cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
course
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: kôs
ipa: /kɔːs/
enpr: kôrs
ipa: /kɔɹs/
other: /koɹs/
homophone: coarse
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
enpr: kōrs
ipa: /koːɹs/
note: rhotic
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /koəs/
ipa: /kɜːs/
homophone: curse stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /kuːɹs/
ipa: /kʊɹs/
Forms: form: 'course
Senses: examples: text: "Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps," said the former, "but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky."
ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
text: Course, my home wasn't exactly in Harlem […]
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tell a Green Man Something”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 209:
glosses: Ellipsis of of course.
Related terms: nom de course
lite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: light
Etymology: Variation of light (in the sense of lacking weight, substance, etc.)
Senses: glosses: Abridged or lesser; being a simpler or unpaid version of a product.
examples: text: His lite dinner consisted of crackers, some broccoli and a salad with lite ranch dressing.
glosses: Light in composition, notably low in fat, calories etc. Most commonly used commercially.
glosses: Lightweight
examples: text: My favorite color is lite blue!
glosses: Informal spelling of light.
examples: text: this compromise bill is reform lite. It is both more palatable to nursing home owners and less protective of elderly patients
ref: 2003 March 6, “Reform Lite”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
text: If there is a difference between doing this to a child and engaging in old-fashioned punishment, it is at best a quantitative rather than a qualitative difference. What Dreikurs and his followers are selling is Punishment Lite.
ref: 2006, Alfie Kohn, Beyond discipline: from compliance to community, page 42:
text: The analysis bolsters claims by the Tories that markets will not wait patiently as Britain draws up leisurely plans for austerity-lite
ref: 2010 April 8, “Sovereign debt crisis at 'boiling point', warns Bank for International Settlements”, in Telegraph.co.uk:
glosses: Lacking substance or seriousness; watered down.
Derived terms: Chadlite
COM lite
covenant-lite
cov-lite
marriage lite
rogue-lite
lite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: light
Forms: form: lites
Etymology: Variation of light (in the sense of lacking weight, substance, etc.)
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of light (“window or aperture in a building”).
topics: architecture
glosses: A window pane
Derived terms: penlite
tealite
lite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: light
Etymology: From Middle English lit, lut (“little”), from Old English lȳt.
Senses: glosses: A little, bit.
lite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: light
Forms: form: liter
form: litest
Etymology: From Middle English lit, lut (“little”), from Old English lȳt.
Senses: glosses: few; little
lite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: light
Forms: form: lites
form: liting
form: lited
form: lited
Etymology: From Middle English liten, from Old Norse hlíta (“to rely on, trust, abide by”). Cognate with Icelandic hlíta (“to comply”), Swedish lita (“to trust, rely on, depend on, confide in”), Danish lide (“to trust”).
Senses: glosses: To expect; wait.
glosses: To rely.
lite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: līt
ipa: /laɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: light
Forms: form: lites
Etymology: From Middle English liten, from Old Norse hlíta (“to rely on, trust, abide by”). Cognate with Icelandic hlíta (“to comply”), Swedish lita (“to trust, rely on, depend on, confide in”), Danish lide (“to trust”).
Senses: glosses: The act of waiting; a wait.
guess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gĕs
ipa: /ɡɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: guesses
Etymology: From Middle English gessen (verb) and Middle English gesse (noun), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Danish getse, gitse, getsa (“to guess”), from Old Norse *getsa, *gitsa, from Proto-Germanic *gitisōną (“to guess”), from Proto-Germanic *getaną (“to get”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to take, seize”).
Cognate with Danish gisne (“to guess”), Norwegian gissa, gjette (“to guess”), Swedish gissa (“to guess”), Saterland Frisian gisje (“to guess”), Dutch gissen (“to guess”), Low German gissen (“to guess”), Dutch gis (“a guess”). Related also to Icelandic giska ("to guess"; from Proto-Germanic *gitiskōną). Compare also Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to conjecture, guess, divine”), Albanian gjëzë (“riddle”) from gjej (“find, recover, obtain”). More at get.
Senses: examples: text: If you don't know the answer, take a guess.
text: "But I shall have eleven guesses," answered Ozma. "Surely I ought to guess one object in eleven correctly; and, if I do, I shall rescue one of the royal family and be safe myself. Then the rest of you may attempt it, and soon we shall free all those who are enslaved."
ref: 1907, L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz:
text: We are twelve billion light years from the edge / That's a guess
ref: 2005, Mike Batt, “Nine Million Bicycles”, performed by Katie Melua:
synonyms: estimate
hypothesis
prediction
glosses: A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.
Derived terms: anotherguess
anybody's guess
anyone's guess
at a guess
by guess or by God
by guess or by golly
by guess or by gosh
educated guess
guess cake
guessless
guesstimate
guess warp
guesswork
guess-work
hazard a guess
intelligent guess
miss one's guess
otherguess
second guess
stab a guess
take a guess
uneducated guess
wild guess
your guess is as good as mine
guest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gĕst
ipa: /ɡɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: guessed
Forms: form: guests
Etymology: From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”).
Cognate with Bavarian Gåst (“guest”), Dutch gast (“guest”), German Gast (“guest”), Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”), Vilamovian gost (“guest”), Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”), Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”), Faroese, Icelandic gestur (“guest”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”), Swedish gäst (“guest”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: The guests were let in by the butler.
text: We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
examples: text: Guests must vacate their rooms by 10 o'clock on their day of departure.
glosses: A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
examples: text: special guest
text: The guest for the broadcast was a leading footballer.
glosses: An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An inquiline.
guest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gĕst
ipa: /ɡɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: guessed
Forms: form: guests
form: guesting
form: guested
form: guested
Etymology: From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”).
Cognate with Bavarian Gåst (“guest”), Dutch gast (“guest”), German Gast (“guest”), Luxembourgish Gaascht (“guest”), Vilamovian gost (“guest”), Yiddish גאַסט (gast, “guest”), Danish gæst (“guest, visitor”), Faroese, Icelandic gestur (“guest”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk gjest (“guest”), Swedish gäst (“guest”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (gasts, “guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: During the '60s, he guested as off-beat characters on TV shows like "The Asphalt Jungle," "Bus Stop," and "The Detectives."
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 254:
glosses: To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast.
glosses: As a musician: to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band).
examples: text: Two Angels sent Two Heav'nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
glosses: To receive or entertain hospitably.
Derived terms: be my guest
cave guest
guestage
guest beer
guest blogger
guest book
guest chair
guestchamber
guesten
guestfree
guestfriendliness
guest-friendly
guestfriendly
guestfriendship
guest-friendship
guesthouse
guest house
guestish
guestless
guestlike
guestlist
guestly
guestmeal
guest night
guest of Her Majesty
guest of honour
guest of honor
guest ranch
guest rancher
guest relation officer
guest room
guest rope
guest speaker
guest star
guest-star
guestwise
guest worker
house guest
houseguest
mystery guest
nonguest
pity guest
stamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪ.mən/
rhymes: -eɪmən
Forms: form: stamens
form: stamina
Etymology: From New Latin stāmen, from Ancient Greek στη̃μα (stē̃ma).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
Derived terms: stameniferous
stamenless
staminal
Related terms: androecium
siblings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sibling
brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌðə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /ˈbɹʌðɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of brother
Related terms: brethren
brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌðə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /ˈbɹʌðɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brother
sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪstəz/
ipa: /ˈsɪs.tɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sister
sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪstəz/
ipa: /ˈsɪs.tɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sister
Related terms: sistren
juice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːs/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪʊ̯s/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʉs/
ipa: /d͡ʒus/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: juices
form: juicing
form: juiced
form: juiced
Etymology: From Middle English jus, juis, from Old French jus, jous, from Latin jūs (“broth, soup, sauce”), from Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs, from *yewH- (“to mix (of meal preparation)”). Doublet of jus and ukha. In this sense, mostly displaced native Middle English sew (“juice”), from Old English sēaw (“juice, sap”) (> English sew (“juice, broth, gravy”)). Sense of "soft drink" most likely an ellipsis of fizzy juice, another similarly common term in Scotland.
Senses: glosses: To extract the juice from something.
glosses: To energize or stimulate something.
examples: text: I followed the home run race between Sosa and McGuire, and any fool could see they were juicing.
ref: 2012, Phil Denapoli, Preying on the Innocent, page 233:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: juice up
glosses: To take a performance-enhancing drug.
examples: text: Saw your girlfriend, you don't need advice / Always in your ear like, "He's not nice" / She's just upset cause she got juiced in the bunk bed / And you know, she's not wife
ref: 2016 February 14, Joseph Adenuga, Darren Dixon, Tariq Devega, “Ladies Hit Squad” (track 6), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta ft. D Double E and ASAP Nast, Boy Better Know:
synonyms: word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sexual intercourse with.
Derived terms: word: dejuice
word: juiceable
alt: ?
word: juice in
word: juice up
word: ruckus juice
juice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːs/
ipa: /d͡ʒɪʊ̯s/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʉs/
ipa: /d͡ʒus/
rhymes: -uːs
Etymology: Dialectal spelling of Jew's, a particle of unclear origin. See Jew's harp for more.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp)
grasp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːsp/
ipa: /ɡɹasp/
ipa: /ɡɹæsp/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: /ɡɹæps/
rhymes: -æsp
Forms: form: grasps
form: grasping
form: grasped
form: grasped
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: grasp
form: grasp
form: grasped
form: grasp
form: graspest
form: grasped
form: graspedst
form: grasps
form: graspeth
form: grasped
form: grasp
form: grasped
form: grasp
form: grasped
form: grasp
form: -
form: grasping
form: grasped
form: graps
Etymology: From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), the same ultimate source as grab.
Cognate with German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), German grapsen and grapschen, Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”), Old English grāpian ("to touch, feel, grasp"; > Modern English grope). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).
Senses: examples: text: How few! yet how they creep / Through my fingers to the deep, / While I weep—while I weep! / O God! can I not grasp / Them with a tighter clasp?
ref: 1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand.
examples: text: I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
glosses: To understand.
glosses: To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance.
Synonyms: sense: grip
word: clasp
word: grip
word: hold tight
sense: understand
word: comprehend
sense: understand
word: fathom
sense: take advantage
word: jump at the chance
sense: take advantage
word: jump on
word: beclasp
word: begrasp
word: begrip
word: belock
word: clench
word: clinch
word: cling
word: clutch
word: enclasp
word: fang
word: fondle
word: glaum
word: grab
word: grabble
word: grasp
word: hang on
word: hold on
word: hold
word: nab
word: nim
word: seize
word: stranglehold
word: take
Hyponyms: word: embrace
word: foregrasp
word: snatch
word: handle
Derived terms: begrasp
engrasp
foregrasp
graspability
graspable
grasp at a straw
grasp at straws
grasper
grasp for straws
grasp the nettle
misgrasp
regrasp
ungrasp
Related terms: word: grab
word: grapple
word: grave
word: groove
word: grovel
word: capture
grasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɑːsp/
ipa: /ɡɹasp/
ipa: /ɡɹæsp/
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: /ɡɹæps/
rhymes: -æsp
Forms: form: grasps
form: graps
Etymology: From Middle English graspen, grapsen, craspen (“to grope; feel around”), from Old English *grǣpsian, from Proto-West Germanic *graipisōn, from Proto-Germanic *graipisōną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to take, seize, rake”), the same ultimate source as grab.
Cognate with German Low German grapsen (“to grab; grasp”), German grapsen and grapschen, Saterland Frisian Grapse (“double handful”), Old English grāpian ("to touch, feel, grasp"; > Modern English grope). Compare also Swedish krafsa (“to scatch; scabble”), Norwegian krafse (“to scramble”).
Senses: examples: text: A vagrant gust of wind snatched the note from my grasp.
text: What the anvil? what dread grasp.
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
ref: 1826, William Blake, “The Tyger”, in Songs of Innocence and of Experience:
text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
text: If a mirror does slip from your grasp, do not attempt to catch it. Just get out of the way.
ref: 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: Grip.
examples: text: There is for the mind but one grasp of happiness: from that uppermost pinnacle of wisdom, whence we see that this world is well designed.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 13, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
glosses: Understanding.
examples: text: The goal is within my grasp.
glosses: That which is accessible; that which is within one's reach or ability.
Derived terms: beyond someone's grasp
graspful
graspless
handgrasp
misgrasp
regrasp
tripod grasp
happen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæpən/
rhymes: -æpən
Forms: form: happens
form: happening
form: happened
form: happened
Etymology: From Middle English happenen, hapnen, augmented from Middle English happen (“to come to pass, happen”), perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”). Equivalent to hap (“a chance, occurrence, byfall”) + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Let me tell you how it happened.
text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
synonyms: come to pass
glosses: To occur or take place.
examples: text: 'By my soul! I believe something bad has happened me,' he muttered, and popped up his window, and looked out, half dreaming over the church-yard on the park beyond […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: To happen to; to befall.
examples: text: Take an umbrella in case it happens to rain.
text: Do you happen to have an umbrella?
text: If you should (happen to) need any help, I'll be there.
glosses: To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
examples: text: Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.
ref: 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 30, in The Marble Faun:
glosses: To encounter by chance.
raw_tags: followed by on or upon
glosses: To become popular or trendy.
Synonyms: word: bechance
word: befall
word: belimp
word: betide
word: betime
word: chance
word: come about
word: come to pass
word: crop up
word: evene
word: eventuate
word: go on
word: hap
word: happen
word: hold
word: occur
word: pass
word: take place
word: tide
word: transpire
Hypernyms: word: exist
Hyponyms: word: coincide
word: ensue
Derived terms: accidents will happen
accidents will happen in the best regulated families
accident waiting to happen
as it happens
behappen
couldn't happen to a nicer
disaster waiting to happen
happenable
happen across
happen along
happen by
happenchance
happener
happeningly
happen on
happen upon
if it happens, it happens
it so happens
make fetch happen
make happen
mappen
mishappen
or it didn't happen
pics or it didn't happen
pictures or it didn't happen
rehappen
shit happens
these things happen
unhappen
waiting to happen
what's happening
worse things happen at sea
Related terms: word: happening
word: happenstance
word: come into being
happen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæpən/
rhymes: -æpən
Etymology: From Middle English happenen, hapnen, augmented from Middle English happen (“to come to pass, happen”), perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”). Equivalent to hap (“a chance, occurrence, byfall”) + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, well happen if he'd gone quietly, she wouldn't have needed to show him who's in charge.
ref: 2016, Sally Wainwright, Happy Valley, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire), Manchester: Red Production Company; distributed by BBC Studios, published 2016:
glosses: maybe, perhaps.
he'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: hēd
ipa: /hiːd/
homophone: heed
rhymes: -iːd
Senses: glosses: Contraction of he had.
glosses: Contraction of he would.
hernia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜː(ɹ)niə/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)niə
Forms: form: hernias
form: herniae
form: herniæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). See also yarn and cord.
Senses: examples: text: give someone a hernia
text: have a hernia
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.
Derived terms: Bochdalek hernia
hernial
herniary
herniate
herniated
herniation
hernioid
herniology
herniorrhaphy
herniotomy
hiatus hernia
Morgagni hernia
peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia
pseudohernia
umbilical hernia
Related terms: truss
I'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪd/
homophone: eyed
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: examples: text: I'd already been there, but I wanted to go again.
glosses: Contraction of I had.
examples: text: I'd like to go to Armenia one day, but am worried about the weather.
glosses: Contraction of I would or I should
we'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːd/
homophone: weed
homophone: ouid
rhymes: -iːd
Senses: glosses: Contraction of we had.
glosses: Contraction of we would.
she'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: shēd
ipa: /ʃiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Senses: glosses: Contraction of she had.
glosses: Contraction of she would.
you'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞od
ipa: /juːd/
ipa: /jud/
ipa: /jʊd/
ipa: /jəd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: You had.
examples: text: Morinth: Look into my eyes and tell me you want me. Tell me you'd kill for me. Anything I want.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Omega (Samara: The Ardat-Yakshi):
glosses: You would.
it'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪtəd/
ipa: /ˈɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈɪd/
ipa: [ˈɪɾɪd]
homophone: id
rhymes: -ɪtəd
rhymes: -ɪtɪd
rhymes: -ɪd
Senses: glosses: Contraction of it had.
glosses: Contraction of it would.
Synonyms: sense: it would
word: 'twould
they'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: thād
ipa: /ðeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: They had.
examples: text: “Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District.
ref: 2007 July 20, Dave Caldwell, “Williamsport, Pa.: Home of True Small Ball”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
glosses: They would.
I've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪv/
ipa: /əv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Senses: glosses: Contraction of I have.
Synonyms: word: chave
Derived terms: I've got your nose
I'ven't
we've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: wēv
ipa: /wiːv/
ipa: /wiv/
homophone: weave
rhymes: -iːv
Senses: glosses: Contraction of we have.
Derived terms: word: we'ven't
you've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːv/
ipa: /juv/
ipa: /jʊv/
ipa: /jəv/
rhymes: -uːv
Senses: glosses: Contraction of you have.
Synonyms: yo've
Derived terms: you'ven't
they've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðeɪv/
ipa: /ðev/
rhymes: -eɪv
Senses: examples: text: "That's because we recognise these towns do have a significant population who need to travel, and they've been kind of missed out."
ref: 2024 December 11, David Stubbings, “Network News: Go-op targets 2026 start for open access to Taunton”, in RAIL, number 1024, page 13:
text: China and the United States are closer than they’ve ever been to a war over Taiwan.
ref: 2025 September 15, Jennifer Kavanagh, “Here’s How Trump Can Prevent a War Over Taiwan”, in The New York Times (Opinion section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2025:
glosses: they have
they're
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛə/
ipa: /ðɛː/
ipa: /ðeɪə/
ipa: /ðeɪɚ/
ipa: /ðɛɚ/
ipa: /ðɚ/
ipa: /ðeː/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðiə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðeə/
ipa: /ðeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ðɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: their (one pronunciation)
homophone: there (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Contraction of they are.
they're
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛə/
ipa: /ðɛː/
ipa: /ðeɪə/
ipa: /ðeɪɚ/
ipa: /ðɛɚ/
ipa: /ðɚ/
ipa: /ðeː/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðiə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðeə/
ipa: /ðeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ðɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: their (one pronunciation)
homophone: there (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of there.
they're
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðɛə/
ipa: /ðɛː/
ipa: /ðeɪə/
ipa: /ðeɪɚ/
ipa: /ðɛɚ/
ipa: /ðɚ/
ipa: /ðeː/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðiə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðeə/
ipa: /ðeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ðɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: their (one pronunciation)
homophone: there (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of their.
we're
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: note: Received Pronunciation, General Australian, stressed form
ipa: /wɪə/
ipa: /wə/
note: US, Canada, stressed form
ipa: /wɪɚ/
note: US, Canada, stressed form
ipa: /wɪɹ/
ipa: /wɚ/
ipa: /wɛɚ/
ipa: /wiːɹ/
ipa: /wiə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wɛː/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
homophone: weir
homophone: ware (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: where (cheer–chair merger, wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: Contraction of we are.
he's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːz/
ipa: /iːz/
ipa: /ˈhiz/
ipa: /ˈiz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: he’s
Senses: glosses: Contraction of he is.
glosses: Contraction of he has.
Derived terms: he'sn't
she's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: she’s
Etymology: * Contraction of she is.
* Contraction of she has.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of she is.
glosses: Contraction of she has.
snowman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊ.mæn/
ipa: /ˈsnoʊ.mæn/
rhymes: -əʊmæn
rhymes: -oʊmæn
Forms: form: snowmen
Etymology: * snow + -man.
* (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.
Senses: glosses: A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
examples: text: [The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.
ref: 1996 June 3, Buster Olney, “Chat with Sparky helps 'useless' Johnson Dejected O's manager gets lift from ex-Tigers boss”, in The Baltimore Sun (quoting B. J. Surhoff):
text: "Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said. "Then Stone had to stay out there and suck it up for us […]"
ref: 2005 June 26, Dayton Daily News, page 44:
text: For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.
ref: 2018, Andre Huu, The Round of Your Life: A Book on Golf and Life, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
glosses: A playing card with the rank of eight.
examples: text: A few years ago there lived a lover
By the name of Jimmy Jones
Who really snowed the girls and left them cold
And gained the title of "The Great Snowman".
ref: 1961, John D. Loudermilk, “The Great Snowman”:
coordinate_terms: ice queen
glosses: An attractive but heartless man.
Hypernyms: snow figure
snowperson
Derived terms: abominable snowman
snowmanness
snowman sign
Related terms: snow angel
iceman
☃
'tis
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: tis
Senses: examples: text: ’Tis a shame!
text: ’Tis but a scratch!
text: No, ’tis not ſo deep as a vvell, nor ſo vvide as a church-door [i.e., a wound]; but ’tis enough, ’tvvill ſerve: aſk for me to-morrovv, and you ſhall find me a grave man.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Why should we say ’tis yet too soon, / To seek for Heaven or think of death […]
ref: 1825, Harrison’s Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 5:
text: It looks well in a picter, I’ve heerd say; but there an’t weather in picters, and maybe ’tis fitter for that, than for a place to live in.
ref: 1844 (date written), Charles Dickens, “Third Quarter”, in The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1845, →OCLC, page 119:
synonyms: it's
qualifier: also occasionally informal
glosses: Contraction of it is.
Derived terms: 'tisn't
Related terms: 't
'twas
'twasn't
'twere
'tweren't
'twill
'tshall
it'll
'twon't
'twould
'twou'd
'twouldn't
'twou'dn't
achiever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈt͡ʃiːvɚ/
Forms: form: achievers
Etymology: From achieve + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who achieves something.
examples: text: River hadn't laid eyes on Hobden before, but this had to be him: average height, thinning brownish hair, look of terror as he turned to face this new intrusion even while crushed in an arm-lock by the previous invader, the achiever—except this wasn't an achiever: he was blackclad, wore a balaclava, had a utility belt round his waist, but the ensemble lacked the hi-tech tailoring of the genuine article.
ref: 2011, Mick Herron, Slow Horses:
text: Studies of student behavior and attitudes show that a majority of students violate standards of academic integrity to some degree, and that high achievers are just as likely to do it as others.
ref: 2012 July 9, Richard Pérez-Peña, “Studies Find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One who tends to succeed; a winner.
Derived terms: nonachiever
overachiever
superachiever
underachiever
aching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.kɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ache
aching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.kɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: more aching
form: most aching
Senses: examples: text: The aching heart, the aching head.
ref: 1851, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend:
text: There was a long spell of silence, a big, aching void, and then from the Professor a keen 'S-s-s-s!'
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 189:
synonyms: word: smarting
word: sore
word: achesome
word: aching
word: achy
word: raw
word: hurt
word: hurty
word: griefful
word: pained
word: painfilled
word: painful
word: smartful
word: smarting
word: sore
word: suffering
word: tender
word: tormented
glosses: That aches; continuously painful; that causes pain.
Derived terms: achingly
backaching
nonaching
toothaching
unaching
aching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.kɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: achings
Senses: glosses: The feeling of an ache; a dull pain.
achiote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑt͡ʃiːˈoʊti/
ipa: /ˌɑkiːˈoʊti/
Forms: form: achiotes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish achiote, from Classical Nahuatl āchiyōtl.
Senses: glosses: A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree.
glosses: The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking.
glosses: An orange-red dye obtained from this seed.
Synonyms: annatto
E160b
urucu
urucum
isn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪz.n̩t/
ipa: [ˈɪz.n̩t]
ipa: /ˈɪn(t)/
ipa: /ˈɪz.n̩t/
ipa: [ˈɪz.n̩t]
rhymes: -ɪzənt
rhymes: -ɪn
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: idn't
form: in't
form: i'n
form: isnae
Etymology: From is + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: Nice day, isn't it?
text: I suppose she's hungry, isn't she?
text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Contraction of is not (negative auxiliary)
Derived terms: innit
isn't
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪz.n̩t/
ipa: [ˈɪz.n̩t]
ipa: /ˈɪn(t)/
ipa: /ˈɪz.n̩t/
ipa: [ˈɪz.n̩t]
rhymes: -ɪzənt
rhymes: -ɪn
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: isn'ts
form: idn't
form: in't
form: i'n
form: isnae
Etymology: From is + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: The most obvious recommendations for Joe Biden are a succession of “isn’ts.” He isn’t Donald Trump. He isn’t Bernie Sanders. He isn’t angry, bigoted, cruel, demagogic, erratic, frightening or gross. He isn’t going to drive Americans to distraction or the country into a ditch.
ref: 2020 August 17, Bret Stephens, “On Being a Biden Conservative”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Something or someone that is defined by the lack of the characteristic being discussed.
doesn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌz.n̩t/
ipa: [ˈdʌz.n̩t]
ipa: /ˈdʌn(t)/
ipa: /ˈdʌz.n̩t/
ipa: [ˈdʌz.n̩t]
ipa: /ˈdʌd.ənt/
ipa: /ˈdʌd(ə)nt/
ipa: /ˈdʊ(nə)nt/
rhymes: -ʌzənt
rhymes: -ʌn
rhymes: -ʌnt
rhymes: -ʌdənt
Forms: form: does n't
form: do's n't
Etymology: From does + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: The Furr'd Law-cats are most terrible and dreadful Monsters, they devour little Children, and trample over Marble-Stones. Pray tell me, Noble Topers, do they not deserve to have their Snouts slit ? The Hair of their Hides do's n't lie outward, but inwards; and every Mother's Son of 'em, for his Devise, wears a gaping Pouch, but not all in the same manner; for some wear it ty'd to their Neck Scarfwise, others upon the Breech, some on the Paunch, others on the Side, and all for a Cause, with Reason and Mystery: They have Claws so very strong, long, and sharp, that nothing can get from 'em, that is once fast between their Clutches: Sometimes they cover their Heads with Mortar-like Caps, at other times with mortify'd Caparisons.
ref: 1693, François Rabelais, translated by Peter Anthony Motteux, The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais..., volume 2, London: Navarre Society Limited, translation of original in French, page 321:
text: Well, I must borrow Epidicuss help, tho' I pay dearly for th' use of 't ; but I shall send him to '''Bridewel with his Skin stript o're his Ears, if he ''doesn't procure the hundred Pounds as soon as the last Word's pronounc'd.
ref: 1694, Laurence Echard, Plautus's Comedies, Amphitryon, Epidicus, and Rudens: Made English: With Critical Remarks Upon Each Play., London, page 89:
text: July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
text: Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
ref: 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Does not (negative auxiliary)
examples: text: But Pre'thee tell me, that Woman had very Considerable Friends. Thou doesn't hear that she has Peacht any body, dost thou?
ref: 1681, Roger L'Estrange, “The Observator. In Dialogue. Numb. 78. Wednesday, December 7. 1681.”, in The Observator in Dialogue, volume 1, published 1684, page 78:
glosses: Dost not
Synonyms: word: don't
Related terms: don't
dun't
hasn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæz.n̩t/
Etymology: has + -n't
Senses: examples: text: She hasn't got toothache any longer.
glosses: Has not: negative form of the auxiliary has
examples: text: (She) hasn’t a chance, Mary (hasn’t).
text: “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
glosses: Has not/does not have: negative form of the lexical has
Synonyms: word: hain't
word: han't
hadn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæd.(ə.)nt/
Forms: form: hadna
form: hadnae
form: hant
form: hedn't
Etymology: had + -n't
Senses: examples: text: Hadn't we better apologize? Surely we hadn't to be late.
glosses: Contraction of had not (negative auxiliary)
didn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdn̩t/
ipa: [ˈdɪɾɪ̃ʔ]
ipa: [ˈdɪn̩]
ipa: [ˈdɪdⁿn̩(ʔ)]
ipa: [ˈdɪnʔ]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖi(ɖi)ɳʈ/
ipa: /ˈdɪ(nə)nt/
rhymes: -ɪdənt
Forms: form: dint
form: din't
form: di'n't
Etymology: did + -n't.
Senses: glosses: did not (negative auxiliary)
couldn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊd.n̩t/
ipa: [ˈkʊnʔ]
homophone: cunt
Etymology: From could + n’t.
Senses: examples: text: You couldn’t lend me a lighter, could you?
text: ‘Would you like another drink?’ ‘No thanks, I couldn’t.’
glosses: could not (negative auxiliary)
Coordinate terms: can't
mayn't
mightn't
oughtn't
shan't
shouldn't
won't
wouldn't
wouldn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊdn̩t/
ipa: [wʊdⁿn̩t]
ipa: [wʊɾənt]
ipa: [ˈwʊʔn̩t]
ipa: /ˈwʊnt/
ipa: [ˈwʊnʔ]
rhymes: -ʊdn̩t
rhymes: -ʊnt
Forms: form: wo'n't
form: wou'dn't
form: wudn't
form: wunt
Etymology: Contraction of would not, equivalent to would + -n't.
Senses: examples: text: Wouldn't you often have supper on the terrace on Sundays?
text: She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: would not (negative auxiliary)
Coordinate terms: can't
couldn't
mayn't
mightn't
oughtn't
shan't
shouldn't
won't
won't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wōnt
ipa: /wəʊnt/
enpr: wōnt
ipa: /woʊnt/
ipa: [wõt(ˀ)]
ipa: [wõʔ]
enpr: wŭnt
enpr: wo͞ont
enpr: wo͝ont
ipa: /wʌnt/
ipa: /wunt/
ipa: /wʊnt/
ipa: [woːnt]
ipa: [wo(ː)ɫnt]
ipa: [wʊ(ɫ)nt]
homophone: wont stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -əʊnt
Forms: form: wo'n't
form: wonnot
Etymology: From earlier wonnot, from Middle English wynnot, wilnot, wolnot, wilnat, a contraction of Middle English will not, wil not, wyll not, will noght, wil noht, willi noȝt, wyl nat, wol not, woll not, wole not, wolle not, wol nat, woll nat, etc., equivalent to a will + not and/or woll + not. For the pronunciation with /oʊ/, /əʊ/, see poultry.
Senses: examples: text: Sam won't be doing any work this afternoon.
text: Come in, won’t you?
text: Mom won’t have the house turned into a hostel.
glosses: will not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate a future non-occurring action.
Synonyms: sense: will not
word: willn't
sense: will not
word: wolln't
sense: will not
word: wo'n't
sense: will not
word: wonnot
Coordinate terms: can't
couldn't
mayn't
mightn't
oughtn't
shan't
shouldn't
wouldn't
don't
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: dōnt
ipa: /dəʊnt/
ipa: [dəʊ̯nt̚]
ipa: /doʊnt/
ipa: [dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚]
ipa: [doʊ̯n]
ipa: [dõʔ]
ipa: /don(ʔ)/
ipa: [doːnt]
ipa: [dʊnt]
rhymes: -əʊnt
Forms: form: do n't
Etymology: From do + -n't.
Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.
Senses: glosses: Stop!
don't
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dōnt
ipa: /dəʊnt/
ipa: [dəʊ̯nt̚]
ipa: /doʊnt/
ipa: [dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚]
ipa: [doʊ̯n]
ipa: [dõʔ]
ipa: /don(ʔ)/
ipa: [doːnt]
ipa: [dʊnt]
rhymes: -əʊnt
Forms: form: don'ts
form: don't's
form: do n't
Etymology: From do + -n't.
Depending on dialect, its use in the third-person singular may be from elision (in these dialects "does" is used when not in the negative) or from not using -s to mark the third-person singular at all.
Senses: examples: text: Among the don'ts he had done before he was twenty-one were peyote, alcohol, mescaline, and Methedrine.
ref: 1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:
text: And here’s one universal selfie don’t - if the setting is your bathroom, or any bathroom for that matter, it has no place in your Tinder lineup. Not hot.
ref: Ally Jones, “A Step-By-Step Guide To Delete Tinder & Start Over (& When You Shouldn't)”, in Vida Select:
antonyms: do
glosses: Chiefly in dos and don'ts: something that must or should not be done.
Derived terms: dos and don'ts
Related terms: didn't
doesn't
don't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: enpr: dōnt
ipa: /dəʊnt/
ipa: [dəʊ̯nt̚]
ipa: /doʊnt/
ipa: [dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚]
ipa: [doʊ̯n]
ipa: [dõʔ]
ipa: /don(ʔ)/
ipa: [doːnt]
ipa: [dʊnt]
rhymes: -əʊnt
ipa: /dʌnt/
enpr: dōnt
ipa: /dəʊnt/
ipa: [dəʊ̯nt̚]
ipa: /doʊnt/
ipa: [dõʊ̯̃(ʔ)t̚]
ipa: [doʊ̯n]
ipa: [dõʔ]
ipa: /don(ʔ)/
ipa: [doːnt]
ipa: [dʊnt]
rhymes: -əʊnt
Forms: form: do n't
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: Contraction of done it.
shan't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːnt/
rhymes: -ɑːnt
ipa: /ʃænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: shalln't
form: sha'n't
Etymology: From shall + -n't; contraction of shalln't or shall not, historically via shannot.
Senses: examples: text: I shan't be coming back after the way you've treated me today.
text: Shall I or shan't I?
text: That's not a threat, sir, for they have played fair with me, and I sha'n't sacrifice a penny of their money—unless they force me to do so. But—I'm in control. I'm sitting pretty. They can't unseat me, and I warn them not to try.
ref: 1922, Rex [Ellingwood] Beach, “chapter XXIV”, in Flowing Gold, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, by arrangement with Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 290:
glosses: Contraction of shall not (negative auxiliary).
raw_tags: in Australia
in US
Coordinate terms: can't
couldn't
mayn't
mightn't
oughtn't
shouldn't
won't
wouldn't
haven't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæv.n̩t/
homophone: Havant
Etymology: have + -n't
Senses: examples: text: You've a bad back again, haven't you? - No, actually I haven't.
text: Haven't I to be here at 9?
text: Sce.: Which I'd grant ye, if ye came at Midnight; but now I haven't the conveniency o' supplying your Wants.'
ref: 1694, Titus Maccius Plautus, Plautus's comedies, Amphitryon, Epidicus, and Rudens, Made English: With Critical Remarks Upon Each Play, page 170:
glosses: have not (negative form of have)
Synonyms: word: hain't
word: han't
an't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: amn't; am not
glosses: aren't; are not
raw_tags: in non-rhotic dialects
glosses: isn't; is not
glosses: haven't; hasn't
frown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹaʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: frowns
Etymology: From Middle English frown, froun (“a threatening appearance; lowering of the clouds”), from frounen (“to frown”). See below.
Senses: examples: text: Philip had once told him of a man who had a horse-shoe frown, and Tom had tried with all his frowning-might to make a horse-shoe on his forehead
ref: 1860, George Eliot, “V: Maggie's Second Visit”, in The Mill on the Floss, Volume I Book II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood, page 336‑337:
text: He encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning ... and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.
ref: 1873, Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, page 223:
glosses: A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.
examples: text: The smile and the frown are both indicated and the operation of a motor driven flasher causes the face to look happy and sad in turn.
ref: 1911 December 24, “Facial Expression Electric Sign”, in Popular Electricity, volume iv, number 8, Chicago, page 714:
ref: 1931, “Turn That Frown Upside Down, Smile at the Cock-eyed World”, Joe Young (lyrics), Sam Stept (music):
glosses: A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness.
glosses: Any facial expression that indicates disapproval or displeasure.
Derived terms: frownful
frownless
frownsome
frowny
permafrown
turn the frown upside down