cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mavrodaphne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mævɹəˈdæfni/
Forms: form: mavrodaphnes
form: mavrodafni
form: Mavrodaphne
Etymology: From Greek μαυροδάφνη (mavrodáfni), from Medieval Greek μαῦρος (maûros, “dark”) + δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”) (see also Daphne).
Senses: examples: text: SALTSA MAVRODAPHNI
[Sweet mavrodaphne wine sauce]
A wonderful use of the superb mavrodaphne wine, very new, very Athenian.
ref: 1992, Vilma Chantiles, Food of Greece, page 347:
text: Silently, in the widow's position of honor at the head of the table, she picked at her whitefish and drank her glass of Mavrodaphne, but her thoughts were as obscured to me as her face behind her black veil.
ref: 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, page 269:
glosses: A dark sweet Greek red wine.
examples: text: He^([Gustav Clauss]) established vineyards in the area, using local grapes, especially the “black grape of Dafne,” mavrodaphne. He created the sweet style of mavrodaphne known today.
ref: 2012, Joel Butler, Randall Heskett, Divine Vintage: Following the Wine Trail from Genesis to the Modern Age, page 223:
glosses: A variety of grape native to Achaea, northern Peloponnese, Greece, from which the wine is made.
mavrone
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /məˈvɹəʊn/
Etymology: Anglo-Irish, from Irish mo bhrón, from mo (“my”) + brón (“grief”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Mavrone, mavrone! the man has died / While I slept in the chair’
ref: 1893, WB Yeats, The Ballad of Father Gilligan:
text: And we to be there, mavrone, and you to be unbeknownst sending us your conglomerations the way we to have our tongues out a yard long like the drouthy clerics do be fainting for a pussfull.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An expression of sorrow; alas.
medulla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdʌlə/
ipa: /mɛdʌlə/
other: [məˈdɐlə]
other: [mɛˈdɐlə]
ipa: /məˈdulə/
other: [məˈdʉɫə]
Forms: form: medullas
form: medullae
form: medullæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”).
Senses: glosses: The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The medulla oblongata.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The internal tissue of a plant.
Derived terms: adrenomedullin
extramedullary
medulla oblongata
medullar
medullary
medullated
medullectomy
medullitis
medullization
medulloblastoma
renal medulla
rostromedulla
transmedulla
megillah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈɡɪlə/
Forms: form: megillahs
form: megillot
form: megilloth
form: megilla
form: Megillah
form: Megilla
Etymology: From Hebrew מגילה / מְגִלָּה (m'gilá, “scroll”). Doublet of magilla.
Senses: examples: text: Song of Songs, one of the five Megillot ("Scrolls") of Ketuvim ("Writings") recited either before or after Minhah on the eve of every Sabbath, after the Seder on Passover, and publicly in the synagogue in the Ashkenazic tradition.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 305:
glosses: any of the Five Scrolls of the Hebrew Scriptures (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther)
glosses: the Book of Esther
megillah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈɡɪlə/
Forms: form: megillahs
form: megilla
form: Megillah
form: Megilla
Etymology: See the entry at magilla.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, a monetary policy maker would probably be okay with the whole “improved credibility” megillah, since it flatters their self-image.
ref: 2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, p. 229
glosses: Alternative form of magilla.
mehmandar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪməndɑː/
Forms: form: mehmandars
Etymology: Persian مهماندار (mehmândâr), compound of مهمان (mehmân, “guest”) and ـدار (-dâr, “keeper, holder, one who has”).
Senses: examples: text: His mehmandar stood by, fresh as a clover from their walk, his arms crossed on his Aiantian chest.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: An official courier appointed to escort an important traveller in Persian-speaking countries and the Indian subcontinent.
melleous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛlɪəs/
Forms: form: more melleous
form: most melleous
Etymology: From Latin melleus (“of, pertaining to or resembling honey”), from mel (“honey”).
Senses: examples: text: It was the left eye that had gone. She wore over the hollow a pad that matched her suit and also a melleous wig with a tress flowing down to her cheek.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
glosses: Pertaining to honey.
menhir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnhɪə/
ipa: /ˈmɛnˌ(h)ɪ(ə)ɹ/
Forms: form: menhirs
Etymology: PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂sder.?
Proto-Celtic *maginos
Proto-Brythonic *maɣɨnder.
Breton maen
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Celtic *sīros
Proto-Brythonic *hirder.
Breton hir
Breton maen-hirbor.
French menhirbor.
English menhir
Either borrowed from French menhir, or from its etymon Breton maen-hir, compound of maen (“stone”) + hir (“long”). Compare with Welsh maen hir, and Cornish men hir.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: orthostat
text: [N]o time has passed since we lived in caves, grappled with fish at the reedy shore, buried our dead with a song, with red-ochre and pulled up our dolmens, temples and menhirs and standing stones to the glory of some indeterminate god or gods, […]
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, “Confessions of Fausto Maijstral”, in V.: […], Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, pages 310–311:
text: On the coast tree ferns and pandanus palms. Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 39, in Earthly Powers, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, London: Penguin Books, published 1981, →ISBN, page 280:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
synonyms: standing stone
hypernyms: monolith
megalith
hyponyms: holestone
glosses: A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially one dating to prehistoric times.
wikipedia: Brittany
Île de Sein
Related terms: stela
stele
gished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gished
form: most gished
Etymology: Rhyming slang for pished, employing the name of the actress Lillian Gish.
Senses: glosses: drunk
wikipedia: Lillian Gish
Synonyms: drunk
menorah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈnɔːɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Forms: form: menoroth
form: menorot
form: menorahs
form: menora
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מְנוֹרָה (m'norá). From the same Proto-Semitic root *nūr- (“fire”) as minaret.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Heathen muck,’ Liberalis said, as the pillaging began. The veil of the Temple was rent. The great menorah was taken away.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: A holy candelabrum with seven branches used in the Temple of Jerusalem.
examples: text: My father brings home a big brass antique menorah, shaped like an archway, heavy, on a pedestal, on a round base.
ref: 1992, Merrill Joan Gerber, The Kingdom of Brooklyn, Syracuse University Press, published 2000, →ISBN, pages 76–77:
text: In America every December my mother had decorated our home with metal Stars of David she hung on strings in the doorways and lit the menorah as we gathered at the table.
ref: 1996, Ann Kimmage, An Un-American Childhood, University of Georgia Press, published 1996, →ISBN, pages 49–50:
text: However, traditional Sefardi families follow the halacha that each household uses only one menorah lit by the head of the household, to represent everyone in unison.
ref: 2000, Noam Zion, Barbara Spectre, A Different Light: The Hanukkah Book of Celebration, Devora Publishing, →ISBN, page 237:
text: A far-right Polish MP has extinguished candles on a menorah lit for Hanukah in Poland’s parliament, disrupting proceedings before a planned vote of confidence in the new government.
ref: 2023 December 12, Shaun Walker, “Far-right Polish MP uses fire extinguisher to put out Hanukah candles”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: hanukkiah
glosses: A candelabrum with nine branches, used in Jewish worship on Hanukkah.
TLPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tʰaˈlopʰa/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Taiwanese-Language Phonetic Alphabet.
mentula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mentulas
form: mentulae
form: mentulæ
form: mentule
Etymology: From Latin mentula.
Senses: examples: text: He, watchman of gardens, keeps evil away with his mentula up, warding off blight and thieves, garlanded with figs and grapes.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: A penis.
undergarment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.də(ɹ)ˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
ipa: /ˌʌn.dɚˈɡɑɹ.mənt/
Forms: form: undergarments
Etymology: From under- + garment.
Senses: examples: text: Richard DeLongpre: Are you okay, my boy angel?
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I have a broken heart. And undergarments filled with my own unruly waste.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text: In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.
ref: 2025 September 12, Jack Collins, “Why Did Men Stop Wearing Three-Piece Suits?”, in Gentleman's Gazette:
glosses: Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Temple garments worn by the followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Synonyms: sense: temple garments
word: Jesus jammies
Hyponyms: sense: any garment...
word: long johns
dishwasherable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪʃˈwɒʃ(ə)ɹəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more dishwasherable
form: most dishwasherable
Etymology: From dishwasher + -able.
Senses: examples: text: All the parts of the deep fryer are dishwasherable.
text: 1998, Vicky Larmour, in alt.newlywed http://groups.google.com/group/alt.newlywed/msg/7def73268c9f3338?dmode=source&hl=en
I always assumed they weren't dishwasherable.
text: 2001, Charlotte L. Blackmer, in rec.food.cooking http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/87bab320cbda4e34?dmode=source&hl=en
I looked for a set of casual dishes (microwavable and eventually dishwasherable, but I had no dishwasher at the time) that would go with the other dishes I had acquired for a while.
text: 2004, Kate Dicey, in uk.rec.sheds http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.sheds/msg/676b0258781676d1?dmode=source&hl=en
Lakeland Limited do some dishwasherable tree bits chopping boards.
text: 2006, Eric Walker, in rec.food.equipment http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.equipment/msg/013e7f2911503bf6?dmode=source
The KitchenAid is dishwasherable, and works fine on induction units.
glosses: dishwasher safe; able to be placed safely in a dishwasher for cleaning
metastasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈtæstəsɪs/
Forms: form: metastases
Etymology: Coined in 1829 by Joseph Récamier. From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “removal, change”), from μεθίστημι (methístēmi, “to remove, to change”). By surface analysis, meta- + stasis.
Senses: glosses: A change in nature, form, or quality.
examples: text: Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her.
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers.
glosses: The spread of something harmful to another location, like the metastasis of a cancer.
glosses: Denying adversaries' arguments and turning the arguments back on them.
Derived terms: antimetastasis
genometastasis
macrometastasis
metastasectomy
metastasic
metastasize
metastasized
metastasizing
metastatic
metastatogenic
metastin
micrometastasis
multimetastasis
oligometastasis
polymetastasis
prometastasis
and counting
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: This online dictionary has 100,000 articles — and counting.
text: Hurry up: the train leaves in three minutes. No, two minutes and counting!
glosses: Used to show that the number previously mentioned is continuously changing, i.e. increasing or decreasing.
Related terms: count down
count up
metastasize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtæstəsaɪz/
Forms: form: metastasizes
form: metastasizing
form: metastasized
form: metastasized
form: metastasise
Etymology: From metastasis + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: On other screens are closeups of skin pores, before and after, details of regimes for everything, your hands, your neck, your thighs. Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes.
ref: 1989, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:
text: ‘Your lump could be a secondary cancer metastasized from the bowel. I had a patient like that not long ago.’
ref: 2001, David Lodge, Thinks...:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis.
raw_tags: of a disease or tumor
examples: text: “I remember the first time he woke up throwing up, and my first thought wasn't, ‘Oh he has the stomach flu,'” she said. “It was, ‘Oh, it's gone to his brain, and it's metastasized his brain, and he's throwing up because of that.'”
ref: 2013 May 11, Jaclyn Cosgrove, “Fostering hope: Doctor learns about being a mother to child with cancer”, in The Oklahoman:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To form a metastasis in (an organ).
raw_tags: of a disease or tumor
examples: text: If enough Americans expose themselves to the virus and become immune, the theory goes, the country would have a mobilized cadre of immune citizens. […] The article was widely discredited by public health experts and economists, as both logically dubious and ethically specious, but such thinking has already metastasized.
ref: 2020 April 12, Kathryn Olivarius, “The Dangerous History of Immunoprivilege”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To spread, especially in a destructive manner.
examples: text: In a broader sense, criticism as a form is in trouble. And celebrities like Grande, like Che, like Munn, who swat at it to the delight of their fans, concerningly seem to metastasize the problem.
ref: 2019 April 26, Richard Lawson, “Why Critics Worry About Criticism”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: To spread or disseminate (something), especially in a destructive manner.
Derived terms: nonmetastasized
nonmetastasizing
unmetastasized
prata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɑːtɑː/
Etymology: From Tamil பரோட்டா (parōṭṭā), related to Hindi पराठा (parāṭhā). Doublet of parotta and paratha.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that these guys were cocky enough to not merely name this snack a perfectly acceptable prata and curry, but egg prata with fish curry, made us quite certain[…].
ref: 2018 September 5, Florence Fong, “Egg Prata With Fish Curry Potato Chips Taste Test: Nice Or Not?”, in Today, Singapore, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2019:
text: A trio upset with a cook who had denied them free prata slashed him with a knife and left him with a deep wound.
ref: 2019 April 5, Shaffiq Alkhatib, “Man jailed over attack on prata cook”, in The Straits Times, Singapore:
glosses: Synonym of roti prata (a type fried flatbread that is cooked over a flat grill)
synonyms: word: roti prata
extra: a type fried flatbread that is cooked over a flat grill
Derived terms: prata bomb
counting number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counting numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A number used when counting, which is usually a positive integer, but sometimes zero.
Synonyms: natural number
Related terms: cardinal number
countinghouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countinghouses
Etymology: From counting + house.
Senses: examples: text: […]they made the journey in a cart, wearing workaday clothes, three of them: Roman, the bailiff, and a countinghouse clerk.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 43:
synonyms: counting room
compting-house
glosses: An office used by a business to house its accounts department.
thoroughbred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thoroughbred
form: most thoroughbred
Etymology: From thorough + bred.
Senses: glosses: Bred from pure stock.
glosses: Well-bred and properly educated.
Related terms: thoroughbreed
thoroughbred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoroughbreds
Etymology: From thorough + bred.
Senses: examples: text: A CNN analysis of disciplinary records found that the top earning trainers in the sport – whose thoroughbreds win them millions of dollars – have all broken rules meant to keep their horses safe. Trainers slapped with violations have continued racing, pocketing winnings while paying minimal fines. […] During the 2018-2019 season, a staggering 56 horses died at one of the most glamorous racetracks in the country, Santa Anita Park, once home to the famous 1940s thoroughbred Seabiscuit.
ref: 2023 June 10, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Allison Gordon and Pamela Brown, “As horse racing’s best trainers rake in millions, records show they’ve violated rules aimed at keeping the animals safe”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Thoroughbred (“horse bred for racing”).
glosses: Any purebred horse.
examples: text: That athlete is a real thoroughbred.
glosses: A person of uncommon strength or endurance (like that of a thoroughbred horse).
glosses: A well-bred person.
narcissistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɑː.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌnɑɹ.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more narcissistic
form: most narcissistic
Etymology: From narcissist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the nature of narcissism.
glosses: Having an inflated idea of one's own importance.
examples: text: Anyone who goes into a voting booth on November the 8th and comes out saying, “I feel a hundred percent great about what I just did in there!,” is either lying to themselves, or did something unspeakable in that booth! And that means, as uncomfortable as this is, everyone has to own the floors of whoever you vote for, whether they are a lying handsy narcissistic sociopath, a hawkish Wall Street-friendly embodiment of everything that some people can’t stand about politics, an ill-tempered mountain molester with a radical dangerous tax plan that even he can’t defend, or a conspiracy-pandering political neophyte with no clear understanding of how government operates and who once recorded this folk rap about the virtues of bicycling.
ref: 2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: Obsessed with one's own self image and ego.
Derived terms: narcissistically
narcissistic number
narcissistic personality disorder
narcissistic supply
nonnarcissistic
Related terms: narcissism
narcissist
narcissize
megalomania
narcissistic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɑː.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌnɑɹ.sɪˈsɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: narcissistics
Etymology: From narcissist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Because narcissistics cannot handle failure, they will take great lengths to avoid risks and situations in which defeat is a possibility.
ref: 1996, Susan B. Gall, Bernard Beins, Alan Feldman, The Gale encyclopedia of psychology, page 247:
glosses: A narcissist.
Related terms: God complex
Thoroughbred
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thoroughbreds
form: thoroughbred
Senses: examples: text: He wanted to be at the white-hot center of equine sport, to become a jockey, to be able to feel the thrust and power of a Thoroughbred in its ultimate competition: racing flat out, surging to the head of the herd.
ref: 2007, Gene McCormick, The Blue Collar Thoroughbred: An Inside Account of the Real World of Racing, McFarland, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: A horse of a breed derived from crosses between Arabian stallions and English mares, bred for racing, with its breeding history recorded in an official stud book.
prefixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: præfix’d
form: præfixed
form: præfixt
form: prefixt
form: prefix’d
Senses: glosses: Having a (specified) prefix.
glosses: Added as a prefix.
prefixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præfix’d
form: præfixed
form: præfixt
form: prefixt
form: prefix’d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prefix
delicatessen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛlɪkəˈtɛsən/
Forms: form: delicatessens
form: delikatessen
Etymology: First attested 1864. From German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), at the time also spelt Delicatesse(n), from French délicatesse, from délicat (“fine”), from Latin delicatus (“alluring”).
The sense of store is much more recent, originating in ellipsis from the common attributive use, as in delicatessen shop, delicatessen store, etc.
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.
Derived terms: deli
delicatessen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛlɪkəˈtɛsən/
Forms: form: delikatessen
Etymology: First attested 1864. From German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), at the time also spelt Delicatesse(n), from French délicatesse, from délicat (“fine”), from Latin delicatus (“alluring”).
The sense of store is much more recent, originating in ellipsis from the common attributive use, as in delicatessen shop, delicatessen store, etc.
Senses: glosses: Delicacies; exotic or expensive foods.
Related terms: delicacy
throughway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throughways
form: thruway
Etymology: From through + way. Compare thoroughway.
Senses: glosses: (Normally and officially spelled thruway) A broad highway fit for high-speed traffic; a thoroughfare.
metheglin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪˈθɛɡlɪn/
/ˈmɛθəɡlɪn/
/mɛˈθɛɡlɪn/
Forms: form: metheglins
form: methiglum
Etymology: From Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“doctor, healer”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).
Senses: examples: text: A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions.
ref: 1985 June 6, “Opinion: Topics: Lean and Rich History: Ancient Eatings”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Dec 2023, Section A, page A26:
text: But Gwen behind the bar said: ‘Try this, mead it is called.’ Reg admired the pure long high front vowel. Sack mead and sack metheglin. A scholarly man, tall and in leggings, his face a map of purple rivery veins, said: ‘Well, it’s the Welsh national drink, or was. Should properly be meddyglyn, liquor being llyn and meddyg from medicus, the healer'.
ref: 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
text: In Digbie's era metah, metheglin, and melomel were probably considered synonyms. […] "Melomel" today usually means a mead flavored with any fruit juice other than apples or pears. Peaches, cherries, blackberries, or plumbs^([sic]) are some good, historic choices.
ref: 2001, David Alan Woolsey, Libations of the Eighteenth Century: A Concise Manual for the Brewing of Authentic Beverages from the Colonial Era of America, and of Times Past:
glosses: A spiced mead, originally from Wales.
deli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛli/
homophone: Delhi
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: delis
Etymology: Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatus.
Senses: examples: text: Delis usually offer a broader, fresher menu than fast food chains.
text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
text: Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
glosses: A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
glosses: Food sold at a delicatessen.
Derived terms: deli meat
militates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The fact that it is purple militates against it being a trout.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of militate
throw down the gauntlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws down the gauntlet
form: throwing down the gauntlet
form: threw down the gauntlet
form: thrown down the gauntlet
form: throw down the gantlet
Etymology: From the late medieval custom symbolizing a challenge, in French jeter le gant which nowadays usually means to give up after having tried hard (leaving the challenge to any takers). The English phrase dates to the 1540s (figurative use by the 18th century).
Senses: examples: text: We might as well dispute with Dimock on a Coronation Day, as argue with these Writers. They strut, vapour, throw down the Gauntlet, and defy us to take it up.
ref: 1730, Caleb d' Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), The Craftsman, volume 7, page 91:
glosses: To issue a challenge.
Derived terms: throw down
throw-down
Related terms: take up the gauntlet
throw one's hat in the ring
take up the gauntlet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes up the gauntlet
form: taking up the gauntlet
form: took up the gauntlet
form: taken up the gauntlet
form: take up the gantlet
Etymology: See throw down the gauntlet. (Cf. French relever le gant)
Senses: examples: text: He doesn't read Greek, but he took up the gauntlet and did his best to understand the letter, anyway.
text: It was they, the ones without rights or positions, who had taken up the Emperor Wilhelm's gauntlet.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: To accept a challenge.
throw away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws away
form: throwing away
form: threw away
form: thrown away
Senses: examples: text: He wanted to throw away the cup, but he couldn't find a trash can.
text: Don't throw the newspaper away, it goes in the recycle bin!
synonyms: see at discard
glosses: To discard (trash, garbage, or the like), to toss out, to put in the trash.
examples: text: Voting for a third-party candidate sometimes feels like throwing your vote away.
text: The team threw away its chance at the semifinals.
text: Mama, life has just begun. / But now I've gone and thrown it all away.
ref: 1975, Freddie Mercury, “Bohemian Rhapsody” (song), in Queen (band), A Night at the Opera (album)
text: Chelsea threw away two points when substitute Salomon Kalou gifted Valencia a penalty five minutes from time with a needless handball.
ref: 2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To waste, to squander.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To intentionally throw an incomplete pass.
examples: text: As Gilly plays sitcom wife, reading aloud from a book while Sam tries to read his own across the table, she throws away a line about someone named Maynard once having annulled the marriage of someone named Prince Raggar and remarrying him in the same ceremony in Dorne.
ref: 2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To give lightly, in an offhand manner.
Derived terms: throw-away
throwaway
throw away the key
throw money away
mezuzah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈzʊzə/
ipa: /mɛ-/
ipa: /məˈzuːzə/
ipa: /məˈzuːzɔː/
Forms: form: mezuzahs
form: mezuzot
form: mezuzoth
form: mezuza
form: mezuzza
form: mezzuza
form: mezzuzah
form: mezuze
Etymology: From post-Biblical Hebrew מְזוּזָה (m'zuzá, məzûzâ, “doorpost”), with reference to Deuteronomy 6:9, a mitzvah (Biblical commandment as interpreted in Jewish law) ordering to “write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house”.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, one may feel profoundly moved with the spirit of true piety, love of God and loyalty to his commandments in the performance of a so-called "traditional commandment," like the fastening of a "mezuzah" to the door-post.
ref: 1916, Isaac Husik, A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy:
text: Slothrop gives him the mandala. He hopes it will work like the mantra that Enzian told him once, mba-kayere (I am passed over), mba-kayere . . . a spell against Marvy tonight, against Tchitcherine. A mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night. . . .
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 3: In the Zone, page 563:
text: If, for some strange reason, you want to eat the fair fruit on the date of purchase, you buy one that's already flecked, race home, and devour it as soon as you've crossed your threshold and kissed the mezuza.
ref: 1979 February 3, Nancy Walker, “Going Bananas”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 11:
text: Lubavitchers, Penansky says, believe mezuzahs need no adornment and simply wrap them in cellophane.
ref: 1988 September 2, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, in Chicago Reader:
text: When Manny or either of his parents went through their front door they put a finger on their lips and then to the mezuzah on the door frame.
ref: 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 20:
qualifier: Judaism and occasionally Christianity
glosses: A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house.
glosses: An object of similar function in the Samaritan tradition.
throw-away
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throw-aways
Etymology: Deverbal from throw away.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throwaway.
throw-away
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from throw away.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throwaway.
throw back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹəʊ ˈbæk/
ipa: /θɹoʊ ˈbæk/
Forms: form: throws back
form: throwing back
form: threw back
form: thrown back
Senses: glosses: To hinder the development of something.
examples: The Century
A large proportion of the steerage passengers throw back to their Darwinian ancestry.
glosses: To revert to an earlier stage of development.
examples: text: She jumped to her feet and began stalking away. “Going to cost me fifteen dollars to clean this outfit,” she threw back over her shoulder.
ref: 2011, Delores Haltom, The Stonecutter: How the Word Became Flesh, page 120:
glosses: To retort.
examples: text: We threw back drinks until the next morning.
text: “He and I used to throw back beers every now and then when I was with the Bureau.” Shaw grinned arrogantly.
ref: 2021 July 8, James Patterson, Adam Hamdy, Private Rogue: (Private 16), Random House, →ISBN:
synonyms: toss off
glosses: To drink quickly, especially alcoholic beverages.
examples: text: I threw back my head and laughed uproariously.
text: We caught several fish in the river but threw them back.
text: We all raised our glasses, threw them back. I was getting better, but I still felt the alcohol harder than Stephen ever had.
ref: 2017, Andrew Massie, In the Shadows of My Mind, page 197:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, back.
Related terms: throwback
thumb a lift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thumbs a lift
form: thumbing a lift
form: thumbed a lift
form: thumbed a lift
Etymology: In reference to the thumb gesture used to request a ride.
Senses: glosses: To hitchhike.
Synonyms: word: hitch a ride
word: thumb a ride
word: hitchhike
word: hitch-hike
thumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌmpɪŋ/
Forms: form: more thumping
form: most thumping
Senses: glosses: Exceptional in some degree.
thumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌmpɪŋ/
Forms: form: more thumping
form: most thumping
Senses: examples: text: A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.
glosses: Exceptionally. Very.
thumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌmpɪŋ/
Forms: form: thumpings
Senses: examples: text: They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade[.]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 28:
text: There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
ref: 1941, Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died:
glosses: A dull, heavy sound.
examples: text: He received a thumping from the school bully.
text: And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
ref: 1824, William Craig Brownlee, A careful and free inquiry into the true nature and tendency of the religious principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers:
glosses: A beating.
examples: text: Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation.
ref: 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A heavy defeat.
Synonyms: sense: heavy defeat
word: thrashing
Derived terms: Bible thumping
chest-thumping
Quran thumping
thumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌmpɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thump
mistral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈstɹɑːl/
Forms: form: mistrals
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French mistral, from Occitan. Doublet of magistral.
Senses: examples: text: I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 48”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: The mistral had been blowing for three days now and the sea showed more white than blue
ref: 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:
glosses: A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
Czechs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛks/
homophone: checks
homophone: cheques
rhymes: -ɛks
Senses: glosses: plural of Czech
thunder and lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thunderstorm.
kick the habit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks the habit
form: kicking the habit
form: kicked the habit
form: kicked the habit
Senses: examples: text: I get it right / I kicked the habit / Shed my skin / This is the new stuff
ref: 1986, Peter Gabriel, “Sledgehammer”, in So:
glosses: To recover from or quit an addiction or habit.
Related terms: break the cycle
Mixolydian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɪk.səˈlɪ.di.jən/
Forms: form: mixolydian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μιξο-Λυδιος (mixo-Ludios, “half-Lydian”), from μιξο- (mixo-) (from base of μιγνυναι (mignunai, “to mix”)) + Λυδιος (Ludios, “Lydia (an ancient country in Asia Minor)”); named in reference to Lydian (another Greek mode).
Senses: examples: text: Johann Jakob Froberger's piece Canzona V in G is in the mixolydian mode.
text: It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres' altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the alrightiness of his almightiness.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 474:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Designating the Mixolydian mode, the highest of the ancient Greek modes, and now having final G and D dominant.
Derived terms: hypomixolydian
thundercloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderclouds
Etymology: From thunder + cloud.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: storm cloud
glosses: A large, dark cloud, usually a cumulonimbus, charged with electricity and producing thunder and lightning.
examples: the ominous thunderclouds of war
glosses: Something menacing and brooding.
Related terms: cumulonimbus
rain cloud
mobled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊbəld/
Etymology: From moble.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moble
mobled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊbəld/
Forms: form: more mobled
form: most mobled
Etymology: From moble.
Senses: examples: text: She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that secondbest bed, the mobled queen
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: But who, O who, had seen the mobled queen,— (...); a clout upon that head (...)
ref: 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 2 scene 2:
glosses: With the head wrapped up or muffled.
moble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊbəl/
Forms: form: mobles
form: mobling
form: mobled
form: mobled
Etymology: Frequentative mob + -le.
Senses: examples: text: She was all mobled up at the window, her tawniness flat and dull in this snowlight, and I felt pity.
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:
text: But who, O who, had seen the mobled Queen.
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 II, scene ii]:
glosses: To muffle or wrap someone's head or face (normally with up).
moliminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mə(ʊ)ˈlɪmɪnəs/
ipa: /moʊˈlɪmɪnəs/
Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin mōlīmen (“effort”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: those great moliminous Bodies of Parlaments are but slow in motion, and attendance will quickly exhaust a good puzzle and patience, before any thing can be done […].
ref: 1653, Marchamont Nedham, A True State of the Case of the Commonwealth:
text: some Prophecies are not conditional but absolute, as certainly all those are that are of so vast and moliminous Concernment to the World as the appearing of the Messias is.
ref: 1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, I.7.i:
text: But it had moliminous ramifications in the political system in two respects […].
ref: 1992, Sabrina P Ramet, Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia, 1962-1991:
glosses: Momentous, weighty.
examples: text: And thus may the slow and imperfect wits of mortals be satisfied, that Providence to the Deity is no moliminous, laborious and distractious thing.
ref: 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, volume IV, London, published 1820:
text: All natural logick of expression in the elements is made thereby interrupted and most obscure, howe’er so skilled and moliminous the adeptist.
ref: 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
glosses: Laborious, involving or exerting great effort; arduous.
thymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθaɪmɪk/
rhymes: -aɪmɪk
Etymology: From thyme + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Zinc deficiency may contribute to immune suppression suppression in people who have AIDS and ARC, report researchers who have found thymic hormone failure and zinc deficiency in seven people with AIDS and seven with ARC.
ref: 1988 April 23, Lori Kenschaft, “Zinc Deficiency Linked To AIDS, ARC”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
glosses: Of or relating to the thymus gland
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from thymol
Derived terms: alexithymic
athymic
cyclothymic
dysthymic
euthymic
extrathymic
extrathymically
hyperthymic
intrathymic
intrathymical
intrathymically
leipothymic
lipothymic
nonthymic
parathymic
perithymic
prethymic
prethymically
schizothymic
thymically
thymic alymphoplasia
thymic corpuscle
thymic vein
thunder cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder clouds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thundercloud.
monteith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɒnˈtiːθ/
Forms: form: monteiths
Etymology: From the Scottish surname Monteith.
Senses: examples: text: In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room—a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls—the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, London: Grant Richards, page 46:
text: The Punch is a secret Receipt of the Landlord, including but not limited to peach brandy, locally distill’d Whiskey, and milk. A raft of long Icicles broken from the Eaves floats upon the pale contents of the great rustick Monteith.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 509:
glosses: A large 18th-century punchbowl, usually of silver, fluted and scalloped.
glosses: A cotton handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background.
astraphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀστραπή (astrapḗ, “lightning”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
morphew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːrfjuː/
Forms: form: morphews
Etymology: From Medieval Latin morphea, perhaps from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Doublet of morphea.
Senses: glosses: A blemish or mark on the skin, especially a blister caused by scurvy.
Derived terms: morphewed
motrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊtɹɪks/
Etymology: A post-classical Latin female form of classical Latin motor (“motor”). It is used as the feminine form of motor (“(he) that moves”) in neo-Latin, as in the original of Newton's Laws of Motion: proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae ‘is proportional to the motive force applied’ formed on the agentive suffix: -tor (masculine) / -trix (feminine).
Senses: examples: text: So Dixon for the second time in two minutes finds himself laughing without the Motrix of honest Mirth
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: A female instigator or cause of something.
Related terms: vis motrix
mozo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈməʊzəʊ/
/ˈmoθo/
Forms: form: mozos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mozo.
Senses: examples: text: I found, by advice, that single mozos weren't apt to be much good.
ref: 1931, Hart Crane, letter, 2 June
text: When he rode up to the gerente’s house that morning he was accompanied by four friends and by a retinue of mozos and two packanimals saddled with hardwood kiacks, one empty, the other carrying their noon provisions.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:
glosses: A male servant, especially an attendant to a bullfighter.
glosses: A title of respect for a young man (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
glosses: An unmarried man, a boy.
mucopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːkəʊpʌs/
Etymology: From muco- + pus.
Senses: examples: text: A Saturday afternoon and a ‘misfire’ books in my hands. Everything swimming in a divine mucopus.
ref: 1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a mixture of mucus and pus
orthologs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ortholog
ortholog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthologs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of two or more homologous gene sequences found in different species related by linear descent.
Derived terms: panortholog
Related terms: orthogroup
mycterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪktəɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: mycterisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μυκτηρισμός (muktērismós), from μυκτηρίζω (muktērízō, “I sneer”), from μυκτήρ (muktḗr, “nostril”).
Senses: examples: text: But he recovers himself soon, if only by the dry fashion in which he observes that, if anybody does not know it, the Greeks call certain kinds of allegory sarcasm, asteism, antiphasis, and parœmia, to which it may be well to at mycterism, a kind of derision which is dissembled, but not altogether concealed―as very neatly by M. Fabius Quintillianus in the passage before us.
ref: 1922, George Saintsbury, A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day, page 301:
text: As he makes clear, he has quite a few such “nauseatingly gross figures of clay” in mind, turning the irony or sarcasm of a specific instant into widespread mycterism—broad disdain pronounced with a sneer.
ref: 2013, J. Phillipson, C.P. Cavafy Historical Poems:
glosses: A subtle or scornful jibe.
verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verb
verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of verb
Tiber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪbə/
ipa: /ˈtaɪbəɹ/
Forms: form: the Tiber
Etymology: From Latin Tiberis.
Senses: examples: text: They traversed the Tiber without remarking it; they arrived at Rome by the gate of the people, which conducts immediately to the Corso, to the largest street of the modern city; […]
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book I. Oswald.] Chap[ter] V.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume I, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: The river that flows through Rome in Italy.
Derived terms: cross the Tiber
Hollywood on the Tiber
Tiberian
myronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /maɪˈɹɒnɪk/
Forms: form: more myronic
form: most myronic
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek μύρον (múron, “unguent, perfume”), + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: He wore only a thin-bretelled blue undershirt that rucked under his pectoral mass but stretched ceaseless across his myronic flanks.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: fragrant, perfumed
Derived terms: myronic acid
abets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abet
abets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbɛts/
Senses: glosses: plural of abet
Tiberias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /taɪˈbɪəɹi.æs/
Etymology: From Latin Tiberias, from Ancient Greek Τιβεριάς (Tiberiás), after the Emperor Tiberius.
Senses: glosses: A town in the Northern District, on the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
Derived terms: Tiberian