yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Beta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Betas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of Generation Beta.
pos: noun
examples: With an estimated 90% of all online content expected to be generated in some way shape or form by AI by as early as 2026, theorists predict Betas will grow up in a world heavily fraught by deepfake content, truth will no longer be a fixed concept, and they will spend their lives searching for reality.
For the Betas, AI and robots will be a normal part of life for them.
Members of Gen Z are the first digital natives, but individual experiences varied depending on their families’ economic circumstances, a barrier no longer applicable for the Betas, she [Melissa Clark-Reynolds] says.
Millennials will almost certainly spend it on luxuries such as family homes and trying to retire before they are 90 (and the odd bit of avocado toast, of course) before they can pass it on to Betas.
Translations:
Betty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Betties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A girl who hangs out with skateboarders or surfers.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
Translations:
Bible
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bible, from Medieval Latin biblia (“book”) (misinterpreted as a feminine from earlier Latin neuter plural biblia (“books”)), from Ancient Greek βιβλία (biblía, “books”), plural of βιβλίον (biblíon, “small book”), originally a diminutive of βίβλος (bíblos, “book”), from βύβλος (búblos, “papyrus”) (from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material).
Old English used biblioþēce (from βιβλιοθήκη) and ġewritu (whence English writs) for "the Scriptures".
Inflected forms:
form: Bibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bible
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.
pos: noun
examples: He had just become able to read, with much effort, short sentences in his Bible, and was constantly engaged during his leisure hours in studying its pages.
An American imprisoned for nearly six months in North Korea has admitted that he deliberately left a Bible in a nightclub, in one of his first major interviews since his release.[…]“I felt once I left the Bible somewhere that God would take it the rest of the way into the hands of some kind of Christian organisation, and I’d be able to waltz out of country fat, dumb and happy, no problem... But God had other plans.”
Translations:
Blimp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Colonel Blimp, a comic character created by David Low and first appearing in London's Evening Standard in April 1934.
Inflected forms:
form: Blimps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person considered similar to Colonel Blimp in appearance, thought, or expression, particularly (historical or archaic, derogatory) a reactionary middle-class Englishman during the Interwar Period.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.
Translations:
Blood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Bloods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Los Angeles gang the Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.
pos: noun
examples: My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.
Translations:
Blue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the German surname, Americanized from Blau or its French cognate bleu.
Inflected forms:
form: Blues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A letterman at Oxford or Cambridge.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the Royal Horse Guards (which merged with the 1st Dragoons in 1969)
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Have you heard any news / Of that chap in the Blues / Was it Prosser, or Pyecroft, or Pimm?
gloss: Synonym of British Blue (“a breed of cat”).
pos: noun
examples: This Blue shows the remarkable, sleek bodyline of the breed.
Translations:
Boa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Boas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Boa
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Bwa-speaking ethnic group of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
pos: noun
Translations:
Bob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.
Inflected forms:
form: Bobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A generic male person.
pos: noun
Translations:
Bobo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A people indigenous to Burkina Faso, Africa.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Bogart
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Dutch surname Bogaert, derived from bogaard, contraction of boomgaard (“orchard”), from boom (“tree”) + gaard (“garden”). Doublet of Baumgart, Bangert, and Bungert, all from German.
Inflected forms:
form: Bogarts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Bogarting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Bogarted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Bogarted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To behave in a manner similar to the on-screen characters portrayed by Humphrey Bogart.
pos: verb
Translations:
Bomb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: the Bomb
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: Bombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The atomic bomb; the capacity to launch a nuclear attack.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.
Translations:
Bora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Borg
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Star Trek franchise, in which the Borg are a cyborg race intent on converting all other life into their own kind; apparently a clipping of cyborg, from cybernetic + organism.
Inflected forms:
form: Borgs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Borg
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: borg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Borgs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Borging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Borged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Borged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: borg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who proselytises or assimilates.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Go for the fun of it (yes, I am one of the Borgs) and don't let equipment bother you. Just remember this even when the Borgs assimilate you.
gloss: To assimilate rivals, via corporate acquisition or religious proselytisation.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: The Christians could afford to spend generations converting northern Europe and that's exactly what they did. We have that example from history. We know there are other faiths out there that want to wipe us out, and there are other faiths out there that want to Borg us. The fact that some are still here after decades means we aren't giving in this time, and you're one of the ones here over a decade."
They are trying to turn you into them. They are trying to borg us.
gloss: To turn into a cyborg, to implant machinery into people with the intent of controlling or assimilating them.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: We already do it and they tell us they're going to Borg us with fucking stuff into our brains and we won't have to talk to each other.
2001, Rick C. Hodgin, GeekNews
Intel wants to Borg us!
Translations:
Boxer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named Boxers by the West, since their official title was "The Fist of Righteous Harmony" (義和拳 /义和拳 (Yìhéquán)) and their symbol was a clenched fist.
Inflected forms:
form: Boxers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Chinese anti-imperial and xenophobic rebel of the early 1900s.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Brett
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for Brettanomyces.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Brettanomyces, a yeast genus that is used in brewing some beers, and can also affect the taste of wine.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
Translations:
Brewer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
form: Brewers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A player, supporter or other person connected with Burton Albion Football Club.
pos: noun
gloss: A player for the Milwaukee Brewers.
pos: noun
Translations:
bristols
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Cockney rhyming slang, from Bristol City (a football team) rhyming with titty.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Breasts.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
plural
plural-only
slang
Translations:
Brownie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From brownie (“a helpful elf”). Specifically, inspired by the story "The Brownies" by Juliana Horatia Ewing (published in 1870, The Brownies and Other Tales), in which two children, Tommy and Betty, learn that children can be helpful brownies or lazy boggarts. But compare with Dutch kabouter (“a very young female member of the scout movement”) (literally, a "gnome").
Inflected forms:
form: Brownies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A junior Girl Guide.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
UK
examples: 1958 July 14, Boot by a Brash Brownie, LIFE, page 124,
In Toronto young Brownies of the Girl Guides, the Canadian girl scouts, stood in parade formation with full-fledged Guides.
The ideal Brownie pack, according to the 1960 Guide Commissioner′s Handbook, would contain Brownies who were ‘alert, clean, tidy and punctual. Their uniform should be correct.’
Another Guide group that persevered through internment was the 1st Chefoo (which had Brownies, Guides and Rangers) in Shandong province, China.[…]The November 2, 1942, entry in the Brownie logbook pleads for cheerfulness in the face of adversity: “We are in need of smiles. Have you got them ready, Brownies?”
gloss: A junior Girl Scout.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: 1952 March 24, Girl Scouts: They Are Observing Their 40th Birthday, LIFE, page 109,
Any girl willing to follow the simple rules can join the Girl Scouts. As Brownies they will spend most of their time playing games and singing songs like the Brownie Smile Song: “I′ve something in my pocket; It belongs across my face, And I keep it very close at hand In a most convenient place.... I′m sure you couldn′t guess it If you guessed a long, long while, So I′ll take it out and put it on—It′s a great big Brownie smile!”
Most marchers were children, Girl and Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Brownies. One Cub Scout pulled his sister in a Radio Flyer decorated with small American flags. A Brownie pushed a baby carriage crammed with a zoo of stuffed animals.
After all, the meetings were held at my own house and my own mother was the queen. Doesn′t that make me some sort of Brownie princess? Apparently not.
As we graduated from Brownies to Girl Scouts, Mom was again my leader.
Translations:
Browning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English Brūning, a patronymic for a person nicknamed Brūn (“brown”) (see Brown).
For the first half-century of their manufacturer, the majority of semi-automatic handguns in Europe were designed by John M. Browning.
Inflected forms:
form: Brownings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fabrique Nationale FN Model 1910 Browning and its derivatives; a European handgun; a small, semi-automatic pistol.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of BAR (“Browning automatic rifle”), a light machine gun
pos: noun
Translations:
Bug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Bugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Volkswagen Beetle car.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Translations:
Canadien
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat-
Laurentian kanatader.
French Canada
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānus
Old French -ien
Middle French -ien
French -ien
French Canadienbor.
English Canadien
Borrowed from French Canadien (“Canadian”).
Inflected forms:
form: Canadiens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A French Canadian (male or of unspecified sex).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: French Canadian.
pos: adj
Translations:
Cancer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cancer (“crab”), calque of Ancient Greek Καρκίνος (Karkínos, “crab”), calque of Akkadian 𒀀𒇻𒌅 (allutu, “crab”), from Sumerian 𒀯𒀠𒈜 (ᵐᵘˡAL.LUL, “crab; name of constellation”).
Inflected forms:
form: Cancers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone with a Cancer star sign.
pos: noun
examples: ‘All right, so what are Cancers apart from sad, then?’ Lizzie asked.
Translations:
Capuchin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French capuchin (“Capuchin friar”), from Italian cappuccino (“Capuchin friar”), from cappuccio (“hood, cowl”). Doublet of cappuccino.
Inflected forms:
form: Capuchins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an order of Roman Catholic friars.
pos: noun
Translations:
Cardinal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
baseball
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Capitalization of cardinal (bird).
Inflected forms:
form: Cardinals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A player on the St. Louis Cardinals team.
pos: noun
examples: Smith became a Cardinal as the result of a pre-season trade.
gloss: A player on the Arizona Cardinals team.
pos: noun
gloss: A student or player on a sports team at the University of Louisville.
pos: noun
Translations:
Carl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: Carls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student at Carleton College, Minnesota.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Located in rural Minnesota, Carleton is not surrounded by any cultural diversity unless you count pig farms and cow farms as separately diverse institutions. The nice thing about Carleton is that Carls are pretty much non-judgmental […]
Translations:
Cashmere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani कश्मीर / کشمیر (kaśmīr, “Kashmir”), from Sanskrit कश्मीर (kaśmīra).
Inflected forms:
form: Cashmeres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A breed of goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) raised for its hair.
pos: noun
Translations:
Cat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of Caterpillar (corporation and brand).
Inflected forms:
form: Cats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of heavy machinery, such as a backhoe or bulldozer, of the Caterpillar brand. (Occasionally, loosely, any big yellow machine of the type.)
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Upon touring the mine, they found it to be a veritable canyon with some monstrous Cats trundling in the background.
Translations:
Chan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 禪 /禅 (Chán), a development and clipping of Middle Chinese 禪那 (MC dzyen na), a transcription of Sanskrit ध्यान (dhyāna, literally “meditation”). Doublet of dhyana and Zen.
Inflected forms:
form: Ch'an
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A major Chinese school of Mahayana Buddhism characterized by sudden enlightenment achieved by indirect means, developed in Japan as Zen.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It is possible that highly calligraphic painting styles, including the extreme forms of “flung-ink,” began at this time, but probably not under Ch’an Buddhist influence, which figured in the religious life of the dynasty.
Translations:
Chauffeur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French chauffeur (“heater, stoker”), as they were said to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.
Inflected forms:
form: Chauffeurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brigand belonging to the bands who, around 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Cherry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
form: Cherries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: someone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
Chevy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Diminutive of Chevrolet: Clipping of Chevrolet + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: Chevies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chevie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Chevvie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Chevvy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vehicle of this make.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I saw a late-model Chevy pull around back. That would have been around 10 PM.
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry […]
Translations:
Chin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Burmese ချင်း (hkyang:).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A tribe in Myanmar.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Oral tradition and archaeological evidence suggest the Chin were the earliest Tibeto-Burman group to come to the Chindwin Valley, a settlement process starting as early as the 4ᵗʰ century.
Translations:
Chinaman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Chinese Pidgin English. Calque of Chinese 中國人 /中国人 (Zhōngguórén) ("China + -man"). Applied also to ships by analogy with East Indiaman.
Base: China
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: Chinamen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent.
pos: noun
tags: dated
offensive
examples: A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.[…]Any white man can swear a Chinaman’s life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man.
Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman.[…]If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all other men, the citizens of San Francisco would have sacked and burned Chinatown.
On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.
"It is my fly-trap!" shrieked the Chinaman. "And I am the god of destruction!"
The carts rattle by, swinging from side to side; two Chinamen lollop along under their wooden yokes with the straining vegetable baskets—their pigtails and blue blouses fly out in the wind.
What future is there being a Chinaman? You're born, eat your way through a handful of rice, and you die. What a country! Let's have a drink.
1941, George Ade, Stories of the Streets and of the Town: From the Chicago Record 1893 - 1900, reprinted as 2003, Stories of Chicago, page 163,
In Clark Street, where all the nations of the earth dwell together in harmony, one has but to go downstairs to find a Chinaman. And when found he is washing.
America it's them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
Diner Employee: How long you been standing there, you freak?
Diner Customer: What are you, a Chinaman?
Xavier (Vernon Chatman): I wish I knew myself.
Diner Employee: We don't cotton to strange Chinamen with no sense of self who stand secretly by for indeterminate amounts of time. Gonna put you in a world of hurt.
gloss: A sailing ship of the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the Old China Trade
pos: noun
gloss: Addiction from a narcotic, especially heroin.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
offensive
slang
examples: Chinaman half in and half out of the door. Codeine and goof balls, and complete discouragement.
Translations:
Chow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Cantonese 周 (zau¹).
Inflected forms:
form: Chows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Chow Chow (Chinese breed of dog).
pos: noun
examples: Colin was a Chow; an interesting Chinese breed that looks a bit like a Pomeranian on steroids[.]
Translations:
Chuck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Chucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoe.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural-normally
examples: Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent / Gotta kiss myself, I'm so pretty
Translations:
Cl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A cluster.
pos: noun
gloss: A cluster of galaxies — a galaxy cluster.
pos: noun
gloss: A cluster of stars — a star cluster.
pos: noun
gloss: close (in street addresses)
pos: noun
examples: 33 Chestnut Cl, Anytown
Derived words: Cl*
ClG
SC
Translations:
Clear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An idea state of beingness free of unwanted influences.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Coke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of Coca-Cola. See coke (“cola”).
Inflected forms:
form: Cokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Cola-based soft drink; (in particular) Coca-Cola.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A bottle, glass or can of Coca-Cola or a cola-based soft drink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.
'You have a coke and I'll have a beer and we can talk business.'
gloss: Any soft drink, regardless of type.
pos: noun
tags: Southern-US
US
countable
especially
informal
uncountable
Synonyms: the list at soda
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: كُولَا
roman: kulā
lang: Armenian
word: կոլա
roman: kola
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 可樂 /可乐
roman: kělè
lang: Cornish
word: kok
lang: Czech
word: kola
lang: Danish
word: cola
lang: Dutch
word: cola
lang: Estonian
word: koka
lang: Finnish
word: kokis
lang: French
word: coca
lang: German
word: Cola
lang: German
word: Coca-Cola
lang: Hungarian
word: kóla
lang: Italian
word: Coca
lang: Marathi
word: कोक
roman: kok
lang: Portuguese
word: coca
lang: Russian
word: ко́ла
roman: kóla
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: còc
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: кола
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kola
lang: Spanish
word: coca
lang: Spanish
word: coke
lang: Spanish
word: Coca-Cola
lang: Swedish
word: cola
lang: Swedish
word: coca
lang: Swedish
word: cokis
lang: Thai
word: โค้ก
roman: kóok
lang: Ukrainian
word: ко́ла
roman: kóla
lang: Vietnamese
word: coca
lang: Welsh
word: côc
lang: Yoruba
word: kóòkì
Communism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ideology of political parties that use the term Communist in their names, usually Marxist and Leninist.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The socio-economic system based on such parties' ideologies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A state of affairs perceived as oppressive, overly arbitrary, or totalitarian.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
uncountable
examples: ...he shouldn't...just...[say]..."I -- I am responsible for prosperity,"...that's Communism, Sir, you see.
Although her elder daughter, Jane, complains, “that's Communism,” Mrs. Hilton rents her own bedroom to a retired colonel.
...[he] condemned Thurmond's proposal for its “totalitarianism”: “That's Communism....That's China. That's not America.
Translations:
Congress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From congress.
Inflected forms:
form: Congresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A two-year session of the Congress, commencing after a Federal election and ending before the next one.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Two regular sessions of our federal legislative body are called a Congress, and Congresses have been numbered consecutively since the first one met in 1789. The first two sessions were called the first Congress; […]
Translations:
Cousin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From cousin, in reference to an incident when a fan of the character Nick Knight, Sharon Scott, admitted that she had a fear of frogs and after two other members of the mailing list who were fans of Lucien LaCroix sent her chocolate frogs in the mail, replied that the two were so cruel that they must be cousins.
Inflected forms:
form: Cousins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the character Lucien LaCroix from the Canadian television series Forever Knight.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: > Am I the only one in the world who's actually *rooting* for Nick
> to bite somebody, lose all his humanity points, and start back at square
> one? […]
No, you're not the only one. Sounds to me like you're a Cousin.
of course, even a Cousin comme moi has to admit that GWD [Geraint Wyn Davies] can do the wicked hot vampire thing too, when given the opportunity...
Oh man, now I'm just ranting, but hey, this is my computer, my internet (my phone line ;) and on top of all that, I am a COUSIN so I will rant a LITTLE about how one of my favorite vampires (next to Uncle, of course ;) meets my favorite British author :))))
Translations:
Cree
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a phonetic rendering of Canadian French Cris, short for Christinaux, from either Algonquin Kirishtinó, or Cree Kenisteniwuik.
Inflected forms:
form: Crees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Cree
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of this people.
pos: noun
Translations:
Creek
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * As an English surname, from Creake in Norfolk, a variant of the noun crag (“steep rugged cliff”).
* Also as an English surname, from the archaic noun cratch (“crib, manger”).
* As a German surname, Americanized from Krieg (“war, warfare”), Krück, Kruck (see Krug (“jug”) and Krücke (“crutch”)), Krick.
* As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Kreek (from the noun kreek (“creek”), see creek) and Kriek (from kriek (“cherry”)).
* The Native American tribe name is likely shortened from Ocheese Creek (the Hitchiti name for the body of water known today as the Ocmulgee River).
Inflected forms:
form: Creeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Creek
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States, also known as the Muscogee.
pos: noun
examples: Revis, who moved to Macon two-and-a half years ago to work on the park effort, noted that after the Muscogee (Creek) were removed to Oklahoma, the site became a slave plantation.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Creek tribe.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The chieftain was well versed in Creek history.
Translations:
Creole
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Portuguese crioulobor.
Spanish criollo
French créolebor.
English Creole
Variously from French créole, from its source, Spanish criollo, and from its source, Portuguese crioulo, itself probably a diminutive of cria (“person raised in one’s house, servant”), from criar (“to rear, to bring up”), from Latin creō (“to create, make, produce”). Doublet of Criollo, Crioulo, and Krio.
Inflected forms:
form: Creoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Creole
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Creole
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country.
pos: noun
examples: Within the Spanish society, a great difference evolved between the Insular Spaniards, sent over for different periods of time from Spain, to serve as officials, etc., and the "native" Spaniards, the Creoles.
gloss: Anyone with mixed ancestry born in a country colonized by Europeans, now especially one who speaks a creole language.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone of African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant).
pos: noun
gloss: A native-born of Francophone descent in the Louisiana territory of any race, as opposed to Anglo-American settlers.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to or characteristic of someone who is a Creole.
pos: adj
gloss: That is a Creole; especially, born in a colonized country different from that of his or her ancestors.
pos: adj
gloss: Designating a creolized language.
pos: adj
gloss: Prepared according to a cooking style developed in a Creole area, now especially that of Louisiana, characterised by a mixture of European and African influences.
pos: adj
Translations:
Crow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French gens de corbeaux, calque of Dakota apsáaloke (“crow people”). Compare Crow Apsáalooke.
Inflected forms:
form: Crows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Crow
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Native American tribe of southern Montana.
pos: noun
Translations:
Crusade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Capitalised by Mills, The History of the Crusades (1820) when referring to a specific campaign ("The third and fourth Crusades" p. 95) but not when
referring to the general concept ("the clergy successfully preached the crusade through all the German state" p. 87). More at crusade.
Inflected forms:
form: Crusades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a series of religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims and Jews who inhabited it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
Cub
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: Cubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Cub Scouts.
pos: noun
gloss: A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".
pos: noun
examples: Jones became a Cub as the result of a pre-season trade.
Translations:
Cynic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First used in English around 1540–50. From Latin Cynicus (cynic philosopher), from Ancient Greek Κυνικός (Kunikós, from κύων (kúōn, “dog”, see Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ) + -ικός (-ikós), literally “doglike, currish”). The word may have first been applied to Cynics because of the nickname κύων (kúōn, “dog”) given to Diogenes of Sinope, the prototypical Cynic.
Base: κύων
Affixes: -ικός
Inflected forms:
form: Cynics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to the Cynics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Cynical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Cynic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English Cynical
From Cynic + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Cynics, a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Dada
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French dada (literally “hobby horse”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Ironically enough, it was the anti-war stirrings of Dada that bore out its most immediate influence, first in Switzerland and then post-war Berlin.
Translations:
Dai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 傣 (Dǎi), borrowed from a Tai language. Doublet of Tai and Thai. Compare Thai ไท (tai).
Inflected forms:
form: Dais
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Dai
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic group of China, one of the 55 officially recognized minorities.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the ethnic group.
pos: noun
Translations:
Daisy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low.
Inflected forms:
form: Daisies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Girl Scout at the initial introductory level.
pos: noun
Translations:
Damask
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Damask
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Damask
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or originating at, the city of Damascus.
pos: adj
Translations:
Dame
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Dames
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The titular prefix given to a female knight
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
Deadhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From (Grateful) Dead + -head.
Base: (Grateful) Dead
Affixes: -head
Inflected forms:
form: Deadheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Dead head
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: deadhead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the rock band Grateful Dead.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Out on the road today / I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
Translations:
Delft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Delft. Piecewise doublet of delved.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Blue and white earthenware produced in Delft, Netherlands.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Here and there was an Italian cabinet surmounted with Delft, and here and there a bas-relief.
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
Translations:
Delta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The Delta variant of COVID-19.
pos: noun
examples: Delta is moderately resistant to vaccines, particularly in people who have received just a single dose.
Translations:
Democrat
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: See democrat.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or belonging to the Democratic Party in the United States.
pos: adj
tags: US
derogatory
not-comparable
often
proscribed
Translations:
Dexter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of Dyster.
Inflected forms:
form: Dexters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Dyster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of a breed of small hardy cattle originating from the Kerry breed of Ireland, valuable for beef and milk. They are usually chiefly black, sometimes red, and somewhat resemble a small shorthorn in build.
pos: noun
Translations:
Diablo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish diablobor.
English Diablo
Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”).
Inflected forms:
form: Diablos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sports car made by the Italian manufacturer Lamborghini.
pos: noun
gloss: A Diablo wind.
pos: noun
examples: […]a Diablo Wind. A Diablo was responsible for the great Oakland-Berkeley fire of 1991. Earlier in this century Mill Valley in Marin County and Berkeley lost whole neighborhoods to northeaster fires. The winds are short in duration […]
[…]a Diablo wind drove flames through the Berkeley Hills and into the campus of the University of California. Some 3,100 acres and 584 houses burned. Ten years later a Diablo-driven fire scorched a thousand acres and five homes. In 1946[…]
Translations:
Dingle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Irish An Daingean, Daingean Uí Chúi (“fort of Ó Cúis”), from daingean (“fortress”).
Inflected forms:
form: Dingles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone from Barnsley
pos: noun
tags: Sheffield
Translations:
Doc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From doctor by shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: Docs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Doc Marten shoe or boot.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
slang
examples: Nice pair of Docs you've got on there, bro!
Translations:
Doctor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Doctors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name.
pos: noun
examples: The students asked to see Doctor Jones.
Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure.
Well, Doctor, what do you think? Will he live?
They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.
Translations:
Dom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese dom, and its source, Latin dominus.
Inflected forms:
form: Doms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A title given to royalty and high-ranking ecclesiastics in Portugal and Brazil.
pos: noun
gloss: A title given to Roman Catholic monastic dignitaries.
pos: noun
Translations:
Dorcas
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δορκάς (dorkás, “gazelle”), translation of Tabitha in the Bible.
Inflected forms:
form: Dorcasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Dorcases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Dorcasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Dorcases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Dorcassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Dorcasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Dorcassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Dorcassed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Dorcased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Dorcased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Dorcas association.
pos: noun
examples: Secondly, When a person not only hath grace, but also is beneficial, usefull, doth much good in his time, is diffusive of holinesse, full of good works, serves his generation, and hath done his work before he fals asleep, hath his Dorcasses coats to be seen after his death; it is only our doing good that makes us called good;
I have beheld, O Dorcasses! with admiration and gratitude , the coats and garments, the lint and bandages which you have made.
yea, of women, not a few, who following in the train of those who “ministered to Christ,” were good Dorcasses, and “succourers of many."
I fear least thro the medium of the papers he shᵈ hear of it before the Dorcasses of his congregation shall receive the certificate to present in due form, in this case be pleased to apologize to the ladies for my indiscretion.
gloss: To do the work of a Dorcas; to make and distribute clothes to the poor.
pos: verb
examples: They had been pouring tea and passing wafers when they should have been Dorcassing at their Christmas tasks.
It was by good works of this kind — not by doles , “Dorcassing,” and such-like — that Ossett gained and deserved the title of a “Charitable Man.”
Peter and Paul knew what they were about when they kept the women Dorcassing and such like.
Translations:
Duke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Dukes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The title of a duke.
pos: noun
examples: Percy’s military career began in France under Dukes Henry and John of Lancaster; […]
Translations:
Eagle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun eagle.
* As an English surname of Norman origin, from L'Aigle in Orne, first attested in 1055 and from Latin aquila, itself meaning "eagle."
* Also translated from names in other languages meaning "eagle," such as German Adler, Polish Orzeł, Orzel, Slovene Orel, Lakota waŋbli (compare Eagleman, Redeagle, Whiteeagle).
* The name of the English village is believed to be from Old English āc (“oak”) + lēah: compare with Acle.
Inflected forms:
form: Eagles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Eagle Scout.
pos: noun
gloss: An advancement to the Eagle Scout rank.
pos: noun
examples: When will Roderick get his Eagle?
Translations:
Earl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earl (“nobleman”).
Inflected forms:
form: Earls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The title of an earl.
pos: noun
examples: And therefore the Bishop and clergy of Man were totally powerless to resist the alteration of doctrinal articles and rites of worship which Earls Edward and Henry, between 1521 and 1594, following the edicts of Henry VIII., Edward VI., and Elizabeth, introduced into the Isle of Man.
Translations:
Egyptology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Egypto-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English Egyptology
From Egypto- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: Egyptologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ægyptology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: egyptology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: The study of ancient Egypt.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A work concerning ancient Egypt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: Egyptologist
Egyptological
Translations:
Elector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Electors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: elector
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: In one of the conflicts, the [Holy Roman] emperor himſelf was put to flight, and very near being made priſoner by the elector of Saxony.
[T]he seven Imperial electors who chose the [Holy Roman] emperor controlled him by the pledges exacted from him as the price of his election. These electors were the king of Bohemia, the rulers of Saxony, Brandenburg, and the Palatinate, and the "spiritual electors"—the archbishops of Cologne, Trier, and Mainz.
Hanover, seat of the electors, was an attractive small town set on the River Leine. [...] The electoral court was in residence at Herrenhausen only between May and October, so that by the beginning of November 1709 the only activity was in one of the private wings where Caroline of Ansbach, wife of the elector’s heir, had chosen to give birth to her second child.
Translations:
Elephantine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἐλεφαντίνη (Elephantínē).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Elk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Elks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, an American fraternal order.
pos: noun
Translations:
End
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Ends
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line.
pos: noun
Antonyms: Home
Translations:
Enter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Enters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The "Enter" key on a computer keyboard.
pos: noun
gloss: A stroke of the Enter key.
pos: noun
Translations:
Epiphany
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁epi
See epiphany.
Inflected forms:
form: Epiphanies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manifestation of the divinity of Jesus Christ, especially to the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12), but also at his baptism and the Wedding at Cana.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That was also the reason why the Feast of the Epiphany, commemorating the three epiphanies of Christ's divinity, His Baptism, the Miracle of Cana, and the Visit of the Magi, was one of the most favorite feasts in the Eastern Church[…]
gloss: An annual Christian feast celebrating these events, usually on January 6, the twelfth day after Christmas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On the Festival of the Epiphany, and on the six Sundays called after its name, we have distinct pictures held up to our view connected with the life of Jesus of Nazareth[…]
That was also the reason why the Feast of the Epiphany, commemorating the three epiphanies of Christ's divinity, His Baptism, the Miracle of Cana, and the Visit of the Magi, was one of the most favorite feasts in the Eastern Church[…]
The Epiphany, also known as the Feast of the Three Kings, Feast of Lights and Little Christmas, is known to have been observed earlier than 194 A.D.[…]
gloss: The day of the celebration, January 6, or sometimes (in Western Christianity), the Sunday between January 2 and 8.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The season or time of the Christian church year, either from the Epiphany feast day to Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent), or from the Epiphany feast day to the feast of Candlemas (marking the presentation of Jesus Christ in the Temple in Jerusalem).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: an experience of sudden and striking insight
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Episcopal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See episcopal.
Inflected forms:
form: more Episcopal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Episcopal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Anglicanism or an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Jane Doe was ordained as an Episcopal priest last year in the Diocese of Edinburgh.
The cathedral is part of the Episcopal Church, the American branch of Anglicanism. Considered the "church of the establishment" for much of American history -- 11 US presidents have been Episcopalian -- the church of late has been known as a forerunner of progressive theology.
Translations:
Ether
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
Etymology: From Ethereum.
Inflected forms:
form: Ether
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ether
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A unit of the Ethereum digital currency, ETH.
pos: noun
examples: After more than 30 bids, the auction ended at 12:32 p.m. Eastern time, with a winning bid of 350 Ether, or about $560,000.
Translations:
Evangelist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
form: Evangelists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), (also evangelist.)
pos: noun
Translations:
Even
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian эве́н (evén), from Even эвэн (əwən). Compare Evenki.
Inflected forms:
form: Evens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic Even: a member of an indigenous people living in Siberia and the Russian Far East.
pos: noun
Translations: