": either of a pair of removable rounded or U-shaped handles used on the top of a pommel horse":[],
": pummel":[],
": the knob on the hilt of a sword or saber":[],
": the protuberance at the front and top of a saddle":[]
},
"examples":[
"Verb",
"the elderly woman pommeled the would-be thief with her handbag until he begged for mercy",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Researchers detected the elaborate geometric designs on the sword\u2019s upper and lower guards, as well as its pommel . \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 17 Dec. 2021",
"And a specialized stainless-steel pommel works great for hammering on tent stakes, but can be used to tenderize cuts of wild game, as well. \u2014 Outdoor Life , 23 Feb. 2021",
"One thing to look for in a camping hatchet is a solid, flat pommel --that\u2019s the part of the hatchet head on the other end from the cutting edge. \u2014 Outdoor Life , 23 Feb. 2021",
"The most important feature is its pommel , which acts as a spear and can pierce plexiglass or helicopter windows with ease. \u2014 Matt Fratus, Field & Stream , 19 Aug. 2020",
"Depending on the make and model, your knife may have a pommel that comes to a point for precise impact (like smashing glass or skulls). \u2014 Popular Science , 15 June 2020",
"Other lavish artifacts laid to rest with the man include a nearly eight-inch copper dagger adorned with a whale bone pommel , or rounded knob at the end of its handle, and a wrist guard made of rare green stone. \u2014 Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine , 5 May 2020",
"Pound the slices on a clean rock with the pommel of your knife to tenderize the meat and flatten it to a consistent thickness. \u2014 T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream , 9 Jan. 2017",
"Depending on the make and model, your knife may have a pommel that comes to a point for precise impact (like smashing glass or skulls). \u2014 Popular Science , 15 June 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"There are pommel horses, vertical bars and all the other equipment that populates a gymnastics school. \u2014 Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com , 28 June 2021",
"It\u2019s the first alpine ski area at Hatcher Pass \u2014 long a destination for cross country skiers \u2014 since the 1970s, when there was a rope tow and pommel lift at Independence Mine. \u2014 Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News , 4 Dec. 2020",
"Not surprisingly, the five fastest serves ever recorded were pommeled by players 6-foot-4 or bigger. \u2014 Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED , 12 July 2019",
"The President\u2019s $17 million home on the island of St. Martin, Le Chateau des Palmiers, was pommeled by Irma days earlier as the then-Category 5 storm wreaked havoc on several Caribbean islands. \u2014 Mackenzie Schmidt, PEOPLE.com , 12 Sep. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1530, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English pomel , from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *pomellum ball, knob, from diminutive of Latin pomum fruit":"Noun and Verb"
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4-",
"\u02c8p\u0259-m\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"do",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"hide",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pound",
"pummel",
"punch out",
"rough (up)",
"slate",
"slog",
"switch",
"tan",
"thrash",
"thresh",
"thump",
"tromp",
"wallop",
"whale",
"whip",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup",
"work over"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053825",
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pomposity":{
"antonyms":[
"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness"
],
"definitions":{
": a pompous gesture, habit, or act":[],
": pompous demeanor, speech, or behavior":[]
},
"examples":[
"restaurant reviews that are written with a pomposity that will leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth",
"his over-the-top trophy mansion should give you some idea of his pomposity",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"His calling card was a no-nonsense political sensibility, infused with audience-pleasing humor that punctured the dominant character trait of many an officeholder: pomposity . \u2014 Clyde Haberman, BostonGlobe.com , 18 June 2022",
"Gilbert, for instance, enjoyed sending up the polysyllabic pomposity of the English oratory of his day. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"But there are times, especially in the record\u2019s first half, when the band\u2019s societal broadsides veer into pomposity . \u2014 Mark Richardson, WSJ , 2 May 2022",
"Amy Schumer, Regina Hall, and Wanda Sykes kicked off the 2022 Oscars \u2014 the first time three women have ever had that job \u2014 with hilarious jabs at Hollywood pomposity and the culture wars. \u2014 Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone , 28 Mar. 2022",
"The cavalier pomposity and condescension of that gesture still shock me. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 17 July 2021",
"Part of his schtick is elevating the unseen everyday to deluxe status, poking fun at the pomposity of the fashion beast. \u2014 New York Times , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Swaggering pomposity becomes embarrassed self-deprecation. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 4 Mar. 2022",
"But Thalberg didn\u2019t grasp what had actually worked: the expensive style of the production, pitting the Marxes against the pomposity of opera, and placing Keaton against a full-scale location shoot in New York City. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 24 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1572, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00e4m-\u02c8p\u00e4-s\u0259-t\u0113"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"bumptiousness",
"consequence",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"high horse",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"masterfulness",
"peremptoriness",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-111744",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pomposo":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": pompously , imposingly":[
"\u2014 used as a direction in music"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, from Late Latin pomposus":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u00e4m\u02c8p\u014d(\u02cc)s\u014d"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-045612",
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"pompous":{
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
],
"definitions":{
": excessively elevated or ornate":[
"pompous rhetoric"
],
": having or exhibiting self-importance : arrogant":[
"a pompous politician"
],
": relating to or suggestive of pomp or splendor : magnificent":[]
},
"examples":[
"So as the pictures of flooded shanties flicker by on cable news, uptight neatnik Midwestern Lutherans and sensitive northeastern urban sophisticates and pompous media grandees on both coasts express shock at the unexpected squalor of the poverty and bafflement over the slovenly corruption of the civic institutions. \u2014 Rob Long , National Review , 26 Sept. 2005",
"President Warren Harding was an orator, but his bloviations were an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea. \u2014 Harold Evans , New York Times Book Review , 11 Nov. 2001",
"She never allowed her spirit to become, as, say, Henry Adams did, curdled by long exposure to Washington's tawdry and pompous aspects. \u2014 George F. Will , Newsweek , 24 May 1999",
"She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous .",
"the pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That sounded a little bit pompous but there was a bit of competition. \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"The whole manuscript is written in a pompous , defensive stance, laced with aphorisms about the wonder of free markets. \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Instead, The Gilded Age offers Nathan Lane using a Colonel Sanders accent as the pompous McAllister. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Each of them delivers a pompous speech diagnosing Pinocchio\u2019s ailment, and each diagnosis differs from the others. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Constance is a pompous British aristocrat from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. \u2014 Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Genet\u2019s face stared out from the cover, once old and pompous , now young and troubled. \u2014 Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Young is morphed into a rather pompous George Washington and Mani into pro-slavery Founding Father Charles Pinckney. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The result is that Parallel Mothers is Almod\u00f3var\u2019s most pompous and unconvincingly political film. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 19 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see pomp":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225745",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"pompously":{
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
],
"definitions":{
": excessively elevated or ornate":[
"pompous rhetoric"
],
": having or exhibiting self-importance : arrogant":[
"a pompous politician"
],
": relating to or suggestive of pomp or splendor : magnificent":[]
},
"examples":[
"So as the pictures of flooded shanties flicker by on cable news, uptight neatnik Midwestern Lutherans and sensitive northeastern urban sophisticates and pompous media grandees on both coasts express shock at the unexpected squalor of the poverty and bafflement over the slovenly corruption of the civic institutions. \u2014 Rob Long , National Review , 26 Sept. 2005",
"President Warren Harding was an orator, but his bloviations were an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea. \u2014 Harold Evans , New York Times Book Review , 11 Nov. 2001",
"She never allowed her spirit to become, as, say, Henry Adams did, curdled by long exposure to Washington's tawdry and pompous aspects. \u2014 George F. Will , Newsweek , 24 May 1999",
"She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous .",
"the pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That sounded a little bit pompous but there was a bit of competition. \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"The whole manuscript is written in a pompous , defensive stance, laced with aphorisms about the wonder of free markets. \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Instead, The Gilded Age offers Nathan Lane using a Colonel Sanders accent as the pompous McAllister. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Each of them delivers a pompous speech diagnosing Pinocchio\u2019s ailment, and each diagnosis differs from the others. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Constance is a pompous British aristocrat from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. \u2014 Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Genet\u2019s face stared out from the cover, once old and pompous , now young and troubled. \u2014 Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Young is morphed into a rather pompous George Washington and Mani into pro-slavery Founding Father Charles Pinckney. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The result is that Parallel Mothers is Almod\u00f3var\u2019s most pompous and unconvincingly political film. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 19 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see pomp":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093202",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"pompousness":{
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
],
"definitions":{
": excessively elevated or ornate":[
"pompous rhetoric"
],
": having or exhibiting self-importance : arrogant":[
"a pompous politician"
],
": relating to or suggestive of pomp or splendor : magnificent":[]
},
"examples":[
"So as the pictures of flooded shanties flicker by on cable news, uptight neatnik Midwestern Lutherans and sensitive northeastern urban sophisticates and pompous media grandees on both coasts express shock at the unexpected squalor of the poverty and bafflement over the slovenly corruption of the civic institutions. \u2014 Rob Long , National Review , 26 Sept. 2005",
"President Warren Harding was an orator, but his bloviations were an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea. \u2014 Harold Evans , New York Times Book Review , 11 Nov. 2001",
"She never allowed her spirit to become, as, say, Henry Adams did, curdled by long exposure to Washington's tawdry and pompous aspects. \u2014 George F. Will , Newsweek , 24 May 1999",
"She found it difficult to talk about her achievements without sounding pompous .",
"the pompous waiter served us in the manner of a person doing some poor soul a great favor",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"That sounded a little bit pompous but there was a bit of competition. \u2014 Steve Baltin, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"The whole manuscript is written in a pompous , defensive stance, laced with aphorisms about the wonder of free markets. \u2014 Ron Charles, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
"Instead, The Gilded Age offers Nathan Lane using a Colonel Sanders accent as the pompous McAllister. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 25 Jan. 2022",
"Each of them delivers a pompous speech diagnosing Pinocchio\u2019s ailment, and each diagnosis differs from the others. \u2014 Joan Acocella, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022",
"Constance is a pompous British aristocrat from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. \u2014 Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Genet\u2019s face stared out from the cover, once old and pompous , now young and troubled. \u2014 Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, The New Yorker , 2 May 2022",
"Young is morphed into a rather pompous George Washington and Mani into pro-slavery Founding Father Charles Pinckney. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 18 Apr. 2022",
"The result is that Parallel Mothers is Almod\u00f3var\u2019s most pompous and unconvincingly political film. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 19 Jan. 2022"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"see pomp":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259s"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"bumptious",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172259",
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
]
},
"pomster":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to treat illness without having sufficient knowledge or skill in medicine":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably of Cornish origin":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-m(p)st-",
"\u02c8p\u00e4mzt\u0259(r)"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-212736",
"type":[
"intransitive verb"
]
},
"pomp":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a show of magnificence : splendor":[
"every day begins \u2026 in a pomp of flaming colours",
"\u2014 F. D. Ommanney"
],
": a ceremonial or festival display (such as a train of followers or a pageant)":[],
": ostentatious display : vainglory":[],
": an ostentatious gesture or act":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4mp"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Thursday, June 2: The queen's birthday parade, known as Trooping the Colour, was held \u2014 an impressive display of military pomp with more than 1,200 officers from the queen's personal troops, several hundred Army musicians and 240 horses. \u2014 Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"Granted, the pomp and circumstance is not for everyone. \u2014 Vogue , 3 June 2022",
"The Orange Inclusive Preschool rolled out the pomp and circumstance for its annual graduation ceremony, promoting the students to kindergarten. \u2014 cleveland , 3 June 2022",
"This is British pomp at its best, concluding with a Royal Air Force flyover watched by the royal family from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. \u2014 Karla Adam, Washington Post , 1 June 2022",
"This attitude puts the pomp and puffery of premium economy into sharp relief. \u2014 Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic , 29 May 2022",
"The days leading up to Memorial Day Weekend are inevitably filled with patriotic pomp and symbols of heroism, including Sgt. \u2014 Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel , 23 May 2022",
"Dallas\u2019 new city council was sworn into office Monday under the bright lights of Meyerson Symphony Center \u2014 a biennial transfer of power full of pomp and circumstances that can pack the 2,000-seat auditorium. \u2014 Lauren Girgis, Dallas News , 14 June 2021",
"In a show of pomp and pageantry, Russia marked the Soviet Union\u2019s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II with its annual military parade in Moscow. \u2014 Rachel Elbaum, NBC News , 9 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Anglo-French pompe , from Latin pompa procession, pomp, from Greek pomp\u0113 act of sending, escort, procession, pomp, from pempein to send":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001203"
},
"pompadour":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a man's style of hairdressing in which the hair is combed into a high mound in front":[],
": a woman's style of hairdressing in which the hair is brushed into a loose full roll around the face":[],
": hair dressed in a pompadour":[],
"Madame de 1721\u20131764 Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson; mistress of Louis XV":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259-\u02ccd\u022fr",
"-\u02ccdu\u0307r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her burnished chestnut hair was piled atop her head in the intricate pompadour of a Gibson Girl, adding several inches to her 5-foot-10 stature. \u2014 April White, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"This pompadour style for the 2010 Grammys was simply groundbreaking. \u2014 Janae Mckenzie, Glamour , 2 Apr. 2022",
"An elegant pompadour updo worn with a soft-focus glow punctuated by roseate smoky eyes, fluttery falsies, and a bright cherry red lip. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 28 Mar. 2022",
"No one looks like him, with his thick pompadour , sensuous, downturned lips and doleful eyes. \u2014 David Marchesephoto Illustration By Br\u00e1ulio Amado, New York Times , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Sheinelle Jones did a separate halftime show brushing her hair back and opting for a pompadour fade to resemble Bruno Mars during his 2014 halftime show performance. \u2014 Rasha Ali, USA TODAY , 29 Oct. 2021",
"When Steven Van Zandt played Tony\u2019s consigliere, Silvio Dante, on the original series, the costume department fitted him with a towering, shiny pompadour . \u2014 Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture , 5 Oct. 2021",
"As a teenager in Plainview, Long Island, in the late 1950s, George M. Sherman cut a dashing figure with his pompadour . \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 27 Aug. 2021",
"Shoes gleamed, teeth glinted, each ponytail and pompadour shone. \u2014 New York Times , 7 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Marquise de Pompadour":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1872, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012859"
},
"pome":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a fleshy fruit (such as an apple or pear) consisting of an outer thickened fleshy layer and a central core with usually five seeds enclosed in a capsule":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u014dm"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Quince is ginkgo-leaf yellow when ripe, and the pome is sensual to the eye and in hand \u2014 all Rubenesque curves and dimples. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Oct. 2021",
"These pomes are one of the few fruits that are best when picked under ripe. \u2014 oregonlive.com , 19 July 2019",
"Each fruit will come into its best maturity at slightly different times due to environmental factors, so when harvesting a pear tree, each pome will need to be individually considered before picking. \u2014 oregonlive.com , 19 July 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, fruit, from Anglo-French pume, pomme apple, fruit, ultimately from Late Latin pomum":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043737"
},
"Pomoxis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of sunfishes (family Centrarchidae) including the North American black and white crappies":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259\u02c8m\u00e4ks\u0259\u0307s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek p\u014dmat-, p\u014dma lid + oxys sharp":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-050802"
},
"pomp and circumstance":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": impressive formal activities or ceremonies":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-065806"
},
"pompier ladder":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a fireman's scaling ladder consisting of a pole with crossbars for rungs and a hook at one end":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-120433"
},
"pompano":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a small bluish or greenish butterfish ( Peprilus simillimus ) of the Pacific coast of North America":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259-\u02ccn\u014d",
"\u02c8p\u0259m-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Surf anglers are starting to see pompano showing up, though bluefish, ladyfish and jacks are still the most abundant species. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, al , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Catch the whiting and pompano on pink FishBites in the sand flea flavor, the other species on a 3 inch chrome spoon cranked fast outside the bar. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, al , 21 May 2021",
"Fans from all over have been descending on this remote river city for a last chance at enjoying Lusco\u2019s signature dishes: spicy shrimp, beef steaks, broiled whole pompano and fried chicken. \u2014 New York Times , 16 Aug. 2021",
"From the coast, surf fishing remains very good anytime the water clears, with lots of whiting, a few leftover pompano , jack crevalle, blues and Spanish. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, al , 21 May 2021",
"Sometimes those predators - speckled trout, redfish, black drum, pompano , even the occasional tarpon and king mackerel - plow into the congregations of forage. \u2014 Shannon Tompkins, Chron , 11 June 2021",
"From the coast, water temperature on the beach is around 78, still cool enough for an occasional pompano in the surf as well as plenty of whiting. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, al , 4 June 2021",
"Fish Bites Sand Flea flavor prepared bait on 1/0 kahle hooks on a double pompano rig, heave the rig out beyond the first ledge and drop the rod in a holder. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, al , 7 May 2021",
"Not only the pompano find it, but also bluefish, whiting, black drum and even the occasional redfish. \u2014 Frank Sargeant, al , 7 May 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"American Spanish p\u00e1mpano , from Spanish, a percoid fish ( Sparus auratus ), literally, vine leaf, from Latin pampinus":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1598, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-150941"
},
"Pompadour":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"biographical name",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a man's style of hairdressing in which the hair is combed into a high mound in front":[],
": a woman's style of hairdressing in which the hair is brushed into a loose full roll around the face":[],
": hair dressed in a pompadour":[],
"Madame de 1721\u20131764 Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson; mistress of Louis XV":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259-\u02ccd\u022fr",
"-\u02ccdu\u0307r"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Her burnished chestnut hair was piled atop her head in the intricate pompadour of a Gibson Girl, adding several inches to her 5-foot-10 stature. \u2014 April White, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"This pompadour style for the 2010 Grammys was simply groundbreaking. \u2014 Janae Mckenzie, Glamour , 2 Apr. 2022",
"An elegant pompadour updo worn with a soft-focus glow punctuated by roseate smoky eyes, fluttery falsies, and a bright cherry red lip. \u2014 Lauren Valenti, Vogue , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Sheinelle Jones did a separate halftime show brushing her hair back and opting for a pompadour fade to resemble Bruno Mars during his 2014 halftime show performance. \u2014 Rasha Ali, USA TODAY , 29 Oct. 2021",
"When Steven Van Zandt played Tony\u2019s consigliere, Silvio Dante, on the original series, the costume department fitted him with a towering, shiny pompadour . \u2014 Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture , 5 Oct. 2021",
"As a teenager in Plainview, Long Island, in the late 1950s, George M. Sherman cut a dashing figure with his pompadour . \u2014 James R. Hagerty, WSJ , 27 Aug. 2021",
"Shoes gleamed, teeth glinted, each ponytail and pompadour shone. \u2014 New York Times , 7 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Marquise de Pompadour":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1872, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182217"
},
"pompier":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":{
": tritely or insipidly academic":[
"pompier art",
"a pompier stage setting"
],
": marked by pretentious and stereotypical themes or treatment":[
"pompier art",
"a pompier stage setting"
],
": of or relating to the personal equipment of a fire-fighting crew":[
"pompier hatchet"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"in sense 1 \u00a6p\u00e4mp\u0113\u00a6\u0101",
"(\u02c8)p\u00e4mp\u00a6y\u0101",
"in sense 2 (\u02c8)p\u00e4m\u00a6pi(\u0259)r or like sense 1"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"French, from pompier pump maker, fireman, from pompe pump (from Italian pompa , perhaps from Spanish bomba ) + -ier -er; from the alleged resemblance of armed heroes in academic mythological paintings to firemen":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-185416"
},
"pomfret":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": any of a family (Bramidae) of usually deep-bodied spiny-finned oceanic fishes some of which are used for food":[],
": a silvery deep-bodied marine food fish ( Pampus argenteus of the family Stramateidae) of Asia":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-fr\u0259t",
"\u02c8p\u0259m-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Town-Wide Tag Sale POMFRET \u2014 Pomfret's 11th annual town-wide tag sale will take place at 7 a.m. Saturday, May 6. \u2014 Courant Community , 4 May 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of earlier pamflet , probably from French pample , from Portuguese pampo":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1703, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-201127"
},
"Pompidou":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"Georges (-Jean-Raymond) 1911\u20131974 French politician; prime minister (1962\u201368) and president (1969\u201374) of France":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-pi-\u02ccd\u00fc"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210006"
},
"Pomona":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"city in southwestern California east of Los Angeles population 149,058":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0259-\u02c8m\u014d-n\u0259"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-231533"
},
"Pompano Beach":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"city in southeastern Florida on the Atlantic Ocean north of Fort Lauderdale population 99,845":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-p\u0259-\u02ccn\u014d",
"\u02c8p\u0259m-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232034"
},
"pomi-":{
"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":{
": apple":[
"pomi form",
"pomi vorous"
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin pomum , from Latin, fruit":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232353"
},
"pome-citron":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": citron":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"pome + citron":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232713"
},
"pome fruit":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-235501"
},
"pomology":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the science and practice of growing fruit":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u014d-\u02c8m\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Wolf, now 65, joined Virginia Tech in 1986, soon after completing his doctoral work in pomology (the science of growing fruit) and viticulture (the science of growing grapes) at Cornell University. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin pomologia , from Latin pomum fruit + -logia -logy":""
"pompilid from New Latin Pompilidae; pompiloid from New Latin Pompilus + English -oid":"Adjective"
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-043624"
},
"pomegranate":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a several-celled reddish berry that is about the size of an orange with a thick leathery skin and many seeds with pulpy crimson arils of tart flavor":[],
": a widely cultivated tropical Asian tree ( Punica granatum of the family Punicaceae) bearing pomegranates":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-\u02ccgra-n\u0259t",
"\u02c8p\u0259m-\u02ccgran-",
"\u02c8p\u0259m-",
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-(\u0259-)\u02ccgran-\u0259t",
"\u02c8p\u00e4-m\u0259-\u02ccgra-n\u0259t",
"\u02c8p\u00e4m-\u02ccgra-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Pumpkin enzyme, pomegranate enzyme, chamomile oil and bisabolol, and salicylic acid. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health , 22 June 2022",
"For a small tree, even producing one pomegranate every few years is a demanding task. \u2014 al , 13 May 2022",
"Water figs, pomegranate and pineapple guava only once every few weeks \u2014 deeply each time. \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 May 2022",
"Aim to consume the pomegranate about 30 minutes before working out. \u2014 Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY , 25 May 2022",
"With notes of pomegranate , pomelo, eucalyptus, clementine blossoms, musk, and white vetiver, the Pomelo Pomegranate candle smells rich and sophisticated. \u2014 Amanda Lauren, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Get all your good ( pomegranate ) juices flowing with this rich and effective scrub. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 31 Mar. 2022",
"On a recent Tuesday morning in Oakland, a team of five nursery workers loaded the bed of a pickup truck with a wheelbarrow, pots, shovels, soil and 16 trees - pomegranate , apple, fig and olive. \u2014 Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle , 3 Apr. 2022",
"Bright red fruit\u2014strawberry, raspberry, a little pomegranate \u2014is focused with a little citrus, while lovely minerality finishes the wine on a savory note. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 11 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English poumgrenet , from Anglo-French pome garnette , literally, seedy fruit":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
