus (“hard”). Doublet of dour and dure.
Senses: examples: text: durum pasta
text: durum bread
text: Much has been done in crossing Triticum durum Desf. and T. vulgare Vill.² in an attempt to produce common wheats that are as resistant to stem rust as are the durums.
ref: 1933 October, Glenn S. Smith, J. Allen Clark, “Inheritance of Stem-Rust reaction and Correlation of Characters in Pentad, Nodak, and Akrona Durum-Wheat Crosses”, in Technical Bulletin, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 385, page 2:
text: 2003 October, Commission staff, Durum and Hard Red Spring Wheat From Canada, U.S. International Trade Commission, Publication 3639, page V-5,
The Minneapolis Grain Exchange stated that durum is a small volume commodity with very specific uses. The durum futures contract traded sporadically for several years, and the Exchange declared the durum futures market dormant after there were no trades and no open interest in any futures contracts.
text: 2012, Ruby Parker Puckett, Foodservice Manual for Health Care Institutions, Wiley (Jossey-Bass), 4th Edition, page 397,
Water is added to a mixture of durum meal or flour, semolina, and farina to make dough that is forced through dies to make tubular macaroni products and cord-like spaghetti.
glosses: Ellipsis of durum wheat.
duskiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duskinesses
Etymology: From dusky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being dusky.
dustiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dusty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being dusty
dustless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dust + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Now motor roads are dustless,
The latest steel is rustless,
Our tennis courts are sodless,
Our new religions, godless.
ref: 1936, Arthur Guiterman, First Dentistry was Painless:
glosses: Free of dust.
glosses: That does not generate dust.
Derived terms: dustlessness
dustpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌstpæn/
Forms: form: dustpans
Etymology: From dust + pan.
Senses: examples: text: When she got downstairs, she would find the house tidy, but dirty. She could not rest until she had thoroughly cleaned; so she went down to the ash-pit with her dustpan.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.
Derived terms: dustpan and brush
dustpanful
duteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more duteously
form: most duteously
Etymology: From duteous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a duteous manner
dutiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duty + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Flax handkerchiefs composed in chief value of edgings and insertings of cotton lace made on the Lever or Gothrough machine are properly dutiable at the rate of 70 per cent […]
ref: 1913, Congressional Serial Set, page 627:
glosses: On which duty must be paid when imported or sold.
Derived terms: nondutiable
undutiable
dutiable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dutiables
Etymology: From duty + -able.
Senses: glosses: Any dutiable item.
dutifulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dutifulnesses
form: dutifullness
Etymology: From dutiful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being dutiful.
duty-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duty + -free.
Senses: examples: text: CBP told CNN it currently processes “nearly 4 million duty-free de minimis shipments a day.”
ref: 2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the chaos”, in CNN:
glosses: Exempt from duty, especially from customs duty.
duty-free
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duty-frees
Etymology: From duty + -free.
Senses: examples: text: We brought back so much duty-free we could hardly walk.
glosses: A duty-free article, especially part of the allowance of such goods allowed to be imported.
examples: text: Have you been to Melbourne airport's duty-free?
glosses: A shop where duty-free goods can be bought.
Russes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Russ
weedle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of wheedle.
social informatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of information and communication tools in cultural or institutional contexts.
revue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈvjuː/
ipa: /ɹɪˈvjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: review
Forms: form: revues
Etymology: Borrowed from French revue (literally “review”). Doublet of review, which it replaced in these senses.
Senses: glosses: A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
glosses: Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs.
revues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revue
suites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suite
remailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remailers
Etymology: From remail + -er.
Senses: glosses: An email service that forwards on the text of emails without identifying information, as a means of providing anonymous email.
leatherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leathermen
Etymology: From leather + man. In the gay subculture sense, since the mid-twentieth century. In the leather dealer sense, since centuries earlier; archaic today.
Senses: glosses: A member of a homosexual male subculture that grew out of male-only motorcycle clubs formed by homosexual veterans returning from World War II, stressing masculinity in contradiction to androgynous and effeminate gay stereotypes, characterized by a fetish for leather gear and clothing, a sense of hierarchy, and a fraternal, militaristic code of protocol and behavior, often involving BDSM practices.
glosses: A male leather dealer, leatherworker, or tanner.
leatherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leathermen
Etymology: From the name of the manufacturer, Leatherman Tool Group, named after Timothy Leatherman.
Senses: glosses: A multitool, usually with a plier head as the central implement, that has an array of other implements such as knives, screwdrivers, can openers, files, saws, and so on.