cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dilettante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪlɪˈtænti/
ipa: /dɪləˈtɒnti/
ipa: /ˈdɪlɪˌtɑnt/
ipa: /ˈdɪlɪˌtænt/
ipa: /ˌdɪlɪˈtɑnt/
ipa: /ˌdɪlɪˈtænt/
ipa: /ˌdɪlɪˈtɑnteɪ/
Forms: form: dilettanti
form: dilettantes
form: dilettant
Etymology: From Italian dilettante, present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”).
Senses: synonyms: amateur
dabbler
antonyms: professional
glosses: An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
examples: text: A comment like "The author is a self-important dilettante." is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag."
ref: 2008 March 23, Paul Graham, How to Disagree:
text: “Call me Zack Ransom.” “And I'm Gilbert Manhandle, literary dilettante with a gambling addiction.” “Nobody's going to remember that. You can be Zandy Billups.” “Fine. But I'm still a gambling addict.”
ref: 2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (3:33 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Andy Billups (Paul Scheer):
glosses: A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
Derived terms: dilettantely
dilettanteship
dilettantish
dilettanteish
dilettantism
dilettanteism
Related terms: word: delectable
word: delight
english: by way of 'diletto'
translation: by way of 'diletto'
word: dildo
word: amateur
dilettante
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪlɪˈtænti/
ipa: /dɪləˈtɒnti/
ipa: /ˈdɪlɪˌtɑnt/
ipa: /ˈdɪlɪˌtænt/
ipa: /ˌdɪlɪˈtɑnt/
ipa: /ˌdɪlɪˈtænt/
ipa: /ˌdɪlɪˈtɑnteɪ/
Forms: form: more dilettante
form: most dilettante
form: dilettant
Etymology: From Italian dilettante, present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or like a dilettante.
kill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭl
ipa: /kɪl/
ipa: [kʰɪɫ]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [kʰɪo̯]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [kʰɪʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: kills
form: k1ll
Etymology: From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from unattested Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”) (whence German Low German kellen, killen (“to hurt, injure, torment, vex”)), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).
Senses: examples: text: The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
text: The blonde women were in a frenzy of excitement, their faces transformed from dull moronity to living evil; they shouted like wild animals at the kill.
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 100:
glosses: The act of killing.
examples: text: The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
glosses: Specifically, the death blow.
examples: text: The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
text: If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.
ref: 1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: The result of killing; that which has been killed.
examples: text: confirmed kills
text: A flying ace is usually one with five or more confirmed kills.
topics: games
gaming
government
military
politics
war
glosses: An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
examples: text: As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.
ref: 2011, the 34th Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame, in Catawba College's Campus Magazine, Spring/Summer 2011, page 21
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
Hyponyms: catastrophic kill
firepower kill
mission kill
mobility kill
one-hit kill
thrill kill
kill kit
kill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭl
ipa: /kɪl/
ipa: [kʰɪɫ]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [kʰɪo̯]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [kʰɪʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: kills
Etymology: Borrowing from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille, from Old Dutch *killa, from Proto-West Germanic *killjā, from Proto-Germanic *kiljǭ.
Senses: examples: text: The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
text: Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
glosses: A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
buy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bī
ipa: /baɪ/
ipa: [baɪ]
ipa: [bɑj]
ipa: [baɪ]
ipa: [bəj]
ipa: [bɑɪ]
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: bi
homophone: bye
homophone: by
Forms: form: buys
Etymology: From Middle English byen, from Old English bycġan (“to buy, pay for, acquire, redeem, ransom, procure, get done, sell”), from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan, from Proto-Germanic *bugjaną (“to buy”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to take away, deliver”).
Cognate with Scots buy (“to buy, purchase”), obsolete Dutch beugen (“to buy”), Old Saxon buggian, buggean (“to buy”), Old Norse byggja (“to build, settle”), Gothic 𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bugjan, “to buy”). The spelling with “u” is from the Southwest, while the pronunciation with /aɪ/ is from the East Midlands.
Senses: examples: text: At only $30, the second-hand kitchen table was a great buy.
glosses: Something which is bought; a purchase.
Derived terms: buy boat
buy-bust
buydown
buyout
buyrate
impulse buy
drug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌɡ/
ipa: [d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ]
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: drugs
form: drugging
form: drugged
form: drugged
Etymology: From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”) (c. 1462), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch drōghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch drōgi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard or solid”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).
Senses: examples: text: She suddenly felt strange, and only then realized she'd been drugged.
glosses: To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.
examples: text: She suddenly felt strange. She realized her drink must have been drugged.
glosses: To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.
examples: text: Past all the doses of your drugging doctors
ref: 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
examples: text: To soften the blow from working in such unfamiliar territory, I drank and drugged at the end of the day.
ref: 1990 February 4, Cindy Lanane, “With The Confidence Other Women Have Given Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 6:
glosses: To use intoxicating drugs.
Derived terms: druggability
druggable
overdrug
drug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌɡ/
ipa: [d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ]
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Etymology: Germanic ablaut formation. If old, a doublet of drew, from Middle English drug, drog, drugh, drogh, from Old English drōg, from Proto-Germanic *drōg; compare Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog. If secondary, probably formed by analogy with hang.
Senses: examples: text: You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.
text: look what the cat drug in
text: […] their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.
ref: 1961, Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron:
text: When Blackburn called, I drug the telephone cord twenty feet out of the office and sat on the cord while I talked with him.
ref: 2005, Diane Wilson, An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, →ISBN, page 193:
text: It's about time you drug it home, Jeff!
ref: 2009 August 13, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: simple past and past participle of drag
drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌɡ/
ipa: [d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷʌɡ]
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: drugs
Senses: examples: text: Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded / The sweet degrees that this brief world affords / To such as may the passive drugs of it / Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself / In general riot
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: A drudge.
after
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːftə/
note: Northern England, other non-rhotic without the trap–bath split
ipa: /ˈaftə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæftəɹ/
ipa: [ˈäftɚ]
ipa: /ˈæfde̞ɹ/
ipa: /ˈɐːftə/
ipa: /ˈætə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɑːtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian Nynorsk/Norwegian Bokmål etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
Senses: examples: text: I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
text: They lived happily ever after.
text: I might come next month, or the month after.
glosses: Behind; later in time; following.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: after-acquired
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: after-action
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: afterbath
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: after-effect
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: afterling
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: afterloading
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: aftermarket
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: aftermath
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: aftertaste
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: aftertime
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: afterward
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: afterwards
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: afterwhile
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: afterworld
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: after-world
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: before-and-after
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: day after
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: day-after recall test
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: ever after
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: forever after
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: henceafter
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: hereafter
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: hereinafter
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: morning-after pill
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: thenceafter
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: thereafter
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: whenceafter
sense: terms derived from after (adverb)
word: whereafter
after
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːftə/
note: Northern England, other non-rhotic without the trap–bath split
ipa: /ˈaftə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæftəɹ/
ipa: [ˈäftɚ]
ipa: /ˈæfde̞ɹ/
ipa: /ˈɐːftə/
ipa: /ˈætə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɑːtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian Nynorsk/Norwegian Bokmål etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
Senses: examples: text: The show ends after the fat lady sings.
text: After we had decided to call it a day, I went home.
text: It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: 1991, Donald "Shadow" Rimgale (character), Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft
So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
text: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
ref: 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
after
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːftə/
note: Northern England, other non-rhotic without the trap–bath split
ipa: /ˈaftə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæftəɹ/
ipa: [ˈäftɚ]
ipa: /ˈæfde̞ɹ/
ipa: /ˈɐːftə/
ipa: /ˈætə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɑːtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian Nynorsk/Norwegian Bokmål etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
Senses: examples: text: I did verily believe in my own mind, that I couldn't fight in that way at all; but my after experience convinced me that this was all a notion.
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 72:
text: The amends he had made in after life were lost sight of in the dramatic glare of the original act.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:
text: In the old days, […] he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
examples: text: The after gun is mounted aft.
text: The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
text: The aircraft provided an after cabin for two radar operators.
text: Caspian led them down a ladder into the after hatch.
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
qualifier: nautical or aeronautical; where the frame of reference is within the craft; nautical or aeronautical; where the frame of reference is within the craft
glosses: At or towards the stern of a ship or the rear of an aircraft.
Derived terms: after-banquet
afterness
after-party
after
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːftə/
note: Northern England, other non-rhotic without the trap–bath split
ipa: /ˈaftə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæftəɹ/
ipa: [ˈäftɚ]
ipa: /ˈæfde̞ɹ/
ipa: /ˈɐːftə/
ipa: /ˈætə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɑːtə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: afters
Etymology: From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian Nynorsk/Norwegian Bokmål etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
Senses: examples: text: In the ‘before’ shots, she’ll look like an ordinary suburban housewife; but we know she acts in community theater musicals sometimes, so the ‘afters’ will give her a glamorous starlet image, starting with a very revealing bathing suit shot.
ref: 1987, Joanna Z. Adams, Makeovers, London: Headline Book Publishing Plc, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Did any of the before pictures remind you of yourself, and did any of the afters show what you hoped your results might be?
ref: 1998, Alan Gaynor, “How to Choose a Doctor”, in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cosmetic Surgery But Couldn’t Afford to Ask: A Complete Look at the Latest Techniques and Why They Are Safer and Less Expensive, by One of Today’s Most Prominent Cosmetic Surgeons, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, part I (The New Aesthetic Surgery), page 66:
text: So with that in mind, we thought it might be helpful to put some pictures where our mouths are, and include some less-than-flattering photos of our first house after we’d lived there eight whole months. Spoiler alert: We were miiiles away from the “afters” that we shared on pages 6 and 7.
ref: 2012, Sherry Petersik, John Petersik, Young House Love: 243 Ways to Paint, Craft, Update & Show Your Home Some Love, New York, N.Y.: Artisan, →ISBN, page 16, column 2:
coordinate_terms: before
glosses: Of before-and-after images: the one that shows the difference after a specified treatment.
Related terms: abaft
aft
eft
here
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪə̯/
ipa: /hɪː/
ipa: /ˈhiː.ə/
ipa: /hɪɚ̯/
ipa: /hɪɹ/
ipa: [çiɚ]
ipa: /hɪː/
note: Western Australia, Queensland
ipa: /ˈhiː.ə/
note: Western Australia, Queensland
ipa: /hɪə/
ipa: /hiːr/
ipa: /hiːɹ/
ipa: /hjɜː/
ipa: /hiə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /hɛː/
homophone: hear
homophone: hir
homophone: hair
homophone: hare (both cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm not dead yet! I'm still here!
glosses: Alive
here
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪə̯/
ipa: /hɪː/
ipa: /ˈhiː.ə/
ipa: /hɪɚ̯/
ipa: /hɪɹ/
ipa: [çiɚ]
ipa: /hɪː/
note: Western Australia, Queensland
ipa: /ˈhiː.ə/
note: Western Australia, Queensland
ipa: /hɪə/
ipa: /hiːr/
ipa: /hiːɹ/
ipa: /hjɜː/
ipa: /hiə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /hɛː/
homophone: hear
homophone: hir
homophone: hair
homophone: hare (both cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: heres
Etymology: From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).
Senses: examples: text: Here is where I met my spouse twelve years ago.
text: An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.
text: For time and extension seem continuous elements; the here is one space with the other heres round it
ref: 1922, Francis Herbert Bradley, The Principles of Logic, page 52:
text: More than ever, the here is porous.
ref: 2001, Kauhiko Yatabe, “Objects, city and wandering: the invisibility of the Japanese in France”, in Harumi Befu, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, editors, Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe, and America, page 28:
text: We can't see it because it is an aspect of our seeing, it is a function of our gaze: the field of the here is established in — and by — our presence.
ref: 2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land, page 20:
glosses: This place; this location.
examples: text: I'd like to continue my story, but here is where I must stop.
text: I've done as much as I can; you'll have to take it from here.
glosses: This place; this location.
This point or stage in time, conceptualised as a location.
glosses: This time, the present situation.
here
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪə̯/
ipa: /hɪː/
ipa: /ˈhiː.ə/
ipa: /hɪɚ̯/
ipa: /hɪɹ/
ipa: [çiɚ]
ipa: /hɪː/
note: Western Australia, Queensland
ipa: /ˈhiː.ə/
note: Western Australia, Queensland
ipa: /hɪə/
ipa: /hiːr/
ipa: /hiːɹ/
ipa: /hjɜː/
ipa: /hiə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /hɛː/
homophone: hear
homophone: hir
homophone: hair
homophone: hare (both cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).
Senses: examples: text: Here, now I'm giving it to you.
glosses: Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.
examples: text: Here, I'm tired and I want a drink.
glosses: Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.
examples: text: Here! You! Stop doing that!
glosses: Used to attract someone's attention, often in a hostile way.
examples: text: Smith ... Here! ... Jones ... Here! ... Walters ... ... Anyone seen Walters?
glosses: Said in response to one's name being called during a roll call, indicating that one is present.
examples: text: "Fido! Here!" — "Woof Woof!"
glosses: Said to command a person or higher animal to come to the speaker.
Related terms: hence
here-
hereabouts
hither
there
next
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕkst
ipa: /nɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: neest
form: neist
form: nex
form: nex'
Etymology: From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächster (“next”), Yiddish נעקסט (nekst, “next”), Danish næste (“next”), Elfdalian nest (“by, near”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk neste (“next”), Swedish näst, nästa (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
Compare typologically Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).
Senses: examples: text: Next week would be a good time to meet.
text: I'll know better next time.
glosses: Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.
examples: text: The party is next Tuesday; that is, not tomorrow, but eight days from now.
text: When you say next Thursday, do you mean Thursday this week or Thursday next week?
glosses: Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
raw_tags: of days of the week or months of the year
Related terms: word: last
word: this
word: this coming
english: as in Saturday week
translation: as in Saturday week
word: week
next
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕkst
ipa: /nɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: neest
form: neist
form: nex
form: nex'
Etymology: From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächster (“next”), Yiddish נעקסט (nekst, “next”), Danish næste (“next”), Elfdalian nest (“by, near”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk neste (“next”), Swedish näst, nästa (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
Compare typologically Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).
Senses: examples: text: They live in the next closest house.
text: It's the next best thing to ice cream.
glosses: In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
examples: First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.
glosses: In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.
examples: text: Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
text: When we next meet, you'll be married.
glosses: On the first subsequent occasion.
next
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕkst
ipa: /nɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: neest
form: neist
form: nex
form: nex'
Etymology: From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächster (“next”), Yiddish נעקסט (nekst, “next”), Danish næste (“next”), Elfdalian nest (“by, near”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk neste (“next”), Swedish näst, nästa (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
Compare typologically Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).
Senses: examples: text: Next, please, don't hold up the queue!
text: There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.
ref: 2007, Steve Cohen, Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin's Griffin)
glosses: The one that follows after this one.
examples: gg team, Wanna play next?
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Next match
ao
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of amongst/among/and others.
ao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese あお (ao).
Senses: glosses: grue ("blue or green", considered one color)
defer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɜː/
ipa: /dɪˈfɝ/
ipa: /dɪˈfɛr/
ipa: /dɪˈføː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /dɪˈfeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /dɪˈfɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /dɪˈfɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: defers
form: deferring
form: deferred
form: deferred
Etymology: Originally a variant of (and hence a doublet of) differ; from Middle English differren (“to postpone”), from Old French differer, from Latin differō. Doublet of differ and dilate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, relate and refer as well as prelate and prefer among others.
Senses: examples: text: We're going to defer the decision until we have all the facts.
text: Deferre the ſpoile of the Citie vntill night:
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], page 141, column 2:
text: My journey to Ingolstadt, which had been deferred by these events, was now again determined upon.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: To delay or postpone.
glosses: To delay or postpone.
to postpone induction into military service.
qualifier: historically
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half a team's choice of whether to kick off or receive (and to allow the opposing team to make this choice at the start of the first half).
examples: text: God […] will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 34, lines 474–476:
glosses: To delay, to wait.
Derived terms: deferment
deferrability
deferrable
deferral
deferrer
nondeferring
overdefer
redefer
tax-deferred
Related terms: differ
defer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɜː/
ipa: /dɪˈfɝ/
ipa: /dɪˈfɛr/
ipa: /dɪˈføː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /dɪˈfeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /dɪˈfɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /dɪˈfɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: defers
form: deferring
form: deferred
form: deferred
Etymology: From late Middle English differren (“to refer for judgement”), from Middle French déférer, from Latin dēferō. Doublet of delate. See also infer, collate and confer, relate and refer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
Senses: examples: text: Hereupon the commissioners […] deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.
ref: 1622, Francis Bacon, History of the Reign of King Henry VII:
text: "Defer/Defer/To the Lord High Executioner."
ref: 1885, W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, The Mikado:
text: "Well, I must defer to your judgment. You are captain," he said with marked civility.
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:
synonyms: submit
glosses: To submit to the opinion or desire of others in respect to their judgment or authority.
examples: text: worship deferred to the Virgin
ref: 1872, Daniel Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor:
glosses: To render, to offer.
Derived terms: deference
absinthe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sɪnθ/
ipa: /ˈæb.sænθ/
ipa: /ˈæb.sæ̃θ/
Forms: form: absinthes
form: absinth
Etymology: * (wormwood; figuratively bitterness, sorrow): From Middle English absinthe.
* (liquor): From Modern French absinthe.
Both from Middle French absinthe, from Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion, “wormwood”). Doublet of absinthium.
Senses: glosses: The herb absinthium Artemisia absinthium (grande wormwood); essence of wormwood.
glosses: Bitterness; sorrow.
examples: text: Let us go out and drink to the very good health of Monsieur Tarzan in some of old Plancon’s unparalleled absinth; not forgetting that the Count de Coude is one of the best swordsmen in Paris, and by far the best shot in all France.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 63:
text: Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.
ref: 2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, The Little Green Book of Absinthe, Penguin, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: green fairy
glosses: A distilled, highly alcoholic, anise-flavored liquor originally made from grande wormwood, anise, and other herbs.
synonyms: absinthe green
glosses: A moderate yellow green.
synonyms: absinthe green
glosses: A moderate yellow green.
absinthe green:
absinthe green
glosses: Sagebrush.
Derived terms: absinthate
absinthean
absinthe green
absinthe oil
absinthe spoon
absinthe yellow
absinthial
absinthian
absinthiana
absinthiate
absinthiated
absinthic
absinthiin
absinthin
absinthine
absinthism
absinthismic
absinthites
absinthium
absinthol
Finnish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭn′ĭsh
ipa: /ˈfɪn.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪnɪʃ
homophone: finish
note: Indic
ipa: /fɪnnɪʃ/
Forms: form: Fin.
Etymology: From Finn + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Finland or the Finns; Finlandic, Finlandish.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Finnish language.
Derived terms: Karelo-Finnish
Finnish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭn′ĭsh
ipa: /ˈfɪn.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɪnɪʃ
homophone: finish
note: Indic
ipa: /fɪnnɪʃ/
Forms: form: Fin.
Etymology: From Finn + -ish.
Senses: glosses: The Finno-Ugric language spoken by the majority of the people living in Finland, one of the two official languages of the country (the other is Swedish).
Related terms: sense: Finn
word: a person from Finland
sense: Torne Valley Finnish
word: a variety of Finnish spoken in Northern Sweden
word: a variety of Finnish spoken in Northern Norway
word: Karelian
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Finnish terms
stylus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪ.ləs/
rhymes: -aɪləs
Forms: form: styli
form: styluses
form: stilus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stylus (“a stake or pale”). Probably not directly related to Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “a pillar”). Doublet of style.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
ref: 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review”, in The Telegraph:
text: But that tactic may have older roots than we thought; archaeologists have discovered an iron stylus in London, complete with an inscribed joke, that dates back nearly 2,000 years.
Of 200 styluses found at a site under Bloomberg’s new European headquarters, only one – dating back to around 70 A.D. – had a message inscribed onto it.
ref: 2019 July 28, Rob Picheta, “Ancient Roman pen with an inscribed joke found under streets of London”, in CNN:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.
A small implement with a pointed end used for engraving and tracing.
examples: text: It’s the cheapest stylus Apple’s released yet, but you’ll need a USB-C iPad to use it.
ref: 2023 October 19, Mike Andronico, “Apple just revealed a new $79 Apple Pencil with USB-C — but is it right for you?”, in CNN:
topics: communications
computing
engineering
journalism
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
writing
glosses: An ancient writing implement consisting of a small rod with a pointed end for scratching letters on clay, wax-covered tablets or other surfaces, and a blunt end for obliterating them.
A small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.
glosses: A hard-pointed pen-shaped instrument for marking on stencils used in a mimeograph machine.
synonyms: needle
glosses: A hard point, typically of diamond or sapphire, following a groove in a phonograph and transmitting the recorded sound for reproduction.
synonyms: needle
glosses: A hard point, typically of diamond or sapphire, following a groove in a phonograph and transmitting the recorded sound for reproduction.
A pointed device formerly used to produce a groove in a record when recording sound.
glosses: A tool for making small dots on a piece of heavy paper, used to produce Braille writing for the blind by hand.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of style.
synonyms: word: style
Derived terms: stylo-
styl-
Related terms: light pen
lightpen
Catalan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăt'ə-lăn
ipa: /ˈkæ.təˌlæn/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tə.lən/
Forms: form: Catalans
Etymology: From Middle English Catalane, from French Catalan, from Catalan català.
Senses: examples: text: Even if he draws back from a declaration, many Catalans – including Mossos and civil servants – may decide to not to obey orders from Madrid, and tens of thousands of people could take to the streets to protect key regional government institutions.
ref: 2017 October 22, Sam Jones, “Catalonia weighs up declaration of independence”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2018:
synonyms: Catalonian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Catalonia, Spain.
Catalan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kăt'ə-lăn
ipa: /ˈkæ.təˌlæn/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tə.lən/
Etymology: From Middle English Catalane, from French Catalan, from Catalan català.
Senses: examples: text: By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.
ref: 2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022:
text: Websites on the .cat domain are required to have content in the Catalan language.
ref: 2017 October 6, Adrianne Jeffries, “The Daily Stormer just lost its new .cat domain”, in The Outline:
synonyms: Catalonian
glosses: The Romance language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain, also spoken in the Valencian autonomous region (where the language is officially named valencià), the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Roussillon in France, and the Sardinian city of Alghero.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Derived terms: Catalan number
Catalan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kăt'ə-lăn
ipa: /ˈkæ.təˌlæn/
ipa: /ˈkæ.tə.lən/
Etymology: From Middle English Catalane, from French Catalan, from Catalan català.
Senses: examples: text: The PSOE leader, who once promised to bring Puigdemont back to Spain to face justice, risked considerable political capital two years ago by pardoning nine of the Catalan leaders behind the drive for secession.
ref: 2023 November 5, Sam Jones, “PSOE members back Catalan amnesty plan to secure power in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023:
glosses: Of, from or relating to Catalonia, Spain.
Synonyms: Catalonian
Derived terms: Catalan forge
Catalan furnace
Catalan Giants
Catalanization
Catalano-
Catalan process
Catalan Sheepdog
Catalan Shepherd
Catalan Sign Language
Catalan-Valencian-Balear
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Catalan terms
dar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: dars
Senses: examples: text: Besides these peculiarities, our river abounds with the usual fresh water fish, such as the roach, dar, flounders, carp, chub, trout, &c.
ref: 1829, A Concise History and Description of the City and Cathedral of Worcester, page 100:
glosses: A fish found in the Severn River; a dart or dace.
dar
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: African-American Vernacular form of there.
dar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: African-American Vernacular form of there.
dar
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: African-American Vernacular form of there.
give
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gĭv
ipa: /ɡɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
Etymology: Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”). Displaced yive, from Middle English yiven, of the same origin.
Senses: examples: text: This chair doesn't have much give.
text: There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs.
text: The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
glosses: The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.
give
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gĭv
ipa: /ɡɪv/
rhymes: -ɪv
Forms: form: gives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gyve.
donner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: donners
form: donnering
form: donnered
form: donnered
Etymology: From Afrikaans donder (“thrash”), from Dutch donder (“thunder”). Doublet of thunder.
Senses: examples: text: Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling / We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee / When he fights Willie Liebenberg / There's gonna be a murder / 'Cos Willie's gonna donner that blerrie yankee
ref: 1962, Jeremy Taylor, “Ag Pleez Deddy”:
text: They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.
ref: 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, Zebra Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: To beat up; clobber; thrash.
dare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛə/
ipa: /dɛ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: Dair
homophone: dear
homophone: deer (both cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: dares
Etymology: From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-West Germanic *durʀan, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰórse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).
Cognates
Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, German turren, Sanskrit दधर्ष (dadhárṣa), but also with Ancient Greek θρασύς (thrasús), Albanian nder, Lithuanian drįsti, Russian дерза́ть (derzátʹ).
Senses: examples: text: I did it just for a dare.
glosses: A challenge to prove courage.
examples: text: It lends a lustre […] / A large dare to our great enterprise.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
examples: text: Childish, unworthy dares / Are not enough to part our powers.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
text: Sextus Pompeius / Hath given the dare to Caesar.
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 ii]:
glosses: Defiance; challenge.
examples: text: When asked truth or dare, she picked dare.
topics: games
glosses: In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.
Derived terms: dairous
dareful
dare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛə/
ipa: /dɛ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: Dair
homophone: dear
homophone: deer (both cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: dares
form: daring
form: dared
form: dared
Etymology: From Middle English daren, from Old English darian.
Senses: glosses: To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
glosses: To lie or crouch down in fear.
dare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛə/
ipa: /dɛ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: Dair
homophone: dear
homophone: deer (both cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: dares
Senses: examples: text: The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.
ref: 1766, Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing:
glosses: A small fish, the dace