cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Dominican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈmɪn.ɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˌdɒ.mɪˈniː.kən/
ipa: /dəˈmɪn.ɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˌdɑ.mɪˈni.kən/
ipa: /dəˈmɪn.ɪ.kən/
Forms: form: more Dominican
form: most Dominican
Etymology: From Dominica + -an & Dominic + -an. Compare Latin dominicānus.
Senses: examples: text: And while the Dominican economy grew by 4.9% last year, high inflation rates in both 2022 (8.8%) and 2023 (4.8%) have taken a toll on the population’s quality of life.
ref: 2024 May 17, Jessica Hasbun, “The Dominican Republic votes on Sunday. Here’s what to know”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 May 2024:
synonyms: Dominican Republican
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Dominican Republic, or its people.
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Dominica, or its people.
examples: text: The first night, I did nothing more than have a glass of wine at Faust Wine Cellar, located under the Dominican cloister that houses the Hilton Budapest Hotel in the Buda Castle complex.
ref: 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2014:
synonyms: Jacobin
glosses: Of or belonging to the Dominican religious order.
Derived terms: Dominicanness
Related terms: dominical
Dominic
what's your name
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of what is your name.
I'm fine, thank you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: The expected, polite response to how are you?
my name is
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A common way to identify oneself.
Related terms: what is your name?
where is the toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: where are the toilets
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: Direct me to the restroom (US) or WC (British).
what time is it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: what's the time
Senses: glosses: What is the time of day? (used to request for the current hour and approximate number of minutes after the hour)
Synonyms: word: how goes the enemy
word: what o'clock is it
word: what time have you got
Related terms: o'clock
what day is it today?
many thanks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An expression of gratitude, expressing greater gratitude than thank you or thanks.
Related terms: thanks a lot
thank you very much
Toki Pona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊki ˈpəʊnə/
ipa: /ˈtoʊki ˈpoʊnə/
Forms: form: toki pona
Etymology: From Toki Pona toki pona (literally “good language”), formed from toki (“language”) (from Tok Pisin tok, from English talk) + pona (“good”) (from Esperanto bona (“good”), ultimately from Latin bonus).
Senses: examples: text: While it’s true that these days your best hope for getting a community to take up your invented language is to attach it to a blockbuster movie, there have been some limited successes in other realms. Toki Pona was invented to promote positive thinking.
ref: 2010 March 10, Arika Okrent, “Questions Answered: Invented Languages”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2025:
text: In contrast to the hundreds or thousands of study hours required to attain fluency in other languages, a general consensus among Toki Pona speakers is that it takes about 30 hours to master.
ref: 2015 July 15, Roc Morin, “How to Say Everything in a Hundred-Word Language”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2017:
text: Within his deep dive, Watts speaks to a couple of Toki Pona speakers (including a musician who makes songs in the constructed language) to better understand this fascinating system of communication.
ref: 2024 February 1, Tom Hale, “Toki Pona: The Unique Language With Less Than 150 Words”, in IFLScience, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:
glosses: A minimalist constructed language with creole-like elements designed by Sonja Lang.
Derived terms: tokiponido
tokiponist
tokiponization
tokiponize
limb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
homophone: limn
homophone: Lymm
Forms: form: limbs
Etymology: From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.
Senses: examples: text: UUhoſe hands are made to gripe a warlike Lance—
Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit,
Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize
Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
text: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), pages 377–378:
glosses: A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
synonyms: bough
glosses: A branch of a tree.
topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The part of the bow, from the handle to the tip.
glosses: An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
examples: text: That little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows.
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 thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
glosses: Ellipsis of limb of Satan (“a wicked or mischievous child”).
Synonyms: word: limb
Hyponyms: word: arm
word: leg
word: wing
Derived terms: belimb
CHILD syndrome
dislimb
forelimb
go out on a limb
hind limb
interlimb
intralimb
life and limb
limb brightening
limb darkening
limb from limb
limbless
limbline
limb-mammary syndrome
limbmeal
limb of the law
limbward
limby
mooselimb
out on a limb
phantom limb
risk life and limb
risk one's life and limb
Roux limb
unlimb limb girdle syndrome
limb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
homophone: limn
homophone: Lymm
Forms: form: limbs
form: limbing
form: limbed
form: limbed
Etymology: From Middle English lyme, lim, from Old English lim (“limb, branch”), from Proto-West Germanic *limu, from Proto-Germanic *limuz (“branch, limb”). Cognate with Old Norse limr (“limb”).
The spelling with the silent unetymological -b first arose in the late 1500s. Compare crumb.
Senses: examples: text: They limbed the felled trees before cutting them into logs.
glosses: To remove the limbs from (an animal or tree).
examples: text: Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms ,
Limb'd and full grown: out of the ground uprose
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him.
ref: 1859, Henry D. Thoreau, Walden:
glosses: To supply with limbs.
examples: text: Brian limbed Roger over at the Beahive last night.
glosses: To thoroughly defeat an opponent in fisticuffs
Synonyms: delimb
limb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪm/
rhymes: -ɪm
homophone: limn
homophone: Lymm
Forms: form: limbs
Etymology: From Latin limbus (“border”).
Senses: examples: text: the solar limb
text: At 4h 57m 9s by my chronometer, (see Schedule B,) I observed with my telescope a small black speck on the preceding limb of the sun's disk, at the precise point to which I had been for some minutes directing my attention.
ref: 1870, United States Naval Observatory, Reports on Observations of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August, 7, 1869, page 174:
text: Chandrasekhar (1946a, b) predicted that the limb of a star will be polarized, because photons scattered at the limb and toward the observer experience a scattering angle of Θ ≈ 90°.
ref: 2015, Ludmilla Kolokolova, James Hough, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Polarimetry of Stars and Planetary Systems, page 449:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The apparent visual edge of a celestial body.
qualifier: on a measuring instrument
glosses: The graduated edge of a circle or arc.
examples: text: The corolla limb of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum is normally undivided.
ref: 1945, “A new form of the moonvine Calonyction aculeatum with divided corolla limb, and length-of-day behavior and flowering of the common form”, in Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, volume 35, number 2:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal or sepal; blade.
Synonyms: word: limb
Hyponyms: word: arm
word: leg
word: wing
Derived terms: limb-brightened
limb-brightening
limb-darkened
limb-darkening
Micronesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːʒən
Forms: form: Micronesians
Etymology: From Micronesia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The researchers also concluded that the genetic data showed that the Polynesians and Micronesians were most closely related to Taiwan Aborigines and East Asians.
ref: 2008 January 18, John Noble Wilford, “Pacific Islanders’ Ancestry Emerges in Genetic Study”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020:
glosses: A person from Micronesia or of Micronesian descent.
Micronesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːʒən
Etymology: From Micronesia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.
ref: 2007 May 27, Douglas Martin, “Kawika Kapahulehua Dies; Hawaiian Seafarer Was 76”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2021:
glosses: Of, from or pertaining to Micronesia or the Micronesian people.
Montserratian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Montserratians
Etymology: From Montserrat + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from Montserrat or of Montserratian descent.
Montserratian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Montserrat + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Montserrat, the Montserratian people or language.
New Caledonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Caledonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to New Caledonia (any sense), its people or language.
Derived terms: New Caledonian crested gecko
New Caledonian crow
New Caledonian gallinule
New Caledonian giant gecko
New Caledonian imperial pigeon
New Caledonian pine
New Caledonian sea krait
New Caledonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Caledonians
Etymology: From New Caledonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from New Caledonia (any sense) or of New Caledonian descent.
Reunionese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːz
Forms: form: Reunioneses
Etymology: From Réunion + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A person from Réunion or of Reunionese descent.
Reunionese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːz
Etymology: From Réunion + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Réunion, the Reunionese people or language.
Rwandan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rwandans
Etymology: From Rwanda + -an.
Senses: examples: text: But for so many, this city remains tied to the genocide, which saw between 800,000 and one million Rwandans murdered in a brutal tribal conflict in 1994.
ref: 2021 April 13, Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, “The gleaming city that emerged from turmoil in the heart of Africa”, in CNN:
glosses: A person from Rwanda or of Rwandan descent.
Hypernyms: sub-Saharan
African
Rwandan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rwandan
form: most Rwandan
Etymology: From Rwanda + -an.
Senses: examples: text: This is known as Umuganda, which translates as “coming together in common purpose.” It’s an old Rwandan concept, which was officially revived in its current, compulsory form in 2009.
ref: 2021 April 13, Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, “The gleaming city that emerged from turmoil in the heart of Africa”, in CNN:
text: Rwanda is in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants deported from the United States, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on television late on Sunday.
ref: 2025 May 5, “Rwanda in talks to receive migrants deported from US, foreign minister says”, in Reuters:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Rwanda, the Rwandan people or language.
Rwandan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Rwanda + -an.
Senses: glosses: Kinyarwanda
Rwandese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹə.wænˈdiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: Rwandese
Etymology: From Rwanda + -ese.
Senses: synonyms: Rwandan
glosses: A person from Rwanda or of Rwandese descent.
Rwandese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹə.wænˈdiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: more Rwandese
form: most Rwandese
Etymology: From Rwanda + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: In 2003, Rwanda changed its official name from "Rwandese Republic" to "Republic of Rwanda".
text: ‘I’ve told her I am Rwandese,’ he smiled.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 213:
synonyms: Rwandan
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Rwanda, the Rwandese people or language. See: Rwandan.
registered trademark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪdmɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: registered trademarks
Senses: glosses: A trademark that has been officially registered with the government by its owner. Indicated by the symbol ®.
what is your name
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: what's your name?
Senses: examples: text: What is your name? — My name is Mary. — A pretty name. — It is my mother's name. — Indeed!
ref: 1854, Gustave Chouquet, Easy Conversations in French, page 9:
glosses: Used to ask the name of a person.
Related terms: what is his name?
what is her name?
you have the advantage of me
hole up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holes up
form: holing up
form: holed up
form: holed up
Etymology: From hole + up. Attested from the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan bears enter winter dens in October; in the South, later; even in Florida bears “hole up” during the coldest weather.
ref: 1998, John Whitaker, William Hamilton, Mammals of the Eastern United States, page 424:
glosses: To go into a hole, to shelter in a hole.
examples: text: The guerrillas holed up in a small cave.
text: The battle ended a two-day siege of an apartment block, where the suspects were holed up.
ref: 2005, BBC News, Thursday, 27 January, 2005, 18:50 GMThttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4211625.stm
glosses: To hide.
insula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsjʊlə/
ipa: /ˈɪnsʊlə/
Forms: form: insulas
form: insulae
Etymology: From Latin insula (“island”). Doublet of isle.
Senses: glosses: A block of buildings in a Roman town.
examples: text: All mammals have insulas that read their body condition, Dr. Craig said.
ref: 2007 February 6, Sandra Blakeslee, “A Small Part of the Brain, and Its Profound Effects”, in New York Times:
text: The insula registers our physical gut feelings, including the sensation of a distended stomach and other inner states like nausea, warmth, a full bladder, and a pounding heart.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 608:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: insular cortex
island of Reil
glosses: A structure of the human brain located within the lateral sulcus.
Derived terms: insulostriatal
perinsular
Mahorais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahorais
Etymology: From French Mahorais.
Senses: glosses: A person from Mayotte or of Mahoran descent.
Mahoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French mahorais / Mahorais (with the ending replaced with -an).
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Mayotte or its people or language.
Mahoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahorans
Etymology: From French mahorais / Mahorais (with the ending replaced with -an).
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Mayotte.
Reggio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Either of Reggio Emilia or Reggio Calabria in Italy.
Ostia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * (Roman Empire): Latin Ostia
* (Italy): Italian Ostia, from Latin Ostia
Senses: glosses: A port and town on the Tiber in Italia, Roman Empire, the harbour of ancient Rome.
glosses: A modern refounding of the ancient town at the mouth of the Tiber, now a neighbourhood of Rome, Italy.
Derived terms: Ostian
Ostia Antica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ostia.
Niuean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːeɪən/
Forms: form: Niueans
Etymology: From Niue + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Niue or of Niuean descent.
Niuean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːeɪən/
Etymology: From Niue + -an.
Senses: glosses: A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken mainly in Niue.
Niuean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnjuːeɪən/
Etymology: From Niue + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Niue, the Niuean people or their Polynesian language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Niuean terms
New Zealander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjuː ˈziːləndə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: New Zealanders
Etymology: From New Zealand + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There was a directional driller who I regularly ran into, a New Zealander by the name of Maurice.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 123:
text: The rate of arrivals fluctuates with the relative economic fortunes of each country, but since the late 1960s, faster growth, higher wages, greater job opportunities and a stronger dollar have been an economic magnet drawing New Zealanders across the ditch.
ref: 2016, Peter Mares, Not Quite Australian: How Temporary Migration Is Changing the Nation, →ISBN:
glosses: A person from New Zealand or of New Zealand descent.
Synonyms: word: Maorilander
word: Aotearoan
word: flax-stick
word: Kiwi
word: sheepshagger
word: NZer
Hyponyms: New Zealandress
Related terms: New Zealand
Aotearoan
Maori
pakeha
Norfolk Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norfolk Islanders
Etymology: From Norfolk Island + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Norfolk Island or of its descent.
bunion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌnjən/
rhymes: -ʌnjən
homophone: Bunyan
Forms: form: bunions
form: bunyon
form: bunian
form: bunnion
form: bunnian
Etymology: From alteration of earlier bunny (“lump, swelling”), from Middle English bony, boni (“bunion, swelling”), perhaps Italian bubbone (augmented form of bugno (“beehive”)), or more likely from Lombard bugnon (“bunyon”), all three from Old French bugne, buigne, bune (“bump, knob, swelling”), from Old Norse bunga (“an elevation, bulge”) or Frankish *bungjō (“a swelling, lump, bump”), both from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), German Bunge (“swelling, tuber”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.
glosses: Hallux valgus, deviation of the big toe from its normal position towards the other toes, the prime cause for the swelling of its first joint.
Derived terms: bunionectomy
bunioned
bunionette
Falkland Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Falkland Islanders
Etymology: From Falkland Islands + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Chief Secretary" under the Argentine occu­pation Carlos Bloomer Reive said to at least one Falkland Islander "why were you so surprised? Your people knew of the invasion at least a month in advance.”
ref: 1982 June 30, Graham Bound, “Islanders Demand New Elections”, in The Penguin News, number 20, Stanley, Falkland Islands: Graham Bound, pages 12-13; republished by the Jane Cameron National Archives, 2020 August 23:
synonyms: word: Falklander
word: Kelper
word: Malvinian
glosses: A person from the Falkland Islands or of descent of the Falkland Islands.
Cook Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cook Islanders
Etymology: From Cook Islands + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from the Cook Islands or of descent of the Cook Islands.
Adrianopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Hadriānopolītānus.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Adrianople (modern-day Edirne).
Adrianopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adrianopolitans
Etymology: From Latin Hadriānopolītānus.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Adrianople (modern-day Edirne).
Constantinopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnˌstæn.tɪ.nəˈpɒ.lɪ.tən/
ipa: /ˌkɒnˌstæn.tɪ.nəʊˈpɒ.lɪ.tən/
ipa: /ˌkɑnˌstæn.tɪ.nəˈpɑ.lɪ.tən/
ipa: /ˌkɑnˌstæn.tɪ.noʊˈpɑ.lɪ.tən/
rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cōnstantīnopolītānus.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
Derived terms: Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
Constantinopolitan Orthodox Church
Constantinopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnˌstæn.tɪ.nəˈpɒ.lɪ.tən/
ipa: /ˌkɒnˌstæn.tɪ.nəʊˈpɒ.lɪ.tən/
ipa: /ˌkɑnˌstæn.tɪ.nəˈpɑ.lɪ.tən/
ipa: /ˌkɑnˌstæn.tɪ.noʊˈpɑ.lɪ.tən/
rhymes: -ɒlɪtən
Forms: form: Constantinopolitans
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cōnstantīnopolītānus.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).
Cocos Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cocos Islanders
Etymology: From Cocos Islands + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from the Cocos Islands or of descent of the Cocos Islands.
Byzantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈzæntaɪn/
ipa: /baɪˈzæntaɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪzəntiːn/
ipa: /ˈbɪzəntaɪn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: Byzantines
form: byzantine
form: Byzantian
form: Byzantinan
form: Bizantian
form: Bizantine
Etymology: From Late Latin byzantinus, from Byzantium, from Ancient Greek Βυζάντιον (Buzántion). The figurative senses evoke the reputation for palace intrigue of the Byzantium imperial court.
Senses: glosses: A native of Byzantium (modern-day Istanbul) or of the Byzantine empire
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Alternative form of byzantine (coin)
glosses: A dark, metallic shade of violet.
goal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊl/
ipa: [ɡɒʊɫ]
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /ɡɒl/
ipa: /ɡɐʉl/
ipa: [ɡɒʊɫ]
ipa: /ɡoʊl/
ipa: [ɡoɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: goals
form: goaling
form: goaled
form: goaled
Etymology: From Middle English gol (“boundary, limit”), from Old English *gāl (“obstacle, barrier, marker”), suggested by its derivatives Old English gǣlan (“to hinder, delay, impede, keep in suspense, linger, hesitate, dupe”), and hyġegǣls (“hesitating, slow, sluggish”), hyġegǣlsa (“slow one, sluggish one”). Possibly cognate with Lithuanian gãlas (“end”), Latvian gals (“end”), Old Prussian gallan (“death”), Albanian ngalem (“to be limping, lame, paralyzed”), ngel (“to remain, linger, hesitate, get stuck”).
Senses: qualifier: Gaelic football; Australian rules football; Gaelic football; Australian rules football
glosses: To score a goal.
Edessa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪˈdɛs.ə/
Etymology: From Latin Edessa, from Ancient Greek Ἔδεσσα (Édessa).
Senses: glosses: A city in Greece, capital in Pella Prefecture, in periphery of Central Macedonia.
glosses: Synonym of Urfa: a city in southeastern Turkey.
synonyms: word: Urfa
extra: a city in southeastern Turkey
Synonyms: sense: ancient Urfa
word: Antioch
sense: ancient Urfa
word: Antioch on the Callirhoe
sense: ancient Urfa
word: Urhay
sense: ancient Urfa
word: Orhay
Derived terms: Edessene
Edessan
Cilician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlɪsɪən/
ipa: /sɪˈlɪʃən/
Etymology: From Cilicia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The purple Hyacinths, and fresh Costmarie, / And Saffron, sought for in Cilician soyle
ref: 1591, “Virgils Gnat”, in Edmund Spenser, transl., Complaints, translation of Culex by Virgil:
glosses: Pertaining to or originating from Cilicia.
Derived terms: Cilician Gates
Cilician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlɪsɪən/
ipa: /sɪˈlɪʃən/
Forms: form: Cilicians
Etymology: From Cilicia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Cilicia.
British Virgin Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: British Virgin Islanders
Etymology: From British Virgin Islands + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from the British Virgin Islands or of descent of the British Virgin Islands.
score
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: skôr
ipa: /skɔː/
enpr: skôrʹ
ipa: /skoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: skōrʹ
ipa: /sko(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /skoə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.
Senses: glosses: An acknowledgement of success.
Related terms: grade
Christmas Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas Islanders
Etymology: From Christmas Island + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Christmas Island, or having that ancestry.
Nicopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nicopolitans
Etymology: From Nicopolis + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Nicopolis.
megalopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɡ.ə.ləˌpɒl.ɪ.tən/
Forms: form: megalopolitans
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of a megalopolis.
megalopolitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɡ.ə.ləˌpɒl.ɪ.tən/
Forms: form: more megalopolitan
form: most megalopolitan
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to a megalopolis
Derived terms: megalopolitanism
trademark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪdmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈtɹeɪdmɑɹk/
ipa: /ˈtɹæɪdmɐːk/
rhymes: -eɪdmɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: trademarks
form: trade mark
form: trade-mark
Etymology: From trade + mark.
Senses: antonyms: generic name
;
description
coordinate_terms: brandname
brand name
service mark
tradename
trade name
wordmark
glosses: A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
antonyms: generic name
;
description
coordinate_terms: brandname
brand name
service mark
tradename
trade name
wordmark
glosses: A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
Especially, such a term that is registered with a government agency so as to have legal protection against use by other companies.
examples: text: Trademark Notice / The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies: […] Google is a trademark of Google Corporation; eBay is a trademark of eBay, Inc.
ref: 2005, Kai A. Olsen, The Internet, the Web, and eBusiness, page xv:
glosses: Any proprietary business, product or service name.
glosses: The aspect for which someone or something is best known; a hallmark or typical characteristic.
Derived terms: genericised trademark
genericized trademark
registered trademark
trademark dilution
trademark erosion
trademark infringement
trademark symbol
trademark troll
Related terms: brand
branding
™
®
trademark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪdmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈtɹeɪdmɑɹk/
ipa: /ˈtɹæɪdmɐːk/
rhymes: -eɪdmɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: trademarks
form: trademarking
form: trademarked
form: trademarked
form: trade mark
form: trade-mark
Etymology: From trade + mark.
Senses: glosses: To register something as a trademark.
glosses: To so label a product.
trademark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪdmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈtɹeɪdmɑɹk/
ipa: /ˈtɹæɪdmɐːk/
rhymes: -eɪdmɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: trade mark
form: trade-mark
Etymology: From trade + mark.
Senses: examples: text: Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'
ref: 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294:
text: Riise did crash a fantastic, trademark free-kick against the bar from 25 yards but it was the Potters who increasingly posed the greater threat.
ref: 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport:
text: The world’s most powerful man entered with an air of unhurried bonhomie. Dressed in his trademark navy suit and red tie, Trump, 78, appeared a little older than he had some seven months earlier, when he last met with TIME—more subdued, less verbose, the same discursive speech patterns but with the volume turned down.
ref: 2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2024:
glosses: Distinctive, characteristic, signature.
Luxembourger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌksəmˌbɝɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈlʌksəmˌbɜːɡə/
Forms: form: Luxembourgers
form: Luxemburger
Etymology: From Luxembourg + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from the independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or of Luxembourgish descent.
glosses: An inhabitant of the former duchy (originally county) of Luxembourg (originally Letzeburg)
glosses: An inhabitant of the Belgian province of Luxembourg.
glosses: An inhabitant of the city of Luxembourg, the capital of all the above territories.
Synonyms: Luxembourgian
Luxembourgeois
Related terms: Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌksəmˌbɜːɡɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈlʌksəmˌbɝɡɪʃ/
Forms: form: Luxemburgish
Etymology: From Luxembourg + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Luxembourg or its people.
glosses: Of or in the language of Luxembourg (derived from the Moselle Franconian group of High German dialects).
Synonyms: Luxembourgeois
Luxembourgish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌksəmˌbɜːɡɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈlʌksəmˌbɝɡɪʃ/
Forms: form: Luxemburgish
Etymology: From Luxembourg + -ish.
Senses: glosses: A Germanic language spoken in Luxembourg and, traditionally, around the city of Arlon (Belgium); originally included in the Moselle Franconian group of High German dialects, but now usually regarded as a separate language due to its standardisation and official use in the state of Luxembourg.
Synonyms: Luxembourgeois
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Luxembourgish terms
Liechtensteiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Liechtensteiners
Etymology: Borrowed from German Liechtensteiner, equivalent to Liechtenstein + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Liechtenstein or of Liechtenstein descent.
brood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːd/
ipa: /bɹʉd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: brewed (except Scotland, Wales)
Forms: form: broods
Etymology: From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
Senses: examples: text: As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 13:34:
glosses: The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
glosses: The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
glosses: The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
examples: text: Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Garland Green, the tenth in a brood of eleven, was born on June 24, 1942, in Dunleath, Mississippi.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: The children in one family; offspring.
examples: text: […] flocks of the airy brood,
Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]
ref: 1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2
text: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 19”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
glosses: Parentage.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Derived terms: abrood
brood cell
brood chamber
brood cocoon
broodfish
broodless
broodling
brood mare
brood nest
brood parasite
brood-parasitic
brood parasitism
brood patch
brood pouch
brood size
brood sow
broodstock
chalkbrood
foulbrood
interbrood
intrabrood
multibrood
sacbrood
stonebrood
Related terms: flock
litter
young
get
issue
offspring
posterity
progeny
seed
kin
brood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːd/
ipa: /bɹʉd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: brewed (except Scotland, Wales)
Etymology: From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
Senses: examples: text: brood ducks
text: a brood mare
glosses: Kept or reared for breeding.
raw_tags: of animals
brood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːd/
ipa: /bɹʉd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: brewed (except Scotland, Wales)
Forms: form: broods
form: brooding
form: brooded
form: brooded
Etymology: From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).
Senses: examples: text: In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
glosses: To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
examples: text: Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
glosses: To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
examples: text: He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
text: As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood
ref: 1833, Alfred Tennyson, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: But Claggart's was no vulgar form of the passion. Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David. Claggart's envy struck deeper.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XI.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, pages 256–257:
text: And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:
glosses: (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
glosses: To be bred.
Derived terms: brood above
brooder
broodsome
broody
overbrood
Northern Mariana Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Northern Mariana Islanders
Etymology: From Northern Mariana Islands + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from the Northern Marianas or of descent of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Saudi Arabian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saudi Arabians
Senses: glosses: A person from Saudi Arabia or of Saudi Arabian descent.
Synonyms: Saudi
Saudi Arabian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Saudi Arabian
form: most Saudi Arabian
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabian people or language.
Synonyms: Saudi
Saudi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊdi/
ipa: /ˈsɔːdi/
note: Indic
ipa: /sawd̪i/
rhymes: -aʊdi
rhymes: -ɔːdi
Forms: form: Saudis
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سُعُودِيّ (suʕūdiyy), from سُعُود (suʕūd), the name of the Saud family, who rule Saudi Arabia, and the adjectival suffix ـِيّ (-iyy)., equivalent to Saud + -i.
Senses: examples: text: The agal he wore on his head gave him away as a Saudi.
text: It was in that moment I connected with what Saudis had been feeling in the months since Mohammed bin Salman or MBS, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, stripped these morality guardians of their power.
ref: 2020 December 5, Nic Robertson, “Saudi Arabia has changed beyond recognition. But will tourists want to visit?”, in CNN:
glosses: A person from Saudi Arabia or of Saudi Arabian descent.
Synonyms: Saudi Arabian
Saudi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊdi/
ipa: /ˈsɔːdi/
note: Indic
ipa: /sawd̪i/
rhymes: -aʊdi
rhymes: -ɔːdi
Forms: form: more Saudi
form: most Saudi
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سُعُودِيّ (suʕūdiyy), from سُعُود (suʕūd), the name of the Saud family, who rule Saudi Arabia, and the adjectival suffix ـِيّ (-iyy)., equivalent to Saud + -i.
Senses: examples: text: Yet none of these has affected me as much as the moment I felt Saudi change.
ref: 2020 December 5, Nic Robertson, “Saudi Arabia has changed beyond recognition. But will tourists want to visit?”, in CNN:
glosses: From, or pertaining to Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabian people or language, or the House of Saud.
Synonyms: Saudi Arabian
Saudi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊdi/
ipa: /ˈsɔːdi/
note: Indic
ipa: /sawd̪i/
rhymes: -aʊdi
rhymes: -ɔːdi
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic سُعُودِيّ (suʕūdiyy), from سُعُود (suʕūd), the name of the Saud family, who rule Saudi Arabia, and the adjectival suffix ـِيّ (-iyy)., equivalent to Saud + -i.
Senses: examples: ref: 2008 June 22, Sebastian Abbot, Oil minister: Saudi willing to increase crude output, Associated Press:
glosses: Ellipsis of Saudi Arabia.
Somali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmɑːli/
ipa: /soʊˈmɑːli/
ipa: /səˈmɑːli/
Etymology: From or akin to Somali Soomaali.
Senses: examples: text: Somali is the primary language of Somalia
glosses: A Cushitic language spoken mainly in Somalia, eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti, and eastern Kenya.
examples: text: I'm learning Somali.
glosses: Somali language and literature as an object of study.
Somali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmɑːli/
ipa: /soʊˈmɑːli/
ipa: /səˈmɑːli/
Forms: form: Somali
form: Somalis
Etymology: From or akin to Somali Soomaali.
Senses: examples: text: Historically, Somalis were a nomadic people herding camels, goats, and sheep. Nowadays, many if not most Somalis are urbanized people.
glosses: An ethnic group native to the Somali Peninsula; a Somali, a group of Somalis, the Somalis.
examples: text: The Somali are an ethnic group of Cushitic origin indigenous to the Somali Peninsula. Their language is called Somali.
glosses: Pertaining to the Somali ethnic group on the whole; the Somali.
glosses: A citizen or resident from the country of Somalia. The term Somalian is sometimes used as an alternative to Somali to emphasize civic affiliations to the Republic of Somalia and de-emphasize ethnic affiliations. Using the term Somalian may be offensive to some Somalis as it is deemed nonstandard. Some Somali ethnonationalists do not consider all citizens of Somalia to be Somali. Some Somali separatists prefer terms such as Somalian or Somalilander in civic contexts over the ethnolinguistic connoted term Somali.
glosses: A person from Somali-majority republics, states, or regions, including but not limited to: the unrecognized Republic of Somaliland, the Somali region of Ethiopia (often called 'the Ogaden', but more neutrally 'the Somali region'), or autonomous states within Somalia's federal system such as Puntland.
glosses: A domestic cat breed derived from the 'Abyssinian cat'. This cat breed is alternatively called the 'long-haired Abyssinian cat' or the 'Fox cat'.
Synonyms: word: Skinnies
word: Mali
word: Somalian
word: Somali
Hypernyms: sense: person from Somalia
word: Cushite
sense: person from Somalia
word: Horner
sense: person from Somalia
word: Horn African
Hyponyms: word: Puntlander
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Somali terms
Somali
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmɑːli/
ipa: /soʊˈmɑːli/
ipa: /səˈmɑːli/
Etymology: From or akin to Somali Soomaali.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Somalia, the Somali people or language.
Derived terms: Mali
Somali crow
Somali giraffe
Somali myrrhor
Somali ostrich
Somali wild ass
Somalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Somalian
form: most Somalian
Etymology: From Somalia + -an.
Senses: examples: ref: 2007 April 22, “Somalian government tells Mogadishu residents to flee”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Republic of Somalia in a civic or governmental context.
glosses: Synonym of Somali Not all ethnic Somalis are from the country of Somalia. Hence, it is not standard to use Somalian adjectively as a synonym for Somali.
synonyms: word: Somali Not all ethnic Somalis are from the country of Somalia. Hence
word: it is not standard to use Somalian adjectively as a synonym for Somali
Synonyms: Somali
Somalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Somalians
Etymology: From Somalia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: An ethnically Han Chinese man who is a citizen of Somalia is a Somalian but not an ethnic Somali. One can be a Somalian and not a Somali at the same time.
glosses: A citizen from the country of Somalia. The term Somalian is sometimes used as an alternative to Somali to emphasize civic affiliations to the Republic of Somalia and de-emphasize ethnic affiliations.
glosses: Synonym of Somali Using the term Somalian to describe any Somali may be offensive to some Somalis who are not citizens of the Republic of Somalia such as those from or in Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Usage of the term Somalian may also be offensive to some Somalis as it is viewed as nonstandard regardless of context. Some Somali separatists (chiefly from Somaliland) may use the term Somalian deliberately in a politicized fashion to differentiate people from their breakaway region (i.e. Somalilanders) from others in Somalia (i.e. Somalians).
synonyms: word: Somali Using the term Somalian to describe any Somali may be offensive to some Somalis who are not citizens of the Republic of Somalia such as those from or in Djibouti
extra: (chiefly from Somaliland) may use the term Somalian deliberately in a politicized fashion to differentiate people from their breakaway region (i.e. Somalilanders) from others in Somalia (i.e. Somalians).
word: Ethiopia
extra: (chiefly from Somaliland) may use the term Somalian deliberately in a politicized fashion to differentiate people from their breakaway region (i.e. Somalilanders) from others in Somalia (i.e. Somalians).
word: and Kenya. Usage of the term Somalian may also be offensive to some Somalis as it is viewed as nonstandard regardless of context. Some Somali separatists
extra: (chiefly from Somaliland) may use the term Somalian deliberately in a politicized fashion to differentiate people from their breakaway region (i.e. Somalilanders) from others in Somalia (i.e. Somalians).
Hypernyms: East African
Horner
Horn African
Bermudian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bə(ɹ)ˈmjuːdiən/
Forms: form: Bermewjan
form: Bermudan
Etymology: From Bermuda + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Bermuda, or the Bermudian people.
glosses: Personal legal status equivalent to citizenship for the country of Bermuda.
Derived terms: Bermudian English
Bermudian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bə(ɹ)ˈmjuːdiən/
Forms: form: Bermudians
form: Bermewjan
form: Bermudan
Etymology: From Bermuda + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Bermuda sloop
Salvadoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salvadorans
form: Salvadorean
form: Salvadorian
Etymology: From Salvador + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Under Biden, a Trump-era decision to end TPS for Salvadorans was rescinded after a group of Latino officials pleaded with the outgoing president to continue TPS for people from those countries with “meritorious cases,” citing “horrific levels of violence that surged in recent years” in Ecuador, along with the oppression of the Ortega regime that has controlled Nicaragua for decades and “political and environmental conditions” in El Salvador.
ref: 2025 January 16, Barney Davis, “Temporary protected status: Who is protected by Biden’s latest extension?”, in The Independent:
synonyms: El Salvadoran
Salvadoreño
glosses: A person from El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent.
Salvadoran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Salvadoran
form: most Salvadoran
form: Salvadorean
form: Salvadorian
Etymology: From Salvador + -an.
Senses: examples: text: People will fill the plazas of the country tumultuously, like a river in the rainy season, to pay tribute to these brothers of ours who died for the sake of peace, to these brothers who were born in Spain but were more Salvadoran than their assassins, that pack of criminals with no patriotism in their hearts.
ref: 1995, José Ignacio López Vigil, translated by Mark Fried, “The Stubborn Izote Flower”, in Rebel Radio: The Story of El Salvador’s Radio Venceremos, Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press; London: Latin American Bureau, →ISBN, section V (On to the Cities), page 228:
text: I’d been pushing some shopping carts around the grocery store’s parking lot with a coworker, a guy named Rafa, a big Salvadoran dude.
ref: 2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 157:
text: The executive order specifically named Tren de Aragua and the Salvadoran MS-13 gang, citing their “campaigns of violence and terror in the United States and internationally” as threats to “the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.”
ref: 2025 January 31, Stefano Pozzebon, “Rubio and Bukele to discuss sending suspected gang members from US to El Salvador”, in CNN:
synonyms: El Salvadoran
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to El Salvador or the Salvadoran people.
abacinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abacinate