nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: left Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), obsolete Dutch lucht, leftsch, lefts, lefs (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), archaic Low German lucht (“left”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛft/, /ˈlɛf/, /ˈlɛfʔ/ 1. On the left side. Labels: not-comparable 2. Towards the left side. Labels: not-comparable Example: Turn left at the corner. NO! Your other left. 3. Towards the political left. Labels: not-comparable Example: The East Coast of the US leans left in elections.
Word: left Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), obsolete Dutch lucht, leftsch, lefts, lefs (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), archaic Low German lucht (“left”). Pronunciation: /ˈlɛft/, /ˈlɛf/, /ˈlɛfʔ/ 1. The left side or direction. 2. The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group. Example: The Left left workers behind, thinking they had a winning demographic coalition. It hasn't really worked out for them yet. 3. The left hand or fist. 4. A punch delivered with the left fist. Example: The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul. 5. A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore).
Word: left Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English left, variant of laft (“remaining, left”), from Old English lǣfed, ġelǣfed, past participle of lǣfan (“to leave”). More at leave. 1. simple past and past participle of leave (“depart, separate from; (cause or allow to) remain”). Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: There's not much food left. Example: Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
Word: left Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English levit, ilevet, y-levyd, from Old English ġelȳfd, ġelȳfed, past participle of Old English ġelȳfan, lȳfan (“to allow, permit”), equivalent to leave (“to give leave to, allow, grant, permit”) + -ed. 1. simple past and past participle of leave (“permit”). Labels: form-of, participle, past Example: We were not left go to the beach after school except on a weekend.
Word: right Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English right, righte, from Old English rihte, rehte (“right; rightly; due; directly; straight”), from Proto-Germanic *rehta, from *rehtaz (“right; straight”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪt/, [ˈɹaɪt], /ˈɹɑjt/, [ˈɹɑjt] ~ [ˈɹɑjʔ], [ˈɹɒɪʔ] 1. On the right side. Labels: not-comparable 2. Towards the right side. Labels: not-comparable 3. Exactly, precisely. Labels: not-comparable Example: The arrow landed right in the middle of the target. Example: Luckily we arrived right at the start of the film. 4. Immediately, directly. Labels: not-comparable Example: Can't you see it? It's right beside you! Example: Tom was standing right in front of the TV, blocking everyone's view. 5. Very, extremely, quite. Labels: UK, US, dialectal, not-comparable Example: I made a right stupid mistake there, didn't I? Example: I stubbed my toe a week ago and it still hurts right much. 6. Very, extremely, quite. Labels: UK, US, dated, dialectal, not-comparable Example: Sir, I am right glad to meet you … Example: Members of the Queen's Privy Council are styled The Right Honourable for life. 7. According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really. Labels: not-comparable 8. In a correct manner. Labels: not-comparable Example: Do it right or don't do it at all. Example: Nothing is going right for me lately.
Word: right Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From Middle English right, righte, from Old English rihte, rehte (“right; rightly; due; directly; straight”), from Proto-Germanic *rehta, from *rehtaz (“right; straight”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪt/, [ˈɹaɪt], /ˈɹɑjt/, [ˈɹɑjt] ~ [ˈɹɑjʔ], [ˈɹɒɪʔ] 1. Yes, that is correct; I agree. Example: Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you. Example: Tell her you’re here. Right. Thanks, Pete. 2. I have listened to what you just said and I acknowledge your assertion or opinion, regardless of whether I agree with it (opinion) or can verify it (assertion). Example: Sam Tyler: Look, look, you know when I said I wasn't wrong? Well, I was. But I was right about this not being the IRA. I was right to follow my instincts. Like you said, go with your gut feeling. I'm just taking your lead. Gene Hunt: So I'm right. Sam Tyler: We both are. Gene Hunt: Right. Sam Tyler: Right. Gene Hunt: Just as long as I'm more right than you. Example: — United's the best team in the country, so they'll come up with something. — Right. And do you think they'll go all the way? 3. Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse. Example: — After that interview, I don't think we should hire her. — Right. Who wants lunch? 4. Used to check listener engagement and (especially) agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof. Example: You're going, right? Example: I went downstairs, right, and I was going to call her, but I found this note, right, so what am I supposed to do now? 5. Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement. Example: Withnail: Right […] I'm gonna do the washing up.
Word: right Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English right, from Old English riht, reht, ġeriht (“that which is right, just, or proper”), from Proto-West Germanic *reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtą (“a right”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵt- (“to straighten; direct”). Cognate with Dutch recht (“a right; privilege”), German Recht (“a right”), Danish ret (“a right”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪt/, [ˈɹaɪt], /ˈɹɑjt/, [ˈɹɑjt] ~ [ˈɹɑjʔ], [ˈɹɒɪʔ] 1. That which complies with justice, law or reason. Example: We're on the side of right in this contest. Example: Throughout our history, whenever evil forces prevailed, the altruistic and upright people have always shown their great wisdom by adhering to the right against the wrong, renouncing wrongful gain for justice, displaying their great benevolence in national salvation and summoning their great courage to surmount the crisis and turn back the perverse tide. 2. A legal, just or moral entitlement. Example: You have no right to go through my personal diary. Example: There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties. 3. The right side or direction. Example: The pharmacy is just on the right past the bookshop. 4. The right hand or fist. Example: "Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right, and he was sprawling on his back on the floor." Example: Mr. Carrados smiled a good-humoured tolerance of the imbroglio in which they had both landed, leaned back in his chair and dropped a careless right into his coat pocket. 5. The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright. 6. The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group. Example: The political right holds too much power. Example: Sunak seems so scared of his party's swivel-eyed right wing that he has been panicked into focusing all new legislation on perceived 'red meat' issues which he hopes the Tory right will support. 7. The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc. Example: Simple cross-stitch, with a space between each stitch, may be worked in two rows, in which case the completed stitch on the wrong sides alternates with that on the right. Example: For the large size, two pieces of silk, eighteen inches wide and twenty-seven inches long, are sewed together at three sides, rights together, leaving one end open. 8. A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
Word: right Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English righten, reghten, riȝten, from Old English rihtan, ġerihtan (“to straighten, judge, set upright, set right”), from Proto-West Germanic *rihtijan, from Proto-Germanic *rihtijaną (“to straighten; rectify; judge”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪt/, [ˈɹaɪt], /ˈɹɑjt/, [ˈɹɑjt] ~ [ˈɹɑjʔ], [ˈɹɒɪʔ] 1. To correct. Labels: transitive Example: Righting all the wrongs of the war immediately will be impossible. 2. To set upright. Labels: transitive Example: The tow-truck righted what was left of the automobile. 3. To return to normal upright position. Labels: intransitive Example: When the wind died down, the ship righted. 4. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of. Labels: transitive Example: to right the oppressed Example: So just is God, to right the innocent.
Word: Strine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From a pronunciation spelling of Australian spoken with this accent. Coined by “Afferbeck Lauder” (Alastair Ardoch Morrison) and popularised with his 1965 book Let Stalk Strine. Australian from 1965. Pronunciation: /stɹɑen/, /stɹaɪn/ 1. An Australian. Labels: humorous, informal Example: The Strines I met were fierce about having a good time […]
Word: Strine Part of Speech: name Etymology: From a pronunciation spelling of Australian spoken with this accent. Coined by “Afferbeck Lauder” (Alastair Ardoch Morrison) and popularised with his 1965 book Let Stalk Strine. Australian from 1965. Pronunciation: /stɹɑen/, /stɹaɪn/ 1. Broad Australian English. Labels: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, humorous, informal Example: Several Strine forms depend on an assumed equivalence between Strine fortis consonants and Cultivated/RP lenis ones, thus garbler mince (couple of minutes), egg jelly (actually). It is doubtful whether this reflects any real phonetic difference. Example: A TEAM at Griffith University in Brisbane is working on the development of what the university’s newspaper calls a bionic snorter. Translating into English from Strine, this is a bionic hooter, conk, bugle or nose.
Word: parent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“to breed, bring forth”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɛəɹənt/, /ˈpɛːɹənt/, /ˈpæɹənt/, /ˈpɛɹənt/, /ˈpeːɹənt/ 1. A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.). Labels: in-plural, often Example: After both her parents were killed in a forest fire, Sonia was adopted by her aunt and uncle. Example: my trust / Like a good parent, did beget of him / A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great / As my trust was, which had indeede no limit, / A confidence sans bound. 2. A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children. Labels: in-plural, often 3. A surrogate parent. 4. A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material. 5. A relative. Labels: obsolete 6. The source or origin of something. Example: Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. Example: Indolence and unalimentary food are the parents of this disease; but to neither are Indians accustomed. 7. An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended. 8. Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector. Labels: attributive Example: The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green. 9. Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector. Labels: attributive Example: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled. 10. The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node. 11. The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
Word: parent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English parent, borrowed from Anglo-Norman parent, Middle French parent, from Latin parentem, accusative of parēns (“parent”), present participle of pariō (“to breed, bring forth”). Pronunciation: /ˈpɛəɹənt/, /ˈpɛːɹənt/, /ˈpæɹənt/, /ˈpɛɹənt/, /ˈpeːɹənt/ 1. To act as parent, to raise or rear. Example: However, even with money and caregivers, the child is left without a parent and most likely without a plan for their emotional, psychological, and spiritual well-being. A time will come when you will no longer be able to parent your child, period. 2. To provide a parent object for one or more other objects, which become the children.
Word: father Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr Proto-Germanic *fadēr Proto-West Germanic *fader Old English fæder Middle English fader English father Inherited from Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr, possibly from *peh₂- + *-tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, athair, padre, pater, and père. Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː.ðə(ɹ)/, /ˈfæ.ðə(ɹ)/, /ˈfæ.ðɐ/, /ˈfa.ðəɹ/, /ˈfɑ.ðɚ/ 1. A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, etc.). Example: My father was a strong influence on me. Example: My friend Tony just became a father. 2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor. Example: So Dauid ſlept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid. Example: Therefoꝛe it is of faith, that it might bee by grace; to the ende the pꝛomiſe might be ſure to all the ſeede, not to that onely which is of the Law, but to that alſo which is of the faith of Abꝛaham, who is the father of vs all, 3. A term of respectful address for an elderly man. Example: Come, father; you can sit here. 4. A term of respectful address for a priest. Example: Bless you, good father friar! 5. A person who plays the role of a father in some way. Example: My brother was a father to me after my parents got divorced. Example: The child is father to the man. 6. A pioneering figure in a particular field. Example: Albert Einstein is the father of modern physics. 7. Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. Example: Soon after the announcement of this year's election results, Mereka said that "the father of all battles had just begun." His dispute with Muite goes back to March last year […] Example: "If UK GDP slows by 1 per cent, there is the mother and father of all recessions. It was exciting, but very bizarre, working in such an environment." 8. Something inanimate that begets. Example: But may the Sun and gentle weather, / When you are both growne ripe together, / Load you with fruit, such as your Father / From you with all the joyes doth gather: / And may you when one branch is dead / Graft ſuch another in it's ſtead,[…] 9. A member of a church council. Example: In proceeding in this fashion, the fathers assembled at Pisa were following the generally accepted canonistic teaching of the day […] Example: On the part of the fathers of the synod, over 50 bishops, from every continent, spoke on different ‘group forms’ of the lay apostolate, whereas about 38 fathers made their own interventions in writing to the General Secretary. 10. The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather. Example: Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files. Example: The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather.
Word: father Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr Proto-Germanic *fadēr Proto-West Germanic *fader Old English fæder Middle English fader English father Inherited from Middle English fader, from Old English fæder, from Proto-West Germanic *fader, from Proto-Germanic *fadēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr, possibly from *peh₂- + *-tḗr. Doublet of ayr, faeder, athair, padre, pater, and père. Pronunciation: /ˈfɑː.ðə(ɹ)/, /ˈfæ.ðə(ɹ)/, /ˈfæ.ðɐ/, /ˈfa.ðəɹ/, /ˈfɑ.ðɚ/ 1. To be a father to; to sire. Example: Well go too, we'll haue no Baſtards liue, / Eſpecially ſince Charles muſt Father it. 2. To give rise to. Labels: figuratively Example: Cowards father Cowards & Baſe things Syre Bace; 3. To act as a father; to support and nurture. Example: I good youth, / And rather Father thee, then Maſter thee: Example: What have you learned since writing Wild at Heart that you would now go back and change (if you could) about how you fathered your three boys? 4. To provide with a father. Example: Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex / Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded? Example: The relations of the sexes were so loose and vague that children could not be fathered on any particular man. 5. To adopt as one's own. Example: Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.
Word: mother Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English modren, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /ˈmʌð.ə/, /ˈmʌðɚ/, /ˈmɐð.ə/, /ˈmað.ə/, /ˈmʊð.ə/ 1. To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.) Labels: transitive Example: Q's sister, Debbie, had mothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight. Example: Zilpah, Leah's maid, mothered two sons for Jacob, Gad and Asher. Leah became pregnant once more and had two more sons, Issachar, and Zebulun, and a daughter, Dinah, thus Leah had seven children for Jacob. 2. To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture. Labels: transitive Example: She had seen fewer years than any of us, but she was of such superb Evehood and simplicity that she mothered us from the beginning. 3. To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”). Labels: transitive Example: mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine 4. To develop mother. Labels: intransitive Example: Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegar mothered. Example: Your lamp was always polished, wick trimmed, waiting; yet the bridegroom somehow never came. Summer dust settled in the vineyard. Grapes were harvested; your parents crushed and pressed them, but the wine mothered.
Word: mother Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clipping of motherfucker. Pronunciation: /ˈmʌð.ə/, /ˈmʌðɚ/, /ˈmɐð.ə/, /ˈmað.ə/, /ˈmʊð.ə/ 1. Motherfucker. Labels: euphemistic, mildly, slang, vulgar Example: (Burn, baby, burn) Disco inferno / (Burn, baby, burn) Burn the mother down Example: Stick a votive candle in it and fire that mother up, right? 2. A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".) Labels: colloquial, euphemistic Example: November, 1943 If ever, Cortney Anders promised himself, I get out of this mother of a thunderstorm there is a thing I will do if it is the last act of my life. Example: Some hot night there's gonna be one mother of a riot down here. Just wait." He'd been saying the same thing since 1958, five years of crying wolf.
Word: mother Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Coined from moth by analogy to mouser. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒθə(ɹ)/, /ˈmʌð.ə/, /ˈmʌðɚ/, /ˈmɐð.ə/, /ˈmað.ə/ 1. Alternative form of moth-er. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: sibling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: First use appears c. 1903, a modern revival of Old English sibling (“relative, a relation, kinsman”), equivalent to sib + -ling. Compare Middle English siblynges pl, sib, sibbe (“relative; kinsman”), German Sippe. The term apparently meant merely kin or relative until the 20th century when it was applied in a way that aided the study of genetics, which led to its specialized use. For example, the OED has a citation in 1902 in which sibling must be defined for those who do not know the intended meaning. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/, /ˈsɪb.lin/ 1. A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with. Example: None of my siblings are married yet. 2. A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node. 3. The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related. Example: D. simulans, D. mauritiana and D. sechellia (which we will call “the siblings” when we do not need to distinguish among them) have homosequential polytene chromosome banding patterns differing from those of D. melanogaster by one long inversion on chromosome arm 3R and a few much smaller inversions. Example: Bush suggested that this difference might represent a case of chromosomal polymorphism or, more likely, sibling species.
Word: brother Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *brōþēr Proto-West Germanic *brōþer Old English brōþor Middle English brother English brother Inherited from Middle English broder, brodir, brother, brothir, broþer, broðer, from Old English brōþor, brōþur, brōðer, brōður, from Proto-West Germanic *brōþer, from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr (“brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, bru, frater, friar, pal, and vai. Cognates Cognate with Scots breeder, bridder, brither, broder, brother, bruther (“brother”), Yola brover, brower (“brother”), North Frisian brouder, bruler, Bröđer (“brother”), Saterland Frisian Brour, Brúur (“brother”), West Frisian broer (“brother”), Alemannic German briöder, bruder, brueder, bröder, Brüeder, Brüädär (“brother”), Bavarian pruadar, prueder, pruider (“brother”), Central Franconian Broder (“brother”), Cimbrian pruadar, pruudar (“brother”), Dutch broeder, broer (“brother”), German Bruder (“brother”), German Low German Broor (“brother”), Limburgish broor, Broër (“brother”), Luxembourgish Brudder (“brother; monk”), Mòcheno pruader (“brother”), Vilamovian brüder (“brother”), Yiddish ברודער (bruder, “brother”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish broder, bror (“brother”), Elfdalian bruoðer (“brother”), Faroese and Icelandic bróðir (“brother”), Crimean Gothic bruder (“brother”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌰𐍂 (brōþar, “brother”); also Breton breur (“brother”), Cornish broder (“brother”), Irish bráthair (“brother”), Manx braar (“brother; friar, monk”), Scottish Gaelic bràthair (“brother”), Welsh brawd (“brother”), Latin frāter (“brother; sibling”), Ancient Greek βρά (brá, “brother”), φρᾱ́τηρ (phrā́tēr, “brother, citizen, clansman, kinsman”), Phrygian βρατερε (bratere, “brother”), Lydian 𐤡𐤭𐤠𐤱𐤭𐤳𐤦𐤳 (prafršiš, “brother”), Latgalian bruoļs (“brother”), Latvian brālis (“brother”), Lithuanian brólis (“brother”), Old Prussian brāti, brote (“brother”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian брат (brat, “brother”), Czech bratr (“brother”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene brat (“brother”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏т, brȁt (“brother; buddy, mate”), Armenian ապեր (aper), ախպար (axpar), ախպեր (axper), եղբայր (eġbayr, “brother; buddy”), Baluchi برات (barát, “brother”), Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish برا (bra, “brother”), Northern Kurdish bira (“as a brother”), Ossetian ӕрвад (ærvad), ӕрвадӕ (ærvadæ, “brother”), Pashto ورور (wror, “brother”), Persian برادر (barādar, birādar / barâdar), برار (birār / berâr), وردار (vardâr, “brother; comrade; dude”), Ashkun břa (“younger brother”), Kamkata-viri břo (“brother”), Tregami brā (“brother”), Waigali brā, břā (“brother”), Tocharian A pracar (“brother”), Tocharian B procer (“brother”), Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ, “brother; friend”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʌðə/, /ˈbɹʌðɚ/, /ˈbɹɐðə/, /ˈbɹʊðə/, /bɹʊˈðɜː/ 1. To treat as a brother. Labels: transitive Example: Seest thou not we are overreached, and that our proposed mode of communicating with our friends without has been disconcerted by this same motley gentleman thou art so fond to brother?
Word: brother Part of Speech: intj Etymology: PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *brōþēr Proto-West Germanic *brōþer Old English brōþor Middle English brother English brother Inherited from Middle English broder, brodir, brother, brothir, broþer, broðer, from Old English brōþor, brōþur, brōðer, brōður, from Proto-West Germanic *brōþer, from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr (“brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, bru, frater, friar, pal, and vai. Cognates Cognate with Scots breeder, bridder, brither, broder, brother, bruther (“brother”), Yola brover, brower (“brother”), North Frisian brouder, bruler, Bröđer (“brother”), Saterland Frisian Brour, Brúur (“brother”), West Frisian broer (“brother”), Alemannic German briöder, bruder, brueder, bröder, Brüeder, Brüädär (“brother”), Bavarian pruadar, prueder, pruider (“brother”), Central Franconian Broder (“brother”), Cimbrian pruadar, pruudar (“brother”), Dutch broeder, broer (“brother”), German Bruder (“brother”), German Low German Broor (“brother”), Limburgish broor, Broër (“brother”), Luxembourgish Brudder (“brother; monk”), Mòcheno pruader (“brother”), Vilamovian brüder (“brother”), Yiddish ברודער (bruder, “brother”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish broder, bror (“brother”), Elfdalian bruoðer (“brother”), Faroese and Icelandic bróðir (“brother”), Crimean Gothic bruder (“brother”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌰𐍂 (brōþar, “brother”); also Breton breur (“brother”), Cornish broder (“brother”), Irish bráthair (“brother”), Manx braar (“brother; friar, monk”), Scottish Gaelic bràthair (“brother”), Welsh brawd (“brother”), Latin frāter (“brother; sibling”), Ancient Greek βρά (brá, “brother”), φρᾱ́τηρ (phrā́tēr, “brother, citizen, clansman, kinsman”), Phrygian βρατερε (bratere, “brother”), Lydian 𐤡𐤭𐤠𐤱𐤭𐤳𐤦𐤳 (prafršiš, “brother”), Latgalian bruoļs (“brother”), Latvian brālis (“brother”), Lithuanian brólis (“brother”), Old Prussian brāti, brote (“brother”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian брат (brat, “brother”), Czech bratr (“brother”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene brat (“brother”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏т, brȁt (“brother; buddy, mate”), Armenian ապեր (aper), ախպար (axpar), ախպեր (axper), եղբայր (eġbayr, “brother; buddy”), Baluchi برات (barát, “brother”), Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish برا (bra, “brother”), Northern Kurdish bira (“as a brother”), Ossetian ӕрвад (ærvad), ӕрвадӕ (ærvadæ, “brother”), Pashto ورور (wror, “brother”), Persian برادر (barādar, birādar / barâdar), برار (birār / berâr), وردار (vardâr, “brother; comrade; dude”), Ashkun břa (“younger brother”), Kamkata-viri břo (“brother”), Tregami brā (“brother”), Waigali brā, břā (“brother”), Tocharian A pracar (“brother”), Tocharian B procer (“brother”), Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ, “brother; friend”). Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʌðə/, /ˈbɹʌðɚ/, /ˈbɹɐðə/, /ˈbɹʊðə/, /bɹʊˈðɜː/ 1. Expressing exasperation. Example: We're being forced to work overtime? Oh, brother!
Word: sister Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ Proto-Indo-European *su-h₁ésh₂-ōr? Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Indo-European *-sōr ? Proto-Indo-European *swésōrder. Proto-Germanic *swestēr Proto-West Germanic *swester Old English sweostor Middle English suster English sister Inherited from Middle English suster, from Old English sweostor, from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Doublet of soror. Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”). In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”). The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren. The sense for "Adelpha-genus butterfly" is a semantic loan from translingual Adelpha, itself from Ancient Greek ἀδελφή (adelphḗ, “sister”). Pronunciation: /ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/, /ˈsɪs.tɚ/ 1. To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it. Labels: transitive Example: I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists. 2. To be sister to; to resemble closely. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, That even her art sisters the natural roses; Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry
Word: child Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germanic *kilþ, *kelþ, from Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (“womb; fetus”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵelt- (“womb”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Danish kuld (“brood, litter”), Swedish kull (“brood, litter”), Icelandic kelta, kjalta (“lap”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 (kilþei, “womb”), Sanskrit जर्त (jarta), जर्तु (jártu, “vulva”). Pronunciation: /ˈtʃaɪld/, [ˈt͡ʃʰaɪ̯ɫd], /ˈt͡ʃɑɪ̯ld/, [ˈt͡ʃʰɑ̟ɪ̯ld], /ˈt͡ʃɒ̈ɪ̯ld/ 1. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority). Labels: broadly Example: Go easy on him: he is but a child. Example: Regular chores can be appropriate for children, given age-appropriate limits on difficulty level and time on task. 2. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority). Labels: broadly, sometimes 3. One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter. Example: My youngest child is forty-three this year. Example: His adult children visit him yearly. 4. The thirteenth Lenormand card. 5. A figurative offspring Labels: figuratively Example: the children of Israel Example: He is a child of his times. 6. A figurative offspring Labels: figuratively Example: Poverty, disease, and despair are the children of war. 7. A figurative offspring Labels: figuratively Example: The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node. Example: The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf). 8. Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”). Labels: alt-of, alternative 9. A subordinate node of a tree. 10. An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors. Labels: figuratively Example: My husband is such a child, going out with his sled everytime it snows. 11. A female child, a girl. Labels: obsolete, specifically Example: A boy, or a Childe I wonder?
Word: child Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English childen, from the noun child. Pronunciation: /ˈtʃaɪld/, [ˈt͡ʃʰaɪ̯ɫd], /ˈt͡ʃɑɪ̯ld/, [ˈt͡ʃʰɑ̟ɪ̯ld], /ˈt͡ʃɒ̈ɪ̯ld/ 1. To give birth; to beget or procreate. Labels: ambitransitive, archaic Example: My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue. Example: And from his fertill hollow wombe forth ran, (Clad in rare weedes and ſtrange habiliment) A Nymph, for age able to goe to man, An hundreth plants beſide (euen in his ſight) Childed an hundreth Nymphes, ſo great, ſo dight:[…]
Word: son Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English sonn, sone, sun, sune, from Old English sunu (“son”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bear; give birth”). Pronunciation: /sʌn/, /sʊn/, /sɒn/ 1. One's male offspring. Example: Before the birth of the man's child, he said: "I want a son, not a daughter." Example: From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son, 2. A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents. 3. A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person. Example: Eli called Samuel his son. Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. 4. A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict. Example: He was a son of the mafia system. 5. A person regarded as the product of some place. Example: I hold it to be true, that the people are the sons of the soil; and we are only their instruments here. 6. A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person. Example: Son, can't you see that she's just a little girl? Example: Shepard: Stay with me. We're almost through this. Admiral Anderson: You did good, son. You did good. I'm proud of you. Shepard: Thank you, sir. Anderson? 7. An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority. Labels: New-York-City, UK, colloquial 8. The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file. Example: Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files. Example: After the update, the new file master file is the son. The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather. The grandfather and son files are stored in different locations.
Word: son Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English sonen, sunen, from the noun (see above). Pronunciation: /sʌn/, /sʊn/, /sɒn/ 1. To produce (i.e. bear, father, beget) a son. Labels: transitive Example: I sonned a father who would not be sonned, […] 2. To address (someone) as "son". Labels: transitive Example: “Don't 'son' me.” “I'm old enough to be your father,” he said with a dismissive wave of his hand. Example: “Son—now's not the time, please.” “It's the perfect time—it's the best time fucking time I ever had. There's not gonna be another time, so don't son me, you bastard. […]”
Word: son Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Spanish son (literally “tone, sound”). Pronunciation: /sʌn/, /sʊn/, /sɒn/ 1. Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century. Labels: uncountable Example: When son first emerged in the streets of Havana, in the early twentieth century, it was shut down by the police, as were most forms of African culture. Son groups, conjuntos, caught playing on the street, as was the tradition, had their instruments confiscated.
Word: daughter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English doghter, doughter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr. Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːtə/, /ˈdoːtə/, /ˈdɔ.tɚ/, /ˈdɔ.t̬ɚ/, [ˈdɔ.ɾɚ] 1. One’s female offspring. Example: I already have a son, so I would like to have a daughter. Example: And ye ſhal eate the fleſh of your ſonnes, and the fleſh of your daughters ſhall ye eate. 2. A female descendant. Example: Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me? 3. A daughter language. 4. A nuclide left over from radioactive decay. 5. A descendant. Example: We have distinguished two types of situations from the point of view of the placement of the obligatory X constituent within the phrase XP: one in which X is a daughter of XP, and one in which X is not a daughter of XP, but a daughter of one of the constituents of XP (in an adjunct configuration). Example: Following the conventional pattern, the argument daughter of a node is assigned the index n0 and placed on the left side, and the functor daughter, the index n1, is placed on the right side. 6. A female character of a creator. Labels: broadly 7. A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person. Labels: derogatory, informal, sometimes, uncommon
Word: grandfather Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English grandfadre, graundfadir, graunfadir, grauntfader, and other forms, from graunt (“big, large; great, important”) + fā̆der (“male parent, father; remoter male ancestor”), probably modelled after Middle French grandpere, grant pere (“male parent; remoter male ancestor”) (whence French grand-père); the English word is analysable as grand- + father. Superseded earlier eldfather, elderfather. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/, /ˈɡɹændˌfɑːðə/, /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, [ˈɡɹ̠(ʷ)ẽˑə̯̃n(d)ˌfɑˑðɚ] 1. A father of someone's parent. Example: Grandfather, Father, and Son. The Father diſſeiſeth the Grandfather and dies, the Son endows the Mother, the Grandfather dies, the Son may enter upon the Mother; for he hath a new Right deſcended to him from the Grandfather, for the Grandfather might have entred upon the Mother, ſo ſhall his Heir. Example: Lineal conſanguinity is that which ſubſists between perſons, of whom one is deſcended in a direct line from the other: as between John Stiles (the propoſitus in the table of conſanguinity) and his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and ſo upwards in the direct aſcending line; or between John Stiles and his ſon, grandſon, great-grandſon, and ſo downwards in the direct deſcending line. 2. A male forefather. Labels: broadly Example: Brethren: Here is the pipe which your grandfathers used to smoke with when they met together in councils of peace. And here is some of that good tobacco, prepared for our grandfathers from God:—When you shall taste of it, you shall feel it through all your body; and it will put you in remembrance of the good councils your grandfathers used to hold with the English, your brethren, and that ancient friendship they had together. 3. The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file. Example: File C is the grandfather because it was used to create file B. Example: Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files.
Word: grandfather Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English grandfadre, graundfadir, graunfadir, grauntfader, and other forms, from graunt (“big, large; great, important”) + fā̆der (“male parent, father; remoter male ancestor”), probably modelled after Middle French grandpere, grant pere (“male parent; remoter male ancestor”) (whence French grand-père); the English word is analysable as grand- + father. Superseded earlier eldfather, elderfather. The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/, /ˈɡɹændˌfɑːðə/, /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, [ˈɡɹ̠(ʷ)ẽˑə̯̃n(d)ˌfɑˑðɚ] 1. To be, or act as, a grandfather to. Labels: transitive
Word: grandfather Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From grandfather clause: see grandfather (etymology 1) and clause. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑːðə(r)/, /ˈɡɹændˌfɑːðə/, /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/, [ˈɡɹ̠(ʷ)ẽˑə̯̃n(d)ˌfɑˑðɚ] 1. To retain discontinued laws or rules for (an object, individual or organization previously affected by them). Labels: US, transitive Example: Had the original work been permitted, it would be grandfathered into any code changes each time they occurred, Arvada officials said. The latest came in 2006. Example: Old power plants are sometimes grandfathered from having to meet new clean air requirements.
Word: grandparent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grand- + parent. Compare French grand-parent. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, /ˈɡɹæn(d)pæɹənt/ 1. The parent of someone's parent. Example: A 15-year-old orphan is being forced from the Arizona senior community where he lives with his grandparents after the homeowner’s association said it could face legal issues if he stayed. Example: More than 140,000 US children have lost a parent or grandparent who takes care of them to Covid-19, CDC researchers reported Thursday, which is as many as one in 500 US kids.
Word: grandparent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From grand- + parent. Compare French grand-parent. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, /ˈɡɹæn(d)pæɹənt/ 1. Synonym of grandfather.
Word: grandmother Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English graundmodre, grauntmoder, granmoder; equivalent to grand- + mother. Compare French grand-mère. Superseded earlier eldmother, eldermother. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðə(r)/, /ˈɡɹænˌmʌðə/, /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌmʌðɚ/ 1. A mother of someone's parent. Example: […] man may admit that his grandfathers and grandmothers were mon[keys a]nd monkeyesses if he want^([sic]) to; that is his privilege. Example: "It's a nightingale floor," our grandmother told us. "It warns us of thieves in the night." 2. A female ancestor or progenitor. 3. In Amazonian shamanism and related contexts, a reverential name for the ayahuasca vine or brew, symbolizing its role as a wise, guiding spirit. Example: "Enter ayahuasca, the mystical grandmother of the psychedelic family, a beacon of profound spiritual experiences"
Word: grandchild Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grand- + child. 1. A child of someone's child. Example: ...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy. Example: Legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a woman suspected of trying to kidnap their grandchild Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Word: grandson Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English grand- Proto-Indo-European *sew-? Proto-Indo-European *sewH- Proto-Indo-European *suHnús Proto-Germanic *sunuz Proto-West Germanic *sunu Old English sunu Middle English sone English son English grandson From grand- + son. Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn(d)sʌn/ 1. A son of one's child. Example: Three days after his young grandsons died in a fire police said was set by their father, Chuck Cox on Wednesday still was coming to grips with what happened. Example: She’s now a great-grandmother with three sons, a grandson and two great-grandchildren.
Word: granddaughter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From grand- + daughter. 1. The daughter of someone's child.
Word: uncle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os Latin avunculus Old French unclebor. Middle English uncle English uncle From Middle English uncle, borrowed from Anglo-Norman uncle and Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin *aunclum, from Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”, literally “little grandfather”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo- (“little grandfather”), a dialectal diminutive of *h₂éwh₂ō (“grandfather, adult male relative other than one’s father”) (whence also Latin avus (“grandfather”)). Displaced native Middle English em (“uncle”) from Old English ēam (“maternal uncle”), containing the same Proto-Indo-European root, and Old English fædera (“paternal uncle”). Compare Saterland Frisian Unkel (“uncle”), Dutch nonkel (“uncle”), German Low German Unkel (“uncle”), German Onkel (“uncle”), Danish onkel (“uncle”). More at eam and eame. Pronunciation: /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/ 1. The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent. Example: And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed. 2. The male cousin of one’s parent. 3. Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents. Labels: endearing 4. Used as a title for the male companion to one's (usually unmarried) parent. Labels: euphemistic 5. A source of advice, encouragement, or help. Labels: figuratively 6. A pawnbroker. Labels: UK, dated, informal Example: December 1843, William Makepeace Thackeray, "Grant in Paris" (review), in Fraser's Magazine A chain hangs out of the pocket of his velvet waistcoat , by which we may conclude that he has a watch , though we have known many gents whose watches were at their uncle's (as the fashionable term for the pawnbroker goes) 7. An affectionate term for a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin. Labels: especially 8. An older African-American male. Labels: Southern-US, archaic, slang Example: Plain old uncle as he [Socrates] was, with his great ears, — an immense talker. 9. Any middle-aged or elderly man older than the speaker and/or listener. Labels: Brunei, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, informal
Word: uncle Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os Latin avunculus Old French unclebor. Middle English uncle English uncle From Middle English uncle, borrowed from Anglo-Norman uncle and Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin *aunclum, from Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”, literally “little grandfather”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo- (“little grandfather”), a dialectal diminutive of *h₂éwh₂ō (“grandfather, adult male relative other than one’s father”) (whence also Latin avus (“grandfather”)). Displaced native Middle English em (“uncle”) from Old English ēam (“maternal uncle”), containing the same Proto-Indo-European root, and Old English fædera (“paternal uncle”). Compare Saterland Frisian Unkel (“uncle”), Dutch nonkel (“uncle”), German Low German Unkel (“uncle”), German Onkel (“uncle”), Danish onkel (“uncle”). More at eam and eame. Pronunciation: /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/ 1. A cry used to indicate surrender. Labels: US, colloquial
Word: uncle Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os Latin avunculus Old French unclebor. Middle English uncle English uncle From Middle English uncle, borrowed from Anglo-Norman uncle and Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin *aunclum, from Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”, literally “little grandfather”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo- (“little grandfather”), a dialectal diminutive of *h₂éwh₂ō (“grandfather, adult male relative other than one’s father”) (whence also Latin avus (“grandfather”)). Displaced native Middle English em (“uncle”) from Old English ēam (“maternal uncle”), containing the same Proto-Indo-European root, and Old English fædera (“paternal uncle”). Compare Saterland Frisian Unkel (“uncle”), Dutch nonkel (“uncle”), German Low German Unkel (“uncle”), German Onkel (“uncle”), Danish onkel (“uncle”). More at eam and eame. Pronunciation: /ˈʌŋ.kl̩/ 1. To address somebody by the term uncle. Labels: colloquial, transitive 2. To act like, or as, an uncle. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: Betelgeuse Five, where he both fathered and uncled Ford