nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: Emirian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Emir(ates) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Emirian From Emir(ates) (“United Arab Emirates”) + -ian. 1. An Emirati; a person from the United Arab Emirates or of Emirian descent.
Word: Emirian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Emir(ates) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Emirian From Emir(ates) (“United Arab Emirates”) + -ian. 1. Of, from, or relating to the United Arab Emirates.
Word: Antiguan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Antigua + -n. Pronunciation: /ænˈtiːɡən/, /ænˈtiːɡwən/, /anˈtiːɡʌn/ 1. A native or inhabitant of the island of Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda
Word: Antiguan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Antigua + -n. Pronunciation: /ænˈtiːɡən/, /ænˈtiːɡwən/, /anˈtiːɡʌn/ 1. Of, from, or pertaining to Antigua, or the Antiguan people.
Word: Barbudan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Barbuda + -an. Pronunciation: /bɑːˈbjuː.dən/, /bɑɹˈb(j)u.dən/, /baː(ɹ)ˈbjuː.dʌn/ 1. A native or inhabitant of the island and dependency of Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda
Word: Barbudan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Barbuda + -an. Pronunciation: /bɑːˈbjuː.dən/, /bɑɹˈb(j)u.dən/, /baː(ɹ)ˈbjuː.dʌn/ 1. Of, from, or pertaining to Barbuda, the Barbudan people.
Word: Barbudian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Barbuda + -ian. Pronunciation: /bɑːˈbjuː.di.ən/, /bɑɹˈb(j)u.di.ən/, /baː(ɹ)ˈbjuː.djʌn/, /-di.ʌn/ 1. Alternative form of Barbudan Labels: alt-of, alternative, uncommon
Word: Barbudian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Barbuda + -ian. Pronunciation: /bɑːˈbjuː.di.ən/, /bɑɹˈb(j)u.di.ən/, /baː(ɹ)ˈbjuː.djʌn/, /-di.ʌn/ 1. Alternative form of Barbudan Labels: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, uncommon
Word: Anguillan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English Anguilla Middle English -n English -n English Anguillan From Anguilla + -n. Pronunciation: /æŋˈɡwɪlən/ 1. A person from Anguilla or of Anguillan descent.
Word: Anguillan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English Anguilla Middle English -n English -n English Anguillan From Anguilla + -n. Pronunciation: /æŋˈɡwɪlən/ 1. Of, from, or pertaining to Anguillan or the Anguillan people. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Armenian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Armenia + -an. Pronunciation: /ɑːˈmiːni.ən/, /ɑɹˈmini.ən/ 1. Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet. Labels: not-comparable Example: Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.
Word: Armenian Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Armenia + -an. Pronunciation: /ɑːˈmiːni.ən/, /ɑɹˈmini.ən/ 1. A person of an Indo-European ethnic group native to the Armenian Highlands, comprising the ethnic majority of Armenia. Example: The Armenians were led in turn, however, by a politicized vanguard often living cosmopolitan, urban lives remote from rural eastern Anatolia
Word: Armenian Part of Speech: name Etymology: From Armenia + -an. Pronunciation: /ɑːˈmiːni.ən/, /ɑɹˈmini.ən/ 1. The language of Armenia and the Armenian people, whose older stages are Old Armenian and Middle Armenian. Labels: uncountable 2. A branch of Indo-European languages, which includes the various stages of the Armenian language. Labels: uncountable
Word: Antillean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Antilles + -ean. Pronunciation: /æntəˈliːən/, /ænˈtɪli.ən/ 1. Of, from, or pertaining to the Antilles, the Antillean people or the Antillean language. Labels: not-comparable Example: Holonym: Caribbean
Word: Antillean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Antilles + -ean. Pronunciation: /æntəˈliːən/, /ænˈtɪli.ən/ 1. A person from the Antilles or of Antillean descent. Example: Holonym: Caribbean
Word: Angolan Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Angola + -n. Pronunciation: /æŋˈɡəʊlən/, /æŋˈɡoʊlən/ 1. Of, from, or pertaining to Angola or the Angolan people. Labels: not-comparable
Word: Angolan Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Angola + -n. Pronunciation: /æŋˈɡəʊlən/, /æŋˈɡoʊlən/ 1. A native or inhabitant of Angola.
Word: antarctic Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ænˈtɑːktɪk/ 1. Alternative spelling of Antarctic. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: gender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒendə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndəɾ/ 1. Class; kind. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: […]plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many[…] 2. Sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species). Labels: countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable Example: the gene is activated in both genders Example: The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, gender, and other factors. 3. Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.) Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Gender roles are indistinct among the young if the two sexes play together frequently. Example: I am a cross-dresser by pleasure and inclination, a transgenderal person. To me for human beings to express themselves along gender lines is a wonderful and uniquely human phenomena. 4. A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The pronominal declension [of English], on which we will focus most of our attention, inflects pronouns for person, number, case, gender, animacy, and reflexivity. Example: In Algonquian languages, given the full morphology of a noun, one can predict whether it belongs to the animate or inanimate gender […] 5. Synonym of voice (“particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs”). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 143. […] We have now to speak of the following eight particulars relating to verbs: Gender or Sort, Person, Number, Time, Mode, Participle, Gerund, and Supine. [...] 1st.--Of the Gender. 144. Gender means the same as sort or kind. There are four principal Sorts of Verbs; namely, Active verbs, Passive verbs, Neuter verbs, and Impersonal verbs. Example: Many of the words quoted are purely reflexive, others passive or deponent. Such words as óttask, œðrask, dásk, iðrask, reiðask are deponent, though they originally may have been reflexive, but the active gender is here quite obsolete. 6. The quality which distinguishes connectors, which may be male (fitting into another connector) and female (having another connector fit into it), or genderless or androgynous (capable of fitting together with another connector of the same type). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Connectors are identified by gender. When copper pins are exposed in the connector, its gender is male.
Word: gender Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒendə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndəɾ/ 1. To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender. Example: In an interview, he even noted that he "dressed, acted and thought like a man" for years, but his coworkers continued to gender him as female (Shaver 1995, 2). 2. To perceive (a thing) as having characteristics associated with a certain gender, or as having been authored by someone of a certain gender. Example: At the same time, however, the convictions they held about how a woman or man might write led them to interpret their findings in a rather androcentric fashion, and to gender the text accordingly. Example: Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses.
Word: gender Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English gendre, borrowed from Old French gendre, borrowed from Latin genere (“type, kind”). Doublet of genre and genus. The verb developed after the noun. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒendə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndəɾ/ 1. Evoking positive feelings regarding gender, like gender euphoria or gender envy. Example: This outfit I'm wearing feels gender as hell. It's incredible that I get to look this hot. Example: miles [Morales] is so gender and the embodiment of a little guy I just want to give him a hug
Word: gender Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Latin generāreder. Middle French gendrerder. Middle English gendren English gender Inherited from Middle English gendren, from Middle French gendrer, from Latin generāre. Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒendə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndəɾ/ 1. To engender. Labels: archaic Example: […] Abraham had two ſonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the fleſh: but hee of the freewoman, was by promiſe. Which things are an Allegorie; for theſe are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. […] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all. Example: […] being a stranger to those restrictions which were afterwards laid on his posterity by the Mosaic law, and which gendered a servile frame of spirit. 2. To breed. Labels: archaic, obsolete Example: Yee ſhall keepe my Statutes: Thou ſhalt not let thy cattel gender with a diuerſe kinde: Thou ſhalt not ſowe thy field with mingled ſeed: Neither ſhall a garment mingled of linnen and woollen come vpon thee. Example: They are nearly round, a little flattish on one side, which lies next the bottom of the sea; and they are from one to eight inches thick. They crawl up into shallow water at particular seasons of the year, probably for the purpose of gendering, as we often find them in pairs.
Word: gender Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian gender. Pronunciation: /ɡənˈdɛː(r)/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚ/, /ˈd͡ʒendə/, /ˈd͡ʒɛndəɾ/ 1. An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
Word: adult Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“to grow up”). Compare adolescent. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.ʌlt/, /ˈæd.əlt/, /əˈdʌlt/, [əˈdʌɫt], [ˈæɾl̩t] 1. An animal that is full-grown. Example: The young not only differs from the adult by the presence of its gills, but its feet are only developed by degrees, and in several genera there are also a deciduous beak and tail, and intestines of a different form 2. A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
Word: adult Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“to grow up”). Compare adolescent. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.ʌlt/, /ˈæd.əlt/, /əˈdʌlt/, [əˈdʌɫt], [ˈæɾl̩t] 1. Fully grown. Example: an adult human, animal, or plant Example: The paws of the adult brown bear, and also their hams, especially when smoked, are considered a great delicacy. 2. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc. Example: adult clothes; adult cereal; an adult documentary Example: In May 1967 the WGBH Education Division submitted an initial proposal to HUD for a series of four adult television documentaries on conservation in an urban environment. 3. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc. Example: adult situations; adult discussions 4. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc. Example: an adult drink; an adult root beer float 5. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc. Labels: usually Example: an adult cookie; adult gummy worms 6. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc. Example: an adult movie Example: This program contains adult content. Parental discretion is advised. 7. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc. Example: adult language; an adult cartoon 8. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc. Example: an adult menu; an adult fare Example: Children go free, but for those 12 and up, you must purchase an adult ticket.
Word: adult Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“to grow up”). Compare adolescent. Pronunciation: /ˈæd.ʌlt/, /ˈæd.əlt/, /əˈdʌlt/, [əˈdʌɫt], [ˈæɾl̩t] 1. To behave like an adult. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: Adulting is hard! 2. To (cause to) be or become an adult. Labels: nonstandard, rare Example: Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted"; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five, […] Example: The process of adulting children[…] overlaps with the process of the uncontrolled infiltration of the media[…] into children’s imagination.
Word: womanly Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English womanly, wommanlich, wommanly, wommanlych, wummonlich, equivalent to woman + -ly (adjectival suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈwʊmənli/ 1. Considered typical of, stereotypical of, or appropriate to women; feminine. Example: I know that the sound of it moved me more even than her words, it was so very human - so very womanly. Example: "What I mean, a woman who doesn't go in for booze and sport and cigarettes. Man gets sick of these tough flappers. Give me a womanly woman every time. As I said before, I could see at a glance that you were a thoroughly womanly woman." 2. Female. Labels: rare
Word: womanly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English wommanliche, wommanly, equivalent to woman + -ly (adverbial suffix). Pronunciation: /ˈwʊmənli/ 1. In the manner of a woman.
Word: dragonfly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From dragon + fly. Compare drakefly (“mayfly”). Pronunciation: /ˈdɹæɡənˌflaɪ/ 1. An insect of the suborder Epiprocta or, more strictly, the infraorder Anisoptera, having four long transparent wings held perpendicular to a long body when perched. Example: There were two dragonflies in the garden today. Example: The delicate coloured Dragon Flies may have likewise some Corrosive quality.
Word: vociferance Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vōciferor (“shout”), from vōx (“voice”) + ferō (“carry”). 1. Vociferation; clamour, noise. Labels: rare, uncountable Example: All now is wrangle, abuse, and vociferance— / Now there's a truce, all's subdued, self-restraining— […]
Word: vociferant Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin vōciferāns (present participle). 1. noisy; clamorous
Word: vociferate Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Latin vociferatus, past participle of vociferari (“to vociferate”), from vox, vocis (“voice”) + ferre (“to bear”). See voice, and bear (“to carry”). Pronunciation: /vəʊˈsɪfəɹeɪt/, /vəˈsɪfəɹeɪt/ 1. To cry out with vehemence Labels: intransitive Example: Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right, Example: He then began to vociferate pretty loudly, and at last an old woman, opening an upper casement, asked, Who they were, and what they wanted? 2. To utter with a loud voice; to shout out. Labels: transitive Example: Though he may vociferate the word liberty. Example: At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. [...] something had occurred to wake the fiend that slept in him. “Dahlia!” he ... yes better make it vociferated once more, I'm pretty sure it's the word I want.
Word: asteroids Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈæstəˌɹɔɪdz/ 1. plural of asteroid Labels: form-of, plural
Word: vociferation Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin vōciferātiō, from vōciferor (“shout”), from vōx (“voice”) + ferō (“carry”); compare French vocifération. Pronunciation: /vəʊˌsɪf.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, /voʊˌsɪf.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ 1. The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice. Example: And as she apprehended the boy's life was in danger, she screamed ten times louder than before; and indeed Master Blifil himself now seconded her with all the vociferation in his power. Example: Crack go the whips; but twenty Patriot arms have seized each of the eight bridles: there is rearing, rocking, vociferation; not the smallest headway.
Word: asteroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: ]Introduced by German–British astronomer William Herschel in 1802 upon the suggestion of classical scholar Charles Burney Jr. (1757–1817), the son of music historian Charles Burney, a friend of Herschel's. Probably coined as a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀστεροειδής (asteroeidḗs, “starlike”), from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “celestial body”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, aster + -oid. Pronunciation: /ˈæst(ə)ɹɔɪd/ 1. A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and a dwarf planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape. 2. In the Solar System, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter. Example: The orbital planes of asteroids, minor bodies that circle the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, are often more tilted ...
Word: asteroid Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀστεροειδής (asteroeidḗs), from ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “form”). Analyzable as aster- + -oid. Piecewise doublet of etymology 1. Compare also the botanical taxon Asteroideae. Pronunciation: /ˈæst(ə)ɹɔɪd/ 1. Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish.
Word: Abelite Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew הָ֑בֶל (háḇel)bor. Ancient Greek Ἅβελ (Hábel)bor. Latin Abē̆lder. Old English Ābel Middle English Abel English Abel Proto-Indo-European *-tósder. Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der. Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der. Latin -ītēsbor. French -iteder. English -ite English Abelite From Abel + -ite. 1. Synonym of Abelian. Labels: historical
Word: tuft Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tūfa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”). Pronunciation: /tʌft/, /tɐft/ 1. A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base. 2. A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding. 3. A small clump of trees or bushes. Example: “Not far from this place, there is a tuft of about a dozen of tall beeches […].” 4. A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities. Labels: historical 5. A person entitled to wear such a tassel. Labels: historical Example: A college tutor, or a nobleman’s toady, who appears one fine day as my right reverend lord, in a silk apron and a shovel-hat, and assumes benedictory airs over me, is still the same man we remember at Oxbridge, when he was truckling to the tufts, and bullying the poor undergraduates in the lecture-room. Example: Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.
Word: tuft Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin tūfa (“helmet crest”) (near Vegezio). Compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”), Swedish tova (“tangled knot”), Swedish tofs (“tuft, tassel”), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ (“tube”), *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”). Pronunciation: /tʌft/, /tɐft/ 1. To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts. Labels: transitive Example: His tufted cottage rising through the snow 2. To form into tufts. Labels: transitive 3. To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving. Labels: transitive Example: They're never gonna get that Ottoman tufted in time! 4. To be formed into tufts. Labels: intransitive
Word: translations Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /tɹænzˈleɪʃənz/, /tɹænsˈleɪʃənz/, /tɹɑːnzˈleɪʃənz/, /tɹɑːnsˈleɪʃənz/ 1. plural of translation Labels: form-of, plural
Word: Mediterranean Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Italic *meðios Latin medius Proto-Indo-European *ters-der. Proto-Italic *terzā Latin terra Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āneus Latin mediterrāneus ▲ Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Mediterranean From Latin mediterrāneus (“inland”) [from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix)] + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪni.ən/, /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹɛjnɪjən/, /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/, [mɛɾɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən], [mɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnjən] 1. Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding region.
Word: Mediterranean Part of Speech: name Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Italic *meðios Latin medius Proto-Indo-European *ters-der. Proto-Italic *terzā Latin terra Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āneus Latin mediterrāneus ▲ Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Mediterranean From Latin mediterrāneus (“inland”) [from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix)] + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪni.ən/, /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹɛjnɪjən/, /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/, [mɛɾɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən], [mɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnjən] 1. Ellipsis of the Mediterranean Sea: a sea between Europe and Africa, an inland branch of the Atlantic. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis 2. A region of Southern Europe and North Africa and West Asia. The region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Example: vacationing in the Mediterranean
Word: Mediterranean Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Italic *meðios Latin medius Proto-Indo-European *ters-der. Proto-Italic *terzā Latin terra Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos Proto-Italic *-ejos Proto-Italic *-eos Latin -eus Latin -āneus Latin mediterrāneus ▲ Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English Mediterranean From Latin mediterrāneus (“inland”) [from medius (“middle”) + terra (“earth, land”) + -āneus (adjectival suffix)] + -an. Pronunciation: /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪni.ən/, /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹɛjnɪjən/, /ˌmɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən/, [mɛɾɪtəˈɹeɪnɪən], [mɛdɪtəˈɹeɪnjən] 1. Synonym of Mediterranid. Labels: countable 2. Ellipsis of Mediterranean food, a style of food originating from the (often European or Near Eastern, as opposed to African) lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
Word: locative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Latin locātīvus, from locus. In Indian English, by surface analysis, locate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒk.ə.tɪv/, /ˈlɑk.ə.tɪv/, /ˈloʊ.kə.tɪv/, /lɵˈkeʈɪv/ 1. Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein. Labels: not-comparable Example: a locative adjective Example: the locative case of a noun
Word: locative Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin locātīvus, from locus. In Indian English, by surface analysis, locate + -ive. Pronunciation: /ˈlɒk.ə.tɪv/, /ˈlɑk.ə.tɪv/, /ˈloʊ.kə.tɪv/, /lɵˈkeʈɪv/ 1. The locative case. Example: Brian: Ah. Ah, dative, sir! Ahh! No, not dative! Not the dative, sir! No! Ah! Oh, the… accusative! Accusative! Ah! Domum, sir! Ad domum! Ah! Oooh! Ah! Centurion: Except that domus takes the…? Brian: The locative, sir! Centurion: Which is…?!
Word: locator Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Latin locātor. By surface analysis, locate + -or. Pronunciation: /ləʊˈkeɪtə/, /ˈloʊkeɪtɚ/ 1. One who, or that which, locates. Example: I found the opening times for my local branch using the Web site's store locator. 2. One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim. Labels: US 3. The unique alphanumeric reference given to each travel booking.
Word: locellate Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Latin locellus (“compartment”), diminutive of locus (“place”). 1. Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones Labels: not-comparable
Word: hem Part of Speech: intj Etymology: A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia) Pronunciation: /hɛm/, /hɪm/ 1. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound. Example: "Hem! hem! however there will be a by-place for me behind the stove."
Word: hem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia) Pronunciation: /hɛm/, /hɪm/ 1. An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. Example: his morning hems
Word: hem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia) Pronunciation: /hɛm/, /hɪm/ 1. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. Example: Hem, and stroke thy beard. Example: “Sit down,” said the young man, gruffly. “He’ll be in soon.” I obeyed; and hemmed, and called the villain Juno, who deigned, at this second interview, to move the extreme tip of her tail, in token of owning my acquaintance.
Word: hem Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hem, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian քամել (kʻamel, “to press, wring”), Russian ком (kom, “lump”). The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną, or alternatively derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /hɛm/, /hɪm/ 1. The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying. 2. A rim or margin of something. Example: Entombed upon the very hem o' th' sea 3. In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
Word: hem Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hem, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian քամել (kʻamel, “to press, wring”), Russian ком (kom, “lump”). The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną, or alternatively derived from the noun. Pronunciation: /hɛm/, /hɪm/ 1. To make a hem. Labels: intransitive 2. To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something. Labels: transitive 3. To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way. Labels: transitive Example: A small yard hemmed about by a tall hedge. Example: He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.” The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.
Word: hem Part of Speech: pron Etymology: From Middle English hem, from Old English heom (“them”, dative), originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well. More at 'em. 1. Obsolete form of 'em. Labels: alt-of, obsolete Example: And wente to the kinge and to the queene, and said to hem with a glad cheer. Example: For eyther of hem mayntened.
Word: loch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English lough, borrowed from Scottish Gaelic loch. Doublet of lay, Looe, and lough. Pronunciation: /lɔx/, /lɒk/, /lɒx/, /lɑk/, /lɑx/ 1. A lake. Labels: Ireland, Scotland Example: The greater part of Leuchars Loch belonged to the Inneses of Leuchars, Cotts to the Inneses of Innes; and while thus poſſeſſed, many unſucceſsful attempts to drain both, by canals, to the river Loſſie, ſeem to have been made. […] [A] very ordinary fall of rain raiſes it [the river] far beyond its natural bounds; and the immediate conſequence of ſuch floods, was, the ſpeat-water flowing into thoſe lochs, by the canal, and covering the adjacent meadows. Example: But, enchanting as are the woodland banks of the quiet stream, there is to me a higher and yet more powerful charm in the solitary wildness or savage grandeur of the Highland loch. 2. A bay or arm of the sea. Labels: Ireland, Scotland Example: It is well known, for instance, that the superiority of the herrings caught in the inland sea-lochs of Scotland is owing to the fish finding there a better feeding-ground than in the large and exposed open bays. Look, for instance, at Lochfyne: the land runs down to the water's edge, and the surface water or drainage carries with it rich food to fatten the loch, and put flesh on the herring; and what fish is finer, I would ask, than a Lochfyne herring? Example: Little Loch Broom is a NW trending sea loch situated approximately 10 km west of Ullapool[…]. The flanks of the loch are characterized by rugged headlands backed by mountains such as An Teallach to the south and Beinn Ghobhlach to the north.
Word: loch Part of Speech: noun Etymology: See lohoch. Pronunciation: /lɔx/, /lɒk/, /lɒx/, /lɑk/, /lɑx/ 1. Alternative form of lohoch (“medicine taken by licking”). Labels: alt-of, alternative Example: We may obtain, then, a just idea of the constitution of this liquid [milk], if we look upon it as a soft, liquid substance, a kind of loch,^* in which caseine, sugar, &c., are dissolved, and in which the fatty or oily substance is distributed in small, rounded atoms. [Footnote *: Loch, or lohoch, is an Arabian name for a medicine of a consistence between an electuary and a sirup, and usually taken by licking.[…]] Example: Uncle James had caught a cold too, so I went with Grissel; and found a chemist who'd been in France, and knew what a loch was and made one for me; […]
Word: Lochaber ax Part of Speech: noun Etymology: So called from Lochaber, in Scotland. 1. A weapon of war, consisting of a pole armed with an axhead at its end, formerly used by the Scottish Highlanders.
Word: Lochaber axe Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative spelling of Lochaber ax. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: peach Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Latin persicus Latin persicum Late Latin persica Vulgar Latin *pessica Old French peschebor. Middle English peche English peach From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/, [ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ] 1. Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. Labels: countable Example: I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list. Example: Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit. 2. Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: [A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […] Example: When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes. 3. A light yellow-red colour. Labels: uncountable Example: To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor. Example: If the dye is for a light color such as peach, more dry dye could be used. 4. A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing. Labels: countable, informal Example: How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection? Example: Walking on the beaches / looking at the peaches 5. Buttock or bottom. Labels: countable, often, plural, uncountable Example: Down on the beaches, just look at all the peaches Example: Gia danced around a little, shaking her peaches for show. She shook it hard. Too hard. In the middle of a shimmy, her stomach cramped. A fart slipped out. A loud one. And stinky.
Word: peach Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Latin persicus Latin persicum Late Latin persica Vulgar Latin *pessica Old French peschebor. Middle English peche English peach From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/, [ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ] 1. Of or pertaining to the color peach. Example: Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason. Example: The dining compartment was very peach. 2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable. Example: 'That'll be just peach with me.' Example: If I explain that I won't help them maintain systems running proprietary software (I'll make an exception for firmware, sometimes.) they usually shrug their shoulders and ask someone else -- which is just peach with me.
Word: peach Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach. Pronunciation: /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/, [ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ] 1. To inform on someone; turn informer. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. Example: "But will your cousin tell?" was Ripton's reflection. "He!" Richard's lip expressed contempt. "A ploughman refuses to peach, and you ask if a Feverel will?" 2. To inform against. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: Complaining of the conduct of Sir Ralph Robinson, parson of Brede, in Sussex, who took from him a psalter book in English, printed cum privilegio regali, and peached him of heresy, whereupon he was put in the stocks by the King's constable for two days. Example: […] and finding out the residence of his brother Charles, desires him not to peach him, but to lend him a suit of his fine cloaths, that he might see what it was to be a fine gentleman […]
Word: peach Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈpiːt͡ʃ/, [ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ] 1. A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite. Labels: Cornwall, obsolete, uncountable Example: Chlorite forms the characterizing ingredient in chlorite slate; it is common in Cornwall with the tin veins, constituting with quartz the rock commonly known there as killas; the ordinary name for chlorite is peach. Example: Peach, which is a word used by the Cornish miners, in a generic sense, to denote all minerals of the chloritic family—and is consequently a very convenient word—seems to be essentially the "mother" of tin; but the experience of Cornwall goes to show that peach alone does not produce a permanent tin mine: an intermixture of quartz is necessary to give what miners call "strength" to the lode.
Word: evil Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). See -le for the supposed suffix. Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch euvel (“evil”), German übel (“bad, evil”), German Low German övel (“evil”), Luxembourgish iwwel (“queasy, nauseous; bad”), Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). Pronunciation: /ˈiːvəl/, [ˈɪi̯vəl] ~ [ˈɪi̯vl̩], /ˈiːvɪl/, [ˈɪi̯vɪl] 1. Intending to harm; malevolent. Example: an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people Example: For a good while the Miss Brownings were kept in ignorance of the evil tongues that whispered hard words about Molly. 2. Morally corrupt. Example: If something is evil, it is never mandatory. Example: Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil? 3. Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.). Example: 1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100, An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r] abide there […] Example: He awoke in an evil temper […] 4. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous. Example: The owl shrieked at thy birth,—an evil sign; Example: […] he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: 5. Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious. Labels: obsolete Example: an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop Example: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. 6. Undesirable; harmful; bad practice. Labels: slang Example: Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
Word: evil Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). See -le for the supposed suffix. Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch euvel (“evil”), German übel (“bad, evil”), German Low German övel (“evil”), Luxembourgish iwwel (“queasy, nauseous; bad”), Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). Pronunciation: /ˈiːvəl/, [ˈɪi̯vəl] ~ [ˈɪi̯vl̩], /ˈiːvɪl/, [ˈɪi̯vɪl] 1. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The evils of society include murder and theft. Example: Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control. 2. Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: evils which our own misdeeds have wrought Example: The evil that men do lives after them. 3. A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: [The disease]Tis call'd the Euill. Example: He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.
Word: evil Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From Middle English yvele, yvel, ivel, from Old English yfele (“badly, evilly”), a derivative of the adjective yfel (“bad, evil”). Often reinterpreted as the noun in the later language (as in "to speak evil"). Pronunciation: /ˈiːvəl/, [ˈɪi̯vəl] ~ [ˈɪi̯vl̩], /ˈiːvɪl/, [ˈɪi̯vɪl] 1. wickedly, evilly, iniquitously Labels: obsolete Example: O what of Gods then boots it to be borne, / If old Aveugles ſonnes ſo euill heare? 2. injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way. Labels: obsolete Example: And many ſhall follow their pernicious wayes, by reaſon of whom the way of trueth ſhall be euill ſpoken of: 3. badly, poorly; in an insufficient way. Labels: obsolete Example: It went evil with him. Example: But (as the Poet ſaith) Malè ſarta gratia, nequicquam coit, & reſcinditur: Friendſhip, that is but euill peeced, will not ioine cloſe, but falleth aſunder againe:
Word: instrumental Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English instrumental, instrumentale, from Medieval Latin īnstrūmentālis, equivalent to instrument + -al. Pronunciation: /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/, /ɪnstɹʊˈmɛntəl/ 1. Essential or central; of great importance or relevance. Example: He was instrumental in conducting the business. Example: The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth 2. Serving as an instrument, medium, means, or agency. Example: Maxwell started back to his study, feeling that kind of satisfaction which a man feels when he has been even partly instrumental in finding an unemployed person a remunerative position. 3. Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice). Example: instrumental music Example: an instrumental part 4. Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally corresponding to the English use of prepositions such as by, with, through, or by means of with the objective case. Example: the instrumental case
Word: instrumental Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English instrumental, instrumentale, from Medieval Latin īnstrūmentālis, equivalent to instrument + -al. Pronunciation: /ɪnstɹəˈmɛntəl/, /ɪnstɹʊˈmɛntəl/ 1. The instrumental case. 2. A composition written or performed without lyrics or singing, using a lead instrument to replace vocals. Example: I recommend this album in the face of the fact that five of the eleven songs are the purest filler, dull instrumentals with a harmonica rifling over an indifferent rhythm section. The rest is magnificent […] 3. A pause in the vocals of a song, usually occurring midway through, in which a musical instrument replaces the vocals.
Word: instrumentalist Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English instrumental Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English instrumentalist From instrumental + -ist. 1. One who plays a musical instrument, as distinguished from a vocalist. 2. An adherent of instrumentalism.
Word: instrumentality Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English instrumental Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English instrumentality From instrumental + -ity. Pronunciation: /ˌɪnstɹʊmɛnˈtælɪti/ 1. The condition or quality of being instrumental; being useful; serving a purpose. Labels: uncountable Example: In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the 'great design' which he wished to establish through her instrumentality. 2. Something that is instrumental; an instrument. Labels: countable Example: He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world. Example: Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities. 3. A governmental organ with a specific purpose. Labels: countable Example: Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
Word: instrumentally Part of Speech: adv Etymology: Etymology tree English instrumental Middle English -ly English -ly English instrumentally From instrumental + -ly. 1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end Example: They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Example: Institutionally based, restrictive relationships, such as those among family members or professional colleagues, must thus be contrasted with instrumentally based, nonrestrictive relationships serving the aims of practical pursuits, such as those between freely practicing experts and their clients or between sellers and buyers. In instrumentally structured situations it is not necessary for the participants to curb their needs, because the mere expression of needs in no way compels others to gratify them, as it tends to do in the family. 2. With musical instruments Example: an instrumentally accompanied song Example: join in instrumentally
Word: instrumentalness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English instrumental Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English instrumentalness From instrumental + -ness. 1. Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality Labels: rare, uncountable 2. How likely the music contains no spoken word vocals Labels: uncountable
Word: thirty-one Part of Speech: num 1. The cardinal number immediately following thirty and before thirty-two; thirty plus one. Example: Toad, that vnder cold ſtone, / Dayes and Nights ha's thirty one: / Sweltred Venom ſleeping got, / Boyle thou firſt i'th'charmed pot.
Word: bly Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Probably from a dialectal variant of blee (“complexion, aspect, colour, hue”). Pronunciation: /blaɪ/ 1. Likeness; resemblance; look aspect; species; character. Labels: dialectal Example: I see a bly of your father about you.