cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Sussex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌs.ɪks/
Forms: form: Sussexes
Etymology: Inherited from Old English Sūþseaxan (literally “South Saxons”), which stood for both Sussex and its people.
The town in New Brunswick may have been named after Sussex, New Jersey. The civil parish is named after the town.
Senses: examples: text: In the blood of the four groups of birds examined, (viz. purebred Sussexes and Bantams and their reciprocal hybrids) distinct differences were found of the content of DNA and RNA between the Sussexes and the three remaining groups.
ref: 1967, Folia Biologica, page 124:
text: In the USSR, Sussexes are distributed in the western and southern parts of the Ukrainian SSR.
ref: 1968, Ė. Ė Penionzhkevich, Poultry: Biology, Breeds and Breeding, page 192:
text: Grouped around the fowl of the second class (see Fig. 3) are such breeds as White Plymouth Rock, Light Sussex, White Cornish, and Kuchinskaya yubileinaya – all meat breeds, apart from the sussexes; […]
ref: 1984, Soviet Genetics, page 534:
text: Spring and summer were more kind and the flock multipled,^([sic]) although no purebred Sussexes had survived the winter.
ref: 1985, Peter Gzowski, The Morningside Papers, McClelland and Stewart in association with CBC Enterprises, published 1986, →ISBN, page 29:
text: In this group fall the medium-size breeds, such as the Plymouth Rocks, Reds, New Hampshires, Sussexes, Orpingtons, Australorps, and others.
ref: 1986, Collier’s Encyclopedia, page 217:
text: Brown eggs come from white Plymouth Rock chickens, New Hampshire chickens, white and dark Cornish chickens, Rhode Island reds, barred Plymouth Rock chickens, and light Sussexes.
ref: 1995 November/December, Paula Poundstone, “Letters to Paula”, in Mother Jones, page 79:
text: [“Egg Color”:] Cream eggs [“Chicken”:] Polish, Sussexes, Faverolles
ref: 2014, The Egg Cookbook: The Creative Farm-to-Table Guide to Cooking Fresh Eggs, Healdsburg Press, →ISBN:
text: Some of the hybrid layers I would recommend are Black Rocks, Skylines, Maran Cuivres, Sussexes, Blacktails, Gold Lines, and Blue and White Leghorns.
ref: 2015, Suzie Baldwin, The Smallholder’s Handbook: Keeping and Caring for Poultry and Livestock on a Small Scale, Kyle Books, →ISBN:
text: The couple currently keeps seventeen chickens—Araucanas, some Sebright bantams, Silkies, speckled Sussexes, and a Maran—in a coop built by Brian.
ref: 2022, Margot Guralnick, Fan Winston, Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home: A Sourcebook for Stylish, Eco-Conscious Living, Artisan, →ISBN:
glosses: A British breed of dual-purpose chicken, reared both for its meat and for its eggs.
Westmorland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛstmələnd/
Forms: form: Wm.
form: Westmoreland
Etymology: From Old English folk name Westmōringas (“the people west of the moors”) + land.
The civil parish in New Brunswick is named analogously to Westmorland County.
Senses: glosses: A former county in northwestern England, since 1974 absorbed into Cumbria.
glosses: A civil parish of Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A city in Imperial County, California, United States.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Appleby-in-Westmorland
Westmorland and Furness
Related terms: Westmoreland
Wiltshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlt.ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪltʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Willshaw
Etymology: From Middle English Wilteschire, from Old English Wiltūnsċīr (Wiltescire 1086 Domesday Book), named after the town of Wilton in the county (Old English Wiltūn).
Senses: examples: text: Wiltshire actually comes from Wiltonshire, for Wilton was once a county town, royal residence and bishopric - a place of significance.
ref: 2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 59:
glosses: An inland county of England bordered by Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Berkshire.
glosses: A unitary authority of the county of Wiltshire, England which includes all of the traditional county except Swindon, a separate unitary authority.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Related terms: word: Wilshire
word: Willshire
Wiltshire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlt.ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪltʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Willshaw
Etymology: From Middle English Wilteschire, from Old English Wiltūnsċīr (Wiltescire 1086 Domesday Book), named after the town of Wilton in the county (Old English Wiltūn).
Senses: examples: Wiltshire bacon; Wiltshire ham; a Wiltshire side
glosses: Prepared using the Wiltshire cure technique.
Related terms: Wiltshire cure
Worcestershire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊs.tə.ʃɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tə.ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɚ.ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɚ.ʃɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɚ.ʃaɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɪs.tɚ.ʃɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈwɪs.tɚ.ʃaɪɚ/
Etymology: From Middle English Wyrcestreschire, from Old English Weogornaċeastresċīr; equivalent to Worcester + -shire.
Senses: glosses: A midland county of England bordered by Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and West Midlands.
Derived terms: Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊs.tə.ʃɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tə.ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɚ.ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɚ.ʃɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈwʊs.tɚ.ʃaɪɚ/
ipa: /ˈwɪs.tɚ.ʃɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈwɪs.tɚ.ʃaɪɚ/
Etymology: From Middle English Wyrcestreschire, from Old English Weogornaċeastresċīr; equivalent to Worcester + -shire.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Worcestershire sauce.
Related terms: Hereford and Worcester
Cumbria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌm.bɹi.ə/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Cumbria, from Cumbri + -ia (compare Old English Cumberland). The ethnonym Cumbri derives from Cumbric *cumbrı, cognate of Welsh Cymry.
Senses: examples: text: On the western side of the island, England and Scotland (and we probably can use these terms now) were still separated by the kingdom of Cumbria or Strathclyde which extended from Penrith to Govan.
ref: 2001, Michael Lynch, editor, The Oxford Companion to Scottish History:
glosses: A Brittonic kingdom in the Old North, also known as Strathclyde.
glosses: A county of northern England, formed in 1974 from Cumberland, Westmorland, and part of Lancashire.
piffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪf.əl/
rhymes: -ɪfəl
Etymology: Unknown, 1847. Perhaps blend of piddle + trifle, perhaps puff (“(onomatopoeia, puff of air)”) + -le (“diminutive”).
Senses: examples: text: The wafflier the piffle, the more sharply Mr Nicholson wields his skewer.
ref: 2008 November 27, “Walking: More than gadding about”, in The Economist:
text: The move is obviously pure piffle: a dumbshow designed to placate (or at least entertain) the conservative base while distracting and antagonising rivals.
ref: 2022 May 31, James Vincent, “Boris Johnson’s move to bring back imperial units is pure piffle – and simply unfathomable”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
glosses: Nonsense, foolish talk.
piffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪf.əl/
rhymes: -ɪfəl
Forms: form: piffles
form: piffling
form: piffled
form: piffled
Etymology: Unknown, 1847. Perhaps blend of piddle + trifle, perhaps puff (“(onomatopoeia, puff of air)”) + -le (“diminutive”).
Senses: glosses: To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
glosses: To waste, to fritter away.
glosses: To be squeamish or delicate.
Synonyms: sense: act or speak in a futile manner
word: trifle
sense: act or speak in a futile manner
word: twaddle
Derived terms: piffler
skiffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪf.əl/
rhymes: -ɪfəl
Senses: examples: text: The cats and the bats—and I hope you dig that one about the bats—played like mad in the backbeat 12, skiffling and skuffling , trying to get under the wire .
ref: 1943, Negro Digest - Volume 2, page 47:
text: In Liverpool, the Quarrymen were one group of teenage Donegan admirers, but there were plenty of others: the Martinis, the Raving Texans, the Bluegenes and the Blackjacks—all skiffling their hearts out .
ref: 2012, Patrick Humphries, Lonnie Donegan and the Birth of British Rock & Roll:
text: They've been skiffling as we talked about in last chapter, and can now play a bit so their interests are broadening.
ref: 2021, Matt Haskins, What Time Are We On?:
glosses: A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.
skiffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪf.əl/
rhymes: -ɪfəl
Forms: form: skiffles
form: skiffling
form: skiffled
form: skiffled
Senses: glosses: To play skiffle.
skiffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪf.əl/
rhymes: -ɪfəl
Forms: form: skiffles
Etymology: From or related to Scots skiffle, from skiff (whence English skiff (“light rain, snow, etc”), which see for more). Related to skift (“light dusting of snow”).
Senses: examples: text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:skiffle.
text: This is when hardy divers such as American mergansers, goldeneyes, buffleheads, and scaup pay my lake a late staging visit, bobbing on the last patches of open water against the season's first skiffles of snow. Gradually the nights get [colder].
ref: 1999, Monte Hummel, Wintergreen: Reflections from Loon Lake:
glosses: Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).
synonyms: word: skiff
extra: (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”)
skiffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪf.əl/
rhymes: -ɪfəl
Forms: form: skiffles
form: skiffling
form: skiffled
form: skiffled
Etymology: From or related to Scots skiffle, from skiff (whence English skiff (“light rain, snow, etc”), which see for more). Related to skift (“light dusting of snow”).
Senses: examples: text: As I am sitting at the stoplight under the maple and oak and cedar trees I see three tiny kids skiffling and shuffling and skittering and scuffling In the leaves
ref: 2016, Brian Doyle, The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be, page 87:
text: He shakes his head in puzzlement and bends for the suitcases, his Salvation Army shoes encased in plastic bread bags for protection skiffling in the gravel as he resumes his pilgrimage, this rabbit-faced disciple of the Lord, his little grey teeth overhanging his thin lower lip.
ref: 2016, Kyp Harness, Wigford Rememberies:
text: Peter set off at a run, his feet skiffling up sand, his muscles cramping , his bones shrieking .
ref: 2018, Kirsty Logan, The Gloaming:
text: Shame blew through me in circles like a typhoon over Lake Tanganyika, skiffling the cool, calm waters into tidal waves.
ref: 2020, Sasha Lauren, The Paris Predicament, page 193:
glosses: To move in a way that stirs up and moves anything loose lying on the surface.
este
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of est.
chronocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chronocidal
form: most chronocidal
Etymology: From chrono- + -cidal.
Senses: examples: text: Visit the rest of the website for even more chronocidal amusement.
glosses: Serving to kill or waste time.
lobsterback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobsterbacks
Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of lobster + back, from the resemblance to lobsters of the red coats worn by the British soldiers.
Senses: synonyms: lobster
redcoat
glosses: A British soldier during the War of 1812.
barracoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barracoons
Etymology: From Spanish barracón, barraca.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond Cape Palmas, the coast line is a beach of bright white sand, from which the slave barracoons have now disappeared […].
ref: 1863, Richard F. Burton, Wanderings in West Africa, Dover Publications 1991 edition, volume II, page 36:
text: He was now a prisoner, and—thrust into a suffocating barracoon, herded with the foulest of mankind, with all imaginable depths of blasphemy and indecency sounded hourly in his sight and hearing—he lost his self-respect, and became what the jailers took him to be […].
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 53:
glosses: A temporary cage for holding (originally) black slaves, and later convicts and other types of prisoners.
inebriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭ-nēʹbrē-ā-tĭd
ipa: /ɪˈniː.bɹi.eɪ.tɪd/
Forms: form: more inebriated
form: most inebriated
Etymology: From Latin inēbriātus, past participle of inēbriō (“intoxicate”) from in- + ēbrius (“drunk, intoxicated”) from Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrjos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s from root *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”); whence also ebrious and inebriate.
Senses: examples: text: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
glosses: Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.
Synonyms: sense: behaving as though affected by alcohol
word: drunk
sense: behaving as though affected by alcohol
word: intoxicated
Derived terms: uninebriated
inebriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭ-nēʹbrē-ā-tĭd
ipa: /ɪˈniː.bɹi.eɪ.tɪd/
Etymology: From Latin inēbriātus, past participle of inēbriō (“intoxicate”) from in- + ēbrius (“drunk, intoxicated”) from Proto-Italic *ēɣʷrjos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēgʷʰ-ryo-s from root *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”); whence also ebrious and inebriate.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inebriate
rough trot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rough trots
Senses: examples: text: Fred is having a rough trot.
glosses: A series of difficult circumstances.
dreadfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɛd.fʊl.i/
Forms: form: more dreadfully
form: most dreadfully
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dredfully, dradefullich, dredefullich; equivalent to dreadful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You behaved dreadfully yesterday night
text: The smellful old heathen was snoring dreadfully.
ref: 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 222:
glosses: In a dreadful manner; terribly.
examples: text: That restaurant seems dreadfully expensive.
text: At that moment a curious crack sounded inside the statue, as if something had broken. The fact is that the leaden heart had snapped right in two. It certainly was a dreadfully hard frost.
ref: 1888, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales:
text: “Here it is,” said Eddie. “‘Why Must it Always be Tomato Soup?’ It's so deeply true, don't you feel? Tomato soup is so dreadfully eternal.”
ref: 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, pages 135–136:
glosses: Exceptionally, eminently, very much.
perjury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəɹi/
Forms: form: perjuries
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman perjurie, from Latin perjūrāre (“swear falsely”), from per- + jūrāre. Displaced native Old English mānāþ (literally “false oath”).
Senses: examples: text: We declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
topics: law
glosses: The deliberate giving of false or misleading testimony under oath.
Synonyms: oathbreach
false testimony
testilying
testiphony
Derived terms: nonperjury
perjury trap
Related terms: perjure
richest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of rich: most rich
climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪ̯mɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: climbings
Etymology: From Middle English clymbyng; equivalent to climb + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The next day, the team had to wear special ice climbing footwear while repairing other research devices on the glacier.
glosses: The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.
glosses: Climb; ascent.
Derived terms: anticlimbing
board climbing
climbing-boy
climbing kiln
climbing shoe
climbing wall
directory climbing
free climbing
hillclimbing
ice climbng
mixed climbing
speed climbing
stairclimbing
superclimbing
climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪ̯mɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English clymbyng; equivalent to climb + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of climb
Derived terms: climbingly
unclimbing
climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪ̯mɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English clymbyng; equivalent to climb + -ing.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.
raw_tags: of a plant
Derived terms: American climbing fern
climbing fern
climbing fig
climbing wattle
Japanese climbing fern
Related terms: bouldering
sloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slopers
Etymology: From slope + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If one saw only the Rheims benches, one would scarcely prefer the slopers to horizontal retorts with good stoking machinery ; as for instance the Ross stoker at the Cincinnati gas works.
ref: 1897, American Gas Light Journal - Volume 66, page 861:
text: Yeah, that new pair of half-slopers really works — a lot better than the old inverted-V they're made from, ha ha!
ref: 2007, Mark J. Wilson, The ARRL Operating Manual for Radio Amateurs, →ISBN, page 7-1:
glosses: Something which angles or slopes, as distinguished from one that is vertical or horizontal.
glosses: A climbing hold that has a smooth surface and sloping shape, making it difficult to hold.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A custom-fitted basic pattern from which patterns for many different styles can be created.
examples: text: The wages of slopers, so far as they have been found designated as such on the pay rolls, are given in Table 63.
ref: 1914, Nahum Isaac Stone, Royal Meeker, Wages and Regularity of Employment and Standardization of Piece Rates in the Dress and Waist Industry: New York City, page 145:
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: An assistant or apprentice cutter.
examples: text: In this work he displayed an energy and courage that not only disgusted the slopers, but likewise astonished the police authorities.
ref: 1883 December 15, Charles Dickens, “Mr. Out-You-Go”, in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 53, page 87:
glosses: A member of the peerage who has fallen from wealth but maintains social contacts.
flocculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflɒkjʊˈlɛɪ̯ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: flocculations
Etymology: From floccule + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Repeated use of this type of [water] on plants results in deflocculation[] of the soil. Good quality soil consists of loose aggregates which provide natural aeration and ease of root run. Sodium accumulation in soil destroys this natural flocculation and causes the soil to pack.
ref: 1972 November 5, Joan Lee Faust, “AROUND THE Garden”, in The New York Times:
text: It might seem that Mr. Holl, whose initial sketches are glorious watercolors, was an unlikely candidate for a job that is all about hydrodynamics. But he credits much of his inspiration to repeated meetings with engineers -- as many as 30 at a time -- to discuss topics like "flocculation" (the process by which particles form coagulated masses, or flocs).
ref: 2005 February 27, Fred A. Bernstein, “In My Backyard, Please: The Infrastructure Beautiful Movement”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A condition in which clays, polymers or other small charged particles become attached and form a fragile structure, a floc.
Derived terms: bioflocculation
reflocculation
Related terms: aggregation
coagulation
nowhen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From no + when, by analogy with nowhere. See quotation from 1996.
Senses: examples: text: I want to show that if we want to understand the asymmetry of time then we need to be able to understand, and quarantine, the various ways in which our patterns of thought reflect the peculiarities of our own temporal perspective. We need to acquaint ourselves with what might aptly be called the view from nowhen.
ref: 1996, Huw Price, Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point, Oxford University Press:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A point from which one has an unrestricted perspective in time.
nowhen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From no + when, by analogy with nowhere. See quotation from 1996.
Senses: examples: text: Again, whatever is not here nor there, now nor then, is capable of being nowhen or nowhere; and so all things which consist of parts, though they may exist always (like Time) or everywhere (like the Universe),[…]
ref: 1915, Clement Charles Julian Webb, Studies in the History of Natural Theology, page 186:
text: Do they have continuous existence, nowhere and nowhen, or are they created as needed by categorial reason? On what ground can we postulate them in order to define truth? If they merely copy the world why do we need them and how do we[…]
ref: 2017 October 3, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 220:
glosses: In or at no (point in) time.
Related terms: nowhen else
narcissus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑɹˈsɪsəs/
rhymes: -ɪsəs
Forms: form: narcissuses
form: narcissi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos), ultimately either from Pre-Greek or related to νάρκη (nárkē).
Senses: examples: text: The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Pastoral. Or, Alexis.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
ref: 2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):
glosses: Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
glosses: A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus
Derived terms: narcissus-flowered anemone
nasturtium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nasˈtɜːʃəm/
ipa: /nəsˈtɜːʃəm/
ipa: /næsˈtɝʃəm/
ipa: /nəsˈtɝʃəm/
Forms: form: nasturtiums
form: nasturtia
form: nasturtian
form: nasturtion
Etymology: From Middle English nasturcium, from Old English nasturcium (“watercress”), from Latin nasturtium.
Senses: examples: text: To me a nasturtium by the river brink is more than a simple flower. It is a broader, grander, more magnificent, more stupendous symbol. It may mean anything, everything—such as sunsets and conflagrations and Götterdämmerungs!
ref: 1915, Robert W. Chambers, “Un Peu d'Amour”, in Police!!!:
text: Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.
ref: 1922, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “At the Bay”, in The Garden Party, London: Constable & Company, page 1:
glosses: The popular name of any of the plants in the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America.
synonyms: monks cress
Indian cress
glosses: A plant in this genus, garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus).
glosses: Any of the plants in the genus Nasturtium that includes watercress.
Derived terms: garden nasturtium
chrono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: chron-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos).
Senses: glosses: time
Synonyms: temporo-
Related terms: anachronism
chronic
cron
crony
synchronization
synchrony
-cidal
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -cide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Used to make adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -cide.
Derived terms: -cidality
-cide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-saɪd/
Forms: form: -icide
Etymology: From Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīdium (“killing”).
Senses: glosses: killing
-cide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /-saɪd/
Forms: form: -icide
Etymology: From Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”), from caedō (“cut, kill”).
Senses: glosses: killer
chronocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chrono- + -cide.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:chronocide.
glosses: The act of killing time.
kill time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills time
form: killing time
form: killed time
form: killed time
Senses: examples: text: She had nothing better to do, so she went to the bowling alley to kill time.
text: Mrs. Autumn […] lay in bed always till it was very late this being one of those happy expedients for killing time (as the fashionable phrase is) which, to discover, employs the inventions of persons of rank and fortune.
ref: 1758, Charlotte Lennox, Henrietta, London: A. Millar, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 3, p. 129:
text: I had no intention of delivering my letter at the present moment, nor have I. But strolling on to the Bank to kill time, and having the good fortune to observe at the window […] a lady of a very superior and agreeable appearance, I considered that I could not do better than take the liberty of asking that lady where Mr. Bounderby the Banker does live.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “Effects In The Bank”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Reaping), page 144:
text: You were still out, so she drove back downtown and went to a movie to kill time until after midnight, when she thought she’d be more likely to find you in.
ref: 1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 12, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, pages 137–138:
text: The night air was passably cool and he strolled through the town at a measured pace, killing time till bedtime.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 14:
text: This was uneventful, except that I found myself consistently running in front of a fairly comfortable schedule, and after trying No. U.1 out on the bank from Creil to Survilliers with great success, had to kill some 8min time gained on the descent, a task which proved impossible, even though we were stopped opposite La Chapelle.
ref: 1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 151:
text: 1982, Adele Geras, The Green behind the Glass (U.S. title: Snapshots of Paradise), Lions Teen Tracks,
She’s up there now, thought Bella, up in that freezing studio, killing time till the child comes home, mooning, dreaming, turning disjointed thoughts over in her head, and we'll pay for it.
glosses: To engage in an activity whose only purpose is to make the time seem to pass more quickly; to fill the time between activities.
Derived terms: kill-time
Related terms: time killer
time to kill
chronocide
killing time
waste time
subarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sʌbˈɑːktɪk/
/sʌbˈɑːtɪk/
Forms: form: the subarctic
form: sub-Arctic
Etymology: From sub- + Arctic.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The region immediately outside of the Arctic Circle or regions similar to these in climate or conditions of life.
subarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sʌbˈɑːktɪk/
/sʌbˈɑːtɪk/
Forms: form: sub-Arctic
Etymology: From sub- + Arctic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of the subarctic.
subarctic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sʌbˈɑːktɪk/
/sʌbˈɑːtɪk/
Forms: form: subarctics
form: sub-Arctic
Etymology: From sub- + Arctic.
Senses: glosses: A subarctic region.
Mebyon Kernow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cornish, meaning "Sons of Cornwall".
Senses: glosses: A left-of-centre political party that campaigns for greater self-government for Cornwall.
pansy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæn.zi/
rhymes: -ænzi
Forms: form: pansies
form: pancy
Etymology: From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
Senses: examples: text: The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Pastoral. Or, Alexis.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: Oh, what a perfect thought. Lilies-of-the-valley, and white pansies, double white violets and white velvet ribbon… From an unknown friend. … From one who understands. … For a Little Girl.
ref: 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 271:
glosses: A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
glosses: A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
synonyms: argus
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.
synonyms: word: big girl's blouse
word: candy-arse
word: candy-ass
word: milksop
word: milquetoast
word: namby
word: namby-pamby
word: nestle-cock
word: pansy
word: pantywaist
word: poon
word: pushover
word: pussy
word: sissy
word: softy
word: tenderling
word: weakling
word: weenie
word: wimp
word: wuss
word: wussy
glosses: A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
synonyms: word: bading
word: big girl's blouse
word: cockney
word: cot-quean
word: cupcake
word: dudelet
word: fakaleiti
word: fairy
word: femboy
word: gentleman
word: ginch
word: girl's blouse
word: girlyman
word: janegirl
word: jessie
word: nancy
word: nancyboy
word: nancy pants
word: pansy
word: Percy
word: poof
word: poofter
word: posy sniffer
word: pretty boy
word: puss-gentleman
word: quiche-eater
word: sissy
word: softling
word: soy boy
word: swish
word: twink
word: zenana
glosses: A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
Derived terms: Bertoloni's pansy
chocolate pansy
horned pansy
nansy pansy
pansyish
pansylike
pansy orchid
pansy shell
sea pansy
pansy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæn.zi/
rhymes: -ænzi
Etymology: From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
Senses: glosses: Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
glosses: Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
Derived terms: blue pansy
pansified
pansification
wild pansy
Related terms: pensive
poise
peso
pansy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæn.zi/
rhymes: -ænzi
Forms: form: pansies
form: pansying
form: pansied
form: pansied
Etymology: From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
Senses: glosses: To mess about; to fail to get things done.
raw_tags: with "around" or "about"
Related terms: heartsease
Johnny-jump-up
pasque flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasque flowers
Etymology: Pasque is from a French word for Easter (Old French Pasque (“Easter”) or Middle French Pasques (“Easter”), related to Pesach (“Passover”)), because they bloom around Easter.
Senses: glosses: Any of various deciduous perennial flowering plants, of the genus Pulsatilla, found in clumps in certain grassland areas.
glosses: Synonym of American pasqueflower.
synonyms: word: American pasqueflower
Passion flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Passion flowers
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of passion flower.
pelargonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛlɑːrˈɡoʊni.əm/
rhymes: -əʊniəm
Forms: form: pelargoniums
form: pelargonia
Etymology: From translingual Pelargonium, from Ancient Greek πελαργός (pelargós, “stork”).
Senses: examples: text: The growing of pelargoniums in this country is increasing and they are destined to come to the front and stay there. The pelargoniums that have been distributed during the past several years are giving great satisfaction, combining as they do new shades of color […].
ref: 1897 April 3, American Florist, volume XII, number 461, page 823:
synonyms: geranium
storksbill
glosses: Any of various flowering plants of the genus Pelargonium, similar to (and often confused with) true geraniums, but less hardy and often cultivated as annuals for ornamental purposes.
peony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːəni/
Forms: form: peonies
form: paeony
form: pioney
form: piony
Etymology: From Old English peonie, peonia et al., from Latin paeōnia; later reinforced by Anglo-Norman peonie, Old French peone, pyoine (French pivoine), from Latin paeōnia, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek παιωνία (paiōnía), from Ancient Greek Παιών (Paiṓn, “Paeon, the physician of the gods”)/παιών (paiṓn, “a physician”).
Senses: examples: text: The root of the Male Peony fresh gathered has been found by experience to cure the falling-sickness.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 219:
text: There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Peony would keep away any kind of storms. Mugwort hung over doorways on Midsummer's Day, June 24, would keep off lightning, as St. John's-Wort would if gathered before sunrise on that day.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:
text: Mr. Farzan’s narrow backyard in Brooklyn’s South Slope neighborhood is a lush, if slightly chaotic, oasis. There are Fuji apples, Meyer lemons, figs, peonies and avocados — although that’s far from a complete census of all that grows there.
ref: 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A flowering plant of the genus Paeonia with large fragrant flowers.
examples: text: She was a fine and handsome girl—not handsomer than some others, possibly—but her mobile peony mouth and large innocent eyes added eloquence to colour and shape.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), page 18:
glosses: A dark red colour.
Derived terms: peonidin
peonylike
petunia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtʲuːni.ə/
ipa: /pəˈtʲuːnjə/
ipa: /pəˈtʃuːnjə/
ipa: /pəˈtuːniə/
ipa: /pəˈtuːnjə/
Forms: form: petunias
Etymology: From New Latin Petunia, from (now obsolete) French pétun (“the tobacco plant”), from Portuguese petum (“tobacco”), from Paraguayan Guaraní pety.
Senses: examples: text: Usually petunias are quite pest free, but aphids are occasional problems.
ref: 2002, Larry Hodgson, Annuals for Every Purpose, page 57:
text: The small purple petunias are produced in profusion and without ceasing during the entire season.
ref: 2003, Norman Winter, Tough-As-Nails Flowers for the South, page 39:
text: Closely related calibrachoas, often called miniature petunias, offer dainty petunia-like blossoms that are perfect for planting in pots.
No matter what type of petunias you choose, they all prefer plenty of sun.
ref: 2013, Jan Riggenbach, Your Midwest Garden: An Owner's Manual, page 18:
glosses: Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids.
glosses: A dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.
glosses: a homosexual
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ruellia ciliatiflora
word: hairyflower wild petunia
word: Petunia vein banding virus
word: petunidin
petunia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtʲuːni.ə/
ipa: /pəˈtʲuːnjə/
ipa: /pəˈtʃuːnjə/
ipa: /pəˈtuːniə/
ipa: /pəˈtuːnjə/
Etymology: From New Latin Petunia, from (now obsolete) French pétun (“the tobacco plant”), from Portuguese petum (“tobacco”), from Paraguayan Guaraní pety.
Senses: glosses: Of a dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.
phlox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒks/
enpr: fläks
ipa: /flɔks/
rhymes: -ɒks
homophone: flocks
homophone: Flox
Forms: form: phlox
form: phloxes
Etymology: From New Latin Phlox, from Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”).
Senses: glosses: Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.
Derived terms: creeping phlox
Drummond's phlox
moss phlox
mountain phlox
phloxlike
phlox worm
woodland blue phlox
poinsettia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔɪnˈsɛ.tɪə/
ipa: /ˌpɔɪnˈsɛ.t(i)ə/
Forms: form: poinsettias
Etymology: After the obsolete genus name Poinsettia, named after Joel Roberts Poinsett (19th-century US minister to Mexico); equivalent to Poinsett + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: Masses of scarlet Poinsettias glowed bravely against the dark green background formed by broad-leafed plantains, whose great tattered leaves rustled with every gust of wind that reached them.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 22:
text: “So red,” she said of the poinsettias behind Florencia, which Jacquie didn’t even like because of how even the real ones look fake.
ref: 2018, Tommy Orange, “Jacquie Red Feather”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: A plant, Euphorbia pulcherrima, with rather small and insignificant flowers surrounded by large bright red leaves; native to Mexico and Central America and widely cultivated as a garden plant.
wikipedia: Joel Roberts Poinsett
Synonyms: sense: Euphorbia pulcherrima
word: Christmas star
sense: Euphorbia pulcherrima
word: Mexican flame leaf
diarrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əˈɹiː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: diarrheas
form: diarrhoea
form: diarrhœa
Etymology: From Middle English diaria, from Middle French diarrie (French diarrhée), from Late Latin diarrhoea, from Ancient Greek διάρροια (diárrhoia, “through-flowing”), from διά (diá, “through”) + ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”). By surface analysis, dia- + -rrhea. Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots.
Displaced native Old English ūtsiht (literally “straining out”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A gastrointestinal disorder characterized by frequent and very soft or watery bowel movements.
examples: text: My Pampers bill is higher than your paycheck, my hands are raw from washing them every six minutes, and I do eight loads of laundry a day because everything we own is covered in diarrhea, and you want me to "plug him up" and wait another three weeks?
ref: 2008, Danna Korn and Connie Sarros, Gluten-Free Cooking for Dummies, Chapter 1
text: I looked and saw that she and her hammock were covered in diarrhea.
ref: 2009, Daniel Everett, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, page 47:
text: Why was she covered in diarrhea?
ref: 2014, L. A. Knight, Dog Training the American Male, page 221:
glosses: The watery or very soft excrement that comes from such bowel movements.
Synonyms: sense: medical condition
word: poop water
sense: medical condition
word: the runs
sense: medical condition
word: the shits
sense: medical condition
word: the squirts
sense: medical condition
word: the trots
sense: medical condition
word: the squits
sense: medical condition
word: the skitters
sense: medical condition
word: loose motion
word: bubble guts
word: craps
word: diarrhea
word: dysentery
word: Hershey squirts
word: lask
word: runs
word: shits
word: skitters
word: squirts
word: squits
word: trots
word: LBM
Hypernyms: word: defecation
word: feces
Hyponyms: word: Montezuma's revenge
word: Pharaoh's revenge
Derived terms: antidiarrhea
bangorrhea
bovine viral diarrhea
diarrheagenic
diarrhea of the mouth
diarrheogenic
keyboard diarrhea
pseudodiarrhea
runner's diarrhea
travelers' diarrhea
traveler's diarrhea
Twitterrhea
verbal diarrhea
Related terms: antidiarrheal
diarrheal
diarrheic
galactorrhea
galactorrhoea
gonorrhea
gonorrhoea
logorrhea
logorrhoea
pyorrhea
pyorrhoea
rheology
constipation
piss out one's ass
stroppy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɒpi/
rhymes: -ɒpi
Forms: form: stroppier
form: stroppiest
Etymology: From obstropulous, obsolete slang form of obstreperous, + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In this case, the application of the famous method was a little shaky. To be fair, the director was dealing with a pretty stroppy cast.
ref: 1989, Kenneth Branagh, Beginning, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Her shape and posture shadowed her daughter′s, though Kerry carried herself with more attitude, a stroppier jutting of the hips than her mother.
ref: 2004, Simon Brett, The Hanging in the Hotel, Pan Macmillan UK:
text: Even today, women who show signs of anger and who express themselves in some assertive way may be labelled stroppy for doing so.
ref: 2010, Gillian Bloxham, W. Doyle Gentry, Anger Management For Dummies, UK edition:
text: The people who actually produced the paper, mainly the printers, were a stroppier lot, with a more aggressive union.
ref: 2010, Alexandra Bell, Rising to the Deadline, Trafford Publishing, Canada, page 140:
text: Davina told me earlier that Luke was the stroppiest patient she'd ever had and that he'd given her a lecture on how inefficient and time-wasting her medical was.
ref: 2010, Sophie Kinsella [pseudonym; Madeleine Wickham], Mini Shopaholic, page 341:
glosses: Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
Derived terms: stroppily
stroppiness
Related terms: english: unrelated
translation: unrelated
word: strop
scordatura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian scordatura (“discord”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: cross-tuning
guild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
homophone: gild
homophone: gilled
Forms: form: guilds
form: gild
Etymology: From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld.
Senses: examples: text: The swinging of its censers, the silence of its members / Oh, the Guild of Mute Assassins
ref: 2003, “Guild of Mute Assassins”, performed by Clutch:
glosses: A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans, particularly in the Middle Ages, established to oversee and protect their specific commercial interests and to provide mutual aid.
glosses: A corporation.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
topics: video-games
glosses: An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.
Synonyms: sense: medieval professional associations
english: merchants
translation: merchants
word: Hanse
sense: modern professional associations
word: trade union
sense: modern professional associations
word: union
sense: modern professional associations
word: professional association
Derived terms: altar guild
extraguild
frithguild
guildable
guildic
guildie
guildless
guildlike
guildmaster
guildmate
guildmember
guildmistress
guildship
guildwide
intraguild
Related terms: sense: meeting place
word: guild hall
sense: meeting place
word: guildhall
sense: meeting place
word: guildsman
sense: meeting place
word: guildswoman
sense: meeting place
word: common house
sense: meeting place
word: common hall