{
  "apocalypse":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a great disaster":[
        "an environmental apocalypse"
      ],
      ": a large, disastrous fire : inferno":[
        "Most foresters agree that small, \"prescribed\" burns, carefully controlled, are essential to prevent the larger apocalypse .",
        "\u2014 Lance Morrow"
      ],
      ": armageddon":[],
      ": one of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200 b.c. to a.d. 150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom":[],
      ": revelation sense 3":[],
      ": something viewed as a prophetic revelation":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "His book tells of an environmental apocalypse .",
      "the fear that the next global pandemic could be an apocalypse of biblical proportions",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Is everyone going to make it out of this apocalypse alive",
      "An apocalypse that keeps (a notion of) their world alive, at the expense of (a notion of) our own. \u2014 Longreads , 29 Dec. 2021",
      "Westworld has signed Oscar winner Ariana DeBose to join the robot apocalypse for season four. \u2014 James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 May 2022",
      "The Sami Pavilion offered a more hopeful path out of the apocalypse , with artwork and performances depicting the struggle against colonialism by the Sami people, while also celebrating their traditions. \u2014 Colleen Barry, ajc , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "The Sami Pavilion offered a more hopeful path out of the apocalypse , with artwork and performances depicting the struggle against colonialism by the Sami people, while also celebrating their traditions. \u2014 Colleen Barry, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "In contrast with most novels trading in survival or apocalypse , Yoon\u2019s protagonist is able to draw on our world\u2019s pop culture. \u2014 Ilana Masad, Los Angeles Times , 25 May 2022",
      "Nurse Tup expertly navigates every accidental apocalypse created by renegade doctors Sleech and Klak, and looks good doing it. \u2014 Joe Otterson, Variety , 23 May 2022",
      "Nurse Tup expertly navigates every accidental apocalypse created by renegade doctors Sleech and Klak, and looks good doing it. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English Apocalipse \"Revelation (the New Testament book),\" borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Late Latin apocalypsis \"revelation, the Book of Revelation,\" borrowed from Greek apok\u00e1lypsis \"uncovering, disclosure, revelation,\" from apokalyp-, stem of apokal\u00fdptein \"to uncover, disclose, reveal\" (from apo- apo- + kal\u00fdptein \"to cover, protect, conceal,\" of uncertain origin) + -sis -sis":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-k\u0259-\u02cclips"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "calamity",
      "cataclysm",
      "catastrophe",
      "debacle",
      "d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
      "disaster",
      "tragedy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021106",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apocalyptic":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": foreboding imminent disaster or final doom : terrible":[
        "apocalyptic signs of the coming end-times"
      ],
      ": forecasting the ultimate destiny of the world : prophetic":[
        "apocalyptic warnings"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse":[
        "apocalyptic events"
      ],
      ": ultimately decisive : climactic":[
        "an apocalyptic battle"
      ],
      ": wildly unrestrained : grandiose":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "No one listened to her apocalyptic predictions.",
      "a less apocalyptic view of the future",
      "the apocalyptic destruction of the world",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The post- apocalyptic drama imagines a world in which the North Sea island of Helgoland has become the last safe haven for humanity. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
      "It has been variously described as post- apocalyptic science fiction, a feminist cultural critique, an early eco-novel and a defense of animal rights. \u2014 Martin Riker, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
      "Here, the ghosts of a murderous past loom as harbingers of a potentially apocalyptic future. \u2014 Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
      "The film is a little bit mystery, a little bit romance, with a touch of post- apocalyptic science fiction. \u2014 Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com , 20 Aug. 2021",
      "Nicolas Reveles set in a post-pandemic, post- apocalyptic world. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 May 2022",
      "And if those don't thrill you, former Disney Channel favorite Zac Efron feels the heat (and gets one heck of a sunburn) in a post- apocalyptic drama. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "The sense of an apocalyptic drama on Saturday was heightened by eruptions of thunder and lightning around the volcano, as the ground shook with repeated tremors. \u2014 New York Times , 23 May 2021",
      "Yet for decades, says Dr. Hartmann, environmental rhetoric has leaned toward apocalyptic warnings. \u2014 Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor , 26 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1633, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin apocalypticus, derivative of apocalypsis apocalypse , by analogy with pairs such as ell\u012bpsis ellipsis : ell\u012bpticus elliptic":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02ccp\u00e4-k\u0259-\u02c8lip-tik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "climacteric",
      "climactic"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-094922",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "apocalyptical":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": foreboding imminent disaster or final doom : terrible":[
        "apocalyptic signs of the coming end-times"
      ],
      ": forecasting the ultimate destiny of the world : prophetic":[
        "apocalyptic warnings"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse":[
        "apocalyptic events"
      ],
      ": ultimately decisive : climactic":[
        "an apocalyptic battle"
      ],
      ": wildly unrestrained : grandiose":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "No one listened to her apocalyptic predictions.",
      "a less apocalyptic view of the future",
      "the apocalyptic destruction of the world",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The post- apocalyptic drama imagines a world in which the North Sea island of Helgoland has become the last safe haven for humanity. \u2014 Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter , 28 June 2022",
      "It has been variously described as post- apocalyptic science fiction, a feminist cultural critique, an early eco-novel and a defense of animal rights. \u2014 Martin Riker, WSJ , 3 June 2022",
      "Here, the ghosts of a murderous past loom as harbingers of a potentially apocalyptic future. \u2014 Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
      "The film is a little bit mystery, a little bit romance, with a touch of post- apocalyptic science fiction. \u2014 Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com , 20 Aug. 2021",
      "Nicolas Reveles set in a post-pandemic, post- apocalyptic world. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 29 May 2022",
      "And if those don't thrill you, former Disney Channel favorite Zac Efron feels the heat (and gets one heck of a sunburn) in a post- apocalyptic drama. \u2014 Brian Truitt, USA TODAY , 10 Mar. 2022",
      "The sense of an apocalyptic drama on Saturday was heightened by eruptions of thunder and lightning around the volcano, as the ground shook with repeated tremors. \u2014 New York Times , 23 May 2021",
      "Yet for decades, says Dr. Hartmann, environmental rhetoric has leaned toward apocalyptic warnings. \u2014 Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor , 26 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1633, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin apocalypticus, derivative of apocalypsis apocalypse , by analogy with pairs such as ell\u012bpsis ellipsis : ell\u012bpticus elliptic":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02ccp\u00e4-k\u0259-\u02c8lip-tik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "climacteric",
      "climactic"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194804",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "apocalypticism":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The apocalypticism and the persecution complex of the movement are perfectly suited to the task. \u2014 Katherine Stewart, The New Republic , 10 Jan. 2022",
      "Huntington doesn\u2019t pay much attention to conservative Protestant apocalypticism , which was a key factor in this era. \u2014 Washington Post , 30 Dec. 2021",
      "Death, violence and apocalypticism surged with the Black Death of the 1340s. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 June 2021",
      "Initially, white evangelical apocalypticism was conservative and anti-statist, but not overtly partisan. \u2014 Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic , 14 Jan. 2021",
      "Evangelical apocalypticism creates a very particular ideology and a very particular form of cultural engagement. \u2014 Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic , 14 Jan. 2021",
      "After the exhausting apocalypticism of the Trump presidency and the frustrating polarization of the past 20 years, there is a certain logic in returning to the values of experience, pragmatism, cooperation and unity. \u2014 David Greenberg, Washington Post , 23 Oct. 2020",
      "Thus, socialism has returned at the same time as climate apocalypticism , transhuman and transgender ideology, anti-vaccination movements, anti-Semitism, conspiracies, and ethnonationalism. \u2014 Matthew Continetti, National Review , 14 Mar. 2020",
      "His annotations crackled with apocalypticism , offering readers a precise understanding of when the world would end and what would happen beforehand. \u2014 Liya Rechtman, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1858, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "apocalypticism from apocalyptic + -ism ; apocalyptism from apocalypt(ic) + -ism":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02ccp\u00e4-k\u0259-\u02c8lip-t\u0259-\u02ccsi-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-043817",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apocalyptist":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the writer of an apocalypse":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1817, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "apocalypt(ic) + -ist entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-k\u0259-\u02cclip-tist"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-192933",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apocarpous":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": having the carpels of the gynoecium separate":[
        "the buttercup is apocarpous",
        "\u2014 opposed to syncarpous"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "apo- + -carpous":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6ap\u0259\u00a6k\u00e4rp\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050341",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "apocarpy":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the state of being apocarpous":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "apocarp ous + -y":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ap\u0259\u02cck\u00e4rp\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-022305",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apocatastasis":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{},
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek apokatastasis , literally restitution, recovery, from apo- + katastasis restoration, condition":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-185106",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apogee":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bottom",
      "nadir",
      "rock bottom"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the farthest or highest point : culmination":[
        "Aegean civilization reached its apogee in Crete."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "shag carpeting reached the apogee of its popularity in the 1970s but is now considered outdated",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The film marks the apogee of Eastwood and Leone spaghetti western cinema. \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 23 May 2022",
      "Just remember that glass lenses, still the apogee of optics, are not meant for impact sports. \u2014 Mike Steere, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
      "In its understated way, this can be read as the apogee of the bildungsroman traced by Gunn\u2019s poetic oeuvre, as the moment the occluded requires no agency to declare itself, and the closet is revealed without shame or obfuscation. \u2014 Mark Ford, The New York Review of Books , 25 May 2022",
      "An annular eclipse in which the Moon was at the furthest point from Earth in its orbit (the apogee ) would have been of particularly long duration. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 11 Apr. 2022",
      "Star Trek actor William Shatner experiences weightlessness during the apogee of the Blue Origin New Shepard mission NS-18 suborbital flight on Oct. 13. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 15 Oct. 2021",
      "The beltway media world has always had a sort of jones for celebrities, and celebrities have often loved them right back, a mutual appreciation society that reached its apogee during the correspondents\u2019 dinners of the Obama years. \u2014 New York Times , 1 May 2022",
      "And his signature style \u2014 analog, unhurried, profoundly human \u2014 found its apogee in Boyhood, the 2014 coming-of-age masterstroke that took him 12 years to make. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "The postwar period marked the apogee of the A.M.A.\u2019s political power. \u2014 Clifford Marks, The New Yorker , 22 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1640, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French apog\u00e9e , from New Latin apogaeum , from Greek apogaion , from neuter of apogeios, apogaios far from the earth, from apo- + g\u0113, gaia earth":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8a-p\u0259-(\u02cc)j\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "acme",
      "apex",
      "capstone",
      "climax",
      "crescendo",
      "crest",
      "crown",
      "culmination",
      "head",
      "height",
      "high noon",
      "high-water mark",
      "meridian",
      "ne plus ultra",
      "noon",
      "noontime",
      "peak",
      "pinnacle",
      "sum",
      "summit",
      "tip-top",
      "top",
      "zenith"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-112611",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apologetic":{
    "antonyms":[
      "impenitent",
      "remorseless",
      "unapologetic",
      "unrepentant"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": apologetics sense 1":[],
      ": feeling or showing regret : regretfully acknowledging fault or failure : expressing an apology":[
        "They were apologetic about the error.",
        "We received an apologetic letter.",
        "an apologetic smile/tone"
      ],
      ": offered in defense or vindication":[
        "the apologetic writings of the early Christians"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "Especially as a woman, finding that voice and being able to be loud and strong, but also non- apologetic . \u2014 Ana Monroy Yglesias, Billboard , 26 May 2022",
      "This entails apologetic visits and phone calls that usually confuse or infuriate people who have done their best to move on. \u2014 Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic , 11 May 2022",
      "The Good News rap star says Tory Lanez was apologetic , immediately begging her and her friend Harris not to tell anyone what had occurred, even offering each of them $1 million for their silence in the moment. \u2014 Essence , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Ryan, who doesn\u2019t recall Keith at all, is abashed and apologetic . \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 4 May 2022",
      "Its feed is full of videos of despondent, apologetic and sometimes bloodied Russians who are allegedly prisoners of war, which some experts have argued violates the Geneva Conventions. \u2014 NBC News , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "My default mode is being a little apologetic and a bit of a people pleaser, and Phil is as far away from that as possible. \u2014 EW.com , 19 Jan. 2022",
      "Still, the apologetic man finds a way to help them all. \u2014 Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune , 27 Feb. 2022",
      "Before Sabracos knew what was happening, the staffer had whipped out her cell phone and Sabracos was chatting onscreen with an apologetic Adele. \u2014 Mary Carole Mccauley, baltimoresun.com , 25 Jan. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Fans of Premier League teams are angered by events, even after Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur released exit statements, which ranged from the apologetic to the matter-of-fact. \u2014 Henry Flynn, Forbes , 21 Apr. 2021",
      "As an evangelist, Zacharias focused on apologetics , which is the practice of offering answers to the most difficult moral, philosophical, and ethical challenges to his faith. \u2014 Anthony Leonardi, Washington Examiner , 19 May 2020",
      "Among movies dealing with deeply felt Christian apologetics , Malick\u2019s latest is a companion to A Man for All Seasons, and church groups ought to see it. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 23 Dec. 2019",
      "Lewis\u2019s writings \u2014 his fantasy, science fiction, apologetics , and theological essays \u2014 were as diverse as his public personae. \u2014 Joseph Loconte, National Review , 31 Aug. 2019",
      "That is an apologetics for white supremacy, an ideology with a long legacy of violence. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 23 May 2016"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1649, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English apologetik, borrowed from Medieval Latin apolog\u0113ticus or apolog\u0113ticum, noun derivatives from masculine and neuter of Late Latin apolog\u0113ticus \"defensive, justifying\" \u2014 more at apologetic entry 1":"Noun",
      "borrowed from Late Latin apolog\u0113ticus \"defensive, justifying,\" borrowed from Greek apolog\u0113tik\u00f3s \"suitable for defence, offered in defense,\" from apolog\u0113-, variant stem of apolog\u00e9omai, apologe\u00eesthai \"to speak in defense, defend oneself, be an advocate for\" (Late Greek, \"be an advocate for the Christian faith\") (from apo- apo- + -logeomai, -logeisthai, verbal derivative of l\u00f3gos \"word, speech, argument\") + -t-, verbal adjective formative + -ikos -ic entry 1 \u2014 more at legend":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02ccp\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02c8je-tik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "compunctious",
      "contrite",
      "penitent",
      "regretful",
      "remorseful",
      "repentant",
      "rueful",
      "sorry"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-194042",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apologist":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There is a student petition on campus to silence him, calling him a defender or an apologist for Mr. Putin\u2019s war. \u2014 M. Todd Henderson, WSJ , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Mastriano has also worked in the state legislature to set aside Joe Biden\u2019s victory and has been a tireless apologist for Trump\u2019s efforts to sideline democracy. \u2014 Philip Elliott, Time , 18 May 2022",
      "Sontag was a shameless apologist for aesthetic pleasure. \u2014 Design Art B., Longreads , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Many who view Schroeder as a Putin apologist are calling from him to step down from his executive positions with Gazprom, Rosneft and the Nord Stream gas pipeline projects. \u2014 Erik Kirschbaum, Los Angeles Times , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "Jake Tapper, not exactly a Biden apologist , said afterward. \u2014 Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "Former President Donald Trump, of course, has been an Olympic-level Putin apologist for years. \u2014 Peter Bergen, CNN , 6 Mar. 2022",
      "The largest individual donor to former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s (D-Hawaii) PAC in 2021 is an apologist for Vladimir Putin who runs a nonprofit that aims to foster cooperation between the U.S. and Russia. \u2014 Zach Everson, Forbes , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Dan Orlovsky, known as a frequent Carson Wentz apologist , had a simple response. \u2014 Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star , 12 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1640, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin apologista, from Late Latin apologia \"defense in speech or writing\" + New Latin -ista -ist entry 1 \u2014 more at apology":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-l\u0259-jist"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-073920",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apologize":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to express regret for something done or said : to make an apology":[
        "He apologized for his mistake.",
        "She apologized to us for losing her temper."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The perpetrators publicly apologize for their crimes, while survivors profess forgiveness. \u2014 CNN , 22 June 2022",
      "Many feel the darkest and most formative chapter of their lives is being erased - not only by Marcos Jr., who refuses to acknowledge or apologize for his father\u2019s abuses, but also by their own families. \u2014 Michael E. Miller And Regine Cabato, Anchorage Daily News , 20 June 2022",
      "In 2018, Charleston\u2019s City Council voted to formally denounce slavery and apologize for the city\u2019s role in the slave trade. \u2014 Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 June 2022",
      "Their boss, Marc Crawford, had to sallow his pride, publicly apologize and pay a $10,000 fine after trying to storm the Red Wings\u2019 bench, screaming his lungs out at Scotty Bowman and drawing coast-to-coast comparisons with a lunatic. \u2014 Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press , 23 May 2022",
      "Better to apologize directly to those whose land was allegedly taken. \u2014 WSJ , 17 June 2022",
      "According to the affidavit, Gendron momentarily held his fire to apologize to a white store employee after shooting him in the leg, then returned to targeting Black people. \u2014 Carolyn Thompson, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
      "According to the affidavit, Gendron momentarily held his fire to apologize to a white store employee after shooting him in the leg, then returned to targeting Black people. \u2014 Carolyn Thompson, ajc , 15 June 2022",
      "Pi\u00f1era was forced to apologize for his policies and to fire several cabinet ministers. \u2014 Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker , 6 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1596, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "earlier, \"to speak in justification (of),\" from apology + -ize":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-l\u0259-\u02ccj\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-093354",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "apologize for":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to offer a defense or excuse or admission of fault for (something)":[
        "\u2014 used in negative statements She doesn't apologize for her lifestyle."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050447",
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ]
  },
  "apologue":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an allegorical narrative usually intended to convey a moral":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the film is an apologue of sorts, but the message is couched in a zany and action-filled plot"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1555, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, borrowed from Latin apologus \"tale, fable,\" borrowed from Greek ap\u00f3logos \"tale, fable, allegory,\" from apo- apo- + l\u00f3gos \"word, speech, story\" \u2014 more at legend":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8a-p\u0259-\u02ccl\u022fg",
      "-\u02ccl\u00e4g"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "allegory",
      "fable",
      "parable"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175045",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apology":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a poor substitute or example : makeshift":[
        "He's a poor apology for a father."
      ],
      ": an admission of error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret":[
        "a public apology"
      ],
      ": an expression of regret for not being able to do something":[
        "I won't be able to attend. Please give them my apologies ."
      ],
      ": excuse sense 2a":[],
      ": something that is said or written to defend something that other people criticize : defense":[
        "The book is an apology for capitalism."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This power stems from choosing when and with whom to bring life into the world\u2014without explanation or apology . \u2014 ELLE , 1 July 2022",
      "The #MeToo movement helped bring Kelly down, but Hampton says an apology from Kelly would have had increased value now that the cause for gender equality is facing a stiff backlash. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 30 June 2022",
      "Till\u2019s murder was officially closed by the Department of Justice, without apology , without justice according to Till\u2019s surviving relatives. \u2014 Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune , 30 June 2022",
      "Parents, however, said they were blindsided by the decision, which came a month after Fong\u2019s public apology and well after school let out for the summer. \u2014 Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle , 28 June 2022",
      "Authorities held a news conference on Thursday, with the city's mayor and other officials bowing in apology to residents. \u2014 Jessie Yeung, CNN , 24 June 2022",
      "In 2010, former Africville occupants and their descendants received an apology from Nova Scotia and funds to rebuild the original church. \u2014 Natalie Preddie, Washington Post , 23 June 2022",
      "Behind the splashy headlines of unicorn founders and companies lies a segment of the population swimming upstream without apology or designated path to equally successful outcomes. \u2014 Rod Berger, Forbes , 22 June 2022",
      "Whether they are meant to do a lot or a little, these exchanges are remarkably true to how people speak, whether unburdening themselves or making an apology or describing the creation of a dessert. \u2014 Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1533, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English apologe \"formal defense,\" borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French apologie \"public defense in speech or writing,\" borrowed from Late Latin apologia, borrowed from Greek apolog\u00eda \"speech in defense\" (Late Greek, \"speech in defense of the Christian faith by a martyr, excuse, vindication before God\"), derivative (with -ia -ia entry 1 ) of apologe\u00eesthai \"to speak in defense, defend oneself\" \u2014 more at apologetic entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-l\u0259-j\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for apology apology , apologia , excuse , plea , pretext , alibi mean matter offered in explanation or defense. apology usually applies to an expression of regret for a mistake or wrong with implied admission of guilt or fault and with or without reference to mitigating or extenuating circumstances. said by way of apology that he would have met them if he could apologia implies not admission of guilt or regret but a desire to make clear the grounds for some course, belief, or position. his speech was an apologia for his foreign policy excuse implies an intent to avoid or remove blame or censure. used illness as an excuse for missing the meeting plea stresses argument or appeal for understanding or sympathy or mercy. her usual plea that she was nearsighted pretext suggests subterfuge and the offering of false reasons or motives in excuse or explanation. used any pretext to get out of work alibi implies a desire to shift blame or evade punishment and imputes mere plausibility to the explanation. his alibi failed to stand scrutiny",
    "synonyms":[
      "alibi",
      "defense",
      "excuse",
      "justification",
      "plea",
      "reason"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234735",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apoplectic":{
    "antonyms":[
      "angerless",
      "delighted",
      "pleased"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": extremely enraged":[
        "was apoplectic over the news"
      ],
      ": of a kind to cause or apparently cause stroke":[
        "an apoplectic rage"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Giuliani was apoplectic when the gangster fought off murder and racketeering charges and sauntered out of court in March 1987 after a sensational acquittal to bask in the TV lights. \u2014 Gail Sheehy , Vanity Fair , June 2000",
      "The quarrel was splendidly acrimonious. When Charles Perrault, now remembered for his fairy tales, rose in the French Academy in 1687 to champion modern authors, Nicolas Boileau, the arbiter of taste, waxed so apoplectic he lost his voice. \u2014 David Coward , New York Times Book Review , 27 Apr. 1997",
      "Don Hewitt, the program's venerable executive producer, becomes positively apoplectic when I mention the subject during a conversation about Amanpour's job negotiations. The three networks had offered her the opportunity to contribute to their evening news shows as well as to their newsmagazines. \u2014 Leslie Bennetts , Vanity Fair , September 1996",
      "She was positively apoplectic with anger when she realized she had been cheated.",
      "the coach was so apoplectic when the player missed the free throw that he threw his clipboard onto the court",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Carlson was spending the week in Budapest, delivering each day\u2019s American headline news in his selectively apoplectic style. \u2014 Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
      "Summer was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 \u2013 her inclusion setting off the usual apoplectic bellowing from those who decry any artist not tethered to an electric guitar. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 17 May 2022",
      "Sometimes, as in Bostock, his opinions will leave conservatives apoplectic . \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "An unscientific polling of my Gen-X friends, who have supported this team since its heyday in the 1980s, revealed apoplectic reaction and disbelief that a two-year process to reboot the organization birthed ... \u2014 Nate Davis, USA TODAY , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "There is no doubt, however, that Trump will be apoplectic that his three Supreme Court nominees, Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, did not publicly dissent from denying his bid to keep his West Wing records secret. \u2014 Stephen Collinson, CNN , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Our allies have been apoplectic and haven't been shy about sharing their anger and dismay with journalists, many of whom are equally furious about colleagues in Afghanistan facing a dismal future. \u2014 Damon Linker, The Week , 26 Aug. 2021",
      "After the Star of Peace is stolen and the security guards are drugged and everyone is apoplectic , the cops show up. \u2014 Rachel Handler, Vulture , 18 Nov. 2021",
      "Solar industry leaders were apoplectic , saying the new requirement would be impossible to meet and would crash the market. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Nov. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French or Late Latin; French apoplectique , from Late Latin apoplecticus , from Greek apopl\u0113ktikos , from apopl\u0113ssein \u2014 more at apoplexy":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cca-p\u0259-\u02c8plek-tik",
      "\u02ccap-\u0259-\u02c8plek-tik"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "angered",
      "angry",
      "ballistic",
      "cheesed off",
      "choleric",
      "enraged",
      "foaming",
      "fuming",
      "furious",
      "hopping",
      "horn-mad",
      "hot",
      "incensed",
      "indignant",
      "inflamed",
      "enflamed",
      "infuriate",
      "infuriated",
      "irate",
      "ireful",
      "livid",
      "mad",
      "outraged",
      "rabid",
      "rankled",
      "riled",
      "riley",
      "roiled",
      "shirty",
      "sore",
      "steamed up",
      "steaming",
      "teed off",
      "ticked",
      "wrathful",
      "wroth"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110441",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "apostate":{
    "antonyms":[
      "loyalist"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one who commits apostasy":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "an apostate from communism, he later became one of its harshest critics",
      "became an apostate to liberalism after he had gotten wealthy",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "An apostate from the faith, a heretic, or a schismatic automatically incurs excommunication, when the delict (or violation) is committed. \u2014 Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review , 13 June 2021",
      "This would be the case also for an apostate , heretic, schismatic bishop, presbyter, or deacon. \u2014 Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review , 13 June 2021",
      "Like many in the early 1970s, Weberman saw his hero as an apostate , who had forsaken his role as the voice of a generation. \u2014 John Semley, The New Republic , 26 May 2021",
      "Ahsoka Tano is a kick-ass Jedi apostate introduced in The Clone Wars animated series who ended up becoming a fan-favorite character. \u2014 James Hibberd, EW.com , 30 Sep. 2020",
      "Porter McConnell, the youngest daughter of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, may be a true apostate . \u2014 Horacio Silva, Town & Country , 4 Aug. 2020",
      "Picture the apostate disembarking from the motorcycle, in a paisley shirt, a scarf, and tight pants tucked into high boots, and rolling into his human-sexuality class at Golden West. \u2014 Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker , 24 Feb. 2020",
      "In their millenarian ardor and inflexible support for Israel, the neocons find themselves in a position precisely cognate to evangelical Christians\u2014both groups of true believers trying to enact their vision through an apostate . \u2014 Jacob Heilbrunn, The New Republic , 23 Jan. 2020",
      "In several influential books still widely read today, Ghazali declared two long-dead leading Muslim philosophers, Farabi and Ibn Sina, apostates for their unorthodox views on God\u2019s power and the nature of resurrection. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English apostata, apostate, in part continuing Old English apostata (weak noun), in part borrowed from Anglo-French apostate, apostata, both borrowed from Late Latin apostata \"rebel against God, fallen Christian, heretic,\" borrowed from Late Greek apost\u00e1t\u0113s \"rebel against God, apostate,\" going back to Greek, \"defector, rebel,\" from aposta-, variant stem of aph\u00edstamai, aph\u00edstasthai \"to stand away from, keep aloof from, revolt\" + -t\u0113s, agent suffix \u2014 more at apostasy":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-st\u0259t",
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-\u02ccst\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "defector",
      "deserter",
      "recreant",
      "renegade"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202344",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apostle":{
    "antonyms":[
      "adversary",
      "antagonist",
      "opponent"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person who initiates a great moral reform or who first advocates an important belief or system":[],
      ": an ardent supporter : adherent":[
        "apostles of high technology"
      ],
      ": one of a Mormon administrative council of 12 men":[],
      ": one of an authoritative New Testament group sent out to preach the gospel and made up especially of Christ's 12 original disciples and Paul":[],
      ": one sent on a mission: such as":[],
      ": the first prominent Christian missionary to a region or group":[
        "St. Boniface, the Apostle of Germany"
      ],
      ": the highest ecclesiastical official in some church organizations":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a fervent apostle of universal health care",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Hunched over, incredulous, the apostle extends his hand as Christ pulls back his robe, revealing a lance wound left by a Roman soldier. \u2014 Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
      "Even so, the apostle pointed to a recent Salt Lake Tribune story that separated the fact from the fiction in the show. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
      "As an apostle of the dangers of disinformation, Mr. Obama might be an imperfect messenger. \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "Also: Church faces tithing scrutiny in Australia and an apostle shares Ramadan message. \u2014 David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Saul Griffith is perhaps the world\u2019s leading apostle of electrification. \u2014 The New Yorker , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "On Thursday at dawn, Christofferson, the first Latter-day Saint apostle to tour West Africa in two years, offered a prayer at an ocean overlook to formally dedicate Gambia. \u2014 David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 Feb. 2022",
      "Boyd Packer served as an apostle for 45 years, from April 9, 1970, until his death July 3, 2015, at age 90. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 6 Mar. 2022",
      "However, some are surprised to learn that the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland was never canonized as saint by the Catholic Church. \u2014 Jill Gleeson, Country Living , 28 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English apostel, apostle, postel, in part going back to Old English apostol, in part borrowed from Anglo-French apostle, apostoile, appostre, both borrowed from Late Latin apostolus \"ambassador, Apostle (of the New Testament),\" borrowed from Greek ap\u00f3stolos \"messenger, envoy, (Septuagint) messenger from God, (New Testament) Apostle,\" noun derivative of apost\u00e9llein \"to send off or away, dispatch,\" from apo- apo- + st\u00e9llein \"to set in order, equip, prepare for a journey, send,\" going back to Indo-European *stel- \"put up, prepare,\" whence also Old Church Slavic po stelj\u01eb, po st\u012dlati \"to spread out,\" Albanian shtiell \"wind up, reel up, collect\" (from *stel-n- ) and perhaps Old Prussian stall\u012bt \"to stand,\" Armenian ste\u0142canem, (aorist) ste\u0142ci \"prepare, create\" (with -c- of uncertain origin)":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-s\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "advocate",
      "advocator",
      "backer",
      "booster",
      "champion",
      "espouser",
      "exponent",
      "expounder",
      "friend",
      "gospeler",
      "gospeller",
      "herald",
      "hierophant",
      "high priest",
      "paladin",
      "promoter",
      "proponent",
      "protagonist",
      "supporter",
      "true believer",
      "tub-thumper",
      "white knight"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-074356",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apothegm":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "her mother endlessly repeated the apothegm \u201ccleanliness is next to godliness\u201d",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "As with every Together Live speaker, each apothegm is met with exuberant applause. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Ghertner, Vogue , 10 Jan. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1548, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin apothegma, apophthegma, borrowed from Greek apophthegmat-, ap\u00f3phthegma , from apophtheg-, stem of apophth\u00e9ngomai, apophth\u00e9ngesthai \"to speak one's opinion plainly, utter a pithy saying\" (from apo- apo- + phth\u00e9ngomai, phth\u00e9ngesthai \"to utter a sound, speak clearly,\" of obscure origin) + -mat-, -ma, resultative noun suffix":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8a-p\u0259-\u02ccthem"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "adage",
      "aphorism",
      "byword",
      "epigram",
      "maxim",
      "proverb",
      "saw",
      "saying",
      "sententia",
      "word"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-211145",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apothegmatic":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "her mother endlessly repeated the apothegm \u201ccleanliness is next to godliness\u201d",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "As with every Together Live speaker, each apothegm is met with exuberant applause. \u2014 Zo\u00eb Ghertner, Vogue , 10 Jan. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1548, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin apothegma, apophthegma, borrowed from Greek apophthegmat-, ap\u00f3phthegma , from apophtheg-, stem of apophth\u00e9ngomai, apophth\u00e9ngesthai \"to speak one's opinion plainly, utter a pithy saying\" (from apo- apo- + phth\u00e9ngomai, phth\u00e9ngesthai \"to utter a sound, speak clearly,\" of obscure origin) + -mat-, -ma, resultative noun suffix":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8a-p\u0259-\u02ccthem"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "adage",
      "aphorism",
      "byword",
      "epigram",
      "maxim",
      "proverb",
      "saw",
      "saying",
      "sententia",
      "word"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222240",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "apotheosis":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": elevation to divine status : deification":[
        "the apotheosis of Roman emperors"
      ],
      ": the highest or best part of something : peak":[
        "The city reaches its apotheosis at the holiday \u2026",
        "\u2014 David Leavin"
      ],
      ": the perfect form or example of something : quintessence":[
        "the apotheosis of Hollywood glamour",
        "\u2026 Nelson Rockefeller, the other top contender and the apotheosis of liberal Republicanism.",
        "\u2014 Sam Tanenhaus"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the apotheosis of the picaresque novel",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Much of the fashion associated with the \u201960s was actually introduced \u2013 or reached its apotheosis \u2013 in the early and middle years of the \u201970s. \u2014 Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor , 22 Dec. 2021",
      "To Samet, this mythmaking reached its apotheosis around the turn of the century, with the publication of books by Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Dec. 2021",
      "His apotheosis included a meeting with the idol of the right, former President Donald Trump, at Mar-a-Lago. \u2014 Frida Ghitis, CNN , 24 Nov. 2021",
      "Donatello is the Precursor \u2014 the opening act to Michelangelo\u2019s thundering apotheosis . \u2014 Sebastian Smee, Washington Post , 13 May 2022",
      "It\u2019s kind of the apotheosis of the endcap in digital heaven. \u2014 David Doty, Forbes , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "That it's all based in fact marks All the President's Men as the apotheosis of the '70s paranoid thriller. \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 27 June 2021",
      "In this action adventure, the apotheosis of his career thus far, cheerful idiocy occasionally rises to the level of delectable lunacy. \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "In Hawaii, the death of Captain James Cook came to be regarded as the tragic apotheosis of a man mistaken for a god. \u2014 Fara Dabhoiwala, The New York Review of Books , 19 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1580, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Late Latin apothe\u014dsis \"transformation into a god, deification,\" borrowed from Greek apoth\u00e9\u014dsis, from apothe\u014d-, variant stem of apothe\u00f3\u014d, apotheo\u00fbn \"to transform into a god, deify\" (from apo- apo- + theo\u00fbn \"to make a god of,\" verbal derivative of the\u00f3s \"god\") + -sis -sis \u2014 more at theo-":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02ccp\u00e4-th\u0113-\u02c8\u014d-s\u0259s",
      "\u02cca-p\u0259-\u02c8th\u0113-\u0259-s\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "acme",
      "beau ideal",
      "byword",
      "classic",
      "epitome",
      "exemplar",
      "ideal",
      "perfection",
      "quintessence"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112128",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "apojove":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the point farthest from the planet Jupiter in the orbit of each of its satellites":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ap\u0259\u02ccj\u014dv"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin apojovium , from apo- + -jovium (from Jovis Jupiter)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142900"
  },
  "apocrine gland":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a gland and especially a sweat gland that secretes a viscous fluid into a hair follicle (as in the armpit or groin), is lined with a single layer of usually columnar cells, and typically does not become active until puberty":[],
      "\u2014 compare eccrine gland":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "That type of sweat comes from the apocrine glands , which are located mainly in the underarm and groin. \u2014 Robert J. Davis, CNN , 28 Feb. 2018",
      "Humans also have apocrine glands , primarily in the armpit and groin. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 7 Dec. 2016"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1930, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154437"
  },
  "apoise":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in readiness : poised":[
        "bridesmaids were apoise to resume their places",
        "\u2014 Edith Wharton"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "a- entry 1 + poise (verb)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162103"
  },
  "apocrine":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02cckr\u0113n",
      "\u02c8a-p\u0259-kr\u0259n",
      "\u02c8ap-\u0259-kr\u0259n",
      "-\u02cckr\u012bn"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But the glands found in the armpits and genital area are different: apocrine glands excrete a thicker fluid that \u2014 upon contact with bacteria found on the skin \u2014 results in body odor. \u2014 Dianna Mazzone, Allure , 17 June 2022",
      "In addition to sweat, apocrine glands release substances like fat and proteins that can lead to body odor when sweat mixes with the normal bacteria found on the skin. \u2014 Jessica Toscano, SELF , 7 June 2022",
      "Your apocrine glands are located where bad body odor is common, such as the armpits or groin. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 25 May 2022",
      "While surgery can be an option at any stage on an individual lesion if the pain is major enough, wide surgical removal of an affected area and apocrine glands is most common in Hurley stage III. \u2014 Sara Gaynes Levy, SELF , 17 Feb. 2022",
      "So Cruz, given his background as a Harvard Law graduate and fearsome Texas solicitor general, could have defended his position without activating his apocrine glands. \u2014 Washington Post , 7 Jan. 2022",
      "Mammals have three types of sweat glands: apocrine , sebaceous and eccrine. \u2014 Asher Y. Rosinger, Scientific American , 1 July 2021",
      "Most of our potent body odour arises from a kind of sweat that emerges from apocrine glands in our armpits. \u2014 Sarah Everts, Time , 21 July 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from German apokrin, from apo- apo- + -krin, as in merokrin merocrine":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1926, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-040241"
  },
  "apo-":{
    "type":[
      "abbreviation",
      "noun",
      "prefix"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": apolipoprotein":[
        "\u2014 usually used with a letter or letter and number"
      ],
      "army post office":[],
      ": away from : off":[
        "ap helion"
      ],
      ": detached : separate":[
        "apo gamy"
      ],
      ": formed from : related to":[
        "apo morphine"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8a-p\u014d",
      "\u02c8a-\u02ccp\u014d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from Greek, from apo \u2014 more at of":"Prefix"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1972, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-062614"
  },
  "apothecary":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes":[],
      ": pharmacy":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccke-r\u0113",
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4th-\u0259-\u02ccker-\u0113",
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-th\u0259-\u02ccker-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "chemist",
      "druggist",
      "pharmacist"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "in olden days the apothecary had few drugs that actually cured anything, most substances being little more than pain relievers",
      "the historic village boasts an old-fashioned apothecary that's been there for almost a century and a half",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The 9,000 square foot spa, Thistle, will come equipped with outdoor hot tubs, an indoor saltwater pool, five single treatment rooms, a couples\u2019 treatment room and a modern apothecary . \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 23 May 2022",
      "The Medical History Tour includes a visit to the historic Captain Enoch Remick House to see a collection of 19th- and 20th-century medical tools and equipment, treatment areas, and an apothecary that predates the earliest local pharmacy. \u2014 Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com , 12 May 2022",
      "The space, as Green noted in the Top 10 ranking, was formerly occupied by an apothecary in the 1950s. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 4 May 2022",
      "What started as a small apothecary in New York has grown into one of the most recognizable skincare companies in the world. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 Apr. 2022",
      "This summer, the courtyard will feature the artist Jackie Sumell\u2019s mobile apothecary of healing herbs grown with incarcerated people \u2014 the culmination of a yearlong collaboration between the museum, the Lower Eastside Girls Club and the artist. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "But the explosion of tidy cubbies and drawers that causes an ultramodern kitchen to resemble the study of a 19th-century apothecary is not merely the result of refrigerators becoming cabinets. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Aug. 2021",
      "The right tiny glass bottles, which will make your bathroom look like a chic apothecary , can transform your face better than almost anything, short of a visit to the dermatologist. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 2 Apr. 2021",
      "The right tiny glass bottles, which will make your bathroom look like a chic apothecary , can transform your face better than almost anything, short of a visit to the dermatologist. \u2014 Jenny Singer, Glamour , 2 Apr. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English apothecarie, apotecarie, pothecarie, borrowed from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French apothecaire, ipotecaire, borrowed from Medieval Latin apot\u0113c\u0101rius, apoth\u0113c\u0101rius, going back to Late Latin, \"shopkeeper,\" from Latin apoth\u0113ca \"storeroom, storehouse, repository\" (borrowed from Greek apoth\u1e17k\u0113, from apoth\u0113-, variant stem of apotith\u00e9nai \"to put away, stow away\" \u2014from apo- apo- + tith\u00e9nai \"to put, place\"\u2014 + -k\u0113, noun suffix) + -\u0101rius -ary entry 1 \u2014 more at do entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-075957"
  },
  "apothecaries' weight":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a system of weights used chiefly by pharmacists":[
        "\u2014 see Weights and Measures Table"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1700, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083640"
  },
  "apothecium":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a spore-bearing structure in many lichens and fungi consisting of a discoid or cupped body bearing asci on the exposed flat or concave surface":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-s\u0113-",
      "\u02cca-p\u0259-\u02c8th\u0113-sh\u0113-\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin apoth\u0113cium, from Greek apoth\u1e17k\u0113 \"storehouse, repository\" + New Latin -ium -ium \u2014 more at apothecary":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1805, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083858"
  },
  "apocope":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the loss of one or more sounds or letters at the end of a word (as in sing from Old English singan )":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-k\u0259-(\u02cc)p\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Late Latin apocop\u0113, borrowed from Greek apocop\u1e17, literally, \"a cutting off,\" noun derivative from the base of apok\u00f3ptein \"to cut off, chop off,\" from apo- apo- + k\u00f3ptein \"to strike, knock, hew, fell with a weapon,\" perhaps going back to dialectal Indo-European *kop- \"strike, fell,\" whence also Lithuanian kapi\u00f9, k\u00e0pti \"to hew, fell,\" kap\u00f3ti \"to hew, chop,\" Russian kop\u00e1t' \"to dig\"":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1550, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-085512"
  },
  "apocopate":{
    "type":[
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to shorten (a word) by apocope":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8p\u00e4-k\u0259-\u02ccp\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "apocope + -ate entry 4":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1826, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110104"
  },
  "apostle bird":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a bird that goes about in small flocks:":[],
      ": a loud-voiced gray crowlike bird ( Struthidea cinerea ) with brown wings and black legs and bill":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145107"
  },
  "Apothecary rose":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a gallica rose ( Rosa gallica var. officinales ) with very fragrant, semidouble , deep pink flowers having petals used in perfumery and potpourri and formerly in medicinal remedies (as for indigestion or sore throat)":[
        "One of the most historical of the Gallicas , Rosa gallica officinales (before 1300), is the red rose that signified the House of Lancaster and was known as the \" Apothecary rose \" \u2026",
        "\u2014 John Albert , The Homeowner , July/August 1983"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1930, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174310"
  },
  "apodictic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cca-p\u0259-\u02c8dik-tik"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin apodicticus , from Greek apodeiktikos , from apodeiknynai to demonstrate, from apo- + deiknynai to show \u2014 more at diction":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1645, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-204915"
  },
  "Apodia":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": apoda":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0101\u02c8p\u014dd\u0113\u0259",
      "a\u02c8-",
      "\u0259\u02c8-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek, from apod-, apous + -ia":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-224830"
  },
  "apostlehood":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the office or status of an apostle":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02cchu\u0307d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English apostlehed, apostlehod , from Old English apostolh\u0101d , from apostol + -h\u0101d -hood":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232242"
  },
  "apochromatic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": free from chromatic and spherical aberration":[
        "an apochromatic lens"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccap-\u0259-kr\u014d-\u02c8mat-ik",
      "\u02cca-p\u0259-kr\u014d-\u02c8ma-tik"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "apo- + chromatic entry 1 , after achromatic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1886, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233633"
  },
  "apolysis":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the prayer of dismissal used at the conclusion of a service in the Eastern Church":[],
      ": the shedding of ripe proglottids during life (as in most tapeworms) \u2014 compare anapolysis":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00e4\u02c8p\u022fl\u0113\u02ccs\u0113s",
      "\u0259\u02c8p\u00e4l\u0259s\u0259\u0307s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Greek, from Greek, loosening, dismissal, from apolyein to loose from, release, dismiss (from apo- + lyein to loosen, free, destroy) + -sis":"Noun",
      "New Latin, from apo- + -lysis":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002531"
  },
  "Apodi":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a suborder of Apodiformes that comprises the swifts":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccd\u0113",
      "\u02c8ap\u0259\u02ccd\u012b"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek apodoi , plural of apous footless, from a- a- entry 2 + -pous (from pous foot)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-003844"
  },
  "apolytikion":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the concluding hymn sung in the Eastern Church at the end of offices (such as matins and vespers) and varying from day to day according to the calendar":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02cc\u00e4\u02ccp\u022fl\u0113\u02c8t\u0113\u02ccky\u022fn"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle Greek, alteration of apolytikon , from neuter of apolytikos absolving, dismissing, from Greek apolytos freed, dismissed (from apolyein to dismiss) + -ikos -ic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-005812"
  },
  "Apodidae":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a widely distributed family of birds (order Apodiformes ) comprising the swifts and having flat skulls and all toes pointing forward but being swallowlike in appearance and behavior":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\"",
      "\u0259\u02c8p\u00e4d\u0259\u02ccd\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Apod-, Apus (synonym of Triops ), type genus + -idae":"Plural noun",
      "New Latin, from Apod-, Apus , type genus + -idae":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-012137"
  },
  "apochromat":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an apochromatic lens":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "usually -at + V",
      "\u00a6ap\u0259kr\u014d\u00a6mat",
      "\u02ccap\u0259\u02c8kr\u014d\u02ccm-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "German, back-formation from apochromatisch apochromatic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-044937"
  }
}