cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
than
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
enpr: thăn
note: stressed form
enpr: thĕn
ipa: /ðæn/
note: stressed form
ipa: /ðɛn/
note: stressed form
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɛn
enpr: thən
ipa: /ðən/
ipa: [ðn̩]
homophone: then (unstressed form, also for some speakers stressed form)
Forms: form: 'n
form: thanne
form: then
Etymology: From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-West Germanic *þan, from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”).
Cognate with Dutch dan (“than”), German denn (“than”), German dann (“then”). Doublet of then.
Senses: examples: text: Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
text: No player is more skillful than Greg.
glosses: Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.
than
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
enpr: thăn
note: stressed form
enpr: thĕn
ipa: /ðæn/
note: stressed form
ipa: /ðɛn/
note: stressed form
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɛn
enpr: thən
ipa: /ðən/
ipa: [ðn̩]
homophone: then (unstressed form, also for some speakers stressed form)
Forms: form: 'n
form: thanne
form: then
Etymology: From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-West Germanic *þan, from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”).
Cognate with Dutch dan (“than”), German denn (“than”), German dann (“then”). Doublet of then.
Senses: qualifier: now chiefly dialectal or a misspelling
glosses: At that time; then.
swound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swounds
Senses: examples: text: It flung the blood into my head, and I fell down in a swound.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
glosses: Obsolete form of swoon.
swound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swounds
form: swounding
form: swounded
form: swounded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of swoon.
black ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He said the bus struck a patch of black ice, or freshly formed ice as yet invisible on the road surface, just after he had passed a trailer truck.
ref: 1965 December 25, “Oregon Bus Crash Kills 12, Hurts 27”, in New York Times, page 30:
coordinate_terms: black frost
glosses: A smooth, barely visible, and dangerously slippery film of ice, usually over a dark surface, such as rock or pavement.
Related terms: freezing rain
acorn cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acorn cups
Etymology: From acorn + cup.
Senses: glosses: The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.
Synonyms: acorn cupule
acorned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acorn + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished or loaded with acorns
examples: text: Like a full-acorn'd boar, a German one,
Cried "O!" and mounted; found no opposition
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: Fed or filled with acorns.
acorn-shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acorn-shells
Senses: glosses: One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus.
Related terms: barnacle
acosmism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.
examples: text: "[Spinoza's] system would have to be designated not an 'atheism' but instead the reverse, an 'acosmism', since according to this philosophy there is actually no world at all in the sense of something positively being."
ref: 1830, GWF Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline Part 1: Logic, page 224:
glosses: The determination of the world as mere phenomena to which true reality does not pertain.
Derived terms: acosmic
acosmist
acosmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acosmists
Etymology: See acosmism
Senses: glosses: A follower of acosmism
Related terms: acosmistic
handkerchief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæŋkət͡ʃɪf/
ipa: /-t͡ʃiːf/
ipa: /ˈhæŋkəɹt͡ʃəf/
ipa: [ˈheɪŋ-]
Forms: form: handkerchiefs
form: handkerchieves
form: handkercher
Etymology: From hand + kerchief.
Senses: examples: text: He sneezed into his handkerchief during the meeting.
text: Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
synonyms: hanky
pocket handkerchief
hyponyms: pocket square
glosses: A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
glosses: A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth.
Derived terms: flying handkerchief
handkerchief code
handkerchiefed
handkerchiefful
handkerchiefless
handkerchief tree
pocket-handkerchief
smell like a tart's handkerchief
Spanish handkerchief
throw the handkerchief
handleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændləəbl̩/
Etymology: From handle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being handled.
Derived terms: handleability
handleably
unhandleable
handless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændləs/
rhymes: -ændləs
Forms: form: more handless
form: most handless
Etymology: From Middle English handles, from Old English *handlēas, from Proto-Germanic *handulausaz (“handless”), equivalent to hand + -less. Cognate with West Frisian hânleas (“handless”), German handlos (“handless”), Icelandic handlauss (“handless”).
Senses: examples: text: Together with his mangled Myrmidons, That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
glosses: Without any hands.
examples: text: We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
text: This, however, was a thing that, left to himself, would have simply rendered Bill Lampiere a most handless workman at everything he attempted.
ref: 1891, Dugald Ferguson, Vicissitudes of Bush Life in Australia and New Zealand, page 55:
glosses: Not handy; awkward.
Derived terms: handlessness
Related terms: handed
hands-free
hands-off
handless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændləs/
rhymes: -ændləs
Etymology: From handleless, by haplology, under the influence of etymology 1 above.
Senses: examples: text: She gave him a few coppers from the handless jug.
ref: 1812, John Galt, Voyages and travels in the years 1809, 1810, and 1811, page 106:
text: One battered, spoutless, handless, japanned-in jug, that did not contain water, for it leaked.
ref: 1836, The Metropolitan, Volume 15, page 148:
text: Chinese soup is sipped in a handless cup (Chinese soup bowl) with its own soupspoon.
ref: 2003, Manners... More than Etiquette, page 91:
text: The leftover dough from the loaves would be rolled out with a handless, wooden, rolling pin.
ref: 2006, Elsieferne V. Stout, Dundy County Babe, page 44:
glosses: Without a handle.
handmade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌmeɪd/
ipa: /ˈhændˌmeɪd/
ipa: /ˌhændˈmeɪd/
homophone: handmaid
Etymology: From hand + made.
Senses: examples: text: handmade jewels
text: handmade products
text: handmade shoes
glosses: Made by hand; manufactured manually.
Synonyms: handcrafted
handworked
handwrought
Derived terms: handmadeness
handmade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændˌmeɪd/
ipa: /ˈhændˌmeɪd/
ipa: /ˌhændˈmeɪd/
homophone: handmaid
Forms: form: handmades
Etymology: From hand + made.
Senses: glosses: An art or craft object made by hand.
naam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑːm/
rhymes: -ɑːm
Etymology: From Middle English nam, naam, from Old English nām (“seizure of property”), probably from Old Norse nám (“occupation; acquisition, learning, study”, literally “taking”), from Proto-Germanic *nēmō (“taking”), from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to take”). Cognate with Old English nǣm (“taking, acceptance”), Old High German nāma ("seizure, confiscation"; > German Nahme).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The taking of property for the purpose of compensation.
topics: law
glosses: Goods taken in such a manner.
Synonyms: distraint
Hispanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈspænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: more Hispanic
form: most Hispanic
Etymology: From Latin hispānicus, from Hispānia (“Iberia”) + -icus.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Spain.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Iberian peninsula, its people, its culture or its languages.
examples: text: Houses in New Mexico, California and Florida exhibit a strong Hispanic architectural influence.
glosses: Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture, as in Latin America.
glosses: mestizo.
Synonyms: word: of Spain
sense: of Spanish-speaking people
word: Latin
sense: of Spanish-speaking people
word: Latino
sense: of Iberia
word: Iberian
sense: of Iberia
word: Hispanian
Derived terms: Hispanicisation
Hispanicise
Hispanicism
Hispanicity
Hispanicization
Hispanicize
Related terms: Hispanist
Hispano-
hispano-
Hispanophile
Hispanophilia
Hispanophilic
Hispanophobe
Hispanophobia
Hispanophobic
Hispanophone
Hispanophone Caribbean
Hispanophonia
Hispanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈspænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: Hispanics
Etymology: From Latin hispānicus, from Hispānia (“Iberia”) + -icus.
Senses: glosses: A native or descendant of a Spanish-speaking country.
glosses: A person of Spanish ancestry.
glosses: mestizo
Related terms: Hispano
spaniel
Spanish
Hispania
Hispaniola
Iberian
Ibero-
Ibero-America
Ibero-American
Ibero-Romance
Latin
Latina
Latin American
Latino
Latinx
Hispano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hispanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hispano, from Latin Hispānus, from Hispānia.
Senses: examples: text: There are many famous Hispanos in the music world.
text: Hispanos are quickly becoming the largest minority in the United States.
glosses: A Hispanic; a person of Spanish descent.
glosses: A person from Spain.
Hispano
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hispano
form: most Hispano
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hispano, from Latin Hispānus, from Hispānia.
Senses: glosses: of Spanish descent
Related terms: Hispanic
Hispanic American
Spanish
Latin American
Latino
latino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latinos
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Latino.
pinnacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnəkəl/
rhymes: -ɪnɪkəl
Forms: form: pinnacles
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnaculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), from Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.
Senses: synonyms: acme
peak
summit
zenith
antonyms: nadir
glosses: The highest point.
examples: text: Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.
ref: 1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 55:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: sea stack
glosses: A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
examples: text: The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7:
synonyms: word: acme
word: apex
word: zenith
word: apogee
word: apotheosis
word: ascendance
word: capstone
word: climax
word: coronation
word: crown
word: culmination
word: Everest
word: extreme
word: fastigium
word: high note
word: high point
word: high tide
word: high-water mark
word: midday
word: outblossom
word: paroxysm
word: perihelion
word: pinnacle
word: summa
word: summit
glosses: An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
examples: text: Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: In the city’s midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it.
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1:
topics: architecture
glosses: An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
pinnacle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnəkəl/
rhymes: -ɪnɪkəl
Forms: form: pinnacles
form: pinnacling
form: pinnacled
form: pinnacled
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnaculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), from Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.
Senses: examples: text: And down this vast gulf upon which we were pinnacled the great draught dashed and roared, driving clouds and misty wreaths of vapour before it, till we were nearly blinded, and utterly confused.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To place on a pinnacle.
examples: text: The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross
ref: 1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:
glosses: To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
stepfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepfathers
form: step-father
Etymology: From Middle English stepfader, from Old English stēopfæder, from Proto-Germanic *steupafadēr (“stepfather”), equivalent to step- + father.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäiffoar (“stepfather”), Dutch stiefvader (“stepfather”), German Low German Steevvader (“stepfather”), German Stiefvater (“stepfather”), Swedish styvfar (“stepfather”), Icelandic stjúpfaðir (“stepfather”).
Senses: examples: text: My stepfather loved me as much as he loved his own three sons. I knew how much he wanted to help me and how lacking in financial resources he was. Nothing could erase the image I gained of my real father that day: a carefree, well-to-do man who didn't really give a damn about the hopes and dreams of his firstborn son.
ref: 1980, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.
raw_tags: in the narrow sense
examples: text: In suboptimal cases the gynaecologist takes sperm from anonymous donors. In this case the husband can only be stepfather of the child.
ref: 2015, Werner A. Mueller, Monika Hassel, Maura Grealy, Development and Reproduction in Humans and Animal Model Species, Springer, →ISBN, page 188, column 2:
text: Telegony or Inheritance from the Stepfather
The earliest reference to telegony ( which has no connection with the son of Odysseus ) is supposed to be in 1665 but the classical case is that described in the Philosophical Transactions of[…]
ref: 1953, Cyril Dean Darlington, The Facts of Life, page 433:
glosses: The husband of one's parent distinct from one's biological father or person with a similar relationship.
raw_tags: in the broad sense
Synonyms: word: stepdad
word: co-father
word: father-in-law
Hypernyms: stepparent
Derived terms: ex-stepfather
Related terms: stepaunt
stepbrother
stepchild
stepdaughter
stepfamily
stepfather-in-law
stepmother
stepnephew
stepniece
stepsister
stepson
stepuncle
happy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæp.i/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: happies
Etymology: From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Faroese heppin (“fortunate, lucky, happy”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
Senses: examples: text: The strike split the Chicano community. Many workers at Farah crossed picket lines and continued to keep the plant operating. They were known as the "happies" because they wore buttons which featured a smiling face and the slogan, "I'm happy at Farah. …"
ref: 1994, Lauri Coyle, Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, “‘Why Did I Put Up With It All These Years’: The Farah Strike”, in Maxine Schwartz Seller, editor, Immigrant Women (SUNY Series in Ethnicity and Race in American Life), 2nd rev. edition, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 290:
glosses: A happy event, thing, person, etc.
happy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæp.i/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: happies
form: happying
form: happied
form: happied
Etymology: From Middle English happy (“fortunate, happy”), perhaps an alteration of Middle English happyn, happen (“fortunate, happy”), possibly related to or from Old Norse heppinn (“fortunate, happy”); and potentially assimilated to be equivalent to hap (“chance, luck, fortune”) + -y. Compare also Icelandic heppinn (“lucky”), Faroese heppin (“fortunate, lucky, happy”), Norwegian Nynorsk heppen (“lucky”), Scots happin (“fortunate, blessed”). See further at hap.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever I started drinking again after abstaining for any period of time, it usually was an effort to relieve stress and to "happy up."
ref: 2001, John L. Bullion, “Jokes”, in In the Boat with LBJ, Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 294:
text: [H]e smiled […] then asked my name. He checked it against his clipboard then sadly shook his head as if he'd been rejected himself. Told him I was looking for employment and he happied up again, able to help by directing me to apply at the front office, that the doors were on the Gower Street side.
ref: 2016 July 18, Wayne Kaatz, chapter 11, in Stuck on Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: blithen
cheer up
chirk
liven up
perk up
glosses: Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
examples: text: People really didn't want their Party Motivators in their photos, anonymous dancers, happying up the place. It spooked them.
ref: 2007, Mireille Juchau, “Sanctuary”, in Burning In, Artarmon, N.S.W.: Giramondo Publishing for the Writing & Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney, →ISBN, page 201:
text: […] [William] Glasser would probably say that happy people are "happying" themselves by choosing behaviors that help them to feel happy (working at their relationships, engaging in productive work activities, participating in desired recreational activities, etc.).
ref: 2015 October 26, Nickolas Martin, Ego Therapy: A Method for Healing Your Whole Self, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: bright
word: cheer up
word: happify
word: perk up
word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
glosses: Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.
hapuku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hapukus
form: hapuku
form: hapuka
form: whapuka
form: whapuku
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori hāpuku.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A large and valuable food fish, Polyprion oxygeneios, in the family Serranidae of New Zealand.
haquebut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haquebuts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hagbut.
hara-kiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harakiri
form: hari-kari
form: harikari
form: harikiri
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 腹切り (harakiri), ultimately from 腹 (hara, “belly”) + 切る (kiru, “to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: On the downfall of his power in 1867 he was urged by one of his Council to save the honour of his family by a voluntary suicide. He flatly refused to do so and left the room, whereupon his faithful adviser retired to another part of the castle and solemnly performed the hara-kiri.
ref: 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 231:
glosses: Ceremonial suicide by disembowelment, as by slicing open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practised in Japan by the samurai when disgraced or sentenced to death.
examples: text: ...the report that was issued at the time officially blamed a disgruntled crewman who had been accused of theft and may have decided to do the ultimate hara-kiri, but quite how you prove that I don't know...
ref: 2020 January 12, Drachinifel, 47:56 from the start, in The Drydock - Episode 076, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022:
glosses: Suicide or any suicidal action.
examples: text: Regarded logically, therefore, Japan’s decision to go to war made no sense. It was hara-kiri.
ref: 1982–1983, Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties, revised and printed as […] to the Nineties, HarperCollins (2001), page 393
text: They are haunted by the spectre of the 1984 election, when Mr Walter Mondale committed hara-kiri by acknowledging the need to raise taxes if America were to get its economy straight.
ref: 1987, The Economist, volume 304, numbers 7505-7513, page 1:
text: But with GSM players lobbying hard for more spectrum, taking MVNOs on board now would be hara-kiri.
ref: 2008 April 5, Anurag Prasad, “Virgin Territory”, in Outlook Business, volume 3, number 7, page 50:
glosses: An act against one's own interests.
Synonyms: sense: ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen
word: seppuku
Related terms: bushido
kamikaze
seppuku
suicide
hari-kari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Corrupted from Japanese 腹切り (harakiri), literally "belly-cutting".
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hara-kiri.
handling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhændlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændl̩ɪŋ
rhymes: -ændlɪŋ
Forms: form: handlings
Etymology: From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle + -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).
Senses: examples: text: baggage handling
text: the heauens, and your faire handeling / Haue made you maister of the field this day
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 28:
text: 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
[…] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
glosses: A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
examples: text: In mortal terror of people forcing an entrance at such an hour, and in such a manner as to leave no doubt of their purpose, I would have turned to fly when first I heard the noise, only that I feared by any quick motion to catch their attention, as I also ran the danger of doing by opening the door, which was all but closed, and to whose handlings I was unaccustomed.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
glosses: The mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
examples: text: A miniature[…]remarkable for its brilliancy of colour and charming freedom of handling.
ref: 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Critical Reviews:
topics: art
arts
glosses: The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
glosses: A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
Derived terms: antihandling
ballhandling
double-handling
ground handling
handling charge
handling fee
handling time
material handling
materials handling
puck-handling
puck handling
request-handling
shiphandling
shipping and handling
special handling unit
handling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhændl̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhændlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ændl̩ɪŋ
rhymes: -ændlɪŋ
Etymology: From handle.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handle
unwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈwaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Forms: form: unwiser
form: unwisest
Etymology: From Middle English unwis, from Old English unwīs (“unwise, foolish, ignorant, uninformed, insane”), equivalent to un- + wise. Cognate with Dutch onwijs (“unwise”), German unweise (“unwise”), Danish uvis (“unwise”), Swedish ovis (“unwise”), Icelandic óvís (“unwise”).
Senses: examples: text: unwise man
text: unwise kings
text: unwise measures
text: If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
ref: 1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
text: Their use was “impermissible not because it is unwise or ineffective, but because [federal law]^([sic]) does not allow it”, the decision explained.
ref: 2025 May 29, Kalyeena Makortoff, “US federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: injudicious
indiscreet
foolish
imprudent
glosses: Not wise; lacking wisdom
Derived terms: unwiseness
unwisely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwisely
form: most unwisely
Etymology: From Middle English vnwysely, vnwisely, vnwyseliche, from Old English unwīslīċe (“unwisely, foolish”), equivalent to un- + wisely.
Senses: examples: text: The scope of the new upgrade isn't just restricted to the station and junction. It has involved more than simply putting back what was unwisely taken away.
ref: 2024 May 1, Tom Ingall, “Hope springs eternal for better services”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 52:
glosses: In an unwise manner; foolishly.
unwish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwishes
form: unwishing
form: unwished
form: unwished
Etymology: From un- + wish.
Senses: examples: text: Now thou hast unwished five thousand men.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To wish not to be; to destroy by wishing.
glosses: To undo a wish
non-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒn/
ipa: /ˌnɒn/
ipa: /ˈnɑn/
ipa: /ˌnɑn/
Etymology: From Latin nona (“nine”).
Senses: glosses: prevocalic form of nona-
Derived terms: nonad
nonillion
Related terms: nonet
nonuplet
nonability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonabilities
Etymology: From non- + ability.
Senses: glosses: Want of ability.
topics: law
glosses: An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.
nonacceptance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonacceptances
Etymology: From non- + acceptance.
Senses: synonyms: rejection
disacceptance
antonyms: acceptance
glosses: A neglect or refusal to accept.
nomothetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒməˈθɛtɪk/
Forms: form: nomothetical
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek νομοθετικός (nomothetikós).
Senses: examples: text: A focus on averaged risk effects, estimated across people, may occlude idiographic within-person processes which could aid in the precise detection of individual-level correlates of suicide. The present study focuses on new statistical models applied to intensive longitudinal data to quantify heterogeneity in within-person processes.
Nomothetic approaches, such as multi-level models, are the most conventional method for identifying group-level suicide risk factors. These methods assume that effects apply equally across all individuals.
ref: 2024 June 5, Kevin S. Kuehn, Marilyn L. Piccirillo, Adam M. Kuczynski, Kevin M. King, Colin A. Depp, Katherine T. Foster, “Person-specific dynamics between negative emotions and suicidal thoughts”, in Comprehensive Psychiatry, volume 133, →DOI:
antonyms: idiographic
glosses: Relating to the underlying laws of a subject.
Related terms: nomothetics
nomothetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: nomothetic
itinerary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈtɪnə(ɹə)ɹi/
ipa: /aɪˈtɪnəˌɹɛɹi/
Forms: form: itineraries
Etymology: From Late Latin itinerarius (“pertaining to a journey”), neuter itinerārium (“an account of a journey, a road-book”), from iter (“a way, journey”); see itinerate, itinerant.
Senses: glosses: A written schedule of activities for a vacation or road trip.
examples: text: The length of the Wengernalp Railway from Lauterbrunnen over the Kleine Scheidegg to Grindelwald or vice versa, Riggenbach rack-and-pinion operated throughout, should be a "must" in the itinerary of every Oberland tourist; [...].
ref: 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:
glosses: A route or proposed route of a journey.
glosses: An account or record of a journey.
glosses: A guidebook for travellers.
itinerary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈtɪnə(ɹə)ɹi/
ipa: /aɪˈtɪnəˌɹɛɹi/
Forms: form: more itinerary
form: most itinerary
Etymology: From Late Latin itinerarius (“pertaining to a journey”), neuter itinerārium (“an account of a journey, a road-book”), from iter (“a way, journey”); see itinerate, itinerant.
Senses: examples: text: It were rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey.
arrogant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹəɡənt/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹəɡənt/
Forms: form: more arrogant
form: most arrogant
form: arrogaunt
Etymology: From Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French arrogant, from Latin arrogāns, present active participle of arrogō.
Senses: examples: text: The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
ref: 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wanting to be Loved:
text: Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you’ll call me.
ref: 1987, Sam Donaldson, Hold On, Mr President!:
text: Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
synonyms: authoritarian
cocky
conceited
condescending
disdainful
egotistical
high-handed
narcissistic
overbearing
presumptuous
supercilious
stuck up
proud
vain
antonyms: servile
humble
modest
glosses: Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.
Synonyms: word: airy
word: arrogant
word: authoritarian
word: biggity
word: big-headed
word: blustery
word: boastful
word: bombastic
word: buggish
word: cocky
word: conceited
word: disdainful
word: domineering
word: egotistical
word: entitled
word: flatulent
word: flaunting
word: full of oneself
word: grandiose
word: hankty
word: haught
word: haughty
word: haut
word: high-handed
word: high-hat
word: high and mighty
word: highfalutin
word: hoity-toity
word: holier-than-thou
word: imperious
word: inflated
word: insolent
word: la-di-da
word: ostentatious
word: overbearing
word: overweening
word: pompous
word: presumptuous
word: pretentious
word: priggish
word: puffed up
word: sanctimonious
word: self-important
word: snobbish
word: snooty
word: snotty
word: stout
word: stuck up
word: supercilious
word: thrasonic
word: thrasonical
word: toploftical
word: toplofty
word: tumid
word: turgid
word: uppish
word: uppity
word: uppy
word: upstage
word: vain
Hypernyms: word: cocksure
word: overconfident
word: proud
Hyponyms: word: sercon
topics: lifestyle
Derived terms: agnorant
arrogantly
superarrogant
unarrogant
Related terms: word: arrogance
word: arrogancy
word: arrogantness
word: arrogate
word: arrogation
word: smug
word: bossy
word: cheeky
noogie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʊɡi/
rhymes: -ʊɡi
Forms: form: noogies
form: noogy
form: nuggie
form: nuggy
form: nugie
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), or possibly from Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”) (see Eicha/Lamentations 1:3) or possibly via an alteration of nudge, matching the alteration of wedge to wedgie.
Senses: examples: text: give someone a noogie
text: get a noogie
text: Marti Page: Mom, is Grandpa Walter going to give me noogies? Susan Page: Of course he's going to give you noogies. He loves giving you noogies. That's how he tells you he loves you. Little Neal Page: Why doesn't he give me noogies? Susan Page: Because you get Indian burns. Little Neal Page: But I prefer noogies.
ref: 1987, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 00:06:15
text: 1991, shooting script of Columbia Pictures My Girl Script, see also My Girl (film).
Phil then proceeds to give Harry a noogie
HARRY: HEY! WATCH THE HAIR!! THIS SHIRT GIVES!!! ALL RIGHT!!!!"
glosses: An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.
Synonyms: Dutch rub
noogie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʊɡi/
rhymes: -ʊɡi
Forms: form: noogies
form: noogying
form: noogied
form: noogied
form: noogy
form: nuggie
form: nuggy
form: nugie
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), or possibly from Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”) (see Eicha/Lamentations 1:3) or possibly via an alteration of nudge, matching the alteration of wedge to wedgie.
Senses: glosses: To perform a noogie on.
acatalectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪˌkæt.əˈlɛk.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Etymology: From Late Latin acatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληκτος (akatálēktos, “leaving off”).
Senses: topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
phonology
poetry
prosody
publishing
sciences
writing
glosses: Designating a line of verse having the required number of syllables in the last foot
Related terms: acatalexis
acatalectic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪˌkæt.əˈlɛk.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: acatalectics
Etymology: From Late Latin acatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληκτος (akatálēktos, “leaving off”).
Senses: topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
phonology
poetry
prosody
publishing
sciences
writing
glosses: A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables
acatalepsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈkæ.tə.lɛp.si/
ipa: /əˈkæ.tə.lɛp.si/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + καταλαμβάνειν (katalambánein, “to seize”).
Senses: glosses: Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.
acataleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acataleptic
form: most acataleptic
Etymology: From Latin acatalēpticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληπτος (akatálēptos, “incomprehensible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + καταλαμβάνω (katalambánō, “I seize”), from κατά (katá, “against”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible; inconceivable.
acataleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acataleptics
Etymology: From Latin acatalēpticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληπτος (akatálēptos, “incomprehensible”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + καταλαμβάνω (katalambánō, “I seize”), from κατά (katá, “against”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Senses: glosses: An adherent of acatalepsy
acater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acaters
form: acatour
Etymology: From Middle English achatour, from Old French acater (“purchase”).
Senses: glosses: A caterer.
Related terms: cater
acates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Cates: provisions; food.
acaudate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈkɔˌdeɪt/
Forms: form: acaudal
Etymology: From a- (“without”) + caudate (“having a tail”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Tailless.
acaulescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.ɔˈlɛs.ənt/
ipa: /ˌæk.ɔˈlɛs.nt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From a- + caulescent.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.
Synonyms: acaulous
acauline
acauline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acauline
form: most acauline
Etymology: From a- + cauline.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: acaulescent
penultimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈnʌltɪmət/
ipa: /pəˈnəltəmət/
ipa: /pɪˈnʌltəmət/
Forms: form: penultimates
form: pænultimate
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to Latin paenultimus + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Our Lutheran concern for the ultimates (the Gospel) has allowed us to neglect some of the penultimates (bodily healing), failing to stress the total implications of that ultimate Gospel.
ref: 1962, Minutes of the Adjourned Meeting of 22nd Biennial Convention of the United Lutheran Church in America, XXII.iv:
synonyms: penult
glosses: A penult, a next to last, particularly
examples: text: At Woodstock, the penultimate of August.
ref: 1529 August 30, Bishop Stephen Gardiner, letter (1933), 33
synonyms: penult
glosses: A penult, a next to last
The penultimate day of a month.
examples: text: Antepenultimate is that before the Penultimate, or the last but two.
ref: 1728, E. Chambers, Cyclopædia:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
publishing
sciences
synonyms: penult
glosses: A penult, a next to last
The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: penult
glosses: A penult, a next to last
The penultimate element of a collection of curves.
examples: text: Penultimate, the. — Beginning with the lowest card but one of the suit you lead originally, if it contains more than four cards.
ref: 1876, Arthur Campbell-Walker, The Correct Card, Glossary page xiii:
topics: card-games
games
synonyms: penult
glosses: A penult, a next to last
The penultimate (next to lowest) card in a suit.
Hangeul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hangul.
il-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin il-, assimilated form of in- before l-.
Senses: glosses: not; a form of the prefix in-, used before l
Synonyms: sense: not
word: a-
sense: not
word: an-
sense: not
word: dys-
sense: not
word: i-
sense: not
word: im-
sense: not
word: in-
sense: not
word: ir-
sense: not
word: mal-
sense: not
word: non-
sense: not
word: un-
hun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: huns
Etymology: Clipping of honey with pronunciation spelling.
Senses: examples: text: So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun? [title]
ref: 2025 June 13, Marina Hyde, “So social media has broken even Elon Musk. I’m forced to ask: U OK hun?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hon (“affectionate abbreviation of honey”).
examples: text: Answer: you are a hun – but a high-end hun, one who knows her wine, her music, her interiors and her labels, and whose reluctance to do Dry January, or go vegan makes her such great company, this month and every month.
ref: 2023 January 25, Laura Craik, “They’re glamorous, ageless and British – the rise of the high-end hun”, in The Telegraph:
text: It’s no wonder she’s become a central figure in “hun culture” – an online subculture that idolises a certain strata of famous working-class British women, while also taking the mick out of her leopard print kettle and weakness for a premixed gin-in-a-tin cocktail.
ref: 2024 March 29, Louis Staples, “Natalie Cassidy: ‘I’m very proud to be a hun’”, in i:
glosses: A woman perceived as basic, brash, working class and fond of alcohol.
examples: text: This corporate love-bombing can serve a hun well, bagging them new downlines and potentially more money (MLMs are renowned for extremely low pay).
ref: 2019 July 10, Jessica Lindsay, “Hunzoning is the trend that sees you going from friend to MLM recruit”, in Metro:
text: Instead of blaming MLM "huns," we should direct our anger at the companies that are knowingly putting so many people in debt and alienating them from their communities.
ref: 2024 April 18, Aimee Pearcy, “Why Reddit and TikTok are hating on MLM 'huns'”, in Business Insider:
glosses: A woman involved in a multi-level marketing scheme, especially one who pushes it on social media.
Derived terms: hunbot
hunzone
hun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: huns
Etymology: Clipping of Hungarian partridge.
Senses: glosses: A grey partridge.
hun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: huns
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoon (“Indian gold coin”).
Hunmin Jeongeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 훈민정음(訓民正音) (Hunminjeong'eum), literally "correct sounds to educate the people".
Senses: examples: text: This setting was the same in the Revised Nogeoldae, corrected during the King Seongjong (成宗), and was also the same in Translated Nogeoldae and Nogeoldae Eonhae, which Korean Hangeul (Hunmin Jeongeum) pronunciations and interpretations are added based on Revised Nogeoldae.
ref: 2003, Gregory K.. Iverson, Ahn Sang-Cheol, Explorations in Korean Language and Linguistics, page 41:
text: Hunmin-jeongeum (the original name for Hangul) kept coming to mind.
ref: 2009, Buddhism and Culture - Issues 1-3, page 61:
text: Research on Hunmin Jeongeum as the archetype of the current Korean script is practically nonexistent, to the extent that Japanese research on the subject is highly acclaimed.
ref: 2013, The Korea Foundation, Korea Focus - February 2013:
glosses: The phonetic script in which Korean is written, now usually called hangul.
Hunmin Jeongeum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 훈민정음(訓民正音) (Hunminjeong'eum), literally "correct sounds to educate the people".
Senses: glosses: A book published in Korea in the 15th century, outlining the phonetic script in which Korean is now usually written.
ile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: aisle
homophone: I'll
homophone: isle
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ail (“awn”).
ile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: aisle
homophone: I'll
homophone: isle
Forms: form: iles
Senses: examples: text: A couple of arches , one above the other , rising from the columns , run along the rows ; and from the same basis springs an arch that forms the roof of each ile
ref: 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain, 1775 and 1776:
glosses: Obsolete form of aisle.
ile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: aisle
homophone: I'll
homophone: isle
Forms: form: iles
Senses: examples: text: or spread his aerie flight / Upborn with indefatigable wings / Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive / The happy Ile
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of isle.
ileac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the ileum.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: iliac
glosses: Pertaining to the ilium.
Derived terms: gastroileac
ileac passion