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word: room word_type: adj expansion: room (comparative more room, superlative most room) forms: form: more room tags: comparative form: most room tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English rūm (“roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, ...
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word: room word_type: adv expansion: room (comparative more room, superlative most room) forms: form: more room tags: comparative form: most room tags: superlative wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English rome, from Old English rūme (“widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, s...
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word: room word_type: noun expansion: room (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”) senses_topics:
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word: beginner word_type: noun expansion: beginner (plural beginners) forms: form: beginners tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin + -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Low German begünner (“beginn...
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word: banshee word_type: noun expansion: banshee (plural banshees) forms: form: banshees tags: plural wikipedia: banshee etymology_text: Borrowed from Irish bean sí, from Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). The term banshee entered English in 1771. senses_examples: text: ...
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word: cadastre word_type: noun expansion: cadastre (plural cadastres) forms: form: cadastres tags: plural wikipedia: cadastre etymology_text: Borrowed from French cadastre. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A public survey of land, originally for the purpose of taxation and...
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word: Yukon Territory word_type: name expansion: Yukon Territory forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Synonym of Yukon senses_topics:
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word: very word_type: adj expansion: very (not generally comparable, comparative verier, superlative veriest) forms: form: verier tags: comparative form: veriest tags: superlative wikipedia: very etymology_text: From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Med...
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word: very word_type: adv expansion: very (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: very etymology_text: From Middle English verray, from Old French verai (“true”), from Early Medieval Latin vērāgus, from Classical Latin vērāx, derived from vērus, from Proto-Italic *wēros, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros. Distant...
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word: chromosome word_type: noun expansion: chromosome (plural chromosomes) forms: form: chromosomes tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: 19th century: from German Chromosom, ultimately from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) + σῶμα (sôma, “body”) (because they are stained under the micros...
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word: amber word_type: noun expansion: amber (countable and uncountable, plural ambers) forms: form: ambers tags: plural wikipedia: amber etymology_text: From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl ...
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word: amber word_type: adj expansion: amber (comparative more amber, superlative most amber) forms: form: more amber tags: comparative form: most amber tags: superlative wikipedia: amber etymology_text: From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْب...
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word: amber word_type: verb expansion: amber (third-person singular simple present ambers, present participle ambering, simple past and past participle ambered) forms: form: ambers tags: present singular third-person form: ambering tags: participle present form: ambered ...
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word: child word_type: noun expansion: child (plural children or (dialectal or archaic) childer) forms: form: children tags: plural form: childer tags: archaic dialectal plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English child, from Old English ċild, from Proto-West Germani...
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word: child word_type: verb expansion: child (third-person singular simple present childs, present participle childing, simple past and past participle childed) forms: form: childs tags: present singular third-person form: childing tags: participle present form: childed ...
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word: bai word_type: noun expansion: bai (plural bais) forms: form: bais tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: Gorillas (and other wildlife) frequent such bais, which are waterlogged and sunny, because of the sodium-rich sedges and asters that grow beneath the open...
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word: bai word_type: noun expansion: bai (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A people of the Yunnan province of China. senses_topics:
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word: bai word_type: intj expansion: bai forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Eye dialect spelling of bye. senses_topics:
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word: bai word_type: noun expansion: bai (plural bais) forms: form: bais tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and ...
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word: polder word_type: noun expansion: polder (plural polders) forms: form: polders tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Dutch polder, from Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra, of uncertain origin. senses_examples: text: The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicola...
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word: polder word_type: verb expansion: polder (third-person singular simple present polders, present participle poldering, simple past and past participle poldered) forms: form: polders tags: present singular third-person form: poldering tags: participle present form: po...
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word: gracias word_type: intj expansion: gracias forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Spanish gracias (“thank you”). senses_examples: text: Muchos gracias, my friend. —The girls are in the kitchen, Bimbo told Vera. ref: 1993, Roddy Doyle, The Van, link type: quotation text: ...
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word: IMF word_type: name expansion: IMF forms: wikipedia: en:IMF etymology_text: senses_examples: text: Since 1996 and over six installments, special IMF (The Impossible Missions Force) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been spectacularly ‘figuring things right in the face of danger, often without a...
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word: who knows word_type: phrase expansion: who knows? forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: text: It could be one or the other, or both. Who knows? text: Do you think I'll get married before I turn 30? – Who knows, you might never marry. text: Who knows? Maybe someday he'll...
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word: vis comica word_type: noun expansion: vis comica (uncountable) forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Originating from an inaccurate interpretation of verses attributed to Julius Caesar: “Lenibus atque utinam scriptis adiuncta foret vis, Comica ut aequato virtus polleret honore Cum Graecis …”. An erroneous...
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word: Northwest Territories word_type: name expansion: Northwest Territories forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A territory in northern Canada. Capital: Yellowknife. senses_topics:
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word: Desi word_type: adj expansion: Desi (comparative more Desi, superlative most Desi) forms: form: more Desi tags: comparative form: most Desi tags: superlative wikipedia: Desi etymology_text: Borrowed from Hindustani دیسی (desī) / देसी (desī). senses_examples: senses_categories: ...
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word: Desi word_type: noun expansion: Desi (plural Desis) forms: form: Desis tags: plural wikipedia: Desi etymology_text: Borrowed from Hindustani دیسی (desī) / देसी (desī). senses_examples: text: Desis from the United States have an accent; those from Canada, another. ref: 2011 August...
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word: fellahin word_type: noun expansion: fellahin forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: plural of fellah senses_topics:
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word: payment word_type: noun expansion: payment (countable and uncountable, plural payments) forms: form: payments tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Old French paiement. Equivalent to pay + -ment. senses_examples: text: In a report published on October 31, Transport Focus said ...
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word: benzoline word_type: noun expansion: benzoline (plural benzolines) forms: form: benzolines tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A benzole. amarine senses_topics: chemistry natural-sciences organic-chemistry physical-sci...
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word: de lunatico inquirendo word_type: noun expansion: de lunatico inquirendo forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Latin dē lūnāticō inquīrendō. senses_examples: text: But, unless the fact is withheld by the reporters out of delicacy, the ladies who have lectured on Bloomerism are not mad—not, at l...
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word: British Columbia word_type: name expansion: British Columbia forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Province in western Canada which has Victoria as its capital. senses_topics:
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word: wisdom tooth word_type: noun expansion: wisdom tooth (plural wisdom teeth) forms: form: wisdom teeth tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From wisdom + tooth, calque of Latin dēns sapientiae, which is itself a calque of Ancient Greek σωφρονιστῆρες (sōphronistêres, “prudent or self-contro...
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word: cadre word_type: noun expansion: cadre (plural cadres) forms: form: cadres tags: plural wikipedia: en:cadre etymology_text: Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”). The American pronunciations in /eɪ/ may be due ...
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word: unvizard word_type: verb expansion: unvizard (third-person singular simple present unvizards, present participle unvizarding, simple past and past participle unvizarded) forms: form: unvizards tags: present singular third-person form: unvizarding tags: participle present ...
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word: polydactylism word_type: noun expansion: polydactylism (usually uncountable, plural polydactylisms) forms: form: polydactylisms tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”); compare French polydactylisme. senses_examples: text...
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word: unvisard word_type: verb expansion: unvisard (third-person singular simple present unvisards, present participle unvisarding, simple past and past participle unvisarded) forms: form: unvisards tags: present singular third-person form: unvisarding tags: participle present ...
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word: gaffer word_type: noun expansion: gaffer (plural gaffers) forms: form: gaffers tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From gaff (“hook”) + -er. * (cinema): The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps...
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word: gaffer word_type: noun expansion: gaffer (plural gaffers) forms: form: gaffers tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Likely a contraction of godfather, but with the vowels influenced by grandfather. Compare French compère, German Gevatter. senses_examples: text: If thou return not, ...
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word: minister word_type: noun expansion: minister (plural ministers) forms: form: ministers tags: plural wikipedia: minister etymology_text: From Middle English ministre, from Old French ministre, from Latin minister (“an attendant, servant, assistant, a priest's assistant or other under official...
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word: minister word_type: verb expansion: minister (third-person singular simple present ministers, present participle ministering, simple past and past participle ministered) forms: form: ministers tags: present singular third-person form: ministering tags: participle present ...
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word: Victoria word_type: name expansion: Victoria (countable and uncountable, plural Victorias or Victoriae) forms: form: Victorias tags: plural form: Victoriae tags: plural wikipedia: Victoria en:Queen Victoria etymology_text: * From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doubl...
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word: Victoria word_type: noun expansion: Victoria (plural Victorias) forms: form: Victorias tags: plural wikipedia: Victoria en:Queen Victoria etymology_text: * From Latin Victōria, from victōria (“victory”). Doublet of Vitória. * feminine of Victor; Victor + -ia * Named in honour of Queen Vict...
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word: cinnamon word_type: noun expansion: cinnamon (countable and uncountable, plural cinnamons) forms: form: cinnamons tags: plural wikipedia: cinnamon etymology_text: From Middle English synamome, from Old French cinnamone, from Latin cinnamon, cinnamomum, from Ancient Greek κιννάμωμον (kinnámōm...
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word: cinnamon word_type: adj expansion: cinnamon (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: cinnamon etymology_text: From Middle English synamome, from Old French cinnamone, from Latin cinnamon, cinnamomum, from Ancient Greek κιννάμωμον (kinnámōmon), later κίνναμον (kínnamon), according to Herodotus from Phoenician...
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word: pyrargyrite word_type: noun expansion: pyrargyrite (countable and uncountable, plural pyrargyrites) forms: form: pyrargyrites tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ἄργῠρος (árguros, “silver”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A...
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word: jump word_type: verb expansion: jump (third-person singular simple present jumps, present participle jumping, simple past and past participle jumped) forms: form: jumps tags: present singular third-person form: jumping tags: participle present form: jumped tags: ...
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word: jump word_type: noun expansion: jump (plural jumps) forms: form: jumps tags: plural wikipedia: Brill Publishers hydraulic jump jump cut jump discontinuity jump instruction etymology_text: From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or Nort...
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word: jump word_type: adv expansion: jump (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: Brill Publishers etymology_text: From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gumpōną ~ *gumbōną (“to hop, skip, jump”), an iterat...
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word: jump word_type: adj expansion: jump (comparative more jump, superlative most jump) forms: form: more jump tags: comparative form: most jump tags: superlative wikipedia: Brill Publishers etymology_text: From Middle English jumpen (“to walk quickly, run, jump”), probably of Middle ...
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word: jump word_type: noun expansion: jump (plural jumps) forms: form: jumps tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Compare French jupe (“a long petticoat, a skirt”) and English jupon. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A kind of loose jacket for men. senses_topics:
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word: polydactyly word_type: noun expansion: polydactyly (plural polydactylies) forms: form: polydactylies tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos) + -y, from πολυ- (polu-, “many”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “fingers, toes”), equivalent to poly- + dactyly ...
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word: mariposa word_type: noun expansion: mariposa (plural mariposas) forms: form: mariposas tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Spanish mariposa (“butterfly”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A mariposa lily (Calochortus spp.). senses_topics:
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word: del word_type: noun expansion: del (plural dels) forms: form: dels tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: The symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator. the symbol ∂, in the cont...
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word: del word_type: noun expansion: del (plural dels) forms: form: dels tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: See deal senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: a part, portion senses_topics:
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word: del word_type: noun expansion: del forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Shortening senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of delegate. Abbreviation of delegation. senses_topics:
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word: del word_type: verb expansion: del forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Shortening senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Abbreviation of delete. senses_topics:
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word: del word_type: verb expansion: del forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Abbreviation of Latin delineavit senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: abbreviation of delineavit as seen on published artwork, identifying the original artist. Commonly seen in books and articles on topics in natur...
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word: Uttaranchal word_type: name expansion: Uttaranchal forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Transliteration of Hindi उत्तराञ्चल (uttarāñcal). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Former name of Uttarakhand (“state in northern India”) from 2000 to 2007. senses_topics:
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word: Prince Edward Island word_type: name expansion: Prince Edward Island forms: wikipedia: George III Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn Queen Victoria etymology_text: Named after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the son of King George III and father of Queen Victoria. se...
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word: Manitoba word_type: name expansion: Manitoba forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Ojibwe ᒪᓂᑐᐸᐦ or Cree ᒪᓂᑐᐘᐳᐤ (manitowapow, “spirit strait”), referring to the Narrows of Lake Manitoba. Compare English manitou, Ojibwe manidoo. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A province in West...
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word: Nunavut word_type: name expansion: Nunavut forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: From Inuktitut nunavut (“our land”)/ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (nonafot). Compare Greenlandic nunarput (“our country, Greenland”). senses_examples: text: All of the houses in Nunavut must be built on stilts because the permafrost makes it im...
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word: Orissa word_type: name expansion: Orissa forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Former name of Odisha (“state in eastern India”). senses_topics:
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word: grafter word_type: noun expansion: grafter (plural grafters) forms: form: grafters tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From graft + -er. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting. An instru...
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word: grafter word_type: noun expansion: grafter (plural grafters) forms: form: grafters tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From graft + -er. senses_examples: text: If the people are corrupt; if everybody is a grafter, as our pessimistic friends would have us believe, Roosevelt would b...
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word: gaffe word_type: noun expansion: gaffe (plural gaffes) forms: form: gaffes tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From French gaffe (“blunder”). Doublet of gaff. senses_examples: text: make a gaffe type: example senses_categories: senses_glosses: A foolish and embarrassing e...
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word: gray word_type: adj expansion: gray (comparative grayer or more gray, superlative grayest or most gray) forms: form: grayer tags: comparative form: more gray tags: comparative form: grayest tags: superlative form: most gray tags: superlative wikipedia: gray ...
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word: gray word_type: verb expansion: gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed) forms: form: grays tags: present singular third-person form: graying tags: participle present form: grayed tags: ...
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word: gray word_type: noun expansion: gray (plural grays) forms: form: grays tags: plural wikipedia: gray etymology_text: From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”). See also ...
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word: gray word_type: noun expansion: gray (plural grays) forms: form: grays tags: plural wikipedia: gray etymology_text: Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965). senses_examples: text: Coordinate term: rad senses_categories: senses_glosses: In the International System...
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word: salmon word_type: noun expansion: salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons) forms: form: salmon tags: plural form: salmons tags: plural wikipedia: salmon etymology_text: From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon...
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word: salmon word_type: adj expansion: salmon (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: salmon etymology_text: From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”). The unpronounc...
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word: salmon word_type: verb expansion: salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned) forms: form: salmons tags: present singular third-person form: salmoning tags: participle present form: sa...
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word: dub word_type: verb expansion: dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed) forms: form: dubs tags: present singular third-person form: dubbing tags: participle present form: dubbed tags: p...
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word: dub word_type: verb expansion: dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed) forms: form: dubs tags: present singular third-person form: dubbing tags: participle present form: dubbed tags: p...
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word: dub word_type: noun expansion: dub (plural dubs) forms: form: dubs tags: plural wikipedia: dub etymology_text: 1505-1515 senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A blow, thrust, or poke. A poorly executed shot. senses_topics: golf hobbies lifestyle sports
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word: dub word_type: noun expansion: dub (plural dubs) forms: form: dubs tags: plural wikipedia: dub etymology_text: 1885-90. Imitative; see also flub, flubdub. senses_examples: text: As I came over the hill, I saw Ernest Plinlimmon and his partner, in whom I recognized a prominent local dub...
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word: dub word_type: verb expansion: dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed) forms: form: dubs tags: present singular third-person form: dubbing tags: participle present form: dubbed tags: p...
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word: dub word_type: noun expansion: dub (countable and uncountable, plural dubs) forms: form: dubs tags: plural wikipedia: dub etymology_text: From a shortening of the word double. senses_examples: text: It’s also burnished by intriguing sense of vaguely dub-influenced space. At one point,...
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word: dub word_type: noun expansion: dub (plural dubs) forms: form: dubs tags: plural wikipedia: dub etymology_text: From Celtic; compare Irish dobhar (“water”), Welsh dŵr (“water”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A pool or puddle. senses_topics:
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word: dub word_type: noun expansion: dub (plural dubs) forms: form: dubs tags: plural wikipedia: dub etymology_text: From shortening of double dime (“twenty”). senses_examples: text: When I pull up out front, you see the Benz on dubs. ref: 2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Ge...
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word: dub word_type: verb expansion: dub (third-person singular simple present dubs, present participle dubbing, simple past and past participle dubbed) forms: form: dubs tags: present singular third-person form: dubbing tags: participle present form: dubbed tags: p...
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word: dub word_type: noun expansion: dub (plural dubs) forms: form: dubs tags: plural wikipedia: dub etymology_text: From dup (“to open”), from do + up, from Middle English don up (“to open”). senses_examples: text: […]going upon the dobbin, is a woman dressed like a servant maid, no hat no...
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word: dub word_type: noun expansion: dub (plural dubs) forms: form: dubs tags: plural wikipedia: dub etymology_text: senses_examples: text: World Wide Web or WWW Pronouncing this "dub dub dub" (with no rub-a) will definitely establish you as an insider. ref: 1997, Nelson Howell, The C...
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word: dub word_type: noun expansion: dub (plural dubs) forms: form: dubs tags: plural wikipedia: dub etymology_text: senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A small copper coin once used in India. senses_topics:
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word: left word_type: adj expansion: left (comparative more left or lefter, superlative most left or leftmost) forms: form: more left tags: comparative form: lefter tags: comparative form: most left tags: superlative form: leftmost tags: superlative wikipedia: Lef...
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word: left word_type: adv expansion: left (not comparable) forms: wikipedia: Left etymology_text: From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to cast...
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word: left word_type: noun expansion: left (plural lefts) forms: form: lefts tags: plural wikipedia: Left etymology_text: From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germa...
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word: left word_type: verb expansion: left forms: wikipedia: Left etymology_text: From Middle English left, variant of laft (“remaining, left”), from Old English lǣfd, ġelǣfd, past participle of lǣfan (“to leave”). More at leave. senses_examples: text: There's not much food left. type: example ...
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word: left word_type: verb expansion: left forms: wikipedia: Left etymology_text: From Middle English levit, ilevet, y-levyd, from Old English ġelȳfd, ġelȳfed, past participle of Old English ġelȳfan, lȳfan (“to allow, permit”), equivalent to leave (“to give leave to, allow, grant, permit”) + -ed. senses_exam...
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word: New Brunswick word_type: name expansion: New Brunswick forms: wikipedia: New Brunswick en:George III of the United Kingdom etymology_text: From new + Brunswick (“Braunschweig”), after the German duchy, the ancestral home of George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820). senses_examples: text: Ho...
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word: Amazonas word_type: name expansion: Amazonas forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Portuguese Amazonas and Spanish Amazonas, related to English Amazon. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A state of the North Region, Brazil. Capital: Manaus A department of Colombi...
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word: handful word_type: noun expansion: handful (plural handfuls or handsful) forms: form: handfuls tags: plural form: handsful tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Middle English handful, hondful, from Old English handfull (“handful”), from Proto-Germanic *handufullō, *handu...
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word: hammerhead word_type: noun expansion: hammerhead (plural hammerheads) forms: form: hammerheads tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From hammer + head. senses_examples: text: [The butler] joined us with a telegram for Bobbie on a salver. From her mother, I presumed, calling me...
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word: Pondicherry word_type: name expansion: Pondicherry forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Borrowed from Tamil பாண்டிச்சேரி (pāṇṭiccēri, literally “pandi town”). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Former name of Puducherry, a union territory in southern India. Former name of Puduche...
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word: Himachal Pradesh word_type: name expansion: Himachal Pradesh forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Transliteration of Hindi हिमाचल प्रदेश (himācal pradeś). senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: A state in northern India. Capital: Shimla. senses_topics:
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word: fellah word_type: noun expansion: fellah (plural fellahs or fellahin or fellaheen) forms: form: fellahs tags: plural form: fellahin tags: plural form: fellaheen tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: From Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚ...
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word: fellah word_type: noun expansion: fellah (plural fellahs) forms: form: fellahs tags: plural wikipedia: etymology_text: Representing an eye dialect pronunciation of fellow. senses_examples: senses_categories: senses_glosses: Alternative spelling of fella senses_topics:
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word: Uttar Pradesh word_type: name expansion: Uttar Pradesh forms: wikipedia: etymology_text: Transliteration of Hindi उत्तर प्रदेश (uttar pradeś). senses_examples: text: In the state of Uttar Pradesh, Hindu extremists have battled Muslims for control of the Babri Mosque, leading directly and indirec...