cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
market day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market days
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see market, day.
examples: text: On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 60:
glosses: The day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location.
universal set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universal sets
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A set large enough to contain all sets under consideration in the current context.
Synonyms: universal class
universe
haploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæplɔɪd/
Etymology: From haplo- + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: word: euploid
word: ;
word: aneuploid
word: nonaneuploid
english: more than 2
translation: more than 2
word: ;
word: polyploid
word: triploid
word: tetraploid
word: pentaploid
word: hexaploid
word: heptaploid
glosses: Having the number of chromosomes that a typical gamete has (in the given organism), namely, half the number that a typical somatic cell has (in the given organism).
examples: text: Examples of haploid cells are prokaryotes and the gametes of eukaryotes.
text: It has been shown, however, that triploid forms producing diploid gametes in one sex and haploid ones in the other sex can act as a stepping stone towards tetraploidization (triploid bridge; [ 93 – 95 ]).
ref: 2015 July 4, Heinz-Ulrich Reyer, Christian Arioli-Jakob, Martina Arioli, “Post-zygotic selection against parental genotypes during larval development maintains all-hybrid populations of the frog Pelophylax esculentus”, in BMC Evolutionary Biology, volume 15, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: word: euploid
word: ;
word: aneuploid
word: nonaneuploid
english: more than 2
translation: more than 2
word: ;
word: polyploid
word: triploid
word: tetraploid
word: pentaploid
word: hexaploid
word: heptaploid
word: euploid
word: ;
word: aneuploid
word: nonaneuploid
word: ;
english: more than 2
translation: more than 2
word: diploid
word: ;
word: polyploid
word: triploid
word: tetraploid
word: pentaploid
word: hexaploid
word: heptaploid
glosses: Having the number of chromosomes that a typical gamete has (in the given organism), namely, half the number that a typical somatic cell has (in the given organism).
Having a single set of unpaired chromosomes (which is the number that a typical gamete has in many organisms although not all).
synonyms: monoploid
qualifier: strictly
Related terms: haplotype
haploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæplɔɪd/
Forms: form: haploids
Etymology: From haplo- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: In teleosts, double haploids (DHs) induced by mitogynogenesis are often sterile.
ref: 2015 November 19, “Gonadal Transcriptome Analysis in Sterile Double Haploid Japanese Flounder”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A cell which is haploid.
glosses: An organism, such as a fungus, with haploid cells.
Derived terms: allohaploid
amphihaploid
dihaploid
euhaploid
gynohaploid
haploidic
haploidisation
haploidization
haploidize
haploidy
hyperhaploid
hypohaploid
monohaploid
nonhaploid
parahaploid
polyhaploid
pseudohaploid
acid test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæsɪd ˈtɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: acid tests
Etymology: From acid + test; sense 1 (“test involving the reaction of an acid with another chemical”) and sense 2 (“rigorous test or appraisal of the quality or worth of something”) refer to the use of nitric acid to test if a metal is gold; true gold is not affected by the acid.
Sense 3 (“party based around the use and advocacy of the psychedelic drug LSD”) is a pun referencing the slang term acid (“LSD”). The original “acid test” parties were thrown by the Merry Pranksters group between 1965 and 1966 and advertised by the slogan “Can you pass the acid test?”
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A test involving the reaction of an acid with another chemical.
examples: text: [H]e reflected that few professional beauties could have stood, as this woman did, the acid test of that mercilessly brilliant morning.
ref: 1912 October, Louis Joseph Vance, “The Spy”, in The Destroying Angel, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page 152:
text: "Eggs, Parker," said Freddie solemnly, "are the acid test!" / "Yes, sir?" / "If, on the morning after, you can tackle a poached egg, you are all right. If not not. And don't let anybody tell you otherwise."
ref: 1920 April 10 – August 28, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter 1, in The Little Warrior [Jill the Reckless], New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 8 October 1920, →OCLC, section 1, pages 7–8:
text: The acid test: will the British public abide by such stringent guidelines about where they should stand, walk or sit in our stations and on our trains, when they have been used to a turn-up-and-go railway where they enjoyed freedom having bought their ticket?
ref: 2020 May 20, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: Safety First: Now More than Ever”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: This was the acid test – at least before Sunday's final with formidable Italy – and they came up with the goods not only in the context of Euro 2020 but also in demonstrating their character and big match mentality.
ref: 2021 July 7, Phil McNulty, “European Championship – Semi-final: England 2 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2023:
coordinate_terms: litmus test#English:_bar for persons, figuratively
glosses: A rigorous test or appraisal of the quality or worth of something.
examples: text: The Pranksters had just held an Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, a big ballroom in the middle of one of San Francisco's big Negro slums, the Fillmore district. It was a wild night. Hundreds of heads and bohos from all over the Bay area turned out, zonked to the eyeballs.
ref: 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: In the 1960s, a party based around the use and advocacy of the psychedelic drug LSD (known in slang as acid).
Derived terms: acid test ratio
Related terms: trial by fire
appraisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹeɪzəl/
rhymes: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: appraisals
Etymology: From appraise + -al.
Senses: examples: text: She hated that silent appraisal, watching someone compare her to a version that she might have been.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 47:
glosses: The act or process of developing an opinion of value.
glosses: A judgment or assessment of the value of something, especially a formal one.
Derived terms: appraisal cost
appraisal theory
e-appraisal
miniappraisal
misappraisal
nonappraisal
overappraisal
quasi-appraisal
reappraisal
self-appraisal
underappraisal
acid-base equilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acid-base equilibriums
form: acid-base equilibria
Senses: glosses: The state in which the concentrations of acidic and basic ions in a solution neutralize each other.
proper subset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proper subsets
Senses: examples: {2, 4, 5} is a proper subset of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, but {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} is not.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: a set that is a subset of the set, but not equal to it.
Hypernyms: subset
acid-base indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acid-base indicators
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance that shows the acidity or alkalinity of a solution by its colour.
Synonyms: pH indicator
Related terms: bromocresol purple
bromophenol blue
bromothymol blue
congo red
indigo carmine
litmus
methyl orange
methyl violet
phenolphthalein
phenol red
thymol blue
thymolphthalein
pH indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pH indicators
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid-base indicator.
Venn diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛn ˌdaɪəɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈvɛn ˌdaɪɡɹæm/
Forms: form: Venn diagrams
Etymology: Named after British mathematician and philosopher John Venn (1834–1923).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A diagram representing some sets by contours of closed shapes, such as circles or ellipses (and sometimes also the universal set as a rectangle enclosing all of these shapes), and indicating the relationships between the sets: by overlapping the shapes to show that the corresponding sets have a non-empty intersection, and by possibly (but not necessarily) enclosing all of the sets (which are proper subsets of the universal set) within a universal set (represented typically by a rectangle); such that the total number of simply connected regions is 2ⁿ, where n is the number of depicted sets which are proper subsets of the universal set.
examples: text: The overlapping section of the Venn diagram of Phillies fans and mystery meat aficionados probably already knows this, but the Phils’ beloved Dollar Dog Nights appeared to be over for the season (for the uninitiated, that’s when glizzies go on sale for a buck).
ref: 2022 May 23, Nick Vadala, “’Dogs back again”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 193rd year, number 357, page B3:
text: […]the gobal “mind, body and energy healing” market size […] was estimated at nearly $80bn in 2023 and is projected to grow year on year at 26 per cent to 2030. And the Venn diagram between this world and that of real estate and architecture is increasing.
ref: 2025 April 26, Rebecca Newman, “Spirited Away”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 1:
glosses: The intersection of two or more things.
Hypernyms: diagram
Related terms: Euler diagram
logic diagram
non-empty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonempty
Etymology: From non- + empty.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: Of a set, containing at least one element; not the empty set.
mehu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mehus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meu (“second minister of Kingdom of Dahomey”).
acid-fast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acid-fast
form: most acid-fast
Senses: topics: biology
histology
natural-sciences
glosses: Retaining stain when treated with an acidic solution.
raw_tags: of bacteria
Derived terms: acid-fast bacillus
acidhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acidheads
Etymology: From acid + -head.
Senses: glosses: A person who uses the hallucinogenic drug LSD.
acidophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæsɪdəʊˈfɪlɪk/
ipa: /ˌæsɪdoʊˈfɪlɪk/
rhymes: -ɪlɪk
Forms: form: more acidophilic
form: most acidophilic
Etymology: From acid + -o- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Thriving under acidic conditions; relating to or being an acidophile.
glosses: Easily stained with acidic dyes, such as eosin.
Synonyms: sense: thriving under acidic conditions
word: acidophilous
Hyponyms: sense: easily stained with acidic dyes
word: eosinophilic
Derived terms: acidophilicity
nonacidophilic
Related terms: acidophil
acidophile
homer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊmə/
ipa: /ˈhoʊmɚ/
rhymes: -əʊmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: homers
form: chomer
Etymology: From Hebrew חומר / חֹמֶר (khómer, “clay, heap, large unit of volume”).
Senses: examples: text: The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 45:11:
text: Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US bushels.
examples: text: The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 45:11:
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Synonym of cor: approximately the same volume as a liquid measure.
synonyms: word: cor
extra: approximately the same volume as a liquid measure
Synonyms: cor
kor
Meronyms: sense: dry measure
word: cab
sense: dry measure
word: kab (1⁄180 homer)
sense: dry measure
word: omer
sense: dry measure
word: issaron (1⁄100 homer)
sense: dry measure
word: seah (1⁄30 homer)
sense: dry measure
word: ephah (1⁄10 homer)
sense: dry measure
word: lethek
sense: dry measure
word: lethech (1⁄2 homer)
sense: liquid measure
word: cor
homer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊmə/
ipa: /ˈhoʊmɚ/
rhymes: -əʊmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: homers
Etymology: From home + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.
text: The Mets got that four-run cushion in the seventh when George Foster stepped in as a pinch-hitter and hit a two-run homer for the 5-1 final.
ref: 1983 June 27, Kevin Dupont, “METS GAIN SPLIT; STAUB TIES MARK”, in The New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A home run.
examples: text: Fast forward to Chase's base. Where Chase hit a homer, first at bat. Becca thrived off being sexy, having sex, watching sex.
ref: 2019, M. R. Biggs, Not 4 $ale:
text: “So you hit a homer, huh?” she asked, confused by his misery.
Colm nodded. “Best sex I've had in a long time. Maybe ever.”
ref: 2020, Mari Carr, Wild Night:
glosses: Synonym of home run (“sexual intercourse”).
synonyms: word: home run
extra: sexual intercourse
examples: text: Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time.
glosses: A homing pigeon.
examples: text: Joe is such a homer that he would never boo the Hometown Hobos, even if they are in last place in the league.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A person who is extremely devoted to a favorite team.
examples: text: Two general types of homer systems are in use, active homers and passive homers. Active homers contain a transmitting device which emits energy that is directed towards the target.
ref: 1961, RCA Service Company, Digest of Military Electronics, page 75:
glosses: A homing beacon.
examples: text: 'What's the good of talking?' said Cyril. 'What I want is for something to happen. It's awfully stuffy for a chap not to be allowed out in the evenings. There's simply nothing to do when you've got through your homers.' Jane finished the last of her home-lessons and shut the book with a bang.
ref: 1904, E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet:
glosses: homework
Derived terms: Chinese homer
homerless
homer man
homer pigeon
inside-the-park homer
multihomer
outhomer
stay-at-homer
homer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊmə/
ipa: /ˈhoʊmɚ/
rhymes: -əʊmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: homers
form: homering
form: homered
form: homered
Etymology: From home + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Sultan of Swat homered 714 times.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To hit a homer; to hit a home run.
Synonyms: hit out of the park
jack
Related terms: single
double
triple
neurasthenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊəɹəsˈθiːniə/
Forms: form: neurasthenias
Etymology: From neur- + asthenia, after Italian nevrastenia.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
synonyms: anergasia
glosses: An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance.
Derived terms: neurasthenic
neurasthenics
Related terms: neurosthenia
engrave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹeɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: engraves
form: engraving
form: engraved
form: engraved
form: ingrave
Etymology: From earlier ingrave, equivalent to en- + grave (“to carve, engrave”). More at grave.
Senses: examples: text: He engraved the plaque with his name.
text: Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
examples: text: He engraved his name.
glosses: To carve (something) into a material.
Synonyms: sense: carve (text or symbols) into
word: carve
sense: carve (text or symbols) into
word: etch
sense: carve (text or symbols) into
word: inscribe
Derived terms: engravable
engravement
engraven
engravery
microengrave
misengrave
photoengrave
reengrave
engrave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɡɹeɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: engraves
form: engraving
form: engraved
form: engraved
form: ingrave
Etymology: From en- + grave.
Senses: examples: text: So both agree their bodies to engraue; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To put in a grave, to bury.
daylight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪlaɪt/
ipa: /ˈdeɪˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: daylights
form: daylighting
form: daylighted
form: daylighted
form: daylit
form: daylit
form: day-light
Etymology: From Middle English daye-lighte, dey liȝht, dailiȝt, day-liht, dai-liht (also as days lyȝt, daies liht), equivalent to day + light. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deegeslucht, Daisljoacht (“daylight”), West Frisian deiljocht (“daylight”), Dutch daglicht (“daylight”), German Tageslicht (“daylight”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 7”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:
text: […] she was not looking at the daylit, sunny world which she so wanted to see.
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: To expose to daylight
topics: architecture
glosses: To provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.
glosses: To allow light in, as by opening drapes.
topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: landscaping
glosses: To run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.
examples: text: The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
text: Tunnels were enlarged or daylighted and clearances generally greatly improved.
ref: 1964 October, “Letters: A US lesson in high-capacity freight stock”, in Modern Railways, page 233:
glosses: To gain exposure to the open.
Related terms: dawn
sunrise
sunset
imitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imitative
form: most imitative
Etymology: From Latin imitātīvus.
Senses: glosses: Imitating; copying; not original.
glosses: Modelled after another thing.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: sound-symbolic or onomatopoeic
Synonyms: word: epigonic
word: copycat
word: derivative
word: emulative
word: imitative
word: mimical
word: unoriginal
Hyponyms: word: formulaic
word: mimetic
word: echoic
word: onomatopoeial
word: onomatopoeic
word: onomatopoetic
Derived terms: counterimitative
imitative harmony
imitatively
imitativeness
nonimitative
overimitative
preimitative
unimitative
Related terms: word: imitable
cornerback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornerbacks
Etymology: From corner + back.
Senses: examples: text: The cornerback tipped the ball away from the receiver.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: Gaelic football; hurling; Gaelic football; hurling
glosses: Any of the defensive players who are in position on each side farthest laterally from the ball and whose principal responsibility is to defend against passes.
decompression sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DCS
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: aeroembolism
aeroemphysema
the bends
caisson disease
glosses: A sometimes fatal condition resulting from the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and tissues, because of too rapid decompression, seen especially in deep-sea divers ascending rapidly from a dive. It is characterized by severe pains in the joints and chest, skin irritation, cramps, nausea, and paralysis.
fag stag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fag stags
Senses: glosses: A heterosexual man who socializes with or enjoys the company of gay men.
Coordinate terms: fag hag
Handel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a German surname.
Senses: examples: text: Handel's masterpiece, Messiah, is one of the incontrovertible masterpieces of the Western canon, a work whose place in the musical life of the nation looks, with the benefit of hindsight, to have been assured since its first performance in 1742.
ref: 2014 April 17, Tom Service, “Handel's Messiah: the sound of our better selves”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A surname from German; (music) used specifically of George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), a German-British Baroque composer.
Derived terms: word: Handelesque
word: Handelian
crop up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crops up
form: cropping up
form: cropped up
form: cropped up
Senses: examples: text: We'll finish tonight if no problems crop up.
text: Cares crop up in villas.
ref: 1880, [Benjamin Disraeli], Endymion […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
text: The potential for conflicts cropped up immediately. In April 2012, after her maternity leave and while she was waiting to get her S.G.E. designation, Teneo asked her to intercede on behalf of its client Judith Rodin, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, in obtaining a seat on the President’s Global Development Council.
ref: 2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016:
glosses: To occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
saucer pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saucer passes
Etymology: In allusion to a flying saucer.
Senses: examples: text: The winger's perfect saucer pass over the defenseman's stick and onto the center's tape led to the goal.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A pass which stays flat through the air and lands flat, used to pass over an opponent's stick
Proto-Uralic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Uralic.
Senses: glosses: The ancestor language of the Uralic language family, usually written with the UPA-transcription system.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Uralic terms
penalty box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty boxes
Senses: examples: text: Both players got to cool their heels for five minutes in their respective penalty boxes after the fight.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: An enclosed bench where a player must remain for timed period (a penalty) that is assessed after an infraction.
examples: text: At times, Swindon's penalty box resembled a pinball machine.
ref: 2000 March 12, Stuart Barnes, “Swindon stunner for Curbishley”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The penalty area.
examples: text: A visit to the penalty box occurs when the salesman has relinquished control of the sales call by immediately answering the customer's question.
ref: 2003, Tim Breithaupt, 10 Steps to Sales Success: The Proven System That Can Shorten the Selling Cycle, Double Your Close Ratio, →ISBN, page 170:
text: What can land you in this metaphorical holding cell, the penalty box of Catholicism?
ref: 2003, John Portmann, Sex and heaven: Catholics in bed and at prayer, →ISBN, page 155:
text: Florida, Michigan seek exit from Democratic penalty box
ref: 2008, John Zarrella and Patrick Oppmann, "Florida, Michigan seek exit from Democratic penalty box," CNN.com, http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/06/florida.michigan/index.html
glosses: A temporary punishment, or, metaphorically, a similar setback (e.g., loss of control, embarrassment, etc.).
Synonyms: topics: ice-hockey
skating
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: sin bin
ransom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæn.səm/
rhymes: -ænsəm
Forms: form: ransoms
Etymology: From the Middle English ransoun, from the Old French raençon, from stem of Latin redemptio. Entered English ca. the 13th century. Doublet of redemption.
Senses: examples: text: They were held for two million dollars ransom.
text: They were held to ransom.
text: Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.
ref: 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:
text: As rich as was the ransom Priam paid for Hektor, Hermes says, his remaining sons at Troy “'would give three times as much ransom / for you, who are alive, were Atreus' son Agamemnon / to recognize you.'”
ref: 2010, Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad:
glosses: Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
examples: text: prisoners hopeless of ransom
text: Till the fair slave be rendered to her sire; And ransom-free restored to his abode
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:
glosses: The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
examples: text: punished with imprisonment and ransom at the King's will
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
Derived terms: hold for ransom
hold ransom
hold to ransom
king's ransom
ransom note effect
ransom strip
ransomware
ransom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæn.səm/
rhymes: -ænsəm
Forms: form: ransoms
form: ransoming
form: ransomed
form: ransomed
Etymology: From the Middle English ransoun, from the Old French raençon, from stem of Latin redemptio. Entered English ca. the 13th century. Doublet of redemption.
Senses: glosses: To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
examples: text: to ransom prisoners from an enemy
text: And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords
And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat,
Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue
For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.
examples: text: Terrorists will continue to hold few detainees in undisclosed locations in order to ransom them for money or some other material profit, […]
ref: 2017, Bruce Oliver Newsome, James W. Stewart, Aarefah Mosavi, Countering New(est) Terrorism: Hostage-Taking, Kidnapping, and Active Violence — Assessing, Negotiating, and Assaulting, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To exact a ransom (payment) in exchange for the freedom of.
Related terms: bail
charwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charwomen
form: char-woman
Etymology: From char + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: The cloth was laid by an occasional charwoman, who officiated in the capacity of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s housekeeper; […]
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXVIII, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter IX, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: But there was nobody at Kig and Kadgit's except the charwoman wiping over the “lino” in the passage.
ref: 1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 163:
text: [H]e described the speech of the charwoman washing the hotel stairs and gave lists of words collected from the bathmen.
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 75:
glosses: A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.
Synonyms: word: char
word: charlady
word: Cinderella
word: cleaning woman
Derived terms: charwomanly
prettiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪt.i.ɪst/
Senses: examples: text: Beyond Merstone, the line rises on easy gradients to the small station of Godshill, serving what is said to be the prettiest village in the Isle of Wight.
ref: 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 244:
glosses: superlative form of pretty: most pretty
hives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Forms: form: hive
Etymology: Uncertain, but frequently connected with heave, even if such a derivation is phonologically difficult.
Senses: examples: text: So when I was diagnosed with a fairly difficult-to-treat disease called idiopathic angioedema and chronic urticaria (a fancy way of saying we don’t know why you swell and hey, enjoy the 24/7 hives) six months ago, I wasn't quite sure how to cope.
ref: 2014 January 20, Simona Supekar, “How the Internet Helped Me Cope With My Rare Disease”, in The Atlantic:
text: When she recovers enough to look down at her arms [...] she blinks to see them covered in faint, but rising, puffy welts. Hives. She's breaking out in hives.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 108:
glosses: Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions.
Synonyms: urticaria
nettle-rash
hives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Etymology: See hive
Senses: glosses: plural of hive
hives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Etymology: See hive
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hive
angioedema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌænd͡ʒiəʊ.ɪˈdiːmə/
Forms: form: angioedemas
form: angioœdema
form: angio-œdema
form: angiooedema
form: angio-oedema
form: angio-edema
Etymology: From angio- + edema.
Senses: examples: text: Angioedema of the throat can cause suffocation and should be treated as a medical emergency.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Swelling of the lower layers of the skin, often around the mouth, or of the mucosa or submucosa of the mouth or throat, which can appear quickly in response to an allergen or due to other conditions.
Synonyms: Quincke's edema
Related terms: angioedematous
Jenga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕnggə
ipa: /d͡ʒɛŋɡə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili -jenga (“to construct, to build”).
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A game where players take turns removing wooden blocks from a stack formed brickwise, the loser being the player whose actions cause the tower to collapse.
glosses: Any activity that involves great precision with a risk of great failure.
fornicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.nɪˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.nɪˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔː.nɪˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.nɪˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: fornicates
form: fornicating
form: fornicated
form: fornicated
Etymology: First attested in 1552; borrowed from Latin fornicātus, perfect active participle of fornicor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fornix (“arch, vault; brothel”). It was customary for courtesans of the era to wait for their customers out of the rain in arched passageways.
Senses: glosses: To engage in fornication.
Hypernyms: have sex
make love
seduce
copulate
Derived terms: Californicate
fornicated
fornicator
Fornigate
phonicate
telephonicate
fornicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.nɪ.kət/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.nɪ.kət/
ipa: /ˈfɔː.nɪ.kət/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.nɪ.kət/
Forms: form: more fornicate
form: most fornicate
form: fornicated
Etymology: First attested in 1828; from fornix + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like an arch or vault; resembling a fornix.
Derived terms: fornicate gyrus
subfornicate
bodega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /boʊˈdeɪɡə/
ipa: /boˈde.ɡɐ/
Forms: form: bodegas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish bodega, from Latin apotheca (“storehouse”), from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “storehouse”). Doublet of apotheke and boutique.
Senses: glosses: A storehouse for maturing wine, a winery.
glosses: A store specializing in Hispanic groceries.
examples: text: He […] finds himself looking across the street, at a little bodega on the corner.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 83:
text: The ensemble of (often shirtless) young people spend most of the film drinking malt liquor, taking drugs, robbing bodegas, assaulting skateboarders, and (especially) having and discussing sex.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Any convenience store.
glosses: Any small or medium-sized shop with a unique facade in a shopping center plaza, usually located in the center or the sides of the plaza. (Does not include the anchor tenant of the shopping center, as they are usually referred to as the anchor.)
examples: text: Copra as brought into town from the plantations in bull carts is hauled to the door of his bodega, and the sale is negotiated.
ref: 1925, Everett D. Gothwaite, Trade in Philippine Copra and Coconut Oil, page 51:
text: They allowed Filipinos to go inside the bodega of the Central and get all the sugar they needed.
ref: 1958, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Philippines, page 413:
text: Under the law, that is sufficient, and they make it clear that the value or the purchase prices is ₱100,000, and the bank is compelled under this proviso to accept the ricemill or bodega as sufficient collateral.
ref: 1960, Philippines. Congress (1940-1973). Senate, Republic of the Philippines Congressional Record:
glosses: A warehouse; a storeroom
Related terms: apothecary
boutique
refuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛfjuːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: refuges
Etymology: From Middle English refuge, from Old French refuge, from Latin refugium, from re- + fugiō (“flee”). Doublet of refugium.
Senses: examples: text: Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these / Find place or refuge.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A state of safety, protection or shelter.
examples: text: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
examples: text: Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.
ref: 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
examples: text: Their latest refuge / Was to send him.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: This is occaſioned by this, that too too often the Teaching of a Grammar School is the ordinary Refuge that deſperate Perſons as to any other Employment in good Learning betake themſelves to; whilﬅ but a few know themſelves ſuited with intellectual and moral Abilities, and fewer have that Encouragement, when they undertake it, their Pains deſerve.
ref: a. 1639, Henry Wotton, An Essay on the Education of Children, in the First Rudiments of Learning, London: T. Waller, published 1753, page 17:
glosses: An expedient to secure protection or defence.
glosses: A refuge island.
Synonyms: word: haven
word: sanctuary
word: zoar
word: asylum
word: bield
word: refuge
word: shelter
Hypernyms: word: place
Hyponyms: word: nature preserve
word: oasis
word: reservation
word: resort
word: retreat
word: sanctum
word: stronghold
Derived terms: city of refuge
harbor of refuge
harbour of refuge
house of refuge
pedestrian refuge
refugee
refugitive
refugium
take refuge
wildlife refuge
women's refuge
refuge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛfjuːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: refuges
form: refuging
form: refuged
form: refuged
Etymology: From Middle English refuge, from Old French refuge, from Latin refugium, from re- + fugiō (“flee”). Doublet of refugium.
Senses: examples: text: Among these macaques, although activity cycles are quite variable from location to location, refuging is a common characteristic.
ref: 2011, Michael D. Gumert, Agustín Fuentes, Lisa Jones-Engel, Monkeys on the Edge:
glosses: To return to a place of shelter.
glosses: To shelter; to protect.
sunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌŋk/
rhymes: -ʌŋk
Senses: glosses: past participle of sink
examples: text: Jonathan Swift
He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.
text: Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; […]
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 196:
glosses: past of sink
Related terms: sank
har
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
enpr: här
ipa: /hɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: hars
form: harr
form: harre
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English harre, herre, from Old English heorra (“hinge; cardinal point”), from Proto-West Germanic *herʀō, from Proto-Germanic *herzô (“hinge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerd- (“to move, sway, swing, jump”).
Cognate with Scots herre, harr, har (“hinge”), Dutch harre, her, har (“hinge”), Icelandic hjarri (“hinge”), Latin cardō (“hinge”).
Senses: glosses: A hinge.
har
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
enpr: här
ipa: /hɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: hardy har har
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!
ref: 1995, Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Nintendo, →OCLC, SNES, scene: Pirate Panic:
text: Armorer: 'THIS BE THE AERIAL ANVIL! NEED AN ARMOR UPGRADE? IF YOU NEED SOMETHING FORGED, I'M YOUR FELLA! HAR HAR!'
ref: 2014, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope, Nintendo 3DS, level/area: Armor Outpost:
glosses: A sound of laughter, with a sarcastic connotation.
har
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Pronunciation: enpr: hä
ipa: /hɑː/
enpr: här
ipa: /hɑɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 哈 (hâⁿ).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hah (interrogative particle).
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: har gow
deeper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdipɚ/
ipa: /ˈdiːpə/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of deep: more deep
nodded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑdɪd/
ipa: /ˈnɒdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nod
gazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪzɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gaze
gazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪzɪŋ/
Forms: form: gazings
Senses: examples: text: There is a dangerous freshness in the hues / Of the new bonnets which that day produces / Bright from the bandbox, be they greens or blues; / The aspect of a new pelisse conduces / To gazings which the gazer often rues.
ref: 1836, Francis Egerton Earl of Ellesmere, Town and Country, page 6:
text: To make matters worse, we pass through a torrential rainstorm, which makes window-gazing almost impossible, leaving me glad that the trip is less than 30 minutes duration.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
glosses: The act by which somebody gazes.
Derived terms: gazingly
gazingstock
moongazing
shoegazing
skygazing
sungazing
ungazing
shaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shake
shaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: shakings
Senses: glosses: A movement that shakes.
Derived terms: shaking palsy
safely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪfli/
Forms: form: more safely
form: safelier
form: most safely
form: safeliest
Etymology: From Middle English savely; equivalent to safe + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
text: Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.
ref: 2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN:
glosses: In a safe manner; without risk; using caution above all else.
examples: text: Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cassock stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: In a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting.
brethren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛðɹən/
Forms: form: brethern
form: bretheren
Etymology: From Early Modern English brethren, plural of brother, from Middle English brethren, from Middle English brethere, brether + -en (plural ending). Ultimately from Old English brōþor, brōþru (“brothers, brethren”), influenced by Old English brēþer, dative singular of brōþor (“brother”). Equivalent to brother + -en (plural ending). Compare German Brüder (“brothers, brethren”). More at brother. The vowel change (from o to e) is called umlaut.
Senses: examples: text: The Introit over, the service is interrupted for the feast. Contrary to the festive fashion of the nobles, who all sit with their swords beside them, here, in this feast of brethren, are no arms, not even a knife.
ref: 1863, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages translated by Lionel J. Trotter:
glosses: plural of brother
glosses: kinsmen
Derived terms: blood brethren
bredrin
Brethren
brethren in arms
brethren-in-law
co-brethren
half brethren
half-brethren
lay brethren
Social Brethren
step-brethren
stepbrethren
uterine brethren
womb-brethren
brethren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛðɹən/
Forms: form: brethern
form: bretheren
Etymology: From Early Modern English brethren, plural of brother, from Middle English brethren, from Middle English brethere, brether + -en (plural ending). Ultimately from Old English brōþor, brōþru (“brothers, brethren”), influenced by Old English brēþer, dative singular of brōþor (“brother”). Equivalent to brother + -en (plural ending). Compare German Brüder (“brothers, brethren”). More at brother. The vowel change (from o to e) is called umlaut.
Senses: glosses: The body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order.
Coordinate terms: sistren
brethren
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛðɹən/
Forms: form: more brethren
form: most brethren
form: brethern
form: bretheren
Etymology: From Early Modern English brethren, plural of brother, from Middle English brethren, from Middle English brethere, brether + -en (plural ending). Ultimately from Old English brōþor, brōþru (“brothers, brethren”), influenced by Old English brēþer, dative singular of brōþor (“brother”). Equivalent to brother + -en (plural ending). Compare German Brüder (“brothers, brethren”). More at brother. The vowel change (from o to e) is called umlaut.
Senses: examples: text: The principle still sounds good, but our astronomical knowledge is limited, and we haven't yet discovered any such brethren solar systems.
ref: 2009, Seth Shostak, Confessions of an Alien Hunter:
glosses: Of or akin to; related; like
Related terms: Brethren
brother
sistren and nun
friar and frater
father
brotherhood
sisterhood
fraternity
siblings