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word: de word_type: noun expansion: de (plural des) forms: form: des tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Russian дэ (dɛ). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The name of the Cyrillic script letter Д / д. senses_topics:
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word: de word_type: verb expansion: de (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle dein, simple past did, past participle dyun) forms: form: diz tags: present singular third-person form: dein tags: participle present form: did tags: past form: ...
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word: de word_type: article expansion: de forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: “He went to’ds de back, ma’am.” The negro opened the door and slid his legs, clad in army O.D. and a pair of linoleum putties, to the ground. “‘I’ll go git ’im.”’ ref: 1964 [1929], William Faulkne...
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word: de word_type: intj expansion: de forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: "Dum de dum, dum de dum", he hummed as he sauntered down the road. type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: A meaningless unstressed syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhyth...
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word: de word_type: prep expansion: de forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from French de (“of”). senses_examples: text: When Prosper Mérimée had next seen Mercedes after Spain, in March 1846, he told the Countess de Montijo that Mercedes "looked less well preserved [and] limped a little." re...
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word: day word_type: noun expansion: day (plural days) forms: form: days tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Inherited from Middle English day, from Old English dæġ (“day”), from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”); see there for more. Cognate with Saterland Frisian D...
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word: day word_type: verb expansion: day (third-person singular simple present days, present participle daying, simple past and past participle dayed) forms: form: days tags: present singular third-person form: daying tags: participle present form: dayed tags: parti...
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word: grey word_type: adj expansion: grey (comparative greyer or more grey, superlative greyest or most grey) forms: form: greyer tags: comparative form: more grey tags: comparative form: greyest tags: superlative form: most grey tags: superlative wikipedia: grey ...
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word: grey word_type: verb expansion: grey (third-person singular simple present greys, present participle greying, simple past and past participle greyed) forms: form: greys tags: present singular third-person form: greying tags: participle present form: greyed tags: ...
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word: grey word_type: noun expansion: grey (plural greys) forms: form: greys tags: plural wikipedia: grey etymology_text: From Middle English grey, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, t...
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word: Moldova word_type: name expansion: Moldova forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Unclear; see Romanian Moldova for theories. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Moldova. Capital and largest city: Chișinău. A region in easter...
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word: Vietnam word_type: name expansion: Vietnam forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt Nam. Extended senses come from the Vietnam War. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Capital: Hanoi...
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word: Vietnam word_type: noun expansion: Vietnam (plural Vietnams) forms: form: Vietnams tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt Nam. Extended senses come from the Vietnam War. senses_examples: text: another Vietnam type: example text: the Soviet Un...
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word: krill word_type: noun expansion: krill (plural krill or krills) forms: form: krill tags: plural form: krills tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Norwegian kril (“fry of fish”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: any of several small marine crustacea...
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word: centillion word_type: num expansion: centillion (plural centillions) forms: form: centillions tags: plural wikipedia: centillion etymology_text: From centi- + -illion. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: 10³⁰³. 10⁶⁰⁰. senses_topics:
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word: ace word_type: noun expansion: ace (plural aces) forms: form: aces tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”). Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-...
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word: ace word_type: verb expansion: ace (third-person singular simple present aces, present participle acing, simple past and past participle aced) forms: form: aces tags: present singular third-person form: acing tags: participle present form: aced tags: participl...
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word: ace word_type: adj expansion: ace (comparative more ace, superlative most ace) forms: form: more ace tags: comparative form: most ace tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the...
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word: ace word_type: adj expansion: ace (comparative more ace, superlative most ace) forms: form: more ace tags: comparative form: most ace tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: Clipping of asexual. senses_examples: text: Some people who identify as ace fall under the GLB...
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word: ace word_type: noun expansion: ace (plural aces) forms: form: aces tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Clipping of asexual. senses_examples: text: Asexuals are programmed differently, like anybody else on the LGBTQXYZ spectrum, but difference is cool! Difference is perhaps the bes...
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word: board word_type: noun expansion: board (countable and uncountable, plural boards) forms: form: boards tags: plural wikipedia: board etymology_text: From Middle English bord, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-...
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word: board word_type: verb expansion: board (third-person singular simple present boards, present participle boarding, simple past and past participle boarded) forms: form: boards tags: present singular third-person form: boarding tags: participle present form: boarded ...
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word: board word_type: noun expansion: board (plural boards) forms: form: boards tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From backboard. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A rebound. senses_topics: ball-games basketball games hobbies lifestyle sports
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word: yesterday word_type: noun expansion: yesterday (plural yesterdays) forms: form: yesterdays tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English yesterday, yisterday, ȝesterdai, ȝisterdai, from Old English ġiestrandæġ, ġister dæġ, ġestor dæġ, ġeostran dæġ. Compare Scots yisterday, yes...
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word: yesterday word_type: adv expansion: yesterday (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English yesterday, yisterday, ȝesterdai, ȝisterdai, from Old English ġiestrandæġ, ġister dæġ, ġestor dæġ, ġeostran dæġ. Compare Scots yisterday, yesterday (“yesterday”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰...
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word: weekday word_type: noun expansion: weekday (plural weekdays) forms: form: weekdays tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Inherited from Middle English weke-day, from Old English wicdæġ. By surface analysis, compound of week + day. Compare West Frisian wikedei (“weekday”), Dutch weekdag (“...
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word: hexahedron word_type: noun expansion: hexahedron (plural hexahedrons or hexahedra) forms: form: hexahedrons tags: plural form: hexahedra tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From hexa- + -hedron. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A polyhedron with six fa...
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word: Catalonia word_type: name expansion: Catalonia forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Catalan Catalunya. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: An autonomous community of Spain. A traditional region and former principality, including the autonomous community of Catalonia, the Arag...
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word: last word_type: adj expansion: last (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest. senses_examples: text: “Eyes Wide Shut” was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick. type: example text: The last time I saw ...
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word: last word_type: det expansion: last forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest. senses_examples: text: We went there last year. type: example text: I was last to arrive. type: example text: It's Wednesday, and the part...
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word: last word_type: adv expansion: last (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English laste, latst, syncopated variant of latest. senses_examples: text: When we last met, he was based in Toronto. type: example text: I'll go last as I have to add the butter last. ...
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word: last word_type: verb expansion: last (third-person singular simple present lasts, present participle lasting, simple past and past participle lasted) forms: form: lasts tags: present singular third-person form: lasting tags: participle present form: lasted tags: ...
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word: last word_type: noun expansion: last (plural lasts) forms: form: lasts tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: table From Old English lǣste, Proto-Germanic *laistiz. Compare Swedish läst, German Leisten Dutch leest, Proto-Germanic *laistaz (“footprint”). senses_examples: text: 2006, N...
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word: last word_type: verb expansion: last (third-person singular simple present lasts, present participle lasting, simple past and past participle lasted) forms: form: lasts tags: present singular third-person form: lasting tags: participle present form: lasted tags: ...
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word: last word_type: noun expansion: last (plural lasts or lasten) forms: form: lasts tags: plural form: lasten tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English last, from Old English hlæst (“burden, load, freight”), from Proto-Germanic *hlastuz (“burden, load, freight”), ...
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word: wall word_type: noun expansion: wall (plural walls) forms: form: walls tags: plural wikipedia: wall etymology_text: From Middle English wal, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff”), from Proto-West Germanic *wall (“wall, rampart, entrenchment”), fro...
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word: wall word_type: verb expansion: wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled) forms: form: walls tags: present singular third-person form: walling tags: participle present form: walled tags: ...
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word: wall word_type: verb expansion: wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled) forms: form: walls tags: present singular third-person form: walling tags: participle present form: walled tags: ...
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word: wall word_type: noun expansion: wall (plural walls) forms: form: walls tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English walle, from Old English *wealla, *weall (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wallô, *wallaz (“well, spring”). See above. Cognate with Old Frisian walla (“spring”), ...
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word: wall word_type: noun expansion: wall (plural walls) forms: form: walls tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale. senses_topics: nautical transport
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word: wall word_type: verb expansion: wall (third-person singular simple present walls, present participle walling, simple past and past participle walled) forms: form: walls tags: present singular third-person form: walling tags: participle present form: walled tags: ...
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word: wall word_type: intj expansion: wall forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: Wall, they spoke up, 'n' says to her, s'd they, "Why, look a-here, aunty, Wus't his skin, 't was rock?" so s's she, "I guess not." (Well, they spoke up and says to her, said they, "Why look a-here, aun...
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word: chook word_type: noun expansion: chook (plural chooks) forms: form: chooks tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck. senses_examples: text: Worm chickens once every three months ...
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word: chook word_type: intj expansion: chook forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Irish English chuck (call made to poultry or pigs), from Irish tsiug, tsiuc. Compare English buck buck. senses_examples: text: Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me...
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word: music word_type: noun expansion: music (usually uncountable, plural musics) forms: form: musics tags: plural wikipedia: Modern English Tchaikovsky music etymology_text: From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Anglo-Norman musik, musike, Old French musique, and their source Latin...
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word: music word_type: verb expansion: music (third-person singular simple present musics, present participle musicking, simple past and past participle musicked) forms: form: musics tags: present singular third-person form: musicking tags: participle present form: musick...
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word: music word_type: adj expansion: music (comparative more music, superlative most music) forms: form: more music tags: comparative form: most music tags: superlative wikipedia: Modern English Tchaikovsky music etymology_text: From Middle English musik, musike, borrowed from Ang...
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word: aloha word_type: noun expansion: aloha (plural alohas) forms: form: alohas tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa. senses_examples: text: Traveling as the princess regent with a retinue t...
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word: aloha word_type: intj expansion: aloha forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Hawaiian aloha (“love”), from Proto-Polynesian *qarofa. Doublet of aroha and aropa. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Expressing good wishes when greeting or parting from someone; hello; goodby...
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word: early word_type: adj expansion: early (comparative earlier, superlative earliest) forms: form: earlier tags: comparative form: earliest tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: table From Middle English erly, erlich, earlich, from Old English ǣrlīċ (“early”, adjective), equi...
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word: early word_type: noun expansion: early (plural earlies) forms: form: earlies tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: table From Middle English erly, erlich, earlich, from Old English ǣrlīċ (“early”, adjective), equivalent to ere + -ly. senses_examples: text: On my first day on the wat...
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word: early word_type: adv expansion: early (comparative earlier, superlative earliest) forms: form: earlier tags: comparative form: earliest tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: table From Middle English erly, orely, arely, erliche, arliche, from Old English ǣrlīċe, ārlīċe (“...
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word: pronunciation word_type: noun expansion: pronunciation (countable and uncountable, plural pronunciations) forms: form: pronunciations tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English pronunciacioun, from Middle French prononciation, pronunciation, from Latin prōnūntiātiō, noun of...
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word: morph word_type: noun expansion: morph (plural morphs) forms: form: morphs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Back-formation from morpheme, from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Compare German Morph, from Morphem. Attested since the 1940s. senses_examples: senses_categori...
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word: morph word_type: noun expansion: morph (plural morphs) forms: form: morphs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Back-formation from morphism. Attested since the 1950s. See also morphology. senses_examples: text: Briefly, the yellow morphic males can change their status from paired ...
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word: morph word_type: verb expansion: morph (third-person singular simple present morphs, present participle morphing, simple past and past participle morphed) forms: form: morphs tags: present singular third-person form: morphing tags: participle present form: morphed ...
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word: morph word_type: noun expansion: morph (plural morphs) forms: form: morphs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Clipping of metamorphose senses_examples: text: But what is this metasubstance that blinks at us from the apex of the morph, and that in Terminator 2 is hyperbolized in t...
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word: morph word_type: noun expansion: morph (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Clipping of morphine senses_examples: text: They're bringing you some morph before long. […] The tube has its own needle, and the medic jabs it in like he has done it a million times, then marks Chickenfeed's ...
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word: morph word_type: noun expansion: morph (plural morphs) forms: form: morphs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Clipping of morphodite senses_examples: text: I am seeking to correspond with a TV [transvestite] or a natural morph. I want them to be passive (I'm totally non-violent) ...
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word: Zuni word_type: adj expansion: Zuni (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: Zuni etymology_text: From earlier Zuñi, from American Spanish, from Acoma Western Keres sɨ̂‧ni or a cognate thereof. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Of or pertaining to the Zuni people or their traditional la...
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word: Zuni word_type: noun expansion: Zuni (plural Zunis or Zuni) forms: form: Zunis tags: plural form: Zuni tags: plural wikipedia: Zuni etymology_text: From earlier Zuñi, from American Spanish, from Acoma Western Keres sɨ̂‧ni or a cognate thereof. senses_examples: senses_categories:...
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word: Zuni word_type: name expansion: Zuni forms: wikipedia: Zuni etymology_text: From earlier Zuñi, from American Spanish, from Acoma Western Keres sɨ̂‧ni or a cognate thereof. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The language traditionally spoken by members of this tribe. senses_topics:
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word: DNA word_type: noun expansion: DNA (countable and uncountable, plural DNAs) forms: form: DNAs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: The noun is an initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid. The verb is derived from the noun. senses_examples: text: Among the various fractions isolated was ...
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word: DNA word_type: verb expansion: DNA (third-person singular simple present DNAs, present participle DNAing, simple past and past participle DNAed) forms: form: DNAs tags: present singular third-person form: DNAing tags: participle present form: DNAed tags: parti...
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word: DNA word_type: name expansion: DNA forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: An initialism of the various terms listed below. The verb sense is derived from noun sense 7. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Defense Nuclear Agency, an agency of the United States Department of Defense which ...
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word: DNA word_type: phrase expansion: DNA forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: An initialism of the various terms listed below. The verb sense is derived from noun sense 7. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Did not answer. Did not arrive (used when someone fails to keep an ...
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word: DNA word_type: verb expansion: DNA (third-person singular simple present DNAs, present participle DNAing, simple past and past participle DNAed) forms: form: DNAs tags: present singular third-person form: DNAing tags: participle present form: DNAed tags: parti...
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word: mauve word_type: noun expansion: mauve (countable and uncountable, plural mauves) forms: form: mauves tags: plural wikipedia: mauve etymology_text: Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Hen...
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word: mauve word_type: adj expansion: mauve (comparative mauver or more mauve, superlative mauvest or most mauve) forms: form: mauver tags: comparative form: more mauve tags: comparative form: mauvest tags: superlative form: most mauve tags: superlative wikipedia: ...
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word: grapefruit word_type: noun expansion: grapefruit (countable and uncountable, plural grapefruits or grapefruit) forms: form: grapefruits tags: plural form: grapefruit tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Widely assumed to be a marketing term from grape + fruit, an allusion to ...
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word: hourglass word_type: noun expansion: hourglass (plural hourglasses) forms: form: hourglasses tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From hour + glass. senses_examples: text: Meronym: pinch text: After each game turn, invert the hourglass to reset the time limit for the next pla...
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word: colloquial word_type: adj expansion: colloquial (comparative more colloquial, superlative most colloquial) forms: form: most colloquial tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: 1751, from earlier term colloquy (“a conversation”), from Latin colloquium (“conference, conversation”), from ...
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word: colloquial word_type: noun expansion: colloquial (plural colloquials) forms: form: colloquials tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: 1751, from earlier term colloquy (“a conversation”), from Latin colloquium (“conference, conversation”), from con- (“together”) + loquor (“to speak”), + -al...
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word: number word_type: noun expansion: number (plural numbers) forms: form: numbers tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- ...
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word: number word_type: verb expansion: number (third-person singular simple present numbers, present participle numbering, simple past and past participle numbered) forms: form: numbers tags: present singular third-person form: numbering tags: participle present form: nu...
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word: number word_type: adj expansion: number forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: table From numb + -er. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: comparative form of numb: more numb senses_topics:
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word: metaphysics word_type: noun expansion: metaphysics (countable and uncountable, plural metaphysics) forms: form: metaphysics tags: plural wikipedia: metaphysics etymology_text: 1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, me...
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word: metaphysics word_type: noun expansion: metaphysics forms: wikipedia: metaphysics etymology_text: 1560s; plural of metaphysic, from Middle English methaphesik, methaphisik, methaphisique, metaphesyk, methafisik, metaphesyk, methephysyk, from Old French metafisique, methaphisique and Medieval Latin metap...
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word: twenty one word_type: num expansion: twenty one forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Alternative spelling of twenty-one senses_topics:
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word: Yiddish word_type: adj expansion: Yiddish (comparative more Yiddish, superlative most Yiddish) forms: form: more Yiddish tags: comparative form: most Yiddish tags: superlative wikipedia: Yiddish etymology_text: From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Yiddish ייִדיש־דוײַטש (yidish-dayt...
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word: Yiddish word_type: name expansion: Yiddish forms: wikipedia: Yiddish etymology_text: From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Yiddish ייִדיש־דוײַטש (yidish-daytsh), cognate with German jüdisch (“Jewish”). senses_examples: text: Holonym: High German text: Meronyms: Eastern Yiddish, East Yiddish, W...
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word: Indo-European word_type: name expansion: Indo-European forms: wikipedia: Indo-European etymology_text: Coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1813, from Indo- + European, relating to the geographical extremes in India and Europe (which was valid before the discovery of Tocharian languages in the ea...
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word: Indo-European word_type: noun expansion: Indo-European (plural Indo-Europeans) forms: form: Indo-Europeans tags: plural wikipedia: Indo-European etymology_text: Coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1813, from Indo- + European, relating to the geographical extremes in India and Europe (...
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word: Indo-European word_type: adj expansion: Indo-European (comparative more Indo-European, superlative most Indo-European) forms: form: more Indo-European tags: comparative form: most Indo-European tags: superlative wikipedia: Indo-European etymology_text: Coined by English polymath ...
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word: twenty four word_type: num expansion: twenty four forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Alternative spelling of twenty-four senses_topics:
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word: yours word_type: pron expansion: yours forms: wikipedia: yours etymology_text: From Middle English youres, ȝoures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to your + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced yourn in standard speech. senses_examples: text: If this edit is mine, the other ...
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word: twenty two word_type: num expansion: twenty two forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The cardinal number occurring after twenty one and before twenty three, represented in Roman numerals as XXII and in Arabic numerals as 22. Ordinal: twenty-second....
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word: Macedonia word_type: name expansion: Macedonia forms: wikipedia: Macedonia Macedonia (terminology) Macedonia naming dispute etymology_text: From Ancient Greek Μακεδονία (Makedonía, “Macedonia”), from μακεδονία (makedonía, “highland”), from μακεδνός (makednós, “high, tall”). Doublet of macedoine. se...
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word: Brazilian word_type: noun expansion: Brazilian (plural Brazilians) forms: form: Brazilians tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Brazil + -ian. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent. A Brazilian wax (style of pubic ha...
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word: Brazilian word_type: adj expansion: Brazilian (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Brazil + -ian. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Brazil, or the Brazilian people. Pertaining to full removal of pubic hair. senses_topics:
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word: leap year word_type: noun expansion: leap year (plural leap years) forms: form: leap years tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: PIE word *yóh₁r̥ From Late Middle English lepe-yer, lep-yer (“year with 366 days, leap year”), from lep, lepe (“act of jumping, jump, leap”) (from Old English ...
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word: now word_type: adj expansion: now (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: now etymology_text: From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“no...
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word: now word_type: adv expansion: now (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: now etymology_text: From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“no...
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word: now word_type: conj expansion: now forms: wikipedia: now etymology_text: From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Saterland Frisian nu (“now”), West Frisia...
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word: now word_type: intj expansion: now! forms: form: now! tags: canonical wikipedia: now etymology_text: From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Cognates Cognate with Scots noo (“now”), Sa...
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word: now word_type: noun expansion: now (usually uncountable, plural nows) forms: form: nows tags: plural wikipedia: now etymology_text: From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English nū, from Proto-West Germanic *nū, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”). Cognates Cog...
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word: now word_type: verb expansion: now forms: wikipedia: now etymology_text: See know. senses_examples: text: I don't now. (intended: I don't know.) type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: Misspelling of know. senses_topics:
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word: ad word_type: noun expansion: ad (plural ads) forms: form: ads tags: plural wikipedia: ad etymology_text: Clipping of advertise, advertising, advertisement, advertiser. senses_examples: text: I have placed both of the ads in the newspaper as instructed. type: example senses_cat...
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word: ad word_type: noun expansion: ad (plural ads) forms: form: ads tags: plural wikipedia: ad etymology_text: From a shortening of the word advantage. senses_examples: text: [S]uddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court back hand that pulls Federer way out to his ad (= his left) side, an...
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word: ad word_type: prep expansion: ad forms: wikipedia: ad etymology_text: From Latin ad (“to, on”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: to, toward senses_topics: