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18600 | word:
Tucson
word_type:
name
expansion:
Tucson
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Mexican Spanish Tucsón [tukˈson], from the O'odham Cuk Ṣon (literally “[at the base of the] black mountain”) [tʃʊk ʂɔːn], referring to Sentinel Peak (colloquially known as '"A" Mountain') visible in the west of Tucson’... |
18601 | word:
tender
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tender (comparative tenderer, superlative tenderest)
forms:
form:
tenderer
tags:
comparative
form:
tenderest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
tender
etymology_text:
From Middle English tender, tendere, from Anglo-Norman tender, Old French tendre, from... |
18602 | word:
tender
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tender (countable and uncountable, plural tenders)
forms:
form:
tenders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tender
etymology_text:
From Middle English tender, tendere, from Anglo-Norman tender, Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum (“soft, delicate”).
senses_exam... |
18603 | word:
tender
word_type:
adv
expansion:
tender (comparative more tender, superlative most tender)
forms:
form:
more tender
tags:
comparative
form:
most tender
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
tender
etymology_text:
From Middle English tender, tendur, tendir, tendre, from the adjective (see ... |
18604 | word:
tender
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)
forms:
form:
tenders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tendering
tags:
participle
present
form:
te... |
18605 | word:
tender
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tender (plural tenders)
forms:
form:
tenders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tender
etymology_text:
From tend + -er. Compare attender (“one who attends”).
senses_examples:
text:
Half the coal was out of the tender, half the fire out of the box, half the truck... |
18606 | word:
tender
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)
forms:
form:
tenders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tendering
tags:
participle
present
form:
te... |
18607 | word:
tender
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tender (plural tenders)
forms:
form:
tenders
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tender
etymology_text:
From Middle English tendren, from Old French tendre (“stretch out”).
senses_examples:
text:
You offer me the sword of my father, the very man whose bones, becau... |
18608 | word:
tender
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tender (third-person singular simple present tenders, present participle tendering, simple past and past participle tendered)
forms:
form:
tenders
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tendering
tags:
participle
present
form:
te... |
18609 | word:
cuticle
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cuticle (plural cuticles)
forms:
form:
cuticles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cuticle
etymology_text:
From Middle French cuticule, from Latin cuticula (“cuticle, skin”).
senses_examples:
text:
By that time she has pushed back his cuticles, cleaned his nail... |
18610 | word:
gesticulate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
gesticulate (third-person singular simple present gesticulates, present participle gesticulating, simple past and past participle gesticulated)
forms:
form:
gesticulates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
gesticulating
tags:
parti... |
18611 | word:
alterative
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alterative (plural alteratives)
forms:
form:
alteratives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin alterativum, noun use of alterativus.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A medicine or treatment which works by changing pro... |
18612 | word:
alterative
word_type:
adj
expansion:
alterative (comparative more alterative, superlative most alterative)
forms:
form:
more alterative
tags:
comparative
form:
most alterative
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin alterativum, noun use of alterativus.
senses_ex... |
18613 | word:
allotment
word_type:
noun
expansion:
allotment (countable and uncountable, plural allotments)
forms:
form:
allotments
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Old French alotement (modern French allotement).
senses_examples:
text:
You will achieve more in designated sessions of qu... |
18614 | word:
ghostwriter
word_type:
noun
expansion:
ghostwriter (plural ghostwriters)
forms:
form:
ghostwriters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ghost + writer.
senses_examples:
text:
Ghostwriters, typically the faceless forces behind many books by famous non-writers, are now becoming ... |
18615 | word:
cadaver
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cadaver (plural cadavers or cadavera)
forms:
form:
cadavers
tags:
plural
form:
cadavera
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Recorded since c.1500, learned borrowing from Latin cadāver.
senses_examples:
text:
Then my first year of med ... |
18616 | word:
ahead
word_type:
adv
expansion:
ahead (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a- + head. Perhaps originally a nautical term, "beyond the head (of a ship)", then drifting into more general English usage where it is used to describe something as being "in front of".
senses_examples:
te... |
18617 | word:
cotton wool
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cotton wool (usually uncountable, plural cotton wools)
forms:
form:
cotton wools
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
cotton wool
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: wool
text:
Coordinate term: cotton swab
senses_categories:
senses... |
18618 | word:
Alton
word_type:
name
expansion:
Alton
forms:
wikipedia:
Alton
etymology_text:
From Old English ǣwell (“river source”) + tūn (“settlement, town”).
senses_examples:
text:
...because I have learned something about cartoons from Alton Packard. There are two things about Mr... |
18619 | word:
KIA
word_type:
noun
expansion:
KIA (plural KIAs)
forms:
form:
KIAs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who is killed in action.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
18620 | word:
KIA
word_type:
adj
expansion:
KIA (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Initialism of killed in action.
senses_topics:
government
military
politics
war |
18621 | word:
né
word_type:
adj
expansion:
né (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French né < Old French né < Latin nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”). Doublet of nada.
senses_examples:
text:
Sting, né Gordon Sumner
type:
example
text:
It remained in the c... |
18622 | word:
né
word_type:
particle
expansion:
né
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Afrikaans nee.
senses_examples:
text:
so I saw this girl né, and I wanted to talk to her...
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Yeah? not so? hey?
senses_topics:
|
18623 | word:
comparable
word_type:
adj
expansion:
comparable (comparative more comparable, superlative most comparable)
forms:
form:
more comparable
tags:
comparative
form:
most comparable
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English comparable, from Middle French compara... |
18624 | word:
comparable
word_type:
noun
expansion:
comparable (plural comparables)
forms:
form:
comparables
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.
senses_examples:
text:
A... |
18625 | word:
buttermilk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
buttermilk (countable and uncountable, plural buttermilks)
forms:
form:
buttermilks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English butter-melke, equivalent to butter + milk. Compare German Low German Bottermelk (“buttermilk”), German Butter... |
18626 | word:
migratory
word_type:
adj
expansion:
migratory (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
migratory habits; a migratory life
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Migrating.
Roving; wandering; nomadic.
senses_topics:
|
18627 | word:
allusion
word_type:
noun
expansion:
allusion (countable and uncountable, plural allusions)
forms:
form:
allusions
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin allūsiōnem, accusative singular of allūsiō (“the act of playing with”), from allūdō (“play with; allude”), from al-, combining... |
18628 | word:
affluent
word_type:
noun
expansion:
affluent (plural affluents)
forms:
form:
affluents
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towa... |
18629 | word:
affluent
word_type:
adj
expansion:
affluent (comparative more affluent, superlative most affluent)
forms:
form:
more affluent
tags:
comparative
form:
most affluent
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affl... |
18630 | word:
address
word_type:
noun
expansion:
address (plural addresses)
forms:
form:
addresses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
address
etymology_text:
From Middle English adressen (“to raise erect, adorn”), from Old French adrecier (“to straighten, address”) (modern French adresser), from a- (from Latin ad (“... |
18631 | word:
address
word_type:
verb
expansion:
address (third-person singular simple present addresses, present participle addressing, simple past and past participle addressed or (obsolete) addrest)
forms:
form:
addresses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
addressing
tags:
partic... |
18632 | word:
agitate
word_type:
verb
expansion:
agitate (third-person singular simple present agitates, present participle agitating, simple past and past participle agitated)
forms:
form:
agitates
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
agitating
tags:
participle
present
form:
... |
18633 | word:
ambassadorial
word_type:
adj
expansion:
ambassadorial (comparative more ambassadorial, superlative most ambassadorial)
forms:
form:
more ambassadorial
tags:
comparative
form:
most ambassadorial
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From ambassador + -ial.
senses_examples:... |
18634 | word:
deluxe
word_type:
adj
expansion:
deluxe (comparative more deluxe or deluxer, superlative most deluxe or deluxest)
forms:
form:
more deluxe
tags:
comparative
form:
deluxer
tags:
comparative
form:
most deluxe
tags:
superlative
form:
deluxest
tags:
superlative
wi... |
18635 | word:
deluxe
word_type:
noun
expansion:
deluxe (plural deluxes)
forms:
form:
deluxes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French de luxe (“of luxury”), from Latin luxus (“excess”).
senses_examples:
text:
Several of the deluxes are reported to have taken the $500 Victor set ... |
18636 | word:
nos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From no + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of no
senses_topics:
|
18637 | word:
nos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nos
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From no. + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of nos. Abbreviation of numbers.
senses_topics:
|
18638 | word:
nos
word_type:
noun
expansion:
nos (countable and uncountable, plural noses)
forms:
form:
noses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Abbreviation
senses_examples:
text:
Coordinate term: NOx
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Acronym of nitrous oxide system.
Abbreviation of n... |
18639 | word:
Strasburg
word_type:
name
expansion:
Strasburg
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.
ref:
18... |
18640 | word:
tantrum
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tantrum (plural tantrums)
forms:
form:
tantrums
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
tantrum
etymology_text:
From earlier tanterum. Further etymology unknown.
senses_examples:
text:
Many parents become embarrassed by their children throwing tantrums in public plac... |
18641 | word:
tantrum
word_type:
verb
expansion:
tantrum (third-person singular simple present tantrums, present participle tantruming or tantrumming, simple past and past participle tantrumed or tantrummed)
forms:
form:
tantrums
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
tantruming
tags:
p... |
18642 | word:
affection
word_type:
noun
expansion:
affection (countable and uncountable, plural affections)
forms:
form:
affections
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
affection
etymology_text:
From Middle English affection, affeccion, affeccioun, from Old French affection, from Latin affectiōnem, from affectiō; equi... |
18643 | word:
affection
word_type:
verb
expansion:
affection (third-person singular simple present affections, present participle affectioning, simple past and past participle affectioned)
forms:
form:
affections
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
affectioning
tags:
participle
p... |
18644 | word:
marionette
word_type:
noun
expansion:
marionette (plural marionettes)
forms:
form:
marionettes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bagan
yoke thé
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French marionnette. The word originally meant a small statue of the Virgin Mary, then also a puppet of her used in religious t... |
18645 | word:
marionette
word_type:
verb
expansion:
marionette (third-person singular simple present marionettes, present participle marionetting, simple past and past participle marionetted)
forms:
form:
marionettes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
marionetting
tags:
participle
... |
18646 | word:
meerkat
word_type:
noun
expansion:
meerkat (plural meerkats)
forms:
form:
meerkats
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Afrikaans meerkat, transferred use of Dutch meerkat (“guenon [monkey]”), from Middle Dutch meercatte (literally “sea cat”), compare English mercat. Sometimes sugge... |
18647 | word:
isochronal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
isochronal (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + -al.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Having the same duration.
Happening at regular periods; isochronous... |
18648 | word:
hiccup
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hiccup (plural hiccups)
forms:
form:
hiccups
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
hiccup
etymology_text:
From earlier hickop, alteration of earlier hicket, hyckock, from hic (onomatopoeic) + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Akin to Scots hick, hix (“hiccup”), West Frisian hik (... |
18649 | word:
hiccup
word_type:
verb
expansion:
hiccup (third-person singular simple present hiccups, present participle hiccuping or hiccupping, simple past and past participle hiccuped or hiccupped)
forms:
form:
hiccups
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
hiccuping
tags:
participle... |
18650 | word:
alternation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alternation (countable and uncountable, plural alternations)
forms:
form:
alternations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Alternation
etymology_text:
Latin alternatio; compare French alternation.
Morphologically alternate + -ion
senses_examples:
text:
the al... |
18651 | word:
advertising
word_type:
noun
expansion:
advertising (usually uncountable, plural advertisings)
forms:
form:
advertisings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From advertise + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
Advertisings do not by themselves cause a book to 'go'. The circulating librari... |
18652 | word:
advertising
word_type:
verb
expansion:
advertising
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From advertise + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of advertise
senses_topics:
|
18653 | word:
agitation
word_type:
noun
expansion:
agitation (countable and uncountable, plural agitations)
forms:
form:
agitations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
agitation
etymology_text:
From French agitation, from Latin agitātiō (“movement, agitation”).
senses_examples:
text:
During a storm the sea is i... |
18654 | word:
fuss
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fuss (countable and uncountable, plural fusses)
forms:
form:
fusses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Of unknown origin. Perhaps from Danish fjas (“nonsense”), from Middle Low German (compare German faseln (“to maunder, talk nonsense”)).
senses_examples... |
18655 | word:
fuss
word_type:
verb
expansion:
fuss (third-person singular simple present fusses, present participle fussing, simple past and past participle fussed)
forms:
form:
fusses
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
fussing
tags:
participle
present
form:
fussed
tags:... |
18656 | word:
aged
word_type:
adj
expansion:
aged (comparative more aged or further aged, superlative most aged or furthest aged)
forms:
form:
more aged
tags:
comparative
form:
further aged
tags:
comparative
form:
most aged
tags:
superlative
form:
furthest aged
tags:
superl... |
18657 | word:
aged
word_type:
noun
expansion:
aged pl (plural only)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
the aged
type:
example
text:
health insurance and retirement income for the aged
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Old people, collectively.
senses_... |
18658 | word:
aged
word_type:
verb
expansion:
aged
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
simple past and past participle of age
senses_topics:
|
18659 | word:
cacophony
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cacophony (countable and uncountable, plural cacophonies)
forms:
form:
cacophonies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From French cacophonie, from Ancient Greek κακοφωνία (kakophōnía), from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).
senses_exampl... |
18660 | word:
agility
word_type:
noun
expansion:
agility (countable and uncountable, plural agilities)
forms:
form:
agilities
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
agility
etymology_text:
From late Middle English, borrowed from Middle French agilité, from Latin agilitās, from agilis (“nimble, fleet, quick”), equivalent... |
18661 | word:
alternately
word_type:
adv
expansion:
alternately (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From alternate + -ly.
senses_examples:
text:
Tired with the heat and my walk, I threw myself down on the grass in the shadow of the house, where I lay half-asleep enjoying a quiet rest, when I wa... |
18662 | word:
cricket
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cricket (plural crickets)
forms:
form:
crickets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken ... |
18663 | word:
cricket
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cricket (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).
senses_examples:
text:
Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raise... |
18664 | word:
cricket
word_type:
verb
expansion:
cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)
forms:
form:
crickets
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
cricketing
tags:
participle
present
form:... |
18665 | word:
cricket
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cricket (plural crickets)
forms:
form:
crickets
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).
senses_examples:
text:
Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on... |
18666 | word:
oneirologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oneirologist (plural oneirologists)
forms:
form:
oneirologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From oneirology + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An interpreter of dreams.
senses_topics:
|
18667 | word:
zoosemiotics
word_type:
noun
expansion:
zoosemiotics (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From zoo- + semiotics.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The study of animal communication.
senses_topics:
|
18668 | word:
santo
word_type:
noun
expansion:
santo (plural santos)
forms:
form:
santos
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Spanish santo.
senses_examples:
text:
A santo may get a new coat of paint on its feast day or at Christmas. Or sometimes, when a prayer has been granted, a Puerto Ri... |
18669 | word:
agony
word_type:
noun
expansion:
agony (countable and uncountable, plural agonies)
forms:
form:
agonies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
14th century, via Old French and Latin from Ancient Greek ἀγωνία (agōnía, “emulation, competition, struggle”), from ἀγών (agṓn, “contest”). Specifi... |
18670 | word:
adorn
word_type:
verb
expansion:
adorn (third-person singular simple present adorns, present participle adorning, simple past and past participle adorned)
forms:
form:
adorns
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
adorning
tags:
participle
present
form:
adorned
... |
18671 | word:
adorn
word_type:
noun
expansion:
adorn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre, present active infinitive of adōrnō; from ad + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old Fre... |
18672 | word:
adorn
word_type:
adj
expansion:
adorn
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre, present active infinitive of adōrnō; from ad + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old Fren... |
18673 | word:
oneirology
word_type:
noun
expansion:
oneirology (countable and uncountable, plural oneirologies)
forms:
form:
oneirologies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From oneiro- + -logy, historically from Latin oneirologia from Ancient Greek ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”).
senses_examples:
sens... |
18674 | word:
Bemba
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Bemba (plural Bembas or Bemba)
forms:
form:
Bembas
tags:
plural
form:
Bemba
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Bemba language
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A member of an African tribe inhabiting parts of Zambia, Za... |
18675 | word:
Bemba
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bemba
forms:
wikipedia:
Bemba language
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language of these people.
senses_topics:
|
18676 | word:
tangible
word_type:
adj
expansion:
tangible (comparative more tangible, superlative most tangible)
forms:
form:
more tangible
tags:
comparative
form:
most tangible
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from... |
18677 | word:
tangible
word_type:
noun
expansion:
tangible (plural tangibles)
forms:
form:
tangibles
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to touch”).
senses_examples:
text:
Yes, but what are the tangibles?
... |
18678 | word:
lamb
word_type:
noun
expansion:
lamb (countable and uncountable, plural lambs or (both dialectal) lamber or lambren)
forms:
form:
lambs
tags:
plural
form:
lamber
tags:
dialectal
plural
form:
lambren
tags:
dialectal
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middl... |
18679 | word:
lamb
word_type:
verb
expansion:
lamb (third-person singular simple present lambs, present participle lambing, simple past and past participle lambed)
forms:
form:
lambs
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
lambing
tags:
participle
present
form:
lambed
tags:
... |
18680 | word:
cassava
word_type:
noun
expansion:
cassava (countable and uncountable, plural cassavas)
forms:
form:
cassavas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Portuguese cassave, from Taíno *kasabi (“cassava flour”) (compare Garifuna sibiba), from Proto-Arawak *sapi.
senses_examples:
text:
... |
18681 | word:
Afar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Afar
forms:
wikipedia:
Afar
etymology_text:
From Afar qafár.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
A region of Ethiopia.
senses_topics:
|
18682 | word:
Afar
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Afar (plural Afars or Afar)
forms:
form:
Afars
tags:
plural
form:
Afar
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Afar
etymology_text:
From Afar qafár.
senses_examples:
text:
[...] ethnic groups, the Afars. The majority of the Somali-speaking Issas, the other m... |
18683 | word:
frost
word_type:
noun
expansion:
frost (countable and uncountable, plural frosts)
forms:
form:
frosts
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
frost
etymology_text:
From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Ind... |
18684 | word:
frost
word_type:
verb
expansion:
frost (third-person singular simple present frosts, present participle frosting, simple past and past participle frosted)
forms:
form:
frosts
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
frosting
tags:
participle
present
form:
frosted
... |
18685 | word:
allot
word_type:
verb
expansion:
allot (third-person singular simple present allots, present participle allotting, simple past and past participle allotted)
forms:
form:
allots
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
allotting
tags:
participle
present
form:
allott... |
18686 | word:
allot
word_type:
adv
expansion:
allot (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of a lot.
senses_topics:
|
18687 | word:
allot
word_type:
noun
expansion:
allot (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of a lot.
senses_topics:
|
18688 | word:
Velcro
word_type:
name
expansion:
Velcro
forms:
wikipedia:
Hook and loop fastener
etymology_text:
Blend of French velours (“velvet”) + French crochet (“hook”)
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with minute fiber hooks and t... |
18689 | word:
Velcro
word_type:
verb
expansion:
Velcro (third-person singular simple present Velcros, present participle Velcroing, simple past and past participle Velcroed)
forms:
form:
Velcros
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
Velcroing
tags:
participle
present
form:
Ve... |
18690 | word:
alewife
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alewife (plural alewives)
forms:
form:
alewives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Alewife (trade)
etymology_text:
From ale + wife.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A woman who keeps an alehouse.
senses_topics:
|
18691 | word:
alewife
word_type:
noun
expansion:
alewife (plural alewives)
forms:
form:
alewives
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
alewife
etymology_text:
Unknown. Possibly from aloof, the Narragansett name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture of maize in America, “Phil Trans.” No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam’s “Mem... |
18692 | word:
beekeeper
word_type:
noun
expansion:
beekeeper (plural beekeepers)
forms:
form:
beekeepers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From bee + keeper.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person who maintains hives and keeps bees, especially for the production of honey.
... |
18693 | word:
duration
word_type:
noun
expansion:
duration (countable and uncountable, plural durations)
forms:
form:
durations
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.
senses_examples:
text:
The duration of t... |
18694 | word:
raison d'être
word_type:
noun
expansion:
raison d'être (plural raisons d'être or raison d'être or raison d'êtres)
forms:
form:
raisons d'être
tags:
plural
form:
raison d'être
tags:
plural
form:
raison d'êtres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Fren... |
18695 | word:
horologist
word_type:
noun
expansion:
horologist (plural horologists)
forms:
form:
horologists
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From horology + -ist.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A person skilled in horology, particularly a person who makes or repairs timek... |
18696 | word:
sundial
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sundial (plural sundials)
forms:
form:
sundials
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From sun + dial, a clarification of dial after it was used for other objects as well.
senses_examples:
text:
The birdbath includes a small gnomon that acts as a s... |
18697 | word:
sons
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sons
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
plural of son
senses_topics:
|
18698 | word:
fairy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
fairy (countable and uncountable, plural fairies)
forms:
form:
fairies
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
fairy
etymology_text:
From Middle English faierie, fairie, from Old French faerie, from fae + -erie, from Latin fāta (“goddess of fate”). Equivalent to fey + -ry.
A... |
18699 | word:
fairy
word_type:
adj
expansion:
fairy (comparative more fairy, superlative most fairy)
forms:
form:
more fairy
tags:
comparative
form:
most fairy
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
fairy
etymology_text:
From Middle English faierie, fairie, from Old French faerie, from fae + -erie, from... |
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