cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bless
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: blĕs
ipa: /blɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Etymology: An ellipsis for an expression such as bless your heart.
Senses: examples: text: Ah bless! You must be the welcoming committee for anyone who dares express ignorance.
ref: 1998, Peter Coffey, “New Alternative View Of Atomic Structure”, in sci.chem (Usenet):
text: oh bless. *hug* that is not true. nobody here bears a grudge against 13 year old dear or against you.
ref: 2000, Hellraiser, uk.people.teens (Usenet):
text: Aw bless... have white chocolate fudge muffin....a new batch.... made them last night after Nigella....
ref: 2001, Will, “Am I still here?”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet):
glosses: Used as an expression of endearment, gratitude, or (ironically) belittlement.
blessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: blĕsʹĭd
ipa: /ˈblɛsɪd/
ipa: /blɛst/
rhymes: -ɛsɪd
Forms: form: more blessed
form: most blessed
form: blessèd
form: blesséd
form: blest
Senses: examples: text: Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:5:
glosses: Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
examples: text: ‘My blessed Public must have a pretty girl’s face. Romance isn’t romance, adventure is as dull as dishwater...to my Public...unless, every so often, a face to sink a thousand ships, or is it saps? shows up.’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 6:
glosses: Held in veneration; revered.
glosses: Worthy of worship; holy.
examples: text: I know—for Death, who comes for me
From regions of the blest afar,
Where there is nothing to deceive,
Hath left his iron gate ajar, […]
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
glosses: Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
examples: text: Not one blessed person offered to help me out.
text: I'm blessed if I'm going to drive all that way at this time of night.
glosses: damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
Synonyms: sense: revered
word: revered
sense: revered
word: venerated
sense: revered
word: worshipped
sense: revered
word: worshiped
sense: holy
word: hallowed
sense: holy
word: holy
sense: holy
word: sacred
Derived terms: blessed assurance
blessed event
blessedfull
blessedly
blessedness
blessed thistle
blursed
have a blessed one
of blessed memory
unblessed
blessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: blĕst
ipa: /blɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: blessèd
form: blesséd
form: blest
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bless
cursed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kûrsʹĭd
enpr: kûrst
ipa: /ˈkɜːsɪd/
ipa: /kɜːst/
enpr: kûrsʹĭd
enpr: kûrst
ipa: /ˈkɝsɪd/
ipa: /kɝst/
ipa: [ˈkʰɝsɪ̈d]
ipa: [kʰɝst]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪd
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: curseder
form: more cursed
form: cursedest
form: most cursed
form: cursèd
form: curséd
form: curst
Etymology: From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Under some divine harm, malady, or other curse.
examples: text: Leonato By my troth neece thou wilt neuer get thee a huſband, if thou be ſo ſhrewd of thy tongue. / brother Infaith ſhees too curſt. / Beatrice Too curſt is more then curſt, I ſhall leſſen Gods ſending that way, for it is ſaide, God ſends a curſt cow ſhort hornes, but to a cow too curſt, he ſends none.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: Shrewish, ill-tempered (often applied to women).
examples: text: That cursed bird keeps stealing my milk!
glosses: hateful; damnable; accursed
examples: text: “Cursed images, to me, leave you with a general uneasy feeling,” the account’s [@cursedimages] anonymous author told Gizmodo. “There could be certain qualities, like someone looking directly at the camera or an orb floating in the background.”
ref: 2016 October 31, Brian Feldman, “What Makes a Cursed Image?”, in New York:
coordinate_terms: blursed
glosses: Frightening or unsettling, or humorously portrayed as such.
Synonyms: sense: having some sort of divine harm
word: accursed
word: cussed
word: doomed
sense: shrewish
word: harpyish
sense: shrewish
word: harpylike
sense: shrewish
word: shrewish
sense: shrewish
word: shrewlike
sense: unsettling
word: bizarre
sense: unsettling
word: cringe
sense: unsettling
word: macabre
Derived terms: blursed
cursedly
cursedness
uncursed
Related terms: haunted
cursed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kûrst
ipa: /kɜːst/
enpr: kûrst
ipa: /kɝst/
ipa: [kʰɝst]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st
Forms: form: curst
Etymology: From Middle English cursed, cursd, curst, corsed, curset, cursyd, equivalent to curse + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curse
condemned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɛmd/
rhymes: -ɛmd
Senses: glosses: Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
examples: text: Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.
ref: 2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having been sharply scolded.
examples: text: I have written 'was' because it seems that Great British Railways, which has already survived a near-death experience when Harper took over as Transport Secretary in the autumn, may well be back in the condemned cell.
ref: 2023 May 31, Christian Wolmar, “TPE taken back in-house... but don't expect major changes”, in RAIL, number 984, page 48:
glosses: Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
examples: text: And she also faces the risk and the probability that her home will be condemned
ref: 2012 January 16, Mary/Annie (Hoarders), season 5, episode 3, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2022:
glosses: Officially marked uninhabitable.
raw_tags: of a building
Synonyms: sense: having received a curse
word: damned
sense: having received a curse
word: doomed
Derived terms: self-condemned
uncondemned
condemned
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɛmd/
rhymes: -ɛmd
Forms: form: condemned
Senses: glosses: A person sentenced to death.
condemned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɛmd/
rhymes: -ɛmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of condemn
doomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːmd/
rhymes: -uːmd
Forms: form: more doomed
form: most doomed
Senses: examples: text: Dinosaurs were doomed to extinction.
text: Moments later, Courageous sheers out of line, smoke and steam venting through a massive hole in her side, the shells having blasted right through whatever excuse for armor was present and detonated amidst the boiler rooms. She is doomed.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 15:10 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
synonyms: cursed
done
undone
antonyms: blessed
glosses: Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
examples: text: Bonny Mary Burnet was lost. She left her father's house at nine o'clock on a Wednesday morning, 17th of September, neatly dressed in a white jerkin and green bonnet, with her hay-raik over her shoulder; and that was the last sight she was doomed ever to see of her native cottage.
ref: 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
synonyms: word: fateful
word: foreordained
word: destined
word: doomed
word: fated
word: fateful
word: fatidic
word: foreordained
word: predestined
word: predevote
word: preordained
word: weird
glosses: Assured of any outcome, whether positive or negative; fated.
Synonyms: word: accursed
word: condemned
word: confounded
word: cursed
word: sunk
word: cussed
word: damnable
word: damned
word: dead meat
word: doomed
word: done
word: fey
word: finished
word: ill-fated
word: lost
word: sentenced
word: undone
word: wrecked
Hypernyms: word: fated
Derived terms: doomedness
helldoomed
undoomed
doomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːmd/
rhymes: -uːmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doom
doom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: dooms
form: dooming
form: doomed
form: doomed
Etymology: From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.
Compare West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. Doublet of duma. See also deem.
Senses: examples: text: a criminal doomed to death
text: Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: There was certainly plenty of badass Arya before and after—more on that soon—but here was Arya the living, breathing human, outnumbered and petrified of making the one slight wrong move that would doom her.
ref: 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
glosses: To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
examples: text: A man of genius […] doomed to struggle with difficulties.
ref: 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
glosses: To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
examples: text: And while we know not that the King of heaven hath not doomed this place our safe retreat
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
examples: text: Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
glosses: To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
Related terms: doomsday
doomsaying
damn
doom
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːm/
rhymes: -uːm
Senses: examples: text: I tried to organize my stuff but just ended up making a big doom pile.
text: One day in April of 2021, Lindsey Bee decided it was time to deal with the laundry "doom piles" that had formed around her house. So she did what many people do when faced with a boring task. She turned to TikTok.
ref: 2022 June 1, “’Body doubling,’ an ADHD productivity tool, is flourishing online”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2023:
text: While digital clutter may not be physical, like the "doom piles" and junk drawers in your home, the anxiety and distress it induces is real, said Kerry Lakey, a lecturer in psychology at Northumbria University in England, who studies behavior around digital data.
ref: 2023 February 24, Jancee Dunn, quoting Kerry Lakey, “How to Clear Out Digital Clutter”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2023:
text: The doom in 'doom pile' is actually an acronym. It stands for "Didn't Organize, Only Moved" – an experience many people with ADHD can apparently relate to when they try to organize their spaces, whether physical or virtual. Instead of sorting things in their rightful places, they end up stacking them along with other random, unsorted things to be organized later – or never. That's how people end up with doom piles, doom boxes, doom bags, doom folders and drives, doom rooms and closets, and other kinds of doom arrangements.
ref: 2023 April 28, Alexandrea Cantwell, “"My Doom Piles Screamed 'Undiagnosed ADHD'"”, in ADDitude, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2023:
text: DOOM piles are a cleaning tactic and a way of reducing visual clutter. Essentially, it's stashing random items that need to be organized in one place, to be dealt with later. We all have DOOM piles — a junk drawer or a place where we put piles of clutter before guests visit. There can be DOOM piles, DOOM bags, DOOM boxes, or one of my son's favorites, a DOOM desk.
ref: 2023 June 20, Kristin Wilcox, “Is Your ADHD Making You a DOOM Piler?”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y.: Sussex Publishers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2023:
text: The term "doom pile" or "doom box" stands for "Didn't Organize, Only Moved" and is usually a failed attempt by adults with ADHD to organize paperwork.
ref: [2023 February 9, Allie Cantwell, CBC News, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023:
related: word: DOOM
glosses: Initialism of didn't organize, only moved; used in compounds designating a miscellaneous collection of items which one has failed to properly organize.
blessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛsɪŋ
Forms: form: blessings
Etymology: From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English blētsung, blēdsung (“a blessing”), equivalent to bless + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam,
⁠My blessing, like a line of light,
⁠Is on the waters day and night,
And like a beacon guards thee home.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
examples: text: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
examples: text: He was given blessings hoping he would pass his final exam.
glosses: Good fortune.
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A modern pagan ceremony.
examples: text: We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.
text: Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
examples: text: After two weeks of sun, last night's rainfall was a blessing.
glosses: Something someone is glad of.
glosses: A prayer before a meal; grace.
examples: text: And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.
ref: 2008 September 11, Betsy Schiffman, “Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report”, in Wired:
text: Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.
ref: 2009, Andrew Orlowski, "Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register, 13 September 2011
text: She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.
ref: 2011, Suzette Mayr, Monoceros, Coach House Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: A group of unicorns.
Derived terms: a blessing and a curse
blessing in disguise
blessing loom
blessingly
Blessing Way
blurse
Camp Blessing
count one's blessings
God's Blessing Green
houseblessing
mixed blessing
stepmother's blessing
Toronto blessing
blessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛsɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English blētsung, blēdsung (“a blessing”), equivalent to bless + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bless
condemn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɛm/
ipa: /kənˈdɪm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: condemns
form: condemning
form: condemned
form: condemned
Etymology: From Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemnāre (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damnāre (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”). Displaced native Middle English fordemen (from Old English fordeman (“condemn, sentence, doom”) > Modern English fordeem.
Senses: examples: text: The president condemned the terrorists.
text: Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
ref: 1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, in The Religion of Nature Delineated, page 81:
glosses: To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
glosses: To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
examples: text: The judge condemned him to death.
text: She was condemned to life in prison.
glosses: To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
glosses: To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
examples: text: Too many people are condemned to a life of poverty.
glosses: To destine to experience bad circumstances; to doom.
examples: text: There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.
ref: 1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 425:
glosses: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
examples: text: The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
glosses: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
glosses: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work to be redone.
glosses: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
topics: law
glosses: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
To declare (a vessel) to be unfit for service.
glosses: To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
topics: law
glosses: To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government or to be a prize.
Synonyms: word: damn
sense: to pronounce guilty
word: convict
Derived terms: condemnee
condemner
condemn to
forecondemn
precondemn
recondemn
uncondemn
Related terms: condemnable
condemnation
evangelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evangelisms
Etymology: From evangel + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The process of evangelizing.
Derived terms: televangelism
Related terms: angel
angelic
evangel
Evangelina
Evangeline
evangelist
evangelize
evangelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/
Forms: form: evangelists
Etymology: From Old French evangeliste, equivalent to evangel + -ist, from ecclesiastical Latin evangelista, from ecclesiastical Ancient Greek εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistḗs, “bringer of good news”), from εὐαγγελίζεσθαι (euangelízesthai, “to evangelize”), from εὐάγγελος (euángelos, “bringing good news”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ἀγγέλλειν (angéllein, “to announce”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: gospeler
glosses: An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually capitalized (Evangelist).
qualifier: primitive Church
glosses: A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
qualifier: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
glosses: A patriarch.
examples: text: Booth, William (1829-1912) English evangelist; founder and first general of the Salvation Army ... his subordinates being expected to give him unquestioning obedience.
ref: 1992, J. D. Douglas, Who's Who in Christian History, →ISBN, page 94:
text: Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message. The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over the superstitious lower orders.
ref: 1994, Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity", →ISBN, page 10:
text: The film implies that the evangelist, as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.
ref: 1996, Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, →ISBN, page 149:
text: Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification. For Waterloo-Exeter, this could make real sense on a route where the high capital cost of wiring or third rail all the way to Devon would be prohibitive. But what about his vocal support for it on East West Rail, which is effectively a brand new line?
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41:
glosses: A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.
examples: text: developer evangelist
text: […] and has worked in multiple roles, including as the C# Product Manager and as a Developer Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic district.
ref: 2007, James Avery, Jim Holmes, Windows Developer Power Tools, page xxii:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: A person hired to promote a particular technology.
Derived terms: evangelism marketing
evangelistic
evangelistship
technology evangelist
televangelist
Related terms: angel
angelic
evangel
evangelism
evangelize
missionary
Christer
evangelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvænd͡ʒəlaɪz/
Forms: form: evangelizes
form: evangelizing
form: evangelized
form: evangelized
form: evangelise
Etymology: From Old French évangéliser, equivalent to evangel + -ize, from Late Latin evangelizare, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγελίζω (euangelízō). Displaced native Old English godspellian (literally “to gospel”).
Senses: examples: text: his Apoſtles, whom he ſends To evangelize the Nations
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1389–1390:
hypernyms: proselytize
glosses: To tell people about (a particular branch of) Christianity, especially in order to convert them; to preach the gospel to.
examples: text: […] nor is it the task of the Muslim to "evangelize" the unbelieving world.
ref: 2002, Ergun Mehmet Caner, Emir Fethi Caner, Unveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs, page 11:
coordinate_terms: proselytize
glosses: To preach any ideology to those who have not yet been converted to it.
glosses: To be enthusiastic about something, and to attempt to share that enthusiasm with others; to promote.
Derived terms: evangelization
evangelizer
televangelize
unevangelized
Related terms: angel
evangelism
evangelist
Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: krīst
ipa: /kɹaɪst/
rhymes: -aɪst
Forms: form: X
form: Xt
Etymology: From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Christus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah, also via Latin, Greek). Compare grime for the Proto-Indo-European root, *gʰr-ey- (“to rub, smear; to anoint”); further related to ghee.
Senses: examples: text: For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 24:24:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: Messiah
glosses: The anointed one, the savior predicted by the Old Testament.
examples: text: "But I have seen the Christ. Oh, He was glorious, glorious! Now, good-bye - good-bye!" She backed towards the cabinet and sank into the shadows.
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:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: see at Jesus Christ
glosses: A title given to Jesus of Nazareth, seen as the fulfiller of the messianic prophecy.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: antichrist
Antichrist
body of Christ
Body of Christ
brother in Christ
Chrislam
Christ Church
christen
Christendom
christening
Christian
Christiandom
Christianese
Christianise
Christianity
Christianize
Christianophile
Christianophilia
Christianophilic
Christianophobe
Christianophobia
Christianophobic
Christic
Christicide
Christ killer
Christ-killer
Christkiller
Christmas
Christocentric
Christocentrism
Christology
Christ on a bicycle
Christophile
Christophilia
Christophilic
Christophobe
Christophobia
Christophobic
Christ-worshipper
Church of Christ
Disciple of Christ
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ lizard
Jesus the Christ
my brother in Christ
my sister in Christ
sister in Christ
unchristlike
unchristly
Vicar of Christ
Related terms: Jesus
God
Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krīst
ipa: /kɹaɪst/
rhymes: -aɪst
Forms: form: Christs
form: X
form: Xt
Etymology: From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Christus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah, also via Latin, Greek). Compare grime for the Proto-Indo-European root, *gʰr-ey- (“to rub, smear; to anoint”); further related to ghee.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A figure or other artistic depiction of Jesus Christ.
Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: krīst
ipa: /kɹaɪst/
rhymes: -aɪst
Forms: form: X
form: Xt
Etymology: From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Christus, from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah, also via Latin, Greek). Compare grime for the Proto-Indo-European root, *gʰr-ey- (“to rub, smear; to anoint”); further related to ghee.
Senses: qualifier: blasphemous
glosses: An expletive.
Synonyms: word: God
word: Jesus Christ
sense: expression of surprise
word: wow
messiah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-sī'ə
ipa: /məˈsaɪ.ə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Forms: form: messiahs
form: Messiah
Etymology: From Middle English Messyas, Messy, Messie, from Latin Messīās, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek Μεσσίας (Messías), from Aramaic ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ (məšīḥā), from Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ, “anointed”). Doublet of Masih and Moshiach.
Senses: glosses: The one who is ordained by God to lead the people of Israel, believed by Christians and Muslims to be Jesus Christ.
examples: text: The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe- a desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy, that a man would come, a messiah, who would lead them to true freedom. The planet is Arrakis, also known as Dune.
ref: 1984, 1:50 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Princess Irulan, →OCLC:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A similar religious figure or awaited divine ruler, such as the Islamic Mahdi.
examples: text: At its best, psychoanalysis is the classic therapeutic technique for exploring unconscious processes. At its less-than-best, it is a jargon-opacified oedipus-complicated, libido-theoretical, pseudo-scientific cult whose messiah is Sigmund Freud.
ref: 1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8:
text: Girlie, as far as you're concerned, I'm the messiah of the DMV. Now, get out of the car.
ref: 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by DMV tester (Ron Orbach):
glosses: An extremely powerful or revered figure.
Derived terms: messiah complex
messiahless
messiahlike
messiahship
pseudomessiah
Related terms: de-messianisation
de-messianise
de-messianization
de-messianize
messianic
messianical
messianically
messianisation
messianise
messianism
messianist
messianistic
messianistical
messianistically
messianity
messianization
messianize
Christ
archangel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪn.d͡ʒəl/
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ).keɪn.d͡ʒəl/
Forms: form: archangels
Etymology: From Middle English archangel, from Old French archangele, from Latin archangelus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχάγγελος (arkhángelos) from Ancient Greek prefix ἀρχι- (arkhi-) + ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”). By surface analysis, arch- + angel.
Senses: glosses: A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity, and often seen as belonging to a particular archangelical rank or order within a greater hierarchy of angels. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel).
glosses: Synonym of angelica (“the garden herb”).
synonyms: word: angelica
extra: the garden herb
Derived terms: archangelship
Related terms: angel
angelic
angelical
angelically
angelologist
angelology
archangelic
archangelical
archangelically
cherub
cherubim
choir
domination
power
principality
seraph
seraphim
throne
minion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnjən/
homophone: minyan
rhymes: -ɪnjən
Forms: form: minions
Etymology: 1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Doublet of mignon.
Senses: examples: text: The archvillain deployed his minions to simultaneously rob every bank in the city.
text: In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
ref: 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
synonyms: word: disciple
word: follower
word: acolyte
word: adjutant
word: aide
word: bootlicker
word: disciple
word: flunkey
word: footman
word: follower
word: henchman
word: hireling
word: inferior
word: lackey
word: lap dog
word: lickspittle
word: man Friday
word: minion
word: myrmidon
word: poodle
word: retainer
word: right-hand man
word: right-hand woman
word: servant
word: stooge
word: subordinate
word: sycophant
word: toady
word: underling
word: vassal
word: yes man
glosses: A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
glosses: A sycophantic follower.
topics: media
printing
publishing
typography
glosses: The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
examples: text: God's disciple and his dearest minion
ref: 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes:
text: Is this the Athenian minion whom the world / Voiced so regardfully?
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
examples: text: Gun. My Cannons rung like Bells. Here's to my Mistress, The dainty sweet brass Minion: split their Fore-mast, She never fail'd.
ref: 1647, Francis Beaumont, Philip Massinger, The Double Marriage (play), published 1717, page 19:
glosses: An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
examples: text: Of philosophers and scholars priscae sapientiae dictatores, I have already spoken in general terms, those superintendents of wit and learning, men above men, those refined men, minions of the muses.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of minium.
Derived terms: word: miniondom
sense: type size
word: minionette
word: minionhood
word: minioning
word: minionish
word: minionlike
word: minionly
word: minionship
minion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnjən/
homophone: minyan
rhymes: -ɪnjən
Forms: form: more minion
form: most minion
Etymology: 1490, from Middle French mignon (“lover, royal favourite, darling”), from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnju (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Doublet of mignon.
Senses: examples: text: These favours, with the commodities that follow minion Courtiers, corrupt[…]his libertie, and dazle his judgement.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book 1, P.148, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Favoured, beloved; "pet".
seraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕrˈ -əf
ipa: /ˈsɛɹəf/
rhymes: -ɛɹəf
homophone: serif
Forms: form: seraphs
form: seraphim
form: seraphims
form: saraph
form: seraphim
Etymology: Back-formation of singular from plural seraphim, from Latin seraphim, from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (sərāp̄īm), plural form of שָׂרָף (sārāp̄). The plural "seraphims" occurs in the King James Bible (Isaiah chapter 6).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the singular "seraph" may have originated with John Milton, who used it in Book I of Paradise Lost (1667).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal. A description can be found at the beginning of Isaiah chapter 6.
examples: text: From these uncordial reveries he is roused by a cordial slap on the shoulder, accompanied by a spicy volume of tobacco-smoke, out of which came a voice, sweet as a seraph's
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
qualifier: post-biblical
glosses: A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God.
Synonyms: uraeus
Related terms: seraphic
archangel
cherub
angelology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪnd͡ʒəˈlɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: angelologies
Etymology: From angel + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of angels. Angels have been grouped into nine categories or “choirs,” from lowest to highest: angel, virtue, archangel, power, principality, dominion, throne, cherub, and seraph.
Derived terms: angelological
Related terms: angel-lore
angelologist
plane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: plain
Forms: form: planer
form: planest
Etymology: From Latin plānum (“flat surface”), a noun use of the neuter of plānus (“plain”). The word was introduced in the 17th century to distinguish the geometrical senses from the other senses of plain. Doublet of llano, piano, and plain.
Senses: glosses: Of a surface: flat or level.
plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: plain
Forms: form: planes
Etymology: From Middle English plane, plaine, from Anglo-Norman plaine, from Late Latin plāna (“planing tool”).
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
Related terms: rhykenologist
plane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: plain
Forms: form: planes
form: planing
form: planed
form: planed
Etymology: From Middle English plane, plaine, from Anglo-Norman plaine, from Late Latin plāna (“planing tool”).
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To smooth (wood) with a plane.
plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: plain
Forms: form: planes
form: 'plane
Etymology: Clipping of aeroplane.
Senses: examples: text: The plane is travelling impossibly slowly – 30km an hour – when it gently noses up and leaves the ground. With air beneath them, the rangy wings seem to gain strength; the fuselage that on the ground seemed flimsy becomes elegant, like a crane vaunting in flight. It seems not to fly, though, so much as float.
ref: 2013 September 6, Tom Cheshire, “Solar-powered travel”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 34:
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: An airplane; an aeroplane.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: aeroplane
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
Derived terms: arsenal plane
biplane
build the plane while flying it
cargo plane
floatplane
landplane
plane mile
planeside
planespotter
planespotting
plane ticket
pursuit plane
quadriplane
seaplane
sesquiplane
spaceplane
triplane
plane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: plain
Forms: form: planes
form: planing
form: planed
form: planed
form: 'plane
Etymology: Clipping of aeroplane.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water.
raw_tags: of a boat
glosses: To glide or soar.
plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: plain
Forms: form: planes
Etymology: From Middle English plane, borrowed from Old French plane, from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos), from πλατύς (platús, “wide, broad”).
Senses: glosses: A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
glosses: A sycamore.
Derived terms: Cape plane
London plane
oriental plane
oriental plane tree
bow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
Forms: form: bows
form: bowing
form: bowed
form: bowed
Etymology: From Middle English bowe, from Old English boga, Proto-West Germanic *bogō, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Booge (“arch, bow, curve”), West Frisian bôge (“arc, arch, bow”), Dutch boog (“arc, arch, bow”), German Bogen (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Luxembourgish Bou (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Vilamovian böga (“arc, arch, bend, bow, curve”), Yiddish בויגן (boygn, “arc, arch, bow, curve”), Danish bue (“arc, arch, bow, curve”), Faroese, Icelandic bogi (“arch, bow, vault”), Jamtish buga (“bow”), Norwegian Bokmål bue (“arc, arch, bow”), Norwegian Nynorsk boge (“arc, arch, bow”), Swedish båge (“bow”), Crimean Gothic boga (“bow”).
Senses: examples: text: The musician bowed his violin expertly.
glosses: To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
examples: text: The shelf bowed under the weight of the books.
text: How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shall be slaine all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 62:3:
glosses: To become bent or curved.
examples: text: […] as when we bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their naturall ſtraitneſſe.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], chapter I, in The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: The whole nation […]bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny.
ref: 1843, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make something bend or curve.
examples: text: Adversities do more bow men's minds to religion.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Atheism”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: not to bow and bias their opinions
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
examples: text: Know thou the secret of a spirit
Bow’d from its wild pride into shame.
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
glosses: To humble or subdue, to make submit.
Derived terms: bowable
bower
bow up
diddley bower
bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
enpr: bou
ipa: /baʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bao
homophone: bough
enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
Forms: form: bows
Etymology: From Middle English bowen, buwen, buȝen, from Old English būgan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan, from Proto-Germanic *beuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots boo, bou (“to bend, bow”), Dutch buigen (“to bow”), German biegen (“to bow”), Low German bugen (“to bow”), Luxembourgish béien (“to bow”), Danish bue (“to curve, arch”), Swedish buga (“to bow”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (biugan, “to bend, bow”).
Senses: examples: text: He made a polite bow as he entered the room.
glosses: A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
Hypernyms: sense: gesture
word: gesture
sense: gesture
word: congee
sense: gesture
word: congé
sense: gesture
word: conge
bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
enpr: bou
ipa: /baʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bao
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
enpr: bou
ipa: /baʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bao
homophone: bough
Forms: form: bows
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰeh₂ǵʰús
From Middle English bowe, bowgh, a borrowing from Middle Low German bôch and/or Middle Dutch boech, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵʰus (“arm”). Doublet of bough.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch boeg (“bow”), German Bug (“bow, prow (of a ship); shoulder joint (of an animal)”), Luxembourgish Buch, Bou (“shoulder joint (of an animal)”), Danish bov (“bow”), Icelandic bógur (“bow”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bog (“bow; shoulder (of an animal)”).
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
text: Meronyms: beak, beak, beakhead
text: The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: stem
forestem
fore
prow
prore
antonyms: stern
aft
poop
glosses: The front of a boat or ship.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
Derived terms: bluff-bowed
bow ball
bow cap
bow chaser
bow foil
bowgrace
bowman
bowpicker
bow plane
bow rail
bowrider
bow riding
bow rudder
bow shock
bowsman
bowswoman
bow thruster
bow wave
hurricane bow
midbow
on the bow
overbow
ram bow
shot across the bow(s)
weather bow
bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
enpr: bou
ipa: /baʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bao
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
Forms: form: bows
Etymology: See bough.
Senses: examples: text: Where the Bee ſucks, there ſuck I, / In a Cowſlips bell, I lie, / There I cowch when Owles doe crie, / On the Batts backe I doe flie / after Sommer merrily. / Merrily, merrily, ſhall I liue now / Vnder the bloſſom that hangs on the Bow.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 17, column 1:
text: [Y]ou are to faſten that line to any bow neer to a hole where a Pike is, or is likely to lye, or to have a haunt, […]
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], chapter VII, in The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bough.
bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
enpr: bou
ipa: /baʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bao
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
Forms: form: bows
form: bao
form: bau
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bao; any of several Chinese buns and breads
bow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
enpr: bou
ipa: /baʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bao
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
enpr: bou
ipa: /baʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bao
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
Etymology: Clipping of boutta, itself a contraction of about to.
Senses: glosses: about to
bow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
enpr: bou
ipa: /baʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bao
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
Etymology: Clipping of bow-wow
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of bow-wow
bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bō
ipa: /bəʊ/
enpr: bō
ipa: /boʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: beau
homophone: bo
enpr: bou
ipa: /baʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bao
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: bough
Forms: form: bows
Etymology: Clipping of bow-wow
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of bow-wow