cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
omnidirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɒmˈnɪdɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/
/ɒmˈnɪdaɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl/
Etymology: From omni- + directional.
Senses: examples: text: An omnidirectional radio beacon.
glosses: In every direction, especially of a radio system capable of transmitting or receiving signals in all directions, or of a microphone capable of detecting sound from all directions.
examples: text: The radiation pattern of an omnidirectional antenna looks like a doughnut, with the antenna in the center of the doughnut, as depicted in Figure 17.1.
ref: 2004, Harold Davis, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Wi-Fi Wireless Networking, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 227:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a ring-shaped radiation pattern, with equal radiation in all azimuthal directions.
examples: text: The ascendancy of the offensive over the defensive stems particularly from the ability of advanced weapon systems to penetrate enemy defenses. The combination of great speed and great altitude, taken together with numbers during a mass launch, ensures that selected targets will be reached. Improvements clearly possible through the use of decoys, multiple warheads, electronic countermeasures, varying trajectories, maneuverability, feinting, and omnidirectional attack will further increase the ability penetrate defenses.
ref: 1959, Air University Quarterly Review, Volumes 11-12, U.S. Army Air Forces, page 44:
text: Any defense posture that he may have that would be common for any ballistic missile would not suffice for a low-altitude omnidirectional high-speed nuclear ramjet missile.
ref: 1962, Missiles and Rockets, American Aviation Publications, page 40:
text: He’d known better at the time, damn it, but he’d let himself worry more over the possibility of losing an hour or two than her safety. He pounded his fists together and stared up at the sky with bitter eyes, but the alien stars mocked him, and his jaw clenched as he powered his com implant and sent out a full-powered omnidirectional pulse, heedless of the quarantine system’s sensors.
ref: 2003, David Weber, Empire from the Ashes, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 577:
glosses: Of such an attack or effect that encompasses all directions.
Derived terms: omnidirectionally
Related terms: isotropic
association football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From it being the form of football codified and promoted by the Football Association.
Senses: synonyms: word: football
english: shortened form
translation: shortened form
word: footy
word: soccer
english: Mostly North American and Australian English
translation: Mostly North American and Australian English
word: association football
word: soccer
word: soccer football
word: football
word: footy
word: footie
word: footer
word: wogball
word: American football
word: gridiron
word: gridiron football
word: Canadian football
word: Aussie rules
word: VFL
word: AFL
word: league
word: ball
raw_tags: in all varieties of English and in all games called "football"
word: pill
raw_tags: in Aussie rules and rugby
word: soccer ball
word: pigskin
word: rugby ball
raw_tags: in all varieties of English
glosses: A ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent.
wikipedia: Football Association
selenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
-iːnɪk
Forms: form: more selenic
form: most selenic
Etymology: From selen- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Moon.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: selenian
glosses: Of, pertaining to or containing selenium, especially in a higher oxidation state than the corresponding selenious compound.
Derived terms: selenic acid
seleno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē).
Senses: examples: seleno- + -centric → selenocentric
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: luni-
glosses: Relating to the Moon
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: selenio-
selen-
glosses: Relating to selenium
Related terms: english: the Sun
translation: the Sun
word: helio-
english: Mercury
translation: Mercury
word: hermeo-
english: the Earth
translation: the Earth
word: geo-
english: Mars
translation: Mars
word: areo-
english: Jupiter
translation: Jupiter
word: zeno-
english: Saturn
translation: Saturn
word: crono-
english: Uranus
translation: Uranus
word: urano-
VM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VMs
Senses: examples: text: When the Java VM executes the switch statement, it determines the value of the target expression.
ref: 2005, Jeff Langr, Agile Java: Crafting Code with Test-Driven Development, Pearson Education, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of virtual machine.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of virtual memory.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of voice mail.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of view model.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of viral myocarditis.
Hyponyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: JVM
Derived terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: VMware
ginge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: more ginge
form: most ginge
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: ginger, red-haired
ginge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: ginges
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: “Listen, Ginge,” continued the bully. “We don’t want you in our bogs. You hear? Puttin’ off all the customers by talking to yerself like some nutter…”
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A red-haired person.
carrot top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrot tops
Etymology: From carrot + top.
Senses: examples: text: The actress is known for her carrot top.
glosses: A person with red hair; a redhead.
Synonyms: word: ginge
word: ginger
word: ginger head
word: ranga
word: redhead
word: copper
word: coppertop
Related terms: carrot-topped
ganglion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋ.ɡli.ən/
rhymes: -æŋɡliən
Forms: form: ganglia
form: ganglions
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (gănglĭ́on, “encysted tumour on a tendon or aponeurosis”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are generally known, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head.
ref: 1871, Charles Darwin, “On the Manner of Development of Man from some Lower Form”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part I (On the Descent of Man), page 145:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.
examples: text: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
ref: 2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: nucleus
glosses: Any of certain masses of gray matter in the central nervous system, as the basal ganglia.
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: A centre of intellectual or industrial force, activity, etc.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: ganglion cyst
glosses: A benign cystic tumour on a tendon sheath or joint capsule.
Derived terms: ciliary ganglion
deganglionated
gangliac
ganglial
gangliform
ganglio-
gangli-
ganglionary
ganglion cyst
ganglionectomy
ganglionic
ganglionitis
ganglionless
ganglionopathy
ganglionosis
gasserian ganglion
hemiganglion
inferior cervical ganglion
inferior ganglion
interganglion
intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
lumbar ganglion
melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell
middle cervical ganglion
neuroganglion
otic ganglion
paraganglion
petrosal ganglion
photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
phrenic ganglion
pseudoganglion
pterygopalatine ganglion
semilunar ganglion
spiral ganglion
stellate ganglion
submandibular ganglion
superior cervical ganglion
synganglion
thoracic ganglion
trigeminal ganglion
vestibular ganglion
beaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊ/
ipa: /bəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊ
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: bow
Forms: form: beaus
Senses: examples: text: She said that girl ’d have three beaux, and that she'd marry the poorest one of the three. It all come out just as she’d said. The girl had three beaux, and she took and married the worst one of the lot.
ref: 1896, Clifton Johnson, “Fortune-Telling”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 53:
glosses: plural of beau
millenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millenia
form: milleniums
Senses: examples: text: But I think that this interval will be 1260 years: 1st, 1000 years of the millenium; 20, 260 years, the times of Gog and Magog; and the great assize, or judgment of the world, the sum of which is 1260 years.
ref: 1833, The Christian examiner and Church of Ireland magazine, page 780:
text: millenium, 1000 years: annuity, yearly income: annuitant; anniversary, the return of any particular day in the year; superannuated, disqualified by age. Septennial parliaments. A perennial plant. The Millenium was expected.
ref: 1838, I. Fellows (of Wolverhampton?), The Gradational Spelling-book (page 112)
text: Thus in the case of the 1,000 years, or the millenium, as it is commonly called, Mr. LORD is not only chargeable with this fallacy, but he makes it worse by mingling the two kinds of numbers together, in one arbitrary product.
ref: 1856, Tayler Lewis, The Bible and Science, page 109:
glosses: Archaic spelling of millennium.
glosses: Misspelling of millennium.
HD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HDs
Senses: examples: text: Exploring a new place through seasonal work was like “experiencing life in HD”, she said. “It really cemented the idea that the best way to learn about things is just to dive straight in and get as much information as possible, particularly at that age.”
ref: 2024 October 7, Jem Bartholomew, “‘Doesn’t feel fair’: young Britons struggle with losing right to work in EU since Brexit”, in The Guardian:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
synonyms: 720p
coordinate_terms: FHD
QHD
SD
UHD
glosses: Initialism of high definition (“1280×720 pixels”).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: HDD
glosses: Initialism of hard disc, hard disk, or hard drive.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of homeodomain.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Hansen's disease.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Hodgkin's disease.
examples: text: Huntington's disease (HD) patients are an anomaly with respect to contracting cancer, with 80% fewer cases than found in the general population.
ref: 2018 February 12, “Huntington Disease siRNA a "Super-Assassin" of Tumor Cells”, in ClinicalOMICs:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Huntington's disease.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of hemodialysis.
glosses: Initialism of high density.
glosses: Initialism of heavy duty.
Derived terms: topics: television
broadcasting
media
alt: HD-DVD
word: HD DVD
topics: television
broadcasting
media
word: HDTV
topics: television
broadcasting
media
word: UHD
word: QHD
word: WQHD
HD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Harley-Davidson.
glosses: Initialism of Home Depot.
Related terms: SD
millenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millenium
selenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenates
Etymology: From selenic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: text: Based on their acid dissociation constants (pKa), seleneous^([sic]) acid (H2SeO3) and selenic acid (H2SeO4) are anionic under common environmental conditions [48], e.g., as selenite (SeO32−) and selenate (SeO42−).
ref: 2015, Lenny H.E. Winkel et al., “Selenium Cycling Across Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Interfaces: A Critical Review”, in Nutrients, volume 7, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of selenic acid.
Derived terms: hydroselenate
selenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: selenates
form: selenating
form: selenated
form: selenated
Etymology: From selenium + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To react with a compound of selenium.
Derived terms: selenation
selenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a solid white acid, H₂SeO₄, having the same structure and similar reactions as sulphuric acid
Related terms: selenium
seleniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From selenium + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing or yielding selenium.
selenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlɪnaɪt/
Forms: form: selenites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σελήνη (selḗnē, “moon”) + -ite; the chemistry sense comes via the name of the element selenium.
Senses: examples: text: I followed them to my study, and found lying on my writing-table still, with the selenite paper-weight upon it, the sheet of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 295:
text: Glass windows replaced the old tiny windows of selenite (crystallized gypsum), and stovepipe replaced adobe chimneys.
ref: 1994, Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 146:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, glassy form of gypsum (chemical formula CaSO₄·2H₂O).
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion SeO₃²⁻ derived from selenous acid; any salt or ester of selenous acid.
Synonyms: sense: A soft, glassy form of gypsum (chemical formula CaSO₄·2H₂O).
word: satin spar
Derived terms: cadmium selenite
silver selenite
sodium selenite
the more the merrier
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: First recorded in the 14th-century poem Pearl, line 850. The phrase contains an instance of the comparative correlative use of the.
Senses: glosses: Something is more fun with more people.
glosses: A greater amount of something is better.
glosses: Used to welcome another person into a group activity or encourage them to join in, suggesting that they will be easily accommodated.
too many cooks spoil the broth
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: too many cooks spoils the broth
form: too many chefs spoil the broth
form: too many cooks spoil the soup
form: too many cooks spoil the stew
form: too many skippers sink the ship
Senses: examples: text: She professes to keep her own counsel; she says, and truly enough, that “Too many cooks spoil the broth.”
ref: c. 1803–1805, Jane Austen, “The Watsons”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC, pages 301–302:
glosses: If too many people participate in a task, especially in a leading role, the task will not be done very well.
Related terms: a camel is a horse designed by a committee
too many chiefs and not enough Indians
Croat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊ.æt/
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊ.æt/
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊ.ɑt/
Forms: form: Croats
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Croata, from Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъ (“Croat”), the Croatian autonym. It, in turn, is probably of non-Slavic origin: probably from an Iranian or Germanic language. Doublet of cravat.
Senses: synonyms: Croatian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Croatia; a person of Croatian ethnicity.
glosses: An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.
examples: text: It almost made him laugh. What could he possibly do in Ohio? Did Cleveland have a pressing need for secret policemen who spoke Croat?
ref: 2012, Alen Mattich, Zagreb Cowboy, →ISBN:
glosses: The Croatian lect.
Related terms: Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croat
Croat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊ.æt/
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊ.æt/
ipa: /ˈkɹoʊ.ɑt/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Croata, from Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъ (“Croat”), the Croatian autonym. It, in turn, is probably of non-Slavic origin: probably from an Iranian or Germanic language. Doublet of cravat.
Senses: glosses: Croatian.
Derived terms: Croat Community of Herzeg-Bosnia
Croat Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia
selenium cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a photoelectric cell that uses a strip of selenium as the electron source
selenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From selen- + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: astronomy
cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The scientific study of the Moon's geographic features; geography of the Moon.
Derived terms: selenographer
selenographist
selenographic
selenographical
selenographically
Related terms: selenology
areography
selenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenoses
Etymology: From selen- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: selenium poisoning, especially of livestock, by selenium naturally occurring in plants and the soil
poisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ/
Forms: form: poisonings
Etymology: By surface analysis, poison + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The number of young children in the US who have died from opioid overdoses has increased significantly, according to a new study on accidental poisonings of children 5 and younger.
ref: 2023 March 8, Jen Christensen, “Young children are increasingly victims of opioid epidemic, study finds”, in CNN:
glosses: The administration of a poison.
examples: text: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2021:
glosses: The state of being poisoned.
Hyponyms: sense: administration of a poison
word: envenomation
Derived terms: alcohol poisoning
antipoisoning
autopoisoning
blood poisoning
crowd-poisoning
data poisoning
food poisoning
Georgina poisoning
lead poisoning
leather poisoning
phosphorus poisoning
poisoning attack
radiation poisoning
sausage poisoning
sun poisoning
water poisoning
poisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪzənɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, poison + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poison
Derived terms: nonpoisoning
mini ephedrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a bronchodilator and expectorant made from ephedrine and guaifenesin
pea green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea greens
Senses: glosses: A medium green colour, like that of peas.
pea green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The pea-green colour of the South-Western engines, with the curious buff-and-amber of the carriages, was also a novelty, as were the raised top-decks of the older guards' vans.
ref: 1939 June, T.R. Perkins, “My Red-Letter Day - II”, in Railway Magazine, page 400:
glosses: Of a yellowish green colour, like that of peas.
mailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: mailings
Senses: examples: text: He has taken to flooding the mailboxes of gay organizations in recent months, urging us to do this or buy that; two recent examples of such mailings are especially telling. In one, he suggests that we join a national writers union […] The other mailing offers us the chance to pay for the privilege of sending flyers for the gay books Witomski thinks are so terrible.
ref: 1987 February 22, Terry Helbing, “Petty Sniping At Gay Authors”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 4:
glosses: An act of sending mail.
Derived terms: mailing shot
mailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mail
mailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: mailings
Etymology: See mail (“rent”).
Senses: glosses: A farm.
sitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: sittings
Etymology: From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zitting (“a sitting, session”), German Sitzung (“a sitting, session”), Swedish sittning (“a sitting, session”).
Senses: examples: text: Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
text: The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
glosses: A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
examples: text: "It's not always easy to get him, and of course a small fee, a guinea I think, is usual, but if you wanted a sitting I could work it." "You think him genuine?" Atkinson shrugged his shoulders.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
glosses: A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
glosses: The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
glosses: A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
glosses: The incubation of eggs by a bird.
examples: we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
glosses: A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
examples: text: I read it in two sittings.
glosses: Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
Derived terms: fence-sitting
in one sitting
trip sitting
W-sitting
sitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English sittinge, sittynge, variant of sittinde, sittende, sittande, from Old English sittende (“sitting”), from Proto-Germanic *sitjandz (“sitting”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian sittend (“sitting”), Dutch zittend (“sitting”), German sitzend (“sitting”), Swedish sittande (“sitting”), Icelandic sitjandi (“sitting”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sit
Derived terms: sitting pretty
sitting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English sittinge, sittynge, variant of sittinde, sittende, sittande, from Old English sittende (“sitting”), from Proto-Germanic *sitjandz (“sitting”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian sittend (“sitting”), Dutch zittend (“sitting”), German sitzend (“sitting”), Swedish sittande (“sitting”), Icelandic sitjandi (“sitting”).
Senses: glosses: Executed from a sitting position.
examples: text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
text: It is an iron rule of French politics that sitting presidents are detested.
ref: 2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
Derived terms: non-sitting
nonsitting
sitting duck
sitting service
sitting tenant
codimension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codimensions
Etymology: From co- + dimension.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The difference between the dimension of a space and the dimension of a given subspace of the first one.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A scope that indicates another variable of the same name and type is assigned to the local memory of each image.
Related terms: codimensional
remanent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛmənənt/
Etymology: From Latin remanens, present participle of remaneō (“I remain”).
Senses: examples: text: remanent magnetism; remanent induction; remanent polarization
text: That little hope that is remanent hath its degree according to the infancy or growth of the habit.
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
glosses: Remaining or persisting especially after an electrical or magnetic influence is removed.
glosses: Additional.
Related terms: remain
remainder
remanet
remnant
remanent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛmənənt/
Forms: form: remanents
Etymology: From Latin remanens, present participle of remaneō (“I remain”).
Senses: glosses: That which remains; a remnant; a residue.
Synonyms: remains
remainder
remnant
hysteresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hystereses
Etymology: Coined by Sir James Alfred Ewing from Ancient Greek ὑστέρησις (hustérēsis, “shortcoming”), from ὑστερέω (husteréō, “I am late, fall short”), from ὕστερος (hústeros, “later”).
Senses: glosses: A property of a system such that an output value is not a strict function of the corresponding input, but also incorporates some lag, delay, or history dependence, and in particular when the response for a decrease in the input variable is different from the response for an increase. For example, a thermostat with a nominal setpoint of 75° might switch the controlled heat source on when the temperature drops below 74°, and off when it rises above 76°.
glosses: Magnetic friction in dynamos, by which every reversal of magnetism in the iron causes dissipation of energy.
Derived terms: hysteresis loop
hysteresis motor
hysteretic
hysteretical
hysteron
centered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.təd/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.təɹd/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more centered
form: most centered
form: centred
Senses: glosses: middlemost; located at the center
glosses: emotionally stable, calm, serene; having a balanced mind
Derived terms: body-centered
centered dot
centeredness
child-centered
dead-centered
exocentered
face-centered
high centered
high-centered
multicentered
noncentered
self-centered
teacher-centered
uncentered
centered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.təd/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.təɹd/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: centred
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of center
lords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːdz/
ipa: /lɔɹdz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: plural of lord
lords
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːdz/
ipa: /lɔɹdz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lord
catafalque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkatəfalk/
Forms: form: catafalques
Etymology: Borrowed from French catafalque, from Italian catafalco, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum, from Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “down”) + Latin fala (“scaffolding, wooden siege tower”), which is from Etruscan. Also influenced scaffold.
Senses: examples: text: Until noon, the hour of the funeral, crowds continued to file by the plain pine coffin on its plain flower-covered catafalque.
ref: 1942, Maurine Whipple, The Giant Joshua:
text: After another brief funeral rite at Tzu Hu, the presidential casket was laid on the catafalque in the central hall of a temporary “mausoleum” and sealed with marble slabs. There, the body of President Chiang will rest pending permanent burial in the mainland after its recovery.
ref: 1976, “China Yearbook 1976”, in The Hallmark, Taipei: China Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 2:
text: The period of official mourning was long-drawn-out even by the standards of the day; the funeral ceremony held in Avignon's cathedral lasted a full nine days, with the pope's catafalque hung with black silk beneath candelabra likewise draped in black.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 91:
synonyms: catafalco
glosses: A platform used to display or convey a coffin during a funeral, often ornate.
catafalco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kă'təfălʹkō
ipa: /ˌkætəˈfælkəʊ/
ipa: /ˌkætəˈfælkoʊ/
Forms: form: catafalcoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian catafalco.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of catafalque.
synonyms: word: catafalque
outside the box
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Unclear. Attested since 1971 (see quotations) with allusion to the nine dots puzzle, where one needs to draw lines outside the perimeter of its nine dots. Earlier related phrases include go outside the dots (1956), step outside the box (1969), and think outside the dots (1970).
Senses: examples: text: The boss wants some new ideas—it's time to think outside the box.
text: "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX". If you have kept your thinking process operating inside the lines and boxes, then you are normal and average, for that is the way your thinking has been programmed. ... Here are nine dots: If you were asked to pick up a pencil and try to touch every dot using four straight lines only, you would try it this way first. It would be incorrect. That's because this configuration is in the shape of a box and we are conditioned to think this way.
ref: 1971 September 24, Michael R. Notaro, Jr., “Management of Personnel: Organization Patterns and Techniques”, in Data Management, volume 9, number 9, page 77:
synonyms: laterally
out of the box
outside of the box
glosses: Beyond the bounds of convention or normal practice.
wikipedia: nine dots puzzle
Related terms: blue-sky thinking
heterodox
lateral thinking
nonorthogonal
reinvent the wheel
bigamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪɡəməs/
Etymology: bi- + -gamous
Senses: glosses: involving bigamy
raw_tags: of a marriage
glosses: guilty of bigamy
raw_tags: of a spouse
Derived terms: bigamously
equipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkwɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Forms: form: more equipped
form: most equipped
Senses: examples: text: Hence, the delivery of animal health services in Cameroon faces a peculiar paradox: those who are most qualified and most equipped to deliver services are not the ones delivering them.
ref: 1995, Veterinary Education, page 44:
text: My hope for you is that this book reads you as much as you read it, that you see your reflection in the stories I share, and find yourself inspired and more equipped to live life with more ease and more joy, and to more often access the deepest realms of creativity, connection, and compassion—to be more
ref: 2022, Charlie Hugh-Jones, Be More: What to Do When You Can't Do Any More!:
text: You don't seem very equipped for the cellars.
ref: 2024, Jessica Olenski, The Opera Ghost, page 365:
glosses: Having the equipment, resources, and skills one needs; prepared.
Derived terms: go equipped
ill-equipped
underequipped
well-equipped
equipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkwɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of equip
depicted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɪktɪd/
rhymes: -ɪktɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depict
encountered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkaʊntɚd/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkaʊntɚd/
ipa: /ɪnˈkaʊntəd/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkaʊntəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encounter
recovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkʌvɚd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkʌvəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recover
illustrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪləstɹeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of illustrate
illustrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪləstɹeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more illustrated
form: most illustrated
Senses: glosses: Containing illustrations.
Derived terms: illustrated song
nonillustrated
unillustrated
illustrated
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪləstɹeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: illustrateds
Senses: examples: text: Siegfried Kracauer was to be a particularly vocal critic in the twenties of the shift in perception brought on by the illustrateds.
ref: 1996, Stephen C. Foster, Crisis and the Arts, page 113:
glosses: A newspaper featuring illustrations.
proclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹoʊˈkleɪmd/
rhymes: -eɪmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proclaim
crossed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɒst/
ipa: /kɹɔst/
ipa: /kɹɑst/
rhymes: -ɒst
rhymes: -ɔːst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross
crossed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɒst/
ipa: /kɹɔst/
ipa: /kɹɑst/
rhymes: -ɒst
rhymes: -ɔːst
Senses: glosses: Marked by a line drawn crosswise, often denoting cancellation.
examples: text: crossed legs
glosses: Folded.
glosses: Cruciate.
examples: text: In certain popular heraldic works the crest assigned to the surname "Archer," in Ireland, is "a mound azure banded and crossed or," whereas there is no instance of the Archers of Kilkenny - probably the earliest of the name […]
ref: 1871, Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society, The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society, page 220:
text: Quarterly gu. and az. a royal orb arg. banded and crossed or. Sweden; granted 1751. Gilbert UNIVERSAL, Bishop of London 1128-34.
ref: 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 1095:
text: Gules, a cross potent crossed or. CHADERTON, Chester 1579; Lincoln 1595.
ref: 1897, William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford, The Blazon of Episcopacy: Being the Arms Borne by Or Attributed to the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales with an Ordinary of the Coats Described and of Other Episcopal Arms, page 217:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having a cross placed on it, or (with respect to the arms of a cross) having a bar placed crosswise over (an existing bar) so as to form a cross.
glosses: Crossfaded.
Derived terms: crossed cheque
crossed fingers
crossed ladders problem
crossed line
crossed loop sensor
crossed wires
fingers and toes crossed
fingers crossed
keep one's fingers crossed
star-crossed
uncrossed
inherited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɛɹɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inherit
inherited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɛɹɪtɪd/
Senses: examples: text: inherited money
glosses: Obtained via an inheritance
examples: text: an inherited disease
glosses: hereditary.
Derived terms: inherited audience
inheritedness
noninherited
uninherited
inserted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɜːtɪd/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɝtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of insert
inserted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɜːtɪd/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɝtɪd/
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Attached to or growing out of some part.
Derived terms: misinserted
uninserted
pushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊʃt/
rhymes: -ʊʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of push
convicted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɪktɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convict
Dennis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛnɪs/
rhymes: -ɛnɪs
Forms: form: Denis
form: Denys
Etymology: From Middle English Denis, from Old French saint's name Denis, brought to England by Normans; from Latin Dionysius, a masculine name literally meaning “follower of (the wine god) Dionysus”.
Senses: examples: text: I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Each disliked the choice of the other. "Charles is a stern name," she affirmed. "Nonsense," said Philip. "It's as agreeable a name as there is. Dennis sounds like a comical Irish story." "You just show your bad feeling when you say such a thing," she retorted. "'T is a grand name!"
ref: 1944, Mazo de la Roche, The Building of Jalna, Little,Brown&co:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Murray County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cape May County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Delaware County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Parker County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
glosses: A locality in Cypress County, Alberta, Canada.
Derived terms: Coln St Dennis
St Dennis
Related terms: Denny
Denise
Dionysus
Dionysos
Tennyson
Ernest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜː(ɹ)nɪst/
homophone: Earnest
homophone: earnest
Etymology: Borrowed in the 18th century from Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from Old High German ernust (“vigor, strife”), only remotely related to modern German ernst or English earnest.
Senses: examples: text: GWENDOLEN. […] and my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest. There is something in that name that inspires absolute confidence.
ref: 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest […] , [Act I]:
text: "What's his name, your boyfriend?" "Ernest. Ernest Hemingway." The name was received in disparaging silence. Marlene said: "You wouldn't get me going out with a feller called Ernest. My granddad was Ernest."
ref: 1980, P. D. James, Innocent Blood:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages; popular in the 19th century.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: sense: pet form
word: Ernie
sense: female given name
word: Ernestine
Maria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹiːə/
ipa: /məˈɹaɪə/
note: also especially the variant "Mariah"
rhymes: -iːə
rhymes: -aɪə
Etymology: From Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מרים (Maryām), corresponding to the Hebrew מרים (Miryām). Doublet of Mary, Marie, and Miriam.
Senses: examples: text: Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the word Maria; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.
ref: 1629, Thomas Adams, Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211
text: By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.
ref: 1776, Adam Fitz-Adam: The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756
text: I've just kissed a girl named Maria / And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be! / Maria! Say it loud and there's music playing / Say it soft and it's almost like praying
ref: 1957, “Maria”, in Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), Leonard Bernstein (music), West Side Story:
text: CNN anchor and correspondent Maria Santana was reporting from the scene when she and her team were hit by pepper balls and tear gas that officers fired into the crowd. “At that time, I can tell you, it is very hard to breathe, very hard to talk, your eyes begin to water,” she reported.
ref: 2025 September 19, Alisha Ebrahimji, Emma Tucker, “Chicago-area mayor says federal agents teargassed him at a protest outside an ICE facility”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
glosses: Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in Latin, Spanish, etc. contexts.
synonyms: word: Mary
extra: etc. contexts.
word: mother of Jesus
extra: etc. contexts.
word: in Latin
extra: etc. contexts.
word: Spanish
extra: etc. contexts.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
Derived terms: Maria Clara gown
Sta. Maria
Villa Maria Clara
Maria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹiːə/
ipa: /məˈɹaɪə/
note: also especially the variant "Mariah"
rhymes: -iːə
rhymes: -aɪə
Senses: glosses: A Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh provinces in India.
Derived terms: Abujmaria
Maria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹiːə/
ipa: /məˈɹaɪə/
note: also especially the variant "Mariah"
rhymes: -iːə
rhymes: -aɪə
Senses: glosses: A Papuan language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Ferdinand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝdn̩.ænd/
ipa: /ˈfɝdən-/
ipa: /ˈfɜːdɪnænd/
ipa: /-nənd/
Forms: form: Ferdinands
Etymology: From Spanish Ferdinando, from Proto-Germanic *fardiz (“journey”) + *nanþaz (“daring”) (from the root of *ninþaną (“to be daring”)).
* (Uranus): The moon is named after a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
* (Philippines): Named after Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, best known for a 13th century king of Spain, but seldom popular in English.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A placename
A moon of the planet Uranus.
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the Philippines, named after former president Ferdinand Marcos:
A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.
synonyms: Happy Homes - Campo Sioco
glosses: A placename
A number of places in the Philippines, named after former president Ferdinand Marcos:
A barangay of Marcos, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Related terms: word: Ferdinand E. Marcos
word: Fernando
sense: Ferdinand Marcos
word: Ferdinand E. Marcos
sense: Ferdinand Marcos
word: Marcos
Julius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːliəs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːljəs/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːləs/
rhymes: -uːliəs
Forms: form: Juliuses
form: Julii
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Iūlius, of uncertain origin, possibly from Ancient Greek ἴουλος (íoulos, “downy first beard hairs”), i.e. the young, or from Latin Jovilius (“devoted to Jove”). Doublet of Jules.
Senses: examples: text: WHẽ it was cõcluded that we ſhulde ſayle into italy / they delivered Paul / and certayne other pꝛeſoners vnto won named Iulius / ã vnder captayne of Ceſars ſoudiars.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xxvij:[1], folio cxcv, recto:
text: The seven [centurions] from II Adiutrix, whose stay in the province can be closely dated to the years 71–85/6, have an instructive set of names – two Julii, appropriately enough in a period when two of the governors also bore this name; […]
ref: 1980, Anthony Birley, “Legionary centurions”, in The People of Roman Britain, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 73:
text: Vespasian, a simple man, always laughed because so many Julii and Claudii were made divine after their deaths. On his deathbed he said, “Alas! I think I’m becoming a god.”
ref: 2001, Rose Williams, Duces Romanorum: Profiles in Roman Courage, teacher’s edition, London: WPC Classics, →ISBN, page 94:
text: So the man whom we know as Julius Caesar was a member of the Julii clan belonging to a particular branch whose paternal designation was Caesar. Only intimate family members would have called him Gaius. Caesar was known by his cognomen, presumably because there were many Julii and it would have caused confusion to use that nomen.
ref: 2007, Mark Walker, “Roman Names, Numerals, Dates & Days”, in Annus Horribilis: Latin for Everyday Life, Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, published 2010:
text: “Julius is Marguerite’s dog,” Jeanne Louise explained to Paul as she smiled at her Italian cousin. / “I thought Julius was Marguerite’s life mate?” Paul said with confusion. / “He is. There are two Juliuses,” Christian said with amusement. “One is a dog, and one is my father.”
ref: 2012, Lynsay Sands, The Lady Is a Vamp (An Argeneau Novel), New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN, page 292:
text: The other option for a coalition is the EFF, led by former ANC youth leader Julius Malema, who was expelled from the party more than a decade ago.
ref: 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
Derived terms: Julius Caesar cipher
Related terms: english: the month
translation: the month
word: July
word: Julian
word: Julia
word: Juliana
word: Gillian
word: Jill
Kenneth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛn.əθ/
rhymes: -ɛnəθ
Forms: form: Kenneths
Etymology: Anglicized form of two Goidelic names, Old Irish Cináed, the name of Scottish kings derived from Pictish *ᚉᚔᚅᚔᚑᚇ (Ciniod), and the saint's name Cainnech (literally “handsome”) (modern Scottish Gaelic Coinneach), as in the surname Mackenzie.
Senses: examples: text: Know, however, that among the soldiers of the Cross I am called Kenneth - Kenneth of the Couching Leopard; at home I have other titles, but they would sound harsh in an Eastern ear.
ref: 1825, Sir Walter Scott, chapter III, in The Talisman:
text: "The other one, his name was Kenneth, was born in February nineteen twenty-one."
"All these Kens," she said.
ref: 1998 Barbara Vine ( Ruth Rendell ): The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. →ISBN page 166
roman: "As you say. It must have been the sexy name. These days Kens are all Chinese cooks. - - -
glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Related terms: Ken
Kenny