cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ravenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Ravenna, from Latin Ravenna.
Senses: glosses: A province in the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northern Italy.
examples: text: Ravenna served as the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 402 until the latter's collapse in 476; thereafter it was the capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom and then of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna until the last exarch was executed by the Lombards in 751.
glosses: A coastal city, the present-day capital of the province of Ravenna.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Portage County, Ohio, United States, named after the Italian city.
Derived terms: Ravenna grass
Related terms: word: Ravennate
word: Ravennese
word: Ravennan
word: Ravennese
word: Ravennan
word: Ravennate
Reggio nell'Emilia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Reggio Emilia (“city and province in Italy”).
Rieti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Rieti.
Senses: glosses: A province of Lazio, Italy.
glosses: The capital city of the province of Rieti, Lazio, Italy.
Rimini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Rimini, from Latin Arīminium.
Senses: glosses: A province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
glosses: A resort city, the capital of the province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
Rovigo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Rovigo.
Senses: glosses: A province of Veneto, Italy.
glosses: A commune and town, the capital of the province of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy.
Salerno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Salerno, from Latin Salernum.
Senses: glosses: A province of Campania, Italy.
glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Salerno, Campania, Italy.
glosses: A surname.
Sassari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: säsʹərē
ipa: /ˈsɑsəɹi/
enpr: săsʹərē
ipa: /ˈsæsəɹi/
homophone: saucery
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sassari.
Senses: glosses: A province of Sardinia, Italy.
glosses: A city and commune, the capital city of the province of Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.
Savona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Savonas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Savona.
Senses: glosses: A province of Liguria, Italy.
glosses: The capital city of the province of Savona, Liguria, Italy.
glosses: A community on Kamloops Lake, British Columbia, Canada.
glosses: A village in Bath, Steuben County, New York, United States, named after Savona, Italy.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Darke County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
Siena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sē-ĕnʹə
ipa: /siˈɛnə/
homophone: sienna
Etymology: From Italian Siena.
Senses: glosses: A city and comune, the capital of the province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
glosses: A province of Tuscany, Italy.
Derived terms: Sienese
sienna
Sondrio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Lombardy, Italy.
glosses: The capital of the province of Sondrio.
Taranto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːɹəntoʊ/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ən.toʊ/
ipa: /təˈɹæn.toʊ/
ipa: /təˈɹɑːn.toʊ/
ipa: /tɑˈɹɑːntoʊ/
ipa: /ˈtæ.ɹən.təʊ/
ipa: /təˈɹæntoʊ/
Etymology: From Italian Taranto, from Latin Tarentum, from Ancient Greek Τάρᾱς (Tárās), probably from Illyrian *darandos (“oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”), which also yields Albanian dru (“wood, tree”). Doublet of Taras and Tarentum.
Senses: glosses: A port city in Apulia, in southeastern Italy.
glosses: A province of Apulia, Italy, around the city.
Synonyms: word: Tarentum
Teramo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Teramo.
Senses: glosses: A province of Abruzzo, Italy.
glosses: The capital city of the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy.
Terni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Terni.
Senses: glosses: A province of Umbria, Italy.
glosses: The capital city of the province of Terni, Umbria, Italy.
Trapani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Trapani.
Senses: glosses: A province of Sicily, Italy.
glosses: The capital city of the province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy.
Trento
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛntoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛntoʊ
Forms: form: Trent
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Trento. Doublet of trident.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of the province of Trentino and the region of Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.
glosses: Trentino (a province of Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy).
Treviso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Treviso.
Senses: glosses: A province of Veneto, Italy.
examples: text: With a population of nearly 94,000, Treviso impressed judges by transforming an abandoned landfill into a solar park, overhauling its canal system to improve water quality and launching biodiversity projects to clean its air.
ref: 2025 October 23, Robyn Wilson, “Italy's smaller, smarter alternative to Venice”, in BBC News:
glosses: A town, the capital of Treviso province, Italy.
Trieste
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tɹiːˈɛst/
/tɹɪˈɛst/
Etymology: From Italian Trieste.
Senses: glosses: A province of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, Italy.
glosses: A city in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, Italy, the capital of the province.
Derived terms: Triestine
Related terms: Istria
Udine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Udine.
Senses: glosses: A city and comune in Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, Italy.
Varese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Varese.
Senses: glosses: A province of Lombardy, Italy.
glosses: The capital city of the province of Varese, Lombardy, Italy.
Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Piedmont, Italy.
Vercelli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town, and associated province in Piedmont, Italy.
Vibo Valentia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Calabria, Italy.
Vicenza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and associated province of Veneto, Italy.
Related terms: Vicentine
Viterbo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Lazio, Italy.
glosses: A town, the provincial capital of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.
Ventimiglia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Liguria, Italy.
&
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: Orthographic borrowing from Latin &
Senses: examples: text: “Welcum to McCaufreys, Billy Dean” he says. “Make yorself at home & hav a pie.”
ref: 2011, David Almond, The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean, Candlewick Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: Abbreviation of and.
glosses: Abbreviation of et.
Derived terms: & alii
& al.
& cetera
&c.
& Co.
& hoc genus omne
& iam
& i.
& seq.
& seqq.
& uxor
& ux.
Andalusia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌændəˈluːsi.ə/
ipa: /ˌændəˈluːʃə/
ipa: /ˌændəˈluːzi.ə/
ipa: /ˌændəˈluːʒə/
note: hispanized
ipa: /ˌændəluːˈsiːə/
Etymology: From the Arabic الْأَنْدَلُس (al-ʔandalus), الْأَنْدُلُس (al-ʔandulus, “Iberia”), from Vulgar Latin *Vandalicia (“land of the Vandals”), or possibly from Vandalic *Wandalitia (“land of the Vandals”) (or *Vandalitia) of the same Latin source, from Proto-Germanic *wandilaz. Alternatively, Halm (1989) suggests it may derive from (unattested) Gothic *𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (*landahlauts), from 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land, “land”) + 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍄𐍃 (hlauts, “allotment, inheritance”).
Senses: glosses: A historical region and autonomous community in southern Spain, the most populated and second largest of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain. Capital: Seville.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Covington County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Flagler County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Rock Island County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and historic neighbourhood in Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Derived terms: andalusite
Related terms: Andalusian
Nikolaos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from Ancient Greek Νικόλαος (Nikólaos), from νικάω (nikáō, “I conquer”) + λαός (laós, “people”). Doublet of Nicholas.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλαος (Nikólaos) used in Greece. The equivalent female name is Nikoleta.
Related terms: Nicholas
Nick
Nicolaos
Nicolas
Nicos
Nikolas
Nikos
Nikos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νίκος (Níkos) used in Greece. It is the most common form of the name Nikolaos, the Greek cognate of Nicholas.
Nikolas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The gunman, Nikolas Cruz, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A school resource officer faces charges after allegedly failing to confront the gunman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
ref: 2023 February 14, Holly Yan, “5 years after the Parkland school massacre claimed 17 lives, here’s what has changed (and what hasn’t)”, in CNN:
glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικόλας (Nikólas), used in Greece.
Related terms: Nikolaos
Nikolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek male given name Νικολής (Nikolís) used in Greece.
Related terms: Nikolaos
Nikoleta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Greek Νικολέτα (Nikoléta), a female given name used in (modern) Greece.
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Greek female given name Νικολέτα (Nikoléta).
Related terms: word: Nikolaos
Greeklish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹiːklɪʃ/
Etymology: Blend of Greek + English?
Senses: glosses: A system for transliterating Greek into the Latin alphabet, either phonetically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Niki) or orthographically (for example, transliterating Νίκη as Nikh).
Synonyms: Latinoellinika
Nicolas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪ.kə.ləs/
ipa: /ˈnɪk.ləs/
rhymes: -ɪkələs
rhymes: -ɪkləs
homophone: (non-rhotic) knickerless
Senses: examples: text: And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 6:5:
text: French President Nicolas Sarkozy advocated more regulation of commodities markets and better management of capital flows at the last G-20 meeting, and the G-7 intervened in currency markets to depress the yen in the wake of Japan’s March earthquake.
ref: 2011 April 14, Michael Schuman, “Do the BRICS believe in free markets?”, in Time:
glosses: A male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], of less common usage, variant of Nicholas.
Derived terms: Saint-Nicolas
Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem
Related terms: Basak San Nicolas
Pahina San Nicolas
San Nicolas Central
hamburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈhæm.bə.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈhæmˌbɝ.ɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈhæm.bɚ.ɡɚ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhæmˌbʊ˞.ɡɚ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhæmˌbʊ˞.ɡɐ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhæm.bɚ.ɡɚ/
Forms: form: hamburgers
form: hamburgher
Etymology: Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.
Senses: glosses: A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
glosses: The patty used in such a sandwich.
glosses: Ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers.
examples: text: The truck hit the deer and turned it into hamburger.
text: I'm going to make you into hamburger if you do that again.
qualifier: somewhat crude
glosses: An animal or human, or the flesh thereof, that has been badly injured as a result of an accident or conflict.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: meatball
kebab
bento
glosses: Ellipsis of hamburger button.
topics: education
coordinate_terms: hot dog
glosses: Describing the shape of a rectangular piece of paper folded in half so that it forms a short rectangle.
Synonyms: word: liberty sandwich
sense: sandwich
word: beefburger
sense: patty
word: hamburger patty
Hypernyms: sense: sandwich
word: burger
Hyponyms: slider
quarter-pounder
cheeseburger
Coordinate terms: chicken burger
vegeburger
soyburger
Derived terms: $100 hamburger
burger
cheeseburger
cheesehamburger
Chinese hamburger
gardenburger
Gomez's Hamburger
hamburger button
hamburger icon
hamburgerless
hamburgerlike
hamburger menu
hamburgerologist
hamburgerology
hamburger roundabout
hamburger sauce
hamburger steak
hot hamburger sandwich
hundred-dollar hamburger
minihamburger
shamburger
soyburger
vegeburger
vegetarian hamburger
Related terms: english: hamburger emoji
translation: hamburger emoji
word: 🍔
hamburger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæmˌbɜː.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈhæm.bə.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈhæmˌbɝ.ɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈhæm.bɚ.ɡɚ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhæmˌbʊ˞.ɡɚ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhæmˌbʊ˞.ɡɐ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhæm.bɚ.ɡɚ/
Forms: form: hamburgers
form: hamburgering
form: hamburgered
form: hamburgered
form: hamburgher
Etymology: Shortening of Hamburger sandwich, Hamburger steak, etc.; or, less likely, borrowed from German Hamburger (“native of Hamburg”), equivalent to Hamburg + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The men played baseball on coral diamonds that tore their shoes and clothes and hamburgered their hands.
ref: 1944, C. G. Morris, Hugh B. Cave, “The Fightin’est Ship”: The Story of the Cruiser “Helena”, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 62:
text: And his tires triggered no Claymore mines or Bouncing Betties that might have hamburgered his vehicle with him in it.
ref: 1981, John Nichols, The Nirvana Blues, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 283:
text: My tears are like gagged pieces of ice cutting up my eyeballs and hamburgering my face.
ref: 1994, Beatrice Sparks (falsely indicated as editor), It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager, a True Story from Her Diary, Avon Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 133:
text: It’s a trail that has taken more than its fair share of blood, my first flat tire, and hamburgered my entire forearm on a descent.
ref: 2014, Shannon Galpin, Mountain to Mountain: A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Ken broke three fingers and hamburgered his legs, but he still got to his feet, chased down his burro, and continued on to the finish line.
ref: 2019, Christopher McDougall, Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Why they didn’t both break their necks or get hamburgered by cloven hooves was a mystery.
ref: 2020, Lynn Stansbury, Crossing the Divide, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse:
glosses: To badly injure or damage (a fleshy part of the body).
tie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /təɪ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /toɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: Tai
homophone: Thai
homophone: Ty
Forms: form: ties
form: tying
form: tied
form: tied
Etymology: From Middle English teien, teiȝen, from Old English tīġan, tīeġan, from Proto-West Germanic *taugijan, from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to tug, draw”). Cognate with Icelandic teygja.
Senses: examples: text: Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
text: Tie the rope to this tree.
glosses: To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
examples: text: Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
glosses: To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
examples: text: Tie him to the tree.
text: In bond of virtuous love together tied.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
examples: text: Tie your shoes.
text: Not tied to rules of policy, you find / Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
ref: 1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux:
glosses: To secure (something) by string or the like.
examples: text: They tied for third place.
text: They tied the game.
glosses: To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
examples: text: He tied me for third place.
glosses: To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
examples: text: […] It seems they have sort of betrothal teas — can you tie it?"
"Heavens!" said Mary […]
ref: 1929, Collier's, volume 84, page 56:
text: As the door slammed Pete turned to Hally, fuming. "Can you tie that? A little twopenny cold frightening him off."
ref: 1940, Woman's Home Companion, volume 67, numbers 1-4, page 134:
glosses: To believe; to credit.
examples: text: So, a class for tying a hash to an ISAM implementation might provide an extra method to traverse a set of keys sequentially (the “S” of ISAM), since your typical DBM implementation can't do that.
ref: 2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl: 3rd Edition, page 814:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
Synonyms: fasten
link
bind
Derived terms: hog-tie
ride and tie
self-tying
tick and tie
tie a can to it
tie-a-leaf
tie back
tie down
tie-dye
tie hand and foot
tie in knots
tie-in
tie in
tie into
tie in with
tie off
tie one on
tie oneself in knots
tie oneself to the mast
tie oneself up in knots
tie out
tie over
tier
tie someone's hands
tie someone's tubes
tie the knot
tie to
tie up
tongue-tie
would lose one's head if it wasn't tied on
complaisant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpleɪsənt/
ipa: /kəmˈpleɪsənt/
ipa: /kəmˈpleɪzənt/
homophone: complacent
Forms: form: more complaisant
form: most complaisant
Etymology: From French complaisant (“willing to please”), from complaire, from Latin complacēre (“please well”), from com- (“with”) + placeō (“please”).
Senses: glosses: Compliant.
examples: text: Replay our conversation
You threw your accusations
I'm always so complaisant
I never change the station
ref: 2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Jon Levine, Scott Jacoby, “Congratulations”, in Fight Song, performed by Rachel Platten:
synonyms: amenable
coordinate_terms: word: obsequious
english: stronger and more negative
translation: stronger and more negative
glosses: Willing to do what pleases others; obliging; agreeable.
examples: text: The People who had often heard of me, were very curious to croud about the Sedan, and the Girl was complaiſant enough to make the Bearers ſtop, and to take me in her Hand that I might be conveniently ſeen.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Country Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 222–223:
glosses: Polite; showing respect.
Derived terms: complaisantly
complaisantness
uncomplaisant
Related terms: complaisance
affect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ə.fĕkt'
ipa: /əˈfɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
homophone: effect (weak vowel merger)
Forms: form: affects
form: affecting
form: affected
form: affected
Etymology: From Middle English affecten, from Latin affectāre, from Latin affectus, the participle stem of Latin afficere (“to act upon, influence, affect, attack with disease”), from ad- + facere (“to make, do”).
Senses: examples: text: The experience affected me deeply.
text: The heat of the sunlight affected the speed of the chemical reaction.
text: The climate affected their health and spirits.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XVI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
ref: 2012 January 23, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 74:
synonyms: alter
change
have an effect on
influence
play a role in
play a part in
glosses: To influence or alter.
examples: text: He was deeply affected by the tragic ending of the play.
text: A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.
ref: 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful:
synonyms: move
touch
glosses: To move to emotion.
examples: text: Hepatitis affects the liver.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: attack
harm
infect
glosses: Of an illness or condition, to infect or harm (a part of the body).
examples: text: men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To dispose or incline.
examples: text: The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To tend to by affinity or disposition.
examples: text: One of the domestics was affected to his special service.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To assign; to appoint.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: To burden (property) with a fixed charge or payment, or other condition or restriction.
Derived terms: affectability
affectable
affectee
affectingly
affectless
affector
disaffect
interaffect
misaffect
overaffect
reaffect
unaffect
affect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ə.fĕkt'
ipa: /əˈfɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
homophone: effect (weak vowel merger)
enpr: əfĕkt'
rhymes: -ɛkt
enpr: ă'fĕkt
ipa: /ˈæ.fɛkt/
enpr: ə.fĕkt'
ipa: /əˈfɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
homophone: effect (weak vowel merger)
enpr: əfĕkt'
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: affects
Etymology: From Middle English affect, from Latin affectus, adfectus (“a state of mind or body produced by some (external) influence, especially sympathy or love”), from afficere (“to act upon, influence”).
Senses: examples: text: if we are afraid of robbers in a dream, the robbers are certainly imaginary, but the fear is real. This draws our attention to the fact that the development of affects [translating Affectentwicklung] in dreams is not amenable to the judgement we make of the rest of the dream-content [...].
ref: 1899, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 62:
text: A third study demonstrated that the effects of self-affirmation on self-regulated performance were not due to positive affect.
ref: 2004, Jeffrey Greenberg, Thomas A Pyszczynski, Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology, page 407:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A subjective feeling experienced in response to a thought or other stimulus; mood, emotion, especially as demonstrated in external physical signs.
glosses: One's mood or inclination; mental state.
glosses: A desire, an appetite.
Derived terms: affect display
flat affect
labile affect
pseudobulbar affect
Related terms: affection
affectionate
affective
Corinthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɪnθiən/
rhymes: -ɪnθiən
homophone: Carinthian
Forms: form: more Corinthian
form: most Corinthian
Etymology: From Corinth + -ian. The senses related to opulence or debauchery derive from the reputation of ancient Corinth.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Corinth.
examples: text: The silver waters of the spring had long since disappeared, but there still were left a few of the Corinthian pillars, some stretched on the ground and overgrown with creeping-plants, while two or three yet remained erect, and showed how graceful the whole must have been.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 21:
text: The examples of the concave family in the Byzantine times are found principally either in large capitals founded on the Greek Corinthian, used chiefly for the nave pillars of churches, or in the small lateral shafts of the palaces.
ref: 1853, John Ruskin, “V, Byzantine Palaces”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XV, page 130:
topics: architecture
glosses: Of the Corinthian order.
glosses: Elaborate, ornate.
examples: text: all her young Corinthian laity
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
glosses: Debauched in character or practice; impure.
examples: text: Corinthian Stakes of 10 Guineas ... To be rode by Gentlemen.
ref: 1825 June 16, “Curragh June Meeting, 1825”, in Dublin Evening Post, Dublin, page 4:
text: It was a condition of the race, that the horses should be ridden by gentlemen ... [I]t was submitted, that if none were to be reputed in the rank of gentlemen, whose wives had not been visited by Lady Clanricarde, the notion of a Corinthian Race might as well be given up at once, within twenty miles all round Portumna castle. It would amount, in fact, to a disgentilizing of two or three counties.
ref: 1844 July 1, “What Is A Gentleman?”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume xi, Edinburgh: William Tait, page 417:
text: [W]e have horse races ... whereat the aforesaid noble animals are ridden by gentlemen, and if I err not are named "Corinthian."
ref: 1853 January 30, "The Man In The Mask", “The Regattas of 1853”, in Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, London, page 6:
text: In Corinthian matches the yachts are steered and manned by gentlemen alone,
ref: 1856 October 1, “Royal Northern Yacht Club Regatta”, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine, volume 5, London: Hunt, page 427:
glosses: Being a sporting event (originally in horse racing and yachting) restricted to gentleman amateurs.
Derived terms: Corinthian brass
Corinthian bronze
Corinthian Gulf
Corinthian helmet
Corinthianism
Corinthianize
Corinthian order
Corinthian spirit
Corinthian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɪnθiən/
rhymes: -ɪnθiən
homophone: Carinthian
Forms: form: Corinthians
Etymology: From Corinth + -ian. The senses related to opulence or debauchery derive from the reputation of ancient Corinth.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Corinth, and its suburbs.
glosses: An inhabitant, a resident of; a thing that originates from Corinthia
glosses: An accomplished amateur athlete.
glosses: A sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing.
synonyms: word: fashionista
word: man about town
word: trendy
word: Corinthian
word: faddist
word: fashionable
word: fashionist
word: fashionista
word: hepcat
word: hepster
word: hipster
word: sophisto
word: snappy dresser
word: trendite
word: trendy
word: voguie
word: swell
word: bon viveur
word: epicure
word: epicurean
word: hedonist
word: high-stepper
word: lapling
word: lotus-eater
word: pleasure seeker
word: pleasurist
word: sensualist
word: softling
word: sybarite
word: voluptuarian
word: voluptuary
glosses: A worldly, fashionable person, accepted in society though possibly dissolute.
arcadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈkeɪdɪən/
Forms: form: more arcadian
form: most arcadian
Etymology: From arcade + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an arcade.
glosses: Furnished with arcades.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Ideally rustic or pastoral.
Derived terms: arcadianism
Arcadianly
Messenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Messenia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Messenia.
Messenian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Messenians
Etymology: From Messenia + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or resident of Messenia.
Acarnanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɔ.kɔɹ.neɪ.niːən/
Forms: form: Acarnanians
Etymology: From Acarnania + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Acarnania.
Boeotian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈəʊʃən/
Forms: form: more Boeotian
form: most Boeotian
form: Beotian
form: Bœotian
Etymology: From Boeotia.
Senses: examples: text: The only Boeotian troops that did continue to fight — the light infantry attached to the victorious cavalry — worked their way over to the Athenians on the right, where most of them were killed. The collapse of Boeotian morale at the death of Epaminondas and the abrupt cessation of fighting remain something of an enigma, especially since Pelopidas' men at Cynoscephalae fought even more vigorously to preserve the victory after he fell there.
ref: 2002, Robert E. Gaebel, Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Pertaining to Boeotia.
examples: text: we will leave to thy sagacity to apply all this to the Boeotian writers, and to those authors who are their opposites.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 418:
text: Ransom reflected he might answer her that until five minutes ago he didn't know she existed; but he remembered that this was not the way in which a Southern gentleman spoke to ladies, and he contented himself with saying that he must condone his Bœotian ignorance […]
ref: 1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC, 1st book, page 6:
glosses: Stupid, foolish, dull-witted.
Boeotian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈəʊʃən/
Forms: form: Boeotians
form: Beotian
form: Bœotian
Etymology: From Boeotia.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Boeotia.
glosses: A dull or ignorant person.
Boeotian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈəʊʃən/
Forms: form: Beotian
form: Bœotian
Etymology: From Boeotia.
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Boeotia.
Euboean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /juːˈbiːən/
Forms: form: Eubœan
Etymology: From Euboea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the island of Euboea.
Euboean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈbiːən/
Forms: form: Euboeans
form: Eubœan
Etymology: From Euboea + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Euboea in central Greece.
Cretan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːtən/
rhymes: -iːtən
homophone: cretin (for some accents)
Forms: form: Cretian
Etymology: From Crete + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Crete or its inhabitants.
Cretan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːtən/
rhymes: -iːtən
homophone: cretin (for some accents)
Forms: form: Cretans
form: Cretian
Etymology: From Crete + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Crete.
Cretan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːtən/
rhymes: -iːtən
homophone: cretin (for some accents)
Forms: form: Cretian
Etymology: From Crete + -an.
Senses: holonyms: Doric
glosses: The dialect of Greek spoken in Crete.
Magnesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡˈniʒən/
rhymes: -iːʒən
Forms: form: Magnesians
Etymology: From Magnesia + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Magnesia.
Magnesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæɡˈniʒən/
rhymes: -iːʒən
Etymology: From Magnesia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Magnesia.
Thesprotian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɛsˈpɹəʊ.ʃən/
Forms: form: Thesprotians
Etymology: From Thesprotia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of Thesprotia in western Epirus, Greece.
Epirot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈpʌɪɹət/
Forms: form: Epirots
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἠπειρώτης (ēpeirṓtēs), from ἤπειρος (ḗpeiros, “mainland, inland country”).
Senses: examples: text: he would cry out as Pyrrhus did, admiring the Roman docility and courage, if such were my Epirots, I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted to make a Church or Kingdom happy.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
glosses: An inhabitant or a resident of ancient or modern Epirus, in northwest Greece and southern Albania.
Peloponnese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛləpəˈniːz/
ipa: /ˌpɛləpəˈniːs/
ipa: /pɛˈlɒpəniːz/
ipa: /ˌpɛləpəˈniːs/
ipa: /ˌpɛləpəˈniːz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Peloponnēsus, from Ancient Greek Πελοπόννησος (Pelopónnēsos), from Πέλοψ (Pélops, “Pelops”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).
Senses: synonyms: Peloponnesus
Morea
glosses: A peninsula in Greece, separated from mainland Europe by the Gulf of Corinth and connected to it by the Isthmus of Corinth.
glosses: A periphery of Greece containing Achaea, Arcadia, Argolis, Corinthia, Elis, Laconia, and Messenia.
Related terms: Peloponnesian
Attica
Central Greece
Central Macedonia
Crete
East Macedonia and Thrace
Epirus
Ionian Islands
North Aegean
South Aegean
Thessaly
West Greece
West Macedonia
Thessaly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɛsəli/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θεσσαλία (Thessalía).
Senses: glosses: A historical region and administrative region in north-central Greece; one of its 13 peripheries. It contains the prefectures of Karditsa, Larissa, Magnesia and Trikala.
Related terms: Attica
Central Greece
Central Macedonia
Crete
East Macedonia and Thrace
Epirus
Ionian Islands
North Aegean
Peloponnese
South Aegean
West Greece
West Macedonia
Macedonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæsəˈdəʊniən/
ipa: /mæsəˈdoʊniən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Makedonian
Etymology: From Middle English Macedonyen, partly from Macedonia and partly from Latin Macedonius, + -an; equivalent to Macedonia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.
ref: 2014, Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 305:
synonyms: Macedonic
glosses: Of or pertaining to Macedonia or its people or language.
Derived terms: Macedonianness
Macedonian pine
Macedonian vimba
Macedonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæsəˈdəʊniən/
ipa: /mæsəˈdoʊniən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Macedonians
form: Makedonian
Etymology: From Middle English Macedonyen, partly from Macedonia and partly from Latin Macedonius, + -an; equivalent to Macedonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Macedonia (in any sense).
glosses: A South Slavic language, the standard language of the Republic of North Macedonia.
glosses: The tongue of the Ancient Macedonians, spoken in Macedon during the 1st millennium BC. (see Ancient Macedonian)
glosses: The Greek dialect in Macedonia, region of Greece.
Derived terms: Macedonianism
Related terms: Macedon
Macedonia
Macedonic
Macedonianism
Macedonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæsəˈdəʊniən/
ipa: /mæsəˈdoʊniən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Makedonian
Etymology: From Middle English Macedonyan, from Latin Macedoniānus, from Macedonius + -ānus, after the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Pertaining to the Macedonian heresy or to Macedonian heretics.
Derived terms: Macedonianism
Macedonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæsəˈdəʊniən/
ipa: /mæsəˈdoʊniən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Macedonians
form: Makedonian
Etymology: From Middle English Macedonyan, from Latin Macedoniānus, from Macedonius + -ānus, after the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople.
Senses: examples: text: I do therfoꝛe ſo diligently admoniſh you of this thing, becauſe it is daungerous leſt among ſo many errours, and in ſo great varietie and confuſion of ſectes, there might ſtep vp ſome Arrians, Eunomians, Macedonians, and ſuch other heretikes, that might doe harme to the Churches with their ſubteltie.
ref: 1575, Martin Luther, translated by “certaine godly learned men”, A Commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians, […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], folio 16, recto:
text: With these data at our disposal we are in a position to sketch the teaching of the Macedonians to a great extent from their own writings,[…]. 3. Doctrine of the Macedonians in the same period.—The leading doctrine of the Macedonians is found in the thesis characterized by their opponents as ‘Pneumatomachian,’ viz. that the Holy Spirit is not to be designated Θεός (frag. 32, lines 1–8, Dial. c. Maced. i. 1 [p. 1292 A]; frag. 29, Did. de Trin. iii. xxxvi. [p. 965 B]).
ref: 1915, Friedrich Loofs, “Macedonianism”, in James Hastings, John A[lexander] Selbie, Louis H[erbert] Gray, editors, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, volume VIII (Life and Death–Mulla), Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, […]; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], page 225, column 2:
text: At least as Auxentius reports him in the covering letter which precedes Ulfila’s confession, he is as vehement in his opposition to what he sees as heretical alternatives to his own form of belief as most other participants in the controversies of the time. Heretics are not Christians but antichrists. Homoousians, Homoiousians, and Macedonians are all included in this blanket condemnation.
ref: 1996, Maurice Wiles, “[The End of Arianism] Gothic Christianity”, in Archetypal Heresy: Arianism through the Centuries, Oxford, Oxon: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A member of an anti–Nicene Creed sect founded by the Greek bishop Macedonius I of Constantinople, which flourished in the regions adjacent to the Hellespont during the latter half of the fourth, and the beginning of the fifth centuries.
Epirus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪˈpaɪəɹəs/
Etymology: From Latin Ēpīrus, from Ancient Greek Ἤπειρος (Ḗpeiros, “mainland”).
Senses: glosses: A historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeast Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania.
glosses: A geographic region and administrative region in northwest Greece, one of the thirteen peripheries of modern Greece.
Derived terms: Northern Epirus
Related terms: Epirot
Epirote
Epirotic
Epirot Islands
Epirote Islands
Attica
Central Greece
Central Macedonia
Crete
East Macedonia and Thrace
Ionian Islands
North Aegean
Peloponnese
South Aegean
Thessaly
West Greece
West Macedonia
Thrace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Etymology: From Latin Thrācia, from Ancient Greek Θρᾴκη (Thrāíkē), from Θρᾷξ (Thrāîx, “Thracian”), from base of θράσσω (thrássō, “to trouble, stir”) and -ιξ (-ix) (compare Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”) and Κίλιξ (Kílix, “Cilician”)).
Senses: glosses: A historical region of Southeast Europe, now divided between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.
Derived terms: Eastern Thrace
East Thrace
Greek Thrace
Thracian
Turkish Thrace
Western Thrace
Messenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Messinia
Senses: glosses: A regional unit in the south-western Peloponnese, Greece, which has its modern capital at Kalamata. The original capital was at Messene.
Laconia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈkəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /ləˈkoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λακωνία (Lakōnía).
Senses: glosses: A historical region of Ancient Greece, which has had Sparta as its capital for over 3,000 years.
glosses: A regional unit of Peloponnese, Greece.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Belknap County, New Hampshire; named for the Laconia Car Company, a railroad car manufacturer.
glosses: A town in Indiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
Related terms: Laconian
laconic
Argolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀργολίς (Argolís).
Senses: synonyms: Argolid
Argolida
glosses: A regional unit in eastern Peloponnese, Greece, which has its modern capital at Nafplio. Its original capital was at Argos.
typeface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪpˌfeɪs/
Forms: form: typefaces
form: type face
Etymology: From type + face.
Senses: examples: text: (Technically Aptos and Calibri are typefaces, while a “font” refers to a particular face or size, like italics or boldface. But in practice, “font” is often used as a synonym for “typeface,” including by Microsoft employees interviewed for this article.)
ref: 2024 February 28, Victor Mather, “Microsoft Word’s Subtle Typeface Change Affected Millions. Did You Notice?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: face
;
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glosses: The particular design of some type, font, or a font family.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The surface of type which inked, or the impression it makes.
font
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒnt/
ipa: /fɑnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: fonts
Etymology: From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).
Senses: examples: text: She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
text: Blessed be God, that, at the font, /⁠ My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.
ref: 1791, Christopher Smart, “Moderation”, in Hymns for the Amusement of Children:
text: In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]
ref: 1913, John Bertram Peterson, “Baptismal Font”, in Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: stoup
glosses: A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
glosses: A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
Derived terms: fontal
fontless
fontlet
font name
Related terms: aspergillum
holy-water sprinkle
font
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒnt/
ipa: /fɑnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: fonts
form: fount
Etymology: From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either:
* from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or
* from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A typeface.
examples: text: They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
glosses: A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
examples: text: I like the font of this logo.
synonyms: lettering
glosses: The design of any text.
Derived terms: bitmap font
clip font
color font
Fontcest
font family
fontless
font name
fontography
fontology
font stack
font suitcase
multifont
outline font
pi font
printer font
roman font
screen font
soundfont
subfont
Unicode font
variable font
webfont
font
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒnt/
ipa: /fɑnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: fonts
form: fonting
form: fonted
form: fonted
form: fount
Etymology: From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either:
* from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or
* from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).
Senses: examples: text: When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.
ref: 1981, William Safire, On language, page 78:
text: […] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.
ref: 1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations, page 97:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: To overlay (text) on the picture.
font
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɒnt/
ipa: /fɑnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Forms: form: fonts
Etymology: Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
The arts of which these lands were once the font
text: As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
ref: 1910, Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II:
text: I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.
ref: 1915, Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address:
text: The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: A source, wellspring, fount.
Derived terms: font of all wisdom