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Word: dictionary
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as w... |
Word: dictionary
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To look up in a dictionary.
Definition 2: To add to a dictionary.
Examples:
- By a reference to the following dictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could... |
Word: free
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Unconstrained. Not imprisoned or enslaved.
Examples:
- Free Blacks
- a free man
Definition 2: Unconstrained. Generous; liberal.
Examples:
- He's very free with his money.
Definition 3: Unconstrained. Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
Examples:
- ... |
Word: free
Part of Speech: adv
Definition 1: Without needing to pay.
Examples:
- I got this bike free.
- Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are ... |
Word: free
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To make free; set at liberty; release.
Examples:
- Pro.[…]Spirit, fine ſpirit, Ile free thee / Within two dayes for this.
Definition 2: To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
Examples:
- Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river ... |
Word: free
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Abbreviation of free kick.
Examples:
- Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren.
Definition 2: A free transfer.
Examples:
- Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the ... |
Word: thesaurus
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A publication that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms and other semantic relations) for the words of a given language.
Examples:
- "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close... |
Word: encyclopedia
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field.
Examples:
- I o... |
Word: portmanteau
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
Examples:
- Alternative forms: portemanteau, (obsolete) portmantua
- Rodolphus therefore finding such an earnest Invitation, embrac'd it with thanks, and with his Servant and... |
Word: portmanteau
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau.
Examples:
- The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses ... |
Word: portmanteau
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A word formed by putting two words together and thereby their meaning e.g. shrinkflation.
Examples:
- Well then, ‘mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there’s another portmanteau for you).
Definition 2: A portmanteau film.
Examples:
- His long-awaited portmante... |
Word: portmanteau
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To create a portmanteau word.
Forms: portmanteaus (present, singular, third-person), portmanteauing (participle, present), portmanteaued (participle, past), portmanteaued (past)
Related Words: List of English portmanteau words defined in Wiktionary |
Word: encyclopaedia
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Alternative spelling of encyclopedia
Forms: encyclopaedias (plural), encyclopaediae (plural)
Derived Words: encyclopaedial, encyclopaedian, encyclopaedist |
Word: cat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: An animal of the family Felidae: A domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.
Examples:
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not ... |
Word: cat
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To hoist (an anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead.
Examples:
- The anchors were catted at the bows of the yacht […]
Definition 2: To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails.
Definition 3: To vomit.
Definition 4: To go wandering at night.
Examples:
- "He doe... |
Word: cat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
Forms: cats (plural)
Synonyms: baudrons, cat, domestic cat, grimalkin, housecat, kibty, kitten, kitter, kitty, kitty-cat, kitty witty, malkin, mog, moggy, mouser... |
Word: cat
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To apply the cat command to (one or more files).
Definition 2: To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target), usually with no intention of browsing it carefully.
Forms: cats (present, singular, third-person), catting (participle, present), catted (participle,... |
Word: cat
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A street name of the drug methcathinone.
Definition 2: Abbreviation of catapult.
Examples:
- a carrier's bow cats
Definition 3: Abbreviation of catalytic converter.
Definition 4: Abbreviation of catamaran.
Examples:
- These cats are a lot of fun in the harbor, b... |
Word: cat
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Catastrophic; terrible, disastrous.
Examples:
- The weather was cat, so they returned home early.
Derived Words: cat bond, cat melodeon, J-cat |
Word: gratis
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Free: without charge.
Examples:
- Really syncophant^([sic]) stuff, but it may help. It's gratis in any case.
Synonyms: complimentary, costless, chargeless, free, free of charge, gratis, gratuitous
Related Words: unearned |
Word: gratis
Part of Speech: adv
Definition 1: In a free way: without charge.
Examples:
- I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I thank thee for thee.
- Reaſon, you roague, reaſon: thinkſt thou Ile endanger my soule, gratis?
Related Words: gratuitous,... |
Word: word
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.) The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes ... |
Word: word
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
Examples:
- I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council.
Definition 2: To flatter with words, to cajole.
Examples:
- He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not / be noble to ... |
Word: word
Part of Speech: intj
Definition 1: Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond."
Examples:
- "Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word?" ("You speak the truth?") / "Word." ("I speak the truth.")
Definition 2: An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the ack... |
Word: word
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: Alternative form of worth (“to become”).
Forms: worde (alternative) |
Word: livre
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
Examples:
- They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family?
- He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic ... |
Word: book
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
Examples:
- Knowing I lou'd my bookes, he furniſhd me / From mine owne Library, with volumes, that / I prize aboue my Dukedome.
- I repeat: it ... |
Word: book
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To reserve (something) for future use.
Examples:
- I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.
- I can book tickets for the concert next week.
- I haven't booked, so I don't have a clue as to whether the service will be busy or not. Supposedly, reservations are... |
Word: book
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: simple past of bake |
Word: pound
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A unit of weight in various measurement systems. Ellipsis of pound weight.
Definition 2: A unit of weight in various measurement systems. Various non-English units of measure.
Definition 3: A unit of mass in various measurement systems. Ellipsis of pound mass.
Defi... |
Word: pound
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To wager a pound on.
Examples:
- ‘Good-bye, my dear!' said Sleary. 'You'll make your fortun, I hope, and none of our poor folkth will ever trouble you, I'll pound it.’
- “He's done,” said the Moocher brutally. “He didn't hear nuffin, I'll pound it.”
Forms: pounds (... |
Word: pound
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
Examples:
- Mr. Sarnoff also sent to the pound one of the best-known dogs in the world. Nipper, the black-and-white terrier usually depicted peering with head cocked into the horn of a Victrola, listening for “H... |
Word: pound
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
Examples:
- When I short haue shorne my sowce face
& swigg’d my horny barrell,
In an oaken Inne I pound my skin
as a suite of guilt apparrell
- And he who were pleasantly disposed, could not well avoid to liken it to the... |
Word: pound
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
Examples:
- She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English eno... |
Word: pound
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A hard blow.
Forms: pounds (plural), poun (alternative), pown (alternative) |
Word: GDP
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Initialism of gross domestic product.
Examples:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value ... |
Word: rain cats and dogs
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To rain very heavily.
Examples:
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:rain cats and dogs.
Forms: rains cats and dogs (present, singular, third-person), raining cats and dogs (participle, present), rained cats and dogs (participle, past), rained... |
Word: pond
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
Examples:
- But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned th... |
Word: pond
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
Examples:
- The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area.
Definitio... |
Word: pond
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To ponder.
Examples:
- Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.
Forms: ponds (present, singular, third-person), ponding (participle, present), ponded (participle, past), ponded (past) |
Word: pies
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: plural of pie |
Word: pies
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: third-person singular simple present indicative of pie
Definition 2: third-person singular simple present indicative of pi |
Word: nonsense
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
Examples:
- After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
Definition 2: An untrue statement.
Examples:
- While at the hosp... |
Word: nonsense
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To make nonsense of;
Examples:
- At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed by an endeavor to steer between Mr. Stanley Weyman's rights as author of the story and the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds.
Definit... |
Word: nonsense
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Nonsensical.
Definition 2: Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
Forms: more nonsense (comparative), most nonsense (superlative), nonsence (alternative), non-sense (altern... |
Word: nonsense
Part of Speech: intj
Definition 1: An emphatic rejection of something one has just heard and does not believe or agree with.
Examples:
- The operators present this as a passenger benefit by claiming it provides early notice. Nonsense! This just means that passengers can't find any information about ... |
Word: pie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
Examples:
- The family had steak and kidney p... |
Word: pie
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
Examples:
- I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
Definition 2: To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
Definition 3: To ignore (someone).
Exampl... |
Word: pie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Magpie.
Examples:
- Joe looked as if he thought this talk was like the chattering of a pie.
Forms: pies (plural)
Derived Words: piebald, pied, sea pie |
Word: pie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A former low-denomination coin of northern India.
Examples:
- I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.
Forms: pie (plural), pies (plural)
Coordinate Te... |
Word: pie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Ellipsis of pie-dog: an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts.
Forms: pies (plural) |
Word: pie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
Forms: pies (plural)
Coordinate Terms: punto (1⁄1728 pie), linea (1⁄144 pie), pulgada (1⁄12 pie), coto (3⁄8 pie), sesma (1⁄2 pie), palmo (3⁄4 pie), codo (1+1⁄2 pies), vara (3 pies), paso (5 pies), estado... |
Word: pie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Alternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”) |
Word: pie
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”)
Examples:
- The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.
Forms: pies (present, singular, third-person), pieing (participle, present), pied (participle, past),... |
Word: A
Part of Speech: character
Definition 1: The first letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.
Examples:
- Apple starts with A.
- Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]
Forms: a (lowercase), As (plural), A'... |
Word: A
Part of Speech: num
Definition 1: The ordinal number first, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script.
Examples:
- Item A is "foods", item B is "drinks".
Forms: a (lowercase), · (alternative) |
Word: A
Part of Speech: symbol
Definition 1: A rank, normally the highest rank, on any of various scales that assign letters.
Examples:
- We assign each item inspected a rating from A through G, depending on various factors.
- In the UK, the highest social grade is A – upper middle class.
- The only standard b... |
Word: A
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Ace. (including in card games)
Definition 2: Acre.
Definition 3: Adult; as used in film rating.
Definition 4: Ammeter.
Definition 5: Angstrom.
Definition 6: Answer.
Definition 7: An assist.
Definition 8: Asexual.
Definition 9: Arsehole.
Definition 10: Atom... |
Word: A
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Atom; atomic.
Derived Words: A-bomb |
Word: crow
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
Examples:
- Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to ... |
Word: crow
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Dark black, the color of a crow; crow-black.
Examples:
- Coordinate term: raven
- "Though her her crow hair is lovely and wavy, she loathes it and craves yellow locks. Since she saw Hugh, she's given me no peace.” Sheffield's square , good-looking face shaped a grimac... |
Word: crow
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
Examples:
- Yet once me thought it [the ghost of Hamlet's father] was about to ſpeake, / And lifted vp his head to motion, / Like as he w... |
Word: crow
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: The cry or call of a rooster or a cockerel, especially as heard at sunrise.
Forms: crows (plural)
Derived Words: cockcrow |
Word: crow
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Alternative spelling of cro (“marijuana”)
Examples:
- My young boys hop out the ride in a crop yard searching, tryna find this crow |
Word: raven
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven (Corvus corax).
Examples:
- Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though th... |
Word: raven
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Of the color of the raven; jet-black.
Examples:
- raven curls; raven darkness
- She was a tall, sophisticated, raven-haired beauty.
Derived Words: nonraven, raven-black, raven-haired, ravenhood, raven standard |
Word: raven
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Rapine; rapacity.
Definition 2: Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
Forms: ravin (alternative), ravine (alternative) |
Word: raven
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To obtain or seize by violence.
Definition 2: To devour with great eagerness.
Examples:
- And the hound Time, when all the Worlds and cities are swept away whereon he used to raven, having no more to devour, shall suddenly die.
- I refer to the danger of keeping a... |
Word: elephant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
Examples:
- She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pi... |
Word: Pope Julius
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A sixteenth-century gambling card game about which little is known.
Examples:
- Of Pope Julius cardys he ys chefe cardynall.
- Item the laste day delived unto the kings grace whiche his grace lost at pope July game wt my lady marquess and m Weston xvj cor
- ... |
Word: GNU FDL
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: Initialism of GNU Free Documentation License. |
Word: brown
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
Examples:
- The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
- brown:
Definition 2: One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
Definition 3: Black tar heroin.
Definition 4: A ... |
Word: brown
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Having a brown colour.
Definition 2: Gloomy.
Definition 3: Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin. Latino
Examples:
- Reminds me of the time they asked me and a group of other Latino, predominantly Mexican, friends for o... |
Word: brown
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To become brown.
Examples:
- Fry the onions until they brown.
- The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood.
- Don't microwave your milk too long
It browns and bubbles over
Definition 2: To cook somethi... |
Word: December
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.
Examples:
- Old Oakes doe not eaſily fall: / Decembers cold hand combes my head and beard, / But May ſvvimmes... |
Word: floccinaucinihilipilification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless.
Examples:
- I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money.
- There is a systematic flocci-nauci-n... |
Word: month
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
Examples:
- July is my favourite month.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used met... |
Word: January
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: The first month of the Gregorian calendar, following the December of the previous year and preceding February. Abbreviation: Jan or Jan.
Examples:
- 01/01/09 : Thursday, 1st January(,) 2009.
- American style: Thursday, January 1st, 2009.
Definition 2: A female g... |
Word: February
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: The short month following January and preceding March in the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, used in all three calendars for intercalation or addition of leap days.
Examples:
- ...The second he [sc. King Numa] dedicated to the god Februus, who is believed t... |
Word: march
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
Definition 2: A political rally or parade
Examples:
- Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers we... |
Word: march
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
Examples:
- The column marching in double file, the instructor commands: […]
Definition 2: To cause someone to walk somewhere.
Examples:
- The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinaf... |
Word: march
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
Definition 2: A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
Definition 3: Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
Examples:
- Juan's compani... |
Word: march
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To have common borders or frontiers
Forms: marches (present, singular, third-person), marching (participle, present), marched (participle, past), marched (past) |
Word: march
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Smallage.
Forms: marches (plural)
Related Words: stanmarch |
Word: April
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May. Abbreviation: Apr or Apr.
Examples:
- Oh, to be in England / Now that April’s there
- The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, an... |
Word: may
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To be strong; to have power (over).
Definition 2: To be able; can.
Examples:
- But many times[…]we give way to passions we may resist and will not.
Definition 3: To be able to go.
Examples:
- O weary night, O long and tedious night,
Abate thy houres, shine comfor... |
Word: may
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.
Derived Words: Italian may, mayhaw |
Word: may
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To gather may, or flowers in general.
Examples:
- Soo it befelle in the moneth of May / quene Gueneuer called vnto her knyȝtes of the table round / and she gafe them warnynge that erly vpon the morowe she wold ryde on mayeng in to woodes & feldes besyde westmynstre.
"So... |
Word: may
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A maiden.
Forms: mays (plural)
Derived Words: shield-may
Related Words: may-woon |
Word: June
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July. Abbreviation: Jun or Jun.
Examples:
- This glad June day.
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was sh... |
Word: June
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: A male given name, or more often nickname, for a boy who is junior to someone else, especially someone with the same name, such as his father.
Examples:
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:June. |
Word: July
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August. Abbreviation: Jul or Jul.
Definition 2: A female given name from English.
Examples:
- By 1880, in his early to middle twenties, he had married a literate woman named July, who would be ... |
Word: July
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: A surname from French.
Forms: Julys (plural) |
Word: august
Part of Speech: adj
Definition 1: Awe-inspiring, majestic, noble, venerable.
Examples:
- an august patron of the arts
- In the book of Pſalms there are many things ſaid of David, which ſeem capable of a much auguſter ſenſe than can be pretended to be anſwered by any thing that befel himſelf.
- [W]... |
Word: august
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: To make ripe; ripen.
Definition 2: To bring to realization.
Examples:
- By divine science and cœlestial art / He for the cause of the dear nations toiled, / And augusted man's heavenly hopes that so, / […] / he might, by awful rites / […] / Adhæsion with Divinity a... |
Word: august
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: Alternative form of auguste (“kind of clown”)
Forms: augusts (plural) |
Word: September
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: The ninth month of the Gregorian calendar, following August and preceding October. Abbreviations: Sep or Sep., Sept or Sept.
Examples:
- Late September is a beautiful time of year.
- This was one of the warmest Septembers on record.
Definition 2: A female or m... |
Word: October
Part of Speech: name
Definition 1: The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct.
Definition 2: A female given name transferred from the month name.
Examples:
- The other one [book] I just read is October Suite by Maxine Clair (Random House... |
Word: October
Part of Speech: noun
Definition 1: A type of ale traditionally brewed in October.
Examples:
- [T]he gate of a large chateau, of a most noble and venerable appearance […] induced them to alight and view the apartments, contrary to their first intention of drinking a glass of his October at the door.
... |
Word: October
Part of Speech: verb
Definition 1: In the early Soviet Union, to give a child a name tinged with Soviet revolutionary thought, as opposed to religious christening.
Forms: Octobers (present, singular, third-person), Octobering (participle, present), Octobered (participle, past), Octobered (past), Octob... |
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📖 Wiktionary English Dataset
This is a custom processed version of the English Wiktionary.
〽️ Stats
- Total words (entries): 1,369,015
- Total tokens in dataset: 89,171,089 (≈ 89M)
- Average tokens per entry: 65.14
File Sizes:
- Raw Wiktionary JSON dump: 18.7 GB
- Raw English Wiktionary JSON: 1.83 GB
- Processed English Wiktionary JSON: 0.415 GB
- Processed English Wiktionary Text (Parquet): 0.15 GB
🧩 Dataset Creation
- Extract raw JSON dumps from Wiktionary
- Filter English entries from the dump and exclude unnecessary metadata
- Parse each JSON entry and dynamically construct an entry by combining word details into a single string.
- Store the processed entries in a parquet file.
🎯 Uses
This dataset is intended for research and development in natural language processing.
⚖️ License & Attribution
The original Wiktionary content is dual‑licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
📝 Citation
If you find this dataset useful, please consider citing it using the BibTeX provided.
@misc {sb_2025,
author = { SB },
title = { wiktionary-en },
year = 2025,
url = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/shb777/wiktionary-en },
publisher = { Hugging Face }
}
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