cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sweatshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛtˌʃɒp/
ipa: /ˈswɛtˌʃɑp/
Forms: form: sweatshops
form: sweat shop
Etymology: From sweat (“to extract money, labour, etc.”, verb) + shop.
Senses: examples: text: I was thrilled to be able to build my own shoes, and my personal iD was offered as a small token of appreciation for the sweatshop workers poised to help me realize my vision.
ref: 2001 February 19, Jonah Peretti, quotee, “Jonah Peretti and Nike”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal.
Synonyms: sweat factory
naut.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Nautical.
nautical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˈnɔː.tɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /ˈnɔ.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˈnɔ.ɾɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /ˈnɑ.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˈnɑ.ɾɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /ˈnoː.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˈnoː.ɾɪ.kl̩]
Forms: form: more nautical
form: most nautical
form: naut.
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French nautique, from Latin nauticus (“of or relating to sailors”), from Ancient Greek ναυτικός (nautikós).
Senses: examples: text: nautical charts
text: I was mostly unfamiliar with the nautical terms used in the sailing documentary.
text: The mainsail was "scandalised" - a nautical mode of describing a sail reefed at both ends[.]
ref: 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 16:
glosses: Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.
Derived terms: aeronautical
nautical chart
nauticalese
nauticalism
nautical mile
nautical twilight
nonnautical
unnautical
seamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmɛn/
Senses: glosses: plural of seaman
seaman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmən/
rhymes: -iːmən
homophone: semen
Forms: form: seamen
Etymology: From Middle English seeman, seman, from Old English sǣmann. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Seemon (“seaman, sailor”), West Frisian seeman (“seaman, sailor”), Dutch zeeman (“seaman, sailor”), German Low German Seemann (“seaman, sailor”), German Seemann (“seaman, sailor”), Swedish sjöman (“seaman, sailor”), Norwegian sjømann (“seaman, sailor”). Equivalent to sea + -man.
Senses: examples: text: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
synonyms: word: mariner
word: matelot
word: shipper
word: waterman
word: sailor
word: particularly on a maritime vessel
glosses: Synonym of sailor, particularly on a maritime vessel.
glosses: A person of the lowest rank in the Navy, below able seaman.
glosses: An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below petty officer third class and above seaman apprentice.
examples: , Book III
not to mention what is confidently reported of mermaids, or sea-men
glosses: A merman; the male of the mermaid.
Coordinate terms: word: seawoman
word: landman
english: opposed figure
translation: opposed figure
word: landsman
Derived terms: able-bodied seaman
able seaman
leading seaman
master seaman
merchant seaman
ordinary seaman
seaman recruit
seamanship
Related terms: AB
encyc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encycs.
Senses: examples: text: “The teachers are attempting to make the kids use research skills by using other books for their answers. Encycs. sometimes are an easy copout for a lazy student”; […]
ref: 1981, Kenneth F. Kister, Encyclopedia Buying Guide: A Consumer Guide to General Encyclopedias in Print, Bowker, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Abbreviation of encyclopedia; also encyc.
departmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: departmentations
Etymology: From department + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of classifying an organization on the basis of departments or similar activities, to facilitate planning and control.
Big Brother
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: big brother
Etymology: After the nominal leader of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: examples: text: Some people are worried about marketing calls at dinnertime or junk mail or spam, while others are more concerned about Big Brother.
ref: 2002, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Web privacy with P3P, page 12
text: When one mentions the concepts of identity and governance in the same breath, a virtually autonomic response from many is the concern that a governmental big brother will soon be looking over their shoulders.
ref: 2008, Bertrand du Castel, Timothy M. Jurgensen Computer Theology, page 314
glosses: Unwarranted, invasive, and discreet surveillance, especially of a people by its government.
examples: text: Holonym: the System
text: In the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the height of public concern over the emergence of a Big Brother society, privacy activism shared features in common with some of the hard-line environmental campaigns of the 1990s.
ref: 1999, Rebecca A. Grant, Colin John Bennett, Visions of privacy: policy choices for the digital age, page 244
text: When the agencies of the federal government spied on the political activities of US citizens, they moved into the grey area between concern with national security and a Big Brother system that violated constitutional protections.
ref: 2003, Rodney Carlisle, Rodney P. Carlisle, Complete idiot's guide to spies and espionage, page 195
coordinate_terms: the man#Noun
leviathan
glosses: Any omnipresent authority or figurehead representing oppressive control.
Derived terms: Big-Brotherish
Big Brotherism
big brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big brothers
Senses: examples: text: If you don't give me back my toys I'll tell my big brother!
glosses: A sibling's older brother.
examples: text: While the little MTU Vee-12s in the Class 800 bi-mode generating units have lower overall emissions than their big brothers in the Class 43 IC125 power cars, in the case of CO₂, when you burn a litre of diesel fuel you get 2.8kg of CO₂. [a possible error in the original text]
ref: 2019 October, Roger Ford, “WCP award - victory for DfT reactionaries”, in Modern Railways, page 32:
glosses: Something that is bigger in comparison.
examples: text: Due to the size of Big Brother and the fact that people who used it were mostly big brothers in the business world, this thing quickly became a status symbol.
ref: 2018 December, “Chinese Terminology: Big Brother”, in CGTN:
glosses: early mobile phones (in China)
glosses: Alternative form of Big Brother.
Related terms: big sister
little brother
little sister
big sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big sisters
Senses: glosses: A sibling's older sister.
Derived terms: big-sisterly
Related terms: big brother
kid sister
little brother
little sister
little brother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little brothers
Senses: synonyms: kid brother
coordinate_terms: little sister
big brother
big sister
glosses: A younger brother.
little sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little sisters
Senses: examples: text: Hey little sister, what have you done? / Hey little sister, who’s the only one? / Hey little sister, who’s your superman? / Hey little sister, who’s the one you want? / Hey little sister, shotgun!
ref: 1981, “White Wedding - Pt. 1”, in Billy Idol, performed by Billy Idol:
coordinate_terms: little brother
big brother
big sister
glosses: Synonym of younger sister.
synonyms: word: younger sister
Derived terms: Little Sister of the Poor
Brer Rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʌˈɹæbɪt/
Forms: form: Br'er Rabbit
Senses: examples: text: who believe that Microsoft actually wants to be broken up (the Brer Rabbit solution),
ref: 2000 May 9, Bill Mann, “Microsoft Ain't AT&T”, in The Motley Fool:
glosses: The hero of the Uncle Remus stories.
examples: text: BRER RABBIT came pacing down the road, lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity, just as sassy as a jaybird. And then he saw Chester the dog, who might just as well have been Brer Fox.
ref: 2005 September 27, Alan Hamilton, “How Chester the labrador was caught on hop by a wily bunny”, in The Times:
glosses: Any specific rabbit; used to personify a rabbit in a story
examples: text: Mr. Smith, the Brer Rabbit of House of Commons Leaders, "lay low and said nuffin."
ref: 1892, Henry Lucy, A Diary of the Salisbury Parliament, 1886-1892, page 34:
text: He was the "Br'er Rabbit" of politics — he lay low so that the hunters of the other side could not see him to point their guns at him.
ref: 1914, William Edgar Sackett, Modern Battles of Politics, volume 2, page 308:
text: It was the combination of a super-smooth shooting dog of radiant style and talent, and a Br'er Rabbit handler that stayed one bounce ahead of the fox.
ref: 2006, Mike Gaddis, Zip Zap, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: Any trickster, or unusually quick and clever, figure.
Cinderella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪndəˈɹɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: Cinderellas
form: cinderella
Etymology: From cinder + Italian -ella, as in little cinder girl. Compare French Cendrillon.
Senses: glosses: A popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward.
examples: text: The girls look like Southern belles or Cinderellas. The prom’s theme is Cinderellian: “Until Midnight.” Little, clear slippers sit on the 30 cloth- and candle-covered tables on the tarp-covered gymnasium floor.
ref: 1988 May 16, Melissa Merlie, “Dancing the night away”, in Chillicothe Gazette, volume 189, number 39, Chillicothe, Ohio, page 1B, column 2:
text: Womanly duties, as Joan thought of them, were fine for girls who imagined themselves as Cinderellas or Sleeping Beauties, good girls rewarded for menial housework and, in the case of Sleeping Beauty, a passivity so profound it was deaf, dumb, blind, and comatose.
ref: 2014, Kathryn Harrison, Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, Doubleday, →ISBN:
text: All the miniature Cinderellas, Belles, and Ariels who fill the streets every Halloween are essentially paying homage to characters that will slowly and inevitably chip away at their sense of worth in years to come.
ref: 2018, Jen Kim, Love and…: Bad Boys, “The One” & Other Fun Ways to Sabotage Your Relationship, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: The main character in this story, a mistreated and impoverished girl.
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Derived terms: Cinderella club
Cinderella complex
Cinderella dance
Cinderella effect
Cinderellaesque
Cinderella liberty
Cinderella sale
Cinderella service
Cinderella State
Cinderella story
Cinderella team
Cinderellian
Cinderfella
Cinderella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪndəˈɹɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: Cinderellas
form: cinderella
Etymology: From cinder + Italian -ella, as in little cinder girl. Compare French Cendrillon.
Senses: qualifier: by analogy
glosses: A mistreated and impoverished girl.
glosses: Something rising unexpectedly from obscurity to success, as a Cinderella team.
examples: raw_tags: in Australia
text: Cinderella State
text: The Cinderella of the present trio is the Freshwater, which is laid up in the winter months, when one or other of her ugly sisters is sufficient to cope with the service.
ref: 1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
text: A very early example of this can be seen in the case of the Midland Main Line (MML). At the start of 1982, this was the Cinderella of the InterCity portfolio but building more High Speed Trains (HSTs) to replace 90mph trainsets was out of the question. During 1982-83, Bleasdale shuffled his HST pack by taking sets from the Eastern and Western Regions and allocated these to the MML.
ref: 2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 64:
glosses: Something neglected and denied resources, as a Cinderella service.
examples: text: For Dr. Sadrieh (who was wearing made-to-order Gucci brogues), foot surgery is a fusion of medicine and fairy tale. At his practice, you don’t have a bunionectomy; you have a Cinderella procedure.
ref: 2014 April 22, Laren Stover, “Make Them Fit, Please!”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2014:
text: By the mid-1930s prominent members of society, including the aristocracy, were paying hefty fees for this Cinderella surgery, correcting double chins, reshaping noses and smoothing wrinkles and creases, even having stomach tucks.
ref: 2020, Robert Wainwright, Enid: The Scandalous High-society Life of the Formidable 'Lady Killmore', Allen & Unwin, page 125:
glosses: A procedure or surgery to reshape the feet.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A stamp or stamp-like label issued for purposes other than postal administration, not issued by a central government, or not listed in most general catalogues.
glosses: A woman employed to clean, especially to remove ash from stoves and fireplaces.
rematch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiː.mætʃ/
ipa: /ɹiːˈmætʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: rematches
Etymology: From re- + match.
Senses: examples: text: After being beaten in pool by Melanie, John asked for a rematch.
glosses: A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.
Coordinate terms: grudge match
rematch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiː.mætʃ/
ipa: /ɹiːˈmætʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: rematches
form: rematching
form: rematched
form: rematched
Etymology: From re- + match.
Senses: glosses: To bring opponents together for such a contest.
glosses: To stage such a contest.
examples: text: We had to rematch the mixed-up parts.
glosses: To match again or anew.
aitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: āch
ipa: /ˈeɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -eɪtʃ
Forms: form: aitches
form: haitch
form: ache
Etymology: From Middle English ache, borrowed from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca. The source is unclear, but may descend from the vowelless alphabetic sequence ha ka 'H, K' (becoming [aka] when the [h] ceased to be pronounced), as K had low frequency in Late Latin. Doublet of ecchi.
Senses: examples: text: The word hour is written with a silent aitch.
text: Cockneys drop their aitches.
text: The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.
ref: 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:
text: "If you've got any drawing-room manners, or a dislike to eating peas with a knife or dropping aitches, you'd better chuck 'em away. They ain't no further use."
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 257:
text: She frowned, hearing Lim Cheng Po's voice, so English, so refined, so very English upper-class. And often she had had to tell Joe about his aitches.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 469:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.
Derived terms: aitchbone
aitch-dropping
aitch ee double hockey sticks
aitchless
sportsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportsmen
Etymology: From sports + -man.
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, the difference between the worse male and female sportsmen was 54 ms. Among the male sportsmen [...]. Among the female sportsmen [...]
ref: 2014, Libor Flemr, Jiří Němec, Kateřina Kudláčková, editors, Physical activity in science and practice: Conference Proceedings | In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in Prague [Prague, 19-21 June 2013], page 237:
text: In both cases the female sportsmen were Nordic skiers.
ref: 2008, Atko Viru, Adaptation in Sports Training, Informa Healthcare USA, New York, p. 227 (Chapter 9: Gender Differences in Training Effects, sub-chapter Metabolic Capacities in male and female Athletes)
glosses: A man who engages in sports; an athlete.
examples: text: At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
glosses: A man who exhibits good sportsmanship, or who exhibits sportsmanship as specified (good or bad).
Derived terms: sportsmanlike
sportsman's bet
sportsmanship
Related terms: sportswoman
Yugoslavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Jugoslavian
Etymology: From Yugoslavia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Yugoslavia.
Synonyms: Yugoslav
Yugoslavian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yugoslavians
form: Jugoslavian
Etymology: From Yugoslavia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native of Yugoslavia.
Synonyms: Yugoslav
physiogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From physio- + -gony.
Senses: glosses: The production or generation of nature.
lank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: lanks
form: lanking
form: lanked
form: lanked
Etymology: From Middle English lank, from Old English hlanc, from Proto-West Germanic *hlank, from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“lank, thin”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend, turn, wind, twist”); compare German lenken (“to turn”), Gelenk (“joint”), Old High German hlanca (“hip, side, flank”), and English link (of a chain).
Senses: examples: text: […] on the Alps
It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,
Which some did die to look on: and all this—
It wounds thine honour that I speak it now—
Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek
So much as lank’d not.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
glosses: To become lank.
oblique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbliːk/
rhymes: -iːk
ipa: /oʊˈbliːk/
rhymes: -iːk
ipa: /ɑbˈlaɪk/
ipa: /ɒbˈlaɪk/
Forms: form: obliques
Etymology: From Middle French oblique, from Latin oblīquus (also spelled oblīcus) (“slanting, sideways, indirect, envious”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An oblique line.
examples: text: Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
ref: 1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240:
text: Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.
ref: 1990, John McDermott, Punctuation for Now, page 20:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
synonyms: word: slash
extra: /
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The oblique case.
topics: exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The musculus obliquus externus abdominis or also obliquus internus abdominis.
Synonyms: topics: typography
publishing
media
word: slash
Derived terms: oblique mark
oblique stroke
stroke
oblique
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbliːk/
rhymes: -iːk
ipa: /oʊˈbliːk/
rhymes: -iːk
ipa: /ɑbˈlaɪk/
ipa: /ɒbˈlaɪk/
Forms: form: obliques
form: obliquing
form: obliqued
form: obliqued
Etymology: From Middle French oblique, from Latin oblīquus (also spelled oblīcus) (“slanting, sideways, indirect, envious”).
Senses: examples: text: he sat upon the edge of his chair […] and achieved a communication with his plate by projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine
ref: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverly:
glosses: To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skuːlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of school
schools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skuːlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of school
acca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accas
Senses: glosses: An accumulator bet.
acca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accas
Senses: examples: text: […] a faintly anglophiliac university atmosphere: the polarities threaten to split the character apart. The tensions would have been particularly interesting if the accas hadn't been so corrupt.
ref: 1979, Meanjin, volume 38, page 184:
text: […] academics (or accas as the Aussies call them) […]
ref: 2011, Don Graham, State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents, page 155:
glosses: An academic.
great-great-grandmother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-great-grandmothers
form: great great grandmother
Etymology: From great- + great- + grandmother.
Senses: glosses: The mother of someone’s great-grandparent.
Synonyms: great-great-grandma
Hypernyms: great-great-grandparent
Coordinate terms: great-great-grandfather
Related terms: great-great-grandchild
great-great-granddaughter
great-great-grandson
great-great-grandfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great-great-grandfathers
form: great great grandfather
Etymology: From great- + great- + grandfather.
Senses: glosses: The father of someone's great-grandparent.
Synonyms: word: tresayle
Hypernyms: great-great-grandparent
Coordinate terms: great-great-grandmother
Related terms: great-great-grandchild
great-great-granddaughter
great-great-grandson
thunderstorm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thŭnʹdər-stôrm'
ipa: /ˈθʌn.dɚˌstɔɹm/
ipa: /ˈθʌn.dəˌstɔːm/
Forms: form: thunderstorms
Etymology: From thunder + storm.
Senses: examples: text: I have never believed, as some people do, in omens and forewarnings, for the dramatic things in my life have generally come upon me as suddenly as a tropical thunder-storm.
ref: 1936 July, John Buchan, “Lost Gods”, in The Island of Sheep, London: Hodder and Stoughton, published July 1938, →OCLC, part I (Fosse), page 11:
synonyms: word: t-storm
word: lightning storm
word: electrical storm
glosses: A storm consisting of thunder and lightning produced by a cumulonimbus, usually accompanied with heavy rain, wind, and sometimes hail; and in rarer cases sleet, freezing rain, or snow.
Synonyms: thunder and lightning
Hypernyms: storm
unweather
Derived terms: asthma thunderstorm
dirty thunderstorm
like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
thunderstorm asthma
thunderstormy
roast beef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roast beefs
form: roastbeef
Etymology: From roast + beef. Doublet of rosbif, a reborrowing.
Senses: glosses: Beef cooked by roasting.
examples: text: I tell the waiter, 'We'll have two roast beefs, one well-done, the other medium rare.'
ref: 2000, Phyllis-Terri Gold, Saving Grace: A Spiritual Love Story, page 51:
text: But the cars & trucks held cartons of roast chickens, slabs of cheeses, loaves of bread, racks of hotdogs, case upon case of soft drinks, cases of bottled sparkling water, pies, cakes, roast beefs & baked hams.
ref: 2008, Red Jordan Arobateau, Leader of the Pack, page 136:
text: No delicate little tidbits at these parties; there are buckets of shrimps and oysters, roast beefs and hams and tables of sweets with smiling corporate heads and their lobbyists to greet the guests.
ref: 2010, Mariana De Saint Phalle, Mariana's Letters, page 94:
glosses: A cut of beef that has been roasted.
examples: text: Two or three times a week I had to deliver fifteen- or twenty-pound roast beefs to delis around the Bronx so that they could cook them and slice them up for sandwiches.
ref: 1999, Michael Pearson, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, page 152:
text: We had a freezer up until maybe two years ago. We used to pack a lot of roast beefs.
ref: 2009, Carole M. Counihan, A Tortilla Is Like Life: Food and Culture in the San Luis Valley of Colorado, page 80:
glosses: A cut of beef intended for roasting.
examples: text: Because there, in the middle of the table, among the roast beefs on rolls,[…]
ref: 2006, Allen Rosenshine, Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, and the Mad, Mad World of the Ad Game, page 117:
glosses: A portion of roasted beef.
Derived terms: roast beef curtains
roast-beef plant
cable television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cable TV
Senses: glosses: Television received through coaxial cables; specifically, a TV service that provides reception to suburbs or other residential areas through utility lines and offering a wide variety of TV channels through satellite reception.
too bad
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Shortening of "That is too bad" or "It is too bad that..."
Senses: examples: text: You can't come to the party? Too bad.
text: Foxtrot B I L LA MENDE ଜ IT'S TOO BAD " PAIGE " DOESN'T RHYME WITH " GODZILLA . ' There once was a girl named Paige ... who was frequently filled with räge .... 3 13 8 One day she decided to be more peaceful and quiet ...Now no one ever says, Paige, act your age...
ref: 1997 August 24, Bill Amend, Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on Your Nose (Foxtrot Collection), Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:
synonyms: pity
shame
that's a pity
that's a shame
that's too bad
what a pity
what a shame
glosses: That's a pity.
examples: text: Too bad you can't come to the party.
synonyms: alas
glosses: It is sad that.
glosses: A mocking expression of uncaring or schadenfreude as an answer to someone when upset.
Derived terms: too bad, so sad
Related terms: it is what it is
such is life
goodly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʊdli/
rhymes: -ʊdli
Forms: form: goodlier
form: goodliest
Etymology: From Middle English goodly, goodlich, gōdlich, from Old English gōdlīċ (“good, goodly”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdalīk, from Proto-Germanic *gōdalīkaz (“good, goodly”); equivalent to good + -ly. Cognate with Dutch goedelijk, goelijk (“harmless, benign”), German gütlich (“friendly”), Icelandic góðlegur (“benign”).
Senses: examples: text: Her goodly thighs, whoſe glory did appear, / Like a triumphal Arch,[…]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The diuell can cite Scripture for his purpoſe, / An euill ſoule producing holy witneſſe, / Is like a villaine with a ſmiling cheeke, / A goodly apple rotten at the heart. / O what a goodly outſide falſehood hath.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 166:
text: O Sin, thou knowest that all thy shame in her
Was made a goodly thing.
ref: 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “A Ballad of Death”, in Poems and Ballads, lines 26–27:
text: Then the prince left her and betook himself to the palace of the King his father, who rejoiced in his return and met him and welcomed him; and the Prince said to him, "Know that I have left her without the city in such a garden and come to tell thee, that thou mayst make ready the procession of estate and go forth to meet her and show her the royal dignity and troops and guards." Answered the King, "With joy and gladness"; and straightway bade decorate the town with the goodliest adornment.
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
glosses: Good; pleasing in appearance; attractive; comely; graceful; pleasant; desirable.
examples: text: a goodly sum of money
text: walking at a goodly pace
text: Like any kid who played a game or two in school, I happened early on a golden rule: if I ate a goodly amount, I had better wait a goodly time before starting play—at least half an hour, preferably more.
ref: 2014, Dilip D’souza, Final Test:
text: I am glad I brought a goodly supply of needlework with me. It's about all there is to do.
ref: 2014, Lael R. Neill, Sand Island Diaries:
text: After stopping at these stations, my train has become busy. Returning day-trippers make up a goodly number, along with young people heading for a night out in Bristol, which is where I change once again.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 66:
glosses: Quite large; considerable; sufficient; adequate; more than enough.
Derived terms: goodlihead
goodlihood
goodliness
ungoodly
goodly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʊdli/
rhymes: -ʊdli
Forms: form: goodlier
form: goodliest
Etymology: From Middle English goodly, goodliche, gōdliche, from Old English gōdlīċe (“goodly”), from the adjective; equivalent to good + -ly. Cognate with Middle High German guotlīche, güetlīche.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne he sente for the thre knyghtes & they came afore hym / and he cryed hem mercy of that he had done to them / and they forgaf hit hym goodely and he dyed anone
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
english: Then he sent for the three knights and they came before him, and he pleaded with them to have mercy for what he had done to them, and they graciously forgave him for it and he died soon after.
translation: Then he sent for the three knights and they came before him, and he pleaded with them to have mercy for what he had done to them, and they graciously forgave him for it and he died soon after.
bold_translation_offsets: 139
149
text: Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
examples: text: For love of vertue and of martial praise;
To which though nobly ye inclined are,
(As goodlie well ye shew'd in late assaies)
ref: a. 1599, Edmund Spenser, To the Earle of Cumberland:
text: I know doin' marriage is tough and hard to pull off for a long time, but from what I has been led to believe, you two was doin' it quite goodly. As goodly as a huntin' shootin' fishin' filmin' drinkin' Englishy can do with a gyratin' pumpin' singin' lookin' wearinv Yankee-doodle icon. It was seemin' to be good together.
ref: 2011, Dawn French, Dear Fatty:
glosses: Well; excellently.
James Bond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The fictional character was named after ornithologist James Bond (Ian Fleming was an avid birdwatcher).
Senses: examples: text: He understood the threat. But the capability of the C.I.A.’s Directorate of Operations was far less than advertised. The Directorate of Operations would like people to think it’s a great James Bond operation, but for years it essentially assigned officers undercover as diplomats to attend cocktail parties.
ref: 2003 August 4, The New Yorker:
glosses: A fictional British spy in the novels of Ian Fleming and the motion pictures based on these novels, famous for his suavity, ingenuity, ruthlessness and supply of gadgets.
Synonyms: 007
Derived terms: James Bond villain
Bond girl
Bondesque
Bondophile
James Bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: James Bonds
Etymology: The fictional character was named after ornithologist James Bond (Ian Fleming was an avid birdwatcher).
Senses: glosses: A secret agent of similar ability to the fictional James Bond.
Romeo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmioʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Romance languages.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Conejos County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Macomb County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greene County, Tennessee.
Romeo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊmioʊ/
Forms: form: Romeos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”).
Senses: examples: text: Have you met her latest Romeo yet?
glosses: A boyfriend.
examples: text: Indian Romeos […] have yielded to the temptation to pat, feel, pinch and brush against the more irresistible and accessible portions of women who come within discreet cop-a-feel distance.
ref: 1974, Black Belt, volume 12, number 4, page 11:
text: So you think you're a Romeo / You're playing a part in a picture-show / Well, take the long way home
ref: 1979, Roger Hodgson, “Take the Long Way Home”, in Breakfast in America, performed by Supertramp:
glosses: A man who has a reputation for being a great lover or very romantic.
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A spy specialised in seducing persons of interest, in particular a man targeting women.
glosses: A womanizer.
Synonyms: sense: boyfriend
word: beau
sense: boyfriend
word: boyfriend
sense: boyfriend
word: man friend
sense: man who is a great lover
word: lover boy
Derived terms: roadside Romeo
Romeo and Juliet couple
Romeo pimp
Related terms: Juliet
ladykiller
lothario
Lothario
Montague
Juliet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːlɪɛt/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒuliˈɛt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuliət/
rhymes: (US) -ɛt
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Giulietta, diminutive of Giulia, from Latin Iūlia, feminine of Iūlius, a Roman family name. Cognate with French Juliette.
Senses: examples: text: "All I ask," she says, fitting the cigarette into a holder, "is that you don't call me Juli-et. I cannot abide Juli-et. It maddens me!" "Yes, ma'am." "Here, we say Joolyut. Joolyut. Joolyut. Say it for me."
ref: 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
examples: text: For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: One of the title characters of Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
glosses: A woman who is or is with a great lover.
glosses: By analogy with the Shakespeare character, a woman who is in love with a man from a family, party, or country opposing that of her own.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The sixth moon of the planet Uranus.
Derived terms: Juliet cap
Juliet sleeve
Related terms: Romeo
Juliett
Capulet
Montague
Count Dracula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The fictional vampire in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Synonyms: Dracula
Derived terms: draculin
Related terms: Dracula
Nosferatu
Dracula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹækjʊlə/
ipa: /ˈdɹækjələ/
Etymology: From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
synonyms: Count Dracula
glosses: The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.
glosses: A former prince of Wallachia.
Derived terms: blackula
Dracula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹækjʊlə/
ipa: /ˈdɹækjələ/
Forms: form: Draculas
Etymology: From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Senses: examples: text: But he would have had to have been over 250 years old! Like a Dracula or something.
ref: 2004 November 16, Brian Mitsoda, Chad Moore, TJ Perillo, Jason D. Anderson, Leonard Boyarsky, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, →OCLC, spoken by Dr. Ingvar Johansen (J. Grant Albrecht):
glosses: Any vampire.
Related terms: Count Dracula
Nosferatu
finish line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finish lines
Senses: examples: text: The five exhausted runners crossed the finish line one after the other.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A line marking the end of a race.
examples: text: The race to the finish line has started already according to Jürgen Klopp and by those punishing standards Liverpool have faltered badly.
ref: 2017 January 21, Andy Hunter, “Gylfi Sigurdsson and Swansea stun Liverpool in five-goal thriller”, in The Guardian:
text: “In the fight for voting rights, this vote was the starting gun, not the finish line,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader. “We will not let it go. We will not let it die. This voter suppression cannot stand.”
ref: 2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The end of a process.
Synonyms: finishing line
Kraut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊt/
ipa: /kɹʌʊt/
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: Krauts
form: kraut
Etymology: From German Kraut (“cabbage”), alluding to the use of cabbage as an ingredient in German cuisine (namely sauerkraut). First use appears c. 1833-1837, but popularized during the First and Second World Wars.
Senses: examples: text: Those Krauts can't hurt you anymore. The only ones left are dead or dying.
ref: 1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, New York: Pantheon Books, page 112:
synonyms: Boche
Fritz
jerry
Hun
sauerkraut
coordinate_terms: frog
rosbif
glosses: A German.
Derived terms: krautish
krautland
kraut land
Krautland
krautrock
Krautspeak
Krautwagon
kraken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krakens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kraken.
kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kīt
ipa: /kaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
rhymes: -aɪt
enpr: kīt
ipa: /kaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: kites
form: kyte
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly:
* from Middle English kit, kitte (“wooden bucket or tub; (figuratively) belly”), possibly from Middle Dutch kitte (“wooden vessel of hooped staves”) (modern Dutch kit (“metal can used mainly for coal”)), further etymology unknown; or
* from Old Norse kýta (“bag, stomach (of a fish)”), from Proto-Germanic *kūtiz.
* from Middle English *kid (attested only in compounds such as kide-nẹ̄re (“kidney; region of the kidneys, loins”)), possibly from Old English *cyde, *cydde (“belly”), cwiþ (“belly; womb”), from Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“belly, stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- or *gwet- (“rounding, swelling; entrails, stomach”), doubtfully from *gʷu-, *gū- (“to bend, bow, curve, distend, vault”). The English word is cognate with Icelandic kviði (“womb”), kviður (“stomach”), kýta (“stomach of a fish; roe”), Middle Low German kūt (“entrails”), West Flemish kijte, kiete (“fleshy part of the body”).
Senses: examples: text: "You know my father's name?"
 "It would be strange if I didnae," he returned, "for he was my born brother; and little as ye seem to like either me or my house, or my good parritch, I'm your born uncle, Davie, my man, and you my born nephew. So give us the letter, and sit down and fill your kyte."
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 17:
text: Don't live like vegetarians
 On food they give to parrots,
 Blow out your kite, from morn 'til night,
 On boiled beef and carrots.
ref: 1909, Charles Collins, Fred Murray, “Boiled Beef and Carrots”, performed by Harry Champion; republished in John Mullen, “The Songs and Their Content”, in The Show Must Go On!: Popular Song in Britain during the First World War, Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2015, →ISBN, page 102:
glosses: The stomach; the belly.
kite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kīt
ipa: /kaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
rhymes: -aɪt
ipa: /ˈkiːtɛ/
ipa: /ˈkiːtə/
rhymes: -iːtɛ
rhymes: -iːtə
enpr: kīt
ipa: /kaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: kite
form: qite
Etymology: Borrowed from Coptic ⲕⲓⲧⲉ (kite), from Demotic qt, from Egyptian qdt.
Senses: examples: text: […] in the great Harris papyrus, […] precise quantities are recorded by weight in terms of the deben (about 2½ oz.) and the qite (¼ oz.) of gold, silver, copper and precious stones, without any reference to their value. […] Five pots of honey were bought for five qite of silver and an ox for five qite of gold.
ref: 1981, Pierre Montet, “The Arts and the Professions”, in A[ymer] R[obert] Maxwell-Hyslop, Margaret S[tefana] Drower, transl., Everyday Life in Egypt in the Days of Ramesses the Great, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 167:
text: [I]t was found necessary to employ media of exchange, and emmer wheat and silver were both used for this purpose. The latter was particularly favoured, but it was normally treated by weight, being measured in kite (9.53 g) and deben (10 kite) in purely Egyptian contexts, though foreigners such as the Jewish mercenaries at Elephantine could use their own metrological systems.
ref: 1983, Allen B. Lloyd, “The Late Period, 664–323 BC”, in B[ruce] G[raham] Trigger, B[arry] J[ohn] Kemp, D[avid Bourke] O’Connor, A. B. Lloyd, Ancient Egypt: A Social History (Cambridge History of Africa), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 328:
text: The scribe of the temple Sedy set out with the pure priest and goldsmith Tuty for the frames; they removed one deben and three and a half qite of gold, which they took for the chief of the gang Pameniu.
ref: 2003, Pascal Vernus, “The Plunder of Western Thebes”, in David Lorton, transl., Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt: Translated from the French, Ithaca, N.Y.; London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
text: In the Saite and Persian Periods, Abnormal Hieratic and Demotic texts usually measure value as weights of silver. […] The weights of silver are almost always either the deben of 91 grams, or the kite of 9.1 grams. In the Persian Period, Demotic texts sometimes also refer to staters equated to two kite, or five to the deben.
ref: 2016, Brian Muhs, “The Saite and Persian Periods (664–332 BCE)”, in The Ancient Egyptian Economy: 3000–30 BC, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 189–190:
text: The shekel was an Israelite unit of weight that appears to have weighed about 10g, and so it is the rough equivalent of the Egyptian kite, which also weighed about 10g.
ref: 2017 May, Ralph Ellis, “King David”, in Solomon, Pharaoh of Egypt, 4th edition, Cheshire: Edfu Books, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
kidney bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidney beans
Senses: synonyms: red bean
glosses: A common bean of a cultivar of (Phaseolus vulgaris), with a dark-red skin.
keel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: keels
form: keeling
form: keeled
form: keeled
Etymology: From Middle English kele, from Old Norse kjǫlr, itself from Proto-Germanic *keluz, of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English ċēol from a related root. Distantly related to kile.
Senses: examples: text: He keeled over after having a stroke.
glosses: to collapse, to fall
raw_tags: followed by "over"
glosses: To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
glosses: To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.
Derived terms: keel over
keel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: keels
form: keeling
form: keeled
form: keeled
Etymology: From Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, to make or become cool”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian käile, köile (“to cool”), Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German Low German köhlen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Danish køle (“to cool”), Icelandic kæla (“to cool”).
Senses: examples: while greasy Joan doth keel the pot (Shakespeare)
glosses: To cool; make cool; to cool by stirring or skimming in order to keep from boiling over.
glosses: To moderate the ardour or intensity of; assuage; to appease, pacify, or lessen.
glosses: To become cool; cool down.
Derived terms: keeler
keel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: keels
Etymology: From Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, to make or become cool”), from Proto-West Germanic *kōlijan, from Proto-Germanic *kōlijaną (“to cool”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian käile, köile (“to cool”), Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German Low German köhlen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Danish køle (“to cool”), Icelandic kæla (“to cool”).
Senses: topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: A broad, flat vessel used for cooling liquids; a brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
keel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: Probably from Scottish Gaelic cìl (“ruddle”).
Senses: glosses: Red chalk; ruddle.
keel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: keels
form: keeling
form: keeled
form: keeled
Etymology: Probably from Scottish Gaelic cìl (“ruddle”).
Senses: glosses: To mark with ruddle.
keel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: keels
form: keeling
form: keeled
form: keeled
Etymology: Compare Scots kele, keil, keill (“to put to death, kill”).
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of kill.
nontotient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontotients
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integer that is never a value of Euler's totient function.
Euler's totient function
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783).
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The function that calculates the total number of integers below a given integer that are coprime to it.
Related terms: Euler's formula
plenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpliːnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈpliːnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈplɛnəɹi/
rhymes: -iːnəɹi
rhymes: -ɛnəɹi
Forms: form: more plenary
form: most plenary
Etymology: From Middle English plenarie, plenarye, from Late Latin plēnārius, from Latin plēnus (“full”).
Senses: glosses: Fully attended; for everyone's attendance.
examples: text: The method of treating a subject should be plenary or full.
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
topics: law
lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Complete; full; entire; absolute.
Derived terms: plenarily
plenariness
plenary court
plenary indulgence
plenary power
plenary session
plenary speaker
plenary talk