{
  "Atascadero":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "city in western California population 28,310":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02ccta-sk\u0259-\u02c8der-(\u02cc)\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103507",
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ]
  },
  "Atalanta":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a fleet-footed huntress in Greek mythology who challenges her suitors to a race and is defeated by Hippomenes when she stops to pick up three golden apples he has dropped":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cca-t\u0259-\u02c8lan-t\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from Greek Atalant\u0113":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154452"
  },
  "atactiform":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": resembling ataxia":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02c8)\u0101\u00a6takt\u0259\u02ccf\u022frm"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "atact- (from New Latin ataxia ) + -iform":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170708"
  },
  "atavism":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination":[],
      ": recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity":[
        "architectural atavism"
      ],
      ": an individual or character that manifests atavism : throwback":[
        "He was a magnificent atavism , a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature.",
        "\u2014 Jack London"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8at-\u0259-\u02ccviz-\u0259m",
      "\u02c8a-t\u0259-\u02ccvi-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Obama crashed against a wall of atavism and paranoia. \u2014 Matthew Continetti, National Review , 29 Jan. 2022",
      "This gives his career an arc of atavism and abnegating tragedy, a willful artist hopelessly at the mercy of his obsessions. \u2014 Jerry Saltz, Vulture , 22 Sep. 2021",
      "This was the heyday of Cesare Lombroso\u2019s racist theories about recognizable criminal types and Max Nordau\u2019s study Degeneration, which spread fear of atavism and perversion. \u2014 Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books , 28 May 2020",
      "Because the United States has proved successful in absorbing people from so many different backgrounds, the American political elite has, since the mid-20th century at least, tended to look on group identity as a kind of irrational atavism . \u2014 Park Macdougald, Daily Intelligencer , 19 Apr. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French atavisme , from Latin atavus ancestor, from at- (probably akin to atta daddy) + avus grandfather \u2014 more at uncle":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1833, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170742"
  },
  "Atal\u00e1n":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a language family of Ecuador":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccat\u1d4al\u02c8\u00e4n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Spanish atal\u00e1n , of American Indian origin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180832"
  },
  "Atabrine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": quinacrine":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8at-\u0259-br\u0259n",
      "\u02c8a-t\u0259-br\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But when the chief\u2019s son fell ill with malaria, Cobb used atabrine , a modern medicine, to heal him. \u2014 Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic , 11 May 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from Atabrine , a trademark":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1932, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-181401"
  },
  "atabrine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": quinacrine":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8at-\u0259-br\u0259n",
      "\u02c8a-t\u0259-br\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But when the chief\u2019s son fell ill with malaria, Cobb used atabrine , a modern medicine, to heal him. \u2014 Michael Lapointe, The Atlantic , 11 May 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "from Atabrine , a trademark":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1932, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-195327"
  },
  "ataman":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": hetman":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cca-t\u0259-\u02c8man"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Russian":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1786, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-000752"
  },
  "atap":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": nipa palm":[],
      ": the leaves of the nipa palm used especially for thatching in Malayan countries":[],
      ": a thatched roof often made with the leaves of the nipa palm":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Malay atap roof, thatch":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003500"
  },
  "atamasco lily":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cca-t\u0259-\u02c8ma-(\u02cc)sk\u014d-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Virginia Algonquian attamusco":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1726, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-010448"
  },
  "Atacama Desert":{
    "type":[
      "geographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "barren arid area of northern Chile between Copiap\u00f3 and the border with Peru":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u00e4-t\u00e4-\u02c8k\u00e4-m\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-035154"
  },
  "atactic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or being a polymer exhibiting no stereochemical regularity of structure":[
        "atactic polypropylene"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare isotactic":[
        "atactic polypropylene"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)\u0101-\u02c8tak-tik",
      "(\u02c8)\u0101-\u02c8tak-tik"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary a- entry 2 + -tactic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1957, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-055253"
  },
  "ataxia-telangiectasia":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an inherited systemic disorder marked especially by progressive pathological changes in the nervous system resulting in loss of motor coordination and by increased susceptibility to cancer especially of lymphoid tissue":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)\u0101-",
      "-t\u0113-",
      "\u0259-\u02c8tak-s\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccte-\u02cclan-j\u0113-\u02ccek-\u02c8t\u0101-zh(\u0113-)\u0259",
      "-t\u0259-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1957, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-092922"
  },
  "Atacame\u00f1an":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": relating or belonging to the Atacame\u00f1o people":[],
      ": of or relating to the language of the Atacame\u00f1o people":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6\u00e4t\u0259-",
      "\u00a6at\u0259k\u0259\u00a6m\u0101ny\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095019"
  },
  "atavic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": atavistic":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u02c8tav-",
      "(\u02c8)a\u00a6t-",
      "\u02c8at\u0259-",
      "\u02c8at\u0259(\u02cc)vik"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably from French atavique , from Latin atavus ancestor + French -ique -ic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-101044"
  },
  "ataxite":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a taxitic rock whose components have no definite arrangement, simulating a breccia":[],
      ": an iron meteorite lacking the structure of either hexahedrites or octahedrites":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u02c8tak\u02ccs\u012bt",
      "\u0101\u02c8-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary atax- (from Greek ataxia disorder) + -ite ; originally formed as German ataxit":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-103919"
  },
  "ataxonomic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": not concerned with classification or systematic botany and zoology \u2014 compare taxonomy":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "a- entry 2 + taxanomic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-140616"
  },
  "Atalal\u00e1":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a people of the Vilela group":[],
      ": a member of the Vilela people":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccat\u0259l\u0259\u02c8l\u00e4"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Spanish, of American Indian origin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174810"
  },
  "ataxia":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an inability to coordinate voluntary muscular movements that is symptomatic of some central nervous system disorders and injuries and not due to muscle weakness":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8tak-s\u0113-\u0259",
      "\u0259-\u02c8tak-s\u0113-\u0259, (\u02c8)\u0101-",
      "(\u02cc)\u0101-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Trantham has Friedreich's ataxia (FA), a rare genetic disease that is slowly robbing her of the ability to walk and talk, and can also affect her heart. \u2014 Amy Eskind, PEOPLE.com , 2 Dec. 2021",
      "Cerebellar ataxia , a rare genetic disease that causes the brain\u2019s cerebellum to shrink, affecting muscle movement, coordination and balance, particularly in the arms and legs. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Oct. 2021",
      "The second drug is Omaveloxolone, which will treat Friedreich\u2019s ataxia , a genetic disease that often starts in childhood and can lead to brain and nervous system damage. \u2014 Natalie Walters, Dallas News , 11 June 2020",
      "The story of David and Charisse, who has cerebral palsy and ataxia , is documented in the second season of 9 Months with Courteney Cox, a Facebook Watch series. \u2014 Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com , 12 May 2020",
      "Like her mother, Kathy, and her sister, Kaila, Keyshanna had cerebellar ataxia , a genetic disorder that affects the brain. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Aug. 2019",
      "Both have Friedreich\u2019s ataxia , an incurable disease of the nervous system. \u2014 New York Times , 24 Dec. 2019",
      "As a final test, the researchers tried it on a mutant ataxia protein. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 1 Nov. 2019",
      "As mentioned above, several forms of ataxia are caused by an expansion of the same amino acid that's duplicated in the Huntington's disease gene, and so these may undergo the same sort of interactions with these two chemicals. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 1 Nov. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Greek atax\u00eda \"lack of discipline, disorder, confusion,\" from a- a- entry 2 + -taxia, from t\u00e1xis \"drawing up in rank and file, order of battle, order, arrangement\" + -ia -ia entry 1 \u2014 more at taxis":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1670, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-190416"
  },
  "atavistic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination":[],
      ": recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity":[
        "architectural atavism"
      ],
      ": an individual or character that manifests atavism : throwback":[
        "He was a magnificent atavism , a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature.",
        "\u2014 Jack London"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8at-\u0259-\u02ccviz-\u0259m",
      "\u02c8a-t\u0259-\u02ccvi-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Obama crashed against a wall of atavism and paranoia. \u2014 Matthew Continetti, National Review , 29 Jan. 2022",
      "This gives his career an arc of atavism and abnegating tragedy, a willful artist hopelessly at the mercy of his obsessions. \u2014 Jerry Saltz, Vulture , 22 Sep. 2021",
      "This was the heyday of Cesare Lombroso\u2019s racist theories about recognizable criminal types and Max Nordau\u2019s study Degeneration, which spread fear of atavism and perversion. \u2014 Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books , 28 May 2020",
      "Because the United States has proved successful in absorbing people from so many different backgrounds, the American political elite has, since the mid-20th century at least, tended to look on group identity as a kind of irrational atavism . \u2014 Park Macdougald, Daily Intelligencer , 19 Apr. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French atavisme , from Latin atavus ancestor, from at- (probably akin to atta daddy) + avus grandfather \u2014 more at uncle":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1833, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-194903"
  },
  "atala":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a brightly colored hairstreak butterfly ( Eumaeus atala ) native to southeastern Florida and the West Indies that is black with three rows of iridescent blue spots on the hind wings and a red spot on the abdomen":[
        "Once feared extinct in Florida, the atala butterfly has been rescued by a native plant\u2014the coontie.",
        "\u2014 National Geographic , July 1996",
        "Looking closely, we also found patches of atala eggs as well as the brilliantly colored red and yellow caterpillars.",
        "\u2014 Georgia Tasker , Miami Herald , 1 Oct. 2006"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8t\u00e4-l\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin, specific epithet of Eumaeus atala , probably after Atala , heroine of the short novel Atala, ou Les Amours de deux sauvages dans le d\u00e9sert (1801) by the French writer Fran\u00e7ois-Ren\u00e9 de Chateaubriand \u20201848":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1875, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205608"
  },
  "Atakapan":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a language family of the Gulf phylum in Louisiana and Texas comprising the Atakapa language":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-212757"
  },
  "ataunt":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": completely in order : shipshape":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u02c8t\u022fnt",
      "-\u00e4nt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "ataunt from Middle English, as much as possible, from Middle French autant as much, as much as possible, from Old French altant, autant as much, from al, el other, other thing (from assumed Vulgar Latin ale , alteration of Latin aliud , neuter of alius other) + tant so much, from Latin tantum , neuter of tantus so great; ataunto , alteration of ataunt":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222550"
  },
  "Atat\u00fcrk":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      "Kemal 1881\u20131938 originally Mustafa ; later surnamed Kemal Turkish general and statesman; president of Turkey (1923\u201338)":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00e4-t\u00e4-\u02c8t\u1d6brk",
      "\u02c8a-t\u0259-\u02cct\u0259rk"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223835"
  },
  "atacamite":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mineral Cu 2 Cl(OH) 3 consisting of a basic copper chloride that is transparent or translucent and of various shades of green and occurs usually in prismatic orthorhombic crystals but also in crystalline aggregates or in massive form (hardness 3\u20133.5, specific gravity 3.75\u20133.77)":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259\u02c8tak\u0259\u02ccm-",
      "\u02ccat\u0259\u02c8ka\u02ccm\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from Atacama desert, its locality + French -ite":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-225452"
  },
  "atavus":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an ancestor or ancestral type from which a character is assumed to be inherited":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8at\u0259v\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002951"
  }
}