dict_dl/en_merriam_webster/ko_mw.json

{
  "kookie":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": having the characteristics of a kook : crazy , offbeat"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u00fc-k\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bizarre",
      "bizarro",
      "cranky",
      "crazy",
      "curious",
      "eccentric",
      "erratic",
      "far-out",
      "funky",
      "funny",
      "kinky",
      "odd",
      "off-kilter",
      "off-the-wall",
      "offbeat",
      "out-of-the-way",
      "outlandish",
      "outr\u00e9",
      "peculiar",
      "quaint",
      "queer",
      "queerish",
      "quirky",
      "remarkable",
      "rum",
      "screwy",
      "spaced-out",
      "strange",
      "wacky",
      "whacky",
      "way-out",
      "weird",
      "weirdo",
      "wild"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.",
      "if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "At first, the company focused on kooky innovations, including records that projected 3-D images when spun. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
      "Mad as a hatter! Daniel KnightonGetty Images Serve an incredibly kooky look on Halloween as the most infamous Gotham villain. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
      "Of course, Miranda Cosgrove's Carly Shay winds up in kooky situations, partaking in an underground fight club and defending herself in court against Lewbert. \u2014 Rachel Schonberger, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
      "With a bevy of kooky fashion moments under her belt\u2014both on the Met steps and on stage\u2014Perry is bound to once again pull out all the stops for this year\u2019s Met gala (which has a white-tie, Gilded Glamour dress code). \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "But there are new kids coming in and finding themselves on dark dancefloors in a warehouse with a bunch of kooky people, and identifying with others and feeling a great bond that is magnified by the frequencies around them. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, Billboard , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "The Lost City, centered on a reclusive romance novelist (Bullock) who gets swept up into a kooky jungle adventure after an eccentric billionaire (Radcliffe) kidnaps her to find an ancient city's treasure, featured in her latest novel. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Kate McKinnon in a workplace comedy about a kooky woman married to a mild-mannered man (Kyle MacLachlan, because why not) on a mission to save big cats all across the country. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Yes, there were a few Sundance reliables, the eternally cute and kooky white children of Indiewood, but not enough to trigger you about the old days when the festival was clogged with Tarantino clones. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1959, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-181757"
  },
  "kooky":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": having the characteristics of a kook : crazy , offbeat"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u00fc-k\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bizarre",
      "bizarro",
      "cranky",
      "crazy",
      "curious",
      "eccentric",
      "erratic",
      "far-out",
      "funky",
      "funny",
      "kinky",
      "odd",
      "off-kilter",
      "off-the-wall",
      "offbeat",
      "out-of-the-way",
      "outlandish",
      "outr\u00e9",
      "peculiar",
      "quaint",
      "queer",
      "queerish",
      "quirky",
      "remarkable",
      "rum",
      "screwy",
      "spaced-out",
      "strange",
      "wacky",
      "whacky",
      "way-out",
      "weird",
      "weirdo",
      "wild"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "I'm not sure that someone with such kooky ideas on biology should be teaching the subject to high schoolers.",
      "if you think that drugs aren't bad for you, you haven't met that guy's kooky friends",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "At first, the company focused on kooky innovations, including records that projected 3-D images when spun. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 June 2022",
      "Mad as a hatter! Daniel KnightonGetty Images Serve an incredibly kooky look on Halloween as the most infamous Gotham villain. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 8 June 2022",
      "Of course, Miranda Cosgrove's Carly Shay winds up in kooky situations, partaking in an underground fight club and defending herself in court against Lewbert. \u2014 Rachel Schonberger, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
      "With a bevy of kooky fashion moments under her belt\u2014both on the Met steps and on stage\u2014Perry is bound to once again pull out all the stops for this year\u2019s Met gala (which has a white-tie, Gilded Glamour dress code). \u2014 Christian Allaire, Vogue , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "But there are new kids coming in and finding themselves on dark dancefloors in a warehouse with a bunch of kooky people, and identifying with others and feeling a great bond that is magnified by the frequencies around them. \u2014 Lily Moayeri, Billboard , 1 Apr. 2022",
      "The Lost City, centered on a reclusive romance novelist (Bullock) who gets swept up into a kooky jungle adventure after an eccentric billionaire (Radcliffe) kidnaps her to find an ancient city's treasure, featured in her latest novel. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Kate McKinnon in a workplace comedy about a kooky woman married to a mild-mannered man (Kyle MacLachlan, because why not) on a mission to save big cats all across the country. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Yes, there were a few Sundance reliables, the eternally cute and kooky white children of Indiewood, but not enough to trigger you about the old days when the festival was clogged with Tarantino clones. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[
      "1959, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220623-170051"
  },
  "kook":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": one whose ideas or actions are eccentric, fantastic, or insane : screwball",
      ": a person who acts in a strange or insane way"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u00fck",
      "\u02c8k\u00fck"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "character",
      "codger",
      "crack",
      "crackbrain",
      "crackpot",
      "crank",
      "eccentric",
      "flake",
      "fruitcake",
      "head case",
      "nut",
      "nutcase",
      "nutter",
      "oddball",
      "oddity",
      "original",
      "quiz",
      "screwball",
      "weirdo",
      "zany"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "a bunch of kooks dressed up in weird costumes",
      "if you insist on painting your house bright orange, everyone will assume you are a kook",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Almedilla\u2019s accident-prone Sarah Jane Moore, who shoots her pooch on her way to infamy, is a standout kook . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "But being a professional kook was a lonely crusade. \u2014 Zachary D. Carter, The New Republic , 17 June 2021",
      "Again and again, Pelosi is dismissed, first as a dilettante housewife, then as a far-left San Francisco kook , finally as an establishment dinosaur \u2014 and throughout, as a woman. \u2014 Michelle Goldberg, New York Times , 5 May 2020",
      "The line of attack is the familiar one of using a few isolated idiots or kooks to tar the entire enterprise. \u2014 Rich Lowry, National Review , 22 Apr. 2020",
      "This shortcoming might explain why the show takes such pains to portray her as a kook , and possibly even a murderer. \u2014 Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic , 7 Apr. 2020",
      "The 2020 Democrats are a party of kooks and retreads and charlatans, now reduced to hoping for a pandemic of the coronavirus to give them any room to attack the incumbent. \u2014 Conrad Black, National Review , 11 Mar. 2020",
      "Social media is flooding with kooks claiming the media and the Democrats are responsible for new coronavirus. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com , 16 Mar. 2020",
      "Besides partisans and kooks , who could side with an organization that is successful beyond belief, skirts the rules and is led by an all-powerful boss facing serious legal questions? \u2014 Washington Post , 10 May 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"by shortening & alteration from cuckoo ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1960, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220625-171712"
  },
  "kobold":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a gnome that in German folklore inhabits underground places",
      ": an often mischievous domestic spirit of German folklore"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u014d-\u02ccb\u022fld"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "brownie",
      "dwarf",
      "elf",
      "faerie",
      "faery",
      "fairy",
      "fay",
      "gnome",
      "goblin",
      "gremlin",
      "hobgoblin",
      "leprechaun",
      "pixie",
      "pixy",
      "puck",
      "sprite",
      "troll"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "the metal cobalt gets its name from the medieval Germanic belief that its appearance in silver ore was the handiwork of mischievous, thieving kobolds"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"German \u2014 more at cobalt ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-013949"
  },
  "Kobuk Valley National Park":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "site that contains archaeological remains and unusual landscapes in western Alaska north of the Arctic Circle along the"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "k\u014d-\u02c8bu\u0307k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-112758"
  },
  "kowtow":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": to show obsequious deference : fawn",
      ": to kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in token of homage, worship, or deep respect",
      ": an act of kowtowing",
      ": to obey a person in a position of power in a way that seems weak : show overly respectful attention"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8kau\u0307-\u02cctau\u0307",
      "(\u02cc)kau\u0307-\u02c8tau\u0307",
      "kau\u0307-\u02c8tau\u0307",
      "\u02c8kau\u0307-\u02cctau\u0307"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "apple-polish",
      "bootlick",
      "fawn",
      "fuss",
      "suck (up)",
      "toady",
      "truckle"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "you can try kowtowing to the boss, but he'll see right through you",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Trump, unencumbered by the need to kowtow to the Iranians, killed a few hundred Russian mercenaries in Syria. \u2014 David Harsanyi, National Review , 22 Feb. 2022",
      "But India remains the world\u2019s second most populous nation and one of the few in Asia unwilling to kowtow to Chinese might. \u2014 Sadanand Dhume, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "Changing the way waiting ships are counted while continuing to kowtow to organized labor will not ease port congestion. \u2014 Dominic Pino, National Review , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "Like Koreans or Vietnamese, Japanese delegations were expected to visit Chinese imperial capitals to kowtow to the emperor. \u2014 Ian Buruma, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "Emulating pre-Communist practices, younger doctors would kowtow three times before their elders to become disciples and learn directly from them. \u2014 Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books , 20 Oct. 2021",
      "And she was indeed defined by a steely independent streak that did not kowtow to outsiders, whether established civil rights figures or the leader of the free world. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2021",
      "And she was indeed defined by a steely independent streak that did not kowtow to outsiders, whether established civil rights figures or the leader of the free world. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2021",
      "And she was indeed defined by a steely independent streak that did not kowtow to outsiders, whether established civil rights figures or the leader of the free world. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 18 July 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said leaders from Sweden and Finland should not expect its support for NATO membership until Western nations kowtow to its demands. \u2014 Caitlin Mcfall, Fox News , 18 May 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":"Noun and Verb",
    "first_known_use":[
      "Verb",
      "1826, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
      "Noun",
      "1804, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-134230"
  },
  "Kobus":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a genus of antelopes containing the typical waterbucks"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u014db\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"New Latin, from English kob entry 1 ",
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-155351"
  },
  "kobo":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "a monetary subunit of the naira \u2014 see naira at Money Table"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u014d-(\u02cc)b\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":"alteration of copper entry 1 ",
    "first_known_use":[
      "1972, in the meaning defined above"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-041108"
  },
  "koyemshi":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a Zu\u00f1i Indian clown society whose members wear the mask of the mudhead and are credited with curing illness by their dancing and clowning",
      ": a member of the koyemshi"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "k\u014d\u02c8yem(p)sh\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "Zu\u00f1i"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-195008"
  },
  "Koyukon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": an Athapaskan people of the Yukon river valley of west central Alaska",
      ": a member of such people",
      ": the language of the Koyukon people"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "k\u014d\u02c8y\u00fc\u02cck\u00e4n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220630-200649"
  },
  "Koca":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "river about 75 miles (121 kilometers) long in southern Turkey flowing southwest and south into the Mediterranean Sea"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "k\u014d-\u02c8j\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-022054"
  },
  "Koblenz":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "city in western Germany south-southeast of Cologne at the confluence of the Rhine and the Moselle rivers population 109,046"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u014d-\u02ccblents"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220701-123442"
  },
  "Koyukuk":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "river about 500 miles (800 kilometers) long in north central Alaska flowing from the Brooks Range southwest into the Yukon River"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u012b-\u0259-\u02cck\u0259k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-021109"
  },
  "Kocabas":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "river in northwestern Turkey in Asia flowing northeast to the Sea of Marmara"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cck\u022f-j\u0259-\u02c8b\u00e4sh"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-053720"
  },
  "kowliang":{
    "type":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of kowliang variant of kaoliang"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220702-084125"
  },
  "kozo":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": paper mulberry"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u014d(\u02cc)z\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "Japanese k\u014dzo"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220703-185828"
  },
  "kobird":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": yellow-billed cuckoo"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "ko-, kow- (probably imitative) + bird"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-153158"
  },
  "Kobilka":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      "Brian K(ent) 1955\u2013 American biologist"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "k\u014d-\u02c8bil-k\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220704-183723"
  },
  "kobellite":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":[
      ": a mineral Pb 2 (Bi,Sb) 2 S 5 consisting of a blackish gray sulfide of antimony, bismuth, and lead"
    ],
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u014db\u0259\u02ccl\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[
      "Swedish kobellit , from Franz von Kobell \u20201882 German mineralogist and poet + Swedish -it -ite"
    ],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220705-061212"
  },
  "Koch":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "Charles (de Ganahl) 1935\u2013 and his brother David (Hamilton) 1940\u20132019 American entrepreneurs":[],
      "Robert 1843\u20131910 German bacteriologist":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8k\u014dk",
      "\u02c8k\u014d\u1e35",
      "\u02c8k\u00e4\u1e35",
      "\u02c8k\u022fk",
      "\u02c8k\u022f\u1e35",
      "\u02c8k\u00e4k"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105647"
  }
}