nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: mule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Italic *musklos? Latin mūlus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin mūla Anglo-Norman mulebor. ▲ Latin mūlusbor. Proto-West Germanic *mūl Old English mūl Middle English mule English mule Inherited from Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule (“she-mule”) and Old English mūl, both ultimately from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin). Pronunciation: /mjuːl/, /mjuːəl/, /mjʉl/, /mjuwəɫ/ 1. The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. Example: One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone. 2. The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals. Example: It would be exceedingly interesting to know if the hybrid would reproduce, a matter I deem exceedingly doubtful, for the chances are it would prove a "mule" (infertile). 3. A hybrid plant. Labels: archaic Example: Vegetable mules supply an irrefragable argument in favour of the sexual system of botany. Example: The most extraordinary mule, however, that is asserted to have been produced on the Continent, is a cross between the cabbage and horse-radish, which Monsieur Sageret reports that he has obtained […] 4. A stubborn person. Labels: informal Example: "Where in the hell do you think I learned to be such a mule?” 5. A person paid to smuggle drugs. Labels: slang Example: Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage. Example: “Yeah, in Denver, we know about Uriarte's involvement in meth. Our Las Cruces office seized over six hundred pounds of methamphetamine from two of his mules last year.” 6. A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error. Example: What is less clear, however, is why mint workers should have chosen to produce mules, if they were making forgeries […] 7. A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character. Example: He was in the middle of organizing his massive stash of rare and exquisite bounty, all kept safely in the inventory cache of a mule, an entirely separate character which he paid a monthly fee to maintain exclusively for that purpose. 8. Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors. 9. A kind of triangular sail for a yacht. Example: In heavier seas where a boat must sail a course dictated by waves, or where wave action makes power more important than pointing, the mule will prove the faster sail. 10. A kind of cotton-spinning machine.
Word: mule Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Italic *musklos? Latin mūlus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin mūla Anglo-Norman mulebor. ▲ Latin mūlusbor. Proto-West Germanic *mūl Old English mūl Middle English mule English mule Inherited from Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule (“she-mule”) and Old English mūl, both ultimately from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin). Pronunciation: /mjuːl/, /mjuːəl/, /mjʉl/, /mjuwəɫ/ 1. To smuggle (illegal drugs). Labels: slang, transitive Example: There are many drug lords, each with his own corridor (think of it as a franchise of sorts) funneling narcotics into Texas. There are multifold methods of transport. The old, and still viable, way is to "mule" it across the Rio Grande in a small boat. Example: Thornton was supposed to mule it back to the States from one of the ports he stopped in, give it to Maxwell and Ames, and get the second half of a quarter-million.
Word: mule Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle French mule (“backless slipper”), from Medieval Latin mula (“slipper, shoe with a thick sole”), presumably from classical Latin mulleus, the dyed shoe of either the patricians or senators, from mūllus (“red mullet”) + -eus (“-y: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos). Pronunciation: /mjuːl/, /mjuːəl/, /mjʉl/, /mjuwəɫ/ 1. Any shoe with an upper covering the front of the foot but without a back flap or strap, leaving the heel exposed. Example: The bride was a shocking housekeeper and dragged round all day in boudoir cap, frowsy negligee and mules—slip, slop, slip, slop. Example: Routine dress for Tuesday will be bra and panties with high-heel satin mules.
Word: hinny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hinnus, from Ancient Greek ἴννος (ínnos), γίννος (gínnos). Possibly cognate with hinnire (“to whinny”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɪ.ni/ 1. The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female donkey). Example: The curer said nothing to the cowboy but went straight to the mule, or hinny, rather, being out of San's big jenny by Alder's white horse.
Word: hinny Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Alteration of whinny, which is onomatopoeic. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪ.ni/ 1. To whinny
Word: hinny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From standard English honey. Pronunciation: /ˈhɪ.ni/ 1. A term of endearment usually for women. Labels: Geordie Example: Open the door, my hinny, my heart, / Open the door, my own darling; / Mind you the words that you and I spoke, / Down in the meadow, at the World’s End Well. Example: `You will make a great diagnostician, nae doot, my hinny, but you need tae improve your bedside manner.'
Word: mit Part of Speech: noun 1. Dated form of mitt Labels: alt-of, dated Example: Baseball mits should be attached to this background in their right positions. At home plate, or bottom, place a catcher's mit and below that cross two baseball bats.
Word: lofty Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lofty, lofti, lofte (“of high rank; noble; ornate”), equivalent to loft (“sky, firmament; upper room”) + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒfti/, /ˈlɔːfti/, /ˈlɑfti/ 1. High, tall, having great height or stature. Example: The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes. Example: On my left was a river, which came roaring down from a range of lofty mountains right before me to the south-east. 2. Idealistic, implying over-optimism. Example: a lofty goal Example: A goal from Steven Caulker, just after the hour mark, was enough to hand victory to Malky Mackay's men, with Swansea falling some way short of the lofty standards they have set previously at this level. 3. Extremely proud; arrogant; haughty. Example: that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
Word: loft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”). Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft. Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”). Pronunciation: /lɒft/, /lɔft/, /lɑft/ 1. Air, the air; the sky, the heavens. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 2. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: an artist's loft 4. The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: maximum loft 5. A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a choir loft 6. A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: a Manhattan loft Example: Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple. 7. Ellipsis of pigeon loft. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Example: Releasing some of the 12,000 racing pigeons that had arrived by special train (in foreground) at Dumfries Station for a race to their home lofts in Lanarkshire and West Lothian 8. The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward). Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A lofted drive. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. A floor or room placed above another. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft.
Word: loft Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”). Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft. Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”). Pronunciation: /lɒft/, /lɔft/, /lɑft/ 1. To propel high into the air. Labels: transitive Example: Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal. 2. To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled Labels: intransitive Example: When she saw houses lofting past her window, she ran to the child, who slept on a feather bed and she gathered the coverlet around them both. 3. To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface. 4. To furnish with a loft space. Labels: transitive Example: Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves. 5. To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else. Labels: transitive Example: Lofting a bed is much harder work than it seems, and pulling a nail out with the back of a hammer is much simpler than using your own nails.
Word: loft Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”). Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft. Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”). Pronunciation: /lɒft/, /lɔft/, /lɑft/ 1. Lofty; proud; haughty. Labels: obsolete, rare Example: A heart, where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt
Word: goldfish Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰĺ̥h₃-to-mder. Proto-Germanic *gulþą Proto-West Germanic *golþ Old English gold Middle English gold English gold Proto-Indo-European *péysks Proto-Germanic *fiskaz Proto-West Germanic *fisk Old English fisċ Middle English fisch English fish English goldfish From gold + fish. Pronunciation: /ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ/ 1. A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored. Example: For the children's fair we'll have a few games they can play, so that each child "wins" a goldfish as a prize. Example: However, unless you have a nonshedding, nonlicking breed, there's no such thing as a truly hypoallergenic dog. How about a nice goldfish instead? 2. A person with an unreliable memory. Labels: figuratively, informal 3. Nonstandard form of Goldfish (“a small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish”). Labels: alt-of, nonstandard Example: Tomato soup is not complete without a toasted cheese sandwich and goldfishes. Not the new kind with the smiley faces though. Example: The only solids he will eat are the Gerber Puffs, Cheerios, maybe some goldfish, and oyster crackers.
Word: aloft Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Old Norse á lopti (“in the sky”); equivalent to a- + loft. Pronunciation: /əˈlɔft/, /əˈlɑft/, /əˈlɒft/ 1. At, to, or in the air or sky. Example: high winds aloft 2. Above, overhead, in a high place; up. Example: Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft. Example: He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down, replacing the blade in the sheath. 3. In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging. Example: I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft?
Word: Bremen Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Bremen. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪmən/, /ˈbɹɛmən/ 1. The capital city of the state of Bremen, in northwest Germany, on the Weser river. 2. A state of Germany, composed of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven. 3. A community in the Rural Municipality of Bayne No. 371, Saskatchewan, Canada. 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 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:
Word: sterile Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle French stérile, from Latin sterilis (“barren, futile”). See also Ancient Greek στεῖρα (steîra). Pronunciation: /ˈstɛɹaɪl/, /ˈstɛɹəl/ 1. Unable to reproduce (or procreate). Labels: not-comparable Example: According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah. 2. Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking. Labels: figuratively 3. Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive. Labels: figuratively 4. Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms. Example: a sterile kitchen table 5. Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes. 6. Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint. 7. Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States. Labels: US Example: An early CIA decision was to bring war surplus in Europe to the United States, rather than let it fall into the hands of left-wing movements. Some of the guns would also, it was reasoned, be useful as "sterile" weapons (foreign-made and untraceable to the United States) to be provided secretly to foreign friends. Example: In addition to this rapid supply system, the US Army Counterinsurgency Support Office on Okinawa helped procure special equipment including rucksacks, special rations for irregular troops, 'sterile' weapons which could not be traced to the USA and other items not procurable through foreign channels.
Word: offspring Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring. Pronunciation: /ˈɒfspɹɪŋ/, /ˈɔfspɹɪŋ/, /ˈɑfspɹɪŋ/ 1. A person's daughter or son; a person's child. Example: We are the offspring of Italian immigrants. 2. Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations. 3. An animal or plant's progeny or young. Example: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. 4. Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts. Labels: figuratively Example: Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring. 5. A process launched by another process.
Word: Hesse Part of Speech: name Etymology: Borrowed from German Hesse. Pronunciation: /ˈhɛs/, /ˈhɛsə/, /ˈhɛsi/ 1. A state of modern Germany. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. A medieval principality and former duchy in Central Europe. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania. 3. A surname from German. Labels: countable
Word: hybrid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, an offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”). Attested since 1601, but rare before c. 1850. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd/ 1. Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains. Example: Lastly, the hybrids or mongrels from between all the domestic breeds of pigeons are perfectly fertile. 2. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. Example: Starting in the mid-1940s, the legendary Danish designer Hans Wegner created a series of chairs inspired by Ming Dynasty furnishings, their streamlined frames a hybrid of imperial Chinese forms and Scandinavian modernism. 3. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. Example: Toyota Motor Corp. detailed plans to invest $912 million to increase output of hybrid components and vehicles across five states, part of a broader $10 billion commitment in the US over the next five years. Factories in West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Missouri will see 252 new jobs as a result of the initiative, the world’s biggest carmaker said in a statement. The move underscores Toyota’s bet that hybrids will dominate US sales in the near term as consumers balk at high EV prices following the end of tax credits. The investment may also strengthen the Japanese carmaker’s foothold in the market as Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and other US carmakers scale back EV ambitions and revisit hybrid strategies to meet shifting demand and emissions targets. 4. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. 5. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. 6. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. 7. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies. 8. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
Word: hybrid Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, an offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”). Attested since 1601, but rare before c. 1850. Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd/ 1. Of or composed of mixed origin or composition. Example: a hybrid mix of jazz and punk Example: Now, it is difficult, perhaps impossible, to bring forward one case of the hybrid offspring of two animals clearly distinct being themselves perfectly fertile. 2. Of a car, running on both fuel (gasoline or diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun). Example: Brooklyn has opted for hybrid SUVs, at least, to show environmental consciousness. 3. Involving both 2D and 3D animation.
Word: progeny Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/, /ˈpɹɑd͡ʒəni/ 1. Offspring or descendants considered as a group. Labels: uncountable Example: I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny. Example: I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny. 2. Descent, lineage, ancestry. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ? 3. A result of a creative effort. Labels: countable, figuratively Example: His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.
Word: prodigy Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English prodige (“portent”), from Latin prōdigium (“omen, portent, prophetic sign”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒdɪd͡ʒi/, /ˈpɹɑdɪd͡ʒi/ 1. An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak. 2. An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder. Example: He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are told of him. 3. A wonderful example of something. Example: Traffic at Dover Marine has developed far beyond anything envisaged when the station was built. The layout has become rather cramped, and prodigies of organisation are performed annually by all concerned to save complete saturation. 4. An extremely talented person, especially a child. 5. An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent. Labels: archaic Example: These on the farther bank now stood and gazed, / By Heaven alarm’d, by prodigies amazed: / A signal omen stopp’d the passing host, / Their martial fury in their wonder lost. Example: Prodigies and Portents have infected the beſt VVritings of Antiquity; and have ſo blotted and deformed our modern Annals, that (vvith greater Juſtice than Polybius has obſerv'd it, of the former) they may be rather called Tragedies than History.
Word: grease Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass. Pronunciation: /ɡɹis/, /ɡɹiːs/ 1. Animal fat in a melted or soft state. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Any oily or fatty matter. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 3. Shorn but not yet cleansed wool. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. Money. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Some of the people I talked to said it could be done—but it would cost big money. More grease than I’d ever dreamed of. 6. Synonym of fat (“work containing much blank, profitable to the compositor”). Labels: countable, dated, slang, uncountable
Word: grease Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”). Doublet of crass. Pronunciation: /ɡɹiːs/, /ɡɹis/, /ɡɹiz/ 1. To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate. Labels: transitive 2. To bribe. Labels: informal, transitive Example: the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor Example: Then you remember we greased him to the tune of five hundred. 3. To cause to go easily; to facilitate. Labels: informal, transitive 4. To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly. Labels: slang, transitive Example: To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds. 5. To kill. Labels: slang, transitive 6. To have sexual intercourse with. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I’m with a girl, call me Rick, I get my crank on Choppa knock him out his briefs, ayy free willy He a blood, why the fuck I’m greasin his bitty 7. To cheat or cozen; to overreach. Labels: obsolete Example: You have greased him / For chewing love again in haste 8. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. 9. To depart or slip away.
Word: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Part of Speech: name Etymology: From German Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 1. Synonym of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.
Word: Lower Saxony Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of German Niedersachsen. Pronunciation: /ˌloʊ.ɚ ˌsæk.səni/, /ˌləʊ.ə ˈsæk.səni/ 1. A state of Germany, in existence since 1946.
Word: North Rhine-Westphalia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From North Rhine + Westphalia. The Allied occupation authorities created the state in 1947 by joining the northern half of the Prussian Rhine Province to the province of Westphalia (as well as the small Free State of Lippe). 1. The most populous of the 16 component states of Germany, located in the west of the country.
Word: Rhineland-Palatinate Part of Speech: name Etymology: Calque of German Rheinland-Pfalz. 1. A state of modern Germany.
Word: Saarland Part of Speech: name 1. A state of modern Germany. Example: This was, even more strikingly, his attitude towards French actions in the Saarland. The Saar Landtag had approved in November 1947 a constitution instituting a monetary and customs union with France […] Example: The most famous sight in Saarland is the Saarschleife.
Word: Saxony Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Middle English Saxonie, from Latin Saxōnia, from Saxō (stem Saxōn-) + -ia. By surface analysis, Saxon + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsæksəni/ 1. A state of modern Germany, located in the east, far from historical Saxon lands. Official name: Free State of Saxony. 2. A historical region and former duchy in north-central Germany. Example: Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany... the provinces of Lower Germany towards the north conſiſt of the Low Country of the Rhine, Triers, Cologn, Mentz, Weſtphalia, Heſſe, Brunſwic, Miſnia, Luſatia, High Saxony upon the Elbe, Low Saxony upon the Elbe, Mecklenburg, Lauenburg, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Pomerania.
Word: Saxony Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English Saxonie, from Latin Saxōnia, from Saxō (stem Saxōn-) + -ia. By surface analysis, Saxon + -y. Pronunciation: /ˈsæksəni/ 1. A fine soft woollen fabric. Labels: countable, uncountable 2. Saxony yarn, or flannel made from this or similar yarn. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: Saxony-Anhalt Part of Speech: name 1. One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation. Its capital is Magdeburg.
Word: Schleswig-Holstein Part of Speech: name 1. One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.
Word: Thuringia Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Latin Thuringus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin Thuringiabor. English Thuringia Borrowed from Latin Thuringia, from Thuringus + -ia (suffix forming country names). Pronunciation: /θjʊˈɹɪn.dʒɪ.ə/, /θəˈɹɪn.dʒi.ə/, /θəɹˈɪn.dʒi.ə/ 1. A state of modern Germany. 2. A German-speaking former duchy and later former landgraviate in Central Europe. Labels: historical
Word: Croatian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Croat + -ian or Croatia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹəʊˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkɹoʊˈeɪ.ʃən/ 1. Of or pertaining to Croatia, the Croatian people or their language. Example: Not only is the industry headed in that direction, but in 2021 Bugatti was spun off from Volkswagen Group and merged with Rimac, the Croatian company that makes the all-electric Rimac Nevera supercar.
Word: Croatian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Croat + -ian or Croatia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹəʊˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkɹoʊˈeɪ.ʃən/ 1. An inhabitant of Croatia, or a person of Croatian descent. Example: [A law] was enacted, controlling the guardianship of the language and the culture of the ‘Albanians, Catalans, Germanics, Greeks, Slovenians and Croatians and of those speaking French, French-Provencal, Friulan, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian’[.] Example: Serbian forces committed egregious violent acts against ethnic Croatians in the early 1990s, but they don’t equate to genocide, a U.N. court ruled Tuesday.
Word: Croatian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Croat + -ian or Croatia + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌkɹəʊˈeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌkɹoʊˈeɪ.ʃən/ 1. A standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Croats. 2. Serbo-Croatian in general, as spoken in Croatia. Labels: historical
Word: Internet Relay Chat Part of Speech: name 1. A protocol for instant communication via the Internet. Users connect to a network and join channels (chat rooms) where they can converse in typed text with other participants. Labels: Internet
Word: asleep Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English aslepe, equivalent to a- (“in, on”) + sleep. Pronunciation: /əˈsliːp/ 1. In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting. Labels: not-comparable, predicative Example: I was asleep when you called. Example: Never disturb a man asleep. 2. Inattentive. Labels: not-comparable, predicative, slang Example: How could you miss that? Were you asleep? Example: The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. 3. Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness. Labels: not-comparable, predicative Example: My arm fell asleep. You know, like pins and needles. Example: Louisa sat in the car crying, until her foot fell asleep. She shook her foot violently, afraid the numbness would turn to frostbite. 4. Dead. Labels: euphemistic, not-comparable, predicative
Word: cafe Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˌkæˈfeɪ/, /ˈkæfeɪ/, /ˈkæfi/, /ˈkafɛj/, /ˈkafe/ 1. Alternative form of café. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Many customers who head straight to the bar at cafes, where espressos are cheaper than table service, are blue-collar workers, he said, in search of a quick, inexpensive caffeine hit. 2. A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items. Labels: South-Africa
Word: kopi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Baagandji kopi, gabi. 1. A variety of gypsum found in southern Australia, sometimes containing opal, and traditionally used by Indigenous Australian in powdered form as body ornamentation for mourning ceremonies. Labels: Australia, uncountable Example: "In these parts you find kopi, gypsum I think you call it, and you see it in layers exposed on the sides of certain hills." Example: They were made by taking a cast of woven cord, and covered in kopi, a white gypsum clay.
Word: kopi Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Malay kopi (“coffee”), from Dutch koffie with further influence of English coffee. Compare Hokkien 咖啡 (ko-pi / ko-phi), Teochew 咖啡 (go¹ bi⁵ / gu¹ bi⁵), Cantonese 咖啡 (go³ bi¹). Pronunciation: /ˈkəʊpi/, [ˈk˭op˭i], [ˈk˭ɔ-], [ˈk˭o˧.p˭i˦] 1. Coffee as it is traditionally prepared and served in Maritime Southeast Asia. Labels: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, uncountable
Word: nonplussed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From nonplus (“state of bewilderment or perplexity”, noun) or nonplus (“to bewilder or perplex (someone)”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and the past tense and past participle forms of verbs). Nonplus (noun) is derived from Latin nōn plūs (“no further, no more”), from nōn (“not”) + plūs (“additionally, more; further”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The etymological sense is similar to being left speechless as a result of confusion: the nonplussed person can say or do “no more”. Adjective sense 2 (“unaffected”) is probably from a misinterpretation of the first element of the word as the prefix non- meaning “not”. Pronunciation: /nɒnˈplʌst/, /ˌnɑnˈplʌst/ 1. Unsure how to act or respond; bewildered, perplexed. Example: [N]ote the honeſt Quaker vvas nonpluſſed, and greatly ſurprized at that Queſtion. Example: I could not discern what she meant, and I would not ask her: I was nonplussed. 2. Unaffected, unfazed; unimpressed. Labels: US, informal, nonstandard Example: "I regard Dean [W. P.] Baddeley's gambling activities with embarrassment and dismay," said Anglican dean of Melbourne S. Barton Babbage. […] The Rev. Baddeley remained nonplussed. "I don't intend to make a habit of going to the races but I feel clergymen should mix as our Lord did with all walks of life," Dr. Baddeley said. Example: And while many of us might be a little taken aback if Mom showed up at our offices, Secrist is utterly nonplussed, even happy about it.
Word: nonplussed Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From nonplus (“state of bewilderment or perplexity”, noun) or nonplus (“to bewilder or perplex (someone)”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and the past tense and past participle forms of verbs). Nonplus (noun) is derived from Latin nōn plūs (“no further, no more”), from nōn (“not”) + plūs (“additionally, more; further”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The etymological sense is similar to being left speechless as a result of confusion: the nonplussed person can say or do “no more”. Adjective sense 2 (“unaffected”) is probably from a misinterpretation of the first element of the word as the prefix non- meaning “not”. Pronunciation: /nɒnˈplʌst/, /ˌnɑnˈplʌst/ 1. simple past and past participle of nonplus Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: sick Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”). See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “to be weakening”). The "very good, excellent" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "in poor health". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and wicked. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪk/ 1. In poor health; ill. Example: We have to care for the sick. Example: Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra. 2. In poor health; ill. Example: She was sick all day with the flu. Example: sick with a cold—sick with contagious diseases—sick with sciatica—sick with love—sick with worry 3. Having an urge to vomit. Example: My daughter was violently sick three times in the night. Example: In the meantime the old man had gotten up and gone out in the yard and began to vomit. Henry said I believe I feel sick and got up and went out. He went out one door and his father went out the other one. I did not think there was anything wrong with the coffee and I asked my wife to pour this out […] 4. Mentally unstable, disturbed. Labels: colloquial Example: You sick bastard! Example: What a sick, sick feeling / To let you go, my dear 5. In bad taste. Labels: colloquial Example: That’s a sick joke. 6. [with of] Tired of or annoyed by (something that has lasted a long time or often recurs). Example: sick and tired of the whining—sick of waiting—'sick of politics Example: I’ve heard that song on the radio so many times that I’m starting to get sick of it. 7. Very good, excellent, awesome, badass. Labels: slang Example: This tune is sick. Example: He showed off his sick surfing skills. 8. In poor condition. Example: sick building syndrome; my car is looking pretty sick; my job prospects are pretty sick 9. Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified.
Word: sick Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”). See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “to be weakening”). The "very good, excellent" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "in poor health". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and wicked. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪk/ 1. Vomit. Labels: Australia, UK, colloquial, uncountable Example: […] they're spitting and belching chunks of lentilly gunk. Looks like sick. Example: The bogan, true to form, laps it up like a dog does its own sick. 2. (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated. Labels: UK, colloquial, uncountable
Word: sick Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sik, sike, seek, seke, seok, from Old English sēoc (“sick, ill”), from Proto-West Germanic *seuk, from Proto-Germanic *seukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sewg- (“to be troubled or grieved”). See also West Frisian siik, Dutch ziek, German siech, Norwegian Bokmål syk, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish sjuk, Danish syg; also Middle Irish socht (“silence, depression”), Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, “to be weakening”). The "very good, excellent" sense is an ameliorative semantic shift from the original sense of "in poor health". Compare similar semantic development in terrific and wicked. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪk/ 1. To vomit. Labels: Australia, UK, colloquial Example: I woke up at 4 am and sicked on the floor. 2. To fall sick; to sicken. Labels: intransitive Example: Our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died. Example: Old man to pickney, so wave unno hand if you with me /To see the sufferation sick me.
Word: sick Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Variant of sic, itself an alteration of seek. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪk/ 1. Alternative spelling of sic (“set upon”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, rare Example: "Wapi," she almost screamed, "go back! Sick 'em, Wapi—sick 'em—sick 'em—sick 'em!" Example: When we were at work swabbing the deck, necessarily barelegged, Pelle would sick the dog on us; and it was an endless source of pleasure to him when the dog succeeded in fastening its teeth in our legs and making the blood run down our ankles.
Word: stepbrother Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- Proto-Germanic *steupa- Proto-West Germanic *steupa- Old English stēop- Middle English step- English step- Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *brōþēr Proto-West Germanic *brōþer Old English brōþor Middle English brother English brother English stepbrother From step- + brother. 1. The son of one's stepparent by a previous relationship. 2. The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.
Word: -tion Part of Speech: suffix Etymology: From rebracketed Middle English -cioun, rebracketed borrowing of Old French -tion, -cion, borrowed from the stem of Latin -tiō. The Middle English -cioun became -tion in Modern English under the influence of the Middle French -tion and original Latin spellings. Always -ate or t-final/te-final base + -ion. Pronunciation: /-ʃən/, /-tʃən/ 1. Used to form nouns meaning "the action of (a verb)" or "the result of (a verb)". Words ending in this suffix are almost always derived from a similar Latin word; a few (e.g. gumption) are not derived from Latin and are unrelated to any verb. More often, -ation is used. Labels: countable, idiomatic, morpheme, uncountable Example: ignore + -tion → ignortion Example: scrimp + -tion → scrimption
Word: New Holland Part of Speech: name Etymology: (sense 1) Coined in 1644 by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman as Nieuw Holland. (sense 2) Uncertain, Parts of Holland was in the south of Lincolnshire. 1. The continent and the country of Australia. Labels: obsolete Example: 1787, Chart of New Holland, published by J. Stockdale, London https://web.archive.org/web/20060107065752/http://www.nla.gov.au/rmaps/nk1586.html Example: Colonisation began towards the end of 1826, when a British settlement was founded at Albany, on the southern coast, and in the next year the whole territory (then known as New Holland) became a possession of the British Crown. 2. A village, civil parish, and port in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TA0823). 3. A settlement in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica. 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. Synonym of Dutch Brazil. Labels: historical
Word: land Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English *land, from Old English hland. More at lant. Pronunciation: /lænd/, [lænd], [land], [ɫänd], [ɫeə̯nd] ~ [ɫɛə̯nd] 1. lant; urine Labels: uncountable
Word: Holland Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *hultą Proto-West Germanic *holt Old Dutch holt Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Frankish *land Old Dutch lant Old Dutch holt lantder. English Holland From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”). A popular but false etymology holds that it is derived from hol land (“hollow land”), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English region (Holland, Lincolnshire). Doublet of balanda (“white, European” among Australian Aboriginals). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒ.lənd/, /ˈhɑ.lənd/ 1. A historical province of the Netherlands. 2. the Netherlands (a country in Western Europe). Labels: informal, metonymically, proscribed 3. A historical kingdom in Europe. 4. A historical county of the Holy Roman Empire. 5. An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from the Netherlands. 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 number of places in the United States: 26. A number of places in the United States: 27. A number of places in the United States: 28. A number of places in the United States: 29. A number of places in the United States: 30. A number of places in the United States: 31. A community in the Rural Municipality of Victoria, Manitoba, Canada. 32. A southern suburb of Oxted, Tandridge district, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ4050). 33. A settlement on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HY4851).
Word: Holland Part of Speech: name Etymology: Most commonly derived from Old English hoh land (“spur land”). However, on the basis of the topographical inappropriateness of this name and early forms, Coates and Breeze (2000) argued that the first element is a Proto-Brythonic haiw- (“marsh, swamp”). Pronunciation: /ˈhɒlənd/, /ˈhɑlənd/ 1. A geographic area, one of the three traditional divisions of the county of Lincolnshire, England; also called the Parts of Holland. 2. An English habitational surname from Middle English for someone from any of the various places in England named Holland.
Word: intractable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English tractable English intractable From in- + tractable. Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtɹæk.tə.bəl/ 1. Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed. Example: And I cannot but expect that this will repeatedly lead to the discovery that an initially intractable problem can be factored after all. 2. Not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve. 3. Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem) Example: Work—bureaucratic work in particular—poses a series of intractable dilemmas that often demand compromises with traditional moral beliefs. 4. Stubborn; obstinate. (of a person) 5. Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).
Word: lip Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lippe, from Old English lippa, lippe (“lip”), from Proto-West Germanic *lippjō (“lip”), from Proto-Germanic *lepô, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely, droop, sag”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Lippe (“lip”), West Frisian lippe (“lip”), Dutch lip (“lip”), German Lippe and Lefze (“lip”), Low German Lippe (“lip”), Luxembourgish Lëps (“lip”), Vilamovian łyp (“lip”), Yiddish ליפּ (lip, “lip”), Danish læbe (“lip”), Norwegian Bokmål leppe (“lip”), Norwegian Nynorsk leppa, leppe, lippa, lippe (“lip”), Swedish läpp (“lip”), Latin labium (“lip”). Pronunciation: /lɪp/ 1. Either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth. Labels: countable Example: […]thine owne lippes teſtifie againſt thee. 2. A part of the body that resembles a lip, such as the edge of a wound or the labia. Labels: countable Example: […]I twiſted my thighs, ſqueezed, and compreſs’d the lips of that virgin-ſlit[…] 3. The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout. Labels: broadly, countable Example: The cork sails over the garden wall and lands somewhere no one can see it. A crest of white spills over the lip of the bottle and Niall pours the wine into Elaine's glass. 4. Backtalk; verbal impertinence. Labels: slang, uncountable Example: Don’t give me any lip! Example: Kevin Sutherland: I've had enough of your lip! 5. The edge of a high spot of land. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We landed at the head of Garden Island, which is situated near the middle of the river and on the lip of the Falls. On reaching that lip, and peering over the giddy height, the wondrous and unique character of the magnificent cascade at once burst upon us. Example: They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip. Suddenly it vanished. The bank was sheer red solid clay in front of them, sloping straight into the river. 6. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger. Labels: countable, uncountable 7. One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A distinctive lower-appearing of the three true petals of an orchid. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell. Labels: countable, uncountable 10. Embouchure: the condition or strength of a wind instrumentalist's lips. Labels: colloquial, countable, uncountable 11. Clipping of lipstick. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: I put on some red lip and a casual print dress.