dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/sot_MW.json

{
  "sot":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a habitual drunkard":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a sot who was arrested after a bar fight",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Thrilling game sequences, a terrific ensemble cast led by Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Madonna, plus an all-timer performance from Tom Hanks as their hapless sot of a manager. \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 10 Aug. 2020",
      "The old man is also a sot who dedicates much of his free time (and most of his work time) to getting King Kong drunk on the local King Kong hooch. \u2014 Junot D\u00edaz, New York Times , 29 Feb. 2020",
      "Nothing gets too wacky, short of the sot l\u2019y laisse. \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle , 29 Nov. 2019",
      "Craving a drink, she is bullied by Rocco into singing for the ensemble, which Fisher does splendidly, registering the faded glory of the onetime lounge singer turned sot in a few simple bars. \u2014 Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 Nov. 2019",
      "The massive crowns atop their head looked like something an Aztec queen might wear into space \u2014 a sot of jagged helmet with elongated sides. \u2014 Robin Givhan, Washington Post , 27 Sep. 2019",
      "Condiment add-ins range from pickled chiles and garlic in mild vinegar to fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar and a savory-spicy chile oil called sot sa-te that\u2019s akin to a mild XO sauce. \u2014 Andrea Nguyen, Los Angeles Times , 4 Sep. 2019",
      "To this old sot , the gun represents some kind of high hilarity. \u2014 New York Times , 23 May 2018",
      "In her telling, the Medici history is populated not by high-minded art patrons but by drunken sots and savage adventurers, essentially a crime syndicate, intent on amassing wealth and power without limit and without scruple. \u2014 Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor , 28 Mar. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1592, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, fool, from Old English sott":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "alcoholic",
      "alkie",
      "alky",
      "boozehound",
      "boozer",
      "dipsomaniac",
      "drinker",
      "drunk",
      "drunkard",
      "inebriate",
      "juicehead",
      "juicer",
      "lush",
      "rummy",
      "soak",
      "soaker",
      "souse",
      "tippler",
      "toper",
      "tosspot"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094254",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sottish":{
    "antonyms":[
      "sober",
      "straight"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "you could smell the whiskey on her sottish aunt's breath from a block away!",
      "a comic actor who frequently played the sottish curmudgeon",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "So long as those parties retained their strength and credibility, the loud-mouthery of its sottish president could be winced at, but need not inspire much worry. \u2014 David Frum, The Atlantic , 23 Oct. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1583, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4-tish"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "besotted",
      "blasted",
      "blind",
      "blitzed",
      "blotto",
      "bombed",
      "boozy",
      "canned",
      "cockeyed",
      "crocked",
      "drunk",
      "drunken",
      "fried",
      "gassed",
      "hammered",
      "high",
      "impaired",
      "inebriate",
      "inebriated",
      "intoxicated",
      "juiced",
      "lit",
      "lit up",
      "loaded",
      "looped",
      "oiled",
      "pickled",
      "pie-eyed",
      "plastered",
      "potted",
      "ripped",
      "sloshed",
      "smashed",
      "soused",
      "sozzled",
      "squiffed",
      "squiffy",
      "stewed",
      "stiff",
      "stinking",
      "stoned",
      "tanked",
      "tiddly",
      "tight",
      "tipsy",
      "wasted",
      "wet",
      "wiped out"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-023831",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "sotted":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": besotted":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4t\u0259\u0307d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, short for assotted , past participle of assotten to be a fool, make a fool of, become infatuated, from Old French assoter, asoter to treat as a fool, from a- (from Latin ad- ) + sot fool":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182251"
  },
  "Sotomayor":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "Sonia (Maria) 1954\u2013 American jurist":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccm\u0101-",
      "\u02ccs\u014d-t\u014d-\u02ccm\u012b-\u02c8\u022fr"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185458"
  },
  "Sothiac":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": sothic":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u014dth\u0113\u02ccak"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek S\u014dth \u0113s the star Sirius + English -iac, -iacal (as in zodiac, zodiacal )":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-202746"
  },
  "soteriology":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": theology dealing with salvation especially as effected by Jesus Christ":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u014d-\u02cctir-\u0113-\u02c8\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This secular revival has blessed its adherents with a scheme of ethics, aesthetics, eschatology, and soteriology all their own. \u2014 Tanner Greer, National Review , 17 Mar. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek s\u014dt\u0113rion salvation (from s\u014dt\u0113r savior, preserver) + English -logy \u2014 more at creosote":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1774, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-001701"
  },
  "Sothic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating to the ancient Egyptian year of 365\u00b9/\u2084 days or to the Sothic cycle":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u014dthik",
      "\u02c8s\u00e4th-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek S\u014dth \u0113s the star Sirius + English -ic ; from the fact that the year began when Sirius first appeared on the eastern horizon at sunrise":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-030700"
  },
  "soterial":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of or relating to salvation":[
        "soterial significance of biblical incidents"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u014d\u02c8tir\u0113\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek s\u014dt\u0113ria deliverance (from s\u014dt\u0113r savior + -ia -y) + English -al":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070826"
  },
  "Sotadic verse":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": palindromic verse":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071121"
  },
  "Sotadic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": sotadean":[],
      ": a Sotadean verse or poem : a scurrilous satire":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "s\u014d\u02c8tadik",
      "\""
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin sotadicus , from Sotades + Latin -icus -ic":"Adjective",
      "Latin sotadicus , from sotadicus , adjective, sotadic":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-073818"
  },
  "sotter":{
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": simmer , bubble , sputter":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8s\u00e4t\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably from German dialect sottern ; probably akin to Old High German siodan to seethe":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-093304"
  },
  "Sotadean":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greek poet Sotades or his notoriously scurrilous and licentious verse":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6s\u014dt\u0259\u00a6d\u0113\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin sotad eus sotadean (from Greek s\u014dtadeios , from S\u014dtad\u0113s Sotades, 3d century b.c. Greek satirist) + English -an":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-134413"
  },
  "sotadean verse":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a catalectic tetrameter of major ionics":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225038"
  },
  "Sothic cycle":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a period of 1460 Sothic years in the ancient Egyptian calendar being the time required for the beginning of the vague year of 365 days to return to its original place in relation to the sun after retrogressing through all the seasons":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-231620"
  }
}