cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ʌʃən
Forms: form: Russians
form: Ru.
Etymology: From Medieval Latin (11th century) Russiānus, from Russia, a Latinization of the Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ)) + -ānus (“of or pertaining to”). Attested in English (both as a noun and as an adjective) from the 16th century. By surface analysis, Russia + -an. Piecewise doublet of Rossiyan.
Senses: examples: text: A grim smile plays about Tarzan’s lips. At least Rokoff will be cheated. How mad he will be! And death will be more merciful than he could have hoped for at the hands of the Russian.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 85:
text: But be that as it may: the Great Russian chauvinist Voznesenskii knew exactly how best to touch upon the asiaphobic nerve of his fellow-countrymen, how to stimulate the deep-rooted irrational fears of the Russians of peril looming from Asia, and how to turn those fears against China.
ref: 1983, Peace and Security in the Atlantic and Pacific Regions, page 69:
text: “I believe the Russians – the inhumane behavior of Russia does not justify it to get the fruits of the international community,” Wyden told CNN.
ref: 2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN:
synonyms: Muscovite
Rossiyan
Russ
glosses: A citizen of Russia.
glosses: An ethnic Russian; a member of the East Slavic ethnic group which is native to, and constitutes the majority of the population of, Russia.
glosses: A person from the Soviet Union.
examples: text: The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶
ref: 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:
synonyms: Russ
glosses: The Russian language.
glosses: A domestic cat breed.
glosses: A cat of this breed.
examples: text: Ok, I do think I am starting to get used to it, but you have to admit, if youve^([sic]) been juggling bags and then start juggling Russians, they feel sooo lopsided to juggle at first!
ref: 2011, jamescoutry24, “Beanbags > Russian”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A type of juggling ball with a hard outer shell, filled with salt, sand or another similar substance.
glosses: Someone from or around Brandon Estate (also known as Moscow).
glosses: A gun (due to some preference for Russian arms with gang members).
glosses: A kind of sausage derived from Russian kolbasa.
Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ʌʃən
Forms: form: Russians
form: Russianing
form: Russianed
form: Russianed
form: Ru.
Etymology: From Medieval Latin (11th century) Russiānus, from Russia, a Latinization of the Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ)) + -ānus (“of or pertaining to”). Attested in English (both as a noun and as an adjective) from the 16th century. By surface analysis, Russia + -an. Piecewise doublet of Rossiyan.
Senses: glosses: To compel or force someone as a result of Russian influence or pressure.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Russian terms
Swedish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: swē'dĭsh
ipa: /ˈswiː.dɪʃ/
homophone: sweetish stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: Swedishes
Etymology: From Swede + -ish. Cognate with Dutch Zweeds, German Schwedisch.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Swedish.
glosses: The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.
Hypernyms: East Scandinavian
East Scandinavian language
Derived terms: Finland Swedish
Old Swedish
Swedishize
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Swedish terms
Swedish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: swē'dĭsh
ipa: /ˈswiː.dɪʃ/
homophone: sweetish stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From Swede + -ish. Cognate with Dutch Zweeds, German Schwedisch.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Sweden.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Swedish language.
Hypernyms: East Scandinavian
Derived terms: Swedish bitters
Swedish Blue
Swedish drink
Swedish fish
Swedish ladder
Swedish limpa bread
Swedishly
Swedish massage
Swedish meatball
Swedish mile
Swedishness
Swedish relay
Swedish Rite
Swedish rye bread
Swedish Sign Language
Swedish torch
Swedish turnip
Related terms: Swede
Sweden
of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏv
rhymes: -ɒv
ipa: /ɒv/
ipa: /ɔv/
enpr: ŭv
rhymes: -ʌv
ipa: /ʌv/
ipa: [ɐv~ʌv~əv]
enpr: ŏf
rhymes: -ɒf
homophone: off
note: Indic
ipa: /ɔf/
enpr: əv
ipa: /əv/
note: before a consonant
ipa: /ə/
homophone: 've stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: a stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
enpr: əf
note: Indic
ipa: /əf/
note: before a consonant
ipa: /ə/
homophone: a stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: A spelling of /əv/ influenced by Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: I have refrained from giving many details which I might of done, from feelings of delicacy; indeed, they were of so dark and dreadful a nature, that I could do no more than hint at them
ref: 1846, Linus Wilson Miller, Notes of an Exile to Van Dieman's Land (McKinstry: Fredonia, NY) p. 367
text: "I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she have been the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out."
ref: 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 33:
text: ‘You must of left your door unlocked. Or even open.’
ref: 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 87:
text: "You couldn't of known," Livio says.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 340:
qualifier: usually in modal perfect constructions
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of have and ’ve, chiefly in depictions of colloquial speech.
of
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏv
rhymes: -ɒv
ipa: /ɒv/
ipa: /ɔv/
enpr: ŭv
rhymes: -ʌv
ipa: /ʌv/
ipa: [ɐv~ʌv~əv]
enpr: ŏf
rhymes: -ɒf
homophone: off
note: Indic
ipa: /ɔf/
enpr: əv
ipa: /əv/
note: before a consonant
ipa: /ə/
homophone: 've stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: a stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
enpr: əf
note: Indic
ipa: /əf/
note: before a consonant
ipa: /ə/
homophone: a stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of off or often.
Slovak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsloʊvɑːk/
ipa: /ˈsloʊvæk/
ipa: /sləˈvæk/
ipa: /sləˈvɑːk/
rhymes: -æk
rhymes: -ɑːk
Forms: form: Slk.
Etymology: From Slovak Slovák (“Slovak”), from a shortening of Proto-Slavic *slověninъ (“Slav”) + -ák. Related to Slovene.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Slovakia, the Slovak people or the Slovak language.
Synonyms: Slovakian
Slovakish
Derived terms: Slovak Rough-haired Pointer
Slovak State
Slovak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsloʊvɑːk/
ipa: /ˈsloʊvæk/
ipa: /sləˈvæk/
ipa: /sləˈvɑːk/
rhymes: -æk
rhymes: -ɑːk
Forms: form: Slovaks
form: Slk.
Etymology: From Slovak Slovák (“Slovak”), from a shortening of Proto-Slavic *slověninъ (“Slav”) + -ák. Related to Slovene.
Senses: glosses: A person from Slovakia or of Slovak descent.
glosses: The West Slavic language of Slovakia.
Synonyms: Slovakian
Derived terms: Old Slovak
Related terms: Czechoslovak
or
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /oɹ/
note: STL
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: [oːɹ]
ipa: [ɔ(ː)ɹ]
homophone: oar
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɚ]
ipa: [əɹ]
Etymology: From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).
Senses: examples: text: You may either stay or come.
text: He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
glosses: Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
glosses: Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
examples: text: It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
text: No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
examples: text: The country Myanmar, or Burma
glosses: Connects two equivalent names.
Derived terms: heorshe
Related terms: either
neither
nor
i.e.
or
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /oɹ/
note: STL
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: [oːɹ]
ipa: [ɔ(ː)ɹ]
homophone: oar
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɚ]
ipa: [əɹ]
Forms: form: ors
Etymology: From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above).
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of OR.
Related terms: and
nand
nor
xor
or
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /oɹ/
note: STL
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: [oːɹ]
ipa: [ɔ(ː)ɹ]
homophone: oar
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɚ]
ipa: [əɹ]
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /oɹ/
note: STL
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: [oːɹ]
ipa: [ɔ(ː)ɹ]
homophone: oar
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɚ]
ipa: [əɹ]
Forms: form: ors
Etymology: From late Middle English or (“gold”), borrowed from Middle French or (“yellow”), from Old French or, from Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of aurum.
Senses: examples: text: The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".
ref: 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry:
text: In engraving, "Or" is expressed by dots.
ref: 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
Synonyms: sense: gold or yellow tincture
word: o.
sense: gold or yellow tincture
word: Or
Related terms: english: chemical symbol for gold
translation: chemical symbol for gold
word: Au
or
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /oɹ/
note: STL
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: [oːɹ]
ipa: [ɔ(ː)ɹ]
homophone: oar
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɚ]
ipa: [əɹ]
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /oɹ/
note: STL
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: [oːɹ]
ipa: [ɔ(ː)ɹ]
homophone: oar
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɚ]
ipa: [əɹ]
Etymology: From late Middle English or (“gold”), borrowed from Middle French or (“yellow”), from Old French or, from Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of aurum.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
Synonyms: gold
or
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /oɹ/
note: STL
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: [oːɹ]
ipa: [ɔ(ː)ɹ]
homophone: oar
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɚ]
ipa: [əɹ]
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Late Old English ār, from Old Norse ár. Compare ere.
Senses: glosses: Early (on).
glosses: Earlier, previously.
or
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
ipa: /oɹ/
note: STL
ipa: /ɑɹ/
ipa: [oːɹ]
ipa: [ɔ(ː)ɹ]
homophone: oar
homophone: ore
homophone: o'er (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: aw
homophone: awe (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
ipa: /ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ɚ]
ipa: [əɹ]
ipa: /oɹ/
ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Late Old English ār, from Old Norse ár. Compare ere.
Senses: examples: text: Or euer the siluer corde be loosed, or the golden bowle be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountaine, or the wheele broken at the cisterne. Then shall the dust returne to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall returne vnto God who gaue it.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 12:6-7:
text: I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;
But or ever a prayer had gusht,
A wicked whisper came, and made
My heart as dry as dust.
ref: 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
text: And Time went forth into the worlds to obey the commands of the gods, yet he cast furtive glances at his masters, and the gods distrusted Time because he had known the worlds or ever the gods became.
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Before; ere. Generally followed by "ever" or "e'er".
Hungarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌŋˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/
Etymology: From Hungary + -an.
Senses: synonyms: word: Magyar
word: Hungarish
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to present-day Hungary, the ethnic Hungarian people or the Hungarian language.
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary, during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of ethnicity.
examples: text: The Hungarian prefix used in this book for a GroupBox control is “grp”.
ref: 2009, Michael Ekedahl, Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Hungarian notation.
Derived terms: word: Hungarian brome
taxonomic: Bromus inermis
word: Hungarian bromegrass
taxonomic: Matricaria recutita
word: Hungarian chamomile
word: Hungarian cinch
taxonomic: Vicia pannonica
word: Hungarian clover
taxonomic: Neptis rivularis
word: Hungarian glider
taxonomic: Setaria italica
word: Hungarian grass
word: Hungarian hound
word: Hungarianism
word: Hungarianize
word: Hungarian Kuvasz
taxonomic: Syringa josikaea
word: Hungarian lilac
taxonomic: Setaria italica
word: Hungarian millet
word: Hungarian minor
word: Hungarianness
word: Hungarian notation
taxonomic: Perdix perdix
word: Hungarian partridge
word: Hungarian Pointer
taxonomic: Vicia pannonica
word: Hungarian vetch
word: Hungarian Vizsla
Related terms: Hungaristics
Hungaro-
Hungarology
Hungarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌŋˈɡɛə.ɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Hungarians
Etymology: From Hungary + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from present-day Hungary or of ethnic Hungarian descent.
glosses: A person from the former Kingdom of Hungary, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of that person's ethnicity.
examples: text: I remember a conversation I had once with a friend who insisted that “nouns are declined but verbs are conjugated”; except in Hungarian you both decline and conjugate nouns, sometimes together.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
glosses: The main language of Hungary.
examples: text: The qualifier is the descriptive part of the name that would probably make up the entire name if you weren't using Hungarian.
ref: 1993, Steve McConnell, Code Complete:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Hungarian notation.
Synonyms: Magyar
Related terms: Old Hungarian
Wiktionary’s coverage of Hungarian terms
Flemish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛmɪʃ/
homophone: flemish
homophone: phlegmish
rhymes: -ɛmɪʃ
Forms: form: more Flemish
form: most Flemish
Etymology: From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old English flēmisc, from Old Frisian flāmisk, derived from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current water”) and *-iskaz. Equivalent to English fleam + -ish. More at Flanders.
Senses: examples: text: But Wallonian legislators are blocking the changes, fearing that their power is eroding, that the Flemish are doing some legal ethnic cleansing and that a divided Belgium will end the subsidies that flow south from richer Flanders.
ref: 2008 May 14, Steven Erlanger, “Seams of Belgium’s Quilt Threaten to Burst”, in The New York Times:
text: […] 1302, in which Flemish farmers and civilians armed with goedendags stand in battle formation. The goedendags resemble long clubs, but they have a much wider beating ring around the top and it is possible that a daring combatant […]
ref: 2010, Jan Piet Puype, Harm Stevens, Arms and Armour of Knights and Landsknechts in the Netherlands Army Museum, Eburon Uitgeverij B.V., →ISBN, page 245:
glosses: Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.
glosses: Of or relating to the Belgian standard variety of the Dutch language.
glosses: Of or relating to West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
Derived terms: word: flemish
word: Flemish account
word: Flemish beauty
word: Flemish bond
word: Flemish Brabant
word: Flemish brick
word: Flemish coil
word: Flemish eye
word: Flemish gable
word: Flemish Giant
word: Flemish horse
word: Flemishness
Flemish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɛmɪʃ/
homophone: flemish
homophone: phlegmish
rhymes: -ɛmɪʃ
Etymology: From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old English flēmisc, from Old Frisian flāmisk, derived from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current water”) and *-iskaz. Equivalent to English fleam + -ish. More at Flanders.
Senses: glosses: Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
glosses: West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.
Related terms: Flanders
Fleming
Netherlandish
chook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: chooks
Etymology: From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.
Senses: examples: text: Worm chickens once every three months and, if an occasional lice problem occurs, spray the inside of the chook shed with Coopex.
ref: 2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke′s Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 683:
text: 2006, Judith Brett, The Chook in the Australian Unconscious, in Peter Beilharz, Robert Manne, Reflected Light: La Trobe Essays, page 329,
This little book, with its meticulous pencil drawings of chooks in mechanical contraptions and photos to show the machine in operation with a white leghorn called Gregory Peck, is evidence of both the sadism inspired by the chook′s comparatively flightless fate and the laughter we use to defend ourselves against the knowledge of that sadism.
text: She decided to dig her way under the fence into their chook house and had great fun running around and biting the necks of about eight chooks and leaving them half-dead and bleeding. The neighbour was furious, and unfortunately it was Dad′s birthday, so when he arrived home from work, Mum said ‘Happy birthday and^([sic]) darling. Guess what? Your dog has half-killed most of the neighbour′s chooks.
ref: 2011, Helen Maczkowiack, An Awkward Fit, page 21:
text: Letting your chooks clean the compost of curl grubs will make it fairly safe to put on the garden.
ref: 2025 June 7, The Australian Weekend Magazine, Australia, page 45, column 1:
glosses: A chicken, especially a hen.
glosses: A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
glosses: A fool.
glosses: Affectionate name for a person
examples: text: Chooky egg
translation: Chicken's egg.
english: Chicken's egg.
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glosses: A chicken.
Derived terms: chookas
chook chaser
chookers
chookhouse
chookie
chookish
chook pen
chook raffle
chook run
chook shed
chook wheel
chookyard
like a headless chook
turbo chook
chook
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Etymology: From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck.
Senses: glosses: A call made to chickens.
examples: text: Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.
ref: 1875 July 23, Sydney Punch, page 1, column 1:
glosses: An imitation of the call of a chicken.
centillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛnˈtɪl.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: centillions
Etymology: From centi- + -illion.
Senses: qualifier: short scale
glosses: 10³⁰³.
qualifier: long scale
glosses: 10⁶⁰⁰.
Derived terms: centillionaire
Related terms: word: centillionth
thirteen
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɜːˈtiːn/
ipa: /ˌθɝtˈtin/
ipa: /ˌθɝtin/
ipa: /ˈθɜː.tiːn/
ipa: /ˈθɝt.tin/
ipa: /ˈθɝ.tin/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From Middle English thirttene, variant (through metathesis) of thrittene, from Old English þrēotīene, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun, compound of *þrīz (“three”) + *tehun (“teen”). Cognate with West Frisian trettjin, Dutch dertien, German dreizehn, Danish tretten. Equivalent to three + -teen.
Senses: examples: text: There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.
text: His brother's age is thirteen.
text: During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref: 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
text: In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope. No noteworthy incident occurred until after leaving Foochow when, as we were enjoying our after dinner coffee and cigars, and by chance discussing the question of thirteen sitting down at table that had occurred at a dinner at which one of the party had shortly before been present, a violent thump and tremulous motion of the vessel announced the unpleasant fact that we had struck upon something. We rushed on deck and found the steamer hard and fast on a reef near Matsu Island. Fortunately the day was fine and there was no sea on.
ref: 1890 February 28, W. S. Wetmore, “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 256, column 1:
text: In the summer of 2014, at least thirteen BTGs and elements of five SPETSNAZ units were poised on the Ukrainian border.³⁶
ref: 2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 42:
related: word: mul:13
word: mul:XIII
word: mul:D
synonyms: baker's dozen
long dozen
throtteen
glosses: The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three.
Coordinate terms: Previous: twelve. Next: fourteen
Derived terms: grade thirteen
sweet thirteen
thirteener
thirteen hundred
thirteen-lined ground squirrel
thirteen to the dozen
Related terms: word: thirteenth
word: triskaidekaphobia
fourteen
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.tiːn/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.tin/
ipa: /ˌfɔːˈtiːn/
ipa: /ˌfɔɹtˈtin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: 14
form: XIV
form: fourteene
form: forteen
form: forteene
Etymology: From Middle English fourtene, from Old English fēowertīene, from Proto-Germanic *fedurtehun. Cognate with West Frisian fjirtjin, Dutch veertien, German vierzehn, Danish fjorten. Equivalent to four + -teen.
Senses: examples: text: […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
glosses: The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIV and in Arabic numerals as 14.
Coordinate terms: Prev: thirteen. Next: fifteen.
Derived terms: fortnight
fourteener
fourteenish
fourteenness
fourteenpence
fourteenpenny
fourteens
fourteenth
Related terms: word: fourteenth
million
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭl′yən
ipa: /ˈmɪljən/
ipa: [ˈmɪl(i)jən]
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: millions
Etymology: From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”, from mille (“thousand”, from Latin mille) + -one). Compare -illion.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: mega-, M-
text: Doctors in Nigeria have criticized a mass national identification registration policy, involving tens of millions of citizens, as Covid-19 cases and deaths rise in the country. […] So far, only 56 million NINs have been collected by mobile operators, according to a federal government press release.
ref: 2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN:
related: word: mn
word: mn.
word: mln
word: mln.
word: mul:M
qualifier: long scale and short scale
glosses: The cardinal number 1 000 000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: gazillion; see also Thesaurus:zillion
text: I told you a million times before.
text: I can think of millions of reasons not to go.
text: Let him bring millions infinite of men,
Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece:
Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.
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: Time stood still and we were lost on words to say / And though the people stared, they seemed a million miles away / Oh, we knew it was love we were feeling / We were destined to give it a whole new meaning
ref: 1981, Chaka Khan, “Fate”, in What Cha' Gonna Do for Me:
text: Up and round and through caves and out over precipices at a million miles an hour. The girls are behind me and I'm holding Matt, what a buzz.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 38:
glosses: An unspecified very large number.
Synonyms: word: mil
word: mil.
word: mln
word: mln.
word: M
word: m
word: M.
word: m.
word: MM
word: MM.
word: mn
word: mn.
Coordinate terms: thousand
milliard
thousand million
billion
trillion
quadrillion
quintillion
sextillion
Derived terms: centimillion
hundred million
like a million bucks
like a million dollars
like a million pounds
megamillion
millionaire
million and one
millionary
million city
million-dollar
million-dollar question
million dollar question
millioned
millionennium
millionfold
Milliongate
millionheiress
millionism
million million
millionocracy
millionth
millionty
multimillion
multi-million
never in a million years
not in a million
not in a million years
one hundred million
one in a million
one million
one thousand million
supra-million
supramillion
ten million
thanks a million
thousand million
vigintillion
you're welcome a million
Related terms: sense: short scale
word: Previous: thousand. Next: billion
sense: long scale
word: Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
word: millionth
sense: ISO prefix
word: mega-
word: mega
Czech
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: chĕk
ipa: /t͡ʃɛk/
homophone: check
homophone: cheque
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: Cz.
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
Senses: examples: text: A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, a Czech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.
Synonyms: Czechian
Czechic
Czechish
Derived terms: Czech Silesia
Czechness
Czechoslovak
Czech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĕk
ipa: /t͡ʃɛk/
homophone: check
homophone: cheque
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: Czechs
form: Cz.
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
Senses: examples: text: By 1963, almost 130,000 Czechs had migrated to this country. They tended to gravitate to the farming communities.
ref: 1964, John F. Kennedy, “Immigration Policy”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.
Czech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: chĕk
ipa: /t͡ʃɛk/
homophone: check
homophone: cheque
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: Cz.
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
Senses: examples: text: By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.
ref: 2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022:
glosses: A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.
examples: text: She's from Czech, Croatia, or somewhere over there. The ill thing is that we always come together when we're drunk, but half way through our drunken talks, she always gets mad at something and leaves.
ref: 2008, George Stowers, Straight Up, No Sippin': Memoirs of Life and Work Onboard Mega Cruise Ships, →ISBN, page 325:
text: A whole array of companies and consultants are found travelling to Croatia or Czech or China, to extol the latest virtues of electioneering, perhaps via the UK Westminster Foundation for Democracy, […]
ref: 2009, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Marketing: Principles and Applications, Routledge, →ISBN, page 237:
glosses: The Czech Republic (Czechia).
Related terms: Early Modern Czech
Middle Czech
Old Czech
Proto-Czech
Bohemian
Wiktionary’s coverage of Czech terms
cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kyo͞ob
ipa: /kjuːb/
enpr: kyo͞ob
ipa: /kjub/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: cubes
Etymology: From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Senses: examples: text: When the math teacher is teaching the class about cubes, he asks them to imagine a cardboard box whose width, length, and height are all the same.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
examples: text: A: One cube or two? B: Oh, no sugar for me, thanks.
glosses: Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
examples: text: The cube of 2 is 8.
text: The cube of 0.5 is 0.125.
topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: cube root
glosses: The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
glosses: A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
examples: text: As if the 383 weren't already a roaring beast, in 1972 they bored it out some more, bringing it up to 400 cubes. This 400-cube monster could launch a land yacht like the Plymouth Fury from zero to sixty in under ten seconds.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Clipping of cubic inch(es).
Synonyms: sense: geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces
word: regular hexahedron
sense: object in the form of a cube
word: block
sense: object in the form of a cube
word: brick
sense: object in the form of a cube
word: die
sense: object in the form of a cube
word: square block
sense: number raised to the third power
word: third power
Hypernyms: sense: geometry: polyhedron having of six identical square faces
word: hexahedron
word: cuboid
Coordinate terms: sense: Platonic solids
word: tetrahedron
sense: Platonic solids
word: octahedron
sense: Platonic solids
word: dodecahedron
sense: Platonic solids
word: icosahedron
cube
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kyo͞ob
ipa: /kjuːb/
enpr: kyo͞ob
ipa: /kjub/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: cubes
form: cubing
form: cubed
form: cubed
Etymology: From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Senses: examples: text: Three cubed can be written as 3³, and equals twenty-seven.
text: From this severe trial Mr. Nackybal emerged with distinction, having in his cubing made only twenty-five slight mistakes out of the forty-six cubes demanded, and in his rooting, out of the fifty-three extractions propounded, committed a mere matter of four trifling errors!
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
topics: arithmetic
glosses: To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.
glosses: To form into the shape of a cube.
examples: text: Cube the ham right after adding the curry to the rice.
glosses: To cut into cubes.
examples: text: He likes to cube now and then.
glosses: To use a Rubik's cube.
Synonyms: topics: dice
games
word: to cut into cubes
cube
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kyo͞ob
ipa: /kjuːb/
enpr: kyo͞ob
ipa: /kjub/
rhymes: -uːb
Etymology: From Old French cube, from Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos).
Senses: examples: text: Beautiful peepshows with hand-coloured engravings by Martin Englebrecht, 1684-1756, were produced in Augsburg about 1740. The box, about six inches cube, contained slots to take four cut-out scenes, the front of the box had another cut-out, and the back was painted with a landscape, making six 'curtains' in all.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 181:
glosses: Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
Derived terms: 4-cube
angiocube
bath cube
bouillon cube
broth cube
cubane
cube candle
cube farm
cubefree
cubeful
cube juice
cubeland
cubeless
cubelet
cubelike
cube map
cube mapping
cube master
cubemate
cube out
cube powder
cuber
cube root
cube rule
cubescape
cube-shaped
cubesort
cube-square law
cube steak
cube sugar
cube truck
cube van
cube with handles
cubey
cubie
cubiform
cubing
cuboctahedron
cubo-cube
cubologist
cubology
cubooctahedron
cubyl
doubling cube
duplication of the cube
flash cube
hemicube
high cube
Hilbert cube
holocube
hypercube
hypocube
ice cube
ice cube tray
magic cube
magicube
metacube
microcube
nanocube
Necker cube
octaazacubane
octacube
Oxo cube
pawn cube
pentacube
perfect cube
photo cube
polycube
puzzle cube
Rubik cube
Rubik's cube
scale cube
Sierpinski cube
snub cube
speed cube
speedcube
speedcuber
speedcubing
square-cube law
stock cube
subcube
sugar cube
supercube
tetracube
tip of the ice cube
tricube
truncated cube
Tychonoff cube
Related terms: cubic
cubical
cuboid
cubism
cubist
line segment
square
tesseract
cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kyo͞ob
ipa: /kjuːb/
enpr: kyo͞ob
ipa: /kjub/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: cubes
Etymology: Clipped form of cubicle (with intentional reference to their common shape per cube, etymology 1), which from Latin cubiculum (“a small bedchamber or lounge”), from cubare (“to lie down”).
Senses: examples: text: My co-worker annoys me by throwing things over the walls of my cube.
glosses: A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
hexahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕksəhē'drən
ipa: /hɛksəˈhiːdɹən/
Forms: form: hexahedra
form: hexahedrons
Etymology: From hexa- + -hedron.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron with six faces.
Synonyms: word: sexahedron
Derived terms: octakishexahedron
tetrahemihexahedron
tetrahexahedron
tetrakishexahedron
tetrakis hexahedron
Related terms: hexahedral
parallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹəlɛl/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpæɹəˌlɛl/
enpr: păr′ə-lĕl'
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəˌlɛl/
enpr: pĕr′ə-lĕl'
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpar(ə)ləl/
Forms: form: more parallel
form: most parallel
form: paralell
Etymology: From Middle French parallèle and its etymon Latin parallēlus, parallēlos. The verb is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The road runs parallel to the canal.
glosses: With a parallel relationship.
Related terms: parallelly
parallel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹəlɛl/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpæɹəˌlɛl/
enpr: păr′ə-lĕl'
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəˌlɛl/
enpr: pĕr′ə-lĕl'
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpar(ə)ləl/
Forms: form: parallels
form: paralell
Etymology: From Middle French parallèle and its etymon Latin parallēlus, parallēlos. The verb is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Who made the spider parallels design, / Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line?
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One of a set of parallel lines.
examples: text: lines that from their parallel decline
ref: 1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary:
glosses: Direction conformable to that of another line.
examples: text: The 31st parallel passes through the center of my town.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A line of latitude.
glosses: An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
examples: text: It has also been suggested that environmental crimes might include the proposed crime of ‘ecocide’ or ‘geocide’, with proponents of this view attempting to draw parallels between destructive acts towards the environment and those against the qualifying groups for genocide. […] [M]any who advocate for the creation of either ecocide or geocide principally argue that the best place to try such crimes is through an apparatus created in a separate and environment-oriented treaty.
ref: 2013, Alexandra R. Harrington, “The Crime of Aggression and Threats to the Future”, in Sébastien Jodoin, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, editors, Sustainable Development, International Criminal Justice, and Treaty Implementation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 161–162:
text: None but thyself can be thy parallel.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
glosses: Something identical or similar in essential respects.
examples: text: Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope
glosses: A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
eleventh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛv.ənθ/
ipa: /ɪˈlɛv.ənθ/
ipa: /iˈlɛv.ənθ/
ipa: /əˈlɛv.ənθ/
Etymology: From Middle English elleventhe, from elleven + -the, equivalent to eleven + -th. This re-formation replaced inherited forms such as endleft, ellefthe, from Old English endlefta, from Proto-Germanic *ainaliftô.
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, Trumpmentum is real. It is going to define the election. Further, Trumpmentum might edge out Harris at the eleventh hour—which is when it counts most.
ref: 2024 October 22, Brandon J. Weichert, “Trumpmentum Is Real: Can He Win?”, in The National Interest:
glosses: The ordinal form of the number eleven.
Synonyms: word: 11th
word: XIth
sense: in names of monarchs and popes
word: XI
Derived terms: eleventh commandment
eleventh cranial nerve
eleventh grade
eleventh grader
eleventh-hour
eleventh hour
eleventhly
September eleventh
eleventh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛv.ənθ/
ipa: /ɪˈlɛv.ənθ/
ipa: /iˈlɛv.ənθ/
ipa: /əˈlɛv.ənθ/
Forms: form: elevenths
Etymology: From Middle English elleventhe, from elleven + -the, equivalent to eleven + -th. This re-formation replaced inherited forms such as endleft, ellefthe, from Old English endlefta, from Proto-Germanic *ainaliftô.
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the eleventh position.
glosses: One of eleven equal parts of a whole.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.
twelfth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɛlfθ/ [tʰw̥ɛɫfθ]
ipa: /twɛlθ/ [tʰw̥ɛɤθ]
note: th-fronting
ipa: /twɛlf/ [tʰw̥ɛɫʷf]
note: some speakers
ipa: /twɛlftθ/
rhymes: -ɛlfθ
rhymes: -ɛlθ
rhymes: -ɛlf
rhymes: -ɛlftθ
Forms: form: twelfe
form: twelveth
Etymology: From Middle English twelfthe, twelfte, from Old English twelfta (“twelfth”), from Proto-Germanic *twaliftô (“twelfth”), equivalent to twelve + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots twalt (“twelfth”), Saterland Frisian tweelfte (“twelfth”), West Frisian tolfde (“twelfth”), Dutch twaalfde (“twelfth”), German Low German twalfde, twalvde (“twelfth”), German zwölfte (“twelfth”), Danish tolvte (“twelfth”),
Swedish tolfte (“twelfth”), Icelandic tólfta (“twelfth”).
Senses: examples: text: The answer appears on the twelfth page of the book.
text: She finished twelfth in the race.
glosses: The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.
Synonyms: word: 12th
word: XIIth
english: in names of monarchs and popes
translation: in names of monarchs and popes
word: XII
word: dozenth
Derived terms: Glorious Twelfth
Twelfth
twelfth cake
Twelfth cake
twelfth cranial nerve
Twelfth Day
twelfth-day cake
twelfth grade
twelfth grader
twelfth man
Twelfth Night
twelfth pie
Twelfthtide
twelfth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɛlfθ/ [tʰw̥ɛɫfθ]
ipa: /twɛlθ/ [tʰw̥ɛɤθ]
note: th-fronting
ipa: /twɛlf/ [tʰw̥ɛɫʷf]
note: some speakers
ipa: /twɛlftθ/
rhymes: -ɛlfθ
rhymes: -ɛlθ
rhymes: -ɛlf
rhymes: -ɛlftθ
Forms: form: twelfths
form: twelfe
form: twelveth
Etymology: From Middle English twelfthe, twelfte, from Old English twelfta (“twelfth”), from Proto-Germanic *twaliftô (“twelfth”), equivalent to twelve + -th (ordinal suffix). Cognate with Scots twalt (“twelfth”), Saterland Frisian tweelfte (“twelfth”), West Frisian tolfde (“twelfth”), Dutch twaalfde (“twelfth”), German Low German twalfde, twalvde (“twelfth”), German zwölfte (“twelfth”), Danish tolvte (“twelfth”),
Swedish tolfte (“twelfth”), Icelandic tólfta (“twelfth”).
Senses: examples: text: A twelfth of 240 is 20.
text: Five twelfths of the population voted in support of the proposal.
glosses: One of twelve equal parts of a whole.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An interval equal to an octave plus a fifth.
Synonyms: sense: one of twelve equal parts
word: dozenth
sense: one of twelve equal parts
english: chiefly Greco-Roman contexts
translation: chiefly Greco-Roman contexts
word: uncia
Derived terms: perfect twelfth
thirteenth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɜːˈtiːnθ/
ipa: /ˌθɝˈtiːnθ/
rhymes: -iːnθ
Etymology: From Old English þrēottēoþa; equivalent to thirteen + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number thirteen.
Synonyms: word: 13th
word: XIIIth
sense: in names of monarchs and popes
word: XIII
Derived terms: Friday the thirteenth
thirteenth grade
thirteenth reason
thirteenth reason why
thirteenth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθɜːˈtiːnθ/
ipa: /ˌθɝˈtiːnθ/
rhymes: -iːnθ
Forms: form: thirteenths
Etymology: From Old English þrēottēoþa; equivalent to thirteen + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the thirteenth position.
glosses: One of thirteen equal parts of a whole.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.
examples: January 13th
glosses: The thirteenth day of a month.
raw_tags: in dates
fourteenth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔːˈtiːnθ/
ipa: /ˌfɔɹˈtiːnθ/
rhymes: -iːnθ
Etymology: From Old English fēowertēoþa, equivalent to fourteen + -th.
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number fourteen.
Synonyms: word: 14th
word: XIVth
sense: in names of monarchs and popes
word: XIV
Derived terms: fourteenthly
fourteenth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔːˈtiːnθ/
ipa: /ˌfɔɹˈtiːnθ/
rhymes: -iːnθ
Forms: form: fourteenths
Etymology: From Old English fēowertēoþa, equivalent to fourteen + -th.
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the fourteenth position.
glosses: One of fourteen equal parts of a whole.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The interval comprising an octave and a seventh.
fifteenth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪfˈtiːnθ/
rhymes: -iːnθ
Etymology: From Old English fīftēoþa, equivalent to fifteen + -th.
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number fifteen.
Synonyms: word: 15th
sense: in names of monarchs and popes
word: XV
Derived terms: fifteenthly
fifteenth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪfˈtiːnθ/
rhymes: -iːnθ
Forms: form: fifteenths
Etymology: From Old English fīftēoþa, equivalent to fifteen + -th.
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the fifteenth position.
glosses: One of fifteen equal parts of a whole.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The interval comprising two octaves.