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5300 | word:
Shimla
word_type:
name
expansion:
Shimla
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Hindi शिमला (śimlā).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Himachal Pradesh, India.
senses_topics:
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5301 | word:
Shillong
word_type:
name
expansion:
Shillong
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Meghalaya, India.
senses_topics:
|
5302 | word:
Dehra Dun
word_type:
name
expansion:
Dehra Dun
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state capital of Uttaranchal (India).
senses_topics:
|
5303 | word:
Daman
word_type:
name
expansion:
Daman
forms:
wikipedia:
Daman
etymology_text:
The given name derives from the Sanskrit equivalent of Ancient Greek Damian, the brother of Cosmas.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India.
A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
senses_topics:
|
5304 | word:
Daman
word_type:
name
expansion:
Daman (plural Damans)
forms:
form:
Damans
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Daman
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Dutch Daman, variant of Damman.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A surname from Dutch.
senses_topics:
|
5305 | word:
given name
word_type:
noun
expansion:
given name (plural given names)
forms:
form:
given names
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
Japan: Use family names first, followed by given names, but be aware that some may introduce themselves to Westerners with their given name first.
ref:
2004, Gwyneth Olofsson, When in Rome or Rio or Riyadh...: Cultural Q&As for Successful Business Behavior Around the World, page 17
type:
quotation
text:
This may explain why some Chinese Americans write their Chinese name backwards. For example, the Chinese characters to Ching Tien Chay′s name show that his given name is really Tien Ching.
ref:
2008, Emma Woo Louie, Him Mark Lai, Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition, page 89
type:
quotation
text:
In one experiment, the researchers had people rate the characteristics of people with various given names or nicknames.[…]A person with a nickname like Liz, for example, would probably be rated as friendlier and more popular than a person with the given name Elizabeth, but Elizabeth would probably be rated more intelligent and trustworthy.
ref:
2011, Anne Myers, Christine H. Hansen, Experimental Psychology, page 296
type:
quotation
text:
Professor: Lady Bird, is that your given name?
Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson: Yeah.
Professor: Why is it in quotes?
Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson: I gave it to myself, it’s given to me by me.
ref:
2017, Greta Gerwig (scriptwriter), Lady Bird
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A personal name chosen for a child, usually by their parents.
A name bestowed by oneself or another, as opposed to the name given by one's parents.
senses_topics:
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5306 | word:
Aizawl
word_type:
name
expansion:
Aizawl
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
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senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Mizoram, India
senses_topics:
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5307 | word:
slim
word_type:
adj
expansion:
slim (comparative slimmer, superlative slimmest)
forms:
form:
slimmer
tags:
comparative
form:
slimmest
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).
senses_examples:
text:
Movie stars are usually slim, attractive, and young.
type:
example
text:
I'm afraid your chances are quite slim.
type:
example
text:
Wolves' debatable third in the last 10 minutes, with the ball only crossing the line by the slimmest of margins if at all, ensured a cracking finale, although City would have been left aggrieved had they let the win slip.
ref:
2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC
type:
quotation
text:
A slimly-shod lad;
a slimly-made cart.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Slender, thin.
Slender in an attractive way.
Slender, thin.
Designed to make the wearer appear slim.
Slender, thin.
Long and narrow.
Slender, thin.
Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
Very small, tiny.
Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy.
Sly, crafty.
senses_topics:
|
5308 | word:
slim
word_type:
noun
expansion:
slim (plural slims)
forms:
form:
slims
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).
senses_examples:
text:
I only smoke slims.
type:
example
text:
As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified.
ref:
2003, Charled F. Gilks, “HIV in the Developing World”, in David A. Warrell et al., editors, Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 4th edition, volume 1, page 446
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
A potato farl.
AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages.
Cocaine.
senses_topics:
|
5309 | word:
slim
word_type:
verb
expansion:
slim (third-person singular simple present slims, present participle slimming, simple past and past participle slimmed)
forms:
form:
slims
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
slimming
tags:
participle
present
form:
slimmed
tags:
participle
past
form:
slimmed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To lose weight in order to achieve slimness.
To make slimmer; to reduce in size.
senses_topics:
|
5310 | word:
Kavaratti
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kavaratti
forms:
wikipedia:
Kavaratti
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Capital of the union territory of Lakshadweep (India).
Island upon which the town stands.
senses_topics:
|
5311 | word:
from
word_type:
prep
expansion:
from
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English from (“from”), from Old English from, fram (“forward, from”), from Proto-West Germanic *fram, from Proto-Germanic *fram (“forward, from, away”). Cognate with Old Saxon fram (“from”) and Old High German fram (“from”), Danish frem (“forth, forward”), Danish fra (“from”), Swedish fram (“forth, forward”), Swedish från (“from”), Norwegian Nynorsk fram (“forward”), Norwegian Nynorsk frå (“from”), Icelandic fram (“forward, on”), Icelandic frá (“from”), Albanian pre, prej. More at fro.
senses_examples:
text:
Paul is from New Zealand.
type:
example
text:
I got a letter from my brother.
type:
example
text:
You can't get all your news from the Internet.
type:
example
text:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref:
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
type:
quotation
text:
This manuscript is from the 1980s.
type:
example
text:
The working day runs from 9 am to 5 pm.
type:
example
text:
Tickets are available from 17th July.
type:
example
text:
Rate your pain from 1 to 10.
type:
example
text:
Start counting from 1.
type:
example
text:
You can study anything from math to literature.
type:
example
text:
It's hard to tell from here.
type:
example
text:
Try to see it from his point of view.
type:
example
text:
The bomb went off just 100 yards from where they were standing.
type:
example
text:
From the top of the lighthouse you can just see the mainland.
type:
example
text:
I’ve been doing this from pickney.
type:
example
text:
I’ve been a bad boy from a little youth.
ref:
2021 August 17, TStackz & Kapz (lyrics and music), “BGB”, 1:01–1:03
type:
quotation
text:
He had books piled from floor to ceiling.
type:
example
text:
He departed yesterday from Chicago.
type:
example
text:
This figure has been changed from a one to a seven.
type:
example
text:
Face away from the wall!
type:
example
text:
After twenty minutes, remove the cake from the oven.
type:
example
text:
The general was ousted from power.
type:
example
text:
20 from 31 leaves 11.
type:
example
text:
She was barred from entering.
type:
example
text:
A parasol protects from the sun.
type:
example
text:
Your opinions differ from mine.
type:
example
text:
He knows right from wrong.
type:
example
text:
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref:
2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3
type:
quotation
text:
It's made from pure gold.
type:
example
text:
Too many people die from breast cancer.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to indicate source or provenance.
Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating a starting point in time.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being
Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
Indicating removal or separation.
Indicating removal or separation.
Denoting a subtraction operation.
Indicating exclusion.
Indicating differentiation.
Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
senses_topics:
mathematics
sciences
|
5312 | word:
matador
word_type:
noun
expansion:
matador (plural matadors or matadores, feminine matadora)
forms:
form:
matadors
tags:
plural
form:
matadores
tags:
plural
form:
matadora
tags:
feminine
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Spanish matador (“killer”). Used in the English language as title for a bullfighter, however referred to as a torero in Spain.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight.
A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way.
The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat.
One of the three chief cards in ombre and quadrille.
senses_topics:
bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
card-games
games
card-games
games |
5313 | word:
as
word_type:
adv
expansion:
as (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English as, als(a), alswa, from Old English eallswā (“just so; as”), thus representing a reduced form of also. Compare German Low German as, German als, Dutch als.
senses_examples:
text:
You’re not as tall as I am.
type:
example
text:
It's not as well made, but it's twice as expensive.
type:
example
text:
1865, The Act of Suicide as Distinct from the Crime of Self-Murder: A Sermon:
type:
quotation
text:
1937, Tobias Matthay, On Colouring as Distinct from Tone-inflection: A Lecture, London: Oxford University Press:
type:
quotation
text:
Likewise many other indulgences were by virtue hereof granted; as, to have a portatile altar, to receive the Sacrament privately; […]
ref:
1820, John Strype, The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith, page 48
type:
quotation
text:
First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America.
ref:
1913, “Aboriginal”, in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.
Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).
For example; for instance. (Compare such as.)
senses_topics:
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5314 | word:
as
word_type:
conj
expansion:
as
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English as, als(a), alswa, from Old English eallswā (“just so; as”), thus representing a reduced form of also. Compare German Low German as, German als, Dutch als.
senses_examples:
text:
She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.
type:
example
text:
It's not so complicated as I expected.
type:
example
text:
[...] that the Board of Regents had fallen into disrepute; that intelligent men inquired what the board was; he said that it was a quiet body, and kept out of the newspapers — and so quiet as to lead many to suppose tho board had ceased to exist.
ref:
1868, Proceedings and Debates of the [New York] Constitutional Convention Held in 1867 and 1868 in the City of Albany, page 2853
type:
quotation
text:
It was a talent he had developed; he could actually be so quiet as to be practically invisible. In class, he was rarely called upon to answer any questions. In the crowded hallways, he could slip in and out without offending any of the local bullies ...
ref:
2006, Eric Manasse, The Twenty-First Man, iUniverse, page 7
type:
quotation
text:
Under most circumstances, it will be possible to draw a distinction sufficiently clear as to allow an unambiguous allocation to one or other category.
ref:
2011, Herwig C. H. Hofmann, Gerard C. Rowe, Alexander H. Türk, Administrative Law and Policy of the European Union, Oxford University Press, page 507
type:
quotation
text:
1843 (first published), Thomas Babington Macaulay, Essays
We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited.
text:
If this happens, be patient and, difficult as it may be, try not to take these reactions personally.
ref:
2009, Matthew Friedman, Laurie B. Slone, J Friedman, After the War Zone
type:
quotation
text:
Do as I say!
type:
example
text:
I'm under a lot of pressure, as you know.
type:
example
text:
As you wish, my lord!
type:
example
text:
The kidnappers released him as agreed.
type:
example
text:
"But he's good as dead, and I ain't about to waste a bullet."
ref:
2001, Jason Manning, Mountain Honor, Signet Book
type:
quotation
text:
As I came in, she fled.
type:
example
text:
He sleeps as the rain falls.
type:
example
text:
As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.
type:
example
text:
As she grew older, she grew wiser.
type:
example
text:
As it’s too late, I quit.
type:
example
text:
I feel securely fixed on the careering chair, and with the momentum gained I steer myself as on skis to the guard and come to a stop with a happy little flourish.
ref:
1990, Andrew Fetler, “The third count”, in Triquarterly, number Spring
type:
quotation
text:
They think they are romantic, tragic figures, exiled as on Elba. They picture themselves as enlightened barons bringing civilization, opportunity, and kindness to the brown-skinned.
ref:
1992/1993 Winter, Katherine Weissman, “The Divorce Gang”, in Ploughshares, volume 18, number 4, page 202
type:
quotation
text:
Newspapers and magazines would load their graphics, and you could doodle as on the Sony Reader Daily Edition.
ref:
2011 January 30, Kyle Wagner, “E-readers lighten a traveler's load But choosing the right unit means weighing features, cost, ease of use”, in Denver Post, page Travel 1
type:
quotation
text:
The case is dismissed as between Jones and Smith.
(makes explicit that the case is continued between other parties to the litigation)
type:
example
text:
The case is dismissed as against Smith.
(makes explicit that it is continued against some other defendant)
type:
example
text:
He had the same problem as she did getting the lock open.
type:
example
text:
“If I had, if I could hold me head up with the better folk, perhaps I'd think again, but I don't reckon as that's very likely now.”
ref:
2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 99
type:
quotation
text:
Darkness itself is no more opposite to light as their actions were diametricall to their words.
ref:
1660, James Howell, Parly of Beasts, page 48
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.
Used after so or as to introduce a comparison.
In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.
Used to introduce a result: with the result that it is.
In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.
Expressing concession: though.
In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.
At the time that; during the time when:
At the same instant or moment that: when.
At the time that; during the time when:
At the same time that, during the same time when: while.
At the time that; during the time when:
Varying through time in the same proportion that.
Being that, considering that, because, since.
Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive, or with the verb elided): as though, as if.
used before a preposition to clarify that the prepositional phrase restricts the meaning of the sentence; specifically.
Functioning as a relative conjunction, and sometimes like a relative pronoun: that, which, who. (See usage notes.)
Than.
senses_topics:
law
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5315 | word:
as
word_type:
prep
expansion:
as
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English as, als(a), alswa, from Old English eallswā (“just so; as”), thus representing a reduced form of also. Compare German Low German as, German als, Dutch als.
senses_examples:
text:
You are not as tall as my sister.
type:
example
text:
They are big as houses.
type:
example
text:
What is your opinion as a parent?
type:
example
text:
He was never seen as the boss, but rather as a friend.
type:
example
text:
Directed by Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starred Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei and Jane Russell as Dorothy.
ref:
2000, Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast, St. James encyclopedia of popular culture, volume 2, page 223
type:
quotation
text:
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
ref:
2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
type:
quotation
text:
I bought you a new toy as a special treat.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.
In the role of.
by way of
senses_topics:
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5316 | word:
as
word_type:
noun
expansion:
as (plural ases or asses)
forms:
form:
ases
tags:
plural
form:
asses
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin as. Doublet of ace.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A libra.
Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics |
5317 | word:
as
word_type:
noun
expansion:
as
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From a + -s.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of a's.
senses_topics:
|
5318 | word:
as
word_type:
adv
expansion:
as
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Shortening of as hell or as fuck or similar.
senses_examples:
text:
sweet as
type:
example
text:
It also appears in other positions in the sentence: his big as car could hardly fit.
It's pretty scratched, and dented as.
ref:
2021 May 17, “Language Matters: Sweet as is Kiwi as”, in Stuff
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Used to intensify an adjective; very much; extremely
senses_topics:
|
5319 | word:
Srinagar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Srinagar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Transliteration of Hindi श्रीनगर (śrīnagar), from Sanskrit श्री (śrī) + नगर (nagara, “town, city”). Compare Urdu سِرِی نَگَر (sirī nagar).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is situated in the Kashmir valley on the banks of the river Jhelum and famous for its gardens.
senses_topics:
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5320 | word:
phrase
word_type:
noun
expansion:
phrase (plural phrases)
forms:
form:
phrases
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “I tell, express”).
senses_examples:
text:
Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
ref:
2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A short written or spoken expression.
A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.
A small section of music in a larger piece.
A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.
A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
senses_topics:
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
entertainment
lifestyle
music
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
5321 | word:
phrase
word_type:
verb
expansion:
phrase (third-person singular simple present phrases, present participle phrasing, simple past and past participle phrased)
forms:
form:
phrases
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
phrasing
tags:
participle
present
form:
phrased
tags:
participle
past
form:
phrased
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “I tell, express”).
senses_examples:
text:
I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.
To perform a passage with the correct phrasing.
To divide into melodic phrases.
senses_topics:
entertainment
lifestyle
music
entertainment
lifestyle
music |
5322 | word:
avenue
word_type:
noun
expansion:
avenue (plural avenues)
forms:
form:
avenues
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
avenue
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”, from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”)).
senses_examples:
text:
Finding an address east to west is fairly simple . The numbering begins at Central Avenue and moves logically and predictably either west through the avenues or east through the streets, so you know that 2400 East Camelback is at Twenty-Fourth Street or 4300 West Indian School is at Forty-Third Avenue .
ref:
2009, Carrie Frasure, Arizona Off the Beaten Path®: A Guide to Unique Places, page 111
type:
quotation
text:
Boulevards typically (but not exclusively) go east to west; avenues usually run north to south.
ref:
2011, Time Out Los Angeles, page 78
type:
quotation
text:
The City of New York implemented a unified street grid in Queens: Numbered avenues run east–west; numbered streets run north–south.
ref:
2014, Adrienne Onofri, Walking Queens
type:
quotation
text:
There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem.
type:
example
text:
As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot.
ref:
1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser
text:
Alexis Sanchez hit the crossbar for Barcelona early on and Pedro hit the post in the dying seconds - while Cole cleared off the line from Cesc Fabregas. Goalkeeper Petr Cech also saved well from Messi and Carles Puyol as Pep Guardiola's team tried every avenue in an attempt to break Chelsea down.
ref:
2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
One avenue being explored is the Esk Valley line's community rail designation status, to see if standards more appropriate to a main line railway can be challenged with a view to facilitating low-cost operation of a rural branch.
ref:
2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 78
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
senses_topics:
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5323 | word:
Kohima
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kohima
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Angami Kewhira (“the land where the kewhi flower grows”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Nagaland, India
senses_topics:
|
5324 | word:
saying
word_type:
verb
expansion:
saying
forms:
wikipedia:
saying
etymology_text:
From say + -ing.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
present participle and gerund of say
senses_topics:
|
5325 | word:
saying
word_type:
noun
expansion:
saying (plural sayings)
forms:
form:
sayings
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
saying
etymology_text:
From say + -ing.
senses_examples:
text:
There is a Chinese saying: "One who does not know how to smile has no business to be in business." How much truer is this of people engaged in the business of diplomacy!
ref:
1983, James C. H. Shen, “Rejoining the Government”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30
type:
quotation
text:
Garrus: Fist knows you're coming. We'll have a better chance if we all work together.
Wrex: My people have a saying: Seek the enemy of your enemy, and you will find a friend.
ref:
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A proverb or maxim.
That which is said; an utterance.
senses_topics:
|
5326 | word:
saying
word_type:
adj
expansion:
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
senses_topics:
|
5327 | word:
Canadian
word_type:
adj
expansion:
Canadian (comparative more Canadian, superlative most Canadian)
forms:
form:
more Canadian
tags:
comparative
form:
most Canadian
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
Canadian
etymology_text:
From Canada (noun) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people.
Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian English.
senses_topics:
|
5328 | word:
Canadian
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Canadian (plural Canadians)
forms:
form:
Canadians
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Canadian
etymology_text:
From Canada (noun) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).
senses_examples:
text:
Even the Canadians have gone to war against them! They never go to war against anybody!
ref:
2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 180
type:
quotation
text:
“If you look back 20 years ago, we were all playing in the Canadians and high-level cashspiels,” Shantz, 51, said Friday.
ref:
2012 March 16, Monte Stewart, “Shantz takes on foes from yesteryear in quest for elusive national crown”, in Global News
type:
quotation
text:
"When we were playing in the Canadians (championships) other teams would come around to watch us do our warm-ups," son Jayme Hall said.
ref:
2015 December 19, Mary Caton, “A legend on LaSalle diamonds for decades”, in The Windsor Star
type:
quotation
text:
“With it being Canadians, I’m just, a little bit, not as good as the top girls are,” she said, despite playing in the Canadians in Belleville in 2013.
ref:
2017 September 21, Bill Doucet, “A scent of success for Hespeler horseshoe pitcher”, in The Cambridge Times
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A native or inhabitant of Canada.
Canadian national championship.
canoe (short for Canadian canoe, as opposed to kayak)
senses_topics:
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sports |
5329 | word:
Canadian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Canadian
forms:
wikipedia:
Canadian
etymology_text:
From Canada (noun) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The English language (spoken or written) as used in Canada; Canadian English.
senses_topics:
|
5330 | word:
Canadian
word_type:
name
expansion:
Canadian
forms:
wikipedia:
Canadian
etymology_text:
A name of uncertain origin. The city and town names are after the river.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Canadian River, a river in New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, and Oklahoma in the United States, which is a tributary of the Arkansas River.
A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma.
A city, the county seat of Hemphill County, Texas, situated on the Canadian River.
senses_topics:
|
5331 | word:
Kangar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kangar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Perlis, Malaysia.
A town in Punjab, Pakistan.
A street in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
senses_topics:
|
5332 | word:
Imphal
word_type:
name
expansion:
Imphal
forms:
wikipedia:
Imphal
etymology_text:
From Manipuri ꯏꯝꯐꯥꯜ (ʼimphaal).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Manipur, India.
A river that flows in the central plains of Manipur.
A valley that is flooded and drained by the Imphal river and its tributaries.
A former district, which consists of Imphal East and Imphal West.
A district that consists of areas that are in the eastern side of the Imphal River.
A district that consists of areas that are in the western side of the Imphal River.
A standard dialect of the official Meitei language, spoken in and around the state capital of Manipur.
A stealth guided missile destroyer warship of the Indian navy.
senses_topics:
|
5333 | word:
al
word_type:
noun
expansion:
al (usually uncountable, plural als)
forms:
form:
als
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi आल (āl).
senses_examples:
text:
For quotations using this term, see Citations:al.
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The Indian mulberry, Morinda citrifolia, especially as used to make dye.
senses_topics:
|
5334 | word:
Kuantan
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kuantan
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Malay Kuantan.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Pahang, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5335 | word:
canary
word_type:
noun
expansion:
canary (countable and uncountable, plural canaries)
forms:
form:
canaries
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
canary
etymology_text:
From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
senses_examples:
text:
canary:
text:
The tendency in these types of situations (as far as I can see) is that because I don't think the act itself is illegal, the police will go through your vehicle systematically loking for anything wrong with it, to slap a canary on it (that's slang for an unroadworthy sticker) or present you with some other fine.
ref:
1993 September 12, Jacco Zwetsloot, “Warning About Speed Traps”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
Yes, if the exhaust is to noisey they can slap a yellow canary on it, but the[n] who cares you got rid of it.
ref:
1999 January 16, Garry Lawson, “Noisy Bikes (Update)”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet)
type:
quotation
text:
You don't have to carry a spare wheel for a car to be roadworthy, and if you *do* carry one, it doesn't have to be in a roadworthy condition *unless* you fit it [to] the car and drive on it. / If it's not and you get pinched, expect a canary...
ref:
2003 February 14, Noddy, “Spare tyres”, in aus.cars (Usenet)
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
An informer or snitch; a squealer.
A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (Nembutal).
A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
A sovereign (coin).
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
|
5336 | word:
canary
word_type:
adj
expansion:
canary (comparative more canary, superlative most canary)
forms:
form:
more canary
tags:
comparative
form:
most canary
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
canary
etymology_text:
From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of a light yellow colour.
senses_topics:
|
5337 | word:
canary
word_type:
verb
expansion:
canary (third-person singular simple present canaries, present participle canarying, simple past and past participle canaried)
forms:
form:
canaries
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
canarying
tags:
participle
present
form:
canaried
tags:
participle
past
form:
canaried
tags:
past
wikipedia:
canary
etymology_text:
From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (“Canary Islands”) (Spanish Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (“Dog Island" or "Canine Island”), named for its dogs, from canārius (“canine”), from canis (“dog”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).
To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
senses_topics:
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software |
5338 | word:
Kuching
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kuching
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Kuching, possibly from kucing (“cat”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Sarawak, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5339 | word:
to
word_type:
particle
expansion:
to
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English to, from Old English tō, from Proto-Germanic *tō ~ *ta, from Proto-Indo-European *de ~ *do (“to”). Cognate with Scots tae, to (“to”), North Frisian to, tö, tu (“to”), Saterland Frisian tou (“to”), Low German to (“to”), Dutch toe (“to”), German zu (“to”), West Frisian ta (“to”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian ndaj (“towards”), Irish do (“to, for”), Breton da (“to, for”), Welsh i (“to, for”), Russian до (do, “to”). Doublet of too.
senses_examples:
text:
I want to leave.
type:
example
text:
He asked me what to do.
type:
example
text:
I have places to go and people to see.
type:
example
text:
To err is human.
type:
example
text:
Who am I to criticise? I've done worse things myself.
type:
example
text:
Odds are, BP to get new CEO this year
ref:
2010 July, “Archived copy”, in Associated Press, archived from the original on 2010-07-05, headline
type:
quotation
text:
To that end, the home supporters were in good voice to begin with, but it was Newcastle who started the game in the ascendancy, with Barton putting a diving header over the top from Jose Enrique's cross.
ref:
2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed."
type:
example
text:
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
type:
example
text:
You are to go to the store and buy a bottle of milk.
type:
example
text:
I went to the shops to buy some bread.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
As above, with the verb implied.
Used to indicate an obligation on the part of, or a directive given to, the subject.
In order to.
senses_topics:
|
5340 | word:
to
word_type:
prep
expansion:
to
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English to, from Old English tō, from Proto-Germanic *tō ~ *ta, from Proto-Indo-European *de ~ *do (“to”). Cognate with Scots tae, to (“to”), North Frisian to, tö, tu (“to”), Saterland Frisian tou (“to”), Low German to (“to”), Dutch toe (“to”), German zu (“to”), West Frisian ta (“to”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian ndaj (“towards”), Irish do (“to, for”), Breton da (“to, for”), Welsh i (“to, for”), Russian до (do, “to”). Doublet of too.
senses_examples:
text:
We are walking to the shop.
type:
example
text:
Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
ref:
2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-28
type:
quotation
text:
I gave the book to him.
type:
example
text:
I spoke to him earlier.
type:
example
text:
He devoted himself to education.
type:
example
text:
They drank to his health.
type:
example
text:
His face was beaten to a pulp.
type:
example
text:
To everyone's great relief, the tuneless carol singers finally ceased their warbling.
type:
example
text:
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
type:
example
text:
It takes 2 to 4 weeks to process typical applications.
type:
example
text:
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); took her to wife (took her as a wife); was sold to slave (was sold as a slave).
text:
one to one = 1:1
text:
ten to one = 10:1.
text:
I have ten dollars to your four.
text:
In total, the Reds had 28 shots to their opponent's nine, and 15 corners to the Baggies' three.
ref:
2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport
type:
quotation
text:
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
type:
example
text:
Three to the power of two is nine.
type:
example
text:
Three to the second is nine.
type:
example
text:
What's the time? – It's quarter to four in the afternoon (or 3:45 pm).
text:
It’s quarter to (3:45, or 4:45, or whatever time ending in 45 would make the most sense)
text:
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
type:
example
text:
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
type:
example
text:
The name has a nice ring to it.
type:
example
text:
Our holiday did not go to plan.
type:
example
text:
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
type:
example
text:
Where are you to?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Indicating destination: In the direction of, so as to arrive at.
Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
Used to indicate result of action.
Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.
Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
Denotes the end of a range.
As a.
Used to indicate a ratio or comparison; compared to, as against.
Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Preceding the next hour.
Preceding the next hour.
Often used without the hour
Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
According to.
At.
senses_topics:
arithmetic
time
time
|
5341 | word:
to
word_type:
adv
expansion:
to (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English to, from Old English tō, from Proto-Germanic *tō ~ *ta, from Proto-Indo-European *de ~ *do (“to”). Cognate with Scots tae, to (“to”), North Frisian to, tö, tu (“to”), Saterland Frisian tou (“to”), Low German to (“to”), Dutch toe (“to”), German zu (“to”), West Frisian ta (“to”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian ndaj (“towards”), Irish do (“to, for”), Breton da (“to, for”), Welsh i (“to, for”), Russian до (do, “to”). Doublet of too.
senses_examples:
text:
Please push the door to.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Into the wind.
Misspelling of too.
senses_topics:
government
politics
regionalism
nautical
transport
|
5342 | word:
to
word_type:
particle
expansion:
to
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi तो (to).
senses_examples:
text:
I am to so bored right now.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
a filler word common amongst urban Indians.
senses_topics:
|
5343 | word:
Kota Kinabalu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kota Kinabalu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Kota Kinabalu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Sabah, Malaysia, formerly known as Jesselton.
senses_topics:
|
5344 | word:
Gangtok
word_type:
name
expansion:
Gangtok
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Sikkim, India.
senses_topics:
|
5345 | word:
Ipoh
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ipoh
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Ipoh, from ipuh (“upas (a tree local to Ipoh)”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of the state of Perak, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5346 | word:
Kota Bharu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kota Bharu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Kota Bharu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Kelantan, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5347 | word:
Johor Bahru
word_type:
name
expansion:
Johor Bahru
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Johor Bahru.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Johor, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5348 | word:
Alor Setar
word_type:
name
expansion:
Alor Setar
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Alor Setar, see also Alor Star.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of the state of Kedah, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5349 | word:
Seremban
word_type:
name
expansion:
Seremban
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Seremban.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5350 | word:
Kuala Terengganu
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kuala Terengganu
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Kuala Terengganu.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Terengganu, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5351 | word:
boy
word_type:
noun
expansion:
boy (countable and uncountable, plural boys)
forms:
form:
boys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
boy (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
From Middle English boy／boye (“servant, commoner, knave, boy”), from Old English *bōia (“boy”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōjō, from Proto-Germanic *bōjô (“younger brother, young male relation”), from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“brother, close male relation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-, *bʰāt- (“father, elder brother, brother”).
Cognate with Scots boy (“boy”), West Frisian boai (“boy”), Dutch boi (“boy”), Low German Boi (“boy”), and probably to the Old English proper name Bōia. Also related to West Flemish boe (“brother”), Norwegian dialectal boa (“brother”), Dutch boef (“rogue, knave”), Bavarian Bua (“young boy, lad”), German Bube ("boy; knave; jack"; > English bub), Icelandic bófi (“rogue, crook, bandit, knave”). See also bully.
senses_examples:
text:
Kate is dating a boy named Jim.
type:
example
text:
Bye or boye: Bostio.
ref:
1440, Promptorium Parvulorum, section 35
type:
quotation
text:
The stretes of the citie shalbe full of yonge boyes and damselles...
ref:
1535, Bible (Coverdale), Zechariah, Chapter VIII, Verse 5
text:
I find I was mistaken in the sex, 'tis a boy.
ref:
1711 March 7, Jonathan Swift, Journal, line 208
text:
Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
ref:
1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold, Canto II, xxiii, 72
type:
quotation
text:
"He is not quite a baby, Alfred," said Ellen, "though he is only a big stupid boy. We have made him miserable enough. Let us leave him alone."
ref:
1876, Frances Eliza Millett Notley, The Kiddle-a-Wink, "A Tale of Love", page 169
text:
It opened up a whole range [of feelings]. Some of them we were prepared for ― like for some women to feel some of the images were anti-feminist […] One woman wrote, "I can see the boys have taught you well." "Macho B.S.," someone else wrote.
ref:
1989 December 10, Tatiana Schreiber, Liz Galst, Emma Stonebridge, “Drawing The Line: Lesbian Sex And Art: What Do You Like, How Do You Decide?”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 9
type:
quotation
text:
boys' club
type:
example
text:
I resolved to continue in the Cave, with my two Servants, my Maid, and a Boy, whom I had brought from France.
ref:
1721, Penelope Aubin, The Life of Madam de Beaumount, ii, 36
type:
quotation
text:
My Boy Stephen Grauener.
ref:
1625, W. Hawkins in Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Vol. I, iii, vii, 211
text:
They picked out two of the strongest of the Boys (as they call the Men) about the place.
ref:
1834, Edward Markham, New Zealand or Recollections of It, section 72
type:
quotation
text:
The blacks who work on a station or farm are always, like the blacks in the Southern States, called boys.
ref:
1876, Ebenezer Thorne, The Queen of the Colonies, or, Queensland as I Knew It, section 58
type:
quotation
text:
From a domestic point of view the advent of the Chinese was a decided blessing, for, instead of the European ladies of the settlement having to do all their own work, they were able to employ a proper staff of Chinese boys.
ref:
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 233
type:
quotation
text:
[In Shanghai,] The register clerk assigns you to a room, and instead of ‘Front!’ he shouts ‘Boy!’
ref:
1907 May 13, Evening Post, N.Y, section 6
type:
quotation
text:
He thrust his head into the aisle. "Boy!" A Chinese in a white coat responded listlessly. "What will you have? Beer?"
ref:
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521
type:
quotation
text:
Aborigine Wally... described himself as ‘number one boy’ at the station.
ref:
1960 February 5, Northern Territory News, 5/5
type:
quotation
text:
If any water be rough and boysterous, or the chanell verye broade, it manye times drowneth the carriages and the boyes and nowe and then slouthfull and lyther souldiours.
ref:
1572, Flavius Vegetius Renatus, translated by John Sadler, Foure Bookes... Contayninge a Plaine Forme, and Perfect Knowledge of Martiall Policye..., iii, vii
type:
quotation
text:
‘Why does he go out and pinch all his dogs in person? He's an administrator, isn't he? Wouldn't he hire a boy or something?’
‘We call them “staff”,’ Roger replies.
ref:
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, i, 37
type:
quotation
text:
A Hottentot... expects to be called by his name if addressed by any one who knows it; and by those to whom it is not known he expects to be called Hottentot... or boy.
ref:
1812, Anne Plumptre translating Hinrich Lichtenstein, Travels in Southern Africa, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806, Vol. I, i, viii, 119
text:
Every darky, however old, is a boy.
ref:
1888, Louis Diston Powles, Land of Pink Pearl, or Recollections of Life in the Bahamas, section 66
type:
quotation
text:
[In Alabama,] Guards still use the term ‘boy’ to refer to Black prisoners.
ref:
1973 September 8, Black Panther, 7/2
type:
quotation
text:
BN: [repeating a catchphrase] I like the boy.
MA: [to hostile audience] Hold it, hold it, hold it. Easy. Did you say ‘Roy’ or ‘boy’?
BN: ‘I like the boy’. There's nothing wrong with saying that... Hang on, hang on, hang on... I'll change religion, I'll do anything for ya, I don't bloody care... What's wrong with saying that? ‘I like the boy’?
MA: Boy...
BN: I mean, I like the man. I'm sorry, Muhammad.
ref:
1979, Bert Newton, Mohammed Ali, The Logie Awards
type:
quotation
text:
The next thing I remember, I am walking down the street / I'm feeling all right, I'm with my boys, I'm with my troops, yeah.
ref:
1980, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “Late in the Evening”, in One-Trick Pony
type:
quotation
text:
C'mere, boy! Good boy! Who's a good boy?
type:
example
text:
Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?
type:
example
text:
Wounded... 1 Boy, 1st class, severely.
ref:
1841 May 6, Times, London, 5/4
type:
quotation
text:
He joined the Navy as a boy second class in 1898.
ref:
1963 April 30, Times, London, 16/2
type:
quotation
text:
[…] drove by a corner, saw what I thought—no, what I knew—were dealers and asked if they knew where I could get some boy.
ref:
2021, Tim Weber, Heroin: the Ripple Effect
type:
quotation
text:
Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...
ref:
1950, Pageant
type:
quotation
text:
Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes.
ref:
1970 [earlier 1963], Helen V. Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, Helen Van Pelt's African Violets, Dutton Adult
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A young male human.
A young male human.
A male child or adolescent, as distinguished from an infant or adult.
A son of any age.
A male human younger than the speaker.
A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).
A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
A younger such worker.
A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address.
A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee
A male camp follower.
A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee, particularly
Any non-white male, regardless of age.
A male friend.
A male submissive.
A male non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male pet, especially a dog.
A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank.
Heroin.
A male (tree, gene, etc).
senses_topics:
BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
government
military
politics
war
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5352 | word:
boy
word_type:
intj
expansion:
boy
forms:
wikipedia:
boy (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
From Middle English boy／boye (“servant, commoner, knave, boy”), from Old English *bōia (“boy”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōjō, from Proto-Germanic *bōjô (“younger brother, young male relation”), from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“brother, close male relation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-, *bʰāt- (“father, elder brother, brother”).
Cognate with Scots boy (“boy”), West Frisian boai (“boy”), Dutch boi (“boy”), Low German Boi (“boy”), and probably to the Old English proper name Bōia. Also related to West Flemish boe (“brother”), Norwegian dialectal boa (“brother”), Dutch boef (“rogue, knave”), Bavarian Bua (“young boy, lad”), German Bube ("boy; knave; jack"; > English bub), Icelandic bófi (“rogue, crook, bandit, knave”). See also bully.
senses_examples:
text:
Boy, that was close!
type:
example
text:
Boy, that tastes good!
type:
example
text:
Boy, I wish I could go to Canada!
type:
example
text:
Time is running out, so I renounce a spin on a Class 387 for a fast run to Paddington on another Class 800 - a shame as the weather was perfect for pictures. Even so, it's enjoyable - boy, can those trains shift under the wires.
ref:
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
senses_topics:
|
5353 | word:
boy
word_type:
verb
expansion:
boy (third-person singular simple present boys, present participle boying, simple past and past participle boyed)
forms:
form:
boys
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
boying
tags:
participle
present
form:
boyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
boyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
boy (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
From Middle English boy／boye (“servant, commoner, knave, boy”), from Old English *bōia (“boy”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōjō, from Proto-Germanic *bōjô (“younger brother, young male relation”), from Proto-Germanic *bō- (“brother, close male relation”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-, *bʰāt- (“father, elder brother, brother”).
Cognate with Scots boy (“boy”), West Frisian boai (“boy”), Dutch boi (“boy”), Low German Boi (“boy”), and probably to the Old English proper name Bōia. Also related to West Flemish boe (“brother”), Norwegian dialectal boa (“brother”), Dutch boef (“rogue, knave”), Bavarian Bua (“young boy, lad”), German Bube ("boy; knave; jack"; > English bub), Icelandic bófi (“rogue, crook, bandit, knave”). See also bully.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage).
senses_topics:
|
5354 | word:
natal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
natal
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Latin nātālis (“natal”), from nātus, perfect active participle of nāscor (“I am born”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of Noel.
senses_examples:
text:
Sea turtles return to their natal beaches to nest.
type:
example
text:
The constituents of the nation are a land and a people: the "natal", which is not necessarily innate, and the "popular," which is not necessarily pregiven.
ref:
1987, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to birth.
senses_topics:
|
5355 | word:
natal
word_type:
adj
expansion:
natal (comparative more natal, superlative most natal)
forms:
form:
more natal
tags:
comparative
form:
most natal
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Latin natis (“rump”), plural nates.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Of or relating to the buttocks.
senses_topics:
|
5356 | word:
Briton
word_type:
noun
expansion:
Briton (plural Britons)
forms:
form:
Britons
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Briton
James I of England
etymology_text:
From Old French Breton, from Latin Brittō or its Celtic equivalent (Welsh Brython). Doublet of Breton and Brython.
senses_examples:
text:
At last the Saxons had killed nearly all the Britons, and the few who remained took refuge in the mountains, in that part of the country which we now call Wales, and in Cornwall.
ref:
1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 59
type:
quotation
text:
The ancient Britons were particularly fond of Anglesey, which the Romans knew as Mona.
type:
example
text:
...when these hateful termes of Scottes and Englishemen, shalbe abolisshed, and blotted oute for euer, and we shal al agre in the onely title and name of Britons...
ref:
1547, James Harrison, An Exhortacion to the Scottes..., G v b
type:
quotation
text:
Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves:
Britons never, never, never will be slaves.
ref:
1740, “Rule, Britannia!”, James Thomson (lyrics), Thomas Arne (music)
type:
quotation
text:
I glory in the name of Briton.
ref:
1760, King George III, quoted in George Rose's 1860 Diaries and Correspondence..., Vol. II, p. 189
text:
Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading 'nigger' theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races.
ref:
1902, George Stoddart Whitmore, The Last Maori War in New Zealand..., page vi
type:
quotation
text:
The victims included 3 Canadians, 2 Irishmen, and 1 Briton.
type:
example
text:
The hiker was a Briton from New Zealand.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman.
A citizen of the United Kingdom or (historical, obsolete) its overseas empire.
senses_topics:
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5357 | word:
Shah Alam
word_type:
name
expansion:
Shah Alam
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Malay Shah Alam.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital city of Selangor, Malaysia.
senses_topics:
|
5358 | word:
Sydney
word_type:
name
expansion:
Sydney (countable and uncountable, plural Sydneys)
forms:
form:
Sydneys
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
Sydney (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
For the surname and given name, see Sidney. The cities in Australia and Canada are named after British politician Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733–1800).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A major port city, the state capital of New South Wales, Australia, and the most populous city in Australia.
The City of Sydney, the local government area for central Sydney, New South Wales.
A seaport and former city in Nova Scotia, Canada, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island.
An unincorporated community in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.
A surname from Old English, a spelling variant of Sidney.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
senses_topics:
|
5359 | word:
man of war
word_type:
noun
expansion:
man of war (plural men of war)
forms:
form:
men of war
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
text:
But there is a Bird they call, a Man of vvar, and he is much bigger than a Heron, and flies out to Sea upon diſcoveries, (for they never light upon the Sea) to ſee vvhat ſhips are comming to the Iland; and vvhen they return the Ilanders look out, and ſay, A ſhip is comming, and finde it true.
ref:
1657, Richard Ligon, “[Birds]”, in A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbados. […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, […], →OCLC, page 61
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of man-of-war
senses_topics:
|
5360 | word:
homme de lettres
word_type:
noun
expansion:
homme de lettres (plural hommes de lettres)
forms:
form:
hommes de lettres
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from French homme de lettres, from homme (“man”) + de (“of”) + lettres (“humanities, arts”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
man of letters, a literary man
senses_topics:
|
5361 | word:
Bhopal
word_type:
name
expansion:
Bhopal
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Hindi भोपाल (bhopāl).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state capital of Madhya Pradesh, India.
The 1984 leak of toxic gas in this city, resulting in thousands of deaths and over half a million injuries.
A district of Madhya Pradesh, India, containing the city of the same name.
A former state in India, containing the city of the same name.
senses_topics:
|
5362 | word:
grape
word_type:
noun
expansion:
grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)
forms:
form:
grapes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.
senses_examples:
text:
Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.
type:
example
text:
wild grape covering the back slope
type:
example
text:
sea grape; tail grape
type:
example
text:
For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.
type:
example
text:
grape:
text:
men mowed down by grape
type:
example
text:
I was horrified to see three grapes standing by the aircraft with the hose still connected.
ref:
1998, Approach, volume 43, number 10, page 10
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
A woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.
A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
Clipping of grapeshot.
A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
A person's head.
senses_topics:
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
|
5363 | word:
grape
word_type:
adj
expansion:
grape (comparative more grape, superlative most grape)
forms:
form:
more grape
tags:
comparative
form:
most grape
tags:
superlative
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
Of a dark purplish red colour.
senses_topics:
|
5364 | word:
grape
word_type:
verb
expansion:
grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)
forms:
form:
grapes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
graping
tags:
participle
present
form:
graped
tags:
participle
past
form:
graped
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.
senses_examples:
text:
I used to go graping and blackberrying and blueberrying.
ref:
1973, Nancy Safford, Time's Island; Portraits of the Vineyard, page 35
type:
quotation
text:
Some are called ticked; some have the milk fever; some have worm-'ith-tail ; some are graped ; others are broken-up old cows.
ref:
1856, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, Reports from Committees, page 138
type:
quotation
text:
The lungs were in a bad condition, hard in places, and lumpy and badly graped.
ref:
1891, Public Health - Volume 4, page 249
type:
quotation
text:
Do I understand that the carcases of the graped cows, to which you refer, were used for food ?
ref:
1898, Great Britain Royal Commission on Tuberculosis, Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Administrative Procedures for Controlling Danger to Man Through the Use as Food of the Meat and Milk of Tuberculous Animals, page 245
type:
quotation
text:
Over the huge abraded rind, Crow-countries graped with dung, we go, Past gullies that no longer flow And wells that nobody can find, Lashed by the screaming of the crow, Stabbed by the needles of the mind.
ref:
1932, Kenneth Slessor, Cuckooz Contrey
type:
quotation
text:
Some small graped pisolitic textures are primary but not important.
ref:
1991, Desheng Li, Tectonic types of oil and gas basins in China, page 162
type:
quotation
text:
An additional concern is the problem of graping, which becomes more visible when type-4 solder powder is required for fine-pitch μ-BGA attachment.
ref:
2012, K. Subramanian, Lead-free Solders: Materials Reliability for Electronics, page 169
type:
quotation
text:
Lang, lang I sought and graped for my pack, Till night and hunger forced me to come back.
ref:
1780, Alexander Wilson, A Pedlar's Story
type:
quotation
text:
Aw graped my way out i' the dark, An' down the stairs aw scrafflel'd
ref:
1836, William Stephenson Jr, Punch and Toby
type:
quotation
text:
I dinna ken,” said Steenie ; “ the book had fa'en out 0' his pocket, I fancy, for I fand it amang my feet when I was graping about to set him on his legs again, and I just pat it in my pouch to keep it safe ;
ref:
1836, Walter Scott, The antiquary, page 56
type:
quotation
text:
'Till in a declamation mist, His argument he tint it; He gapéd for't, he graped for't, He fand it was awa, man;
ref:
1881, Robert Burns, The Two Lawyers, page 280
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To pick grapes.
To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
To grope.
To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).
Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
senses_topics:
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5365 | word:
goodbye
word_type:
intj
expansion:
goodbye
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier goodby, Godby, Godby'e, Godbwye, God b'w'y, God bwy yee, God buy you, God be wi' you, each a progressively shorter contraction of "God be with ye" or "God be with you". Note the change of God to good by confusion with good morning, good night, etc. Modernly analysed as good + bye.
senses_examples:
text:
Goodbye! - Goodbye, Anna.
Audio (US): (file)
ref:
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
senses_topics:
|
5366 | word:
goodbye
word_type:
noun
expansion:
goodbye (plural goodbyes)
forms:
form:
goodbyes
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier goodby, Godby, Godby'e, Godbwye, God b'w'y, God bwy yee, God buy you, God be wi' you, each a progressively shorter contraction of "God be with ye" or "God be with you". Note the change of God to good by confusion with good morning, good night, etc. Modernly analysed as good + bye.
senses_examples:
text:
They made their good-byes.
type:
example
text:
We have time for a short goodbye.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An utterance of goodbye, the wishing of farewell to someone.
senses_topics:
|
5367 | word:
goodbye
word_type:
verb
expansion:
goodbye (third-person singular simple present goodbyes, present participle goodbying or goodbyeing, simple past and past participle goodbyed)
forms:
form:
goodbyes
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
goodbying
tags:
participle
present
form:
goodbyeing
tags:
participle
present
form:
goodbyed
tags:
participle
past
form:
goodbyed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From earlier goodby, Godby, Godby'e, Godbwye, God b'w'y, God bwy yee, God buy you, God be wi' you, each a progressively shorter contraction of "God be with ye" or "God be with you". Note the change of God to good by confusion with good morning, good night, etc. Modernly analysed as good + bye.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To say goodbye; to wish somebody farewell on parting.
senses_topics:
|
5368 | word:
man of the world
word_type:
noun
expansion:
man of the world (plural men of the world)
forms:
form:
men of the world
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A worldly or sophisticated man, one well versed in the ways and dealings of humankind.
senses_topics:
|
5369 | word:
Agartala
word_type:
name
expansion:
Agartala
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Tripura, India
senses_topics:
|
5370 | word:
man-o-war
word_type:
noun
expansion:
man-o-war (plural men-o-war)
forms:
form:
men-o-war
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Misspelling of man-o'-war.
senses_topics:
|
5371 | word:
qigong
word_type:
noun
expansion:
qigong (usually uncountable, plural qigongs)
forms:
form:
qigongs
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 氣功／气功 (qìgōng, “breath work, qi work”).
senses_examples:
text:
Some people may suddenly speak a language and speak it quite fluently. However, it is not a language of human society. What can it be called? It can be called "cosmic language" (宇宙語). Actually it is nothing but a language of subtle beings in a space only a little bit higher than ours. Now quite a few of qigong practitioners in China have had such an experience. Some can even speak several such languages.
ref:
1998 May, Li HongZhi, CHINA FALUN GONG (REVISED EDITION) (English Version), Hong Kong: Falun Fo Fa Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 29
type:
quotation
text:
My patients laud qigong as a stressbuster and cure for pesky chronic symptoms that baffle doctors.
ref:
2004, Judith Orloff, Positive Energy, page 112
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A Chinese system of breathing control, physical exercise and meditation.
senses_topics:
alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences |
5372 | word:
child language
word_type:
noun
expansion:
child language (uncountable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The language spoken by a child who is still in the process of developing verbal skills.
senses_topics:
human-sciences
psychology
sciences |
5373 | word:
Pitjantjara
word_type:
name
expansion:
Pitjantjara
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of Pitjantjatjara
senses_topics:
|
5374 | word:
Kata Tjuta
word_type:
name
expansion:
Kata Tjuta
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Pitjantjatjara Kata Tjuṯa.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A rock formation in central Australia close to Uluru, formerly known as The Olgas.
senses_topics:
|
5375 | word:
The Olgas
word_type:
name
expansion:
The Olgas
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former name of Kata Tjuta.
senses_topics:
|
5376 | word:
Lucknow
word_type:
name
expansion:
Lucknow
forms:
wikipedia:
Lucknow
Lucknow (disambiguation)
etymology_text:
Anglicisation of Hindi लखनऊ (lakhnaū).
senses_examples:
text:
‘Lucknow is not a village. It is a city with a thousand years of civilization. It was the capital of the Awadh kingdom.ʼ
ref:
2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 11
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The state capital of Uttar Pradesh, India.
A number of other places:
A hamlet in Angus council area, Scotland, east of Monifieth (OS grid ref NO5133).
A number of other places:
A community of Huron-Kinloss township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
A number of other places:
An unincorporated community in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A number of other places:
A locality in the City of Orange, New South Wales, Australia.
A number of other places:
A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
senses_topics:
|
5377 | word:
Ayers Rock
word_type:
name
expansion:
Ayers Rock
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Named after former Premier of South Australia Henry Ayers (1821–1897).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A giant, red-colored free-standing monadnock in the south of Northern Territory in Central Australia, now known by its indigenous name, Uluru.
senses_topics:
|
5378 | word:
Thiruvananthapuram
word_type:
name
expansion:
Thiruvananthapuram
forms:
wikipedia:
Thiruvananthapuram
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Malayalam തിരുവനന്തപുരം (tiruvanantapuraṁ).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A city, the state capital of Kerala, India, formerly known as Trivandrum.
The district containing this city.
senses_topics:
|
5379 | word:
us
word_type:
pron
expansion:
us
forms:
wikipedia:
us
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé
Proto-Germanic *uns
Old English ūs
Middle English us
English us
From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed while being used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).
senses_examples:
text:
Who's there? —Us. (or) —It's us.
Who's going to go? —Us. We'll go.
ref:
Used where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula
type:
example
text:
Give us a look at your paper.
type:
example
text:
Give us your wallet!
type:
example
text:
She's turned the weans against us!
type:
example
text:
We'll have to throw us food out.
type:
example
text:
Look at us while you’re speaking to us.
type:
example
text:
Could you do that for us?
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
Me.
Our.
Me (in all contexts).
senses_topics:
|
5380 | word:
us
word_type:
det
expansion:
us
forms:
wikipedia:
us
etymology_text:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé
Proto-Germanic *uns
Old English ūs
Middle English us
English us
From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed while being used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).
senses_examples:
text:
It's not good enough for us teachers.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
senses_topics:
|
5381 | word:
us
word_type:
symbol
expansion:
us
forms:
wikipedia:
us
etymology_text:
Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.
senses_examples:
text:
;wait 500 us
ref:
2002, Peter Spasov, Microcontroller Technology, the 68HC11, page 489
type:
quotation
text:
The standard units are ns (nanoseconds), us (microseconds), ms (milliseconds), sec (seconds), min (minutes), and hr (hours).
ref:
2012, Peter Feiler, David Gluch, Model-Based Engineering with AADL
type:
quotation
text:
Because the flash devices are local to the server, the latencies can be microseconds (us) instead of milliseconds (ms) and eliminate some traffic that would normally have gone over the storage network.
ref:
2014, Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak, Michael Webster, Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right, page 198
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative spelling of µs: microsecond
senses_topics:
|
5382 | word:
us
word_type:
noun
expansion:
us
forms:
wikipedia:
us
etymology_text:
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Alternative form of u's.
senses_topics:
|
5383 | word:
saya
word_type:
noun
expansion:
saya (plural sayas)
forms:
form:
sayas
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Tagalog saya, from Spanish saya.
senses_examples:
text:
And as she stalked in her long, loose stride toward the dressing-room to readjust her saya, somewhat in distress from the Maestro's last effort, it had suddenly flashed upon him where he had seen her before.
ref:
2022, James Hopper, Caybigan
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A skirt.
senses_topics:
|
5384 | word:
usage
word_type:
noun
expansion:
usage (countable and uncountable, plural usages)
forms:
form:
usages
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
usage
etymology_text:
From Middle English usage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.
senses_examples:
text:
[S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is an usage here.
ref:
1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 170
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Habit, practice.
A custom or established practice.
Habit, practice.
Custom, tradition.
Utilization.
The act of using something; use, employment.
Utilization.
The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region.
Utilization.
Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense.
senses_topics:
|
5385 | word:
Salvador
word_type:
name
expansion:
Salvador
forms:
wikipedia:
Jesus Christ
etymology_text:
From Spanish and Portuguese Salvador, chiefly various placenames honoring Jesus Christ, from Spanish and Portuguese salvador (“savior”), from Latin salvator, from salvāre (“to save”) + -tor (“forming agent nouns”). In Spanish placenames, frequently a clipping of Spanish San Salvador (“Holy Savior”). Doublet of savior, Salvator, and Salvatore.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese.
A surname from Spanish or Portuguese.
A municipality, the state capital of Bahia, Brazil.
Short for San Salvador Island, an island in the Bahamas
Former name of Santiago, an island in Galapagos, Ecuador
senses_topics:
|
5386 | word:
Calcutta
word_type:
name
expansion:
Calcutta
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Anglicization of Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata), which is now rendered Kolkata.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Former name of Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal, India
A resort in Suriname
senses_topics:
|
5387 | word:
south
word_type:
noun
expansion:
south (countable and uncountable, plural souths)
forms:
form:
souths
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą. Compare West Frisian súd, Dutch zuid, German Süd, Danish syd.
senses_examples:
text:
Alternative form: (abbreviation) S
text:
Germany is south of Denmark.
type:
example
text:
Just before independence (in 1955) the military garrison in the south rebelled and that was the beginning of a civil war between the north and the south ...
ref:
1996, Andrew W. Conrad, Alma Rubal-Lopez, Post-Imperial English: Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990, Walter de Gruyter, page 343
type:
quotation
text:
What was said [prior to 2003] is that the south rebelled. Even then; rebelled? What rebelled? Who was supporting Saddam other than the people of the south?
ref:
2014, Fanar Haddad, Sectarianism in Iraq: Antagonistic Visions of Unity, Oxford University Press, page 131
type:
quotation
text:
When Nimeiri ended that autonomy in 1983, the south took up arms. This Second Sudanese Civil War ended only after four years of formal talks […]
ref:
2019, Allan Thompson, Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, page 322
type:
quotation
text:
If candidates stand on the liturgical south facing the presider and liturgical assistants on the liturgical north, it will present better visual lines for the congregation than if they stand facing east and west with their backs toward the congregation.
ref:
1998, Leonel L. Mitchell, Pastoral and Occasional Liturgies: A Ceremonial Guide, Rowman & Littlefield, page 49
type:
quotation
text:
It is to be situated in the chancel on the right (i.e., liturgical south) side of the church.
ref:
2002, John L. Hooker, In the Shadows of Holy Week: The Office of Tenebrae, Church Publishing, Inc.
type:
quotation
text:
It was moved from its original location in 1507 hardly a decade after it was completed, to the bottom of the liturgical south aisle along with the free-standing chapel of the relic of the lance.
ref:
2009, Carol Mary Richardson, Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century, BRILL, page 389
type:
quotation
text:
[…] Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road. […] The pulpit and reading desk are at ecclesiastical northeast, and the organ pipes and 1706 memorial at ecclesiastical south. At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest. Unless otherwise indicated, compass directions given in this book are ecclesiastical, not geographical, reference points.
ref:
2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, page 365
type:
quotation
text:
The new St Mary's Anglican Church, Walkerville, has an attached rectory flanking to the liturgical south and an attached parish hall flanking to the liturgical north, both half-timbered in the Tudor Revival style. [Referring to a church that is oriented SSE, making "south" WSW]
ref:
2017, Cameron Macdonell, Ghost Storeys: Ralph Adams Cram, Modern Gothic Media, and Deconstructive Microhistory at a Canadian Church, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The direction towards the pole to the right-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 180°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the southern side of the invariable plane.
The southern region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
In a church: the direction to the right-hand side of a person facing the altar.
The negative or south pole of a magnet
senses_topics:
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics |
5388 | word:
south
word_type:
adj
expansion:
south (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą. Compare West Frisian súd, Dutch zuid, German Süd, Danish syd.
senses_examples:
text:
south highway 1
type:
example
text:
Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, […] The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road.
ref:
2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press, page 365
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Toward the south; southward.
from the south.
Of or pertaining to the south; southern.
Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by southbound traffic.
Designating, or situated in, the liturgical south.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion |
5389 | word:
south
word_type:
adv
expansion:
south (not comparable)
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą. Compare West Frisian súd, Dutch zuid, German Süd, Danish syd.
senses_examples:
text:
His fortunes have been going south ever since he was tricked into investing in that ostrich farm.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
Toward the south; southward.
Downward.
In an adverse direction or trend. (Mostly in go south.)
Of wind, from the south.
senses_topics:
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences |
5390 | word:
south
word_type:
verb
expansion:
south (third-person singular simple present souths, present participle southing, simple past and past participle southed)
forms:
form:
souths
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
southing
tags:
participle
present
form:
southed
tags:
participle
past
form:
southed
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English south, from Old English sūþ, from Proto-West Germanic *sunþr, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą. Compare West Frisian súd, Dutch zuid, German Süd, Danish syd.
senses_examples:
text:
The moon souths at nine.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line.
senses_topics:
astronomy
natural-sciences |
5391 | word:
man of letters
word_type:
noun
expansion:
man of letters (plural men of letters)
forms:
form:
men of letters
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
Calque of French homme de lettres.
senses_examples:
text:
This may be accounted for largely on the ground that Cicero and Petrarch were men of the same temperament and cast of mind. They were both typical men of letters. The man of letters is intellectually alert; sensitive to impressions and able to report them; hospitable to all ideas of his time; […]
ref:
1898, James Harvey Robinson, Henry Winchester Rolfe, Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, published 1909, page 229
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A literary man; a scholar or author.
senses_topics:
|
5392 | word:
Mumbai
word_type:
name
expansion:
Mumbai
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Marathi मुंबई (mumbaī), from मुंबा (mumbā, “the goddess Mumba, the local mother goddess”)+आई (āī, “mother”).
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A megacity, the capital of Maharashtra, India, also known as Bombay.
senses_topics:
|
5393 | word:
Hyderabad
word_type:
name
expansion:
Hyderabad
forms:
wikipedia:
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Hyderabad, India
Hyderabad, Sindh
etymology_text:
Borrowed from Hindi हैदराबाद (haidarābād) / Urdu حیدرآباد (haidarābād), from हैदर (haidar) / حیدر (haidar, “lion”) + -आबाद (-ābād) / آباد (ābād, “-ābād”, placename suffix). Named in honour of the Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, nicknamed "Haidar" for his lion-like valour in battles.
senses_examples:
text:
At Indian partition in 1947, the nizam chose to resume Hyderabad's independent status, but India invaded the state (1948) and took control.
ref:
2008, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, page 916
type:
quotation
text:
Maududi was born in 1903 at Aurangabad in Hyderabad, India, into a family with a long religious tradition.
ref:
1995, The Indian Political Science Review, volume 16, page 225
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
The capital and largest city of Telangana, India.
A district of Telangana, India.
A former state, landlocked in south-central India, which was ruled from 1724 until 1948 by a line of nizams.
A city in Sindh, Pakistan.
senses_topics:
|
5394 | word:
sidewalk
word_type:
noun
expansion:
sidewalk (plural sidewalks)
forms:
form:
sidewalks
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
sidewalk
etymology_text:
From side + walk.
senses_examples:
text:
Stay on the sidewalk.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A paved footpath located at the side of a road, for the use of pedestrians
Any paved footpath, even if not located at the side of a road
senses_topics:
|
5395 | word:
surfeit
word_type:
noun
expansion:
surfeit (countable and uncountable, plural surfeits)
forms:
form:
surfeits
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (“to augment, exaggerate, exceed”), from sur- (“over”) + faire (“to do”).
senses_examples:
text:
A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
type:
example
text:
With what could be a surfeit of candour, [Mike] Skinner has described DJing as more creative than playing his own songs, because, to paraphrase, of the "stress" and "creativity" of not knowing what he'll be doing in three minutes' time.
ref:
2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-08
type:
quotation
text:
King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
type:
example
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An excessive amount of something.
Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
A group of skunks.
senses_topics:
|
5396 | word:
surfeit
word_type:
verb
expansion:
surfeit (third-person singular simple present surfeits, present participle surfeiting, simple past and past participle surfeited)
forms:
form:
surfeits
tags:
present
singular
third-person
form:
surfeiting
tags:
participle
present
form:
surfeited
tags:
participle
past
form:
surfeited
tags:
past
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (“to augment, exaggerate, exceed”), from sur- (“over”) + faire (“to do”).
senses_examples:
text:
She surfeited her children on sweets.
type:
example
text:
[…] ev’n the wholsomest Meats may be surfeited on, and there is nothing more unhealthy, than to feed very well, and do but very little Exercise.
ref:
1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects, London: Henry Herringman, Reflection 10, page 186
type:
quotation
text:
To the door of this, the twelfth house whose bell he had rung, came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.
ref:
1906, O. Henry, “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million, New York: A.L. Burt, page 240
type:
quotation
text:
If he said of a dish, in the local tongue: “I could do a bit of that!” or if he simply smacked his lips over it, she would surfeit him with that dish.
ref:
1909, Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives’ Tale, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 8, section 1, p. 318
type:
quotation
text:
[…] that proportion of meat surfetteth, and surchargeth the stomacks of some, which is not enough to satisfie the hunger of others,
ref:
1640, Thomas Fuller, Joseph’s Partie-Colored Coat, London: John Williams
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I imagine him poisoned by his wines, or surfeited by a favourite dish;
ref:
1755 January 2, George Colman, The Connoisseur, volume 1, number 49, London: R. Baldwin, page 299
type:
quotation
text:
1697, Aphra Behn, “On an ungrateful and undeserving Mistress, whom he cou’d not help Loving” in Poems upon Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 50,
While some glad Rival in her Arms did lye,
Glutted with Love and surfeited with Joy.
text:
[…] he shan’t shut me up in this dismal castle, and nauseate me with his surfeiting fondness:
ref:
1795, Richard Cumberland, Henry, London: Charles Dilly, Volume 4, Book 10, Chapter 3, p. 18
type:
quotation
text:
[…] I suppose his majesty thought we had enough of it on the field, and did not wish to surfeit us with glory.
ref:
1844 Jun, Charles Lever, chapter 53, in Tom Burke of “Ours”, volume 2, Dublin: William Curry, page 31
type:
quotation
text:
The image-surfeited are likely to find sunsets corny; they now look, alas, too much like photographs.
ref:
1977, Susan Sontag, “The Heroism of Vision”, in On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 77
type:
quotation
text:
[…] his appetite for vulgar praise had not yet been surfeited;
ref:
1796, Maria Edgeworth, “The Mimic”, in The Parent’s Assistant; or, Stories for Children, volume 2, London: J. Johnson, page 98
type:
quotation
text:
Every one has had the experience of being served with more food than can be eaten with relish and without waste. The effect is to surfeit the appetite and to limit the variety which a patron may have,
ref:
1922, Lenore Richards, Nola Treat, chapter 2, in Quantity Cookery,, Boston: Little, Brown, page 8
type:
quotation
text:
Those who do not surfeit themselves do not weary quickly of any particular article of diet.
ref:
1917, R. L. Alsaker, chapter 16, in Maintaining Health, New York: Frank E. Morrison, page 174
type:
quotation
text:
After surfeiting itself with the Feast here provided for it, the Eye, by using a little Exercise in travelling about the Country, grows hungry again, and returns to the Entertainment with fresh Appetite.
ref:
1748, William Gilpin, A Dialogue upon the Gardens of the Right Honourable Viscount Cobham, at Stow in Buckinghamshire, London: B. Seeley, page 54
type:
quotation
text:
[…] the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time.
ref:
1869, Mark Twain, chapter 47, in The Innocents Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 496
type:
quotation
text:
But are children to be allowed to surfeit themselves? Shall they be suffered to take their fill of dainties and make themselves ill, as they certainly will do?
ref:
1861, Herbert Spencer, chapter 4, in Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical,, London: Williams and Norgate, page 149
type:
quotation
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
To fill (something) to excess.
To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess (both literally and figuratively).
To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
To indulge (in something) to excess.
To become sick from overindulgence (both literally and figuratively).
senses_topics:
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5397 | word:
hay fever
word_type:
noun
expansion:
hay fever (usually uncountable, plural hay fevers)
forms:
form:
hay fevers
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
First attested by John Bostock in 1819. The smell of hay in the summer was thought to be the origin of the condition.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
An allergy to the pollen of grass or other plants that causes symptoms similar to those of a cold; pollinosis.
senses_topics:
immunology
medicine
pathology
sciences |
5398 | word:
Uluru
word_type:
name
expansion:
Uluru
forms:
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
From Pitjantjatjara Uluṟu. An old family name, possibly “great pebble” or “Earth mother”.
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A giant free-standing rock in central Australia, previously known by its colonial name, Ayers Rock.
senses_topics:
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5399 | word:
man of God
word_type:
noun
expansion:
man of God (plural men of God)
forms:
form:
men of God
tags:
plural
wikipedia:
etymology_text:
senses_examples:
senses_categories:
senses_glosses:
A minister or priest.
A prophet.
Any godly man.
senses_topics:
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