yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
altruist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos
Proto-Italic *aljos
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *aliteros
Latin alterī
Vulgar Latin *alterui
Old French autrui
French autrui
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French altruismebor.
English altruism
▲
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 altruist
See altruism.
Inflected forms:
form: altruists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person showing altruism.
pos: noun
examples: This event couldn't have been possible without the efforts of the altruists who helped in their spare time.
Antonyms: egoist
Translations:
philanthropic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French philanthropique.
Inflected forms:
form: more philanthropic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most philanthropic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind
pos: adj
examples: a philanthropic enterprise
At the same time, politics started spilling over into the philanthropic initiative.
Antonyms: misanthropic
nasty
mean
hateful
Translations:
misanthropic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English misanthrope
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English misanthropic
From misanthrope + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more misanthropic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most misanthropic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a negative view of mankind. This may express itself as, e.g., distrust, dislike, hate, or contempt.
pos: adj
examples: [C]hildren, ſervants, are falſe, fraudful, foul, if the miſanthropic man, who is father and maſter, lets fall among them, in his outbreaks of paſſion, his opinion that they are ſo.
The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.
Translations:
misanthropy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μισανθρωπία (misanthrōpía), from μισάνθρωπος (misánthrōpos), from μῖσος (mîsos, “hatred”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”). The word is analysable as miso- + -anthropy.
Affixes: miso-
-anthropy
Inflected forms:
form: misanthropies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A negative view or hatred of the human race.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, Author's Preface
Hence gloom and misanthropy have become the characteristics of the age in which we live, the solace of a disappointment that unconsciously finds relief only in the wilful exaggeration of its own despair.
According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
Translations:
philanthropically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English philanthropic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English philanthropically
From philanthropic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more philanthropically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most philanthropically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a philanthropic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
altruistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos
Proto-Italic *aljos
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *aliteros
Latin alterī
Vulgar Latin *alterui
Old French autrui
French autrui
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French altruismebor.
English altruism
▲
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 altruist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English altruistic
From altruist + -ic. See altruism.
Inflected forms:
form: more altruistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most altruistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish
pos: adj
examples: His helping the old woman with her shopping was deemed highly altruistic by everyone, especially since her home was a mile away.
Translations:
altruistically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos
Proto-Italic *aljos
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *aliteros
Latin alterī
Vulgar Latin *alterui
Old French autrui
French autrui
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French altruismebor.
English altruism
▲
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 altruist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English altruistic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English altruistically
From altruistic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more altruistically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most altruistically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an altruistic manner; in a manner having regard of others
pos: adv
Antonyms: misanthropically
egoistically
selfishly
Translations:
egoistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English egoist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English egoistic
From egoist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more egoistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most egoistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: egoïstic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Egoistical.
pos: adj
Antonyms: altruistic
philanthropic
Translations:
selfishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English selfish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English selfishly
From selfish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more selfishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most selfishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
pos: adv
examples: What emerges is a softly supernatural story about a futurist who behaved as selfishly as any retrograde male genius.
Antonyms: unselfishly
Translations:
surreptitiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English surreptitious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English surreptitiously
From surreptitious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more surreptitiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most surreptitiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a surreptitious manner; stealthily, furtively, secretly.
pos: adv
examples: Hiro and Chuck grab the closest thing they can find to a corner table. Hiro buttonholes a waiter and surreptitiously orders a pitcher of Pub Special, mixed half and half with nonalcoholic beer.
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
While Brown distracted the usually hyperfocused Mangini, safety Kerry Rhodes and linebackers Eric Barton and Jonathan Vilma grabbed a cooler of Gatorade and surreptitiously assumed their positions according to plan.
Translations:
mediocre
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the late Middle English medioker, from the French médiocre, from the Middle French médiocre, from the Classical Latin mediocris (“in a middle state”, “of middle size”, “middling”, “moderate”, “ordinary”, from medius (“middle”) + ocris (“rugged mountain”)); compare mediocrely and mediocrity.
Base: medius
Inflected forms:
form: more mediocre
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mediocre
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mediocer
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: médiocre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: mediocres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mediocer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: médiocre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Not excellent or outstanding, usually disappointingly so.
pos: adj
examples: I'm pretty good at tennis but only mediocre at racquetball.
The standard ranges from runs that are almost sensational in the speed and brilliance of the work to the ultra-mediocre.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
“Look at this festive assembly. All of us, gathered here together, chuckling at jokes and silliness.” [laughter] “And jackanapery.” [rim shots] “I guess there's only one thing left to say. What is this shit?” [rim shot] [laughter] “[laughs] Very good.” “You call yourselves vampires? Bah. This entire evening has been nothing but a pageant of insipid nonsense.” “[laughing] Yes.” “Worshipping at the altar of your own mediocre frivolity. A jester's hollow dance. And who is laughing?” “Yeah! [whoops] [grunts]” “Vampires are supposed to have blood orgies and slaughter circles. Gah! You have all gone soft. You even invited humans to this asinine affair.”
gloss: A person of minor significance, accomplishment or acclaim; a common and undistinguished person.
pos: noun
examples: Of the hundreds of inferior poets, who are continually offering their sonnets and addresses to the Moon, (or to the public instead of that luminary,) Wade, Barton, Wiffen, and Bailey, are the most conspicuous. Wade is a new aspirant, but gives strong prognostications of genius. Barton and Bailey are above the mediocres, and Wiffen tolerable.
After this lecture, how do the mediocres feel? They probably feel indifferent or mad. Perhaps they were not even paying attention. The question is, are they more likely to be in the hallway tomorrow? Probably not.
gloss: A member of a socioeconomic class between the upper ranks of society and the agricultural workers.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Antonyms: A-grade
awesome
bad
excellent
good
grade-A
satisfactory
wonderful
Translations:
egoism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From French égoïsme, from New Latin egoismus, from Latin ego. By surface analysis, ego + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: egoisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: egoïsm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: egomism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The belief that moral behavior should be directed toward one's self-interest only.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Egotism (tendency to talk excessively about oneself).
pos: noun
tags: countable
nonstandard
uncountable
Related words: egoist
egoistic
egoistical
ethnocentrism
misanthropy
narcissism
Derived words: ethical egoism
panegoism
rational egoism
Translations:
shun
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English schonen (“to decline to do, avoid, fear”), from Old English sċunian (“to shun, fear, avoid”), of uncertain origin, though probably ultimately connected to the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kewH- (“to cover, conceal”) via Proto-Germanic [Term?]; see that entry for more discussion.
Compare hide, shy, and Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “to cover”).
Inflected forms:
form: shuns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shunning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shunned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shunned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Acrophobes shun mountaineering.
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
gloss: To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'll shun meeting them for as long as possible.
gloss: To screen, hide.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To shove, push.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: scunner
shunless
shunnable
shunner
shunpike
shunpiker
shunworthy
unshunned
Translations:
yarn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English yarne, ȝern, yarn, from the Old English ġearn (“yarn, spun wool”), from Proto-West Germanic *garn, from Proto-Germanic *garną (“yarn”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰorn-, *ǵʰerH- (“tharm, guts, intestines”).
Cognates
Akin to West Frisian jern, Dutch garen (“yarn”), German Garn (“yarn”), Danish garn, Swedish garn (“yarn, thread”), Icelandic garn (“yarn”), Latin hernia (“rupture”), Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string”), Sanskrit हिर (hira, “band”). Compare also the obsolete doublet garn.
Inflected forms:
form: yarns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yarns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yarning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yarned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yarned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A twisted strand of fibre used for knitting or weaving.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Bundles of fibres twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: spin a yarn
I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
"I'm hanged if I know how you've got the immortal rind to come at me with a yarn like this."
Statistically, this person is also likely to be male and well off, but more essentially this person wants to be educated, to be obsessed, wants more than just a good yarn.
gloss: To tell a story or stories, especially one that is lengthy or unlikely to be true.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "He yarns good," said Tom Platt. "T'other night he told us abaout a kid of his own size steerin' a cunnin' little rig an' four ponies up an' down Toledo, Ohio, I think 'twas, an' givin' suppers to a crowd o' sim'lar kids. Cur'us kind o' fairy-tale, but blame interestin'. He knows scores of 'em."
1935, Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains (U.S. title: The Last of Mr Norris), Chapter Thirteen, in The Berlin Stories, New York: New Directions, 1963, p. 152,
“Well, well!” exclaimed Mr. van Hoorn. “Here are the boys! As hungry as hunters, I’ll be bound! And we two old fogies have been wasting the whole afternoon yarning away indoors. My goodness, is it as late as that? I say, I want my tea!”
They had stayed in some little pension and had gone for little, bored walks while the colonel went out in the boats with the fisherman, or sat yarning with them in the café.
Related words: hank
twine
thread
Derived words: bay yarn
eyelash yarn
galley yarn
rogue's yarn
rope yarn
Saxony yarn
sock yarn
spin a yarn
yarn-beam
yarn bomb
yarn bomber
yarn bombing
yarnover
yarn-spinner
yarnwindle
Translations:
blueprint
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From blue + print. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.
Compound parts: blue
print
Inflected forms:
form: blueprints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blue print
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blue-print
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blueprints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blueprinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blueprinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blueprinted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blue print
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: blue-print
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
pos: noun
gloss: A print produced with this process.
pos: noun
gloss: A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
examples: Ain't got no blueprint, just a purpose and a wrecking ball!
This demonstrated serious intent, and the result is a report that should be a blueprint for subsequent assessments when road schemes are being put forward.
As a member of Black Sabbath, he helped draft the blueprints for heavy metal, but in conversation, he was always humble about his contributions to music.
gloss: To make a blueprint for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.
gloss: To make a detailed operational plan for; to design or plan out.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.
Synonyms: road map
schematic
action plan
layout
Derived words: blueprintable
Translations:
biochemical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin chēmicus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English chemical
English biochemical
From bio- + chemical.
Inflected forms:
form: biochemicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to biochemistry
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: characterized by, produced by, or involving chemical processes in living organisms
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In view of this biochemical diversity, the possibilities of interspecies hybridization in this genus are very interesting and worthy of attention.
gloss: A chemical substance derived from a biological source.
pos: noun
examples: Dr. Gwaltney sent nasal secretions from 40 volunteers with colds to Dr. Proud and Dr. Naclerio, who tested the secretions for the presence of these biochemicals.
Derived words: abiochemical
autobiochemical
biochemically
biochemical oxygen demand
biochemical pregnancy
clinicobiochemical
electrobiochemical
geobiochemical
glycobiochemical
hematobiochemical
immunobiochemical
mechanobiochemical
microbiochemical
neurobiochemical
nonbiochemical
pathobiochemical
photobiochemical
Translations:
socialize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sociālisbor.
Middle French socialbor.
English social
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English socialize
From social + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: socializes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: socializing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: socialized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: socialized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: socialise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To interact with others, especially personally, informally and off the clock rather than formally and officially.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: hoping to socialize a bit at the company holiday party
When socializing it's important that you never talk business unless they bring it up. If you do, you'll find out quickly that you're no longer invited to any of the really good reindeer games. Rather, be a good listener.
The UU is a great place to be on campus to socialize but when business needs to be taken care of the five story library is the place to be!
Mr. Bach is an architect who, with his wife and professional partner, Anna Bach, regularly socializes with Ms. Aguirre and Mr. Ferrer.
gloss: To instruct (somebody), usually subconsciously and mostly by example, in the etiquette of a society.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: depending on how children are socialized regarding racial and ethnic biases
That is, by way of this initial imprinting the young animal becomes a socialized member of its species. Animals misimprinted to other species show a variety of abnormal social behaviors as adults.
gloss: To take something into collective or governmental ownership.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: nationalize
fears about potential attempts to socialize medicine
Derived words: desocialize
dissocialize
missocialize
oversocialize
resocialize
socializable
socialization
socializee
socializer
unsocialized
Translations:
warfare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From war + fare; perhaps a shortening of Middle English werre-faringe, werfarynge (“waging war, warfare”, literally “going to war”).
Compound parts: war
fare
Inflected forms:
form: warfares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: warfares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: warfaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: warfared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: warfared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel.
gloss: Military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
pos: verb
Related words: war
Derived words: antiwarfare
asymmetrical warfare
asymmetric warfare
attrition warfare
biological warfare
chemical warfare
class warfare
cognitive warfare
conventional warfare
cyberwarfare
economic warfare
electronic warfare
e-warfare
germ warfare
guerrilla warfare
hybrid warfare
information warfare
irregular warfare
lawfare
memetic warfare
nuclear warfare
open warfare
psychological warfare
siege warfare
spiritual warfare
trench warfare
urban warfare
warfarer
warfare state
Translations:
islander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From island + -er. Displaced Middle English insulane (“islander”), from Latin īnsulānus (“islander”).
Base: island
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: islanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who lives on an island.
pos: noun
examples: Susan happily introducing speaker Steve Smith, Channel Eleven’s newzanchor, ya’know, and an islandophile from wayyy back – and as of this writing, a newly retired islander and fisherman.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.
Translations:
isle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ile, yle (with s added, similar to English island), borrowed from Old French ille, idle, isle, from Latin insula. Not related to island. Doublet of insula.
Inflected forms:
form: isles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An island, usually very small. Compare with islet.
pos: noun
Translations:
bobo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of bourgeois + bohemian, popularized by American journalist, commentator and editor David Brooks to describe the 1990s equivalent of the yuppie.
Compound parts: bourgeois
bohemian
Inflected forms:
form: bobos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A materialistic person who affects an anti-materialistic persona.
pos: noun
examples: The small things—an olive grove or a small chapel—take on greater meaning to a Bobo on vacation.
Peruse the Paris papers these days and you'll notice an obsession with bobos: no, they're not a team of cheerleaders or a troupe of clowns, but rich, artsy types known as bourgeois bohemians, who are now pretty much the tip of Parisian tastemakers. So when friends who were recently staying in Saint Germain des Pres asked me where to go to people watch, I told them to head for the Ninth Arrondissement citadel of bobo cool. […] The food’s better than might be expected at such a furiously fashionable address, and for an amusing eyeful of Parisian bobos in all of their splendor, this place can’t be beat.
gloss: A self-styled bodyguard or groupie of the nouveau riche (such as a professional athlete or musician).
pos: noun
gloss: An imitation of something, particularly a well known product, usually lower in quality than the original.
pos: noun
Translations:
sickle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.
Inflected forms:
form: sickles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sickles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sickling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sickled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sickled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: scythe
Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks
VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come,
Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes,
But beares it out euen to the edge of doome:
If this be error and vpon me proued,
I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued.
Oft did the harveſt to their ſickle yield,
Their furrow oft the ſtubborn glebe has broke;
How jocund did they drive their team afield!
How bow’d the woods beneath their ſturdy ſtroke!
gloss: Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
pos: noun
gloss: Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: Then, ere the silver sickle of that month
Became her golden shield, I stole from court
With Cyril and with Florian, unperceived.
gloss: To cut with a sickle.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: reap, mow
gloss: Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Even the cells of heterozygotes will sickle if the oxygen tension is low enough.
gloss: To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: chain sickle
chicken sickle
hammer and sickle
moonsickle
sickle and hammer
sicklebill
sickle-billed vanga
sicklebush
sickle cell
sickle-cell anemia
sicklelike
sickleman
sicklemia
sickle moon
sicklepod
sickleweed
sicklewise
unsickle
sickler
Translations:
permission
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Equivalent to permit + -ion. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).
Base: permit
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: permissions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: permistion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: permixtion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: permissions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: permissioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: permissioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: permissioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: permistion
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: permixtion
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
gloss: The act of permitting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.
gloss: To grant or obtain authorization for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.
Synonyms: allowance
authority
authorization
clearance
consent
leave
license
mandate
permission
permit
warrant
Antonyms: prohibition
sanction
Related words: permit
carte blanche
concession
jurisdiction
privilege
approval
assent
Derived words: it's better to ask forgiveness than permission
it's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission
nonpermission
permissible
permissioning
permissionless
permission slip
permission structure
permissive
planning permission
Translations:
Balinese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Bali
English -n-
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Balinese
From Bali + -n- + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: Balinese
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Bali, its inhabitants, or their language or culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A car is taking us to a traditional Balinese dance at a nearby temple. It is on a cliff top with scenic views of the Indian Ocean and sheathed in what the internet calls a “peaceful ambience.”
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Bali.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: A long-haired breed of domestic cat with Siamese-style point coloration and sapphire-blue eyes.
pos: noun
Translations:
opprobrium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁epi
Learned borrowing from Latin opprobrium, obprobrium (“a reproach, a taunt; disgrace, shame; dishonour; scandal”, noun), from opprobrō, obprobrō (“to reproach, upbraid; to taunt”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). Opprobrō, obprobrō are derived from ob- (prefix meaning ‘towards’) + probrum (“disgrace, shame; abuse, insult”, noun) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pro- (“forward; toward”) + *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”), in the sense of something brought up to reproach a person).
The plural form opprobria is borrowed from Latin opprobria.
Cognates
* French opprobre
* Italian obbrobrio
* Portuguese ouprobio (obsolete), opróbrio
* Spanish oprobrio (obsolete), oprobio
Inflected forms:
form: opprobriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: opprobria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cause, object, or situation of disgrace or shame.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: As there are certain malignant diseases which have been denominated the opprobria of medicine, so there are particular maladies of our social condition, which may be considered the opprobria of legislation. Amongst the most inveterate of these are the poor laws.
It was not that he was in danger of legal punishment or of beggary: he was in danger only of seeing disclosed to the judgment of his neighbours and the mournful perception of his wife certain facts of his past life which would render him an object of scorn and an opprobrium of the religion with which he had diligently associated himself.
Twelve years have now elapsed since the first assassinations which proved the existence of a criminal organization in our midst. From that day these outrages have never ceased, until now they have reached a pitch which makes us the opprobrium of the civilized world.
gloss: Disgrace or bad reputation arising from exceedingly shameful behaviour; ignominy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let me add that it is the great deſideratum, by which alone this form of government can be reſcued from the opprobrium under which it has ſo long labored, and be recommended to the eſteem and adoption of mankind.
I am content to suffer alone, while my sufferings shall endure: when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory.
Virgin [Atlantic] won't pay a penny in fines and actually emerges as a winner, since all the opprobrium of the rule-breach has been heaped on BA [British Airways].
gloss: Scornful contempt or reproach; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]from that strict rectitude in which I have been accustomed to walk and to view my actions, and which, notwithstanding the unjust opprobrium cast upon me, I find to be an invincible support and shield.
Some Johnny with brains produces a hypothesis. Everybody calls him a rotter at first. But he remains calm in the face of opprobrium.
gloss: Behaviour which is disgraceful or shameful.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Related words: opprobriate
opprobrious
opprobriously
opprobriousness
opprobry
Translations:
instructive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English instruct
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English instructive
From instruct + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more instructive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most instructive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: instructives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
pos: adj
examples: Well, that was an instructive lesson.
Some commentators have suggested that the activity represented by WallStreetBets and Trumpism are part of the same populist, anti-elite phenomenon, but if Trumpism in general is instructive at all here, it’s as a reminder that self-described anti-elite movements can, in fact, turn out to be much more complicated than that.
gloss: A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.
pos: noun
Translations:
itinerant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin itinerantem, present active participle of itineror (“travel”), from itiner-.
By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: more itinerant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most itinerant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: itinerants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Habitually travelling from place to place.
pos: adj
examples: an itinerant preacher or peddler
The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made.
most children in trouble were placed in detention homes, in institutions for the retarded, on wards with psychotic adults, or were left at home to fester there, occasionally seen by an itinerant teacher.
The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry.
gloss: One who travels from place to place.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Translations:
assail
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English assailen, from Old French assaillir, assalir, from Late Latin assalīre, from Latin ad (“at, towards”) + salīre (“jump”). See also assault.
Inflected forms:
form: assails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: assailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: assailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: assailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To attack with harsh words or violent force.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
sometimes
transitive
examples: Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.
Our ears were assailed by her joyous efforts on her new saxophone.
With greedy force he gan the fort assayle, / Whereof he weend possesse soone to bee, / And win rich spoile of ransackt chastitee.
[L]et us once again assail your ears, / That are so fortified against our story, / What we two nights have seen.
"Unhappy woman!" he observed to himself as he walked down the platform of Templecombe station; "for the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story!"
2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, Nairobo: East African Educational Publishers, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 64,
He did not like being in crowds, foul smells galore assailing his nostrils.
gloss: To overcome or successfully argue against; defeat.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: "Yes," he said, half musing to himself, "I knew it must exist: the one explanation that accounts for everything and cannot be assailed. We have reached the bed-rock of truth at last."
We got married immediately after I finished my work […] which should have been the happiest day of my life. […] But, it was not my happiest day. I was assailed by doubts.
Synonyms: barrage
Related words: assault
Derived words: assailable
assailant
assailer
assailment
reassail
unassailability
unassailed
unassailing
Translations:
archive
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρχή (ărkhḗ)
Ancient Greek *ἀρχεῖος (*arkheîos)
Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon)bor.
Latin archīvumbor.
French archives
French archiveder.
English archive
First appears c. 1603 in a translation by Philemon Holland. From French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall”).
Inflected forms:
form: archives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: archives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: archiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: archived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: archived
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
pos: noun
examples: “I don’t know how one could be interested in libraries and not archives,” Lannon told me. They tell you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story.
gloss: The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
pos: noun
examples: His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
gloss: Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
pos: noun
examples: soil archive
peat archive
gloss: To place (something) into an archive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
Derived words: archival
archivation
archive box
archiving
archivism
archivist
archivization
bioarchive
cryoarchive
de-archive
e-archive
national archive
subarchive
unarchive
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: arkisto
lang: Hindi
word: पुरालेख
roman: purālekh
lang: Indonesian
word: pertinggal
blouse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fashion
government
lifestyle
military
politics
war
Etymology: 1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.
More at blee, fold.
Inflected forms:
form: blouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bloused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bloused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
pos: noun
examples: She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.
gloss: A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
pos: noun
gloss: A short garment worn under a sari.
pos: noun
tags: Bangladesh
India
gloss: To hang a garment in loose folds.
pos: verb
gloss: To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
pos: verb
examples: An anonymous black soldier summed up his feelings by declaring, "If I fail to blouse my boots, or [if I] wear an Afro, I get socked. […]"
gloss: The act of hiding contraband, such as drugs or weapons, in one's rectum.
pos: verb
Synonyms: bodice
Antonyms: unblouse
Derived words: big girl's blouse
bloused
blouseless
blouselike
downblouse
girl's blouse
middy blouse
overblouse
peasant blouse
peekaboo blouse
poet blouse
Russian blouse
shirtwaist blouse
underblouse
blousy
deblouse
unblouse
Translations:
concerto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian concerto, deverbal from concertare. Doublet of concert.
Inflected forms:
form: concertos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: concerti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra.
pos: noun
examples: And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
Translations:
solo
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
games
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).
Inflected forms:
form: solos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soli
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: solos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soloes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soloing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soloed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soloed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of music for one performer.
pos: noun
gloss: A job or performance done by one person alone.
pos: noun
gloss: A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
pos: noun
gloss: A single shot of espresso.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of soloing the football.
pos: noun
gloss: Without a companion or instructor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Represented by Olney Gleason gallery, she was the subject of a 2025 solo show at the MSU Broad Art Museum in Michigan and recently unveiled a permanent installation at the Princeton University Art Museum.
gloss: Of, or relating to, a musical solo.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I can appreciate that Macca’s band plays faithful to the source material, never putting too obvious a personal spin on the music. It’s sometimes frustrating, especially when the solo part in “Get Back” is screaming for some impromptu finesse, but it’s mostly fair.
gloss: Alone, without a companion.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Two of us wearing raincoats / Standing solo / In the sun
Wake me up before you go-go / 'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo
The Canadian superstar had been rumoured to be singing a duet with Lady Gaga, but instead went solo on the Eiffel Tower to bring the four-hour event to a stirring climax.
gloss: To perform a solo.
pos: verb
gloss: To perform something in the absence of anyone else.
pos: verb
gloss: To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.
pos: verb
gloss: To independently perform an action, especially a challenging task.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Related words: solitaire
number
Derived words: deep-water solo
fly solo
free solo
free-solo
midsolo
minisolo
nonsolo
soloable
solo album
solo concert
sologamy
soloism
soloist
solo parent
solo poly
solo polyamorous
solo polyamory
solopreneur
soloprov
solo run
solo sex
solosexual
solo whist
Translations:
mitigation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French mitigation, from Latin mitigatio.
Inflected forms:
form: mitigations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Two golden hours, in which the astonishing news of the intended party was revealed to Louisa, with all of its contrivances, expenses, and mitigations, so far as they were elucidated, were given and said to be "done in her honour;"...
One possible drought mitigation strategy for Afghanistan is to divert excess water from water-rich river basins to water-scarce river basins in cases where this is technologically, economically and environmentally feasible.
Much of the arable land acquired by HS2 is being used for mitigation planting, in an attempt to achieve the goal set by HS2 Ltd for Phase 1, which will mean there should be no measurable loss of biodiversity after construction of the line compared with what was there before.
Its [the gantry crane's] noise-mitigation characteristics even include a soft-landing feature to minimise the noise when containers are lowered.
Translations:
metagenome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English genome
English metagenome
From meta- + genome.
Inflected forms:
form: metagenomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: All the genetic material present in an environmental sample, consisting of the genomes of many individual organisms.
pos: noun
Translations: