"let us bid farewell to auld lang syne and welcome in the new year",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Should old acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne ",
"Happy New Year's Day everyone and auld lang syne too! \u2014 Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY , 30 Dec. 2019"
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"Scots, literally, old long ago":""
},
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"1666, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142302"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of one of those parties in the Scottish Secession churches, both Burgher and Antiburgher, that continued to hold to the principle of the connection between church and state in opposition to the voluntarism of the New Lichts":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4l-",
"\u02c8\u022fl\u02cc(d)li\u1e35t"
],
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
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"Scots, literally, old light":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-163156"
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"auld wife":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": old wife":[],
": a fussy nervous person":[]
},
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170344"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to a court : courtly":[
"ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities",
"\u2014 W. S. Landor"
],
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},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u022flik",
"\u02c8au\u0307l-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French aulique , from Latin aulicus , from Greek aulikos , from Greek aul\u0113 + -ikos -ic":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175938"
},
"Auld Kirker":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of the established church of Scotland":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Auld Kirk + English -er":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191104"
},
"auld kirk":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": whiskey":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"from Auld Kirk , literally, old church, the established church of Scotland; probably from the more lenient attitude toward strong drink of Auld Kirkers compared with dissenters":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193149"
},
"auld-farrant":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": wise beyond one's years : sagacious , cunning":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Scots auld + farrant, farran":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-193228"
},
"Aulis":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"harbor on the Evripos Strait in Boeotia , Greece":[]
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-131452"
},
"aulo-":{
"type":[],
"definitions":{
"\u2014 see aul-":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-223022"
},
"Aulavik National Park":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Arctic landscape in northwestern Canada on the northern part of Banks Island":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8au\u0307-l\u0259-\u02ccvik"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-101513"
},
"aul-":{
"type":[
"combining form",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Caucasian mountain or desert settlement (such as a village)":[],
": a tent of Central Asia made of felt or skins fastened over a circular wooden framework":[],
": flute : pipe":[
"aulo phyte",
"Aul acanthus",
"Aulo stomus"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8au\u0307(\u0259)l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Russian, from Kazan Tatar & Kyrgyz":"Noun",
"New Latin, from Greek, from aulos":"Combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-135308"
},
"aularian":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of an English university hall":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\"",
"(\u02c8)\u022f\u00a6la(a)r\u0113\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin aulari us (from Latin aula hall) + English -an":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-172525"
},
"aulophyte":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a plant that lives within the cavity of another plant but that is neither a symbiont nor a parasite":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u022fl\u0259\u02ccf\u012bt"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"aul- + -phyte":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-224050"
},
"aul":{
"type":[
"combining form",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Caucasian mountain or desert settlement (such as a village)":[],
": a tent of Central Asia made of felt or skins fastened over a circular wooden framework":[],
": flute : pipe":[
"aulo phyte",
"Aul acanthus",
"Aulo stomus"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8au\u0307(\u0259)l"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Russian, from Kazan Tatar & Kyrgyz":"Noun",
"New Latin, from Greek, from aulos":"Combining form"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-232142"
},
"aulos":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a Greek woodwind musical instrument that is commonly called a flute but is in fact a reed instrument similar to an oboe":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u022f\u02ccl\u00e4s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-055043"
},
"Aulacomnium":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small genus (the type of the family Aulacomniaceae) of tufted mosses closely related to the genus Mnium with each leaf cell having a conical central papilla and the capsules being striate and with double peristomes":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u022fl\u0259\u02c8k\u00e4mn\u0113\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek aulak-, aulax furrow + New Latin -o- + Mnium":""
