cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
Etymology: See aye.
Senses: examples: text: "Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin; "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
"Ay, that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher; "and why should I not be so?[…]"
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood Turns Butcher”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part second, page 48:
text: I swear also that I will honour and will cherish thee, Kallikrates, who hast been swept by the wave of time back into my arms, ay, till the very end, come it soon or late.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 284:
qualifier: others
glosses: Alternative spelling of aye (“yes”).
ay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
Forms: form: ays
Etymology: See aye.
Senses: examples: text: counting the ays and the noes in a vote
glosses: Alternative spelling of aye (“yes”).
ay
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /ˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: a
homophone: eh
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
Forms: form: aye
Etymology: From Middle English ai, from Old Norse ei, from Proto-Germanic *aiwaz (“eternity, age”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vitality”); cognate with Old English ā, Ancient Greek ἀεί (aeí, “always”), and Latin aevum (“an age”).
Senses: examples: text: O he that hath ay lived free, …
ref: 1670, John Barbour, The Acts and Life of the most victorious Conquerour Robert Bruce King of Scotland, as cited in 1860, Thomas Corser, Collectanea Anglo-poetica, page 160
glosses: Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
Synonyms: always
continually
forever
Derived terms: ay-green
forever and ay
ay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /ˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: a
homophone: eh
Forms: form: ays
Senses: examples: text: It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
ref: 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
text: ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".
ref: 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5
glosses: Alternative form of a: the name of the Latin-script letter A/a.
ay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /ˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: a
homophone: eh
ipa: /eɪ/
ipa: [æe̯]
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: eh
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /ˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: a
homophone: eh
Forms: form: aye
Senses: examples: text: For example, New Zealanders tended to say "ay" at the end of sentences, but in the Asian community people used different tags to check whether people were still listening.
ref: 2013 November 13, “Surprising changes in the way Aucklanders speak”, in Stuff:
glosses: New Zealand spelling of eh (question tag).
ay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /ˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: a
homophone: eh
ipa: /eɪ/
ipa: [æe̯]
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: eh
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: a
homophone: eh
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: aye
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /ˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: a
homophone: eh
ipa: /eɪ/
ipa: [æe̯]
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
homophone: eh
Etymology: Origin uncertain; possibly related to eh and hey; popularized by a catch phrase in a 1970s sitcom.
Senses: glosses: All right (inter); hooray (inter); cool (inter).
aye
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
Forms: form: ay
Etymology: From Middle English ay, ai, aȝȝ, from Old Norse ei, ey, from Proto-Germanic *aiwa, *aiwō (“ever, always”), from *aiwaz (“age; law”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“long time”). Doublet of aeviternity and aevum.
See also Old English āwo, āwa, ā, ō, Middle Dutch ie, German je; also Old English ǣ(w) (“law”), West Frisian ieu (“century”), Dutch eeuw (“century”); also Irish aois (“age, period”), Breton oad (“age, period”), Latin ævum (“eternity”), Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn).
Senses: examples: text: […]Do that good miſcheefe, which may make this Iſland / Thine owne for euer, and I thy Caliban, / For aye thy foot-licker.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15, column 2:
text: The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, / And southward aye we fled.
ref: 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
text: Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Wheelbarrow”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, pages 65–66:
text: Let the Amen sound from His people again; / Gladly for aye we adore Him.
ref: 1863, Catherine Winkworth (translator), Praise to the Lord, the Almighty:
glosses: Ever, always.
Derived terms: ayegreen
aye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
Forms: form: ay
Etymology: "Appears suddenly about 1575, and is exceedingly common about 1600." Probably from use of aye (“ever, always”) as expression of agreement or affirmation, or from Middle English a ye (“oh yes”), or synthesis of both. Compare Faroese ája (“certainly, ah yes”). More at oh, yea. Online Etymology Dictionary also with these posits a possible descent from I (as if clipped from e.g. "I assent").
Senses: examples: text: Tro[ylus]. Haue I not tarried? Pan[darus]. I the grinding; but you muſt tarry the boulting. Troy. Haue I not tarried? Paude.^([sic]) I the boulting; but you muſt tarry the leauening. Troy. Still haue I tarried. Pan. I, to the leauening, but heares yet in the word hereafter, the kneading, […]
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], signature A2, recto:
text: david: […] Will he surely give him his daughter? The daughter of his house in Gilgal? soldier: Aye, surely he will.
ref: 1925 spring, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, scene VII, in David: A Play, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, published 1926, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Yes; yea; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A word used to acknowledge a command from a superior, usually preceded by a verbatim repeat-back.
Synonyms: yes
yea
Derived terms: aye aye
aye man
och aye
we aye
well aye
wye aye
aye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
Forms: form: ayes
form: ayeing
form: aying
form: ayed
form: ayed
form: ay
Etymology: "Appears suddenly about 1575, and is exceedingly common about 1600." Probably from use of aye (“ever, always”) as expression of agreement or affirmation, or from Middle English a ye (“oh yes”), or synthesis of both. Compare Faroese ája (“certainly, ah yes”). More at oh, yea. Online Etymology Dictionary also with these posits a possible descent from I (as if clipped from e.g. "I assent").
Senses: examples: text: The men ayed their agreement.
ref: 1981, Penelope Neri, Passion's Rapture, page 160:
glosses: To respond with an "aye".
aye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
Forms: form: ayes
form: ay
Etymology: "Appears suddenly about 1575, and is exceedingly common about 1600." Probably from use of aye (“ever, always”) as expression of agreement or affirmation, or from Middle English a ye (“oh yes”), or synthesis of both. Compare Faroese ája (“certainly, ah yes”). More at oh, yea. Online Etymology Dictionary also with these posits a possible descent from I (as if clipped from e.g. "I assent").
Senses: examples: text: to call for the ayes and nays
text: The ayes have it.
synonyms: yes
antonyms: nay
glosses: An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
aye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: [æe̯]
ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ay (question tag).
aye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: [æe̯]
Senses: examples: text: Iſt’s der? Keine Antwort? — Er iſt’s! Reinhold? Reinhold’, der boͤſe Feind jagt dich parforce! Ey, ey, ey! Welch Skandal!
ref: 1799 [1793], W. A. [i.e., August Wilhelm] Iffland, anonymous translator, act III, in The Bachelors, a Comedy in Five Acts. […], London: […] J[ohn] W[alker] Myers, […] for R[obert] Pitkeathley, […] and W[illiam] West, […], →OCLC, page 51:
text: jonathan: Oh, peace! Thou art all mischief, Michal, Thou shouldst be married to a Philistine, for his undoing. michal: Ayeee! This David has come back to trouble us! Why didst not thou slay the Philistine, Jonathan?
ref: 1925 spring, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, scene X, in David: A Play, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, published 1926, →OCLC, page 69:
text: "Aye, aye, aye," Federer said when he hit an uncharacteristically wayward shot when serving for the match, such were his comfort levels.
ref: 2020 January 26, Anthony Colangelo, “[Roger] Federer survives another fright to make quarter-finals”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2020:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ay: expressing anger, alarm, frustration, pain, etc.
glosses: Used in aye aye.
aye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: A
ipa: /aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: ay
homophone: eye
homophone: I
ipa: [æe̯]
Senses: qualifier: regional African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative spelling of eh.
aye-aye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪˌaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪaɪ
Senses: examples: text: “I have a thought that doth annoy my soul,” he may reply. “For teacher tells us all that we should leave the schoolhouse naturally, and furthermore says she is hep that only convicts must keep step, or men who play the soldiers game (which she believes is much the same”). / “Aye-aye, my son,” I said, “proceed.”
ref: 1915 September 26, Dean Collins, “Gleams Through the Mist”, in The Sunday Oregonian, volume XXXIV, number 39, Portland, Ore., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 3 (Editorial and Society), page 6, column 7:
text: “Shiver me timbers,” I said to my husband, Peter, “we’re off to Greenwich in southeast London.” / “What the heck are you talking about?” he asked, scowling. / “Pirates,” I said. / “Aye-aye,” he said, “let’s go.”
ref: 1992 May 23, Suzanne Cassidy, “Across the Pond: Practical lore from west of Pittsburgh”, in Lancaster New Era, 116th year, number 36,054, Lancaster, Pa., →OCLC, page A-11, column 1:
text: “[…] When someone asks you to do something, you do it. All right?” / “Yes,” they said. / “Thank you,” Lise said, looking forward again. “That goes for you too, buster.” / “Aye-aye,” Ken said.
ref: 2002, Stewart O’Nan, chapter 2, in Wish You Were Here (Emily Maxwell; 1), New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 22:
text: “I thought I could just deliver a lecture and they were going to say ‘Aye-aye,’ ” [Phil] Lehman said, reflecting on his first days at Manos. “That couldn’t have been farther from the truth.”
ref: 2013 March 16, Brett Hambright, “Manos House director recalls success stories”, in Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, 6th year, number 14, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Newspapers, →OCLC, page B1, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of aye aye.
ayegreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayegreens
Etymology: From aye (“always, ever”) + green.
Senses: glosses: The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum).
ayen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: ayein
form: ayeins
Etymology: Variant or relative of again, in its obsolete sense "against".
Senses: examples: text: The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]
ref: 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:
glosses: Back against.
ayen
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: ayein
form: ayeins
Etymology: Variant or relative of again, in its obsolete sense "against".
Senses: glosses: Back against.
ayein
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ayen.
ayein
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ayen.
ayle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ̯l/
homophone: aisle
homophone: I’ll
homophone: isle
Forms: form: ayel
Etymology: From Middle English ayel, aiel, from Old French aiol, aiel, from Vulgar Latin *aviolus, ultimately from Latin avus.
Senses: examples: text: The Writ of Ayle was an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.
glosses: A grandfather.
Related terms: besaiel
tresayle
quatrayle
ayme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aymes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aim.
ayme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aymes
form: ayming
form: aymed
form: aymed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aim.
ayme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aymes
Senses: glosses: The utterance of the ejaculation "Ay me!"
Related terms: ay
ayond
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: ayont
Senses: glosses: Beyond.
ayond
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: ayont
Senses: glosses: Beyond.
ayont
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: ayond
form: yont
Etymology: From a- + yond.
Senses: glosses: Beyond.
ayont
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: ayond
form: yont
Etymology: From a- + yond.
Senses: examples: text: How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Ayont the windows in the waning of the afternoon, Chris could see the frozen glister of night on the Grampians […].
ref: 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 485:
glosses: Beyond.
Ayrshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeːɹʃəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɛəʃɪə/
ipa: /ˈɛəʃə/
ipa: /ˈɛɚʃɪɚ/
Senses: glosses: A traditional county of Scotland.
Derived terms: Ayrshire rose
East Ayrshire
North Ayrshire
South Ayrshire
Ayrshire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeːɹʃəɹ/
ipa: /ˈɛəʃɪə/
ipa: /ˈɛəʃə/
ipa: /ˈɛɚʃɪɚ/
Forms: form: Ayrshires
Senses: glosses: One of a breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland, notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.
ayuntamiento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayuntamientos
Etymology: From Spanish ayuntamiento.
Senses: glosses: A corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns in Spain, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.
litter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭt′ər
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlɪt.əʴ/
note: Canada, US, flapping
ipa: [ˈlɪɾ.ɚ]
homophone: lidder
note: Indic
ipa: /lɪʈ.(ʈ)ɜʳ/
homophone: litre
Forms: form: litters
form: littering
form: littered
form: littered
form: liter
form: litere
form: lytter
form: lyttre
form: littor
form: littour
form: litre
form: licter
form: letter
form: lictier
form: licture
form: litour
form: littier
form: littre
Etymology: From Middle English litere, lytere, &c., from Anglo-Norman litere, litiere, &c., from Old French litiere (“bedding; bed of loose straw; litter”), from Late Latin lectuāria (“bedding; blankets”), from Latin lectus (“bed; couch”) + -āria (“forming related nouns”), from Proto-Italic *lektos (“[thing] lain upon”), from *leɣō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Cognate with French lit and litière.
Senses: examples: text: By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.
glosses: To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
glosses: To scatter carelessly about.
examples: text: Their Clamour, 'lighting from their Chairs, / Grew lowder, all the way up Stairs; / At Entrance louder, where they found, / The Room with Volumes litter'd round; [...]
ref: 1726, [Jonathan Swift], Cadenus and Vanessa. A Poem, London: […] J. Roberts […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
examples: text: We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
text: The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
examples: text: A desert […] where the she-wolf still littered.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: To produce a litter of young.
examples: text: Tell them how they litter their jades.
ref: 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams:
text: For his ease, well litter'd was the floor.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
examples: text: The inn where he and his horse litter'd.
ref: 1634, William Habington, Castara:
glosses: To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Derived terms: litterer
littering
litter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭt′ər
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlɪt.əʴ/
note: Canada, US, flapping
ipa: [ˈlɪɾ.ɚ]
homophone: lidder
note: Indic
ipa: /lɪʈ.(ʈ)ɜʳ/
homophone: litre
Forms: form: liter
form: litere
form: lytter
form: lyttre
form: littor
form: littour
form: litre
form: licter
form: letter
form: lictier
form: licture
form: litour
form: littier
form: littre
Etymology: From Middle English litere, lytere, &c., from Anglo-Norman litere, litiere, &c., from Old French litiere (“bedding; bed of loose straw; litter”), from Late Latin lectuāria (“bedding; blankets”), from Latin lectus (“bed; couch”) + -āria (“forming related nouns”), from Proto-Italic *lektos (“[thing] lain upon”), from *leɣō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Cognate with French lit and litière.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lit: more lit
axunge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaksənd͡ʒ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French axonge (“lard”), from Latin axungia, from axis (“wheel”) + ungere (“to grease, lubricate”).
Senses: glosses: Fat or grease, especially of a pig or goose.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Lard prepared for medical use.
axtree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axtrees
Etymology: From Middle English extre.
Senses: glosses: An axle or axletree.
Axminster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Acsan mynster, equivalent to the River Axe + minster.
Senses: glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY2998).
Axminster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Axminsters
Etymology: From Old English Acsan mynster, equivalent to the River Axe + minster.
Senses: examples: text: A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
glosses: A carpet made in Axminster imitating the Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile.
axman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axmen
Etymology: From ax + -man.
Senses: coordinate_terms: axwoman
glosses: Alternative spelling of axeman.
axletree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axletrees
Etymology: From Middle English axiltre; equivalent to axle + tree. Cognate with Icelandic öxultré.
Senses: synonyms: axlerod
glosses: A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.
glosses: A spindle or axle of a wheel.
examples: text: Soon after his arrival, that patent axletree of action, the not knowing what to do with himself, domesticated him during some weeks of the shooting season at Sillery House...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: A stimulus or driving force.
axle guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axle guards
form: axleguard
Etymology: From axle + guard.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The part of the framing of a railway car or truck by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically.
Synonyms: word: jaw
word: housing
axle box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axle boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of axlebox.
axle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksəl/
rhymes: -æksəl
homophone: axel
homophone: axil
Forms: form: axles
Etymology: From Middle English axel, axle, eaxle, from Old English eaxl (“shoulder, armpit”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahslu (“shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *ahslō (“shoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-l-eh₂, from *h₂eḱs- (“axis, axle”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian acsle (“shoulder”), Dutch oksel (“armpit”), German Achsel (“armpit”), Swedish axel (“shoulder”), Latin axilla (“armpit”), Latin axis (“axle”) (whence English axis, atelier, and via Latin āla English ala, aisle), Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn) (whence English axo-, axon),
Greek άξονας (áxonas, “axle”), Sanskrit अक्ष (ákṣa, “axle”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣá, “room, armpit”), Russian ось (osʹ, “axle”).
Senses: glosses: Shoulder.
axle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksəl/
rhymes: -æksəl
homophone: axel
homophone: axil
Forms: form: axles
Etymology: From Middle English axil, in turn a combination of Old English eax and Old Norse ǫxull.
Senses: examples: text: rear axle
text: front axle
text: axle grease
text: The mechanic replaced the broken axle on the truck.
glosses: The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
glosses: A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
examples: text: the Sun’s axle
topics: astronomy
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An axis.
Derived terms: axlebox
axle box
axle-box
axle counter
axled
axle-driven
axle guard
axle hitch
axle-hung
axleless
axle load
axleload
axle loading
axlerod
axless
axle stand
axle tooth
axle weight
axleweight
blind axle
centre-axle trailer
crank axle
cross axle
dead axle
driving axle
interaxle
kingpin to rear axle
leading axle
Muley axle
stub axle
trailing axle
transaxle
triaxle
wheel and axle
Related terms: Axle in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
axiomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.si.əˈmæt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more axiomatic
form: most axiomatic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀξιωμᾰτικός (axiōmătikós, “employing logical propositions”), from ἀξίωμα (axíōma, “self-evident principle”) + -ικός (-ikós, “of or pertaining to, -ic”).
Senses: examples: text: The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:
text: It is axiomatic that the "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed."
ref: 1984, Justice William Brennan, Welsh v. Wisconsin, United States Supreme Court (66 U.S. 740, 748)
glosses: Self-evident or unquestionable.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to or containing axioms.
Synonyms: axiomatical
self-evident
Derived terms: axiomatically
axiomaticity
axiomatics
axiomatic system
nonaxiomatic
Related terms: axiomatize
axiomatization
axiomatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; characterized by axioms.
Synonyms: axiomatic
self-evident
axiomatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From axiomatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.
Synonyms: self-evidently
axinomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axiomancy
Etymology: Latin axinomantia, from Ancient Greek ἀξινομαντεία (axinomanteía), from ἀξίνη (axínē, “axe”) and μαντεία (manteía, “prophecy”)
Senses: examples: text: Diuination generally was done by diuers means […] by hatchets, Axinomancy
ref: 1610, Augustine, City of God:
text: Axinomancy Was performed by balancing an axe on an upright stake, and the names of suspected persons being pronounced, it was supposed to point out the guilty by its motion.
ref: 1855, Edward Smedley, The Occult Sciences:
text: Axinomancy, strictly so called, has varied somewhat in its modus operandi. A hatchet suspended by a cord was used to detect criminals or discover secrets: it twisted and turned in answer to relevant questions.
ref: 1925, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, volume 2, page 702:
glosses: Divination by saws or axes.
axinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axinites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A borosilicate of aluminum, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.
Derived terms: manganaxinite
axillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksɪlɛɹi/
ipa: /ækˈsɪləɹi/
rhymes: -æksɪlɛɹi
rhymes: -ɪləɹi
rhymes: -æksɪlɛəɹi
Etymology: Alteration by association with -ary of the French axillaire (“of the axilla”), itself an alteration of the earlier forms aisselliere and aissellaire, both from the assumed Latin etymon *axillāris, from axilla (“armpit”), diminutive form of the assumed *axula.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Situated in, or rising from, an axil; relating to an axil.
Derived terms: axillary artery
axillary gland
axillary hair
axillary nerve
axillary vein
cervicoaxillary
costoaxillary
extraaxillary
infraaxillary
interaxillary
intraaxillary
midaxillary
subaxillary
supraaxillary
transaxillary
axillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæksɪlɛɹi/
ipa: /ækˈsɪləɹi/
rhymes: -æksɪlɛɹi
rhymes: -ɪləɹi
rhymes: -æksɪlɛəɹi
Forms: form: axillaries
Etymology: Alteration by association with -ary of the French axillaire (“of the axilla”), itself an alteration of the earlier forms aisselliere and aissellaire, both from the assumed Latin etymon *axillāris, from axilla (“armpit”), diminutive form of the assumed *axula.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of axillar.
Related terms: auxiliary
axillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of axillary.
axillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: axillars
Senses: glosses: Any of the feathers connecting the undersurface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.
axilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: axillas
form: axillae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin axilla (“side, armpit”). Doublet of axil.
Senses: glosses: The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The area that is located posterior to the transscutal articulation and anterior to the scutoscutellar suture.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of axil.
axil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.sɪl/
ipa: /ˈæk.səl/
rhymes: -æksəl
homophone: axel
homophone: axle
Forms: form: axils
Etymology: From Latin axilla. Doublet of axilla.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: crotch, fork
text: Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.
ref: 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf (in English), Macmillan, page 202:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: axilla
glosses: The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.
Related terms: axillar
axillary
axile
axile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.
Derived terms: tetraxile
Related terms: axial
axis
axil
axilla
axially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From axial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: … a first countershaft gear drivingly and axially rearrangeably mounted on said countershaft, …
ref: 1952 January 1, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 654, number 1, page 289:
text: PET images of the FDG distribution were reconstructed using a 4.0 mm Hanning filter transaxially and an 8.5 mm Ramp filter axially.
ref: 2015 December 3, “Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain in Fabry Disease: A Nationwide, Long-Time, Prospective Follow-Up”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In relation to, or in a line with, an axis; in the axial (magnetic) line.
Derived terms: hypaxially
postaxially
subaxially
transaxially
axial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.sɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈæk.si.əl/
Forms: form: more axial
form: most axial
form: axical
Etymology: From axis + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The axial asymmetry of Mercury's inertia ellipsoid may result in a torque that counterbalances the tidal torque
ref: 1965 November 6, G. Colombo, “Rotational Period of the Planet Mercury”, in Nature, volume 208, number 575, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, resembling, or situated on an axis
examples: text: the axial skeleton
text: the axial bones
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Belonging to the axis of the body, or to the axis of any appendage or organ
examples: text: The secondary xylem usually consists of axial and radial elements.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Oriented parallel to the axis running through the centre of a cyclohexane ring, as opposed to equatorial. See Axial bond.
Derived terms: antiaxial
atlantoaxial
axial chirality
axiality
axial lead
axial lobe
axially
axial mining
axial plane
axial point
axial precession
axial tilt
axial vector
axipolar
buccoaxial
co-axial
computed axial tomography
diaxial
epaxial
equiaxial
extraaxial
hexaxial
hypaxial
hypoaxial
interaxial
intraaxial
mesoaxial
microaxial
monaxial
monoaxial
neuroaxial
nonaxial
occipitoaxial
orthaxial
paraxial
periaxial
pluriaxial
polyaxial
postaxial
preaxial
pseudoaxial
quadriaxial
subaxial
tetraxial
transaxial
tri-axial
Related terms: abaxial
adaxial
biaxial
coaxial
multiaxial
triaxial
uniaxial
axial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.sɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈæk.si.əl/
Forms: form: axials
form: axical
Etymology: From axis + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A flight feather that appears between the primaries and secondaries on some birds.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A plane parallel to the surface of a tooth.
axeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axemen
form: axman
Etymology: From axe + man.
Senses: examples: text: If you charge into the Upper Egyptians head-on, they may pepper your axemen with arrows from on top of the cliff.
ref: 1996, Steve L. Kent, Microsoft Age of Empires: Inside Moves, page 69:
text: Robertson was finally asked to step down at the end of 1961. His successor would be Dr Beeching, who was seen as both visionary and axeman.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
coordinate_terms: axewoman
glosses: A man who wields an axe.
examples: text: Ex-Aerosmith axeman Joe Perry has finished recording his first solo effort, "I've Got the Rock 'n' Rolls Again."
ref: 1981 June 18, Kurt Loder, “Rolling Stone”, in Anchorage Daily News / King Features Syndicate, page G6:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: saxophonist
glosses: A musician who plays a guitar or saxophone.
axolotl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.səˌlɒ.təl/
ipa: /ˈæk.səˌlɑ.təl/
Forms: form: axolotls
form: axolots
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Classical Nahuatl āxōlōtl (see there for further etymology).
Senses: examples: text: She is going on a tour to see axolotls at Mexico.
glosses: A critically endangered salamander found in the elevated lakes of Mexico, Ambystoma mexicanum.
Synonyms: sense: amphibian
word: Mexican salamander
sense: amphibian
word: Mexican walking fish
sense: amphibian
word: water monster
trema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹiː.mə/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛm.ə/
rhymes: -ɛmə
rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: tremas
form: tremata
form: tréma
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρῆμα (trêma, “hole”), from τετραίνω (tetraínō, “perforate”), used for the dots on dice, via Dutch trema and French tréma.
Senses: synonyms: diaeresis
glosses: A diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.
awakener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awakeners
Etymology: From awaken + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, awakens.
awakening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/
Forms: form: more awakening
form: most awakening
Etymology: From awaken + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the awakening city
text: an awakening discourse
text: the awakening dawn
glosses: Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting
awakening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/
Forms: form: awakenings
Etymology: From awaken + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.
examples: text: When I invited women to decide for themselves which rite of passage to talk or write about, I found that only a few chose their sexual awakening.
ref: 2007, Abigail Brenner, Women's Rites of Passage, page 25:
glosses: Being roused into action or activity.
glosses: The act of becoming aware of something.
Derived terms: awakeningly
awokening
rude awakening
spiritual awakening
unawakening
awakening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈweɪ̯kənɪŋ/
Etymology: From awaken + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of awaken
awakenment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awakenments
Etymology: From awaken + -ment.
Senses: glosses: An awakening.
awanting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + wanting.
Senses: examples: 1852?: William Hamilton
In either case criticism was required, and criticism was awanting.
glosses: missing; wanting; deficient or absent
award
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwɔːd/
ipa: /əˈwɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: awards
Etymology: From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard.
Senses: examples: text: Citing the damages that Ms. Lewis and Mr. Heslin had requested, Mr. Jones called the award a “major victory” in a video posted on Infowars on Thursday night, even as he urged viewers to buy products from his website to stave off what he portrayed as financial ruin.
ref: 2022 August 4, Elizabeth Williamson, “Jurors Award Sandy Hook Parents $4 Million in Damages”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
topics: law
glosses: The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
topics: academia
scholarly
sciences
glosses: Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project.
glosses: A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
examples: text: The AMIEU^([Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union]) first developed into a powerful organisation in the early years of the twentieth century, and after the first industry-wide collective agreement was made in 1911, collective bargaining prevailed in the industry until 1917, when the employers sought an award from the Queensland Industrial Court. The first award was issued on March 12, 1918.
ref: 1970, Kenneth Frederick Walker, Australian Industrial Relations Systems, page 242:
text: A further 17 per cent responded that the agreement replaced ‘most’ aspects of the award, leaving the large majority (67 per cent) claiming that the agreement replaced only ‘some’ aspects of the award.
ref: 2000, Mark Wooden, The Transformation of Australian Industrial Relations, page 42:
text: Employees whose pay is set by ‘award only’ are those who have their pay set by an award, and who are not paid more than the award rate of pay.
ref: 2007, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2007 Year book, Australia, page 182:
qualifier: industrial relations
glosses: A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
Derived terms: Academy Award
award ceremony
award-winning
book award
Darwin Award
preaward
award
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwɔːd/
ipa: /əˈwɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: awards
form: awarding
form: awarded
form: awarded
Etymology: From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard.
Senses: examples: text: To assert its control, Vietnam has since established Spratly Island as a township in Truòng Sa district, organized local elections and tours in the Spratlys, and has continued to award oil exploration contracts.
ref: 2013 December, Clarence J. Bouchat, Dangerous Ground: the Spratly Islands and U.S. Interests and Approaches, U.S. Army War College, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:
synonyms: crown
glosses: To determine; to make or grant an award.
examples: text: Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.
text: He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
synonyms: bestow
glosses: To give (an award).
examples: text: He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
glosses: To give (a person) an award.
examples: text: The arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
text: To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: Power to award compensation
ref: 2012, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, “Pyramid Schemes Prohibition Ordinance (Cap. 617), section 7, section header”, in Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette, page A1381:
text: A Texas jury on Thursday awarded the parents of a child killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School more than $4 million in compensatory damages from the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, […]
ref: 2022 August 4, Elizabeth Williamson, “Jurors Award Sandy Hook Parents $4 Million in Damages”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: law
synonyms: adjudge
glosses: To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
examples: text: Do not award marks for data from previous questions.
topics: education
glosses: (in an examination) To give marks for a correct answer.
Derived terms: awardable
awardee
awarder
awarding
awardment
misaward
reaward
unaward
unawarded
awarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awarders
Etymology: From award + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge, arbitrator or umpire.
Synonyms: judge
aware
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwɛɚ/
ipa: /əˈwɛə/
ipa: /əˈweːɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more aware
form: awarer
form: most aware
form: awarest
Etymology: From Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.
Senses: examples: text: Stay aware! Don't let your guard down.
glosses: Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
examples: text: Are you aware of what is being said about you?
text: Gotta get going. I wasn’t aware that it was already so late.
text: “[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
ref: 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
text: Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.
ref: 2025 April 28, Ross Douthat, Nick Adams, “Condition of America”, in New Left Review, number 152, →ISSN:
glosses: Conscious or having knowledge of something; awake.
Synonyms: sense: on one's guard
word: wary
sense: on one's guard
word: watchful
sense: on one's guard
word: sensitive
sense: on one's guard
word: alert
sense: on one's guard
word: attentive
sense: on one's guard
word: observant
sense: conscious of something
word: apprised
sense: conscious of something
word: informed
sense: conscious of something
word: cognizant
sense: conscious of something
word: conscious
sense: conscious of something
word: mindful
word: aware
word: in the know
word: on the ball
word: on the same page
word: sharp
word: up to speed
word: up-to-date
word: with it
Hypernyms: word: vigilant
Derived terms: awarely
awareness
hyperaware
locale-aware
locale-awareness
self-aware
self-awareness
well-aware
well aware
well-awareness
Related terms: word: wary
word: beware
word: modern
word: sane
aware
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwɛɚ/
ipa: /əˈwɛə/
ipa: /əˈweːɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: awares
form: awaring
form: awared
form: awared
Etymology: From Middle English aware, iwar, iware, ywar, from Old English ġewær (“aware”), from Proto-West Germanic *gawar, from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“aware, cautious”), from Proto-Indo-European *worós (“attentive”), from *wer- (“to heed; watch out”). Cognate with Dutch gewaar, German gewahr, Swedish var, Icelandic varr.
Senses: examples: text: Conſcience is the director of all our actions, and diſcriminates them all, with the intentions of our hearts; awares us of the crime of the one, and the virtue of the other.
ref: 1799, William Earle, Junior, Natural Faults: A Comedy, in Five Acts, London: […] sold by Earle and Hemet […], [Act II, scene i], page 17:
glosses: To make (someone) aware of something.
awarn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwɔː(ɹ)n/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: awarns
form: awarning
form: awarned
form: awarned
Etymology: From Middle English awarnye; equivalent to a- + warn.
Senses: examples: text: That every bird and beast awarned made
To shrowd themselves
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To warn.