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accordion
0
n 1: a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are
made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the
player [syn: accordion, piano accordion, squeeze box]
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aeon
0
n 1: (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the
Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of
the universe [syn: eon, aeon]
2: the longest division of geological time [syn: eon, aeon]
3: an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons
ago" [syn: eon, aeon]
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agrarian
0
adj 1: relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural)
society"; "farming communities" [syn: agrarian,
agricultural, farming(a)]
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alien
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adj 1: not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of
something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of
capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind
and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature" [syn:
alien, foreign]
2: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of
the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse";
"exotic cuisine" [syn: alien, exotic]
n 1: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does
not owe allegiance to your country [syn: foreigner,
alien, noncitizen, outlander] [ant: citizen]
2: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they
are found [syn: stranger, alien, unknown] [ant:
acquaintance, friend]
3: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its
atmosphere [syn: extraterrestrial being,
extraterrestrial, alien]
v 1: transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the
property to the heirs" [syn: alien, alienate]
2: arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly
been love, affection, or friendliness; "She alienated her
friends when she became fanatically religious" [syn:
estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect]
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amphibian
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adj 1: relating to or characteristic of animals of the class
Amphibia [syn: amphibious, amphibian]
n 1: a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or
water [syn: amphibian, amphibious vehicle]
2: an airplane designed to take off and land on water [syn:
amphibian, amphibious aircraft]
3: cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding
in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult
form
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antiquarian
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adj 1: of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques
or antiquities
2: of or relating to antiques or antiquities
n 1: an expert or collector of antiquities [syn: antiquary,
antiquarian, archaist]
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authoritarian
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adj 1: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule;
having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime";
"autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a
dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the
war"; "a tyrannical government" [syn: authoritarian,
autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic,
tyrannical]
2: expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of
authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior
toward the waiter" [syn: authoritarian, dictatorial,
overbearing]
n 1: a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; "my boss is a
dictator who makes everyone work overtime" [syn:
authoritarian, dictator]
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avian
0
adj 1: pertaining to or characteristic of birds
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barbarian
0
adj 1: without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders";
"barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is
crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are
efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" [syn:
barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized,
uncivilised, wild]
n 1: a member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage,
barbarian]
2: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
[syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth,
tyke, tike]
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centenarian
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adj 1: being at least 100 years old
n 1: someone who is at least 100 years old
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centurion
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n 1: (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers
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champion
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adj 1: holding first place in a contest; "a champion show dog";
"a prizewinning wine" [syn: champion, prizewinning]
n 1: someone who has won first place in a competition [syn:
champion, champ, title-holder]
2: someone who fights for a cause [syn: champion, fighter,
hero, paladin]
3: a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their
supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the
library" [syn: supporter, protagonist, champion,
admirer, booster, friend]
4: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace,
adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin,
virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz,
whizz, wizard, wiz]
v 1: protect or fight for as a champion [syn: champion,
defend]
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circadian
0
adj 1: of or relating to biological processes occurring at
24-hour intervals; "circadian rhythms"
-
clarion
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adj 1: loud and clear; "a clarion call"
n 1: a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone
v 1: blow the clarion
2: proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
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comedian
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n 1: a professional performer who tells jokes and performs
comical acts [syn: comedian, comic]
2: an actor in a comedy
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criterion
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n 1: a basis for comparison; a reference point against which
other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with
federal standards"; "they set the measure for all
subsequent work" [syn: standard, criterion, measure,
touchstone]
2: the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they
live by the standards of their community" [syn: criterion,
standard]
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custodian
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n 1: one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn:
custodian, keeper, steward]
-
disciplinarian
0
n 1: someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
[syn: martinet, disciplinarian, moralist]
-
bavarian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bavaria or its
people; "Bavarian beer"
n 1: a native or an inhabitant of Bavaria
-
bulgarian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bulgaria or its
people; "the Bulgarian capital is Sofia"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Bulgaria
2: a Slavic language spoken in Bulgaria
-
bahamian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Bahama Islands
or their inhabitants; "Bahamian population"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of the Bahamas
-
caesarean
0
adj 1: relating to abdominal delivery [syn: cesarean,
cesarian, caesarean, caesarian]
2: of or relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar [syn:
Caesarian, Caesarean]
n 1: the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the
abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius
Caesar was born that way) [syn: cesarean delivery,
caesarean delivery, caesarian delivery, cesarean
section, cesarian section, caesarean section,
caesarian section, C-section, cesarean, cesarian,
caesarean, caesarian, abdominal delivery]
-
aryan
0
adj 1: of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-
European migrations" [syn: Indo-European, Indo-Aryan,
Aryan]
n 1: (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic
descent (and not a Jew)
2: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo
European [syn: Aryan, Indo-European]
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cesarean
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adj 1: relating to abdominal delivery [syn: cesarean,
cesarian, caesarean, caesarian]
n 1: the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the
abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius
Caesar was born that way) [syn: cesarean delivery,
caesarean delivery, caesarian delivery, cesarean
section, cesarian section, caesarean section,
caesarian section, C-section, cesarean, cesarian,
caesarean, caesarian, abdominal delivery]
-
delawarean
0
n 1: a native or resident of Delaware [syn: Delawarean,
Delawarian]
-
caribbean
0
n 1: an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South
America; the origin of the Gulf stream [syn: Caribbean,
Caribbean Sea]
2: region including the Caribbean Islands
-
aegean
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the prehistoric
Aegean civilization
2: of or relating to or bordering the Aegean Sea; "Aegean
islands"
n 1: an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a
main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and
Greece and Rome and Persia [syn: Aegean, Aegean Sea]
-
dionysian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or worshipping Dionysus
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andean
0
adj 1: relating to the Andes and their inhabitants
-
albanian
0
adj 1: of or relating to Albania or its people or language or
culture
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Albania
2: the Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania
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chadian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of
Chad or its people or language; "the Chadian desert";
"Chad soldiers"; "Chadian folktales"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Chad
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arabian
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adj 1: relating to or associated with Arabia or its people;
"Arabian Nights"; "Arabian Sea"
2: of or relating to Arabian horses
n 1: a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian
peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and
who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa
[syn: Arab, Arabian]
2: a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to
Arabia [syn: Arabian, Arab]
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arcadian
0
adj 1: (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically
rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a
pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral
setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian,
bucolic, pastoral]
n 1: an inhabitant of Arcadia
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canadian
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adj 1: of or relating to Canada or its people
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Canada
2: a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing
eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of
the Arkansas River in Oklahoma [syn: Canadian, Canadian
River]
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algerian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Algeria or its
inhabitants; "Algerian towns"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Algeria
-
assyrian
0
n 1: an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
2: the language of modern Iraq [syn: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic,
Assyrian]
3: an extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia
[syn: Assyrian Akkadian, Assyrian]
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algonquian
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adj 1: of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or
language [syn: Algonquian, Algonkian, Algonquin]
n 1: a member of any of the North American Indian groups
speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in
the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian
tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the
Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast [syn: Algonquian,
Algonquin]
2: family of North American Indian languages spoken from
Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains [syn:
Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language]
-
amerindian
0
n 1: any member of the peoples living in North or South America
before the Europeans arrived [syn: Amerindian, Native
American]
-
darwinian
0
adj 1: of or relating to Charles Darwin's theory of organic
evolution; "Darwinian theories"
n 1: an advocate of Darwinism
-
augustinian
0
n 1: a Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the
Augustinian monastic orders
-
carolinian
0
n 1: a native or resident of the Carolinas
-
arthurian
0
adj 1: of or relating to King Arthur and the Knights of the
Round Table
-
aristotelian
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adj 1: of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy;
"Aristotelean logic" [syn: Aristotelian,
Aristotelean, Aristotelic, peripatetic]
n 1: a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism
[syn: Aristotelian, Aristotelean, Peripatetic]
-
bostonian
0
n 1: a native or resident of Boston
-
devonian
0
n 1: from 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of
fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites [syn:
Devonian, Devonian period, Age of Fishes]
-
draconian
0
adj 1: of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws;
"Draconian measures"
-
babylonian
0
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
-
armenian
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adj 1: of or pertaining to Armenia or the people or culture of
Armenia
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Armenia
2: the Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia,
but also in Azerbaijan [syn: Armenian, Armenian language]
3: a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which
the Armenian language is written [syn: Armenian, Armenian
alphabet]
-
anglian
0
n 1: one of the major dialects of Old English
-
austrian
0
adj 1: of or relating to Austria or its people or culture;
"Austrian music"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Austria
-
cambrian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its
people or their language; "the Welsh coast"; "Welsh
syntax" [syn: Welsh, Cambrian]
n 1: from 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine
invertebrates [syn: Cambrian, Cambrian period]
2: a native or resident of Wales [syn: Welshman, Welsh,
Cambrian, Cymry]
-
caspian
0
n 1: a large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the
Volga River; the largest inland body of water in the world
[syn: Caspian, Caspian Sea]
-
chilean
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Chile or its
people; "Chilean volcanoes"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Chile
-
athenian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Athens or its
inhabitants
n 1: a resident of Athens
-
bermudian
0
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Bermuda [syn: Bermudan,
Bermudian]
-
bohemian
0
adj 1: of or relating to Bohemia or its language or people
2: unconventional in especially appearance and behavior; "a
bohemian life style"
n 1: a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak
Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and
fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in
northern India but now are living on all continents (but
mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America) [syn:
Gypsy, Gipsy, Romany, Rommany, Romani, Roma,
Bohemian]
2: a native or inhabitant of Bohemia in the Czech Republic
3: a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional
life
-
bolivian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bolivia or its
people
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Bolivia
-
cambodian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Cambodia or its
people or language [syn: Cambodian, Kampuchean]
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Cambodia [syn: Cambodian,
Kampuchean]
-
colombian
0
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Colombia or its
people; "Colombian coffee"
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Colombia
-
columbian
0
adj 1: of or relating to Christopher Columbus
-
corinthian
0
adj 1: or pertaining to the Corinthian style of architecture
2: of or relating to or characteristic of Corinth or its
inhabitants
n 1: a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure [syn: playboy,
man-about-town, Corinthian]
2: a resident of Corinth
-
alexandrian
0
adj 1: of or relating to Alexander the Great or his empire
n 1: a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria
in Egypt)
-
arizonian
0
n 1: a native or resident of Arizona [syn: Arizonan,
Arizonian]
-
cornucopian
0
-
crimean
0
-
amazonian
0
-
chaucerian
0
-
argentinean
0