cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
zedoary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛdəʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈzɛdoʊˌɛɹi/
Forms: form: zedoaries
Etymology: From Medieval Latin zedoārium, from Arabic جَدْوَار (jadwār), from Classical Persian ژدوار (žadwār).
Senses: synonyms: white turmeric
kentjur
glosses: Curcuma zedoaria, a perennial herb native to India and Indonesia.
zedoaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zedoary
solitarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From solitary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e began to retire himſelf to his Chamber to pray for, and pity them [his relations]; and alſo to condole his own miſery; he would alſo walk ſolitarily in the Fields, ſometimes reading, and ſometimes praying: and thus for ſome days he ſpent his time.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 4:
text: In a winter coat and a hat with thick wool lining, Mr. [Piotr] Anderszewski walks solitarily along snow-covered train tracks at a railroad station, as we hear his reflections in a voice-over, in English.
ref: 2009 July 31, Anthony Tommasini, “An ear for Mozart, a taste for paradox”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2022:
glosses: In a solitary manner; alone.
Synonyms: word: alone
word: by one's lonesome
word: by oneself
word: isolatedly
word: lonelily
word: on one's bill
word: on one's lonesome
word: on one's tod
word: singlely
word: singly
word: solitarily
word: solo
Related terms: word: solely
rainwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainwashes
Etymology: From rain + wash.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The washing action of rain, capable of erosion and transporting soil.
glosses: A deposit formed by rain.
rainwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rainwashes
form: rainwashing
form: rainwashed
form: rainwashed
Etymology: From rain + wash.
Senses: glosses: To wash by the action of rain.
rainwashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainwash
pyridostigmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪ.ɹɪ.dəʊˈstɪɡ.miːn/
ipa: /ˌpɪ.ɹɪd.əˈstɪɡ.miːn/
ipa: /ˌpɪɹ.ɪ.doʊˈstɪɡˌmin/
Etymology: From pyrid(ine) + -o- + -stigmine (“acetylcholinesterase inhibitor”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A parasympathomimetic and reversible cholinesterase inhibitor, used to treat muscle weakness and to combat the effects of curariform drug toxicity.
Derived terms: pyridostigmine bromide
Related terms: neostigmine
Lugers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Luger
oligopsonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oligopsonistic
form: most oligopsonistic
Etymology: From oligopsony + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Being or pertaining to oligopsony or to oligopsonists
monopsonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˌnɒpsəˈnɪstɪk/
ipa: /məˌnɑpsəˈnɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more monopsonistic
form: most monopsonistic
Etymology: From monopsony + -istic. Compare earlier monopolistic.
Senses: examples: text: Ghana's monopsonistic cocoa industry continues to be damaged by price exploitation.
text: This paper solves a minimalist growth model with monopsonistic power at the firm level and two production technologies with different degrees of efficiency.
ref: 2024 November 8, Pietro Garibaldi, Enrico Durilio Turri, “Monopsony in Growth Theory”, in CEPR discussion papers, number DP19652:
glosses: Being or pertaining to monopsony.
Derived terms: monopsonistically
marketeering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From marketeer + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, there is nothing new about public relations firms being hired to merchandise candidates for public office, but the similarity of techniques between electioneering and marketeering is not always appreciated.
ref: 1970, Robert Hunter, chapter 17, in The Enemies of Anarchy, New York: Viking, published 1973, pages 143–144:
text: Inspired by the solidarity of the resisting oppressed, they convince themselves that simplicity is the cultural soil from which a new society, purged of marketeering impersonality and trivial excess, grows.
ref: 1987, Todd Gitlin, chapter 6, in The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, New York: Bantam, page 164:
text: […] there’s too much mildly evangelical marketeering mumbo-jumbo about dishes that ‘don’t just look amazing and taste delicious, but are packed with important nutrients that can help you feel and look beautiful too’.
ref: 2017 December 9, Tom Parker Bowles, “That’s using your noodle”, in Daily Mail:
glosses: Marketing, especially when designed to mislead; false advertising.
Related terms: black marketeering
free marketeering
edaphosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edaphosaurids
Etymology: From edaphosaurus + -id.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the genus Edaphosaurus of prehistoric reptiles with a dorsal sail.
edaphosaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edaphosaurid
marketspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marketspaces
Etymology: From market + space, modelled on marketplace.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A virtual marketplace on the Internet.
Synonyms: cybermarketplace
marketspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marketspace
Bangime
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bangi Me
Senses: glosses: A language isolate spoken in Mali.
Related terms: dba ⁠
nonlentiginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lentiginous.
Senses: glosses: Not lentiginous.
anovulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anovulants
Senses: glosses: Any drug that prevents ovulation.
anovulants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anovulant
deathcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From death + -core.
Senses: examples: text: Former Hidden Camera Steven Kado and artist Brian Joseph Davis channel a little John Cage filtered through deathcore music with their performance Alvin Lucifer.
ref: 2009 May 21, “Critics' choice”, in Toronto Star:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An extreme fusion genre of death metal and metalcore.
hybrid warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some, however, have recently added a single intermediate category of “hybrid warfare”: […]. The notion of “hybrid” war makes a valuable contribution in breaking down unhelpful dichotomies between “conventional” and “guerrilla,” and is a clear and important step in the right direction.
ref: 2008, Stephen Biddle, Jeffrey A. Friedman, “The 2006 Lebanon Campaign and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy”, in Strategic Studies Institute, page 28:
text: the changing character of conflict from conventional to irregular and hybrid warfare.
ref: 2009, Patrick M. Cronin, Global Strategic Assessment 2009: America’s Security Role in a Changing World, NDU Press, page 2:
text: Entities using IW [irregular warfare] flout Geneva Convention rules and use nontraditional tools, including weapons of mass destruction, improvised explosive devices, and cyberwar operations. Hybrid warfare is waged using a combination of regular and irregular warfare tools, concepts, and doctrines.
ref: 2013, Jacquelyn K. Davis, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Anticipating a Nuclear Iran: Challenges for U.S. Security, →ISBN, page 200:
text: The US state department said it was “incredibly” concerned about Russia’s campaign of hybrid warfare against the west, amid fears it will escalate following Ukraine’s first use of US-made long-range missiles on targets inside Russia, after the Biden administration lifted restrictions on their use.
ref: 2024 November 19, Andrew Roth, Shaun Walker, Pjotr Sauer, “US and Europe fear escalation of Russian hybrid warfare amid Ukraine missile attacks”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A form of warfare that blends both conventional warfare and irregular warfare, such as cyberwarfare, economic warfare, information warfare, psychological warfare and terrorism using either paramilitary or insurgents.
Derived terms: hybrid war
Related terms: asymmetric warfare
happy hardcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: happycore
glosses: A genre of rave music typified by a very fast tempo and a bright, cheerful sound, often coupled with solo vocals and sentimental lyrics.
periovulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + ovulatory.
Senses: glosses: Around the time of ovulation.
speechcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspiːt͡ʃkɹæft/
/ˈspiːt͡ʃkɹɑːft/
Forms: form: speechcrafts
Etymology: From speech + -craft.
Senses: glosses: The art, skill or science of speech or language.
glosses: Grammar.
speight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /speɪt/
ipa: /spaɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: spate
homophone: spite
Forms: form: speights
form: specht
form: spekt
form: spight
Etymology: From late Northern Middle English specht (“woodpecker”), from Old English *spiht, *speoht, from Proto-West Germanic *spiht, *speht, from Proto-Germanic *spihtaz, *spehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“a kind of bird, woodpecker, magpie”).
Traditionally considered to be borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, but this is rendered problematic by the mention of Spehtesberie in Domesday (Middle English Speghtesbury, Spettesbury; modern Spettisbury). Compare Dutch specht (“woodpecker”), German Specht (“woodpecker”), Danish spætte (“woodpecker”), Latin pīcus (“woodpecker”).
Senses: glosses: A woodpecker.
wikipedia: Domesday
speights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speight
knobkerries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knobkerry
glosses: plural of knobkerrie
excogitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excogitators
Senses: glosses: One who excogitates.
bylands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byland
coronal mass ejection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coronal mass ejections
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A massive burst of solar wind, other light isotope plasma, and magnetic fields rising above the solar corona or being released into space.
Related terms: coronal hole
solar filament
solar flare
solar prominence
superflare
coronal mass ejections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coronal mass ejection
cuspidors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuspidor
orignal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orignals
Etymology: Borrowed from French orignal.
Senses: examples: text: Among these the orignal deserves mention. This is an animal of the size of a mule, with thick hair, of a dark brown colour in summer, and almost entirely white in winter, by many supposed to be a species of elk.
ref: 1760, The critical review, or annals of literature, volume 9, page 299:
glosses: A moose.
Related terms: word: L'Orignal
relative superlatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relative superlative
West Germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors.
examples: text: German and English are sister languages, descended from West Germanic.
ref: 1940, Charles Hart Handschin, Modern-Language Teaching, World Book Company, page 165:
text: The next logical step is to note that the Scandinavian languages, descended from a North Germanic parent, are more distant historically from English than are Dutch and German, which, like English, are descended from West Germanic.
ref: p. 1993, a. 2002, in Donald McLean Lamberton (editor), The Economics of Language, Edward Elgar Publishing (2002), page 93
text: The degree of actual Dutch influence on the Norwich dialect is somewhat difficult to determine for the rather obvious reason that Dutch and English are closely related languages, both descended from West Germanic, and resemblances between Dutch and forms of English are therefore most usually due not to the influence of Dutch on English, or vice versa, but to their common origin.
ref: 2010, Peter Trudgill, Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics: Stories of Colonisation and Contact, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 50:
synonyms: Proto-West Germanic
glosses: The presumed unattested ancestor of these languages (more properly called Proto-West Germanic).
West Germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to these languages.
Related terms: North Germanic
East Germanic
unpublicizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpublicizable
form: most unpublicizable
Etymology: From un- + publicizable.
Senses: glosses: Not publicizable.
unsheared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sheared.
Senses: glosses: Not sheared.
Synonyms: unshorn
murabba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murabbas
form: muraba
Etymology: From Arabic مُرَبَّى (murabbā, “jam, fruit preserves”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of sweet fruit preserve.
Synonyms: varenye
relatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relatabilities
Etymology: From relate + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: But where in the not-too-distant past that would have meant she was an automaton of joy and relatability, Ms. Lovato is already proving to be far more intriguing, and far less predictable.
ref: 2009 July 19, Jon Caramanica, “Tween Princess, Tweaked”, in New York Times:
text: [Charli] D’Amelio seems pretty unfazed by her rise. She’s having fun, hanging out, doing what she wants to do. She can’t tell you why her content has resonated the way it has—her account bio reads, “Don’t worry, I don’t get the hype either”—but she knows it has to do with her relatability. Relatable is to TikTok what aspirational was to Instagram—its most salient, sought-after quality. […] Relatability is also a factor of its algorithm, which suggests new content according to whatever you’ve previously viewed, and reliably scratches the same itch you’ve scratched before.
ref: 2020 July 20, Carina Chocano, “Not So Bored in the House”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: The quality of being relatable.
relatabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relatability
nonrelatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + relatable.
Senses: glosses: Not relatable.
syllabifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syllabification
semon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːmɒn/
Forms: form: semons
Etymology: From sem- as in semantic and semiotics, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”), + -on.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A unit of semiology or semantics.
Coordinate terms: lexon
morphon
phonon
Derived terms: semonic
semolexeme
paper cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper cut
tomahawk mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomahawk marks
Senses: glosses: A marking in a tree or other piece of wood created with a tomahawk, often used to denote property boundaries in frontier settings.
Tutu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tutus
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: desmond
imaginarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌmæ.d͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ɪˌmæ.d͡ʒɪˈnɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: imaginariums
form: imaginaria
Etymology: From imagine + -arium.
Senses: examples: text: To stay as experiential as possible, keeping lectures about imagination to a minimum. This objective is realized when the primary educational content of an Imaginarium program is the participant's own imaginative experience, the participant's visual field. Auditory, tactual, and olfactory imagery are also "modeled."
ref: 1978, The Stanford Engineer, volume 8, page 6:
text: They include "Imaginariums" in shopping malls, where youngsters try out their newly learned skills before the public. Other parts of the programs include performances by professional actors and arts workshops for teachers.
ref: 1985, The Economist, volume 294, page 34:
text: An inner city middle school class under teacher supervision constructed an Imaginarium to create interest in astronomy within science studies. Made from black plastic sheeting held together with duct tape to form a giant plastic bag inflated through a sleeve by a large window fan, students entered the Imaginarium to add their imaginative or real (e.g., the Big Dipper) design for creating a starry, and often pretty accurate, "night sky."
ref: 2005, William Reed Martin, Arvinder K. Johri, Teaching Beyond the Standards, page 55:
text: First, to get the explicit culture-war stuff out of the way: To go deep into the temples of the Disney imaginarium is to feel the irrelevance of any merely political assault upon its cultural position.
ref: 2023 March 3, Ross Douthat, “What a Visit to Disney World Reveals About America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A place devoted to stimulating and cultivating the imagination.
eighty-sixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eighty-six
eighty-sixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eighty-six
eighty-sixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eighty-six
Londono
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Atalanta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀταλάντη (Atalántē, “balanced”), from ἀ- (a-, “used to express unity”) + τάλαντον (tálanton, “balanced”).
Senses: examples: text: It is the Arcadian Atalanta, the daughter of Iasus and Clymene, who is primarily known from the tales of the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonauts. The Boeotian version of Atalanta is the daughter of King Schoeneus and is primarily noted for her skill in the footrace. In both versions of the myth, Atalanta was a local figure allied to the goddess Artemis.^([Wikipedia])
text: Abandoned at birth by her parents, Iasus and Clymene, Atalanta was raised by bears and later rescued by a hunter who taught her the ways of mortals. When Atalanta found fame as a runner and marksman, her parents reclaimed her.
ref: 2001, Suzanne I. Barchers, From Atalanta to Zeus, Greenwood Publishing Group (Teacher Ideas Press), page 17:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A huntress and heroine in Greek mythology, renowned for her great speed and strength; depending on the version of the myth, either the daughter of Iasus (a prince of Arcadia) by Clymene or of King Schoeneus of Boeotia.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The main belt asteroid 36 Atalante.
Derived terms: english: red admiral butterfly
translation: red admiral butterfly
word: Vanessa atalanta
Albanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Alban + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Alba, or Scotland; Scottish
glosses: Of or pertaining to Saint Alban
Related terms: Albanian
breadstuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɹɛdˌstʌf/
Forms: form: breadstuffs
Etymology: From bread + stuff.
Senses: examples: text: [Isaac] Friedlander became the Michael Milken of a new market: California's emerging export trade in breadstuffs.
ref: 1995, Craig Canine, Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture (Sloan Technology Series), Knopf, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour and meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain).
glosses: Bread or breadlike baked goods of any sort.
breadstuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breadstuff
roll one's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rolls one's eyes
form: rolling one's eyes
form: rolled one's eyes
form: rolled one's eyes
Senses: examples: text: […]when these three men looked at the porter, they saw that he was intoxicated; and, observing him narrowly, they thought that he was one of their own class, and said, He is a mendicant like ourselves, and will amuse us by his conversation:—but the porter, hearing what they said, arose, and rolled his eyes, and exclaimed to them, Sit quiet, and abstain from impertinent remarks.
ref: 1859, Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole, The Thousand and One Nights:
text: Woebot was full of tasks and tricks — little mental health hacks — which at first made me roll my eyes. One day Woebot asked me to press an ice cube to my forehead, to feel the sensation as a way of better connecting with my body.
ref: 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times:
text: Once again, the WiFi isn't willing to work. When the guard comes to check tickets, I ask him if it ever works. He rolls his eyes and tells me it rarely does. He says I'll be lucky if I get it to connect. I give up trying.
ref: 2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 54:
glosses: To deliberately turn one's eyes upwards, usually to indicate disapproval, indifference or frustration.
glosses: As definition 1, but indicating flirtation or desire.
bumbledom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌmbl̩dm̩/
Forms: form: bumbledoms
Etymology: From Mr. Bumble, a character in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: With the meekness went a strain of mild obstinacy exquisitely calculated to infuriate the self-important bumbledom of that time, as when the Friends refused to remove their hats before the Court that was to try them.
ref: 1942, G.M. Trevelyan, Illustrated English Social History, Digitized edition, Longman's Green and Co., published 2003:
glosses: bureaucracy; mannerisms characteristic of pompous, arrogant or pretentious officials.
wikipedia: Oliver Twist
bumbledoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumbledom
homebred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌbɹɛd/
Forms: form: home-bred
Etymology: From home + bred.
Senses: glosses: Born or raised in one's own home or country; native, indigenous.
glosses: Homely or rustic; plain, unpolished.
Related terms: homeborn
homebred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌbɹɛd/
Forms: form: homebreds
form: home-bred
Etymology: From home + bred.
Senses: glosses: A person or animal raised at home.
examples: text: He who could have ruined such an undesigning home-bred, must have been indeed infernally wicked.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: An inexperienced or unsophisticated person; a rustic.
zoöcide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoöcides
Senses: examples: text: [A]ny sort of desire for the future to be more responsive to the ecological and the ethical requires a clarification of the system as it now exists, alongside the promotion of wider struggle against structures of zoöcide.
ref: 2006, Steven Best, Anthony J. Nocella, Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, page 402:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zoocide.
tabulæ rasæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabula rasa
tabulae rasae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabula rasa
Greekish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Greekish
form: most Greekish
Etymology: From Middle English grekissh, from Old English Grēcisc, from Grēcas (“the Greeks”) + -isc (“-ish”). By surface analysis, Greek + -ish. Piecewise doublet of Greekesque.
Senses: examples: text: Look better on this virgin, and consider / This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing / In a Greekish dress.
ref: 1624, Philip Massinger, The Bondman:
synonyms: Greeky
glosses: Resembling or having the characteristics of Greek or the Greek people.
fitting rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fitting room
circular arguments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circular argument
cocksmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cocksman
obliviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obliviates
form: obliviating
form: obliviated
form: obliviated
Etymology: Late 14th century, "state or fact of forgetting," from Old French oblivion (13th century) and directly from Latin oblīviōnem (“forgetfulness; a being forgotten”), from oblīvīscī (“forget”), originally "even out, smooth over, efface," from ob- (“over”) + root of lēvis (“smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *lei-w-, from root *(s)lei- (“slime, slimy, sticky”) (see slime (noun)).
Meaning "state of being forgotten" is early 15th century.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: obliterate
text: Time has not yet obliviated the veneration of our jacobins for France, while she was seething with faction and blood […]
ref: 1811, George Grennell, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To forget; to wipe from existence.
Related terms: word: obliviation
word: oblivion
mentonnières
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mentonnière
mentonnière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛn.tənˈjɛɚ/
other: /ˌmɑn.tɔnˈjɛɚ/
Forms: form: mentonnières
form: mentonniere
form: mentonière
form: mentoniere
Etymology: From French mentonnière.
Senses: examples: text: Tilting Helmet, composed of a closed helmet and large mentonière. The skull has a low roped comb, the chin piece opens down the front, the vizor is strongly reinforced by an extra plate on the forehead, […]
ref: 1901, Wallace Collection (London, England), Sir Guy Francis Laking, Catalogue of the European Armour and Arms in the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, page 88
glosses: An item of armor protecting the chin, often identified with or used interchangeably with the bevor.
armets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armet
state secret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state secrets
form: State secret
Senses: examples: text: I'll tell you one great State secret: the Queen, sensible how much she was governed by the late Ministry, runs a little into t'other extreme, and is jealous in that point.
ref: 1711, The Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift, ch. 2: Letter 16:
text: [T]here are another set of rascals prowling about the docks, chiefly at dusk, who make strange motions to you, and beckon you to one side, as if they had some state secret to disclose, intimately connected with the weal of the commonwealth.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, chapter 40, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: "Your brother," he continued, "in his travels on the Continent stumbled by chance upon a State secret of international importance."
ref: 1905, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 5, in A Maker of History:
text: Zimbabwean prosecutors have charged four men including top figures from President Robert Mugabe's party with selling state secrets to foreign agents.
ref: 2005 January 1, Stella Mapenzauswa, “Four face spy charges as Zimbabwe powerplay heats up”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 21 Sep 2010:
glosses: Information which pertains to the affairs of a country, access to which is restricted by the government.
glosses: Personal information which someone would like to keep private, even if ultimately not important.
State secret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: State secrets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of state secret.
setiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːˈtɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more setiferous
form: most setiferous
Etymology: Ante 1850, from seta (“bristle”) + -ferous (“bearing”)
Senses: glosses: Having bristles; bristly.
Synonyms: chaetophorous
setaceous
setigerous
seventy-fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seventy-four
hear things
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hears things
form: hearing things
form: heard things
form: heard things
Senses: examples: text: You didn't hear that? Am I hearing things?
glosses: To imagine that one hears sounds that are not actually real; to have auditory hallucinations.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hear, thing.
Related terms: things
hear voices
see things
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees things
form: seeing things
form: saw things
form: seen things
Senses: examples: text: It was there before. I think I'm seeing things.
glosses: To imagine that one sees things that are not actually present; to have visual hallucinations.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see see, thing.
Synonyms: word: shit
Related terms: hear things
paper ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper tickets
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A conventional airline ticket, consisting of a coupon for each flight together with other administration coupons.
Coordinate terms: e-ticket
MM.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of M. (“Monsieur”)
rice milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rice milks
Senses: glosses: A milky liquid made from rice and used as a milk substitute, cooking ingredient or beverage.
glosses: Milk boiled and thickened with rice.
Hypernyms: plant milk
Coordinate terms: almond milk
coconut milk
hazelnut milk
hemp milk
oat milk
peanut milk
soy milk
hazelnut milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hazelnut milks
Senses: glosses: A milky liquid made from hazelnuts and used as a milk substitute, cooking ingredient or beverage.
Hypernyms: plant milk
Coordinate terms: almond milk
coconut milk
hemp milk
oat milk
peanut milk
soy milk
peanut milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peanut milks
Senses: glosses: A milky liquid made from peanuts and used as a milk substitute.
Hypernyms: plant milk
Coordinate terms: almond milk
coconut milk
hazelnut milk
hemp milk
oat milk
soy milk
monomachia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monomachias
form: monomachy
Etymology: From Latin monomachia, from Ancient Greek μονομαχία (monomakhía); μόνος (mónos, “single, alone”) + μάχομαι (mákhomai, “fight”).
Senses: examples: text: the duello or monomachia
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: A duel; single combat.
monomachias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monomachia
mysterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈstɪəɹɪəm/
ipa: /mɪˈstɪɹiəm/
Forms: form: mysteria
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mystērium. Doublet of mystery.
Senses: examples: text: There are many such mysteria: milk is a mysterium of cheese and butter, and cheese in turn a mysterium of maggots, which were thought to form spontaneously in rotting food.
ref: 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 263:
topics: alchemy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
pseudoscience
glosses: Any of various unknown elements thought to make up existing forms of matter, or a substance seen as an elemental or pure form of something else.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The hypothetical source of a galactic radio emission at 1665 megahertz (later identified as due to hydroxyl radicals in interstellar space).
mysteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mysterium
common dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common dolphins
Senses: glosses: An abundant species of dolphin of the genus Delphinus.
Derived terms: short-beaked common dolphin
long-beaked common dolphin
common dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common dolphin
beaked whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beaked whale
spinner dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinner dolphins
Senses: examples: text: Spinner dolphins of both sexes sometimes engage in orgies of more than a dozen individuals, known as ‘wuzzles’.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59:
glosses: A species of small dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
spinner dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinner dolphin
DFSG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Debian Free Software Guidelines.
proletarianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proletarianizes
form: proletarianizing
form: proletarianized
form: proletarianized
form: proletarianise
form: proletarize
Etymology: From proletarian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The industrial revolution proletarianized small farmers.
glosses: To turn (a person or group) into proletariat.
Derived terms: proletarianization
proletarianise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proletarianises
form: proletarianising
form: proletarianised
form: proletarianised
Etymology: From proletarian + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of proletarianize.
Derived terms: proletarianisation
hyperonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + -onymy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypernymy.
hopl-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏpl
ipa: /hɒpl/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ὅπλον (hóplon, “weapon; piece of armour”); related to hoplite.
Senses: glosses: weapon, arms; armed
Derived terms: word: hoplarchy
word: hoplochristical
word: hoplochrism →
word: hoplognathous
word: hoplology
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: hoplonemertean
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: hoplonemertine
word: hoplophobe
word: hoplophobia
topics: zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: hoplopleurid
Related terms: hoplite
hoplomachist
hoplomachic →
hoplophorous
panoply
hopl-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏpl
ipa: /hɒpl/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ὁπλή (hoplḗ, “hoof”).
Senses: glosses: hoof, hooves; hooved
Derived terms: alt: zoölogy
word: hoplopodous
hoplo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hopl-.
hoplophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hoplophobic
form: most hoplophobic
Etymology: First attested in 1999: hoplophobia + -ic or hoplophobe + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Within days Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association — America’s largest gun-control outfit — showed up on Katie Couric’s smugly hoplophobic NBC “Today” show, “debating” all-guns-to-the-state Congressman Charles Schumer on a typically heads-they-win-tales-we-lose question: whether it is federal or only local authorities who should “mandate” gun locks.
ref: 1999, Vin Suprynowicz, Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993–1998, Mountain Media, →ISBN, page 375, →ISBN:
glosses: Having an irrational fear of guns.
malapropistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the little town of Apogee, he befriends the malapropistic auto mechanic Stiff Major and his holistic hippie wife, Ursula, as well as a revolution-happy country-punk band called the Radniks (say it out loud), and puts his knowledge to work in the real world for the first time.
ref: 2009 July 26, Douglas Wolk, “Shades of Meaning”, in New York Times:
glosses: exhibiting malapropism
Synonyms: catachrestic
catachrestical
malapropian
malapropic
Derived terms: malapropistically
fair-built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fair-built
form: most fair-built
Senses: examples: text: It will laxare animos, refresh the soul of man, to see fair-built cities, streets, theatres, temples, obelisks, etc.
ref: , II.2.4
glosses: Built beautifully; elegantly constructed.
superchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercheries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supercherie.
sparble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sparbles
form: sparbling
form: sparbled
form: sparbled
Etymology: From Middle English sparplen, from Anglo-Norman esparpeler (compare Old French esparpeillier).
Senses: examples: text: but after longe fyght, the vyctory fell vnto the erle of Salesbury, and the other lordys vpon his partye, and the kinges hoost was sparbled and chasyd, and many of his noble men slayne
ref: c. 1509, Robert Fabyan, The New Chronicles of England and France, reprinted 1811 by Henry Ellis, page 636
glosses: to scatter, disperse
thenceafter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: dhĕnsäfʹtər
enpr: dhĕnsăfʹtər
ipa: /ðɛnsˈɑːftə/
ipa: /ðɛnsˈæftə/
Forms: form: thence after
Etymology: From thence + after.
Senses: glosses: After that time; thereafter.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
hoplochrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hŏpʹlōkrĭzm
ipa: /ˈhɒpləʊkɹɪzm/
Forms: form: hoplochrisme
Etymology: Formed as hoplo- (“weapon”) + chrism (“consecrated oil mingled with balm”, “unguent”); equivalent to the Ancient Greek ὅπλον (hóplon, “weapon”) + χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “salve”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hoplochrism.
glosses: The superstitious practice of applying a salve, ointment, or chrism to a weapon that has caused an injury — rather than to the injury itself — in the belief that doing so will heal the wound that the weapon caused; weapon salve.
Derived terms: hoplochristical
hoplochrisme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hoplochrisme.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hoplochrism.
DFTBA
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: D.F.T.B.A.
Etymology: An initialism popularized by the Vlogbrothers, Hank and John Green.
Senses: examples: text: And feel free to subscribe, cause you already know that makes you aware when the newest video is uploaded. Thanks and DFTBA
ref: 2009 May 2, Azrhel, “New option for uploading: formatting tags”, in youtube-howto (Usenet):
text: Hear^([sic])'s a link to his YT channel[.] Enjoy! DFTBA - don't forget to be awesome!
ref: 2009 May 7, jehazl...@gmail.com, “A young EC on the rise.”, in alt.music.eric-clapton (Usenet):
text: I will be out of town this weekend, so I won't be able to make it to the potluck. Sorry! ♥ DFTBA ☮, Ruchira
ref: 2010 June 11, Ruchira Larola, “Who wants to be a superstar?”, in summer-of-solutions-iowa-city-2010 (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of don't forget to be awesome.
wikipedia: Hank Green
John Green (author)
Vlogbrothers
velvet scoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvet scoters
Senses: glosses: An arctic sea duck, Melanitta fusca.
Synonyms: velvet duck
whitewing
baptizeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: baptize + -eth
Senses: examples: text: Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of baptize
necks of the woods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neck of the woods
Voltaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Volta + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: She seemed molded from fire and air, and vivified at some Voltaic pile of August thunder-clouds heaped against the sunset.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta or his work.
Voltaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Volta + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Burkina Faso, previously known as Upper Volta.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Gur languages of Africa, from Niger-Congo family.
Synonyms: Upper Voltaic
Upper Voltan
Voltan
Voltaic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Voltaics
Etymology: From Volta + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person from Upper Volta.
Synonyms: Upper Voltaic
Upper Voltan
Voltan
gerundial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gerund + -ial.
Senses: examples: the gerundial suffix "-ing" in the English language
synonyms: gerundal
gerundive
glosses: Pertaining to or behaving like a gerund.
Derived terms: gerundially
nongerundial
snowy owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowy owl
short-eared owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-eared owls
Senses: glosses: A species of owl, Asio flammeus.
short-eared owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of short-eared owl
long-eared owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long-eared owl
biland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilands
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of byland.
bilands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biland
provulgate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: provulgates
form: provulgating
form: provulgated
form: provulgated
Etymology: From Latin provulgo.
Senses: examples: text: Which, when I know that boasting is an honour, I shall provulgate
ref: 1603, Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello:
glosses: To publish, to make public; promulgate.
contributrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contributrix
ratiocinatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ratiōcinātiō.
Senses: glosses: Reasoning (typically with oneself) by asking questions.
glosses: Making statements, then asking the reason for such an affirmation, then answering oneself.
Related terms: anthypophora
aetiologia
go halves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes halves
form: going halves
form: went halves
form: gone halves
Senses: examples: text: Would you like to go halves on the grocery bill?
text: Let's go halves on this big watermelon.
text: 1906, Edith Nesbit, The Railway Children, Chapter 4: The engine-burglar,
Bobbie couldn't help her face changing a little--not so much because she was disappointed at not getting the engine, as because she had thought it so very noble of Peter, and now she felt she had been silly to think it. Also she felt she must have seemed greedy to expect the engine as well as the sweets. So her face changed. Peter saw it. He hesitated a minute; then his face changed, too, and he said: "I mean not all the engine. I'll let you go halves if you like."
glosses: To divide equally between two parties.
Synonyms: go half and half
go halfsies
go halvers
wedge politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedge politics
Senses: examples: text: It was an ugly example of wedge politics, the politics of division.
ref: 1991 October 29, “Racial politics: Duke victory made GOP fear it had gone too far”, in Arizona Daily Star, USA:
text: John Howard . . . has, quite superbly, controlled the political agenda by wedge politics—by dividing the electorate on some emotional issue and forcing the Opposition to side with the moral but unpopular position.
ref: 2003 March 15, Alan Ramsey, “Hollow ring to Sir Echo”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 20 Sep 2010:
text: The quotes . . . are part of a Conservative divide-and-conquer strategy, said Liberal MP Anita Neville. "It's the worst kind of wedge politics—pitting one group against another: ‘We love you more than they love you,’" she said.
ref: 2009 June 17, “Flyers alleging Ignatieff is anti-Ukrainian cause stir in Manitoba”, in CBC News, Canada, retrieved 20 Sep 2010:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A strategy or pattern of behavior by a politician, political party, or advocacy group which is intended to have a divisive effect on one's political opponents or on the electorate, especially by emphasizing an issue which polarizes opinion along racial, regional, or other demographic lines.
Related terms: wedge issue
planned language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planned languages
Senses: glosses: constructed language
Synonyms: constructed language
conlang