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noun
- A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
- In medieval and early modern Italy, a member of a legally defined category of especially wealthy patrician families, often deprived of the right to political participation by republican governments.
- Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
adj
- Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
- Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
- Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- Most exalted; foremost.
- Very traditionalist and conservative, especially in favoring older ways of doing things; see e.g. high church, High Tory.
- Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
- Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
- Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
- Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
- Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
- Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
- Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- Luxurious; rich.
- Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
- Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
- Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
- Above the batter's shoulders.
- Keen, enthused.
- Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
- Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
- Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
- Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
- Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
- Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
- Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
- With tall waves.
noun
- The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- A drug that gives such a high.
- A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
- A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven).or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
- The highest card dealt or drawn.
- A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
adv
noun
- Prestige or high standing.
- The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
- A situation or state of affairs.
- A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
- The legal condition of a person or thing.
- A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
adj
noun
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- A low-alcohol lager.
- A source of illumination.
- A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- A cigarette lighter.
- The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler who is receiving instructions.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light.
- The power of perception by vision.
adv
adj
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- With low viscosity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- Served with extra milk or cream.
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
verb
- To start (a fire).
- To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- To become ignited; to take fire.
- To set fire to; to set burning.
- To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To find by chance.
noun
adj
pron
- Somebody who or something that is superlative or notable in some way.
- A quality to a moderate degree.
- An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.
- A talent or quality that is difficult to specify.
verb
noun
- An object whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g., from words of a song. Also used to refer to an object earlier indefinitely referred to as 'something' (pronoun sense).
- An object whose nature is yet to be defined.
adj
adv
adj
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
verb
noun
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- A touchdown, or major score.
- The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- A goal.
- A person of legal age.
- A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
noun
- a well-known or notable person
- a language unit by which a person or thing is known
- a person's reputation
- family based on male descent
- by the sanction or authority of
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
verb
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- charge with a function; charge to be
- create and charge with a task or function
- mention and identify by name
- make reference to
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
noun
- A status or rank.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- a well-known or notable person
- a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
- a model of a bodily form (especially of a person)
- a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
- an amount of money expressed numerically
- the impression produced by a person
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
- a decorative or artistic work
- a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating
verb
noun
- A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- buttock or bottom
- peach
- A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
adj
noun
- A very skilled, competent, or capable person or thing worthy of awe.
- An idiot, an oaf, a fool, a tool; a contemptible or incompetent person.
- An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords; arm.
- An instrument or other means of harming or exerting control over another.
- A tool of any kind.
verb
prep
- Higher in rank, status, or position.
- In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface.
- Higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; higher in measure, degree, volume, or pitch, etc. than; out of reach; not exposed to; not likely to be affected by; incapable of negative actions or thoughts.
- Farther north than.
- In preference to.
- Upstage of.
- Rising; appearing out of reach height-wise.
- Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing.
- Surpassing in number or quantity; more than.
- Beyond; on the other side.
- Too proud to stoop to; averse to; disinclined towards;
- In addition to; besides.
noun
- Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page.
- Heaven.
- Higher authority.
adv
- Higher in rank, power, or position.
- On the upper half or the dorsal surface of an animal.
- Above zero; above freezing.
- More in number.
- Into or from heaven; in the sky.
- Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.
- In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.
- Directly overhead; vertically on top of.
adj
adv
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
noun
- Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
- The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
- The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
- Highest point or degree.
- A vertical distance.
- The distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the opposite side of the vertex.
noun
- A man of a higher rank or position.
- to a teacher.
- to a knight or other low member of the peerage.
- to a superior military officer.
- A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position
- A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown.
verb
verb
- Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.
- Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
- Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
- Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
- Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
- Of an event: to have a major effect in a certain place or time.
- To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
- To echo or repeat (a sound).
- To sound again.
- To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.
noun
adj
- Prominent; conspicuous.
- Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
- Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
- Depicted in a leaping posture.
- Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
noun
- An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
- 1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9
- 1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193
- On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
- The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
- An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
noun
- One who acts in place of a superior.
- A winding or spiral staircase.
- A bad habit.
- A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
- Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
- A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
adj
adj
- Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.
- Of a large size or extent; great.
- Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent (see grand-).
- Fine; lovely.
- Containing all the parts proper to a given form of composition.
- Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.
noun
verb
- be distinguished or eminent
- be bright by reflecting or casting light
- emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- be shiny, as if wet
- be clear and obvious
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- throw or flash the light of (a lamp)
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
- make (a surface) shine
noun
noun
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- any creature of exceptional size
- an unusually large enterprise
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
- a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
adj
noun
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds
- a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest.
prep_phrase
adj
- of or characteristic of high rank or importance
- of high or superior quality or performance
- written or printed above and to one side of another character
- having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit
noun
- one of greater rank or station or quality
- the head of a religious community
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
adj
noun
- A person with superior talents or towering achievements.
- A sportsperson competing in the ancient Olympic Games.
- A sportsperson competing in the modern Olympic Games.
- In the Platonist theology of Plethon, a god in one group of supercelestial gods, the other group of such gods being the Tartareans or Titans.
- Any of the 12 principal gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades); (specifically) preceded by the: Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Greek deities.
- An inhabitant of the city of Olympia, the capital of Washington, United States.
adj
- Of or relating to the town of Olympia in Elis, Greece; Olympic.
- Of or relating to the ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia; Olympic.
- Of or relating to the modern Olympic Games; Olympic.
- Celestial, heavenly; also, godlike.
- Acting in a remote and superior manner; aloof.
- Of or relating to Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece; or (Greek mythology) the Greek gods and goddesses who were believed to live there.
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