cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Mongolian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒŋˈɡoʊliən/
Forms: form: Mongolians
form: mongolian
Etymology: Originally from Mongol + -ian, a translation (1706) of the German mongolisch, mongalisch. Subsequently, from the name of the country of Mongolia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Cossac there, The Calmuc, and Mungalian, round the bales In crowds resort.
ref: 1757, John Dyer, The fleece, a poem, published 1807:
text: This day we saw some scattered tents of Mongalians, with their flocks.
ref: 1763, John Bell, A journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin:
text: The Mongolians are the most nomadic of populations.
ref: 1854, Robert G. Latham, Orr's Circle of the sciences: Organic nature:
text: Mongolians now regard animal husbandry as a low-status occupation.
ref: 1990 September 1, New Scientist:
synonyms: Mongol
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Mongolia.
examples: text: Khalka […] Mongolian possesses seven vowels and twenty consonants.
ref: 1926, Neville J. Whymant, A Mongolian Grammar:
text: The Altaic family […] comprises about 40 languages, classified into three groups: Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus.
ref: 1987, David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language:
text: These inscriptions are in Mongolian and thus widen the appliqué's international connections.
ref: 1990 April, Orientations:
glosses: A group of languages from Mongolia, specifically Khalkha, the official language of Mongolia.
examples: text: A particular individual which the latter considered a Mongolian and the former assures us is an Ethiopian.
ref: 1823 July, North American Revolution:
text: She was found to be one of the type of white women whose nasal organs appear never to have been developed, and who take to the loathsome Mongolian and his filthy hovel as blithely as a plague rat to a sewer.
ref: 1903 February 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 3, column 4:
text: Extreme forms like the Australians, Negroes, Mongolians, and Europeans may be described as races because each has certain characteristics which set them off from other groups, and which are strictly hereditary.
ref: 1938, Franz Boas et al., General Anthropology:
text: The thesis of this work was that native Americans were one race distinct from Eskimos and Mongolians.
ref: 1988, Current Anthropology, volume 29:
synonyms: mongoloid
glosses: A person of the mongoloid physical type.
Related terms: word: Mongol
word: Mongolia
word: Mongoloid
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Mongolian terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mon
word: mn
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mon
word: mon
word: mon ⁠
word: a macrolanguage including:
word: khk ⁠
word: mvf ⁠
nucleon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn(j)uːkliɒn/
Forms: form: nucleons
Etymology: From nucleus + -on.
Senses: glosses: A proton (uud) or a neutron (udd).
Hypernyms: baryon
Hyponyms: english: proton delta resonance
translation: proton delta resonance
alt: uud*
word: Δ+
english: neutron delta resonance
translation: neutron delta resonance
alt: udd*
word: Δ0
word: nucleon resonance
Derived terms: antinucleon
dinucleon
internucleon
multinucleon
nucleonic
nucleonics
nucleon number
polynucleon
strangeon
trinucleon
Related terms: atom
delta baryon
hyperon
nucleus
parton
quark
Yemeni
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛ.mə.ni/
rhymes: -ɛməni
Etymology: From Yemen + -i.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s getting a little bit stressful,” Nasser said. A Yemeni cafe requires Yemeni coffee. And Nasser, who plans to open many more Yemeni cafes, needs a lot more beans.
ref: 2025 June 24, Gregory Barber, “How Yemeni Cafes like Haraz Coffee House Are Building Momentum and Community”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2025:
glosses: Of, from or relating to Yemen, or the Yemeni people.
Yemeni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛ.mə.ni/
rhymes: -ɛməni
Forms: form: Yemenis
Etymology: From Yemen + -i.
Senses: examples: text: Fellow Yemenis make up a small percentage of the new owners.
ref: 2025 June 24, Gregory Barber, “How Yemeni Cafes like Haraz Coffee House Are Building Momentum and Community”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2025:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Yemen or of Yemeni descent.
Zambian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zambians
Etymology: From Zambia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Zambia or of Zambian descent.
Zambian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Zambia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Zambia or its people or language.
Zimbabwean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zimbabweans
Etymology: From Zimbabwe + -an.
Senses: examples: text: We were, practically to a person, young Zimbabweans who had no parental backing but who had acquired the means through some sort of tenacity, however dubious, to lodge at the respectable hostel.
ref: 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 269:
glosses: A person from Zimbabwe or of Zimbabwean descent.
Hypernyms: sub-Saharan
African
Zimbabwean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zimbabwean
form: most Zimbabwean
Etymology: From Zimbabwe + -an.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Oh Dick! You’re a poet, although you don’t know it!’ Belinda, with that annoying Zimbabwean habit of repeating clichés as though they were a novel observation, made her way towards Dick bearing a gin and tonic.
ref: 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 288:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Zimbabwe or the Zimbabwean people.
Derived terms: Zimbabwean dollar
Sahrawi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /səˈɹɑːwi/
Forms: form: Saharawi
form: Sahraoui
form: Sahroui
form: Saharoui
Etymology: From Arabic صَحْرَاوِيّ (ṣaḥrāwiyy, “of the desert”), from صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʔ, “desert”).
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Western Sahara, the Sahrawi people or their language Hassaniya Arabic.
Derived terms: Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Sahrawi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈɹɑːwi/
Forms: form: Sahrawis
form: Saharawi
form: Sahraoui
form: Sahroui
form: Saharoui
Etymology: From Arabic صَحْرَاوِيّ (ṣaḥrāwiyy, “of the desert”), from صَحْرَاء (ṣaḥrāʔ, “desert”).
Senses: glosses: A person from Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara).
Uruguayan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjʊəɹəˈɡwaɪən/
Forms: form: Uruguayans
Etymology: From Uruguay + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A person from Uruguay or of Uruguayan descent.
Uruguayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjʊəɹəˈɡwaɪən/
Etymology: From Uruguay + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Uruguay, the Uruguayan people or the Uruguayan language.
Venezuelan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Venezuelans
Etymology: From Venezuela + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The march through the Darién Gap of Haitians, Venezuelans and Cubans fleeing economic collapse and political persecution has been well-documented.
ref: 2023 March 9, Alicia Chen, “Growing numbers of Chinese citizens set their sights on the US – via the deadly Darién Gap”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A person from Venezuela or of Venezuelan descent.
Venezuelan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Venezuela + -an.
Senses: examples: text: But the first foray by Russian strategic bombers into the Western hemisphere since the Cold War is simply the curtain raiser for joint naval maneuvers that will bring Russian warships into Venezuelan waters in November.
ref: 2008 September 11, Virginia Lopez, “Russia's Venezuela Foray: Tit for Tat”, in Time, retrieved 24 Aug 2014:
text: The Venezuelan gang, known as Tren de Aragua, or TDA, has a known presence in 15 states and a possible presence in eight others, according to the data.
ref: 2024 October 23, Julia Ainsley, “DHS is seeking more than 600 migrants for possible ties to Venezuelan gang”, in NBC News:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Venezuela or the Venezuelan people.
Derived terms: Venezuelan equine encephalitis
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
Venezuelan suntiger
Vanuatuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vanuatuans
Etymology: From Vanuatu + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Vanuatu or of Vanuatuan descent.
Vanuatuan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Vanuatu + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Vanuatu, the Vanuatuan people or the Vanuatuan language.
Ugandan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈɡændən/
ipa: /jʊ-/
ipa: /juˈɡændən/
Forms: form: Ugandans
Etymology: From Uganda + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Many young Ugandans say on social media they plan to go ahead with the march to the country’s parliament despite the country’s police refusing to grant a permit for the protest.
ref: 2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN:
glosses: A person from Uganda or of Ugandan descent.
Hypernyms: sub-Saharan
African
Ugandan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈɡændən/
ipa: /jʊ-/
ipa: /juˈɡændən/
Etymology: From Uganda + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Some have also called for the speaker of the parliament, Anita Annet Among, to resign. She was among high-profile Ugandan politicians sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom for corruption earlier this year.
ref: 2024 July 22, Nimi Princewill, “Uganda’s President Museveni warns citizens they are ‘playing with fire’ over planned protests”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Uganda, the Ugandan people or the Ugandan language.
Derived terms: Ugandan affairs
Ugandan discussions
Ugandan English
Ugandan giraffe
Ugandan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈɡændən/
ipa: /jʊ-/
ipa: /juˈɡændən/
Etymology: Back-formation from Ugandan discussions.
Senses: examples: text: Margaret, Duchess of Argyll...depicts this charming old gentleman, who often kisses young girls outside Annabel's, as a narrow-minded, boring Ugandan expert.
ref: 1975, Private Eye, numbers 340–366, page 161:
text: Eight ladies with Ugandan associations had ascended the fire escape and were making their way through his room.
ref: 1975, Private Eye, numbers 340–366, page 198:
text: They have a bit of a 'how was it for you' session referring to the night and/or evening before, and we are left not knowing whether they enjoyed Ugandan Relations between the sheets or not.
ref: 1998 August 19, Peter Dewhirst, “Dewey's Monday update for 3rd August.”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st (Usenet):
text: I'm in serious need of some ugandan activities. Any of you birds out there at a loose end and want to get the dirty water off your chest?
ref: 2000 January 25, Baz, “Any birds want a good seeing to?”, in uk.local.birmingham (Usenet):
text: Serif's question: where is Mister? The Eagle's answer: engaged in Ugandan practices.
ref: 2001, Gerald Seymour, The Untouchables, →ISBN, page 345:
text: I recall her once snatching a copy of the hated Private Eye, in which I'd been reading about the Ugandan activities of a prominent member of her party.
ref: 2013 April 8, Lord Powell, “The Margaret Thatcher I knew”, in The Guardian:
text: Jones denied last week that he was in a Ugandan situation with Morris, but did say "I am very fond of anyone who helps me lose six and a half stone..."
ref: 2015, Rotten Boroughs, “Going for the Burn”, in Private Eye, number 1407:
glosses: Sexual, highlights a double entendre.
Related terms: as the actress said to the bishop
biblically
in the biblical sense
Tuvaluan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tuːˈvɑluːən/
Forms: form: Tuvaluans
Etymology: From Tuvalu + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Tuvalu or of Tuvaluan descent.
Tuvaluan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tuːˈvɑluːən/
Etymology: From Tuvalu + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Tuvalu, the Tuvaluan people or the Tuvaluan language.
Tuvaluan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tuːˈvɑluːən/
Etymology: From Tuvalu + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Polynesian language mostly spoken in Tuvalu.
Related terms: Ellicean
Syrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭrʹē-ən
ipa: /ˈsɪɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Etymology: From Syria + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses, but it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East.
ref: 1970, Time, volume 96:
text: In contrast to the political dynamics of the preunion period, these struggles were heavily influenced by the new prominence of Syrian capitalists[…]
ref: 1999, Steven Heydemann, Authoritarianism in Syria, page 139:
text: Representatives of the Syrian National Council and the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria signed an agreement late Friday in Cairo for a transition in a post-Assad era, the NCB said on its Facebook page.
ref: 2011 December 31, “Syrian opposition group: More than 5,800 died in 2011”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Syria, the Syrian people or the Syrian language.
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Assyrian people or the Syriac language
Derived terms: Syrian Arab Republic
Syrian arch
Syrian asphalt
Syrian bear
Syrian brown bear
Syrian Desert
Syrian hamster
Syrianism
Syrianist
Syrianization
Syrianize
Syrianness
Syrian onager
Syrian rhubarb
Syrian serin
Syrian soap
Syrian woodpecker
Syrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭrʹē-ən
ipa: /ˈsɪɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: Syrians
Etymology: From Syria + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses, but it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East.
ref: 1970, Time, volume 96:
text: He said the agreement calls for the refusal of any non-Arab foreign intervention, an important issue because some Syrians want international intervention to overthrow the al-Assad regime.
ref: 2011 December 31, “Syrian opposition group: More than 5,800 died in 2011”, in CNN:
glosses: A person from Syria or of Syrian descent.
glosses: A person of Assyrian descent.
Related terms: Syriac
Sri Lankan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sri Lankans
Etymology: From Sri Lanka + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery following the South Asian nation's worst financial crisis in decades.
ref: 2024 September 22, Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly, “Sri Lankans elect Marxist-leaning Dissanayake as president to fix economy”, in Reuters:
glosses: A person from Sri Lanka or of Sri Lankan descent.
Sri Lankan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Sri Lanka + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Researchers analysed samples of nurdles and burnt lumps of plastic from four Sri Lankan beaches for heavy metals and various chemicals, including benzotriazole UV-stabilisers, which are used to prevent discoloration in plastics, bisphenols and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
ref: 2022 February 9, Karen McVeigh, “‘Oil spills of our time’: experts sound alarm about plastic lost in cargo ship disasters ”, in The Guardian, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 11 Feb 2022, Seascape: the state of our oceans:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Sri Lanka or to the Sri Lankan people.
Derived terms: Sri Lankan English
nucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuːˈkliː.ɪk ˈæsɪd/
ipa: /njuːˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæsɪd/
ipa: /nuˈkleɪ.ɪk ˈæsɪd/
Forms: form: nucleic acids
Etymology: nucleic + acid; named for the fact that in eukaryotes, some of the important actions of such acids are especially associated with the nucleus of the cell.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any acidic, chainlike biological macromolecule consisting of multiple repeat units of phosphoric acid, sugar and purine and pyrimidine bases; they are involved in the preservation, replication and expression of hereditary information in every living cell
Synonyms: word: nucleic acid
Hypernyms: word: macromolecule
Hyponyms: word: DNA
word: RNA
Meronyms: word: nucleobase
Derived terms: alt: BNA
word: bridged nucleic acid
english: DNA
translation: DNA
word: deoxyribonucleic acid
alt: GNA
word: glycol nucleic acid
alt: LNA
word: locked nucleic acid
alt: XNA
word: nucleic acid analogue
alt: PNA
word: peptide nucleic acid
alt: RNA
word: ribonucleic acid
alt: SNA
word: spherical nucleic acid
alt: TNA
word: threonucleic acid
alt: TNA
word: threose nucleic acid
alt: UNA
word: unlocked nucleic acid
alt: XNA
word: xeno nucleic acid
Related terms: DNA
RNA
nucleoside
nucleotide
Bruneian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bruneians
Etymology: From Brunei + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Brunei or of Bruneian descent.
Bruneian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Brunei + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Brunei, the Bruneian people.
Derived terms: Bruneianness
Cape Verdean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Capeverdean
Etymology: From Cape Verde + -an.
Senses: examples: text: I hear [...] the surf on the Cape Verdean beaches is incredible.
ref: 2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 219:
text: He was a Cape Verdean boy who identified as Portuguese to differentiate himself from African Americans, despite being nearly the same shade as Davis.
ref: 2022 April 12, Jazmine Hughes, “Viola Davis, Inside Out”, in The New York Times Magazine:
synonyms: Cabo Verdean
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Cape Verde, the Cape Verdean people or the Cape Verdean language.
Cape Verdean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cape Verdeans
form: Capeverdean
Etymology: From Cape Verde + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Cape Verdeans waiting with perfect, timeless patience for a boat that may or may not come.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 295:
text: For Helio Batalha, a 27-year-old hip-hop artist who performed at the music expo, that blending of cultures and history has led to a form of identity crisis for young Cape Verdeans.
ref: 2016 May 4, Saskia de Rothschild, “An Atlantic Archipelago’s Main Export: Music”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: Cabo Verdean
glosses: A person from Cape Verde or of Cape Verdean descent.
Hypernyms: sub-Saharan
African
Cape Verdean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Capeverdean
Etymology: From Cape Verde + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Cape Verdean Creole
Cabo Verdean
Kabuverdianu
glosses: A creole language spoken in Cape Verde.
Caymanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Cayman + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Cayman Islands, or the Caymanian people.
Caymanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caymanians
Etymology: From Cayman + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person born and raised in the Cayman Islands, or a person of Caymanian descent
Maldivian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maldivians
form: Maldivan
Etymology: From Maldives + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from the Maldives or of Maldivian descent.
glosses: The official language of the Maldives, also called Dhivehi or Divehi.
Maldivian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Maldivan
Etymology: From Maldives + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Maldives, the Maldivian people or the Maldivian language.
Malian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malians
Etymology: From Mali + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Mali or of Malian descent.
Hypernyms: sub-Saharan
African
Malian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mali + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Mali or the Malian people.
Malian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malians
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient tribe that resided at the mouth of the river Spercheios in Greece.
Moroccan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moroccans
Etymology: From Morocco + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The group is accused of defaming the state after a British nonprofit, Privacy International, wrote a report based on the testimony of four Moroccans who say they were targets of cybersurveillance by the government.
ref: 2015 November 10, Aida Alami, “Moroccan Government Cracks Down on Journalists and Activists”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person from Morocco or of Moroccan descent.
Moroccan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Morocco + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Another sauce, mainly used as a condiment, is harissa, made from pulverised chillies, garlic, salt and olive oil. Harissa is not generically Moroccan, but nevertheless is often found accompanying tajines and couscous.
ref: 2000, Catherine Hanger, Morocco, page 37:
text: Moroccan curried crab and streaks of minty, lemony yogurt add luxury to a supersimple zucchini soup ($14).
ref: 2009 January 24, Corey Mintz, “Lunching well at Forte bistro and lounge”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Morocco or the Moroccan people.
Derived terms: Moroccan Arabic
Moroccan Darija
Moroccan dirham
Moroccan red
pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊl/
ipa: [pʰɒʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /pɒl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: [pʰɒɫ]
ipa: /poʊl/
ipa: [pʰoʊɫ]
ipa: /pəʉl/
ipa: [pʰəʉɫ]
ipa: [pʰɐʉɫ]
ipa: /pɐʉl/
ipa: [pʰɐʉɫ]
ipa: /pol/
ipa: [pʰoɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: Pole
homophone: poll (one pronunciation or with the doll–dole merger)
Forms: form: poles
form: poling
form: poled
form: poled
Etymology: From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English pāl (“a pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade”), from Proto-West Germanic *pāl (“pole”), from Latin pālus (“stake, pale, prop, stay”), perhaps from Old Latin *paxlos, from Proto-Italic *pākslos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to nail, fasten”). Doublet of peel, pale, and palus.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots pale, paill (“stake, pale”), North Frisian pul, pil (“stake, pale”), Saterland Frisian Pool (“pole”), West Frisian poal (“pole”), Dutch paal (“pole”), German Pfahl (“pile, stake, post, pole”), Danish pæl (“pole”), Swedish påle (“pole”), Icelandic páll (“hoe, spade, pale”), Old English fæc (“space of time, while, division, interval; lustrum”).
Senses: examples: text: Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.
glosses: To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
examples: text: He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.
glosses: To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
examples: text: to pole beans or hops
glosses: To furnish with poles for support.
examples: text: to pole hay into a barn
glosses: To convey on poles.
glosses: To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
examples: text: Long had poled the ball into the lower deck in right center.
ref: 2007, Tony Silvia, Baseball Over the Air:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To strike (the ball) very hard.
examples: text: to pole copper
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
pole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊl/
ipa: [pʰɒʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /pɒl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: [pʰɒɫ]
ipa: /poʊl/
ipa: [pʰoʊɫ]
ipa: /pəʉl/
ipa: [pʰəʉɫ]
ipa: [pʰɐʉɫ]
ipa: /pɐʉl/
ipa: [pʰɐʉɫ]
ipa: /pol/
ipa: [pʰoɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: Pole
homophone: poll (one pronunciation or with the doll–dole merger)
Forms: form: poles
form: poling
form: poled
form: poled
Etymology: From Middle French pole, pôle, from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis of rotation”).
Senses: glosses: To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
Coulterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coulterisms
Etymology: After commentator Ann Coulter + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I found Tonya's speech heavy in Coulterisms but lacking in substantive arguments.
glosses: Something characteristic of or in the manner of Ann Coulter, especially an acrimonious remark.
wikipedia: Ann Coulter
North Korean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: North Koreans
Etymology: From North Korea + -an.
Senses: glosses: A citizen or resident of North Korea.
North Korean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From North Korea + -an.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1960s the Chinese government decided to standardize the Korean-language education for Korean Chinese and adopted the Joseoneo dialect used in North Korea instead of Hangugeo used in South Korea. As a result, Joseonjok in South Korea speak North Korean–accented Korean, which is easily recognizable in South Korea.
ref: 2013, Melody Chia-Wen Lu, Shin Hyunjoon, “Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese”, in Xiang Biao, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Mika Toyota, editors, Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 165:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to North Korea, the North Korean people or the North Korean language.
North Korean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From North Korea + -an.
Senses: examples: text: When you came back you sat in the dark and when someone asked you to speak North Korean, or Chinese, you would do it in your head while saying, "I forgot all that over there."
ref: 1995, Center for the Study of the Korean War, The Hermit Kingdom: Poems of the Korean War, Dubuque, Ia.: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 38:
text: As the Orientals gradually worked into combat it became necessary to have a separate controller to speak North Korean and Chinese.
ref: a. 2011, Walker M[elville] Mahurin, Honest John, Pickle Partners Publishing, published 2016, →ISBN:
text: “He was clearly upset, but what was even more interesting was that he didn’t look North Korean, he looked American.” / American? That was definitely unusual. Most Americans didn’t speak North Korean, and those who were fluent in another language gravitated toward Spanish, French, Italian, and even Russian. / Not a dialect from North Korea. / “And you’re sure about that,” she said, trying to wrap her mind around the information. / “Yeah.” He shrugged. “Could be a coincidence.” / “You know it’s not.” Sun didn’t believe in them. Especially not an American who could speak North Korean.
ref: 2021, Laura Scott, Target for Revenge, →ISBN:
text: Chunmi (aged twenty-six) had lived in South Korea for ten years with her parents who, having arrived in the country in their fifties, had not changed how they spoke. She described how a colleague of her father had heard him speak “North Korean” (pukhan-mal), and promptly reported him to the authorities because they thought he was an illegal immigrant. “If you don't change how you talk, they will think you are Chinese,” she said.
ref: 2023, Jennifer Hough, “The racialization of North Koreans in South Korea: diasporic co-ethnics in the South Korean ethnolinguistic nation”, in Sylvia Ang, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, editors, Asian Migration and New Racism: Beyond Colour and the ‘West’ (Ethnic and Racial Studies), Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: The version of Korean spoken in North Korea.
Puerto Rican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔɹ.təˈɹiː.kən/
ipa: /ˌpwɜː(ɹ).təˈɹiː.kən/
ipa: /ˌpwɛə(ɹ).təˈɹiː.kən/
rhymes: -iːkən
Forms: form: Puerto Ricans
Etymology: From Puerto Rico + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Today many of our newcomers are from Mexico and Puerto Rico. We sometimes forget that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth and therefore cannot be considered immigrants. Nonetheless, they often receive the same discriminatory treatment and opprobrium that were faced by other waves of newcomers. The same things are said today of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans that were once said of Irish, Italians, Germans and Jews: “They’ll never adjust; they can’t learn the language; they won’t be absorbed.”
ref: 1964, John F. Kennedy, “Waves of Immigration-the Post-Revolutionary Forces”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:
synonyms: Boricua
glosses: A person from Puerto Rico.
Hypernyms: American
Puerto Rican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔɹ.təˈɹiː.kən/
ipa: /ˌpwɜː(ɹ).təˈɹiː.kən/
ipa: /ˌpwɛə(ɹ).təˈɹiː.kən/
rhymes: -iːkən
Forms: form: more Puerto Rican
form: most Puerto Rican
Etymology: From Puerto Rico + -an.
Senses: synonyms: word: boricua
glosses: Of, from or relating to Puerto Rico or its people.
Derived terms: word: Puerto Rican infant hypotonia syndrome
taxonomic: Spindalis portoricensis
word: Puerto Rican spindalis
word: Puerto Rican syndrome
word: Puerto Rican tanager
word: Puerto Rican time
word: Puerto Rican Virgin Islands
Qatari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtɑːɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Forms: form: Qataris
Etymology: From Qatar + -i, from Arabic قَطَر (qaṭar).
Senses: glosses: A person from Qatar or of Qatari descent.
Qatari
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtɑːɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Etymology: From Qatar + -i, from Arabic قَطَر (qaṭar).
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Qatar or the Qatari people.
Samoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊən
Forms: form: Samoans
Etymology: From Samoa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Samoa or of Samoan descent.
glosses: The Samoan language.
Samoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊən
Etymology: From Samoa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Samoa, the Samoan people or the Samoan language.
Derived terms: Samoan ebony
Singaporean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋ.(ɡ)əˈpɔː.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɪŋ.(ɡ)əˈpo.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiən
Forms: form: more Singaporean
form: most Singaporean
Etymology: From Singapore (“island and city-state in Southeast Asia”) + -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns).
Senses: examples: text: About mid-day, yesterday, intelligence was received [in?] Town that a Tiger had been kidnapped about three miles out in the Country, or jungle, […] No sooner had the news spread abroad than Offices and high stools were abandoned and such a furbishing up of rusty fire arms took place as had not been witnessed since the foundation of the City. Any one ignorant of the cause might have supposed from the long array of armed hack palankeen carriages that some unknown enemy had landed in the back settlements of Bukit Timah and that nothing but the flower of Singaporean chivalry could serve to stem the torrent of invasion.
ref: 1843 November 15 (date written), “a sportsman” [pseudonym], “Correspondence”, in [William Napier], editor, The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, volume 8, no. 46, number CCCCXXV, Singapore: […] G. M. Frederick at the Singapore Free Press Office, […], published 16 November 1843, →OCLC, page 3, column 1:
text: In Singaporean gardens the rarest of moth orchids are planted in cocoanut-shells and hung from the verandahs, or placed on the mango or orange trees on the lawn, where they soon establish themselves. How many English orchid amateurs would wish for such a genial clime.
ref: 1880, F[rederick] W[illiam] Burbidge, “Singapore”, in The Gardens of the Sun: Or A Naturalist’s Journal on the Mountains and in the Forests and Swamps of Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 18:
text: Below is an example of a typical Singaporean "bento", often wolfed down next to the computer. It's prepared from lots of lousy cooking oil, preserved vegetables, soggy low-quality rice and omelette with more air and oil than egg inside.
ref: 2020, Chan Joon Yee, “What Do I Eat?”, in Not Quite over the Hill: Swinging My Way to 60 and beyond, [S.l.]: Dewdrop Books:
synonyms: S'porean
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or from Singapore, or its language or people.
Derived terms: Singaporean core
Singaporean English
Singaporeanism
Singaporeanization
Singaporeanize
Singaporeanness
S'porean
Singaporean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋ.(ɡ)əˈpɔː.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌsɪŋ.(ɡ)əˈpo.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiən
Forms: form: Singaporeans
Etymology: From Singapore (“island and city-state in Southeast Asia”) + -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he second place was warmly contested by a lad from Macao and a Singaporean, and after a separate examination in History, Astronomy and Geography, in which some very difficult questions were put by the examiners generally, assisted by Dr. [William] Montgomerie—it was decided in favour of the former.
ref: 1837 December 28, “Report [of the Singapore Free Schools]”, in Singapore Institution Free School. Fourth Annual Report. 1837–38. […], Singapore: […] Singapore Free Press Office, published 1838, →OCLC, page 6:
text: A great deal has been done for Singapore by gangs of convicts from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, who, under an experienced and able superintendent, have cut and made excellent roads, that now extend east, west, north, and south, for several miles. […] [T]hey [the roads] also add much to the enjoyment of the Singaporean, by enabling him to extend his ride or drive of an evening.
ref: 1846, G. F. Davidson, “Singapore”, in Trade and Travel in the Far East; or Recollections of Twenty-one Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China, London: Madden and Malcolm, […], →OCLC, page 43:
text: We beg to call the attention of the community to a most interesting book which is proposed to be published by Mr. J[ohn] Thomson, F.R.G.S., who is an old Singaporean and who will be known to many here by his account and photographs of the lost cities of Cambodia.
ref: 1872 October, S. T., “Foreign Items”, in Samuel J[ones] Smith, editor, The Siam Repository, Containing a Summary of Asiatic Intelligence, volume 4, number 4, Bangkok: S. J. Smith’s place, →OCLC, page 394, column 2:
text: Many Singaporeans have fond memories of eating chilli crabs and cockles at its Upper East Coast Road premises, not far from the old Bedok Road, as recently as the early '80s.
ref: 1996 June 23, Magdalene Lum, “40 good years dishing up chilli crabs”, in The Sunday Times, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings, →OCLC, Sunday Plus section, page 5, column 1:
text: I am a Singaporean, and I lived on the island for 20 years before coming to the United States for my college education.
ref: 1997 January 20, Ser Meng Tay, “Singapore: A nation in denial? [letter]”, in Stephen B. Shepard, editor, BusinessWeek, Asian edition, New York, N.Y.: The McGraw-Hill Companies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 2:
text: Chili Crabs or Lobster: This is a popular dish amongst Singaporeans. It is also a common feature in the menus of famous seafood restaurants (along East Coast and Punggol).
ref: 2009, Beatrice Batnag Donofrio, Lawrence Wheeler, 1000+ Indigenous Tasty Cu[i]sine of 23 Asian Countries, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 565:
synonyms: S'porean
glosses: A person from Singapore, or descended from such a person.
Derived terms: S'porean
violon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violons
Etymology: Borrowed from French violon (“violin”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of organ stop producing a string-like sound.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The largest kind of bass viol.
South Korean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: South Koreans
Etymology: From South Korea + -an.
Senses: examples: text: By now South Koreans understand Pyongyang’s logic and know North Korea is highly unlikely to make good on its gothic threats.
ref: 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:
glosses: A citizen or resident of South Korea.
South Korean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From South Korea + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The South Korean brand is after a more sophisticated and — ahem — mature look.
ref: 2016 April 28, Tom Voelk, “Video Review: Hyundai Elantra Offers Fewer Curves, but a Better Ride”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to South Korea or the South Korean people.
violinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violinists
Etymology: From violin + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […] on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
ref: 2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times:
text: Founded in 1975 and led by the violinist Richard Tognetti since 1989, the orchestra looks youthful and hip onstage, its players clad in varying shades of black semiformality.
ref: 2009 May 5, Steve Smith, “A Group That Doesn’t Sit, Adding Bounce to Haydn”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person who plays the violin.
Synonyms: violin
Derived terms: bass violinist
electric violinist
first violinist
second violinist
violinist analogy
violinist argument
botanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒt.ən.ɪst/
ipa: [ˈbɒt.n̩.ɪst]
Forms: form: botanists
Etymology: From botany + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A German botanist gave 'Gandoge' as the locality of an American plant; a package sent by express to 'Sevaber' (an English name), and a letter posted to the town of 'Scur E Quss, Nu Yourck,' arrived safely; and I have seen a handboard directing the traveller to the English-named town of 'Bintgrof'.
ref: 2020, S.S Haldeman, Pennsylvania Dutch, page 9:
text: It’s one of the world’s longest-running experiments, having already gone on for 142 years. And the botanists in East Lansing hope that it will last for at least another 80.
ref: 2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2021:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: botanologer
botanologist
phytobiologist
phytologist
plant scientist
glosses: A person engaged in botany, the scientific study of plants.
Derived terms: archaeobotanist
ethnobotanist
geobotanist
nonbotanist
palaeobotanist
paleobotanist
parabotanist
xenobotanist
Related terms: botanic
botanica
botanical
botanicals
botanical garden
botanically
botanic garden
botanise
botaniser
botanising
botanism
botanize
botanizer
botanizing
botanology
botany
pianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpi.ənɪst/
ipa: /ˈpi.ənɪst/
ipa: /piˈænɪst/
rhymes: (US, Canada) -ænɪst
Forms: form: pianists
Etymology: From French pianiste, from Italian pianista. Analyzable as piano + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: By the time she became the world's greatest pianist, she had already practised for thousands of hours on her prized piano.
text: Table IV shows that the pianists were significantly better on both motor and perceptual timing than the nonpianists.
ref: 1987, Gordon H Bower, The psychology of learning and motivation: advances in research and theory:
text: The pianist was Jason Moran, another Houstonian, for whom the past converges with the present: he sometimes likes to find an unobtrusive sequence inside an old standard and turn it into fresh headlines.
ref: 2010 April 19, Ben Ratliff, “A Mischievous Convergence of Past and Present Jazz”, in The New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A person who plays the piano, particularly with skill or as part of an orchestra.
glosses: A spy using radio or wireless telegraphy to keep in touch with headquarters during the Second World War.
Synonyms: pianofortist
pianoist
piano player
Derived terms: nonpianist
Related terms: fortepianist
Tunisian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈnɪzi.ən/
ipa: /tuːˈnɪʒən/
ipa: /tjuːˈnɪzi.ən/
Forms: form: Tunisians
Etymology: From Tunisia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
glosses: A person from Tunisia or of Tunisian descent.
Tunisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈnɪzi.ən/
ipa: /tuːˈnɪʒən/
ipa: /tjuːˈnɪzi.ən/
Etymology: From Tunisia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: On a recent afternoon in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax, as shoppers hurried around a market buying food and drink for that evening’s iftar meal, a small group of men from sub-Saharan Africa gathered near a stall selling phone accessories.
ref: 2023 March 30, Simon Speakman Cordall, “Tunisian morgue overflows as more people attempt risky sea crossing”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Tunisia, the Tunisian people or the Tunisian language.
firefighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪə(ɹ)ˌfaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.ɚˌfaɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: firefighters
Etymology: From fire + fighter. Created as a gender-neutral term for fireman and firewoman.
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
synonyms: fireperson
smoke eater
glosses: A person who has been trained to put out fires.
Derived terms: nonfirefighter
Related terms: fireperson
Turkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːk.mən/
ipa: /ˈtɝk.mən/
Forms: form: Turcoman
form: Turkoman
form: Turkman
form: Turkmán
form: Türkman
form: Türkmen
Etymology: The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.
Senses: glosses: A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.
Turkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːk.mən/
ipa: /ˈtɝk.mən/
Forms: form: Turkmen
form: Turkmens
form: Turcoman
form: Turkoman
form: Turkman
form: Turkmán
form: Türkman
form: Türkmen
Etymology: The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.
Senses: examples: text: The conquest took 16 years and ended in 1885 in a battle with the Afghans on the banks of the Murghab. During this period, the Turkmens offered the Russians stubborn resistance […]
ref: 2005, Chahryar Adle, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, page 316:
text: Keimir-Ker, a Turkmen from the Tekke clan, led a rebellion against the Persians […]
ref: 2009, Barbara A. West, Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania, page 841:
glosses: A person from Turkmenistan or of Turkmen descent.
Related terms: Turcoman
Turkoman
Turkmenistan
Turkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːk.mən/
ipa: /ˈtɝk.mən/
Forms: form: Turcoman
form: Turkoman
form: Turkman
form: Turkmán
form: Türkman
form: Türkmen
Etymology: The current majority view for the etymology of the ethnonym Türkmen or Turcoman is that it comes from Türk and the Turkic emphasizing suffix -men, meaning "'most Turkish of the Turks' or 'pure-blooded Turks.'" A folk etymology, dating back to the Middle Ages and found in al-Biruni and Mahmud al-Kashgari, instead derives the suffix -men from the Persian suffix -mānind, with the resulting word meaning "like a Turk". While formerly the dominant etymology in modern scholarship, this mixed Turkic-Persian derivation is now viewed as incorrect.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Turkmenistan, the Turkmen people or the Turkmen language.
Turkmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜːk.mən/
ipa: /ˈtɝk.mən/
Forms: form: Türkmen
Etymology: Treated as a plural of the deprecated term Turkman, influenced by English man, plural men.
Senses: glosses: plural of Turkman
hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏk'i
ipa: /ˈhɒki/
ipa: /ˈhɑki/
rhymes: -ɒki
Etymology: 16th century, of unknown origin. Possibly related to hook due to the curvature of the stick, or from French hoquet.
Senses: glosses: Any of a family of sports in which hockey sticks are used to move a ball or puck into a goal.
examples: text: He helped his team beat the opponent at hockey 11-9 in a high-scoring match.
glosses: Field hockey, a team sport played on a pitch on solid ground where players have to hit a ball into a net using a hockey stick.
examples: text: US stadiums are packed in the winter to see ice hockey.
glosses: Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.
Synonyms: word: ice hockey
word: field hockey
word: shinny
word: shinny hockey
Derived terms: air hockey
ball hockey
blind hockey
box hockey
cosom hockey
field hockey
floor hockey
foot hockey
grass hockey
hockey arena
hockey bag
hockey ball
hockey club
hockey cushion
hockey dad
hockey glove
hockey hair
hockeyist
hockey jacket
hockeyless
hockeylike
hockey mask
hockey mom
hockey mother
hockey net
hockey pants
hockey player
hockey puck
hockey rink
hockey skate
hockey sock
hockey socks
hockey stick
hockey stop
hockey tape
Hockeytown
horse hockey
ice hockey
ice sledge hockey
ice sled hockey
inline hockey
inline sledge hockey
inline sled hockey
knock hockey
mini hockey
nonhockey
parahockey
para-hockey
pick-up hockey
pickup hockey
pond hockey
power hockey
quad hockey
road hockey
roller hockey
roller sledge hockey
roller sled hockey
schlockey
shinny hockey
skater hockey
sledge hockey
sled hockey
stand-up hockey
street hockey
table hockey
tonsil hockey
underwater hockey
wheelchair hockey
hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏk'i
ipa: /ˈhɒki/
ipa: /ˈhɑki/
rhymes: -ɒki
Senses: examples: text: “I thought she'd just gone to pee but I reckon she must be making hockey too.”
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
text: My anger surged back a pace. “Harry Boone is a lickspittle, butt kissing, hunk of horse hockey,” I said precisely.
ref: 2014, Gwen Hunter, Bloodstone:
glosses: Feces, excrement.