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an
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n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
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dominion
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n 1: dominance or power through legal authority; "France held
undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule
of Caesar" [syn: dominion, rule]
2: a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
[syn: district, territory, territorial dominion,
dominion]
3: one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth
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minion
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n 1: a servile or fawning dependant
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opinion
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n 1: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof
or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of
your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" [syn:
opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought]
2: a message expressing a belief about something; the expression
of a belief that is held with confidence but not
substantiated by positive knowledge or proof; "his opinions
appeared frequently on the editorial page" [syn: opinion,
view]
3: a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the
people; "he asked for a poll of public opinion" [syn: public
opinion, popular opinion, opinion, vox populi]
4: the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial
decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge"
[syn: opinion, legal opinion, judgment, judgement]
5: the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision
itself) [syn: opinion, ruling]
6: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his
impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings
about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his
sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying" [syn:
impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion]
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pinion
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n 1: a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a
larger wheel or rack
2: any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird [syn:
flight feather, pinion, quill, quill feather]
3: wing of a bird [syn: pennon, pinion]
v 1: bind the arms of [syn: pinion, shackle]
2: cut the wings off (of birds)
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union
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adj 1: being of or having to do with the northern United States
and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil
War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal
infantryman" [syn: Union, Federal]
2: of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations";
"a union-shop clause in the contract" [ant: nonunion]
n 1: an organization of employees formed to bargain with the
employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a
job" [syn: union, labor union, trade union, trades
union, brotherhood]
2: the United States (especially the northern states during the
American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the
Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the
North's superior resources turned the scale" [syn: Union,
North]
3: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating
of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling,
mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
4: the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is
strength in union" [syn: union, unification] [ant:
separation]
5: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for
life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God
bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union,
spousal relationship, wedlock]
6: healing process involving the growing together of the edges
of a wound or the growing together of broken bones [syn:
union, conglutination]
7: a political unit formed from previously independent people or
organizations; "the Soviet Union"
8: a set containing all and only the members of two or more
given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn:
union, sum, join]
9: the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning
produced an unusual union of the metals"
10: a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two
or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
11: the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of
opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of
his family for the holidays" [syn: union, unification,
uniting, conjugation, jointure] [ant: disunion]
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pinon
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n 1: any of several low-growing pines of western North America
[syn: pinon, pinyon]
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draconian
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adj 1: of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws;
"Draconian measures"
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estonian
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adj 1: of or pertaining to Estonia or the people or culture of
Estonia
n 1: the official language of Estonia; belongs to the Baltic-
Finnic family of languages [syn: Estonian, Esthonian]
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newtonian
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adj 1: of or relating to or inspired by Sir Isaac Newton or his
science; "Newtonian physics"
n 1: a follower of Isaac Newton
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babylonian
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adj 1: of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or
culture; "Babylonian religion"
n 1: an inhabitant of ancient Babylon
2: the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the
ancient Babylonian language was written
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macedonian
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adj 1: of or relating to Macedonia or its inhabitants;
"Macedonian hills"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Macedon
2: the Slavic language of modern Macedonia
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oregonian
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n 1: a native or resident of Oregon [syn: Oregonian, Beaver]
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bosnian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bosnia-Herzegovina
or the people of Bosnia
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athenian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its
inhabitants
n 1: a resident of Athens
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etonian
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n 1: a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College
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laconian
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n 1: a resident of Laconia
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mancunian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the English city
of Manchester or its residents; "Mancunian merchants"
n 1: a native or resident of Manchester
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oxonian
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adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Oxford
University; "Oxonian education"
2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the city of Oxford,
England, or its inhabitants; "his Oxonian neighbors";
"Oxonian bookstores"
n 1: a native or resident of Oxford
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moynihan
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n 1: United States politician and educator (1927-2003) [syn:
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan]
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virginian
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n 1: a native or resident of Virginia
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californian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of California or its
inhabitants; "Californian beaches"
n 1: a native or resident of California
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papua
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n 1: the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea
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mediterranean
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of or located near
the Mediterranean Sea; "Mediterranean countries"
n 1: the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia
[syn: Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea]
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smithsonian
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patagonian
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falernian
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hibernian
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johnsonian
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neptunian
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saturnian
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kinion
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kinyon
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pinyan
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binyon
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