cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unwritten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unwriten, from Old English unwriten, unġewriten (“unwritten”), equivalent to un- + written.
Senses: examples: text: The most important rule is unwritten but not unspoken. It is the rule of pronounceability. Sure, xzyqt looks grand, but how do you say it?
ref: 2002 August 25, Erin McKean, “THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 8-25-02: ON LANGUAGE; Neologist”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not written.
glosses: Oral or otherwise communicated without writing.
examples: text: It's an unwritten rule that you lock the gate when you leave the swimming pool.
glosses: Implicit or understood but not formally articulated.
examples: unwritten paper
glosses: Containing no writing; blank.
Derived terms: unwritten rule
unwritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English unwriten, from Old English unwriten, unġewriten (“unwritten”), equivalent to un- + written.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unwrite
Related terms: unwrittenness
written
de facto
oral
cockleshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockleshells
Etymology: From cockle + shell.
Senses: examples: text: The moment land had disappeared, the great canoe seemed no larger than a cockleshell; the waves lapped dangerously near to the tops of the gunwales, all but toppling into the canoe; and that is the curious thing about Polynesian canoes: the water always laps just to the tops of the gunwales, no matter whether the canoe is shallow or deep, whether empty or heavily laden.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 203:
glosses: The shell of a cockle (or similar shell).
glosses: A small, flimsy boat.
consanguine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French consanguin.
Senses: synonyms: consanguineous
antonyms: affinal
glosses: Related by birth or "by blood", i.e. having close ancestors in common.
Synonyms: word: akin
word: cognate
word: consanguine
word: consanguineous
word: consanguineal
word: natural
word: same-blooded
Hypernyms: word: related
Derived terms: consanguined
consanguine marriage
Related terms: word: consanguinuity
word: consanguinity
consanguine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consanguines
Etymology: From French consanguin.
Senses: glosses: A person related to another by birth.
extended metaphor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extended metaphors
Senses: examples: text: Having considered the use of extended metaphor and narrative in two Blake poems, we are now ready to discuss a recent cognitive reading of a third poem, “A Poison Tree”, focussing on metaphor and allegory (Crisp 2008).
ref: 2012, Monika Fludernik, Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Perspectives on Literary Metaphor, Routledge, →ISBN, page 101:
synonyms: conceit
megametaphor
glosses: A metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences.
substandard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌbˈstændɚd/
ipa: /ˌsʌbˈstændəd/
Forms: form: more substandard
form: most substandard
Etymology: From sub- + standard.
Senses: examples: text: They built this with substandard parts. No wonder it collapsed.
text: Nettie describes the takeover of village after village by white men who intend to use the land and people for exploitative purposes without any regard or compensation for the villagers (who once had a strong sense of themselves) and who are then made to work the land for substandard wages.
ref: 1982 December 4, Catherine Joseph, “Empowered into Enlightenment”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 14:
text: [...] the fence provided by NR was substandard and poorly maintained, such that unauthorised access to the railway was straightforward.
ref: 2021 January 13, “Network News: NR fined after teenage trespasser suffers electrocution injuries”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 17:
glosses: Of inferior quality; not meeting the minimum quality requirements.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not conforming to the standard variety; nonstandard.
regionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: rēj′ənəlē
enpr: rēj′nəlē
ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒənəli/
ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒnəli/
Forms: form: more regionally
form: most regionally
Etymology: From regional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a large but limited area, more than local but smaller than entirety. (Generally smaller than a nation.)
wytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wyte
wytes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wyte
illustrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlʌs.tɹə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈɪ.ləˌstɹeɪ.tɪv/
Senses: examples: text: This latest incident is illustrative of his continued bad behavior.
glosses: Demonstrative, exemplative, showing an example or demonstrating.
Derived terms: illustratively
illustrativeness
nonillustrative
unillustrative
wyting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wyte
wyted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wyte
standardization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstæn.də.daɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌstæn.dɚˌdɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌstɛən.dɚˌdɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /ˌstæn.dɚˌdəˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌstɛən.dɚˌdəˈzeɪ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /ˌstæn.də.dɑeˈzæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌstɛn.də.daɪˈzæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌstɛn.də.dɑe̯ˈzæɪ.ʃn̩]
Forms: form: standardizations
form: standardisation
Etymology: From standardize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
examples: text: The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
ref: 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
glosses: The process of establishing a standard.
Derived terms: age standardization
Related terms: standard issue
standardness
normalization
unification
uniformity
spilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: spillings
Senses: examples: text: Such a notion identified woman with breaches in boundaries, with lack of shape or definition, with openings and exudings and spillings forth.
ref: 2005, Margaret E. Owens, Stages of Dismemberment, page 58:
glosses: The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.
glosses: The action of spreading out in the manner of a fluid.
spilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spill
spills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪlz/
rhymes: -ɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of spill
spills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪlz/
rhymes: -ɪlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spill
epiphysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈpɪf.ɪ.sɪs/
/əˈpɪf.ɪ.sɪs/
Forms: form: epiphyses
Etymology: From epi- + -physis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The pineal gland.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The rounded end of any long bone.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small upper piece of each half of an alveolus of a sea urchin.
Derived terms: chondroepiphysis
epiphysiodesis
epiphysiolysis
epiphysitis
pseudoepiphysis
convection cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convection cell
generalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more generalized
form: most generalized
form: generalised
Senses: examples: text: The generalized formula applies to all cases, the specialized one only works on simple problems.
glosses: Made more general, less specialized.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Spread throughout or affecting the entire body or body part.
Derived terms: generalized anxiety disorder
generalized circle
generalized continued fraction
generalized continuum hypothesis
generalized element
generalized estimating equation
generalized search tree
nongeneralized
ungeneralized
generalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: generalised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of generalize
diagonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈæɡ.nə.li/
ipa: /daɪˈæɡ.ən.ə.li/
Forms: form: more diagonally
form: most diagonally
Etymology: From Middle English diagonaly, modeled on Medieval Latin diagōnāliter; equivalent to diagonal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The diagonally opposed driving positions in the cab are identical.
ref: 1962 December, “The B.R. standard diesel-electric Type 1 locomotive”, in Modern Railways, page 381:
text: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: In a diagonal manner, not square to any direction.
Synonyms: cornerwise
convection cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convection cells
Senses: glosses: A loop of moving fluid (such as air or water) in which the motion results from differences in density caused by differences in temperature.
scrambled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrambled
form: most scrambled
Senses: examples: a scrambled TV signal, requiring decryption
glosses: Mixed, disordered, shuffled.
examples: text: He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled.
glosses: Beaten and cooked.
raw_tags: of eggs
Derived terms: scrambled eggs
scromlette
scrambled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scramble
sufferer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sufferers
Etymology: From suffer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: All the main-line railways, as well as London Transport, were affected by flying-bomb damage, but naturally the Southern Railway was the principal sufferer for geographical reasons, and the L.N.E.R. came next with the damage it sustained in the Stratford area.
ref: 1944 November and December, “Rapid Damage Repair”, in Railway Magazine, page 323:
glosses: One who suffers; one who is afflicted.
examples: text: From a creditor, being a "victim," "schneider," "sufferer," or "tailor," to one who sets off his wares by wearing the same, being consequently a debtor. HONOURED SIR,— I can scarcely express my delight at your kind compliments as to the fit and patterns […]
ref: 1841, Punch Or The London Charivari, volume 1, page 160:
glosses: A tailor.
anciently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anciently
form: most anciently
form: aunciently
form: antiently
form: auntiently
Etymology: From Middle English aunciently; equivalent to ancient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of very long ago. As the ancients did.
examples: text: The anciently written inscriptions in the pyramids can still be read.
glosses: Done long ago.
Synonyms: sense: in the manner of very long ago
word: oldly
unwrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwrites
form: unwriting
form: unwrote
form: unwritten
Etymology: From un- + write.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, in June, the governor, as if rescinding the resolution could unwrite the letter, demanded its erasure from the records of the house.
ref: 1847, John Frost, Pictorial Life of George Washington, page 131:
text: 'Once you've written something you can't unwrite it,' I answered.
ref: 2010, Matthew Yorke, Pictures of Lily, →ISBN:
text: If I could unwrite that wretched book, I would.
ref: 2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 420:
text: You can't just unwrite everything you've written.
ref: 2015, Loretta Lost, End of Eternity 4:
glosses: To erase; to revert to a state where (something) was never written.
examples: text: And I'm talking about seconds that mean so much! that will let us rewrite our histories—unwrite the letters that Allie wrote near that time; unwrite her time on the beach with Johnny; make us both virgins exactly as I'd seen it then; unwrite my times with Barbara, my phone conversations, letters, years of druggy dreams of her, and my revenge story and all of Allie's times with Lemaster.
ref: 1992, Patrick Creevy, Lake Shore Drive, →ISBN:
text: What he seeks is nothing less than to unwrite the Fall, to unwrite the theological fiat that made desire (a longing for union) and language (a longing for knowing) the twinned signs of our distance from what was.
ref: 1993, Elisa New, The Regenerate Lyric, →ISBN:
text: Whether it is writing that yearns to persuade, make knowledge public, share experiences and/or feelings, writing back enables the author to unwrite and rewrite the natural.
ref: 2010, Matthew Weinstein, Bodies Out of Control: Rethinking Science Texts, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: To nullify.
examples: text: In Martha Nussbaum's terms, Luke attempts to “unwrite” the culture-forming stories of paganism by offering a different narrative that construes the entirety of reality in light of the God of Israel's act in Jesus.
ref: 2008, J. Ross Wagner, Christopher Kavin Rowe, A. Katherine Grieb, The Word Leaps the Gap, →ISBN:
text: His texts reveal an effort to unwrite narrative and, in effect, unwrite Beckett.
ref: 2010, S. E. Gontarski, A Companion to Samuel Beckett, →ISBN, page 303:
text: By smashing a symbol of the social fantasy with spectacular violence, one is able temporarily to unwrite it – exposing the traumatic 'real' within.
ref: 2013, Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Politics of Violence, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: To deconstruct.
examples: text: To eliminate this nonadiabatic energy loss, we need to change the cell state into a known state before writing a new data, which is called a^([sic]) unwrite operation.
ref: 2005, ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, ISLPED'05, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To revert to a known state in so that new data can be written.
Related terms: write
multures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multure
Charleston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑɹlstən/
Etymology: From Charles + -ton. The places are named after various men named "Charles"; see definitions below.
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Franklin County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Coles County, Illinois; after Charles Morton, its first postmaster.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Maine; after Charles Vaughan, an early settler.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Mississippi, and one of the two county seats of Tallahatchie County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Mississippi County, Missouri; after either nearby Charles Prairie or the city in South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in New York; after Charles Van Epps, an early settler.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of Staten Island, New York; after Charles Kreischer, son of Balthasar Kreischer, after whom the town was previously named (as Kreischerville).
examples: text: Dans told CNN he will formally launch his campaign with a prayer breakfast Wednesday in Charleston.
ref: 2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina”, in CNN:
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina; after Charles II of England.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Utah; after Charles Shelton, an early settler.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Vermont; after a naval battle near the city in South Carolina; the town's early settlers were naval officers.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
The capital city of West Virginia, United States and the county seat of Kanawha County; perhaps after Charles Clendenin, the father of an early settler.
glosses: A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A village in Angus council area, Scotland; after Charles Henderson, proprietor of the village's land before its formation (OS grid ref NO3845).
glosses: A suburb of Dundee, City of Dundee council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO3532).
glosses: A town in South Australia.
glosses: A coastal village south of Westport, West Coast, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Charleston County
Charlestonian
Charleston Peak
Mount Charleston
North Charleston
Related terms: Charlestown
Charleston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑɹlstən/
Forms: form: Charlestons
Etymology: From Charles + -ton. The places are named after various men named "Charles"; see definitions below.
Senses: examples: Dubbed “the Black Venus”, she danced the charleston in nothing but a string of pearls and a skirt made of 16 rubber bananas, performed with a snake wrapped suggestively round her neck, strolled down the Champs-Élysées with her pet cheetah, and became an international superstar. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/28/dancer-singer-spy-frances-pantheon-to-honour-josephine-baker
qualifier: preceded by definite article
glosses: A dance named for the city of Charleston, South Carolina.
corries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corrie
Sparta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɑː(ɹ)tə/
Etymology: From Latin Sparta, from Doric Greek Σπάρτᾱ (Spártā) (Attic Greek Σπᾰ́ρτη (Spắrtē)).
Senses: synonyms: Lacedaemon
glosses: An ancient city-state in southern Greece, noted for its strict military training.
glosses: A municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese region, modern Greece.
glosses: A community in Central Elgin municipality, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Hancock County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Randolph County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Dearborn County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Gallatin County and Owen County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and village therein, in Kent County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Christian County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Knox County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Sussex County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Livingston County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Alleghany County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in South Bloomfield Township, Morrow County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of White County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin, adjacent to the city.
Derived terms: New Sparta
Sparta remix
Related terms: Spartan
spartan
Laconia
Trojan War
Spartathlon
wildest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On March 9, 1903, an extension, 50 miles in length, was opened from Letterkenny to the remote outpost of Burtonport, a small township on the shores of the Atlantic in the far north-west corner of Co. Donegal, running through some of the wildest and bleakest parts of the country.
ref: 1953 October, H. C. Casserley, “Closure of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 701:
glosses: superlative form of wild: most wild
toys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of toy
toys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toy
sharper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑɹpɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)
Etymology: From sharp + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sharp: more sharp
sharper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑɹpɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sharpers
Etymology: From sharp + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of Glubbdubdrib. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 108:
text: Our young gentlemen who go to Rome will do well to be upon their guard against a set of sharpers, (some of them of our own country,) who deal in pictures and antiques, and very often impose upon the uninformed stranger, by selling him trash, as the productions of the most celebrated artists.
ref: 1766, T[obias] Smollett, “Letter XXIX”, in Travels through France and Italy. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] R[oberts] Baldwin, […], →OCLC:
text: He was a man whom scarcely any amount of fortune could have benefited permanently, and who was made to be ruined, to cheat small tradesmen, to be the victim of astuter sharpers …
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: 1878, John Payne, Introduction, in François Villon, Poems, translated by John Payne, New York: Boni & Liveright, c. 1918, p. 33 https://archive.org/details/poemsvillon00vill
[…] in a twinkling the accomplished sharper changes the pitchers and pretending to examine the contents, asks the tapster what kind of wine he has given him […]
text: 1882, W. S. Gilbert, "Emily, John, James, and I: A Derby Legend" in The "Bab" Ballads, Philadelphia: David McKay, publishing date not given, p. 275, https://archive.org/details/babballads00gilb
The Derby Day sun glittered gaily on cads, / On maidens with gamboge hair, / On sharpers and pickpockets, swindlers and pads— / (For I, with my harp, was there).
glosses: A swindler; a cheat; a professional gambler who makes his living by cheating.
Synonyms: chiseler
spiv
receipts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receipt
receipts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of receipt
witches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of witch
witches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of witch
savagely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more savagely
form: most savagely
Etymology: From savage + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "It is shaped," he hissed at Ford, with his brow savagely furrowed, "like a policeman."
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 19:
glosses: In a wild, uncontrolled, or savage manner.
Synonyms: brutally
ferociously
forcefully
wildly
kye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Kai
Forms: form: ky
Etymology: From Middle English ky, kye, from Old English cȳ (“cows”), plural of cū (“cow”). Cognate with Dutch koeien (“cows”), German Kühe (“cows”), Danish køer (“cows”), Icelandic kýr (“cows”). More at cow and compare kine (“cows”).
Senses: examples: text: Ay, that I do, to my cost. She and her black cat, too, live owre near my milk kye, Brindle and Hawky gi' but half the milk they should gi', and we wat weel whare the ither half gangs to.
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, act 1:
text: devil the move would the factor at Meikle House make to […] mend the roof of the byre that leaked like a sieve on the head of Mistress Munro when she milked the kye on a stormy night.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 23:
glosses: plural of cow
kye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Kai
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Kai
ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Kai
Forms: form: ki
form: ky
Senses: examples: text: […] wrapped in layers of warm clothing against rushing icy air, and all longing for bubbling hot kye (Navy cocoa) at midnight.
ref: 2009, John Roberts, Safeguarding the Nation: The Story of the Modern Royal Navy:
text: Then he walked back to the wheelhouse. Guido arrived with three cups of kye and a plate of hot buttered toast.
ref: 2013, David Arnold, Hursey in Conflict: A Story of Love and Victory, page 73:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Cocoa (the drink).
kye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Kai
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Kai
ipa: /kjeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /kaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Kai
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Kai
Forms: form: kyes
Etymology: From Korean 계(契) (gye).
Senses: glosses: A Korean fundraising meeting.
noiselessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From noiseless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Noiselessly she laid the clematis and wattle on her bed, then stood near the covered face, and, looking down at her untied bootlaces, sighed an impatient sigh always well known and understood by this now unresponsive father.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 127:
text: Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced; her belly low, almost touching the surface of the ground--a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
text: I now, O friend, whom noiselessly the snows / Settle around, and whose small chamber grows / Dusk as the sloping window takes its load:
ref: 1918, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I now, O friend, whom noiselessly the snows”, in New Poems, Chatto & Windus, page 101:
text: The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
ref: 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
glosses: In a quiet manner, without any noise.
Synonyms: quietly
silently
inaudibly
Related terms: noise
noiseless
noisily
noisy
barrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: barrettes
form: barette
Etymology: Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“bar”) + -ette, literally “small bar”.
Senses: examples: text: Growing sleepy, Rabbit stops before midnight at a roadside café for coffee. Somehow, though he can't put his finger on the difference, he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men sitting in zippered jackets in booths three to a girl, the girls with orange hair hanging like wiggly seaweed or loosely bound with gold barrettes like pirate treasure.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 30:
glosses: A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.
glosses: A bar used to mount medals of chivalric orders.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of katepimeron.
synonyms: word: katepimeron
Synonyms: hair clip
hairslide
Related terms: hairpin
barrette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: barrettes
form: barretting
form: barretted
form: barretted
form: barette
Etymology: Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“bar”) + -ette, literally “small bar”.
Senses: examples: text: The standing woman is overweight, with scraped-back and barretted bleach- blond hair and a jowly face of detonated capillaries.
ref: 2004, Glen Duncan, Death of an Ordinary Man, →ISBN:
text: With her barretted white hair, blue eyes, and deep green sweater, Victoria is as perfectly put together as ever.
ref: 2007, Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, →ISBN, page 219:
text: She pulled her long hair up and barretted it so that her long exotic earrings put the finishing touch to her exquisite appearance.
ref: 2010, Linda Lonsdorf, Family Threat, →ISBN, page 267:
glosses: To put (hair) into a barrette.
Lezgi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lezgis
form: Lezgi
form: Lezghi
form: Lezgin
form: Lezghin
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group living predominantly in southern Dagestan and northeastern Azerbaijan.
Lezgi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lezghi
form: Lezgin
form: Lezghin
Senses: synonyms: Kyurin
glosses: The Northeast Caucasian language spoken by these people
Synonyms: Lezgian
Lezghian
Related terms: Lezgic
Lezgi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lezgi
form: most Lezgi
form: Lezghi
form: Lezgin
form: Lezghin
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Lezgi people or their culture or language.
Synonyms: Lezgian
Lezghian
Related terms: Caucasian
Lezgin
stinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stink
stinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Very few boys could resist the attractions of mixing up chemicals, manufacturing unsavoury smells, and producing loud explosions. Bowney was an exception to the general rule, however; he never had studied "Stinks," […]
ref: The Boy's Own Annual (volume 35, page 214)
glosses: Chemistry (as a subject taught in school).
stinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stink
Lezgin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lezgi.
Lezgin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lezgins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lezgi.
Lezgin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lezgi.
Lezghian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lezghi
Etymology: From Lezghi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A language spoken by the Lezgin people who live in southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan.
Lezghian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lezghians
form: Lezghi
Etymology: From Lezghi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person who belongs to this group.
Synonyms: Lezgi
Lezghi
Related terms: Caucasian
Lezgin
favorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of favorite
Dagestan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæɡɪˈstɑːn/
ipa: /ˌdæɡɪˈstæn/
Forms: form: Daghestan
form: Daghistan
form: Dāghistān
Etymology: From Russian Дагеста́н (Dagestán), from Ottoman Turkish داغستان (Dağıstan), from Ottoman Turkish داغ (dağ, “mountain”) + Classical Persian ـِسْتَان (-istān, “-land”).
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of Russia, located in the Caucasus region. Capital: Makhachkala.
Derived terms: Dagestani
Related terms: Makhachkala
Popocatépetl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpɒpəkæˈtɛpɛtəl/
Forms: form: Popocatepetl
Etymology: From Mexican Spanish Popocatépetl, from Classical Nahuatl Popōcatepētl (literally “smoking mountain”), from popōca (“to smoke”) + tepētl (“mountain, hill”).
Senses: examples: text: Far to his left, in the northeast, beyond the valley and the terraced foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the two volcanoes, Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl, rose clear and magnificent into the sunset.
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 5:
glosses: An active volcano in Mexico, located southeast of Mexico City.
Related terms: Iztaccíhuatl
instinctual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɪŋk.t͡ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ɪnˈstɪŋk.t͡ʃəl/
ipa: /ɪnˈstɪŋk.tjuː.əl/
Forms: form: more instinctual
form: most instinctual
Etymology: From instinct + -ual.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from instinct.
Synonyms: instinctive
Derived terms: instinctualization
instinctualize
instinctually
noninstinctual
chesterfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chesterfields
Senses: glosses: A couch, sofa, or love seat with padded arms and back of the same height, often curved outward at the top.
glosses: Any couch or sofa.
Derived terms: chesterfield rugby
SFSR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SFSRs
Senses: examples: Holonyms: USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Soviet Union
Meronym: autonomous oblast
hypernyms: SSR
Soviet Socialist Republic#Noun
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republic#Noun
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polity#Noun
glosses: Initialism of Soviet federated socialist republic or socialist federated Soviet republic.
hypernyms: SSR
Soviet Socialist Republic#Noun
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republic#Noun
<
polity#Noun
glosses: Initialism of Soviet federated socialist republic or socialist federated Soviet republic.
Initialism of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (the Russian SFSR) (1917-1991).
hypernyms: SSR
Soviet Socialist Republic#Noun
<
republic#Noun
<
polity#Noun
glosses: Initialism of Soviet federated socialist republic or socialist federated Soviet republic.
Initialism of Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (the Transcaucasian SFSR) (1922-1936).
glosses: Initialism of Santa Fe Southern Railway, a short line railroad in New Mexico, United States.
glosses: Initialism of San Francisco Syncope Rule, a clinical prediction rule for syncopal episodes.
glosses: Initialism of sorry for slow reply, in online communication.
Transcaucasian SFSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Transcaucasian SFSR
Senses: glosses: A Soviet republic consisting of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan with its capital in Tbilisi (1922–1936).
wikipedia: Transcaucasian SFSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Russian SFSR
Soviet Union
Soviet Socialist Republic
eavestrough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eavestroughs
form: eave trough
form: eave-trough
form: eaves trough
form: eaves-trough
Etymology: 1813 eaves-trough, 1817 eave trough, 1870 eavestrough, from eaves + trough.
Senses: examples: text: Another contrivance worth mentioning, is, the manner of conducting the water down from an Eaves-trough or Lander, which is very common about Mansfield, on the edge of Nottinghamshire; it consists, in suspending a slight wooden rod from the end of the Lander, hanging down into the Water-Butt or Cistern, down which the water runs, without being scattered by the wind, or blown against the wall, as too constantly happens, unless expensive upright spouts or trunks are used, to convey the water down, and which are very subject to decay.
ref: 1813, John Farey, chapter 3, in General View of the Agriculture of Derbyshire, volume 2, London: Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 15:
text: At 1 P. M. going into a back room I noticed that the water was falling from the eave trough of a kitchen, in which there had been no fire for some days.
ref: 1817 March 15, Horatio Gates Spafford, “Record of Cold”, in Niles’ Weekly Register, volume 12, number 3, page 35:
text: e, the eave-trough, hollowed, as usual, out of solid timber, and having the outer edge an inch lower than the inner.
ref: 1836, John Henry Hopkins, Essay on Gothic Architecture, with Various Plans and Drawings for Churches, Burlington: Smith & Harrington, page 42:
text: They laugh at long-togs so, Flask; but seems to me, a Long tailed coat ought always to be worn in all storms afloat. The tails tapering down that way, serve to carry off the water, d'ye see. Same with cocked hats; the cocks form gable-end eave-troughs, Flask.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, or the Whale, volume 3, page 211:
text: Where in an action for a nuisance, in allowing the water from the defendant's roof to be shed on the plaintiff's land, there was evidence to show that the water did not run upon the plaintiff's premises until after a new eavestrough was constructed and put up, and that since that time it did run over and upon the plaintiff's premises, and injured his land; it was held, that the judge on the tiral erred in nonsuiting the plaintiff.
ref: 1870, William Wait, A Digest of New York Reports, volume 2, Albany: William Gould & Son, page 1407:
text: Maxx managed to grab sufficient hold of the eavestrough before plummeting to the ground. He hung suspended from the roof's edge ...
ref: 2009, Eugene Kachmarsky, Let Slip the Dogs of Love, →ISBN, page 59:
qualifier: Upper Midwestern US
glosses: A trough under the eaves of a building for draining water from the roof; gutter.
Synonyms: word: eavestroughing
word: eaves-troughing
word: gutter
word: rain gutter
Derived terms: eavestrougher
eavestroughing
Related terms: eaves-board
eave-board
eaves-catch
eave-shoot
eaves-shoot
eaves-knife
eaves-lath
eaves-spout
Karelo-Finnish SSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Karelo-Finnish SSR
Senses: glosses: A short-lived republic of the Soviet Union with its capital in Petrozavodsk (1940–1956).
wikipedia: Karelo-Finnish SSR
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Russian Наго́рно-Караба́хская автоно́мная о́бласть (Nagórno-Karabáxskaja avtonómnaja óblastʹ).
Senses: examples: text: The Azerbaijan SSR includes the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.
ref: 1936, Constitution of the Soviet Union; Chapter II, The Organization of the Soviet State: Article 24, page 14:
glosses: Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union created in the Azerbaijan SSR in 1923 and lasting until 1991.
wikipedia: Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
Synonyms: Azerbaijan SSR
Related terms: SFSR
Soviet Socialist Republic
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
recusal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkjuːzəl/
Forms: form: recusals
Etymology: From recuse + -al.
Senses: synonyms: word: inhibition
glosses: An act of recusing; removing oneself from a decision/judgment because of a conflict of interest.
Related terms: recuse
recusant
recusancy
gonch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒntʃ
Forms: form: gotch
form: ginch
form: gitch
form: gonchies
form: gotchies
form: ginchies
form: gitchies
Etymology: From gitch, a variation of gotch, from Ukrainian га́чі (háči), ґа́чі pl (gáči).
Senses: examples: text: I better do laundry tonight, I'm going to need some clean gonch in the morning
text: He was standing in his gonch with his big belly hanging over.
ref: 1996, Richard Van Camp, The Lesser Blessed, Douglas & McIntyre, published 1996, →ISBN:
text: He rented a room in his old neighbourhood and relaxed in his gonch.
ref: 2005, Robert Arthur Strandquist, A Small Dog Barking: Stories, Anvil Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 29:
text: “So long as the ad's masculine and not too arty. Arty works for metrosexuals and gays, but not guys who think of themselves as 'real men.' Maybe have him in his gonch doing stuff like sharpening his skate blades.”
ref: 2012, Savanna Fox, The Dirty Girls Book Club, Berkley, published 2012, →ISBN:
qualifier: Alberta and British Columbia
glosses: Men's brief-style underwear.
Kurdistan Autonomous Oblast
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Red Kurdistan
glosses: Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Azerbaijan SSR from 1923 to 1929.
Related terms: SFSR
Soviet Socialist Republic
bowlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bowler
Red Kurdistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the Kurdistan Autonomous Oblast.
all-inclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We stayed at an all-inclusive resort while we were in Bermuda, and even the golfing was free.
glosses: Providing all amenities, benefits or perquisites in a single package.
all-inclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-inclusives
Senses: examples: text: The development of all-inclusives may restrict the development of other forms of tourism, such as nature heritage tourism, since all-inclusive visitors are not generally consumers of these activities.
ref: 1999, Garrett Nagle, Tourism, Leisure and Recreation, page 35:
glosses: A resort that provides all amenities, benefits or perquisites in a single package.
alliterate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪ.tə.ɹeɪt/
ipa: [əˈlɪ.ɾə.ɹeɪt]
Forms: form: alliterates
form: alliterating
form: alliterated
form: alliterated
Etymology: Back-formation from alliteration.
Senses: glosses: To exhibit alliteration.
examples: text: It is a strophe of six lines, of which the first and second and the fourth and fifth belong together, while the third and sixth are independently alliterated.
ref: 1888, George Theodore Dippold, Richard Wagner's Poem the Ring of the Nibelung: Explained and in Part Translated:
glosses: To use (a word or sound) so as to make alliteration.
Synonyms: sense: exhibit alliteration
word: alliterize
Derived terms: alliterative
alliterator
nonalliterated
unalliterated
alliterative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alliterative
form: most alliterative
Etymology: From alliterate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: In the form or style of alliteration.
Synonyms: alliterational
Derived terms: alliteratively
alliterativeness
nonalliterative
unalliterative
alliteratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From alliterative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an alliterative manner.
allusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more allusively
form: most allusively
Etymology: From allusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an allusive manner; in a manner characterized by allusion.
allusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allusivenesses
Etymology: From allusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being allusive.
alongshore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɒŋʃɔː/
Etymology: From along + shore.
Senses: glosses: At or along a shore or coast.
alongshore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɒŋʃɔː/
Etymology: From along + shore.
Senses: examples: text: On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the word and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.
ref: 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 60:
glosses: At or along a shore or coast.
Derived terms: alongshoreman
alphanumerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælfən(j)uˈmɛɹɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪkəl
Etymology: From alpha- + numerical.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of only letters and numbers; alphanumeric.
Derived terms: alphanumerically
alphanumerical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌælfən(j)uˈmɛɹɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪkəl
Forms: form: alphanumericals
Etymology: From alpha- + numerical.
Senses: glosses: alphanumeric
alternator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternators
Etymology: From alternate + -or.
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electric generator which produces alternating current through mechanical means.
Derived terms: Alexanderson alternator
turboalternator
amateurishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more amateurishly
form: most amateurishly
Etymology: From amateurish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He came in and we went out to the back area I'd bricked amateurishly years ago.
ref: 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 18:
glosses: In an amateurish manner; without expertise or professionalism.
amateurishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From amateurish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He betrays his amateurishness in a hundred ways.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
glosses: The quality of being amateurish.
amateurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amateurisms
Etymology: From amateur + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Amateur beliefs and practices generally.
glosses: The opinion or conviction that sports ought not to be played for money.
ambassadorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambassadorships
form: embassadorship
Etymology: From ambassador + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The post or office of ambassador.
ambidextrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ambidextrous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ambidextrous manner.
ambitiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambitiousnesses
Etymology: From ambitious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being ambitious.
ambrosial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /amˈbɹəʊzɪəl/
ipa: /æmˈbɹoʊʒəl/
Forms: form: more ambrosial
form: most ambrosial
Etymology: Partly from ambrosia and partly from Latin ambrosius, + -al.
Senses: examples: text: And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour’d like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
examples: text: Thy Chamber vvith Ambroſiall odors breatheth, / Nevv loues and true loues vnto them that entreateth, / And furious Mars made milde his Faulcheon ſheatheth / At thy delicious aſpect: […]
ref: 1607 February 12 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Barnabe Barnes], The Divils Charter: A Tragædie Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the Sixt. […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Iohn Wright, […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, signature E2, verso:
text: VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]
ref: 1798 July, Walter Savage Landor, “Book VI”, in Gebir; a Poem, […], London: […] Rivingtons, […], →OCLC, page 57, lines 123–125:
text: [T]his young hero, rising from his bed, proceeded to decorate his beautiful person, and shave his ambrosial chin […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXVIII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: By your cheek of vermil hue, / By your lip’s ambrosial dew, / By your soft and languid eye, / By your swelling bosom’s sigh, / You taught me love.
ref: 1826, J. S. Byerley, “You Taught Me Love”, in The Universal Songster, Volume 3:
glosses: Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.
Synonyms: ambrosiac
ambrosian
Derived terms: ambrosially
unambrosial