Follow TheFreeDictionary.com - Word Of The Day, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/thefreedictionary-com-d-word-of-the-day Sat, 02 Dec 2023 17:33:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbB0lYlCoeIC3n9ye8UNv30 Definition: (noun) The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition.
Synonyms: zoo.
Usage: Through the dim smoke-haze the bunks looked like the sleeping dens of animals in a menagerie.
Discuss]]> Sat, 02 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbB0lYlCoeIC3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Ra9zo9Oxnks0Xn9ye8UNv30 Definition: (noun) A skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research.
Synonyms: aquanaut.
Usage: The machinery on the ocean floor required constant maintenance, so the company had a team of oceanauts stationed nearby.
Discuss]]> Fri, 01 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Ra9zo9Oxnks0Xn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RajEaQVCdrsrV1cWWor9YPv Definition: (noun) A steep bowl-shaped hollow occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley, especially one forming the head of a glacier or stream.
Synonyms: corrie, cwm.
Usage: We followed the stream up the incline until we reached the cirque that was its source.
Discuss]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RajEaQVCdrsrV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbmKLJEHXQkDl1cWWor9YPv Definition: (noun) A portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier.
Synonyms: loud-hailer.
Usage: The policeman used a bullhorn to order the crowd to disperse.
Discuss]]> Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbmKLJEHXQkDl1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rb_UAPMJGE62-zdsCmHakzH Definition: (noun) A protruding abdomen.
Synonyms: belly.
Usage: Jim's bride was an excellent cook, and after only a few weeks of marriage, he began to develop a significant paunch.
Discuss]]> Tue, 28 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rb_UAPMJGE62-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYz2jlKRDRaM3n9ye8UNv30 Definition: (adjective) So trifling or trivial as to be beneath one's consideration.
Synonyms: trivial, petty, fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune, piffling, lilliputian, little.
Usage: Because she had only invested a piddling sum of money, she was not worried about the stock's poor performance.
Discuss]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYz2jlKRDRaM3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYlfTBPC6thFiejEQ2Mq9rY Definition: (noun) A low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage.
Synonyms: dray.
Usage: An empty camion came bumping down the cobblestone street, pulled by two exhausted horses.
Discuss]]> Sun, 26 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYlfTBPC6thFiejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZKsUDsQcXojXn9ye8UNv30 Definition: (noun) A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation.
Synonyms: aspersion, defamation, denigration, slander.
Usage: When it became clear that he could not win the election any other way, the candidate resorted to calumny and dirty tricks.
Discuss]]> Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZKsUDsQcXojXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZ9fYdZhZN-rqCY3L745TL_ Definition: (noun) A comfortable or complacent member of the middle class.
Synonyms: bourgeois.
Usage: From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns.
Discuss]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZ9fYdZhZN-rqCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZ350C_NYqXe-T5HJgy6HUf Definition: (noun) A long-stemmed sacred or ceremonial tobacco pipe used by certain Native American peoples.
Synonyms: peace pipe.
Usage: Among the Blackfeet warriors who advanced with the calumet of peace she recognized a brother.
Discuss]]> Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZ350C_NYqXe-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RaUrduga8S5Vps0ohxaO6Yr Definition: (noun) An iced cocktail of rum, lime or lemon juice, and sugar.
Synonyms: rum cocktail.
Usage: They knew he was lying about being a bartender when he was unable to correctly mix a daiquiri.
Discuss]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RaUrduga8S5Vps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RaoAUnKVBQd4qCY3L745TL_ Definition: (noun) A method of betting, as on a horserace, in which the bettor must correctly pick those finishing in the first and second places in precisely that sequence.
Synonyms: perfecta.
Usage: Even though she knew it was risky, she was tempted to go for the exacta, which had a higher payout than a bet on just the winning horse.
Discuss]]> Tue, 21 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RaoAUnKVBQd4qCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rb_ds0dvvcSoiejEQ2Mq9rY Definition: (adjective) Strong and muscular.
Synonyms: hefty, sinewy, muscular, powerful.
Usage: The muscles of his brawny arms showed through the sleeves of his light summer coat.
Discuss]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Rb_ds0dvvcSoiejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Ra_8Ixg11wIaXn9ye8UNv30 Definition: (noun) A connoisseur of good food and drink.
Synonyms: epicure, epicurean, foodie, gourmet, bon vivant.
Usage: He was quite the gastronome, and restaurant chefs around the town knew it was important to impress him.
Discuss]]> Sun, 19 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4Ra_8Ixg11wIaXn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZWOHqirhvznilmFkX7M1Jw Definition: (noun) The group following and attending to some important person.
Synonyms: entourage, cortege, suite.
Usage: Guillaume Lejean…reached Karthoum by way of the Red Sea, and embarked upon the Nile with a retinue of twenty-one hired men and twenty soldiers.
Discuss]]> Sat, 18 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RZWOHqirhvznilmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbHo6ez8hsqKilmFkX7M1Jw Definition: (noun) One that supports a cause, especially vehemently.
Synonyms: partisan, zealot.
Usage: The editor of the newspaper was an unabashed drumbeater for the cause.
Discuss]]> Fri, 17 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbHo6ez8hsqKilmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbHLUFbnpsnuqCY3L745TL_ Definition: (noun) The panel of prospective jurors from which a jury is selected.
Synonyms: panel.
Usage: Most of the people on the venire just wanted to go home, but I was hoping to be selected for the jury.
Discuss]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RbHLUFbnpsnuqCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYJPmu9oEMVseT5HJgy6HUf Definition: (noun) A group of cells that make up a section or unit of a prison.
Synonyms: ward.
Usage: At the prison, one cellblock was reserved for particularly violent criminals, and it was monitored by twice the number of armed guards.
Discuss]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYJPmu9oEMVseT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYRtjtb883eHMb1naedg1wr Definition: (adjective) Thin and bony; angular.
Synonyms: cadaverous, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted.
Usage: A gaunt Wolf was almost dead with hunger when he happened to meet a House-dog who was passing by.
Discuss]]> Tue, 14 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYRtjtb883eHMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/9pa97e5M4RYznIbUK95OTeT5HJgy6HUf Definition: (adjective) Of or characterized by one color; (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength.
Synonyms: monochromatic.
Usage: The room appeared dull yellow in the dim, homochromatic light.
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