nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: nurse Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English norice, from Old French norrice, from Late Latin nūtrīcia, noun based on Latin nūtrīcius (“that which nourishes”), from nūtrīx (“wet nurse”), from nūtriō (“to suckle”). Pronunciation: /nɜːs/, /nɵːs/, /nəːs/, /nɝs/, /nɔːs/ 1. To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle. Labels: transitive Example: She believes that nursing her baby will make him strong and healthy. 2. To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast. Labels: intransitive 3. To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to. Labels: transitive Example: She nursed him back to health. 4. To tend gently and with extra care. Labels: transitive Example: She nursed the rosebush and that season it bloomed. 5. To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy. Labels: transitive 6. To drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Rob was nursing a small beer. 7. To cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: to nurse a grudge Example: to nurse a grievance 8. To hold closely to one's chest. Labels: transitive Example: Would you like to nurse the puppy? 9. To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots. Labels: transitive Example: It is to our interest to let Lee and Johnston come together, just as a billiard-player would nurse the balls when he has them in a nice place
Word: nurse Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Uncertain; earlier (16th century) nusse, nuse. Perhaps from huss, through metanalysis of "an huss" as "a nuss". Pronunciation: /nɜːs/, /nɵːs/, /nəːs/, /nɝs/, /nɔːs/ 1. A nurse shark or dogfish.
Word: pretzel Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mreǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus Proto-Hellenic *brəkʰús Ancient Greek βρᾰχῠ́ς (brăkhŭ́s) Proto-Indo-European *-yōsder. Proto-Indo-European *-isō Proto-Hellenic *-ihō Ancient Greek -ῑ́ων (-ī́ōn) Ancient Greek βρᾰχῑ́ων (brăkhī́ōn)bor. Latin bracchium Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin brāchiātus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellusbor. Old High German brēzitella Middle High German brēzel German Brezel German Pretzelbor. English pretzel From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛt.səl/, [ˈpʰɹɛʔt͡sɫ̩] 1. A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot. Example: When I was young, the best Philadelphia could do in the way of combining music and eating—or principally drinking—was at the Mäennerchor Garden at Ninth and Green, where a pretzel might be had with a glass of beer, or a sherry cobbler Example: Outside, the little birds on the telegraph wires looked in at the moving picture and smiled at one another. Some even wept. Then they flew down into the street and simply raved over a stale pretzel, ten days dead. 2. Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled. Labels: broadly, figuratively Example: he drew himself up into a regular pretzel of a boy
Word: pretzel Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mreǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus Proto-Hellenic *brəkʰús Ancient Greek βρᾰχῠ́ς (brăkhŭ́s) Proto-Indo-European *-yōsder. Proto-Indo-European *-isō Proto-Hellenic *-ihō Ancient Greek -ῑ́ων (-ī́ōn) Ancient Greek βρᾰχῑ́ων (brăkhī́ōn)bor. Latin bracchium Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin brāchiātus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellusbor. Old High German brēzitella Middle High German brēzel German Brezel German Pretzelbor. English pretzel From dialectal German Pretzel, a variant of standard Brezel, from Old High German brēzitella, from Vulgar Latin *brāchiātellus, diminutive of Latin brāchium, bracchium (“arm”); named for the appearance of folded arms. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛt.səl/, [ˈpʰɹɛʔt͡sɫ̩] 1. To bend, twist, or contort. Labels: Canada, US, informal, transitive Example: They discovered a snake pretzelled into knots.
Word: foe Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier yfoh, yvo, ifa (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pi̇̀ktas (“evil”)). Pronunciation: /fəʊ/, /foʊ/ 1. Hostile. Labels: obsolete Example: he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King […].
Word: foe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier yfoh, yvo, ifa (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pi̇̀ktas (“evil”)). Pronunciation: /fəʊ/, /foʊ/ 1. An enemy. Example: And a mans foes ſhalbe they of his owne houſhold. Example: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
Word: foe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Acronym of [ten to the power of] fifty-one ergs, due to equalling 10⁵¹ ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe. Pronunciation: /fəʊ/, /foʊ/ 1. A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.
Word: balderdash Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Unknown, possibly from the early English drink of wine mixed with beer or water or other substances that was sold cheaply. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːldə.dæʃ/ 1. Senseless talk or writing; nonsense. Labels: uncountable Example: Where, you cried in the name of Wonder, have you been able to gather together such an old fashioned Bundlement of Scientific Balderdash? Example: [He] has the audacity to demand of us, for this twattle, a ‘speedy insertion and prompt pay.’ We neither insert nor purchase any stuff of the sort. There can be no doubt, however, that he would meet with a ready sale for all the balderdash he can scribble, at the office of either the ‘Rowdy-Dow,’ the ‘Lollipop,’ or the ‘Goosetherumfoodle.’ 2. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Labels: archaic, uncountable Example: [T]hey would no more liue vnder the yoke of the Sea, or haue their heads waſht with his bubbly ſpume or Barbers balderdaſh, [...] Example: 1637, John Taylor, Drinke and Welcome, London: Anne Griffin, “Beere,” Indeede Beere, by a Mixture of Wine, it enjoyes approbation amongst some few (that hardly understand wherefore) but then it is no longer Beere, but hath lost both Name and Nature, and is called Balderdash (an Utopian denomination) … 3. Obscene language or writing. Labels: obsolete, uncountable Example: Trugge, therefore, (who has a foul mouth of his own, when he pleases) talked balderdash to Mrs. Sudberry, through the key-hole, which she did not answer, for, indeed, she seems a civil spoken woman, truly [...] Example: With me your work will be easy and your life happy, with him you will be a drudge and the lacquey of a drudge [...]: from me you will hear none but pious and edifying conversation; from them nothing but balderdash and blasphemy in an outlandish dialect [...]
Word: balderdash Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Unknown, possibly from the early English drink of wine mixed with beer or water or other substances that was sold cheaply. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːldə.dæʃ/ 1. To mix or adulterate. Labels: archaic Example: That which is made by the peasants, both red and white, is generally genuine: but the wine-merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeons dung and quick-lime.
Word: jerk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from Middle English yerk (“sudden motion”) and Middle English yerkid (“tightly pulled”), from Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”) and Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”). Cognate with Scots yerk (“to jerk”). Related also to English yare (“ready”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɜːk/, /ˈd͡ʒɝk/ 1. A sudden, often uncontrolled movement, especially of the human body. Example: 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. The tired bearers walked more slowly, and it advanced with constant jerks, like a boat that pitches with every wave. Example: A barrel-organ in the street suddenly sprang with a jerk into a jovial tune. 2. A quick pull on something. Example: When I yell "OK," give the mooring line a good jerk! 3. A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, immoral, self-centered, or disagreeable. Labels: US, derogatory, slang Example: I finally fired him, because he was being a real jerk to his customers, even to some of the staff. Example: You really are a jerk sometimes. 4. A stupid person; an idiot or fool. Labels: US, derogatory, slang 5. A lift in which the weight is taken with a quick motion from shoulder height to a position above the head with arms fully extended and held there for a brief time. 6. Masturbation. Labels: slang 7. Masturbation. Labels: Internet, slang Example: Jerk of the Year contender 8. A dance, popular in Western culture in the 1960s, in which the head and upper body is thrown forwards regularly to the beat of the music. Example: Girls, hey, what's that you're doing Girl, girl, what's that you're doing You got to show me the steps to it Somehow, gonna learn how to do it Doing the jerk Hey, do the jerk Girl, come on and work Hey, do the jerk. 9. The rate of change in acceleration with respect to time. 10. Ellipsis of soda jerk. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, obsolete
Word: jerk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Probably from Middle English yerk (“sudden motion”) and Middle English yerkid (“tightly pulled”), from Old English ġearc (“ready, active, quick”) and Old English ġearcian (“to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”). Cognate with Scots yerk (“to jerk”). Related also to English yare (“ready”). Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɜːk/, /ˈd͡ʒɝk/ 1. To make a sudden uncontrolled movement. Labels: intransitive Example: York came to me first, whilst the groom stood at Ginger's head. He drew my head back and fixed the rein so tight that it was almost intolerable; then he went to Ginger, who was impatiently jerking her head up and down against the bit, as was her way now. 2. To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. Labels: transitive 3. To masturbate. Labels: US, slang, vulgar 4. To masturbate. Labels: Internet, US, slang, vulgar Example: This is jerking’s 9/11 5. To beat, to hit. Labels: obsolete 6. To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand. Labels: obsolete Example: to jerk a stone 7. To lift using a jerk. Labels: transitive, usually 8. To flout with contempt. Labels: obsolete
Word: jerk Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Denominal verb of jerky, itself borrowed from Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɜːk/, /ˈd͡ʒɝk/ 1. A rich, spicy Jamaican marinade. Labels: Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable Example: Sunshine ranks high in the island's greates burger debate, while the chicken egg rolls with mango chutney and jerk mayo and fabulous fish tacos elevate pub grub to an art. 2. Meat (or sometimes vegetables) cured by jerking, in which it is coated in spices and slow-cooked over a fire or grill traditionally composed of green pimento wood positioned over burning coals; charqui. Labels: Caribbean, Jamaica, uncountable Example: Jerk chicken is a local favorite.
Word: jerk Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Denominal verb of jerky, itself borrowed from Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɜːk/, /ˈd͡ʒɝk/ 1. To cure (meat) by cutting it into strips and drying it, originally in the sun. Example: Snow stalled him in the timber; his food was all but gone when he managed to kill an antelope and jerk a supply of venison. Example: The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun.
Word: ber Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Old Hindi बेर (bera) Hindi बेर (ber)bor. English ber Borrowed from Hindi बेर (ber). Pronunciation: /bɛə(ɹ)/, [beːɾ] 1. A fruit-bearing tree (Ziziphus mauritiana); Indian jujube.
Word: bear Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-der. Proto-Germanic *berô Proto-West Germanic *berō Old English bera Middle English bere English bear From Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian beer (“bear”), Saterland Frisian Boar, Boare (“bear”), West Frisian bear (“bear”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno per (“bear”), Dutch beer (“bear”), German Bär (“bear”), German Low German Boor (“bear”), Limburgish baer, Béër (“bear”), Luxembourgish Bier (“bear”), Vilamovian baor, bar (“bear”), West Flemish beir (“bear”), Yiddish בער (ber, “bear”), Danish, Faroese, and Norwegian Bokmål bjørn (“bear”), Icelandic and Swedish björn (“bear”), Norwegian Nynorsk bjøinn, bjønn, bjørn (“bear”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰 (*baira, “bear”); also Latin fiber (“beaver”), Greek φρύνος (frýnos, “toad”), Latvian bērs (“bay, brown”), Lithuanian bėras (“bay, reddish brown”), Belarusian бабёр (babjór, “beaver”), Bulgarian бобър (bobǎr, “beaver”), Czech bobr (“beaver”), Macedonian дабар (dabar, “beaver”), Polish bober, bóbr (“beaver”) Russian бобёр (bobjór), бобр (bobr, “beaver”), Serbo-Croatian да̀бар, dàbar (“beaver”), Slovak bobor (“beaver”), Slovene bober (“beaver”), Ukrainian бобе́р (bobér, “beaver”), Armenian բորենի (boreni, “hyena”), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬡𐬭𐬀 (baβra, “beaver”), Northern Kurdish bor (“grey”), Ossetian бур (bur, “yellow”), Persian بور (bur, “blonde, fair; bay, reddish brown; brown”), Yaghnobi вур (vur, “brown”), Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhru, “ichneumon, mongoose”). etymology notes This is generally taken to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“shining, brown”) (compare Tocharian A parno, Tocharian B perne (“radiant, luminous”), Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)), related to brown, bruin, and beaver. On this theory, the Germanic languages replaced the older name of the bear, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos, with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare Russian медве́дь (medvédʹ, “bear”, literally “honey-eater”). However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm). Pronunciation: /bɛə/, /bɛː/, /bɜː(ɹ)/, /beɾ/, /bɛɚ/ 1. To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in. Labels: transitive Example: to bear a railroad stock Example: to bear the market
Word: bear Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der.? Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-der. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-der. Proto-Germanic *berô Proto-West Germanic *berō Old English bera Middle English bere English bear From Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô (“bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian beer (“bear”), Saterland Frisian Boar, Boare (“bear”), West Frisian bear (“bear”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno per (“bear”), Dutch beer (“bear”), German Bär (“bear”), German Low German Boor (“bear”), Limburgish baer, Béër (“bear”), Luxembourgish Bier (“bear”), Vilamovian baor, bar (“bear”), West Flemish beir (“bear”), Yiddish בער (ber, “bear”), Danish, Faroese, and Norwegian Bokmål bjørn (“bear”), Icelandic and Swedish björn (“bear”), Norwegian Nynorsk bjøinn, bjønn, bjørn (“bear”), Gothic *𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰 (*baira, “bear”); also Latin fiber (“beaver”), Greek φρύνος (frýnos, “toad”), Latvian bērs (“bay, brown”), Lithuanian bėras (“bay, reddish brown”), Belarusian бабёр (babjór, “beaver”), Bulgarian бобър (bobǎr, “beaver”), Czech bobr (“beaver”), Macedonian дабар (dabar, “beaver”), Polish bober, bóbr (“beaver”) Russian бобёр (bobjór), бобр (bobr, “beaver”), Serbo-Croatian да̀бар, dàbar (“beaver”), Slovak bobor (“beaver”), Slovene bober (“beaver”), Ukrainian бобе́р (bobér, “beaver”), Armenian բորենի (boreni, “hyena”), Avestan 𐬠𐬀𐬡𐬭𐬀 (baβra, “beaver”), Northern Kurdish bor (“grey”), Ossetian бур (bur, “yellow”), Persian بور (bur, “blonde, fair; bay, reddish brown; brown”), Yaghnobi вур (vur, “brown”), Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhru, “ichneumon, mongoose”). etymology notes This is generally taken to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“shining, brown”) (compare Tocharian A parno, Tocharian B perne (“radiant, luminous”), Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)), related to brown, bruin, and beaver. On this theory, the Germanic languages replaced the older name of the bear, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos, with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare Russian медве́дь (medvédʹ, “bear”, literally “honey-eater”). However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm). Pronunciation: /bɛə/, /bɛː/, /bɜː(ɹ)/, /beɾ/, /bɛɚ/ 1. Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall. Labels: not-comparable Example: The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.
Word: bear Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /bɪə/, /bɪɚ/ 1. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: There are several plots of those species of barley called big, which is six-rowed barley; or bear, which is four-rowed, cultivated. Example: Bigg or bear, with four grains on the ear, was the kind of barley.
Word: bear Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bere (“pillowcase”), of obscure origin, but compare Old English hlēorbera (“cheek-cover”). Possibly cognate to Low German büre, whence German Bühre, which in turn has been compared to French bure. 1. Alternative spelling of bere (“pillowcase”). Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Example: And, according to this, one of my Neighbours made a Bag, like a Pillow-bear, of the ordinary six-penny yard Cloth, and boiled his Hops in it half an Hour; then he took them out, and put in another Bag of the like Quantity of fresh Hops, […] Example: ij payer of schete, ij pelows wt the berys,
Word: sweet Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus Proto-Germanic *swōtuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *swōtī Old English swēte Middle English swete English sweet From Middle English soot, sweete, swete, swoote, from Old English swēte, swoete, swōt, swœ̄te (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”), from *sweh₂d- (“sweet”) + *-us. Cognates Cognate with Yola sweet (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Alemannic German süeß (“sweet”), Bavarian siaß (“sweet; cute”), Central Franconian söß (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German süss, süß (“sweet; cute”), Limburgish söüt (“sweet; cute”), Low German seut, sööt (“sweet”), Luxembourgish séiss (“sweet”), Vilamovian ziss (“sweet”), Yiddish זיס (zis, “sweet; cute”), Danish sød (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Faroese søtur (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk søt (“sweet; cute”), Swedish söt (“sweet; cute”); also Latin suāvis (“delicious, pleasant, sweet”), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús, “sweet; pleasant; glad, pleased”), Albanian shije (“flavour, taste”), Lithuanian sūdyti (“to add salt; to brine, souse”), Armenian քաղցր (kʻaġcʻr, “sweet”), Tocharian A swār (“sweet”), Tocharian B swāre (“sweet, tender”), Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú, “delicious, palatable, savoury, sweet, tasty; dainty, delicate”). Doublet of suave. Pronunciation: /swiːt/, /swit/ 1. Used as a positive response to good news or information. Example: They're making a sequel? Ah, sweet!
Word: sweet Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus Proto-Germanic *swōtuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *swōtī Old English swēte Middle English swete English sweet From Middle English soot, sweete, swete, swoote, from Old English swēte, swoete, swōt, swœ̄te (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”), from *sweh₂d- (“sweet”) + *-us. Cognates Cognate with Yola sweet (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Alemannic German süeß (“sweet”), Bavarian siaß (“sweet; cute”), Central Franconian söß (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German süss, süß (“sweet; cute”), Limburgish söüt (“sweet; cute”), Low German seut, sööt (“sweet”), Luxembourgish séiss (“sweet”), Vilamovian ziss (“sweet”), Yiddish זיס (zis, “sweet; cute”), Danish sød (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Faroese søtur (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk søt (“sweet; cute”), Swedish söt (“sweet; cute”); also Latin suāvis (“delicious, pleasant, sweet”), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús, “sweet; pleasant; glad, pleased”), Albanian shije (“flavour, taste”), Lithuanian sūdyti (“to add salt; to brine, souse”), Armenian քաղցր (kʻaġcʻr, “sweet”), Tocharian A swār (“sweet”), Tocharian B swāre (“sweet, tender”), Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú, “delicious, palatable, savoury, sweet, tasty; dainty, delicate”). Doublet of suave. Pronunciation: /swiːt/, /swit/ 1. In a pleasant manner. Example: Go down beside thy native rill, ⁠On thy Parnassus set thy feet, ⁠And hear thy laurel whisper sweet About the ledges of the hill.
Word: sweet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus Proto-Germanic *swōtuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *swōtī Old English swēte Middle English swete English sweet From Middle English soot, sweete, swete, swoote, from Old English swēte, swoete, swōt, swœ̄te (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”), from *sweh₂d- (“sweet”) + *-us. Cognates Cognate with Yola sweet (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Alemannic German süeß (“sweet”), Bavarian siaß (“sweet; cute”), Central Franconian söß (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German süss, süß (“sweet; cute”), Limburgish söüt (“sweet; cute”), Low German seut, sööt (“sweet”), Luxembourgish séiss (“sweet”), Vilamovian ziss (“sweet”), Yiddish זיס (zis, “sweet; cute”), Danish sød (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Faroese søtur (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk søt (“sweet; cute”), Swedish söt (“sweet; cute”); also Latin suāvis (“delicious, pleasant, sweet”), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús, “sweet; pleasant; glad, pleased”), Albanian shije (“flavour, taste”), Lithuanian sūdyti (“to add salt; to brine, souse”), Armenian քաղցր (kʻaġcʻr, “sweet”), Tocharian A swār (“sweet”), Tocharian B swāre (“sweet, tender”), Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú, “delicious, palatable, savoury, sweet, tasty; dainty, delicate”). Doublet of suave. Pronunciation: /swiːt/, /swit/ 1. The basic taste sensation induced by sugar. Labels: uncountable 2. A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a candy. Labels: India, UK, countable, especially 3. A food eaten for dessert. Labels: UK, countable, especially Example: Can we see the sweet menu, please? 4. Synonym of sweetheart, a term of affection. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: VVherefore frovvnes my ſvveet? / Haue I too long bene abſent from theſe lips, / This cheeke, theſe eyes? Example: "You think that I'll take anything." "I know you will, sweet..." "There wasn't going to be any of that. You promised there wouldn't be." "Well, there is now," she said sweetly. 5. That which is sweet or pleasant in odour; a perfume. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: a wilderness of sweets 6. Sweetness, delight; something pleasant to the mind or senses. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Fear's fire to fervency, which makes love's sweet prove nectar.
Word: sweet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d- Proto-Indo-European *-us Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus Proto-Germanic *swōtuz Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *swōtī Old English swēte Middle English swete English sweet From Middle English soot, sweete, swete, swoote, from Old English swēte, swoete, swōt, swœ̄te (“sweet”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz (“sweet”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”), from *sweh₂d- (“sweet”) + *-us. Cognates Cognate with Yola sweet (“sweet”), Saterland Frisian swäit (“sweet”), West Frisian swiet (“sweet”), Alemannic German süeß (“sweet”), Bavarian siaß (“sweet; cute”), Central Franconian söß (“sweet”), Dutch zoet (“sweet”), German süss, süß (“sweet; cute”), Limburgish söüt (“sweet; cute”), Low German seut, sööt (“sweet”), Luxembourgish séiss (“sweet”), Vilamovian ziss (“sweet”), Yiddish זיס (zis, “sweet; cute”), Danish sød (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Faroese søtur (“sweet”), Icelandic sætur (“sweet; cute, pretty”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk søt (“sweet; cute”), Swedish söt (“sweet; cute”); also Latin suāvis (“delicious, pleasant, sweet”), Ancient Greek ἡδύς (hēdús, “sweet; pleasant; glad, pleased”), Albanian shije (“flavour, taste”), Lithuanian sūdyti (“to add salt; to brine, souse”), Armenian քաղցր (kʻaġcʻr, “sweet”), Tocharian A swār (“sweet”), Tocharian B swāre (“sweet, tender”), Sanskrit स्वादु (svādú, “delicious, palatable, savoury, sweet, tasty; dainty, delicate”). Doublet of suave. Pronunciation: /swiːt/, /swit/ 1. To sweeten. Labels: archaic, poetic Example: In size and shape it resembles the heart of a calf, and the interior substance is similar to thick cream, sweeted with fine sugar. Example: It might also be given in the form of a mixture — the drug being insoluble in a watery menstruum — suspended by the aid of mucilage and sweeted by any of the various flavoring syrups.
Word: vapor Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”). Pronunciation: /ˈveɪpə/, /ˈveɪpɚ/ 1. Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: A mild vapour is thrown out, and not a hot steam; the invention appears to control the amount of the vapor, and and ^([sic]) even the force of the fire which produces it. Example: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air. 2. The gaseous state of a substance that is normally a solid or liquid. Labels: US, countable, uncountable Example: Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer. 3. Something insubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting. Labels: US, countable, idiomatic, uncountable Example: For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Example: I am at this present very sick of my little vapour of fame. 4. Any medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapour. Labels: US, countable, dated, uncountable Example: Sulphurous fumes have also been recommended, as well as diffusing a variety of vapors in the apartment of the patient; on their beneficial or injurious effects we are unable to speak. Example: Hence the vapor, so useful in expanding the compressed tissues and enabling the air to permeate and expand the contracted parenchyma in consumption, causes a sensation of great fatigue in asthma. 5. Hypochondria; melancholy; the blues; hysteria, or other nervous disorder. Labels: US, archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: Jan 13, 1732, John Arbuthnot, letter to Jonathan Swift He talks me into a fit of vapours twice or thrice a week. Example: She made several gulps and controlled her breath. She released her grip on Podson and stared at him without recognition. Podson went on patting her reassuringly, relieved from administering first aid to an attack of the vapours. 6. Wind; flatulence. Labels: US, countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: The surcharge of the stomack from a gross vapour, and from the poise of some outward weight, are alike
Word: vapor Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English vapour, from Anglo-Norman vapour, Old French vapor, from Latin vapor (“steam, heat”). Pronunciation: /ˈveɪpə/, /ˈveɪpɚ/ 1. To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor. Labels: US, intransitive 2. To turn into vapor. Labels: US, transitive Example: to vapor away a heated fluid Example: He'd […]laugh to see one throw his heart away, / Another, sighing, vapour forth his soul. 3. To emit vapor or fumes. Labels: US Example: Running waters vapour not so much as standing waters. 4. To use insubstantial language; to boast or bluster. Labels: US, intransitive Example: He vapoured, and fretted, and fumed, and trotted up and down, and tried to make himself pleasing in Miss Hollis's big, quiet, grey eyes, and failed. Example: then the Major gave us a graphic account of a struggle he had with a wounded bear. I privately wished that the bears would win sometimes on these occasions; at least they wouldn't go vapouring about it afterwards. 5. To give (someone) the vapors; to depress, to bore. Labels: US, transitive Example: “I only mean,” cried she, giddily, “that he might have some place a little more pleasant to live in, for really that old moat and draw-bridge are enough to vapour him to death […].”
Word: water vapor Part of Speech: noun 1. Water in a gaseous state, especially when diffused in the atmosphere. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Water vapor was found in the atmosphere of K2-18b, one of hundreds of "super-Earths" - worlds ranging in size between Earth and Neptune - documented in a growing new field of astronomy devoted to the exploration of so-called exoplanets elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy. 2. Water in a gaseous state, especially when diffused in the atmosphere. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bullshit Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bull + shit. Figurative use as a noun referring to useless or untrue information is attested from the 1910s. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlʃɪt/ 1. Feces produced by a bull. Labels: literally, uncountable, vulgar Example: Near-synonyms: cowshit, cowpie Example: Oh, I get it! So it's not a pyramid, it's just pyramid-shaped. You know, like a Dorito, or an Angry Bird, or just a pile of bullshit. 2. Any assertions or information that are either false or misleading. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: Don't pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit. Example: He wrote loads of bullshit in the science exam. 3. Any assertions or information that are either false or misleading. Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: That's total bullshit! I called your office and they said that you didn't come in! Example: Fucking load of bullshit! You smashed his skull and dropped the F-bomb at him, and now you're claiming that he assaulted you?! 4. Any assertions or information that are either false or misleading. Labels: rhetoric, uncountable 5. Any assertions or information that are either false or misleading. Labels: uncountable Example: I focus on unclarifiable unclarity in particular in preparation for a further inquiry into bullshit that addresses the question why so much of that particular kind of bullshit is produced in France. This kind of academic bullshit […] comes close to being celebrated for its very unclarity by some of its producers and consumers. Example: Respect for the truth and a concern for the truth are among the foundations for civilization. I was for a long time disturbed by the lack of respect for the truth that I observed... bullshit is one of the deformities of these values. 6. Synonym of shit (any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity). Labels: slang, uncountable, vulgar Example: These rules cover how to do your laundry, how to fold your shirts, how to shine your shoes... You know, all that bullshit. Example: And when I rolled with the punches I got knocked on the ground By all this bullshit going down 7. A card game in which players try to discard their hands first, following rules that encourage bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and penalizing others by tricking them into inaccurate accusations. Labels: possibly, uncountable, vulgar Example: Anyone want to play a few hands of bullshit? Example: In PM parlance, what I did in this story was call bullshit. This is in reference to the card game Bullshit, where you win if you get rid of all the cards in your hand. […] So, if at any time a another player thinks the first player is lying, she can “call bullshit”
Word: bullshit Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From bull + shit. Figurative use as a noun referring to useless or untrue information is attested from the 1910s. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlʃɪt/ 1. Absurd, irrational, or nonsensical (most often said of speech, information, or content). Labels: slang, vulgar Example: a bullshit job Example: That’s the most bullshit excuse I’ve ever heard.
Word: bullshit Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bull + shit. Figurative use as a noun referring to useless or untrue information is attested from the 1910s. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlʃɪt/ 1. To tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive. Labels: ambitransitive, slang, vulgar Example: I think you’re bullshitting. Let’s just call your office and see if you even came in. Example: You’re bullshitting me. I called your office and you never even came in. 2. To have casual conversation with no real point; to shoot the breeze. Labels: intransitive, slang, vulgar Example: I will probably just go and bullshit with Joe for a while. Example: His eyelids flickered. “No. No one special here, just Octavia, Rosemary, Mark, Andy and Jim. Spent most of the time bullshitting with Jim.” 3. To come up with on the spot; to improvise. Labels: intransitive, slang, vulgar Example: We just went on stage and bullshitted the whole concert because we didn’t know any songs.
Word: bullshit Part of Speech: intj Etymology: From bull + shit. Figurative use as a noun referring to useless or untrue information is attested from the 1910s. Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlʃɪt/ 1. An expression of disbelief at what one has just heard. Labels: slang, vulgar
Word: darmstadtium Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Named after the German city Darmstadt, where it was first synthesized, + -ium. Pronunciation: /dɑːɹmˈstɑːtiəm/, /dɑːɹmˈʃtɑːtiəm/ 1. A transuranic chemical element (symbol Ds) with atomic number 110. Labels: uncountable
Word: tribe Part of Speech: noun Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus. Doublet of tribus. Pronunciation: /tɹaɪb/ 1. An ethnic group larger than a band or clan (and which may contain clans) but smaller than a nation (and which in turn may constitute a nation with other tribes). The tribe is often the basis of ethnic identity. Example: the Twelve Tribes of Israel; Germanic tribes; Celtic tribes Example: The Formation of Kazakh Identity: From Tribe to Nation-state 2. A tribal nation or people. Example: This leaves for consideration of this group of small tribes, or subtribes, so far as mapped by the writer quoted, the Teule, Cazcan, and Tecuexe. 3. A nation or people considered culturally primitive, as may be the case in Africa, Australia or Native America. Labels: derogatory, informal 4. A socially cohesive group of people within a society. Example: Near-synonyms: nation; ingroup Example: She found her tribe among fellow cross-stitchers. 5. A class or group of things. Example: In 1968, estimates of the number of active reprint publishers ranged from about 20 to 100 publishers. The fact that almost 300 U.S. reprint publishers have been identified is evidence that the reprint tribe continues to increase. 6. A group of apes who live and work together. 7. A hierarchical rank between family and genus. Example: The tempo of evolution in South American hamsters was very rapid – in the course of the Pliocene and Anthropocene 40 genera were formed here, at which time a series of them attained the level of tribe and subtribe (Oxymycteri, Phyllotiini, Ichthyomyini). 8. A group of affiliated Mardi Gras Indians. 9. The collective noun for various animals. 10. A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line. Example: the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
Word: tribe Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus. Doublet of tribus. Pronunciation: /tɹaɪb/ 1. To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize. Labels: transitive Example: 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.
Word: citizen Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English citeseyn (“inhabitant of a city or town”), citezein, citisein, from Anglo-Norman citesain (“city-dweller, town-dweller”), citesein, citezein, alteration of citeien from cite (“city”) + -ien (“-ain”) (probable variant of cithein perhaps influenced by dainzain (“denizen”), deinzein), from Old French cite (“city”) + -ien (whence French citoyen), from earlier citet, from Latin civitatem, citatem, from civis. See also city. Displaced native Old English burhsittend and Old English ceasterware. Pronunciation: /ˈsɪtɪzən/, /ˈsɪtɪsən/ 1. A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties. Example: [T]hat large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs were likely to get impatient. 2. A legally recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role. Example: I am a Roman citizen. Example: Assistant: You'll meet with the managing director and Dr Sinita Brahmachari, the engineer who designed the chair. Peter Mackenzie: Indian, is he? Assistant: She is a British citizen, Minister. Born in Coventry. 3. An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place. Example: Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world. Example: A jellyfish... carries poison cells that can sting other citizens of the sea. 4. A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. 5. A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group. 6. An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other. Labels: obsolete Example: [W]ould Mr. Delvile, who hardly ever spoke but to the high-born, without seeming to think his dignity somewhat injured, deign to receive for a daughter in law the child of a citizen and tradesman? 7. A term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists. Labels: capitalized, historical, usually Example: Citizen, I desire nothing more than to get to Paris, though I could dispense with the escort. 8. A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application. Labels: figuratively Example: The HIG delivers Apple's design commandments, the company's definition of what it means to be a good iPhone citizen.
Word: nationality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From national + -ity, perhaps after French nationalité; ultimately from Latin nātio (“nation, people”). Pronunciation: /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/, /ˌnæʃˈnæl.ɪ.ti/, /-ˈnæl.ə.ti/, /-ˈnæl.ti/ 1. Legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise. Example: By living in the country for five years, you are entitled to get nationality. Example: Stefi was born in Spain to a Brazilian father and a Chilean mother, so is eligible for three nationalities. 2. A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state. 3. National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity. Labels: archaic Example: […]permit me to say that the Harranians were Arabs and that the Arabs in occupying Spain and Andalusia did not lose their nationality; they remained Arabs. […] The fact that they preserved their former religion, Sabaeanism, does not mean they should be considered foreign to the Arab nationality. 4. Nationalism or patriotism. Labels: archaic Example: ‘You are, to be sure, wonderfully free from that nationality: but so it happens, that you employ the only Scotch shoe-black in London.’ 5. Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity. Labels: obsolete
Word: human Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin hūmānus Old French umain Middle French humainbor. Middle English humayne English human From Late Middle English humaigne, humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain (“of or belonging to man”, adjective), from Latin hūmānus m (“of man, human”, adjective); see there for further details. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Compare, and possibly related to man. Pronunciation: /ˈhjuː.mən/, [ˈçju̟mən], [ˈçju̟mn̩], /ˈju.mən/ 1. Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives. Labels: not-comparable Example: Some powers diuine, or els infernall, mixt / Their angry ſeedes at his conception: / For he was neuer ſprong of humaine race, / Since with the ſpirit of his fearefull pride, / He dares so doubtleſly reſolue of rule. Example: [N]o attempt is made to call in God to their reſcue, as if he vvere an idle unconcern'd ſpectator of humane affairs, or ſo inconſiderable an ally, as not to be vvorth the care of engaging him on their ſide. 2. Having the nature or attributes of a human being. Labels: comparable Example: To err is human; to forgive, divine. Example: She's only human, so give her a break! 3. Compassionate. Example: When his loosely-built, straggling, lean, clerical figure appeared, with that gaunt, worn face illuminated by its human grin and dignified by its earnest eyes, through the doorway, they both felt as if an old friend had entered. His own greeting was equally cordial.
Word: human Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin hūmānus Old French umain Middle French humainbor. Middle English humayne English human From Late Middle English humaigne, humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain (“of or belonging to man”, adjective), from Latin hūmānus m (“of man, human”, adjective); see there for further details. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Compare, and possibly related to man. Pronunciation: /ˈhjuː.mən/, [ˈçju̟mən], [ˈçju̟mn̩], /ˈju.mən/ 1. A highly intelligent ape with fine and short body hair; the most abundant species of primate, with members found on every continent (Homo sapiens). Example: Humans share common ancestors with other apes. Example: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. 2. A highly intelligent ape with fine and short body hair; the most abundant species of primate, with members found on every continent (Homo sapiens). Example: Greetings. I am Blor-Utar from Zimtok-5. I have come to subjugate the human race. Do not resist. Why humans? Because, in addition to their value as slave labor, they are also delicious and nutritious! 3. A highly intelligent ape with fine and short body hair; the most abundant species of primate, with members found on every continent (Homo sapiens). Example: Greetings, human! You have stumbled into the dimension of the Snow People.[…]Flesh plows clear the streets to make them safe to drive.[…]Does this shock you, human? Do the ways of our world open your eyes to the truths of your own? 4. Any hominid of the genus Homo. Labels: broadly
Word: human Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin hūmānus Old French umain Middle French humainbor. Middle English humayne English human From Late Middle English humaigne, humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, umain (“of or belonging to man”, adjective), from Latin hūmānus m (“of man, human”, adjective); see there for further details. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century. Compare, and possibly related to man. Pronunciation: /ˈhjuː.mən/, [ˈçju̟mən], [ˈçju̟mn̩], /ˈju.mən/ 1. To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human. Labels: rare Example: […] he sought to charm a single pair of ears, and those more hairy than critical. Later, as the race went on humaning, there grew complexity of sentiment and varying emotional needs, […] Example: There are, then, many ways of humaning: these are the ways along which we make ourselves and, collaboratively, one another.
Word: arts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɑɹts/, /ɑːts/ 1. plural of art. Labels: form-of, plural Example: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.
Word: arts Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ɑɹts/, /ɑːts/ 1. The humanities. Labels: plural, plural-only 2. The humanities. Labels: plural, plural-only 3. The liberal arts. Labels: plural, plural-only