cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coeliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlɪæk/
Forms: form: celiac
form: cœliac
Etymology: From Latin coeliacus, from Ancient Greek κοιλιακός (koiliakós), from κοιλία (koilía, “belly”). By surface analysis, coel- + -i- + -ac. Cognate with coelom.
Senses: examples: text: Next remove the middle portion of the lesser omentum, and feel for the coeliac axis.
ref: 1838, William James Erasmus Wilson, Practical and Surgical Anatomy, page 350:
text: The coeliac plexus is formed by the two interconnecting coeliac ganglia which lie either side of the coeliac artery.
ref: 2002, Colin Pinnock, Ted Lin, Tim Smith, Fundamentals of Anaesthesia, page 218:
text: The coeliac ganglia lie on each side of the coeliac trunk.
ref: 2010, Robert H. Whitaker, Neil R. Borley, Instant Anatomy, page 85:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.
examples: text: The results of skin testing and RAST indicate that most coeliac patients do not have circulating IgE specific for wheat proteins [25, 34, 108].
ref: 1982, S. Ahlstedt, Recent Trends in Allergen and Complement Research, page 48:
text: Most coeliac patients are childen, the symptoms showing when cereals are first introduced in their diet.
ref: 1994, Norman Leslie Kent, A. D. Evers, Technology of cereals: An Introduction for Students of Food Science and Agriculture, page 297:
text: Thus more fortunately for most coeliac patients a reliable diagnosis could now be made on the basis of one set of small bowel biopsies as opposed to three.
ref: 2008, Helen Griffiths, Coeliac Disease: Nursing Care and Management, page 10:
glosses: Abbreviation of coeliac disease; used attributively.
Derived terms: coeliac flux
coeliac passion
coeliac plexus
coeliac sprue
supracoeliac
coeliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːlɪæk/
Forms: form: coeliacs
form: celiac
form: cœliac
Etymology: From Latin coeliacus, from Ancient Greek κοιλιακός (koiliakós), from κοιλία (koilía, “belly”). By surface analysis, coel- + -i- + -ac. Cognate with coelom.
Senses: examples: text: In all 5 untreated coeliacs as well as the 3 partially treated coeliacs who were in relapse at the time of biopsy, villi were entirely absent.
ref: 1961, Association of National European and Mediterranean Societies of Gastroenterology, Proceedings VIth meeting of the "Association des Sociétés Nationales Européenes et Méditerranéennes de Gastro-Entérologie", page 624:
text: Hyposplenism in coeliacs does not appear to lead to these diseases.
ref: 1986, David R. Triger, Clinical Immunology of the Liver and Gastrointestinal Tract, page 67:
text: Instead, anecdotal observations came to dominate the literature, describing adult coeliacs as mentally peculiar, excessively nervous and unstable, depressive, or even schizophrenic (Paulley, 1959; Dohan, 1966).
ref: 1999, Giuseppe Gobbi, Epilepsy and Other Neurological Disorders in Coeliac Disease, page 212:
glosses: Someone who has coeliac disease.
tea party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea parties
Senses: examples: text: On January 23, MTR Elizabeth Line held an office-based tea party at which colleagues were encouraged to donate home-baked goods. It provided staff with an opportunity to take time out of their busy schedules and reminded everyone to take care of their mental health and wellbeing.
ref: 2020 July 1, “Case Studies: Brew Monday”, in Rail, page 59:
glosses: A semi-formal afternoon social gathering at which tea, sandwiches and cakes are served.
glosses: A type of imaginative playing in which children gather with each other or their dolls to mimic having a real tea party or other formal meal, often without any food at all.
examples: text: Trials marked by strife, belligerent behaviour, unwarranted personal attacks, and other forms of disruptive and discourteous conduct are antithetical to the peaceful and orderly resolution of disputes we strive to achieve. By the same token, trials are not — nor are they meant to be — tea parties. […] Care must be taken to ensure that free expression, resolute advocacy and the right of an accused to make full answer and defence are not sacrificed at the altar of civility.
ref: 2018 June 1, Michael Moldaver, “Groia v. Law Society of Upper Canada, 2018 SCC 27”, in CanLII, retrieved 17 Apr 2021:
synonyms: pink tea
glosses: An interaction characterized by a high degree of courtesy, delicacy, deference, and avoidance of conflict.
Related terms: coffee morning
tea garden
roentgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɜːnt.ɡən/
Forms: form: roentgens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of röntgen.
tea tray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea trays
form: teatray
Senses: examples: text: Jingling in with the tea-tray, she absolutely trod on him. And exclaimed indignantly, "Jasper, you wicked dog, you nearly upset me."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: A tray for holding a tea service.
röntgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɜːnt.ɡən/
Forms: form: röntgens
form: roentgen
Etymology: Named after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a unit of exposure to ionizing radiation
Schneider
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the German surname for a tailor, from the verb schneiden (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] meaning "tailor".
Derived terms: Gelfond-Schneider theorem
Schneiderian
Schneiderian membrane
Related terms: Schnieder
Schnitter
Schröder
Schrödinger
Schroeder
Shnayder
Shneider
Shnider
Snider
Snijder
Snyder
Sznajder
funambulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˈnæmbjʊlɪst/
Forms: form: funambulists
Etymology: From French funambule or its source, Latin funambulus, from funis (“rope”) + ambulare (“walk”).
Senses: examples: text: A female funambulist, Maria Spelterini, on various occasions tightrope-walked across the Niagara Gorge with peach baskets on her feet, blindfolded, or manacled.
ref: 2012 June 14, David Hakim, “After Century-Long Wait, Stage Is Set for Man Daring to Cross the Falls”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Aug 2013:
glosses: A tightrope walker or a similar performer on a slack rope.
Derived terms: funambulistic
Related terms: funambulism
potter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒtə/
ipa: /ˈpɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: potters
Etymology: From Middle English pottere, from Old English pottere (“potter”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *pottārī (“pot-maker”), equivalent to pot + -er. Influenced by Anglo-Norman poter, Old French potier (“potter”). Cognate with Dutch potter (“potter”), German Low German Pötter, Pütter (“potter”). Displaced Old English synonyms lāmwyrhta (“a worker in clay, potter”, literally “loam-worker”), tiġelwyrhta (“brickmaker, potter”, literally “tile-worker”), crocwyrhta (“crocker, potter”, literally “crock-worker”).
Senses: examples: text: shoemakers, weavers, potters, bronzeworkers who produced and purveyed the articles necessary for daily life.
ref: 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 453:
glosses: One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
glosses: One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
glosses: One who pots meats or other eatables.
examples: text: the convivial society of gipsies, tinkers, potters, strolling players, &c.
ref: 1829, Thomas De Quincey, “Professor Wilson”, in Edinburgh Literary Gazette:
glosses: One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
glosses: The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
glosses: The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.
Synonyms: sense: Pseudemys rubriventris
word: northern red-bellied cooter
sense: maker of ceramics
word: ceramicist
Derived terms: potteress
potter's clay
potter's field
pottersfield
potter's rot
potter's wheel
potter wasp
pottery
pottress
potter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒtə/
ipa: /ˈpɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: potters
form: pottering
form: pottered
form: pottered
form: putter
form: pouter
form: pudder
form: pother
Etymology: Frequentative of pote, equivalent to pote + -er. Cognate with Dutch poteren, peuteren (“to poke, pry, search”).
Senses: glosses: To act in a vague or unmotivated way; to fuss about with unimportant things.
examples: text: He’s so dreamy and absent-minded. He potters about the garden all the time.
ref: 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter II, in Leave It to Psmith:
glosses: To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.)
glosses: To poke repeatedly.
Derived terms: potter about
potter around
potterer
potteringly
tea bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea bags
Senses: examples: text: Making a cup of tea wasn’t an easy task in this household. The kettle had been taken away by the hard-faced men, and the family were too poor to afford tea bags or milk.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “All Bag and No Tea”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Alternative spelling of teabag.
tea bag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tea bags
form: tea bagging
form: tea bagged
form: tea bagged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of teabag.
cranefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪnˌflaɪ/
Forms: form: craneflies
form: crane-fly
form: crane fly
Etymology: From crane (“bird”) + fly, from the resemblance of the insect's long, spindly legs to those of a crane.
Senses: synonyms: word: daddy longlegs
word: gullywhumper
word: gollywhopper
word: mosquito hawk
word: mosquito-eater
glosses: Any of various large flies of the suborder Tipulomorpha that have slender bodies and very long legs and that resemble giant mosquitoes.
Coordinate terms: english: cranefly larva
translation: cranefly larva
word: leatherjacket
crane fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crane flies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cranefly.
Prozac
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: What I mean is this: Prozac has rather minimal side effects, the lithium has a few more, but basically the pair keep me functioning as a sane human being, at least most of the time.
ref: 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 16:
coordinate_terms: Sarafem
glosses: A trade name for the drug fluoxetine.
fluoxetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fluːˈɒk.sə.tiːn/
ipa: /fluˈɑk.səˌtin/
Forms: form: fluoxetines
Etymology: From flu(oro)- + ox(y)- + t(oluene) + (am)ine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic compound which inhibits the uptake of serotonin in the brain and is taken to treat depression.
Derived terms: duloxetine
fluoxetine hydrochloride
norfluoxetine
-oxetine
Related terms: Prozac
Phoenician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /fəˈniːʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /fəˈniːʃən/
rhymes: -iːʃən
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: Phœnician
Etymology: Attested as a noun in Middle English as phenicienes (only plural); from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”).
Senses: examples: text: The term phallus is reputedly of Phoenician origin.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 149:
glosses: Of, from, or related to the country or civilisation of Phoenicia.
Derived terms: Phoenicianist
Syrophoenician
Phoenician
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /fəˈniːʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /fəˈniːʃən/
rhymes: -iːʃən
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: Phœnician
Etymology: Attested as a noun in Middle English as phenicienes (only plural); from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”).
Senses: glosses: The Semitic language spoken by the inhabitants of Phoenicia.
Phoenician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /fəˈniːʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /fəˈniːʃən/
rhymes: -iːʃən
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: Phoenicians
form: Phœnician
Etymology: Attested as a noun in Middle English as phenicienes (only plural); from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix, “Phoenician”).
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Phoenicia (a country located on the shores of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean Sea around the year 1000 BCE).
examples: 2007 28 July–3 August, "Phoenix: Into the ashes: A city that once won prizes is now a crime-ridden mess", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8539, page 33,
Locals also moan that Phoenicians are becoming more antisocial.
glosses: An inhabitant of Phoenix, Arizona.
Related terms: Punic
Phoenicianism
Wiktionary’s coverage of Phoenician terms and Phoenician script
The ancient civilisation of Phoenicia, and its empire
The Phoenician languages
The Phoenician alphabet
tea cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea cloths
form: teacloth
Etymology: From tea + cloth; originally designating a cloth for wiping tea service items after washing, later a small tablecloth useful for afternoon tea. Attested from the late 18th century. Compare later tea towel.
Senses: glosses: A tea towel.
glosses: A small tablecloth.
phonological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɒnəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌfəʊ̯nəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌfɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌfoʊ̯nəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkəl
Etymology: From phonology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: [...] Phonological competence is also reflected in intuitions about phonological structure: any English speaker intuitively feels, for example, that the sequence 'black bird' can either be a single phonological word (BLACKbird, with primary stress on black = a species of bird, like thrush, robin, etc.), or two independent phonological words (BLACK BIRD or black BIRD = bird which is black, as opposed to 'white bird', 'yellow bird', etc.).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 5:
text: I am not pleased with one or two of the noun cases (they are too similar to others) and I want to change the way that the Focus category (see Section 3.5 of the grammar) is manifested (using word-order instead of an infix or other phonological marker). All in all, the language is structured almost exactly as I wanted.
ref: 2006, “Ithkuil Q & A”, in The Conlanger's Library, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025, page 6:
text: Each language has its own distinct phonological qualities which a counter can tap into with effect. It is not necessarily specific phonemes (though these can sometimes be diagnostic), but rather the frequency and phonotactic distribution of each disparate set of phonemes that go together in the speech stream in certain recognisable ways.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:
glosses: Of or relating to phonology.
glosses: Pertaining to the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, and accent.
Synonyms: phonologic
orthoepic
Derived terms: lexicophonological
metaphonological
morphophonological
nonphonological
phonological hierarchy
phonologically
phonological phrase
phonological word
teacup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiː.kʌp/
Forms: form: teacups
form: tea-cup
form: tea cup
Etymology: From tea + cup.
Senses: examples: text: "There isn't wind enough to capsize a tea-cup in a gutter," said Rasmus, and shifted his chew of tobacco with a little black chalk pipe, while he looked around him on all sides.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182:
glosses: A small cup, usually with a handle, commonly used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.
glosses: A unit of measure; a teacupful.
Derived terms: storm in a teacup
teacup and saucer
teacup dog
teacupful
teacupless
teacuplike
teacup puppy
tempest in a teacup
teacup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiː.kʌp/
Forms: form: tea-cup
form: tea cup
Etymology: From tea + cup.
Senses: glosses: Of an animal, smaller than average.
Related terms: ass over teacups
teacupful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teacupfuls
form: teacupsful
Etymology: From teacup + -ful.
Senses: glosses: A unit of measure, the capacity or volume of a teacup.
phylogenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more phylogenetically
form: most phylogenetically
Etymology: From phylogenetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: based on phylogenetics
Derived terms: monophylogenetically
phylogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfaɪləd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪks/
Etymology: From phylogenetic + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Thereupon he went to Leipzig, and during the winter of 1880–81 and the following summer semester studied comparative anatomy with Leuckart, geology with Credner, and phylogenetics with Carus.
ref: c. 1899, William Morton Wheeler, “George Baur’s Life and Writings”, in The American Naturalist, volume 33, page 16:
text: An especially concise introduction to molecular phylogenetics is provided by Hillis et al. (1993).
The danger of generating incorrect results is inherently greater in computational phylogenetics than in many other fields of science.
ref: 2005, Stephen Bryant, Gerard Bouffard, Bioinformatics, Wiley, page 366:
text: A difficult task was to review the development of the many new packages contributing to phylogenetics and evolutionary biology.
ref: 2011, Emmanuel Paradis, Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R, Springer, page vii:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: systematics
glosses: The study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms, through computational methods that focus on observed heritable traits.
Derived terms: cultural phylogenetics
ecophylogenetics
Related terms: phylogenetic
phylogenesis
phylogeny
heliopause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiː.li.ə.pɔːz/
ipa: /ˈhɛ-/
ipa: /ˈhi.li.əˌpɔz/
ipa: /ˈhi.li.əˌpɑz/
Forms: form: heliopauses
Etymology: From helio- + -pause.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The boundary of heliosphere where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium.
Coordinate terms: heliosphere
heliosheath
termination shock
stellar magnetosphere
stellar wind
hep A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hepatitis A.
hep B
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hepatitis B.
hep C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hepatitis C.
team up with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teams up with
form: teaming up with
form: teamed up with
form: teamed up with
Senses: examples: text: The ice cream shop teamed up with the cookie and brownie place next door to create wonderful sundaes.
text: Puget also teamed up with Matt Hyde (Deftones, Slayer) to co-produce the record, which was another smart move: Together, the pair ensures that AFI (The Blood Album)‘s arrangements are streamlined, but bolstered by just the right amount of atmospheric texture.
ref: 2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To associate with another in a joint enterprise.
teamwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From team + work. Compare West Frisian teamwurk (“teamwork”).
Senses: examples: text: Sonic: OK then, let’s get ready to do this. We’ll show that creep the REAL SUPER POWER of TEAM WORK!
ref: 2003, Sonic Team USA, Sonic Heroes, Sega, published 2003, PlayStation 2, Windows, GameCube, Xbox, level/area: Last Story:
text: Having put partisan interests to one side, Greenwood set about making teamwork a watchword for her chairmanship, while seeking the broadest possible participation in subsequent inquiries.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:
glosses: The cooperative effort of a team of people to achieve a common goal.
Derived terms: english: proverb
translation: proverb
word: teamwork makes the dream work
tear along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tears along
form: tearing along
form: tore along
form: torn along
Senses: glosses: To run quickly along somewhere.
glosses: To break something into two pieces by separating at a line of perforations.
tear away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tears away
form: tearing away
form: tore away
form: torn away
Senses: examples: text: I couldn't tear myself away from the movie after I had begun watching it.
text: Could I please tear you away from that video game for a moment?
text: Watching the world go by is so much fun that I have to tear myself away to catch my next service - LNER's 'Highland Chieftain' worked by a bi-mode Class 800 Azuma, [...].
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:
glosses: To remove (oneself or another person), overcoming that person's reluctance to be so removed.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tear, away.
tearaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛəɹəweɪ/
Forms: form: tearaways
Etymology: From tear + away.
Senses: examples: text: She opened her heart / To a tearaway (sheepskin tearaway) / Was covered with scars / And full of heroin
ref: 2009, Peter Doherty, “Sheepskin Tearaway”, in Grace/Wastelands:
glosses: An impetuous and reckless person who is difficult to control; a hothead.
Synonyms: tearabout
Related terms: tear away
teardrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪədɹɒp/
Forms: form: teardrops
Etymology: From tear + drop.
Senses: examples: text: Devin's teardrop landed on Cody's head.
glosses: a single tear (clear, salty liquid secreted by the eye).
glosses: The shape of a drop of liquid about to fall. (Note that once detached from a surface, a drop changes shape to become spherical).
Hypernyms: drop
Derived terms: teardrop tomato
teardrop trailer
teardrop tubeshoulder
teargas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teargases
form: tear gas
form: tear-gas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tear gas.
teargas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teargases
form: teargasses
form: teargassing
form: teargassed
form: teargassed
form: tear gas
form: tear-gas
Senses: examples: text: Daniel Biss, the mayor of Evanston, Illinois, spoke about the incident in a video posted late Friday morning to his X account, saying: “Not only did they come with weapons and violence, show of force and drive a van into us, but then they teargassed us, and I have to tell you, it was terrifying.”
ref: 2025 September 19, Alisha Ebrahimji, Emma Tucker, quoting Daniel Biss, “Chicago-area mayor says federal agents teargassed him at a protest outside an ICE facility”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tear gas.
tooth fairy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːθ ˌfɛə̯ɹi/
ipa: /ˈtuθ ˌfɛə̯ɹi/
ipa: /-ˌfɛɹi/
Forms: form: tooth fairies
form: Tooth Fairy
Senses: examples: text: Anna was concerned that telling her child about the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny would cause him to believe his mother was a liar later in life.
glosses: A figure of modern myth said to give children a small amount of money (or sometimes a present) in exchange for a milk tooth when it falls out of a child's mouth.
Derived terms: word: atoothfairyist
word: Tooth Fairy science
tea room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea rooms
Senses: examples: text: And that's not all - the historic timber tea room has been dismantled to allow the platforms to be altered. […] The tea room - one of the few timber station buildings still in front line service - will then be painstakingly rebuilt, but in a slightly different position.
ref: 2025 July 23, Richard Foster, “Huddersfield's overdue makeover”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of tearoom: a cafe or (in gay parlance only) a public lavatory.
tearoom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiˌɹum/
Forms: form: tearooms
form: tea room
Etymology: From tea + room. In reference to a lavatory, probably as a variant of t-room (“toilet room”).
Senses: examples: text: At Rannoch, the platforms were rebuilt. Although the station tearoom couldn't be reached by rail during the closure, which started on October 5, it did help feed and sustain the workforce.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 11:
synonyms: teahouse
glosses: A café which serves tea, usually with light food.
examples: ref: 1970, Laud Humphreys, Tearoom Trade:
text: I'm deathly afraid of the tearooms though, John. Some of my best friends have been entrapped and busted by the fuzz.
ref: 1973, chapter II, in Deep Dick, page 21:
text: I had run into Grant in a tea-room—The busy main floor crapper—a few months earlier.
ref: 1975, chapter III, in Hard-Headed Dick, page 39:
text: The euphemistically named "tea room" has been used in sexual subcultures among men who have sex with men (MSM) to describe public sex environments, usually public toilets, where men meet other men in sexual interaction... The term itself might be outdated...
ref: 2014, A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis, page 216:
synonyms: word: teahouse
word: gingerbread office
word: cottage
word: beat
word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: A public lavatory, especially (US, gay slang, dated) as a meeting place for gay men.
glosses: A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.
tearful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪə(ɹ)fʊl/
ipa: /ˈtɪə(ɹ)fəl/
ipa: /ˈtɪɹfʊl/
ipa: /ˈtɪɹfəl/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)fəl
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)fʊl
Forms: form: more tearful
form: most tearful
Etymology: From tear + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Aaron got a little tearful until Laura came to reassure him.
text: The week that was yet to elapse, she spent in wandering through her uncle's favourite walks in hours of tearful vigil, beside his tomb, and in collecting together every trifle on which he had set a value.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Remembrance of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 322:
glosses: Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.
examples: text: Receiving the news of Joseph Beam's death two days after Christmas was a piercing blow that sent me into a tearful and contemplative stupor from which I have not yet emerged.
ref: 1989 February 5, Craig G. Harris, “Your Life's All In Your Dreams And Your Dreams Are All In Your Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 9:
synonyms: lachrymose
glosses: Sorrowful.
Derived terms: tearfully
tearfulness
dental floss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental flosses
Senses: hypernyms: floss#Noun
cord#Noun
glosses: A cord of thin filaments used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
examples: text: She was wearing a bikini top, but she may as well have been wearing dental floss, as the bikini top barely even covered her nipples and areolas.
ref: 2011, D. V. Bernard, How to Kill Your Boyfriend (in 10 Easy Steps) (page 64)
text: […] and watch them young girls walk by wearing dental floss for a bathing suit.
ref: 2013, Dr. Akeam A. Simmons, Grace and a Thug:
glosses: Extremely skimpy clothing.
raw_tags: in similes
teatime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teatimes
form: tea-time
Etymology: From tea + time. Compare Saterland Frisian Teetied (“teatime”), West Frisian teetiid (“teatime”), Dutch theetijd (“teatime”), German Teezeit (“teatime”), Danish tetid (“teatime”), Swedish tetid (“teatime”), Icelandic tetími (“teatime”).
Senses: examples: text: In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.
ref: 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul:
glosses: The traditional time, in the late afternoon, for serving tea (the meal).
floss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒs/
ipa: /flɔs/
ipa: /flɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: flosses
Etymology: Unclear:
* Possibly from French floche (“tuft of wool”), from floc, from Old French flosche (“down, velvet”), from Latin floccus (“piece of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokkō (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkô (“down, piece of wool, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”).
* Or, from Middle English *flos (attested in Middle English Flosmonger (a surname)), from Proto-West Germanic *fleus, related to English fleece.
Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”), Dutch flos (“plush”) (tr=17c.).
Senses: glosses: A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
glosses: Raw silk fibres.
glosses: The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.
examples: text: embroidery floss
glosses: Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
glosses: Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
examples: text: Flosses are soft, and grey from the female and black from the male.
glosses: A body feather of an ostrich.
glosses: A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.
Derived terms: ass floss
butt floss
candy floss
dental floss
fairy floss
flosslike
floss pick
floss silk
flossy
meat floss
pork floss
floss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒs/
ipa: /flɔs/
ipa: /flɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: flosses
form: flossing
form: flossed
form: flossed
Etymology: Unclear:
* Possibly from French floche (“tuft of wool”), from floc, from Old French flosche (“down, velvet”), from Latin floccus (“piece of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokkō (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkô (“down, piece of wool, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”).
* Or, from Middle English *flos (attested in Middle English Flosmonger (a surname)), from Proto-West Germanic *fleus, related to English fleece.
Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”), Dutch flos (“plush”) (tr=17c.).
Senses: examples: text: I don't floss very often.
text: I floss my teeth twice a day.
glosses: To clean the area between (the teeth) using floss.
examples: text: As the label's name no doubt implies, these rappers aren't your typical crew, even if they still like to floss and represent their city.
ref: 2003, Vladimir Bogdanov, All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop, Backbeat Books, page 554:
text: “Ms. Jackson” is probably the most sensitive—and realistic—take on relationships to come out of hip-hop, while “Red Velvet” cautions would-be playas against pushing the floss envelope around “dirty boys” just waiting for a chance to add some gray flecks to that fur.
ref: 2003, Oliver Wang, Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide, ECW Press, page 134:
text: It's impossible to floss wealth without attracting envy.
ref: 2007, Azie Faison, Agyei Tyehimba, Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler, Simon and Schuster, page 69:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent.
glosses: To perform the floss dance move.
Derived terms: flossable
flosser
flossible
refloss
unflossed
floss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒs/
ipa: /flɔs/
ipa: /flɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: flosses
Etymology: From dialectal flosh (“a flush, stream of water, sluice”), from Middle English flosche, flusche, flasche, flaske (“a watery or marshy place, swamp”), perhaps from Old French flache, from Middle Dutch vlacke (“a flat area, plain”), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *fleutan. Compare also German Floss (“a float”).
Senses: glosses: A small stream of water.
glosses: Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
Derived terms: floss hole
floss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɒs/
ipa: /flɔs/
ipa: /flɑs/
rhymes: -ɒs
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: flosses
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian flos, flus (“rind, scale, strip peeled off”).
Senses: synonyms: common rush
soft rush
glosses: The common rush (Juncus effusus).
toothpick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːθ.pɪk/
Forms: form: toothpicks
Etymology: From tooth + pick.
Senses: glosses: A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.
glosses: A very thin individual.
glosses: A small or slender penis.
Synonyms: word: dentiscalp
word: picktooth
Derived terms: word: Arkansas toothpick
word: HE-double-toothpicks
word: leaning toothpick syndrome
word: Missouri toothpick
word: Texas toothpick
word: toothpicker
word: toothpicklike
taxonomic: Visnaga daucoides
alt: syn. Ammi visnaga
word: toothpickweed
toothpick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːθ.pɪk/
Forms: form: toothpicks
form: toothpicking
form: toothpicked
form: toothpicked
Etymology: From tooth + pick.
Senses: glosses: To spear food on a toothpick.
glosses: To transfer a sample of bacteria, etc. by means of a toothpick.
glasnost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glasnosts
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian гла́сность (glásnostʹ, “openness”).
Senses: examples: text: Gorbachev would introduce glasnost (openness and freedom) and perestroika (economic restructuring) to Russia under his tenure, ultimately freeing thousands of political prisoners and dissidents and trying to address the shortages in food and goods that had become the hallmarks of the failing Soviet economy.
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
glosses: 1980s and early 1990s policy of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev to allow more government transparency; often paired with perestroika
Derived terms: glasnostian
glasnostic
glasnosty
Related terms: perestroika
liability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: liabilities
Etymology: From liable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: "I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility," continued the other. "They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your son's services they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation."
ref: 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw:
text: Those products – known as liability-driven investing, or LDIs – help offset liabilities and risks on pension funds’ books.
ref: 2022 September 29, Kalyeena Makortoff, Sarah Butler, “‘I’d never seen anything like it’: how market turmoil sparked a pension fund selloff”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: asset
glosses: An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
topics: accounting
business
finance
coordinate_terms: asset
glosses: An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
Any item recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
antonyms: asset
examples: text: Asked if at some point Huma becomes a liability to Hillary, the long-term Clinton insider replies, “It’s like anything else. I don’t think so, but you know I don’t have any idea. Hillary is very loyal, but she’s obviously pragmatic.”
ref: 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair:
coordinate_terms: asset
glosses: A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; a person or action that exposes others to greater risk.
examples: text: You're a bloody liability sometimes!
coordinate_terms: asset
glosses: A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; a person or action that exposes others to greater risk.
A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help.
glosses: The likelihood of something happening.
glosses: The condition of being susceptible to something.
Derived terms: alternative liability
chancel repair liability
current liability
enterprise liability
imputed liability
liability insurance
limited-liability
limited liability
limited liability company
no liability
nonliability
private limited liability company
public limited liability company
secondary liability
strict liability
vicarious liability
parlament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlaments
Senses: examples: ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England:
glosses: Obsolete form of parliament.
Hauer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hauers
Etymology: Occupational surname borrowed from German Hauer (“hewer, miner”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
invigorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɪɡəɹeɪt/
Forms: form: invigorates
form: invigorating
form: invigorated
form: invigorated
form: envigorate
form: envigourate
form: invigourate
Etymology: First attested in 1646; borrowed from New Latin invigōrātus, perfect passive participle of invigōrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + vigor + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: Exercise is invigorating.
glosses: To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to.
glosses: To heighten or intensify.
examples: text: The cold water invigorated him.
glosses: To give life or energy to.
glosses: To make lively.
Derived terms: disinvigorate
Related terms: invigorating
invigoratingly
invigoration
invigorator
invigorate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɪɡərət/
Forms: form: more invigorate
form: most invigorate
form: envigorate
form: envigourate
form: invigourate
Etymology: First attested in 1646; borrowed from New Latin invigōrātus, perfect passive participle of invigōrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + vigor + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: The soldiers from the earth
 Leap up invigorate, […]
ref: 1796, Robert Southey, Joan of Arc, book VIII, lines 142-143:
glosses: Invigorated, filled with vigour.
Related terms: inspire
exalt
animate
enliven
liven
reinvigorate
quicken
enliven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈlaɪvən/
rhymes: -aɪvən
Forms: form: enlivens
form: enlivening
form: enlivened
form: enlivened
Etymology: From life + en- -en (intensifying verbal circumfix). See liven.
Senses: synonyms: inspirit
invigorate
quicken
vitalise
vivify
glosses: To give life or spirit to; to revive or animate.
examples: text: The game was much enlivened when both teams scored within five minutes of each other.
text: Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
ref: 1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:
text: The pace came off the match as the first half continued, with the occasional frenetic moment down the flanks enlivening what otherwise became a chess-like tactical battle.
ref: 2023 August 7, Kieran Pender, “Caitlin Foord and Hayley Raso fire Australia into quarter-finals with win over Denmark”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: cheer up
liven
liven up
quicken
glosses: To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
Synonyms: word: animate
word: arouse
word: awaken
word: beghast
word: leaven
word: bright
word: brighten
word: cheer
word: energize
word: enliven
word: enthuse
word: exalt
word: excite
word: fire up
word: ginger
word: ginger up
word: inflame
word: invigorate
word: inspire
word: inspirit
word: jazz
word: kindle
word: liven
word: liven up
word: perk up
word: quicken
word: spice
word: spice up
word: stimulate
word: vitalise
Hypernyms: word: affect
word: influence
Hyponyms: word: gladden
word: incite
word: reinvigorate
word: revive
word: feague
Derived terms: enlivener
enliveningly
enlivenment
unenlivened
unenlivening
scarlet letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarlet letters
Senses: examples: text: The Scarlet Letter [title]
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:
text: In the early seventeenth century, all the colonies of New England enacted harsh laws against unchastity: banishment, imprisonment, severe public flogging, the wearing of scarlet letters and other shaming garments for the rest of one's life.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 44:
glosses: The letter "A" in scarlet cloth required to be worn by those convicted of adultery in 17th-century Puritan New England.
examples: text: The scarlet letters that current discourse has slapped upon people deemed “problematic,” deemed “unreachable” for feminism, have created consternation […]
ref: 2018, Dianna E. Anderson, Problematic: How Toxic Callout Culture Is Destroying Feminism:
glosses: A highly visible stigma.
sprightly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɹaɪtli/
rhymes: -aɪtli
Forms: form: sprightlier
form: sprightliest
Etymology: From spright + -ly (suffix forming adverbs from adjectives).; see further at etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: In a lively and vigorous way; sprightlily.
Derived terms: sprightlily
brighter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaɪtə/
ipa: /ˈbɹaɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈbɹaɪ̯ɾɚ]
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: It's a grey, damp November afternoon in Doncaster. The signal for the Up Fast through road turns green and a headlight appears in the distance, rapidly becoming brighter.
ref: 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in Rail, page 32:
glosses: comparative form of bright: more bright
Related terms: bright
brilliant
radiant
lustrous
lambent
luminous
incandescent
effulgent
offen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more offen
form: most offen
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of often.
offen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more offen
form: most offen
Senses: examples: text: His old rubber boots wuz all wore offen him, his clothes hangin' in rags and tatters where he had rushed through the woods and swamps, his feet and hands all froze.
ref: 1893, Marietta Holley, Samantha at the World's Fair, page 79:
text: "If I tells Pa Satisfied that ye said that, Myry," muttered the boy, "he wouldn't wait for the law to handle Ben Letts — he'd shoot his dum head offen him quicker than a cat can blink."
ref: 1909, Grace Miller White, Tess of the Storm Country, page 241:
text: “The one Dooley won offen him.” The marshal stared hard at Dooley, then at Chester, then at his four deputies, then at Mort the undertaker, and finally at Blue, who was gnawing on a steak bone. “You read too many dime novels.”
ref: 2018, William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone, Hang Him Twice, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of off.
opening hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The regular times of day when a shop, office or similar is open to the public.
Synonyms: office hours
business hours
shop-hours
trading hours
opening time
Related terms: open
hour
qintar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qindarka
form: qintars
Senses: glosses: An Albanian coin equal to one hundredth of a lek.
examples: text: For all its squalor qintars and qintars of gold dust are traded there.
ref: 2002, Jonathan M. Bloom, Sheila S. Blair, Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power:
text: […] who offered 190 piasters per year for rent, 20 piasters more than the other, plus half a qintar of pomegranates.
ref: 2005, Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters, David Stephan Powers, Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their judgments:
glosses: A unit of measure, which varies in value depending upon the product measured; for example, a qintar of cotton might be 160 kg of cotton, 50 kg of cotton lint; a qintar of lime, 65 kg.
drop kerb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop kerbs
form: dropkerb
Senses: glosses: A kerb of reduced height to allow vehicles access to properties adjoining a road, or to assist wheelchair users.
Synonyms: word: driveway access
word: vehicle crossover
word: curb cut
word: curb ramp
word: dropped kerb
word: pram ramp
word: kerb ramp
gomphosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gomphoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “peg”) + -osis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: peg-and-socket joint
glosses: A type of fibrous, immovable joint such as the one between the teeth and the alveolar bone.
Derived terms: agomphosis
CHF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of congestive heart failure.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Initialism of centre half-forward.
LBP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of lower back pain.
LTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LTDs
Senses: coordinate_terms: LTC
glosses: Initialism of long-term disability.
Esq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of esquire and postnominal.
VOA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Abramowitz said that the order left VOA unable to carry out its "vital mission... especially critical today, when America's adversaries, like Iran, China, and Russia, are sinking billions of dollars into creating false narratives to discredit the United States".
ref: 2025 March 16, Thomas Mackintosh & Merlyn Thomas, “Trump moves to close down Voice of America”, in BBC:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: Initialism of Voice of America.
Related terms: sense: Voice of America
word: NPR
sense: Voice of America
word: PBS
sense: Voice of America
word: BBC
sense: Voice of America
word: RCI
sense: Voice of America
word: RAI
sense: Voice of America
word: VOC
VOA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VOAs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of vertex operator algebra.
glosses: Initialism of visa-on-arrival.
VOA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Valuation Office Agency.