cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæt/
ipa: [pʰæt]
ipa: [pʰæt̚]
ipa: [pʰæˀt̚]
enpr: pǎt
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: pats
form: patting
form: patted
form: patted
Etymology: From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.
Senses: examples: text: To show affection, he decided he would pat the boy on the head.
text: He came round to each of us to pat and speak to us for the last time; his voice sounded very sad.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 103:
glosses: To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing.
examples: text: I patted the cookie dough into shape.
text: Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat
examples: text: Do you want to pat the cat?
glosses: To stroke or fondle (an animal). Compare pet.
glosses: To gently rain.
Derived terms: word: bepat
word: patball
word: pat down
word: pat on the back
word: pattable
word: unpatted
pat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæt/
ipa: [pʰæt]
ipa: [pʰæt̚]
ipa: [pʰæˀt̚]
enpr: pǎt
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: more pat
form: most pat
Etymology: From Middle English *patten, alteration (with loss of medial l) of platten, pletten (“to pat”), from Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *plat- (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”), German platzen (“to split, burst, break up”), Bavarian patzen (“to pat”), Swedish plätta, pjätta (“to pat, tap”). For loss of l, compare patch for platch; pate for plate, etc. See plat.
Senses: examples: text: Now might I do it pat
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Opportunely, in a timely or suitable way.
examples: text: He has the routine down pat.
glosses: Perfectly.
examples: text: Wauwa Pease says of the strategic position of the Pirates in the dining room: “They have taken the table near the upper doorway so they can make a speedy exit in case their lair is raided.” Of course, the Wauwas stand pat in the middle of the dining room, having nothing to fear.
ref: 1922 September 22, “At the Wauwatosa Table”, in City Club News, volume viii, number 2, Milwaukee, page 7:
text: His nose sitteth flat on the face of him as it were a dab of clay, and I can see pat up his nostrils a summer day’s journey into his head.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 8:
text: Candidates in gubernatorial campaigns must stand pat in the middle, trying to push their rivals off the center line, charging the opponent with either left or right extremism.
ref: 1962, Newsweek:
text: In Ogoni[land], Shell locations lie pat in the middle of villages, in front and back gardens – and that should lay a particular responsibility on Shell to be absolutely cautious in its operations.
ref: 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Month and a Day, page 112:
glosses: Straight, right, exactly, precisely.
Related terms: feel
hit
name
strike
pat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæt/
ipa: [pʰæt]
ipa: [pʰæt̚]
ipa: [pʰæˀt̚]
enpr: pǎt
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: pats
Senses: glosses: Clipping of patent.
examples: text: Work in pat to next underarm marker, sm, place next st on holder[…]
ref: 2012, Kari Cornell, Knitting Sweaters from around the World, page 52:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Clipping of pattern.
pat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæt/
ipa: [pʰæt]
ipa: [pʰæt̚]
ipa: [pʰæˀt̚]
enpr: pǎt
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: more pat
form: most pat
Etymology: Clipping of patrician.
Senses: glosses: Upper-class, nobby.
Related terms: on one's pat
on the pat and mick
pat-a-cake
pat leave
pit-pat
pitty-pat
tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæp/
ipa: [tʰæp]
ipa: /tɐːp/
rhymes: -æp
Etymology: From Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit ताप (tāpa, “fever; heat; pain, torment”).
Senses: examples: text: According to the Yunani hakims dengue is a "tap safrow"—a fever due to excess of bile, and it is wonderful the amount of dark colored bile that passes away after a purgative, especially if that is not administered until the third day.
ref: [1873 February 1, James Wise, “Report on the Epidemic of Dengue in the Dacca District During 1872”, in The Indian Medical Gazette, volume VIII, Calcutta: Wyman & Co., page 32, column 2:
text: […] in despair, he fell back on the unfailing reason (to the native mind) for every unaccountable action, and declared that the horses had tap, or fever. ¶ "Oh, that's all nonsense, Sooka!" replied Blunt to this assertion of his subordinate. They were walking along between the rows of stalls, making their morning inspection, and closely examining into the condition of every animal: "that's all nonsense! there's no tap here. Every one of them is as cool and nice as he can be—perfect pictures of condition most of them, No, no; there's no fever whatever amongst them."
ref: 1874, Stephen J Mac Kenna, At School With An Old Dragoon, second edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., pages 330–331:
text: The country, my entertainer informed me, was considered perfectly safe, unless I feared the tap, the bad kind of fever which infests all the country at the base of the hills.
ref: 1882, F[rancis] Marion Crawford, Mr. Isaacs: A Tale of Modern India, New York, N.Y.: P. F. Collier & Son, page 261:
text: But, when I heard her speak soft Urdu words,
 Like a white angel in her pity of us,
 No whit afraid of sitla, or of tap
 Fever or pest!
ref: [1888, Edwin Arnold, With Sa'di in the Garden: Or, the Book of Love, Boston, M.A.: Roberts Brothers, page 47:
glosses: A malarial fever.
Synonyms: word: clap
word: knock
word: pat
word: ping
word: plip
word: plonk
word: plop
word: rap
word: slam
word: slap
word: smack
word: spank
word: tap
Hypernyms: word: abrupt sound
Hyponyms: word: bang
word: kerpow
word: pow
word: wham
word: clump
word: flump
word: kerplunk
word: plunk
word: thud
word: thump
Derived terms: doolally tap
Related terms: word: beep
word: snap
primary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪməɹi/
enpr: prīʹmĕr-ē
ipa: /ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi/
enpr: prīʹmə-rē
ipa: /ˈpɹaɪməɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɹaɪm(ə)ɹiː/
rhymes: -aɪməɹi
rhymes: -aɪmɛɹi
Forms: form: more primary
form: most primary
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.
Senses: examples: text: Children attend primary school, and teenagers attend secondary school.
text: the church of Christ, in its primary institution
ref: 1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed:
text: , Book II, Chapter VIII
These I call original, or primary, qualities of body.
glosses: First or earliest in a group or series.
examples: text: Preferred stock has primary claim on dividends, ahead of common stock.
glosses: Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Earliest formed; fundamental.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the place where a disorder or disease started to occur.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to day-to-day care provided by health professionals such as nurses, general practitioners, dentists etc.
Derived terms: circumprimary
coprimary
megaprimary
nonprimary
postprimary
preprimary
pre-primary
primarily
primariness
primary accent
primary alcohol
primary amine
primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
primary bedroom
primary care
primary cell wall
primary cilium
primary color
primary colour
primary data
primary education
primary energy
primary explosive
primary fire
primary forest
primary goods
primary healthcare
primary hypothermia
primary ideal
primary immunodeficiency
primary industry
primary key
primary legislation
primary life support system
primary market
primary memory
primary myelofibrosis
primary offense
primary phosphine
primary planet
primary poverty
primary producer
primary production
primary radar
primary rate interface
primary reinforcement
primary research
primary residence
primary school
primary sector
primary source
primary storage
primary stress
primary structure
primary surveillance radar
primary tense
primary time
primary time standard
primary tooth
primary transcript
primary valence
primary work
primary world
pseudoprimary
secundo-primary
subprimary
superprimary
titan primary
Related terms: first
primus inter pares
madeleine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmad(ə)lɪn/
ipa: /ˈmad(ə)lɛn/
ipa: /ˈmædələn/
ipa: /ˌmædəˈleɪn/
Forms: form: madeleines
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French madeleine, from earlier gâteau à la Madeleine, after the given name Madeleine (“Magdalene”), of uncertain reference: attributed in some sources to a 19th-century pastry cook Madeleine Paulmier, whose existence is now considered dubious.
In sense 2, used with reference to the cake's function in the extract below, taken from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
Senses: examples: text: And suddenly the memory revealed itself. The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray […] my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane.
ref: 1981, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, transl., Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time), Folio Society, translation of original by Marcel Proust, published 2005, page 44:
text: Madeleine batter can be made in advance and refrigerated.
ref: 2003, Emily Luchetti, A Passion for Desserts, Chronicle Books, page 20:
glosses: A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
examples: text: The Robe was thus fixed in my mind as a symbol, and in my memory as a madeleine, of Jewish evil.
ref: 2001, James Carroll, Constantine's Sword, Houghton-Mifflin, page 223:
text: Every five years or so, in the middle of another task, I'll look at them and a particular cover will bring memory flooding back like a madeleine.
ref: 2005, Roger Ebert, Rogert Ebert's Movie Yearbook, page 784:
text: My madeleine moment happened early on Friday, while pot smoke drifted in the air as I waited for a shuttle to the polo fields where Coachella takes place.
ref: 2022 April 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “Coachella Defeated My Cynicism About Music Festivals”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Something which brings back a memory; a source of nostalgia or evocative memories.
tapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæpæs/
ipa: /-pəs/
ipa: /ˈtæpəs/
ipa: /ˈtɑː-/
Forms: form: tapa
Etymology: From Spanish tapas, the plural of tapa (“appetizer, tapa; cap, lid (cover of a container)”) (from the fact that plates of tapas were originally placed on the tops of glasses of alcoholic beverages as lids), from Gothic *𐍄𐌰𐍀𐍀𐌰 (*tappa), from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug; tap”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p- (“to lose; to sacrifice”). Doublet of tap.
Senses: examples: text: The snacks are called tapas because in the old days a piece of toast was served, too, so that you might have a "top" on your glass of sherry, a lid that would prevent the flies from getting into the glass.
ref: 1986, Jeff Smith, “The Tapas Buffet (Spain)”, in The Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Most food scholars agree that the tapas tradition originated in the wine-growing regions of Andalusia, eventually spreading throughout the country. The Moors (Muslim Arabs), who dominated Spain from the beginning of the eighth century until the end of the fifteenth century, settled in the same area, and their meze tradition undoubtedly had an influence on the rise of the tapa.
ref: 2013, Joyce Goldstein, “Introduction”, in Tapas: Sensational Small Plates from Spain, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well.
Hypernyms: small plates
Coordinate terms: pintxos
Derived terms: tapaslike
tapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæpæs/
ipa: /-pəs/
ipa: /ˈtæpəs/
ipa: /ˈtɑː-/
ipa: /ˈθəpəs/
ipa: /ˈtæpæs/
ipa: /-pəs/
ipa: /ˈtæpəs/
ipa: /ˈtɑː-/
Etymology: From Sanskrit तप् (tap, “heat; to be hot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“to be warm or hot”). Related to tepid.
Senses: glosses: (The practice of) asceticism and self-discipline.
tapas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæpæs/
ipa: /-pəs/
ipa: /ˈtæpəs/
ipa: /ˈtɑː-/
ipa: /ˈθəpəs/
Etymology: From tapa + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of tapa
Tangiers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: other: /tænˈdʒɪəz/
enpr: tănjîrzʹ
other: /tænˈdʒɪrz/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tangier.
Tarragona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːɹəˈɡəʊnə/
ipa: /tæɹəˈɡəʊnə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Tarragona, ultimately from Latin Tarracō.
Senses: glosses: A city and port in Catalonia, Spain.
glosses: A province of Catalonia, Spain.
examples: Meronyms: Cabagayan, Central, Dadong, Jovellar, Limot, Lucatan, Maganda, Ompao, Tomoaong, Tubaon — barangays of Tarragona
glosses: A municipality of Davao Oriental, Philippines.
Tashkent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɑːʃˈkɛnt/
ipa: /ˌtæʃˈkɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: Tashkand
form: Tashkend
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ташкент (Taškent), from Uzbek Toshkent, from Chagatai تاشکند (taškänd), compound of tosh (“stone”) + Old Turkic [script needed] (kend, “city”) (compare Turkish kent), the latter borrowed from Sogdian [Term?] (/⁠kand⁠/, “city”).
Senses: examples: text: The Uzbek opera house and the Uzbek dramatic theater, both in Tashkent, are of recent origin and arose under Soviet influence.
ref: 1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission, →OCLC, →OL, page 103:
synonyms: Chach
glosses: The capital city of Uzbekistan.
Derived terms: Tashkenter
Tashkenti
payroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pā′rōl′
ipa: /ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/
ipa: /ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/
ipa: /ˈpæɪ̯ˌɹəʉl/
ipa: /ˈpæɪ̯ˌɹɐʉl/
ipa: /ˈpeˌɹol/
ipa: /ˈpeːˌɾoːl/
rhymes: -eɪɹəʊl
Forms: form: payrolls
form: pay roll
Etymology: From pay + roll.
Senses: examples: text: Magazines kept aristocrats on the payroll to facilitate access to jet-set playgrounds like Corfu and Mustique.
ref: 2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2025:
glosses: A list of employees who receive salary or wages, together with the amounts due to each.
glosses: The total sum of money paid to employees.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The calculation of salaries and wages and the deduction of taxes etc.; the department in a company responsible for this.
examples: text: I know that the deal started with the boys in Santiago, because they’ve been on the d’Anconia pay roll for centuries — well, no, ‘pay roll’ is an honorable word, it would be more exact to say that d’Anconia Copper has been paying them protection money for centuries — isn't that what your gangsters call it?
ref: 1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged:
text: We can spread a rumor this cop was dirty. Look, Tom, we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we?
ref: 1972, The Godfather, spoken by Michael Corleone:
glosses: Bribes paid to people.
Synonyms: sense: list
word: paysheet
Derived terms: e-payroll
nonpayroll
payrollee
payroller
payroll tax
payroll vote
Related terms: payslip
payroll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pā′rōl′
ipa: /ˈpeɪˌɹəʊl/
ipa: /ˈpeɪˌɹoʊl/
ipa: /ˈpæɪ̯ˌɹəʉl/
ipa: /ˈpæɪ̯ˌɹɐʉl/
ipa: /ˈpeˌɹol/
ipa: /ˈpeːˌɾoːl/
rhymes: -eɪɹəʊl
Forms: form: payrolls
form: payrolling
form: payrolled
form: payrolled
form: pay roll
Etymology: From pay + roll.
Senses: examples: text: Grantees may elect to payroll the enrollees through their own payroll system if the payroll system is consistent with regulations contained herein.
ref: 1985, The Code of Federal regulations of the United States of America, page 37:
glosses: To place on a payroll (sense 1).
Tehran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˈɹæn/
ipa: /ˌtɛˈɹɑːn/
Forms: form: Teheran
form: Tehrân
Etymology: Diacriticless transliteration of Iranian Persian تِهران (tehrân), from Classical Persian تَهران (tahrān). See there for more.
Senses: examples: text: Three days after the presidential elections, Tehran was in upheaval.
ref: 2013 June 13, Sune Engel Rasmussen, “After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S.”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2014:
glosses: The capital city of Iran, the seat of Tehran County's Central District and the capital of Tehran Province.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
glosses: Tehran Province, one of 31 provinces in Iran.
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: The Tehran Conference (1943).
glosses: The government of Iran.
Derived terms: Tehrangeles
Tehrani
Tehranian
Tel Aviv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛl.əˈvɪv/
ipa: /ˌtɛl.əˈviːv/
rhymes: -ɪv
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: Tel-Aviv
Etymology: From Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív), from the title of Nahum Sokolow's translation of Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (“The Old New Land”). From תֵּל (tél, “hill formed by ancient ruins”), symbolizing the Old, and אָבִיב ('avív, “spring”), symbolizing the New.
Senses: examples: text: Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides.
ref: 2024 September 25, Irene Nasser, Dana Karni, Helen Regan and Sophie Tanno, “Israel intercepts Hezbollah ballistic missile near Tel Aviv in first such attack”, in CNN:
glosses: A city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
synonyms: Tel Aviv District
glosses: A district in Israel.
qualifier: informal or formerly
glosses: The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
glosses: The center of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Tirana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈɹɑː.nə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: Tiranë
Etymology: From Albanian Tiranë/Tirana.
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the capital and largest city of Albania, located in the center of the country west of the mountain of Dajti on the plain of Tirana; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
glosses: A county of Albania.
Derived terms: Tiranan
Tobago
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈbeɪ.ɡəʊ/
rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
Etymology: Probably from Spanish tabaco (“tobacco”), thus a doublet of tobacco.
Senses: glosses: An island and ward of the Caribbean, part of Trinidad and Tobago.
Derived terms: Great Tobago
Little Tobago
Tobago Cays
Tobago least gecko
Tobagonian
Tokyo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoʊ.ki.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈtoʊ.kjoʊ/
ipa: /ˈtəʊ.ki.əʊ/
rhymes: -əʊkiəʊ
Forms: form: Tokio
form: Tōkyō
form: Tôkyô
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 東(とう)京(きょう) (Tōkyō, literally “eastern capital”), as opposed to Kyoto in the west, from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjaeng, “capital”).
Senses: examples: text: The first phase of the project, connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, is scheduled to be completed in 2027 and is expected to cut traveling time between those cities by half.
ref: 2019 March 4, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “China to introduce new generation of driverless trains in 2020”, in CNN:
glosses: A prefecture and capital city of Japan.
examples: text: Tokyo required certain military technologies and some raw materials that its main European ally already possessed, and also needed new markets for its Southeast Asian products in order to keep the local economies alive.
ref: 2017 June 8, Rotem Kowner, “When economics, strategy, and racial ideology meet: inter-Axis connections in the wartime Indian Ocean*”, in Journal of Global History, volume 12, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 231:
text: Meanwhile, Japan must bolster its own defenses and substantially increase defense spending to meet new threats. Tokyo should swallow some of its suspicions and move more quickly to rebuild frayed ties with South Korea. It should make cooperation with the United States a cornerstone of its engagement throughout the Indo-Pacific and with NATO. It is a full agenda and there is no time to lose.
ref: 2022 July 1, The Japan Times Editorial Board, “Groundbreaking NATO summit means work for Japan”, in The Japan Times, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022, Editorials:
glosses: The Japanese government.
Synonyms: word: Edo
word: Yedo
Derived terms: midnight in Tokyo
Neo Tokyo
Tokyoite
Related terms: Japan
Hachiōji
Fuchū
Hino
Inagi
Kiyose
Mitaka
Musashino
Tachikawa
Hachijō
Miyake
Ogasawara
Ōshima
Adachi
Arakawa
Bunkyō
Chiyoda
Chūō
Edogawa
Itabashi
Katsushika
Kita
Kōtō
Meguro
Minato
Nakano
Nerima
Ōta
Setagaya
Shibuya
Shinagawa
Shinjuku
Suginami
Sumida
Taitō
Toshima
Transylvania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹæn.səlˈveɪ.ni.ə/
ipa: /-.njə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Medieval Latin trāns
Medieval Latin trans-
Medieval Latin silva
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Medieval Latin -nus
Medieval Latin silvānus
Medieval Latin -ia
Old Hungarian erdő
Old Hungarian elü
Old Hungarian Erdeuelu
Medieval Latin Trānsylvānialbor.
English Transylvania
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Trānsylvānia, alternative spelling of Trānssilvānia, from trāns (“across”) + silvānus (“forest”, relational adjective) + -ia (abstract noun suffix), i.e. “region across the forest”, a calque of Hungarian Erdély, from erdő (“forest”) + elv/elü (“region beyond”). By surface analysis, trans- + sylvan + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A historical region in western Romania.
Derived terms: Transylvania County
Transylvanian
Related terms: Pennsylvania
Pittsylvania
Spotsylvania
Sylvania
-sylvania
york
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: yorks
form: yorking
form: yorked
form: yorked
Etymology: Back-formation from yorker.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.
york
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: yorks
form: yorking
form: yorked
form: yorked
Etymology: Perhaps imitative.
Senses: examples: text: BADGER: They're eating blueberry pies... […] Okay, finally, Kirk, he can't take it anymore. He yorks! Now it's just down to Chekov and Spock.
ref: 2013, Breaking Bad (TV series), "Blood Money" (episode)
glosses: To vomit.
noise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: noiz
ipa: /nɔɪz/
rhymes: -ɔɪz
homophone: Noyes
Forms: form: noises
form: noising
form: noised
form: noised
Etymology: From Middle English noyse, noise, from Old French noise (“a dispute, wrangle, strife, noise”), of uncertain origin. According to some, from Latin nausia, nausea (“disgust, nausea”); according to others, from Latin noxia (“hurt, harm, damage, injury”); but neither explanation is satisfactory in regard to either form or sense.
Senses: examples: text: Those terrours, which thou speak'st of, did me none ;
I never fear'd they could, though noising loud
And threatening nigh
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To make a noise; to sound.
examples: text: When this was noysed aboute, the multitude cam togedder and were astonyed, because that every man herde them speake in his awne tongue.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
text: This man then meeting with Chriſtian, and having ſome inckling of him, for Chriſtians ſetting forth from the City of Deſtruction was much noiſed abroad, not only in the Town, where he dwelt, but alſo it began to be the Town-talk in ſome other places.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.
Trinidad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪnɪdæd/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish trinidad (“trinity”), named after the Holy Trinity by Columbus to fulfill a religious vow.
Senses: examples: text: Down ‘D’ Islands, or DDI for short, makes it easy for visitors to island-hop around offshore parts of Trinidad that most Trinidadians don’t even know.
ref: 2024 April 9, Steve Bennett, “This overlooked island has some of the Caribbean’s best beaches”, in CNN:
glosses: An island in the Caribbean, part of Trinidad and Tobago.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A home rule municipality, the county seat of Las Animas County, Colorado.
examples: text: ‘Some trouble on the road up north around Trinidad.’
ref: 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 159:
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Humboldt County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Henderson County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community and ghost town in Grant County, Washington.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood in north-east Washington, D.C..
glosses: A number of places in other countries:
A city, the capital of Beni department, Bolivia.
glosses: A number of places in other countries:
A town and municipality in Casanare department, Colombia.
glosses: A number of places in other countries:
A town in Sancti Spíritus province, Cuba.
glosses: A number of places in other countries:
A district in Itapúa department, Paraguay.
glosses: A number of places in other countries:
A municipality in Bohol province, Philippines.
glosses: A number of places in other countries:
A city, the capital of Flores department, Uruguay.
Derived terms: Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidadian
Tripoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪpəli/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪpl̩i/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪpəli/
note: Tripoli, Iowa
ipa: /tɹɪˈpoʊlə/
rhymes: -ɪpəli
homophone: trippily
Forms: form: Tripoly
form: Tripolis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tripoli, from Latin Tripolis, from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis), from τρι- (tri-, “three”) + πολις (polis, “city, city-state”). In reference to American cities, after US actions off Tripoli in Libya during the First Barbary War. Doublet of Tripolis, Tirebolu, and Tripura.
Senses: glosses: A city in the Peloponnese region, Greece, also known as Tripolis.
examples: text: When he got to Zawiyah, the coastal town west of Tripoli that has become the main hub for the people-smuggling industry, he was kidnapped a second time and held in a tiny cell for six months.
ref: 2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
glosses: The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.
glosses: A city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus.
glosses: A city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lincoln County and Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States.
Synonyms: sense: Libyan capital
word: Oea
Related terms: Tripolitan
Tripolitania
Tripoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪpəli/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪpl̩i/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪpəli/
note: Tripoli, Iowa
ipa: /tɹɪˈpoʊlə/
rhymes: -ɪpəli
homophone: trippily
Forms: form: Tripoly
form: Tripolis
Etymology: From modern Greek Τρίπολη (Trípoli) used from the 19th century in place of Byzantine Greek Τριπολιτσά (Tripolitsá), probably from Slavic Droboliza.
Senses: glosses: A city in Greece.
silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪl(ə)ns/
ipa: /ˈsaɪləns/
rhymes: -aɪləns
Forms: form: silences
Etymology: From Middle English silence, from Old French silence, from Latin silentium (“silence”), from silēns (“quiet, silent”, present participle of silēre) + -ium. Displaced native Old English swīġe and sālnes.
Senses: examples: text: When the motor stopped, the silence was almost deafening.
text: Words like violence break the silence / Come crashing in into my little world
ref: 1990, Martin L. Gore, “Enjoy the Silence”, in Violator, performed by Depeche Mode:
text: deadly silence
text: in silence
text: total silence
glosses: The absence of any sound.
examples: text: "You have the right to silence," said the police officer.
text: Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: 1832, Daniel Webster, "a convention", quoted in The History of the Union, and of the Constitution by Charles Chauncey Burr
The administration itself keeps a profound silence.
glosses: The act of refraining from speaking.
examples: text: During silence a message came to me that there was that of God in every person.
glosses: Refraining from speaking, for purposes of prayer or meditation; especially, a form of worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers) during meetings.
Synonyms: word: inaudibility
word: quietness
word: black noise
word: crickets
word: hush
word: noiselessness
word: quiet
word: roo
word: silence
word: stillness
word: soundlessness
Hypernyms: word: lack of sensation
word: peace
Hyponyms: word: deafening silence
word: radio silence
Derived terms: argument from silence
blue code of silence
blue wall of silence
break silence
break the silence
code of silence
cone of silence
conspiracy of silence
dead silence
deafening silence
in silence
moment of silence
pact of silence
radio silence
right to silence
silence camp
silence is consent
silence is golden
silence is oppression
silence is violence
speech is silver, silence is golden
suffer in silence
tower of silence
two-minute silence
wall of silence
Related terms: word: silent
word: code of silence
word: cone of silence
word: conspiracy of silence
word: omertà
word: one could hear a pin drop
word: quiet as a mouse
word: Sicilian code
word: silent as the grave
word: silent as the tomb
word: wall of silence
word: be quiet
word: make silent
word: stop talking
silence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪl(ə)ns/
ipa: /ˈsaɪləns/
rhymes: -aɪləns
Forms: form: silences
form: silencing
form: silenced
form: silenced
Etymology: From Middle English silence, from Old French silence, from Latin silentium (“silence”), from silēns (“quiet, silent”, present participle of silēre) + -ium. Displaced native Old English swīġe and sālnes.
Senses: examples: text: Can you silence the crowd, so we can start the show?
synonyms: mute
glosses: To make (someone or something) silent.
examples: text: Women, as well as children, have their thoughts or emotions routinely silenced.
glosses: To repress the expression of something.
examples: text: Silence the critics.
text: Silence the doubters.
text: A state ideology, mixing nationalism, and basic Marxist economics, going under the name "Juche", was constructed, and Kim Il-sung effectively silenced, disposed of and cleared away any opposition, isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military, the state media and the government and party organs.
ref: 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To suppress criticism, etc.
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: To block gene expression.
examples: text: They, and others through the years, believed Ruby must have acted on his own since there was no logic to the supposition that anyone could trust an uncontrollable, unreliable loudmouth like Ruby to silence Oswald.
ref: 2013, Mark Shaw, The Poison Patriarch: How the Betrayals of Joseph P. Kennedy Caused the Assassination of JFK, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: To murder.
Derived terms: silencer
Related terms: quiet
noise
loud
deaf
audible
silence
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪl(ə)ns/
ipa: /ˈsaɪləns/
rhymes: -aɪləns
Etymology: From Middle English silence, from Old French silence, from Latin silentium (“silence”), from silēns (“quiet, silent”, present participle of silēre) + -ium. Displaced native Old English swīġe and sālnes.
Senses: examples: text: Silence! Enough of your insolence!
text: (in response to laughter from the audience)
Silence! I kill you!
ref: 2007 September 17, Spark of Insanity, spoken by Achmed the Dead Terrorist (Jeff Dunham):
glosses: Be silent.
Synonyms: be quiet
hush
shush
shut up
whist
Tunis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːnɪs/
ipa: /ˈtuːnəs/
rhymes: -uːnəs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic تُونِس (tūnis). Further derivation uncertain, but some possibilities are:
* Derived from a Berber root ens "to lie down", tansawt "to pass the night", thus "encampment".
* Related to the Phoenician goddess Tanit.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the citizens of Tunis have certaine fields in the suburbs walled round about, where they sowe some quantitie of barley and of other corne: howbeit the soyle is marveluellous dry, and standeth in need of much watring
ref: 1600, Joannes Leo Africanus, A Geographical Historie of Africa, page 248:
glosses: A city on the northern coast of Africa
glosses: A city on the northern coast of Africa:
A Berber settlement which fell under the rule of Carthage.
glosses: A city on the northern coast of Africa:
A city founded by Umayyad troops in the 7th century AD.
examples: text: Tunis, the capital of the above country, with a citadel of eminence, and the fortress of Goletta on the side of a canal, which is the greatest naval and military depot belonging to the bey.
ref: 1827, Richard Brookes, “Tunis”, in The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary:
glosses: A city on the northern coast of Africa:
The capital city, since 1159, and largest city of Tunisia.
glosses: A city on the northern coast of Africa:
Tunis Governorate, one of the 24 governorates of Tunisia, which includes the capital.
glosses: A city-state centered on the city of Tunis.
Derived terms: Tunis cake
Related terms: Tunisia
Turin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjʊəˈɹɪn/
ipa: /təˈɹɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: Turins
Etymology: From Piedmontese Turin, from the Roman name, Latin Augusta Taurinōrum, ultimately from the name of the Taurini tribe. Connections to Latin taurus (“bull”) are folk etymology. Doublet of Torino, the Italian name.
Senses: related: word: Torino
glosses: A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Turin and the region of Piedmont, Italy.
related: word: Torino
glosses: A metropolitan city of Piedmont, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Turin.
related: word: Torino
glosses: A former province of Piedmont.
glosses: Other places:
A hamlet in Lethbridge County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: Other places:
A place in the United States:
A town in Coweta County, Georgia.
glosses: Other places:
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Monona County, Iowa.
glosses: Other places:
A place in the United States:
A township in Marquette County, Michigan.
glosses: Other places:
A place in the United States:
A town and village therein, in Lewis County, New York.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Turinese
Torino
loud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: loud
ipa: /laʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Forms: form: louds
form: lowd
Etymology: From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlūd, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz, *hlūþaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). More at listen.
Cognates
Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian լու (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic слава (slava, “glory”), слово (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit श्रव (śráva, “glory”).
Senses: examples: text: The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
ref: 2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro, page 103:
glosses: A loud sound or part of a sound.
glosses: High-quality marijuana.
Related terms: dank
loud
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: loud
ipa: /laʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Forms: form: louder
form: loudest
form: lowd
Etymology: From Middle English loude, from Old English hlūde (“loudly”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūda, *hlūdô (“loudly”), related to Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Who knocks so loud at door?
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: Unluckily that worthy Officer having, in a literal Sense, taken his Fill of Liquor, had been some Time retired to his Bolster, where he was snoaring so loud, that it was not easy to convey a Noise in at his Ears capable of drowning that which issued from his Nostrils.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 14, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, pages 71-72:
text: Money still talks — indeed, thanks in part to the Roberts court, it talks louder than ever. Still, ideas matter too, shaping both how we talk about society and, eventually, what we do.
ref: 2014 April 25, Paul Krugman, “The Piketty Panic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Loudly.
Derived terms: for crying out loud
for cryin' out loud
laugh-out-loud
loud and clear
out-loud
out loud
say the quiet part loud
say the quiet part out loud
think out loud
Valencia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈlɛnsi.ə/
Etymology: From Spanish Valencia, from Latin Valentia, from valentia (“power, vigor”). Doublet of Valence.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
glosses: An autonomous community of Spain; in full, Valencian Community.
glosses: A province of the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain.
glosses: A town and municipality of Córdoba department, in northern Colombia.
glosses: The capital city of Valencia canton, Ecuador.
glosses: A canton of Los Ríos Province, Ecuador.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Tayabas, Quezon, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Virac, Catanduanes, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Miagao, Iloilo, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Bais, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A municipality of Negros Oriental, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A municipality of Bohol, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Alegria, Cebu, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Carcar, Cebu, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Ormoc, Leyte, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A city in Bukidnon, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Lingig, Surigao del Sur, Philippines.
glosses: Several places in the Philippines:
A barangay of Cagdianao, Dinagat Islands, Philippines.
glosses: An area of the barrio of Universidad in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
glosses: A town in northeastern Trinidad island, Trinidad and Tobago.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A neighborhood of the city of Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Valencia County, New Mexico.
glosses: Several places in the United States:
A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: The capital city of the state of Carabobo, Venezuela.
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A habitational surname from Spanish.
Related terms: Bag-ong Valencia
East Valencia
New Valencia
Nueva Valencia
Valencia County
Valencia de Alcántara
Valencia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈlɛnsi.ə/
Forms: form: Valencias
Etymology: From Spanish Valencia, from Latin Valentia, from valentia (“power, vigor”). Doublet of Valence.
Senses: glosses: A kind of sweet orange.
examples: text: […] while Charles whistlingly assembles an exotic cocktail at the counter of the make-believe kitchen.
'What's up, Chas?' Sage asks, not quite suspicious.
'Nothin'. Just whippin' up some Valencias.'
ref: 2002, J. Lilly, Wise Hyenas, page 16:
glosses: Any of various cocktails made with orange juice.
Valparaiso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Valparaíso, from val (short for valle (“valley”)) + paraíso (“paradise”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Valparaíso; a port city in Chile.
glosses: A city in Florida.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Porter County, Indiana.
glosses: A village in Nebraska.
glosses: A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Vancouver
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vænˈkuː.vɚ/
ipa: /væŋˈkuː.vɚ/
rhymes: -uːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Vancouvers
Etymology: The family name is from the Dutch place name Coevorden (“the place where cows ford the river”) via the Dutch family name van Coevorden (“a person from Coevorden”). The place names are derived from the family name, being named after George Vancouver, an English explorer who charted the northwestern Pacific coast of North America in a 1791–1794 expedition.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: PS: The average commute time in the freewayless City of Vancouver is 27 minutes, while outside of the City of Vancouver the average commute time is 31 minutes.
ref: 2012 July 12, Nathan Pachal, “TomTom Congestion Index Useless for Metro Vancouver”, in The South Fraser Blog:
glosses: A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A large island of British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A river in southern British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A mountain between Alaska, United States and Yukon, Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains.
glosses: A mountain straddling the Canterbury and the West Coast regions in the Southern Alps, on the South Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Clark County, Washington, United States.
glosses: A lake in Clark County, Washington, United States.
examples: text: The different fields in the 'style' file include the format of the in-text citations (Vancouver or Harvard style) […]
ref: 2019, G. Jagadeesh, Biomedical Research, page 485:
glosses: The Vancouver system of reference citation.
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Hollywood North
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Hongcouver
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Lotusland
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: No Fun City
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Raincouver
topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Vangroovy
Derived terms: East Van
East Vancouver
Greater Vancouver
Hongcouver
Metro Vancouver
North Van
North Vancouver
Raincouver
South Van
South Vancouver
Vancouver fir
Vancouverish
Vancouver Island
Vancouverism
Vancouverite
Vancouver Special
Vangroovy
Vansterdam
West Van
West Vancouver
Venetian blind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Venetian blinds
form: venetian blind
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the apartment was filled with that soft green light where the noon is excluded by Venetian blinds, or the still softer shadow of creeping plants:...
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 115:
text: A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199:
text: Every traveller on the demonstration runs was soon entranced with the most noticeable - the individual electric motors to raise, lower and adjust the venetian blinds in each double-glazed window, which are under the passenger's control in each seating bay by means of little thumb switches below the frames; […]
ref: 1961 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Switzerland's new four-voltage "Trans-Europe Express" units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 489:
synonyms: word: Venetian
word: venetian
word: jill-mill
glosses: A blind consisting of overlapping horizontal, flat slats, usually made of metal, vinyl or wood, that can be tilted so as to let in more or less light.