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-ation
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of sta…
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All
adjective · 78% connection
The whole quantity, extent, duration, amount, quality, or degree of; the whole; the whole number of; any whatever; every; as, all the…
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Amphibole
noun · 78% connection
A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, general…
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Antaean
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to Antaeus, a giant athlete slain by Hercules.
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Antonomasia
noun · 78% connection
The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: nouns, appellative, express, whole, classes.
Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
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Appellativeness
noun · 78% connection
The quality of being appellative.
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Assumpsit
noun · 78% connection
An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under…
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Attribute
noun · 78% connection
A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
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Class
noun · 78% connection
A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class;…
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Classically
adverb · 78% connection
In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
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Classification
noun · 78% connection
The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common re…
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Compellative
noun · 78% connection
The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.
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Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…
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Denote
verb · 78% connection
To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the cl…
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Dynastidan
noun · 78% connection
One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, wh…
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Epicene
a. & n. · 78% connection
Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, t…
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Express
adjective · 78% connection
To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package.
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