cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sackless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sackless
form: most sackless
form: sakeless
form: saikless
form: saickless
Etymology: From Middle English sakles, sacless (“innocent”), from Old English saclēas (“free from charge, innocent, safe”), from Proto-Germanic *sakalausaz (“free from accusation”), equivalent to sake + -less. Cognate with Danish sagesløs (“blameless”), Swedish saklös (“blamesless”), Icelandic saklaus (“innocent”), Faroese sakleysur (“unoffending, innocent”). More at sake, -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] And where that sackless knight lies slain, […]
The candles will burn bright.
ref: 1838, Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: with the author's introductions and notes, page 196:
text: […] and how Thorir of Garth would not that Grettir should be made sackless.
ref: 1900, Eiríkur Magnússon, William Morris, The Story of Grettir the Strong, page 149:
qualifier: provincial
glosses: Blameless, guiltless, innocent.
centesimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɛnˈtɛzɪməʊ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɛnˈtɛzɪmoʊ/
Forms: form: centesimos
form: centesimi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian centesimo. Doublet of centime.
Senses: glosses: A unit of currency constituting one hundredth of a lira.
centesimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɛnˈtɛzɪməʊ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɛnˈtɛzɪmoʊ/
ipa: /sɛnˈtɛzɪməʊ/
ipa: /sɛnˈtɛzɪmoʊ/
ipa: /tʃɛnˈtɛzɪməʊ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɛnˈtɛzɪmoʊ/
Forms: form: centesimos
form: centésimo
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish centésimo.
Senses: examples: text: And if they were talking 3-5-2, it referred only to the centesimos they were cutting, filing and preparing to throw at the Australian players from the stands throughout the match.
ref: 2005 November 12, The Guardian:
glosses: A monetary unit worth one-hundredth of the main currency in Uruguay, Panama and (formerly) Chile.
centesimi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian centesimi.
Senses: glosses: plural of centesimo (“one hundredth of a lira”)
Bolgar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bolgars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bulgar.
Bolgar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bolgar
form: most Bolgar
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bulgar.
Bolgar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bulgar.
Rus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːs/
ipa: /ɹʌs/
rhymes: -uːs
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: Rus
form: Rus'
form: Rūs
Etymology: Earlier form Russ from German Russe etc., from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). More recent use influenced by Russian Русь (Rusʹ), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Use with macron was probably influenced by the transliteration of Arabic رُوس (rūs).
Compare Russ, Russian, Russie, Russniak, Rusyn, Ruthenian.
Also compare Swedish Ryss, Dutch Rus, German Russe, French Russe, Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs), Russian Русь (Rusʹ), Belarusian Русь (Rusʹ), Ukrainian Русь (Rusʹ). Also compare Russian ру́сский (rússkij, “Ethnic Russian, of Rus”), россия́нин (rossijánin, “Russian national”), Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”).
See further Etymology of Rus and derivatives.
Senses: examples: text: In 860 the Rus’ streamed southwards and laid siege to Constantinople itself.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 504:
glosses: A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Novgorod, Kiev/Kyiv and the Volga and Dnieper/Dnipro gave rise to the Rus' principalities.
glosses: Kievan Rus, the medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was in Kiev.
glosses: Any of the medieval East Slavic principalities ruled by this class, especially Kievan Rus.
glosses: The nation of Russia, especially in a transcendent or romantic sense referring to the history and culture of the country.
Synonyms: sense: Scandinavians in Eastern Europe
word: Varangians
word: Kievan Rus
word: Kievan Rus'
word: Kyivan Rus
word: Kyivan Rus'
sense: East Slavic principalities
word: Rus' principalities
word: Kiev
word: Kyiv
Derived terms: word: Rusian
word: Rus'ian
word: White Rus
Related terms: Belarus
Belarusian
Bielorussia
Bielorussian
Little Russia
Little Russian
Rusnak
Rusniak
Russia
Russian
Rusyn
Ruthenia
Ruthene
Ruthenian
Rus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːs/
ipa: /ɹʌs/
rhymes: -uːs
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: Rus
form: Rus'
form: Rūs
Etymology: Earlier form Russ from German Russe etc., from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). More recent use influenced by Russian Русь (Rusʹ), from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ). Use with macron was probably influenced by the transliteration of Arabic رُوس (rūs).
Compare Russ, Russian, Russie, Russniak, Rusyn, Ruthenian.
Also compare Swedish Ryss, Dutch Rus, German Russe, French Russe, Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs), Russian Русь (Rusʹ), Belarusian Русь (Rusʹ), Ukrainian Русь (Rusʹ). Also compare Russian ру́сский (rússkij, “Ethnic Russian, of Rus”), россия́нин (rossijánin, “Russian national”), Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”).
See further Etymology of Rus and derivatives.
Senses: examples: text: And if a Rus hits a Greek, or a Greek a Rus with a sword, a spear or any other weapon, he shall pay five litres of silver for his offence, in accordance with Rus law; and if he be unable (insolvent—Author) his property shall be sold for the best price it fetches, including the very clothes . . .
ref: 1959, Boris Dmitrievich Grekov, Kiev Rus, Foreign Languages Pub. House, p 244
text: If a Varangian claimed money from a Rus, or a Rus from a Varangian, and the debtor refused to pay, the plaintiff, accompanied by twelve witnesses, . . .
ref: 1959, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Solov’ev, History of Russia from the Earliest Times [2000], v 3 (The Shift Northward: Kievan Rus, 1154–1228), p 223
text: The Church of Kievan Rus knew men well-versed in Scripture and apparently other learning of the time, such as the Metropolitans Ioann II (d. 1089) and Klimetn Smoliatich (twelfth century). The former was Greek, and the latter a Rus.
ref: 1973, Donald W. Treadgold, The West in Russia and China: Religious and Secular Thought in Modern Times, v 1 (Russia, 1472–1917), p xxxv
glosses: A person from Rus.
Nemec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nemecs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
collagene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collagenes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of collagen.
decayeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: decay + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decay
timber camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timber camps
Senses: glosses: A camp where loggers live and keep their equipment in order to be close to the timber.
ahold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈhoʊld/
Forms: form: a-hold
Etymology: From a- + hold.
Senses: examples: text: Lay her a hold, a hold, ſet her two courſes off to Sea againe, lay her off.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Brought to lie as near to the windward as it can to get out to sea, and thereby held steady.
raw_tags: of a ship
ahold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈhoʊld/
Forms: form: a-hold
Etymology: From a + hold.
Senses: examples: text: GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF!
ref: 2009, Tim Irwin, Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership, Thomas Nelson Inc., →ISBN, page 121:
text: Uh-oh... I guess I shouldn't have given my last babysitter such a hard time. Somehow she got ahold of the video Mom took of me running around without my diaper ... and posted it on YouTube.
ref: 2009 May 21, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: A hold, grip, grasp.
sell-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sell-throughs
form: sell through
form: sellthrough
Senses: glosses: The proportion of wholesale items that are eventually sold at retail.
glosses: The practice of retailing items (such as DVDs) that are normally, or were previously, rented.
glosses: An item that is sold at retail (as opposed, for example, to being rented out).
body of work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodies of work
Senses: glosses: All the creative or academic works produced by someone.
Related terms: oeuvre
bodies of work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body of work
Madelyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French, variant of Madeline.
Maddison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmædɪsən/
ipa: /ˈmædəsən/
Forms: form: Maddisons
Etymology: From Madde (a medieval diminutive of Maud and Magdalene) + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of mostly British usage, variant of Madison.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, less common than the female name today.
McKenzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McKinzie
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Mac Kenzie.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of MacKenzie.
Derived terms: McKenzie County
McKenzie friend
McKenzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: McKenzies
form: McKinzie
Senses: glosses: A large Bordeaux wine bottle with the capacity of about 5 liters, equivalent to 6⅔ standard bottles.
Mariah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈɹaɪə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Maria used since the nineteenth century. Popularized by singer Mariah Carey in the 1990s
Mariah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈɹaɪə/
Forms: form: Mariahs
Senses: examples: text: The Khonds […] were of the view that unless Mariahs were sacrificed from time to time the Earth would become barren […]
ref: 2007, Bichitrananda Das, Resistance to the British Role of Mohuri Zamindary in South Orissa, page 115:
glosses: Alternative form of Meriah.
Marisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish, variant of Marissa.
Macy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪsi/
rhymes: -eɪsi
Etymology: Norman baronial surname from places named Massy in France, derived from a Gallo-Roman personal name Maccius.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
Makenzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1990s and later usage, variant of MacKenzie.
deme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːm/
rhymes: -iːm
homophone: deem (Received Pronunciation)
Forms: form: demes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “district”). Doublet of demos.
Senses: examples: text: If two persons bore the same name[…] ambiguity was avoided […] by indicating their place of origin, the name of the tribe or deme being added for persons of the same town […], and the name of the country or town for foreigners […].
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii:
text: They increased the authority of the Assembly and divided Attica into numerous small wardlike districts, the demes.
ref: 2009, Don Nardo, Ancient Greece, page 97:
synonyms: demos
glosses: A township or other subdivision of ancient Attica.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A distinct local population of plants or animals.
Derived terms: biodeme
cytodeme
demarch
demesman
demewise
demic
ecodeme
genodeme
macrodeme
morphodeme
paleodeme
McKenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈkɛnə/
Forms: form: McKennas
form: M'Kenna
form: MacKenna
form: Mc Kenna
form: Mac Kenna
form: MaKenna
form: Ma Kenna
form: Makenna
form: Mckenna
form: Mackenna
form: Mckenna
form: Makenna
Etymology: From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, variant of McKinney.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pierce County, Washington, United States.
Makenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of McKenna invented in the 1980s.
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
denominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + nominal.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: denominative
desubstantival
coordinate_terms: deverbal
deadjectival
denumeral
depronominal
deinterjectional
glosses: Denominative (deriving from a noun).
Derived terms: denominally
non-denominal
denominal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denominals
Etymology: From de- + nominal.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: deverbal
glosses: A denominative: a word, often a verb, that is derived from a noun or adjective.
Synonyms: denominative
Maxine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /mækˈsiːn/
Etymology: From Max + -ine. An English feminine form of Max coined at the end of the nineteenth century.
Senses: examples: text: Her real name suggested a second runner-up for a Junior Miss pageant, or maybe a budding actress whose real name is Wanda Maxine Smith.
ref: 1986, Sue Grafton, C is for Corpse, St. Martin's Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 153:
text: State and local leaders, including US Sen. Jeff Merkley, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, US Rep. Maxine Dexter and City Council members, urged the community to stay peaceful at a news conference on Friday night, according to CNN affiliate KPTV, after the city saw an increase in activity by federal agents.
ref: 2025 September 27, Kit Maher, “Trump says he’s sending troops to Portland to protect ICE facilities”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Derived terms: Max
Maxie
Mayme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A 19th-century alternative spelling of Mamie, diminutive of the female given name Mary.
Mayme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maymes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Mayme.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Mya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A modern phonetic spelling of Maia or Maya.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Mya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Myas
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mya
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: text: Both tabulates and rugosans evolved independently as part of the Ordovician Radiation; the tabulates appeared first in the Early Ordovician (~488 Mya), followed by rugosans about 20 My later.
ref: 2013, Walter M. Goldberg, “A Brief History of Reefs and Corals”, in The Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, section 13-2 (An Introduction to Paleozoic Corals), page 272, column 2:
related: word: mya
word: MYA
glosses: million years ago: megayears ago.
Millicent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭʹlĭsənt
ipa: /ˈmɪlɪsənt/
Etymology: From the Old French Melisende, from Old High German Amalasuntha, Amalaswintha, from the Proto-Germanic roots *amalą (“hard work”) + *swinþaz (“strong”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages used since the Middle Ages.
Derived terms: word: Millie
Misty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mistys
Etymology: From the adjective misty, but sometimes also (like Missy) used as a nickname for Melissa.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Melissa.
Related terms: Dusty
Missy
Myra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -aɪɹə
Etymology: First used by the poet Fulke Greville, possibly as an anagram of Mary.
Senses: examples: text: My Saint is dear to me, / Myra herself is she, / She fair and true. / Myra that knows to move / Passions of love with love: / Fortune, Adieu.
ref: 1633, Fulke Greville, Cælica, Sonnet XXVIII:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Muriel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjʊəɹɪ.əl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹiəl
Forms: form: Merrell
form: Merril
form: Merrill
form: Murrell
form: Murrill
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Muireall, from muir (“sea”), from Old Irish muir, from Proto-Celtic *mori, from Proto-Indo-European *móri; + geal (“white, bright”), from Old Irish gel, from Proto-Celtic *gelos (“yellow, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”).
Senses: examples: text: She was named Muriel — after the rather peculiar name of John's mother. Her own mother would have it so; only wishing out of her full heart, happy one! that there should be a slight alteration made in the second name. Therefore the baby was called Muriel Joy — Muriel Joy Halifax.
ref: 1857, Dinah Craik, chapter XXI, in John Halifax, Gentleman:
text: Funny sort of name. Who would think of calling a little newborn baby Muriel?
ref: 1985, Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: A female given name from Scottish Gaelic of mostly British usage.
Related terms: Mariel
Monique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /moʊˈnik/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French equivalent to Monica.
Natalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latin natale (“birthday (of the Lord)”), referring to birth on Christmas Day, name of an early martyr.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, today more common in the French style form Natalie.
Nadine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /neɪ̯ˈdiːn/
/nəˈdiːn/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French, a French diminutive form of Nadia.
Derived terms: JaDine
Nadia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑ.di.ə/
rhymes: -ɑːdiə
Forms: form: Nadias
Etymology: Originally the French spelling of На́дя (Nádja), an informal Russian pet form of the virtue name Наде́жда (Nadéžda, “Nadezhda, Nadyezhda”, literally “Hope”), from наде́жда (nadéžda, “hope”), entered as a translation of the Ancient Greek word from ἐλπίς (elpís, “hope”) with the same meaning. See also Ἐλπίς (Elpís, “Elpis”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Russian used since the twentieth century.
Related terms: english: French diminutive form of Nadia
translation: French diminutive form of Nadia
word: Nadine
Nichola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Nicola.
Nikita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Russian Ники́та (Nikíta), a male given name, from Ancient Greek Νικήτας (Nikḗtas, “conqueror”) also a male given name (and name of various saints). The Greek word derives from νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”). Made known in the West by Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union leader in 1953–1964. It was reanalyzed as a form of Nicholas and taken up as a girls' name first in French and then in English.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A male given name from Russian, from Russian Ники́та (Nikíta).
glosses: A settlement in Crimea, Ukraine.
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ники́та (Nikíta).
glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Нікі́та (Nikíta)
Ollie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Germanic, from Latin olivarius (“olive tree”) (from oliva (“olive”)), and from Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given name Oliver, from French [in turn from Latin, in turn from Germanic].
examples: text: To my surprise and pleasure, it was Olwen that Esme chose to use when speaking of, and to, the baby - though she showed an unhappy tendency to shorten it to Ollie, in spite of my protests that this brought to mind not a stately princess, but the fat man in the Laurel and Hardy comedy series.
ref: 1994, Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking, published 1995, →ISBN, page 429:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name.
A diminutive of the female given names Olivia or Olive, from Latin [in turn from Etruscan, in turn from Greek].
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name.
A diminutive of the female given name Olwen, from Welsh.
glosses: A male orphan.
Derived terms: Chlollie
ollie
Olliemania
disillude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disilludes
form: disilluding
form: disilluded
form: disilluded
Senses: glosses: To free from illusion.
illude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈluːd/
ipa: /ɪˈluːd/
ipa: /ɪˈljuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
homophone: allude
homophone: elude (weak vowel merger)
Forms: form: illudes
form: illuding
form: illuded
form: illuded
Etymology: From Latin illūdō.
Senses: examples: text: The fleshly children of Adam bee so politicke, subtil, craftie, and wise, in theyre kynde, that the electe should be illuded if it were possible:
ref: 1547, Catherine Parr, The Lamentation of a Sinner,:
text: Tis now but wicked vanity to thinke,
To color vitious deeds with good pretence,
Or with bought colors to illude mens sense.
ref: 1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World, London: Samuel Macham:
text: The lines and shapes of mountains (features strongly marked) are easily caught and retained: but these meteor-forms, this rich fluctuation of airy hues, offer such a profusion of variegated splendor, that they are continually illuding the eye with breaking into each other; and are lost, as it endeavours to retain them.
ref: 1786, William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, London: R. Blamire, Vol. 1, Section 6, p. 86:
text: His [Jonathan Swift’s] versatile pen was prolific […] of fiction erected of impossible materials, and yet so creating and peopling a world of fancy as to illude the reader into temporary belief in its truth.
ref: 1873, Henry Coppée, chapter 26, in English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History, Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, page 269:
text: I had a sudden sense of mismatch, of profound incongruity—between what I imagined I felt and what I actually saw, between what I had thought and what I now found. I felt, for a dizzying, vertiginous moment, that I had been profoundly deceived, illuded, by my senses: an illusion—such an illusion—as I had never before known.
ref: 1984, Oliver Sacks, chapter 2, in A Leg to Stand On, New York: Summit Books, page 69:
synonyms: deceive
delude
dupe
fool
mislead
trick
glosses: To give a false impression to.
Derived terms: unilluded
Related terms: allude
delude
elude
illusion
illusive
illusory
interclude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪntə(ɹ)ˈkluːd/
Forms: form: intercludes
form: intercluding
form: intercluded
form: intercluded
Etymology: From Latin interclūdō; inter (“between”) + claudō (“to shut”). See close.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen the receiver FF is emptied of air, the ſtop-cock B is to be ſhut, that ſo all paſſage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded, […]
ref: 1682, Robert Boyle, “A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The Second Part. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 103, column 1:
text: Next morning the combined forces appeared again in order of battle, in front of the Athenian works, and by their position intercluded the communication of the Athenian general with his fort of Labdalum, and with his northern lines.
ref: 1784-1810, William Mitford, The History of Greece:
glosses: To cut off or shut off (something) from a course or place, by something intervening; to intercept, to interrupt.
Patti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mid-20th-century spelling of Patty, a diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
cockteaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockteasers
form: cock teaser
form: cock-teaser
Etymology: From cock + teaser.
Senses: examples: text: The other girls were as willing, but played games. They liked to tease. And giggle. Tralala didn't fuckaround^([sic]). Nobody likes a cockteaser. Either you put out or you dont.^([sic])
ref: 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press, page 95:
glosses: Synonym of cock tease (“one who teases with a promise of sexual intercourse”).
synonyms: word: cock tease
extra: one who teases with a promise of sexual intercourse
Related terms: cockpleaser
occluse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin occlusus. See occlude.
Senses: examples: text: [it] gives their Speech [German] a different Tang from ours: to soften the Occluse Gingival Consonants, by a kind of Mixture or ſoft addition of a Spirital in the ſame Articulation, to a Vocal producing the Vowel
ref: 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech: An Essay of Inquiry into the Natural Production of Letters: […], London: […] T. N[ewcomb] for J[ohn] Martyn printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: shut; closed
Derived terms: occlusor
Rylee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Riley.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, also a modern spelling of Riley.
Rosalie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: French form of the Latin saints' name Rosalia, derived from rosa (“rose”).
Senses: examples: text: "I'm crazy about things that sound French - I guess you can tell from we naming my daughter Rosalie," she said.
ref: 1995, Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years, Knopf, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
eunuchoidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eunuchoidisms
Etymology: From eunuchoid + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A syndrome in males with a lack of sex characteristics due to lack of proper male sex hormones.
Prizren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The second largest city in Kosovo, and the seat of Prizren District and Prizren Municipality, Kosovo; the historical capital of Kosovo.
glosses: A district of Kosovo.
glosses: A municipality of Kosovo.
denounces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denounce
Hesse-Kassel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hesse-Cassel
Senses: glosses: A former German principality
Related terms: Hesse
Kassel
deverbative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dē-vûr′bə-tĭv
ipa: /diːˈvɜː.bə.tɪv/
ipa: /diˈvɜɹ.bə.tɪv/
ipa: /diːˈvøː.bə.təv/
ipa: /diˈvɛɹ.bə.tɪv/
ipa: /ɖiːˈvɜːʳ.ba.ʈiv/
Etymology: From de- + verb + -ative.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Derived from a verb.
deverbative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dē-vûr′bə-tĭv
ipa: /diːˈvɜː.bə.tɪv/
ipa: /diˈvɜɹ.bə.tɪv/
ipa: /diːˈvøː.bə.təv/
ipa: /diˈvɛɹ.bə.tɪv/
ipa: /ɖiːˈvɜːʳ.ba.ʈiv/
Forms: form: deverbatives
Etymology: From de- + verb + -ative.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or a component of a word that is derived from a verb.
Synonyms: word: deverbal
Related terms: denominal
denominative
deverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dē-vûr′bəl
ipa: /diːˈvɜː.bəl/
ipa: /diˈvɜɹ.bəl/
ipa: /diːˈvøː.bəl/
ipa: /diˈvɛɹ.bəl/
ipa: /ɖiːˈvɜːʳ.bal/
Etymology: From de- + verb + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: denominal
deadjectival
denumeral
depronominal
deinterjectional
glosses: Derived from a verb.
Derived terms: deverbally
deverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dē-vûr′bəl
ipa: /diːˈvɜː.bəl/
ipa: /diˈvɜɹ.bəl/
ipa: /diːˈvøː.bəl/
ipa: /diˈvɛɹ.bəl/
ipa: /ɖiːˈvɜːʳ.bal/
Forms: form: deverbals
Etymology: From de- + verb + -al.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: word: deverbal noun
word: deverbative
coordinate_terms: denominal
glosses: A word, especially a substantive, that is derived from a verb.
mythopoeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪθəˈpiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: mythopoeias
Etymology: From mytho- + -poeia, dated 1846 CE, based on Ancient Greek μυθοποιία (muthopoiía, “myth-making”).
Senses: related: word: mythopœia
synonyms: mythopoesis
mythopœsis
mythopoiesis
mythogenesis
glosses: Creation of any myth.
Related terms: mythogenic
mythopoeic
mythopoesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythopoeses
Etymology: Attested since 1882; mytho- + Latin poesis, based after Ancient Greek μυθοποίησις (muthopoíēsis).
Senses: related: word: mythopœsis
word: mythopoiesis
synonyms: mythopoeia
mythopœia
mythogenesis
glosses: Creation of myth.
Related terms: mythogenic
mythopoeic
mythopoet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythopoets
Etymology: From mytho- + poet; since 1876.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: a writer of mythic poetry; a mythopoeic writer.
glosses: A member of the mythopoetic men's movement.
mythopoetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mythopoetical
form: most mythopoetical
Etymology: From myth + -o- + poetical, since 1900.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the creation of myths; pertaining to mythopoiesis.
Synonyms: mythopoetic
mythopoeic
mythopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mythopoieses
Etymology: From mytho- + -poiesis, since 1936.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
related: word: mythopoesis
word: mythopœsis
synonyms: mythopoeia
mythopœia
glosses: the creation of myth.
piscatory ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piscatory rings
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
synonyms: pescatorio
ring of the fisherman
glosses: A ring worn by popes, representing the first pope and Christian apostle Peter, who had been a fisherman.
hammertoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammertoes
Senses: examples: text: The large toes are also painfully jammed into the end of the shoe, and the front of the foot is crammed into the narrow tip, producing hammertoes and claw toes.
ref: 1979 February 14, Jane E[llen] Brody, “Personal Health”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2018:
glosses: Alternative form of hammer toe.
hammertoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammertoe
haunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haunters
Etymology: From haunt + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As an angst-ridden teenager, I was a haunter of smoke-filled coffee shops and dingy second-hand bookstores.
glosses: One who haunts.
glosses: A ghost; a spirit that haunts.
Derived terms: boghaunter
reedhaunter
haunters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haunter
hearing-impaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hearing-impaired
form: most hearing-impaired
Senses: examples: text: As a result of a childhood accident, my sister was hearing-impaired and had to wear a hearing aid.
glosses: Having some degree of deafness; hard of hearing.
heathendom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhiː.ðn̩.dəm/
Forms: form: heathendoms
Etymology: From Middle English hæthendom, from Old English hǣþendōm; equivalent to heathen + -dom. OED records a single attestation in the period between 1230 and 1840, a (nonce?) occurrence in J. Law, Proposals and reasons for constituting a council of trade in Scotland (1701, p. 233). Otherwise replaced by Middle English hethenesse in the later Middle English period and heathenism in the 17th and 18th centuries. Cognate with Dutch heidendom, Old High German heidentuom (German Heidentum), Old Norse heiðindómr (Swedish hedendom).
Senses: examples: text: The priest argued to the king that unless clerics accompanied the colony ship, the colony would soon descend into heathendom and barbarity.
glosses: The state of being heathen.
examples: text: My aunt considered all of Europe to be heathendom, and refused to visit us in Amsterdam on religious grounds.
glosses: From one religion's or creed's perspective, the rest of the world that does not follow that creed or religion.
examples: text: The Crusaders meant to wrest Jerusalem from heathendom, but they managed to pillage a number of lands in Christendom along the way.
glosses: Specifically, the non-Christian world; territories where Christianity is not the dominant religion.
examples: text: Ziegenbalg mentioned some major forms of heathendom (African, American, old European)[…]
ref: 2011, Urs App, The Birth of Orientalism, page 102:
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: The collection of people who follow Heathenry, a modern pagan faith inspired by the pre-Abrahamic religions of Germanic tribes, Anglo-Saxons and Norse peoples.
Synonyms: paganism
heathenism
tidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪdɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of tiding; news
sian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sjɛn˨/
Forms: form: more sian
form: most sian
form: xian
Etymology: From Hokkien 𤺪 (siān).
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou know you’re not the only one around who is bored and sian and tired of being bored and sian.
ref: 2006 October 3, Serene Luo, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3:
text: “In a country where aspiration drives so much of who we are and what we want, it’s particularly sian to feel stuck,” he suggested.
ref: 2021 May 8, Sophie Chew, “I’m Sian. You’re Sian. We’re All So Damn Sian. But That’s Okay”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 08 May 2021:
glosses: Bored, weary or fed-up; tired (of something).
examples: text: — Sian. Fucking sian.
— Complain less. You bite that pencil anymore next time got termites inside you.
ref: 1997, Dave Chua, Gone Case, Ethos Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Repetitive and boring, wearisome.
miniseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniseries
form: mini-series
Etymology: From mini- + series.
Senses: examples: text: My favorite miniseries of all time is the old BBC adaptation of "I, Claudius".
glosses: A radio or television series with a small number of episodes not intended to last a complete season.
glosses: A relatively short comic book series with a predetermined number of instalments.
vati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vatis
Senses: qualifier: Ayurvedic medicine
glosses: A pill
ajon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ateso [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: But how can I give up my malwa or ajon where drinkers must sit close together round a beer pot, often sharing the same drinking straws, thus exchanging salivary fluids?
ref: 2007 December 12, Austin Ejiet, “Exactly what does Ebola want in our backyard?”, in Kampala Monitor, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2009:
glosses: A type of beer brewed from finger millet in northern and eastern Uganda.
backsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backside
kalu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi कालू (kālū, “a dark-skinned person”)
Senses: examples: text: When dark skin carries such a heavy burden of discrimination — one that is alive and kicking even today — calling a person kalu, regardless of how much affection it’s said with, cannot be harmless. - Rajvi Desai
glosses: a dark-skinned person.
pola
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of polarizing.
Senses: examples: a pola filter
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Polarizing.
pola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polas
Etymology: Clipping of polaroid.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Alternative form of Pola.
Tom Sawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The verb is a reference to the title character of the novel.
Senses: glosses: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a popular 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River.
Tom Sawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Tom Sawyers
form: Tom Sawyering
form: Tom Sawyered
form: Tom Sawyered
Etymology: The verb is a reference to the title character of the novel.
Senses: glosses: To convince someone to volunteer, especially to do something which one should do oneself.
barbotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barbotages
Senses: glosses: Repeated injection and aspiration of fluid, used in such instances as the injection of spinal anesthetic, to break up and remove calcification (e.g., in a joint), and for obtaining fluid cytology (e.g., from the bladder or urethra).
syke
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -aɪk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psych.
syke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪk
Forms: form: sykes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sike (“gutter, ditch; stream, boggy place”).
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A roundel barry wavy argent and azure; a fountain.
tule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːli/
rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: tules
Etymology: From Spanish tule, from Classical Nahuatl tōllin (“bulrush, sedge”).
Senses: examples: text: This consisted of a two-room house built of chittim poles, with no floor, a thatched roof of tules, and a windbreak of buffalo and cowhides to the north of it.
ref: 1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40:
glosses: Any of a number of large freshwater sedges of western North America formerly classified in the genus Scirpus, but now mostly as Schoenoplectus
glosses: A type of chinook salmon which spawns in the Columbia River basin
Synonyms: common tule
hardstem tule
tule rush
hardstem bulrush
viscid bulrush
Derived terms: word: in the tules
taxonomic: Cervus canadensis nannodes
word: tule elk
word: tule fog
word: tule perch
word: tule shrew
koot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The costus plant.
urut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uɹʊt̚ /
Forms: form: uruts
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay urut (“massage”).
Senses: examples: text: And if anyone in the Malay community has a sprain, a fractured or dislocated limb, or is plain tired, he or she immediately arranges for an urut.
ref: 1978 November 1, Judith Holmberg, New Nation, page 10:
text: Me, I’m off for an urut session medicinal therapy for a bad back problem.
ref: 2000 March 19, The New Paper, page 42:
text: Since moving to Singapore in 1994, Ibu Tutik’s work as an Urut Lady has helped her support her family in Singapore as well as in Surabaya.
ref: 2014, National Heritage Board:
glosses: A traditional Malay massage which involves soft-tissue manipulation of the whole body to alleviate different types of conditions and ailments.
sopi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic drink of Indonesia made with sugar palm.
hoki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoki
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori hoki (“blue grenadier”).
Senses: examples: text: Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.
ref: 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.
puki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pukis
Senses: examples: text: First, I made a puki, a tool used by Native Americans to form a pinch pot. Typically, a puki is a shallow, fired bowl used to keep the bottom of the pinch pot round while holding the entire pot in shape.
ref: 2007, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Figure in Clay, →ISBN, page 80:
text: She began a pot by forming a pancake of clay between her palms and laying it in a bowl-like vessel which was the bottom of a broken pot, called a puki.
ref: 2004, Susan Ware, Notable American Women, →ISBN, page 418:
glosses: A bowl or other dish used by Native Americans in the Southwest as a mold when making pots.
examples: text: Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.
ref: 2012, Jo-Ann Mapson, Finding Casey, →ISBN, page 268:
text: I begin by pinching a base or rolling out a slab that I place in a plaster form, or puki, for support..
ref: 2008, Deborah Morgenthal, Suzanne J. E. Tourtillott, The Penland Book of Ceramics, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Any form or mold used for making clay pots by hand.
Oscar the Grouch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: If I'd had a trash can I'd have looked a lot like Oscar the Grouch.
ref: 1989, Linda Gray Sexton, Points of Light, Harper Mass Market Paperbacks,, →ISBN, page 97:
text: The room was equipped with a drum and drumsticks, two large balls, three large building blocks, a stuffed cloth horse, a train large enough to sit on, and a pop-up “Oscar the Grouch” toy. The procedure lasted ten minutes.
ref: 1989, J. Steven Reznick, Perspectives on Behavioral Inhibition, University of Chicago Press,, →ISBN, page 27:
text: Meanwhile Brooke was sitting on Mother’s lap sucking on her pacifier while Terri build a low enclosed building with two sheep inside and Oscar-the-Grouch coming outside.
ref: 1989, Joan J. Zilbach, Children in Family Therapy: Treatment and Training, Haworth Press,, →ISBN, page 166:
text: “You got a bank at home?”
“Yes, my piggy bank.”
“Ah. What kinda bank is it?”
“Oscar the Grouch. Uncle D gave it to me for my birthday, remember?”
ref: 2002, James Earl Hardy, The Day Eazy-E Died, Alyson Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:
text: You thought something was funny when Dad donned his Oscar the Grouch suit and hopped in the trash can after the evening news, rope in hand.
ref: 2002, Jennifer Hanson, “The Real Freshman Handbook”, in A Totally Honest Guide to Life on Campus, Houghton Mifflin Books, page 41:
text: Nicholas was hopeful that the pop culture displays would give them something to talk about. It didn't. Fran and Ron gave a cursory acknowledgement to Howdy Doody, Oscar the Grouch, and only a brief glace at Dorothy’s ruby-red slippers.
ref: 2004, Paul McCusker, The Mill House, Zondervan, page 105
text: I notice a pair of Oscar the Grouch flip-flops, standing in the last stall.
ref: 2003, Laurie Faria Stolarz, Blue Is for Nightmares, Llewellyn Worldwide,, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Cranky employees harassed by justifiably cranky customers ... Oscar the Grouch would be thrilled. Investors, not so much.
ref: 2007, “Tim Beyers, Quick Take: United Undone”, in The Motley Fool:
glosses: A cranky, antisocial puppet character who lives in a garbage can, from the children's television show Sesame Street.
nolo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nolo
form: most nolo
form: NoLo
form: NOLO
Etymology: Ellipsis of no alcohol, low alcohol.
Senses: examples: text: NoLo (no alcohol, low alcohol) is one of the hottest trends in the drinks industry.
ref: 2019 February 9, Bridget Arsenault, “Why Bacardi's Employees Are Visiting More Than 1,000 Bars In 130 Cities This Year”, in Forbes:
text: The UK drinks industry has embarked on a detox that extends beyond January with companies racing to bring out “nolo” (no- or low-alcohol) beers, spirits and cocktails to satisfy a thirst for hangover-free drinking.
ref: 2020 January 20, Zoe Wood, “UK brewers invest in low-alcohol drinks trend”, in The Guardian:
text: No and low (nicknamed 'nolo') alcoholic beverages are set to be the UK’s biggest alcohol trend for 2020, according to a new study.
ref: 2020 March 11, Lynn Rusk, “‘Nolo' drinks are the next big thing - but what are they?”, in Harborough Mail:
text: "Nolo" alcohol is set to be one of the driving trends of 2020, according to the craft brewers' trade organisation.
ref: 2020 March 12, “'Nolo beer' sales rocket thanks to young teetotallers”, in BBC:
text: Encouragingly, sales of no or low-alcohol beer are up 30% since 2016 and “nolo” alcohol is set to be one of the driving trends of 2020, although I am sure trends are being reviewed in the light of the pandemic.
ref: 2020 March 17, Helen Whately, “Alcohol Harm”, in UK Parliament:
glosses: Having no or low alcohol content; being low-alcohol or alcohol-free
raw_tags: of drinks
Related terms: nolo contendere
nolo episcopari
pavonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈvəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /pəˈvoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From the Latin root pāvōn-, from Latin pāvō (“peacock”), + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the peacock
hand puppet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand puppets
Senses: glosses: A puppet operated by the hand, especially one in which the puppeteer's hand occupies and controls the head.
Synonyms: glove puppet
KPP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KPPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of key performance parameter.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Initialism of key position player.
one can run but one can't hide
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: There is nothing someone can do to evade something.
short commons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: Kitty, the cook, who took life 'aisy', kept him on short commons.
ref: 1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
glosses: Meagre rations.
N.O.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of New Orleans.
compositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏm'-pə-zĭʹ-shə-nəl
ipa: /ˌkɒm.pəˈzɪ.ʃən.əl/
other: /ˌkɑːm.pəˈzɪ.ʃə.nəɫ/
other: /ˌkɒm.pəˈzɪ.ʃə.nəɫ/
rhymes: -ɪʃənəl
Forms: form: more compositional
form: most compositional
Etymology: From composition + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The compositional aspects of this work are less than ideal.
glosses: Of or pertaining to composition.
examples: text: The phrase "sum of its parts" is entirely compositional.
text: A wet súit meaning a suit that is wet is a compositional phrase; a wét suit meaning a garment worn by skin divers is a compound.
ref: 1979, Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi, The Signs of Language, page 202:
text: We have already noted that compounds tend to have meanings that are not entirely compositional and would therefore need to be listed.
ref: 2003, Jean Boase-Beier, Ken R. Lodge, The German Language: A Linguistic Introduction, page 153:
text: Sentence meaning is compositional because, to a large extent, it depends on a combination of the meanings of sentence constituents, which implies the concept of semantic structure.
ref: 2004, Sergei Nirenburg, Victor Raskin, Ontological Semantics, page 106:
text: To cite a textbook example, white house and White House are both written with internal spaces, but the first is argued to be a phrase because it is semantically compositional and has phrase-final stress, while the latter is argued to be a word because it has noncompositional semantics and compound-initial stress.
ref: James Myers, Wordhood and Disyllabicity in Chinesehttps://web.archive.org/web/20221006165522/http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/Myers_Ch3_WordsDisyl_Chapter.pdf
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: non-compositional
coordinate_terms: contextual
glosses: Being the sum of its parts.
Derived terms: compositional grammar
compositionalism
compositionalist
compositionality
compositionally
noncompositional
non-compositionality
precompositional
subcompositional
thermocompositional