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The database takes words that are associated with at least one meaning. Apart from synonyms, it also contains some taxonomic relations. There is a German, a Dutch, a Norwegian, a Polish, a Portuguese, a Slovak, a Slovenian, a Spanish and a Greek version available. The German version has over 280,000 synonyms.
Lists of Greek and Latin roots in English beginning with other letters: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Z P Root Meaning in English Origin language ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.
One-letter words play a role in the Oulipian [155] constraint, a form of rhopalic verse in which the first line consists of a one-letter word. [156] But above all, they are the subject of a notable experiment by François Le Lionnais , dating from 1957 and published in La Littérature potentielle in 1973, of "Réduction d'un poème à une seule ...
Hence to "break one's duck": to score one's first run. c.f. US: "get the monkey off one's back" a term of endearment (n.) a bird of the family Anatidae (v.) to lower the head or body suddenly, to dodge (v.) to plunge under the surface of water (n.) a heavy cotton fabric (v.) Leaving very quickly. "He ducked out like five minutes ago" duff: of ...
Other words: Old English origin words Old French origin words notes thinking, mindful pensive [2] kingly royal [2] almighty omnipotent brotherly fraternal [2]
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages).. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.