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{
"glabrous":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": smooth",
": having a surface without hairs or projections",
": having or being a smooth even surface",
": having or being an epidermal covering that is totally or relatively devoid of hairs or down"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u0101-br\u0259s",
"\u02c8gl\u0101-br\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Latin glabr-, glaber smooth, bald \u2014 more at glad entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1640, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-194014"
},
"glad":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": experiencing pleasure, joy, or delight : made happy",
": very willing",
": made pleased, satisfied, or grateful",
": marked by, expressive of, or caused by happiness and joy",
": causing happiness and joy : pleasant",
": full of brightness and cheerfulness",
": having a cheerful or happy disposition by nature",
": gladden",
": gladiolus sense 1",
": being happy and joyful",
": bringing or causing joy",
": very willing"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glad",
"\u02c8glad"
],
"synonyms":[
"blissful",
"chuffed",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"thankful",
"tickled"
],
"antonyms":[
"agree (with)",
"content",
"delight",
"feast",
"gas",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"pleasure",
"rejoice",
"satisfy",
"suit",
"warm"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"We're glad you could come.",
"I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have.",
"The mail brought glad news from our friends in England.",
"We've been through some sad times and some glad times.",
"Verb",
"it hath gladded my heart to see thy face again",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But the former Alabama All-American is glad those golfers have been suspended by the PGA Tour. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 9 June 2022",
"Meya said the tribal citizens who worked with his nonprofits were glad to help with language preservation and understood how their words would be used. \u2014 Graham Lee Brewer, NBC News , 3 June 2022",
"But despite the hardships, Fara is glad his family moved to San Francisco. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 June 2022",
"Her Facebook followers also were glad to hear that news. \u2014 cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"An emotional Porter was glad to be able to send off her beloved coach and senior teammates on top with one more championship. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2022",
"Boston Calling was just glad to be back, even if by the skin of its teeth. \u2014 Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"Staley is glad to have made such an impression along with her gold-medal winning teammates. \u2014 Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic , 28 May 2022",
"Gear nerds will be glad to find that the 7Mesh Slab shorts weigh a feathery 164 grams. \u2014 Lydia Tanner, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Flowering plants, including glads , aren\u2019t treasured for their leaves. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 Mar. 2020",
"Wow, what a year for flowers: peonies, dahlias, glads , ligularias \u2014 and most others for that matter. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News , 4 Aug. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective and Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4",
"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1923, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-192542"
},
"gladdened":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to be glad",
": to make glad",
": to make glad"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gla-d\u1d4an",
"\u02c8gla-d\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[
"agree (with)",
"content",
"delight",
"feast",
"gas",
"glad",
"gratify",
"please",
"pleasure",
"rejoice",
"satisfy",
"suit",
"warm"
],
"antonyms":[
"displease"
],
"examples":[
"it would gladden me to hear you sing again",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The word from Washington is sure to gladden the Newsom campaign. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Even a dead beaver, with its buck teeth sticking out of its decomposing skull, seemed to gladden Balken. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Lopez, after all, is a pop star\u2014her work is to rouse, inspire, and gladden large crowds by encouraging them to revel in a moment of fleeting, collective joy. \u2014 Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker , 21 Jan. 2021",
"The Concorde will gladden the hearts of record buffs. \u2014 J. A. Maxtone Graham, Popular Mechanics , 24 Sep. 2020",
"That turnaround is sure to gladden the hearts of Republicans, who have no hope of controlling the White House without Texas. \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 6 Sep. 2020",
"What gladdens my heart about geese, and helps fend off the virus blues, is their complete self-absorption. \u2014 James Gorman, New York Times , 22 Mar. 2020",
"The letter was a mistake, but one that gladdened hearts in Tehran. \u2014 Karim Sadjadpour, Time , 9 Jan. 2020",
"The egg nog-esque concoction of powdered sugar, whipped eggs and spices mixed with hot water or milk and a shot of brandy or rum (or both) has gladdened the hearts and stomachs of Cheeseheads for decades. \u2014 Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 Nov. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-214023"
},
"gladly":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": experiencing pleasure, joy, or delight : made happy",
": very willing",
": made pleased, satisfied, or grateful",
": marked by, expressive of, or caused by happiness and joy",
": causing happiness and joy : pleasant",
": full of brightness and cheerfulness",
": having a cheerful or happy disposition by nature",
": gladden",
": gladiolus sense 1",
": being happy and joyful",
": bringing or causing joy",
": very willing"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glad",
"\u02c8glad"
],
"synonyms":[
"blissful",
"chuffed",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"thankful",
"tickled"
],
"antonyms":[
"agree (with)",
"content",
"delight",
"feast",
"gas",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"pleasure",
"rejoice",
"satisfy",
"suit",
"warm"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"We're glad you could come.",
"I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have.",
"The mail brought glad news from our friends in England.",
"We've been through some sad times and some glad times.",
"Verb",
"it hath gladded my heart to see thy face again",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But the former Alabama All-American is glad those golfers have been suspended by the PGA Tour. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 9 June 2022",
"Meya said the tribal citizens who worked with his nonprofits were glad to help with language preservation and understood how their words would be used. \u2014 Graham Lee Brewer, NBC News , 3 June 2022",
"But despite the hardships, Fara is glad his family moved to San Francisco. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 June 2022",
"Her Facebook followers also were glad to hear that news. \u2014 cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"An emotional Porter was glad to be able to send off her beloved coach and senior teammates on top with one more championship. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2022",
"Boston Calling was just glad to be back, even if by the skin of its teeth. \u2014 Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"Staley is glad to have made such an impression along with her gold-medal winning teammates. \u2014 Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic , 28 May 2022",
"Gear nerds will be glad to find that the 7Mesh Slab shorts weigh a feathery 164 grams. \u2014 Lydia Tanner, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Flowering plants, including glads , aren\u2019t treasured for their leaves. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 Mar. 2020",
"Wow, what a year for flowers: peonies, dahlias, glads , ligularias \u2014 and most others for that matter. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News , 4 Aug. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective and Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4",
"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1923, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-185104"
},
"gladness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": experiencing pleasure, joy, or delight : made happy",
": very willing",
": made pleased, satisfied, or grateful",
": marked by, expressive of, or caused by happiness and joy",
": causing happiness and joy : pleasant",
": full of brightness and cheerfulness",
": having a cheerful or happy disposition by nature",
": gladden",
": gladiolus sense 1",
": being happy and joyful",
": bringing or causing joy",
": very willing"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glad",
"\u02c8glad"
],
"synonyms":[
"blissful",
"chuffed",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"thankful",
"tickled"
],
"antonyms":[
"agree (with)",
"content",
"delight",
"feast",
"gas",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"pleasure",
"rejoice",
"satisfy",
"suit",
"warm"
],
"examples":[
"Adjective",
"We're glad you could come.",
"I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have.",
"The mail brought glad news from our friends in England.",
"We've been through some sad times and some glad times.",
"Verb",
"it hath gladded my heart to see thy face again",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"But the former Alabama All-American is glad those golfers have been suspended by the PGA Tour. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 9 June 2022",
"Meya said the tribal citizens who worked with his nonprofits were glad to help with language preservation and understood how their words would be used. \u2014 Graham Lee Brewer, NBC News , 3 June 2022",
"But despite the hardships, Fara is glad his family moved to San Francisco. \u2014 Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle , 1 June 2022",
"Her Facebook followers also were glad to hear that news. \u2014 cleveland , 30 May 2022",
"An emotional Porter was glad to be able to send off her beloved coach and senior teammates on top with one more championship. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 29 May 2022",
"Boston Calling was just glad to be back, even if by the skin of its teeth. \u2014 Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022",
"Staley is glad to have made such an impression along with her gold-medal winning teammates. \u2014 Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic , 28 May 2022",
"Gear nerds will be glad to find that the 7Mesh Slab shorts weigh a feathery 164 grams. \u2014 Lydia Tanner, Outside Online , 27 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Flowering plants, including glads , aren\u2019t treasured for their leaves. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 Mar. 2020",
"Wow, what a year for flowers: peonies, dahlias, glads , ligularias \u2014 and most others for that matter. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Alaska Dispatch News , 4 Aug. 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Adjective and Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Adjective",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 4",
"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1923, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-225521"
},
"gladsome":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": giving or showing joy : cheerful"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glad-s\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"canty",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"eupeptic",
"gay",
"lightsome",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"winsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sulky",
"sullen"
],
"examples":[
"a gladsome group of carolers strolling through the city's historic district"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195155"
},
"gladsomeness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": giving or showing joy : cheerful"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glad-s\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"canty",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"eupeptic",
"gay",
"lightsome",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"winsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sulky",
"sullen"
],
"examples":[
"a gladsome group of carolers strolling through the city's historic district"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-191819"
},
"glamour":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness",
": alluring or fascinating attraction",
": a magic spell",
": romantic, exciting, and often misleading attractiveness"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gla-m\u0259r",
"\u02c8gla-m\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"abracadabra",
"bewitchment",
"charm",
"conjuration",
"enchantment",
"hex",
"incantation",
"invocation",
"spell",
"whammy"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She left her hometown, attracted to the glamour of the big city.",
"an acting career filled with glitz and glamour",
"the glamour of the movie business",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the one hand was the glittering glamour and idealized Camelot of it all. \u2014 Anna Pitoniak, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"There were men who channeled Michael Jackson (with fringed epaulets) and Elvis (in a high-collared, low-cut shirt) \u2014 bringing enough glitz, glamour and intricate embroidery to occupy several Broadway costume designers. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"With a high slit, sheer wrist-length gloves, a lengthy train, and a minimalist veil, the star's most recent wedding gown was nothing but an ode to glamour and elegance. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 10 June 2022",
"The world is thick with commentators who are indistinguishable, in their pretensions to glamour and wisdom, from the political knaves that inspire their furious discourse. \u2014 Dave Shiflett, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"But, unlike fashion week that\u2019s got glamour and inspiration, asparagus seems boxed in. \u2014 Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 May 2022",
"Such is the juxtaposition of Cannes \u2014 breezy glamour and intense stress \u2014 that has been on full display during the fest\u2019s 75th edition. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"Along similar lines, a red carpet that has long been a symbol of glamour and tradition has, in recent years, become a #MeToo battleground \u2014 a place for women filmmakers to protest their lack of inclusion (and the sexism of Cannes fashion protocols). \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 22 May 2022",
"Pallas tuxedo, worn at the premiere of 2014\u2019s Saint Laurent biopic with a freshly platinum dye job?\u2014while hair and makeup have trod a similarly versatile line between glamour and ease. \u2014 Calin Van Paris, Vogue , 16 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"from Scots glamer, glamour, by dissimilation from grammar grammar in sense \"learning, erudition,\" popularly associated with occult practices",
"first_known_use":[
"1715, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-193719"
},
"glare":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light",
": stand out , obtrude",
": to stare angrily or fiercely",
": to express (something, such as hostility) by staring angrily",
": to cause to be sharply reflected",
": a harsh uncomfortably bright light",
": painfully bright sunlight",
": cheap showy brilliance : garishness",
": an angry or fierce stare",
": a surface or sheet of smooth and slippery ice",
": to shine with a harsh bright light",
": to look fiercely or angrily",
": a harsh bright light",
": a fierce or angry look"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gler",
"\u02c8gler"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"blaze",
"burn",
"flame",
"flare"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"flare",
"fluorescence",
"gleam",
"glow",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"light",
"luminescence",
"radiance",
"shine"
],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The face of the shooter seemed to glare down from the television above his son\u2019s bed. \u2014 Jenny Deam, ProPublica , 31 May 2022",
"Observations that could lead to more discoveries about space are being obstructed due to light and glare from the satellites, even with attempts by companies like SpaceX to dim them. \u2014 Clarisa Diaz, Quartz , 8 Apr. 2022",
"One thing that makes windshield glare much worse is cleaning the top of the dash with a product like Armor All, which is designed to make surfaces shine. \u2014 Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 Sep. 2021",
"This time, the left-hander plunked the third baseman in the left elbow with his first pitch, leading Su\u00e1rez to glare at the closer before making his way to first. \u2014 Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 July 2021",
"And with the pandemic finally easing, the summer sun will beat down Sunday on mostly maskless faces until darkness falls, the fireworks begin and rockets glare red over citizens no longer required to stand six feet apart. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 July 2021",
"Just watching two young women whisper to each other and glare seductively at the camera is giving me a mild panic attack. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 28 May 2021",
"Photos of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of Iran\u2019s 1979 Revolution, and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who succeeded him as the Islamic Republic\u2019s supreme leader, glare down at you. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Mar. 2021",
"In a dilapidated building in central Awka, at the office of a local human rights group, the Prime Advocacy for Human Rights Preservers Initiative, cartoon posters of angry judges glare down from the walls. \u2014 New York Times , 23 Dec. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The actor, with his large eyes, whip-crack delivery, and glare of geek suspicion, would be well cast as Lou Reed. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 13 June 2022",
"That\u2019s because the yellow image, called the Asahi illusion, resembles the glare of sunlight surrounded by foliage. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 13 June 2022",
"Given the glare of the federal investigation, what are those groups up to now? \u2014 Matt Brown, Washington Post , 9 June 2022",
"The glare is particularly uncomfortable for Ms. Yellen, an economist and a former chair of the Federal Reserve, who prides herself on giving straight answers and staying above the political fray. \u2014 Alan Rappeport, New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"Although the glare will get worse as the week wears on, try putting a pair of binoculars on the lunar surface to see its craters and ancient, dark lava fields, called mare. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
"The agency also wants information on how cameras deal with reflections, shadows, glare and blockage due to snow or heavy rain. \u2014 Tom Krisher, Chicago Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"The agency also wants information on how cameras deal with reflections, shadows, glare and blockage due to snow or heavy rain. \u2014 CBS News , 3 June 2022",
"The all-new Reefton Pro combine the brand\u2019s best features into a single pair of glare -fighting shades. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a",
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-173254"
},
"gleam":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light",
": a small bright light",
": glint",
": a brief or faint appearance",
": to shine with or as if with subdued steady light or moderate brightness",
": to appear briefly or faintly",
": to cause to gleam",
": a faint, soft, or reflected light",
": a bright or shining look",
": a short or slight appearance",
": to shine with a soft light",
": to give out gleams of light"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u0113m",
"\u02c8gl\u0113m"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze",
"flare",
"fluorescence",
"glare",
"glow",
"illumination",
"incandescence",
"light",
"luminescence",
"radiance",
"shine"
],
"antonyms":[
"coruscate",
"flame",
"flash",
"glance",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"He saw the gleam of a flashlight in the distance.",
"the rich gleam of the polished wood",
"Verb",
"The sun gleamed on the water.",
"His eyes were gleaming with delight.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Laker cut the solutions down to just six but again, gleam would have been better. \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 20 May 2022",
"The couches are upholstered in nubby linen and tossed with colorful, elephant patterned pillows, and the fixtures in your bathroom gleam . \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 19 May 2022",
"Listen to chill, downtempo beats on Groove Salad radio station while watching the sun gleam on the solid aluminum statue, created by world-renowned artist Robert Graham. \u2014 Amarachi Orie, CNN , 23 Dec. 2021",
"The light at the end of the tunnel could be the gleam of the Stanley Cup, though that\u2019s far off. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 16 May 2022",
"But then that green-jacket gleam returned to his eyes. \u2014 Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The glitter goes a long way\u2014just a few shakes from the $14 jar significantly coats a portion of food with enough gleam to feel both economical and special, like a showering of parm. \u2014 Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Bon App\u00e9tit , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Interstate highways were but a gleam in future President Eisenhower\u2019s eye. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"While all Pontiel jewels gleam with refined glass elements that were made in the four decades before World War II broke out, each one contains rare or one-of-a-kind elements. \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Emerald-green grasses compete for attention with knee-high dandelion puffs, while closer to the ground blue violets and yellow mock strawberry blossoms gleam like jewels. \u2014 Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"Jets still scream and muscles still gleam in the ridiculous and often ridiculously entertaining sequel, though in several respects, the movie evinces \u2014 and rewards \u2014 an unusual investment of brainpower, writes film critic Justin Chang. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 13 May 2022",
"Smith, a former Dr. Who, excels at the poor-little-rich-boy villainy of his character, a tragic aristocrat whose eyes gleam with mania. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Small details gleam from the corners \u2014 the rippling beta-carotene richness of each furry panda filament; the excitable sidekick (Hyein Park) so tightly wound that even her affirmations come out like a WWE scream. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 7 Mar. 2022",
"But if brought into the light, their iridescent bodies will gleam , looking different from every angle. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Feb. 2022",
"That\u2019s when the roof\u2019s composite panels gleam in the sun and the building comes to resemble a perfect wave gently curling into water before it. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
"And like a cherry on top of dessert, the egg should gleam with a brilliant, inviting flourish. \u2014 Arlyn Osborne, Bon App\u00e9tit , 20 Jan. 2022",
"Sometimes the message is clear and obvious; other times the lesson lurks below the surface, dull now but ready to gleam with the right context. \u2014 Christopher Hartnick, STAT , 4 Jan. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Verb",
"1508, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-205628"
},
"gleefulness":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": full of glee : merry"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u0113-f\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"festive",
"gay",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the gleeful atmosphere that envelops the host city of the Super Bowl",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This was not mere contrarianism, and there was no trace of gleeful mythbusting; the issue was important enough to get right. \u2014 The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
"But word gets out, and a PR battle ensues between the two men, with McKenzie intent on banning the gleeful culprit from all clubs across the U.K. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"By the end of the short, a gleeful Jerry turns to bow to the audience, while an out-of-breath Tom tries his best to sit upright and bow \u2014 until falling through a hole in the stage himself. \u2014 Kristina Garcia, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"The world\u2019s 13th biggest economy is going strong, as exemplified by Morrison\u2019s gleeful announcement this week that unemployment had dropped to the lowest level in half a century. \u2014 Michael E. Miller, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"In high, tremulous voices, the Sisters of the Holy Family were chanting their midday prayers when a child\u2019s gleeful shout echoed from a nearby corridor, punctuating the solemn incantation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"The problem is the reflexive assumption that Depp is being wronged, along with the gleeful way social media is harassing the woman who accused him of violence. \u2014 NBC News , 5 May 2022",
"Ozark is a show with a body count not for the faint of heart, and its gleeful willingness to knock off main characters, often in deliciously shocking fashion, is part of its appeal. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 29 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s a gleeful misanthropy that runs throughout your music. \u2014 Andy O'connor, SPIN , 19 Apr. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1586, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-214513"
},
"glide":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to move smoothly, continuously, and effortlessly",
": to go or pass imperceptibly",
": to descend gradually in controlled flight",
": to fly in a glider",
": to produce a glide (as in music or speech)",
": to cause to glide",
": a calm stretch of shallow water flowing smoothly",
": the act or action of gliding",
": portamento",
": a less prominent vowel sound produced by the passing of the vocal organs to or from the articulatory position of a speech sound \u2014 compare diphthong",
": semivowel",
": a device for facilitating movement of something",
": a circular usually metal button attached to the bottom of furniture legs to provide a smooth surface",
": to move with a smooth continuous motion",
": the act or action of moving with a smooth continuous motion"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u012bd",
"\u02c8gl\u012bd"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"brush",
"coast",
"cruise",
"drift",
"flow",
"roll",
"sail",
"skim",
"slide",
"slip",
"stream",
"sweep",
"whisk"
],
"antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The swans glided over the surface of the lake.",
"We watched the skiers glide down the slope.",
"The pilot glided to a safe landing after the engine failed.",
"The pilot glided the plane to a safe landing.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"McFadden can glide across a balance beam on her hands and scramble up a rope with ease. \u2014 Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Since curly hair can be more prone to breakage, this Super Slip Conditioner will allow your comb to glide easily through your hair, reducing any pulling or tension on your strands. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
"For example, stingrays need to glide through water to the bottom and dig in the sand. \u2014 Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Walking on Autopilot Prakash and Bull started off expecting the cilia to glide over surfaces, with a thin layer of fluid separating animal and substrate. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The band \u2014 made up of Maq, bassist Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich, and percussionist Sarah Thompson \u2014 is known for their confessional writing style, marked by observations that glide unblinkingly into the heart of things. \u2014 Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone , 8 Nov. 2021",
"Most boats can\u2019t pass over wing dams without losing a propeller or a motor, but a canoe can usually glide by without a scrape. \u2014 Frank Bures, Outside Online , 3 Nov. 2021",
"And the ability to glide on the wind, just like his furry little friends! \u2014 David Fear, Rolling Stone , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Continue to glide the eyeliner from the center of the lid to the outer corner of the eye. \u2014 Todd Plummer, Harper's BAZAAR , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Metal glide strips were added to the window runners to allow smoother operation. \u2014 Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com , 12 June 2022",
"Its glide mode can be helpful to cover larger surface areas and also includes a precision head to help address smaller areas that may be difficult to reach, like the face, bikini line, and underarms. \u2014 Tiffany Dodson And Lindy Segal, Harper's BAZAAR , 31 May 2022",
"Big holes\u2014crevasses, bergschrunds, glide cracks, and fumaroles\u2014present more risks. \u2014 Outside Online , 29 May 2022",
"Russia\u2019s Avangard is a glide vehicle launched from an intercontinental ballistic missile and will reportedly carry a nuclear warhead. \u2014 Roxana Tiron, Fortune , 6 Apr. 2022",
"The name is perfect\u2014the lipsticks are certainly matte but glide on with a buttery texture that actually feels hydrating and creamy. \u2014 Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour , 17 May 2022",
"The charming Frog Pond on historic Boston Common, America\u2019s oldest public park, is a picturesque spot to twirl and glide for an afternoon or evening. \u2014 Allison Tibaldi, USA TODAY , 1 Mar. 2022",
"These user-friendly pencils are typically very creamy and glide onto your lids without tugging on your skin. \u2014 Sarah Han, Allure , 21 Jan. 2022",
"At Kenlake State Resort Park on Wednesday, about 30 miles east of Mayfield, Rory Matheny sat on a lime-green couch inside the lodge's common area and watched a stranger's young fingers glide across the ivory keys of an upright piano. \u2014 Natalie Neysa Alund, The Courier-Journal , 18 Dec. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1",
"Noun",
"1584, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-211524"
},
"glimmer":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to shine faintly or unsteadily",
": to give off a subdued unsteady reflection",
": to appear indistinctly with a faintly luminous quality",
": a feeble or intermittent light",
": a subdued unsteady shining or sparkle",
": a dim perception or faint idea : inkling",
": hint , spark",
": to shine faintly and unsteadily",
": a faint unsteady light",
": a faint suggestion",
": a small amount"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gli-m\u0259r",
"\u02c8gli-m\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscate",
"flame",
"flash",
"glance",
"gleam",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Candles glimmered in the windows of the inn.",
"Moonlight glimmered on the pond.",
"Noun",
"the glimmer of a distant star",
"Their first meeting with the new boss gave them a glimmer of what they could expect.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The lovers are carved in marble: Their perfect white forms perennially glimmer through the filigree of sun and foliage and water. \u2014 New York Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
"By day, the buildings and even the paving stones glimmer in the sunlight. \u2014 Julia Buckley, CNN , 1 Feb. 2022",
"The otherwise tranquil lilies \u2014 created by Phoenix immersive entertainment production company Walter Productions \u2014 will glimmer during the day and glow with LED lights in the evening. \u2014 Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic , 3 Nov. 2021",
"The lights glimmer nightly for five minutes every hour on the hour until 1 a.m. Originally planned as a temporary display, the light show becomes a permanent fixture by popular demand. \u2014 Cnn Editorial Research, CNN , 26 July 2021",
"Compared with other see-through species, such as dragonflies, glasswings are even more adept at fluttering through the rainforest unnoticed because their wings don\u2019t shine or glimmer in sunlight. \u2014 Anil Oza, Science | AAAS , 22 June 2021",
"These sheeny shades seen in the March 2011 issue have resurfaced this summer in soft hues on fabrics that glimmer from brands like Oseree, Isa Boulder, Sara Cristina, and Maiyo. \u2014 Madeline Fass, Vogue , 18 May 2021",
"The result is a pale-hued but light and bright space filled with sumptuous fabrics and objects that softly glimmer and shine. \u2014 R. Stephanie Bruno, NOLA.com , 17 Dec. 2020",
"But in 2019, Huntsville music future started finally started to glimmer . \u2014 Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al , 31 Dec. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"What starts as a self-serving mission for parole turns into a deep emotional and transformative relationship, offering a glimmer of redemption in an otherwise unforgiving prison. \u2014 Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter , 24 May 2022",
"The last two months were supposed to be uplifting, with the arrival of overseas travelers offering a glimmer of hope for the hundreds of thousands of workers whose jobs rely on tourists. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Jan. 2022",
"An optimistic note there about the Omicron surge, as cases begin to fall nationally, offering a glimmer of hope that the highly infectious variant is beginning to recede. \u2014 ABC News , 23 Jan. 2022",
"But so far, at least, the omicron surge hasn\u2019t resulted in the same levels of hospitalizations and deaths as previous outbreaks \u2014 especially among vaccinated people \u2014 offering a glimmer of hope for 2022. \u2014 Nick Perry, chicagotribune.com , 31 Dec. 2021",
"After a faint glimmer of hope, the crypto market turns red again. \u2014 Dan Runkevicius, Forbes , 2 June 2022",
"The day after the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a federal judge in New York issued a verdict in a gun-control case that could offer some gun control advocates a glimmer of hope. \u2014 Rob Wile, NBC News , 27 May 2022",
"But Thursday brought a glimmer of good news despite nearly two months of lockdowns in major cities. \u2014 Allison Morrow, CNN , 27 May 2022",
"This week started off with a glitter and a glimmer thanks to Megan Thee Stallion. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 21 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1590, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-221721"
},
"glimpse":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to get a brief look at",
": to look briefly",
": glimmer",
": a fleeting view or look",
": glimmer",
": to catch a quick view of",
": a short hurried look"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glim(p)s",
"\u02c8glimps"
],
"synonyms":[
"browse",
"dip",
"glance",
"glint",
"peek",
"skim"
],
"antonyms":[
"cast",
"eye",
"gander",
"glance",
"look",
"peek",
"peep",
"regard",
"sight",
"view"
],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"We glimpsed him through the window as his car sped past.",
"just glimpsed at the photo then turned his attention elsewhere",
"Noun",
"We caught a glimpse of him through the window as his car sped past.",
"I only got a glimpse of him as we drove by.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Steinbeck devotees \u2014 or just curious passersby \u2014 can glimpse a relic from the duo\u2019s journey at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, the writer\u2019s hometown. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Look to the southeast this morning before sunrise to glimpse a 33%-lit crescent Moon just 2.4\u00ba from the planet Mars. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"Military minds from all over the world gathered at Dugway Proving Ground on Friday to share new technologies and glimpse a future of warfare from the ground to space. \u2014 Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 14 May 2022",
"On the Grasslands Nature Trail, visitors can even glimpse animals from deer to ghost crabs. \u2014 Robin Soslow, Chron , 3 May 2022",
"Occasionally, a vehicle would come into sight rounding a curve and Mills could glimpse parts of it through the trees. \u2014 al , 24 Apr. 2022",
"Stargazers will have a chance to catch the Lyrid meteor shower this week, late at night, but those who are up in the early mornings could glimpse another phenomenon. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Earlier, Cruise worked the crowds of fans along the red carpet, who had braved the blazing hot sun to glimpse the actor, posing for selfies and signing autographs. \u2014 Zack Sharf, Variety , 18 May 2022",
"Flying into or driving through Ukraine it\u2019s common to glimpse fields of rye, spelt, buckwheat and sweet hay, Mavieksa said. \u2014 Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic , 13 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"But when the public got its first glimpse on Thursday night of what Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, had to say, the former president appeared less generous - issuing a statement that pushed back on her testimony. \u2014 Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"Joe, who\u2019s from a small town in Indiana, has never set foot in New York before, and overwhelmed by his first glimpse of the city, asks Alice to show him around. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 June 2022",
"But when the public got its first glimpse on Thursday night of what Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner had to say, the former president appeared less generous \u2014 issuing a statement that pushed back on her testimony. \u2014 Josh Dawsey, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"In the meantime, the public should catch its first glimpse of the B-21 sometime this summer. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 26 May 2022",
"The sketch represents our first glimpse at what the Prologue might look like, even if some parts are clearly exaggerated for dramatic effect. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 18 May 2022",
"Viewers got their first glimpse of Portman's gains in the final seconds of the Love and Thunder trailer, which see her wielding Mjolnir\u2014and a pair of jacked biceps. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 17 May 2022",
"This clip also gives us our first glimpse of Staunton's return to the world of Downton. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 11 May 2022",
"Fans got their first glimpse of Portman as the Mighty Thor in the teaser trailer that debuted last month. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 10 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2",
"Noun",
"circa 1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-230101"
},
"glint":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to glance off an object",
": to be reflected at an angle from a surface",
": to give off reflection in brilliant flashes",
": gleam",
": to look quickly or briefly : glance",
": to appear briefly or faintly",
": to cause to glint",
": a tiny bright flash of light",
": a brief or faint manifestation : glimmer",
": a trace of emotion expressed through the eyes",
": to shine with tiny bright flashes",
": a brief flash"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glint",
"\u02c8glint"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscate",
"flame",
"flash",
"glance",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The sun glinted off the tops of the waves.",
"The waves glinted in the sunlight.",
"Noun",
"He saw glints of sunlight on the river's surface.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Scissors glint under the tank\u2019s white and blue lights as astronaut Mark Vandahei and his team snip the stems of those that are ready for harvest. \u2014 Melanie Canales, Wired , 21 Dec. 2021",
"The way some of the clips glint in the light is truly a work of art. \u2014 Sara Miranda, Allure , 20 Sep. 2021",
"In one, strips of crystal marked by glowing red imperfections seem to glint with spectral light along a blue background. \u2014 Edward Rothstein, WSJ , 7 Apr. 2021",
"Some things skitter back into the dark but a few things glint with minor promise. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Feb. 2021",
"The set included a large base plate with those foods, written in Hebrew, scrawled across the center in glinting gold lettering, and lined with six more individual dishes, each glazed in shades of sea foam green and cerulean blue. \u2014 Betsy Blumenthal, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 8 Apr. 2020",
"With that eye-catching orange glinting off heavily creased bodywork, our NX300h was easy to spot among the horde of otherwise ordinary crossovers and SUVs that saturate parking lots. \u2014 Eric Stafford, Car and Driver , 20 Feb. 2020",
"Her hands were pale and slender, with long, delicate fingers that always glinted with a fresh French-tip manicure. \u2014 Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com , 31 Jan. 2020",
"Boys take furtive sips of Manischewitz at someone\u2019s bar mitzvah, their glasses glinting in the ballroom light. \u2014 Leslie Jamison, The New York Review of Books , 29 Apr. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Olsen likes the balance and glint of a pair of mirrors hung over nightstands with table lamps on them on either side of a bed. \u2014 Washington Post , 13 Oct. 2021",
"Writing any story is a process of projection and omission, and fragments of an old tale, excavated from the mound of history, will often catch a glint of the zeitgeist. \u2014 Rebecca Panovka, The New Yorker , 2 June 2021",
"Wordle Bot was much more enthusiastic about my third guess, glint . \u2014 Erik Kain, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The blue glint on the ambulance parked behind him is wrong. \u2014 Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com , 9 Apr. 2022",
"There, the emphasis was not only on honing in on his spycraft skills, but being able to speak English so well that only a glint of an accent was evident. \u2014 Fox News , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The vibe: a regional glint in the air, cultivated by the locals. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"In fact, some of the concerns surrounding the existing system, such a sun glint and scraping of the receiving aircraft, occur using other tankers. \u2014 Loren Thompson, Forbes , 18 Jan. 2022",
"To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint , through the sand was romantic. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Feb. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1a",
"Noun",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-190244"
},
"glister":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": glitter"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gli-st\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscate",
"flame",
"flash",
"glance",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glitter",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the dew glistered in the soft light of the early morning"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English glistren ; akin to Old English glisian ",
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195709"
},
"glitter":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to shine by reflection with many small flashes of brilliant light : sparkle",
": to shine with strong emotion : flash",
": to be brilliantly attractive, lavish, or spectacular",
": to be superficially attractive or exciting",
": sparkling brilliance of something that glitters",
": a bright usually superficial attractiveness",
": the quality of being spectacular",
": small glittering objects used for ornamentation",
": to sparkle brightly",
": sparkling brightness",
": small glittering objects for decoration"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gli-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8gli-t\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscate",
"flame",
"flash",
"glance",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"The sequins on her dress glittered in the sun.",
"Her eyes glittered with intelligence and amusement.",
"Noun",
"He was drawn to the glitter of the city's nightlife.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"While Season 1 featured faces adorned with endless rhinestones, glitter and more, Davy notes that Season 2 stepped into a quieter (but equally-stunning) approach. \u2014 Wyatte Grantham-philips, Variety , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Needless to say, brace yourselves for plenty of holiday cheer, from ribbon laced nails to glitter French tips. \u2014 Michella Or\u00e9, Glamour , 23 Sep. 2021",
"According to Rachel, her son also sold small crafts \u2014 from little firecrackers to glitter bombs \u2014 from a table at a local store to raise the money for his tree house, and now, his vision has fully come to life. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 19 Aug. 2021",
"How does one differentiate among all the offers that literally glitter ?! \u2014 Stephan Rabimov, Forbes , 26 May 2021",
"And the window display on Fifth Avenue will glitter with all-new jewels by David Yurman. \u2014 Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure , 30 Apr. 2021",
"Beyond these stars glitter other worlds, beyond this trial other tribulations of love. \u2014 Usman T. Malik, Wired , 11 Dec. 2020",
"Fragments of Htet\u2019s product often glitter on their fingers. \u2014 Paul Salopek, History & Culture , 4 Dec. 2020",
"Mark even wore Jojo's signature bow and glitter rainbow outfit for the big reveal while dancing in her closet. \u2014 Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen , 3 Aug. 2020",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"My favorite way to adorn a dish with glitter : a small mesh strainer. \u2014 Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Bon App\u00e9tit , 18 Mar. 2022",
"Her hair is slicked up into a smooth almost-mohawk, forming a bang falling onto her left cheek, and the rest of her scalp lined with green glitter . \u2014 Addison Aloian, Allure , 11 Mar. 2022",
"Products like the eye Gel\u00e9e were packed with non-biodegradable glitter , wrapped in foil packaging and housed in cardboard boxes. \u2014 Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com , 1 Feb. 2022",
"Not before tumbling over a huge tub filled with glitter , of all things. \u2014 Kelly Mcclure, Vulture , 26 Dec. 2021",
"Pop this clear polish spiked with different shapes and shades of black glitter on bare nails or atop any base color for a fun effect. \u2014 ELLE , 26 May 2022",
"Brown finishes off the piping-hot liquid with a recipe of black glitter and a few drops of green pumpkin coloring. \u2014 Steven E. Banks, Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2022",
"Half Magic is a collection of colorful face gems, glitter , lipsticks and easy-to-use tools meant to bring out the magic in everyone. \u2014 Michelle Lee, PEOPLE.com , 17 May 2022",
"Multi-colored gems glitter with many of the jewels in the collection. \u2014 Anthony Demarco, Forbes , 17 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-201940"
},
"gloaming":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": twilight , dusk"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u014d-mi\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"blackness",
"candlelight",
"dark",
"darkness",
"dusk",
"gloom",
"murk",
"night",
"semidarkness",
"shade",
"shadows",
"twilight",
"umbra"
],
"antonyms":[
"blaze",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"day",
"daylight",
"glare",
"glow",
"light",
"lightness"
],
"examples":[
"lovers would often retreat to the gloaming of the park's many secluded recesses to steal a kiss",
"with the gloaming came the familiar call of the whip-poor-will",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The game down on the field seems to be played in the gloaming . \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Tony Kemp hit an eighth-inning, two-run homer in the gloaming at the Oakland Coliseum Sunday to give the A\u2019s a 3-1 win over the Yankees in a game that might wind up being the biggest win of the season for the A\u2019s. \u2014 Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle , 29 Aug. 2021",
"The bar shares an appetizer menu with the restaurant; in the gloaming , the seafood towers sparkle. \u2014 The New Yorker , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Queens in the gloaming , the sky a smear of pinks and purples. \u2014 Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker , 25 Nov. 2020",
"There were sourdough waffles to start the day and tuna sandwiches for lunch, a few hours of everyone reading novels in separate corners before a long solitary walk in the gloaming , accompanied by gloved waves across generally empty streets. \u2014 Sam Sifton, New York Times , 30 Mar. 2020",
"Ivanka Trump tweeted the hashtag #TogetherApart with a photo \u2014 apparently years-old \u2014 of herself playing with her children in some kind of indoor fort, in the gloaming of some plush parlor. \u2014 Dan Zak, Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2020",
"For now, Nadal has a 24-15 edge in head-to-head matches, and Federer has a 2-1 edge at Wimbledon, having defeated Nadal in the 2006 and 2007 finals before losing in the gloaming in 2008. \u2014 Christopher Clarey, New York Times , 10 July 2019",
"Now, in the gloaming of Friday evening, the Northern Irishman was inching towards the cut mark, one nail-biting, stomach-churning birdie at a time. \u2014 Rob Hodgetts, CNN , 19 July 2019"
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"A glob of ice cream was stuck to his mustache.",
"found a glob of chewing gum under my theater seat",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Documented in a video on Instagram, Johnson keeps his eyes closed while his daughter stands in front of him holding a piece of tinfoil with a glob of peanut butter in the center. \u2014 Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com , 6 Feb. 2022",
"So although in most pictures the Great Red Spot looks like a glob of marinara, in natural color the giant storm is more of a dusty rose. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 3 Feb. 2022",
"In the clip, Johnson keeps his eyes closed while his daughter stands in front of him holding a piece of tinfoil with a glob of peanut butter in the center. \u2014 Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com , 24 Jan. 2022",
"The Steelers are like a glob of gum on the bottom of your shoe. \u2014 Terry Pluto, cleveland , 18 Dec. 2021",
"That glob gets passed to elf No. 2 who, with a rolling pin, flattens it into a kind of sheet. \u2014 Bernhard Warner, Fortune , 16 Dec. 2021",
"In the case of mRNA vaccines (including the ones currently being used against COVID-19), the mRNA is coated in a wee glob of fat called a lipid nanoparticle. \u2014 Sam Jones, Scientific American , 16 Nov. 2021",
"For one, period clots can happen during that lovely time of the month, and the jelly-like glob doesn\u2019t usually come out in a tidy little splash. \u2014 Korin Miller, SELF , 6 Oct. 2021",
"The defender\u2019s eyes flutter close contentedly as Alicia Valdez winds three strands of his hair together, balancing a glob of Shine \u2018n Jam gel on her wrist and a metal pick in her palm. \u2014 Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com , 1 Aug. 2021"
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"Noun",
"She has a globe in her office.",
"His fame has spread around the globe .",
"The tree was decorated with colorful glass globes .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Gas prices are skyrocketing across the globe , and so are food prices. \u2014 Frida Ghitis, CNN , 3 June 2022",
"In its largest gift for international financial aid in university history, alumni Aysha and Omar Shoman donated $25 million to Brown to help the school expand its ability to educate students from all socioeconomic groups across the globe . \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 3 June 2022",
"Green Philosophy works with Trees for the Future, a nonprofit that supports farmers across the globe in their efforts to plant trees and regenerate their farmland. \u2014 Wendy Altschuler, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"It will be delivered in partnership with USA Track & Field and host approximately 2,000 of the best runners, throwers, and jumpers from more than 200 nations across the globe . \u2014 oregonlive , 3 June 2022",
"The three ensuing months have not brought peace, and Russian athletes have been largely absent from major competitions across the globe . \u2014 Eddie Pells, ajc , 2 June 2022",
"Klein would similarly open his heart and his lens to streets and their inhabitants across the globe . \u2014 Vogue , 2 June 2022",
"Through his work, Toth aims to raise a nation\u2019s conscience to the plight of Indigenous peoples across the globe . \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 2 June 2022",
"Taravella said that roughly three-quarters of a million people are facing starvation in just five nations across the globe , including Ethiopia, Yemen, South Sudan, Afghanistan and Somalia. \u2014 Caitlin Mcfall, Fox News , 2 June 2022"
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": a tiny globe or ball especially of a liquid",
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"fat globules of hot wax dripping onto the table",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Through their research over the past few years, Aiden and his colleagues have discovered that at the level of a megabase\u20141 million base pairs\u2014the human genome has wrapped itself into a structure known as a fractal globule . \u2014 Katherine Harmon, Scientific American , 2 Dec. 2011",
"There\u2019s also some promising research about the benefits of a compound called the milk-fat globule membrane, which is intact in cheese but not in milk or butter. \u2014 Gilad Edelman, Wired , 22 Feb. 2021",
"After mixing alcohol and aloe vera gel in a bowl, the mix created weird globules , and the gel began to separate and sink to the bottom. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Apr. 2020",
"While compelling evidence on the benefits of additives like prebiotics and probiotics is lacking, one exception is milk fat globule membrane (MFGM), a protein present in breastmilk that contains several important biologically active factors. \u2014 Susan Reslewic Keatley, New York Times , 18 Apr. 2020",
"But after examining the globules with a host of new technologies, including DNA analysis and micro-sized arenas to observe the small, squishy blobs in three dimensions, the team revealed a more surprising origin. \u2014 Cheryl Ames, National Geographic , 13 Feb. 2020",
"But when heat is introduced, the protein structure falls apart and the emulsion breaks\u2014the fat globules come together into a greasy pool and the proteins congeal to form a stringy mess. \u2014 Sarah Jampel, Bon App\u00e9tit , 28 Jan. 2020",
"Cows' milk, for example, has much larger fat globules than human milk and would have been more difficult for infants to digest. \u2014 Megan Gannon, National Geographic , 25 Sep. 2019",
"In the 1990s Gilbert and George went through a phase of depicting themselves naked, surrounded by magnified turds and giant globules of their own semen and urine. \u2014 The Economist , 15 Nov. 2019"
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"the manager glommed the shoplifter just as she was about to bolt out of the store",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Most studies measure how well a COVID vaccine triggers the production of neutralizing antibodies, which glom onto the COVID-causing coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and keep it from getting into cells. \u2014 Esther Landhuis, Scientific American , 28 Apr. 2022",
"Along with other waste, those oils glom into fatbergs, giant greasy masses that clog sewer systems and lead to overflows and contamination. \u2014 Sarah Jampel, Bon App\u00e9tit , 7 Apr. 2022",
"Those looking for something more to worry about found any number of wild claims to glom on to. \u2014 ELLE , 4 Apr. 2022",
"It is all meant to be a very gregarious experience with food that just about everybody can glom onto with enormous pleasure and leave happy. \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 30 Sep. 2021",
"Not every show of authenticity is an invitation to glom on. \u2014 Bradley Akubuiro, Forbes , 4 Oct. 2021",
"Companies have had a long history of modifying their names to glom onto the latest investment craze, even when their actual operations had little to do with the re-brand. \u2014 John Detrixhe, Quartz , 5 Aug. 2021",
"Braun plays Derrek as a version of Cousin Greg without the rich family to glom onto \u2014 an embodiment of cuckolded, ineffectual frustration. \u2014 Alison Willmore, Vulture , 30 June 2021",
"The reinforcements glom together into a clot that staunches the flow. \u2014 Megan Molteni, STAT , 24 Apr. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Our imperviousness to gloom is our own peculiar virtue. \u2014 Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Their allusion to the night refers not to gloom but to evening intimacies, the pianist and scholar Kenneth Hamilton said in an interview. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Aug. 2021",
"The more doom and gloom the policy makers incorporate into their scenarios before setting market prices and rules, the safer the grid can be. \u2014 Jinjoo Lee, WSJ , 26 Feb. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Although its source is different, the gloom on Wall Street is mirroring a sense of exasperation across the country. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 21 May 2022",
"And worries about China\u2019s economy, the world\u2019s second largest, have added to the gloom . \u2014 Alex Veiga, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"Although its source is different, the gloom on Wall Street is mirroring a sense of exasperation across country. \u2014 Damian J. Troise And Stan Choe, Anchorage Daily News , 20 May 2022",
"And worries about China's economy, the world's second largest, have added to the gloom . \u2014 CBS News , 20 May 2022",
"Adding to that gloom was a report Thursday that jobless claims nationally climbed nearly 11%. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 19 May 2022",
"And worries about China\u2019s economy, the world\u2019s second largest, have added to the gloom . \u2014 Stan Choe And Alex Veiga, Chicago Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"And yet, amid the gloom , a promising plot creeps into view. \u2014 The New Yorker , 25 Feb. 2022",
"The Georgia data contradicts the prevailing gloom on Wall Street, where stocks have sunk beneath a wave of fears about high gas prices, rising interest rates and inflation. \u2014 Michael E. Kanell, ajc , 19 May 2022"
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"type":[
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": partially or totally dark",
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"examples":[
"We've had a week of gloomy weather.",
"The news continues to be gloomy .",
"She doesn't agree with their gloomy economic forecasts.",
"His book paints a gloomy picture of the prospects for peace.",
"I've never seen you looking so gloomy .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Conrad had a harrowing relationship with his gloomy and guilt-ridden father who exercised a profound effect on his life. \u2014 Jeffrey Meyers, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"Rows of boats set a backdrop on the gloomy and overcast Friday afternoon as club members eagerly awaited the ceremony at Belle Isle. \u2014 Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Friedman sets the scene by reminding us that starting well before 1973, Cohen had a reputation for being gloomy and restless, prone to depression and drugs, and whether high or sober a seductive charmer of women. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
"All the records that came out at that time were very gloomy and sad, because everyone had Covid depression. \u2014 Katie Bain, Billboard , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Whew, that is all a notably gloomy and rather sad state of affairs. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Instead of feeling gloomy and oppressing, this bathroom color trend can help achieve a sophisticated, modern vibe or envelop the space in a cozy feel. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 12 Jan. 2022",
"The gloomy atmosphere in those three films connects social decay and female exploitation to assassination terror and distrust in institutions (the government). \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 1 June 2022",
"That rigidity by most Republicans for the past decade has contributed to a sense of gloomy inevitability among Democrats in Congress and at the White House. \u2014 Michael D. Shear, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022"
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": to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration",
": to elevate to celestial glory",
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": to cause to be or seem to be better than the actual condition",
": to give glory to (as in worship)",
": to honor or praise as divine",
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"examples":[
"Glorify and give thanks to God.",
"a number of big names were recruited in the hopes that their presence would glorify the university's school of medicine in the eyes of the medical world",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Please don\u2019t glorify a homeless vagrant who has nowhere to go. \u2014 Dan Koeppel, Outside Online , 5 Sep. 2019",
"Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to use Monday\u2019s Victory Day commemorations to somehow glorify , or at least rebrand, his army\u2019s 10-week-old invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Laura King, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2022",
"After decades of amassing vintage glass elements from around the world, Weathers formed Pontiel in 2019 as a creative avenue to glorify the glass in her collection. \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"But the larger question is whether entertainment productions glorify violence and romanticize drug lords. \u2014 Karol Su\u00e1rez, The Courier-Journal , 1 Dec. 2021",
"The point, as Marx spotted, is not to actually make the old spirits rise again, but to use their memory to glorify the new struggle, magnifying the task in the public imagination. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022",
"But the larger question is whether entertainment productions glorify violence and romanticize drug lords. \u2014 Karol Su\u00e1rez, The Courier-Journal , 1 Dec. 2021",
"The palace\u2019s close association with the last members of Russia\u2019s ruling monarchy presented a dilemma for Soviet-era leaders, who did not want to glorify a past that had been so violently rejected. \u2014 Norman Vanamee, Town & Country , 9 Feb. 2022",
"That angle marks a change of pace from earlier tech biopics like The Social Network and Steve Jobs, which sought to humanize and glorify its subjects while also acknowledging their colder, more callous tendencies. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Feb. 2022"
],
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"He had a long and glorious military career.",
"The old ruins give only a hint of the city's glorious past.",
"The government has described the battle as a glorious victory.",
"Our room had a glorious view of the mountains.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Voyager spacecraft have reached interstellar space, and their journey has been glorious . \u2014 Laura Helmuth, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"The precedent for going in the other direction is not glorious . \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Erskine and Konkle play 13-year-old versions of themselves while the rest of their classmates are portrayed by actual kids, leading to some of the cringiest and most glorious comedic moments on television since the show premiered in 2019. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The movie\u2019s essential hollowness is all the more dismaying for its absurdly glorious moments of pop-iconic grandeur\u2014most of them sharpened by Gaga\u2019s screen-commanding gestures. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Tucking into a 4th of July feast will be all the more glorious with these adorable silverware sets. \u2014 Charlyne Mattox, Country Living , 6 June 2022",
"What is glorious about the mass murder and mass rape committed by Russian forces against the Ukrainian people? \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 2 June 2022",
"What could be more glorious in Chicago than that first burst of heat, chasing away winter blues with a shock of sunlight and sprouts shooting up out of nowhere? \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune , 18 May 2022",
"Psychologist Drake points out that the pandemic sent droves of us to the arts as a kind of soothing balm\u2014owing in large part to the ability to view, share, and participate in it for free via the glorious and terrible internet. \u2014 Maggie Hennessy, Bon App\u00e9tit , 16 May 2022"
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"He had a long and glorious military career.",
"The old ruins give only a hint of the city's glorious past.",
"The government has described the battle as a glorious victory.",
"Our room had a glorious view of the mountains.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Voyager spacecraft have reached interstellar space, and their journey has been glorious . \u2014 Laura Helmuth, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"The precedent for going in the other direction is not glorious . \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Erskine and Konkle play 13-year-old versions of themselves while the rest of their classmates are portrayed by actual kids, leading to some of the cringiest and most glorious comedic moments on television since the show premiered in 2019. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The movie\u2019s essential hollowness is all the more dismaying for its absurdly glorious moments of pop-iconic grandeur\u2014most of them sharpened by Gaga\u2019s screen-commanding gestures. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Tucking into a 4th of July feast will be all the more glorious with these adorable silverware sets. \u2014 Charlyne Mattox, Country Living , 6 June 2022",
"What is glorious about the mass murder and mass rape committed by Russian forces against the Ukrainian people? \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 2 June 2022",
"What could be more glorious in Chicago than that first burst of heat, chasing away winter blues with a shock of sunlight and sprouts shooting up out of nowhere? \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune , 18 May 2022",
"Psychologist Drake points out that the pandemic sent droves of us to the arts as a kind of soothing balm\u2014owing in large part to the ability to view, share, and participate in it for free via the glorious and terrible internet. \u2014 Maggie Hennessy, Bon App\u00e9tit , 16 May 2022"
],
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],
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": worshipful praise, honor, and thanksgiving",
": something that secures praise or renown",
": a distinguished quality or asset",
": a state of great gratification or exaltation",
": a height of prosperity or achievement",
": great beauty and splendor : magnificence",
": something marked by beauty or resplendence",
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": eternity",
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": praise, honor, and admiration given to a person",
": something that brings honor, praise, or fame",
": brilliance , splendor",
": to rejoice proudly"
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"\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113",
"\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113"
],
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"acclaim",
"accolade",
"applause",
"bay(s)",
"credit",
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"homage",
"honor",
"kudos",
"laud",
"laurels",
"props",
"r\u00e9clame",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The first episode picks up with the once dominant gaming collective Fugitive trying to recapture their glory days by winning an elusive League of Legends championship. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"The Old Canteen doesn\u2019t yet have any serious bids, but its glory days lasted for decades, and the restaurant played an essential role in the development of Federal Hill. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"Our Hollywood Bowl should take its bow for all its glory days. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"First-year coach Todd Golden\u2019s embrace of the program\u2019s past success led him to hire Green, who will serve as the new director of player development and a bridge to the Gators\u2019 glory days. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel , 8 June 2022",
"In the glory days of trade unionism in the 1960s and 1970s, the labor situation periodically turned nasty, and there was rock-throwing violence. \u2014 Matt Durot, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
"With the Hogs\u2019 success in the portal, expectations for Razorback basketball haven\u2019t been this high since the Nolan Richardson glory days. \u2014 Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online , 26 May 2022",
"It\u2019s always Throwback Thursday in the dining room, which gathers food enthusiasts, many of whose history with Donna dates to his glory days at Galileo in Washington, and servers who know the audience from way back then. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Schmaltz and shtick are a familiar combination since time immemorial, or at least the glory days of Neil Simon. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"If Harris can bring together a family with Indian, African, and Jewish heritage, America can glory in its diversity. \u2014 Fintan O\u2019toole, The New York Review of Books , 26 Aug. 2020",
"For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hub IN THE 17TH CENTURY parliaments gloried in names such as the Blessed Parliament, the Addled Parliament, the Happy Parliament and the Useless Parliament. \u2014 The Economist , 25 Apr. 2020",
"The best way to remember Jones is by going to the Python movies and TV episodes and glorying in that great gift of laughter. \u2014 Mark Dawidziak, cleveland , 25 Jan. 2020",
"Fleabag of old would\u2019ve gloried in sharing this carnal victory with the camera. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 14 Dec. 2019",
"Unlike the 2000s movies, which gloried in their goofery, Banks\u2019 film clearly wants to break new ground for the franchise. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 19 Nov. 2019",
"Mark just tells them about Tyler, the second of his three sons who all had a chance to play every position in every sport but gravitated to the glamour position in the country\u2019s most gloried game. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Aug. 2019",
"And her face at the climax, the play of emotions as the plot machinery reaches its inevitable terminus, rivals the Satanists\u2019 glorying at the infernal infant at the end of Rosemary\u2019s Baby as the most sinister possible expression of delight. \u2014 Ross Douthat, National Review , 25 July 2019",
"As night fell, reporters at The New York Times gloried in the steady illumination thrown off by Thomas Edison\u2019s electric lamps. \u2014 New York Times , 1 July 2019"
],
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},
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"interjection",
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": praise, honor, or distinction extended by common consent : renown",
": worshipful praise, honor, and thanksgiving",
": something that secures praise or renown",
": a distinguished quality or asset",
": a state of great gratification or exaltation",
": a height of prosperity or achievement",
": great beauty and splendor : magnificence",
": something marked by beauty or resplendence",
": the splendor and beatific happiness of heaven",
": eternity",
": a ring or spot of light: such as",
": aureole",
": a halo appearing around the shadow of an object",
": to rejoice proudly",
": praise, honor, and admiration given to a person",
": something that brings honor, praise, or fame",
": brilliance , splendor",
": to rejoice proudly"
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"\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113"
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"acclaim",
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"bay(s)",
"credit",
"distinction",
"homage",
"honor",
"kudos",
"laud",
"laurels",
"props",
"r\u00e9clame",
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"exuberate",
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"kvell",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The first episode picks up with the once dominant gaming collective Fugitive trying to recapture their glory days by winning an elusive League of Legends championship. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"The Old Canteen doesn\u2019t yet have any serious bids, but its glory days lasted for decades, and the restaurant played an essential role in the development of Federal Hill. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"Our Hollywood Bowl should take its bow for all its glory days. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"First-year coach Todd Golden\u2019s embrace of the program\u2019s past success led him to hire Green, who will serve as the new director of player development and a bridge to the Gators\u2019 glory days. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel , 8 June 2022",
"In the glory days of trade unionism in the 1960s and 1970s, the labor situation periodically turned nasty, and there was rock-throwing violence. \u2014 Matt Durot, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
"With the Hogs\u2019 success in the portal, expectations for Razorback basketball haven\u2019t been this high since the Nolan Richardson glory days. \u2014 Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online , 26 May 2022",
"It\u2019s always Throwback Thursday in the dining room, which gathers food enthusiasts, many of whose history with Donna dates to his glory days at Galileo in Washington, and servers who know the audience from way back then. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Schmaltz and shtick are a familiar combination since time immemorial, or at least the glory days of Neil Simon. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"If Harris can bring together a family with Indian, African, and Jewish heritage, America can glory in its diversity. \u2014 Fintan O\u2019toole, The New York Review of Books , 26 Aug. 2020",
"For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hub IN THE 17TH CENTURY parliaments gloried in names such as the Blessed Parliament, the Addled Parliament, the Happy Parliament and the Useless Parliament. \u2014 The Economist , 25 Apr. 2020",
"The best way to remember Jones is by going to the Python movies and TV episodes and glorying in that great gift of laughter. \u2014 Mark Dawidziak, cleveland , 25 Jan. 2020",
"Fleabag of old would\u2019ve gloried in sharing this carnal victory with the camera. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 14 Dec. 2019",
"Unlike the 2000s movies, which gloried in their goofery, Banks\u2019 film clearly wants to break new ground for the franchise. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 19 Nov. 2019",
"Mark just tells them about Tyler, the second of his three sons who all had a chance to play every position in every sport but gravitated to the glamour position in the country\u2019s most gloried game. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Aug. 2019",
"And her face at the climax, the play of emotions as the plot machinery reaches its inevitable terminus, rivals the Satanists\u2019 glorying at the infernal infant at the end of Rosemary\u2019s Baby as the most sinister possible expression of delight. \u2014 Ross Douthat, National Review , 25 July 2019",
"As night fell, reporters at The New York Times gloried in the steady illumination thrown off by Thomas Edison\u2019s electric lamps. \u2014 New York Times , 1 July 2019"
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"verb ()"
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": a deceptively attractive appearance",
": bright often superficial attractiveness",
": a transparent cosmetic preparation for adding shine and usually color to the lips",
": to mask the true nature of : give a deceptively attractive appearance to",
": to deal with (a subject or problem) too lightly or not at all",
": to give a gloss to",
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"\u02c8gl\u022fs",
"\u02c8gl\u00e4s",
"\u02c8gl\u022fs"
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"window dressing"
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"noun",
"verb"
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": to shine with or as if with an intense heat",
": to have a rich warm typically ruddy color",
": flush , blush",
": to experience a sensation of or as if of heat",
": to show exuberance or elation",
": brightness or warmth of color",
": redness",
": warmth of feeling or emotion",
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": the state of glowing with heat and light",
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": to shine with or as if with great heat",
": to shine with steady light",
": to have a warm reddish color (as from exercise)",
": to look happy, excited, or healthy",
": light such as comes from something that is very hot but not flaming",
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"\u02c8gl\u014d"
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"light",
"luminescence",
"radiance",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The two-story restaurant, with a charming covered patio and tables in a shed on the street, has never looked fresher and better, with flattering lighting set above the tables, making the whitewashed walls glow . \u2014 John Mariani, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"As Rihanna's longtime MUA, Ono also serves as the Global Makeup Artist for Fenty Beauty and has mastered Rih's Bad Gal glow thanks to exfoliation and some TLC. \u2014 Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour , 2 June 2022",
"Here, within the frontal red field, his reimagined and resurrected paintings and sculptures, interrelating, blossom and glow . \u2014 Lance Esplund, WSJ , 21 May 2022",
"The cloud of black smoke that engulfed Cap-Fran\u00e7ais made the sky glow after sunset like the northern aurora, one French surgeon recounted. \u2014 New York Times , 20 May 2022",
"This lightweight, gentle eye cream is infused with enriching antioxidants like vitamin C to brighten the under-eye area and add radiance and glow . \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 May 2022",
"Barebones Living adds a bit of vintage panache to its Forest Lantern with a durable, stamped steel exterior, traditional wire cage, and soft ambient lantern glow . \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 13 May 2022",
"The actress was seen on a walk with Jackson around Los Angeles wearing a skin-tight dress and her pregnancy glow on display. \u2014 Stephanie Kaloi, PEOPLE.com , 13 May 2022",
"Shortly after that discovery, the Swift Observatory captured the galaxy\u2019s glow in x-rays and ultraviolet light. \u2014 Joshua Hawkins, BGR , 10 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"McGrath recommends adding her iconically brilliant highlighter to take your glow to the next level. \u2014 Emerald Elitou, Essence , 6 June 2022",
"But their celebrity glow was more a hindrance than a help to Primorac. \u2014 Leah Dolan, CNN , 28 May 2022",
"Katie Holmes has brought her new-relationship glow to the red carpet. \u2014 Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR , 27 May 2022",
"Wear your best glow wear to this rave space lit by black lights and lasers. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 26 May 2022",
"For the vacuum-tube topology, one 12AT7 tube and a 12AX7 tube are assigned to the left and right audio channels, their green glow visible through a window on the black glass front panel. \u2014 Robert Ross, Robb Report , 24 May 2022",
"This all-natural cleanser also includes pomegranate seed oil, the key to your healthiest glow ever. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 12 May 2022",
"Pick up a trio of face mists on Ulta and get your glow on this summer. \u2014 Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com , 8 May 2022",
"Jodie Turner-Smith shows skincare is in with her natural glow . \u2014 ELLE , 3 May 2022"
],
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a",
"Noun",
"1600, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-210540"
},
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"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger",
": a sullen brooding look of annoyance or anger",
": to stare angrily : scowl"
],
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"\u02c8glau\u0307(-\u0259)r",
"nonstandard",
"\u02c8glau\u0307-\u0259r"
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"smile"
],
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"Verb",
"The librarian glowered at us when she heard us laughing.",
"baseball fans glowering at their TVs as they watched their favorite team lose",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Indeed, there\u2019s some teenage angst visible in Altu \u2014 on the website, the models glower while slouching in suburban bedrooms and on streets \u2014 but there is also a knowing confidence. \u2014 Diana Tsui, New York Times , 4 Jan. 2022",
"Glowing red eyes glower from beneath a spiked mask of deep aubergine, a lethal spike slicing up from the snout like a gargantuan Japanese horned beetle. \u2014 Seija Rankin, EW.com , 18 June 2020",
"The actor has displayed a surprising comic flair on numerous occasions, but his glum, glowering performance here leaves a central void. \u2014 Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 Apr. 2020",
"Finally, the waiter, a big man with burly arms and a white apron, leaned over the counter and, propped up on his knuckles, glowered at the young man. \u2014 Azi Paybarah, New York Times , 25 Mar. 2020",
"And even when von Sydow glowered , as many of his roles required him to do, the expansiveness of his spirit always showed through. \u2014 Stephanie Zacharek, Time , 9 Mar. 2020",
"Meanwhile, friends stopped calling; wives accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle glowered and complained; children shrank away in confusion. \u2014 Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books , 10 Mar. 2020",
"Meanwhile, our critical eyes see the front end as assertive but not glowering madly. \u2014 Jim Resnick, Ars Technica , 25 Feb. 2020",
"And Prospera \u2014 the magician is now a woman, played in monotonously glowering style by Synetic co-founder Irina Tsikurishvili \u2014 eventually lets her enchanted volume sink into the deluge. \u2014 Celia Wren, Washington Post , 8 Oct. 2019",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Is that what my coworkers used to stare at every day in real life \u2014 a pinched, ferocious glower ? \u2014 Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com , 26 Apr. 2022",
"Isabelle Fuhrman infuses Dall with an ambiguous glower of ambition that\u2019s scary and human. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 16 Dec. 2021",
"The standout action sequence takes place at an underworld social club where all the gangsters wear crisp black suits and glower in front of white rice-paper walls that double as panels in a comic book. \u2014 Amy Nicholson, Variety , 3 Sep. 2021",
"The next great glower won\u2019t be found unless someone is willing to look. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 24 Aug. 2021",
"The husband and father, Markus, is played by the great Mads Mikkelsen, barely recognizable behind a graying beard and lethal glower . \u2014 Joe Morgenstern, WSJ , 13 May 2021",
"The glower Gregg Popovich gave him could have melted butter in a Minnesota winter. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 29 Apr. 2021",
"The shooting, with Oswald\u2019s pained grimace and Mr. Leavelle\u2019s stricken glower , was chillingly captured by Robert H. Jackson of The Dallas Times Herald in an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year. \u2014 Ralph Blumenthal, BostonGlobe.com , 30 Aug. 2019",
"The shooting, with Mr. Oswald\u2019s pained grimace and Detective Leavelle\u2019s stricken glower , was chillingly captured by Robert H. Jackson of The Dallas Times Herald in an iconic photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Aug. 2019"
],
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],
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},
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"adverb"
],
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": producing light",
": shining with or as if with warmth or heat",
": marked by a rich, warm coloration",
": radiantly healthful",
": highly enthusiastic and favorable"
],
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},
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
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": broodingly morose",
": dreary , gloomy",
": gloomy and sad"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u0259m",
"\u02c8gl\u0259m"
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"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
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"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
],
"examples":[
"There's no need to look so glum \u2014things will get better soon.",
"There was a glum silence in the room.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The glum attitude about the state\u2019s direction was shared, to varying degrees, by California voters of nearly every age group, ethnicity and political stripe. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Voters in the state also remain glum about the country\u2019s future. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"As before, during a gloomy period for a glum population, screwball might just save our sanity. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Those nights out were alternately riveting and glum , and always experienced at a little remove. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Dec. 2021",
"There is some good news, however: despite glum consumer sentiment toward the economy, numbers thus far indicate Americans are holiday shopping anyway. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 21 Nov. 2021",
"That film has been regarded as a fairly glum record of the tensions that culminated in the band breaking up. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Not wanting to further be glum , but there is a similar chance of doing the same kind of mass takeover for cars that are not self-driving cars. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
"But as the latest coronavirus surge has led employers to delay return-to-office plans, that larger group is growing increasingly glum . \u2014 New York Times , 23 Aug. 2021"
],
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": an ornamental vertical groove especially in a Doric frieze",
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"a rock inscribed with mysterious glyphs that some have speculated as being of Norse origin",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Amid rubble buried beneath a Maya pyramid in Northern Guatemala, archaeologists found a broken bit of plaster with a glyph painted on it. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 15 Apr. 2022",
"On the back is an engraving of the sign's universal glyph , housed by its elemental symbol. \u2014 Joseph Deacetis, Forbes , 7 Dec. 2021",
"The glyph has been interpreted a number of ways, including a composite map of space and a numerical calendar, a planting guide, a map of travels and a story about a great leader. \u2014 Leah Hogsten, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 Mar. 2021",
"Perhaps this was the most integral factor to piggybacking an entire legalization movement off a lowly, three-number glyph , affording enthusiasts a specific time to meetup, and potentially organize. \u2014 Zoe Wilder, Rolling Stone , 19 Apr. 2021",
"The Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah believes the glyph depicts the story of a migration where many people experienced famine, drought, water crossings, cold, ice and hot sun and of a great Leader. \u2014 Leah Hogsten, The Salt Lake Tribune , 27 Mar. 2021",
"But the rest of the glyph \u2019s anatomy was more mysterious, reports Hannah Osborne for Newsweek. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine , 19 Mar. 2020",
"Your glyph on a colored background is about to get some serious visual competition. \u2014 Adam Lashinsky, Fortune , 6 July 2020",
"For the time being, the researchers remain unsure as to why the creature would have been deemed important enough to record in a glyph . \u2014 Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics , 18 Mar. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Greek glyph\u0113 carved work, from glyphein to carve \u2014 more at cleave ",
"first_known_use":[
"1775, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220623-195055"
},
"glee":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": exultant high-spirited joy : merriment",
": a part-song for usually male voices",
": great joy : delight"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u0113",
"\u02c8gl\u0113"
],
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"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
"merriment",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"They were dancing with glee .",
"He could hardly contain his glee over his victory.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some Russian officials and gas executives have barely hidden their glee . \u2014 New York Times , 16 June 2022",
"Jeanine Robbins, member of a homeless advocacy group that unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit to stop the Angel Stadium sale, could barely contain her glee . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 May 2022",
"And hence the panic in the Democratic Party (and glee in the Republican) that voters will hold Democrats accountable for rising prices in the fall midterms. \u2014 Zachary Karabell, Time , 13 May 2022",
"Williams watched in glee as North Carolina stunned Duke in the Final Four on Saturday, the last game of Mike Krzyzewski's career as the Blue Devils' head coach. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Recently, a small ripple ran through social media when a series of posters for The Northman materialized in New York City subways with the title missing, a printing error that the internet reacted to with predictable glee . \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 11 Apr. 2022",
"With a majority hardly imaginable in any Western country, Fidesz dominated the Hungarian National Assembly and started to change the system with a cunning glee . \u2014 Zsuzsanna Szel\u00e9nyi, The New Republic , 5 Apr. 2022",
"At the Proms in 1968, the audience responded with visceral glee . \u2014 Alex Ross, The New Yorker , 24 Mar. 2022",
"Expressing a sort of glee about a player being poor, hungry and desperate is quite the take. \u2014 Mike Freeman, USA TODAY , 2 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Old English gl\u0113o entertainment, music; akin to Old Norse gl\u0233 joy, and perhaps to Greek chleu\u0113 joke",
"first_known_use":[
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-220900"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness",
": alluring or fascinating attraction",
": a magic spell",
": romantic, exciting, and often misleading attractiveness"
],
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"\u02c8gla-m\u0259r",
"\u02c8gla-m\u0259r"
],
"synonyms":[
"abracadabra",
"bewitchment",
"charm",
"conjuration",
"enchantment",
"hex",
"incantation",
"invocation",
"spell",
"whammy"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"She left her hometown, attracted to the glamour of the big city.",
"an acting career filled with glitz and glamour",
"the glamour of the movie business",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"On the one hand was the glittering glamour and idealized Camelot of it all. \u2014 Anna Pitoniak, Washington Post , 13 June 2022",
"There were men who channeled Michael Jackson (with fringed epaulets) and Elvis (in a high-collared, low-cut shirt) \u2014 bringing enough glitz, glamour and intricate embroidery to occupy several Broadway costume designers. \u2014 New York Times , 13 June 2022",
"With a high slit, sheer wrist-length gloves, a lengthy train, and a minimalist veil, the star's most recent wedding gown was nothing but an ode to glamour and elegance. \u2014 Ana Escalante, Glamour , 10 June 2022",
"The world is thick with commentators who are indistinguishable, in their pretensions to glamour and wisdom, from the political knaves that inspire their furious discourse. \u2014 Dave Shiflett, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
"But, unlike fashion week that\u2019s got glamour and inspiration, asparagus seems boxed in. \u2014 Christian Reynoso, San Francisco Chronicle , 27 May 2022",
"Such is the juxtaposition of Cannes \u2014 breezy glamour and intense stress \u2014 that has been on full display during the fest\u2019s 75th edition. \u2014 Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter , 23 May 2022",
"Along similar lines, a red carpet that has long been a symbol of glamour and tradition has, in recent years, become a #MeToo battleground \u2014 a place for women filmmakers to protest their lack of inclusion (and the sexism of Cannes fashion protocols). \u2014 Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times , 22 May 2022",
"Pallas tuxedo, worn at the premiere of 2014\u2019s Saint Laurent biopic with a freshly platinum dye job?\u2014while hair and makeup have trod a similarly versatile line between glamour and ease. \u2014 Calin Van Paris, Vogue , 16 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"from Scots glamer, glamour, by dissimilation from grammar grammar in sense \"learning, erudition,\" popularly associated with occult practices",
"first_known_use":[
"1715, in the meaning defined at sense 2"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-222238"
},
"glistening":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": shining with reflected light"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gli-s\u1d4an-i\u014b"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220624-223447"
},
"gloominess":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": partially or totally dark",
": dismally and depressingly dark",
": having a frowning or scowling appearance : forbidding",
": low in spirits : melancholy",
": causing gloom : depressing",
": lacking in promise or hopefulness : pessimistic",
": partly or completely dark",
": sad sense 1 , blue",
": causing feelings of sadness",
": not hopeful or promising"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u00fc-m\u0113",
"\u02c8gl\u00fc-m\u0113"
],
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"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
],
"examples":[
"We've had a week of gloomy weather.",
"The news continues to be gloomy .",
"She doesn't agree with their gloomy economic forecasts.",
"His book paints a gloomy picture of the prospects for peace.",
"I've never seen you looking so gloomy .",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Conrad had a harrowing relationship with his gloomy and guilt-ridden father who exercised a profound effect on his life. \u2014 Jeffrey Meyers, WSJ , 27 May 2022",
"Rows of boats set a backdrop on the gloomy and overcast Friday afternoon as club members eagerly awaited the ceremony at Belle Isle. \u2014 Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press , 23 Apr. 2022",
"Friedman sets the scene by reminding us that starting well before 1973, Cohen had a reputation for being gloomy and restless, prone to depression and drugs, and whether high or sober a seductive charmer of women. \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Apr. 2022",
"All the records that came out at that time were very gloomy and sad, because everyone had Covid depression. \u2014 Katie Bain, Billboard , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Whew, that is all a notably gloomy and rather sad state of affairs. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 7 Mar. 2022",
"Instead of feeling gloomy and oppressing, this bathroom color trend can help achieve a sophisticated, modern vibe or envelop the space in a cozy feel. \u2014 Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens , 12 Jan. 2022",
"The gloomy atmosphere in those three films connects social decay and female exploitation to assassination terror and distrust in institutions (the government). \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 1 June 2022",
"That rigidity by most Republicans for the past decade has contributed to a sense of gloomy inevitability among Democrats in Congress and at the White House. \u2014 Michael D. Shear, BostonGlobe.com , 28 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"see gloom entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-013240"
},
"glamorous":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": full of glamour : excitingly attractive",
": very exciting and attractive"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glam-r\u0259s",
"\u02c8gla-m\u0259-",
"\u02c8gla-m\u0259-r\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarro",
"exotic",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"outlandish",
"romantic",
"strange"
],
"antonyms":[
"familiar",
"nonexotic",
"nonglamorous",
"plain-Jane",
"unexotic",
"unglamorous",
"unromantic"
],
"examples":[
"She looked glamorous in her formal black gown.",
"She wore a glamorous black gown.",
"A private investigator's job isn't as glamorous as people think.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The setting is expectedly glamorous , with Vuitton taking over the terrace at the White 1921 Hotel. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
"My new life as a pop star certainly wasn\u2019t as glamorous as all my friends from home thought. \u2014 Anna Chan, Billboard , 19 May 2022",
"Many readers found Caity\u2019s self-deprecating tone in the article funny, and others commented that the van life wasn\u2019t supposed to be glamorous . \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2022",
"Alex is slowly losing his mind to Alzheimer\u2019s, which means retirement isn\u2019t likely to be so glamorous . \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In the grand ballroom, which overlooks the park, the drapery is now simpler but the massive chandeliers are still glamorous . \u2014 Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The menu is as glamorous as the view, with seafood towers, caviar grilled cheese sandwiches, and Wagyu katsu sandos. \u2014 William Li, Town & Country , 22 Apr. 2022",
"One of the lessons of this book, in fact, is that field research is not glamorous . \u2014 David James, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Apr. 2022",
"My mother was glamorous well into her 50s\u2014and unreachable the way famous people appear to be, at least for me. \u2014 Molly Jong-fast, The Atlantic , 23 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":" glamour + -ous ",
"first_known_use":[
"1861, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-190420"
},
"global":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": of, relating to, or involving the entire world : worldwide",
"\u2014 see also global village , global warming",
": of or relating to a spherical celestial body (such as the moon)",
": of, relating to, or applying to a whole (such as a mathematical function or a computer program) : universal",
": being particularly severe or encompassing in nature : having or exhibiting a broad or nearly complete effect",
": having the shape of a globe : spherical",
": in or having to do with the whole earth",
": shaped like a globe",
": having the shape of a globe",
": of, relating to, or involving the entire world",
": of, relating to, or involving the globe of the eye",
": being particularly severe or encompassing in nature : having or exhibiting a broad or nearly complete effect",
": being comprehensive, all-inclusive, or complete",
": of, relating to, or constituting an organic whole : organismic"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u014d-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8gl\u014d-b\u0259l",
"\u02c8gl\u014d-b\u0259l"
],
"synonyms":[
"across-the-board",
"blanket",
"broad-brush",
"common",
"general",
"generic",
"overall",
"universal"
],
"antonyms":[
"individual",
"particular"
],
"examples":[
"English is becoming a global language.",
"The program allows users to do global searches through all the available data.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But even as Russia\u2019s economy feels the pain, President Vladimir Putin continues to dictate global prices for energy and food. \u2014 Tristan Bove, Fortune , 18 June 2022",
"Still, experts and farmers are calling for more transparency on the market to avoid an unnecessary spike in global grain prices. \u2014 Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor , 16 June 2022",
"The war in Ukraine and the rise in global oil prices have only underscored oil-rich Saudi Arabia\u2019s geopolitical centrality. \u2014 Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post , 15 June 2022",
"Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has worsened global food and energy prices. \u2014 Anne D'innocenzio, Chicago Tribune , 15 June 2022",
"Those constraints have driven global oil prices higher. \u2014 oregonlive , 14 June 2022",
"Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February, global oil prices have skyrocketed. \u2014 Krutika Pathi, ajc , 12 June 2022",
"Experts note that global oil prices are rising largely because of the ongoing war in Ukraine. \u2014 Wyatte Grantham-philips, USA TODAY , 11 June 2022",
"It's noted that during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, global crude oil prices dropped into the negatives at one point, and American oil companies stopped drilling and laid off thousands of workers to staunch their bleeding profits. \u2014 Dan Carson, Chron , 9 June 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"see globe entry 1 ",
"first_known_use":[
"1637, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-193524"
},
"gloriously":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": possessing or deserving glory : illustrious",
": entitling one to glory",
": marked by great beauty or splendor : magnificent",
": delightful , wonderful",
": having or deserving praise or admiration",
": having great beauty or splendor",
": delightful"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259s",
"\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113-\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"august",
"baronial",
"epic",
"gallant",
"grand",
"grandiose",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Homeric",
"imperial",
"imposing",
"magnific",
"magnificent",
"majestic",
"massive",
"monumental",
"noble",
"proud",
"regal",
"royal",
"splendid",
"stately"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"unheroic",
"unimposing",
"unimpressive"
],
"examples":[
"He had a long and glorious military career.",
"The old ruins give only a hint of the city's glorious past.",
"The government has described the battle as a glorious victory.",
"Our room had a glorious view of the mountains.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The Voyager spacecraft have reached interstellar space, and their journey has been glorious . \u2014 Laura Helmuth, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"The precedent for going in the other direction is not glorious . \u2014 New York Times , 27 May 2022",
"Erskine and Konkle play 13-year-old versions of themselves while the rest of their classmates are portrayed by actual kids, leading to some of the cringiest and most glorious comedic moments on television since the show premiered in 2019. \u2014 Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com , 30 Nov. 2021",
"The movie\u2019s essential hollowness is all the more dismaying for its absurdly glorious moments of pop-iconic grandeur\u2014most of them sharpened by Gaga\u2019s screen-commanding gestures. \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Tucking into a 4th of July feast will be all the more glorious with these adorable silverware sets. \u2014 Charlyne Mattox, Country Living , 6 June 2022",
"What is glorious about the mass murder and mass rape committed by Russian forces against the Ukrainian people? \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 2 June 2022",
"What could be more glorious in Chicago than that first burst of heat, chasing away winter blues with a shock of sunlight and sprouts shooting up out of nowhere? \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune , 18 May 2022",
"Psychologist Drake points out that the pandemic sent droves of us to the arts as a kind of soothing balm\u2014owing in large part to the ability to view, share, and participate in it for free via the glorious and terrible internet. \u2014 Maggie Hennessy, Bon App\u00e9tit , 16 May 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French glorios , from Latin gloriosus glorious, vainglorious, from gloria ",
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220625-230959"
},
"glisten":{
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to give off a sparkling or lustrous reflection of or as if of a moist or polished surface",
": glitter , sparkle",
": to shine with a soft reflected light"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gli-s\u1d4an",
"\u02c8gli-s\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[
"coruscate",
"flame",
"flash",
"glance",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glister",
"glitter",
"luster",
"lustre",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"spangle",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"wink",
"winkle"
],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Verb",
"Rain made the streets glisten .",
"The streets glistened in the rain.",
"Her eyes glistened with tears.",
"a long beach of glistening sand",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Zellige tiles glisten in this small galley kitchen designed by Shapeless Studio. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 14 June 2022",
"The formula will keep you hydrated, while also providing shine to make your tats glisten in the sun. \u2014 ELLE , 1 June 2022",
"Floating in the lazy river-like current, swaths of tiny life forms glisten in the sunlight. Algae. \u2014 Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic , 19 May 2022",
"The finished rice should glisten red, each grain slicked with a touch of pork fat, but not be clumpy. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Truck nuts glisten off the back bumper, swinging low with challenging and poetic weight. \u2014 Kory Grow, Rolling Stone , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Rendered mostly in eddies of white and various blues, the semiabstract seascapes glisten with hard-edge acrylic pigments and shiny materials such as glass beads. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Feb. 2022",
"To make sure the seasoning sticks, heat the chips on a rimmed sheet pan in a 375-degree oven for 8-10 minutes until the oil in the chips starts to glisten . \u2014 Casey Barber, CNN , 9 Feb. 2022",
"In the foreground, the lights of Mill Avenue glisten bellow and the sunset reflects off Tempe Town Lake. \u2014 Tirion Morris, The Arizona Republic , 4 Feb. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Richie is almost back at the water fountain, eyes a- glisten with memory. \u2014 Danyel Smith, Los Angeles Times , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Orb spider webs glisten in tall grassy spots on dewy mornings. \u2014 Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune , 22 July 2021",
"But according to celebrity makeup artist Lisa Aharon-who works with actresses Zosia Mamet and Rachel Brosnahan-glittery, glisten -y formulas are the ones to stay away from. \u2014 Nikki Brown, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2021",
"The adornment was little, but there was character in Halston\u2019s swirling batik treatments or the aquatic glisten of an uncolored sequin paillette. \u2014 Lilah Ramzi, Vogue , 14 May 2021",
"In the clips, dark metallic polyhedrons rotate on loop and glisten \u2014a reference to Lemercier\u2019s installations in the physical world. \u2014 Gregory Barber, Wired , 6 Mar. 2021",
"Refined details began to emerge: the woman\u2019s warm skin tone, the glisten of her jewelry, the elegance of her lace collar. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine , 11 Feb. 2020",
"As the shoot moved to Gaye's backyard, a light snow began to fall, lending a peaceful glisten to the singer\u2019s black jacket. \u2014 Brian Mccollum, Freep.com , 12 July 2020",
"Magic is everywhere \u2014 not simply in the movie's narrative but in its design: drops of water glisten and sparkle, the sun breaks through the clouds with impossibly bright slivers of light, a prism of colors in brisk pinks, purples, and blues. \u2014 Maya Phillips, TheWeek , 22 Jan. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Verb and Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Verb",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above",
"Noun",
"1840, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220626-133624"
},
"glamourous":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": full of glamour : excitingly attractive",
": very exciting and attractive"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glam-r\u0259s",
"\u02c8gla-m\u0259-",
"\u02c8gla-m\u0259-r\u0259s"
],
"synonyms":[
"bizarro",
"exotic",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"outlandish",
"romantic",
"strange"
],
"antonyms":[
"familiar",
"nonexotic",
"nonglamorous",
"plain-Jane",
"unexotic",
"unglamorous",
"unromantic"
],
"examples":[
"She looked glamorous in her formal black gown.",
"She wore a glamorous black gown.",
"A private investigator's job isn't as glamorous as people think.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The setting is expectedly glamorous , with Vuitton taking over the terrace at the White 1921 Hotel. \u2014 Elise Taylor, Vogue , 15 June 2022",
"My new life as a pop star certainly wasn\u2019t as glamorous as all my friends from home thought. \u2014 Anna Chan, Billboard , 19 May 2022",
"Many readers found Caity\u2019s self-deprecating tone in the article funny, and others commented that the van life wasn\u2019t supposed to be glamorous . \u2014 New York Times , 4 May 2022",
"Alex is slowly losing his mind to Alzheimer\u2019s, which means retirement isn\u2019t likely to be so glamorous . \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In the grand ballroom, which overlooks the park, the drapery is now simpler but the massive chandeliers are still glamorous . \u2014 Claire Messud, Travel + Leisure , 23 Apr. 2022",
"The menu is as glamorous as the view, with seafood towers, caviar grilled cheese sandwiches, and Wagyu katsu sandos. \u2014 William Li, Town & Country , 22 Apr. 2022",
"One of the lessons of this book, in fact, is that field research is not glamorous . \u2014 David James, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Apr. 2022",
"My mother was glamorous well into her 50s\u2014and unreachable the way famous people appear to be, at least for me. \u2014 Molly Jong-fast, The Atlantic , 23 Mar. 2022"
],
"history_and_etymology":" glamour + -ous ",
"first_known_use":[
"1861, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-024948"
},
"glum":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": broodingly morose",
": dreary , gloomy",
": gloomy and sad"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u0259m",
"\u02c8gl\u0259m"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
],
"examples":[
"There's no need to look so glum \u2014things will get better soon.",
"There was a glum silence in the room.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The glum attitude about the state\u2019s direction was shared, to varying degrees, by California voters of nearly every age group, ethnicity and political stripe. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Voters in the state also remain glum about the country\u2019s future. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 Feb. 2022",
"As before, during a gloomy period for a glum population, screwball might just save our sanity. \u2014 Jessica Kiang, Variety , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Those nights out were alternately riveting and glum , and always experienced at a little remove. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Dec. 2021",
"There is some good news, however: despite glum consumer sentiment toward the economy, numbers thus far indicate Americans are holiday shopping anyway. \u2014 Brigid Kennedy, The Week , 21 Nov. 2021",
"That film has been regarded as a fairly glum record of the tensions that culminated in the band breaking up. \u2014 oregonlive , 25 Nov. 2021",
"Not wanting to further be glum , but there is a similar chance of doing the same kind of mass takeover for cars that are not self-driving cars. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 19 Oct. 2021",
"But as the latest coronavirus surge has led employers to delay return-to-office plans, that larger group is growing increasingly glum . \u2014 New York Times , 23 Aug. 2021"
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"1547, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": extravagant showiness : glitter , ostentation",
": to make flashy or extravagant in appearance"
],
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"\u02c8glits"
],
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"flamboyance",
"flash",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
"ostentation",
"ostentatiousness",
"pretentiousness",
"showiness",
"swank"
],
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"adorn",
"array",
"beautify",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"blazon",
"caparison",
"deck",
"decorate",
"do",
"do up",
"doll up",
"drape",
"dress",
"embellish",
"emblaze",
"emboss",
"enrich",
"fancify",
"fancy up",
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"garnish",
"grace",
"gussy up",
"ornament",
"pretty (up)",
"trim"
],
"examples":[
"Noun",
"She grew tired of the glitz and glamour of Hollywood life.",
"The casino was all glitz .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There\u2019s more to this group, though, than glitz and glam. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"In this musical comedy from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, two sailors (Sinatra and Kelly) take their shore leave amid the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. \u2014 Kristina Garcia, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"But as the glitz and glamour of F1 invaded Miami Gardens \u2014 a suburban family neighborhood that is nearly 70% Black or African American, according to the U.S. Census Bureau \u2014 Hamilton was the lone face of diversity. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 8 May 2022",
"The glitz and glam were expected here, and five hours before the draft began Thursday night, showgirls paraded on The Strip. \u2014 Josh Peter, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s more to this show than glitz and glamour, though. \u2014 Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"From Dua Lipa's gilded chrome mani to Saweetie's icy silver set, glitz and glamour ruled the night. \u2014 Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour , 3 Apr. 2022",
"For von Boehm, life is not just about the glitz and the glamour. \u2014 Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Don\u2019t let the glitz and the glam of these shows fool you \u2014 only a small fraction of people are actually living that life. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Best of all, the packaging looks like a glitzed -up Christmas cookie. \u2014 Leah Prinzivalli, Allure , 7 Oct. 2019",
"Then in 1998, a Brazilian firm approached Europe\u2019s elite with an idea for a new midweek tournament, which only succeeded in annoying UEFA and forcing them to glitz up the Champions League. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 12 Nov. 2018",
"Leather is available in SL and Platinum trims, and the Platinum features some wood trim that glitzes up the place. \u2014 Michael Simari, Car and Driver , 22 Mar. 2018",
"Thanks to the Grammys, the start of the week looked very luxe and glitzed up on Instagram. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 3 Feb. 2018",
"Somerville, too, glitzed up in figure-flattering red sequins. \u2014 Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle , 29 Jan. 2018",
"For Fall 2017, Lexi Boling walked for Calvin Klein in a sheer peach top paired with elegant polished trousers, while a model at Adam Selman showed off her nipples in a glitzed -up T-shirt. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 31 July 2017",
"And finally, out- glitzing everything else, one of the most spectacular reliquaries of the European Middle Ages is here. \u2014 Holland Cotter, New York Times , 22 Sep. 2016"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Noun",
"first_known_use":[
"Noun",
"1971, in the meaning defined above",
"Verb",
"1956, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220627-112941"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": having the quality of glue : gummy",
": like glue : sticky",
": having the quality of glue especially in physical properties"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u00fct-n\u0259s",
"\u02c8gl\u00fc-t\u0259-n\u0259s",
"\u02c8gl\u00fc-t\u0259-n\u0259s",
"\u02c8gl\u00fct-n\u0259s, -\u1d4an-\u0259s"
],
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"adherent",
"adhesive",
"clingy",
"gluey",
"gummy",
"sticky",
"tacky",
"tenacious",
"viscid"
],
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"nonadhesive"
],
"examples":[
"a bad horror movie from the 1950s about a glutinous blob that devoured Manhattan",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The lime and clay destroy the slimy glutinous character of the sewage \u2018sludge\u2019 and keep the sewer outlet drain free from the festering and putrefying deposit which otherwise tends to choke it. \u2014 Mark Fischetti, Scientific American , 15 June 2022",
"An ingredient with the term glutinous in the title might be misleading, but rest assured, both rice flour and glutinous rice flour are entirely gluten-free. \u2014 Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens , 31 May 2022",
"The most obvious is a glutinous sweet rice called malagkit. \u2014 Dorothy Hernandez, CNN , 25 Feb. 2022",
"It's glazed in a lush miso butter and seared to perfection with dueling layers of glutinous flesh and crisp edges. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 6 Feb. 2022",
"The drink is assertively sour and limey, with a glutinous texture from the chia seeds that have soaked up the liquid and turned into bouncy little bits. \u2014 Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic , 9 Nov. 2021",
"In addition to the usual ice cream concoctions and burger, hot dog and sandwich offerings, Dairy Belle Ice Cream is famous for its poutine, that French-Canadian pub dish that makes a glutinous mix of french fries, cheese curds and gravy. \u2014 Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com , 6 Aug. 2021",
"Like many cooks, Ms. Young\u2019s mother always added a little cold water at the end of the mixing process, for a whisper of that glutinous chew. \u2014 Rachel Wharton, New York Times , 16 Apr. 2021",
"My narrow, too-small pantry was filled to the brim with sugars of every variety, flours both glutinous and gluten-free, and an early COVID-era amount of cans of beans\u2014in addition to everyday pantry items. \u2014 Margaux Lushing, House Beautiful , 8 Apr. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Middle English, from Latin glutinosus , from glutin-, gluten ",
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
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": suggestive of ice: such as",
": extremely cold : frigid",
": devoid of warmth and cordiality",
": coldly imperturbable",
": of a purity marked by the tendency to readily solidify in the form of ice-like crystals",
": of, relating to, or being any of those parts of geologic time from Precambrian onward when a much larger portion of the earth was covered by glaciers than at present",
": pleistocene",
": of, relating to, or produced by glaciers",
": suggestive of the very slow movement of glaciers",
": of or relating to glaciers",
": very cold",
": very slow"
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"\u02c8gl\u0101-sh\u0259l",
"\u02c8gl\u0101-sh\u0259l"
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"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"chill",
"chilly",
"cold",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"gelid",
"ice-cold",
"icy",
"nipping",
"nippy",
"numbing",
"polar",
"shivery",
"snappy",
"wintry",
"wintery"
],
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"ardent",
"blazing",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"glowing",
"hot",
"igneous",
"molten",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"sultry",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"warming",
"white-hot"
],
"examples":[
"Progress on the bill has been glacial .",
"a glacial weather front coming down from Canada will bring freezing temperatures this weekend",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Finally, Greenland is warming as well, so its glacial habitat is threatened, too, as the Greenland ice sheet melts and falls apart. \u2014 Fortune , 16 June 2022",
"Such glacial environments aren\u2019t common, said Dr. Laidre, but are seen elsewhere in Greenland and in Svalbard, the remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. \u2014 Eric Niiler, WSJ , 16 June 2022",
"The aesthetic is a nod to the New England waterfront and history from the glacial era, when ice transported massive rocks across land. \u2014 Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"In addition to racking up Hyatt points, the offer packs in three adventures: horseback riding on a black sand beach, visiting a glacial ice cave and traveling by Jeep to swim in thermal springs. \u2014 Ramsey Qubein, Forbes , 5 June 2022",
"Rent a golf cart or bicycles and circle the island, stopping to see the Ice Age-era glacial grooves, Kelleys Island Wine Co., downtown shops and more. \u2014 Susan Glaser, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"The Matanuska-Susitna Valley, a lush patch of the state where the lakes are fed by glacial meltwater, is where Sarah Palin launched her political career three decades ago. \u2014 Libby Casey, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Apr. 2022",
"So far, the heat wave is estimated to have caused at least 90 deaths across India and Pakistan and triggered an extreme glacial lake outburst flood in northern Pakistan and forest fires in India. \u2014 Doyle Rice, USA TODAY , 23 May 2022",
"The unique flavor profiles of wine produced by grapes grown at an elevation of 5,350 feet in soil composed of glacial deposits are not to be missed by wine lovers. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 May 2022"
],
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"1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
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},
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": dressy clothes"
],
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"array",
"best",
"bravery",
"caparison",
"feather",
"finery",
"frippery",
"full dress",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"regalia"
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"1896, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun",
"verb"
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": to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration",
": to elevate to celestial glory",
": to light up brilliantly",
": to represent as glorious : extol",
": to cause to be or seem to be better than the actual condition",
": to give glory to (as in worship)",
": to honor or praise as divine",
": to give honor and praise to",
": to show in a way that looks good"
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"\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b",
"\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b"
],
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"aggrandize",
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"deify",
"dignify",
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"exalt",
"magnify"
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"abase",
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"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate"
],
"examples":[
"Glorify and give thanks to God.",
"a number of big names were recruited in the hopes that their presence would glorify the university's school of medicine in the eyes of the medical world",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Please don\u2019t glorify a homeless vagrant who has nowhere to go. \u2014 Dan Koeppel, Outside Online , 5 Sep. 2019",
"Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to use Monday\u2019s Victory Day commemorations to somehow glorify , or at least rebrand, his army\u2019s 10-week-old invasion of Ukraine. \u2014 Laura King, Los Angeles Times , 8 May 2022",
"After decades of amassing vintage glass elements from around the world, Weathers formed Pontiel in 2019 as a creative avenue to glorify the glass in her collection. \u2014 Kyle Roderick, Forbes , 25 Mar. 2022",
"But the larger question is whether entertainment productions glorify violence and romanticize drug lords. \u2014 Karol Su\u00e1rez, The Courier-Journal , 1 Dec. 2021",
"The point, as Marx spotted, is not to actually make the old spirits rise again, but to use their memory to glorify the new struggle, magnifying the task in the public imagination. \u2014 Tom Mctague, The Atlantic , 8 Feb. 2022",
"But the larger question is whether entertainment productions glorify violence and romanticize drug lords. \u2014 Karol Su\u00e1rez, The Courier-Journal , 1 Dec. 2021",
"The palace\u2019s close association with the last members of Russia\u2019s ruling monarchy presented a dilemma for Soviet-era leaders, who did not want to glorify a past that had been so violently rejected. \u2014 Norman Vanamee, Town & Country , 9 Feb. 2022",
"That angle marks a change of pace from earlier tech biopics like The Social Network and Steve Jobs, which sought to humanize and glorify its subjects while also acknowledging their colder, more callous tendencies. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 25 Feb. 2022"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-113635"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to be glad",
": to make glad",
": to make glad"
],
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"\u02c8gla-d\u1d4an",
"\u02c8gla-d\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[
"agree (with)",
"content",
"delight",
"feast",
"gas",
"glad",
"gratify",
"please",
"pleasure",
"rejoice",
"satisfy",
"suit",
"warm"
],
"antonyms":[
"displease"
],
"examples":[
"it would gladden me to hear you sing again",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The word from Washington is sure to gladden the Newsom campaign. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Even a dead beaver, with its buck teeth sticking out of its decomposing skull, seemed to gladden Balken. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Lopez, after all, is a pop star\u2014her work is to rouse, inspire, and gladden large crowds by encouraging them to revel in a moment of fleeting, collective joy. \u2014 Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker , 21 Jan. 2021",
"The Concorde will gladden the hearts of record buffs. \u2014 J. A. Maxtone Graham, Popular Mechanics , 24 Sep. 2020",
"That turnaround is sure to gladden the hearts of Republicans, who have no hope of controlling the White House without Texas. \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 6 Sep. 2020",
"What gladdens my heart about geese, and helps fend off the virus blues, is their complete self-absorption. \u2014 James Gorman, New York Times , 22 Mar. 2020",
"The letter was a mistake, but one that gladdened hearts in Tehran. \u2014 Karim Sadjadpour, Time , 9 Jan. 2020",
"The egg nog-esque concoction of powdered sugar, whipped eggs and spices mixed with hot water or milk and a shot of brandy or rum (or both) has gladdened the hearts and stomachs of Cheeseheads for decades. \u2014 Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 Nov. 2019"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-185213"
},
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"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"city west-northwest of Dortmund in the Ruhr district, western Germany population 80,127"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u00e4t-\u02ccbek",
"\u02c8glad-"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-190148"
},
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"type":[
"interjection",
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": praise, honor, or distinction extended by common consent : renown",
": worshipful praise, honor, and thanksgiving",
": something that secures praise or renown",
": a distinguished quality or asset",
": a state of great gratification or exaltation",
": a height of prosperity or achievement",
": great beauty and splendor : magnificence",
": something marked by beauty or resplendence",
": the splendor and beatific happiness of heaven",
": eternity",
": a ring or spot of light: such as",
": aureole",
": a halo appearing around the shadow of an object",
": to rejoice proudly",
": praise, honor, and admiration given to a person",
": something that brings honor, praise, or fame",
": brilliance , splendor",
": to rejoice proudly"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113",
"\u02c8gl\u022fr-\u0113"
],
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"acclaim",
"accolade",
"applause",
"bay(s)",
"credit",
"distinction",
"homage",
"honor",
"kudos",
"laud",
"laurels",
"props",
"r\u00e9clame",
"sun"
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"crow",
"delight",
"exuberate",
"exult",
"joy",
"jubilate",
"kvell",
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The first episode picks up with the once dominant gaming collective Fugitive trying to recapture their glory days by winning an elusive League of Legends championship. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"The Old Canteen doesn\u2019t yet have any serious bids, but its glory days lasted for decades, and the restaurant played an essential role in the development of Federal Hill. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
"Our Hollywood Bowl should take its bow for all its glory days. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
"First-year coach Todd Golden\u2019s embrace of the program\u2019s past success led him to hire Green, who will serve as the new director of player development and a bridge to the Gators\u2019 glory days. \u2014 Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel , 8 June 2022",
"In the glory days of trade unionism in the 1960s and 1970s, the labor situation periodically turned nasty, and there was rock-throwing violence. \u2014 Matt Durot, Forbes , 4 June 2022",
"With the Hogs\u2019 success in the portal, expectations for Razorback basketball haven\u2019t been this high since the Nolan Richardson glory days. \u2014 Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online , 26 May 2022",
"It\u2019s always Throwback Thursday in the dining room, which gathers food enthusiasts, many of whose history with Donna dates to his glory days at Galileo in Washington, and servers who know the audience from way back then. \u2014 Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Schmaltz and shtick are a familiar combination since time immemorial, or at least the glory days of Neil Simon. \u2014 Charles Isherwood, WSJ , 5 May 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"If Harris can bring together a family with Indian, African, and Jewish heritage, America can glory in its diversity. \u2014 Fintan O\u2019toole, The New York Review of Books , 26 Aug. 2020",
"For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hub IN THE 17TH CENTURY parliaments gloried in names such as the Blessed Parliament, the Addled Parliament, the Happy Parliament and the Useless Parliament. \u2014 The Economist , 25 Apr. 2020",
"The best way to remember Jones is by going to the Python movies and TV episodes and glorying in that great gift of laughter. \u2014 Mark Dawidziak, cleveland , 25 Jan. 2020",
"Fleabag of old would\u2019ve gloried in sharing this carnal victory with the camera. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 14 Dec. 2019",
"Unlike the 2000s movies, which gloried in their goofery, Banks\u2019 film clearly wants to break new ground for the franchise. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 19 Nov. 2019",
"Mark just tells them about Tyler, the second of his three sons who all had a chance to play every position in every sport but gravitated to the glamour position in the country\u2019s most gloried game. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 30 Aug. 2019",
"And her face at the climax, the play of emotions as the plot machinery reaches its inevitable terminus, rivals the Satanists\u2019 glorying at the infernal infant at the end of Rosemary\u2019s Baby as the most sinister possible expression of delight. \u2014 Ross Douthat, National Review , 25 July 2019",
"As night fell, reporters at The New York Times gloried in the steady illumination thrown off by Thomas Edison\u2019s electric lamps. \u2014 New York Times , 1 July 2019"
],
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],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220628-223540"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a vine of the genus Clerodendron"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-002452"
},
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"type":[
"idiom"
],
"definitions":[
": to make someone happy"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb",
"verb ()"
],
"definitions":[
": to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand",
": to fill especially with food to satiety",
": to eat gluttonously",
": an excessive quantity : oversupply",
": the act or process of glutting",
": to swallow greedily",
": to make very full",
": to flood with goods so that supply is greater than demand",
": too much of something"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u0259t",
"\u02c8gl\u0259t"
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"cram",
"gorge",
"sate",
"stuff",
"surfeit"
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"bolt",
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"gulp",
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"inhale",
"raven",
"scarf",
"scoff",
"slop",
"wolf"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"The internet is glutted with second-by-second countdown clocks and the mania is even spurring a hike in hiring by crypto firms worldwide. \u2014 Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com , 19 Mar. 2020",
"Now, thanks largely to those export terminals, the global market is glutted . \u2014 Ryan Dezember, WSJ , 2 Mar. 2020",
"That\u2019s even as the market is already glutted , with prices down about 30% in 12 months. \u2014 Fortune , 12 Nov. 2019",
"Because the market is glutted , all buyers can demand purity standards at or near the level China has set. \u2014 Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post , 25 Aug. 2019",
"The current milk landscape is glutted with options, but only because nobody is happy. \u2014 Rachel Sugar, Vox , 14 Aug. 2019",
"And in a third poster, featuring Captain America solo, Evans is twisted in a pose that exposes America\u2019s glutes to full effect. \u2014 Alex Abad-santos, Vox , 18 June 2019",
"The nation\u2019s courtrooms have been glutted with millions of collection lawsuits, many of which are backed by thin documentation. \u2014 Stacy Cowley, New York Times , 28 July 2016",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There was a glut of child possession and telekinesis films during the late 1970s and early \u201980s like The Omen, The Fury, Carrie, The Shining, and The Twilight Zone film. \u2014 Erik Morse, Vogue , 9 May 2022",
"In 2002 and 2015, the shipping companies were facing either low profits or outright losses, as a glut of new megasize ships kept freight rates and shipping revenue low. \u2014 Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 5 June 2022",
"Those utility players are a vital cog for Baltimore as the team navigates a glut of injuries. \u2014 Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun , 13 May 2022",
"Hong Kong last acted to support the currency in March 2019, as a glut of cash weighed on the city\u2019s short-term interest rates. \u2014 Dave Sebastian, WSJ , 12 May 2022",
"These deals still are unlikely to be enough to fill Manhattan\u2019s glut of inventory. \u2014 Natalie Wong, Fortune , 10 May 2022",
"Although Moderna is expected to post high-teens levels of revenue growth for 2022, the markets are pricing in a massive drop in revenue for 2023 (almost -50%) as the Covid-19 pandemic potentially wanes and vaccines likely see a glut . \u2014 Trefis Team, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
"In order to make the service really tempting, Twitter will need to lock up currently free features behind the paywall (like fan-favorite TweetDeck) or introduce something so tempting that a glut of new users will sign up. \u2014 Scott Nover, Quartz , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Under ten Hag, Ajax\u2019s talented young squad has won a glut of domestic honors. \u2014 New York Times , 21 Apr. 2022"
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"\u02c8gl\u0259-t\u0259-n\u0259s"
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"esurient",
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"piggish",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
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"voracious"
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"gluttonous customers had practically emptied the all-you-can-eat buffet",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One of the city\u2019s most iconic hotels has exceptional service, a gluttonous breakfast buffet, and sweeping views of the Arabian Gulf. \u2014 Katie Lockhart, House Beautiful , 6 June 2022",
"Ottessa Moshfegh\u2019s latest novel takes place in Lapvona, a medieval fiefdom ruled over by a vain and gluttonous lord, Villiam. \u2014 The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
"Because for all of its overwhelming vastness, this period of intense, gluttonous competition between Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon has opened a door. \u2014 Jason Parham, Wired , 19 Jan. 2022",
"The gluttonous can binge-watch the results, which were created by the slothful. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Beaming in gluttonous pride, the girls are immediately photographed, and eager to brag about their utterly brilliant couple\u2019s costume as two of the most scandalous alumni of Manhattan\u2019s elite. \u2014 refinery29.com , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Of course, there is nothing normal about these Summer Games, which means the Tokyo Aquatics Centre is destined to be viewed a symbol of poor planning, gluttonous spending and terribly unfortunate timing. \u2014 Paul Newberry, Star Tribune , 23 July 2021",
"If your gluttonous best friend plows through food too fast, a slow-feed option can portion out the meal over 15 minutes. \u2014 Sal Vaglica, WSJ , 21 July 2021",
"Perhaps those poor snappers encountered an isopod that was too gluttonous , forcing both parties to deal with the grisly consequences. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 14 July 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
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": excess in eating or drinking",
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"\u02c8gl\u0259t-n\u0113",
"\u02c8gl\u0259-t\u0259-n\u0113",
"\u02c8gl\u0259-t\u0259-n\u0113"
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"overeating"
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"the view that gluttony is a serious failure in self-discipline",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Yet, after this gluttony of \u201980s icons, Froud seemingly disappeared for many years; Nurse reveals how CGI gradually destroyed the art of the puppet and Froud\u2019s disdain for the Hollywood scene. \u2014 Longreads , 26 Apr. 2017",
"With the gluttony of injuries to guys like Jrue Holiday, Brook Lopez and Portis, and now the positive COVID-19 test to Khris Middleton, Nwora still has a long ways to go to figure out what that role will look like. \u2014 Brian Sampson, Forbes , 3 Nov. 2021",
"The celebrated gala of gluttony returns this year after being canceled in 2020 and scaled back in 2021 amid the pandemic. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Icahn mentioned a company that had five floors of overpaid vice presidents doing nothing much, and Gekko mocked the same corporate gluttony . \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
"Super Bowl Week is famous for its insatiable appetites, unabashed gluttony and wolfish overconsumption. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
"The gluttony starts on Thanksgiving Day and continues through New Year\u2019s Eve. \u2014 Gregory Burnett, cleveland , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Today, in the regions of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, Dante\u2019s rhymes can be found inscribed on the walls of cafes, alleys and cloisters, his verses about gluttony and malice alongside menus and bus schedules. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 Nov. 2021",
"Then offset your gluttony with Zad\u00fan\u2019s Wellness & Gratitude Retreat (Nov. 25-27), an event that will enhance wellbeing, reduce stress and teach mindfulness. \u2014 Jennifer Kester, Forbes , 4 Nov. 2021"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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": extravagant showiness : glitter , ostentation",
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"\u02c8glits"
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"flamboyance",
"flash",
"flashiness",
"garishness",
"gaudiness",
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"pretentiousness",
"showiness",
"swank"
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"adorn",
"array",
"beautify",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"blazon",
"caparison",
"deck",
"decorate",
"do",
"do up",
"doll up",
"drape",
"dress",
"embellish",
"emblaze",
"emboss",
"enrich",
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"fancy up",
"festoon",
"garnish",
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"gussy up",
"ornament",
"pretty (up)",
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"Noun",
"She grew tired of the glitz and glamour of Hollywood life.",
"The casino was all glitz .",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"There\u2019s more to this group, though, than glitz and glam. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"In this musical comedy from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, two sailors (Sinatra and Kelly) take their shore leave amid the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. \u2014 Kristina Garcia, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"But as the glitz and glamour of F1 invaded Miami Gardens \u2014 a suburban family neighborhood that is nearly 70% Black or African American, according to the U.S. Census Bureau \u2014 Hamilton was the lone face of diversity. \u2014 Sun Sentinel , 8 May 2022",
"The glitz and glam were expected here, and five hours before the draft began Thursday night, showgirls paraded on The Strip. \u2014 Josh Peter, USA TODAY , 28 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s more to this show than glitz and glamour, though. \u2014 Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"From Dua Lipa's gilded chrome mani to Saweetie's icy silver set, glitz and glamour ruled the night. \u2014 Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour , 3 Apr. 2022",
"For von Boehm, life is not just about the glitz and the glamour. \u2014 Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com , 31 Mar. 2022",
"Don\u2019t let the glitz and the glam of these shows fool you \u2014 only a small fraction of people are actually living that life. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 27 Mar. 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Best of all, the packaging looks like a glitzed -up Christmas cookie. \u2014 Leah Prinzivalli, Allure , 7 Oct. 2019",
"Then in 1998, a Brazilian firm approached Europe\u2019s elite with an idea for a new midweek tournament, which only succeeded in annoying UEFA and forcing them to glitz up the Champions League. \u2014 Joshua Robinson, WSJ , 12 Nov. 2018",
"Leather is available in SL and Platinum trims, and the Platinum features some wood trim that glitzes up the place. \u2014 Michael Simari, Car and Driver , 22 Mar. 2018",
"Thanks to the Grammys, the start of the week looked very luxe and glitzed up on Instagram. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 3 Feb. 2018",
"Somerville, too, glitzed up in figure-flattering red sequins. \u2014 Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle , 29 Jan. 2018",
"For Fall 2017, Lexi Boling walked for Calvin Klein in a sheer peach top paired with elegant polished trousers, while a model at Adam Selman showed off her nipples in a glitzed -up T-shirt. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 31 July 2017",
"And finally, out- glitzing everything else, one of the most spectacular reliquaries of the European Middle Ages is here. \u2014 Holland Cotter, New York Times , 22 Sep. 2016"
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"1956, in the meaning defined above"
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": any of various strong adhesive substances",
": a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous materials (such as hides or bones)",
": a solution of glue used for sticking things together",
": something that binds together",
": to cause to stick tightly with or as if with glue",
": to cause to remain continuously or to be fixed steadily",
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"\u02c8gl\u00fc",
"\u02c8gl\u00fc"
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"Noun",
"The hardware store offers several different glues .",
"used glue to stick the photo in the album",
"Verb",
"I glued the pieces of the cup back together.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The woman\u2019s eyes were pasted shut with what appeared to be wheat glue . \u2014 Okwiri Oduor, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"The glue between the outstanding coder and the social media marketer and the magic that allows sales to sell the right solution is having the right culture. \u2014 Bernhard Schroeder, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"During a church lunch banquet, Chou attempted to lock the doors from the inside with chains and super glue and then opened fire at the elderly churchgoers, officials said. \u2014 Taylor Romine, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"They\u2019re also frequently used in crafting, for things like setting resin or shrink wraps (and can be confused with hot glue guns). \u2014 Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics , 16 June 2022",
"Sometimes Herbert would use glue during the application process and other times a belt. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"Pavement Rejuvenator program began applying a glue -like substance to roadways at 15 locations around the county on June 2, and will be complete by the end of the month making the roads last longer. \u2014 Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"And the vocal glue that holds it all together, as always, was Matthew Jardine. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 8 June 2022",
"Unlike some other stylists, Brown doesn\u2019t use glue in order to protect the actors\u2019 hair, instead sewing in extra straps to secure wigs. \u2014 Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Others spray glue onto soles which are then bonded with the rest of the shoe, or use lasers to cut sections of sneaker from colorful plastic sheets. \u2014 Trefor Moss, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"First, there was woman who tried to glue her hand to the basketball court at a Minnesota Timberwolves play-in game. \u2014 Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Nearly 150 years after Monet put down his brush, the brilliance of his 1877 construction of the scene with broken brushwork of violets, blues, pinks, grays, whites, yellows and blacks continues to glue eyeballs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Simply glue feather boas to the paper lantern to turn it into an airy dining room focal point. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 9 May 2022",
"Color the bottom of a water bottle or a bottlecap like a shell, then glue to the sponge or foam. \u2014 Ruth A. Musgrave, National Geographic , 1 July 2020",
"Cut out each sandwich ingredient and glue them together to nail a 3D effect. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Slide the nylon spacer onto the dowel, and slip the dowel through the crank support (parts D and E glued together), but do not glue it. \u2014 James Schadewald, Popular Mechanics , 3 July 2021",
"Their secretions glue fine soil particles together into larger clumps, which not only lessens erosion risk but also improves aeration and water retention. \u2014 Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun , 23 Mar. 2022"
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": a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous materials (such as hides or bones)",
": a solution of glue used for sticking things together",
": something that binds together",
": to cause to stick tightly with or as if with glue",
": to cause to remain continuously or to be fixed steadily",
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"The hardware store offers several different glues .",
"used glue to stick the photo in the album",
"Verb",
"I glued the pieces of the cup back together.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The woman\u2019s eyes were pasted shut with what appeared to be wheat glue . \u2014 Okwiri Oduor, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 22 June 2022",
"The glue between the outstanding coder and the social media marketer and the magic that allows sales to sell the right solution is having the right culture. \u2014 Bernhard Schroeder, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"During a church lunch banquet, Chou attempted to lock the doors from the inside with chains and super glue and then opened fire at the elderly churchgoers, officials said. \u2014 Taylor Romine, CNN , 17 June 2022",
"They\u2019re also frequently used in crafting, for things like setting resin or shrink wraps (and can be confused with hot glue guns). \u2014 Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics , 16 June 2022",
"Sometimes Herbert would use glue during the application process and other times a belt. \u2014 Jazz Tangcay, Variety , 16 June 2022",
"Pavement Rejuvenator program began applying a glue -like substance to roadways at 15 locations around the county on June 2, and will be complete by the end of the month making the roads last longer. \u2014 Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune , 10 June 2022",
"And the vocal glue that holds it all together, as always, was Matthew Jardine. \u2014 Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic , 8 June 2022",
"Unlike some other stylists, Brown doesn\u2019t use glue in order to protect the actors\u2019 hair, instead sewing in extra straps to secure wigs. \u2014 Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter , 10 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Others spray glue onto soles which are then bonded with the rest of the shoe, or use lasers to cut sections of sneaker from colorful plastic sheets. \u2014 Trefor Moss, WSJ , 6 May 2022",
"First, there was woman who tried to glue her hand to the basketball court at a Minnesota Timberwolves play-in game. \u2014 Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Nearly 150 years after Monet put down his brush, the brilliance of his 1877 construction of the scene with broken brushwork of violets, blues, pinks, grays, whites, yellows and blacks continues to glue eyeballs. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Simply glue feather boas to the paper lantern to turn it into an airy dining room focal point. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 9 May 2022",
"Color the bottom of a water bottle or a bottlecap like a shell, then glue to the sponge or foam. \u2014 Ruth A. Musgrave, National Geographic , 1 July 2020",
"Cut out each sandwich ingredient and glue them together to nail a 3D effect. \u2014 Mariah Thomas, Good Housekeeping , 19 Apr. 2022",
"Slide the nylon spacer onto the dowel, and slip the dowel through the crank support (parts D and E glued together), but do not glue it. \u2014 James Schadewald, Popular Mechanics , 3 July 2021",
"Their secretions glue fine soil particles together into larger clumps, which not only lessens erosion risk but also improves aeration and water retention. \u2014 Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun , 23 Mar. 2022"
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": carbohydrate and especially sugar",
": glycine"
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"noun"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Is the gluon the source of the heat of nuclear fusion? \u2014 Scientific American , 1 Feb. 2022",
"When the Universe reaches a few microseconds in age, a new threshold gets crossed: the temperatures and densities have now dropped low enough that confinement occurs, and what was previously a quark- gluon plasma now becomes full of bound states. \u2014 Ethan Siegel, Forbes , 2 Sep. 2021",
"Physicists can now calculate how pressure and density would have evolved from the quark- gluon plasma at the beginning of the universe. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 Sep. 2020",
"For example, when a virtual gluon splits into two virtual quarks, the quarks\u2019 possible lifetimes can vary. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 Aug. 2020",
"But the golden rule of quantum theory is to consider all possibilities, and exchanging a simple gluon represents just one among a vast landscape of scenarios that could unfold when two quarks collide. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 20 Aug. 2020",
"Instead, quarks and gluons mingled freely in a dense soup until things cooled down sufficiently for protons to condense out of the QGP. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 1 May 2020",
"Or take gluons , particles that convey the strong force that binds atomic nuclei together. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 9 Dec. 2019",
"Quarks and gluons are two such elementary particles that combine to form protons and neutrons. \u2014 Nandita Jayaraj, Quartz India , 27 Aug. 2019"
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"to make (something) seem less bad by offering excuses he tried to gloze over his drinking problem by noting that he had never done drugs",
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"geographical name"
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"noun"
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": a person engaged in a fight to the death as public entertainment for ancient Romans",
": a person engaging in a public fight or controversy",
": a trained fighter",
": a professional boxer",
": a man in ancient Rome who took part in fights as public entertainment"
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"\u02c8gla-d\u0113-\u02cc\u0101-t\u0259r",
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"the two punch-drunk gladiators stumbled to their corners",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Keep your vibe classic with sporty styles from Teva and Arizona Love, or opt for something more offbeat like Doc Martens\u2019s chunky gladiator sandals. \u2014 Andrea Navarro, Glamour , 7 June 2022",
"Might Stenson impart some gladiator spirit onto his team? \u2014 Andrew Dampf, ajc , 30 May 2022",
"There were thigh-high leather gladiator boots under sheer floor-sweeping dresses that barely veiled the skin beneath or shaggy faux furs. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"Russell Crowe plays a once-powerful Roman general who\u2019s betrayed and is forced to become a gladiator . \u2014 Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR , 5 May 2022",
"Looks like Miek has gone from Sakaar gladiator to New Asgard government official. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 18 Apr. 2022",
"This year\u2019s ad shows Julius Caesar and a rough bunch of gladiator fans outside what appears to be the Colosseum, soothing their apparently violent differences by enjoying guacamole and avocados. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Archaeologists monitoring the construction of a new boathouse on the Rhine River in Switzerland have discovered the remains of what may be the last Roman gladiator arena ever built. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Feb. 2022",
"This year\u2019s ad shows Julius Caesar and a rough bunch of gladiator fans outside what appears to be the Colosseum, soothing their apparently violent differences by enjoying guacamole and avocados. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Feb. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"noun"
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"noun"
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": a person engaged in a fight to the death as public entertainment for ancient Romans",
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": a man in ancient Rome who took part in fights as public entertainment"
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"\u02c8gla-d\u0113-\u02cc\u0101-t\u0259r",
"\u02c8gla-d\u0113-\u02cc\u0101-t\u0259r"
],
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"the two punch-drunk gladiators stumbled to their corners",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Keep your vibe classic with sporty styles from Teva and Arizona Love, or opt for something more offbeat like Doc Martens\u2019s chunky gladiator sandals. \u2014 Andrea Navarro, Glamour , 7 June 2022",
"Might Stenson impart some gladiator spirit onto his team? \u2014 Andrew Dampf, ajc , 30 May 2022",
"There were thigh-high leather gladiator boots under sheer floor-sweeping dresses that barely veiled the skin beneath or shaggy faux furs. \u2014 New York Times , 17 May 2022",
"Russell Crowe plays a once-powerful Roman general who\u2019s betrayed and is forced to become a gladiator . \u2014 Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR , 5 May 2022",
"Looks like Miek has gone from Sakaar gladiator to New Asgard government official. \u2014 Devan Coggan, EW.com , 18 Apr. 2022",
"This year\u2019s ad shows Julius Caesar and a rough bunch of gladiator fans outside what appears to be the Colosseum, soothing their apparently violent differences by enjoying guacamole and avocados. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Feb. 2022",
"Archaeologists monitoring the construction of a new boathouse on the Rhine River in Switzerland have discovered the remains of what may be the last Roman gladiator arena ever built. \u2014 David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Feb. 2022",
"This year\u2019s ad shows Julius Caesar and a rough bunch of gladiator fans outside what appears to be the Colosseum, soothing their apparently violent differences by enjoying guacamole and avocados. \u2014 NBC News , 14 Feb. 2022"
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"15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-203605"
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"type":[
"geographical name"
],
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"mountain 8110 feet (2472 meters) high in the Jotunheim Mountains of south central Norway; highest in Scandinavia"
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"\u02c8gli-t\u0259r-\u02cctin"
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},
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"idiom"
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": to make someone happy"
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"adjective"
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": gladiatorial"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": marked by or given to gluttony"
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"\u02c8gl\u0259t-n\u0259s",
"\u02c8gl\u0259-t\u0259-n\u0259s"
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"edacious",
"esurient",
"greedy",
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"piggish",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"swinish",
"voracious"
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"examples":[
"gluttonous customers had practically emptied the all-you-can-eat buffet",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"One of the city\u2019s most iconic hotels has exceptional service, a gluttonous breakfast buffet, and sweeping views of the Arabian Gulf. \u2014 Katie Lockhart, House Beautiful , 6 June 2022",
"Ottessa Moshfegh\u2019s latest novel takes place in Lapvona, a medieval fiefdom ruled over by a vain and gluttonous lord, Villiam. \u2014 The Atlantic , 16 May 2022",
"Because for all of its overwhelming vastness, this period of intense, gluttonous competition between Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon has opened a door. \u2014 Jason Parham, Wired , 19 Jan. 2022",
"The gluttonous can binge-watch the results, which were created by the slothful. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 24 Aug. 2021",
"Beaming in gluttonous pride, the girls are immediately photographed, and eager to brag about their utterly brilliant couple\u2019s costume as two of the most scandalous alumni of Manhattan\u2019s elite. \u2014 refinery29.com , 11 Aug. 2021",
"Of course, there is nothing normal about these Summer Games, which means the Tokyo Aquatics Centre is destined to be viewed a symbol of poor planning, gluttonous spending and terribly unfortunate timing. \u2014 Paul Newberry, Star Tribune , 23 July 2021",
"If your gluttonous best friend plows through food too fast, a slow-feed option can portion out the meal over 15 minutes. \u2014 Sal Vaglica, WSJ , 21 July 2021",
"Perhaps those poor snappers encountered an isopod that was too gluttonous , forcing both parties to deal with the grisly consequences. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic , 14 July 2021"
],
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220629-235255"
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": the quantity held by a glass container",
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": crystal meth",
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": to enclose, case, or wall with glass",
": to make glassy",
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": a hard brittle usually transparent substance commonly made from sand heated with chemicals",
": a drinking container made of glass",
": a pair of glass or plastic lenses held in a frame and used to help a person see clearly or to protect the eyes",
": the contents of a glass",
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": a substance resembling glass especially in hardness and transparency",
": an optical instrument or device that has one or more lenses and is designed to aid in the viewing of objects not readily seen",
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"Carter 1858\u20131946 American statesman",
"Philip 1937\u2013 American composer"
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"\u02c8glas",
"\u02c8gl\u00e4s",
"\u02c8glas",
"\u02c8glas",
"\u02c8glas"
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"eyeglasses",
"specs",
"spectacles"
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"Noun",
"The waiter filled our glasses with water.",
"She drank two glasses of water.",
"She was wearing dark glasses with thick black frames.",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Select a concise palette of natural materials, including wood, stone, and glass . \u2014 Elizabeth Sweet, Better Homes & Gardens , 14 June 2022",
"Natural gas has been a big driver of inflation this year, with the highest prices in years adding to the cost of heating, cooling and powering homes and businesses as well as manufacturing steel, cement, glass , plastics and fertilizer. \u2014 Ryan Dezember, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
"Fahrenheit, hotter than the melting point of glass and aluminum. \u2014 Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com , 14 June 2022",
"Includes a 6-ounce tasting glass and over 400 beers from more than 100 breweries. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 13 June 2022",
"The result is a series that neither sexes up the Tudor era (a la The Tudors) nor freezes it under museum glass (a la Anne Boleyn), but instead finds a way to render it nearly as dynamic and complicated as the present. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 June 2022",
"Here, as in the new Volkswagen GTI, the dash and console are a mostly featureless expanse of glass and plastic, save for the climate-control scroll wheels. \u2014 Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver , 10 June 2022",
"Sliding steel-and- glass doors disappear when open, connecting the kitchen directly to the terrace and backyard. \u2014 Amanda Sims Clifford, House Beautiful , 9 June 2022",
"The tasting ticket includes a Swiggin' Pig commemorative glass and 10 samplings of whiskey, bourbon or rye. \u2014 Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press , 9 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"One of his first acts as Colorado athletic director in 2005 was to change the large wooden doors of his office to glass to encourage visitors. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Nov. 2021",
"It can be made in a variety of materials, from masonry and plastic to glass ad metal. \u2014 Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News , 24 Sep. 2021",
"The northern Italian city of Venice is a world leader in artisan crafts, from mask making to glass blowing. \u2014 Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes , 21 Sep. 2021",
"Peach & Lily Your roadmap to glass skin begins (and ends) here. \u2014 Talia Abbas, Glamour , 27 Aug. 2021",
"All of the homes on the tour have a great room with an island to gather around and glass doors that slide away to an outdoor oasis. \u2014 oregonlive , 4 Aug. 2021",
"The plan was simple: Walk out to points of long ridges and glass open areas below. \u2014 Jace Bauserman, Outdoor Life , 23 Dec. 2020",
"Years ago, the industry switched from metal backs to glass in order to facilitate wireless charging, since the RF signals couldn't penetrate metal. \u2014 Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica , 2 Nov. 2020",
"There, several glassed -in enclosures contained multiple cubs, the couple says. \u2014 Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al , 17 Apr. 2020"
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"Noun",
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Verb",
"14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a"
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"noun",
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": to look upon or depict as glamorous : romanticize",
": to make glamorous"
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"\u02c8gla-m\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz"
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"glamour (up)",
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"deglamorize"
],
"examples":[
"The movie was criticized for glamorizing crime and violence.",
"a novel that glamorizes war",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Producers make an effort not to glamorize violence on the show. \u2014 Janaya Wecker, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"Our goal is not to glamorize it, but to try and humanize it. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 1 June 2022",
"The restaurant's original owner, Peppino Leoni, was among the first to glamorize Italian cooking. \u2014 Janelle Davis, CNN , 22 May 2022",
"And headlines swirling around the internet about her weight loss helped to glamorize the speedy transformation. \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 3 May 2022",
"All humans have a tendency to glamorize their own genesis stories, right? \u2014 John Detrixhe, Quartz , 2 Dec. 2021",
"There\u2019s a tendency to glamorize war that Will rejects, but also to elevate the average over the uncommon. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"People who already have body-image issues are more likely to be inspired by videos like those on TikTok that glamorize thinness. \u2014 Rob Barry, WSJ , 17 Dec. 2021",
"While a glimpse into the logistics of war might mesmerize and disturb in equal measures, the guides are careful not to glamorize the conflict. \u2014 Steph Dyson, CNN , 28 Sep. 2021"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1936, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-010954"
},
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to take a quick look at something",
": to move swiftly from one thing to another",
": to strike a surface obliquely so as to go off at an angle",
": to make sudden quick movements",
": to flash or gleam with quick intermittent rays of light",
": to touch on a subject or refer to it briefly or indirectly",
": to give an oblique path of direction to:",
": to throw or shoot so that the object deflects from a surface",
": to aim (something, such as an innuendo) indirectly : insinuate",
": to take a quick look at",
": to catch a glimpse of",
": a quick or cursory look",
": a swift movement of the eyes",
": a deflected impact or blow",
": a rapid oblique movement",
": a quick intermittent flash or gleam",
": a sudden quick movement",
": a brief satirical reference to something : gibe",
": allusion",
": on first consideration",
": to strike at an angle and fly off to one side",
": to give a quick look",
": a quick look"
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"\u02c8glan(t)s",
"\u02c8glans"
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"bounce",
"carom",
"rebound",
"ricochet",
"skim",
"skip"
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"cast",
"eye",
"gander",
"glimpse",
"look",
"peek",
"peep",
"regard",
"sight",
"view"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"You then glance at the computer in front of you and see an unending list of businesses followed by four letter symbols and various numbers. \u2014 Drew Spaventa, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
"Epicenter stood placidly, declining even to glance at his unruly neighbor. \u2014 Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun , 20 May 2022",
"Lee Stecklein\u2019s long shot appeared to glance off a Czech player and into the net at 6:49 of the third period to give the Americans a 2-1 lead. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Feb. 2022",
"Cooper did not glance back to discover his quarterback had arrived. \u2014 Jori Epstein, USA TODAY , 10 Sep. 2021",
"The Ravens could not help but glance at the scoreboard, which told them the Jacksonville Jaguars were smacking around the Indianapolis Colts. \u2014 Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Instead of right-angle or T-bone collisions in an intersection, vehicles will typically hit others in a roundabout at a 45 degree angle that could glance off a car rather than stop one in its tracks. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 Dec. 2021",
"Brady Skjei's shot from a sharp angle on the left side appeared to glance off Svechnikov, who was cutting across the crease. \u2014 Matt Carlson, Star Tribune , 30 Mar. 2021",
"And while many of us will view that as a dystopian nightmare, others are likely to welcome the chance to spend extra time with ever more realistic 3D cat videos, without even having to glance at your phone. \u2014 Mike Duff, Car and Driver , 29 Nov. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Some people nearby seemed unconcerned, going about their business with barely a glance at the smoke wreathing the mine\u2019s tower. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"From an upward glance at the bottom of the Blue Ridge foothills, the cabin is beckoning. \u2014 Hunter Boyce, ajc , 13 June 2022",
"This claim, however, flies in the face of even the quickest glance at Black gay life, to say nothing of the many D.C.-specific histories that demonstrate how queerness rarely disrupted Black Washington\u2019s powerful family ties. \u2014 Matthew L. Riemer, Washington Post , 10 June 2022",
"And although many technology leaders understand the security and efficiency reasons behind upgrading servers that have reached their end of life, the migration process often entails untold complexities that may be overlooked at a cursory glance . \u2014 Paul Deur, Forbes , 8 June 2022",
"Two points from a two-sets-to-none deficit, Ruud shot a worried glance at his box, as if out of options and ideas. \u2014 Liz Clarke And Ava Wallace, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
"Their full-length album builds on that promise, casting a sidelong glance at modern life\u2019s rubbish\u2014nagging bills, bad parties, worse dates\u2014over elliptical riffing and galloping basslines. \u2014 Maura Johnston, Time , 3 June 2022",
"Catnip and catmint can appeal equally to some felines, while others seem to prefer catnip and will pass by catmint without a second glance . \u2014 Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens , 2 June 2022",
"Lucas Daignault likes to glance at his E*Trade account before school or after his shifts at the supermarket. \u2014 Matt Grossman, WSJ , 30 May 2022"
],
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"Verb",
"15th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2",
"Noun",
"1503, in the meaning defined at sense 3a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-023446"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to be glad",
": to make glad",
": to make glad"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gla-d\u1d4an",
"\u02c8gla-d\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[
"agree (with)",
"content",
"delight",
"feast",
"gas",
"glad",
"gratify",
"please",
"pleasure",
"rejoice",
"satisfy",
"suit",
"warm"
],
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"displease"
],
"examples":[
"it would gladden me to hear you sing again",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The word from Washington is sure to gladden the Newsom campaign. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 12 Aug. 2021",
"Even a dead beaver, with its buck teeth sticking out of its decomposing skull, seemed to gladden Balken. \u2014 Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker , 9 Aug. 2021",
"Lopez, after all, is a pop star\u2014her work is to rouse, inspire, and gladden large crowds by encouraging them to revel in a moment of fleeting, collective joy. \u2014 Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker , 21 Jan. 2021",
"The Concorde will gladden the hearts of record buffs. \u2014 J. A. Maxtone Graham, Popular Mechanics , 24 Sep. 2020",
"That turnaround is sure to gladden the hearts of Republicans, who have no hope of controlling the White House without Texas. \u2014 Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News , 6 Sep. 2020",
"What gladdens my heart about geese, and helps fend off the virus blues, is their complete self-absorption. \u2014 James Gorman, New York Times , 22 Mar. 2020",
"The letter was a mistake, but one that gladdened hearts in Tehran. \u2014 Karim Sadjadpour, Time , 9 Jan. 2020",
"The egg nog-esque concoction of powdered sugar, whipped eggs and spices mixed with hot water or milk and a shot of brandy or rum (or both) has gladdened the hearts and stomachs of Cheeseheads for decades. \u2014 Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 19 Nov. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-035059"
},
"glutaconic acid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a crystalline unsaturated dicarboxylic acid HOOCCH 2 CH=CHCOOH isomeric with citraconic acid"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6gl\u00fct\u0259\u00a6k\u00e4nik-"
],
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"history_and_etymology":" glutaconic probably International Scientific Vocabulary glut- (from gluten ) + aconic (in aconic acid )",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-053315"
},
"gladiatorship":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a display of gladiatorial skill"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-055540"
},
"Glaspell":{
"type":[
"biographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"Susan 1882\u20131948 American novelist and dramatist"
],
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"\u02c8gla-\u02ccspel"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-063916"
},
"gloam":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": twilight"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u014dm"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"Scots gloam to become twilight, back-formation from gloaming ",
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1821, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-065610"
},
"glutamate":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a salt or ester of glutamic acid",
": a salt or ester of levorotatory glutamic acid that functions as an excitatory neurotransmitter \u2014 compare monosodium glutamate",
": a salt or ester of glutamic acid",
": a salt or ester of levorotatory glutamic acid that functions as an excitatory neurotransmitter \u2014 see monosodium glutamate"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u00fc-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101t",
"\u02c8gl\u00fct-\u0259-\u02ccm\u0101t"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In fact, studies have shown that the levels of glutamate were increased in patients with insomnia. \u2014 Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping , 12 June 2022",
"However, ketamine seems to primarily impact a different brain chemical called glutamate , which helps stimulate brain cells to communicate. \u2014 Raleigh Mcelvery, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Sometimes beta-alanine and L- glutamate form thicker, more textured crystals such as the ones pictured here. \u2014 Joanna Thompson, Scientific American , 23 Mar. 2022",
"There is also a drug with a different mechanism called memantine, which works by regulating glutamate , a neurotransmitter that, in excess, may lead to brain cell death. \u2014 Mariana Lenharo, Health.com , 13 Apr. 2022",
"This supports the idea that changes in synaptic plasticity underlie depression and by targeting glutamate , ketamine could be reversing those changes. \u2014 Claudia L\u00f3pez Lloreda, STAT , 17 Aug. 2021",
"Substantial amounts of free glutamate can be found in champagne due to the ageing process. \u2014 Joanne Shurvell, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
"In this regard, considerable evidence has demonstrated that the regulation of two receptors\u2014AMPA and NMDA\u2014on many neurons that respond to the neurotransmitter glutamate control changes in the tiny junctions, or synapses, between neurons. \u2014 Husseini Manji, Scientific American , 14 Sep. 2021",
"But that did not stop us from publishing a study showing that human OCD sufferers benefit from a glutamate blocking drug, memantine. \u2014 Gareth Cook, Scientific American , 6 Sep. 2016"
],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1876, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-071542"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a hard lustrous coal",
": anthracite"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\"-"
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":"translation of German glanzkohle , from glanz luster, shine + kohle coal",
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-100837"
},
"glasnost":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news and information"
],
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"\u02c8glaz-(\u02cc)n\u014dst",
"\u02c8glas-",
"\u02c8gl\u00e4z-",
"\u02c8gl\u00e4s-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The hopes and excitement around MIkhail Gorbachev's glasnost in the late 1980s gave way to a calm, even attitude in the 1990s, and then wariness in the 2000s. \u2014 Stanislav Kucher, CNN , 13 May 2022",
"In the late 1970s, the Politburo had rejected the overtures of McDonald\u2019s executives, but by 1990, the Soviet Union had swung into glasnost : opening itself up to the world\u2019s ideas and products. \u2014 Samanth Subramanian, Quartz , 10 Mar. 2022",
"At the time, the Soviet Union was opening up under policies including glasnost , which gave more room for public debate and criticism. \u2014 Washington Post , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Unfortunately, between these two groups -- those who acknowledge reality and those who continue to float along on the road to Oz -- there can be no d\u00e9tente, no perestroika and surely no glasnost . \u2014 Kent Sepkowitz, CNN , 13 Sep. 2021",
"During the mid-1980s, under Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev\u2019s policy of glasnost , or openness, people began to talk more freely about the genocide, said Harutyun Marutyan, director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. \u2014 WSJ , 26 Apr. 2021",
"Mr Putin, who began his presidency 20 years ago by covering up the sinking of the Kursk submarine, is determined not to repeat the glasnost experiment, which helped to bring the whole system crashing down. \u2014 The Economist , 21 May 2020",
"In the 1980s, there was a brief change of course as Mikhail Gorbachev instituted openness and transparency policies, or glasnost , which included limiting the Communist Party\u2019s power and allowing a freer and more critical press. \u2014 Justin Sherman, Wired , 1 May 2020",
"Celebrities don\u2019t owe anything to their fans, nor should viewers expect any real glasnost in documentaries about their lives. \u2014 Arielle Pardes, Wired , 7 Feb. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":"Russian glasnost' , literally, publicity, from glasny\u012d public, from glas voice, from Old Church Slavonic glas\u016d \u2014 more at call ",
"first_known_use":[
"1986, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-101810"
},
"glance pitch":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a pure asphalt \u2014 compare manjak"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"glance entry 2"
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"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-135927"
},
"globular":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": having the shape of a globe or globule",
": composed of compactly folded polypeptide chains arranged in a spherical form",
": global",
": having or consisting of globules",
": having the shape of a globe or globule",
": composed of compactly folded polypeptide chains arranged in a spherical form",
": having or consisting of globules"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u00e4-by\u0259-l\u0259r",
"sense 1b is also",
"\u02c8gl\u00e4b-y\u0259-l\u0259r"
],
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"global",
"round",
"spherical"
],
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"examples":[
"the globular streetlights give the pedestrian mall a Gay Nineties look",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Lou Doillon took to Big Sur to celebrate our planet, and showed off a baby bump that echoed its globular shape. \u2014 Calin Van Paris, Vogue , 1 May 2022",
"The analysis by Maccarone and his colleagues, Hailey says, overly relies on neutron star data from globular clusters, which are ancient aggregations of old stars scattered across our galaxy. \u2014 Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American , 5 Apr. 2022",
"Based on the remaining uncertainty regarding the location of FRB 20200120E and the frequency of globular clusters within M81, the research team estimates that the chances of FRB 20200120E not being in this globular cluster is only about 1 in 10,000. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Apparently, only the most refined astronomical abodes will kick you out for merging while also spinning ( globular clusters, in fact). \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 24 Jan. 2022",
"My colleague Lila Seidman wrote about a fish \u2014 globular , with razor-sharp teeth, and a stalk protruding from its head \u2014 that washed ashore off Encinitas. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 17 Dec. 2021",
"The process of metabolism is carried out through the action of a globular proteins known as enzymes. \u2014 Erik Kobayashi-solomon, Forbes , 24 Sep. 2021",
"Cowboy Bebop is a castle of sand, with some edges firm and impressive, and others globular or in pieces on the ground. \u2014 Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Natarajan: If those globular clusters like Pal 5 are further littered with black holes, the inventory just explodes, basically. \u2014 Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American , 12 Aug. 2021"
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"partly from Latin glob us + English -ular ; partly from Latin globul us + English -ar"
],
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"1626, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1)"
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"noun"
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": a crystalline amino acid C 5 H 9 NO 4 widely distributed in plant and animal proteins",
": a crystalline amino acid C 5 H 9 NO 4 that is widely distributed in plant and animal proteins and that acts throughout the central nervous system especially in the form of a salt or ester as a neurotransmitter which excites postsynaptic neurons"
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"(\u02cc)gl\u00fc-\u02c8ta-mik-",
"(\u02cc)gl\u00fc-\u02cctam-ik-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Note that the two amino acids that lead to a mutation, alanine and aspartic acid, are shorter than glutamic acid . \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The glutamic acid is substituted by the polar uncharged amino acid glutamine (E484Q). \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2021",
"The formula is made with black rice, which is rich in glutamic acid . \u2014 Victoria Moorhouse, Forbes , 3 Mar. 2021",
"The mutation is denominated E484K, meaning that the amino acid, glutamic acid (code letter E), has been replaced by another, lysine (code letter K), in position 484 of the genetic sequence of the spike protein. \u2014 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker , 21 Jan. 2021",
"Glutamate is a form of glutamic acid , an amino acid that\u2019s naturally occurring in many common foods, like tomatoes and cheeses. \u2014 Yvette D'entremont, SELF , 20 June 2018",
"But when archaeologists dated samples of amino acids glycine and glutamic acid extracted from the collagen, their results lined up with the 13,000- to 12,795-year-old range for the antler artifacts. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 18 June 2018",
"The switch works because miso delivers a wallop of glutamic acid \u2014 the chemical responsible for the savory, umami flavor, wrote J. Kenji L\u00f3pez-Alt for Serious Eats back in 2012. \u2014 Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian , 7 May 2018",
"There\u2019s natural sugar and glutamic acid that imparts an umami-rich flavor, ideal for a soup or dashi. \u2014 Jay Carroll, Bon Appetit , 27 Feb. 2017"
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"International Scientific Vocabulary glut en + am ino + -ic"
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"1871, in the meaning defined above"
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"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
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": full of glee : merry"
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"\u02c8gl\u0113-f\u0259l"
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"blithe",
"blithesome",
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"gay",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
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"laughing",
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"mirthful",
"sunny"
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"the gleeful atmosphere that envelops the host city of the Super Bowl",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This was not mere contrarianism, and there was no trace of gleeful mythbusting; the issue was important enough to get right. \u2014 The New Yorker , 3 June 2022",
"But word gets out, and a PR battle ensues between the two men, with McKenzie intent on banning the gleeful culprit from all clubs across the U.K. \u2014 Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter , 2 June 2022",
"By the end of the short, a gleeful Jerry turns to bow to the audience, while an out-of-breath Tom tries his best to sit upright and bow \u2014 until falling through a hole in the stage himself. \u2014 Kristina Garcia, Los Angeles Times , 31 May 2022",
"The world\u2019s 13th biggest economy is going strong, as exemplified by Morrison\u2019s gleeful announcement this week that unemployment had dropped to the lowest level in half a century. \u2014 Michael E. Miller, Washington Post , 20 May 2022",
"In high, tremulous voices, the Sisters of the Holy Family were chanting their midday prayers when a child\u2019s gleeful shout echoed from a nearby corridor, punctuating the solemn incantation. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 17 May 2022",
"The problem is the reflexive assumption that Depp is being wronged, along with the gleeful way social media is harassing the woman who accused him of violence. \u2014 NBC News , 5 May 2022",
"Ozark is a show with a body count not for the faint of heart, and its gleeful willingness to knock off main characters, often in deliciously shocking fashion, is part of its appeal. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 29 Apr. 2022",
"There\u2019s a gleeful misanthropy that runs throughout your music. \u2014 Andy O'connor, SPIN , 19 Apr. 2022"
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"1586, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": gladiatorial"
],
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"Latin gladiatorius , from gladiator"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-145222"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":[
"to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant a movie that does its best to glamour up the field of archaeology"
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"type":[
"adjective"
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"definitions":[
": shaped like a sword : ensiform"
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"\u02c8glad\u0113\u02cc\u0101t",
"-\u0113\u0259\u0307t"
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"New Latin gladiatus , from Latin gladius sword + -atus -ate"
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"noun"
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": glory pea"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-162413"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a place where glass is made",
": greenhouse",
": a military prison"
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"\u02c8glas-\u02cchau\u0307s"
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"conservatory",
"greenhouse",
"hothouse"
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"a glasshouse for growing tropical plants",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Like those electric trucks, the smaller Volta Zero EVs feature airy, glasshouse -style cabs and a seating position that's lower than comparable trucks with internal combustion engines. \u2014 Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver , 1 May 2022",
"There is a large glasshouse to invite natural light in what is otherwise a small space and the roof is finished in glossy noir to add to the tech gadget aesthetic. \u2014 Nargess Banks, Forbes , 10 Dec. 2021",
"The panoramic roof brings in natural light, while the low beltline and tall glasshouse further contribute to a sense of wellbeing in the cabin. \u2014 Nargess Banks, Forbes , 26 Oct. 2021",
"It\u2019s as though each business lives in a glasshouse . \u2014 Jill Standish, Forbes , 9 Sep. 2021",
"An 18,000 square foot glasshouse holds two unique biomes: The Cloud Forest of Costa Rica and the Spiny Desert of Madagascar. \u2014 John Pana, cleveland , 29 Apr. 2021",
"Every weekend in June, a bit farther uptown, at the New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx, the Mark Morris Dance Group offers short pop-up programs on the plaza in front of the glasshouse . \u2014 Marina Harss, The New Yorker , 7 May 2021",
"The vestibule of the entrance pavilion sits between the two wings of the glasshouse in what otherwise would be a place of utility. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Nov. 2020",
"Discover 350 species of exotic plants and 50 different types of butterflies, birds, amphibians and reptiles from the desert of Madagascar to the rainforest of Costa Rica in the garden\u2019s glasshouse . \u2014 cleveland , 24 Sep. 2020"
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"noun"
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": adhesive cell"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": rock music characterized by performers wearing glittering costumes and bizarre often grotesque makeup"
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"first_known_use":[
"1972, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-172903"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": an enzyme that hydrolyzes glutamine to glutamic acid and ammonia",
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"\u02c8gl\u00fc-t\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101s",
"gl\u00fc-\u02c8ta-m\u0259-",
"-\u02ccn\u0101z",
"\u02c8gl\u00fct-\u0259-m\u0259-\u02ccn\u0101s",
"gl\u00fc-\u02c8tam-\u0259-",
"-\u02ccn\u0101z"
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"first_known_use":[
"1938, in the meaning defined above"
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"noun",
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": to extend a glad hand to",
": to extend a glad hand",
": a warm welcome or greeting often prompted by ulterior reasons"
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"\u02c8glad-\u02cchand"
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"Verb",
"1903, in the meaning defined at transitive sense",
"Noun",
"circa 1895, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-181425"
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"Definition of glamorise British spelling of glamorize"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-184822"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": polysaccharide",
": polysaccharide"
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"\u02c8gl\u012b-\u02cckan",
"\u02c8gl\u012b-\u02cckan"
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"first_known_use":[
"1950, in the meaning defined above"
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
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": shining with many bright points of light",
": shining with strong emotion",
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": superficially attractive or exciting"
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"\u02c8gli-t\u0259-ri\u014b"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-205342"
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": globular sense 1a"
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"\u02c8gl\u014db\u0259s"
],
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"obsolete French or Latin; obsolete French globeux , from Latin globosus"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220630-210731"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": a furnace for softening glass when it becomes stiff in offhand working and for fire-polishing glass",
": an opening directly into the interior of such a furnace",
": bottoming hole",
": a receptacle (as a box or cupboard) or area into which odds and ends are put haphazardly and in no particular order",
": lazaretto sense 3",
": the quarters of stewards or stokers on board a ship",
": an opencut or funnel-shaped excavation formed by drawing off soft or broken ore through an underground passage",
": a hole made through a wall or partition to enable people to perform sex acts anonymously"
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"type":[
"verb"
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"definitions":[
": to feast gluttonously",
": to feast gluttonously on"
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"\u02c8gl\u0259t\u1d4an\u02cc\u012bz"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-011420"
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"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a chorus organized for singing usually short pieces"
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"choir",
"chorale",
"chorus",
"consort"
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"sang with the glee club in college",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The series about a ragtag group of high school misfits who battle the obstacles (and Sue Sylvester) to form a glee club turned its cast of then-unknowns into household names. \u2014 Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 20 May 2022",
"The moment a bunch of unpopular kids and one hot quarterback formed a glee club and sang Journey to an empty auditorium was a cultural reset. \u2014 Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour , 10 Jan. 2022",
"Clive hid the doorknobs; Aunt Janice is really Audrey\u2019s nephew; and Doris murdered the glee club . \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Jan. 2022",
"Rivera, who played Santana Lopez, a cheerleader and star glee club member, died July 8, 2020, at age 33 as a result of a drowning accident after she and her son Josey, now 5\u00bd, rented a boat at Lake Piru in Southern California. \u2014 Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Rivera, who played Santana Lopez, a cheerleader and star glee club member, died July 8, 2020, at age 33 as a result of a drowning accident after she and her son Josey, now 5\u00bd, rented a boat at Lake Piru in Southern California. \u2014 Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Rivera, who played Santana Lopez, a cheerleader and star glee club member, died July 8, 2020, at age 33 as a result of a drowning accident after she and her son Josey, now 5\u00bd, rented a boat at Lake Piru in Southern California. \u2014 Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Rivera, who played Santana Lopez, a cheerleader and star glee club member, died July 8, 2020, at age 33 as a result of a drowning accident after she and her son Josey, now 5\u00bd, rented a boat at Lake Piru in Southern California. \u2014 Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com , 10 Aug. 2021",
"Rivera, who played Santana Lopez, a cheerleader and star glee club member, died July 8, 2020, at age 33 as a result of a drowning accident after she and her son Josey, now 5\u00bd, rented a boat at Lake Piru in Southern California. \u2014 Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com , 10 Aug. 2021"
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"1814, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-014757"
},
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"type":[
"noun phrase"
],
"definitions":[
": a person who enjoys things that other people dislike"
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"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to look upon or depict as glamorous : romanticize",
": to make glamorous"
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"\u02c8gla-m\u0259-\u02ccr\u012bz"
],
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"glamour (up)",
"glorify",
"idealize",
"romanticize"
],
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"deglamorize"
],
"examples":[
"The movie was criticized for glamorizing crime and violence.",
"a novel that glamorizes war",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Producers make an effort not to glamorize violence on the show. \u2014 Janaya Wecker, Town & Country , 10 June 2022",
"Our goal is not to glamorize it, but to try and humanize it. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 1 June 2022",
"The restaurant's original owner, Peppino Leoni, was among the first to glamorize Italian cooking. \u2014 Janelle Davis, CNN , 22 May 2022",
"And headlines swirling around the internet about her weight loss helped to glamorize the speedy transformation. \u2014 Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY , 3 May 2022",
"All humans have a tendency to glamorize their own genesis stories, right? \u2014 John Detrixhe, Quartz , 2 Dec. 2021",
"There\u2019s a tendency to glamorize war that Will rejects, but also to elevate the average over the uncommon. \u2014 John Tamny, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
"People who already have body-image issues are more likely to be inspired by videos like those on TikTok that glamorize thinness. \u2014 Rob Barry, WSJ , 17 Dec. 2021",
"While a glimpse into the logistics of war might mesmerize and disturb in equal measures, the guides are careful not to glamorize the conflict. \u2014 Steph Dyson, CNN , 28 Sep. 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"glamour + -ize"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1936, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-035228"
},
"globular chart":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a chart made on the globular projection"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-125147"
},
"glory in":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to feel or show great joy or pleasure because of (something)"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-141350"
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"glued-up stock":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": edge-glued or laminated wood"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"glued from past participle of glue entry 2"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220701-182126"
},
"glam rock":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": glitter rock"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-025755"
},
"gleed":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a glowing coal"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u0113d"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"Middle English, from Old English gl\u0113d ; akin to Old English gl\u014dwan to glow"
],
"first_known_use":[
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-054748"
},
"glitter ball":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": disco ball"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1966, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-062337"
},
"globosity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the quality or state of being globose"
],
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"gl\u014d\u02c8b\u00e4s\u0259t\u0113"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Late Latin globositat-, globositas , from Latin globosus globose + -itat-, -itas -ity"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-075631"
},
"glutton":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking",
": one that has a great capacity for accepting or enduring something",
": wolverine sense 1a",
": a person or animal that overeats"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u0259-t\u1d4an",
"\u02c8gl\u0259-t\u1d4an"
],
"synonyms":[
"cormorant",
"gorger",
"gormandizer",
"gourmand",
"hog",
"overeater",
"pig",
"stuffer",
"swiller"
],
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"examples":[
"he's such a glutton that he ate the whole cake",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Todd Orlando is apparently a glutton for punishment. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 Oct. 2021",
"For a former television celebrity who is a glutton for public attention, the decision extends by six months a political starvation diet imposed since January by a social media blackout and his departure from the White House. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 5 May 2021",
"Betty Draper, as a character, was a glutton for attention, and she was consistently starved of it. \u2014 Rachel Syme, The New Yorker , 31 Aug. 2020",
"No, we\u2019ve been told, the state shouldn\u2019t go out of its way to make the disadvantaged whole or bring law and order to an economy controlled by gamblers, gluttons , and cheats. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 3 June 2020",
"Calling all gluttons for goosebumps:Here's a list of the best haunted houses in Cincinnati Briana Rice is a trending news reporter for the Enquirer. \u2014 Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com , 24 Oct. 2019",
"China, the world\u2019s builder, is also the planet\u2019s sand glutton . \u2014 Paul Salopek, National Geographic , 26 June 2019",
"So why are the 48 percent who prioritize reducing deficits right and the spending gluttons wrong? \u2014 Mona Charen, National Review , 8 Nov. 2019",
"Today, if victory were cake, these people would be gluttons . \u2014 David Segal, New York Times , 1 Nov. 2019"
],
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"Middle English glotoun , from Anglo-French glutun, glotun , from Latin glutton-, glutto ; akin to Latin gluttire to swallow, gula throat, Old English ceole"
],
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"13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-164652"
},
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"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": having a surface luster or brightness",
": attractive in an artificially opulent, sophisticated, or smoothly captivating manner : slick",
": a photograph printed on smooth shiny paper",
": slick sense 5",
": having a shiny, smooth surface"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u00e4-s\u0113",
"\u02c8gl\u022f-",
"\u02c8gl\u00e4-s\u0113",
"\u02c8gl\u022f-"
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"buffed",
"burnished",
"glistening",
"lustrous",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"satin",
"satiny",
"sleek"
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"dim",
"dull",
"flat",
"lusterless",
"matte",
"mat",
"matt"
],
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"Adjective",
"a plant with glossy green leaves",
"the glossy finish on the gym floor",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
"The goal is to have a healthy glow to your complexion as well as an extremely delicious, glossy lip. \u2014 Emerald Elitou, Essence , 3 June 2022",
"The rest of her face is flushed and bronzed, with nude-pink glossy lips and brown liner pulling the beat together. \u2014 Jihan Forbes, Allure , 18 May 2022",
"What was a glossy finish has been beaten down to dullness by quickie carwashes, rough roads, and nasty weather? \u2014 Jack Keebler, Car and Driver , 6 May 2022",
"Subtle pink cheeks and a silver smokey eye completed the makeup look, while glossy lips and lashes full of volume proved the professional dancer was ready for her close up on the black carpet. \u2014 Alexis Gaskin, Glamour , 25 Mar. 2022",
"DeBose accessorized the hot pink dress with a dainty diamond necklace and opted for a smoky eye blended in with pink shadow for good measure, and a glossy nude lip. \u2014 Pamela Avila, USA TODAY , 28 Feb. 2022",
"Translating that sheerness in the makeup, Peter Philips created a look based around translucent skin, paying subtle homage to the Y2K theme with glossy , almost frosted lips, which were toned down with a neutral eye. \u2014 Tish Weinstock, Vogue , 23 Feb. 2022",
"Her dark brown hair was pulled back in a simple bun with a few flowing pieces framing her face, which was done in simple makeup and a glossy lip. \u2014 Aim\u00e9e Lutkin, ELLE , 22 Jan. 2022",
"And as expected, the oldest Kardashian sister turned heads with her signature bronzed, glowy skin, smokey eye makeup, and glossy nude lips, compliments of her makeup artist, Rokael Lizama, who used all KVD Beauty products for the occasion. \u2014 Jennifer Chan, PEOPLE.com , 13 Sep. 2021",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"The officer stopped the SIV, and the officer noticed the driver\u2019s eyes were bloodshot and glossy and her cheeks were flushed. \u2014 Bruce Geiselman, cleveland , 23 Oct. 2021",
"In fact, the same paint color can look completely different based on the finish, from matte to glossy and every sheen in between. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 6 Apr. 2021",
"Wow\u2019s Extra Shine spray, designed to create a glossy , but not greasy, shine. \u2014 Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com , 24 Nov. 2020",
"Because Gibson has so many antiques, Hillery suggested adding in a glossy , Granny Smith-green Oomph console as a more modern accent. \u2014 Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful , 25 Sep. 2020",
"Valentina Sampaio has been named a 2020 rookie and is the first transgender model to appear in the glossy \u2019s pages. \u2014 Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR , 10 July 2020",
"In some ways, that has been the story of most mainstream glossies , Vogue and Elle included. \u2014 New York Times , 17 Jan. 2020",
"Girls with a flair for filters outmaneuvered traditional fashion glossies , upending millions in traditional advertising and marketing spend. \u2014 Kate Bowers, Fortune , 19 Dec. 2019",
"From high-end glossies to Instagram looks, stories about how fashion and beauty help us define ourselves. \u2014 Elizabeth Montgomery, azcentral , 26 Nov. 2019"
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"Adjective",
"gloss entry 1 + -y entry 1",
"Noun",
"derivative of glossy entry 1"
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"Adjective",
"1556, in the meaning defined at sense 1",
"Noun",
"1928, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":[
": people who are famous, wealthy, and attractive : beautiful people"
],
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"\u02ccgli-t\u0259-\u02c8r\u00e4-t\u0113"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Known for its ultra-thin timepieces, many bearing groovy gem-set dials, the brand cultivated a loyal following among the glitterati \u2014particularly in Hollywood, where its colorful, radiant style resonated with LA\u2019s more relaxed sense of glamour. \u2014 Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report , 16 May 2022",
"Home to the historic Breakers, Palm Beach has been a destination for the glitterati for decades. \u2014 J.q. Louise, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"On Sunday night, the glitterati gathered in Santa Monica (after extensive COVID-19 testing and safety protocols, many of them were quick to assure us) to ring in the 28th Annual SAG Awards. \u2014 Emma Specter, Vogue , 27 Feb. 2022",
"Production label Hirsch Giovanni Entertainment has acquired movie and publishing rights to novels and memoirs by Peters, who lived as a commercial author beloved by glitterati like Gore Vidal. \u2014 Matt Donnelly, Variety , 23 Feb. 2022",
"In late 2017, Vivian first hears about Anna (Julia Garner), a 20something woman who\u2019s allegedly wormed her way into Manhattan\u2019s glitterati by passing herself off as a German heiress. \u2014 Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Among the Hollywood glitterati who donated the maximum amount allowed \u2014 $64,800 \u2014 were filmmakers Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams, as well as producer Chuck Lorre. \u2014 Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times , 2 Feb. 2022",
"The boat was unveiled in September at a glamorous event at Monaco Yacht Club, attended by glitterati including HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco. \u2014 Rachel Ingram, Forbes , 13 Oct. 2021",
"The median home price here is a steep $539,370, which should come as no surprise given that the destination is home to many people fleeing Los Angeles and San Francisco, and is a popular place for vacation homes among the glitterati and well-heeled. \u2014 Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens , 27 Oct. 2021"
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"blend of glitter entry 2 and literati"
],
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"1940, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-205922"
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"type":[
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": gluttonously"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220702-220743"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": gladiolus sense 1"
],
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"\u02ccgla-d\u0113-\u02c8\u014d-l\u0259"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"People scrubbed their family grave plots with brushes before scattering marigold petals and leaving vases of gladiolas , photos, and personal remembrances. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 17 Oct. 2019",
"Lift tender bulbs and store (begonias, dahlias, gladiolas , etc.) Hardy bulbs (tulips, daffodils, crocus, etc.) can be planted until the ground is frozen. \u2014 Roxanne Washington, cleveland , 5 Oct. 2019",
"Their wives, mothers and other family members and friends, dressed in white and carrying gladiolas , began weekly marches along Havana's Fifth Avenue in support of the release of the prisoners. \u2014 Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald , 17 May 2018",
"The flower cross was soon heavy with fragrant lilies, gladiolas , roses and even a few colorful weeds from tiny children's hands, and was changed before our eyes into Holy art. \u2014 Greg Garrison, AL.com , 26 Mar. 2018",
"The last questions have to do with when to start gladiolas and dahlias. \u2014 Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News , 9 Mar. 2018",
"Invest in Future Blooms Now is the time to plant summer bulbs like dahlias and gladiolas . \u2014 Kier Holmes, Sunset , 22 Jan. 2018",
"Petunia, calibrachoa, tuberous begonia, the herb lavender, gladiolas and lilacs are among plants with violet tones. \u2014 Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star , 16 Jan. 2018",
"Starting this weekend festival vendors will also begin selling gladiolas and fragrant tuberoses, both of which are important in year-end prayers for ancestors, another cornerstone of Tet. \u2014 Lori Basheda, latimes.com , 9 Feb. 2018"
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"back-formation from gladiolus , taken as a plural"
],
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"1926, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-175414"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a usually gun-shaped electric tool used for melting and applying sticks of adhesive"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-181356"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":[
": any of various approximately spherical clusters of gravitationally associated stars that typically populate galactic halos"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The series of 1s and 0s was designed to convey simple information about humanity and biology and was sent toward the globular cluster M13. \u2014 Chris Impey, The Conversation , 29 Apr. 2022",
"That source turned out to be a globular cluster of stars in the nearby galaxy M81. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Based on the remaining uncertainty regarding the location of FRB 20200120E and the frequency of globular clusters within M81, the research team estimates that the chances of FRB 20200120E not being in this globular cluster is only about 1 in 10,000. \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 24 Feb. 2022",
"Still, if whatever funny, advanced creatures that possibly inhabit globular cluster M13, where the original primal message is headed, somehow tune in to this musical version, there just might be hope. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
"Direct from Earth orbit comes this awesome image of a globular cluster called NGC 6717, which lies more than 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 29 Sep. 2021",
"Back in our Milky Way galaxy, the session will also include the amazing Messier 3 globular cluster and\u2014much closer to home\u2014a couple of asteroids that are buzzing close to Earth. \u2014 Jamie Carter, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2021",
"But spring and fall are prime times for globular clusters (dense collections of ancient stars), especially on nights when bright moonlight might drown out the planets. \u2014 Erin E. Williams, Twin Cities , 24 Sep. 2019",
"The discovery has generated enough interest to earn the team precious time on the Hubble Space Telescope to study Dragonfly 44\u2019s globular clusters . \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 27 Sep. 2016"
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"first_known_use":[
"1785, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-195720"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": gluer",
": one who makes glue"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u00fcm\u0259n"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-201510"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a playing marble made of glass"
],
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"\u02c8gla-s\u0113"
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"first_known_use":[
"1887, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-203633"
},
"gladdon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": iris",
": stinking iris",
": cattail sense 1"
],
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"\u02c8glad\u1d4an"
],
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"Middle English gladen, gladene , from Old English gl\u00e6dene , perhaps modification of Latin gladiolus small sword, gladiolus"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220703-212658"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": hemoglobin a1c",
": hemoglobin a1c"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u012b-\u02cck\u0101-t\u0259d-",
"\u02c8gl\u012b-\u02cck\u0101-t\u0259d"
],
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"first_known_use":[
"1983, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-074540"
},
"globose":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": globular sense 1a(1)",
": globular sense 1"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u014d-\u02ccb\u014ds",
"\u02c8gl\u014d-\u02ccb\u014ds"
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"first_known_use":[
"1667, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-082640"
},
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"type":[
"transitive verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to apply glue to (the spine of a book) during the process of binding"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-083832"
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"glass harmonica":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a musical instrument consisting of a series of rotating glass bowls of differing sizes played by touching the dampened edges with a finger"
],
"pronounciation":[],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Across from the church on the Paul Revere Mall, a small crowd huddled around a table beneath a tree, listening to a woman tease music out of a glass harmonica . \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 4 July 2021",
"About 10 years later, Benjamin Franklin\u2014one of the founding fathers of the United States\u2014invented a mechanical version of the glass harp, called the glass harmonica . \u2014 Science Buddies, Scientific American , 26 Nov. 2015",
"Ethereal notes of a glass harmonica , its sound resembling that of clinking glasses, tinkled as incense wafted through the air. \u2014 National Geographic , 5 Mar. 2019",
"Playing vocal tag with the eerie glass harmonica , lying on her back to sing a vocalise of erotic ecstasy, her voice bloomed with radiant allure, and Lucia was herself at last. \u2014 Heidi Waleson, WSJ , 28 Sep. 2018",
"Giselle responds to sudden flourishes from the flute (or glass harmonica ), as if hearing calls from the beyond. \u2014 New York Times , 10 May 2018",
"These innovations were among a familiar list of discoveries and inventions we credit to his genius: electrical conduction, the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica . \u2014 John Wilmerding, WSJ , 28 June 2019",
"Ethereal notes of a glass harmonica , its sound resembling that of clinking glasses, tinkled as incense wafted through the air. \u2014 National Geographic , 5 Mar. 2019",
"Playing vocal tag with the eerie glass harmonica , lying on her back to sing a vocalise of erotic ecstasy, her voice bloomed with radiant allure, and Lucia was herself at last. \u2014 Heidi Waleson, WSJ , 28 Sep. 2018"
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"first_known_use":[
"1913, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-085744"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": glucuronide"
],
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"\u02ccgl\u00fcky\u0259\u02c8r\u00e4n\u0259\u02ccs\u012bd"
],
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"glucuron- (from glucuronic acid ) + -ose + -ide"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-122541"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an extender pigment made by coprecipitation of blanc fixe and a hydrate of alumina and used chiefly in printing inks"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-131843"
},
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"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":[
": gibe , joke"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u0113k"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"origin unknown"
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"1590, in the meaning defined above"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-133947"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": yellowhammer sense 1"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gladi"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"origin unknown"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-135522"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": having a maximum degree of hardness"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-151142"
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"glycemia":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the presence of glucose in the blood",
": the presence of glucose in the blood"
],
"pronounciation":[
"gl\u012b-\u02c8s\u0113-m\u0113-\u0259"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin"
],
"first_known_use":[
"1901, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-151427"
},
"glutose":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an unfermentable carbohydrate fraction formed by the action of alkali on glucose or fructose or found in cane molasses"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u00fc\u02cct\u014ds"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"International Scientific Vocabulary glu- (from glucose ) + -tose (from fructose )"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-154322"
},
"Glamorgan":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":[
"former county of southeastern Wales; capital Cardiff; divided 1974 into Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan, and West Glamorgan"
],
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"gl\u0259-\u02c8m\u022fr-g\u0259n"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-155115"
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"glucuronolactone":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a crystalline aldehydic lactone C 6 H 8 O 6 made from glucuronic acid by heating and used in medicine"
],
"pronounciation":[
"gl\u00fc\u00a6kyu\u0307r\u0259(\u02cc)n\u014d",
"\u00a6gl\u00fcky\u0259\u00a6r\u00e4n\u0259 +"
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"glucuron- (from glucuronic acid ) + -o- + lactone"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-173831"
},
"glancing":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
],
"definitions":[
": hitting so as to glance off",
": incidental , indirect"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glan(t)-si\u014b"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Some threads, like gay band members coming to terms with their sexuality in an environment built to exploit it, require more nuance than their glancing mentions can afford. \u2014 Caroline Framke, Variety , 21 June 2022",
"With a gun slung across his chest, the man held the gloved hand of a small boy, who gave him a shy and glancing smile. \u2014 Francesca Ebel, ajc , 3 Mar. 2022",
"The book too has been radically overhauled: Kushner set aside much of Laurents\u2019s script to rework motivations, reimagine backstory, and revisit the original\u2019s glancing and stereotypical approach to its Puerto Rican characters. \u2014 Jackson Mchenry, Vulture , 29 Dec. 2021",
"McClure has a different, more glancing touch, though deft as a diamond cutter. \u2014 Helen Shaw, Vulture , 5 Dec. 2021",
"Belfast\u2019s drama is a little more glancing , its childhood antics a little more cartoonish. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 12 Nov. 2021",
"Several of the principals had short or glancing careers in pro football, but none became stars. \u2014 James Rainey, Los Angeles Times , 19 Nov. 2021",
"Young leveled his revolver and shot at him, inflicting a glancing wound along Huntington\u2019s rib cage. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 16 July 2021",
"However, Kahnweiler offers only a glancing shot of the act itself. \u2014 Alex Mcelroy, The Atlantic , 5 July 2021"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"see glance entry 1"
],
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"circa 1541, in the meaning defined at sense 1"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-183852"
},
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"intransitive verb",
"noun",
"noun,"
],
"definitions":[
": outdoor camping with amenities and comforts (such as beds, electricity, and access to indoor plumbing) not usually used when camping"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8glam-pi\u014b"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"blend of glamour or glamorous and camping, gerund of camp entry 2"
],
"first_known_use":[
"2005, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-185421"
},
"glancing angle":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": the angle between an incident beam (as of X rays or electrons) and the surface upon which it is incident : the complement of the angle of incidence"
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"history_and_etymology":[
"glancing from gerund of glance entry 1"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-194712"
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"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":[
": to treat or describe (something, such as a serious problem or error) as if it were not important"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-200227"
},
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"definitions":[
"Definition of Glasite variant spelling of glassite"
],
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},
"Glossotherium":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a genus of large South American Pleistocene ground sloths related to the genus Mylodon that have the nostrils completely enclosed by the premaxillae so that the skull has a superficial likeness to that of a turtle"
],
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"-\u014d\u02c8thir\u0113\u0259m"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from gloss- + -therium"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220704-232633"
},
"glunch":{
"type":[
"intransitive verb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": to look sour or glum : frown",
": a sour or glum look"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u0259nch",
"\""
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"Intransitive verb",
"perhaps alteration of glum entry 1"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-023623"
},
"glutoid":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": gelatin hardened with formaldehyde and used in making enteric capsules and as a coating for enteric pills"
],
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"\u02c8gl\u00fc\u02cct\u022fid"
],
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"history_and_etymology":[
"International Scientific Vocabulary glut- (from gluten ) + -oid"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-032356"
},
"glory-lily":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": gloriosa sense 2"
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-035130"
},
"glumpy":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": grumpy"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-p\u0113"
],
"synonyms":[],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"glump + -y"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-040533"
},
"glumpish":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": somewhat grumpy"
],
"pronounciation":[
"-pish"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-061128"
},
"glamazon":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": an exceptionally glamorous, tall, and self-assured woman"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gla-m\u0259-\u02ccz\u00e4n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1943, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-083623"
},
"glutamine":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a crystalline amino acid C 5 H 10 N 2 O 3 that is found both free and in proteins in plants and animals and that yields glutamic acid and ammonia on hydrolysis",
": a crystalline amino acid C 5 H 10 N 2 O 3 that is found both free and in proteins in plants and animals and that yields glutamic acid and ammonia on hydrolysis"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u00fc-t\u0259-\u02ccm\u0113n",
"\u02c8gl\u00fct-\u0259-\u02ccm\u0113n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This is a substitution of lysine for glutamine at position 452 (L452Q). \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Your gut has a hearty appetite for the amino acid glutamine . \u2014 Patrick Wilson, Outside Online , 2 Nov. 2020",
"The glutamic acid is substituted by the polar uncharged amino acid glutamine (E484Q). \u2014 William A. Haseltine, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2021",
"In some lineages the mutation was Q677P, where the 677th amino acid of the spike protein changed from glutamine (Q) to proline (P). \u2014 New York Times , 15 Feb. 2021",
"Crystals formed after heating an ethanol-and-water solution containing L- glutamine and beta-alanine. \u2014 Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American , 15 Oct. 2020",
"Starting in the 1950s, researchers tried to turn tumors\u2019 glutamine dependence against them, developing drugs to block its metabolism. \u2014 Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS , 7 Nov. 2019",
"Consuming collagen is a particularly great way to get more conditional amino acids, like arginine, glutamine , glycine and proline. \u2014 Better Health Market, Detroit Free Press , 30 July 2019",
"That\u2019s got your biotin, your collagen, your glutamine , your niacinamide. \u2014 Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country , 23 Feb. 2019"
],
"history_and_etymology":[
"International Scientific Vocabulary glut en + amine"
],
"first_known_use":[
"circa 1885, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-091325"
},
"glossopyrosis":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":[
": a burning sensation in the tongue"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccgl\u00e4s\u014d\u02ccp\u012b\u02c8r\u014ds\u0259\u0307s",
"\u02ccgl\u022fs-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from gloss- + Greek pyr\u014dsis burning, inflammation"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-091701"
},
"gladiolar":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": of or relating to the gladiolus (see gladiolus sense 3 )"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6glad\u0113\u00a6\u014dl\u0259(r)"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"gladiol us + -ar"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-102537"
},
"globoid":{
"type":[
"adjective"
],
"definitions":[
": shaped like a sphere",
": spheroidal"
],
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8gl\u014d-\u02ccb\u022fid",
"\u02c8gl\u014d-\u02ccb\u022fid"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[],
"first_known_use":[
"1867, in the meaning defined above"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-112837"
},
"globo-":{
"type":[
"combining form"
],
"definitions":[
": global : spherical",
": globular",
"\u2014often joined to second element with a hyphen",
": worldwide",
": globe : sphere"
],
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":[
"New Latin, from Latin globus ball"
],
"first_known_use":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220705-125235"
},
"glutition":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": deglutition":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"gl\u00fc\u02c8tish\u0259n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Latin gluttition-, gluttitio , from Latin gluttitus , past participle of gluttire to swallow":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-105940"
}
}
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