cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
moonrise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmunˌɹaɪz/
Forms: form: moonrises
form: moon-rise
form: moon rise
Etymology: From moon + rise.
Senses: examples: text: Venus now re-assembles her Choirs of Virgins at Moon-rise, and leads the Ball.
ref: 1742, Matthew Towers, transl., The Lyric Pieces of Horace, Dublin, Volume I, Ode III, p. 17:
text: Shooting, hunting, and cricket, were pursued with the eagerness of laborious occupations: often has he rambled about from day-break to moon-rise, in search of game; and then returned to Mr. ONiel’s, pale with fatigue, and sick with fasting.
ref: 1804, Anna Maria Porter, The Lake of Killarney, volume I, London: Longman & Rees, page 23:
text: Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “When the Night Came”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 102:
text: 1909, Edith Wharton, “The Mortal Lease” V, in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, New York: Scribner’s, p. 41,
Do I not know, some wingèd things from far
Are borne along illimitable night
To dance their lives out in a single flight
Between the moonrise and the setting star?
text: Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling
Where my dark lover lies.
Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling
At grey moonrise.
ref: 1917 November, James Joyce, “She Weeps over Rahoon”, in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume XI, number II, page 71:
text: Moonrise over the hills above Settle.
ref: 2021 January 13, “Settle under starlight”, in Rail, page 37, photo caption:
text: “Guess what? We got another message from our hostess. "My staff has prepared a traditional hunt for all of you shortly after moonrise."” “Ooh.” “"In the meantime, please enjoy this art show of recent oil paintings." [laughs]”
ref: 2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (8:56 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 9, spoken by The Guide (Kristen Schaal):
glosses: The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.
Synonyms: moonup
Related terms: earthrise
sunrise
moonset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonsets
form: moon-set
form: moon set
Etymology: From moon + set.
Senses: glosses: The setting of the moon below the horizon.
Synonyms: moondown
sole
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sōl
ipa: /səʊl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: /soʊl/
ipa: /səʉl/
ipa: [sɔʊɫ]
ipa: /sɐʉl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: [sɔːɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: /soːl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: Seoul
homophone: (toe–tow merger) soul
homophone: sowl
Etymology: From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin sōlus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.
Senses: examples: text: He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
ref: 1905, H. G. Wells, The Empire of the Ants:
glosses: Only.
topics: law
synonyms: lone
glosses: Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
examples: text: The sole brilliance of this gem.
glosses: Unique; unsurpassed.
examples: text: A sole authority.
glosses: With independent power; unfettered.
Synonyms: word: individual
word: first and last
word: lone
word: one
word: one and only
word: only
word: single
word: singular
word: sole
word: solitary
word: unitary
Derived terms: corporation sole
feme sole
sole chamber
sole corporation
sole custody
sole house
sole mark
sole proprietor
sole provider
sole right
sole trader
Related terms: word: alone
word: isolated
word: unique
word: solely
sole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sōl
ipa: /səʊl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: /soʊl/
ipa: /səʉl/
ipa: [sɔʊɫ]
ipa: /sɐʉl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: [sɔːɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: /soːl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: Seoul
homophone: (toe–tow merger) soul
homophone: sowl
Forms: form: soles
form: soling
form: soled
form: soled
form: soal
Etymology: From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sole, solu. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman sole, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola (“bottom of the shoe”, also “flatfish”), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌾𐌰 (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.
Compare typologically Russian по́чва (póčva) akin to подо́шва (podóšva).
Senses: glosses: To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.
Derived terms: resole
sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sōl
ipa: /səʊl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: /soʊl/
ipa: /səʉl/
ipa: [sɔʊɫ]
ipa: /sɐʉl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: [sɔːɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: /soːl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: Seoul
homophone: (toe–tow merger) soul
homophone: sowl
Forms: form: soles
Etymology: From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English sāl (“a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar”), from Proto-Germanic *sailą, *sailaz (“rope, cable”), *sailō (“noose, rein, bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *sey- (“to tie to, tie together”). Cognate with Scots sale, saile (“halter, collar”), Dutch zeel (“rope, cord, strap”), German Seil (“rope, cable, wire”), Icelandic seil (“a string, line”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian dell (“sinew, vein”).
Senses: glosses: A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sōl
ipa: /səʊl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: /soʊl/
ipa: /səʉl/
ipa: [sɔʊɫ]
ipa: /sɐʉl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: [sɔːɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: /soːl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: Seoul
homophone: (toe–tow merger) soul
homophone: sowl
Forms: form: soles
form: soal
Etymology: From Middle English sol, from Old English sol (“mire, miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, wallow, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian soal (“ditch”), Dutch sol (“water and mud filled pit”), German Suhle (“mire, wallow”), Norwegian saula, søyla (“mud puddle”). More at soil.
Senses: glosses: A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
sole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sōl
ipa: /səʊl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: /soʊl/
ipa: /səʉl/
ipa: [sɔʊɫ]
ipa: /sɐʉl/
ipa: [sɒʊɫ]
ipa: [sɔːɫ]
note: Indic
ipa: /soːl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: Seoul
homophone: (toe–tow merger) soul
homophone: sowl
Forms: form: soles
form: soling
form: soled
form: soled
form: soal
form: sowl
Etymology: From earlier sowle (“to pull by the ear”). Origin unknown. Perhaps from sow (“female pig”) + -le, as in the phrase "take a sow by the wrong ear", or from Middle English sole (“rope”). See above.
Senses: glosses: To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.
function
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌŋ(k)ʃən/
ipa: /ˈfʌŋkʃn̩/
ipa: /ˈfʌŋkʃən/
ipa: [ˈfʌŋkʃɪ̈n]
ipa: [ˈfʌŋkʃn̩]
rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən
Forms: form: functions
form: functioning
form: functioned
form: functioned
Etymology: From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”).
Senses: synonyms: officiate
serve
glosses: To have a function.
examples: text: Although the laying workers functioned in a queenlike manner, they were unable to suppress ovarian development as effectively as the queen.
ref: 1991, Kenneth G Ross, Robert W Matthews, The social biology of wasps:
synonyms: go
operate
run
work
antonyms: malfunction
glosses: To carry out a function; to be in action.
Derived terms: low-functioning
Related terms: functional
dysfunction
dysfunctional
error
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: ĕrʹə
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ə(ɹ)/
enpr: ĕrʹər
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈeɹ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ɚ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ɚ/
note: some accents
ipa: /ɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ)
homophone: era (non-rhotic)
homophone: air
homophone: e'er
homophone: ere
homophone: heir stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: err stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: errors
form: erroring
form: errored
form: errored
form: errour
Etymology: From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err. By surface analysis, err + -or (suffix forming nouns of quality, state, or condition).
Senses: examples: text: The web-page took a long time to load and errored out.
text: Remove that line of code and the script should stop erroring there.
text: This directory errors with a "Permission denied" message.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
examples: text: The block transmission errored near the start and could not be received.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: To show or contain an error or fault.
examples: text: Pixels which are mathematically outside of a triangle, but which are included for anti-aliasing purposes can be generated with colour and depth information outside of the valid range. The ADE should identify these cases and clamp the output to the minimum or maximum value depending on the direction it has errored in.
ref: 1993 December, Arie Kaufman, editor, Rendering, Visualization, and Rasterization Hardware, Springer-Verlag New York LLC:
text: By doing so examiners are erroring in the direction of drawing hypotheses based on greater evidence of reliability and validity.
ref: 2000 December, Randy W. Kamphaus, Clinical Assessment of Child And Adolescent Intelligence, Allyn & Bacon:
text: Error is not just permitted by diversity; it is what permits diversity.... The beetle had “errored” beautifully
ref: 2001 November, Daniel D. Dancer, Shards and Circles: Artistic Adventures in Spirit and Ecology, Trafford Publishing:
text: Many other celebrities errored in the political comments area...
ref: 2002 May, Sylvain Beauregard, Passion Celine Dion the Book: The Ultimate Guide for the Fan!, Trafford Publishing:
glosses: To err.
Synonyms: err
Derived terms: error out
Related terms: unerring
Fr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Friday; alternative form of Fr..
ra
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "You guys are doing great. Ra ra ra! Go get 'em, guys."
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 140:
text: Ra-ra and all that. So cheerleaders have a harder time climbing flights of stairs?
ref: 2016, Angie Derek, Mafia Secret:
text: "Ra! Ra! You can do it! Ra! Ra! Just get to it!"
ref: 2022, Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap, second edition, page 235:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rah (“exclamation of encouragement”).
ac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acs
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: account; money of account
glosses: alicyclic
glosses: Abbreviation of acre.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of AC (“air conditioning”).
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of AC (“alternating current”).
ac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: ante cibum, before meals
Th
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Th.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Thursday.
Th
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Th.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Thessalonians.
pa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: pah (Etymology 2)
homophone: par (non-rhotic)
homophone: paw (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: pas
Etymology: Clipping of papa.
Senses: synonyms: da
dad
daddy
papa
pater
pappy
pop
poppy
coordinate_terms: ma#Etymology_2
glosses: Father, papa.
synonyms: grandpapa
grandpappy
grandpop
grandpoppy
pappy
pop
poppy
;
big daddy
glosses: Grandpa, grandfather.
Derived terms: godpa
ma-and-pa
Related terms: grandpa
pa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: pah (Etymology 2)
homophone: par (non-rhotic)
homophone: paw (cot–caught merger, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: pas
form: pah
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori pā.
Senses: examples: text: The very existence of fortified pā was often a sign that those who lived near such complexes sought to discourage attack and wanted to make conflict less likely, not more so.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 71:
text: A pa or Māori defence fortification appears at a height on the hill above the bay.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 68:
glosses: A fortified Maori settlement, especially of pre-European times.
glosses: Any Maori village or settlement; a kainga.
am
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
ipa: /æm/
ipa: [ẽə̯̃m]
ipa: [ɛ̃ə̯̃m]
ipa: [am]
ipa: [æm]
ipa: [æ̝m]
ipa: [ɛm]
ipa: [e̞m]
ipa: /əm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: From Middle English am, em, from Old English eam, eom (“am”), from Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi, *izmi (“am”, form of the verb *wesaną (“to be; dwell”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”).
Cognate with Old Norse em (Old Swedish æm (“am”)), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, “am”), Ancient Greek εἰμῐ́ (eimĭ́, “am”), Old Armenian եմ (em, “am”), Albanian jam (“am”).
Senses: examples: text: He ſaid, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderneſſe: Make ſtraight the way of the Loꝛd, as ſaid the Pꝛophet Eſaias.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:23:
text: Marsha, I am in the kitchen!
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: first-person singular present indicative of be
Derived terms: amirite
cham
Related terms: sense: forms of be
word: amn't
sense: forms of be
word: are
sense: forms of be
word: aren't
sense: forms of be
word: art
sense: forms of be
word: be
sense: forms of be
word: been
sense: forms of be
word: beest
sense: forms of be
word: being
sense: forms of be
word: is
sense: forms of be
word: was
sense: forms of be
word: wast
sense: forms of be
word: were
sense: forms of be
word: wert
am
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
ipa: /æm/
ipa: [ẽə̯̃m]
ipa: [ɛ̃ə̯̃m]
ipa: [am]
ipa: [æm]
ipa: [æ̝m]
ipa: [ɛm]
ipa: [e̞m]
ipa: /əm/
rhymes: -æm
Etymology: From Middle English am, em, from Old English eam, eom (“am”), from Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi, *izmi (“am”, form of the verb *wesaną (“to be; dwell”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”).
Cognate with Old Norse em (Old Swedish æm (“am”)), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, “am”), Ancient Greek εἰμῐ́ (eimĭ́, “am”), Old Armenian եմ (em, “am”), Albanian jam (“am”).
Senses: glosses: Contraction of I am.
am
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
ipa: /æm/
ipa: [ẽə̯̃m]
ipa: [ɛ̃ə̯̃m]
ipa: [am]
ipa: [æm]
ipa: [æ̝m]
ipa: [ɛm]
ipa: [e̞m]
ipa: /əm/
rhymes: -æm
Senses: examples: text: On 1 August 2014 at approximately 12 am, in Lingya and Chienchen Districts of Kaohsiung City, a series of explosions from underground pipelines and sewer system occurred.
ref: 2017, Huei-Ru Hsieh et al., “Lessons Learned from the 0801 Petrochemical Pipeline Explosions in Kaohsiung City”, in Fire Science and Technology 2015: The Proceedings of 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183:
glosses: Alternative spelling of a.m..
cf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cf..
es
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ess (the name of the Latin-script letter S/s) in compounds such as "es-hook".
Derived terms: esmirtazapine
es
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e + -s.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of e's.
es
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of is.
es
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eses
Senses: glosses: The name of the Cyrillic script letter С / с.
Md
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Maryland: a state of the United States.
glosses: Abbreviation of Muhammad.
sg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: pl
glosses: Abbreviation of singular.
Hs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of H
mt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of mitochondrial.
Related terms: mtDNA
mt-mrca
mt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of mitochondrion or mitochondria.
Ds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of D
foetus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foetuses
form: foetus
form: foeti
Senses: examples: text: Amongst professional men, who have examined this singular foetus, a variety of opinions and conjectures have been formed, some of which it maybe well to notice.
ref: 1815, Nathaniel Highmore, Case of a Foetus Found in the Abdomen of a Young Man:
text: During the last 10 weeks in utero the foetus stores very considerable amounts of energy in the form of fat.
ref: 1990, James M. Tanner, Foetus Into Man: Physical Growth from Conception to Maturity, →ISBN, page 40:
text: The foetus gains all its food and oxygen from the mother during pregnancy.
ref: 2006, Denise Walker, Reproduction, Breathing and Health, →ISBN, page 23:
text: But there were clues in their reproduction: all afrotherians have unusual placentas and produce more foetuses than can be nurtured in the womb.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 59:
text: After 20 weeks, two medical doctors from a ministerially appointed panel of at least six must agree the pregnant woman or foetus has a severe medical condition.
ref: 2018 September 13, Erica Miller, “Where Australia stands on abortion”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fetus.
wikipedia: Archives of Disease in Childhood
Derived terms: foetal
foeticide
foetology
decigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪɡɹæm/
Forms: form: decigrams
form: decigramme
Etymology: From French décigramme. By surface analysis, deci- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻¹ grams. Symbol: dg
centigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɪˌɡɹæm/
Forms: form: centigrams
form: centigramme
Etymology: From French centigramme; equivalent to centi- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻² grams. Symbol: cg
ununnilium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Systematic element name.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Former name of darmstadtium.
wikipedia: Systematic element name
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: meitnerium Mt
sense: Next
word: roentgenium Rg
republican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpʌblɪkən/
rhymes: -ʌblɪkən
Forms: form: more republican
form: most republican
Etymology: From republic + -an, partly after French républicain.
Senses: examples: text: Republican ideology had no obvious institutional focus and ideological carrier as was the case with the discourse of reason (the monarchy) and the discourse of law (the parlements).
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 222:
glosses: Advocating or supporting a republic as a form of government, advocating or supporting republicanism.
examples: text: The Roman emperors were republican magistrates named by the senate.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter I, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or belonging to a republic.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Republican.
republican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpʌblɪkən/
rhymes: -ʌblɪkən
Forms: form: republicans
Etymology: From republic + -an, partly after French républicain.
Senses: examples: text: Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'
ref: 1791, James Boswell, “[1791]”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume II, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC:
text: I guess I am a bit of a republican at heart but I would love to be introduced to the Prince just to be able to grip him off about seeing the Noisy Scrub-bird.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:
text: Nationalists and republicans need to adopt a new approach to convince unionists of the merits of uniting Ireland, Gerry Adams has said.
ref: 2017 June 24, David Young, “New approach needed to convince unionists about United Ireland, Adams tell conference”, in Independent.ie:
text: A son of slain republicans Dominic and Mary McGlinchey has brought High Court actions claiming the State has failed to properly investigate his parents' murders.
ref: 2023 August 1, “Son of slain republicans brings actions”, in Irish Times, page 4:
synonyms: anti-monarchist
antiroyalist
antonyms: monarchist
glosses: Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
glosses: Synonym of American cliff swallow.
synonyms: word: American cliff swallow
glosses: Synonym of sociable weaver.
synonyms: word: sociable weaver
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: republican marriage
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: small r republican
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
english: r
translation: r
word: small republican
sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: small-r republican
Related terms: Upper Republican
republicanization
democrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛməkɹæt/
Forms: form: democrats
Etymology: From French démocrate, from démocratie (modelled on aristocrate (“aristocrat”)), equivalent to demo- + -crat.
Senses: examples: text: The democrats now have majority control in almost all areas except the Islands District Council, where they won seven seats, and the pro-Beijing camp obtained 11 seats.
ref: 2019 November 25, Kris Cheng, “Hong Kong District Council election: Democrats take control of 17 out of 18 councils in landslide victory”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2020:
glosses: A supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally (historical) as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France).
examples: text: Democrats have to please a large segment of the voting public and will be punished if they fail to provide public goods […] . In the case of autocrats, however, they have to please a small minority of the governing power elite […] who will punish them if they fail to dedicate the public purse to their private enrichment.
ref: 2011, Wesley Yang, "Death, Dictators, and Democracy", NYU Alumni Magazine, ISSN 1938-4823, issue 16, Spring 2011, page 10
glosses: Someone who rules a representative democracy.
glosses: A large light uncovered wagon with two or more seats.
Derived terms: word: antidemocrat
word: Christian democrat
word: cyberdemocrat
word: democratish
word: democratism
word: democrat wagon
word: e-democrat
word: homocrat
word: nondemocrat
word: small d democrat
word: small-d democrat
english: d
translation: d
word: small democrat
word: social democrat
word: technodemocrat
word: victicrat
Related terms: Democrat
Demoncrat
pis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pi
tri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: try
Forms: form: tris
Etymology: Shortening of words with the initial component derived from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).
Senses: examples: a tri bike
a tri suit
glosses: triathlon
examples: text: The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris. Anything within that range is sufficient to accommodate all superficial anatomical details without resort to optimization beyond normal model cleanup.
ref: 2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters:
text: Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.
ref: 2010, Tony Mullen, Claudio Andaur, Blender Studio Projects: Digital Movie-Making, page 91:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: triangle
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: triceps
tu
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of to, representing African-American Vernacular English.
wan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒn/
ipa: /wɑn/
ipa: /wæn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: one (for speakers who pronounce that word as /wɒn/)
homophone: won (etymologies 2 and 3)
Etymology: From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English wann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).
Senses: examples: text: And while we stood beside the fount, and watch’d / Or seem’d to watch the dancing bubble, approach'd / Melissa, tinged with wan from lack of sleep, / Or sorrow, and glowing round her dewy eyes / The circled Iris of a night of tears ; [...]
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part III”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 47:
synonyms: achromatism
decolouration
paleness
pallidity
pallor
glosses: The quality of being wan; wanness.
wan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒn/
ipa: /wɑn/
ipa: /wæn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: one (for speakers who pronounce that word as /wɒn/)
homophone: won (etymologies 2 and 3)
Forms: form: wans
Etymology: Eye dialect spelling of one. Sense 2 (“girl or woman”) possibly as a result of the phrase your wan as a counterpart to your man.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland English.
examples: text: Then I’d tell myself there were plenty of oul wans and oul fellas in work who never got it and that I’d be lucky like them and escape. Only I didn’t. I don’t want to die.
ref: 1993, Elaine Crowley, The Ways Of Women, London: Orion, →ISBN:
text: Growing up in Dún Laoghaire in the 1980s, I remember all the hard men were sinewy, scrawny lads, hence the local description ‘more meat on a seagull’. The reason was simple: they were undernourished. [...] The young wans, despite a couple of babies, were more or less the same, pinched, flat-chested and drawn.
ref: 2005, David McWilliams, The Pope’s Children: Ireland’s New Elite, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN; republished as The Pope’s Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland’s New Elite, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2008, →ISBN, page 4:
text: He comes streaming out from under the stage, this time a feckin show-stopper, almost literally, because there’s eighty different acrobats above him, [...] for this mad New Year’s show that has no story at all, other than this wan in silky robes who goes out with this fella in silky robes, and they’re from different enemy tribes of lads and wans in silky robes, and when they find out, they have this huge, aerial, acrobatic donnybrook that ends when everyone wraps their silk around each other up in the air, and then lets it all fall down to the ground, where the audience are, to show them how we're all part of one big silky family, and not to be fighting in the future.
ref: 2015, Kevin Maher, “A Yuletide Bender”, in Last Night on Earth, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: lass
word: maid
word: babe
word: bint
word: bird
word: cake
word: chick
word: colleen
word: cutty
word: damoiselle
word: damsel
word: elrig
word: frail
word: gal
word: gel
word: girl
word: girlie
word: girly
word: grill
word: hottie
word: lass
word: lassie
word: little girl
word: maggie
word: maid
word: maid child
word: maiden
word: minoress
word: miss
word: missy
word: moggy
word: poppet
word: pucelle
word: puss
word: quean
word: tart
word: wan
word: wench
word: woman child
word: babe
word: baggage
word: bim
word: bint
word: bird
word: bitch
word: blone
word: broad
word: chick
word: covess
word: dame
word: donna
word: feme
word: femme
word: femoid
word: frau
word: frow
word: gal
word: gentlelady
word: ginch
word: hen
word: ho
word: huwoman
word: lady
word: maness
word: mort
word: mulier
word: placket
word: pussy
word: queen
word: she
word: sheila
word: skirt
word: squaw
word: thot
word: tía
word: twist
word: vaginoid
word: wan
word: wife
word: woman
word: wommon
word: womon
word: womxn
word: womyn
word: wimmin
glosses: A girl or woman.
Derived terms: cubewano
wan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒn/
ipa: /wɑn/
ipa: /wæn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: one (for speakers who pronounce that word as /wɒn/)
homophone: won (etymologies 2 and 3)
Etymology: An inflected form.
Senses: glosses: simple past of win.
half
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːf/
ipa: /haːf/
ipa: /hɐːf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
ipa: /hæf/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /hɛəf/
ipa: /haf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: 'arf
form: ha'f
form: halfe
Etymology: From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates
Cognate with Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old Dutch half, West Frisian heal, Dutch half, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
Senses: glosses: In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
glosses: In some part approximating a half.
examples: text: half-colored
text: half done
text: half persuaded
text: half conscious
text: He does sometimes half wish to change his life, but it is too difficult.
text: Half loth and half consenting.
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
text: Their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nehemiah 13:24:
text: I sometimes hold it half a sin
⁠To put in words the grief I feel;
⁠For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Partially; imperfectly.
examples: text: To be a King, is halfe to bee a God.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:
glosses: Practically, nearly.
Synonyms: sense: partially, imperfectly
word: halfly
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from half (adverb)
word: a danger foreseen is half avoided
sense: Terms derived from half (adverb)
word: a fault confessed is half redressed
sense: Terms derived from half (adverb)
word: half-arsed
sense: Terms derived from half (adverb)
word: half-filled
sense: Terms derived from half (adverb)
word: half-forgotten
sense: Terms derived from half (adverb)
word: half-full
sense: Terms derived from half (adverb)
word: half-hearted
sense: Terms derived from half (adverb)
word: half-timbered
sense: Terms derived from half (adverb)
word: half to death
Related terms: not half
half
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːf/
ipa: /haːf/
ipa: /hɐːf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
ipa: /hæf/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /hɛəf/
ipa: /haf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: halves
form: halving
form: halved
form: halved
form: 'arf
form: ha'f
form: halfe
Etymology: From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates
Cognate with Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old Dutch half, West Frisian heal, Dutch half, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
Senses: synonyms: word: bipartition
word: bisect
word: dichotomize
word: dimidiate
word: half
word: halve
glosses: To halve.
half
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːf/
ipa: /haːf/
ipa: /hɐːf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
ipa: /hæf/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /hɛəf/
ipa: /haf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: 'arf
form: ha'f
form: halfe
Etymology: From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates
Cognate with Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old Dutch half, West Frisian heal, Dutch half, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
Senses: examples: text: The time is 9:30; it is half nine.
synonyms: word: half past
glosses: Half past; a half-hour (30 minutes) after the last hour.
examples: text: In some countries, "half seven" means 6:30.
glosses: A half-hour to (preceding) the next hour.
half
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːf/
ipa: /haːf/
ipa: /hɐːf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
ipa: /hæf/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /hɛəf/
ipa: /haf/
rhymes: -æf
Forms: form: 'arf
form: ha'f
form: halfe
Etymology: From Middle English half, halfe from Old English healf (“half”); as a noun, 'half', 'side', 'part', from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz.
Cognates
Cognate with Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old Dutch half, West Frisian heal, Dutch half, German halb, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian halv, Icelandic hálfur and Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍃 (halbs). Compare halve, behalf.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A call reminding performers that the performance will begin in thirty minutes.
argentine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ).d͡ʒənˌtiːn/
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ).d͡ʒənˌtaɪn/
Forms: form: more argentine
form: most argentine
Etymology: From Middle English argentyne, borrowed from Old French argentin (“silvery”), from Latin argentum (“silver”), equivalent to argent + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Celestiall Dian, Goddesse Argentine
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
synonyms: silvern
glosses: Containing or resembling silver.
argentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ).d͡ʒənˌtiːn/
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ).d͡ʒənˌtaɪn/
Forms: form: argentines
Etymology: From Middle English argentyne, borrowed from Old French argentin (“silvery”), from Latin argentum (“silver”), equivalent to argent + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Any osmeriform fish of the genus Argentina, especially a European argentine (Argentina sphyraena).
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A siliceous variety of calcite, or lime carbonate, having a silvery-white, pearly lustre, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
glosses: White metal coated with silver.
Synonyms: herring smelt
Derived terms: greater argentine
twee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: more twee
form: tweer
form: most twee
form: tweest
Etymology: From a childish pronunciation of sweet. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use in 1905 in Punch.
Senses: examples: text: Those Beatrix Potter animals are a little twee for my taste.
text: Despite the fact that the designs were all a bit twee […] they stood out a mile in the market place at that time.
ref: 1999, Janet Foster, Docklands: Urban Change and Conflict in a Community in Transition, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: UCL Press, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Forget the clichéd image of Brigadoon and shortbread tins, the dreadfully twee tartan tat and Celtic kitsch that, sadly, still exists in the 21st century, and is too often passed off as a genuine Highland experience.
ref: 2001, Alan Murphy, Scotland Highlands & Islands Handbook: The Travel Guide, Bath, Somerset: Footprint Handbooks, →ISBN, page 11:
text: As always with Disney, there are moments when it all seems a bit twee, others when it is excessively PC.
ref: 2002, Peter Ellison, Essential Non-fiction, Dublin: Folens Publishers, →ISBN, page 40:
text: I just wouldn’t have felt comfortable saying, "I am a duckbilled platypus, and this is how I find my shrimps." I think it would have been twee.
ref: 2005 September 8, Stephen S. Hall, quoting Richard Dawkins, “Darwin's Rottweiler: Sir Richard Dawkins: Evolution's fiercest champion, far too fierce”, in Discover, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2016:
text: [Neil] Tennant's accent obviously has a lot to do with that, but the fact he's rapping is further masked by his twee, effeminate delivery.
ref: 2015 June 2, Kenneth Partridge, “With ‘West End Girls,’ Pet Shop Boys set a high standard for U.K. hip-hop”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2015:
synonyms: cutesy
precious
saccharine
syrupy
glosses: Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.
Related terms: twee pop
twee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /twiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From a childish pronunciation of sweet. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use in 1905 in Punch.
Senses: examples: text: Even the wider world got its doses of twee sound, from the fluffy pop of Aztec Camera to the stylish bounce of the Railway Children.
ref: 2005 October 24, Nitsuh Abebe, “Twee as Fuck”, in Pitchfork:
text: Wang points out the very clear links between twee and queer culture, as many 90s twee bands “played alongside queercore bands like Team Dresch.[…]”
ref: 2022 January 25, katie tobin, quoting Ian Wang, “Clutch Your Pearls, the Indie Twee Aesthetic is Back”, in Vice:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of twee pop.
drie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of dry.
vier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viers
Etymology: From vie + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Evidently, there were two children vying for a third's attention. The two attention viers were engaged in a series of gymnastic feats on a small portable trampoline. Two girls were trying to outdo each other to impress the third child, a boy.
ref: 1991, Diane Lynch Fraser, Playdancing, page 90:
glosses: One who vies for something.
Pennsylvania Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pennsylvania Dutch
Etymology: From their primary residence in Pennsylvania and from Palatine German Deitsch (“German”), their own endonym, gradually modified under influence from Dutch.
Senses: glosses: Those people of German origin who settled in the Pennsylvania area prior to 1800, and their descendants.
glosses: Their language, Pennsylvania German, a High German language descended from Palatine German.
glosses: The Old Order Amish.
Synonyms: Pennsylvania German
Derived terms: Pennsylvania Dutch English
Pennsylvania Dutchland
Related terms: Black Dutch
Pennsylvania Dutch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From their primary residence in Pennsylvania and from Palatine German Deitsch (“German”), their own endonym, gradually modified under influence from Dutch.
Senses: glosses: Related to the Pennsylvania German people or their language.
Synonyms: Pennsylvania German
Dutch cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch caps
Senses: glosses: A type of woman's cap with triangular turn back at each side. The style is particularly associated with Dutch traditional costume.
synonyms: cervical cap
diaphragm
glosses: An intravaginal contraceptive device.
cast pearls before swine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts pearls before swine
form: casting pearls before swine
form: cast pearls before swine
form: cast pearls before swine
Etymology: From the Bible "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." – KJV, Matthew 7:6.
Senses: examples: text: Blanche: ...Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart—and I have all of those things—aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years! How strange that I should be called a destitute woman! When I have all of these treasures locked in my heart. [A choked sob comes from her] I think of myself as a very, very rich woman! But I have been foolish—casting my pearls before swine!
ref: 1947, Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 10:
glosses: To give things of value to those who will not understand or appreciate them.
Synonyms: preach to deaf ears
Derived terms: pearls before swine
Related terms: caviar to the general
talk over somebody's head
tant pis
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From French tant pis.
Senses: examples: text: Then deep melancholia struck her, the lace was left out of whatever fine lace should be kept in for moth protection, and the moths ate it up. Oh, well. Tant pis.
ref: 1975, Tennessee Williams, Memoirs, New Directions Publishing, published 2006, →ISBN, page 105:
qualifier: italicized; foreign phrase; italicized; foreign phrase
glosses: so much the worse
jaundice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪs/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔndɪs/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑndɪs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒændɚz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑndɚz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔndɚz/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒndɪs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoːndɪs/
rhymes: -ɔːndɪs
Forms: form: jaundices
form: jaundies
Etymology: From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).
Senses: examples: text: Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, / Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter? / Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies / By being peeuiſh?
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 163:
text: But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!
ref: 1920, Natalie Clifford Barney, “A Sonnet to My Lady with the Jaundice”, in Poems & poèmes:
text: In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).
ref: 2004, Gabrielle Hatfield, Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 215:
text: Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?
ref: 2016, Dueep Jyot Singh, John Davidson, Knowing More About Jaundice - Prevention and Natural Cure Remedies of Jaundice, Mendon Cottage Books, →ISBN, page 8:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: icterus
glosses: A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine.
examples: text: No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Walking to the Mail”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 48:
glosses: A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy.
Derived terms: black jaundice
blue jaundice
green jaundice
hepatogenous jaundice
jaundice root
pseudojaundice
Related terms: cyanopathy
jaundice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪs/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔndɪs/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑndɪs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒændɚz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑndɚz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔndɚz/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒndɪs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoːndɪs/
rhymes: -ɔːndɪs
Forms: form: jaundices
form: jaundicing
form: jaundiced
form: jaundiced
form: jaundies
Etymology: From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).
Senses: examples: text: The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.
ref: 1850, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel:
glosses: To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.
jaundiced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪst/
rhymes: -ɔːndɪst
Forms: form: more jaundiced
form: most jaundiced
Etymology: From jaundice + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow.
ref: 1640, Joseph Hall, Episcopacy by Divine Right:
text: Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.
ref: 2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Affected with jaundice.
examples: text: a jaundiced judgment
text: Mr. George Lawrence, C.M.G., First Class District Officer of His Majesty's Civil Service, sat at the door of his tent and viewed the African desert scene with the eye of extreme disfavour. [...] The eye was jaundiced, thanks to the heat and foul dust of Bornu, to malaria, dysentery, inferior food, poisonous water, and rapid continuous marching in appalling heat.
ref: 1924 October, Percival Christopher Wren, “Of the Strange Events at Zinderneuf”, in Beau Geste, London: John Murray, →OCLC; republished London: John Murray, […], February 1928, →OCLC, part I (Major Henri de Beaujolais’ Story), § 1, page 9:
text: Although Professor Davidson took a very jaundiced view of the Neptune probe, it had already been approved and he saw no point in sending more good money after bad.
ref: 1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama:
text: If we have experienced a hostile world in childhood, we will continue to view almost everyone with a jaundiced eye and react to them according to our perception.
ref: 2003, Simon S. Godfrey, The Nature of Man and God: A New Look, Trafford Publishing, page 186:
glosses: Prejudiced; envious.
Derived terms: unjaundiced
jaundiced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔːndɪst/
rhymes: -ɔːndɪst
Etymology: From jaundice + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jaundice