nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Henriette Part of Speech: name Etymology: From French Henriette, feminine form of Henri (“Henry”) coined in the seventeenth century; in English more popular as Harriet and Henrietta. 1. A female given name from French.
Word: Carlisle Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Carlele, from Middle English Carleol, Carleul, from Cumbric [Term?] (compare Caer Ligualid in the Historia Brittonum, Middle Welsh Caer Liwelydd, Welsh Caerliwelydd, all suffixed with -ydd), composed of Proto-Brythonic *kaɨr (“fort”) + Proto-Brythonic [Term?] (> Latin Luguvalium), from Proto-Celtic *Luguwalos (personal name, literally “strength of Lugus”), from *Lugus + *walos (“strength”). The absence of a suffix comparable to Welsh -ydd in the underlying Cumbric form is unexplained; see w:Cumbric/Absence of -ydd. Pronunciation: /kɑːɹˈlaɪl/, /kɑːˈlaɪl/, /ˈkɑːlaɪl/ 1. A city in and the county town of Cumbria, and formerly of the county of Cumberland, and in Cumberland unitary authority since 2023, northwestern England (OS grid ref NY3955). 2. A former local government district in Cumbria, existing in and around the city, created 1974 and abolished 2023, becoming part of Cumberland unitary authority. 3. A place in Canada: 4. A place in Canada: 5. A place in Canada: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A number of places in the United States: 14. A number of places in the United States: 15. A number of places in the United States: 16. A number of places in the United States: 17. A number of places in the United States: 18. A number of places in the United States: 19. A number of places in the United States: 20. A number of places in the United States: 21. A number of places in the United States: 22. A number of places in the United States: 23. A number of places in the United States: 24. A number of places in the United States: 25. A village in Saint George parish, Antigua and Barbuda. 26. A suburb of Perth in the Town of Victoria Park, Western Australia. 27. A habitational surname from Old English. 28. A unisex given name. Example: Mr. Alex Logan, of Shelbyville, Miss Carlisle Chenault, of Richmond, Miss Florie Chenault, of Richmond, are guests of Miss Christophera Chenault. Example: “Hey Keggie!” echo from her baby sister, Carlisle.
Word: Norris Part of Speech: name Etymology: An Anglo-Norman surname, from Old French norreis (“a northerner, a migrant from the north”). More at French norois. Pronunciation: /ˈnɔɹɪs/, /ˈnɑɹɪs/ 1. A surname from Old French. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname. 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States:
Word: Marcella Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Marcella. 1. A female given name from Latin. Example: Marcella and Nathaniel. Now I know their names. I haven't thought much about having children, but if I did, I wouldn't give them names like that. They're the sort of names you choose if you think you're someone to be reckoned with.
Word: Wallace Part of Speech: name Etymology: An Old English byname for a Welshman or Breton, from Anglo-Norman waleis (“foreign”); see wǣlisċ. Pronunciation: /ˈwɒlɪs/, /ˈwɑləs/, /ˈwɔləs/ 1. A Scottish surname transferred from the nickname, notably of the Scottish patriot William Wallace. Labels: countable Example: We are Harry Potter and William Wallace, the Na’vi and Han Solo. We’re escaping from Shawshank and blowing up the Death Star. We are fighting with the Harkonnens and challenging Thanos. Ukraine is hosting one of the great epics of this century. Example: Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery (Meredith Palmer). 2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage. Labels: countable 3. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 7. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 11. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 12. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 13. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 14. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 15. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 16. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 17. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 18. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 19. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 20. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable 21. A placename: Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Malcolm Part of Speech: name Etymology: Royal name in Scotland, anglicised from various historical Goidelic names equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim or Calum, Irish Maol Colm, Middle Irish Máel Coluim, Old Irish Máel Columb (literally “devotee of [Saint] Columba”); proper nouns derived from máel (“tonsured”) from Proto-Celtic *mailos, and columb (“dove”) from Latin columbus. Pronunciation: /ˈmæl.kəm/ 1. A male given name from Scottish Gaelic or Goidelic, variant of Calum or Callum, feminine equivalent Malcolmina, equivalent to Scottish Gaelic Maol Chaluim. Example: We will establish our estate upon / Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter / The Prince of Cumberland. 2. A surname. 3. A place name: 4. A place name: 5. A place name: 6. A place name:
Word: Cynthia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Cynthia, from Ancient Greek Κυνθία (Kunthía), feminine of Κύνθιος (Kúnthios, “Cynthian (of or pertaining to Mount Cynthus, a mountain of Delos, celebrated as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis)”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪn.θi.ə/ 1. Artemis (Greek goddess). 2. The Moon. Labels: literary Example: As when faire Cynthia, in darkesome night, / Is in a noyous cloud enveloped [...]. Example: [...] Cynthia's shining orb was made / Heav'n to clear when day did close [...]. 3. A female given name from Ancient Greek. Example: “Cynthia seems to me such an out-of-the-way name, only fit for poetry, not for daily use.” Example: Cynthia, the domestic-minded, looked as dashing as a young commando. It was a pity that her spelling was so bad, but perhaps there was something Elizabethan about her spelling as well as about her name.
Word: Shelley Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English, meaning "clearing on a bank". Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛli/ 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), a Romantic poet. 2. A habitational surname from Old English. 3. A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly before 1930 usage. 4. A diminutive of the male given name Sheldon. Labels: rare Example: Shelley Berman 5. A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1930s and later usage, also explained as a variant of Shirley or Michelle. Example: Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia, was juggling visits across her state and preparations to tee up a potential infrastructure deal when she learned that the top Senate Republican had described himself as “100 percent focused” on stopping President Biden’s agenda. 6. A diminutive of the female given name Rochelle. Example: Shelley Berkley 7. A number of places: 8. A number of places: 9. A number of places: 10. A number of places: 11. A number of places: 12. A number of places: 13. A number of places:
Word: birthrate Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From birth + rate. 1. The ratio of total live births to total population for a specific community or nation in a specified period; often expressed in births per thousand per year. Example: In higher education a similar transformation is being pulled forward: Colleges were expecting a grim landscape in the later 2020s, because 2010s birthrates were so low, but now a decline in foreign enrollment and an acceleration of online learning will threaten marginal state schools and possibly close small liberal-arts colleges much sooner. Example: In 2023, the birthrate fell for the eighth consecutive year to 0.72, the lowest in the world, from 1.24 in 2015, raising concerns over the economic shock to society from such a rapid pace.
Word: Sara Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Sara (“Sarah”). 1. A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah. Example: Through faith also Sara her selfe receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a child when she was past age, because she iudged him faithful who had promised. Example: Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara, as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined, &c. At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?
Word: Marguerite Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from French Marguerite in the 1860s. Doublet of Margaret, ultimately from the Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs, “pearl”). Pronunciation: /ˌmɑː(ɹ)ɡəˈɹiːt/ 1. A female given name from French.
Word: Lionel Part of Speech: name Etymology: A Middle English diminutive of French Léon, Latin Leo (“lion”), or of the Middle English nickname Lion + -el (diminutive suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪənl/ 1. A male given name from Latin of mostly British usage. Example: , Scene IV His grandfather was Lionel, Duke of Clarence, Third son to the third Edward, King of England. Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root? Example: "Yes. You see, I was born under the sign of Leo, though it's not my real name." "What is your real name?" I saw Marcus looking at me, but I couldn't refuse to tell her. "It's Lionel. But don't tell anyone." "Why not?" "Because it's rather a fancy name." 2. A village in Ness, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NB5363). From Scottish Gaelic.
Word: Cyrus Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Cȳrus, from Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros), from Old Persian 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁 (kuruš). As a saints' name it has been identified by folk etymology with Ancient Greek κύριος (kúrios, “lord”). Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪɹəs/ 1. An ancient king of Persia, Cyrus the Great. Example: Thus ſayeth Cyꝛus the kynge of Perſia: The LORDE God of heauẽ hath geuen me all the kyngdomes in the londe and hath commaunded me to buylde him an houſe at Ieruſalem in Iuda. Example: Furthermore, the superlative formulation of Cyrus’ character (he possesses kallos, philanthrōpia, philomathia and philotimia to an outstanding degree) may be thought to make him a supremely successful leader, but also a unique and not so easily imitated one (how many Cyruses do you know? Can you be Cyrus?). 2. A male given name from Old Persian. Example: Cyrus] There were two Cyri the greater, meant here, Conqueror of Aſia, Scythia, and all the Eaſt, reigning in the time of Tarquin the proud. […] The other was Cyrus the leſſer, ſonne to Darius, brother to Artaxerxes, whoſe iourney into Perſia, Xenophon wrote. [marginal note:] The tvvo Cyri. […] Cyri who they were. Example: At this passage the Behistun inscription does not enumerate the names of all the nine Achaemenians, but from an inscription Aššurbānapli to be dated to 639 B. C. we know that a certain Kuraš was the king of the country of Parsumaš at this time and this could be the grandfather of Cyrus «the Great». In the family tree between the two Cyri appears Cambyses I, who is mentioned by Herodotus. 3. A surname.
Word: Cyrus Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Cȳrus, from Ancient Greek Κῦρος (Kûros), perhaps from Urartian 𒆳𒄣𒊑𒀀𒉌 (ᴷᵁᴿqu-ri-a-ni /⁠Quriani⁠/), a land possibly in the upper reaches of the Kura river. Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪɹəs/ 1. The Kura river, as it is called in classical sources. Example: In the mountains near Suram is a watering-place called Burjan, to which the Imperial Lieutenant of the Caucasus retires in summer. The river Kur, the ancient Cyrus, takes its rise in that district.
Word: Cain Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Hebrew קַיִן (Káyin, “craftsman”), present since Old English. Pronunciation: /keɪn/, [kʰeɪn] 1. The son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother Abel. Example: According to the Book of Jubilees Cain got married to his sister Awan. Example: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to paſſe when they were in the field, that Cain roſe vp againſt Abel his brother, and ſlew him. 2. A male given name from Hebrew. Labels: rare 3. A surname.
Word: phosphorial Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative spelling of phosphoreal. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Seymour Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a Norman surname from a place in Normandy, from Old French Saint-Maur, from Late Latin Sanctus Maurus (“Saint Maurus”). The name is cognate to Murry and Maurice. Pronunciation: /ˈsiːmɔː(ɹ)/ 1. A surname from Anglo-Norman. 2. A male given name transferred from the surname. 3. A number of places in the United States: 4. A number of places in the United States: 5. A number of places in the United States: 6. A number of places in the United States: 7. A number of places in the United States: 8. A number of places in the United States: 9. A number of places in the United States: 10. A number of places in the United States: 11. A number of places in the United States: 12. A number of places in the United States: 13. A township north of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 14. A locality in Break O'Day Council, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Word: begotten Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /bɪˈɡɒt.ən/ 1. past participle of beget Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: And the dayes of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred yeeres: and he begate sonnes and daughters.
Word: begotten Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /bɪˈɡɒt.ən/ 1. Brought into being by one's begetter(s). Labels: not-comparable Example: ¶ For God so loued þe world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.
Word: phosphoreal Part of Speech: adj 1. of or relating to phosphorus Labels: obsolete 2. phosphorescent, glowing Labels: dated
Word: Jem Part of Speech: name 1. A diminutive of the male given names James, Jeremy, or Jeremiah. Example: You may know what one man thinks of another by his manner of calling him. Thomas and James and Richard and William are stupid young gentlemen; Tom and Jem and Dick and Will are fine spirited fellows. 2. A diminutive of the female given name Jemima.
Word: phosphoretic Part of Speech: adj 1. exhibiting phosphorescence
Word: phosphorgummite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From phosphor + gummite. 1. a form of gummite containing phosphorus
Word: Eton Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Old English *Ēatūn, from ea (“river”) + tun (“town”). See also the doublet Eaton. Pronunciation: /ˈiː.tən/, /ˈiː.ʔn̩/ 1. A town and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU965775). Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Ellipsis of Eton College, a prestigious public school for boys in Eton. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable 3. A town in Murray County, Georgia, United States. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A habitational surname from Old English. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Etonian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Eton Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Etonian From Eton + -ian. Pronunciation: /iːˈtəʊ.nɪ.ən/, /iˈtoʊ.ni.ən/ 1. One who is enrolled in or has graduated from Eton College.
Word: gummite Part of Speech: noun 1. A yellow, amorphous mineral, a mixture of oxides and silicates of uranium, formed by weathering of pitchblende. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Luigi Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Luigi. Doublet of Ludovico, Luis, Ludwig, and other cognates. The verb sense emerged shortly after the December 2024 killing of American healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; the accused is Luigi Mangione. Pronunciation: /luˈiːd͡ʒi/ 1. A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Louis. Example: A motherly woman lived there with her son, Luigi, a gay young man with an olive-oily skin, glistening teeth and a rubbery smile. Example: As the senior mafia padrone, Luigi Sansone used his four-man mafia team to start collections from Sicilian businesses on the Hill.
Word: Luigi Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Luigi. Doublet of Ludovico, Luis, Ludwig, and other cognates. The verb sense emerged shortly after the December 2024 killing of American healthcare CEO Brian Thompson; the accused is Luigi Mangione. Pronunciation: /luˈiːd͡ʒi/ 1. To assassinate. Labels: Internet, neologism Example: ProPublica was working on this story before UHC’s CEO got Luigied: Example: I mean, some probably think that Luiging people might be fine?
Word: reservance Part of Speech: noun 1. Reservation. Labels: archaic, rare, uncountable
Word: reserate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Proto-Indo-European *ser-der. Proto-Italic *serō Latin serō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin sera Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin reserō, reserātusbor. English reserate Borrowed from Latin reserō, reserātus (“I unlock, open”). 1. To unlock; to open. Labels: obsolete
Word: phosphorise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From phosphor + -ise. 1. Alternative spelling of phosphorize. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: troth Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe (“allegiance, fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty; oath, pledge, promise; betrothal or marriage vow; betrothal; honour, integrity; holiness, righteousness; confidence, trust; creed, faith; fact, reality, truth”), from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity; faith, fidelity; covenant, pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of truth. Pronunciation: /tɹəʊθ/, /tɹɒθ/, /tɹoʊθ/, /tɹɔθ/ 1. An oath, pledge, plight, or promise. Labels: archaic, countable Example: By my troth I care not, a man can die but once, we owe God a death, [...] Example: And by my faith and troth I have a good part of a mind to have thee beaten for thine insolence! 2. An oath, pledge, plight, or promise. Labels: archaic, countable Example: ...I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter'd by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth;... Example: It follows, as a natural consequence, that the two who stood alone in the new faith, [...] should, finally, make mutual confession of the passion that had surprised both, in the early pride of man and womanhood; should exchange rings, and plight troths where the pleasaunce joined the river, as young lovers do still probably exchange rings and plight troths, by the old Cheshire river. 3. An oath, pledge, plight, or promise. Labels: archaic, countable Example: I did, therefore, what an honest man should; restored the maiden her troth, and departed the country, in the service of my king. 4. Truth; something true. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: [John] Martiall, much like to Virgil's Sinon, (of whom he took a precedent, to make an artificial lie,) for three leaves together, in his preface, telleth undoubted trothes; to the end that the falsehoods, which, foolishly, (God wot,) he doth infer, may have the more credit. Example: I can̄ot lerne Banister's confession upon the racke as yet; but he was put to the racke for denying of moost manifest trothes at the first.
Word: troth Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English troth, trothe, trouthe, trowthe, a variant of treuth, treuthe, treouthe (“allegiance, fidelity, faithfulness, loyalty; oath, pledge, promise; betrothal or marriage vow; betrothal; honour, integrity; holiness, righteousness; confidence, trust; creed, faith; fact, reality, truth”), from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity; faith, fidelity; covenant, pledge”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“contract; promise”), equivalent to true + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Doublet of truth. Pronunciation: /tɹəʊθ/, /tɹɒθ/, /tɹoʊθ/, /tɹɔθ/ 1. To pledge to marry somebody. Labels: obsolete
Word: resentive Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English resent Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English resentive From resent + -ive. 1. Resentful Labels: rare
Word: resentingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English resenting Middle English -ly English -ly English resentingly From resenting + -ly. 1. With resentment, or a sense of wrong or affront.
Word: resentiment Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French ressentiment, from an archaic usage of the verb ressentir, via Old French sentir from Latin sentiō, sentīre (“to feel”). Doublet of resentment and ressentiment. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɛn.ti.mənt/ 1. Feeling or sense of anything; the state of being deeply affected by anything. 2. Obsolete form of resentment. Labels: alt-of, obsolete
Word: Marcia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Marcia, feminine form of Marcius, a derivative of Marcus, ultimately from Mārs, the god of war. Pronunciation: /ˈmɑɹʃə/, /ˈmɑːʃə/ 1. A female given name from Latin. Example: “Decades of climate research and data have yielded expanded understanding of how greenhouse gases affect the climate,” NAS president Marcia McNutt said in a statement.
Word: reassure Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Old French rasseürer (French rassurer), from re- + asseürer; as if re- + assure. Pronunciation: /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊə(ɹ)/, /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/, /ˌɹi.əˈʃɝ/ 1. To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or self-doubt. Labels: transitive Example: The boy's mother reassured him that there was no monster hiding under the bed. Example: What is more, I call upon the greater part of you as witnesses to my statement, and I appeal to all of you who have ever listened to me talking (and there are a great many to whom this applies) to reassure one another on this point. 2. To reinsure. Labels: transitive
Word: Horatio Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Latin Horātius, a Roman gens name of uncertain meaning, possibly “timekeeper”. Doublet of Horace. Pronunciation: /həˈɹeɪʃiəʊ/ 1. A male given name from Latin. Example: There are more things in heauen and earth Horatio, Then are Dream’t of, in your philoſophie, […]
Word: Johann Part of Speech: name 1. A male given name from German Johann.
Word: Brooke Part of Speech: name Etymology: A topographic surname for someone who lived near a brook. Pronunciation: /bɹʊk/, /bɹʉk/ 1. A surname from Middle English. 2. A female given name transferred from the surname, fairly popular since the 1970s. it was further popularized by Brooke Shields in the 80s. 3. A village and civil parish (without a council) in Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK8405).
Word: comprends Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of comprend Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: Old Etonian Part of Speech: noun 1. A former student of Eton College
Word: Hons Part of Speech: noun 1. Abbreviation of honours. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of
Word: Astalak Part of Speech: name 1. A village in Qazvin County, Iran.
Word: space hoppers Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of space hopper Labels: form-of, plural
Word: requiter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From requite + -er. 1. One who requites.
Word: requite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English requiten (“to repay”), and then partly from both of the following: * From re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backward’) + quiten (“to pay, pay for; to repay; to acquit (someone of a charge), exonerate; to prove (oneself) innocent; to answer, reply; to atone for (a sin); to compensate, make amends; to depart, leave; to equal, match; to fulfil (an obligation); to give back, return; to give up, relinquish; to release, set free; to render (a service); to reward; to give retribution, take revenge”) (from Old French quitter (“to free, liberate”) (modern French quitter), from quitte (“free, liberated”) + -er (suffix forming verbs)). Quitte is derived from Latin quiētus (“at rest; quiet”), the perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“to repose, rest; to sleep; to be quiet or still”), from quiēs (“rest, repose; sleep; calm, peace, quiet”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest; peace, rest”)) + -scō (suffix forming verbs with the sense ‘to begin to do [something]’). * From Old French requiter, requitter (“to free or liberate again”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + quitter (see above). The noun is derived from the verb. Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkwaɪt/, /ɹəˈkwaɪt/, /ɹi-/ 1. Chiefly in the form in requite for or of: synonym of requital (“compensation for damage or loss; return in kind, recompense, repayment, reward”).
Word: honey plant Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈhʌni ˌplɑːnt/, /ˈhʌni ˌplænt/ 1. Any plant from which bees usually collect nectar, pollen, or both for making honey. Example: I have no doubt that where I live one thousand hives will provide for themselves and gather surplus honey wherever one can. It is not with honey plants, as with other pasturage, which once eaten off takes time and favoring showers to cause a new growth. Example: [T]he only reason that buckwheat is considered valuable as a honey plant, is because it blooms generally in dry weather late in the fall, when the difference in the temperature between two o'clock in the day and two o'clock at night is sufficient to favor the production of honey. 2. The name of a number of not closely related plants. Example: HOYA CORIACEA. Thick leaved Hoya. […] Those of our readers unacquainted with the genus will, perhaps, understand us better by saying, that this is a kind of honey plant, familiar to most persons, with its waxy white flowers, and often grown in windows. The Hoya coriacea appears to be a thicker foliaged plant, stronger in its stem, and perhaps less inclined to become a twiner or creeper than the common honey plant. Example: Hoya carnosa (Thick-leaved).—Foliage large, flowers in large drooping corymbs; they are of a pinkish-white colour, and contain, or rather yield, drops of pure sweet honey; hence this fine old plant is known as the Honey plant. 3. The name of a number of not closely related plants. Example: Honey-plant [Melissa officinalis L[innaeus] [i.e., Carl Linnaeus] (family Lamiaceae)] contains a very low concentration of essential oil in leaves (0.02–0.2 vol%). Example: Honey plant [Honey-plant] – Melissa officinalis L., […] 4. The name of a number of not closely related plants. Example: English name: Honey Plant […] Species and varieties: Ammi majus L. […] Example: Ammi majus Linnaeus […] in English: bishop's flower, bishop's weed, bullwort, crow's foot, devil's carrot, false Queen Anne's lace, greater ammi, herb william, honey plant, lace flower, large bulwort, mayweed, Queen Anne's lace, toothpick ammi
Word: sausage party Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From sausage, a slang term for the penis. Pronunciation: /ˈsɔ.sɪdʒ ˌpɑɹ.ti/ 1. A gathering with many more men than women. Labels: derogatory, slang Example: 1999 March 1, Billy (an anonymous American teenager), journal entry, published in Real Teens, Volume 5: Diary of a Junior Year, Scholastic Paperbacks (2000), →ISBN, page 76, Ok, so it was actually a sausage party, which means ha ha there weren’t so many girls there but it was still pretty great. Example: Of course, it doesn’t seem like a miracle that there’d be a lady at a metal show unless you’d been touring with a useless, plodding sausage party like say, oh I don’t know . . . Anthrax.
Word: point of inevitability Part of Speech: noun 1. In sexual intercourse or masturbation, a level of sexual arousal in the male that results in orgasm and ejaculation, i.e., climax. It is that point at which ejaculating becomes inevitable.
Word: mineola Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of minneola. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: dogwood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dag + wood, from dag (“a sharp object”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɒɡwʊd/ 1. Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The wood of such trees and shrubs. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Dortmund Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Dortmund. 1. A major city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany. Example: At the age of 22, the Norwegian forward had already established himself as one of the best goalscorers in European football – first at Red Bull Salzburg, then with two prolific seasons at Borussia Dortmund.
Word: RSFSR Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /ɑː.ɛs.ɛf.ɛsˈɑː/, /ɑɹ.ɛs.ɛf.ɛsˈɑɹ/ 1. Initialism of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: RSJ Part of Speech: noun 1. Initialism of rolled steel joist. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Word: blow this popsicle stand Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown, although several theories with no basis in fact have been circulated. 1. To leave an establishment speedily. Labels: US, humorous, slang Example: Well, we've been at this bar for two hours; let's blow this popsicle stand and go to the nightclub.
Word: apologetic apostrophe Part of Speech: noun 1. An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word. Example: While not all agreements were carried out as planned, what this attempt at consistency achieved in Smith's case was to give his poetry the appearance of a distinctive literary language, related to English, but having its own identity and forms, and without the distraction for the reader of the apologetic apostrophes. 2. A similar apostrophe added to a present participle of the -in form in English or in Scots, producing -in', according to the emic notion that the /ŋ/ is always contracted (as opposed to the forms coexisting allophonically).
Word: karakul Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the town Qorakoʻl, from Uzbek, meaning black lake. 1. A sheep of a Central Asian breed. 2. A type of hat made from the wool of these sheep. Example: The karakul hats took me back to a stifling summer afternoon in Kiev and the memory of a squadron of Cossack cavalry exercising down a cobbled street […].
Word: white-collar crime Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Introduced by American sociologist Edwin Sutherland. 1. Non-violent crime, generally for personal gain and often involving money. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Fraud and embezzlement are examples of white-collar crime.
Word: bullhead Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bull + head. Pronunciation: /ˈbʌlˌhɛd/ 1. any of a variety of related species of generally dark-colored catfish in the family Ictaluridae. Labels: Canada, US 2. any of a variety of related species of generally dark-colored catfish in the family Ictaluridae. Labels: Canada, US 3. any of a variety of related species of generally dark-colored catfish in the family Ictaluridae. Labels: Canada, US 4. Any of various sculpins of the suborder Scorpaenoidei Labels: Europe 5. The European bullhead, Cottus gobio. Labels: Europe 6. A fish of species Gobiomorphus gobioides. Labels: New-Zealand 7. A bullhead shark (Heterodontus spp.). 8. An obstinate person. Labels: rare 9. A bullhead rail. 10. A chronograph (watch or stopwatch) with two push buttons arranged like the horns of a bull on the top end of the case, typically with the crown between them.
Word: kepi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French képi, from Switzerland German Käppi, diminutive of Kappe, from Middle High German kappe, from Old High German kappa, from Latin cappa. Akin to English cap. Pronunciation: /ˈkɛpi/ 1. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor, particularly associated with French uniforms. Example: Appleby[…]rose from his seat when Morales came in. He shook hands urbanely, unbuckled his sword, and laid his kepi on the table, and then sat down with an expression of concern in his olive face which Appleby fancied was assumed. Example: Rather should it be said that these ladies wore dress of military style, since there was nothing uniform about their outfits, one being in powder-blue with silver buttons and a forage-cap, the other in tan with gold buttons and the dinkiest of red-peaked kepis.
Word: kibbutzim Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of kibbutz Labels: form-of, plural
Word: bullheaded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bull + headed. 1. Unreasonably stubborn. Example: John was so bullheaded that he kept driving and refused to stop for directions, even after getting hopelessly lost. Example: “I know, my dear. I’ve lived with these bullheaded Sartorises for eighty years, and I’ll never give a single ghost of ’em the satisfaction of shedding a tear over him. What did Horace’s message say?”
Word: kidskin Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From kid + skin. 1. The skin or hide of a kid, i.e., a young goat. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonym: goatskin 2. The leather made from such skins. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Keeshond Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Dutch keeshond. Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪ̯sn̩d/, /ˈkeɪ̯zn̩d/ 1. A spitz bred in the Netherlands and Germany, characterized by a fluffy coat of silver and black fur.
Word: kirsch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French kirsch, from German Kirschwasser (“cherry water”). Doublet of cerise and cherry. Pronunciation: /kɪə(ɹ)ʃ/, /kɜː(ɹ)ʃ/ 1. A clear brandy made from black cherries: kirschwasser. Labels: capitalized, often, uncountable, usually
Word: kitchenware Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English kitchen Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English kitchenware From kitchen + -ware. 1. Instruments and utensils found in a kitchen, particularly those associated with the preparation and serving of food. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: The new chef reorganized the space where we keep the pots, pans, and other kitchenware. Example: He works in the kitchenware section of the department store.
Word: keyboarder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From keyboard + -er. 1. Someone who keyboards; a typist. 2. Synonym of keyboardist.
Word: kindheartedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English kindhearted Middle English -ly English -ly English kindheartedly From kindhearted + -ly. 1. In a kindhearted manner.
Word: kindheartedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English kindhearted Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English kindheartedness From kindhearted + -ness. 1. The quality of being kindhearted. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: king-sized Part of Speech: adj 1. Unusually large, used especially of a king-sized bed. Labels: not-comparable
Word: klutziness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English klutzy Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English klutziness From klutzy + -ness. 1. The quality of being klutzy, or being a klutz. Labels: uncountable
Word: constabulary Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From mediaeval Latin conestabularia, a noun use of the feminine version of conestabularius, from Latin constabulus, from comes stabuli, literally ‘master of the stables’. Pronunciation: /kənˈstæbjʊləɹi/ 1. Of or relating to constables. Labels: not-comparable 2. Characteristic of police; police-like, rather than military. Labels: not-comparable Example: Constabulary missions are different from fighting wars.
Word: constabulary Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From mediaeval Latin conestabularia, a noun use of the feminine version of conestabularius, from Latin constabulus, from comes stabuli, literally ‘master of the stables’. Pronunciation: /kənˈstæbjʊləɹi/ 1. A police force. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. The police in a particular district or area. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary. Example: As Hiro is entering their neighborhood, he sees men running down the undulating pontoon bridge that serves as the main street, carrying guns and knives. The local constabulary.
Word: gamefish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From game + fish. 1. Fish deemed suitable for the sport of angling, as opposed to those caught primarily for food.
Word: messageing Part of Speech: noun 1. Misspelling of messaging. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: compartmentation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.? Proto-Italic *partis Latin pars Latin partiō Latin partior Latin compartīrībor. Italian compartire Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Italian -mento Italian compartimentobor. Middle French compartimentder. English compartment Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English compartmentation From compartment + -ation. Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɑːtmɛnˈteɪʃn̩/, /kəmˈpɑɹtmɛnˈteɪʃn̩/ 1. Division into compartments; compartmentalization. Example: The fire spread rapidly after the building's compartmentation failed. Example: The reason for this compartmentation is FLAMETIGHT INTEGRITY. The purpose should be obvious: Propellent powder in flammable silk bags is always dangerous; compartmentation confines flame and explosive gas to the space in which it originates. 2. Division into compartments; compartmentalization. Example: The Titanics compartmentation' did not stop water from entering rooms. Example: Compartmentation of the hull.—It has become the accepted practice in conventional rigid-airship construction to subdivide the buoyant gas into numerous independent containers[…] 3. The dissemination of information and knowledge between different people or organisations on a need-to-know basis, so as to reduce the risk of espionage should one person or organisation be compromised externally; compartmentalization. Example: Nevertheless the principles of compartmentation of information and need to know are essential to secrecy.
Word: compass rose Part of Speech: noun 1. A graduated circle, usually marked in degrees, indicating directions and printed or inscribed on an appropriate medium, often a map.
Word: KTV Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Chinese KTV. Late 1980s Taiwanese Pseudo-English initialism from Japanese カラオケ (karaoke) + English TV. Modelled after the earlier MTV "movie TV", which in turn repurposed the initialism from the earlier meaning "music TV", copied from the American cable TV network of that name. This term is chiefly used in mainland China, Taiwan and Cambodia and Chinese speakers globally. 1. Karaoke television, a form of interactive musical entertainment. Labels: China, regional, uncountable Example: Most KTV clubs in Taiwan have since followed a single architectural formula: […] Example: They are enshrined and worshiped on the table as ‘holy scripture’ for KTV devotees. 2. Karaoke box, a karaoke entertainment establishment. Labels: China, countable, regional Example: The longest take of the film, where the underwold and political figures decide the case of Flatty and Kao in the shadowy interstices of a KTV, […] Example: “Anyway, in order to take my mind off of the problem, my wife suggested we go to a KTV,” Su said.
Word: KTV Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Kondatam TV. 1. Kondatam Television (a popular Tamil TV channel)
Word: quantum gravitation Part of Speech: noun 1. The quantum theory of the gravitational field. Labels: uncountable 2. The study of quantum fields in curved spacetime. Labels: uncountable
Word: quantum solid Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of a class of solids (such as that of helium) whose atoms or molecules undergo large zero-point motion even in the quantum ground state (at absolute zero).
Word: communications zone Part of Speech: noun 1. The rear part of a theater of war or theater of operations (behind but contiguous to the combat zone) which contains the lines of communications, establishments for supply and evacuation, and other agencies required for the immediate support and maintenance of the field forces.
Word: zero-point Part of Speech: adj 1. associated with zero on any scale, but particularly with a temperature of absolute zero Labels: not-comparable
Word: wet fly Part of Speech: noun 1. A lure for fly fishing designed to be fished beneath the surface of the water. Example: […] it was with the wet fly that he really knew happiness, trailing it, subtly, seductively under the surface, tempting the fish on to the hook, feeling their play and reading their mind from the tug and pressure beneath the surface of the water.
Word: wet fly Part of Speech: adv 1. Using such a lure. Labels: not-comparable Example: […] he had a spinning rod and a fly rod, but the rivers were too shallow and too swift for spinning, and he preferred to fish wet fly.
Word: muumuu Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian muʻumuʻu. Pronunciation: /ˈmuːmuː/ 1. A long loose-fitting dress made of lightweight fabric printed with bright, stylized Hawaiian themes (such as flowers and palm branches). Example: Short and zoftig, she wore muumuus and rose-tinted, oversize glasses, was loud, abrasive, and very funny.
Word: quark-gluon plasma Part of Speech: noun 1. A predicted state of matter, containing deconfined quarks and gluons, present in the very early universe (first millionth of a second), and recreated at extremely high energy densities, such as those in the collision of heavy atomic nuclei as speeds very close to the speed of light. Labels: uncountable, usually
Word: mustached Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of moustached. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: state of matter Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of the different phases of matter whose properties are dependent on the motions and forces of the molecules of which they are composed.
Word: mustachio Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from the Italian dialectal mustaccio (from Neapolitan) or mustacchio, ultimately from Ancient Greek. 1. A mustache, especially a large or lush one. Example: Dompierre twirled his mustachios in relieved approval.
Word: mustachio Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from the Italian dialectal mustaccio (from Neapolitan) or mustacchio, ultimately from Ancient Greek. 1. To adorn with a mustachio, or something that resembles a mustachio. Example: Mayonnaise mustachioed their mouths, melted butter ran down their chins, crab juice ran down their arms and soacked the newspapers Kate had spread on the floor, and the empty shells piled steadily higher in the emptied cooking pot she had placed in the center of the table for just that purpose. Example: We kissed beside the river, we kissed behind her sisters' backs, we kissed with the crema of a freshly made coffee still mustachioing our lips.
Word: quartz clock Part of Speech: noun 1. Any timepiece that makes use of the piezoelectric property of a quartz crystal.
Word: piezoelectric Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peys- Proto-Indo-European *peysd-der.? Ancient Greek πῐέζω (pĭézō) English piezo- Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric English piezoelectric From piezo- + electric. 1. of or relating to piezoelectricity Labels: not-comparable Example: He developed a piezoelectric device that harnesses energy from heat, movement and pressure – all which occur naturally in the environment.
Word: piezoelectric Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peys- Proto-Indo-European *peysd-der.? Ancient Greek πῐέζω (pĭézō) English piezo- Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor. Latin ēlectrum Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus New Latin ēlectricusbor. English electric English piezoelectric From piezo- + electric. 1. A piezoelectric material or device.
Word: quasicrystal Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷís Proto-Italic *kʷis Proto-Indo-European *kʷ- Proto-Indo-European *kʷos Proto-Italic *kʷoi Latin quam Proto-Indo-European *sóder. Proto-Italic *sei Latin sī univ. Latin quasī̆bor. English quasi- English crystal English quasicrystal From quasi- + crystal. 1. any solid with conventional crystalline properties but exhibiting a point group symmetry inconsistent with translational periodicity
Word: point group Part of Speech: noun 1. A group of isometries leaving a fixed point.
Word: racemization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English raceme Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English racemization From raceme + -ization. 1. The formation of a racemate from a pure enantiomer. Labels: countable, physical, uncountable
Word: radar astronomy Part of Speech: noun 1. A technique that uses radar echoes to examine bodies within the solar system, obtaining information about size, shape, topography, surface density, spin etc. Labels: uncountable
Word: radar meteorology Part of Speech: noun 1. The application of radar to the study of the atmosphere, and to the observation and prediction of weather.
Word: unwholesome Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unholsom; equivalent to un- + wholesome. Pronunciation: /ˌənˈhoʊlsəm/, /ˌənˈhəʊlsəm/ 1. Not wholesome; unfavorable to health; unhealthful. Example: unwholesome air, or food Example: Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore. 2. Not sound; tainted; defective. Example: There was something indefinably unwholesome about him. Something lean and snakelike. 3. Indicating unsound health; characteristic of or suggesting an unsound condition, physical or mental; repulsive; offensive.