cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whelk stall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whelk stalls
Senses: examples: text: The Group Executive Committee couldn't run a whelk stall!
glosses: A small enterprise which is very simple to run.
Related terms: couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
halava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of halva.
geostrategic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geostrategic
form: most geostrategic
Etymology: From geo- + strategic.
Senses: examples: text: Once in possession of Istanbul, the Russians would control the geostrategic straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles linking Russia's Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean.
ref: 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 2:
glosses: Pertaining to the strategy of dealing with geopolitical issues; geopolitically strategic.
Derived terms: geostrategically
wikinomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of wiki + economics. Coined by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams in Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (2007)
Senses: glosses: The theory and practice of mass collaboration using electronic communications.
geostrategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geostrategies
Etymology: From geo- + strategy.
Senses: glosses: The strategic use of geopolitics.
Related terms: geostrategic
geostrategist
tattooist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattooists
Etymology: From tattoo + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who draws or inks tattoos on people.
Synonyms: tattoo artist
tattooer
wooden-top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooden-tops
form: woodentop
Etymology: The expression may be a reference to the wooden construction of a bobby's custodian helmet.
Senses: examples: text: Immediately a big wooden-top came in. He was young and blond.
ref: 1988, Derek Raymond, The Devil's Home on Leave, Ballantine Books, page 151:
text: It is Detective Chief Superintendent Cohn Harpur, one of the bosses, but just a wooden-top like all the rest.
ref: 1991, Bill James, The Lolita Man, W. W. Norton & Company, page 41:
glosses: A uniformed police officer.
Synonyms: sense: police officer
word: police officer
breakage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪdʒ
Forms: form: breakages
Etymology: From break + -age.
Senses: examples: text: A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
ref: 1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85:
glosses: The act of breaking.
examples: text: At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
glosses: Something that has been broken.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
glosses: The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
Derived terms: antibreakage
Berlin breakage syndrome
Nijmegen breakage syndrome
Related terms: fracture
wouldest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wouldst.
all the time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The public does not wish to be outraged in this way all the time.
ref: 1889 September 11, Mark Twain, “Last Words of Great Men”, in Buffalo Express:
text: Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: I couldn't live without your love
Now, I know you′re really mine
I gotta have you all the time
ref: 1966, Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent, Petula Clark (vocalist), I Couldn't Live Without Your Love, I Couldn't Live Without Your Love (album)
text: The study found that there had been as many patent applications for artificial intelligence since 2013 as there were in all the time since the term AI was first used in the 1950s.
ref: 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019:
topics: duration
time
synonyms: at all times
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: Always; constantly; for the complete duration.
examples: text: I have never been this excited about having an album. I play it all the time.
ref: 2008 June 26, Joel Stein, “Pirating Axl Rose's Record”, in Time:
qualifier: set phrase; frequency; set phrase; frequency
glosses: Very often; frequently.
year dot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the year dot
Senses: examples: text: That hat dates from the year dot.
text: Disk interfaces have been around since the year dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.
ref: 1989 June, Phil South, “Rage Hard”, in Your Sinclair magazine, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2012:
synonyms: word: day dot
glosses: A very long time ago, from the beginning or as far back as one can remember.
zero-order design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-order designs
Etymology: Developed by NASA for excavation on the Moon.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
synonyms: ZOD
glosses: An optimal network design within a computer. It involves choosing an optimal reference system and revolving it around a certain real number.
zoophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + -phagia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The act of eating living creatures.
Related terms: zoophagous
Renfield's syndrome
stand and deliver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands and delivers
form: standing and delivering
form: stood and delivered
form: stood and delivered
Senses: examples: text: Stand and deliver! Your money or your life!
text: As I was going over the far famed Kerry mountains
I met with Captain Farrell and his money he was counting.
I first produced my pistol, and then produced my rapier.
Said stand and deliver, or the devil he may take ye life!
ref: (Traditional) Whiskey in the Jar (song)
glosses: A phrase traditionally used by a highwayman commanding victims to hand over their valuables.
Related terms: your money or your life
hands up
stick 'em up
reach for the sky
objectification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbˌd͡ʒɛkt.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃʌn/
Forms: form: objectifications
Etymology: From object + -ification, following objectify.
Senses: synonyms: objectivization
reification
thingification
glosses: The act or process of objectifying something intangible.
glosses: The act or process of objectifying someone.
Derived terms: overobjectification
reobjectification
self-objectification
Related terms: word: objectified
word: objectivized
word: sexualization
objectifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɒbˈd͡ʒɛkt.ɪ.faɪ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of objectify
objectifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒbˈd͡ʒɛkt.ɪ.faɪ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: objectifyings
Senses: examples: text: In early consciousness there is, of course, frequent return of a given object which becomes the occasion of a large number of objectifyings which are identical in nature yet do not contain sense of identity.
ref: 1895, Hiram Miner Stanley, Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling, page 82:
glosses: Objectification.
wheresoe'er
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: /ˌʍɝ.səʊˈɛːɹ/
Etymology: Contraction of wheresoever.
Senses: examples: text: Alas, that the longest hill
Must end in a vale; but still,
Who climbs with toil, wheresoe'er,
Shall find wings waiting there.
ref: 1895, Henry Charles Breeching, Going down Hill on a Bicycle, A Boy's Song:
glosses: Wheresoever.
tetrasyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛ.tɹə.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
Etymology: From tetra- + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: Having four syllables.
Synonyms: quadrisyllabic
tetrasyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛ.tɹə.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
Forms: form: tetrasyllabics
Etymology: From tetra- + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: A word of four syllables.
resolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resolve
resolving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resolvings
Senses: examples: text: But alas! these thoughts, and wishings, and resolvings, were now too late to help me; this thought had passed my heart, God hath let me go, and I am fallen.
ref: 1666, John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:
text: He who obeys not the good Shepherd of the soul and heart has an untruthful mind; a mind filled with fallacies; a mind of wrong resolvings and concludings.
ref: 1965, Ann Ree Colton, The soul and the ethic, page 167:
glosses: The act of forming a resolution.
Derived terms: resolving power
catastrophize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtæstɹəfaɪz/
Forms: form: catastrophizes
form: catastrophizing
form: catastrophized
form: catastrophized
form: catastrophise
Etymology: From catastrophe + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To regard a bad situation as if it were disastrous or catastrophic.
examples: text: Particularly likely to overreact are those who tend to catastrophize (Ellis, 1962) and those who have Type A personalities (Friedman & Rosenman, 1974).
ref: 1947, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, University of Michigan Research Center for Group Dynamics, Human Relations:
text: Another way to catastrophize is to jump to an extreme conclusion from an unimportant or irrelevant event.
ref: 2001, David H. Barlow, Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders:
text: [I]ndividuals who catastrophized reported worse health-related quality of life, higher psychological distress, and perceived more somatic symptoms, worse consequences, and more severe emotional impact as compared to those participants who did not catastrophize.
ref: 2017, LeeAnne B. Sherwin, Emily Leary, Wendy A. Henderson, “The association of catastrophizing with quality-of-life outcomes in patients with irritable bowel syndrome”, in Quality of Life Research, volume 26, number 8, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To expose a behavior pattern of seeking the worst interpretation and magnifying the disagreeable outcomes (of).
glosses: To end a comedy.
Derived terms: catastrophization
catastrophizer
Related terms: declinism
deteriorationism
doompost
negativity bias
ruminate
game over
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡeɪm ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌɡeɪm ˈoʊ.vɚ/
Etymology: The message originated on pinball machines and has been very widely used in video games.
Senses: examples: text: Before I could figure out what the hell was the object of the game, I hear the thing go boom-boom, and the screen lights up with a sign: game over.
ref: 1984, Robert Maxxe, Arcade:
topics: video-games
glosses: A message signaling that the game has ended, usually because the player failed (for example by losing all of their lives) but sometimes following successful completion of the game.
examples: text: If your wife finds out about us, it's game over!
text: That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
ref: 1986, Aliens:
text: Once we started attacking that network from the inside, it was pretty much game over.
ref: 2004, Ryan Russell, Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent, page xxi:
text: "Game over," Waddicor warns. "Look at the fuel gauge. Someone's forgotten to fill up." The heavily laden train has come from Freightliner's Maritime Terminal in Southampton's western docks. Waddicor reckons there might not be enough diesel in the tank to complete the journey.
ref: 2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 30:
glosses: The end of some ongoing situation due to either failure or success, typically failure.
examples: text: When you have cancer, you pretty much have two options: chemotherapy, or game over.
glosses: death.
Related terms: time over
game over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡeɪm ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌɡeɪm ˈoʊ.vɚ/
Forms: form: game overs
Etymology: The message originated on pinball machines and has been very widely used in video games.
Senses: examples: text: When you die too many times in this game, you get a game over.
topics: video-games
glosses: An appearance of a game over message.
game over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡeɪm ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌɡeɪm ˈoʊ.vɚ/
Forms: form: game overs
form: games over
form: game overing
form: gaming over
form: game overed
form: game overed
form: gamed over
form: gamed over
form: game-over
Etymology: The message originated on pinball machines and has been very widely used in video games.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To receive a 'game over' message.
topics: video-games
glosses: To deliver to someone a 'game over' message.
handsomest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: While not, perhaps, the handsomest of 4-4-2 tanks, as they had a rather large proportion of their driving wheels exposed, they proved very useful locomotives, doing yeoman work on suburban trains around London and Birmingham, and later on numerous rural routes.
ref: 1951 March, David R. Webb, “British 4-4-2 Tank Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:
glosses: superlative form of handsome: most handsome
vestibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛˈstɪb.jʊl.ə/
ipa: /vɛˈstɪb.jəl.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more vestibular
form: most vestibular
Etymology: From vestibule or vestibulum + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: […]while the outer world was fenced off by the interposed atrium or vestibular cloister,[…].
ref: 1861, Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century, page 158:
text: Originally, it was intended that the stock should be vestibular throughout, but when the drawings were submitted to the Prince of Wales, he cut out this feature, saying that a railway journey afforded one of the very few occasions when he was able to enjoy absolute privacy—a feature which the vestibule would tend to abolish.
ref: 1950 August, “Notes and News: Royal Train at Croydon”, in Railway Magazine, pages 569-570:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a vestibule in a building (or railway coach).
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or functioning as a vestibule (body cavity).
examples: text: vestibular impulse
text: Ampulla of the perpendicular semicircular canal, receiving a fasciculus from the superior branch of the vestibular nerve[…].
ref: 1859, William James Erasmus Wilson, William H. Gobrecht, A System of Human Anatomy, General and Special:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the vestibule of the inner ear and the perception of body position, balance and movement.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the surface of a tooth that is directed outward toward the vestibule of the mouth, including the buccal and labial surfaces, and opposite the lingual (or oral) surface.
Derived terms: audiovestibular
cerebellovestibular
cochleovestibular
distovestibular
extravestibular
intervestibular
lesser vestibular glands
mediovestibular
neurovestibular
nonvestibular
oculovestibular
otovestibular
paravestibular
rectovestibular
vestibular aqueduct
vestibular duct
vestibular fold
vestibular ganglion
vestibular gland
vestibular ligament
vestibular membrane
vestibular nerve
vestibular nucleus
vestibular schwannoma
vestibular sense
vestibular system
vestibular wall
vestibular window
visuovestibular
Related terms: vestibule
vestibulum
vestibular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɛˈstɪb.jʊl.ə/
ipa: /vɛˈstɪb.jəl.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪbjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vestibulars
Etymology: From vestibule or vestibulum + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: Students usually complete high school when they are seventeen years old. If they want to go to college or university, they must pass a difficult test called the vestibular, which takes two or three days to write.
ref: 2002, Malika Hollander, Brazil: The People, page 23:
topics: education
synonyms: vestibular exam
vestibular examination
glosses: A competitive examination used by Brazilian universities to select students.
check-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from check in.
Senses: examples: text: The hotel never charges for a late check-out or for an early check-in . . .
ref: 2004, Jesse Dallas, Casino Shrine:
text: The implication was that Ms Purkiss had been stereotyped by the check-in staff as ‘foreign'.
ref: 1999, Pamela Brown, Tackling Racism: One Day Training Workshop:
glosses: The act of checking in at a hotel, airport, etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
examples: text: future research should examine whether strength training offers distinct or enhanced benefits compared to other forms of PA for autistic individuals. Exploring strategies such as wellness check-ins, goal setting, and peer mentorship may further support sustained participation and ensure programs are responsive to individual needs.
ref: 2025 August 20, Ashlyn Barry, Justin A. Haegele, Daniel Schaefer, Kristen A. Pickett, Luis Columna, “Autistic Young Adults’ Experiences and Recommendations for Strength Training”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
glosses: The act of contacting another person in order to keep them informed of one's situation.
Synonyms: sense: submission of source code
word: commit
Derived terms: check-in time
checking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of check in
check in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: checks in
form: checking in
form: checked in
form: checked in
Senses: examples: text: We got to the hotel last night and checked in at the front desk.
glosses: To announce or record one's own arrival at a hotel, airport etc.
examples: text: The clerk checked us in at the front desk.
glosses: To verify a person's information and record their arrival, such as at a hotel, airport, etc.
examples: text: Kelly has to check in with her parole officer today.
text: During the 2 minutes of music, students first PAUSE to check in with how they are feeling.
ref: 2016, Carla Tantillo Philibert, Everyday SEL in Elementary School, →ISBN:
glosses: To contact another person in order to keep the other person informed of one's situation.
glosses: To return (a book to a library, source code to a repository, etc.).
examples: text: I just wanted to check in after your accident. How are you recovering?
text: The sequel checks in with the unmoored but largely lovable characters from the first movie as they face middle age.
ref: 2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “‘T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in New York Time:
glosses: To visit in order to see how someone is doing.
glosses: To enter solitary confinement at one's own request for protection from other prisoners.
synonyms: send up top
glosses: To send somebody to solitary confinement; to make somebody be admitted to solitary confinement.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: commit
glosses: To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
examples: text: So how exactly does checking in work? When boarding the bus, tram, metro or train, hold the OV-chipkaart (or your debit card, smartphone, or wearable if using OVPay) in front of the screen of a post or gate. It will indicate with a green light and a beep that the anonymous OV-chipkaart has been read.
ref: 2025, “Paying for public transport in the Netherlands”, in Holland.com, Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions, retrieved 13 Jun 2025:
text: You can check in and check out with a contactless debit card or credit card. Registering in advance is not necessary.
ref: 2025, “How can you pay on our public transport?”, in gvb.nl, Amsterdam Municipal Transport Company, retrieved 13 Jun 2025:
text: Hold your OV-chipkaart against the card reader to the right of the gate. This will both open the gate for you and check you in for your journey. You will hear one beep when you check in.
ref: 2025, “Checking in and out”, in ns.nl, Dutch Railways, retrieved 13 Jun 2025:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: to tap on, to touch in, to tap in (to use a smartcard to start a public transport journey)
Related terms: check-in
check into
check in with oneself
check out
checkoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkoffs
Etymology: Deverbal from check off.
Senses: examples: text: Frye can help Seattles defense recognize formations, checkoffs and tendencies.
ref: 2007 November 4, The Associated Press, “Early Trade Turned Browns Season Around”, in New York Times:
glosses: The collection of union dues or other fees from employees via deductions from their wages.
glosses: The optional allocation of part of a citizen's income tax towards the presidential election campaign fund.
glosses: A tax on sales of agricultural goods in order to finance a generic commodity marketing program.
checkroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checkrooms
Etymology: From check + room.
Senses: synonyms: cloakroom
coat check
coatroom
glosses: A room where outdoor clothing or luggage may be temporarily stored.
cheekiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheekinesses
Etymology: From cheeky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being cheeky
cheerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheerers
Etymology: From cheer + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or a thing that cheers.
glosses: A glass of spirit with warm water.
cheeriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheerinesses
Etymology: From cheery + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: glee
word: jollity
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: the state of being cheery
cheerlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cheerless + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: infestivity
joylessness
mirthlessness
glosses: the state or characteristic of being cheerless
cheesiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chēzʹēnəs
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːz.i.nəs/
Etymology: From cheesy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The bold, straightforward cheesiness of a good mac’n’cheese, the simple, eat-with-your-hands casualness of burgers and fried chicken are still part of our gastronomic makeup, even when we are sitting down to an elegant multicourse dégustation.
ref: 2011, Kit Wohl, “Introduction”, in The James Beard Foundation’s Best of the Best: A 25ᵗʰ Anniversary Celebration of America’s Outstanding Chefs, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, section “A Uniquely American Cuisine”, page 11, column 1:
glosses: The quality, condition, or state of being cheesy.
chewiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chewy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being chewy
childishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪld.ɪʃ.nəs/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaːld.ɪʃ.nəs/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaːld.ɪʃ.nɪs/
Forms: form: childishnesses
Etymology: From Middle English childishnes, childisnes, equivalent to childish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being childish.
examples: text: Exorcism, unction, the sign of the cross, holy water, infant-communion, and many other childishnesses, were also called "Apostolic institutions" — not at first, but long after they were invented, to conceal their real origin […]
ref: 1868, John Mockett Cramp, Baptist History: from the foundation of the Christian church to the close of the eighteenth century, page 43:
glosses: Childish behaviour.
Related terms: puerilism
puerility
childlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From childless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being childless.
Related terms: childless
cousinless
cousinlessness
daughterless
daughterlessness
descendantless
descendantlessness
descendantness
fatherless
fatherlessness
grandfatherless
grandfatherlessness
grandmotherless
grandmotherlessness
grandparentless
grandparentlessness
motherless
motherlessness
parentless
parentlessness
sonless
sonlessness
bulgur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌlɡə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbʊlɡə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌlɡə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊlɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bulgurs
form: bulgar
form: bulghur
form: burghul
form: borghol
form: bourghul
form: bulgoor
form: bulghoor
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish بلغور (bulğur) (modern Turkish bulgur), by metathesis from older بورغول (burğul), from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul), from Persian برغول (barġul), پرغول (parġul).
Senses: examples: text: Before man baked bread, he made bulgur by parboiling wheat and spreading it out in the sun to dry. […] Every household in the Near East prepared a year's store of bulgur in the fall after the wheat harvest.
ref: 1961, Frederic R. Senti, W. Dayton Maclay, “Age-Old Uses of Seeds and Some New Ones”, in Yearbook of Agriculture, The United States Department of Agriculture, page 31:
synonyms: bulgur wheat
glosses: Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried, and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking.
chivalrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chivalrous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being chivalrous.
chillness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪlnəs/
rhymes: -ɪlnəs
Forms: form: chillnesses
Etymology: From chill + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being chilly
choosiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From choosy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being choosy
choppiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From choppy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being choppy
chubbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chubbinesses
Etymology: From chubby + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state or quality of being chubby
chumminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chummy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being chummy.
Synonyms: folksiness
churlishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English *churlischnesse, *cherlischnesse, from Old English ċeorlisċnes, equivalent to churlish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being churlish
chunkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chunky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being chunky
clamminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clammy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Bread made of Pannick nouriſheth little, and is cold and dry, verie brittle, hauing in it neither clammineſſe, nor fatneſſe; and therefore it drieth a moiſt belly.
ref: 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Panick”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book I, page 79:
text: In that a Snayl or Dodman, vvhich is not only not vvarm, but to our feeling, very cold, is fain to brood its as cold svveatty eggs, neſted upon a cold vvet earth, beſpievving them about vvith the fuzze of a cold clammy froth, in coldish [d]raughty vveather, and all making vvay to a kind and timely hatching of them: […] I dare undertake to light ſooner of that vvarmth and reek and air, that vvill hatch an hens egge, than that cold and devv and clammineſs, that goes to the hatching of a ſnails.
ref: 1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter V, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert Boulter, […], →OCLC, pages 125–126:
text: He vanished over the rock and Bradly struggled up into his place. Down in a crevasse the trooper was tugging at something wedged there, which looked like a sodden bundle of old rags till it was pushed up the rock to Bradly, who had to quell repugnance and take a grip of it. Under his hands it had the unstable clamminess of all dead flesh.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: The state of being clammy.
clannishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clannishnesses
Etymology: From clannish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being clannish
classiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From classy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being classy
clear-headedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clear-headed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being clear-headed
clear-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clearheaded.
Derived terms: clear-headedness
clearheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clearheaded
form: most clearheaded
form: clear-headed
Etymology: From clear + headed.
Senses: glosses: Having the ability to think clearly and act appropriately
examples: text: The acting is purposefully playful and bad, the sets are pseudo-gothic designs sketched on white walls sheets. And although the video is clear-headed about its amateur status and production values, its intent is deadly serious.
ref: 1990 August 11, M. B., “Peccatum Mutum (The Silent Sin) [review]”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 5, page 16:
glosses: Lacking delusions, having an accurate, unclouded perception.
Derived terms: word: clearheadedly
word: clearheadedness
alt: eo
word: klarkapa
cliquishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cliquish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being cliquish
clownishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clownishnesses
Etymology: From clownish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being clownish
cohesiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohesivenesses
Etymology: From cohesive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Slangs are used consciously, or they quite naturally establish and reinforce social identity or cohesiveness within a group or with a trend or fashion in society.
ref: 2021 September 3, Charudutta Panigrahi, “The Intimacy Of Slangs”, in Odisha News, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025:
glosses: The state of being cohesive; cohesion.
cold-bloodedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coldbloodedness
Etymology: From cold-blooded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being cold-blooded.
cold-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cold-hearted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being cold-hearted.
colorblindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of color blindness.
colorlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colorless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of colourlessness.
colorfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorfulnesses
form: colourfulness
Etymology: From colorful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being colorful.
glosses: The perceived intensity of a specific color.
combativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From combative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being combative.
comfortableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comfortablenesses
Etymology: From comfortable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: Comfort: the quality or state of being comfortable.
unbeatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + beat + -able. Beatable is a back-formation.
Senses: examples: text: Deep-set and steady, with eyelashes that many a woman had envied, they showed the man for what he was—a sportsman and a gentleman. And the combination of the two is an unbeatable production.
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
text: Lauren James was exceptional out wide, Millie Bright unbeatable in defence and Lucy Bronze tireless in dealing with Spain forward Salma Paralluelo.
ref: 2025 February 26, Emma Sanders, “'A proper English performance' against Spain”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: invincible
impregnable
glosses: That cannot be beaten, defeated or overcome
unbeatable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unbeatables
Etymology: From un- + beat + -able. Beatable is a back-formation.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that cannot be beaten.
compactness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compactnesses
Etymology: From compact + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Barnes box is a Westinghouse installation and the control console is very similar in style and compactness to the same firm's equipment at St. Pancras.
ref: 1959 June, “Southern Newsreel: Resignalling at Barnes and Brixton”, in Trains Illustrated, page 306:
glosses: The state of being compact.
Derived terms: noncompactness
pseudocompactness
sequential compactness
competitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/
Etymology: From competitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.
ref: 1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state of being competitive.
Synonyms: competitivity
Derived terms: noncompetitiveness
comprehensiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/
ipa: /kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnsɪvnəs/
Etymology: From comprehensive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was this comprehensiveness which made the art so compelling.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 312:
text: The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
hypernyms: extensiveness
coordinate_terms: comprehension
glosses: The state of being comprehensive.
compulsiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From compulsive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being compulsive
Related terms: obsessive-compulsiveness
concaveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From concave + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being concave; concavity
conclusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conclusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state of being conclusive
concreteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concretenesses
Etymology: From concrete + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Just as [absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others] is the whole positive content of perfection, so CW, or the conception of the Creator-and-the-Whole-of-what-he-has-created as constituting one life, the super-whole which in its everlasting essence is uncreated (and does not necessitate just the parts which the whole has) but in its de facto concreteness is created – this panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.
ref: 1941, Charles Hartshorne, Man’s Vision of God and the Logic of Theism, New York, N.Y.: Harper and Bros., →OCLC, page 348:
glosses: The state of being concrete.
glosses: The result of being concrete.
conscientiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conscientious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It is a terrible thing a Man should be put to Death for a Crime he is not Guilty of; yet so oddly Circumstances may meet in the infinite variety of Accidents, that it is possible it should come to pass, all the Wisdom that Judges, and Conscientiousness that Juries may be possess'd of, notwithstanding.
ref: 1723, Bernard Mandeville, An Essay on Charity and Charity Schools:
text: We come now to the greatest and noblest of the Moral Powers of Man; to that power which makes him quite a different order of being from any other that we know of, and which is the glory and crown of his existence:—his Conscientiousness.
ref: 1848, Harriet Matineau, Household Education:
text: It seems evident that those who have expressed the view that the following of personal inclination is sometimes morally better than conscientiousness are confusing this issue with another to which we must next give attention.
ref: 1965, The Rice University Studies, page 81:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being conscientious.
Fromase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French fromage (“cheese”) + -ase, coined as a trademark.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protease produced by the soil fungus Rhizomucor miehei, used as a vegetarian alternative to chymosin in the manufacture of some cheeses.
semagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semagrams
Etymology: From semantic and -gram.
Senses: glosses: A semantic symbol (picture or glyph) associated with a concept.
glosses: Synonym of determinative (“sign used to mark semantic categories in logographic script”).
synonyms: word: determinative
extra: sign used to mark semantic categories in logographic script
constraints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɹeɪnts/
rhymes: -eɪnts
Senses: glosses: plural of constraint
Floyd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: Floyds
Etymology: Anglicisation of the Welsh name Lloyd, from Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).
Senses: examples: text: “In light of the current state of our country, I struggled to find the right words of wisdom for you today,” Obama says in her lengthiest public remarks to date about the protests taking place in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
ref: 2020 June 7, Kate Bennett, “Michelle Obama to 2020 graduates: ‘For those of you who feel invisible: Please know that your story matters’”, in CNN:
text: Couple this with the apparent nationwide divide over issues ranging from George Floyd’s death to wearing coronavirus masks, and you’ve got the ideal environment for the wokefish to thrive.
ref: 2020 July 30, Ben Cost, “Wokefish’ dating trend: Shady men are pretending to be progressive on apps”, in New York Post:
glosses: A surname from Welsh, variant of Lloyd
examples: text: After years of thinking it over, Floyd Corkins finally had a plan.
ref: 2013 February 6, Carol Cratty and Michael Pearson, “DC shooter wanted to kill as many as possible, prosecutors say”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lloyd, today particularly common among African Americans.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in White County, Arkansas, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Fresno County, California, United States.
glosses: A placename
A ghost town in Glenn County, California, United States.
glosses: A placename
A tiny city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Ray County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename
A village in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A placename
A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Hunt County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A placename
A town, the county seat of Floyd County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Floyd County
Floyder
Floyd-Hoare logic
Floydian
Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm
Floyd-Steinberg
Floyd's triangle
Floyd-Warshall algorithm
medicine ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicine balls
Etymology: Referring to its therapeutic use.
Senses: glosses: A large, heavy sphere of leather, plastic or rubber etc. filled with sand or similar, and used for athletic training or physical rehabilitation.
medicine show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicine shows
Senses: glosses: A traveling presentation which sells miracle cures and other products between various entertainment acts.
chymosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chymosins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The proteolytic enzyme rennin
Derived terms: prochymosin
rennin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛ.nɪn/
rhymes: -ɛnɪn
Forms: form: rennins
Etymology: From rennet + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proteolytic enzyme, obtained from the gastric juice of the abomasum of calves, used to coagulate milk and make cheese.
Synonyms: chymosin
rennase
corn-factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn-factors
form: cornfactor
Etymology: From corn + factor.
Senses: examples: text: For years and years it had gone off in splendid style as long as any one could remember; ever since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their only niece, to live with them in the dark gaunt house on Usher's Island, the upper part of which they had rented from Mr Fulham, the corn-factor on the ground floor.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, pages 216–217:
text: "My name is Henchard; ha'n't you replied to an advertisement for a corn-factor's manager that I put into the paper - ha'n't you come here to see me about it?"
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: A trader in grains.
Synonyms: word: grain agent
word: seedsman
Sakha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian саха́ (saxá), from Yakut саха (saqa), from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“edge; collar”).
Senses: glosses: A person of Sakha ethnicity.
glosses: A formerly seminomadic Siberian people.
glosses: A North Siberian Turkic language.
Synonyms: Yakut
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Yakut terms
Sakha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Саха́ (Saxá), from Yakut Саха (Saqa), from Proto-Turkic *jaka (“edge; collar”).
Senses: glosses: A geographical region of North Asia which is inhabited dominantly by the Sakha people.
glosses: A republic and federal subject of Russia; in full, Sakha Republic. Official name: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Synonyms: Yakutia
Yakut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈkuːt/
ipa: /jəˈkʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -ʊt
Forms: form: Yakuts
form: Yakut
Etymology: From Russian яку́т (jakút), from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“collar; edge”). Related to Yakut саха (saqa) via earlier *čaqa < *ǰaqa. Compare Turkish yaka (“collar”). The ending -ут possibly contains the Mongol plural suffix; compare Buryat яхад (jaxad, “Yakuts”).
Senses: glosses: One of a Siberian people who speak a Turkic language, and live in the Lena river basin.
Derived terms: Yakut knife
Yakut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈkuːt/
ipa: /jəˈkʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -ʊt
Etymology: From Russian яку́т (jakút), from Proto-Turkic *yaka (“collar; edge”). Related to Yakut саха (saqa) via earlier *čaqa < *ǰaqa. Compare Turkish yaka (“collar”). The ending -ут possibly contains the Mongol plural suffix; compare Buryat яхад (jaxad, “Yakuts”).
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
Synonyms: Sakha
Related terms: Yakutia
Wiktionary’s coverage of Yakut terms
Yakutia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /jəˈkuːtɪə/
/jəˈkuːʃ(i)ə/
Etymology: From Russian Якутия (Jakutija).
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of eastern Russia. Official name: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Capital and largest city: Yakutsk.
Synonyms: Sakha
Sakha Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Partial calque of Russian Респу́блика Саха́ (Respúblika Saxá): респу́блика (respúblika) → republic; transliteration of Russian Саха́ (Saxá) → Sakha.
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of eastern Russia. Official name: Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Capital and largest city: Yakutsk.
statoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsteɪtɔɪd/
Forms: form: statoids
Etymology: From state + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any major administrative division of a state
reawaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reawakens
form: reawakening
form: reawakened
form: reawakened
Etymology: From re- + awaken.
Senses: glosses: To wake after an extended period of sleep.
glosses: To reactivate or reanimate.
chessman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chessmen
Etymology: From chess + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looked like a chess-man beside him.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 27”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Synonym of chess piece.
synonyms: word: chess piece
chess piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chess pieces
form: chesspiece
form: chess-piece
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
synonyms: chessman
hypernyms: piece#Noun
object#Noun
glosses: Any of the 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess.
examples: Near-synonym: pawn
hypernyms: manipulee#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A person being manipulated by another, being used to some end.
Synonyms: word: chessman
word: chess piece
word: chesspiece
Hypernyms: word: board game piece
Hyponyms: word: bishop
word: castle
word: king
word: knight
word: pawn
word: queen
word: rook
Related terms: word: Appendix:Chess pieces
chested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛst.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛstɪd/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛstəd/
ipa: /ˈtʃestəd/
rhymes: -ɛstɪd
Etymology: From chest + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chest