nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: really Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English really English really From Middle English really, realy, rialliche, equivalent to real + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə.li/, [ˈɹʷɪə̯lɪ], [-li], [ˈɹʷɪː-], /ˈɹɪl.i/ 1. In a way or manner that is real, not unreal. Example: We are to believe that by an extraordinary Conception by Means of the holy Ghost he in an extraordinary MANNER, (unknown to us) really assumed Flesh, and was by her nourished in the Womb and in due Time born in a natural Manner, and that whilst on Earth he was really hungry, and dry, and eat and drank as really as other Men, without, any Deception of Sight in us or Delusion whatsoever. Example: If we take the phenomenal world as it strikes our senses, in all its varied and wonderful powers and aspects; as the mere symbol of the Divine Presence and power, that is, according to Christ, ever in, through, and over all, as really as are causal light, heat and gravity, or as really as our own life and souls pervade every atom of our bodies, [...] 2. Actually; in fact; in reality. Labels: modal Example: "He really is a true friend." / "Really? What makes you so sure?" 3. Very (modifying an adjective); very much (modifying a verb). Labels: informal Example: But ma, I really, really want to go to the show! Example: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
Word: really Part of Speech: intj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reelbor. Middle English real Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English really English really From Middle English really, realy, rialliche, equivalent to real + -ly. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪə.li/, [ˈɹʷɪə̯lɪ], [-li], [ˈɹʷɪː-], /ˈɹɪl.i/ 1. Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism. Labels: informal Example: A: He won the Nobel Prize yesterday. Example: B: Really? 2. Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism. Labels: broadly, informal Example: A: You know, I saw Oliver the other day. Example: B: Really? What's he been up to? 3. Indicating that what was just said was obvious and unnecessary; contrived incredulity Labels: informal, sarcastic Example: A: I've just been reading Shakespeare - he's one of the best authors like, ever! Example: B: Really? 4. Indicating affirmation, agreement. Labels: US, informal Example: A: That girl talks about herself way too much. Example: B: Really. She's a nightmare. 5. Indicating displeasure at another person's behaviour or statement. Labels: informal Example: Well, really! How rude.
Word: really Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From re- + ally. 1. Alternative form of re-ally. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: She wished since long to die and to be reallied with her children in heaven. Example: Following the election, those who had publicly opposed Harding hastened to really themselves with Republicans who had remained in the party.
Word: res Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From re + -s. Pronunciation: /ɹeɪz/ 1. plural of re Labels: form-of, plural
Word: res Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Clippings. Pronunciation: /ɹɛz/ 1. Clipping of reservation or reserve (semiautonomous Indigenous territory). Labels: Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal 2. Clipping of residence. Labels: Canada, South-Africa, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 3. Clipping of resolution (of a computer display or image). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: Can I get that in a higher res? 4. Clipping of reservoir (from computer water cooling). Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping 5. Clipping of resurrection. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: Can I get a res please? 6. Clipping of resistance. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: Your magic res doesn't need to be that high.
Word: res Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Clippings. Pronunciation: /ɹɛz/ 1. Clipping of resurrect. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping Example: You have the skills, right? Res me please. Example: And the other death was falling in the Void of Armory; I also forgot to do this, so here's a quick video of me getting ressed by a Plague Doctor and then me, as a zombie, jumping into the Void.
Word: Oklahoma land rush Part of Speech: name 1. The chaotic period following the opening of Indian territory to settlement in 1889 as the US state of Oklahoma. Labels: historical Example: The Oklahoma land rush was a pivotal event in the history of the American West.
Word: zest Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from French zeste. Pronunciation: /zɛst/ 1. The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The orange zest gives the strong flavor in this dish. 2. General vibrance of flavour. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I add zest to the meat by rubbing it with a spice mixture before grilling. Example: He rolled his own cigarettes from a sack of Bull Durham, spilling flakes into his beer, which no doubt gained in zest thereby. 3. Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; exciting and interesting; relish or gusto; a state of being zesty. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable Example: Auntie Mame had a real zest for life. Example: 1728, Edward Young, Love of Fame, the Universal Passion, Satire II in The Works of the Reverend Edward Young, London: P. Brown, H. Hill & S. Payne, 1765, Volume I, p. 85, Almighty vanity! to thee they owe Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe. 4. The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut. Labels: countable, rare, uncountable Example: The green zest of walnuts was used by the women to shine their teeth and it also gave a beautiful rust colour to their lips. 5. State of being a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual. Labels: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
Word: zest Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Borrowed from French zeste. Pronunciation: /zɛst/ 1. To scrape the zest from a fruit. 2. To make more zesty. Example: Strains ſo artleſs tho’ we proffer, Hearts o’er flowing zest the offer.
Word: anachronism Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en- Proto-Hellenic *aná Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-) Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō) Ancient Greek χρονῐ́ζω (khronĭ́zō) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐ́ζομαι (ănăkhronĭ́zomai) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰχρονῐσμός (ănăkhronĭsmós)der. New Latin anachronismusder. English anachronism From New Latin anachronismus, from Ancient Greek ἀναχρονισμός (anakhronismós), from ἀναχρονίζομαι (anakhronízomai, “referring to the wrong time”), from ἀνά (aná, “up against”) + χρονίζω (khronízō, “spending time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). Analyzable as ana- + chrono- + -ism. Pronunciation: /əˈnæ.kɹə.nɪ.z(ə)m/ 1. A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Indeed, that Hall of the Upper Temple is a sight not uninteresting, and with the exception of some trifling improvements and anachronisms which have been introduced into the practice there, a man may sit down and fancy that he joins in a meal of the seventeenth century. Example: [W]e beg the reader to understand that we only commit anachronisms when we choose and when by a daring violation of those natural laws some great ethical truth is to be advanced […] 2. A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time. Labels: countable Example: You are too young—it is an anachronism for you to have such thoughts Example: His movements, his clothes, everything about him, seemed slightly out of place in this assembly. He spoiled the pattern; like Alvin, he was an anachronism. 3. The aberrant projection of the present onto the past. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: refutation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French refutation (compare French réfutation, Spanish refutación, Portuguese refutação, Italian refutazione) or its etymon Latin refūtātiō, from refūtō + -ātiō. By surface analysis, refute + -ation. First attested in 1536 (in sense 1). Pronunciation: /ˌɹɛf.jʊˈteɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɹef.jʊˈtæɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɹɛf.jʉˈte.ʃən/ 1. An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Near-synonyms: rebuttal (see note), counterargument, counterassertion, counterclaim, denial Example: Apply these tests to his arguments and you will render your task of refutation easier. But in your refutation, be sure you refute. Don’t think for a minute that either heat or violence or sarcasm is a good answer. 2. A vocal answer to an attack on one's assertions. Labels: countable, proscribed, uncountable
Word: misericorde Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Established 1200–50 from Middle English misericorde (“an act of clemency”), from Middle French [Term?], from Latin misericordia (“pity”). 1. An act of clemency; pity, mercy. Labels: obsolete 2. Alternative form of misericord Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: bowyer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bowyere, bowȝere, variant forms of bowere (“bowyer”), equivalent to bow + -yer. Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊ.jə(ɹ)/, /ˈbɔɪ.ɚ/ 1. A person who makes or sells bows (for use with arrows). Example: A clause of a former act directing the bowyers of London and Westminster to make four bows of different wood for one of yew, was repealed on their representation that the citizens of London would use none but yew bows, and in its place they were ordered always to have by them at least fifty bows of elm, witch-hasel, or ash. 2. A person who uses the bow, an archer. Labels: archaic
Word: bracer Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English bracer, from Old French braceure; equivalent to brace + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪsə/, /ˈbɹeɪsɚ/ 1. That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage. 2. Something bracing; a stimulant. Example: Country air in the fields, or in gardens, when breathed at proper hours, is an excellent bracer of the nerves, and a sure brightener of the complexion. Example: In fact I did not feel good. I was suffering from the morning sickness of the steady, heavy drinker. What I needed was a pick-me-up, a bracer. 3. A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string. Example: To prevent the bow string from hanging on the left arm, it is covered with a piece of smooth leather, fastened on the outside of the arm, this is called a bracer. 4. Armor for the forearm; a brassard. 5. A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body.
Word: sheaf Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”). Cognates Akin to West Frisian skeaf (“sheaf”), Dutch schoof (“sheaf”), German Schaub, Old Norse skauf (“a fox's tail”). Compare further Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 (skuft, “hair of the head”), German Schopf (“tuft”). Pronunciation: /ʃiːf/ 1. A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. Example: O, let me teach you how to knit again This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf, These broken limbs again into one body. Example: And then in haste her bow'r she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 2. Any collection of things bound together. Example: a sheaf of paper Example: Bond reflected on the problem as he collected the sheaf of hundred thousand and then the sheaves of ten thousand franc notes. 3. A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. Example: The sheaf of arrows shook, and rattled in the case. 4. A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four. Example: Arrows were anciently made of reeds, afterwards of cornel wood, and occasionally of every species of wood: but according to Roger Ascham, ash was best; arrows were reckoned by sheaves, a sheaf consisted of twenty-four arrows. 5. A sheave. 6. An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf ℱ whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover U_i of U: 7. An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf ℱ whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover U_i of U:
Word: sheaf Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English scheef, from Old English sċēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaub, from Proto-Germanic *skauba- (“sheaf”). Cognates Akin to West Frisian skeaf (“sheaf”), Dutch schoof (“sheaf”), German Schaub, Old Norse skauf (“a fox's tail”). Compare further Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍆𐍄 (skuft, “hair of the head”), German Schopf (“tuft”). Pronunciation: /ʃiːf/ 1. To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves Labels: transitive Example: to sheaf wheat 2. To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. Labels: intransitive Example: They that reap must sheaf and bind; Then to cart with Rosalind.
Word: pusillanimous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Derived from Latin pusillanimis (“faint-hearted, timid”) + -ous. Pronunciation: /ˌpjuːsɪlˈænɪməs/, /ˌpjuːsəlˈænəməs/ 1. Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity. Example: The soldier deserted his troop in a pusillanimous manner. Example: Therefore, the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.
Word: enumerated articles Part of Speech: noun 1. sugar, tobacco, cotton and indigo - the goods that the English colonies could export only to England in the 17th century. Labels: historical, plural, plural-only 2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see enumerated, articles: listed items. Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: pencell Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of pencel. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: banderole Part of Speech: noun 1. A little banner, flag, or streamer. Example: Lances were ornamented with a banderole near the point, which gave them a handsome appearance, these were also called pencells. Example: A second squire held aloft his master's lance, from the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole, or streamer, bearing a cross of the same form with that embroidered upon his cloak. 2. A flat band with an inscription, common in Renaissance buildings.
Word: lush Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskwī̆, from Proto-Germanic *laskuz, *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to let; leave behind”). Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German er-leswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍅𐍃 (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌʃ/, [ˈlʌʃ], /ˈlʊʃ/, [ˈlʊʃ] 1. Juicy, succulent. Example: How luſh and luſty the graſſe lookes ? How greene ? 2. Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile. Labels: dialectal 3. Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant. Example: Some of the world’s best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the lush canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains. Example: Virmire is a lush world located on the frontier of the Attican Traverse. Its vast seas and orbital position on the inner life zone have created a wide equatorial band of humid, tropical terrain. 4. Savoury, delicious. Example: That meal was lush! We have to go to that restaurant again sometime! 5. Thriving; rife; sumptuous. Example: They rolled into Jane's room a wheeled cart lush with cake and cookies and shrimp and crudités and pop and soda water. The staff was giving us a going-away party for our trip to Seattle; it was good to understand their confidence. 6. Beautiful, sexy. Labels: UK, slang Example: Boys with long hair are lush! 7. Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked. Labels: Canada, UK, slang Example: Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day! 8. Lax; slack; limp; flexible. Labels: obsolete
Word: lush Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌʃ/, [ˈlʌʃ], /ˈlʊʃ/, [ˈlʊʃ] 1. A drunkard, sot, alcoholic. Labels: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable Example: Overaged and lecherous lushes at office parties profaning the text, music, and meaning of Christmas carols. 2. Intoxicating liquor. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight. Example: If your care comes, in the liquor sink it, / Pass along the lush — I'm the boy can drink it. 3. A person who enjoys talking about themselves. Labels: Hawaii, countable, slang, uncountable Example: Am I humble or am I a lush?
Word: lush Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌʃ/, [ˈlʌʃ], /ˈlʊʃ/, [ˈlʊʃ] 1. Drunk; inebriated. Labels: slang Example: “’E generally goes down there when ’e’s got ’is skinful, beggin’ your pardon, sir, an’ they do say that the more lush — in-he-briated ’e is, the more fish ’e catches.”
Word: lush Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌʃ/, [ˈlʌʃ], /ˈlʊʃ/, [ˈlʊʃ] 1. To drink (liquor) to excess. Labels: ambitransitive
Word: rich Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source. Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/, [ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ] 1. The rich people of a society or the world collectively, the rich class of a society. Labels: plural, plural-only Example: Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are... Example: […] if he lived he would never write about her, he knew that now. Nor about any of them. The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The rich are different from you and me." And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Scott. He thought they were a special glamourous race and when he found they weren't it wrecked him just as much as any other thing that wrecked him. 2. the second placer in Tycoon Labels: plural, plural-only
Word: rich Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English riche (“strong, powerful, rich”), from Old English rīċe (“powerful, mighty, great, high-ranking, rich, wealthy, strong, potent”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīkī (“powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“kingly, powerful, rich”), from Proto-Germanic *rīks (“king, ruler”), an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs. Reinforced by Old French riche, from the same West Germanic source. Cognate with Dutch rijk, German reich, Danish rig, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rik, Faroese and Icelandic ríkur, Portuguese and Spanish rico, French riche, Italian ricco. Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ/, [ˈɹʷɪt͡ʃ] 1. To enrich. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: And than he shall be riched ſo, That it may faile nevermo Example: With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd 2. To become rich. Labels: intransitive, obsolete
Word: gisarme Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gisarme, from Old French guisarme; compare modern French guisarme. Pronunciation: /ɡiˈzɑɹm/, /ɡɪ-/, /ɡɪˈzɑːm/ 1. A type of polearm having a spearhead and a reverse hooked spike on the back. Example: The Gisarme called also gisaring, and, by Fleta, sisarmes is likewise an ancient weapon of the staff kind, but of what for seems doubtful.
Word: Alexandra Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “to defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-, stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”)). Feminine form of Alexander (“the man who repels [enemies]”). The community in Prince Edward Island is named after Queen Alexandra (1844–1925). Pronunciation: /ˌæ.lɪɡˈzæn.dɹə/, /ˌæ.lɪɡˈzɑn.dɹə/, /ˌæ.lɪɡˈzɑːn.dɹə/, [ˌæ.lɪɡˈzeən.dɹə] 1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Sea-king's daughter from over the sea, / Alexandra! / Saxon and Norman and Dane are we, / But all of us Danes in our welcome of thee, / Alexandra! Example: 'I had a Christmas card from someone calling herself Alex the year before last,' Daniel said. 'I couldn't think who it was.' 'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra, either. It never occurred to me that Sandra was short for Alexandra - anyway, she's Sandra on her birth certificate.' 2. 54 Alexandra, a main belt asteroid; named for German explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. A community and rural municipality of Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. A town in Otago, New Zealand. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. A town in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: assent Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb), from Latin assentiō (whence as-). Pronunciation: /əˈsɛnt/ 1. To agree to a proposal. Labels: intransitive Example: And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. Example: The princess assented to all that was suggested.
Word: assent Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb), from Latin assentiō (whence as-). Pronunciation: /əˈsɛnt/ 1. Agreement; act of agreeing. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I will give this act my assent. Example: A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny. 2. A legal instrument that conveys real estate to an heir under the terms of a will. Labels: countable
Word: gisaring Part of Speech: noun 1. A type of polearm: the gisarme. Example: The Gisarme called also gisaring, and, by Fleta, sisarmes is likewise an ancient weapon of the staff kind, but of what for seems doubtful.
Word: morris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Moorish. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒɹɪs/ 1. A type of pike. Example: Another kind of pike called a morris, that is a Moorish pike, was much in fashion about the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth. 2. A morris dance.
Word: morris Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Moorish. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒɹɪs/ 1. To perform morris dancing.
Word: morris Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Morris, the surname of its discoverer. Pronunciation: /ˈmɒɹɪs/ 1. The young of the conger eel or similar fish, originally thought to be a separate species. Labels: obsolete
Word: Tim Part of Speech: name Pronunciation: /tɪm/, [tʰɪm] 1. A diminutive of the male given names Timothy or Timon (rare). Example: “Did you say Tim Donohue? I’m Tim Donohue,” my Tim said. […] It now occurred to me that the two Tims had been neighbors. Example: Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan is stepping down effective immediately as the bank struggles to overcome a litany of scandals.
Word: Tim Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɪm/, [tʰɪm] 1. A Catholic. Labels: Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang 2. A supporter of the Scottish football team Celtic F.C.. Labels: slang
Word: hyperinflation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From hyper- + inflation. Pronunciation: /ˌhaɪpəɹɪnˈfleɪʃən/ 1. Excessive inflation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: hyperinflation of the lungs 2. A very high rate of inflation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Even though ten years elapsed between the German hyperinflation of 1923 and the seizure of power by Hitler, it is often suggested that the two events are causally related. Example: Only inconvertible paper currencies can be expanded rapidly without limit to generate hyperinflation.
Word: fascine Part of Speech: noun Etymology: The noun is borrowed from French fascine (“bundle of kindling; bundle of branches used to build defences, fill in ditches, etc.; logs arranged horizontally between piles on the banks of a watercourse as an erosion barrier”), from Old French faissine, from Latin fascīna (“bundle of sticks”), from fascis (“bundle of sticks, faggot, fascine; bundle, package; burden, load”) (ultimately from a late or pseudo-Proto-Indo-European root noun *bʰask- (“band; bundle”), actually originating from a substrate language or as an eastern Mediterranean Wanderwort) + -īna (the nominative, vocative, or ablative feminine singular of -īnus (suffix forming nouns)). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /fəˈsiːn/, /fæ-/, /fəˈsin/, /fɛˈsiːn/ 1. Originally a cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, and now often a bundle of plastic pipes, bound together, and used for strengthening purposes, such as in revetments for riverbanks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc. 2. A similar bundle of sticks of wood or plastic pipes used for filling in ditches for armoured fighting vehicles to drive over, and for making parapets, raising batteries, and strengthening ramparts. Labels: specifically Example: Our forces being landed and ſtationed as I have already mentioned, ſet about erecting a faſchine battery to cannonade the principal fort of the enemy, and in ſomething more than three vveeks, it vvas ready to open. Example: Halberts differ very little from the bill, being like them conſtructed both for puſhing and cutting: a halbert conſiſts of three parts, the ſpear, or ſometimes a kind of ſvvord blade for puſhing, an ax, or hatchet for ſtriking and cutting, and a flook or hook for pulling down faſcines, in the attack of trenches, or temporary fortifications. 3. Something which is used for defensive purposes. Labels: figuratively, rare
Word: fascine Part of Speech: verb Etymology: The noun is borrowed from French fascine (“bundle of kindling; bundle of branches used to build defences, fill in ditches, etc.; logs arranged horizontally between piles on the banks of a watercourse as an erosion barrier”), from Old French faissine, from Latin fascīna (“bundle of sticks”), from fascis (“bundle of sticks, faggot, fascine; bundle, package; burden, load”) (ultimately from a late or pseudo-Proto-Indo-European root noun *bʰask- (“band; bundle”), actually originating from a substrate language or as an eastern Mediterranean Wanderwort) + -īna (the nominative, vocative, or ablative feminine singular of -īnus (suffix forming nouns)). The verb is derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /fəˈsiːn/, /fæ-/, /fəˈsin/, /fɛˈsiːn/ 1. To use fascines to build or reinforce (something), or to fill in (a trench, etc.). Labels: New-Zealand, transitive
Word: halbert Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of halberd. Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: Halberts are of a variety of forms, they are commonly mounted on staves of seven feet long, with a pointed ferril at the end, for the purpose of sticking them in the ground.
Word: mallet Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”). Pronunciation: /ˈmælɪt/ 1. A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul. Example: Carpenters use mallets for assembling. Example: We used a mallet to drive the tent pegs into the ground. 2. A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger. Example: The Mallet of arms, according to the representation of it given by Father Daniel, exactly resembles the wooden instrument of that name, now in use, except in the length of the handle, it was like the hammer of arms, to be used with both hands, indeed it differed very little from that weapon in its form. 3. A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments. 4. A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet. Example: I had had no opportunity as yet of passing on Poirot’s message to Lawrence. But now, as I strolled out on the lawn, still nursing a grudge against my friend’s high-handedness, I saw Lawrence on the croquet lawn, aimlessly knocking a couple of very ancient balls about, with a still more ancient mallet. 5. The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo. Example: I regularly have cause to recall a scene from a novel called Madder Music, by Peter de Vries, in which the main character, a writer who specialises in polo, hears a match announcer telling newcomers to the ground that, contrary to popular belief, the ball is struck with the side of the mallet, rather than the end.
Word: mallet Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”). Pronunciation: /ˈmælɪt/ 1. To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet. Labels: transitive Example: […] and when a couple of insurgents ran in to make the capture she malleted them with her rifle.
Word: mawle Part of Speech: noun 1. A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead. Example: A mawle of lead five feet long, and a pike with the same hanging by a girdle with a hook, is recommended by Ralph Smith for the arms of an archer, it has been quoted at length, under the article of the long bow.
Word: malle Part of Speech: noun 1. A heavy hammer or beetle, often made of wood or lead. Example: There is also an entry of two hundred Malles in a store house at Berwick.
Word: espada Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish espada (“sword”). Doublet of epee, spade, spatha, and spathe. 1. A matador. Example: That first day taught me I could be an espada. The only doubt in my mind was in regard to the nature of the bulls.
Word: truncheon Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/, /ˈtɹʌnʃən/ 1. A short staff, a club; a cudgel. Example: with his troncheon he so rudely stroke / Cymochles twise Example: One is a large ball of iron, fastened with three chains to a strong truncheon or staff of about two feet long; the other is of mixed metal, in the form of a channelled melon, fastened also to a staff by a triple chain; these balls weigh eight pounds. 2. A baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer. Example: Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword / The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does. Example: The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon. 3. A fragment or piece broken off from something, especially a broken-off piece of a spear or lance. Labels: obsolete Example: Therewith asunder in the midst it brast, / And in his hand nought but the troncheon left[…]. 4. The shaft of a spear. Labels: obsolete 5. A stout stem, as of a tree, with the branches lopped off, to produce rapid growth. Labels: obsolete Example: Truncheons of seven or eight feet long, thrust two feet into the earth […] when once rooted, may be cut at six inches above ground 6. A penis. Labels: euphemistic Example: Then, being on his knees between my legs, he drew up his shirt and bared all his hairy thighs, and stiff staring truncheon, red-topt and rooted into a thicket of curls
Word: truncheon Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tronchoun, from Old French tronchon (“thick stick”), from Late Latin *troncionem, from Latin truncus. Pronunciation: /ˈtɹʌnt͡ʃən/, /ˈtɹʌnʃən/ 1. To strike with a truncheon. Labels: transitive Example: If captains were of my wind they would truncheon you out
Word: morning star Part of Speech: name Etymology: From morning + star. Compare Middle English morwensterre, West Frisian moarnsstjer, Dutch morgenster, German Morgenstern, Swedish morgonstjärna, Icelandic morgunstjarna. Application to Satan derives, like the corresponding sense of Lucifer (which see), from what is probably a misinterpretation of Isaiah 14:12 (NIV: "How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!"). 1. The planet Venus as observed in the eastern sky around dawn. Example: Near-synonyms: evening star, Hesperus Example: The evening star is the morning star. (Hesperus is Phosphorus.) 2. The planet Mercury as observed in the eastern sky around dawn. Labels: uncommon Example: Near-synonyms: evening star, Hermes
Word: morning star Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From morning + star. Compare Middle English morwensterre, West Frisian moarnsstjer, Dutch morgenster, German Morgenstern, Swedish morgonstjärna, Icelandic morgunstjarna. Application to Satan derives, like the corresponding sense of Lucifer (which see), from what is probably a misinterpretation of Isaiah 14:12 (NIV: "How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!"). 1. A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, in contrast to a flail. Labels: countable Example: Contrivances like these, except that the balls were armed with spikes, were long carried by the pioneers of the trained bands, or city militia, they are generally called morning stars. 2. Sleep or rheum, particularly that which is discharged at the eyes during sleep. Labels: Hong-Kong, Philippines, uncommon, uncountable Example: 2019, PlaysPH, "What is the official name of the crusty stuff we develop around our eyes during sleep? And what causes it?", Quora We call it “morning star”. Funny name though. The real name is “eye crusts”.
Word: glaive Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gleyve (“lance, glaive”), from Old French glaive (“lance; sword”), from Late Latin glavus. The further etymology is uncertain; one possibility is that glavus reflects Latin gladius (“sword”) crossed with clāva (“club”); another is that it derives from a re-crossing of gladius with Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”); yet another is that it is a borrowing into Late Latin from Old Irish claideb. All of the aforementioned words derive ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”). The Oxford English Dictionary notes that none of these words had the oldest meaning of Old French glaive (“lance”). The English word is cognate with Middle Dutch glavie, glaye (“lance”); Middle High German glavîe, glævîn (“lance”), Swedish glaven (“lance”). Pronunciation: /ɡleɪv/ 1. A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head. Labels: historical, obsolete Example: The lance, or glaive as it is often called, of the eleventh and twelfth centuries was quite straight and smooth; a vamplate was added in the fourteenth, small at first but larger later, for the protection of the right arm. 2. A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve. Labels: historical Example: The Welch Glaive is a kind of bill, ſometimes reckoned among the pole axes. They were formerly much in uſe. [...] In the Britiſh Muſeum there is an entry of a warrant, granted to Nicholas Spicer, authoriſing him to impreſs ſmiths for making two thouſand Welch bills or glaives. Example: With the spear comes the use of the shield; yet the San Cristoval spearmen use no such defence, but turn off spears thrown at them with long curved glaives, and the shields in use in Florida are not made in that island. 3. A sword, particularly a broadsword. Labels: archaic, broadly, poetic Example: [T]he glaiue which he did wield / He gan forthwith t'auale, and way vnto me yield. Example: Wherefore do you ſo ill tranſlate yourſelf, / Out of the ſpeech of peace, that bears ſuch grace, / Into the harſh and boiſt'rous tongue of war? / Turning your books to glaives, your ink to blood, / Your pens to lances, and your tongue divine / To a loud trumpet, and a point of war?
Word: need Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English need, nede, a merger of two terms: * Old English nīed (West Saxon), nēd (Mercian), nēad (“necessity, compulsion, want”), from Proto-West Germanic *naudi, from Proto-Germanic *naudiz, from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂w- (“death”). * Old English nēod (“desire, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *niudi (“desire, eagerness”), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to incline, tend, move, push, nod, wave”). Pronunciation: /niːd/, [nɪi̯d], /nid/ 1. A requirement for something; something needed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There's no need to speculate; we can easily find out for sure. Example: She grew irritated with his constant need for attention. 2. A desire or craving for the satisfaction of a requirement perceived as essential or primal. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.
Word: need Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English neden, from Old English nēodian. Pronunciation: /niːd/, [nɪi̯d], /nid/ 1. To have an absolute requirement for. Labels: transitive Example: Living things need water to survive. Example: You do not always need to go to the library to study. You may use the Internet. 2. To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. Labels: transitive Example: After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave. Example: Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal. 3. To be obliged or required (to do something). Labels: modal Example: I need not go if I don't want to, need I? Example: I was wondering if I need fill in more forms. - No, that's the only one you need fill out. 4. To be required; to be necessary. Labels: intransitive Example: When we have done it, we have done our duty, and all that is in our power, and indeed all that needs. Example: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around. 5. To be necessary (to someone). Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: More ample spirit, then hitherto was wount, / Here needes me […]
Word: organization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French organisation, from Medieval Latin organizātiō; by surface analysis, organize + -ation. Pronunciation: /ˌɔː.ɡə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌoɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, [ˌoɹ.ɡə.nɪˈzeɪ.ʃn̩], /ˌoɹ.ɡə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, /ˌoː.ɡə.nɑeˈzæɪ.ʃən/ 1. The quality of being organized. Labels: uncountable Example: This painting shows little organization at first glance, but little by little the structure becomes clear. Example: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness. 2. The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article. Labels: uncountable Example: The organization of the book is as follows. 3. A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules. Labels: countable Example: In response to the crisis, the nations in the region formed an organization. If you want to be part of this organization, you have to follow its rules. 4. A group of people consciously cooperating. Labels: countable Example: Over time, the spontaneous movement had become an organization. 5. A major league club and all its farm teams. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He's been in the Dodgers' organization since 2003.
Word: prose Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (“a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse”). further etymology and related terms The term prōsa (“straightforward”), a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”), the feminine form prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“to turn”). Compare verse. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊz/, /ˈpɹoʊz/ 1. Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Though known mostly for her prose, she also produced a small body of excellent poems. Example: ...Or if Sion Hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow’d Faft by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th’ Ionian Mounts while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime... 2. Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: ...the vehicle is plodding prose, but the effect is none the less poignant. And in regard to this I may say that in a hundred places in Trollope the extremity of pathos is reached by the homeliest means. 3. A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: Proses are parts of the Office of the Mass which are sung just before the Gospel, upon great Festivals. The French also call those Rhythmical Hymns Proses, which are sung in their Offices in the Church of Rome, in which Rhime only, and not Quantity of Syllables, is observed.
Word: prose Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English prose, from Old French prose, from Latin prōsa (“straightforward”) from the term prōsa ōrātiō (“a straightforward speech – i.e. without the ornaments of verse”). further etymology and related terms The term prōsa (“straightforward”), a colloquial form of prorsa (“straight forwards”), the feminine form prorsus (“straight forwards”), from Old Latin prōvorsus (“moving straight ahead”), from pro- (“forward”) + vorsus (“turned”), form of vertō (“to turn”). Compare verse. Pronunciation: /ˈpɹəʊz/, /ˈpɹoʊz/ 1. To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way. Example: Pray, do not prose, good Ethelbert, but speak; What is your purpose? Example: Already he felt himself near to being a celebrity. He had astonished Eton. That was a good beginning. Papa might prose, knowing, of course, nothing of the poetry of caricature, of the wild joys and the laurels that crown the whimsical. So while Mr. Lane hunted adjectives, and ran sad-sounding and damnatory substantives to earth, Eustace hugged himself, and secretly chuckled over his pilgrim's progress towards the pages of Vanity Fair.