cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌmpi/
rhymes: -ʌmpi
Forms: form: stumpies
Etymology: From stump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources. The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies."
ref: 1976 -, Victor Cohn, Sister Kenny: The Woman Who Challenged the Doctors, →ISBN, page 63:
synonyms: limby
glosses: An amputee who has lost a leg.
examples: text: Down with the stumpy; a tizzy for a pot of half-and-half.
ref: 1881, T. Lewis O. Davies, Thomas Lewis Owen Davies, A Supplementary English Glossary, page 630:
glosses: Money.
Related terms: stump up
conjointly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conjointly
form: most conjointly
Etymology: From conjoint + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Elytra a little longer than wide conjointly, finely striate, intervals with a row of moderately coarse elongate punctures each bearing a semierect hair, surface subgranularly alutaceous.
ref: 1877, Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume VI, page 286:
text: The folkland, the national fund, was administered and conveyed conjointly by the king and the witan.
ref: 1889, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution:
glosses: In a conjoint manner; jointly or together.
Synonyms: collectively
jointly
mutually
conjugally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conjugally
form: most conjugally
Etymology: From conjugal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conjugal manner; as husband and wife
connectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more connectable
form: most connectable
Etymology: From connect + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be connected
Derived terms: connectably
unconnectable
connecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connecters
Etymology: From connect + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of connector.
connectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more connectible
form: most connectible
Etymology: From connect + -ible.
Senses: glosses: connectable
conniver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connivers
Etymology: From connive + -er.
Senses: synonyms: winker
glosses: A person who connives.
stowage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stowages
Etymology: From stow + -age.
Senses: examples: the stowage of cargo
glosses: The act or practice of stowing.
examples: text: Accommodations were so poor I think we were in stowage, with the rest of the cargo.
glosses: A place where things are stowed.
examples: text: Our stowage disappeared down the chute, into the employee only cargo area, never to be seen again by man.
glosses: Things that are stowed.
examples: text: The reduction in the ship's size naturally reduced her stowage.
glosses: Amount of room for storing things.
examples: text: We'll have to pay the stowage if we want our crate back.
glosses: A charge for stowing and storage.
connotative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more connotative
form: most connotative
Senses: antonyms: denotative
glosses: that implies or suggests something else
Derived terms: connotatively
nonconnotative
Related terms: connotation
connote
stockbroking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stock + broking.
Senses: glosses: The profession of a stockbroker.
Synonyms: brokerage
East Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From East Asia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to East Asia.
Synonyms: word: Oriental Asian
word: Sinesian
word: Sinaean
word: Sinaic
Derived terms: alt: Tropicoperdix spp.
word: East Asian forest partridge
East Asian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: East Asians
Etymology: From East Asia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from East Asia.
Synonyms: Eastern Asian
Hypernyms: Asian
Coordinate terms: Central Asian
South Asian
Southeast Asian
West Asian
slavemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slavemasters
Etymology: From slave + master.
Senses: glosses: One who owns a slave.
glosses: One who controls the action of a slave owned by others.
Hypernyms: slaveowner
Coordinate terms: slavemistress
circumvents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circumvent
transregionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transregionates
form: transregionating
form: transregionated
form: transregionated
Etymology: From trans- + region + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:transregionate.
glosses: To move through a region, or from one region to another.
chuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chuses
form: chusing
form: chuseing
form: chose
form: chosen
Senses: examples: text: Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome.
By loſſe of life libertye, then life by priſon
ref: 1557, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tottel's Miscellany, Whether libertie by losse of life, or life in prison and thraldome be to be preferred, page 298:
text: Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.
ref: 1739, [David Hume], “Of the Influencing Motives of the Will”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book II (Of the Passions), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC, part III (Of the Will and Direct Passions), page 249:
text: Your maſter, young man, may a laſs adore--- / For his laſs, ’tis confeſt, / He has choſen the beſt; / But he chuſes a woeful ambaſſador!
ref: 1785, [George Colman the Younger], Songs, Duetts, Trios, &c. N^([sic]) Turk and No Turk; a Musical Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market., London: […] T. Cadell, […], page 21:
text: But if the Almighty choſe to eſtabliſh his religion by miracles, he chuſes to carry it on by means.
ref: 1808, [Hannah More], chapter XXI, in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. […], volume I, London: […] [Strahan and Preston] for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 299:
text: "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse," said Mr. Bennet; […]
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: Our Fathers must hide themselves rather like robbers who chuse a leader, than godly priests who elect a mitred Abbot.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 275–276:
text: "I wonder how you can bear that odious woman's manners," returned her mother; "I expect that you will all grow like her in time. But it is of no use my saying anything; you will go if you chuse." / "Oh, thank you, mamma," cried Georgiana, not chusing to hear any more, and down stairs she ran to communicate the permission.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of choose.
Derived terms: chuser
transrhenane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈɹɛneɪn/
/tɹɑːnz-/
/-ˈɹiːneɪn/
Forms: form: more transrhenane
form: most transrhenane
form: trans-Rhenane
Etymology: From trans- (“across, beyond”) + Rhenus (Rhine).
Senses: examples: text: In the Germania, then, the transrhenane environment consistently evades and confounds our gaze.
ref: 2014, Zoë M. Tan, “Subversive Geography in Tacitus' Germania”, in Journal of Roman Studies, 104, p. 199:
glosses: From the eastern side of the Rhine; German.
Transrhenane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of transrhenane (“German, Germanic.”).
slavemasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slavemaster
ignores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ignore
cartoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartoon
cartoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cartoon
constrictor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɹɪk.tə/
ipa: /kənˈstɹɪk.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɪktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: constrictors
form: constrictores
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin cōnstrictor, or from constrict + -or.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That which constricts or tightens:
A muscle whose contraction narrows a vessel or passage or compresses an organ.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That which constricts or tightens:
A muscle whose contraction narrows a vessel or passage or compresses an organ.
Ellipsis of pharyngeal constrictor (“each of the muscles which constrict the pharynx”).
glosses: That which constricts or tightens:
Ellipsis of boa constrictor, either the species Boa constrictor or a similar snake that kills by constriction.
Derived terms: bronchoconstrictor
constrictor knot
vasoconstrictor
constrictors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of constrictor
merges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of merge
merges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merge
multiplies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiply
multiplies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of multiply
bookings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊkɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of booking
great hundred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great hundreds
Senses: glosses: A long hundred: one hundred and twenty (120)
Synonyms: a long hundred
a short gross
a small gross
twelfty
leaf turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf turtles
Senses: glosses: An Asian leaf turtle (Cyclemys dentata).
glosses: Any turtle in genus Cyclemys.
glosses: Any of certain similar turtles in subfamily Geoemydinae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Mauremys annamensis
word: Annam leaf turtle
taxonomic: Geoemyda spengleri
word: black-breasted leaf turtle
taxonomic: Cyclemys oldhamii
word: Oldham's leaf turtle
taxonomic: Cyclemys atripons
word: stripe-necked leaf turtle
taxonomic: Geoemyda spengleri
word: Vietnamese leaf turtle
situative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more situative
form: most situative
Etymology: From situate + -ive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Occurring in relation to a specific situation.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Expressing the location of things in comparison with one another, e.g. the word "to" in the phrase face to face.
temporal distributive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a word or phrase that describes how an action is distributed over a period of time; e.g. the word "per" in once per week.
cardinal numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardinal number
lipas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipa
ding-dong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋˌdɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɪŋˌdɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɪŋˌdɑŋ/
Forms: form: ding dong
form: dingdong
Etymology: Mid 16th century, imitative of the alternate chimes of a bell.
For sense of penis, compare Saterland Frisian Ding (“penis”), German Low German Dings (“penis”), English thing.
Senses: examples: text: It was first blood to the Black Cats in the ding-dong clash when Bardsley, a right-footer playing on the left, collected the ball from just inside his own half and sped up to the edge of the area before launching an effort which appeared to confuse Petr Cech in goal.
ref: 2011 February 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 2 - 4 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: Closely fought.
ding-dong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋˌdɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɪŋˌdɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈdɪŋˌdɑŋ/
Forms: form: ding-dongs
form: ding-donging
form: ding-donged
form: ding-donged
form: ding dong
form: dingdong
Etymology: Mid 16th century, imitative of the alternate chimes of a bell.
For sense of penis, compare Saterland Frisian Ding (“penis”), German Low German Dings (“penis”), English thing.
Senses: glosses: To ring with two tones, like a bell swinging back and forth.
piha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pihas
Senses: glosses: Any bird belonging to Lipaugus or Snowornis.
Derived terms: scimitar-winged piha
traveltime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traveltimes
form: travel time
Etymology: From travel + time.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The amount of time that it takes for a wave to propagate between two points.
Derived terms: acoustic traveltime
traveltime curve
two-way traveltime
waste time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wastes time
form: wasting time
form: wasted time
form: wasted time
Senses: examples: text: I'm gonna stop wastin' my time / Somebody else would have broken both of her arms
ref: 1973, “Sad Song”, in Berlin, performed by Lou Reed:
text: Don't waste your time or time will waste you.
ref: 2006, Matt Bellamy, “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse:
text: Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has wasted no time.
ref: 2025 February 5, Richard Wilcock, “GBR searches for answers to ticketing simplification”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 26:
glosses: To allow time to elapse in an unproductive manner.
Synonyms: word: dally
word: dawdle
english: American
translation: American
word: dick around
word: fiddlefart
word: fiddlefuck
word: faff about
word: fanny about
word: fiddle about
word: fritter
word: fuck around
word: goof off
word: piddle around
word: about
word: or away
word: piss away
word: or around
word: slack off
word: screw around
Derived terms: there's no time to waste
time-waster
time-wasting
waste no time
waste of time
short gross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short gross
Senses: glosses: One hundred and twenty (120).
Synonyms: great hundred
long hundred
small gross
small gross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small gross
Senses: glosses: One hundred and twenty (120), 12 × 10.
Synonyms: great hundred
long hundred
short gross
invitational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more invitational
form: most invitational
Etymology: From invitation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Serving as an invitation; inviting.
glosses: Restricted to participants who have been invited.
Derived terms: invitationally
invitational
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invitationals
Etymology: From invitation + -al.
Senses: glosses: An event, especially a tournament, that is restricted to invited participants
interpretative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interpretative
form: most interpretative
form: interpretive
Senses: glosses: Marked by interpretation.
Derived terms: interpretatively
interpretativeness
noninterpretative
interpretive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interpretive
form: most interpretive
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of interpretative.
Derived terms: interpretive centre
interpretive dance
interpretively
interpretivism
interpretivistic
noninterpretive
inveigler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inveiglers
Etymology: From inveigle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that inveigles.
bêtise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪˈtiːz/
ipa: /bɛˈtiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: bêtises
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French bêtise.
Senses: examples: text: […] Flicflac will trill you off fifty in ten minutes, and wonder at the bêtise of the Briton, who has never a word to say.
ref: 1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Paris Sketch Book, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
glosses: silliness, folly, stupidity
conquistador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkistədɔɹ/
ipa: /kənˈkwɪstədɔɹ/
Forms: form: conquistadors
form: conquistadores
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish conquistador.
Senses: glosses: A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish soldiers that invaded Central and South America otherwise known as the doorways to the new world, in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs.
Derived terms: conquistadorial
conquistadores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conquistador
conquistadors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conquistador
conscienceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conscienceless
form: most conscienceless
Etymology: From conscience + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It was watching her with cold animal curiosity, something demonish and conscienceless.
ref: 1925, D. H. Lawrence, The Princess:
glosses: Lacking a conscience; unscrupulous or ruthless.
Derived terms: consciencelessly
consciencelessness
conservancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [kənˈsɜːvənsɪ]
ipa: [kənˈsɝvənsɪ]
Forms: form: conservancies
Etymology: From conservant + -cy or conserve + -ancy.
Senses: glosses: The conservation of a resource.
glosses: An organization dedicated to the conservation of natural resources.
glosses: A commission that deals with fishery and navigation.
examples: ref: 1986 April 16, “Midland Insurance was placed in conservancy.”, in Los Angeles Times:
topics: law
glosses: A state in which a company is allowed to continue trading without incurring any new financial liabilities or disposing of any assets.
conservationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conservation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A movement that supports conservation, especially that of natural resources
Related terms: conservationist
conservatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conservatively
form: most conservatively
Etymology: From conservative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Even more than that: the more conservatively inclined man of first class ability will in general choose intellectual work (and the sacrifice in material reward which this choice usually entails) only if he enjoys it for its own sake.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 427:
text: The entire tense, compact play takes place inside a subway car where an exchange between a flamboyantly loose blonde of about 30, Lula (Jennifer Mudge), and a conservatively dressed young black man, Clay (Dulé Hill ), escalates from surreally unsuppressed flirtation to violence and tragedy as all of Clay’s efforts toward assimilation are shown to be for naught.
ref: 2007 January 24, Ginia Bellafante, “’60s Prejudice and Capitalism as a Big Blond Metaphor”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a conservative manner.
Derived terms: conservatively correct
nonconservatively
considerately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more considerately
form: most considerately
Etymology: From considerate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He treated them considerately, letting them each work their own way.
glosses: In a considerate manner.
consolingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnˌsəʊl.ɪŋ.liː/
Forms: form: more consolingly
form: most consolingly
Etymology: From consoling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Well,” I said consolingly, “it will be the other way about to-morrow.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 157:
glosses: In a consoling manner.
consonantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consonantly
form: most consonantly
Etymology: From consonant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a consonant or consistent manner.
conspiratorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conspiratorially
form: most conspiratorially
Etymology: From conspiratorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Instead he smiled conspiratorially.
ref: 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 5:
text: More conspiratorially minded supporters of Mr. Musk continue to cheer the billionaire on anyway.
ref: 2025 February 7, Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson, “Falsehoods Fuel the Right-Wing Crusade Against U.S.A.I.D.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2025:
glosses: In a conspiratorial manner
Synonyms: english: the less common of the two words
translation: the less common of the two words
word: conspiratorily
constitutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒnstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃənəli/
ipa: /kɒnstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃnəli/
ipa: /kɒnstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃənli/
ipa: /kɒnstɪˈtjuː-/
ipa: /kɑnstəˈtuʃənəli/
ipa: /kɑnstəˈtuʃnəli/
ipa: /kɑnstəˈtuʃənli/
ipa: /kɑnstəˈtju-/
Forms: form: more constitutionally
form: most constitutionally
Etymology: From constitutional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: These children are constitutionally sad. Other children, like Luke, develop depressive feelings out of the blue or in response to some mild stressor.
ref: 1997, Edward M. Hallowell, When You Worry About the Child You Love, page 162:
text: The astonishing progress of science had made God quite irrelevant; it had caused human beings to focus so intently on the physical world that they would soon be constitutionally unable to take God seriously.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 246:
glosses: Pertaining to one's bodily constitution; physically, physiologically.
examples: text: The effect of this filtering of ideas through the convictions of a class which is constitutionally disposed to certain views is by no means confined to the masses.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 421:
glosses: Pertaining to one's fundamental values or mental inclinations.
examples: text: “In our view, on the basis of the public record, former President Donald J. Trump is constitutionally disqualified from again being President (or holding any other covered office) because of his role in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and the events leading to the January 6 attack,” law professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen wrote for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
ref: 2023 August 19, Katelyn Polantz, “Legal scholars increasingly raise constitutional argument that Trump should be barred from presidency”, in CNN:
antonyms: unconstitutionally
glosses: In accordance with a political constitution.
Derived terms: nonconstitutionally
wiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wisses
form: wissing
form: wissed
form: wissed
form: wis
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of wis, taken from the incorrect division of iwis (“surely, certainly”) as "I wis", and mistaken for a verb; see wis. Perhaps from (certainly akin to) Old English witan (“to know”); see wit.
Senses: examples: text: Now with their might they downe me pull, and bring me where they woll, the Blood of myne heart I wiss now causeth both Joy and blisse.
ref: 1652, Elias Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum:
text: And though that the water be gross and heavy, yet nothing so gross as the earth, I wiss; therefore by heat it is vapoured up lightly, and in the air maketh clouds and mists.
ref: 1874, A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Dodsley et al.:
glosses: To know; to understand.
constructively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more constructively
form: most constructively
Etymology: From constructive + -ly.
Senses: antonyms: unconstructively
glosses: In a constructive manner.
contagiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contagiously
form: most contagiously
Etymology: From contagious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contagious manner
kakistocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kakɪsˈtɒkɹəsɪz/
ipa: /kakɪˈstɒ-/
ipa: /kækɪsˈtɑkɹəsiz/
ipa: /kækɪˈstɑ-/
Forms: form: cacistocracies
Senses: glosses: plural of kakistocracy.
theocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /θiˈɑkɹəsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of theocracy
exoterica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛksəˈtɛɹɪkə/
Senses: antonyms: esoterica
glosses: Writing, facts, principles, etc. that are widely known.
Related terms: esoterica
esotericism
exoteric
exotericism
exotericism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛksəˈtɛɹəsɪzm̩/
Etymology: From exoteric + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being widely known or exoteric.
Related terms: exoteric
exoterica
exoterism
esoterica
esotericism
shipbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ship + bound.
Senses: glosses: in a ship; especially, being bound there, unable to leave.
homebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From home + bound or home + -bound.
Senses: glosses: Confined to one's home, unable to leave it for some reason.
homebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more homebound
form: most homebound
Etymology: From home + bound or home + -bound.
Senses: glosses: Heading homeward, homeward bound.
chrestomathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛstəʊmæθiz/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛstoʊmæθiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of chrestomathy
sleepward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sleep + -ward.
Senses: glosses: toward sleep
dreamward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dream + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward a dream or dreaming.
glosses: Toward sleep.
anthologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈθɑləd͡ʒiz/
ipa: /ænˈθɒlədʒiz/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒiz
Senses: glosses: plural of anthology
sleepbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sleep + bound.
Senses: synonyms: word: dead to the world
word: down for the count
word: asleep
word: cold
word: comatose
word: dead to the world
word: dormant
word: down for the count
word: nangry
word: out cold
word: out like a light
word: sacked out
word: sleepbound
word: sleeping
word: somnambular
word: unawakening
word: unawaking
word: unwaking
glosses: asleep
synonyms: word: drowsy
word: somnolent
word: adrowse
word: bedroomy
word: dozy
word: dopey
word: dragging one's tail
word: drowsy
word: eyelids at half-mast
word: nodding off
word: oscitant
word: out of steam
word: sleepbound
word: sleepish
word: sleepy
word: slombry
word: snoozy
word: slumberful
word: slumberous
word: slumbersome
word: slumbery
word: somniculous
word: somnolent
word: somnolescent
word: tired
glosses: sleepy
inhumanity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inhumanities
Etymology: From Middle French inhumanité, from Latin inhumanitas, equivalent to inhuman + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The lack of compassion.
glosses: An inhuman act.
administratorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ædˈmɪnəstɹeɪtɚʃɪp/
Forms: form: administratorships
Etymology: From administrator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or role of an administrator.
Hyponyms: english: in computing contexts only
translation: in computing contexts only
word: adminship
dreambound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dream + bound.
Senses: glosses: In a state of dreaming sleep.
rhythmlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪðm̩.ləs.li/
Forms: form: more rhythmlessly
form: most rhythmlessly
Etymology: From rhythmless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without a rhythm.
leachate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈliːt͡ʃeɪt/
Forms: form: leachates
Etymology: From leach + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: 1980, Grant E. Kimmel, Olin C. Braids, Leachate Plumes in Ground Water from Babylon and Islip Landfills, Long Island, New York, US Geological Survey, Professional Paper 1085, page 32,
Probably the main reason that leachate enrichment was highest near the bottom of the aquifer beneath the landfill is that the heavier, leachate-rich water sinks by gravity as it moves out of the refuse, and not because it is displaced downward by freshwater from the surface.
1994, James M. Brannon, Tommy E. Myers, Barbara A. Tardy, Leachate Testing and Evaluation for Freshwater Sediments, US Army Corps of Engineers, Miscellaneous Paper D-94-1, page 23,
Two aspects of leachate generation from CDFs are of particular concern, leachate contaminant concentrations and leachate flow.
1999, George Mulamoottil, Edward A. McBean, Frank Rovers (editors), Constructed Wetlands for the Treatment of Landfill Leachates, CRC Press (Lewis Publishers), page xiv,
However, the development of this technology using constructed wetlands to treat landfill leachates has to be supplemented by investigations on the breakdown and pathways of the contaminants.
coordinate_terms: leachant
leach#Noun
qualifier: soil science
glosses: The liquid produced when water percolates through a permeable material.
Related terms: dialysate
diffusate
filtrate
cañón
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cañóns
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cañón.
Senses: examples: text: The Reduction Works stand on the brow of the first terrace; here the plain of the valley disappears, and north of us the valley takes the shape of a cañón, narrowing down.
ref: 1970, Adolph F[rancis] Bandelier, edited by Charles H. Lange, Carroll L. Riley, and Elizabeth M. Lange, The Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier, volume [2] (1883–1884), Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 188:
text: In those early days the grasses in the cañóns grew high.
ref: 2000, Lou Sage Batchen, “Life in the Old Houses: Part VI. Hunts of the Old Days. June 9, 1939”, in Tey Diana Rebolledo, María Teresa Márquez, editors, Women’s Tales from the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage), Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press, →ISBN, part II (Lou Sage Batchen), chapter 6 (Placitas), page 192:
text: She compares the grandness and age of a California mission to the cañón, an archetypal image of the Southwest landscape.
ref: 2009, Leah Garland, “Cherríe Moraga’s Writing Toward Difference”, in Contemporary Latina/o Performing Arts of Moraga, Tropicana, Fusco, and Bustamante (Modern American Literature; 44), New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Alternative form of canyon.
pencil stub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencil stubs
Senses: glosses: A tiny pencil (either manufactured that way, or become that way through constant usage).
Related terms: golf pencil
make way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes way
form: making way
form: made way
form: made way
Etymology: Originally nautical.
Senses: examples: text: He was starting to make his way in the world.
glosses: To make progress.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To progress through the water.
raw_tags: of a vessel
examples: text: Many analysts say he remains Russia's paramount leader despite stepping down as president to make way for Medvedev
ref: 2008 September 15, Philip P. Pan, “In Wake of Georgian War, Russian Media Feel Heat”, in Washington Post, page A14:
text: Chelsea made two changes to the side that lost at Manchester United, with Frank Lampard making way for John Obi Mikel and Nicolas Anelka starting ahead of Didier Drogba.
ref: 2011 September 24, Aled Williams, “Chelsea 4 - 1 Swansea”, in BBC Sport:
text: Two entrants shared this award for their work on two quite different stations, but with the same purpose of bringing a redundant station building back into use for the benefit of the community, with the added result of conserving an historic building. Saltash Town Council bought Saltash station building after it had become very decrepit and 'an eyesore' - such that it was nearly pulled down to make way for housing.
ref: 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Network Rail Community Award: Saltash and Stow”, in RAIL, number 946, page 58:
info_templates: extra_data: words: for
expansion: [with for]
synonyms: give place
give way
glosses: To give place or step aside.
Related terms: under way
make way
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Originally nautical.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: gangway
glosses: An instruction for someone to get out of the way, usually because the speaker is carrying something and needs a clear pathway.
Related terms: make headway
teazle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teazles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of teasel.
teazle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teazles
form: teazling
form: teazled
form: teazled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of teasel.
brigadiership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brigadierships
Etymology: From brigadier + -ship.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The role or position of a brigadier.
procuratorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procuratorships
Etymology: From procurator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or position of a procurator.
bachelorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bachelorships
Etymology: From bachelor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: It implanted a dagger in the heart of one nobleman, who was a hearer by mere chance, and awoke a tender desire in the breast of another, after so long a period of old bachelorship, that mothers of every description had given him up some time ago.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 251:
glosses: The state of being a bachelor.
chiefship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiefships
Etymology: From chief + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or position of a chief.
brokership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brokerships
Etymology: From broker + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or position of a broker.
modelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modello
saintship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saintships
Etymology: From saint + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Now, what of saintship or martyrdom is there in all this?
ref: 1897, Moses Coit Tyler, Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783, Volume 1:
glosses: The characteristics and position of a saint.
sergeantship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sergeantships
Etymology: From sergeant + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The qualities, role, or position of a sergeant.
senatorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senatorships
Etymology: From senator + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The characteristics, role, or position of a senator.
clientship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clientships
Etymology: From client + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: patronage and clientship always descended from the fathers to the sons
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Dedication”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The position of a client.
soleship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soleships
Etymology: From sole + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being alone.
sonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnʃɪp/
rhymes: -ʌnʃɪp
Forms: form: sonships
Etymology: From son + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: "All of this is now gone by," adds the poet; but of the men of our own time Thrasybulus comes nearest to the old type of loyal sonship.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 7, page 118:
text: Jesus' unusual conception and birth were by no means the chief ways in which the first Christians expressed their sense of his divine sonship.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 89:
glosses: The position or state of being a son.
Synonyms: sonhood
deanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiːnʃɪp/
Forms: form: deanships
Etymology: From dean + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or role of a dean.
Synonyms: deanery
donship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donships
Etymology: From don + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or role of a don.
deaconship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaconships
Etymology: From deacon + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or role of a deacon.
deanery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiː.nə.ɹi/
Forms: form: deaneries
Etymology: From Middle English denerye; equivalent to dean + -ery.
Senses: synonyms: deanship
glosses: The position held by a dean.
glosses: The house in which a dean lives.
glosses: The group of parishes for which a rural dean has responsibility.
Derived terms: subdeanery
canaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canary
canaries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of canary
churchship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchships
Etymology: From church + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position, role, or qualities of a church.
deaneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deanery
deanships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deanship
mayorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mayorships
Etymology: From mayor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: All of the parties could and did claim victories. The ruling KMT won the governorship and the mayorship of Kaohsiung. Naturally KMT leaders boasted of these wins. In particular, they noted that Kaohsiung had been a stronghold of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party. The DPP won the mayorship of Taipei. This was a major triumph. The NP's candidate was second in the Taipei mayoral context and the NP did well in the Taipei City Council race. Taiwan's new political party thus seemed to be off to a good start in winning support at the ballot box. Finally, the cause of democracy won.
ref: 1998, John F. Copper, Taiwan's Mid-1990s elections: Taking the Final Steps to Democracy, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 3:
text: As a consequence, we do not have the rich democratic culture and organizing that should be happening year-round, from the way that we select town councils and mayorships across the state of New York.
ref: 2022 October 11, Nicholas Fandos, “Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Calcified’ Machine Politics Cost Democrats in New York”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The office or role of a mayor.
Synonyms: mayoralty
marshalship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshalships
Etymology: From marshal + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: marshalcy
glosses: The position or role of a marshal.
archership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archer + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, Book 19, in The Poetical Works of William Cowper, London: William Smith, 1839, p. 492,
[…] I shall fix,
This day, the rings for trial to them all
Of archership;
text: “We can reckon on killing a stag, if he will stand still, at a hundred and fifty yards,” Ned said, “or running, at a hundred; don’t you think so?”
“Well, six times out of seven we ought to at any rate,” Tom replied, “or our Devonshire archership has deserted us.”
ref: 1883, G. A. Henty, chapter 11, in Under Drake’s Flag, London: Blackie and Son, page 184:
glosses: The skill of an archer.
mercership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mercer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position, role, or work of a mercer.
nunship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nun + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: If any one saith that matrimony contracted but not consummated is not dissolved by the solemn profession of religion (monkship or nunship) of one of the parties, let him be anathema.
ref: 1853, Pierce Connelly, The Madiai: a Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, Etc:
text: Nunship, whether of the Buddhist or the Christian variety, is not the most popular or best understood option for women among contemporary feminists.
ref: 1993, Rita M. Gross, Buddhism After Patriarchy:
glosses: The position or role of a nun.
studentship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studentships
Etymology: From student + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or role of a student.
examples: text: The university is offering a number of PhD studentships.
glosses: An endowment or scholarship for a student.
teachership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teacherships
Etymology: From teacher + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The position or role of a teacher.
ELOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: EL.O.T.
Etymology: From Greek ΕΛΟΤ (ELOT), from Ο Ελληνικός Οργανισμός Τυποποίησης (O Ellinikós Organismós Typopoíisis, “the Hellenic Organisation for Standardisation”).
Senses: glosses: The Greek national standards organization.
brigadierships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brigadiership
procuratorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procuratorship
hysterectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysterectomy
teacherships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teachership
studentships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of studentship
programma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programmata
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma). Doublet of program.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection before being proposed to the general assembly of the people.
examples: text: a programma was issued in one of the most ample colleges
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: An edict published for public information; an official bulletin; a public proclamation.
glosses: A preface.
bacchanology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As, in this age of progress, most things are raised to the position of a science, we see no reason why Bacchanology (if the term please our readers) should not hold a respectable place, and be entitled to its due mead of praise...
ref: 1863. Henry Porter, George Edwin Roberts. Cups and Their Customs
text: IF YOU THINK IT'S tough to get a decent dry martini... At every turn, the student of bacchanology faces the bewildering blend of misinformation, lore and legend that constitutes barroom etymology...
ref: 1991. William Grimes. The New York Times, August 25, 1991
glosses: The study of drinking and its preparations, and history.
turkey tones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The intercept sound and frequencies a PBX system generates due to dialing error or denial of the service as requested.
glosses: An alternating high/low tone and frequency generated on PBX/PSTN systems (hi-lo-hi-lo-hi-lo).
protomartyr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protomartyrs
Etymology: From Middle English prothomartir, prothomartyr, from Middle French prothomartir and Medieval Latin prōtomartyr, from Koine Greek πρωτομάρτυς (prōtomártus). By surface analysis, proto- + martyr.
Senses: glosses: Any of the first Christian martyrs.
Derived terms: protomartyrdom
protomartyress
infiltrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infiltrate
treebound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treebound
form: most treebound
Etymology: From tree + bound or tree + -bound.
Senses: examples: text: From the centre of each side of this treebound square ran avenues east, west, and south into the wide expanse of corn-land . . .
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: Surrounded by trees.
examples: text: It was no other than the young woman who cut loose the treebound captive!
ref: 2004, Zitkala-Sa — Iktomi and the Ducks and Other Sioux Stories:
glosses: Secured (bound) to a tree.
examples: text: Carter could nail a treebound raccoon right between the eyes.
ref: 2000, James S. Hirsch, Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter:
glosses: Moving towards (bound for) a tree.
glandes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed directly from Latin.
Senses: examples: 1960, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, page 1,
With few exceptions, other genera of New World cricetids possess more elaborate glandes that are embellished with an assortment of soft and spinous adornments
1962, Barbara S. Hart and Emmet Thurman Hooper, A Synopsis of Recent North American Microtine Rodents, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology,
As a result of their efforts there is a sizable body of information regarding Old World microtine glandes and their usefulness in classification.
2003, Rowena Spencer, Conjoined Twins: Developmental Malformations and Clinical Implications, Johns Hopkins University Press, pages 193–194,
The males may have penoscrotal transposition, two scrotums surrounding a single penis with one or two glandes and/or urethras and/or multiple corpora cavernosa.
glosses: plural of glans
glassed-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The store's finest jewelry was glassed in.
glosses: Enclosed, surrounded, or contained by glass panels, usually for protection.
glassily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glassily
form: most glassily
Etymology: From glassy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Kidd deadpanned it, stared glassily back at Maitland.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 496:
glosses: In a glassy manner.
glassiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glassy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In one spot, the gush of the water violently agitated the sand, but without obscuring the fountain, or breaking the glassiness of its surface.
ref: 1837 March 6, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Vision of the Fountain”, in Twice-Told Tales, Boston, Mass.: American Stationers Co.; John B. Russell, →OCLC, page 296:
text: The luster of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness.
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:
text: The rounded top rail had been polished to glassiness by the Sunday trouser-seats of generations of village youths whose favourite perch it had been while waiting for the chimes to stop [...]
ref: 1948, Flora Thompson, chapter 1, in Still Glides the Stream:
glosses: The state of being glassy.
gleaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gleaners
Etymology: From Middle English glenar, glenere, equivalent to glean + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gleans.
examples: text: Gleaners read, pursue formal education, may learn a trade through vocational education programs or job training, […]
ref: 1976, United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, Research Involving Prisoners: Appendix to Report and Recommendations:
text: Release and renewal of life on the outside are the dominant concerns of time-doers and gleaners. Even jailers, although they tend to make prison life their central concern, are cognizant that they will return to the outside community.
ref: 1987, John Irwin, The Felon, page 86:
glosses: A person who focuses on self-improvement while in prison.
Derived terms: cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner
foliage-gleaner
gleans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːnz/
rhymes: -iːnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glean