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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively.
Word British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings pacifier something or somebody that brings peace rubber teat for babies (UK: dummy) paddle a walk through shallow water, especially at the seaside (US approx. wade, also UK usage) [48] an oar used to propel a canoe, kayak or a small boat
Macbeth: Russian Макбет [Makbet] Vladimir Gandelsman: 2010 9785983791374 With: Hamlet Othello: Albanian Tragjedia e Othello's Arapit te Venetikut: Fan Stylian Noli: Pristina: 1916 1061925229 LC: Dutch Othello, de Moor van Venetië: Jurriaan Moulin Kampen: 1836 47795568 HaithiTrust: Othello: Willy Courteaux: Amsterdam: 1960 863301150 ...
The Porter in Macbeth; Thersites in Troilus and Cressida; Touchstone in As You Like It – Touchstone is a domestic fool belonging to the duke's brother Frederick. He is a wise fool, although Rosalind and Celia jokingly say he is a natural fool ("Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of Nature's wit", "hath sent this natural for our ...
Macbeth: Macbeth is the central character in Macbeth. Influenced by the prophecies of three witches, he murders Duncan to take his place as king of Scotland. Lady Macbeth , wife to Macbeth, is a central character who conspires with her husband to murder Duncan. She later goes mad and dies, possibly through suicide.
The word "whore" appears 14 times in Othello, more often than in any other work by Shakespeare, often used (in Kay Stanton's words) as a "male-initiated inscription onto the female as scapegoat." [ 107 ] And it is one of only two of the plays (alongside Timon of Athens ) in which the word "whore" is used with specific reference to every named ...
Polysemy (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ s ɪ m i / or / ˈ p ɒ l ɪ ˌ s iː m i /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek πολύ-(polý-) 'many' and σῆμα (sêma) 'sign') is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings. For example, a word can have several word senses. [3] Polysemy is distinct from ...