cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unfeasibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfeasibly
form: most unfeasibly
Etymology: From un- + feasibly.
Senses: examples: text: That the Clash never performed at Glastonbury is more upsetting still, not least because Joe Strummer was 'a good friend of ours'. 'They were meant to play,' says Eavis, tugging at his unfeasibly tight blue shorts.
ref: 2008 May 18, Paul Mardles, “The case study: Michael Eavis”, in The Observer:
glosses: In an unfeasible manner; not feasibly; to a degree that is impossible or impractical.
capillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more capillate
form: most capillate
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling a hair; capillaceous.
valetudinarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvæ.ləˌtuː.dɪˈnɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌvæ.ləˌtu.dəˈnɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: valetudinaria
Senses: glosses: An ancient Roman hospital.
tenebricose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tenebricose
form: most tenebricose
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tenebricōsus (“full of darkness or gloom”), from tenebricus (“dark, gloomy”) + -ose (“full of”).
Senses: examples: text: Tene′bricose. […] Dark; gloomy.
ref: [1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “Tene′bricose”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: […] but he has grown wiser since he has been in my library; and by reflecting very deeply on the degree in which the manner of his construction might influence the forms of his perception, has taken a very opaque and tenebricose view of how much of the spheroidical perception belongs to the object, which is the sphere, and how much to the subject, which is himself, in his quality of cylindrical mirror.
ref: 1817, Thomas Love Peacock, “Cimmerian Lodge”, in Melincourt, volume III, London: Printed for T[homas] Hookham, →OCLC, page 40:
text: Verse was the elder born—plain prose / Came limping on in after ages; / When mind became tenebricose, / And dulness reign’d on all its pages.
ref: 1833 March 9, Josh Marsden, “An Apology for a Minister’s Writing Verse, […] ”, in The Imperial Magazine, volume III, London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson, published 1833, Poetry, page 278:
text: The usual tenebricose ensigns of majesty which distinguish Pluto, are a key instead of a sceptre, and an ebony crown.
ref: 1856, Joseph B. Gross, chapter II, in The Heathen Religion in its Popular and Symbolical Development, New York: Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman, →OCLC, page 113:
text: More luminous smiles—from a broad-cheeked face dark as the tenebricose pit.
ref: 1983, Samuel R. Delany, Neveryóna, or, The Tale of Signs and Cities, Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 377:
glosses: Full of darkness; gloomy, tenebrous.
robustas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of robusta
ferratas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferrata
samaj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samajs
form: samajes
form: samaja
form: somaj
Etymology: From Sanskrit समाज (samāja).
Senses: glosses: A society; a congregation; a worshipping assembly, or church, especially of the Brahmo Samaj.
webstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webstreams
Etymology: From Web + stream.
Senses: examples: text: Dog lovers will be able to watch Crufts despite the BBC's decision to drop the show, thanks to a live webstream announced yesterday.
ref: 2009 February 28, “UK news in brief”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A streaming media delivery method which uses the Internet to deliver audio and video playback to the end user.
webstream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: webstreams
form: webstreaming
form: webstreamed
form: webstreamed
Etymology: From Web + stream.
Senses: glosses: To send live media over the Internet in order to deliver audio and video playback to the end user.
webstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webstream
festas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of festa
percepta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perceptum
perceptum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percepta
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something that is perceived.
curiosum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curiosa
Senses: glosses: A possibly unimportant point of interest; a curiosity.
pluviose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpluː.vi.əʊs/
ipa: /ˈpluː.vi.əʊz/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: more pluviose
form: most pluviose
Senses: examples: text: Most of the forests are pine, and deciduous trees (oaks, beech, birch, ash) are practically confined to the pluviose zone of the north and northwest.
ref: 1993, William A. Dill, Inland Fisheries of Europe, page 154:
glosses: Characterized by heavy rainfall; rainy.
Synonyms: pluvious
back-reference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-references
Etymology: From back + reference.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backreference.
back-references
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-reference
dubia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubium
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dubia, plural of dubium (literally “doubt”).
Senses: examples: text: The dubia began as a private letter, as is usual with such requests for doctrinal clarity. Francis offered no reply.
ref: 2016 November 26, Ross Douthat, “His Holiness Declines to Answer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Eleven dubia, have been raised regarding the application of the Motu proprio Traditionis custodes through which in July 2021 Pope Francis promulgated new norms regarding the use of the liturgical books in use prior to the reform enacted by the Second Vatican Council.
ref: 2021 December 18, “Celebration of old rite: Holy See responds to questions presented by bishops”, in Vatican News:
text: On July 10, Cardinal Burke and other leading traditionalist cardinals sent a letter to Francis known as a “dubia” that conveyed their concerns about the Synod, and demanded that he clear up, among other issues, the blessing of same-sex unions.
ref: [2023 October 3, Jason Horowitz, “Conservative Catholics, Relegated to Sidelines, Denounce Papal Gathering”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
coordinate_terms: responsa
glosses: A set of questions on doctrine sent by Catholic bishops to the Holy See.
Related terms: lex dubia non obligat
dubia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dubias
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dubia, plural of dubium (literally “doubt”).
Senses: glosses: A dubia roach.
rubee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rubbee.
perfecti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfectus
sacrosancta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacrosanctum
sacrosanctum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrosancta
Senses: examples: text: Hardin snickered below his breath. It seemed evident that Pirenne’s desire to strut this information before him had been one reason for his admission into the sacrosanctum.
ref: 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part II: “The Encyclopedists”, chapter 3, page 46, ¶ 2
glosses: A holy place.
macrocarpas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrocarpa
caduce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈdjuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: more caduce
form: most caduce
Etymology: From Middle French caduc, from Latin cadūcus (“falling; transitory”).
Senses: glosses: caducous.
caduce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈdjuːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: caduces
Etymology: From Latin cādūceus, cādūceum.
Senses: glosses: caduceus.
Achilles' tendon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Achilles' tendons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Achilles tendon.
khakhra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khakhras
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati ખાખરા (khākhrā) plural of ખાખરો (khākhro).
Senses: glosses: A Gujarati version of tortilla/crispbread, made with flour, spices, ghee, and lentils.
necessarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛsɪˈsɛəɹɪəm/
ipa: /ˌnɛsɪˈsɑːɹɪəm/
ipa: /ˌnɛsɪˈsɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: necessariums
form: necessaria
form: Necessarium
Etymology: From Latin necessarium (“reredorter; outhouse”), from necesse (“unavoidable or necessary [thing]”) + -ārium (“-arium, -ium: forming locations”).
Senses: examples: text: The other outlet from the pisalis […] leads to the necessarium, in the corner of which a light […] is kept burning.
ref: 1848, The Archaeological Journal, volume V, page 101:
text: A passage at the other end [of the dormitory] leads to the “necessarium” (I), a portion of the monastic buildings always planned with extreme care.
ref: 1878, "Abbey" in Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. I, p. 13
topics: architecture
glosses: Synonym of reredorter: a monastery's latrine, outhouse, or lavatory, typically located behind the dormitory.
synonyms: word: reredorter
extra: a monastery's latrine, outhouse, or lavatory, typically located behind the dormitory
examples: text: Viewers […] don't mind having a hundred variations, from ‘The Necessarium’ to ‘The Thunder-Box’ to choose from.
ref: 1967 December 21, The Listener, page 802:
glosses: A lavatory.
raw_tags: with the definite article
Synonyms: bathroom
Derived terms: necessary
the necessary
salicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salicines
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of salicin.
tumulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tjuːmjʊləʊz/
/tuːmjʊləʊz/
Forms: form: more tumulose
form: most tumulose
Senses: examples: text: there on those plains, in that tumulose landscape
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 7, in Under the Volcano:
glosses: Alternative form of tumulous.
agamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agami
indictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indictive
form: most indictive
Etymology: From Latin indictivus. See indict.
Senses: examples: text: The Funus Publicum , which we meet with so often , may be sometimes understood as the same with the Indictive Funeral , and sometimes only as a Species of it
ref: 1696, Basil Kennett, Romae Antiquae Notitia: Or, the Antiquities of Rome:
glosses: proclaimed; declared; public
Derived terms: indictively
penultimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penultima
antepenultima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antepenultimas
Etymology: From Latin antepaenultima, antepenultima (“antepenultimate”); feminine gender, agreeing with syllaba (“syllable”)).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: The last syllable of a word except two
Coordinate terms: sense: names of syllables
word: ultima
sense: names of syllables
english: last
translation: last
word: ult
sense: names of syllables
word: penultima
sense: names of syllables
word: penultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but one
translation: last but one
word: penult
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultime
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but two
translation: last but two
word: antepenult
sense: names of syllables
alt: præantepenultima
word: preantepenultima
sense: names of syllables
word: preantepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but three
translation: last but three
word: preantepenult
sense: names of syllables
word: propreantepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but four
translation: last but four
word: propreantepenult
antepenultimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antepenultima
antepenultime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn'tāpĭnûlʹtēm
ipa: /ˌænteɪpɪˈnʌltiːm/
Etymology: First attested in 1860; from the Latin antepaenultima (“antepenult”), a feminine substantive of antepaenultimus (“antepenultimate”).
Senses: examples: text: In polysyllables the penultime is accented if the syllable be long, but in all other cases the accent is laid upon the antepenultime.
ref: 1860, I.J.G. Scheller [aut.] and George Walker [tr.], A Copious Latin Grammar (1825), in: Leonhard Tafel and Rudolph L. Tafel, Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet, page 142
text: In surnames from words extended with diminutive suffixes…where the stress is always on the antepenultime.
ref: 2008, Annals, Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States, XXI:xlix-l, page 104:
glosses: Synonym of antepenult.
synonyms: word: antepenult
examples: text: In antepenultime the non-neutral vowels /a/, /i/, /u/ alternate with the neutral shorter /ə/, and the neutral vowel in antepenultime and penultime alternates with zero.
ref: 1986, Stephen Adolphe Wurm, editor, Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, II, page 114:
glosses: Antepenultimate position.
examples: text: Mandibles with 4 teeth decreasing in size from the apical teeth, the antepenultime (subbasal) smallest.
ref: 2004, Sociobiology, XLIV:i, page 328:
glosses: Any thing occurring as the antepenultimate item in a series.
paleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing paleae.
palmaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmarium
artis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arti
artos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artoi
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄρτος (ártos, “leavened loaf”), probably from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀵 (a-to), from the compound word 𐀀𐀵𐀡𐀦 (a-to-po-qo, “bakers”). Compare Greek αρτοποιός (artopoiós, “baker”).
Senses: qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: a loaf of leavened bread that is blessed during services in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Rite Catholic churches.
conductrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɒnˈdʌktɹɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of conductrix
aquilinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquilino
ossuaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ossuarium
patrico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patricos
form: patricoes
Senses: examples: text: And these, what name or title e'er they bear, / Jarkman, or Patrico, Cranke, or Clapper-dudgeon, / Frater, or Abram-man; I speak to all / That stand in fair election for the title / Of king of beggars.
ref: Beggars' Bush (17th-century play), act 2 scene 1
text: There was a proud patrico and a nosegent, he toke his Jockam in his famble, and a wapping he went, he dockt the Dell, he prygge to praunce, he byngd a wast into the darkemans, he fylche the Cofe without any fylche man.
ref: 1871, Charles Hindley, The Old Book Collector's Miscellany:
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: A gypsies' or beggars' hedge priest.
patricos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patrico
punctos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puncto
taxee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxees
Etymology: From tax + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is taxed; a taxpayer.
taxicam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxicams
Senses: glosses: A dashcam in a taxi
olearias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olearia
piperate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piperates
Etymology: From piperic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of piperic acid.
limosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λιμός (limós, “hunger”).
Senses: examples: text: Limosis, or an impaired excessive or depraved appetite for food. This comprehends voracity, want of appetite, depraved appetite, and heartburn.
ref: 1826, James Hamilton (the Younger), Outlines of Midwifery (page 168)
text: Limosis and Parageusis.
ref: 1867, Edward Swift Dunster, Frank Pierce Foster, James Bradbridge Hunter, International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics (page 339)
text: Limosis is often observed during pregnancy, in chlorosis, etc.
ref: 1892, John Marie Keating, Henry Hamilton, John Chalmers Da Costa, A New Pronouncing Dictionary of Medicine (page 435)
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A ravenous appetite caused by disease; morbid excessive hunger.
eroticas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erotica
dentatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dentate nucleus.
synonyms: word: dentate nucleus
trigonum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of os trigonum (“an accessory bone of the foot”).
synonyms: word: os trigonum
extra: an accessory bone of the foot
spicatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: Ellipsis of opus spicatum.
spicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: more spicate
form: most spicate
form: spicated
Etymology: From Latin spicatus, past participle of spicare (“to furnish with spikes, or ears”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.
Derived terms: spicately
unispicate
ignaros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ignaro
inornate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inornate
form: most inornate
Etymology: From in- + ornate.
Senses: synonyms: word: unembellished
word: unornamented
word: austere
word: bare
word: chaste
word: inornate
word: modest
word: plain
word: quiet
word: severe
word: simple
word: spartan
word: unadorned
word: unembellished
word: unextravagant
word: unornamented
word: undecked
word: ungarnished
word: untrimmed
word: unvarnished
glosses: Not ornate.
divos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divo
rava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Semolina.
catholica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catholicon
ocularia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocularium
ocularium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒk.jʊˈlɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌɑk.jəˈlɛɹ.i.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: ocularia
form: occularium
Etymology: From Latin oculārium.
Senses: examples: text: […] A CLOSED HELMET, with blued surface; the skull-piece has a high roped comb, a deep visor pierced with the ocularium, bevor with annular piercings […]
ref: 1901, W. H. Spiller, Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Armour & Arms Formed by W.H. Spiller ...: Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... on Wednesday, January 30, 1901, and Following Day, page 47:
glosses: A slit in a helmet through which the wearer could see.
examples: text: Ocularium with paired armature; area III usually with a pair of spines or tubercles; femur IV entirely straight and unarmed (Figure 4.29a), posterior ozopore absent or much smaller than anterior ozopore (Brazilian Atlantic forest) ...
ref: 2007, Tone Novak, Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 202:
text: Ocularium [of Hydrocolus paugus] absent (instar I and II) or present (instar III); maxillary cardo present; prementum subrectangular; labial palpomere 2 subcylindrical; antennomere 2 with a secondary seta in instar II and III larvae; legs without natatory setae […]
ref: 2000, D. J. Larson, Yves Alarie, Robert Edward Roughley, National Research Council Canada, Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) of the Nearctic Region, with Emphasis on the Fauna of Canada and Alaska, NRC Research Press, →ISBN, page 865:
glosses: An elevated mound or "turret", found in some arachnids and other creatures, which contains simple eyes (ocelli).
praevia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Placenta praevia or vasa praevia.
quadrigeminum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the corpora quadrigemina.
arabicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabica
fusure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin fusura, from fundere, fusum. See fuse (transitive verb).
Senses: glosses: Act of fusing; fusion.
albane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ălʹbān
ipa: /ˈalbeɪn/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alban.
banlieusard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more banlieusard
form: most banlieusard
Etymology: From French banlieusard.
Senses: examples: text: These dynamics create a new “pornotrope” that distinguishes the colonial nostalgia production from the banlieusard production: the difficult Arab boy, far removed from the always-available Arab boy of yesteryear.
ref: 2017, Masha Belenky, Kathryn Kleppinger, Anne O’Neil-Henry, French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: suburban
linguisticky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more linguisticky
form: most linguisticky
Etymology: From linguistic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: but how do I counter "b" without knowing what the words in the article mean and what their real (i.e. linguisticky) etymologies are?
ref: 2000 June 19, Jacques Guy, “Noah and Human Etymology”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
glosses: Of, pertaining to, involved in, or interested in linguistics.
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get
form: the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take
form: the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get
Senses: examples: text: Years later she expressed her disillusionment with sex by saying, "The fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."
ref: 1971, Allen Churchill, The Literary Decade, →ISBN:
text: Maitland got drunk at his parties and threw his arm around you and pulled you over to his wife and made you look down her dress, saying, "The trouble with marriage is that the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."
ref: 1999, Ben Sonnenberg, Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, →ISBN, page 93:
text: "I can't believe a little pussy got me into dis mess." "Shit happens," Service said. "Sometimes the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get."
ref: 2008, Joseph Heywood, Blue Wolf In Green Fire, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: The sexual satisfactions that one receives from a spouse or romantic partner are not sufficient to compensate for the significant periods of bad faith and unpleasant treatment which such relationships routinely involve.
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you take
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get.
aceta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetum
pabula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pabulum
opuscula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opusculum
baculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baculus
scuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scutae
Senses: glosses: A scutum (shield).
scuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutum
castella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Senses: glosses: plural of castellum
castella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Forms: form: castellas
Etymology: From Japanese カステラ (kasutera), from Portuguese pão de Castela (literally “bread of Castile”), an old type of sponge cake which they brought to Japan. Compare Italian pandispagna, Tagalog Pan de Kastila (“Spanish bread”).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese sponge cake made of sugar, flour, eggs, and starch syrup.
triclinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triclinium
tablina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablinum
cornicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corniculum
pulpita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpitum
convivia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convivium
apodyteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apodyterium
sphaeristeria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphaeristerium
crotala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek κρόταλα (krótala)
Senses: glosses: plural of crotalum
sacramenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sacramentum
pistilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistillum
directoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of directorium
tintinnabuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin tintinnābulum (“a small monastic bell”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A compositional style characterized by two types of voice, the first of which (the "tintinnabular voice") arpeggiates the tonic triad, and the second of which moves diatonically in stepwise motion.
dorsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː.sə/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹ.sə/
Senses: glosses: plural of dorsum
trifolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trifolium
vestibula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vestibulum
visca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: artificial straw made by spinning viscose into filaments
latifundia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latifundium
Derived terms: latifundial
oppida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oppidum
subligacula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subligaculum
galero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galeri
Senses: glosses: A large, broad-brimmed, tasseled hat worn by Catholic clergy.
claustra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claustrum
bivia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bivium
pericula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periculum
cingula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cingulum
cinguli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By confusion with the -i plural of many Latin words ending in -us.
Senses: glosses: plural of cingulum
vadis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vadi
spiracula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiraculum
commodo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comodo.
compluvia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compluvium
lararia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lararium
peristylia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peristylium
vocabularia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vocābulāria.
Senses: glosses: plural of vocabularium
fenis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feni
genicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geniculum
prooemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prooemion
glosses: plural of prooemium
rastra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rastras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arrastra.
paludamenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paludamentum
ossaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ossarium
Stockholms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Stockholm
yance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From yan, itself from the Old English ān.
Senses: glosses: once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly)
Synonyms: once
Englands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of England
Nordens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Norden
hospitia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hospitium
Hamburgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hamburg
Arnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Arne
Arons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aronses
Etymology: Variant of Aarons.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Abrahams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Abrahams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Abraham
Abrahams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abraham
Rubens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rubenses
Senses: glosses: A surname
Rubens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ruben
Related terms: Reubens
Rubins
receptacula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of receptaculum
vascula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vasculum
aeraria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerarium
nymphea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nympheum
haustra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haustrum
chlorido
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chloride as a ligand
swot vac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swot vacs
form: swotvac
form: swot-vac
Etymology: From swot + vac (“vacation”).
Senses: examples: text: This is clearly what happens in the "swot-vac" phenomenon: the student rote-learns his material for just long enough to see the exam through.
ref: 1968, John Burville Biggs, Information and human learning, Australia: Cassell:
text: In the old days it was probably quite a sound alternative to the "swot-vac" spent in cold towels and black coffee or benzedrine as done in Australia.
ref: 2003, Frank William Coaldrake, Maida Coaldrake, William Howard Coaldrake, Japan from war to peace: the Coaldrake records 1939-1956, Routledge, page 234:
text: I reminded her that it was the September holidays, and after that I was off on swot vac until the exams started.
ref: 2004, Joanne Horniman, Secret Scribbled Notebooks,, Allen & Unwin, page 28:
text: She died during the swotvac before my third year exams.
ref: 2006, Vaughan Nikitin, Wurruk: Reflections in Black and White, page 249:
topics: education
synonyms: word: dead week
word: reading week
word: revision week
glosses: In secondary and tertiary education, a period of non-teaching prior to examinations.
takes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take out
taking out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take out
vaginoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginoplasties
Etymology: From vagino- + -plasty.
Senses: examples: text: Although a functional vaginoplasty is performed in a single stage, further feminization of the mons pubis can be performed at a second surgical stage.
ref: 2016, Loren S. Schechter, Surgical Management of the Transgender Patient, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical procedure used to construct or reconstruct a vaginal canal and mucous membrane.
Hypernyms: bottom surgery
Derived terms: colovaginoplasty
neovaginoplasty
vaginoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaginoplasty
leatheriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leathery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being leathery.
leatherings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leathering
ovalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oval + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Transitory as was this glance, I observed a slightness in her figure, an ovalness in her face, and a vermillion tinge in her cheek, so unlike the round and rosy full-blown look of health which had so well become her when she sung lullaby to her doll on the hay.
ref: 1841, Lucy Lyttelton Cameron, Englishwomen in past and present times, page 138:
glosses: The quality of being oval.
ovalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovality
ovally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ovally
form: most ovally
Etymology: From oval + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an oval shape.
zygotenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygotene
passade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passades
form: passado
Etymology: French passade.
Senses: topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A pass or thrust.
glosses: A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.
examples: text: He was fairly sure that if he had acted first he could have enjoyed more kisses, and who knows what might have followed? "The flesh is weak, the heart is susceptible..." Edith was a passionate woman, and Bland was conveniently absent on business in the north of England. But on reflection he was relieved that he had not taken the opportunity to initiate a passade with her. His reasons were ungallant. […] When he imagined making love to her naked on a bed the picture he summoned up was faintly ludicrous. So it was well that nothing irrevocable had been said or done between them in the summerhouse, and he could maintain an innocent friendly relationship with her.
ref: 2011, David Lodge, A Man of Parts: A Novel, Penguin Group, page 134:
glosses: A brief romantic or sexual relationship; a fling.
thigmotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thigmotaxes
Etymology: From thigmo- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of an organism either towards or away from the stimulus of physical contact.
Related terms: thigmotropism
venturer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venturers
Etymology: From venture + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Pleased to be a solitary venturer, he spent the next three weeks on an odyssey in search of these delights.
ref: 2002, H. Paul Jeffers, Roosevelt the Explorer: Teddy Roosevelt’s Amazing Adventures as a Naturalist, Conservationist, and Explorer, →ISBN, page 60:
text: Tellingly, after demonstrating his virility as a venturer to India, where he made his fortune, he married upon his return.
ref: 2005, Donald Beecher, “Concerning Sex Changes: The Cultural Significance of a Renaissance Medical Polemic”, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, volume 36, number 4, →JSTOR, page 998:
text: Some of the earliest venturers into Africa before colonisation were missionaries, who spread into Southern and Eastern Africa as well as other regions.
ref: 2012, Duncan Clarke, Africa’s Future: Darkness to Destiny. How the Past Is Shaping Africa’s Economic Evolution, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: One who ventures; a traveller or explorer.
topics: business
glosses: One who undertakes a business venture.
Derived terms: merchant venturer
Venturer Scout
venturers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venturer
biaxially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biaxial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a biaxial fashion; along two axes.
Derived terms: equibiaxially
portrayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more portrayable
form: most portrayable
Etymology: From portray + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being portrayed.
Derived terms: unportrayable
Related terms: portrayability
crisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cris
glosses: plural of criss
nursy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nursies
Etymology: From nurse + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nursie.
debiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debile
omni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: omnis
Etymology: Clipping of omnivore
Senses: examples: text: As such, it's best to rely on more than one source to make absolutely certain that you're getting enough (and it's not like omnis are getting their B12 from only one source, either).
ref: 2011, Claire Askew, Generation V: The Complete Guide to Going, Being, and Staying Vegan as a Teenager, page 67:
text: A plant-muncher starts dating an omni, engages them in thought-provoking conversations about veganism, […]
ref: 2014, Ayinde Howell, Zoe Eisenberg, The Lusty Vegan:
text: An 'omni' pub that's 'herbi'-friendly, […]
ref: 2018, Serena Lee, Vegan London, page 78:
topics: lifestyle
veganism
glosses: A person or animal who is not vegan; one with no particular dietary restrictions.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: An omnidirectional microphone.
Related terms: omni wheel
tri-omni
digitalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: digitalin
digitalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From digital + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: The music is precise but never sterile--no one zeros in on the elusive grime and ghostly humanity in digitalia like Vainio and Vaisanen.
ref: 2006 September 8, Peter Margasak, “Pan Sonic”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Their long, apparently improvised streams of digitalia are at times grating and self-indulgent, but at its best their work is densely layered with arresting details and packed with abrupt and exciting shifts in texture and rhythm.
ref: 2003 November 28, Peter Margasak, “Oswald Berthold”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Their debut album, the aptly titled Music for Nitrous Oxide (Sedimental), stands out against their native region's more typical roots-rock machinations, but a similar primitivism rears its head via the group's lack of digitalia.
ref: 1996 July 5, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: That which is digital, binary, or electronic.
lenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lene
glosses: plural of lenis
graciles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gracilis
walri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wôlʹrī
ipa: /ˈwɔːlɹaɪ/
Etymology: Formed as walr(us) + -i, the -us of walrus misinterpreted as a nominative singular case ending of a noun of Latin’s second declension. But the word is from Dutch, not Latin. Compare walrii.
Senses: glosses: plural of walrus
dog Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dog Latin
form: dog latin
Senses: synonyms: Canis Latinicus
cod Latin
hog Latin
macaronic Latin
glosses: A phrase or jargon that imitates Latin, often by translating English words (or those of other languages) into Latin by conjugating or declining them.
glosses: Poor-quality or erroneous Latin.
Related terms: bog Latin
law Latin
mock Latin
pig Latin
pseudo-Latinism
lapidarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapidariums
form: lapidaria
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin lapidārium, from Latin lapidārius (“stony; stone (relational)”).
Senses: glosses: A place where stone monuments and fragments of archaeological interest are exhibited.
Apriles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Aprile
insignium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insignia
Senses: examples: text: In the mystery of the writing of language, the two had become the one; the stylus of the scribe was like the older Neolithic statues of the Great Mother carved on the phallus. The instrument of writing became the androgynous insignium for the sacred wedding of sexuality and language.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:
glosses: A symbol or sign of something.
gregales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gregale
educer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educers
Etymology: educe + -er
Senses: examples: text: The heart is the mainspring of the intellect, and the feelings the real educers and educators of the thoughts.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: That which educes.
finalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finalis.
arvale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arvales
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of arval.
arvales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arvale
muliebria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin muliebria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: pudenda muliebria
glosses: The female genitals.
sutile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sūtilis.
Senses: examples: text: these were made up after all ways of art, compactile, sutile, plectile
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
text: Half the rooms are adorned with a kind of sutile pictures, which imitate tapestry.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Done by stitching.
virginales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virginale
lunarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːˈnɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /luˈnɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Senses: glosses: A mechanical model illustrating the motion of the Moon around the Earth.
naturalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Will of man in the Eternal Nature and its organism in the temporal nature are not ashamed of the naturalia, and of the reproductive act […]
ref: 1923, Herman Vetterling, The Illuminate of Görlitz:
glosses: The sex organs.
dissimiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissimile
centralia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrale
pyriformes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪɹ.əˈfɔɹˌmiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of pyriformis
tibiales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tibialis
tibialia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɪb.iˈeɪ.li.ə/
Senses: glosses: plural of tibiale
companization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: companizations
Etymology: From company + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The splitting of a functional unit from a company and incorporating it as a separate company.
monthling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monthlings
Etymology: From month + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A child, or young animal, that is one month old.
glosses: Something that lasts for a month.
monthling
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From month + -ling.
Senses: glosses: Once a month: in every month.
monthlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monthling
companizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of companization
Madeira cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madeira cake
Madecassees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Madecassee
brown Windsor soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Well," said Grimble, "I expect rather a lot [from Christmas]. Like a brown Windsor soup or at least a fairly brown Windsor soup. And then turkey and everything and Christmas pudding and things and crackers and balloons and all that. And a cake but I've got the cake."
ref: 1972, Clement Freud, Grimble at Christmas:
glosses: A hearty traditional British meat soup of disputed origin.
gametophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gametophore
gloomy Guses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloomy Gus
popsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of popsy
glosses: plural of popsie
jocundness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jocund + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being jocund.
Synonyms: jocundity
companisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: companisations
Senses: examples: 2004, Journal of co-operative studies, This leads to a process of banalisation moving from economisation to commercialisation and companisation.
glosses: Alternative spelling of companization.
wavemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavemaker
chloriney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chloriney
form: most chloriney
Etymology: From chlorine + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It had diving boards and wave machines and a giant anaconda slide, and there were so many children splashing around in its chloriney waters...
ref: 2002, Philip Reeve, The big freeze, page 50:
text: For traveling or emergencies you can get sterilizing tablets to dissolve in water, but they make things taste nasty and chloriney.
ref: 2004, Kaz Cooke, Kid Wrangling: Real Guide to Caring for Babies, Toddlers, and Little Kids, page 113:
glosses: With, or like, chlorine.
water on the brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The medical condition of hydrocephalus.
companisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of companisation
radiatorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radiator + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a radiator.
chlorineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chlorine + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without chlorine.
dishily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dishily
form: most dishily
Etymology: From dishy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The role of Lorelei Lee fixed Marilyn in the world's consciousness as the exaggeratedly, dishily seductive blonde — all body; no thought; little feeling; all whispery, high voice and no sensibility.
ref: 2001, Donald Spoto, Marilyn Monroe: the biography, page 231:
glosses: In a dishy manner.
yippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yipping
yappings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yapping
preppily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preppily
form: most preppily
Etymology: From preppy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Two preppily-dressed students were strolling up the hill, arm in arm.
glosses: In a preppy manner.
dampingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dampingly
form: most dampingly
Etymology: From damping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that damps.
dampeningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dampeningly
form: most dampeningly
Etymology: From dampening + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that dampens.