cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
street
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: strēt
ipa: /stɹiːt/
ipa: /stɹit/
ipa: [ˈʃt͡ʃɹitˀ]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [skɹitˀ]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [ʃkɹitˀ]
ipa: [ʃtɹ̠̊iʔ]
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: more street
form: most street
form: streete
form: streat
form: streate
Etymology: From Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”) (cognate West Saxon Old English strǣt) from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) strāta (“paved (road)”), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”).
The /aː/ vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to /æː/ in West Saxon and /eː/ in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to /ɛː/ and /eː/ in Middle English, /ɛː/ and /iː/ in Early Modern English, and finally /iː/ in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), North Frisian Straat, stroot, struat (“street”) (North Frisian forms are borrowed from Middle Low German strâte), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Bavarian Stråßn (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”) (see doublet straat), German Strasse, Straße (“street”), German Low German Straat, Straote (“street”), Limburgish sjtraot, straot (“street”), Luxembourgish Strooss (“street”), Mòcheno stros (“street”), Vilamovian śtrös, štrȫs (“street”), Yiddish שטראָז (shtroz, “street”), Danish stræde (“alley, lane, narrow street”), Faroese, Icelandic stræti (“street”), Norwegian Bokmål strede (“narrow street”), Swedish stråt (“path, road, route; way, course”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese estrada (“road, way, drive”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”), Latin sternō, Ancient Greek στορνύναι (stornúnai). More at strew.
Senses: examples: text: Eric had to admit that she looked street—upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.
ref: 2003, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin:
glosses: Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
road
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: without the toe–tow merger
enpr: rōd
note: Indic
ipa: /ɾoːɖ/
ipa: /rod/
ipa: /ɹod/
note: UK, toe–tow merger
ipa: /ɹəʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
note: US, toe–tow merger
ipa: /ɹoʊd/
homophone: Rhode
homophone: rode
homophone: (toe–tow merger) rowed
Forms: form: rade
Etymology: From Middle English rode, rade (“ride, journey”), from Old English rād (“riding, hostile incursion”), from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō (“a ride”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to ride”). Doublet of raid, acquired from Scots. Cognates include West Frisian reed (paved trail/road, driveway).
The current primary meaning of "street, way for traveling" originated relatively late — Shakespeare seemed to expect his audiences to find it unfamiliar — and probably arose through reinterpretation of roadway (“a way for riding on”) as saying way twice, in other words as a tautological compound.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: At the venue of the opposing team or competitor; on the road.
examples: text: road tires
text: road groupset
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of or pertaining to a road bike.
Synonyms: sense: at the venue of the opposing team or competitor
word: away
traffic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trăf'ĭk
ipa: /ˈtɹæfɪk/
rhymes: -æfɪk
Forms: form: traffics
form: trafficking
form: trafficked
form: trafficked
form: traffick
form: traffique
Etymology: From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective.
Senses: synonyms: trade#Verb
glosses: To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
glosses: To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
examples: text: A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.
ref: 1912, The World's Wit and Humor, page 176:
glosses: To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Derived terms: sex-traffic
sex trafficking
trafficker
trafficking
traffic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trăf'ĭk
ipa: /ˈtɹæfɪk/
rhymes: -æfɪk
Forms: form: more traffic
form: most traffic
form: traffick
form: traffique
Etymology: From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective.
Senses: examples: text: It’s super traffic here in Manila.
glosses: Congested.
path
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːθ/
ipa: [pʰɑːθ]
ipa: [pʰäːθ]
ipa: [pʰɐːθ]
note: Indic
ipa: /pɑt̪ʰ/
note: Indic
ipa: [päːt̪ʰ]
ipa: /pæθ/
ipa: [pʰæθ]
ipa: [pʰɛəθ]
ipa: [pʰeəθ]
ipa: [pʰaθ]
ipa: [pʰæθ]
rhymes: -ɑːθ
rhymes: -æθ
Forms: form: paths
form: pathing
form: pathed
form: pathed
Etymology: From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). The Proto-Germanic term is possibly borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from the root *pent- (“to pass”), however this is disputed.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Paad, Pad (“path”), West Frisian paad (“path”), Dutch pad (“path”), German Pfad (“path”), German Low German Padd (“path”), Luxembourgish Pad (“path”). Indo-Iranian cognates could be Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬧𐬙𐬃 (paṇtā̊, “way”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎰 (p-θ /⁠paθi⁠/)), Sanskrit पन्था (panthā, “path”). See also English find. Doublet of panth.
Senses: examples: text: His ghoſtly counſells onely doe aduiſe, / The meanes hovv Langlies progenie may riſe, / Pathing young Henries vnaduiſed vvaies, / A Duke of Yorke from Cambridge houſe to raiſe, […]
ref: 1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] Duke Humfrey to Elinor Cobham.”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, published 1605, →OCLC, folio 56, verso:
glosses: To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
examples: text: Next, you need to path to the location of the executable and run it from there.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder).
topics: video-games
glosses: To pathfind.
path
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːθ/
ipa: [pʰɑːθ]
ipa: [pʰäːθ]
ipa: [pʰɐːθ]
note: Indic
ipa: /pɑt̪ʰ/
note: Indic
ipa: [päːt̪ʰ]
ipa: /pæθ/
ipa: [pʰæθ]
ipa: [pʰɛəθ]
ipa: [pʰeəθ]
ipa: [pʰaθ]
ipa: [pʰæθ]
rhymes: -ɑːθ
rhymes: -æθ
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pathology.
highway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪweɪ/
rhymes: -aɪweɪ
Forms: form: highways
form: hwy.
form: hwy
form: hi'way
form: hi-way
form: hiway
form: hi way
Etymology: From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road.
Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).
Senses: glosses: A road that is higher than the surrounding land and has drainage ditches at the sides.
examples: text: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
examples: text: You're on a highway to greatness.
text: I'm on the highway to hell
ref: 1979, “Highway to Hell”, in Highway to Hell, performed by AC/DC:
text: So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.
ref: 2024 May 8, Damian Carrington, “‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair. World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target”, in The Guardian, UK:
glosses: A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny
topics: law
rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Any public road for vehicular traffic.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).
synonyms: word: bus
extra: common connection for two or more circuits or components
Hyponyms: sense: main public road
word: expressway
sense: main public road
word: motorway
Derived terms: word: antihighway
word: belt highway
word: controlled-access highway
word: divided highway
word: Hershey highway
word: Highway Code
word: highway engineer
word: highway hypnosis
word: highwayless
word: highwaylike
word: highwayman
word: highway patrol
word: highway robber
word: highway robbery
word: highway-robbery
word: highwaywoman
word: highway yellow
word: hijack
word: hwy.
word: Karakoram Highway
word: King's highway
word: limited-access highway
word: lost highway
word: Marilaque Highway
word: my way or the highway
word: one's way or the highway
word: nonhighway
word: plain as Dunstable highway
word: semi-highway
word: St Kew Highway
word: superhighway
word: superinformation highway
word: tourist highway
highway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪweɪ/
rhymes: -aɪweɪ
Forms: form: highways
form: highwaying
form: highwayed
form: highwayed
form: hwy.
form: hwy
form: hi'way
form: hi-way
form: hiway
form: hi way
Etymology: From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road.
Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).
Senses: glosses: To travel on a highway
boulevard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuː.ləˌvɑːd/
ipa: /ˈbʊləvɑɹd/
Forms: form: boulevards
Etymology: Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work.
Senses: examples: text: We live on Sunset Boulevard.
glosses: A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.
glosses: The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.
glosses: A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
qualifier: Upper Midwestern US
glosses: The grassy area in the middle of some streets; A refuge island.
Derived terms: word: blvd.
word: blvd
word: bd.
word: bd
word: bl
word: boulevardize
word: boulevardlike
word: boulevard stop
word: Roxas Boulevard
Related terms: word: boulevardier
alt: doublet
word: bulwark
expressway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eksˈpɹɛs.weɪ/
Forms: form: expressways
form: expy
form: expwy
Etymology: From express + way.
Senses: examples: text: The funding will allow state and city officials to devise a community-driven plan to cap parts of the 6.5-mile expressway with structures that could reduce traffic noise and contain green space, pedestrian walkways and air filtration systems.
ref: 2021 November 30, Aliya Uteuova, “The plan to transform one of New York City’s dirtiest freeways into green space”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A divided highway, especially one whose intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated.
qualifier: parts of the US
glosses: Synonym of freeway.
synonyms: word: freeway
examples: text: The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects.
ref: 2007 December 5, Randeep Ramesh, “Speed limits rise as India falls in love with the car”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway.
Synonyms: sense: high speed road, not built to motorway standards
word: express road
word: ewy
word: expwy
word: expy
Derived terms: word: ewy
word: expy
word: expwy
sense: others
word: expresswayed
Related terms: autoroute
carriageway
freeway
highway
motorway
exit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛksɪt
rhymes: -ɛɡzɪt
ipa: /ˈɛksɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛɡzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛɡzət/
ipa: /ˈɛksət/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛɡzɪʈ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exit, the third-person singular present active indicative of exeō (“to depart, exit; to avoid, evade; (figuratively) to escape; of time: to expire, run out”); see further at etymology 1 above.
Senses: examples: text: I take no mony, but good vvords, raile not if I tell true, if I do not reuenge. Farevvell. Exit Bom[bie].
ref: c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, signature [E4], verso:
text: A ſauage clamor? / Well may I get a-boord: This is the Chace, / I am gone for euer. / Exit purſued by a Beare.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 288, column 2:
text: Agnes exit rapidly, and Ravenſburg is partly perſuaded, and partly forced off, by the Prince Palatine. END OF ACT I.
ref: 1810 July, Frederic Reynolds, “The Free Knights; or The Edict of Charlemagne. A Drama, in Three Acts, Interspersed with Music; as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.”, in The Jersey Magazine; or Monthly Recorder, volume II, number 7, Jersey: Printed and published by J. Stead, →OCLC, act I, scene iii, page 325, column 1:
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
synonyms: exeat
glosses: Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
Derived terms: exit stage left
Related terms: exeunt
freeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiː.weɪ/
enpr: frēʹwā
rhymes: -iːweɪ
Forms: form: freeways
form: fwy
Etymology: From free + way.
Senses: examples: text: Contrary to what one might expect of an essay on freeways, this one is neither a diatribe nor a paean.
ref: 1983, David Brodsly, L. A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay, page 1:
text: A 106-kilometer section of this 117-kilometer new freeway (between Hsinchu and Hsichih 汐止) was opened to traffic in 1997, and the entire line will be finished in December 1999.
ref: 1999 June, “Transportation”, in A Brief Introduction to the Republic of China, Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 110:
text: In the late 1950s and 1960s most large cities started planning freeway systems, acknowledging the incredible growth in car ownership.
ref: 2008, Derek Hayes, Canada: An Illustrated History, page 257:
text: The Australian freeway story of the late twentieth century, like many planning stories, can be told as one of high technical expectations dashed by political controversy.
ref: 2010, Robert Freestone, Urban Nation: Australia′s Planning Heritage, page 161:
synonyms: motorway
expressway
autoroute
autobahn
interstate[:w:Interstate Highway System|Interstate Highway System]]>
limited-access highway
controlled-access highway
qualifier: Parts of Canada and Australia
glosses: A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic running in two directions on one separate carriageway each
antonyms: word: turnpike
word: tollway
english: Mostly used in Australia, in order to avoid confusion with a toll road which often is referred to as freeway.
translation: Mostly used in Australia, in order to avoid confusion with a toll road which often is referred to as freeway.
word: motorway
glosses: A toll-free highway.
Derived terms: freeway daisy
freewaylike
nonfreeway
entrance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕn'trəns
ipa: /ˈɛn.tɹəns/
ipa: /ɛnˈtɹɑːns/
ipa: /ɛnˈtɹæns/
rhymes: -æns
rhymes: -ɑːns
enpr: ĕn'trəns
ipa: /ˈɛn.tɹəns/
Forms: form: entrances
form: entrancing
form: entranced
form: entranced
form: entraunce
Etymology: From en- + trance (“daze”).
Senses: examples: text: The children were immediately entranced by all the balloons.
text: See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance...
ref: 1996, Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, and Jonathan Roberts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (film)
glosses: To delight and fill with wonder.
glosses: To put into a trance.
Derived terms: disentrance
entrancement
entrancer
alley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.i/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: alleys
Etymology: Diminutive of alabaster, from which they were once made.
Senses: glosses: A marble (small ball used in games).
Synonyms: word: alley
word: alleyway
word: backs
word: bunnyrun
word: chare
word: chore
word: close
word: ennog
word: entry
word: fold
word: gangway
word: gant
word: gennel
word: ginnel
word: gunnel
word: gitty
word: gully
word: gullyway
word: hocket
word: jennel
word: jigger
word: jitty
word: lane
word: laneway
word: loke
word: passage
word: pend
word: rabbit run
word: shut
word: snickelway
word: snicket
word: tenfoot
word: twitchel
word: twitten
word: wynd
word: vennel
Hypernyms: word: street
Hyponyms: word: back alley
word: back street
word: blind alley
Derived terms: blood alley
turnpike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː(ɹ)npaɪk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)npaɪk
Forms: form: turnpikes
form: turnpiking
form: turnpiked
form: turnpiked
Etymology: From Middle English turnpyke (“spiked barrier across a road”), originally used to block access to such a road until a toll was paid. Equivalent to modern turn + pike (“shaft”).
Senses: glosses: To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
superhighway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superhighways
Etymology: From super- + highway.
Senses: glosses: An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds.
examples: text: We cannot and should not be rebuilding old "two lane" sections of the air transport system with segments having "eight lane superhighway" capacity without knowing the full economic, safety, and environmental impacts of the entire air traffic superhighway.
ref: 1996, United States Congress House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation, Computer outages at the Federal Aviation Administration's Air Traffic Control Center in Aurora, Illinois:
text: By 1400, however, Western Europeans had developed their own versions of oceangoing ships, and these transformed the much narrower Atlantic Ocean from a barrier into a superhighway.
ref: 2015, Ian Morris, Stephen Macedo, Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve, →ISBN:
text: One of them was exploring the possibility of a bicycle superhighway along the River Dodder.
ref: 2018, Mikael Colville-Andersen, Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism, →ISBN:
glosses: A major route that carries most of the traffic going in a given direction by a specified mode of transportation.
examples: text: In the discussion about the pros and cons of the electronic superhighway, people often refer to the Internet.
ref: 1996, V. J. J. M. Bekkers, Bert-Jaap Koops, Sjaak Nouwt, Emerging Electronic Highways:New Challenges for Politics and Law, →ISBN:
text: How should we reinterpret the universal service obligation for the superhighway? It is clear that price is already a barrier to access to the basic telephone service.
ref: 1996, Richard Collins, Converging Media? Converging Regulation?, →ISBN, page 29:
text: As both Bell Atlantic and TCI have made clear, their superhighway will give them full control over the programming from its point of origin through its delivery to the home.
ref: 2000, Charles Addo, Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions: A Case Study, page 113:
glosses: The primary mechanism used in the movement of electronic data or information; information superhighway.
Derived terms: electronic superhighway
information superhighway
sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sāl
ipa: /seːl/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /seɪl/
homophone: sail
Forms: form: sales
Etymology: From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala (“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *salō (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to grab”).
Senses: examples: text: He celebrated after the sale of company.
glosses: An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
examples: text: They are having a clearance sale: 50% off.
glosses: Ellipsis of discount sale (“the sale of goods at reduced prices”).
glosses: The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
Synonyms: word: sale
word: vend
word: vent
Hypernyms: word: disposal
word: relinquishment
word: transaction
Hyponyms: word: sellback
word: selling on
word: dicker
word: roup
word: simony
word: vendue
Derived terms: bake sale
bargain and sale
bill of sale
blowout sale
boot sale
bring-and-buy sale
car boot sale
Cinderella sale
conquest sale
contract of sale
days sales outstanding
distressed sale
distress sale
drive sale
e-sales
estate sale
fire sale
fire-sale
first sale doctrine
first-sale doctrine
flash sale
forced sale
for sale
garage sale
goods and sales tax
gross sales
in the sales
jumble sale
net sales
off-sale
on sale
plate sale
point of sale
roup sale
rummage sale
sale and leaseback
sale-goer
sale journal
sale-leaseback
sale of work
sale on approval
sale or return
sale price
sale-proof
sales advisor
sales assistant
sales associate
sales clerk
sales floor
sales force
sales ledger
salesman
sales pitch
sales profit
sales rep
sales representative
sales resistance
sales slip
sales tax
sales team
sale yard
scavenger sale
seat sale
short sale
special order sale
system sales
tag sale
up for sale
wash sale
white elephant sale
white sale
yard sale
Related terms: word: purchase
word: sell
sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sāl
ipa: /seːl/
note: pane–pain merger
ipa: /seɪl/
homophone: sail
Forms: form: sales
Etymology: From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Doublet of sala and salle. Related also to salon, saloon.
Senses: glosses: A hall.
Synonyms: word: sale
word: vend
word: vent
Hypernyms: word: disposal
word: relinquishment
word: transaction
Hyponyms: word: sellback
word: selling on
word: dicker
word: roup
word: simony
word: vendue
Related terms: word: sell
Zulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzuːluː/
rhymes: -uːluː
Forms: form: Zulu
form: Zulus
Etymology: From Zulu umZulu.
Senses: glosses: A member of an African ethnic group living mainly in the KwaZulu-Natal Province in eastern South Africa.
examples: text: Noon MST is 19:00 Zulu.
glosses: Time along the prime meridian; UTC; Zulu time.
Hypernyms: sense: member of the Zulu people
word: human
sense: member of the Zulu people
word: individual
sense: Zulu time
word: time zone
Derived terms: Zuludom
Zuluise
Zuluize
Zululand
Zuluness
Related terms: Bravo Zulu
Zulu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzuːluː/
rhymes: -uːluː
Etymology: From Zulu umZulu.
Senses: examples: text: The resulting Belter creole is a crazy mix of English, Chinese, romance languages like French, German, Persian, Hebrew, Zulu, and a few other surprises. Farmer says he has over 1,000 Belter words in his personal dictionary, and he keeps adding more as the show’s producers and fans request them.
ref: 2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars Technica:
synonyms: isiZulu
glosses: The language of these people, a Bantu language; isiZulu.
Zulu
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzuːluː/
rhymes: -uːluː
Etymology: From Zulu umZulu.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Zulu people, culture, or language.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Zulu terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/zul
word: zu
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/zul
word: zul
word: zul ⁠
zoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːm/
enpr: zo͞om
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: zooms
Etymology: Uncertain. The verb was first attested c. 1892, as a noun in 1918 and as an interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”).
Senses: examples: text: the zoom of traffic
glosses: A humming noise from something moving very fast.
glosses: A quick ascent.
glosses: A big increase.
examples: text: What's the zoom like on your camera?
glosses: An augmentation of a view, by varying the focal length of a lens, or digitally.
Derived terms: crash zoom
dolly zoom
snap zoom
squeeze zoom
whip zoom
zoom bag
zoom blur
zoom box
zoom in on
zoom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːm/
enpr: zo͞om
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: zooms
form: zooming
form: zoomed
form: zoomed
Etymology: Uncertain. The verb was first attested c. 1892, as a noun in 1918 and as an interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”).
Senses: examples: text: We zoomed along the highway.
text: […] and it was strange sitting in their brand-new comfortable car and hearing them talk of exams as we zoomed smoothly into town.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To move fast with a humming noise.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To zoom climb.
glosses: To move rapidly.
examples: text: prices zoomed
glosses: To go up sharply.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
examples: text: to zoom in or zoom out
glosses: To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
examples: text: "It boggles my mind what kind of mentality is at work there." He pointed to two recent issues of the magazine that featured cover stories were about Whitney Houston and Luther Vandross, two pop music icons whose sexual orientations have been widely speculated on in Black lesbian and gay communities. "It makes you wonder if it's an insult to the intelligence of Essence’s lesbian and gay leadership," Cunningham said. "Who's really zooming whom here?"
ref: 1990 December 16, Chris Nealon, quoting Al Cunningham, “Essence Magazine Agrees To Run Gay Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 13:
glosses: To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
Derived terms: zoom by
zoom climb
zoom-climb
zoom in
zoom lens
zoom out
zoomy
zoom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːm/
enpr: zo͞om
rhymes: -uːm
Etymology: Uncertain. The verb was first attested c. 1892, as a noun in 1918 and as an interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”).
Senses: examples: text: Makowsky was playing the Bassgeige. Zoom... zoom-zoom.... The rest of the orchestra would join in presently.
ref: 1918, Annie Vivanti Chartres, The Outrage, page 196:
glosses: Representing a humming sound
examples: text: I would dance a few light fantastic steps to show which way the wind lay, and zoom! Like a breeze I was on the piano stool and doing a velocity exercise.
ref: 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 244:
glosses: Suggesting something moving quickly
glosses: Suggesting a sudden change, especially an improvement or an increase
zoom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːm/
enpr: zo͞om
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: zooms
form: zooming
form: zoomed
form: zoomed
Etymology: A genericization of the trademark Zoom, a video teleconferencing software.
Senses: glosses: To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
zoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuːm/
enpr: zo͞om
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: zooms
Etymology: A genericization of the trademark Zoom, a video teleconferencing software.
Senses: examples: text: Then, later that day, I logged onto a zoom call and my mother and I set up our yoga mats in the living room, as we had been doing a couple of times a week during the pandemic.
ref: 2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A video teleconferencing call.
Derived terms: word: zoomed
word: zoomer
word: zooming
furigana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furigana
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 振り仮名 (furigana, “annotating kana”, literally “assigned provisional character”).
Senses: examples: text: Furigana are indispensable for some names of people and places whose Kanji are not included among the official Kanji list, and whose sounds can be unusual and even idiosyncratic.
ref: 2014, Insup Taylor, M. Martin Taylor, Writing and Literacy in Chinese, Korean and Japanese, revised edition, John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 290:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Kana printed next to or above a kanji or other character to indicate the pronunciation.
Synonyms: ruby character
rubi character
gangway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋweɪ/
Forms: form: gangways
form: gangwaying
form: gangwayed
form: gangwayed
Etymology: From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangweġ (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang + way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”).
Senses: examples: text: He gangwayed his way through the crowd, and just as the clock struck midnight, he was standing in front of NBC's camera on national TV as the governor-elect of Minnesota and the first Reform Party candidate ever to be elected to high office.
ref: 2004, Bill Hillsman, Run the Other Way:
text: They're conducting phone conversations without speaking into the wrong end of their mobiles, or gangwaying to the Gents without tripping over, or turning the pages of a newspaper without blacking adjacent eyes.
ref: 2014, Jude Cook, Byron Easy:
text: Here also of exceptional value were the half-dozen dueling codes published after 1880, gangwaying a detailed analysis in chapter II of the manner in which duels unfolded, and dozens of French sources which formed the core of a chapter on the French duel.
ref: 2014, Kevin McAleer, Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany:
glosses: To serve as, furnish with, or conduct oneself as though proceeding on a gangway.
gangway
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋweɪ/
Etymology: From Middle English gangway, from Old English gangweġ (“passageway; thoroughfare”), equivalent to gang + way. Related to Dutch gang (“hallway”) and Norwegian gang (“hallway”).
Senses: examples: text: And he pushed his way through the crowd crying, "Gangway, gangway!" and dragging Jane and Michael after him.
ref: 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Full Moon”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 157:
text: Lemme at 'im! Lemme at 'im! I'll get 'im, Babbitt! Gangway, I'll moidalize him!
ref: 1942 November 21, A Tale of Two Kitties, spoken by Catstello:
qualifier: to a crowd
glosses: Make way! Clear a path!
driveway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪvˌweɪ/
Forms: form: driveways
Etymology: From drive + way.
Senses: glosses: A short private road that leads to a house or garage.
examples: text: The design originally called for a 1-lane-wide driveway leading from the street to the parking area.
ref: 1988 April 23, Joseph Truni, “Asphalt Answers”, in Popular Mechanics, page 127:
text: They drove in the driveway into the parking lot that was totally full.
ref: 2020 October 28, Franco La Monica, Catch 44, Meadville, Pennsylvania: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: A road that enters or circulates through a defined area, such as an institution, compound, land area, etc., for the purpose of private access, maintenance, or security.
examples: text: The river corridor had also been used as a driveway for sheep in the past. Prior to the gold rush era, it is likely that early day trappers traveled the corridor.
ref: 1991, Robin Rose, “Appendix C: Resource Assessment: North Powder National Wild and Scenic River. USDA, Forest Service, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest”, in Environmental Assessment for the North Powder Wild and Scenic River Management Plan, US Department of Agriculture, page 12:
text: Magdalena became a major cattle town, securing one of the largest stockyard shipping pens in the Southwest beginning in 1885. "The Magdalena Trail" was a cowboy's destination driving and herding cattle and sheep to the stockyards. So prominent was this trail that it was officially claimed as a "driveway for cattle" by the Grazing Homestead Act of 1916. Today in Magdalena the wooden stockyards, worn by weather and time, still stand as a testament to the Old West Cattle Drives.
ref: 2022, Outdoors Southwest, “Journey through New Mexico”, in Outdoors Southwest, retrieved 13 Sep 2023:
glosses: Synonym of droveway.
synonyms: word: droveway
Synonyms: sense: short private road that leads to a house or garage
word: drive
sense: road that enters or circulates through a defined area
word: service road
sense: road that enters or circulates through a defined area
word: access road
Derived terms: driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
someone's driveway doesn't go all the way to the road
driveway moment
shared driveway
Related terms: drive away
Rio Branco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Acre, Brazil.
Maceió
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Alagoas, Brazil.
Macapá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Macapá, from Língua Geral Amazônica.
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Amapá, Brazil.
Manaus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːˈnaʊs/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: Manáos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Manaus, after the Manáo, a native Lokono tribe of the Amazon. Manáo is said to mean mother of the gods.
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil.
Salvador
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsælvədɔː(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Spanish Salvador and Portuguese Salvador, chiefly various placenames honoring Jesus Christ, from Spanish salvador and Portuguese salvador (“savior”), from Latin salvator, from salvāre (“to save”) + -tor (forming agent nouns). In Spanish placenames, frequently a clipping of Spanish San Salvador (“Holy Savior”). Doublet of savior, Salvator, and Salvatore.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese.
glosses: A surname from Spanish or Portuguese.
glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Bahia, Brazil.
glosses: Ellipsis of San Salvador Island: an island of the Bahamas.
glosses: Former name of Santiago, an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.
Fortaleza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɹtəˈleɪzə/
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Ceará, Brazil.
Vitória
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Goiânia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Goiás, Brazil.
Related terms: Aparecida de Goiânia
São Luis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: State capital of Maranhão, Brazil, population 998,385 (2006 IBGE)
Cuiabá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Campo Grande
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
Belo Horizonte
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Belo Horizonte (“Beautiful Horizon”).
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Belém
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Belém. Doublet of Bethlehem.
Senses: glosses: A civil parish of Lisbon, Portugal
glosses: A municipality and state capital of Pará, Brazil.
João Pessoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Paraíba, Brazil.
Curitiba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kjuːrit͡ʃiːbɑː/
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Paraná, Brazil.
Recife
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsiːfi/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsiːfə/
rhymes: -iːfi
rhymes: -iːfə
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Recife, from recife (“reef”).
Senses: examples: text: The veranda was shaded by the roof, and from the shade you could see [...] the skyscrapers and the tower blocks of the city of Recife.
ref: 2022, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, there are more things, Abacus (2023), pages 229-230:
glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil.
Teresina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Piauí, Brazil.
natal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪtəl/
rhymes: -eɪtəl
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin nātus
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin nātālisbor.
Middle English natal
English natal
From Middle English natal, natale (“native, one’s own; inherited; presiding over birthdays or births”), from Classical Latin nātālis (“natal”), from nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of Natal and Noel.
Senses: examples: text: Sea turtles return to their natal beaches to nest.
text: The constituents of the nation are a land and a people: the "natal", which is not necessarily innate, and the "popular," which is not necessarily pregiven.
ref: 1987, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456:
glosses: Of or relating to birth.
Synonyms: word: natal
Hyponyms: word: antenatal
word: neonatal
word: perinatal
word: postnatal
word: prenatal
word: puerperal
Derived terms: antinatal
antinatalism
antinatalist
circumnatal
conatal
connatal
intranatal
natal chart
natal day
natalism
natalist
natality
natally
neonatal
paranatal
perinatal
postnatal
postnatal depression
prenatal
pronatal
pronatalism
pronatalist
transnatal
Related terms: word: innate
word: nascent
word: bodily
natal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪtəl/
rhymes: -eɪtəl
Forms: form: more natal
form: most natal
Etymology: From Classical Latin natis (“rump”) + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the buttocks.
Synonyms: word: natal
Hyponyms: word: antenatal
word: neonatal
word: perinatal
word: postnatal
word: prenatal
word: puerperal
Derived terms: natal cleft
Related terms: word: nates
word: natiform
word: innate
word: nascent
word: bodily
Porto Alegre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Porto Velho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pôrto Velho
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Rondônia, Brazil.
Boa Vista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese boa vista. Doublet of Buena Vista.
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Roraima, Brazil.
glosses: One of the ten islands of Cape Verde
Related terms: boavistense
Florianópolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Florianopolis
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese Florianópolis.
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Aracaju
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹəkəˈʒuː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Aracaju, from Old Tupi Arákaîu, from ará (“macaw”) + akaîu (“cashew”), literally “cashew of the macaw(s)”.
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Sergipe, Brazil.
Guaraní
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡwɑːɹəˈniː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: Guaranís
form: Guaraníes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guaraní, from Portuguese guarani ultimately derived from Guaraní guarani (“warrior”).
Senses: glosses: A member of an Amerindian people native to Paraguay and adjacent regions.
glosses: The Tupian language spoken by this people.
Related terms: guaraní
Wiktionary’s coverage of Guaraní terms
Palmas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the state capital of Tocantins, Brazil.
Tupinambá
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tupinambás
form: Tupinambá
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tupinambá, borrowed from Old Tupi tupinambá.
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular Tupi ethnic group.
Tupinambá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tupinambá, borrowed from Old Tupi tupinambá.
Senses: synonyms: Old Tupi
glosses: An extinct South-American Indian language of the Tupí-Guaraní family.
Hypernyms: Tupi
Brasilia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Brasília.
sidewalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdwɔːk/
ipa: /ˈsaɪdwɔk/
ipa: /ˈsaɪdwɑk/
rhymes: -aɪdwɔːk
Forms: form: sidewalks
Etymology: From side + walk.
Senses: examples: text: Stay on the sidewalk.
text: Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.
ref: 2024 January 21, Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, “Icy conditions make for hazardous travel across central US, but warmer air is on the horizon”, in CNN:
text: Ferguson Police Chief Troy Doyle said body camera video and footage from a nearby business appear to show the suspect charge at officer Travis Brown near a sidewalk during the Friday night protests.
ref: 2024 August 13, Emma Tucker and Cindy Von Quednow, “Ferguson police release videos showing officer pushed to sidewalk during protests marking decade since Michael Brown killing”, in CNN:
synonyms: trottoir
pavement
footpath
banquette
glosses: A paved footpath located at the side of a road, for the use of pedestrians.
glosses: Any paved footpath, even if not located at the side of a road.
Derived terms: moving sidewalk
roll up the sidewalks
sidewalk artist
sidewalk café
sidewalk cafe
sidewalk chalk
sidewalk elevator
sidewalk library
sidewalk superintendent
Related terms: front walk
Basque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːsk/
ipa: /bæsk/
enpr: bask
ipa: /bæsk/
homophone: bask
homophone: basque
rhymes: -æsk
Forms: form: Basques
Etymology: Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
Senses: glosses: A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.
Basque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːsk/
ipa: /bæsk/
enpr: bask
ipa: /bæsk/
homophone: bask
homophone: basque
rhymes: -æsk
Etymology: Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
Senses: examples: text: If you like a challenge, try Hungarian. It’s like no other European language you’ve heard, except maybe Basque.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
synonyms: Euskara
Uskara
glosses: The language of the Basque people.
Derived terms: Basque Country
Basque Shepherd Dog
Proto-Basque
Basque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːsk/
ipa: /bæsk/
enpr: bask
ipa: /bæsk/
homophone: bask
homophone: basque
rhymes: -æsk
Etymology: Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Basque people or their language.
Derived terms: Basqueness
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Basque terms
Romanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ɹəˈmeɪ.ni.ən/
note: Michigan, Canada
ipa: /ɹoˈmɪ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -eɪniən
Forms: form: Rumanian
form: Roumanian
Etymology: From Romania + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The oldest Romanian period (also known as Common Romanian, Proto-Romanian, Primitive Romanian) is the period prior to the separation of the four Romanian dialects: a north-Danubian dialect (Daco-Romanian) and three south-Danubian dialects (Aromanian / Macedo-Romanian, Megleno-Romanian, and Istro-Romanian).
ref: 2013, Gabriela Pană Dindelegan (ed.), Martin Maiden (consultant ed.), The Grammar of Romanian, Oxford University Press, page 4
text: The leader of far-right opposition party AUR, George Simion, who has been backing Georgescu in his presidential bid, was among the first to react to CCR's decision. In a post on X, he said, "What a disgrace! Once again, the Constitutional Court is mocking the Romanian people, is attacking our democracy and our essential rights & freedoms. We stand with Călin Georgescu!”
ref: 2025 March 11, Irina Marica, “Călin Georgescu barred from presidential race as Romanian Constitutional Court rejects appeal”, in Romania Insider:
glosses: Of or relating to Romania, the Romanian people, or the Romanian language.
Derived terms: Romanian alphabet
Romanian Carpathian Shepherd
Romanian deadlift
Romanianization
Romanianize
Romanian Moldavia
Romanianness
Romanian Orthodox Church
Romanian Sign Language