dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/oro_MW.json

{
  "orotund":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": marked by fullness, strength, and clarity of sound : sonorous":[
        "an orotund voice"
      ],
      ": pompous , bombastic":[
        "an orotund speech"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the tenor's orotund voice was just what this soaring aria needs",
      "a master of the orotund prose that is favored by academic journals of literary criticism",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Novoselov had a boisterous, orotund way of talking that even the interpreter seemed to have trouble making sense of. \u2014 Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "The speaker\u2019s orotund oratory, his mannered put-downs, his mock pretentiousness, his pompous, practiced, often hilarious jawing will be no more. \u2014 Karla Adam, Washington Post , 31 Oct. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1799, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "modification of Latin ore rotundo , literally, with round mouth":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u022fr-\u0259-\u02cct\u0259nd",
      "\u02c8\u00e4r-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "golden",
      "plangent",
      "resonant",
      "resounding",
      "reverberant",
      "reverberating",
      "reverberative",
      "ringing",
      "rotund",
      "round",
      "sonorous",
      "vibrant"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-041145",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "oromo":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a member of a Cushitic-speaking people of southern Ethiopia and adjacent parts of Kenya":[],
      ": the Cushitic language of the Oromo":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u014d-",
      "\u022f-\u02c8r\u014d-(\u02cc)m\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Oromo (western dialect) oromoo , a self-designation, probably from obsolete plural of orma person, stranger":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1893, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-071759"
  },
  "Oronchon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a hunting people dwelling in Siberia and in small numbers over the border in Manchuria":[],
      ": a member of the Oronchon people":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u022f\u02c8r\u00e4nch\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082458"
  },
  "Oromo":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a member of a Cushitic-speaking people of southern Ethiopia and adjacent parts of Kenya":[],
      ": the Cushitic language of the Oromo":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u014d-",
      "\u022f-\u02c8r\u014d-(\u02cc)m\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Oromo (western dialect) oromoo , a self-designation, probably from obsolete plural of orma person, stranger":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1893, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-164356"
  },
  "Orozco":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "Jos\u00e9 Clemente 1883\u20131949 Mexican painter":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u014d-\u02c8r\u022f-(\u02cc)sk\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180924"
  },
  "oro y plata":{
    "type":[
      "Spanish phrase"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": gold and silver":[
        "\u2014 motto of Montana"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u022fr-\u014d-\u0113-\u02c8pl\u00e4-t\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195615"
  },
  "oronoco":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a variety of tobacco":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from Orinoco river, Venezuela; from the fact that it originated in South America":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-043935"
  }
}