cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
thrushling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrushlings
Etymology: From thrush + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A young thrush.
pigling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piglings
Etymology: From pig + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A little or young pig; a piglet.
Synonyms: hogget
piglet
shoat
lair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛə/
ipa: /lɛɚ/
ipa: /leː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /leə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /liə/
ipa: /leɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /lɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: layer (one pronunciation)
homophone: leer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: lairs
form: lairing
form: laired
form: laired
Etymology: From Middle English leir, leire, lair, lare, from Old English leġer (“couch, bed”), from Proto-Germanic *legrą, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.
Senses: examples: text: The lee-light that December gies
Was lairing in the wast,
Whan Christy wi' her oa claes,
Was boun' to dree the blast.
ref: 1822, Hew Ainslie, “The Waesome Death O' Christy Ford”, in A Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, Deptford: W. Brown, page 42:
glosses: To rest; to dwell.
glosses: To lay down.
glosses: To bury.
lair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛə/
ipa: /lɛɚ/
ipa: /leː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /leə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /liə/
ipa: /leɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /lɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: layer (one pronunciation)
homophone: leer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: lairs
Etymology: From Old Norse leir (“clay, mud”). Compare Icelandic leir (“clay”).
Senses: glosses: A bog; a mire.
lair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛə/
ipa: /lɛɚ/
ipa: /leː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /leə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /liə/
ipa: /leɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /lɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: layer (one pronunciation)
homophone: leer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: lairs
form: lairing
form: laired
form: laired
Etymology: From Old Norse leir (“clay, mud”). Compare Icelandic leir (“clay”).
Senses: glosses: To mire.
glosses: To become mired.
lair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛə/
ipa: /lɛɚ/
ipa: /leː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /leə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /liə/
ipa: /leɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /lɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: layer (one pronunciation)
homophone: leer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: lairs
Etymology: Backformation from lairy.
Senses: glosses: A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
Derived terms: lairize
lair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛə/
ipa: /lɛɚ/
ipa: /leː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /leə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /liə/
ipa: /leɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /lɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: layer (one pronunciation)
homophone: leer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: lairs
Senses: examples: text: The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.
ref: 1912, Central Provinces (India), Central Provinces District Gazetteers, page 96:
glosses: Obsolete form of layer.
Related terms: lair it up
lair up
giraffine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the giraffe or giraffes.
geep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gēp
ipa: /ɡiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: geeps
Etymology: Blend of goat + sheep
Senses: glosses: A sheep–goat hybrid, an animal with DNA from a goat and from a sheep, whether produced artificially or by natural intermating.
Synonyms: shoat
rattler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹætələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹætlə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ætlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rattlers
Etymology: From rattle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Anything that rattles.
examples: text: You watch your step walking out there on the mesa, because in warmer season, the rattlers are up and about, and it's their turf.
ref: 1989 February 5, Kay Whitlock, “Letter from Colorado”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 11:
glosses: A rattlesnake.
glosses: A freight train or, (chiefly British), a passenger train.
glosses: Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train.
glosses: A loud, inconsiderate talker.
examples: text: […] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.
ref: 1897, Alexander Montgomery, Five-Skull Island And Other Tales of the Malay Archipelago:
glosses: A stunning blow.
glosses: An impudent lie; a whopper.
Derived terms: bead-rattler
diamondback rattler
jump the rattler
Murrumbidgee river rattler
rattler-jumper
rattler-jumping
red rattler
sabre-rattler
rattlesnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæt.əlˌsneɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: rattlesnakes
form: rattle snake
Etymology: From rattle + snake.
Senses: examples: text: Hooded rattlesnakes, horned toads, and lizards crawl in the dust and among the rocks.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:
text: The country ran shuttles and posted signs encouraging visitors to enjoy the display responsibly, but those precautions didn't prevent rattlesnake bites, twisted ankles, heat exhaustion, Instacelebs and other selfie-takers lying in or otherwise trampling the delicate blooms they'd come to see.
ref: 2019 July, Jeffrey Rindskopf, “The Costs of Instatravel”, in DOPE Magazine, page 90:
text: Generally not aggressive, rattlesnakes strike when threatened or deliberately provoked, but given room they will retreat. Most snake bites occur when a rattlesnake is handled or accidentally touched by someone walking or climbing. The majority of snakebites occur on the hands, feet and ankles.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Snake Safety”, in USDA, page 1:
synonyms: word: rattler
glosses: Any of various venomous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail.
Hypernyms: sense: snake
word: pit viper
Derived terms: Boott's rattlesnake root
diamondback rattlesnake
downy rattlesnake
horned rattlesnake
Mexican west coast rattlesnake
rattlesnake fern
rattlesnake grass
rattlesnake master
rattlesnake plantain
rattlesnake root
rattlesnake weed
rattlesnaking
timber rattlesnake
western diamondback rattlesnake
white rattlesnake root
sex up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sexes up
form: sexing up
form: sexed up
form: sexed up
Senses: examples: text: I wanna sex you up!
text: Make sweet lovin' all night long / Oh, I wanna sex you up / Feels so right it can't be wrong
ref: 1991, “I Wanna Sex You Up”, in Dr. Freeze (lyrics), C.M.B., performed by Color Me Badd:
glosses: To take part in sexual acts with.
examples: text: Get spanked: it'll sex you up!
text: I got my eyes shut / Praying they won't stray / Oh we're not sexed up / That's what makes the difference today
ref: 2003, “Sexed Up”, in Escapology, performed by Robbie Williams:
glosses: To arouse somebody sexually.
examples: text: Enrique Iglesias sexed up his music video to appeal to a younger audience.
text: Women in the UK jazz scene face discrimination and sexual harassment according to a new report, from requests to “sex up” their album covers to tokenism, maternal discrimination and scepticism about their musical capabilities.
ref: 2021 February 16, Tina Edwards, “Female UK jazz musicians face sexual harassment and discrimination, says report”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make more sexually attractive.
examples: text: How do I sex up my phone?
text: What’s clear is that with wealth inequality at near record highs and income inequality predicted to worsen, we can’t afford to leave things as they are. It’s time to “sex up” tax.
ref: 2017 May 9, Faiza Shaheen, “Tax is getting a bad rap – it’s time to sex it up”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To enhance in terms of fashionable appeal.
examples: text: BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan today said David Kelly was in no doubt the government had “sexed up” the Iraq intelligence dossier at the heart of the Hutton inquiry.
ref: 2003 August 12, Julia Day, “Kelly ‘said government sexed up Iraq dossier’”, in The Guardian:
text: Fresh evidence has emerged that Tony Blair's discredited Iraqi arms dossier was “sexed up” on the instructions of Alastair Campbell, his communications chief, to fit with claims from the US administration that were known to be false.
ref: 2010 January 10, Chris Ames, Richard Norton-Taylor, “Alastair Campbell had Iraq dossier changed to fit US claims”, in The Guardian:
text: Last week saw a backlash against tabloid-style “sexing-up” of science reporting.
ref: 2014 March 24, Dean Burnett, “Sexed-up science news - reporting the story gets in the way of a good fact”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To sensationalize.
specter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛktɚ/
enpr: spĕkʹtər
ipa: /ˈspɛktə/
enpr: spĕkʹtə
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: specters
form: spectre
Etymology: From Middle French spectre, from Latin spectrum (“appearance, apparition”). Doublet of spectrum.
Senses: examples: text: A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.
text: Nevertheleſſe, they which ſhould ſee thoſe Iſles thus to moove in this manner, not knowing before that the ſame were naturall: they would entertaine many and diverſe apprehenſions in their fantaſie, & would imagine that they ſawe a thing very ſtrange and prodigious, and ſuch as did very neere approach to the nature of ſome Specter [translating spectre] and viſion.
ref: 1605, Peter de Loier [i.e., Pierre Le Loyer], translated by [Zachary Jones], “The many things being meerely Naturall are taken by the Sight or Hearing being deceived, for Specters and things prodigious”, in A Treatise of Specters or Straunge Sights, Visions and Apparitions Appearing Sensibly vnto Men. […], London: […] Val[entine] S[immes] for Mathew Lownes, →OCLC, folio 62, verso:
synonyms: wraith
spook
glosses: A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
examples: text: A specter is haunting Europe — the specter of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
ref: 1848, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore, The Communist Manifesto:
text: Already, the specter of higher interest rates was causing the housing market to seize up.
ref: 2022 September 27, Mark Landler, “Truss Takes a Bold Economic Gamble. Will It Sink Her Government?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for appointing to his cabinet a former lawyer who served jail time, raising the spectre of more political upheaval and a reset of the governing alliance.
ref: 2024 August 14, “Thai court removes PM Srettha Thavisin from office over cabinet appointment”, in france24.com:
text: Instead of three co-equal branches acting as a check on each other, power has become increasingly concentrated over the years in the White House – a trend that is now being supercharged under Mr. Trump in ways that, to critics, raise the specter of authoritarianism.
ref: 2025 February 25, Linda Feldmann, “How Trump skirts checks and balances unlike any modern-day US president”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: A threatening mental image; an unpleasant prospect
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of certain species of dragonfly of the genus Boyeria, family Aeshnidae.
Derived terms: Brocken specter
Macleay's spectre
mountain specter
raise the specter
specter at the feast
specter bat
specter candle
specter of the Brocken
specter shrimp
spectral
Chechen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛ.tʃɛn/
ipa: /ˈtʃɛ.tʃən/
rhymes: -ɛtʃɛn
rhymes: -ɛtʃən
Forms: form: Chechens
Etymology: From Russian чечен- (čečen-), the root in чече́нец (čečénec, “a Chechen man”) or чече́нский (čečénskij, “Chechen (adjective)”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
glosses: Synonym of Chechnyan: a resident of Chechnya.
synonyms: word: Chechnyan
extra: a resident of Chechnya
Derived terms: Chechen Republic
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Chechen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛ.tʃɛn/
ipa: /ˈtʃɛ.tʃən/
rhymes: -ɛtʃɛn
rhymes: -ɛtʃən
Etymology: From Russian чечен- (čečen-), the root in чече́нец (čečénec, “a Chechen man”) or чече́нский (čečénskij, “Chechen (adjective)”).
Senses: glosses: The language of the Chechens, a member of the Nakh family.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Chechen terms
Chechen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛ.tʃɛn/
ipa: /ˈtʃɛ.tʃən/
rhymes: -ɛtʃɛn
rhymes: -ɛtʃən
Etymology: From Russian чечен- (čečen-), the root in чече́нец (čečénec, “a Chechen man”) or чече́нский (čečénskij, “Chechen (adjective)”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Chechen people.
glosses: Of or relating to the Chechen language.
qualifier: inexact
glosses: Synonym of Chechnyan: of or relating to Chechnya, a Russian.
synonyms: word: Chechnyan
extra: of or relating to Chechnya, a Russian
Derived terms: Checheno-Ingush
broach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
homophone: brooch
Forms: form: broaches
Etymology: From Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Scottish Gaelic bròg). Doublet of brochure.
Senses: glosses: A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
examples: text: Mr. S. had a large straw hat, and striped jacket and trousers, and his shirt fastened at the throat by a broach with Carry's hair, for he was always quite above wearing a neckcloth.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 123:
text: She pinned a broach on her jacket.
When Viv saw it, she laughed. “Is that the best you can do? A flower broach?”
ref: 2012, Cara C. Putman, A Promise Born:
glosses: Alternative spelling of brooch.
examples: text: He turned a broach that had worn a crown.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: A spit for cooking food.
examples: text: It [the straw] is laid on to a considerable thickness and firmly secured by ropes or twisted straw, and pinned down by sharpened sticks called 'broaches'
ref: 1840, “Cottages - Thatching”, in The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge:
glosses: An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
topics: architecture
glosses: A spire rising from a tower.
glosses: A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
glosses: The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
glosses: The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
Derived terms: turnbroach
broach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
homophone: brooch
Forms: form: broaches
form: broaching
form: broached
form: broached
Etymology: From Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Scottish Gaelic bròg). Doublet of brochure.
Senses: examples: text: How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
examples: text: French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.
glosses: To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
examples: text: I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
text: Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 4, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VI, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: THE POCKET ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. By O. S. Nock. Blandford Press. 18s.
Mr. Nock, he remarks in his preface, was "incredulous" when the idea of this book of 192 colour gravure illustrations of a representative collection of British steam locomotives from Locomotion to BR's Evening Star was broached to him.
ref: 1964 December, “New Books”, in Modern Railways, page 429:
text: Still, both [Kate] Spicer and [Anka] Radakovich think there are some subjects, even as the outrider of sexual openness, they can't broach.
ref: 1995 October 1, Nick Walker, “Women and Men: All mouth and no trousers”, in The Independent:
synonyms: spring
glosses: To begin discussion about (something).
Derived terms: abroach
broachable
broacher
Related terms: brochure
broach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
homophone: brooch
Forms: form: broaches
form: broaching
form: broached
form: broached
Senses: examples: text: The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.
glosses: To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
examples: text: 18th C, Thomas Dibdin, Tom Bowling
Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling ... for death hath broached him to.
text: Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.
glosses: To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
examples: text: The Politovskiy soared through the surface of the Atlantic like a broaching whale, coming three quarters of her length out of the water before crashing back.
ref: 1984, Tom Clancy, “The Eighth Day: Friday, 10 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 193:
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: torpedo; or similar; torpedo; or similar
glosses: To break the surface of the water.
raw_tags: of a submerged submarine
Related terms: broach to
Aegyptus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /iːˈd͡ʒɪptəs/
Etymology: From Latin Aegyptus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos), from Egyptian ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ (literally “The temple of the ka of Ptah”).
Senses: glosses: A king of Egypt in Greek mythology.
bastardisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: bastardisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of bastardization.
Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛə.ɹi/
enpr: mârʹē
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.i/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɚ.i/
ipa: /ˈmeː.ɹi/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈmeəɹi/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈmiəɹi/
ipa: /ˈmeɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈmeɹe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈmɜːɹɪ/
homophone: marry
homophone: Merry
homophone: merry stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
ipa: /ˈmɑ(ː).ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɛə.ɹi/
enpr: mârʹē
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.i/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɚ.i/
ipa: /ˈmeː.ɹi/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈmeəɹi/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈmiəɹi/
ipa: /ˈmeɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈmeɹe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈmɜːɹɪ/
homophone: marry
homophone: Merry
homophone: merry stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Etymology: From Turkmen Mary.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of the region of Mary, in southeastern Turkmenistan.
glosses: A region in southeastern Turkmenistan.
Synonyms: sense: historical names for the city
word: Merv
Related terms: Merv
lapis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæpɪs/
Etymology: Shortened form of lapis lazuli.
Senses: examples: text: Lapis, opal, &c. are poliſh'd on a wooden wheel. To faſhion and Engrave vaſes of agate, cryſtal, lapis, or the like, they make uſe of a kind of lathe like that us'd by pewterers, excepting that as the pewterers lathe holds the veſſels, which are to be wrought with proper tools; that of the Engraver generally holds the tools which are turn'd by a wheel, and the veſſels held to them to be cut and engraven either in relievo or otherwiſe; [...]
ref: 1735, [John Barrow], “ENGRAVING”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:
text: French Bead Necklace of lapis or carnelian color, with crystal rondelles between each bead, graduated, 32 inches long.
ref: 1923 (reprinted 1993), Franklin Simon Fashion Catalog for 1923 (Franklin Simon & Co, New York), item number 53
text: That lapis lazuli in particular among the precious and semi-precious stones known from Mesopotamia was accorded considerable value in antiquity may be inferred from the archaeological record through association with high-status locii and goods. [...] deities receive votive gifts and booty of lapis, consisting of items of personal adornment and cult objects, while their temples are described as decorated with lapis or shining like lapis. [...] For example, the contents of the graves in the Royal Cemetery of Ur: [...] various objects employing inlay that include lapis among the insets, [...] Mari sent an emissary to acquire lapis from Lars.
ref: 2010, Irene Winter, editor, On Art in the Ancient Near East: From the Third Millennium B.C.E., page 291:
text: The buddha lands described in the Lotus share certain generic features: the ground is made of lapis or crystal; they are perfectly level, without mountains or valleys; they are free from all manner of filth, including the stench of latrines [...] The ground was made of lapis lazuli, [...]
ref: 2011, Daniel Boscaljon, Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative, page 99:
glosses: Ellipsis of lapis lazuli.
Related terms: lapis armenus
lapis calaminaris
lapis infernalis
kek lapis
kiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːkiː/
rhymes: -iːkiː
Forms: form: kikis
form: ki-ki
Etymology: In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. In the sense "a gathering for gossiping and chit-chat", perhaps imitative of giggling.
Senses: examples: text: Let's have a kiki / I wanna have a kiki / Lock the doors tight / Let's have a kiki
ref: 2012 September 11, Scissor Sisters, “Let's Have a Kiki”, in Magic Hour, track 6:
text: Get on my knees and have a kiki with Jesus
ref: 2016 April 22, Lucian Piane, “Pray & Slay”, in RuPaul’s Drag Race: The Rusical:
glosses: A gathering of friends for the purpose of gossiping and chit-chat.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kiki.
glosses: A lesbian who is neither butch nor femme.
kiki
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːkiː/
rhymes: -iːkiː
Forms: form: kikis
form: kikiing
form: kiki-ing
form: kikied
form: kikied
Etymology: In the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme", sometimes said to mean "neither-nor" in some language; related to kai kai (“sexual activity between drag queens”); see that entry for more. In the sense "a gathering for gossiping and chit-chat", perhaps imitative of giggling.
Senses: examples: text: We spent a whole lot of time kiki'ing around—fooling around.
ref: 2010, David Carter, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, page 130:
text: Went home, changed for my show, kikied with Bruce and walked over to the apartment for my weekly meeting and Sally was just walking into the building from Sirius.
ref: 2016, Andy Cohen, Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries:
text: “I still had my corporate job, so we would talk on GChat all day while I was at work,” says Olisa. (She’s still based in New York; Garner Valentine has since relocated to Georgia. Both are in their 30s.) “To the outside world, I was working diligently, but I was really kiki-ing with my friend.”
ref: 2019 September 5, Ana Colón, “How Two Women Turned $12 Into the Curvy Con, the Biggest Plus-Size Event at Fashion Week”, in Glamour:
glosses: To meet with friends without any agenda or goals.
stunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stunners
Etymology: From stun + -er.
Senses: glosses: Anything that is stunning.
examples: text: She's a runner, rebel and a stunner / On her merry way sayin', "Baby, what you gonna—?"
ref: 2006, “Dani California”, in Stadium Arcadium, performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers:
glosses: Anything that is stunning.
A woman or man of stunning beauty or handsomeness (often hyperbolic), a knockout.
related: word: stunna
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A professional wrestling maneuver in which an attacking wrestler applies a facelock to an opponent and falls to a seated position, forcing the opponent's jaw or neck to drop on the attacker's shoulder.
examples: text: March holstered his pistol, reached into his coat, and drew out his own neural stunner, shifting the weapon to his right hand.
ref: 2018, Jonathan Moeller, Silent Order: Omnibus One:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.
glosses: A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.
Derived terms: Dunner stunner
put the stunners on
stunna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌnə
Forms: form: stunnas
Senses: examples: text: The stress over what went down with Gatz caused her to drop twenty pounds but the weight loss was in all the right places. She was a stunna before but now she's a downright bad chick.
ref: 2006, Kali James, Can U Get Away?, →ISBN, page 83:
text: She was the "bikini-babe", "Sarkozette" stunna who never was. Paris was baffled this week when some of the British media began drooling over an old beach photograph of a former newsreader, Christine Kelly, whom they announced as Sarkozy's latest cabinet appointment—or rather "knockout lovely" or "oh yes, minister!".
ref: 2009 March 28, Angelique Chrisafis, “The mystery of the bikini-clad minister”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
qualifier: chiefly British tabloid press
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of stunner (“a woman of stunning beauty”).
broadsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadsheets
Etymology: From broad + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: He glanced across at Wani, who was screened above the knees by the raised pink broadsheet with its headlines about record share prices, record house prices.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 294:
glosses: A newspaper having pages of standard dimensions (as opposed to a tabloid), especially one that carries serious treatment of news.
Synonyms: quality newspaper
Derived terms: broadloid
broadsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From broad + sheet.
Senses: glosses: In the format of a broadsheet.
examples: broadsheet journalism
glosses: Relating to a broadsheet or broadsheets.
Related terms: compact
brooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊtʃ/
other: /bɹuːt͡ʃ/
enpr: brōch
ipa: /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɹut͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
rhymes: -uːtʃ
homophone: broach
Forms: form: brooches
Etymology: Variant of broach.
Senses: synonyms: breastpin
hypernyms: pin
glosses: A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
glosses: A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
Derived terms: broochlike
Luckenbooth brooch
brooch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹəʊtʃ/
other: /bɹuːt͡ʃ/
enpr: brōch
ipa: /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɹut͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
rhymes: -uːtʃ
homophone: broach
Forms: form: brooches
form: brooching
form: brooched
form: brooched
Etymology: Variant of broach.
Senses: examples: text: Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me.
ref: c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 15, lines 23–25:
glosses: To adorn as with a brooch.
forget-me-not
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɚˈɡɛt.miˌnɑt/
ipa: /fəˈɡɛt.miːˌnɒt/
Forms: form: forget-me-nots
Etymology: Calque of Middle French ne m'oubliez mie or German Vergissmeinnicht.
Senses: glosses: Any of the flowering plants of the genus Myosotis, mostly with a small five-petalled blue flower; a flower from such a plant.
coordinate_terms: see at Appendix:Colors
glosses: A light tint of blue, the color of the flower.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various light-blue coloured lycaenid butterflies of the Asian and Australasian genus Catochrysops, especially Catochrysops strabo native to India and Southeast Asia.
fox cub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox cubs
form: fox-cub
form: foxcub
Etymology: From fox + cub.
Senses: synonyms: cub
kit
foxlet
foxling
glosses: A young fox.
leopardess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leopardesses
Etymology: From leopard + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: It was the story of the wicked leopardess who wanted to eat the young lambs of her old friend the sheep.
ref: 1963, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, Penguin Classics (2010), page 47:
glosses: A female leopard.
Derived terms: snow leopardess
oeuf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːf/
rhymes: -ɜːf
homophone: erf (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: oeufs
Etymology: Borrowed from French œuf. Doublet of egg, ey, huevo, and ovum.
Senses: glosses: An egg.
raw_tags: in puns or referring to French cooking
Related terms: oeuf en cocotte
nome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊm/
enpr: nōm
ipa: /noʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
rhymes: -oʊm
homophone: Nome
homophone: gnome
Forms: form: nomes
Etymology: From French nome, from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “district”), from νέμω (némō, “I divide”). Doublet of nomos.
Senses: examples: text: Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.
glosses: A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
examples: text: Yet the part will be as the whole, and you will be the High Priest in this nome of Egypt.
ref: 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
glosses: A territorial division of ancient Egypt.
Derived terms: nomarch
nome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊm/
enpr: nōm
ipa: /noʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
rhymes: -oʊm
homophone: Nome
homophone: gnome
Forms: form: nomes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos), from νέμω (némō, “I divide”). Differs from Etymology 1 in the position of Ancient Greek accent, though from the same root.
Senses: glosses: A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.
nome
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊm/
enpr: nōm
ipa: /noʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
rhymes: -oʊm
homophone: Nome
homophone: gnome
Etymology: Contraction.
Senses: examples: text: Mother said, “Is he cold, Versh.”
“Nome.” Versh said.
ref: 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Folio Society, published 2016, page 7:
glosses: Alternative form of no'm (“no ma'am”).
nome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊm/
enpr: nōm
ipa: /noʊm/
rhymes: -əʊm
rhymes: -oʊm
homophone: Nome
homophone: gnome
Etymology: The sense "term" is from French -nôme, second element of binôme etc., again from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós) here in its sense "division". The name of the special function may be identical or may be an independent borrowing from the Greek.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A term in an algebraic expression.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described.
Related terms: nome sane
Tripolitania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌtɹɪpəlɪˈteɪni.ə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Τριπολιτάνια (Tripolitánia), from Τριπολίτης (Tripolítēs, “Tripolitan”) + -ία (-ía, “forming abstract nouns”), from Τρίπολις (Trípolis, “Tripoli”) + -της (-tēs, “forming abstract nouns”), reanalyzed as Τρίπολ-ῑ́της (Trípol-ī́tēs) (compare πολίτης (polítēs) and Latin -ī̆tānus), from τρι- (tri-, “three”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”), referring to the three cities Oea, Sabratha and Leptis Magna.
Senses: glosses: A historic region and former province in western Libya, centered around the coastal city of Tripoli.
Derived terms: Tripolitanian
kitsune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪtˈsuː.neɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɪt.sʊ.neɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɪts.neɪ/
ipa: /kɪtˈsuː.ni/
ipa: /kɪtˈsuːn/
ipa: /ˈkɪtsuːn/
rhymes: -uːneɪ
rhymes: -uːni
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: kitsune
form: kitsunes
Etymology: From Japanese 狐 (kitsune, “fox”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Japanese fox spirit, often but not exclusively female, said to have powers such as shape-shifting, and whose power is symbolized by increase in number of tails.
Derived terms: kitsune udon
tanuki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈnʊkɪ/
ipa: /tɑˈnuki/
ipa: /ˈtɑnuki/
rhymes: -ʊki
rhymes: -uːki
Forms: form: tanuki
form: tanukis
form: tanooki
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 狸(たぬき) (tanuki, “raccoon dog”).
Senses: examples: text: At my onboarding, I was told that one of GitHub's employees identified as a tanuki, a Japanese raccoon dog—this was fine.
ref: 2023 May 28, Nadia Asparouhova, “Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture”, in Wired, →ISSN:
synonyms: mangut
glosses: A raccoon dog, Nyctereutes viverrinus.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A folkloric figure in the form of a tanuki, regarded as a shapeshifter and renowned for its enormous scrotum and testicles.
glosses: The joining of a living bonsai tree to a piece of dead wood for aesthetic effect.
sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: sack
Forms: form: sacs
Etymology: Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of saccus, sack, saco, and sakkos.
Senses: glosses: A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
Derived terms: air sac
amniotic sac
anal sac
castor sac
dart sac
egg sac
embryo sac
gestational sac
gestation sac
greater sac
heart sac
hernial sac
honey sac
ink sac
lachrymal sac
lacrimal sac
laryngeal sac
lesser sac
liocranid sac spider
nasolacrimal sac
Needham's sac
saccate
sacciferous
sac fry
sac fungus
sac-gut
sacless
scrotal sac
shell sac
sperm sac
tear sac
vocal sac
yolk sac
sac
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: sack
Forms: form: sacs
form: sacking
form: saccing
form: sacked
form: sacked
form: sacced
form: sacced
Etymology: Clipping of sacrifice.
Senses: examples: text: Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.
text: I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.
topics: games
glosses: To sacrifice.
sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: sack
Forms: form: sacs
Etymology: Clipping of sacrifice.
Senses: examples: text: Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.
topics: games
glosses: A sacrifice.
Derived terms: sac bunt
sac fly
sal sac
sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: sack
Etymology: See sake, soc.
Senses: examples: text: But it is really the court-baron which represents the ancient assembly of the mark, while the court-leet represents the lord's jurisdiction of sac and soc, whether granted before or since the coming of William.
ref: 1876, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England, page 311:
text: In later times, if the lord had "sac and soc,” his court had the authority of the Court Leet; if he had the view of frankpledge the suitors at his court were free from attendance at the sheriff's tourn; his court was then in all points like the hundred court, but independent of the sheriff.
ref: 1882, William White, History, gazetteer, and directory, of Lincolnshire, page 21:
text: The grant of “sac and soc” did not always carry with it the right to hold a court, but frequently amounted only to the privilege of receiving the forfeitures the lord's men should incur in the Hundred court, or possibly to one-third of the revenues of the Hundred and Shire, which had formerly gone to the ealdorman.
ref: 1899 February, F. M. Cobb, “Early English Courts”, in The Western Reserve Law Journal, volume 5, number 1, page 16:
topics: law
glosses: The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.
Related terms: cul de sac
poutchine au sac
sac-a-lait
sac lacsac up
girlfriends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girlfriend
nigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: nigher
form: more nigh
form: nighest
form: most nigh
Etymology: From Middle English neygh, nygh, nye, nyȝ, from Old English nēah, nēh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian nai (“near”), West Frisian nei (“near, close by”), Dutch na (“close, near”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”). See also near.
Senses: examples: text: The end is nigh!
text: For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:
text: a. 1831, Ludovico Ariosto, William Stewart Rose (translator), Orlando Furioso, 2006, Echo Library, page 185,
He at his head took aim who stood most nigh;
text: By these and many histories more, it is most evident, that the more nigh salvation and deliverance approach, the more vehement is temptation and trouble.
ref: 1831, John Knox, The History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland, page 421:
text: The enemy, somewhat imboldened, draws nigher to the fort.
ref: 1834, Davy Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, page 197:
text: You then went to St. Andrews, the nighest ocean port.
ref: 1889, House of Commons of Canada, Debates: Official Report, volume 2, page 1408:
text: The end is nigh (or at least it was supposed to be), but the Pacers in northern England kept plugging away providing a service while awaiting the much-delayed arrival of their replacements.
ref: 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63, photo caption:
text: Who sends the waves that bring us nigh / Unto the shore, the rock of Christ?
ref: 2020, Keith Getty, Matt Boswell, Jordan Kauflin, Matt Merker, Matt Papa, “Christ Our Hope in Life and Death”Getty Music Publishing (BMI) / Messenger Hymns (BMI) / Matthew Merker Music (BMI) / Jordan Kauflin Music (BMI) / Getty Music Hymns and Songs (ASCAP) / Love Your Enemies Publishing (ASCAP):
glosses: Near, close by.
examples: text: Ye […] are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 2:13:
glosses: Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate.
Synonyms: sense: near
word: close
word: near
Derived terms: nighen
nigh-hand
nigh on
nighness
Related terms: near
neighbor
next
nigh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: nighs
form: nighing
form: nighed
form: nighed
form: ny
Etymology: From Middle English neygh, nygh, nye, nyȝ, from Old English nēah, nēh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian nai (“near”), West Frisian nei (“near, close by”), Dutch na (“close, near”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”). See also near.
Senses: examples: text: When the charnel-eyed Pale Horse has nighed
ref: 1924, Thomas Hardy, He Resolves to Say No More:
glosses: to draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near
nigh
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: From Middle English neygh, nygh, nye, nyȝ, from Old English nēah, nēh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian nai (“near”), West Frisian nei (“near, close by”), Dutch na (“close, near”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”). See also near.
Senses: examples: text: So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.[…]It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Hell of a surprise in the seventh season premiere of Game Of Thrones. Arya Stark, fresh off a nigh Cersei-level ambush of the Frey household, comes upon a small campfire surrounded by fresh-faced red cloaks.
ref: 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Almost, nearly.
Derived terms: anigh
fornigh
neighbour
nighly
nighness
nigh on
nighsome
nigh-well
nighwhat
overnigh
therenigh
unnigh
well-nigh
nigh
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: From Middle English neygh, nygh, nye, nyȝ, from Old English nēah, nēh, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian nai (“near”), West Frisian nei (“near, close by”), Dutch na (“close, near”), Luxembourgish no (“nearby, near, close”), German nah (“close, near, nearby”). See also near.
Senses: examples: text: When the Moon is horned […] is it not ever nigh the Sun?
ref: 1661-5, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo Galilei, Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
text: The cottage stood nigh the burn, in a little garden, with lilyoaks and grosart bushes lining the pathway.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: near; close to
archbishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˈbɪʃəp/
note: less often
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˌbɪʃəp/
Forms: form: archbishops
form: abp.
form: Abp.
Etymology: From Middle English erchebischop, archebischop, from Old English arċebisċop (“archbishop”), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin archiepiscopus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “first, chief”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπισκοπέω (episkopéō, “to watch over”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to examine”), equivalent to arch- + bishop.
Senses: examples: text: Thereupon I declared that I was a heretic and a barbarian—“Je suis hérétique et barbare,” I said, “and that these archbishops and cardinals and monsignors, and the rest of them, meant nothing at all to me.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler:
text: He passed over several archbishops who would traditionally become cardinals to promote Gregory. He also moved Augustine Tolton, who died in 1897 after becoming the first African American priest, one step closer to sainthood.
ref: 2020 November 27, Daniel Burke and Delia Gallagher, “This archbishop has become the first African American cardinal in Catholic history”, in CNN:
text: One of those 19 candidates was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, the archbishop of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008.
ref: 2025 April 21, Sam Clancy, Andrew Weil, “Former St. Louis archbishop Burke among 'popeable' candidates after Francis' death”, in KSDK:
glosses: A senior bishop who is in charge of an archdiocese, and presides over a group of dioceses called a province (in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc.)
Derived terms: archbishophood
Related terms: archbishopdom
archbishopric
archbishopship
archepiscopal
bishop
bishopric
episcopal
archdiocese
diocese
Excellency
Grace
prelate
primate
prolific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊˈlɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more prolific
form: most prolific
form: prolifick
Etymology: 1640–1650: from French prolifique, from Latin proles (“offspring”) and facere (“to make”).
Senses: glosses: Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
examples: text: However appealing Antibes may be to migrant authors, indigenous ones are relatively scarce. A notable exception is Jacques Audiberti, Antibes-born novelist and prolific playwright who wrote in the turn-of-the-century surrealist style, with titles that translate as Slaughter, or In Favour of Infanticide.
ref: 2007, Ted Jones, The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers, page 58:
text: The most obvious beneficiary of the visitors' superiority was Frank Lampard. By the end of the night he was perched 13th in the list of England's most prolific goalscorers, having leapfrogged Sir Geoff Hurst to score his 24th and 25th international goals. No other player has managed more than the Chelsea midfielder's 11 in World Cup qualification ties, with this a display to roll back the years.
ref: 2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian:
text: A Chinese PhD student who is "one of the most prolific predators" in the UK has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 24 years.
ref: 2025 June 19, “Student who raped 10 women jailed for 24 years”, in bbc.com:
glosses: Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
Synonyms: word: fertile
sense: producing offspring or fruit in abundance
word: fecund
Derived terms: prolificacy
prolifically
prolificity
prolificness