nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: keep one's side of the bargain Part of Speech: verb 1. To fulfill a commitment as part of keeping to an agreement.
Word: lamentational Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to lamentation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lamentatory Part of Speech: adj 1. Of or relating to lamentation. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lamplet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lamp + -let. 1. A little lamp.
Word: beachlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From beach + -let. 1. A little beach.
Word: beachlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of beachlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lamplets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lamplet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lampful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lamp + -ful. 1. Enough to fill a lamp. Example: a lampful of oil
Word: lampsful Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lampful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lampfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lampful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lamplighted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lamp + lighted. 1. Synonym of lamplit. Labels: not-comparable
Word: lamziekte Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Afrikaans lamziekte. 1. A form of botulism primarily affecting cattle. Labels: South-Africa, uncountable
Word: lanceman Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lance + -man. 1. A soldier armed with a lance.
Word: lancemen Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lanceman Labels: form-of, plural
Word: landgafol Part of Speech: noun 1. A form of ground rent paid in medieval times. Labels: historical, uncountable
Word: landgravess Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From landgrave + -ess. 1. A female landgrave.
Word: landgravesses Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of landgravess Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caziqueship Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of caciqueship. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: caziqueships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caziqueship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caciqueship Part of Speech: noun 1. The role or status of cacique. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: caciqueships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of caciqueship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: landgraveship Part of Speech: noun 1. The role or status of landgrave. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: landgraveships Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of landgraveship Labels: form-of, plural
Word: caziquism Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of caciquism. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: landlubberish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From landlubber + -ish. 1. Synonym of landlubberly.
Word: landladyship Part of Speech: noun 1. The role or status of landlady. Labels: uncountable
Word: landladyhood Part of Speech: noun 1. The role or status of landlady. Labels: uncountable
Word: dopeless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From dope + -less. 1. Without dope (narcotic drug). Labels: not-comparable 2. Without pipe dope. Labels: not-comparable
Word: pipe dope Part of Speech: noun 1. Any of various lubricants and sealants used to make a pipe thread joint leakproof and pressure-tight. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: pipe dopes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of pipe dope Labels: form-of, plural
Word: langarai Part of Speech: noun 1. The tree Bruguiera parviflora.
Word: lankish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From lank + -ish. 1. Somewhat lank.
Word: Goodwood Part of Speech: name 1. A place in England: 2. A place in England: 3. A place in Canada: 4. A place in Canada: 5. A place in Australia: 6. A place in Australia: 7. A suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. 8. A rural community south of Palmerston, Otago, New Zealand. 9. A village in Trinidad and Tobago.
Word: lapidators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lapidator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: lapsability Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of lapsibility. Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
Word: lapsibility Part of Speech: noun 1. The property of being lapsible. Labels: uncountable
Word: larderful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From larder + -ful. 1. Enough to fill a larder.
Word: larderfuls Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of larderful Labels: form-of, plural
Word: larixinic acid Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of larixin. Labels: uncountable
Word: larixin Part of Speech: noun 1. A crystallizable principle found in the bark of the larch. Labels: uncountable
Word: larcenic Part of Speech: adj 1. larcenous; thievish Labels: rare
Word: larrikinish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From larrikin + -ish. 1. Characteristic of larrikins or larrikinism.
Word: latexosis Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From latex + -osis. 1. An abnormal flow of latex from a plant. Labels: uncountable
Word: lecturette Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lecture + -ette. 1. A short lecture.
Word: lecturettes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lecturette Labels: form-of, plural
Word: legislatorially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From legislatorial + -ly. 1. In a legislatorial manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: leprologic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From leprology + -ic. 1. Synonym of leprological: Of or related to leprology. Labels: not-comparable, rare
Word: leprological Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From leprology + -ical, equivalent to leprosy + -logical. 1. Of or related to leprology, the scientific study of leprosy. Labels: not-comparable
Word: leucoblastic Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of leukoblast. Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
Word: leukoblastic Part of Speech: adj 1. Relating to leukoblasts. Labels: not-comparable
Word: levelish Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From level + -ish. 1. Somewhat level. Example: Between this ridge and the sea, on the east and south-east, there stretches out from the sort of bay described a breadth of five or six miles of levelish country, […]
Word: levellish Part of Speech: adj 1. Alternative form of levelish. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: levoversion Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of laevoversion. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
Word: levoversions Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of levoversion Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Luanchuan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 欒川 /栾川. 1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China. Example: Luanchuan County of Loyang Special District is abolished. The administrative area of the former Luanchuan County is transferred to Sung County. Example: In Luanchuan County, Henan Province, for example, people subsist on 0.052 ha per capita. Government subsidies and cheap loans for agriculture are the only vehicles to keep the area afloat. Annual per capita income is approximately RMB 230 yuan. One of the three largest mines in the world—the Luanchuan molybdenum, lead, and zinc mine—attracted a deluge of miners.
Word: Yiyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 弋陽 /弋阳 (Yìyáng). 1. A county of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China.
Word: Yiyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 宜陽 /宜阳 (Yíyáng). 1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China. Example: A scene from China’s great drought of 1960. Members of the Sanhsiang people's commune in Yiyang County form a "bucket brigade" to bring water from the Lo River, reduced to a trickle. China Reconstructs (Peiping), November 1960 Example: Li Ho (790-816), or Li Chang-chi, came from Changku County (present-day Yiyang County) in the province of Honan.
Word: Yiyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 益陽 /益阳 (Yìyáng). 1. A prefecture-level city of Hunan, China.
Word: Xin'an Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新安 (Xīn'ān). Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪnˈɑn/, /-æn/ 1. A county of Luoyang, Henan, China. Example: One village in Xin’an county in Henan province has 120 women of childbearing age. Except for five women who are sterile, the rest each have three, four, or even five children. The husbands of these women are prosperous, and willing to accept financial penalties in order to have more children. “The fines are no problem for us, it’s just a matter of raising one more ox or two pigs. We don’t mind paying,” say the village farmers. Example: During the Jin Dynasty, a woodcutter by the name of Wang Qiao lived at the foot of a mountain in Xin’an County of He’nan^([sic – meaning Henan]). 2. A former county Guangdong, China. Labels: historical Example: The Hong Kong region belonged to Xinan county, under the charge of the county magistrate, whose yamen or official office was located in the walled city of Nantou within present-day Shenzhen. Example: In China, the compilation of local chronicles has a history for more than 2,000 years and can be traced back to the Qin dynasty. The last chronicles to include Hong Kong were completed in 1819, when it was still part of Xinan county during the Qing dynasty.
Word: Sanmenxia Part of Speech: name Etymology: c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 三門峽 /三门峡 (Sānménxiá). 1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China. Example: China's largest hydroelectric station is under construction at Sanmensia, and will supply power to the industrial centers of Loyang, Sian and Chengchow. Example: Several vehicles were reported to have fallen from the elevated section of the highway after a truck laden with fireworks exploded, severely damaging a roughly 80-meter (262-foot) section of the road. The incident occurred near the city of Sanmenxia, to the east of Xi'an, in the inland, eastern province of Henan.
Word: Yima Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 義馬 /义马 (Yìmǎ). 1. A county-level city of Sanmenxia, Henan, China. Example: On the mainland, Yima city, a coal-mining center in central China’s Henan Province, had the highest sex ratio of 153.18 among China’s cities, while Tumeng^([sic – meaning Tumen]) city in Jilin Province had the lowest sex ratio of 99.15. Example: Henan Yima Group Ltd. was constructing a 400,000-t/yr alumina refinery in Yima, Henan Province, and planned to start production early 2010 (CRU Alumina Monitor, 2009j).
Word: Mianchi Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 澠池 /渑池 (Miǎnchí). 1. A county of Sanmenxia, Henan, China. Example: But in 1920 Andersson discovered in Mien-ch’ih Hsien, western Honan, in the heart of Chinese civilization, a Stone Age site near Yang-shao-ts’un, which was to be followed by his discovery of another Painted Pottery site at the cave of Sha-kuo-t’un in Liaoning in 1922 and many other Painted Pottery Culture sites in Kansu in 1923-24. Example: Both these sites are also identified as belonging to the Yangshao culture, similar remains having first been discovered at Yangshao Village in Mianchi County, Henan Province.
Word: Shanzhou Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陝州 /陕州 (Shǎnzhōu). 1. A district of Sanmenxia, Henan, China. Example: This paper focuses on the sunken courtyard, a typical vernacular architecture that utilizes underground space, carries out field investigation and questionnaire survey in villages of Shanzhou District, China.
Word: Ludwigshafen Part of Speech: name 1. A city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, across the Rhine from Mannheim.
Word: Chișcani Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Chișcani. 1. A commune and village in Brăila County, Romania.
Word: Cicănești Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Romanian Cicănești. 1. A village and commune of Argeș County, Romania.
Word: Ciochina Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ciochina. 1. A village and commune of Ialomița County, Romania.
Word: Ciolpani Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Ciolpani. 1. A village and commune of Ilfov County, Romania.
Word: Cojasca Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Cojasca. 1. A village and commune of Dâmbovița County, Romania.
Word: Colți Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Romanian Colți. 1. A village and commune of Buzău County, Romania.
Word: lordlily Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From lordly + -ly. 1. In a lordly manner.
Word: lordlet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lord + -let. 1. A little or petty lord.
Word: lordlets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lordlet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Cotești Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Romanian Cotești. 1. A village in Godeni, Argeș County, Romania. 2. A village and commune of Vrancea County, Romania.
Word: logometrical Part of Speech: adj 1. Synonym of logometric. Labels: not-comparable
Word: logometrically Part of Speech: adv 1. In a logometric manner. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Coșești Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Romanian Coșești. 1. A commune of Argeș County, Romania. 2. A village in Coșești, Argeș County, Romania. 3. A village in Ivănești, Vaslui County, Romania.
Word: logicalization Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of logicalizing. Labels: uncountable
Word: Dichiseni Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Dichiseni. 1. A village and commune of Călărași County, Romania.
Word: Dudești Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Dudești. 1. A commune and village in Brăila County, Romania. 2. A village in Luncoiu de Jos, Hunedoara County, Romania.
Word: Lockatong Part of Speech: name 1. A mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
Word: locklet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From lock + -let. 1. A little lock of hair.
Word: locklets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of locklet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: loaflet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From loaf + -let. 1. A little loaf. Example: […] asked the young Brother Benedict, early one Good Friday morning, as he carried off, on a board, one batch after another of the loaflets of white “lord's bread.”
Word: loathfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From loathful + -ly. 1. In a loathful manner.
Word: loaflets Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of loaflet Labels: form-of, plural
Word: livingless Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From living + -less. 1. Without a living. Labels: not-comparable Example: a livingless parson
Word: Hubin Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 湖濱／湖滨 (Húbīn). Pronunciation: /hu.bin/, /-bɪn/ 1. A district of Sanmenxia, Henan, China. Example: The monk who performs the dance of the top light is not a true Buddhist disciple, but a farmer in Xiangyang Village, Yadi Township, Hubin District, Sanmenxia City. Example: […]in Hualong District of Puyang City (8.44/105), followed by Hubin District of Sanmenxia City and Luoyang City. In females, it was the highest in Luoyang City (5.22/105), followed by Hebi City and Hubin District of Sanmenxia City.
Word: litiscontestation Part of Speech: noun 1. The situation where both parties in a case have stated their pleas and agreed to abide by the judge's decision. Labels: uncountable
Word: lixiviator Part of Speech: noun 1. One who or that which lixiviates.
Word: lixiviators Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of lixiviator Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lityerses Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λιτυέρσης (Lituérsēs). 1. An illegitimate son of Midas (or of Comis) and Demeter, who challenged people to harvesting contests and beheaded those he beat, putting the rest of their bodies in the sheaves. Heracles won the contest and killed him. Labels: Greek
Word: Lingbao Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 靈寶 /灵宝 (Língbǎo). 1. A county-level city of Sanmenxia, Henan, China.
Word: fawaffle Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Blend of falafel + waffle. Pronunciation: /fəˈwɑːfəl/, /fəˈwæfəl/, /fəˈwɒfəl/, /fəˈwɑfəl/ 1. Falafel that has been pressed in a waffle iron into the form of a waffle. Example: Remove the fawaffles when they are cooked through and evenly browned. Example: Yonatan Armon and Maya Mordechay show off a plate of three fawaffles, served with mujadra (lentils and rice), hummus and Israeli coleslaw at their Surfer’s Wife stand at the Kakaako Farmers Market.
Word: fawaffles Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of fawaffle Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lushi Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 盧氏 /卢氏 (Lúshì). 1. A county of Sanmenxia, Henan, China. Example: Damage Control On August 10, 2001, the weekend edition of Gongren Ribao (Workers’ Daily) in Lushi County, Henan Province, published a long lead story exposing redundant and extravagant projects pursued by the county Party secretary. Example: Wang Fengying, 48, told her victims she was Princess Changping, a descendant of China’s Aisin Gioro, the family name of the Manchu emperors that ruled the country during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the Huashang Daily reported. Yet in reality she was just an unemployed farmer from Lushi county, in Henan province.
Word: lithotomize Part of Speech: verb 1. To carry out a lithotomy.
Word: lithotomized Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of lithotomize Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: lithotomizes Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lithotomize Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: lithotomizing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lithotomize Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: litanywise Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From litany + -wise. 1. In the manner of a litany. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Linnaeanism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Linnaean + -ism. 1. The Linnaean system of nomenclature. Labels: uncountable Example: Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras.
Word: limitatively Part of Speech: adv 1. In a limitative manner.
Word: likelihead Part of Speech: noun 1. Obsolete form of likelihood. Labels: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable
Word: liespfund Part of Speech: noun 1. An Estonian unit of mass, equivalent to 8.6 kilograms. Labels: historical
Word: liespfunds Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of liespfund Labels: form-of, plural
Word: archeen Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of arshin. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: archeens Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of archeen Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Lewanna Part of Speech: name 1. A female given name.
Word: filibusterings Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of filibustering Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Evington Part of Speech: name 1. A suburban area and electoral ward in the City of Leicester, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK6203). 2. A hamlet in Leigh parish, Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8725). 3. A small settlement in Elmsted parish, Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1045). 4. An unincorporated community in Campbell County, Virginia, United States.
Word: Nanyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 南陽／南阳 (Nányáng). 1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China. Example: In one of theſe cities named Nanyang, is found a kind of ſerpent, the ſkin of which is marked with ſmall white ſpots : the Chineſe phyſicians ſteep it in wine, and uſe it afterwards as an excellent remedy againſt the palſy. Example: Other villagers expressed a mix of resignation and worry. Residents in Nanyang, a city of 1.5 million about 20 miles to the south, have also voiced alarm on the Internet and called for the project to be scuttled. “Here and around Nanyang, there’s opposition, but that’s futile,” said Li Chaoyong, 50, who builds and repairs homes around Hubin. “But if there are problems again like in Japan ...” His voice trailed off, and he shook his head.
Word: Nanyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 南洋 (Nányáng). 1. Synonym of Southeast Asia vis-à-vis the Chinese and Peranakan cultures: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name. Example: In other parts of the Nanyang the Chinese were never prominent in Communist Parties except, later, in Sarawak, where the local Chinese Communist faction attempted with little success to gain control of the Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (S.U.P.P.), a party largely Chinese-supported, which emerged as one of the legal political parties after Sarawak obtained self-government in 1956. Example: Different areas of Southeast Asia received Chinese emigrants from different regions of China, so that in the Nanyang an enormous diversity can be found, reflecting the diversity of regions and villages from whence the emigrants flowed. Some sense of this diversity, and the dominance in each of the nations of the Nanyang by people from one or two specific regions of China, can be obtained from Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 depicts the major language groups of the emigrants as well as the regions in China where those languages were spoken. Table 2 sets out the distribution by Southeast Asian country of Chinese regional dialects and shows the diversity that exists from country to country.
Word: Nanyang Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Mandarin 南洋 (Nányáng). 1. Synonym of Peranakan.
Word: Xixia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西峽 /西峡 (Xīxiá). 1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: A 3,000-ton-per-year andalusite plant began operation in Xixia County, Hunan Province. The andalusite source for the plant was a deposit with proven reserves of 7.8 million tons. Example: In Xixia county, in central Henan province, schools cleaned out a total of 6,000 books that were “inappropriate or had a poor outer appearance,” and 22,700 that had no value, local media reported.
Word: Xixia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西夏 (Xī Xià). 1. A district of Yinchuan, Ningxia autonomous region, China. Example: By minibus and taxi Getting here from Yinchuan’s Xingqing district is either expensive or difficult. If you favour the expensive option, just grab a cab — drivers will start the bidding at ¥150 (or more) one-way, though you should be able to get them down to ¥200 return, including they take up to 2hr to reach the tombs. Finally, you could waiting time. Alternatively, green and red buses (no number, though with Xixia written on the front) run from a stop just east of Nanmen Square; these cost just ¥2, though to reach the tombs. Finally, you could split the difference and take a bus to Xixia district (1hr; ¥1), from which it’s a far cheaper taxi-ride to the ruins (¥25 each way). Example: Zhang called the police after the confrontation. In a statement issued on Sunday, the public security bureau of Yinchuan’s Xixia district said Gao and her family have agreed to talk through the disagreement. 2. Synonym of Western Xia. Example: […]eastern Kansu, northern Shensi and Ningsia. In 1038 Yuan Hao, leader of the Tanguts, declared himself emperor and called his country Hsia, known in Chinese history as Hsihsia. Hsingching (modern Yinchuan, Ningsia) was made the capital. Example: The tribe which prided itself most on its strength was the Hsi-hsia, which had its main garrison in Hsing-ch’ing. Besides the Hsi-hsia, there was a tribe of Turfans based in Liang-chou, a tribe of Uighurs with its base in Kan-chou, and a Chinese, or Han, tribe based in westernmost Sha-chou.
Word: Xixia Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 棲霞 /栖霞 (Qīxiá) incorrectly as Xīxiá due to reading the simplified character as 西 (xī). 1. Misspelling of Qixia. Labels: alt-of, misspelling
Word: Xichuan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 淅川 (Xīchuān). 1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: Some ten thousand peasants in Hsichuan county in Honan province used hoes, scythes, wooden poles, etc. as weapons and took over the county seat. They expanded their forces and held areas in two neighboring counties. The CC sent a force of one hundred thousand troops and fought the peasants for nearly two months before the uprising was put down. Example: The revolutionary masses of Hsichuan County have completed, three months ahead of schedule, the construction of a bridge across the (Huang) River.
Word: Neixiang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 內鄉 /内乡. Pronunciation: /ˌneɪˈʃjɑŋ/ 1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: A drone image shows Muyuan Foods newly built multi-storey pig farm in Neixiang county, Henan province, China November 6, 2020.
Word: Chirpăr Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Chirpăr. 1. A village and commune of Sibiu County, Romania.
Word: Glogova Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Glogova. 1. A commune and village in Gorj County, Romania.
Word: Rădăuți-Prut Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Rădăuți-Prut. 1. A village and commune of Botoșani County, Romania.
Word: Nanzhao Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南詔 /南诏 (Nánzhào). 1. a kingdom that flourished in present-day Yunnan, China, between 739 and 902 CE. Labels: historical
Word: Nanzhao Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南召. 1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: Chang Tiehtou or Iron Head Chang, another bandit ringleader, is now staying at Tenghsien in South Honan, with about 2,000 guns. Tsui Er-tan and Wei Kuo-chu, both famous bandit ringleaders, with about 7,000 guns, who had captured several villages in the Nanchao Hsien region and set some of them on fire are reported to have been defeated by the Government troops. Example: On 3 February some 10,000 proletarian revolutionaries, revolutionary masses, and PLA commanders and fighters in Nanchao County held a rally to celebrate the setting up of the Nanchao County revolutionary committee.
Word: Wolong Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臥龍 /卧龙 (Wòlóng). Pronunciation: /ˈwoʊ.lɔŋ/ 1. A district of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: A tutor from the Nanyang Museum of Science and Technology of Henan Province brought a “small robot’ to the classroom of the Experiment School in Wolong District of Nanyang. Example: Located on Wolong Mound, west suburb of Nanyang, the temple was the farmstead of Zhuge Liang, a famous politician and strategist in the Three Kingdoms Period.
Word: Xinye Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新野 (Xīnyě). 1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: In the first year of [the period] Yung-shih,⁶ he enfeoffed [Wang] Mang as Marquis of Hsin-tu with an estate of fifteen hundred households in the Tu District of Hsin-yeh [County] in Nan-yang [Commandery].⁷ Example: Four macaque circus trainers charged with illegally transporting rare wildlife were acquitted on January 20 when an appellate court overturned guilty verdict in Xinye County, Henan province.
Word: stunsil Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of stunsail. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: stunsels Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stunsel Labels: form-of, plural
Word: stunsils Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of stunsil Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Tanghe Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 唐河 (Tánghé). 1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: Feng Yuan-chun was born in 1900 in Tangho County, Honan Province. She graduated from the former Women’s Normal University in Peking and obtained the degree of Doctor of Literature at the Soibonne. Example: […]T'ang-ho County where the Feng family lived for several generations, did not seem to be affected in any[…]T'ang-ho County to do business from their original home in Kao-p'ing (高平) County in Shansi Province, more than[…]north of T'ang-ho County.⁶
Word: Tongbai Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 桐柏 (Tóngbǎi). 1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: This paper records some plant impressions from the Wu-li-tui formation of the Wu-ch'eng basin in T'ung-pai hsien, Honan. The xerophytic Palibinia and small leaves of various kinds of leguminous plants are predominant. Example: A large deposit of high-grade natural soda reportedly has been found in Tungpai County of Honan Province, within the Paleogene system of Cenozoic rocks.
Word: Wancheng Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 宛城 (Wǎnchéng). 1. A district of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: Mr. Li Yansen, 67, is a retired engineer from Bayi Manufacturing in Nanyang City. During the morning of March 5, 2004, five police officers from Wancheng District came to his home and illegally searched it without showing a warrant or identification. Example: In Henan province, in the Wancheng District of Nanyang City, another house church was raided. All occupants of the church were arrested except for one elderly woman. Two foreign pastors, one from the United States and the other from Russia, both present at the time of the raid, were arrested along with their translator. Ma Hanzhong, a member of the house church and arrested with the others was beaten. The location of the two foreign pastors are unknown at this time (p.4).
Word: Sheqi Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 社旗. 1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: Honan Province Established Shechi County under the jurisdiction of Nanyang Special District. Example: In 1988 he did so, but it was risky. Foreigners at that time were able to travel to Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province, but were normally prohibited from traveling farther into the countryside. Ding Hei and others arranged for a motor-powered three-wheel taxi to pick Balcombe up in Zhengzhou and drive him several hours through the night to Macheng village in Sheqi County, next to Fangcheng County.
Word: Fangcheng Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 方城. 1. A county of Nanyang, Henan, China. Example: Chang Shih-chih,⁷¹ whose style was Chi, was a native of Che-yang⁷² of the Nan-yang commandery. Example: The raid was conducted in a village about 27 miles south of Fangcheng, a city in Henan province in central China.
Word: Fangcheng Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 防城 (Fángchéng). 1. A district of Fangchenggang, Guangxi autonomous region, China. Example: Finally, at the beginning of September, the commanders of the two companies of Kwangsi troops defending the unwalled district city of Fang-ch’eng, west of Ch’in-chou, abruptly defected to the revolutionary side. Why they defected is not clear. A native of Kwangsi himself, Wang may have played upon their common provincial ties; or he may have bribed them. In any case, with their help, Wang Ho-shun and several hundred followers captured Fang-ch’eng without a fight on September 3. Example: The agency also said there was an attack in Fangcheng County in Guanxi^([sic – meaning Guangxi]) Province and artillery fire directed against Yunnan Province
Word: Pingdingshan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平頂山 /平顶山 (Píngdǐngshān). 1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China. Example: Together with nearby Lushan county, Pingdingshan was the champion in Henan province’s iron and steel production. Here more than forty thousand agriculture laborers had been diverted to make iron and steel. Example: On the edges of an old and depleted mine on the rugged outskirts of Pingdingshan in central China's Henan province, workers sift through dunes of low-grade coal, looking to extract every last calorie of energy from the city's crumbling seams.
Word: Șaru Dornei Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Romanian Șaru Dornei. 1. A commune of Suceava County, Romania. 2. A village in Șaru Dornei, Suceava County, Romania.
Word: Șieuț Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Șieuț. 1. A village and commune of Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania.
Word: Șărmășag Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Șărmășag. 1. A village and commune of Sălaj County, Romania.
Word: Shilong Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石龍 /石龙 (Shílóng). 1. A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China. Example: A pipeline transporting ammonia at a chemical factory in Shilong district of Pingdingshan city ruptured at around 6.30am yesterday. 2. A town in Dongguan, Guangdong, China.
Word: Baofeng Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶豐 /宝丰 (Bǎofēng). 1. A county of Pingdingshan, Henan, China. Example: News also had been received of a rising at Pao-feng, twenty-three miles west, where the people were mid to be looting the granaries of the wealthy. Example: According to the annotations by Tu Yü (杜預), the state of Ying lay to the southwest of present-day Pao Fêng (寶豐) County in Central Honan.
Word: Ruzhou Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝州 (Rǔzhōu). 1. A county-level city of Pingdingshan, Henan, China. Example: Ju-yao or Juchou porcelain.—Chinese authors state that the porcelain manufactured at Tingchou (see p. 402), being unfit for presentation to the emperor, the establishment of a factory for the manufacture of more suitable articles was ordered at Juchou, in Honan province. Example: The Ju Yao of the Sung dynasty was made at Ju-chou, the modern Ju-chou-fu, in the province of Honan.
Word: Horoatu Crasnei Part of Speech: name Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Romanian Horoatu Crasnei. 1. A village and commune of Sălaj County, Romania.
Word: Elmsted Part of Speech: name 1. A village and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1144).
Word: Zhanhe Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 湛河 (Zhànhé). 1. A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China. Example: Located in the southern part of Pingdingshan City, Zhanhe District covers an area of 123.5 sq km with a population of 210,000. It is made up of one township and one town and 71 administrative villages. Example: The Pingdingshan City Labour Dispute Arbitration Committee rejected Zhou Xianghua's appeal. Subseuqently, Zhou sued her work unit in court. On 9 December 2005, the case was tried by the Zhanhe district court of Pingdingshan. After hearing both sides of the argument, the collegiate panel delivered the verdict: Zhou lost her case.
Word: whatstheirname Part of Speech: pron 1. Alternative form of what's-their-name. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Many old names, hairstyles, and mustaches that I'd already forgotten: Mirko Votava, Tom Dooley, Vladimir Beschastnych, Manni Bender, Heiko Scholz, Alain Sutter, and whatstheirname Example: Maybe now you can see the outstanding job they are doing for you as you call for “that letter about the pipe joints rom Whatstheirname's warehouse,"
Word: whatstheirname Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of what's-their-name. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: Weidong Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 衛東 /卫东. 1. A district of Pingdingshan, Henan, China. Example: The 72 miners were trapped after stored explosives blew up at the Xingdong No.2 Mine in Weidong district of Pingdingshan in Henan province, it said. Example: Eight mines of Pingdingshan is China's own design and construction of the first large-scale mine, administrative area under the Weidong District, Pingdingshan City .
Word: Wugang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武岡 /武冈 (Wǔgāng). 1. A county-level city of Shaoyang, Hunan, China. Example: (Chao Han-ching) is deputy secretary of the CCP committee of Wukang County, Hunan, and (Chao Ying-shan) is secretary of the committee. Example: Hengjiang Village is nestled in the lush mountains of China's Hunan province, just a few kilometers from the bustling city of Wugang.
Word: Wugang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 舞鋼 /舞钢 (Wǔgāng). 1. A county-level city of Pingdingshan, Henan, China. Example: Fraud Wu-kang district (舞鋼區), Honan province, lies between P'ing-ting-shan city (平頂山市) and Hsü-ch'ang city (許昌市), and[...] Example: The incidents occurred in Henan Province in an area known to have many "house churches."[…] Mr. Zhang said that 40 worshipers at a house church were arrested on Oct. 26 in the city of Wugang and that more than 100 were detained on Nov. 5 in Nanyang.
Word: Zhumadian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 駐馬店 /驻马店 (Zhùmǎdiàn). 1. A prefecture-level city of Henan, China, formerly a prefecture. Example: The Chumatien prefecture is 14,710 square kilometres in extent. It has 773,330 hectares of arable land, 4,000 hectares of which is. in hilly country, 66,670 in marsh, and 166,670 in plains. Its two main rivers are the Hung and the Ju, which join together at the Anhwei boundary, and flow into the Hwai River. Example: The Wuhan forces had won the battle at Chumatien (the victory Tom Mann had so boisterously celebrated) but, as those back in Wuhan subsequently found out, only at a terrible cost.
Word: Biyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 泌陽 /泌阳 (Bìyáng). 1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China. Example: That Honan was the locus of manufacture for wares of the splashed black-glazed variety is suggested by the number of examples excavated in that province (for a reference to wares of this type excavated in Hsi-p’ing-hsien, Honan, see Sekai Tōji Zenshū, IX, 191; for a blue-glazed jar—similar in glaze and in the shape and disposition of its spots to the Palace Museum jar mentioned earlier—excavated at Pan-ch’iao, Mi-yang-hsien, Honan, see Wen Wu, 1954/9, Plate 59). Example: The village of Nia Seng in Piyang county is famous as the birth place of two famous generals of the Six Dynasties period (AD 222-589). But that county is perhaps more famous today for its luscious pears, perhaps China’s best.[…] The town was saved. Then there was a militiaman, Liu Hsiao-mo, of the Yangcheng brigade in Shahotien of Piyang county. He took a small boat and res- cued many people.
Word: puts one's money where one's mouth is Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of put one's money where one's mouth is Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: putting one's money where one's mouth is Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of put one's money where one's mouth is Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: put one's money where one's mouth was Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of put one's money where one's mouth is Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: Queshan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 確山 /确山. 1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China. Example: Friends told of how at one stage, when the place was literally filled to the last corner, a group had arrived marching from Chuehshan, a hill county in Honan. It had taken them a month to come. Example: Their retreat to Ying-shang was part of a new plan to turn westward into Honan province along the route taken in February by Ch’en Te-ts’ai, who had tried to capture Hsin-ts’ai with the help of a local Nien force and afterward gone farther west past Ch’üeh-shan to lay siege to Nan-yang beginning March 10th.
Word: Suiping Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 遂平. 1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China. Example: The city of Suiping is situated on the Peking-Hankow Railway and is the farthest north of our mission stations. It is the center of a district with a population of approximately 300,000 people who rank comparatively high in literacy. Suiping was opened as a main station in 1912 when Rev. H. M. Nesse arrived to take charge of the mission work. Example: Two counties—Suiping and Pingyu—in the Hsinyang district of Honan province took the lead in this movement.
Word: Xiping Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西平. 1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China. Example: That Honan was the locus of manufacture for wares of the splashed black-glazed variety is suggested by the number of examples excavated in that province (for a reference to wares of this type excavated in Hsi-p’ing-hsien, Honan, see Sekai Tōji Zenshū, IX, 191; for a blue-glazed jar—similar in glaze and in the shape and disposition of its spots to the Palace Museum jar mentioned earlier—excavated at Pan-ch’iao, Mi-yang-hsien, Honan, see Wen Wu, 1954/9, Plate 59). Example: The people of the flood-stricken area of Honan Province, central China, offered to make bigger contributions to the people in quake-afflicted area in Tangshan, recalling how the party and people throughout the country had come to their aid in their time of difficulty. After learning that a number of the wounded had arrived at the Chumachen hospital, an elderly woman of the Wangkouying people's commune in Hsiping County brought a basket of eggs to give the hospital kitchen for the injured.
Word: Shangcai Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 上蔡 (Shàngcài). 1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China. Example: Shangtsai County has also applied additional fertilizer to its 170,000 mou of cotton fields. In general, the entire sorghum, corn, millet and cotton crop in Honan Province is growing well, even better than in previous years. Example: I’m an inn boy. I run a little wine shop⁶ here at Three Mile Stop beyond the Northern Pass in Shang-ts’ai County,* where everybody traveling north and south, wheelbarrow pushers, pole bearers, merchants, and what have you, come to have a drink and stay the night.
Word: Runan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝南 (Rǔnán). 1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China. Example: Peasants of Junan County, Honan, planted more than 120,000 mou of sesame seed in 1970. Average yield per mou was 19.7 percent higher than that in 1969 and a new record for the county. Delivery of edible oil crops to the state by Junan County in 1970 increased by 14 percent as compared with 1969. The Tangchuang production team of the Lichuang production brigade of Junan County's Sanchiao commune set a record by turning out 222 catties of sesame seed per mou from a total of 60 mou planted is 1970. Example: Tian Weiqin had been stationing his army in Runan county since 1921. Conflicts between troops and the local community did not occur until the defeat of the Zhili Army in 1924.
Word: Zhengyang Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 正陽 /正阳 (Zhèngyáng). 1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China. Example: To fully implement the various militant tasks set forth by the 10th CCP National Congress, the Chumatien Military Subdistrict and offices directly under Chumatien Region recently sent over 180 cadres to stay and work for a lengthy period of time at selected backward basic-level units. Led by responsible comrades of Chumatien Region, these cadres have gone to such places as (Hsingtsai), (Nanching) and (Luho) communes in Chengyang County and (Machiang) commune in Janan County. Example: In Zhengyang county in May 1923, for instance, local gentry in the southern district built a county militia in response to rampant banditry.
Word: Pingyu Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 平輿 /平舆. Pronunciation: /pɪŋ.ju/ 1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China. Example: Two counties—Suiping and Pingyu—in the Hsinyang district of Honan province took the lead in this movement. Example: Sometimes peasants complained. But is is the thorny logic of renzhi that operates in the countryside. Take the case of Cai Yutang, an elderly peasant in Pingyu County in Henan Province. Local officials wanted to collect money from the peasants to pay for an electricity station, but Cai refused to pay.
Word: Xincai Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新蔡 (Xīncài). Pronunciation: /ʃɪnˈtsaɪ/ 1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China. Example: His first time "outside” was in February 1966. Hsintsai County had asked the Chiliying commune for twenty cotton-growing technicians, and his team picked him as one. Example: In Hsintsai county, there was Wang Hsin-an, a soldier on reserve. A break in a sluice-gate threatened the land of his brigade and immediate action was necessary so that they could be evacuated over to higher land south.
Word: distributionalism Part of Speech: noun 1. A general theory of language and a discovery procedure for establishing elements and structures of language based on observed usage. Labels: uncountable
Word: Pingqiao Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平橋 /平桥 (Píngqiáo). Pronunciation: /ˌpɪŋˈt͡ʃjaʊ/ 1. A district of Xinyang, Henan, China. Example: The dragons' heads no longer exist, but the positions of the tongues are indicated by commas. Initially the design occupied a panel on a bronze surface, as on a gui discovered at Lintong 臨潼, Shaanxi (fig. 10a), or was repeated on a horizontal band, as on a pen excavated at Pingqiao 平橋, Xinyang Shi 新陽市^([sic – meaning 信陽市]), Henan (fig. 10b). Example: Haotang village, under the jurisdiction of Pingqiao District, Xinyang City, Henan Province, China, has an area of approximately 20 square kilometres and a population of about 2300.
Word: Shihe Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 溮河 /浉河. 1. A district of Xinyang, Henan, China. Example: Public education centres will be set up in Xinyang city's Shihe district and in Maidian city's Shangcai county under an agreement reached by Unicef and officials from the Health Ministry and their colleagues in the provincial Government. Example: On June 9, diplomats and reporters from many countries embarked on a journey of "Discovering the Most Beautiful Tea Village on the Silk Road". They came to Shihe District, Xinyang City, Henan Province to explore the secrets of Chinese tea, according to Shihe District Bureau of Culture, Radio & Television and Tourism.[...] Only lush mountains and clear rivers can produce good tea. Shihe is located on the division line of north and south, with forest coverage rate of 70%. It is in the hinterland of China, with villages dotted among the mountains and waters, displaying leisure and tranquility. With a contiguous tea plantation of 100,000 acres, it is the origin and main producing area of Xinyang Maojian, China's "Top Ten Famous Teas". Haojiachong village in Shihe is a representative of the beautiful countryside. Villagers grow tea for generations.
Word: Pember Part of Speech: name Etymology: Perhaps a habitational surname from a place called Pamber, in Hampshire. The placename is from Old English penn (“fold, enclosure”) + beorg (“mountain, hill”). 1. A surname from Old English.
Word: Luoshan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Mandarin 羅山 /罗山 (Luóshān). 1. A county of Xinyang, Henan, China. Example: Our army first beat back the pursuing regiments near Loshan County, crossed the Peking-Hankow railway from Hsinyang and entered Tungpo's mountainous area. Example: Most of the time, the rural gentry was pulled apart by parochial interests and divided along geographic lines into blocs of regional power. Gentry militia in Luoshan county, for instance, reportedly refused to help the Guangshan gentry when it was under attack by the Communists.
Word: Guangshan Part of Speech: name Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 光山. 1. A county of Xinyang, Henan, China. Example: In a small village in Guangshan county in Henan, Mrs Liu Xiaohua, now aged 65, still vividly remembers the events of thirty-six years ago. One afternoon in 1994, perched on a small footstool, dressed in faded blue cotton trousers and smock, and occasionally smoking a cigarette, she recalled what had happened. On the muddy path leading from her village, dozens of corpses lay unburied. In the barren fields there were others; and amongst the dead, the survivors crawled slowly on their hands and knees searching for wild grass seeds to eat. In the ponds and ditches people squatted in the mud hunting for frogs and trying to gather weeds. Example: The attack, in the village of Chengping in Henan Province, happened shortly before 8 a.m., said a police officer from Guangshan County, where the village is located.