# translation

lexentry: eng/Indian_cobra__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indian cobra
trans_list: Brillenschlange
sense:
A cobra of the species Naja naja, having on its hood two circular ocelli patterns connected by a curved line.


lexentry: eng/Indian_coral_tree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indian coral tree
trans_list: Indischer Korallenbaum
sense:
A tree, Erythrina variegata, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of eastern Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, northern Australia, and the islands of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean east to Fiji.


lexentry: eng/Indian_summer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indian summer
trans_list: Altweibersommer
sense:
A stretch of sunny and warm, often hazy, days during late autumn. [from late 18th c., popularized in the early 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Indian_summer__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Indian summer
trans_list: zweiter Frühling
sense:
(figuratively) The late autumn of life; a late flowering of activity before old age. [from early 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Indian_sunburn__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indian sunburn
trans_list: Brennnessel
sense:
(slang) The prank of grabbing a victim's forearm in both hands and twisting the skin in opposite directions.


lexentry: eng/Indo-Aryan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indo-Aryan
trans_list: Indoarisch
sense:
A branch of Indo-Iranian and thus Indo-European language family, with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million, chiefly in South Asia.


lexentry: eng/Indo-European__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Indo-European
trans_list: indoeuropäisch | indogermanisch | urindogermanisch
sense:
Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family. Also called Proto-Indo-European and abbreviated PIE.


lexentry: eng/Indo-European__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indo-European
trans_list: Indoeuropäer | Indoeuropäerin | Indogermane | Indogermanin
sense:
A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-European and thus to have been the ancestor for most of India and Western Eurasia.


lexentry: eng/Indo-European_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indo-European studies
trans_list: Indogermanistik
sense:
The academic study of the Indo-European languages in relation to Proto-Indo-European, and sometimes of related humanities. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/Indo-Europeanist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indo-Europeanist
trans_list: Indogermanist | Indogermanistin
sense:
(indo-european studies) A scientist (usually a linguist or anthropologist) engaged in Indo-European studies.


lexentry: eng/Indochina__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indochina
trans_list: Indochina
sense:
The former French colonial part of Southeast Asia comprising the peninsula containing Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and more broadly, Myanmar and Thailand.


lexentry: eng/Industrial_Revolution__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Industrial Revolution
trans_list: Industrielle Revolution
sense:
(historical) The major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture.


lexentry: eng/Information_Age__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Information Age
trans_list: Informationszeitalter
sense:
The current era, characterised by the increasing importance and availability of information (especially by means of computers), as opposed to previous eras (such as the Industrial Age) in which most endeavours related to some physical process or product.


lexentry: eng/Ingush__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ingush
trans_list: Ingusche | Inguschin
sense:
A member of a Nakh people of the northeastern Caucasus, now mostly Sunni Muslim and resident in the Russian republic of Ingushetia.


lexentry: eng/Ingvaeonic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ingvaeonic
trans_list: Ingwäonisch
sense:
North Sea Germanic, a postulated grouping of the West Germanic languages that comprises Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon (and their descendants).


lexentry: eng/Instagram__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Instagram
trans_list: Instagram
sense:
(Internet) An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.


lexentry: eng/Interlingua__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Interlingua
trans_list: Interlingua
sense:
A constructed interlanguage based on Romance languages, English, German, Russian and Latin, developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association, and first published in 1951.


lexentry: eng/International_Court_of_Justice__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: International Court of Justice
trans_list: Internationaler Gerichtshof
sense:
(UN) A judicial body of the United Nations, established in 1945 to decide disputes brought by nations.


lexentry: eng/International_Date_Line__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: International Date Line
trans_list: Datumsgrenze
sense:
An imaginary line on the Earth's surface at 180° longitude, mostly through the Pacific Ocean, to the east of which the calendar date is one day earlier than to the west.


lexentry: eng/International_Monetary_Fund__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: International Monetary Fund
trans_list: Internationaler Währungsfonds
sense:
The international organization entrusted with overseeing the global financial system by monitoring foreign exchange rates and balance of payments, as well as offering technical and financial assistance when asked.


lexentry: eng/International_System_of_Units__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: International System of Units
trans_list: Internationales Einheitensystem
sense:
(metrology) A standard set of units of measurement for use in scientific literature worldwide. The newest and most widespread version of the metric system.


lexentry: eng/International_Women's_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: International Women's Day
trans_list: Internationaler Frauentag | Weltfrauentag
sense:
A holiday celebrated on March 8, with a focus on women's liberation, rights, class struggle, and femininity in general.


lexentry: eng/Internationale__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Internationale
trans_list: Internationale
sense:
A general left-wing anthem for solidarity and emancipation of the working class, dating back to the 19th century.


lexentry: eng/Internet__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Internet
trans_list: Internet | Netz
sense:
The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.


lexentry: eng/Internet_address__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Internet address
trans_list: Internetadresse
sense:
(computing, Internet) Any address used to identify a place or resource on the Internet, such as a URL, an IP address, or a domain name.


lexentry: eng/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Invisible Pink Unicorn
trans_list: unsichtbares rosafarbenes Einhorn
sense:
(Internet slang, humorous) A unicorn goddess who is simultaneously invisible and pink, used in arguments against faith in an unprovable deity.


lexentry: eng/Io__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Io
trans_list: Io
sense:
(Greek mythology) The daughter of Inachus river god, and a lover of Zeus, turned by the latter into a heifer.


lexentry: eng/Io__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Io
trans_list: Io
sense:
(astronomy) A moon of Jupiter, known for its volcanic activity, peppered with about 400 active volcanoes.


lexentry: eng/Ionia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ionia
trans_list: Ionien | Jonien
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError; An Ancient Greek settlement on the west coast of Asia Minor inhabited by the Ionians, one of the four main Hellenic tribes.


lexentry: eng/Ionian_Islands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ionian Islands
trans_list: Ionische Inseln
sense:
A group of islands in the Ionian Sea - one of the 13 peripheries of Greece. The main islands are Cephalonia, Corfu, Ithaca, Kythira, Lefkada, Paxoi and Zante.


lexentry: eng/Iphigenia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iphigenia
trans_list: Iphigenie
sense:
(Greek mythology) The daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, who is sacrificed by her father to ensure the safe journey of the Greeks to Troy.


lexentry: eng/Iranian_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iranian studies
trans_list: Iranistik
sense:
(humanities) an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples


lexentry: eng/Ireland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Ireland
trans_list: Irland
sense:
A republic occupying the majority-area of the island of Ireland, with Northern Ireland occupying the rest of the island. Also known as the Republic of Ireland since 1949.


lexentry: eng/Iriomote_cat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iriomote cat
trans_list: Iriomote-Katze
sense:
(zoology) A small wild cat, Prionailurus iriomotensis, found only on the Japanese island of Iriomote. It has a long, dark brown coat with darker rows of horizontal spots.


lexentry: eng/Irish_Free_State__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Irish Free State
trans_list: Irischer Freistaat
sense:
(historical, 1922–1937) An autonomous dominion under nominal British sovereignty that included most of the island of Ireland, created in 1922 as part of a treaty between the British government and Irish republicans.


lexentry: eng/Irish_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Irish Sea
trans_list: Irische See
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. A sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland; bordered to the north by the North Channel and to the south by St George's Channel and the Celtic Sea.


lexentry: eng/Iron_Age__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iron Age
trans_list: Eisenzeit
sense:
(mythology) The most recent and debased of the four or five classical Ages of Man; hence, any period characterized by wicked behavior. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/Iron_Age__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Iron Age
trans_list: Eisenzeit
sense:
(archaeology) A level of culture in which humans used iron and the technology of ironworking. (Estimated to have begun in Europe about 1100BC) [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Iron_Cross__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iron Cross
trans_list: Eisernes Kreuz
sense:
(military) (formerly) the second highest military decoration of Germany, under the military order of the Pour le Mérite, or the cross pattée shape of this decoration.


lexentry: eng/Iron_Curtain__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iron Curtain
trans_list: Eiserner Vorhang | eiserner Vorhang
sense:
(historical) The dividing line between Western Europe and the Soviet controlled regions, especially during the Cold War.


lexentry: eng/Iroquois__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iroquois
trans_list: Irokese
sense:
A member of a confederacy of (originally) five Native American (Indian) tribes: the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas. Also known as the Iroquois League.


lexentry: eng/Isaac__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Isaac
trans_list: Isaak
sense:
(biblical character) The son of Abraham and Sarah, father of Esau and Jacob, from whom the Hebrew people trace their descent.


lexentry: eng/Iscariot__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iscariot
trans_list: Ischariot
sense:
(Christianity) Epithet of Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver, and of his father Simon Iscariot.


lexentry: eng/Ishmael__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ishmael
trans_list: Ismael
sense:
(Abrahamic religions) The eldest son of Abraham and his wife's handmaiden Hagar who were cast out after the birth of Isaac; traditionally the ancestor of the Arabs via the Ishmaelites.


lexentry: eng/Isis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Isis
trans_list: Isis
sense:
(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, worshiped as the ideal mother and wife and as the matron of nature and magic.


lexentry: eng/Islam__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Islam
trans_list: Islam
sense:
A monotheistic Abrahamic religion followed by Muslims that is based on the teachings of Muhammad and the Qur'an.


lexentry: eng/Islamic_State__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Islamic State
trans_list: Islamischer Staat
sense:
A Salafist group active in Libya, Nigeria, Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed an (unrecognized) state.


lexentry: eng/Islamic_fundamentalism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Islamic fundamentalism
trans_list: islamischer Fundamentalismus
sense:
A revolutionary movement towards Islamism, with literal and traditional interpretations of their sacred texts. It is often used to describe Muslim groups that advocate the replacement of secular state laws with Islamic law, or Shari'a.


lexentry: eng/Islamism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Islamism
trans_list: Islamismus
sense:
(by extension) Islamic fundamentalism, especially the forms that promote violence, hostility, and persecution of non-believers. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/Israelite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Israelite
trans_list: Israelit | Israelitin
sense:
A native or inhabitant of (i) the united nation of Israel (under the Judges, and then kings Saul, David and Solomon), or (ii) the later northern kingdom centered in Samaria, distinct from kingdom of Judah centered in Jerusalem.


lexentry: eng/Istanbul__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Istanbul
trans_list: Istanbul
sense:
A Turkish city, and the largest European city by population, which was the last capital of the Ottoman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).


lexentry: eng/Istria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Istria
trans_list: Istrien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, Slovenia, and Italy, on the northeastern coast of the Adriatic Sea: The Istrian Peninsula.


lexentry: eng/Istro-Romanian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Istro-Romanian
trans_list: Istrorumänisch | istrorumänische Sprache
sense:
An endangered Eastern Romance language spoken in the Istrian region of Croatia, and related to Romanian, Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian.


lexentry: eng/Italian_Peninsula__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Italian Peninsula
trans_list: Apenninhalbinsel
sense:
A large peninsula in Southern Europe protruding into the Mediterranean Sea and shaped like a boot. The mountain range of Apennines runs across it from north to south. Occupied almost entirely by Italy.


lexentry: eng/Italian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Italian
trans_list: Italienisch | italienisch
sense:
(uncountable) The official language of Italy, also spoken in San Marino, the Vatican, and parts of Argentina, Slovenia and Switzerland.


lexentry: eng/Italian_oak__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Italian oak
trans_list: ungarische Eiche
sense:
Quercus frainetto, a species of oak native to southeastern Europe (parts of Italy, the Balkans, parts of Hungary, Romania) and Turkey.


lexentry: eng/Italianization__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Italianization
trans_list: Italianisierung
sense:
(historical) The forced cultural and ethnic assimilation of minorities in the Kingdom of Italy, with particular reference to the Fascist government (1922–1943).


lexentry: eng/Italic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Italic
trans_list: italisch
sense:
(Indo-European studies) Pertaining to a subfamily of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy


lexentry: eng/Iwo_Jima__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iwo Jima
trans_list: Iwojima
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, now administered as part of Tokyo's Ogasawara Subprefecture and most famous for a major battle in World War II.


lexentry: eng/Ixion__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ixion
trans_list: Ixion
sense:
(Greek mythology) King of Lapiths, who was punished by Zeus for trying to seduce Hera by being bound to a winged fiery wheel that was always spinning.


lexentry: eng/Ixion__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Ixion
trans_list: Ixion
sense:
(astronomy) A Kuiper belt object (KBO), 28978 Ixion (provisional designation 2001 KX76), once thought to be a possible dwarf planet.


lexentry: eng/Izmir__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Izmir
trans_list: Izmir
sense:
A major Turkish port city situated midway along the western Anatolian seaboard, geographically continuous with the ancient city of Smyrna.


lexentry: eng/Jack_the_Ripper__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jack the Ripper
trans_list: Jack der Aufschlitzer
sense:
A supposed individual who was an unidentified 19th century serial killer in England, who has become part of folklore.


lexentry: eng/Jacob's_ladder__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Jacob's ladder
trans_list: Jakobsleiter
sense:
A toy consisting of blocks of wood, held together by strings or ribbons, that appear to cascade downward as they flip over.


lexentry: eng/Jacob's_ladder__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: Jacob's ladder
trans_list: Jakobsleiter
sense:
A high-voltage electrical device, often used as a visual effect in old movies, which has a pair of vertical electrodes that form an arc between them starting at the bottom, rising to the top, then repeating.


lexentry: eng/Jacob__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jacob
trans_list: Jakob
sense:
(biblical character) One of the sons of Isaac and Rebecca, and twin brother of Esau; father of the Israelites (Jews and Samaritans) by 12 sons by 4 consorts, most famously Judah and Joseph who fathered Manasseh; was renamed to Israel.


lexentry: eng/Jacobin__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
sense: A breed of domestic pigeon (known for its feathered hood over its head).
written_rep: Jacobin
trans_list:
Perückentaube | Perückentauber | Perückentauberich | Perückentäuber | Perückentäuberich | Perückentäubin


lexentry: eng/Jacobite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jacobite
trans_list: Jakobite | Jakobitin
sense:
(historical) A supporter of the restoration of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland in the late 17th century. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/Jahannam__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jahannam
trans_list: Dschahannam
sense:
(Islam) Islamic concept of hell, where unfaithful Muslims not true to their religion will be punished, but will eventually be forgiven.


lexentry: eng/Jamahiriya__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jamahiriya
trans_list: Dschamahirija
sense:
(historical) State of the masses; people's republic; the form of the Libyan state ruled by Muammar Gaddafi from 1977-2011, during which time it was known first as the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya then as the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.


lexentry: eng/James_Bond__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: James Bond
trans_list: James Bond
sense:
A fictional British spy in the novels of Ian Fleming and the motion pictures based on these novels, famous for his suavity, ingenuity, ruthlessness and supply of gadgets.


lexentry: eng/James__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: James
trans_list: Jakobus | Jakob
sense:
One of two Apostles, James the Greater and James the Less, often identified with James, brother of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/Jammu__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Jammu
trans_list: Jammu
sense:
The city of Jammu, located on the banks of Tawi river, which is one the largest cities in this region and which serves as the winter capital of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.


lexentry: eng/Jammu_and_Kashmir__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jammu and Kashmir
trans_list: Jammu und Kashmir
sense:
(now, historical) A princely state which governed the region of Kashmir, the territory of which is now de facto divided between China, India, and Pakistan.


lexentry: eng/Jansenism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jansenism
trans_list: Jansenismus
sense:
The Catholic doctrines of Cornelius Jansen and his followers, which emphasise original sin, divine grace and predestination; condemned as a heresy by Pope Innocent X in 1653


lexentry: eng/January__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: January
trans_list: Januar | Jänner | Hartung
sense:
The first month of the Gregorian calendar, following the December of the previous year and preceding February. Abbreviation: Jan or Jan.


lexentry: eng/Janus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Janus
trans_list: Janus
sense:
(Roman god) The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.


lexentry: eng/Japanese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Japanese
trans_list: Japaner | Japanerin | Japanese
sense:
(countable, chiefly, in the plural) A person/people living in or coming from Japan, or of Japanese ancestry.


lexentry: eng/Japanese_beetle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Japanese beetle
trans_list: Japankäfer
sense:
A beetle of species Popillia japonica, with iridescent copper-colored elytra and green thorax and head, an invasive pest outside of Japan.


lexentry: eng/Japanese_encephalitis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Japanese encephalitis
trans_list: Japanische Enzephalitis
sense:
(pathology) A viral disease prevalent in south-east Asia, caused by Japanese encephalitis virus transmitted by mosquito.


lexentry: eng/Japanese_knotweed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Japanese knotweed
trans_list: japanischer Staudenknöterich
sense:
A large, herbaceous perennial plant, Fallopia japonica, native to Asia; it is a highly invasive colonizer outside of its native territory.


lexentry: eng/Japanese_night_heron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Japanese night heron
trans_list: Rotscheitelreiher
sense:
An endangered species of night heron, Gorsachius goisagi, which breeds in Japan and winters in the Philippines and Indonesia, and can also be seen in the spring and summer in Korea and the Russian Far East.


lexentry: eng/Japanese_spitz__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Japanese spitz
trans_list: Japan-Spitz
sense:
(zoology) A small breed of dog from Japan, having a somewhat square body, deep chest, and very thick, pure white double coat.


lexentry: eng/Japanese_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Japanese studies
trans_list: Japanologie
sense:
(humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Japanese language, Japanese linguistics, and Japanese sociolinguistics.


lexentry: eng/Japheth__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Japheth
trans_list: Japhet | Japheth
sense:
(biblical character) The third son of Noah, brother to Shem and Ham, who received a blessing from God with Shem, considered to be the ancestor of the Japhetic people(s) (associated approx. with Indo-Europeans).


lexentry: eng/JavaScript__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: JavaScript
trans_list: JavaScript
sense:
(computer language) A scripting programming language most commonly used to add interactive features to webpages.


lexentry: eng/Jedi__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jedi
trans_list: Jedi
sense:
(scifi) One of a fictional order of beings from the Star Wars universe who are gifted with heightened awareness of the Force.


lexentry: eng/Jehovah's_Witness__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jehovah's Witness
trans_list: Zeuge Jehovas | Zeugin Jehovas
sense:
A member of a monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group. Originally known as International Bible Students or Bible Students.


lexentry: eng/Jehovah's_Witnesses__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jehovah's Witnesses
trans_list: Zeugen Jehovas
sense:
A monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded by Charles Taze Russell in 1879 as a small Bible study group. Originally known as International Bible Students or Bible Students.


lexentry: eng/Jena_glass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jena glass
trans_list: Jenaer Glas
sense:
A type of fine-quality borosilicate glass with high resistance to shock and heat, used in science, technology, and tableware.


lexentry: eng/Jeroboam__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jeroboam
trans_list: Jerobeam
sense:
A bottle of champagne or Burgundy wine containing 3 liters of fluid, four times the volume of a standard bottle.


lexentry: eng/Jeroboam__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Jeroboam
trans_list: Jerobeam
sense:
A bottle of Bordeaux wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.


lexentry: eng/Jerusalem_artichoke__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jerusalem artichoke
trans_list: Topinambur
sense:
A variety of sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, native to North America, having yellow flower heads and edible tubers.


lexentry: eng/Jerusalem_cross__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jerusalem cross
trans_list: Jerusalemkreuz
sense:
(heraldry) a cross variant consisting of a large cross potent surrounded by four smaller Greek crosses, one in each quadrant.


lexentry: eng/Jesus_Christ__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jesus Christ
trans_list: Jesus Christus
sense:
Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher and craftsman (commonly understood to have been a carpenter, see Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”)) from Galilee, held to be a prophet, teacher and the Messiah, or Christ, in Christianity. Held to be a prophet in Islam and the Baháʼí Faith.


lexentry: eng/Jesus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jesus
trans_list: Jesus
sense:
Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish religious preacher and craftsman (commonly understood to have been a carpenter, see Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”)) from Galilee held to be a prophet, teacher, the son of God, and the Messiah, or Christ, in Christianity; also called "Jesus Christ" by Christians. Held to be a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís.


lexentry: eng/Jew's-ear__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jew's-ear
trans_list: Judasohr
sense:
A kind of edible fungus, Auricularia auricula-judae, growing on tree-trunks, formerly used for medicinal purposes.


lexentry: eng/Jew's_harp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jew's harp
trans_list: Maultrommel | Brummeisen | Judenharfe | Maulgeige | Mundtrommel
sense:
A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer's mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.


lexentry: eng/Jew's_harpist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
sense: Someone who plays a Jew's harp.
written_rep: Jew's harpist
trans_list:
Brummeisenspieler | Brummeisenspielerin | Maultrommelspieler | Maultrommelspielerin | Maultrommler | Maultrommlerin


lexentry: eng/Jewish_Bolshevism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jewish Bolshevism
trans_list: Judäo-Bolschewismus | Jüdischer Bolschewismus
sense:
(derogatory) Soviet Communism (Marxism-Leninism) when viewed, usually by people on the right wing, as a Jewish political ideology; Judeo-Bolshevism.


lexentry: eng/Jewry__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Jewry
trans_list: Judenheit | Judentum
sense:
(historical) The quarter of a town or city inhabited either partially or exclusively by Jews; historically, its main buildings were the synagogue, the ritual bath or mikve, the kosher-oriented butchery and bakery, etc. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/Jezebel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jezebel
trans_list: Isebel
sense:
(biblical character) The Phoenician princess and Queen of Ancient Israel who appears in the Old Testament (1 Kings & 2 Kings). She incited heresy and lured the Jews away from their God and back to idols.


lexentry: eng/Jigglypuff__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jigglypuff
trans_list: Pummeluff
sense:
(sometimes, _, attributive) Something that resembles the Pokémon Jigglypuff, e.g. by being rotund, bright pink, or able to induce sleep.


lexentry: eng/Joachimsthaler__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Joachimsthaler
trans_list: Joachimsthaler
sense:
(historical) A large silver coin of the 16th century in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, today Czech Republic.


lexentry: eng/Job's_tears__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Job's tears
trans_list: Hiobsträne | Hiobstränengras
sense:
Coix lacryma-jobi, a tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the family Poaceae, native to southeast Asia.


lexentry: eng/Joe_Public__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Joe Public
trans_list: (schwedischer) Otto Normalverbraucher
sense:
(idiomatic) A hypothetical average or generic member of the public; the common man (or person, by extension).


lexentry: eng/John__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: John
trans_list: Johannes
sense:
(biblical) Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).


lexentry: eng/John__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: John
trans_list: (das Evangelium nach) Johannes | Joh
sense:
(biblical) The Gospel of St. John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.


lexentry: eng/John__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: John
trans_list: Johannes | 1 | 2 | 3 Joh
sense:
(biblical) One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).


lexentry: eng/Johnson__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Johnson
trans_list: Johansen
sense:
A common surname transferred from the given name. The second most common surname in the United States.


lexentry: eng/Jolly_Roger__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jolly Roger
trans_list: Piratenflagge | Totenkopffahne | Totenkopfflagge
sense:
The traditional flag used on European and American pirate ships, and, more recently, by submarine crews, often pictured as a white skull and crossbones on a black field; the blackjack. [from early 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/Jovian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Jovian
trans_list: Jupitermensch
sense:
(Roman mythology) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus); Jove-like; befitting Jupiter.


lexentry: eng/Judah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Judah
trans_list: Juda
sense:
(biblical) The southern Israelite kingdom which continued to be ruled by the Davidic dynasty after Solomon's death and the breakup of the united monarchy, with the northern portion keeping the name Israel.


lexentry: eng/Judahite__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Judahite
trans_list: judäisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to Judah (the patriarch), to the tribe of Judah, or to the ancient kingdom of Judah, or its inhabitants.


lexentry: eng/Judaism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Judaism
trans_list: Judentum | Judaismus
sense:
An Abrahamic religion tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle East, as documented in their religious writings, the Tanakh.


lexentry: eng/Judaizer__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Judaizer
trans_list: Judaisierer | Judaisiererin
sense:
(historical) One of the Jews who accepted Christianity but still adhered to the law of Moses and worshipped in the temple at Jerusalem.


lexentry: eng/Judas_Iscariot__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Judas Iscariot
trans_list: Judas Ischariot
sense:
(biblical character) One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.


lexentry: eng/Judas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Judas
trans_list: Judas
sense:
(biblical character) One of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, known for his role in Jesus' betrayal into the hands of Roman authorities.


lexentry: eng/Judas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Judas
trans_list: Judas
sense:
(biblical, archaic) Alternative form of Jude, the penultimate book of the Bible and its ascribed author, Jude the Apostle.


lexentry: eng/Judas_tree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Judas tree
trans_list: Judasbaum
sense:
A small deciduous tree, Cercis siliquastrum, noted for its prolific display of deep-pink flowers in spring.


lexentry: eng/Judea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Judea
trans_list: Judäa
sense:
Roman rendition of Judah. Used after the fall of the Davidic dynasty and through the period as part of the Roman Empire.


lexentry: eng/Julian_calendar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Julian calendar
trans_list: Julianischer Kalender
sense:
The calendar which was used in the western world before the present-day Gregorian calendar. The Julian calendar differed in having all multiple-of-4 years as leap years.


lexentry: eng/July_Monarchy__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: July Monarchy
trans_list: Julimonarchie
sense:
A period of liberal constitutional monarchy in France under King Louis-Philippe starting with the July Revolution (or Three Glorious Days) of 1830 and ending with the February Revolution of 1848.


lexentry: eng/July__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: July
trans_list: Juli | Heuert
sense:
The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August. Abbreviation: Jul or Jul.


lexentry: eng/June__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: June
trans_list: Juni | Brachet
sense:
The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July. Abbreviation: Jun or Jun.


lexentry: eng/Juneteenth__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Juneteenth
trans_list: Emanzipationtag | Freilassungtag
sense:
(US) Also more fully as Juneteenth Day: the United States national holiday commemorating the end of slavery, observed on June 19.


lexentry: eng/Jupiter__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Jupiter
trans_list: Jupiter
sense:
(Roman god) The King of the Gods, also called Jove. Equivalent to the Greek Zeus, Jupiter was one of the children of Saturn. As supreme god of the Roman pantheon, Jupiter was the god of thunder, lightning, and storms, and appropriately called the god of light and sky.


lexentry: eng/Jurassic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jurassic
trans_list: Jura
sense:
(geology, paleontology) The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.


lexentry: eng/Justinian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Justinian
trans_list: Justinian
sense:
A family name in Late Antiquity, notably that of Justinian I, emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 527 to 565.


lexentry: eng/Justitia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Justitia
trans_list: Justitia
sense:
(Roman god) One of the Horae, she is the goddess of justice. She is the daughter of Jupiter and Themis; her sisters are Pax and Eunomia. She is the Roman counterpart of Dike.


lexentry: eng/Jute__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Jute
trans_list: Jüte | Jütin
sense:
A member of the Germanic tribe that existed in modern-day Denmark that invaded England about the same time as the Angles and the Saxons in the beginning of the Middle Ages, but were eventually integrated by the time of the Norman Conquest.


lexentry: eng/K__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: K
trans_list: K
sense:
(baseball) On a baseball scorecard, a frontwards K signifies striking out while swinging the bat, while a backwards K signifies striking out while looking.


lexentry: eng/Kaaba__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kaaba
trans_list: Kaaba
sense:
The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly


lexentry: eng/Kabardian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kabardian
trans_list: Kabardinisch
sense:
A North Caucasian language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, also known as East Circassian.


lexentry: eng/Kabballah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kabballah
trans_list: Kabbala | Kaballah
sense:
(Judaism) A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures.


lexentry: eng/Kabyle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kabyle
trans_list: Kabylisch | kabylische Sprache
sense:
A Northern Berber language of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic language family, spoken by over 3,000,000 people in Algeria; native name Taqbaylit.


lexentry: eng/Kachin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kachin
trans_list: Kachin | Katschin
sense:
Any of a number of non-Burman ethnolinguistic groups in Kachin State, Burma, including the Jingpho people.


lexentry: eng/Kahoolawe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kahoolawe
trans_list: Kahoolawe
sense:
An uninhabited island, the smallest of the main 8 islands of Hawaii in the United States of America.


lexentry: eng/Kaiser__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kaiser
trans_list: Kaiser | Kaiserin
sense:
An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary (1806–1918), or the German Empire (1871–1918) — often specifically Wilhelm II.


lexentry: eng/Kaiser_roll__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kaiser roll
trans_list: Kaisersemmel
sense:
A typically crusty round bread roll supposedly invented in Vienna, made from flour, barm, malt, water, and salt, and whose characteristic feature is a five-spoked propeller- or pinwheel-like star on its obverse.


lexentry: eng/Kalash__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kalash
trans_list: Kalasha
sense:
A Dardic indigenous group residing in the Chitral District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. They speak the Kalasha language.


lexentry: eng/Kali__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kali
trans_list: Kali
sense:
(Hinduism) A goddess in Hinduism, one of the most significant figures within that religion, who destroys evil forces and bestows liberation.


lexentry: eng/Kama_Sutra__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kama Sutra
trans_list: Kamasutra
sense:
A Sanskrit treatise (sutra) setting forth rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure, love, and marriage in accordance with Hindu law.


lexentry: eng/Kansas_City__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kansas City
trans_list: Kansas City | Kansas-Stadt
sense:
A large metropolitan area straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA. Kansas City is split into two separate cities:


lexentry: eng/Kantianism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kantianism
trans_list: Kantianismus
sense:
(philosophy) The philosophical system of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and his followers; also called transcendental idealism.


lexentry: eng/Kara_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kara Sea
trans_list: Karasee
sense:
A part of the Arctic Ocean in north Russia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya.


lexentry: eng/Karabakh__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Karabakh
trans_list: Karabach
sense:
A geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia. It includes three regions: Highland Karabakh (present-day Nagorno-Karabakh), Lowland Karabakh (the southern Kura-steppes) and a part of Syunik.


lexentry: eng/Karaim__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Karaim
trans_list: Karaim | Karaime | Karaimin | Karaïm | Karaïme | Karaïmin
sense:
A member of an ethnic group in Central and Eastern Europe which traditionally spoke this (Turkic) language and practiced Karaite Judaism.


lexentry: eng/Karaim__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Karaim
trans_list: Karaimisch | Karaïmisch
sense:
A Kipchak Turkic language, with Aramaic and Persian influences, spoken in Lithuania, Poland, the Crimea and the Ukraine.


lexentry: eng/Karelian_pasty__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Karelian pasty
trans_list: karelisch Pirogge
sense:
A traditional pasty from Karelia, usually with a rye crust and now most often eaten with a mixture of boiled eggs and butter.


lexentry: eng/Karelo-Finnish_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Karelo-Finnish SSR
trans_list: Karelo-Finnische SSR
sense:
(historical) A short-lived republic of the Soviet Union with its capital in Petrozavodsk (1940–1956).


lexentry: eng/Kashmir__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kashmir
trans_list: Kaschmir
sense:
A region of the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, located between (and de facto divided between) China, India, and Pakistan.


lexentry: eng/Katharevousa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Katharevousa
trans_list: Katharevousa | Kathareuusa | Katharevusa
sense:
A learned, archaising form of Modern Greek, based on Classical Greek and used for formal and official purposes; it was legally displaced as the official language of Greece in 1976 by Demotic Greek.


lexentry: eng/Katyusha__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Katyusha
trans_list: Katjuscha | Stalinorgel
sense:
A type of artillery rocket launcher consisting of an array of rockets mounted on a truck, originated in the Soviet Union.


lexentry: eng/Kazakh_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kazakh SSR
trans_list: Kasachische SSR
sense:
Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Kazakhstan while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1920–1990).


lexentry: eng/Kazan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Kazan
trans_list: Kasan
sense:
(historical) the Khanate of Kazan, a Tatar Turkic state that occupied the territory of former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552.


lexentry: eng/Keeshond__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Keeshond
trans_list: Wolfsspitz
sense:
A spitz bred in the Netherlands and Germany, characterized by a fluffy coat of silver and black fur.


lexentry: eng/Kemalist__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kemalist
trans_list: kemalistisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to the ideology of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; following the ideals of Kemalism, including separation of the new Turkish state from its Ottoman predecessor and the embracement of Western-style democracy and secularism.


lexentry: eng/Kent__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kent
trans_list: Kent
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.


lexentry: eng/Kentish_plover__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kentish plover
trans_list: Sanduhr
sense:
Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wader that breeds in a wide range, from southern Europe to Japan and in Ecuador, Peru, Chile, the southern United States and the Caribbean, but not including Kent.


lexentry: eng/Kentucky__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kentucky
trans_list: Kentucky
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; largest city: Louisville. Formally known as the Commonwealth of Kentucky, one of four such states known as Commonwealths.


lexentry: eng/Kenyan_English__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kenyan English
trans_list: Kenianisches Englisch
sense:
The English language as written and spoken in Kenya, and among Kenyan expatriates in other countries.


lexentry: eng/Kepler's_equation__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kepler's equation
trans_list: Kepler-Gleichung
sense:
(astronomy, celestial mechanics) the mathematical relationship between the mean anomaly (M) and the eccentric anomaly (E) of a planet in an elliptical orbit with eccentricity ( \textstyle \epsilon ). M = E - \epsilon \cdot \sin(E).


lexentry: eng/Kerry__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Kerry
trans_list: Kerry
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, originally in Montgomeryshire (OS grid ref SO1489). Welsh spelling: Ceri.


lexentry: eng/Key_lime_pie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Key lime pie
trans_list: Limettenkuchen
sense:
An American dessert made of Key lime juice, egg yolks, and sweetened condensed milk in a pie crust, often with a meringue topping.


lexentry: eng/Khanty__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Khanty
trans_list: Chantisch
sense:
The Ob-Ugric language spoken by these people, now more often considered a group of closely related languages.


lexentry: eng/Khazar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Khazar
trans_list: Chasar | Chasarin
sense:
A member of a semi-nomadic Turkic tribe that occupied a large part of southwestern Russia and Ukraine (Khazaria).


lexentry: eng/Khinalug__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Khinalug
trans_list: chinalugische Sprache
sense:
A Northeast Caucasian language spoken mainly in the villages of Khinalug and Qalayxudat just north of Quba (Quba Rayon, Azerbaijan).


lexentry: eng/Khmer_Rouge__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Khmer Rouge
trans_list: Rote Khmer
sense:
(historical) A Cambodian communist guerrilla force active from the 1970s to the 1990s under the leadership of Pol Pot.


lexentry: eng/Khorasan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Khorasan
trans_list: Chorasan | Chorassan
sense:
(historical) The Sassanian and post-Islamic Persian name for the region of Parthia located in north east of Persia (Iran), sometimes covering also parts of Central Asia and Afghanistan; the Greater Khorasan.


lexentry: eng/Khorasan_wheat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Khorasan wheat
trans_list: Kamut | Khorasan-Weizen
sense:
An ancient tetraploid species or subspecies of wheat (Triticum turanicum), historically cultivated in Central Asia.


lexentry: eng/Khrushchev__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Khrushchev
trans_list: Chruschtschow
sense:
English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв; usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev.


lexentry: eng/Kierkegaardian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kierkegaardian
trans_list: kierkegaardisch
sense:
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) or his existentialist philosophy.


lexentry: eng/Kievan_Rus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kievan Rus
trans_list: Kiewer Rus | Kiewer Russland
sense:
(historical) A medieval principality in Eastern Europe centred around Kiev; considered an early predecessor of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.


lexentry: eng/Kim__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kim
trans_list: Kim
sense:
A surname from Korean, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (^김, hanja: 金), the most common Korean surname.


lexentry: eng/King_Arthur__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: King Arthur
trans_list: König Artus | Artus
sense:
A legendary king of Britain, said to have led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century.


lexentry: eng/King_James_Version__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: King James Version
trans_list: King James Version | King-James-Bibel | King-James-Version
sense:
(biblical, Christianity) An English translation, published in 1611, of the Bible from the original Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) commissioned for the Church of England, which is the version most quoted and influential in English literature and English Protestant religious culture.


lexentry: eng/Kingdom_of_England__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kingdom of England
trans_list: Königreich England
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, until the foundation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain on 1 May 1707.


lexentry: eng/Kingdom_of_Heaven__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kingdom of Heaven
trans_list: Himmelreich
sense:
(Christianity) A concept of heaven as a hierarchical dominion with God at the top and a court of saints, archangels and angels.


lexentry: eng/Kingdom_of_Scotland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kingdom of Scotland
trans_list: Königreich Schottland
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, until the foundation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain on the First of May 1707.


lexentry: eng/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kingdom of Yugoslavia
trans_list: Königreich Jugoslawien
sense:
the official name of former Yugoslavia in the interwar period (1929-1943), after Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918-1929)


lexentry: eng/Kingdom_of_the_Two_Sicilies__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
trans_list: Königreich beider Sizilien
sense:
(historical) A former kingdom in southern Italy with its capital at Palermo and Naples between 1816 and 1861, covering Sicily and most of the present-day Mezzogiorno.


lexentry: eng/Kinshasa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kinshasa
trans_list: Kinshasa
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.


lexentry: eng/Kipchak__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kipchak
trans_list: Kiptschake
sense:
(historical) a member of a nomadic Turkic tribal confederation that overran the Eurasian steppe in mid-11th century.


lexentry: eng/Kirchhoff's_circuit_laws__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kirchhoff's circuit laws
trans_list: Kirchhoffsche Gesetze
sense:
(physics) A pair of fundamental natural laws dealing with the relations of currents at a junction and the voltages around a loop.


lexentry: eng/Kirtland's_warbler__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kirtland's warbler
trans_list: Michiganwaldsänger
sense:
a small songbird, Setophaga kirtlandii, that nests in Michigan, United States and winters in the Bahamas


lexentry: eng/Kitti's_hog-nosed_bat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kitti's hog-nosed bat
trans_list: Hummelfledermaus
sense:
Craseonycteris thonglongyai, a small bat with a distinctive pig-like snout, found in western Thailand and southeast Burma.


lexentry: eng/Klein_bottle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Klein bottle
trans_list: Kleinsche Flasche
sense:
(topology) The closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable.


lexentry: eng/Klein_geometry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Klein geometry
trans_list: Kleinsche Geometrie
sense:
(differential geometry) A type of geometry (mathematical object representing a space and its spatial relationships); a homogeneous space X together with a symmetry group which represents the group action on X of some Lie group;(more formally) an ordered pair (G, H), where G is a Lie group and H a closed Lie subgroup of G such that the left coset space G / H is connected.


lexentry: eng/Klingon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Klingon
trans_list: Klingone | Klingonin
sense:
(countable) Member of an alien warrior race in the Star Trek universe with distinctive forehead ridges and a culture based on strict observance of honour, loyalty, and combat.


lexentry: eng/Klášterní_Hradisko__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Klášterní Hradisko
trans_list: Kloster Hradisch
sense:
A former monastery and a former village north-east of the city of Olomouc, nowadays a quarter of Olomouc.


lexentry: eng/Knights_Templar__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Knights Templar
trans_list: Templerorden
sense:
(historical) A chiefly military order of medieval knights that existed for nearly two centuries during the Crusades


lexentry: eng/Kodiak_bear__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kodiak bear
trans_list: Kodiakbär
sense:
The largest brown bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi, found on Kodiak Island off the south coast of Alaska, United States.


lexentry: eng/Koine__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Koine
trans_list: Koine
sense:
The “common” Greek language that developed and flourished between 300 B.C.E. and 300 C.E. (the time of the Roman Empire), and from which Modern Greek descended. It was based on the Attic and Ionian dialects of Ancient Greek.


lexentry: eng/Komi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Komi
trans_list: Komi
sense:
A Finno-Ugric language currently spoken by 200,000 to 400,000 people, depending on source and definition of "speaker", in northeastern European part of Russia.


lexentry: eng/Komodo_dragon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Komodo dragon
trans_list: Komodowaran
sense:
Varanus komodoensis, an endangered species of monitor lizard native to certain Indonesian islands east of Java, the world's largest lizard, growing to 10 feet or 3 meters, known for its ability to kill prey with its septic saliva.


lexentry: eng/Komsomol__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Komsomol
trans_list: Komsomol
sense:
(historical) Young Communist League, the former youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.


lexentry: eng/Komsomolsk__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Komsomolsk
trans_list: Komsomolsk | Komsomolsk am Amur
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, on the Amur river; in full, Komsomolsk-na-Amure or Komsomolsk-on-Amur.


lexentry: eng/Korea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Korea
trans_list: Korea
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. Since World War II, Korea has been divided into two sovereign states, commonly called South Korea and North Korea.


lexentry: eng/Korean_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Korean War
trans_list: Koreakrieg
sense:
(historical) A war fought in the Korean Peninsula from 1950–1953 between the Soviet Union-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United Nations-backed Republic of Korea.


lexentry: eng/Korean__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Korean
trans_list: Koreanisch | koreanisch
sense:
(uncountable) Official language of the people residing on the Korean Peninsula, and language of approximately 60 million people, in Asia, North America, and elsewhere.


lexentry: eng/Korean_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Korean studies
trans_list: Koreanistik | Koreanologie
sense:
(humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literature written in the Korean language, Korean linguistics, and Korean sociolinguistics.


lexentry: eng/Koschei__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Koschei
trans_list: Koschtschei
sense:
(Slavic mythology) An archetypal male antagonist, described mainly as abducting the hero's wife, and sometimes represented as a skeleton.


lexentry: eng/Kraken__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kraken
trans_list: Krake
sense:
(Norse mythology) A colossal sea monster that attacks ships and sailors, often portrayed as a giant octopus or squid.


lexentry: eng/Krebs_cycle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Krebs cycle
trans_list: Krebs-Zyklus
sense:
(biochemistry) A series of enzymatic reactions that occurs in all aerobic organisms; it involves the oxidative metabolism of acetyl units, and serves as the main source of cellular energy.


lexentry: eng/Kremlin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kremlin
trans_list: Kreml
sense:
The Moscow Kremlin; a fortified complex in Moscow, Russia that serves as the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation.


lexentry: eng/Krishna__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Krishna
trans_list: Krishna
sense:
(Hinduism) A deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism. Krishna is often depicted as a young cowherd boy with a dark or blue complexion playing a flute (as in the Bhagavata Purana) or a youthful prince giving philosophical direction and guidance (as in the Bhagavad Gita). He is the divine speaker of the Bhagavad Gita and the eighth avatar of Vishnu.


lexentry: eng/Krnov__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Krnov
trans_list: Jägerndorf
sense:
An Upper Silesian town on the River Opava in the northeastern Czech Republic, near the Polish border.


lexentry: eng/Kronstadt__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kronstadt
trans_list: Kronstadt
sense:
A municipal town near Saint Petersburg, Russia. Located on Kotlin Island (also known as Retusaari or Reitskär).


lexentry: eng/Kuban__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Kuban
trans_list: Kuban
sense:
(by extension) a geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga delta and the Caucasus.


lexentry: eng/Kufic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kufic
trans_list: kufisch
sense:
Original form of Arabic script, consisting of a modified form of Old South Arabian and old Nabataean scripts.


lexentry: eng/Kuhnian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kuhnian
trans_list: Kuhnsch
sense:
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn, especially the theories in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.


lexentry: eng/Kuiper_belt__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kuiper belt
trans_list: Kuipergürtel | Kuiper-Gürtel
sense:
(astronomy) A region of space between 30 and 50 astronomical units from the Sun, roughly confined within a thick band around the ecliptic of the Solar System. This area is populated by many thousands of trans-Neptunian objects.


lexentry: eng/Kuiper_belt_object__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kuiper belt object
trans_list: Kuipergürtelobjekt
sense:
(astronomy) A trans-Neptunian object (TNO) (a type of minor planet) that has an orbit in the Kuiper belt (between 30-50 AU) with inclinations consistent with the ecliptic.


lexentry: eng/Kuomintang__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kuomintang
trans_list: Kuomintang
sense:
A nationalist political party founded under Sun Yat-sen in 1912 that ruled mainland China from 1928 to 1949, now one of three major parties in the Republic of China (Taiwan).


lexentry: eng/Kupffer_cell__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kupffer cell
trans_list: Browicz-Kupffer-Zelle | Kupffer-Sternzelle | Kupffer-Zelle
sense:
A kind of specialized macrophage located in the liver lining the walls of the sinusoids that form part of the reticuloendothelial system.


lexentry: eng/Kurd__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kurd
trans_list: Kurde | Kurdin
sense:
A member of the linguistically and culturally distinct people who speak Kurdish and mainly inhabit those parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria sometimes known as Kurdistan.


lexentry: eng/Kurdish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kurdish
trans_list: Kurdisch | kurdisch
sense:
Family of Indo-Iranian languages of Kurdistan (in the Mesopotamia region, from the Zagros of mid-western Iran to the eastern extension of the chain of the Taurus Mountains).


lexentry: eng/Kurdistan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kurdistan
trans_list: Kurdistan
sense:
An autonomous region of northern and northeastern Iraq lying within the aforementioned Kurdish-majority region.


lexentry: eng/Kurmanji__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Kurmanji
trans_list: Kurmandschi
sense:
The Kurdish language with the largest number of speakers, spoken in Turkey, Syria, northernmost Iraq, and parts of Iran and Central Asia.


lexentry: eng/Kursk__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Kursk
trans_list: Kursk
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; scene of a major World War II battle between Soviet and German forces in 1943.


lexentry: eng/Künstlerroman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Künstlerroman
trans_list: Künstlerroman
sense:
(literature) A novel whose central character is an artist of any kind, and which shows his or her development from childhood to maturity.


lexentry: eng/La_Niña__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: La Niña
trans_list: La Niña
sense:
(sometimes, attributive) A sustained negative sea-surface temperature anomaly of more than 0.5°C across the equatorial zone of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean; the negative phase of the multi-year ENSO cycle, which causes variations in local and regional weather patterns.


lexentry: eng/La_Pérouse_Strait__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: La Pérouse Strait
trans_list: La-Pérouse-Straße
sense:
A strait dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin in the north from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.


lexentry: eng/Labour_Party__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Labour Party
trans_list: Arbeiterpartei | Labor Party
sense:
Any of various political parties that aim to advance the interests of the working class, often characterized by left-of-centre politics and support for organized labour.


lexentry: eng/Labrador_duck__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Labrador duck
trans_list: Labradorente
sense:
†Camptorhynchus labradorius, an extinct sea duck that was never common, believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.


lexentry: eng/Lacerta__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lacerta
trans_list: Eidechse
sense:
(constellation) An inconspicuous autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lizard. It lies between the constellations of Cygnus and Andromeda.


lexentry: eng/Ladin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ladin
trans_list: Ladinisch | ladinische Sprache
sense:
A Rhaeto-Romance language (or dialect continuum), spoken primarily in the Italian portion of Tyrol and the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy.


lexentry: eng/Ladino__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ladino
trans_list: Ladino
sense:
A Romance language mainly spoken by Sephardic Jews (Wikipedia), derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish) and Hebrew.


lexentry: eng/Ladoga__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ladoga
trans_list: Ladogasee
sense:
A freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, not far from Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe.


lexentry: eng/Lady__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lady
trans_list: Dame | Frau | Herrin
sense:
An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.


lexentry: eng/Lagrange_point__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lagrange point
trans_list: Lagrange-Punkt
sense:
(astrophysics, orbital mechanics) A point in an orbital configuration of a two-body system where a small object affected only by gravity can theoretically be stationary relative to the two larger objects.


lexentry: eng/Lake_Constance__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lake Constance
trans_list: Bodensee
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. It consists of two parts, the Obersee in the east and northwest (Überlinger See) and the much smaller Untersee in the west.


lexentry: eng/Lake_Geneva__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: Lake Geneva
trans_list: Genfersee
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, situated on Geneva Lake and previously named Geneva; see also Geneva, Wisconsin, a town nearby.


lexentry: eng/Lake_Michigan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lake Michigan
trans_list: Michigan-See | Michigansee
sense:
One of the Great Lakes of North America, and the only one located entirely within the United States. Hydrologically, a bay of Lake Michigan–Huron.


lexentry: eng/Lake_Superior__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lake Superior
trans_list: Oberer See
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; the largest of the Great Lakes and second largest lake in the world by area. It is located higher than Lake Huron, hence the name.


lexentry: eng/Lakota__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lakota
trans_list: Lakota
sense:
A member of a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux, now living primarily on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Lower Brule, Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations.


lexentry: eng/Lakshmi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lakshmi
trans_list: Lakshmi
sense:
The Hindu goddess of wealth, the consort of Vishnu and married to Rama (in her incarnation as Sita) and Krishna (as Radha and Rukmini).


lexentry: eng/Lamb_shift__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lamb shift
trans_list: Lamb-Verschiebung
sense:
(quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics) A small difference between the energy levels 2S½ and 2P½ of the hydrogen atom, not predicted by the Dirac equation, whose detection in the Lamb–Retherford experiment of 1947 foreshadowed the development of quantum electrodynamics (in which the discrepancy is explained to be an effect of the emission and re-absorption of virtual photons); such a difference between otherwise expectedly equal energy levels of hydrogen or any other type of atom.


lexentry: eng/Landauer's_principle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Landauer's principle
trans_list: Landauer-Prinzip
sense:
(physics, information theory) The principle that any logically irreversible manipulation of information must entail an increase in the entropy of the information-processing apparatus or its environment.


lexentry: eng/Landeshauptmann__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Landeshauptmann
trans_list: Landeshauptmann
sense:
The gubernatorial title of the head of government of an Austrian state and the Italian autonomous provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino, corresponding to the title of minister-president or premier.


lexentry: eng/Landtag__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Landtag
trans_list: Landtag
sense:
A representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries, with some legislative authority.


lexentry: eng/Languedoc__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Languedoc
trans_list: Languedoc
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, in the south of the country; since 2016, part of the region of Occitanie.


lexentry: eng/Lantern_Festival__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lantern Festival
trans_list: Chinesisches | Laternenfest | Yuanxiao-Fest
sense:
A festival marking the end of the Chinese New Year period, celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the Chinese calendar when the first full moon of the year is seen (in February or early March).


lexentry: eng/Laocoön__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Laocoön
trans_list: Laokoon
sense:
(Greek mythology) A Trojan priest of Poseidon (or Apollo, depending on the author), whose rules he had defied (or whom he had otherwise offended), who tried to warn his fellow citizens against the Trojan horse. He was killed for this, along with his two sons, by giant snakes sent by Minerva (or Poseidon, or Apollo).


lexentry: eng/Laotian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Laotian
trans_list: laotisch
sense:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Laotian people or the Laotian language.


lexentry: eng/Laozi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Laozi
trans_list: Laozi
sense:
(Chinese history) An honorific title for the legendary Taoist philosopher Li Er, who supposedly lived in the 6th and 5th centuries BC and (Chinese mythology) has subsequently been worshipped as a Taoist god.


lexentry: eng/Laplace_operator__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Laplace operator
trans_list: Laplace-Operator
sense:
(mathematics, physics) A differential operator,denoted ∆ and defined on \mathbb{R}^n as \Delta = \sum_{i=1}^n \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_i^2}, used in the modeling of wave propagation, heat flow and many other applications.


lexentry: eng/Laplace_transform__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Laplace transform
trans_list: Laplace-Transformation
sense:
(mathematics) an integral transform of positive real function f(t) to a complex function F(s); given by:


lexentry: eng/Lapland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lapland
trans_list: Lappland
sense:
The northern parts of Scandinavia and Finland with the Kola Peninsula in Russia, traditionally inhabited by the Sami people.


lexentry: eng/Laptev_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Laptev Sea
trans_list: Laptewsee
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, located between the eastern coast of Siberia, the Taimyr Peninsula, the Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands. The Kara Sea lies to the west, the East Siberian Sea to the east.


lexentry: eng/Larry__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Larry
trans_list: Lars | Lenz
sense:
A diminutive of the en given name Laurence or Lawrence, popular as a male given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and the 1950s.


lexentry: eng/Las_Vegas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Las Vegas
trans_list: Las Vegas
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, known for its large hotels, extravagant entertainment and dining, and gambling.


lexentry: eng/Late_Antiquity__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Late Antiquity
trans_list: Spätantike
sense:
(history) The period of Mediterranean and Eurasian history from around the 3rd to the 7th centuries C.E., marked especially by the transition from the Roman and Persian Empires to the Middle Ages and the Islamic and Byzantine civilizations.


lexentry: eng/Late_Middle_Egyptian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Late Middle Egyptian
trans_list: Spätmittelägyptisch
sense:
(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by Middle Egyptian sentence structure and orthography but occasional use of Late Egyptian vocabulary and forms.


lexentry: eng/Late_Period__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Late Period
trans_list: Spätzeit
sense:
(historical) The period of Egyptian history from the end of the Third Intermediate Period to the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great (the 26th through 31st dynasties), characterized by alternating periods of native and Persian rule.


lexentry: eng/Later_Egyptian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Later Egyptian
trans_list: spätere Ägyptisch
sense:
(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by a relatively analytic typology, including Medio-Late Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic, and contrasted against Earlier Egyptian.


lexentry: eng/Latin_America__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Latin America
trans_list: Lateinamerika
sense:
Those parts of the Americas which speak Spanish, Portuguese, French or Creoles based on them, which are Latin-derived languages: South America, Central America, Mexico, and most islands of the Caribbean.


lexentry: eng/Latin_Church__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Latin Church
trans_list: Lateinische Kirche
sense:
(Catholicism) One of the 24 particular churches (sui juris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church which uses the Latin liturgical rites.


lexentry: eng/Latin__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Latin
trans_list: Romane
sense:
A person from one of the modern European countries (including Italy, Spain etc.) whose language is descended from Latin.


lexentry: eng/Latin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Latin
trans_list: Latein | Lateinisch | lateinische Sprache
sense:
(uncountable) The language of the ancient Romans, other Latins and of the Roman Catholic church, especially Classical Latin.


lexentry: eng/Latin_alphabet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Latin alphabet
trans_list: lateinisches Alphabet
sense:
The 26-letter alphabet consisting of the following letters (presented in majuscule and minuscule pairs):


lexentry: eng/Latin_square__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Latin square
trans_list: lateinisches Quadrat
sense:
(mathematics) An n-by-n arrangement of n different integers such that each row, each column and each of the two diagonals contains each of the integers once and once only.


lexentry: eng/Latinity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Latinity
trans_list: Latinität
sense:
(uncountable, countable) The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.


lexentry: eng/Latinize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Latinize
trans_list: latinisieren
sense:
(transitive) To translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance or form to a Latin word.


lexentry: eng/Latino__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Latino
trans_list: Latino
sense:
(chiefly, _, US) A person, especially and usually (interpreted as) a male, from Latin America, a Hispanic person. (Compare Latina.)


lexentry: eng/Latvian_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Latvian SSR
trans_list: Lettische SSR
sense:
Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name of Latvia while it was a member republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1940–1941 and 1944–1991).


lexentry: eng/Laurasia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Laurasia
trans_list: Laurasia | Laurasien
sense:
(geology) A supercontinent which included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the Northern Hemisphere.


lexentry: eng/Laurel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Laurel
trans_list: Lorbeer
sense:
(Mormonism) Formerly a 16- to 17-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.


lexentry: eng/Laurent_series__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Laurent series
trans_list: Laurent-Reihe
sense:
A power series generalising Taylor series, in which the exponents may be positive or negative integers.


lexentry: eng/Law_of_Demeter__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Law of Demeter
trans_list: Gesetz von Demeter
sense:
(software, object-oriented) A design guideline for developing particularly object-oriented programs that mandates loose coupling between objects.


lexentry: eng/Lazarus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lazarus
trans_list: Lazarus
sense:
(biblical) Lazarus of Bethany, a man supposedly raised from the dead by Jesus Christ and later (Christianity) revered as a saint.


lexentry: eng/Lazarus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Lazarus
trans_list: Lazarus
sense:
(biblical) A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) believed to have been a leper and often conflated with Lazarus of Bethany.


lexentry: eng/League_of_Nations__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: League of Nations
trans_list: Völkerbund
sense:
An international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War. Its goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global quality of life. The predecessor of the United Nations.


lexentry: eng/Leaving_Certificate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Leaving Certificate
trans_list: Abgangszeugnis | Abitur
sense:
(Ireland) The certificate awarded to Irish students who pass the state examinations at the end of secondary school.


lexentry: eng/Leeward_Antilles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Leeward Antilles
trans_list: Inseln unter dem Winde
sense:
The westernmost islands in the southern half of the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast.


lexentry: eng/Legalism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Legalism
trans_list: Legalismus | Legismus
sense:
A school of thought, originating in ancient China during the Warring States period and officially adopted during the Qin dynasty, advocating rule of law as key to ensuring social stability.


lexentry: eng/Lego__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lego
trans_list: Klemmbaustein | Lego | Legostein
sense:
Any of several small, coloured, plastic bricks, often made by the Lego Company, that can be made to join together and be taken apart, used to construct toy buildings, vehicles, etc.


lexentry: eng/Lemnian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lemnian
trans_list: Lemnisch
sense:
An extinct language, related to Etruscan, that was spoken in the Aegean and is attested in a stele found on Lemnos.


lexentry: eng/Leningrad__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Leningrad
trans_list: Leningrad | Oblast Leningrad
sense:
(historical) Saint Petersburg, TemplateParserError:LuaError, from the time of Lenin's death in 1924 until 1991.


lexentry: eng/Leninism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Leninism
trans_list: Leninismus
sense:
A political ideology developed by Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.


lexentry: eng/Lent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lent
trans_list: Fastenzeit
sense:
(Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.


lexentry: eng/Leo_Minor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Leo Minor
trans_list: Kleiner Löwe
sense:
(constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a small lion. It lies north of the constellation Leo and south of Ursa Major.


lexentry: eng/Leo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Leo
trans_list: Löwe
sense:
(zodiac constellations) A constellation of the zodiac, shaped approximately like a lion and containing the stars Regulus and Denebola.


lexentry: eng/Leo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Leo
trans_list: Löwe
sense:
(astrology) The zodiac sign for the Lion, ruled by the Sun and covering July 23 - August 22 (tropical astrology) or August 16 - September 15 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/Lepontic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lepontic
trans_list: Lepontisch
sense:
An extinct language attested in Europe until ~100BC, usually considered to be a member of the Celtic family.


lexentry: eng/Lepus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lepus
trans_list: Hase
sense:
(constellation) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.


lexentry: eng/Lesbian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Lesbian
trans_list: Lesbier | Lesbierin | Lesviot | Lesviotin | Lesvonier | Lesvonierin
sense:
(linguistics, uncountable) The variety of Aeolic Greek spoken on Lesbos from about 800 to 300 b.c., best known from the writings of Sappho and Alcaeus of Mytilene.


lexentry: eng/Lesser_Caucasus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lesser Caucasus
trans_list: Kleiner Kaukasus
sense:
the second of the two main mountain ranges of Caucasus mountains, which runs parallel to the Greater Caucasus and limits the Armenian Highland from the North and North-East.


lexentry: eng/Levant__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Levant
trans_list: Levante
sense:
The countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).


lexentry: eng/Leyden_jar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Leyden jar
trans_list: Flaschenkondensator | Kleistsche Flasche | Kondensationsflasche | Leidener Flasche
sense:
(electrical engineering, historical) A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate static electricity between two electrodes.


lexentry: eng/Libra__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Libra
trans_list: Waage
sense:
(astrology) The astrological sign for the scales, ruled by Venus and covering September 24 - October 23 (tropical astrology) or October 16 - November 16 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/Limburgish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Limburgish
trans_list: Limburgisch | Südniederfränkisch
sense:
A Germanic language or dialect continuum spoken near the common border between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.


lexentry: eng/Limos__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Limos
trans_list: Limos
sense:
(Greek god) A daughter of Eris, Limos is the goddess/personification of famine and starvation. Her Roman counterpart is Fames.


lexentry: eng/Linear_A__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Linear A
trans_list: Linearschrift A
sense:
(archaeology, linguistics) A syllabary used to write the as-yet-undeciphered Minoan language, and an apparent predecessor to other scripts, such as Linear B.


lexentry: eng/Linear_B__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Linear B
trans_list: Linearschrift B
sense:
(archaeology, linguistics) A syllabary used to write Mycenaean Greek in the second millennium BC, before the invention of the Greek alphabet.


lexentry: eng/Lingua_Franca_Nova__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lingua Franca Nova
trans_list: Elefen | Lingua Franca Nova
sense:
A constructed language created by C. George Boeree based on French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan using either Latin or Cyrillic alphabets with grammar based on that of Romance Creoles.


lexentry: eng/Linth__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Linth
trans_list: Linth
sense:
A river in Switzerland, spanning most of Glarus where it has its source, running into Lake Zurich in Schwyz / Saint Gallen.


lexentry: eng/Lion_of_Judah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lion of Judah
trans_list: Löwe Judas
sense:
(Judaism) a Jewish national and cultural symbol, traditionally regarded as a symbol of the tribe of Judah


lexentry: eng/Liszt__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Liszt
trans_list: Liszt
sense:
(astronomy) TemplateParserError:LuaError, discovered in 1988 and named for the composer. Official name: 3910 Liszt. Provisional name: 1988 SF.


lexentry: eng/Lithuanian_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lithuanian SSR
trans_list: Litauische SSR
sense:
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Lithuania while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1940–1991, name changed in 1990).


lexentry: eng/Little_Dipper__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Little Dipper
trans_list: Kleiner Bär
sense:
(constellation) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Minor and includes the northern pole star Polaris.


lexentry: eng/Little_Red_Riding_Hood__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Little Red Riding Hood
trans_list: Rotkäppchen
sense:
A fairy tale about a young girl who walks through the forest to visit her grandmother and encounters the Big Bad Wolf (or another vicious wolf, or werewolf in archaic versions).


lexentry: eng/Liturgy_of_the_Hours__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Liturgy of the Hours
trans_list: Stundengebet
sense:
(Catholicism) A liturgy for daily use at each of the canonical hours obligatory to all Catholic bishops, priests, and transitional deacons and composed of psalms, hymns, and readings but lacking the eucharist.


lexentry: eng/Liverpool__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Liverpool
trans_list: Liverpool
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; an important seaport in the United Kingdom, and once one of the biggest in the world.


lexentry: eng/Livonia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Livonia
trans_list: Livland | Liefland
sense:
(historic) A historical region in the Baltic, south of the Gulf of Finland, now divided and constituting southern Estonia and northern Latvia.


lexentry: eng/Local_Group__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Local Group
trans_list: Lokale Gruppe
sense:
(astronomy) The small cluster of galaxies that contains the Milky Way Galaxy; includes Andromeda, Triangulum, the Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud and others.


lexentry: eng/Loch_Ness_monster__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Loch Ness monster
trans_list: Ungeheuer von Loch Ness
sense:
(cryptozoology) A large creature believed by some to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland. It is said to have a long neck and one or more humps that protrude from the water.


lexentry: eng/Lockean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lockean
trans_list: Lockesch
sense:
Of or pertaining to John Locke (1632–1704), English physician and philosopher, regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.


lexentry: eng/Logos__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Logos
trans_list: Logos
sense:
(Christianity) The Word of God as incarnate in Jesus Christ, or as identified with the second person of the Trinity; Jesus; God the Son; Word of God.


lexentry: eng/Lojban__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lojban
trans_list: Lojban
sense:
An artificial language created by Logical Language Group designed to be logical, based on the earlier Loglan.


lexentry: eng/Loki__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Loki
trans_list: Loki
sense:
(Norse mythology) The god of mischief and trickery; growing progressively evil, he kills Balder, and is bound until Ragnarok, the end of the world.


lexentry: eng/Lombard_rate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lombard rate
trans_list: Lombardsatz
sense:
(finance) An interest rate charged by a central bank for very short-term loans to other banks against an approved collateral.


lexentry: eng/Lombardic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lombardic
trans_list: langobardisch
sense:
Of the Lombards, a Germanic people who settled in Italy in the sixth century C.E., or of their language or culture.


lexentry: eng/Lombardish__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lombardish
trans_list: langobardisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to the Lombards, a Germanic people who settled in Italy in the sixth century C.E., their language, customs, or culture.


lexentry: eng/Lombardish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lombardish
trans_list: Langobardisch
sense:
The language of the Lombards, an extinct Germanic language known from fragmentary evidence; Lombardic.


lexentry: eng/London__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: London
trans_list: London | Londoner | londonisch
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.


lexentry: eng/London_pride__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: London pride
trans_list: Porzellanblümchen
sense:
A perennial saxifragaceous plant (a hybrid of various Saxifraga umbrosa and Saxifraga spathularis) that has a basal rosette of leaves and pinkish-white flowers.


lexentry: eng/Lord's_Prayer__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lord's Prayer
trans_list: Vaterunser
sense:
The prayer which, according to the New Testament of the Bible, Jesus Christ taught his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount.


lexentry: eng/Lord__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Lord
trans_list: Herr | Lord
sense:
An additional title added to denote the dignity of certain high officials, such as the "Lord Mayors" of major cities in the British Commonwealth


lexentry: eng/Lorentz-Fitzgerald_contraction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction
trans_list: Lorentzkontraktion | Längenkontraktion | Längenverkürzung
sense:
The decrease in length of a moving object in the direction of motion, measurable only at relativistic speeds.


lexentry: eng/Lorentz_factor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lorentz factor
trans_list: Lorentzfaktor
sense:
(physics) a factor arising frequently in special relativity, to calculate the degree of time dilation, length contraction and relativistic mass of an object moving relative to an observer, defined as (1-v^2/c^2)^{-0.5}, where v and c are relative velocity and the speed of light, respectively


lexentry: eng/Lorentz_transformation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lorentz transformation
trans_list: Lorentztransformation
sense:
(mathematics, relativity) A transformation relating the spacetime coordinates of one frame of reference to another in special relativity.


lexentry: eng/Lorrainian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lorrainian
trans_list: Lothringisch
sense:
The Rhine Franconian (and hence West Central German, Central German, High German) dialect spoken in Lorraine; Lorraine Franconian.


lexentry: eng/Low_German__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Low German
trans_list: Niederdeutsch | Plattdeutsch | Niedersächsisch
sense:
(linguistics) Any of a number of West Germanic languages, primarily spoken in northern Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, that did not undergo the High German consonant shift; the group thereof.


lexentry: eng/Low_Germany__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Low Germany
trans_list: Niederdeutschland | Norddeutschland
sense:
(dated) Northern Germany, the low-lying land of the German people in Central Europe around the North and Baltic seas.


lexentry: eng/Low_Saxon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Low Saxon
trans_list: Niedersächsisch | Westniederdeutsch
sense:
A group of related dialects of Low German, spoken in northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, formerly also in Denmark.


lexentry: eng/Lower_Egypt__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lower Egypt
trans_list: Unterägypten
sense:
(Egyptology) The half of Ancient Egypt north of Memphis, the Nile Delta, so named because the Nile flows South to North.


lexentry: eng/Lower_Silesian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lower Silesian
trans_list: Niederschlesisch
sense:
A West Germanic language spoken in Poland, as well as in northeastern Czechia and in eastern Germany. This language (or group of dialects) is nearly extinct.


lexentry: eng/Lucifer__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Lucifer
trans_list: Luzifer
sense:
(biblical) The King of Babylon who was compared to the planet Venus in first the Wycliffe version then the King James Version of Isaiah 14:12; it is unclear whether this verse refers to a specific king or to a representation of the entire line of kings of Babylon.


lexentry: eng/Lucy__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Lucy
trans_list: Lucia | Luzia
sense:
A surname from Old French derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.


lexentry: eng/Luddite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Luddite
trans_list: Luddit | Maschinenstürmer | Maschinenstürmerin
sense:
(historical) Any of a group of early-19th-century English textile workers who destroyed machinery because it would harm their livelihood.


lexentry: eng/Luhansk_People's_Republic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Luhansk People's Republic
trans_list: Volksrepublik Lugansk
sense:
A partially-recognized secessionist state proclaimed in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine on the 27th of April, 2014; one of two members of the Confederation of Novorossiya.


lexentry: eng/Luke__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Luke
trans_list: Lukas
sense:
Luke the Evangelist, an early Christian credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.


lexentry: eng/Luke__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Luke
trans_list: Lk | das Evangelium nach Lukas | Lukas
sense:
(biblical) The Gospel of St. Luke, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the third of the four gospels.


lexentry: eng/Lupus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lupus
trans_list: Wolf
sense:
(constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a wolf. It lies south of the constellation Libra.


lexentry: eng/Lutheran__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lutheran
trans_list: lutherisch | Lutheraner
sense:
(Christianity) Of or pertaining to the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546) or his followers, or the Lutheran church.


lexentry: eng/Lutheran__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lutheran
trans_list: Lutheraner | Lutheranerin | lutherisch
sense:
(Christianity) A member of any of the Christian churches which identify with the theology of Martin Luther.


lexentry: eng/Lutheranism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lutheranism
trans_list: Luthertum
sense:
The Christian denomination based on the beliefs and doctrines developed by Martin Luther and his immediate followers.


lexentry: eng/Luwian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Luwian
trans_list: Luwisch
sense:
an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the 2nd millennium BC and recorded in both hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts.


lexentry: eng/Luxembourgish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Luxembourgish
trans_list: Luxemburgisch | luxemburgische Mundart | luxemburgische Sprache
sense:
A Germanic language spoken in Luxembourg and, traditionally, around the city of Arlon (Belgium); originally included in the Moselle Franconian group of High German dialects, but now usually regarded as a separate language due to its standardisation and official use in the state of Luxembourg.


lexentry: eng/Lycia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lycia
trans_list: Lykien
sense:
(historical) An ancient region and Roman province in the southwest of Asia Minor, between Caria and Pamphylia.


lexentry: eng/Lyme_disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lyme disease
trans_list: Lyme-Borreliose | Lyme-Krankheit
sense:
(disease) Infection by one of three or more subspecies of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted by four species of tick in genus Ixodes. Symptoms include a rash followed by fever, joint pain, and headaches.


lexentry: eng/Lynx__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lynx
trans_list: Luchs
sense:
(constellation) A faint spring constellation of the northern sky. It lies north of the constellation Cancer.


lexentry: eng/Lyra__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lyra
trans_list: Leier
sense:
(constellation) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lyre. It includes the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula.


lexentry: eng/Lys__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lys
trans_list: Leie
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError at Gent. This is the French spelling: the Dutch and German spelling is Leie.


lexentry: eng/Lübeck__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lübeck
trans_list: Lübeck
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, northeast of Hamburg; a major Baltic port and industrial center, the present city dates from 1143 and was the leading town of the Hanseatic League after its designation as a free city in 1226; it retained that status until 1937.


lexentry: eng/Lüneburg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Lüneburg
trans_list: Lüneburg
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, formerly a prominent member of the Hanse, known for its salt production.


lexentry: eng/M-theory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: M-theory
trans_list: M-Theorie
sense:
(physics) A generalized theory of eleven-dimensional supergravity that attempts to unify the five superstring theories


lexentry: eng/MAC_address__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: MAC address
trans_list: MAC-Adresse
sense:
(computing, networking) Media Access Control address; a unique identifying number assigned to most network devices.


lexentry: eng/MEP__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
sense: (EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.
written_rep: MEP
trans_list:
EU-Abgeordnete | EU-Abgeordneter | Europaabgeordnete | Europaabgeordneter | EU-Parlamentarier | EU-Parlamentarierin


lexentry: eng/MP3_player__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: MP3 player
trans_list: MP3-Player | MP3-Spieler
sense:
An electronic device for playing digital audio files in the MP3 format (and, in many cases, also files in some other formats and/or including a radio function).


lexentry: eng/MRE__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: MRE
trans_list: Einmannpackung | Notration
sense:
(US, _, military) Initialism of Meal, Ready-to-Eat: an individual field ration used by the US military


lexentry: eng/MRGN__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: MRGN
trans_list: MRGN
sense:
(microbiology, medicine) Acronym of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterium: any of a group of bacteria responsible for serious infections.


lexentry: eng/MRSA__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: MRSA
trans_list: MRSA
sense:
(microbiology, medicine) Initialism of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; a bacterium responsible for serious infections.


lexentry: eng/Maastrichtian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Maastrichtian
trans_list: Maastrichtium
sense:
(geology) in the ICS geologic timescale, the last stage or age of the Cretaceous period, and of the Mesozoic era, preceded by the Campanian and succeeded by the Danian period.


lexentry: eng/Macanese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Macanese
trans_list: Macaista
sense:
A member of an ethnic group from Macau of mixed European (usually Portuguese) and Asian (usually Chinese) origin.


lexentry: eng/Macaronesia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Macaronesia
trans_list: Makaronesien
sense:
A group of islands in the North Atlantic: the Azores, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Madeira and the Savage Islands.


lexentry: eng/Macau__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Macau
trans_list: Macao | Macau
sense:
A Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China just west of Hong Kong, previously under Portuguese control.


lexentry: eng/Maccabee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maccabee
trans_list: Makkabäer
sense:
(biblical) A member of the Maccabees (a liberation movement in Israel who established Jewish independence in the Land of Israel in the second and first centuries BC).


lexentry: eng/Maccabees__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maccabees
trans_list: Makkabäer
sense:
(biblical) One of two books of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.


lexentry: eng/Macedonia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Macedonia
trans_list: Makedonien | Mazedonien
sense:
An ancient Greek kingdom, located to the north of Thessaly, comprising the Greek city of Thessaloniki and its surroundings.


lexentry: eng/Macedonia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Macedonia
trans_list: Mazedonien | Makedonien
sense:
A geographical region which includes the Republic of North Macedonia, the Greek region of Macedonia, the Pirin region of Bulgaria, and small parts of Albania and Serbia.


lexentry: eng/Mach's_principle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mach's principle
trans_list: Mach-Prinzip | Machsches Prinzip
sense:
(physics) The principle that the inertia of a body arises from its relation to the totality of all other bodies in the universe.


lexentry: eng/Mach__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mach
trans_list: Mach
sense:
(physics) a ratio of the speed (of an object, etc.) to the speed of sound in the fluid or other medium through which the object travels. Usually used to describe supersonic speeds; the Mach number.


lexentry: eng/Machiavellian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Machiavellian
trans_list: machiavellistisch
sense:
Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics or in advancing one's career.


lexentry: eng/Machiavellianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Machiavellianism
trans_list: Machiavellismus | Realpolitik
sense:
(philosophy, politics) A political philosophy, based on the writings of Machiavelli, especially The Prince, that advocates the use of ruthlessness and duplicity in political dealings.


lexentry: eng/Machmeter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Machmeter
trans_list: Machmeter
sense:
(aviation) An instrument that measures the speed of an aircraft relative to that of sound and displays it in Mach numbers.


lexentry: eng/Maclaurin_series__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maclaurin series
trans_list: Maclaurin-Reihe | maclaurinsche Reihe
sense:
(calculus) Any Taylor series that is centred at 0 (i.e., for which the origin is the reference point used to derive the series from its associated function); for a given infinitely differentiable complex function \textstyle f, the power series \textstyle f(0)+\frac {f'(0)}{1!}x+ \frac{f(0)}{2!}x^2+ \frac{f(0)}{3!}x^3+ \cdots = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{f^{(n)}(0)}{n!} \, x^{n}.


lexentry: eng/Madonna__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Madonna
trans_list: Madonna
sense:
(Christianity, sometimes with definite article) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, especially in Catholic contexts.


lexentry: eng/Mafia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mafia
trans_list: Mafia
sense:
Any other specific organized crime syndicate operating internationally in high-level organized crime; often with a modifying adjective, such as a nationality.


lexentry: eng/Mafia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mafia
trans_list: Mafia
sense:
The international criminal organization of Sicilian origin operating in Italy and the United States.


lexentry: eng/Maghreb__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maghreb
trans_list: Maghreb
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. Northwest Africa, the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile. The lands of the Maghreb are generally considered to be the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya.


lexentry: eng/Magi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Magi
trans_list: Heilige Drei Könige | Weise aus dem Morgenland
sense:
(Christianity) Chiefly preceded by the (three): the wise men who visited and gave gifts to the baby Jesus at the Epiphany (traditionally considered to be three in number and sometimes named Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior, but the Bible does not state how many there were or their names).


lexentry: eng/Magna_Carta__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Magna Carta
trans_list: Magna Carta
sense:
(historical) A charter granted by King John to the barons at Runnymede in 1215, which is one of the bases of English constitutional tradition; a physical copy of this charter, or a later version.


lexentry: eng/Maillard_reaction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maillard reaction
trans_list: Maillard-Reaktion
sense:
(organic chemistry) The condensation reaction of an amino acid and a reducing sugar, followed by polymerization to form brown pigments - melanoidins; one of the causes of browning during cooking. [from 1910s]


lexentry: eng/Main_Street__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Main Street
trans_list: Dorfstraße | Hauptstraße
sense:
The generic street name (and often the official name) of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in the United States, Canada, Ireland, some parts of Scotland and also in some countries in central Europe.


lexentry: eng/Malagasy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Malagasy
trans_list: Madagassisch
sense:
(uncountable) The languages of Madagascar or of the Malagasy people, when considered to be one language.


lexentry: eng/Malay_Archipelago__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Malay Archipelago
trans_list: Malaiischer Archipel
sense:
the archipelago between mainland Southeastern Asia and Australia, that includes Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, East Malaysia and East Timor


lexentry: eng/Malay__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Malay
trans_list: malaiisch | Malaiisch
sense:
Of or relating to the Malays, a people living in Brunei, on the eastern coast of Sumatra, the islands of Bangka and Belitung, the Riau archipelago and the coastal areas of Kalimantan in Indonesia, in most of Malaysia (states where they are politically dominant), in Singapore and in the southernmost provinces of Thailand.


lexentry: eng/Malay__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Malay
trans_list: Malaiin | Malaiie
sense:
(countable) A person of Malay ancestry, referring to a diverse group of Austronesian peoples inhabiting the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in Southeast Asia.


lexentry: eng/Malay__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Malay
trans_list: Malaiisch
sense:
(broad sense) The Malay language, an Austronesian language spoken by most Malay people and by others where it is an official language, including under the name Indonesian.


lexentry: eng/Malayan_night_heron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Malayan night heron
trans_list: Wellenreiher
sense:
A medium-sized heron, Gorsachius melanolophus, distributed in southern and eastern Asia, and breeding in India, Taiwan, China, and the Philippines.


lexentry: eng/Manchuria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Manchuria
trans_list: Mandschurei
sense:
(historical) The area traditionally inhabited by the Manchu people and their Jurchen predecessors, in modern China and Russia.


lexentry: eng/Mandarin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mandarin
trans_list: Mandarin | Hochchinesisch
sense:
Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu.


lexentry: eng/Mandelbrot_set__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mandelbrot set
trans_list: Mandelbrotmenge
sense:
(mathematics) the set of complex numbers c for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the complex quadratic polynomial zn+1 = zn2 + c remains bounded. The boundary of this set is a fractal.


lexentry: eng/Manichaeism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Manichaeism
trans_list: Manichäismus
sense:
(religion) A syncretic, dualistic religion that combines elements of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Gnostic thought, founded by the Iranian prophet Mani in 3rd century AD.


lexentry: eng/Mantineia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mantineia
trans_list: Mantineia
sense:
(historical) A city in ancient Arcadia, Greece that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history.


lexentry: eng/Mao_suit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mao suit
trans_list: Mao-Anzug
sense:
A type of jacket popularized in China in the 20th century, with two breast pockets and two waist pockets.


lexentry: eng/Maoism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maoism
trans_list: Maoismus
sense:
The philosophy espoused by Chinese leader Mao Zedong, a form of Marxism-Leninism that focuses on the peasantry as the revolutionary vanguard.


lexentry: eng/March__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: March
trans_list: März | Lenzing
sense:
The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April. Abbreviation: Mar or Mar.


lexentry: eng/Marcionism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Marcionism
trans_list: Marcionismus | Markionismus
sense:
(Christianity) An early Christian following akin to but distinct from gnosticism which rejected the validity of the Old Testament and essentially denied the Trinity, regarding God the Father as an inferior demiurge, and that Jesus had nothing to do with the First Person of the Trinity.


lexentry: eng/Mariana_Trench__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mariana Trench
trans_list: Marianengraben
sense:
(oceanography) A submarine trench in the North Pacific Ocean, noted for having the deepest known point on Earth.


lexentry: eng/Mariolatry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mariolatry
trans_list: Mariolatrie
sense:
(Protestantism, derogatory) Adoration or veneration of the Virgin Mary to an extent regarded as inappropriate or even idolatrous. [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/Mark__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Mark
trans_list: Markus
sense:
Mark the Evangelist, also called John Mark, the first patriarch of Alexandria, credited with the authorship of the Gospel of Mark.


lexentry: eng/Mark__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Mark
trans_list: Markus
sense:
(biblical) The Gospel of St. Mark, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the second of the four gospels.


lexentry: eng/Marne__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Marne
trans_list: Marne
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, a right tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris.


lexentry: eng/Mars_rover__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mars rover
trans_list: Mars-Rover
sense:
Any of a number of small unmanned remote-controlled vehicles sent to the planet Mars to do scientific research.


lexentry: eng/Martial__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Martial
trans_list: Martial
sense:
An Anglicized cognomen or given name of the Roman poet Marcus Valerius Martialis, born in Spain in the first century AD and noted for his epigrams.


lexentry: eng/Marxian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Marxian
trans_list: Marx'sch | marxsch
sense:
Of, pertaining to, or influenced by the 19th-century philosopher Karl Marx and his political and economic theories; now often distinguished from Marxist by the nuance that one does not necessarily adhere to Marxism itself. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Marxism-Leninism-Maoism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
trans_list: Marxismus-Leninismus-Maoismus
sense:
(politics, communism) A communist ideological stream which seeks to synthesize Marxism-Leninism and Maoism and which proponents believe is the highest stage of Marxism. It was systematized by the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) and developed by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and its adherent parties.


lexentry: eng/Marxism-Leninism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Marxism-Leninism
trans_list: Marxismus-Leninismus
sense:
(politics, communism) A communist ideological stream that emerged as the mainstream tendency amongst the Communist parties in the 1920s as it was adopted as the ideological foundation of the Communist International during Stalin's era, and was later adopted by the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam, and several other nations.


lexentry: eng/Marxism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Marxism
trans_list: Marxismus
sense:
The socialist and communist philosophy and political program founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.


lexentry: eng/Marxism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Marxism
trans_list: Marxismus
sense:
The socialist and communist theory of the followers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; a radical, revolutionary political philosophy that aims to capture state power, introduce a dictatorship of the proletariat, and then progress to communism.


lexentry: eng/Mary__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Mary
trans_list: Maria
sense:
(Islam) The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an, recounting the events leading up to the birth of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/Mass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mass
trans_list: Messe
sense:
(Roman Catholic Church) The principal liturgical service of the Church, encompassing both a scripture service (Liturgy of the Word) and a eucharistic service (Liturgy of the Eucharist), which includes the consecration and oblation (offering) of the host and wine.


lexentry: eng/Massacre_of_the_Innocents__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Massacre of the Innocents
trans_list: Bethlehemitischer Kindermord | Kindermord in Bethlehem
sense:
(Christianity) The incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.


lexentry: eng/Master_of_Science__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Master of Science
trans_list: Diplomingenieur
sense:
A degree that usually requires 2-3 years beyond a Bachelor of Science and emphasizes science and scientific applications. The degree is less advanced than a Doctorate degree.


lexentry: eng/Mattathias__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mattathias
trans_list: Mattatias
sense:
(Christianity, in Luke’s genealogy of Christ) The son of Amos and father of Joseph, six-times-great–grandfather of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/Mattathias__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mattathias
trans_list: Mattatias
sense:
(Christianity, in Luke’s genealogy of Christ) The son of Semei and father of Mahath, twelve-times-great–grandfather of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/Matthew__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Matthew
trans_list: Matthäus | Matthaeus
sense:
(biblical) The Gospel of St. Matthew, the first book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the first of the four gospels, a book attributed to Matthew the Evangelist.


lexentry: eng/Mauser__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mauser
trans_list: Mauser
sense:
Any of the firearms made or designed by the German company Mauser, notably automatic pistols and bolt action rifles.


lexentry: eng/Maxwell's_demon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maxwell's demon
trans_list: Maxwellscher Dämon
sense:
A hypothetical creature created for a thought experiment. Maxwell’s demon, if it existed, would act as a sort of gate guard by sorting between higher-energy molecules and lower-energy molecules within an enclosed space. Because such a sorting process would tend to decrease entropy, it would violate the second law of thermodynamics.


lexentry: eng/May_Day__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
sense: Labour Day, the first day of May, a worldwide workers' holiday.
written_rep: May Day
trans_list:
Maifeiertag | Tag der Arbeit | Erster Mai | Kampftag der Arbeiterbewegung | Kampftag der Arbeiterklasse


lexentry: eng/Maya__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maya
trans_list: Maja | Majakultur | Maya | Mayakultur
sense:
a flourishing Mesoamerican civilization that existed in and around Guatemala from the 3rd century to the 9th century.


lexentry: eng/Maya__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maya
trans_list: Maja | Majakultur | Maya | Mayakultur
sense:
a variety of Mesoamerican peoples with farming from around 1000 BC onward, who developed a large civilization from the 3rd century onward


lexentry: eng/Maya__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maya
trans_list: Maja | Maya
sense:
various Mesoamerican peoples living in the Spanish Empire, and now parts of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras


lexentry: eng/Maya__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Maya
trans_list: Maja | Majakultur | Maya | Mayakultur
sense:
various Mesoamerican peoples that continued in competing civilizations from the 10th century onward until conquered by Spain


lexentry: eng/McCarthyism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: McCarthyism
trans_list: Blockwartmentalität
sense:
(pejorative) The mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs, especially as opposed to communism.


lexentry: eng/McCarthyism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: McCarthyism
trans_list: McCarthyismus
sense:
The intense opposition to, and fear and suspicion of, Communism, particularly in the United States during the 1950s.


lexentry: eng/McIntosh__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: McIntosh
trans_list: McIntosh
sense:
A cultivar of apple whose fruit has red and green skin, tart flavor and white flesh that ripens in late September.


lexentry: eng/Meadow_Mari__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Meadow Mari
trans_list: Wiesenmari
sense:
A standardized dialect of the Mari language used mainly in the European part of the Russian Federation.


lexentry: eng/Mecca__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mecca
trans_list: Mekka
sense:
(sometimes, _, proscribed) TemplateParserError:LuaError, the holiest place in Islam, location of the sacred Ka'ba, and to which Muslims are required to make a hajj at least once in their lifetime, if possible.


lexentry: eng/Median__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Median
trans_list: Medisch
sense:
The northwestern Old Iranian language of the Medes, attested only by numerous loanwords in Old Persian, few borrowings in Old Armenian and some glosses in Ancient Greek; nothing is known of its grammar.


lexentry: eng/Medieval_Greek__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Medieval Greek
trans_list: Mittelgriechisch
sense:
Collectively, the continuum of forms of the Greek language as written and spoken during medieval times, preceded by Hellenistic Koine Greek and succeeded by Modern Greek


lexentry: eng/Medieval_Latin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Medieval Latin
trans_list: Mittellatein
sense:
The Latin language as spoken and written during the Middle Ages, before it was developed by the Italian humanists into Renaissance Latin.


lexentry: eng/Medina__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Medina
trans_list: Medina
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; a city, holy to Islam, 200 miles north of Mecca along the Hejaz, from which the Hejira was launched; contains Muhammad's tomb.


lexentry: eng/Medio-Late_Egyptian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Medio-Late Egyptian
trans_list: Medio-Neuägyptisch
sense:
(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by Late Egyptian sentence structure but mostly Middle Egyptian orthography with occasional Middle Egyptian syntactical elements.


lexentry: eng/Megaera__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Megaera
trans_list: Megäre
sense:
(Greek god) One of the Furies, Erinyes in Greek mythology, the cause of jealousy and envy, who punishes people who commit crimes, especially marital infidelity.


lexentry: eng/Megleno-Romanian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Megleno-Romanian
trans_list: Meglenorumänisch | meglenorumänische Sprache
sense:
An endangered Eastern Romance language spoken in northern Greece, North Macedonia and parts of Romania, and related to Romanian, Aromanian and Istro-Romanian.


lexentry: eng/Mekong__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mekong
trans_list: Mekong
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.


lexentry: eng/Melk__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Melk
trans_list: Melk
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, in the federal state of Lower Austria, known as the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery.


lexentry: eng/Melkite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Melkite
trans_list: Melkite | Melkitin
sense:
(historical) In 5th-century Syria and Egypt, a sobriquet applied to Chalcedonians by their opponents, denoting the Chalcedonians' fidelity to the Byzantine emperor.


lexentry: eng/Melkite__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Melkite
trans_list: Melkite | Melkitin
sense:
(since the Great Schism) A member of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch or the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem; ellipsis of Orthodox Melkite.


lexentry: eng/Member_of_Parliament__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Member of Parliament
trans_list: Abgeordneter
sense:
(UK, Canada, Australia, NZ) A representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a house of a parliament.


lexentry: eng/Memnon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Memnon
trans_list: Memnon
sense:
(Greek mythology) An Ethiopian king and son of Tithonus and Eos. Considered a great warrior, he fought on the side of Troy and was killed by Achilles.


lexentry: eng/Menelaus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Menelaus
trans_list: Menelaos
sense:
(Greek mythology) the king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, the brother of Agamemnon, the leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the Trojan War


lexentry: eng/Mennonite_Low_German__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mennonite Low German
sense:
a variety of or descending from Low Prussian (East Low German, Low German or Low Saxon), that developed in Royal Prussia and which is now spoken by communities not only in Germany but also in North America (Canada, the United States), South America (Argentina, Brazil), Russia and some other places. (Not to be confused with the High German language Pennsylvania German; both are spoken in Pennsylvania.)

trans_list:
Mennoniten-Niederdeutsch | Mennonitendeutsch | Mennonitenniederdeutsch | Mennonitenplatt | Mennonitenplautdietsch


lexentry: eng/Mennonite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mennonite
trans_list: Mennonist | Mennonistin | Mennonit | Mennonitin
sense:
A member of any of a group of Protestant churches or denominations in the Anabaptist tradition, practicing credobaptism and committed to nonresistance and nonviolence, many of whom may wear plain dress and shun modern technology.


lexentry: eng/Mensa__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mensa
trans_list: Tafelberg
sense:
(constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, originally named after Table Mountain in South Africa. It lies between the constellations of Hydrus and Volans.


lexentry: eng/Menshevik__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Menshevik
trans_list: Menschewik | Menschewikin
sense:
(now, chiefly, historical) A member of the gradualist or moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party during the years preceding the Russian Revolution, when they split with the Bolsheviks; or a member of a later independent moderate-Marxist party formed in 1917. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/Mercury__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mercury
trans_list: Merkur
sense:
(astronomy) The planet in the solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿.


lexentry: eng/Mercury__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Mercury
trans_list: Merkur
sense:
(Roman god) The Roman god associated with speed, sometimes used as a messenger, wearing winged sandals; the Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hermes.


lexentry: eng/Meroitic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Meroitic
trans_list: Meroitisch
sense:
Describing the language once used in Meroë, or the script, related to hieroglyphs, in which it was written.


lexentry: eng/Merovingian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Merovingian
trans_list: Merowinger
sense:
One of a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region (known as Francia in Latin) largely corresponding to ancient Gaul from the middle of the 5th century, and whose politics involved frequent civil warfare among branches of the family.


lexentry: eng/Merv__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Merv
trans_list: Merw
sense:
(chiefly, _, historical) Synonym of Mary, TemplateParserError:LuaError noted for its former role on the Silk Road and similar trade routes.


lexentry: eng/Meshach__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Meshach
trans_list: Meschach
sense:
(biblical character) Mishael, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.


lexentry: eng/Mesoamerica__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mesoamerica
trans_list: Mesoamerika
sense:
A pre-Columbian cultural region extending from the southern part of Mexico to an area that comprises some parts of the countries of Central America


lexentry: eng/Mesopotamia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mesopotamia
trans_list: Mesopotamien | Zweistromland
sense:
A region in Southwest Asia spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris that is the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man.


lexentry: eng/Messidor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Messidor
trans_list: Erntemonat | Messidor
sense:
(historical) The tenth month of the French Republican Calendar, from June 19 or 20 to July 18 or 19.


lexentry: eng/Messinian_salinity_crisis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Messinian salinity crisis
trans_list: Messinische Salinitätskrise
sense:
(geology) A geological event, characterised by the partial desiccation of the Mediterranean basin, which occurred throughout the latter part of the Messinian age of the Miocene epoch, from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, and finally ended with the Zanclean flood.


lexentry: eng/Metatron__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Metatron
trans_list: Metatron
sense:
(Christianity, Judaism) An archangel and the chancellor of Heaven and the scribe of the book of life, in Christian and Jewish folklore. According to medieval apocrypha, he is Enoch, ancestor of Noah, transformed into an angel.


lexentry: eng/Methodist__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Methodist
trans_list: methodistisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to the branch of Christianity that descends from the religious societies overseen by John Wesley (1703–1791) among others.


lexentry: eng/Metis__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Metis
trans_list: Metis
sense:
(Greek god) A Titan who was the personification of wisdom, the first spouse of Zeus, and the mother of Athena


lexentry: eng/Meuse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Meuse
trans_list: Maas
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError that flows about 901 km (560 mi) from France through Belgium (Wallonia region) to the North Sea at the Netherlands.


lexentry: eng/Mexican_Spanish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mexican Spanish
trans_list: Mexikanisch
sense:
A set of variations of the Spanish language as spoken in Mexico and in some parts of the United States and Canada, where there are communities of Hispanic origin influenced by North American Spanish-speaking media.


lexentry: eng/Mexican_marigold__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mexican marigold
trans_list: Aufrechte Studentenblume
sense:
A wild flowering plant, Tagetes erecta, native to Mexico and Central America, with numerous small orangish petals.


lexentry: eng/Mexican_wave__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mexican wave
trans_list: La Ola
sense:
(UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) A phenomenon that primarily occurs at sports events, where the members of the crowd stand up and/or raise their hands in turn, creating the illusion of a wave passing through the crowd.


lexentry: eng/Meänkieli__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Meänkieli
trans_list: Meänkieli | Tornedalfinnisch
sense:
A language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people mainly in Northern Sweden. It is a variant of Finnish with a structure and grammar similar to Finnish, but the vocabulary considerably influenced by Swedish.


lexentry: eng/Mi'kmaq__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Mi'kmaq
trans_list: Betrügerei
sense:
The polysynthetic Eastern Algonquian language spoken by this people, closely related to Maliseet and Passamaquoddy.


lexentry: eng/Miami__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Miami
trans_list: Miami
sense:
Ellipsis of Miami River.; TemplateParserError:LuaError, a river flowing past the city of Miami, Dade.


lexentry: eng/Micah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Micah
trans_list: Micha
sense:
An Ephraimite featured in Judges 17–18 and protagonist of the Micah’s idol narrative. Also called Michas.


lexentry: eng/Michael__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Michael
trans_list: Michael
sense:
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) An archangel associated with defending the faithful in the tribulation.


lexentry: eng/Michelangelo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Michelangelo
trans_list: Michelangelo
sense:
A 15th- and 16th-century Italian artist, full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564).


lexentry: eng/Mickey_Mouse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mickey Mouse
trans_list: Micky Maus
sense:
The most famous Disney cartoon character, an anthropomorphic mouse with a falsetto voice and a cheerful disposition.


lexentry: eng/Microscopium__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Microscopium
trans_list: Mikroskop
sense:
(constellation) A faint constellation of the southern spring sky, said to resemble a microscope. It lies south of the constellation of Capricornus.


lexentry: eng/Mid-Autumn_Festival__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Mid-Autumn Festival
trans_list: Mittherbstfest | Mondfest
sense:
(collective) The East Asian festivals originating, inspired, or co-opted from the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.


lexentry: eng/Midas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Midas
trans_list: Midas
sense:
(Greek mythology) A king who sought and was for a while granted the cherished but subtly dangerous magical power to turn anything he touched into gold.


lexentry: eng/Middle_Ages__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Ages
trans_list: Mittelalter
sense:
(history) The period of primarily European history between the decline of the Western Roman Empire (antiquity) and the early modern period or the Renaissance; the time between c. 500 and 1500.


lexentry: eng/Middle_Chinese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Chinese
trans_list: Mittelchinesisch
sense:
Chinese language spoken during Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties (6th century – 10th century)


lexentry: eng/Middle_Dutch__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Dutch
trans_list: Mittelniederländisch
sense:
Collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) which were spoken and written between 1150 and 1500 in the present-day Dutch-speaking area. There was at that time as yet no overarching standard language, but they were all mutually intelligible.


lexentry: eng/Middle_East__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Middle East
trans_list: Mittlerer Osten | Naher Osten
sense:
(geopolitics) The region comprising West Asia without the South Caucasus and additionally including all of Egypt (not just the Sinai) and all of Turkey (not just Asian Turkey).


lexentry: eng/Middle_English__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle English
trans_list: Mittelenglisch | mittelenglisch
sense:
The ancient or older language of Modern English, spoken in England and parts of Scotland (where it became Lowland Scots) from about 1100 AD to 1500 AD. It developed from Anglo-Saxon, also called Old English, with heavy influence from French and Latin after the Norman invasion.


lexentry: eng/Middle_French__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle French
trans_list: Mittelfranzösisch
sense:
A historical division of the French language, spoken roughly from 1340 to 1610, during which French became established as the official language of France.


lexentry: eng/Middle_Frisian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Frisian
trans_list: Middelfriesisch
sense:
Language descended from Old Frisian spoken on the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany from the 16th century until c. 1820.


lexentry: eng/Middle_High_German__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle High German
trans_list: Mittelhochdeutsch
sense:
An ancestor to the modern (High) German language, spoken from 1050 to about 1500. Some linguists prefer to use 1350 as the end of the Middle High German period, calling the period from 1350 to 1650 Early New High German in a broad sense.


lexentry: eng/Middle_Irish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Irish
trans_list: Mittelirisch
sense:
The Goidelic language spoken in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man from the 10th to the 12th century.


lexentry: eng/Middle_Kingdom__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Kingdom
trans_list: Mittleres Reich
sense:
(historical) Egypt from the time of its reunification under Mentuhotep II in the 11th Dynasty (ending the First Intermediate Period) to its disintegration during the 13th Dynasty and the beginning of the Second Intermediate Period.


lexentry: eng/Middle_Korean__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Korean
trans_list: Mittelkoreanisch
sense:
The Korean language of the 10th (or 13th, depending on the analysis) century to 16th century, or from the era of Goryeo to the middle of Joseon, based on the dialect of Kaesong because the new Goryeo dynasty moved its capital city to northern area of Korean peninsula.


lexentry: eng/Middle_Low_German__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Low German
trans_list: Mittelniederdeutsch
sense:
A language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.


lexentry: eng/Middle_Norwegian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Norwegian
trans_list: Mittelnorwegisch
sense:
The interim language in Norway between 1350 (the Black Plague) and 1525. An amalgam of Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, following Old Norwegian (Old Norse).


lexentry: eng/Middle_Ottoman__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Middle Ottoman
trans_list: Mittelosmanisch | klassisch Osmanisch-Türkisch
sense:
A register of the Ottoman Turkish language typical to the time from 1501–1800 and later a chosen register, particularly seen as exclusive to an educated elite, as marked by complex syntax (lacking punctuation) and largely Persianized and Arabicized vocabulary and sentence structure.


lexentry: eng/Midwest__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Midwest
trans_list: Mittlerer Westen
sense:
(with "the") The area of the contiguous United States contained in the central third of the country, especially the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, sometimes inclusive of Missouri and Kentucky.


lexentry: eng/Migration_Period__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Migration Period
trans_list: Völkerwanderungszeit
sense:
(history) The age of mass migration of Germanic people in Europe during the early Middle Ages, circa 376 to 800 CE.


lexentry: eng/Milgram_experiment__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Milgram experiment
trans_list: Milgram-Experiment
sense:
A social psychology experiment performed by Stanley Milgram in 1963, measuring people's willingness to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.


lexentry: eng/Milky_Way__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Milky Way
trans_list: Milchstraße | Milchstrasse
sense:
(galaxy) The Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy in which Earth is located; extension of the night sky phenomenon.


lexentry: eng/Milky_Way__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Milky Way
trans_list: Milchstraße
sense:
(astronomy) A broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky; our view of the dense portions of the Milky Way Galaxy from inside the galaxy. [from late 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/Min_Nan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Min Nan
trans_list: Min Nan | Minnan
sense:
A group of local languages/dialects which can trace their origins to southern Fujian province, China. In common parlance, Southern Min usually refers to Hokkien, which includes Amoy dialect, Taiwanese Hokkien and other varieties in Southeast Asia. It belongs to the Min dialect group of the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.


lexentry: eng/Minecraft__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Minecraft
trans_list: Minecraft
sense:
(video games) A sandbox video game (released 2011) in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items and build structures.


lexentry: eng/Minerva__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Minerva
trans_list: Minerva
sense:
(Roman god) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, and the arts, especially crafts and in particular weaving. She is the Roman counterpart of Athena.


lexentry: eng/Minoan__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Minoan
trans_list: minoisch
sense:
Of or relating to the civilization that developed in Crete from the neolithic period to the Bronze Age (about 3000-1050 B.C.E.).


lexentry: eng/Mira__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mira
trans_list: Mira
sense:
(star) A binary star in the constellation Cetus, Omicron (ο) Ceti. The system contains a variable red giant and a white dwarf. Its brightness varies from a magnitude 2 at its brightest to a magnitude 10 at its dimmest.


lexentry: eng/Mirandese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mirandese
trans_list: Mirandés
sense:
An endangered Romance language spoken in the northeastern corner of Portugal, principally in the municipalities of Miranda do Douro and Vimioso.


lexentry: eng/Miss__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Miss
trans_list: Fräulein | Frau | Miss
sense:
Form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.


lexentry: eng/Mithraism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mithraism
trans_list: Mithraismus | Mithraskult
sense:
An astrology-based, middle-platonic mystery religion of the 1st-4th century Roman Empire that claimed to have been founded by Zoroaster, admitted only men, and was especially popular among the Roman military.


lexentry: eng/Mixolydian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mixolydian
trans_list: mixolydisch
sense:
(music) Designating the Mixolydian mode, the highest of the ancient Greek modes, and now having final G and D dominant.


lexentry: eng/Mnemosyne__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mnemosyne
trans_list: Mnemosyne
sense:
(Greek god) A Titaness and the personification of thought, intellect and memory. She is the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, and the mother of the Muses by Zeus.


lexentry: eng/Modern_Greek__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Modern Greek
trans_list: Neugriechisch | neugriechisch
sense:
The Greek language as spoken by the Greek people since the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It was written using polytonic script until 1982, when this was officially dropped in favour of monotonic.


lexentry: eng/Modern_Monetary_Theory__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Modern Monetary Theory
trans_list: Modern Monetary Theory
sense:
A heterodox economic school of thought that posits that fiscal policy, set to constrain inflation and enable full employment, should be the primary economic stabiliser and prioritises reflection on the nature of money from a chartalist perspective.


lexentry: eng/Modern_Standard_Arabic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Modern Standard Arabic
trans_list: Fusha | Modernes Hocharabisch | Standardarabisch | modernes Hocharabisch
sense:
The standard and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in formal speech in the Arab world since c. the 19th century.


lexentry: eng/Moebius_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Moebius syndrome
trans_list: Möbius-Syndrom | okulofaziale Parese
sense:
(neurology) A rare congenital disorder characterized by facial paralysis and an inability to move one's eyes from side to side.


lexentry: eng/Mohawk__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Mohawk
trans_list: Iro | Irokesenschnitt
sense:
A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair along the crest of the head kept long, and usually styled so as to stand straight up.


lexentry: eng/Moksha__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Moksha
trans_list: Mokscha
sense:
A language of the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family, spoken by about 428,000 people in the western and southern parts of Mordovia, a dependent republic within Russia, and the adjacent regions of Tambov, Penza, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Tatarstan, Buguruslan and Bashkortostan.


lexentry: eng/Moldavian_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Moldavian SSR
trans_list: Moldauische SSR
sense:
Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Moldova while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1940–1941 and 1945–1991).


lexentry: eng/Moldovan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Moldovan
trans_list: Moldauisch | Moldawisch
sense:
The dialect of Romanian spoken in the Republic of Moldova, which may be written in either the Cyrillic or the Roman alphabet.


lexentry: eng/Molotov_cocktail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Molotov cocktail
trans_list: Molotowcocktail | Brandflasche
sense:
A crude incendiary bomb made from a glass bottle, either filled with a flammable liquid such as petroleum and supplied with a rag for a fuse that is lit just before being hurled, or filled with such a mix of flammable liquids that it ignites itself when it is smashed and its contents are exposed to air.


lexentry: eng/Monday__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Monday
trans_list: Montag
sense:
The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.


lexentry: eng/Mongolia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Mongolia
trans_list: Mongolei
sense:
Region in East Asia, including Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, sometimes also including Buryatia, Tuva, Altay.


lexentry: eng/Mongolian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Mongolian
trans_list: Mongolisch | mongolisch
sense:
(uncountable) A group of languages from Mongolia, specifically Khalkha, the official language of Mongolia.


lexentry: eng/Mongolian_spot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mongolian spot
sense:
A benign, flat, congenital, usually blue to blue-black birthmark on the lower back with wavy borders and irregular shape, prevalent among East Asians, South-East Asians, Polynesians, Native Americans, East Africans, and the Turkish people. It normally disappears three to five years after birth and almost always by puberty.

trans_list:
Asiatenfleck | Hunnenfleck | Mongolenfleck | Sakralfleck | Steißfleck | kongenitale dermale Melanozytose


lexentry: eng/Monoceros__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Monoceros
trans_list: Einhorn
sense:
(constellation) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a unicorn. It lies amid the Milky Way, just east of the constellation Orion.


lexentry: eng/Monophysite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Monophysite
trans_list: Monophysit | Monophysitin
sense:
(Christianity) A member of a Christian sect which held that Jesus Christ has one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian view that Christ has two natures, both fully man and fully God, and is co-eternal and co-substantial with the Father.


lexentry: eng/Monopoly__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Monopoly
trans_list: Monopoly
sense:
(games, board games) A board game in which players use play money to buy and trade properties, with the objective of forcing opponents into bankruptcy.


lexentry: eng/Monothelete__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Monothelete
trans_list: Monothelet | Monotheletin
sense:
(Christianity, historical) Someone who believed Christ had two natures (human and divine), but one single will; a Monothelite.


lexentry: eng/Montanism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Montanism
trans_list: Montanismus
sense:
(Christianity) The doctrines of a heretical sect of the second to fifth centuries in Asia Minor, who held millenarian beliefs.


lexentry: eng/Montenegrin__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Montenegrin
trans_list: Montenegrinisch | montenegrinisch
sense:
(uncountable) The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken in Montenegro.


lexentry: eng/Montenegro__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Montenegro
trans_list: Montenegro | Schwarzenberg
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.


lexentry: eng/Montgolfier_balloon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Montgolfier balloon
trans_list: Ballon
sense:
The most common type of hot-air balloon, a balloon lifted by only heated air with onboard burners, and a usually-manned platform at the base.


lexentry: eng/Moon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Moon
trans_list: Mond | Erdsatellit | Erdtrabant
sense:
The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.


lexentry: eng/Moor__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Moor
trans_list: Maure | Mohr | Maurin | Mohrin
sense:
(historical) A member of an Islamic people of Arab or Berber origin ruling Spain and parts of North Africa from the 8th to the 15th centuries.


lexentry: eng/Moorish__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Moorish
trans_list: maurisch
sense:
(architecture) Of or pertaining to a style of Spanish and Portuguese architecture from the time of the Moors, characterized by the horseshoe arch and ornate, geometric decoration.


lexentry: eng/Moravian_star__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Moravian star
trans_list: Herrnhuter Stern
sense:
A (usually illuminated) star, made of a geometric solid such as a rhombicuboctahedron to which a large number of pyramidal points are attached, a popular Advent or Christmas decoration in Germany and other places having Moravian congregations.


lexentry: eng/Mordecai__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mordecai
trans_list: Mardochai | Mordechai | Mordochai
sense:
(Biblical character) One of the main personalities in the Book of Esther. He adopted and raised his cousin Esther and foiled a plot to assassinate the king.


lexentry: eng/Morley_triangle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Morley triangle
trans_list: Morley-Dreieck
sense:
(geometry) Any of a number of triangles described in Morley's trisector theorem, especially the equilateral triangle formed from the points of intersection of adjacent angle trisectors of a given triangle.


lexentry: eng/Mormon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mormon
trans_list: Mormone
sense:
(originally, derogatory, sometimes, proscribed) A believer in the Mormon religion, which views Joseph Smith as a prophet of God and holds the Bible and the Book of Mormon as its primary scriptures.


lexentry: eng/Mormonism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mormonism
trans_list: Mormonentum
sense:
Religious, ideological, and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter-day Saint movement.


lexentry: eng/Morpheus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Morpheus
trans_list: Morpheus
sense:
(Greek mythology) The god and personification of dreams; according to the Roman poet Ovid, one of the sons of Somnus, the god of sleep.


lexentry: eng/Morris_column__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Morris column
trans_list: Litfaßsäule
sense:
A cylindrical outdoor sidewalk structure (like a column) used for advertising; an advertising column


lexentry: eng/Morrison_Formation__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Morrison Formation
trans_list: Morrison-Formation
sense:
(geology) A sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock in the western United States, noted as the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America.


lexentry: eng/Morse_code__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Morse code
trans_list: Morsecode | Morsealphabet
sense:
(telecommunications) A character code represented by dots and dashes (or short and long pulses), originally used to send messages by telegraph, later by flashes of light or by radio.


lexentry: eng/Moses__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Moses
trans_list: Mose | Moses
sense:
The pharaonic patriarch who led the enslaved Hebrews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.


lexentry: eng/Mother's_Day__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mother's Day
trans_list: Muttertag
sense:
(US, Canada) A day in honor of one's mother on the second Sunday in May in the United States and Canada.


lexentry: eng/Mother_Nature__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mother Nature
trans_list: Mutter Natur
sense:
A personification of nature as woman, stressing fertility and fecundity. Based upon either goddesses of the earth and nature, Gaia, Rhea, or Demeter.


lexentry: eng/Mother_of_God__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mother of God
trans_list: Gottesmutter | Muttergottes | Mutter Gottes
sense:
(Christianity) A dogmatic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role as mother of God.


lexentry: eng/Mount_of_Olives__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mount of Olives
trans_list: Ölberg
sense:
A mountain ridge east of and adjacent to the Old City of Jerusalem, a holy place for both Judaism and Christianity.


lexentry: eng/Movement_2_June__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Movement 2 June
trans_list: Bewegung 2. Juni
sense:
(historical) One of the militant groups of postwar West Germany, founded by former members of Kommune 1.


lexentry: eng/Mozarabic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mozarabic
trans_list: Mozarabisch
sense:
A continuum of closely related Romance dialects spoken in Muslim-dominated areas of the Iberian Peninsula during the early stages of Romance language development in Iberia.


lexentry: eng/Mozart_effect__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mozart effect
trans_list: Mozart-Effekt
sense:
The supposed phenomenon by which listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement in spatiotemporal reasoning or in mental performance generally.


lexentry: eng/Mozartian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mozartian
trans_list: Mozartsch
sense:
Of or pertaining to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), prolific and influential composer of classical music.


lexentry: eng/Mr.__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mr.
trans_list: Hr. | Herr
sense:
(US, Canada) A title used before the surname in theory, though not generally in practice, above some undefined social level, too old to be addressed as “Master”, not a knight or of some higher rank, and, in Britain though not in the United States, not entitled to be addressed as “Dr.”.


lexentry: eng/Mrs__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mrs
trans_list: Fr.
sense:
(used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames)


lexentry: eng/Ms__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ms
trans_list: Frau
sense:
Title used before an adult woman's name or surname, especially when it is not desired or possible to indicate her marital status with Miss or Mrs.


lexentry: eng/Muay_Thai__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Muay Thai
trans_list: Muay Thai
sense:
(martial arts) A sport practiced in Thailand which is similar to boxing but also allows strikes with the shins, feet, elbows, and knees.


lexentry: eng/Mudéjar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mudéjar
trans_list: Maure
sense:
(countable) Any of the Moors of Al-Andalus who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity.


lexentry: eng/Muhammad__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Muhammad
trans_list: Mohammed
sense:
(uncountable) The figure who introduced Islam, the man to whom the Qur'an was revealed; considered a prophet by Muslims and Baháʼís.


lexentry: eng/Munsee__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Munsee
trans_list: Munsee
sense:
An endangered Eastern Algonquian language, one of the two Lenape / Delaware languages (the other is called Unami), spoken aboriginally in the vicinity of what is now New York City.


lexentry: eng/Murphy_bed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Murphy bed
trans_list: Schrankbett
sense:
(North America) A light type of bed designed to be folded up or swung into a wall or closet for storage when not in use. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/Musca__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Musca
trans_list: Fliege
sense:
(constellation) An autumn constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a fly, between the constellations of Carina and Apus.


lexentry: eng/Muscovy__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Muscovy
trans_list: Moskau | Moskowien
sense:
The Russian territory around and ruled from Moscow by grand princes until it became the nucleus of a united Russia, which its dynasty ruled first as czars (kings) from Moscow, later as emperors from Saint Petersburg


lexentry: eng/Mycenae__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mycenae
trans_list: Mykene | Mykenä
sense:
An ancient Greek city in the NE Peloponnesus on the plain of Argos, inhabited since about 4000 B.C.E.


lexentry: eng/Mycenaean_Greek__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Mycenaean Greek
trans_list: mykenisch
sense:
The most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC, written in Linear B script.


lexentry: eng/Myrmidon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Myrmidon
trans_list: Myrmidone
sense:
(Greek mythology) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompanied Achilles, their king, in the Trojan War.


lexentry: eng/Möbius_strip__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Möbius strip
trans_list: Möbiusband
sense:
(topology) A one-sided surface formed by identifying two opposite edges of a square in opposite senses;a narrow strip given a half twist and joined at the ends, forming a three-dimensional embedding of said surface.


lexentry: eng/Möbius_transformation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Möbius transformation
trans_list: Möbiustransformation
sense:
(geometry, complex analysis) A transformation of the extended complex plane that is a rational function of the form f(z) = (az + b) / (cz + d), where a, b, c, d are complex numbers such that ad − bc ≠ 0; an automorphism of the complex projective line.


lexentry: eng/Münchausen_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Münchausen syndrome
trans_list: Münchhausen-Syndrom
sense:
A psychiatric disorder in which a person feigns illness or psychological trauma in order to garner attention or sympathy.


lexentry: eng/NOT__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: NOT
trans_list: Negation
sense:
(mathematics, logic) A unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true.


lexentry: eng/NP-complete__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: NP-complete
trans_list: NP-vollständig
sense:
(computing theory, of a, decision problem) That is both NP (solvable in polynomial time by a non-deterministic Turing machine) and NP-hard (such that any (other) NP problem can be reduced to it in polynomial time).


lexentry: eng/Nadsat__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nadsat
trans_list: Nadsat
sense:
The Russian-influenced argot used by the teenage protagonists in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962). [from 1962]


lexentry: eng/Nagasaki__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nagasaki
trans_list: Nagasaki | Nangasaki
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.


lexentry: eng/Nagorno-Karabakh_Republic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
trans_list: Republik Bergkarabach
sense:
An Armenian-populated republic with limited recognition located in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus, between Armenia and Azerbaijan.


lexentry: eng/Nakba__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nakba
trans_list: Nakba
sense:
(Palestine) The fracturing, dispossession and displacement of Palestinian society, following the declaration of Israel on what had been most of Mandatory Palestine, including the flight or expulsion of the majority of the Palestinian Arabs (some 700,000) and the destruction of their homes.


lexentry: eng/Nanjing__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Nanjing
trans_list: Nanking
sense:
(historical) Various other Chinese cities during periods when they acted as a southern capital of a kingdom or imperial dynasty.


lexentry: eng/Napier's_bones__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Napier's bones
trans_list: Napiersche Rechenstäbchen
sense:
(arithmetic) A set of numbered rods used for multiplication and division (see the Wikipedia article for a fuller explanation).


lexentry: eng/Naples__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Naples
trans_list: Neapel
sense:
(historical) Synonym of Kingdom of Naples, a former kingdom that controlled southern Italy in the early modern period


lexentry: eng/Naples__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Naples
trans_list: Neapel
sense:
(historical) Synonym of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a former kingdom that controlled southern Italy and Sicily in the 19th century


lexentry: eng/Napoleon_complex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Napoleon complex
trans_list: Napoleon-Komplex
sense:
(pejorative, psychology) Aggressive or domineering behaviour, claimed to be a form of psychological compensation for one's short physical stature.


lexentry: eng/Narcissus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Narcissus
trans_list: Narziss
sense:
(Greek mythology) A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.


lexentry: eng/Narnia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Narnia
trans_list: Narnia
sense:
(fantasy) A land in which a series of seven children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are set.


lexentry: eng/Nash_equilibrium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nash equilibrium
trans_list: Nash-Gleichgewicht
sense:
(game theory) The set of choices of players' strategies for which no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy assuming that the other players keep theirs unchanged.


lexentry: eng/Nastaliq__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nastaliq
trans_list: Nastaliq
sense:
A form of Arabic calligraphy mostly used for Persian and languages it has influenced, including Urdu and Ottoman Turkish.


lexentry: eng/Natal__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Natal
trans_list: Christfest
sense:
A former British colony and province of South Africa, itself beforehand the Natalia Republic. It is now called KwaZulu-Natal province.


lexentry: eng/National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Administration__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
trans_list: [[Nationale Luft- und Raumfahrtbehörde]] (der USA / der Vereinigten Staaten)
sense:
A civilian agency of the government of the United States of America, charged with space and aeronautical research and space exploration.


lexentry: eng/National_Bolshevism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: National Bolshevism
trans_list: Nationalbolschewismus
sense:
A neo-fascist ultranationalist ideology primarily originated from Russia that combines strong elements of classical fascism with economical communism.


lexentry: eng/National_Socialism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: National Socialism
trans_list: Nationalsozialismus
sense:
The ideology of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) in Germany, including an authoritarian government, ethnic nationalism (including but not limited to Pan-Germanism) and adequate territory (Lebensraum), and economic cooperation between the state and capital.


lexentry: eng/National_Socialist_German_Workers'_Party__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: National Socialist German Workers' Party
trans_list: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
sense:
(historical, Nazism, German politics) Far-Right political party from Germany, commonly known as the Nazi Party


lexentry: eng/Navajo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Navajo
trans_list: Navajo | Navaho
sense:
An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Dené phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).


lexentry: eng/Navarre__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Navarre
trans_list: Navarra
sense:
A part of the Northern Basque Country (France), often referred to as Basse Navarre (Lower Navarre) in French, to distinguish it from the Navarre belonging to Spain.


lexentry: eng/Naypyidaw__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Naypyidaw
trans_list: Naypyidaw | Pyinmana Naypyidaw
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, located in Pyinmana Township, Mandalay Division (approximately 320 kilometres north of Yangon).


lexentry: eng/Nazi_Germany__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
sense: (historical) Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party (from 1933 to 1945).
written_rep: Nazi Germany
trans_list:
Drittes Reich | NS-Deutschland | NS-Staat | Nazi-Deutschland | Nazideutschland | Tausendjähriges Reich


lexentry: eng/Nazi__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nazi
trans_list: Nazi | nazistisch
sense:
(historical) Of or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally.


lexentry: eng/Nazi__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nazi
trans_list: Nazi | Nationalsozialist | Nationalsozialistin
sense:
(historical) A member of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP). [1930]


lexentry: eng/Nazism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nazism
trans_list: Nazismus
sense:
The ideology of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP), being a form of fascism characterised by Adolf Hitler's cult of personality, hate propaganda, white supremacy, extreme bigotry (especially antisemitism and racism), eugenics, mass violence, genocide, ethnonationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum) and state capitalism.


lexentry: eng/Near_East__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Near East
trans_list: Naher Osten
sense:
The region located south of Eastern Europe, comprising Anatolia, Transcaucasia, the Levant, and Mesopotamia.


lexentry: eng/Nebra_sky_disc__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nebra sky disc
trans_list: Himmelsscheibe von Nebra
sense:
(archaeology) A bronze disc featuring gold symbols inlaid on a blue-green patina, generally interpreted as depicting the Sun or full moon, a lunar crescent and stars (including a group that may be the Pleiades), dated to circa 1800–1600 BCE and attributed to the Unetice culture of the early European Bronze Age.


lexentry: eng/Nebuchadnezzar__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nebuchadnezzar
trans_list: Nebukadnezar
sense:
A ruler of Babylon in the Chaldean Dynasty who reigned c. 605 B.C.E. – 562 B.C.E.. According to the Bible, he conquered Judah and Jerusalem, and sent the Israelites into exile.


lexentry: eng/Neckar__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Neckar
trans_list: Neckar
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, a major tributary of the Rhine, mostly flowing through Baden-Württemberg


lexentry: eng/Nefertem__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nefertem
trans_list: Nefertem
sense:
(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, who represented the first sunlight and the delightful smell of the Egyptian blue lotus flower


lexentry: eng/Nemean_Lion__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nemean Lion
trans_list: Nemeischer Löwe
sense:
(Greek mythology) A mythical lion of ancient Nemea that was invulnerable to attack by weapons and was slain by Hercules as one of his labours.


lexentry: eng/Neo-Middle_Egyptian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Neo-Middle Egyptian
trans_list: Neo-Mittelägyptisch | Neomittelägyptisch
sense:
(linguistics, history) The form of Middle Egyptian archaizingly used as a literary language after the vernacular language had changed into Late Egyptian, and later Demotic and Coptic.


lexentry: eng/Neogrammarian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Neogrammarian
trans_list: Junggrammatiker
sense:
(linguistics, historical) A member or follower of a 19th-century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change.


lexentry: eng/Neoplatonism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Neoplatonism
trans_list: Neuplatonismus
sense:
A school of philosophy based on the teachings of Plato and, subsequently, Plotinus; it was the foundation for paganism.


lexentry: eng/Neptune__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Neptune
trans_list: Neptun
sense:
(Roman mythology) The god of the ocean and of earthquakes, equivalent to Poseidon in Greek mythology.


lexentry: eng/Neptunism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Neptunism
trans_list: Neptunismus
sense:
(historical) A discredited scientific theory of geology, held by many scientists around the late 18th century and early 19th century, that rocks were formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans.


lexentry: eng/Nestorian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nestorian
trans_list: Nestorianer | Nestorianerin
sense:
(sometimes, pejorative) A perceived follower of Nestorius in the fourth and fifth centuries. A member of a Nestorian church.


lexentry: eng/Nestorianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nestorianism
trans_list: Nestorianismus
sense:
(Christianity) The Christological doctrine ascribed to Nestorius, condemned as heretical by the Council of Ephesus but later also ascribed to the Church of the East, holding that within Christ there are two distinct hypostases, divine and human.


lexentry: eng/Netherlands_Antilles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Netherlands Antilles
trans_list: Niederländische Antillen
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, composed of the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, dissolved in 2010.


lexentry: eng/Neustria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Neustria
trans_list: Neustrien
sense:
(historical) The western part of the Frankish empire, corresponding roughly to modern-day northern France.


lexentry: eng/Nevanlinna_theory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nevanlinna theory
trans_list: Nevanlinna-Theorie
sense:
(complex analysis) A part of the theory of meromorphic functions that describes the asymptotic distribution of solutions to the equation ƒ(z) = a, as a varies.


lexentry: eng/Nevi'im__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nevi'im
trans_list: Nevi'im
sense:
A subdivision of the Hebrew Testament (Tanakh) that is known in English as the Prophets. This section is subdivided into two sections, the Former Prophets and the Latter Prophets. The Latter Prophets is further subdivided into the Major Prophets and the Minor Prophets (known as the Twelve).


lexentry: eng/New_Amsterdam__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Amsterdam
trans_list: Neuamsterdam
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError; the Dutch colonial settlement that later became New York City.


lexentry: eng/New_Caledonia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: New Caledonia
trans_list: Neukaledonien
sense:
(historical) A district of the west coast of British North America traded by the Hudson's Bay Company. It became the colony of British Columbia in 1858.


lexentry: eng/New_England__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New England
trans_list: Neuengland
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, namely Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.


lexentry: eng/New_English__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New English
trans_list: Neuenglisch | modernes Englisch | neuenglisch
sense:
The form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.


lexentry: eng/New_France__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New France
trans_list: Neufrankreich
sense:
(historical) France's former possessions and colonies in North America, including Canada (now Quebec and Ontario and Ohio plains), Acadia (now New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), and Louisiana (now the Mississippi plains), before 1763.


lexentry: eng/New_Guinea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Guinea
trans_list: Neuguinea
sense:
A large Oceanian island in the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia, whose territory is divided between Indonesia in the west and Papua New Guinea in the east.


lexentry: eng/New_Ireland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Ireland
trans_list: Neumecklenburg
sense:
An island of the Bismarck Archipelago, a German colony from 1884 to 1921; governed by Australia from 1921 and then by Papua New Guinea from 1975 to the present day.


lexentry: eng/New_Kingdom__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Kingdom
trans_list: Neues Reich
sense:
(historical, Egyptology) Egypt after the Second Intermediate Period but before the Third Intermediate Period, from the time of the overthrow of the Hyksos under Ahmose I at the start of the 18th Dynasty to its de facto disintegration at the end of the 20th Dynasty.


lexentry: eng/New_Latin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Latin
trans_list: Neulatein | Neulateinisch
sense:
The reformed Latin language as written or spoken as a lingua franca from 14th century Renaissance Latin to Contemporary Latin in the late 19th century.


lexentry: eng/New_Low_German__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Low German
trans_list: Neuniederdeutsch
sense:
The modern stage of the Low German language, distinguished from its predecessor stages such as Middle Low German.


lexentry: eng/New_Objectivity__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Objectivity
trans_list: Neue Sachlichkeit
sense:
An anti-expressionist artistic movement of the first half of the twentieth century that espoused direct, unadorned, matter-of-fact aesthetics.


lexentry: eng/New_Orleans__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Orleans
trans_list: New Orleans
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, which is coterminous with the city. It is an industrial and distribution center and major seaport located along the Mississippi near the Gulf of Mexico, known for its rich cultural heritage, especially its music and cuisine.


lexentry: eng/New_Spain__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Spain
trans_list: Neuspanien
sense:
(historical) The colony comprising Spain's territorial possessions in the New World north of the Isthmus of Panama, established following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521.


lexentry: eng/New_Testament__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Testament
trans_list: Neues Testament
sense:
The second half of the Christian Bible, which includes the four Gospels, the Book of Acts, the Epistles, and the Book of Revelation.


lexentry: eng/New_World_Order__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New World Order
trans_list: Neue Weltordnung
sense:
A vision for the world in which greater peace and stability is achieved through a new political order.


lexentry: eng/New_World_monkey__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New World monkey
trans_list: Neuweltaffe | Breitnasenaffe
sense:
Any monkey from any of the five families of primates that are found in Central America and South America: the Callitrichidae, the Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae.


lexentry: eng/New_Year's_Day__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Year's Day
trans_list: Neujahr | Neujahrstag
sense:
A holiday celebrating the first day of the New Year, celebrated on January 1 in cultures following the Gregorian calendar.


lexentry: eng/New_Year's_Eve__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New Year's Eve
trans_list: Silvester | Altjahrsabend
sense:
The holiday occurring on the last day of the year, celebrated on December 31st in cultures following the Gregorian calendar


lexentry: eng/New_Year__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: New Year
trans_list: Neujahr
sense:
In particular, January 1 in the Julian and Gregorian calendar (New Year’s Day) and the days following.


lexentry: eng/New_York__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: New York
trans_list: New York | Neuyork | New-York
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError and the largest city in the United States, a metropolis extending into neighboring New Jersey.


lexentry: eng/Newfoundland__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Newfoundland
trans_list: Neufundländer
sense:
A very large breed of working dog from Newfoundland, with a shaggy, usually black coat, known for its water rescue ability, strength, and gentle disposition.


lexentry: eng/Newfoundland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Newfoundland
trans_list: Neufundland
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, which, along with Labrador, has composed the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador since 1949, and the Dominion of Newfoundland, before it.


lexentry: eng/Newspeak__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Newspeak
trans_list: Neusprech | Neusprache
sense:
(computer languages) A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.


lexentry: eng/Nibelung__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nibelung
trans_list: Nibelung
sense:
(Germanic, _, mythology) A member of a supernatural underground race that guarded treasures and gold searched for and eventually seized by Siegfried.


lexentry: eng/Nicene_Creed__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nicene Creed
trans_list: Bekenntnis von Nicäa | Nizäisch-Konstantinopolitanische Glaubensbekenntnis
sense:
The first official creed of the early Christian church, stating the basic tenets of the Christian faith, including the nature of the Holy Trinity.


lexentry: eng/Nicene__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Nicene
trans_list: nizäisch | nizänisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to the First Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine I, or to the churches that profess the Nicene Creed, the formulation of which began at this council.


lexentry: eng/Nietzschean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nietzschean
trans_list: nietzschesch
sense:
Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, or his writings.


lexentry: eng/Nihilism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nihilism
trans_list: Nihilismus
sense:
(Russia, politics, historical) A movement of the 1860s that rejected all authority and promoted the use of violence for political change.


lexentry: eng/Nile__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nile
trans_list: Nil
sense:
A large river in Africa flowing through Khartoum and Cairo into the Mediterranean Sea, usually considered to be the longest river in the world.


lexentry: eng/Nintendrone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nintendrone
trans_list: Schwangerschaft
sense:
(slang, derogatory, video games) A slavish supporter of Nintendo's video games or consoles; a Nintendo fanboy


lexentry: eng/Nivôse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nivôse
trans_list: Nivose | Nivôse | Schneemonat
sense:
(historical) The fourth month of the French Republican Calendar, from December 21, 22 or 23 to January 19, 20 or 21.


lexentry: eng/Niçoise_salad__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Niçoise salad
trans_list: Nizza-Salat
sense:
A salad, originating from the French town of Nice, with various ingredients including tuna, anchovies, hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes, black olives, and lettuce.


lexentry: eng/Nobel_Prize__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nobel Prize
trans_list: Nobelpreis
sense:
Any of the international prizes awarded annually by the Nobel Foundation for outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for the promotion of world peace; or the prize in economics awarded by the Swedish National Bank, in memorial of Alfred Nobel.


lexentry: eng/Nogai__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nogai
trans_list: nogaische Sprache
sense:
A Turkic language spoken in the northern Caucasus region of southwestern Russia and in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.


lexentry: eng/Nordic_combined__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nordic combined
trans_list: Nordische Kombination | nordische Kombination
sense:
(skiing) An event in which individual skiers take part in runs on a cross-country skiing course and a ski jumping hill.


lexentry: eng/Norma__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Norma
trans_list: Winkelmaß
sense:
(constellation) An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a carpenter's square. It lies south of the constellations Scorpius and Centaurus.


lexentry: eng/Norman__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Norman
trans_list: Normannisch
sense:
The langue d'oïl variant, closely related to the French of Île-de-France (i.e. Paris), spoken in Normandy and the Channel Islands, and was for several centuries the ruling language of England (see Anglo-Norman).


lexentry: eng/North_Africa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Africa
trans_list: Nordafrika
sense:
The northern part of the continent of Africa, usually referring to specifically the regions north of the Sahara Desert where Arabic is widely spoken as a mother tongue.


lexentry: eng/North_America__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North America
trans_list: Nordamerika
sense:
The continent that is the northern part of the Americas; that part east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, north of South America and south of the Arctic Ocean.


lexentry: eng/North_Asia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Asia
trans_list: Nordasien
sense:
The northern region of Asia, also referred to as Siberia, geographically coextensive with the Asian part of Russia.


lexentry: eng/North_Atlantic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Atlantic
trans_list: Nordatlantik
sense:
The portion of the Atlantic Ocean that lies primarily between North America and the northeast coast of South America to the east, and Europe and the northwest coast of Africa to the west.


lexentry: eng/North_Carolina__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Carolina
trans_list: North Carolina | Nord-Karolina | Nordkarolina
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError situated on the east coast of the North American mainland north of South Carolina and south of Virginia. Capital: Raleigh.


lexentry: eng/North_Caucasus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Caucasus
trans_list: Nordkaukasus
sense:
the northern part of the Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian Seas and within European Russia.


lexentry: eng/North_Channel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Channel
trans_list: Nordkanal
sense:
The strait between Northern Ireland and southwestern Scotland, connecting the Irish Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.


lexentry: eng/North_Karelia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Karelia
trans_list: Nordkarelien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. (Since 2022, the English term officially prescribed as the name for the Finnish administrative unit long known as a “region” was changed to be called a “county”, although reference to counties as regions is still common. See Counties of Finland.)


lexentry: eng/North_Macedonia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Macedonia
trans_list: Nordmazedonien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992. The current name was adopted in 2019 to resolve a naming dispute with Greece.


lexentry: eng/North_Pole__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Pole
trans_list: Nordpol
sense:
(geography) The Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole; the point which north is oriented towards, and therefore the northernmost point on Earth (having a latitude of 90°).


lexentry: eng/North_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Sea
trans_list: Nordsee
sense:
A marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Britain (in the west), Scandinavia (in the east) and Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France (in the south).


lexentry: eng/North_Star__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Star
trans_list: Polarstern
sense:
(astronomy) The current northern pole star, the star nearest the northern celestial pole, which has been Polaris for the last 1500 years.


lexentry: eng/North_Yorkshire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: North Yorkshire
trans_list: Nord-Yorkshire | North Yorkshire
sense:
(from 1974) TemplateParserError:LuaError, bordering the East Riding of Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and County Durham.


lexentry: eng/Northeast_China_Plain__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Northeast China Plain
trans_list: Nordostchinesische Ebene
sense:
A plain located in Northeast China lying between the Greater and Lesser Khingan and Changbai mountains.


lexentry: eng/Northern_Europe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Northern Europe
trans_list: Nordeuropa
sense:
A sociopolitical region of Europe including such countries as Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.


lexentry: eng/Northern_Sami__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Northern Sami
trans_list: Nordsamisch
sense:
The most widely spoken Sami language; it is spoken in northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland. It includes three dialects: Torne, Finnmark and Sea Sami.


lexentry: eng/Northern_Sea_Route__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Northern Sea Route
trans_list: Nordostpassage
sense:
(geography) A shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Russian Arctic coast from the Barents Sea, along Siberia, to the Far East.


lexentry: eng/Northwest_Passage__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Northwest Passage
trans_list: Nordwestpassage
sense:
(geography, nautical) The sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, between the Baffin Bay and the Beaufort Sea.


lexentry: eng/Norway_spruce__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Norway spruce
trans_list: Gemeine Fichte | Fichte
sense:
A species of spruce native to Europe and naturalized in temperate northeastern North America, Picea abies.


lexentry: eng/Norwegian__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Norwegian
trans_list: Norwegisch | norwegisch
sense:
(uncountable) The language of Norway, which has two official forms (written standards): Bokmål and Nynorsk.


lexentry: eng/Nostratic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nostratic
trans_list: Nostratisch
sense:
A conjectural and not widely accepted grouping of languages including the Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo-Aleut, Dravidian, Elamite, Sumerian, Kartvelian, and Afroasiatic languages, and less commonly including the Aegean and Ainu languages as well.


lexentry: eng/Nouméa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nouméa
trans_list: Nouméa
sense:
The capital of the French overseas possession New Caledonia, a natural South Sea port on its main island


lexentry: eng/Nova_Scotia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Nova Scotia
trans_list: Neuschottland | Nova Scotia
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, comprising most of the province of Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia peninsula.


lexentry: eng/November__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: November
trans_list: November | Nebelung
sense:
The eleventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following October and preceding December. Abbreviation: Nov or Nov.


lexentry: eng/Novorossiya__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Novorossiya
trans_list: Neurussland
sense:
(historical) An area north of the Black Sea which was conquered by the Russian Empire at the end of the 18th century, located in present-day Ukraine.


lexentry: eng/Nubia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nubia
trans_list: Nubien
sense:
The region of the valley of the upper Nile, now part of Sudan (Upper Nubia) and far-southern Egypt (Lower Nubia);(by extension, historical) the polity ruling said region.


lexentry: eng/Numbers__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Numbers
trans_list: Numeri
sense:
The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.


lexentry: eng/Nuragic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nuragic
trans_list: nuragisch
sense:
Of or relating to a civilization of Sardinia, which lasted from the Mediterranean Bronze Age until the 2nd century CE and built monuments of a type called nuraghe.


lexentry: eng/Nuremberg_defense__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nuremberg defense
trans_list: Befehl ist Befehl | Handeln auf Befehl
sense:
(ethics, international law, idiomatic) An explanation offered as an excuse for behaving in a criminal or wrongful manner, claiming that one acted in this way because one was ordered by others (particularly superiors) to do so.


lexentry: eng/Nusayri__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nusayri
trans_list: Nusairier
sense:
(religion) A member of a prominent mystical religious group centred in Syria who follow a branch of the Twelver school of Shia Islam.


lexentry: eng/Nutella__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nutella
trans_list: Nutella
sense:
A sweet spread made from hazelnuts, sugar, vegetable oils, cocoa solids and skimmed milk, generically called chocolate spread.


lexentry: eng/Nyankole__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nyankole
trans_list: Runyankore
sense:
The Bantu lect spoken by more than two million members of the Nkore (Banyankore) and Hema (Hima) peoples of southwestern Uganda, closely related to the Kiga language and sometimes considered with Kiga to be a dialect of Nkore-Kiga, or (with Kiga, Nyoro and Tooro) a dialect of Kitara.


lexentry: eng/Nîmes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Nîmes
trans_list: Nîmes
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, the capital of the department of Gard, formerly in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon.


lexentry: eng/Obotrite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Obotrite
trans_list: Abodrite
sense:
Member of a confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of modern Mecklenburg and Holstein in northern Germany.


lexentry: eng/Occidental__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Occidental
trans_list: Interlingue | Occidental
sense:
An artificial language, created by Edgar de Wahl later renamed Interlingue shortly before the publication of Interlingua


lexentry: eng/Occitan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Occitan
trans_list: Okzitanisch | Provenzalisch
sense:
A Romance language spoken in Occitania, a region of Europe that includes Southern France, Auvergne, Limousin, and some parts of Catalonia and Italy.


lexentry: eng/Occitania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Occitania
trans_list: Okzitanien
sense:
A region of Europe corresponding to Southern France, Auvergne, Limousin, and some parts of Catalonia and Italy, where the Occitan language was widely spoken and is still spoken.


lexentry: eng/Oceania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oceania
trans_list: Ozeanien
sense:
A geographical region or continent composed of many islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia) plus Australasia. It is located between Asia, Antarctica and the Americas.


lexentry: eng/Oceanus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oceanus
trans_list: Okeanos
sense:
(Greek god) Personification of vast waters or the world ocean. He was the first-born of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia, the god that encircled the earth. With his sister-wife, Tethys, he fathered all rivers and the Oceanids.


lexentry: eng/Octans__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Octans
trans_list: Oktant
sense:
(constellation) A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an octant. It lies closest to the southern celestial pole of any constellation.


lexentry: eng/October__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: October
trans_list: Oktober | Gilbhart
sense:
The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar, following September and preceding November. Abbreviation: Oct.


lexentry: eng/Odense__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Odense
trans_list: Odense | Ottensee
sense:
Odense, the largest city in Region of Southern Denmark (Region Syddanmark) and third-largest city in Denmark.


lexentry: eng/Odin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Odin
trans_list: Odin | Wotan | Wüeti
sense:
(Norse mythology, and, paganism) A major Germanic god, often described as chief of the pantheon, in his Norse form a member of the Æsir, married to Frigg and associated with knowledge, poetry and war. Wednesday refers to him by way of interpretatio germanica.


lexentry: eng/Odysseus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Odysseus
trans_list: Odysseus
sense:
(Greek mythology) The son of Laertes and Anticlea and father of Telemachus. A Greek leader during the Trojan War, he was responsible for the Trojan horse. He was also king of Ithaca, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey.


lexentry: eng/Oedipus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oedipus
trans_list: Ödipus
sense:
(Greek mythology) A son of Laius and Jocasta, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.


lexentry: eng/Oedipus_complex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oedipus complex
trans_list: Ödipuskomplex | Ödipuskonflikt
sense:
(psychoanalysis) In Freudian theory, the complex of emotions aroused in a child by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex.


lexentry: eng/Ohm's_law__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ohm's law
trans_list: Ohmsches Gesetz
sense:
(physics) Ohm's observation that the direct current flowing in an electrical circuit consisting only of resistances is directly proportional to the voltage applied.


lexentry: eng/Ojibwe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ojibwe
trans_list: Ojibwe
sense:
The language spoken by the native Algonquin people of central Canada, one of a closely related group of languages and dialects of the Algonquian branch of the Algic language family.


lexentry: eng/Okazaki_fragment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Okazaki fragment
trans_list: Okazaki-Fragment
sense:
(genetics, often, _, in the plural) One of many short, newly synthesized DNA fragments formed on the lagging template strand (i.e. lagging strand) during DNA replication.


lexentry: eng/Old_Armenian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Armenian
trans_list: Altarmenisch
sense:
The oldest attested form of the Armenian language, first written down at the beginning of the 5th century AD and spoken until 12th century; then replaced by Middle Armenian. Served as a literary language until the 18-19th centuries. Partly intelligible to speakers of modern Armenian.


lexentry: eng/Old_Believer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Believer
trans_list: Altgläubiger | Altgläubige | Altgläubigentum
sense:
(religion) Any of those who separated from the official Russian Orthodox Church after 1666 as a protest against the church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652 and 1666. They continue liturgical and ritual practices which predate the reforms.


lexentry: eng/Old_Catholic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Catholic
trans_list: altkatholisch | christkatholisch
sense:
Pertaining to a group of churches that split from the Roman Catholic Church over the dogma of papal infallibility, which they did not agree with.


lexentry: eng/Old_Dutch__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Dutch
trans_list: Altniederländisch
sense:
A branch of Old Low Franconian, with a Frisian substrate, spoken and written during the Middle Ages (c. 9th to 12th century) in the Netherlands and the northern part of present-day Belgium, as well as in areas of northern France along the North Sea coast and adjoining Belgium. This language represents the first attested stage of the Dutch language and its dialects, being succeeded by Middle Dutch in the later Middle Ages.


lexentry: eng/Old_Earth_creationism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Earth creationism
trans_list: Alte-Erde-Kreationismus | Langzeitkreationismus
sense:
The belief that God created the universe and the Earth very long ago and that the universe and the Earth are as old as scientists have proven.


lexentry: eng/Old_East_Slavic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old East Slavic
trans_list: Altostslawisch | Altrussisch
sense:
(historical) A Slavic language used from the 10th to the 14th centuries by East Slavs in the state of Kievan Rus and its successors. The ancestor of Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn and Ukrainian.


lexentry: eng/Old_Egyptian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Egyptian
trans_list: Altägyptisch
sense:
The Egyptian language as spoken from 2600 to 2000 BC during the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period.


lexentry: eng/Old_English_Sheepdog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old English Sheepdog
trans_list: altenglischer Schäferhund
sense:
A herding dog of a particular breed (also used as a pet), with shaggy grey and white fur also covering its face, and a docked tail.


lexentry: eng/Old_English__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old English
trans_list: Altenglisch | Angelsächsisch | altenglische Sprache | angelsächsische Sprache
sense:
(linguistics, history) The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.


lexentry: eng/Old_Frisian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Frisian
trans_list: Altfriesisch
sense:
a West Germanic language spoken on parts of the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany until the 16th century


lexentry: eng/Old_Galician-Portuguese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Galician-Portuguese
trans_list: Altportugiesisch
sense:
A language spoken in western Iberia during the High and Late Middle Ages, the ancestor of modern Portuguese and Galician.


lexentry: eng/Old_Georgian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Georgian
trans_list: Altgeorgisch
sense:
A language of the South Caucasian family, spoken between the 5th Century BC and the 17th Century AD when it evolved into the modern Georgian language.


lexentry: eng/Old_Greek__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Greek
trans_list: Altgriechisch
sense:
A form of the Greek language intermediate between Ancient Greek and Modern Greek; spoken roughly between the 1st and 16th centuries.


lexentry: eng/Old_High_German__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old High German
trans_list: Althochdeutsch
sense:
The early recorded form of the High German language, spoken from the 8th century to the 12th century.


lexentry: eng/Old_Icelandic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Icelandic
trans_list: Altisländisch
sense:
The Old Norse language as spoken and written in Iceland in the Middle Ages, quite similar to Old Norwegian, but differing most markedly in orthography and, to a lesser extent, in phonology.


lexentry: eng/Old_Irish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Irish
trans_list: Altirisch
sense:
The Irish language as attested from the sixth to the tenth centuries C.E., the oldest form of the Goidelic languages for which extensive texts (written in the Latin alphabet) are extant.


lexentry: eng/Old_Japanese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Japanese
trans_list: Altjapanisch
sense:
the oldest stage of the Japanese language; spoken through the 8th century and followed by Late Old Japanese


lexentry: eng/Old_Kingdom__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Kingdom
trans_list: Altes Reich
sense:
(historical) Egypt from the start of the 3rd Dynasty to its disintegration into regional states at the end of the 6th Dynasty.


lexentry: eng/Old_Korean__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Korean
trans_list: Altkoreanisch
sense:
The language spoken in Korea and written in hanja, which evolved into Middle Korean by the 10th or 13th century, depending on the analysis.


lexentry: eng/Old_Latin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Latin
trans_list: Altlatein | Altlateinisch | Frühlatein
sense:
The Latin language in the period before the age of Classical Latin; particularly Latin before 75 BC.


lexentry: eng/Old_Maid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Maid
trans_list: Schwarzer Peter
sense:
(uncountable) A children's card game, sometimes played with a special deck, where the object of the game is for each player to find matches for all the cards in his hand, without being stuck with the single unmatchable card.


lexentry: eng/Old_Norse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Norse
trans_list: Altnordisch
sense:
The language of Scandinavia until the 14th century, the common ancestor of modern Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic.


lexentry: eng/Old_Persian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Persian
trans_list: Altpersisch
sense:
The ancestor language of Middle Persian, and via it of New Persian language. Attested in Old Persian cuneiform, in the period 525 B.C.E. - 300 B.C.E..


lexentry: eng/Old_Prussian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Prussian
trans_list: Altpreußisch
sense:
An extinct Baltic language, once spoken by the Old Prussians, the indigenous peoples of the historical region of Prussia (now north-eastern Poland, the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia and Lithuania).


lexentry: eng/Old_Spanish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Spanish
trans_list: Altspanisch
sense:
Western Ibero-Romance language that was spoken on the Iberian Peninsula from the 10th century until roughly the beginning of the 15th century, before a consonantic readjustment gave rise to the evolution of Modern Spanish, differentiating Spanish proper from Judæo-Spanish and Haketia.


lexentry: eng/Old_Swedish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Swedish
trans_list: Altschwedisch
sense:
The medieval form of the Swedish language, markedly different from the modern language in having more complex case and gender systems.


lexentry: eng/Old_Testament__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Testament
trans_list: Altes Testament
sense:
(religion, chiefly, Christianity) The first major part of the Christian Bible, covering events before the coming of Christ, corresponding roughly to the Jewish Tanakh. Usually subdivided into the categories of law, history, poetry (or wisdom books), and prophecy.


lexentry: eng/Old_Turkic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old Turkic
trans_list: Alttürkisch
sense:
The earliest attested Turkic language, found in inscriptions by the Göktürks and the Uyghurs in ca. the 7th to 13th centuries.


lexentry: eng/Old_World_flycatcher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old World flycatcher
trans_list: Fliegenschnäpper
sense:
Any of various small birds of the passerine family Muscicapidae, of Africa and Eurasia; a muscicapid.


lexentry: eng/Old_World_monkey__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Old World monkey
trans_list: Altweltaffe | Schmalnasenaffe
sense:
A member of a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini.


lexentry: eng/Oligocene__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oligocene
trans_list: oligozän
sense:
(geology) Of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 34 to 23 million years ago; marked by the rapid evolution in a warm climate.


lexentry: eng/Olomouc_cheese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Olomouc cheese
trans_list: Olmützer Quargel | Quargel
sense:
a kind of ripened soft cheese, characteristic with its strong scent, distinctive pungent taste and yellowish colour, traditionally made in central Moravia, the Czech Republic


lexentry: eng/Olympiad__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Olympiad
trans_list: Olympiade
sense:
(by, _, extension, usually, _, preceded, _) A competition aspiring to the importance of the Olympic Games or considered similar to them, especially one occurring at 4-year intervals, representing a national or international range of amateur student rather than professional adult competition, and/or requiring the highest level of ability in the field for success.


lexentry: eng/Olympian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Olympian
trans_list: olympisch
sense:
(not comparable) Of or relating to Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece; or (Greek mythology) the Greek gods and goddesses who were believed to live there.


lexentry: eng/Olympian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Olympian
trans_list: Olympier | Olympierin
sense:
(Greek mythology) Any of the 12 principal gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades); (specifically) preceded by the: Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Greek deities.


lexentry: eng/Olympian__Noun__2
sense_num: 02
sense: (historical) A sportsperson competing in the ancient Olympic Games.
written_rep: Olympian
trans_list:
Olympiasieger | Olympiasiegerin | Olympiateilnehmer | Olympiateilnehmerin | Olympionike | Olympionikin


lexentry: eng/Olympic_Games__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Olympic Games
trans_list: Olympische Spiele | Olympiade
sense:
An international multi-sport event (inspired by the ancient festival) taking place every fourth year. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Om_Ali__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Om Ali
trans_list: Om Ali
sense:
A traditional Egyptian dessert resembling bread pudding, typically made with layers of puff pastry or phyllo dough, milk, nuts (such as almonds, pistachios, or hazelnuts), and sometimes raisins or coconut. It is baked until golden and served warm, often garnished with additional nuts, powdered sugar, or whipped cream.


lexentry: eng/Ondine's_curse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ondine's curse
trans_list: Undine-Syndrom
sense:
(disease) A medical condition marked by malfunction of the nerves that control involuntary body functions, causing breathing to require conscious effort and therefore meaning patients will die if they fall asleep.


lexentry: eng/Onega__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Onega
trans_list: Onegasee
sense:
a freshwater lake in the north-west European part of Russia, located on the territory of Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast and Vologda Oblast


lexentry: eng/Oort_Cloud__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oort Cloud
trans_list: Oortsche Wolke
sense:
(astronomy) The Solar System's Oort cloud, extending from 50,000 to 100,000 astronomical units (approximately 1 light year) from the sun; supposedly the source of most comets around the Solar System.


lexentry: eng/Ophiuchus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ophiuchus
trans_list: Schlangenträger
sense:
(zodiac constellations) A zodiacal constellation of the northern summer said to depict a man (Asclepius) holding a serpent; the serpent is the constellation Serpens.


lexentry: eng/Opium_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Opium War
trans_list: Opiumkrieg
sense:
(historical) The First Opium War or the Second Opium War, two Anglo-Chinese disputes in the mid-19th century.


lexentry: eng/Ops__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ops
trans_list: Ops
sense:
(Roman god) The goddess of earth and fertility. Equivalent to the Greek Rhea, Ops was the sister-wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter. After Saturn learned of a prophecy that his children by Ops would overthrow him, he ate each of them just after they were born; however, Ops saved Jupiter by feeding Saturn a stone instead.


lexentry: eng/Orange_Order__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Orange Order
trans_list: Oranierorden
sense:
A Northern Ireland religious and political organisation, loyal to the British crown and with strong anti-Catholicism policies.


lexentry: eng/Orcus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Orcus
trans_list: Orcus
sense:
(astronomy) A large planetoid (possibly a dwarf planet) and plutino, sometimes referred to as the “anti-Pluto”. Its moon is Vanth.


lexentry: eng/Oregon_grape__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oregon grape
trans_list: Mahonie
sense:
An evergreen shrub (Berberis aquifolium, syn. Mahonia aquifolium) native to the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada, having broadly serrated, glossy leaves and clusters of yellow flowers that develop into dark bluish-purple fruits.


lexentry: eng/Oreo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oreo
trans_list: Oreo
sense:
(foods) A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.


lexentry: eng/Oriental__Adjective__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Oriental
trans_list: orientalisch
sense:
Pertaining to the regions east of the Mediterranean, beyond the Roman Empire or the early Christian world; of the Near East, the Middle East or the Far East, now especially relating to East Asia. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/Oriental_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oriental studies
trans_list: Orientalistik
sense:
(humanities) an academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology


lexentry: eng/Orion's_Belt__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Orion's Belt
trans_list: Gürtel des Orion | Jakobsleiter | Jakobsstab
sense:
(constellation) A bright asterism located near the celestial equator; it consists of three bright stars lined up and visibly close together. It is part of the constellation Orion and includes the stars Alnitak (ζ Ori), Alnilam (ε Ori), and Mintaka (δ Ori).


lexentry: eng/Orion_Nebula__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Orion Nebula
trans_list: Orionnebel
sense:
(astronomy) A diffuse nebula visible in the night sky below Orion's Belt; it is approximately 40 light years across. It is one of the brightest nebulae visible to the naked eye and is the closest region of stellar formation to Earth.


lexentry: eng/Orion__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Orion
trans_list: Orion
sense:
(constellation) A constellation on the celestial equator close to Gemini and Taurus, containing the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel.


lexentry: eng/Orontes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Orontes
trans_list: Orontes
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, about 400 km (250 mi) long, flowing from Lebanon through Syria before entering the Mediterranean Sea near Samandağ in Turkey.


lexentry: eng/Orpheus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Orpheus
trans_list: Orpheus
sense:
(Greek mythology) A Thracian musician and poet, who failed to retrieve his wife Eurydice from Hades.


lexentry: eng/Orphism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Orphism
trans_list: Orphik | Orphismus | Orphizismus
sense:
(religion, Ancient Greece) A religious movement in antiquity, supposed to have been founded by Orpheus.


lexentry: eng/Orthodox__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Orthodox
trans_list: orthodox
sense:
(Christianity, loosely) Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.


lexentry: eng/Orthodoxy__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Orthodoxy
trans_list: Orthodoxie | Rechtgläubigkeit
sense:
The aggregate of the definitive elements of the Eastern Orthodox Church, such as its faith, worship, theology, and traditions.


lexentry: eng/Ossetia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ossetia
trans_list: Ossetien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. The northern part of the region forms North Ossetia-Alania federal subject of Russia. The southern part is South Ossetia.


lexentry: eng/Ostrogoth__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ostrogoth
trans_list: Ostgote
sense:
Any member of an ancient East Germanic tribe, one branch of the Goths (the Visigoths being the other), which invaded Italy in the sixth century


lexentry: eng/Ostrogothic_Kingdom__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ostrogothic Kingdom
trans_list: Ostgotenreich
sense:
(historical) A kingdom (493—553 CE), founded by Theodoric the Great, corresponding to present-day Italy (including Sicily but not Sardinia) and neighbouring areas.


lexentry: eng/Other__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Other
trans_list: andere
sense:
(philosophy, psychoanalysis) Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself.


lexentry: eng/Ottoman_Empire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ottoman Empire
trans_list: Osmanisches Reich | Ottomanisches Reich
sense:
(historical) A large Turkish empire which began as a Turkish sultanate centered in modern Turkey; founded in the late 13th century, it lasted until the end of World War I.


lexentry: eng/Ottoman_Turkish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ottoman Turkish
trans_list: Osmanisch-Türkisch | Reichstürkisch | Rumtürkisch
sense:
The variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire.


lexentry: eng/Ouija__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ouija
trans_list: Alphabettafel | Hexenbrett | Ouija | Seelenschreiber
sense:
(countable) A board, having letters of the alphabet and the words yes and no; used with a planchette during a seance to "communicate" with spirits.


lexentry: eng/Our_Lady_of_Sorrows__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Our Lady of Sorrows
trans_list: Mater dolorosa | Schmerzensmutter
sense:
(Christianity, chiefly, _, Catholicism) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her grief at the Crucifixion.


lexentry: eng/Outer_Mongolia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Outer Mongolia
trans_list: Außere Mongolei
sense:
Mongolia; a region south of Siberia, west of Manchuria and north of Inner Mongolia (with closely related native Mongolian population), well north of the Great Wall, which never became an integral part of the Chinese empire, and later achieved autonomy and full independence of China, as the republic of Mongolia


lexentry: eng/Oval_Office__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oval Office
trans_list: Oval Office
sense:
The official office of the President of the United States, located in the West Wing of the White House.


lexentry: eng/Oxfordian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Oxfordian
trans_list: Oxfordium
sense:
(geology) The age from 163.5±1.0 Ma to 157.3±1.0 Ma or the stage of rocks (chiefly coral-derived limestones) deposited during it.


lexentry: eng/P-complete__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: P-complete
trans_list: P-vollständig
sense:
(computing theory) Describing any problem in the complexity class P to which there exists a polynomial time mapping from any other problem in P.


lexentry: eng/PADS__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: PADS
sense:
(fandom, neologism) Initialism of post-Avatar depression syndrome (“a feeling of depression brought upon by watching the 2009 epic science fiction film Avatar or its sequels, as a result of not being able to experience the movie's world in real life”). [from 2010]

trans_list:
PAD/[[P.A.D.]] | PADS/[[P.A.D.S.]] | PAS/[[P.A.S.]] | Pandora-Depression | Post-Avatar-Depression | Post-Avatar-Depression-Syndrom


lexentry: eng/PBUH__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: PBUH
trans_list: F.s.m.I. | F.s.m.i. | FSMI
sense:
(Islam, sometimes, proscribed) Initialism of peace be upon him or peace be upon her; an honorific phrase used by some Muslims after any mention in speech or print of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or any other prophets or chosen figures believed by the majority of Muslims to be sent by God (Allah).


lexentry: eng/PEBCAK__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: PEBCAK
trans_list: Problem zwischen Stuhl und Tastatur
sense:
(computing, humorous, also, attributively) Chiefly used by technical support helpdesk staff: a problem experienced with a user's computer that is due to user error.


lexentry: eng/POSIX__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: POSIX
trans_list: POSIX
sense:
(computing) Acronym of Portable Operating System Interface: a set of IEEE standards designed to provide application portability between UNIX variants.


lexentry: eng/PS__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: PS
trans_list: NS | PS
sense:
Initialism of post scriptum, postscriptum, postscript. (initialism written at the end of a text as a footnote)


lexentry: eng/PTO__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: PTO
trans_list: Patentamt
sense:
Initialism of patent and trademark office. (United States Patent and Trademark Office), usually abbreviated USPTO.


lexentry: eng/P_U__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: P U
trans_list: igitt
sense:
(euphemistic) An interjection in response to smelling an unpleasant scent; an exaggerated pronunciation of pew.


lexentry: eng/Pacific_Northwest__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pacific Northwest
trans_list: Pazifischer Nordwesten
sense:
The region of North America along the Pacific coast, typically defined as the states of Washington and Oregon and the southern part of the province of British Columbia, but variously including northern California, Idaho, all of British Columbia, the Yukon territory, and the panhandle of or all of Alaska.


lexentry: eng/Pacific_herring__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pacific herring
trans_list: Hering
sense:
A species of the herring family native to north Pacific Ocean from Yellow Sea to Baja California; Clupea pallasii.


lexentry: eng/Pacific_saury__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pacific saury
trans_list: Pazifischer Makrelenhecht
sense:
A species of the saury family native to north Pacific Ocean from Yellow Sea to Gulf of Alaska; Cololabis saira.


lexentry: eng/Paki_shop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Paki shop
trans_list: Araber
sense:
(UK, Ireland, offensive, _, slang, derogatory) A corner shop run by a Pakistani or any other person of South-West and North-West Asian descent.


lexentry: eng/Palace_of_Westminster__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Palace of Westminster
trans_list: Palace of Westminster | Palast von Westlichemmünster
sense:
An extensive building on the north bank of the River Thames in London, housing the House of Commons and the House of Lords.


lexentry: eng/Palaic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Palaic
trans_list: palaische Sprache
sense:
An extinct Indo-European language belonging to Anatolian branch, attested in cuneiform tablets in Bronze Age Hattusa.


lexentry: eng/Palearctic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Palearctic
trans_list: Paläarktis
sense:
(geography, biogeography) One of the major ecozones of the world, covering Europe, the old USSR territories, part of North Africa, and North Asia including the Himalaya foothills.


lexentry: eng/Paleo_diet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Paleo diet
trans_list: Paleo-Diät | Steinzeitdiät
sense:
A nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various hominid species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic.


lexentry: eng/Paleocene__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Paleocene
trans_list: Paläozän
sense:
(geology) A geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 65 to 56 million years ago; marked by the rise of the first large mammals in a tropical climate.


lexentry: eng/Palestine__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Palestine
trans_list: Palästina
sense:
The territory of the current State of Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip combined, the homeland of the Palestinian people.


lexentry: eng/Palestine__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Palestine
trans_list: Palästina
sense:
(historical, technical) A British colonial entity administering approximately the lands mentioned in definition 3.


lexentry: eng/Palestine__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: Palestine
trans_list: Palästina
sense:
(historical, technical, rare) The British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, of which this region was a part (the remainder being Transjordan, which covered approximately the lands of the modern Kingdom (originally Emirate) of Jordan).


lexentry: eng/Palestine__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: Palestine
trans_list: Palästina
sense:
(historical) Any of four Ancient Roman and Byzantine provinces in the eastern Mediterranean: Syria Palaestina, Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda and Palaestina Salutaris.


lexentry: eng/Pali__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pali
trans_list: Pali
sense:
A Middle Indo-Aryan language of north India, closely related to Sanskrit; the sacred language of the Buddhist scriptures. [from 1690s]


lexentry: eng/Pallas's_leaf_warbler__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pallas's leaf warbler
trans_list: Goldhähnchen-Laubsänger
sense:
Phylloscopus proregulus, a leaf warbler that breeds in mountain forests from southern Siberia east to northern Mongolia and northeast China.


lexentry: eng/Pan-American__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pan-American
trans_list: panamerikanisch
sense:
Covering or representing all of the Americas (both North America and South America), particularly with respect to events involving representatives of most or all countries in the Americas.


lexentry: eng/Pan-Scandinavianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pan-Scandinavianism
trans_list: Skandinavismus
sense:
(chiefly, historical) A movement aimed at uniting the Scandinavian peoples into a single country; Scandinavian nationalism.


lexentry: eng/Pan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pan
trans_list: Pan
sense:
(Greek god) Greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.


lexentry: eng/Panama_Canal_Zone__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Panama Canal Zone
trans_list: Panama-Kanalzone
sense:
(historical) The territory within Panama, stretching along the course of the Panama Canal but excluding the sea port cities Panama City and Colón under the 18 November 1903 lease treaty until the return of state control on 30 September 1979.


lexentry: eng/Panathenaea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Panathenaea
trans_list: Panathenäen
sense:
(Ancient Greece, historical) A festival formerly held annually in Athens to honour the city's patron goddess Athena, involving animal sacrifices, a grand procession, and, every fourth year, athletic and musical contests.


lexentry: eng/Panchen_Lama__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Panchen Lama
trans_list: Penchen Lama
sense:
(Tibetan Buddhism) The second-highest-ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama.


lexentry: eng/Pandora__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pandora
trans_list: Pandora
sense:
(Greek mythology) The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.


lexentry: eng/Pangaea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pangaea
trans_list: Pangäa
sense:
(geology) A supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana.


lexentry: eng/Pantocrator__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pantocrator
trans_list: Allherrscher | Pankrator | Pantokrator | Weltenherrscher
sense:
The ruler of everything, especially as an epithet for Jesus Christ; an artistic depiction of Jesus in this aspect.


lexentry: eng/Panzerfaust__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Panzerfaust
trans_list: Panzerfaust
sense:
A light, single-shot anti-tank grenade launcher developed in Germany in the latter stages of the Second World War.


lexentry: eng/Pap_smear__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pap smear
trans_list: Pap-Abstrich
sense:
(chiefly, gynaecology) A screening test meant to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.


lexentry: eng/Pap_test__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pap test
trans_list: Pap-Test
sense:
(gynaecology) A screening test to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample ('smear') of cells from the cervix.


lexentry: eng/Papal_States__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Papal States
trans_list: Kirchenstaat
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError that existed until 1870, comprising the territories of Italy over which the pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense.


lexentry: eng/Papua__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Papua
trans_list: Papua
sense:
The southern part of what is now called Papua New Guinea, formerly administered as a separate territory to New Guinea.


lexentry: eng/Paracelsus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Paracelsus
trans_list: Paracelsus
sense:
The adopted name of Philippus von Hohenheim, a Swiss thinker of the 16th century known for his pioneering scientific work and his research into the occult and alchemy.


lexentry: eng/Paraclete__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Paraclete
trans_list: Paraklet
sense:
(Christianity) The Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, especially in its role as comforter of the faithful.


lexentry: eng/Paralympic_Games__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Paralympic Games
trans_list: Paralympics | Paralympische Spiele
sense:
An international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue.


lexentry: eng/Paralympics__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Paralympics
trans_list: Paralympics
sense:
(sports) Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”)


lexentry: eng/Pareto_principle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pareto principle
trans_list: Prinzip
sense:
The principle that describes the phenomenon wherein a small percentage of a population accounts for a large proportion of a particular characteristic of that population.


lexentry: eng/Paris_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Paris syndrome
trans_list: Paris-Syndrom
sense:
An alleged transient psychological disorder encountered by some people visiting or vacationing in Paris, France, resulting from shock at their discovery that Paris is not what they had expected it to be.


lexentry: eng/Parkinson's_disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Parkinson's disease
trans_list: Parkinson-Krankheit
sense:
(neurology, disease) A chronic neurological disorder affecting movement, characterized by tremor, slowness of movement (bradykinesia), cogwheel or lead-pipe rigidity, and postural instability.


lexentry: eng/Parthenon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Parthenon
trans_list: Parthenon
sense:
An ancient temple to Athena and monument in the city of Athens. It is a symbol of Greek achievement in the arts and of Athenian democracy.


lexentry: eng/Parthia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Parthia
trans_list: Partherreich
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; The empire ruled by dynasts from Parthia; Parthian Empire; Arsacid Empire.


lexentry: eng/Parthian_Empire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Parthian Empire
trans_list: Partherreich
sense:
(historical) An ancient empire of Western Asia founded as a kingdom by Arsaces I with his 3rd-century-BCE conquest of Parthia (only recently a satrapy of the Seleucid Empire) and subsequently greatly expanded by Mithridates I.


lexentry: eng/Pascal's_triangle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pascal's triangle
trans_list: Pascalsches Dreieck
sense:
(mathematics) A geometric representation of the binomial coefficients in a triangle, each entry being the sum of the two entries above.


lexentry: eng/Pascal's_wager__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pascal's wager
trans_list: Pascal’sche Wette | pascalsche Wette
sense:
(religion) An argument for theism (and specifically Christianity, according to the writer) maintaining that belief in the divine ensures happiness in this life and offers the possibility of eternal happiness (should God or divine beings exist), whereas atheism, even if it brings happiness in this life, offers no hope of eternal happiness and carries the risk of eternal damnation.


lexentry: eng/Paschal_Lamb__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Paschal Lamb
trans_list: Agnus Dei
sense:
(heraldiccharge) A lamb depicted with nimbus and bearing a flag (usually St. George's cross: argent a cross gules).


lexentry: eng/Pashtun__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pashtun
trans_list: paschtunisch
sense:
Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), or to their culture.


lexentry: eng/Pashtunistan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pashtunistan
trans_list: Pakhtunistan | Paschtunistan | Pathanistan
sense:
The geographic region historically inhabited by the indigenous Pashtun people of modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.


lexentry: eng/Passover__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Passover
trans_list: Pessach | Passa | Passah | Mazzotfest | Pascha | Paschafest
sense:
The one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month (Nisan 14), which is then immediately followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 to 21; the first and seventh days are holy days or annual Sabbaths).


lexentry: eng/Pastafarianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pastafarianism
trans_list: Pastafarianismus
sense:
A parody religion centered around the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a creator deity who resembles spaghetti and meatballs.


lexentry: eng/Pathet_Lao__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pathet Lao
trans_list: Pathet Lao
sense:
A communist nationalist movement and political party in Laos, which took power in 1975 after a civil war.


lexentry: eng/Pauli_exclusion_principle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pauli exclusion principle
trans_list: Pauli-Prinzip
sense:
(physics) A principle in quantum mechanics that states that no two identical fermions may occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.


lexentry: eng/Pauli_matrix__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pauli matrix
trans_list: Pauli-Matrix
sense:
(mathematics) Any one of three complex matrices that arise in Wolfgang Pauli's treatment of spin in quantum mechanics.


lexentry: eng/Pauline__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pauline
trans_list: paulinisch
sense:
(Christianity) Of or relating to the Apostle Paul, his writings, his doctrines, and the form of Christianity that arose from them.


lexentry: eng/Paulist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Paulist
trans_list: Pauliner
sense:
A member of various religious orders associated with either of the saints Paul of Thebes and Paul of Tarsus.


lexentry: eng/Pavlovian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pavlovian
trans_list: Pawlow'sch | pawlowsch
sense:
Of or relating to the theories of the Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, especially those related to behavioral conditioning.


lexentry: eng/Pavo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pavo
trans_list: Pfau
sense:
(constellation) A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a peacock. It lies between the constellations Telescopium and Octans.


lexentry: eng/Pax_Americana__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pax Americana
trans_list: Pax Americana
sense:
The period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the military and economic dominance of the United States.


lexentry: eng/Pegasus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pegasus
trans_list: Pegasus | Pegasos
sense:
(Greek mythology) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. Bellerophon tamed and rode upon Pegasus when he defeated the Chimaera.


lexentry: eng/Pegasus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Pegasus
trans_list: Pegasus | Pegasos
sense:
(constellation) A constellation of the northern sky, near the vernal equinoctial point, representing the winged horse. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.


lexentry: eng/Peipus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Peipus
trans_list: Peipussee
sense:
A large freshwater lake on the border between Estonia and Russia in Northern Europe. It is the fifth-largest lake in Europe, and the largest in Estonia. The lake consists of three parts: Peipsi (Chudskoe), Pihkva (Pskovskoe), Lämmijärv (Teploe).


lexentry: eng/Peking_opera__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Peking opera
trans_list: Peking-Oper | Pekingoper
sense:
(music genre) A form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics.


lexentry: eng/Pelagianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pelagianism
trans_list: Pelagianismus
sense:
(Christianity) A Christian belief that denies the view of original sin and the necessity of grace, asserting that man is capable of achieving salvation by his own efforts.


lexentry: eng/Pell's_equation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pell's equation
trans_list: Pellsche Gleichung
sense:
(number theory) The Diophantine equation x^2 - my^2 = 1 for a given integer m, to be solved in integers x and y.


lexentry: eng/Peloponnese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Peloponnese
trans_list: Peloponnes
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, separated from mainland Europe by the Gulf of Corinth and connected to it by the Isthmus of Corinth.


lexentry: eng/Peltier_effect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Peltier effect
trans_list: Peltiereffekt
sense:
(physics) A thermoelectric effect which occurs when current is passed through a thermocouple causing one side of the Peltier to heat up and the other to cool down, used in computing as a cooling process.


lexentry: eng/Pennsylvania_Dutch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pennsylvania Dutch
trans_list: Pennsylvanier
sense:
(in the plural) Those people of German origin who settled in the Pennsylvania area prior to 1800, and their descendants.


lexentry: eng/Pennsylvania_Dutch__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Pennsylvania Dutch
trans_list: Pennsylvaniadeutsch
sense:
(uncountable) Their language, Pennsylvania German, a High German language descended from Palatine German.


lexentry: eng/Pennsylvania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Pennsylvania
trans_list: Pennsylvania | Pennsylvanien
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, which grew progressively larger before becoming the present state.


lexentry: eng/Penrose_stairs__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Penrose stairs
trans_list: unmögliche Treppe
sense:
An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.


lexentry: eng/Pentelic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pentelic
trans_list: pentelisch
sense:
Of or relating to Mount Pentelicus (Penteliko Mountain), near Athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries.


lexentry: eng/People's_Liberation_Army__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: People's Liberation Army
trans_list: Volksbefreiungsarmee
sense:
(military) People's Liberation Army Ground Force, the army branch of the military arm of the People's Republic of China.


lexentry: eng/Perioikoi__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Perioikoi
trans_list: Periöken
sense:
The ancient inhabitants of Laconia who were free residents of the mountains and the beaches of Laconia.


lexentry: eng/Permian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Permian
trans_list: permisch
sense:
(geology) Pertaining to the last geologic period of the Paleozoic era; comprising the Cisuralian, Guadalupian and Lopingian epochs from about 280 to 248 million years ago. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Peronism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Peronism
trans_list: Peronismus
sense:
(politics) The eclectic political ideology attributed to the former Argentine leaders Juan Perón and Eva Duarte de Perón, combining populism, nationalism and state intervention, but originally chiefly centred on their personalities.


lexentry: eng/Perseid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Perseid
trans_list: Perseiden
sense:
(astronomy) Any of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Perseus.


lexentry: eng/Persephone__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Persephone
trans_list: Persephone
sense:
(Greek god) A minor deity, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and vegetation. Originally named Kore/Core, she is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and the wife of Hades. Her Roman counterpart is Proserpina.


lexentry: eng/Perseus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Perseus
trans_list: Perseus
sense:
(Greek mythology) The mythological Greek warrior who slew the Gorgon Medusa by decapitating her. He married Andromeda after rescuing her from Ceto and founded Mycenae. He was the son of Zeus and Danae.


lexentry: eng/Perseus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Perseus
trans_list: Perseus
sense:
(constellation) An autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero. It includes the stars Algenib, Algol, and Mirfak.


lexentry: eng/Persia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Persia
trans_list: Persien
sense:
Persia proper (Persis), the land of the ancient Persians, corresponding to modern-day Fars province in southwestern Iran.


lexentry: eng/Persian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Persian
trans_list: Persisch
sense:
(uncountable) The Persian language, or a family of languages spoken primarily in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.


lexentry: eng/Pest__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pest
trans_list: Pest
sense:
(historical) One of the originally three separate cities that were united in 1873 to become the Hungarian capital, Budapest.


lexentry: eng/Peter_Pan_syndrome__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Peter Pan syndrome
trans_list: Peter-Pan-Syndrom
sense:
(idiomatic) The supposed psychological phenomenon of immaturity among some men, who, like the fictional character, remain childish and fail to assume appropriate adult social roles and responsibilities.


lexentry: eng/Peter__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Peter
trans_list: Peter | (Der 1./2. Brief des) Petrus | Petr
sense:
(biblical) The epistles of Peter in the New Testament of the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter attributed to St. Peter.


lexentry: eng/Petrarchan_sonnet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Petrarchan sonnet
trans_list: Petrarca-Sonett | italienisches Sonett
sense:
(poetry) A sonnet comprising an octet and a closing sestet, following the rhyme scheme of either abba abba cde cde or abba abba cd cd cd or abba abba cce dde or abba abba cdd cee.


lexentry: eng/Petri_net__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Petri net
trans_list: Petri-Netz
sense:
One of several mathematical representations of discrete distributed systems, a 5-tuple (S,T,F,M_0,W)\!, where


lexentry: eng/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
trans_list: Petropawlowsk-Kamtschatski
sense:
A city in the far East of Russia, administrative centre of Kamchatka kray, also called Petropavlovsk


lexentry: eng/Pharisee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pharisee
trans_list: Pharisäer | Pharisäerin
sense:
(historical) A member of an ancient Jewish political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews that flourished during the Second Temple Era (536 B.C.E.–70 C.E.). The movement was ultimately the basis for most contemporary forms of Judaism.


lexentry: eng/Philemon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Philemon
trans_list: Philemon | Brief des Paulus an Philemon
sense:
The eighteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of Saint Paul to a fellow Christian called Philemon.


lexentry: eng/Philippians__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Philippians
trans_list: Philipper
sense:
(biblical) The eleventh book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Philippians.


lexentry: eng/Philippine_eagle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Philippine eagle
trans_list: Philippinenadler
sense:
Pithecophaga jefferyi, a species of eagle endemic to forests in the Philippines that has brown and white-coloured plumage, and a shaggy crest.


lexentry: eng/Philistine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Philistine
trans_list: Philister | Philisterin
sense:
(historical) A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.


lexentry: eng/Phillips_screwdriver__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Phillips screwdriver
trans_list: Kreuzschraubendreher | Kreuzschraubenzieher
sense:
A screwdriver having a cross-shaped tip rather than the rectangular tip of a standard (flat-blade) screwdriver.


lexentry: eng/Phoenicia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Phoenicia
trans_list: Phönizien
sense:
The land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.


lexentry: eng/Phoenix__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Phoenix
trans_list: Phönix | Phoenix
sense:
(constellation) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.


lexentry: eng/Phoenix__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Phoenix
trans_list: Phoenix
sense:
(Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad and father of Adonis in Greek mythology or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus.


lexentry: eng/Phoney_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Phoney War
trans_list: Sitzkrieg
sense:
(historical) During World War Two, the period of limited military activity from the outbreak of hostilities on September 3rd, 1939 until Germany's attack on the Low Countries on May 10th, 1940.


lexentry: eng/Phosphorus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Phosphorus
trans_list: Venus
sense:
An Ancient Greek name for the morning star (the planet Venus when it is visible in the eastern sky before sunrise).


lexentry: eng/Phrygia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Phrygia
trans_list: Phrygien
sense:
(historical) Ancient kingdom in the west central part of Anatolia, in what is now modern-day Turkey.


lexentry: eng/Phrygian_cap__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Phrygian cap
trans_list: phrygische Mütze | skythische Mütze
sense:
(Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece) A soft, close-fitting cap represented in Greek and Roman art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been conical in shape, with the top bent forward.


lexentry: eng/Pictor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pictor
trans_list: Maler
sense:
(constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.


lexentry: eng/Pied_Piper__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pied Piper
trans_list: Rattenfänger von Hameln
sense:
A folk tale or legend, dating back to the Middle Ages, about a rat-catcher in variegated attire, hired by the German town of Hamelin, who is not paid for his services and retaliates by luring away the local children by playing a flute.


lexentry: eng/Piedmont__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Piedmont
trans_list: Piemont
sense:
The region of the eastern US between the Appalachian mountains and the coastal plain, extending from eastern Alabama to northern New Jersey.


lexentry: eng/Pierrot__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pierrot
trans_list: Peterchen
sense:
A character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit; a popular choice for a masquerade costume.


lexentry: eng/Pijin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pijin
trans_list: Pijin
sense:
In full Solomon Islands Pijin, Solomon Pijin, or Solomons Pijin: a language spoken on the Solomon Islands, which is a form of Melanesian Pidgin.


lexentry: eng/Pikachu__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pikachu
trans_list: Pikachu
sense:
(ACG, video games, anime, manga) A small yellow rodent-like Pokémon species that has red cheeks and a tail shaped like a lightning bolt, and has electricity-related powers.


lexentry: eng/Pilate__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pilate
trans_list: Pilatus
sense:
(biblical character) Pontius Pilate, the man who, according to the Bible, ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/Pillars_of_Hercules__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pillars of Hercules
trans_list: Säulen des Herakles
sense:
(historical) The two promontories at the Strait of Gibraltar, and thus the western limit of the Mediterranean world.


lexentry: eng/Piltdown_Man__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Piltdown Man
trans_list: Piltdown-Mensch
sense:
(taxonomy) A supposed early human theorized from bone fragments said to have been found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, in 1912, but later identified as a forgery.


lexentry: eng/Pinocchio__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pinocchio
trans_list: Pinocchio
sense:
The fictional boy made from wood whose nose gets longer with each lie he tells, protagonist of the story The Adventures of Pinocchio (1881–1883) by Carlo Collodi.


lexentry: eng/Pinyin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pinyin
trans_list: Pinyin
sense:
A system of romanization for Standard Mandarin, used in the People’s Republic of China, and more recently in other Mandarin Chinese-speaking areas as well. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/Pippi_Longstocking__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pippi Longstocking
trans_list: Pippi Langstrumpf
sense:
A person, especially a girl or woman, with long or flamboyant red hair, especially in pigtails or parted down the middle, and prominent freckles.


lexentry: eng/Piraeus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Piraeus
trans_list: Piräus
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, part of Athens agglomeration, the chief port of Athens, located on the Saronic Gulf.


lexentry: eng/Pirandellian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pirandellian
trans_list: pirandellesk | pirandellianisch
sense:
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the works of Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), Italian dramatist and poet; especially describing drama in which actors become inseparable and indistinct from the characters that they play.


lexentry: eng/Pisces__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pisces
trans_list: Fische
sense:
(zodiac constellations, astrology) The Fish, a Greco-Roman constellation of the zodiac named for its presumed resemblance to a pair of fish and supposed to be ruled by Neptune and to influence events occurring between February 20 and March 20 (tropical) or, less often, between March 15 and April 14 (sidereal).


lexentry: eng/Piscis_Austrinus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Piscis Austrinus
trans_list: Südlicher Fisch
sense:
(constellation) An autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a fish. It contains the star Fomalhaut.


lexentry: eng/Pitjantjatjara__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pitjantjatjara
trans_list: Pitjantjatjara
sense:
An Aboriginal language, mainly spoken in central Australia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (Pama-Nyungan subfamily).


lexentry: eng/Planalto_slaty_antshrike__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Planalto slaty antshrike
trans_list: Planalto-Tropfenameisenwürger
sense:
a passerine bird of the antbird family, Thamnophilus pelzelni (syn. Thamnophilus punctatus pelzelni)


lexentry: eng/Planck's_constant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Planck's constant
trans_list: Plancksches Wirkungsquantum
sense:
(quantum mechanics) the constant of proportionality (symbol ℎ), relating the energy and frequency of a photon (6.626×10−34 joule-second); also related to the indeterminacy limit in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle; the quantum of action


lexentry: eng/Planck__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Planck
trans_list: Planck
sense:
(physics) Used attributively in the names of various units, formulae etc. first devised or worked on by the German physicist Max Planck (1858–1947), chiefly in the realm of quantum theory. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/Planck_unit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Planck unit
trans_list: Planck-Einheit
sense:
(physics) Any one of several natural units in a system originally proposed by Max Planck based on universal constants. Symbols for Planck units are the symbol for the physical quantity with a subscript P.


lexentry: eng/Planet_X__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Planet X
trans_list: Planet X | Transpluto
sense:
(astronomy) A hypothetical planet in the Solar system, beyond the currently known outermost planet. (The term was applied to Eris for a short while, when Pluto was still considered the ninth planet.)


lexentry: eng/Platonic_solid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Platonic solid
trans_list: platonischer Körper
sense:
(geometry) Any of five convex polyhedra with congruent regular polygonal faces, which have a high degree of symmetry and have been studied since antiquity.


lexentry: eng/Pleiades__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pleiades
trans_list: Plejaden
sense:
(Greek god) The "seven sisters", companions of Artemis and daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione.


lexentry: eng/Pleiades__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Pleiades
trans_list: Plejaden | Siebengestirn
sense:
(astronomy) An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.


lexentry: eng/Pleistocene__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pleistocene
trans_list: pleistozänisch
sense:
(geology) Of a geologic epoch within the Quaternary period from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago (earlier definition 1.7 million to 11,000 years ago); marked by the evolution of man, and the extinction of the large mammals.


lexentry: eng/Plimsoll_line__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Plimsoll line
trans_list: Plimsoll-Marke
sense:
(nautical) Properly the International Load Line, a mark on the hull of a merchant ship to show the waterline under specified conditions. The line shows the maximum capacity load the ship may carry.


lexentry: eng/Plutarch__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Plutarch
trans_list: Plutarch
sense:
The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.


lexentry: eng/Pluto__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Pluto
trans_list: Pluto
sense:
(astronomy) The largest dwarf planet and formerly the ninth planet, represented by the symbol ♇ or ⯓, both now used mostly in astrology. [from 1930]


lexentry: eng/Plutonian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Plutonian
trans_list: plutonisch
sense:
(by extension, geology, historical) Synonym of plutonic (“of, pertaining to, or supporting plutonism, the theory that the rocks of the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again”)


lexentry: eng/Plutonic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Plutonic
trans_list: plutonisch
sense:
(by extension, geology, mineralogy) Of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust, rather than by volcanoes at the surface of the Earth.


lexentry: eng/Pluviôse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pluviôse
trans_list: Pluviôse | Regenmonat | Pluviose
sense:
(historical) The fifth month of the French Republican Calendar, from January 20, 21 or 22 to February 18, 19 or 20.


lexentry: eng/Pnyx__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pnyx
trans_list: Pnyx
sense:
(Ancient Greece, historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError west of the Acropolis with a stone platform and steps set into its side, which was used as the meeting place of the democratic assembly in Ancient Greece.


lexentry: eng/Poisson_process__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Poisson process
trans_list: Poisson-Prozess
sense:
(mathematics, statistics, probability theory) A stochastic process in which events occur continually and independently of one another.


lexentry: eng/Pokémon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pokémon
trans_list: Pokémon
sense:
A Japanese media franchise featuring fictional creatures that are captured by humans and trained to battle each other.


lexentry: eng/Polabian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Polabian
trans_list: Polaben
sense:
A Polabian Slav; one of a number of Lechite tribes who lived along the Elbe river in what is now eastern Germany.


lexentry: eng/Polari__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Polari
trans_list: Polari
sense:
A cant used in the London fishmarkets, in the British theatre, and by the gay community in Britain, attested since at least the 19th century and popularised in the 1950s and 1960s by the camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.


lexentry: eng/Polaris__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Polaris
trans_list: Polarstern
sense:
(star) α Ursae Minoris, a trinary star in the constellation Ursa Minor located near the north celestial pole for the last 1500 years.


lexentry: eng/Polish_People's_Republic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Polish People's Republic
trans_list: Volksrepublik Polen
sense:
(historical) A Marxist-Leninist country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989, the predecessor of the current Republic of Poland.


lexentry: eng/Polish_notation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Polish notation
trans_list: Polnische Notation
sense:
(arithmetic, logic) A notation for arithmetic (and logical) formulae in which operations (respectively, quantifiers and operands) are written immediately before their operands, used to avoid the need for parentheses; for example, 3 * (4 + 7) is written as * 3 + 4 7 and A AND B is written as AND A B.


lexentry: eng/Polish_plait__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Polish plait
trans_list: Weichselzopf
sense:
(now, possibly, offensive) A medical condition resulting from deficient hair care in which the uncombed hair becomes irreversibly entangled, forming a matted mass, which can become malodorous and encrusted or sticky.


lexentry: eng/Polish_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Polish studies
trans_list: Polonistik
sense:
(humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Polish language, Polish linguistics, and Polish sociolinguistics.


lexentry: eng/Polonize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Polonize
trans_list: polonisieren | verpolen | verpolnischen
sense:
(transitive) To make Polish as to custom, culture, language, or style; to adapt to the norms of the Republic of Poland.


lexentry: eng/Pomerelia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pomerelia
trans_list: Pomerellen | Pommerellen | Weichselpommern
sense:
(historical) A region, located on the southern shore of the Baltic in eastern Pomerania, to the west of the Vistula, centered on the city of Danzig/Gdańsk.


lexentry: eng/Ponzi_scheme__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ponzi scheme
trans_list: Ponzi-System | Schneeballsystem
sense:
A fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment.


lexentry: eng/Popemobile__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Popemobile
trans_list: Papamobil
sense:
(informal) Any of various vehicles with bulletproof glass sides used to transport the Pope through crowds safely while allowing an open view.


lexentry: eng/Portuguese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Portuguese
trans_list: Portugiesisch | portugiesisch
sense:
A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guiné Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Cape Verde, East Timor, and Brazil.


lexentry: eng/Portuguese_man-of-war__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Portuguese man-of-war
trans_list: Portugiesische Galeere
sense:
Physalia physalis, a marine cnidarian consisting of a floating colony of hydrozoans attached to a float, superficially resembling a jellyfish.


lexentry: eng/Portuguese_oak__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Portuguese oak
trans_list: Portugiesische Eiche | Zenneiche
sense:
A species of oak, Quercus faginea, native to the western Mediterranean region of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.


lexentry: eng/Poseidon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Poseidon
trans_list: Poseidon
sense:
(Greek god) The god of the sea and other waters, earthquakes and horses; corresponds to the Roman god Neptune.


lexentry: eng/Potato_Germans__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Potato Germans
trans_list: Kartoffeldeutsche
sense:
(historical) A group of German families who settled in the heathlands of central Jutland in Denmark during the mid-1700s.


lexentry: eng/Praetorian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Praetorian
trans_list: Prätorianer
sense:
(historical, Ancient Rome) A member of a special bodyguard force used by Roman emperors, their symbol being the scorpion.


lexentry: eng/Prakrit__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Prakrit
trans_list: Prakrit
sense:
Any one of several Middle Indo-Aryan languages, all derived from dialects of Old Indo-Aryan languages. [from 1766]


lexentry: eng/Precambrian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Precambrian
trans_list: Präkambrium
sense:
(geology) The Precambrian supereon; spanning from the formation of the Earth around 4.6 billion years ago to the emergence of hard-shelled creatures 541 million years ago.


lexentry: eng/Priapus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Priapus
trans_list: Priapos | Priapus
sense:
(Greek god) The son of Aphrodite and Dionysus, god of procreation, and guardian of gardens and vineyards; personification of the phallus.


lexentry: eng/Pride_Month__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pride Month
trans_list: CSD
sense:
(US) The month of June, declared for LGBT pride in commemoration of the Stonewall riots of June 1969.


lexentry: eng/Primat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Primat
trans_list: Primat
sense:
A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 27 liters, equivalent to 36 standard bottles.


lexentry: eng/Primitive_Irish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Primitive Irish
trans_list: Uririsch | Urirische
sense:
The Irish language as attested from the fourth to the seventh centuries C.E. and written in the Ogham alphabet, the predecessor of Old Irish.


lexentry: eng/Primus_stove__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Primus stove
trans_list: Primus-Campingkocher | Primus-Gaskocher
sense:
Any portable stove marketed under the Primus trademark that may use also other fuels, particularly butane/propane gas ("camping gas").


lexentry: eng/Prince_Charming__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Prince Charming
trans_list: Märchenprinz
sense:
(by extension) A heterosexual woman's prototypical ideal romantic partner, especially but not necessarily if he embodies common characteristics of the fictional princes, such as being courageous or chivalrous.


lexentry: eng/Prince_Edward_Island__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Prince Edward Island
trans_list: Prinz-Eduard-Insel | Prinz-Edward-Insel
sense:
an island in the subantarctic Indian Ocean, part of the Prince Edward Islands, under the care and protection of South African Environmental Management


lexentry: eng/Procopius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Procopius
trans_list: Prokop | Prokopios
sense:
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Saint Procopius, an early Christian martyr of the 3rd century C.E.


lexentry: eng/Procopius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Procopius
trans_list: Prokop | Prokopios
sense:
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Procopius, a Roman imperial usurper of the 4th century C.E.


lexentry: eng/Procopius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Procopius
trans_list: Prokop | Prokopios
sense:
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Procopius of Caesarea, a Byzantine Greek historian of the 6th century C.E.


lexentry: eng/Procrustes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Procrustes
trans_list: Prokrustes
sense:
(Greek mythology) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut off their legs to adapt them to its length.


lexentry: eng/Procyon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Procyon
trans_list: Prokyon
sense:
(star) A star in the constellation Canis Minor; Alpha (α) Canis Minoris. The eighth brightest star in the night sky.


lexentry: eng/Prohibition__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Prohibition
trans_list: Alkoholprohibition | Prohibition
sense:
(history) Any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.


lexentry: eng/Promethean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Promethean
trans_list: prometheisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to Prometheus, a demigod in Greek mythology who created mortals from clay and stole fire from Zeus to give to them, for which Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock and having an eagle feed on his liver which grew back each night; he was later rescued by Heracles.


lexentry: eng/Prometheus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Prometheus
trans_list: Prometheus
sense:
(Greek god) The Titan chiefly honored for stealing fire from Zeus in the stalk of a fennel plant and giving it to mortals for their use. The god of fire and craft.


lexentry: eng/Promised_Land__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Promised Land
trans_list: gelobtes Land
sense:
(idiomatic, sometimes, lower case) Any place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation.


lexentry: eng/Promised_Land__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Promised Land
trans_list: gelobtes Land
sense:
(Judaism, Christianity) The area historically known as Judea, which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis.


lexentry: eng/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
trans_list: Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren
sense:
(historical) A protectorate of Nazi Germany established in 1939, covering present-day Czech Republic.


lexentry: eng/Proterozoic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Proterozoic
trans_list: Proterozoikum
sense:
(geology) The eon from 2,500 Ma to 541.0±1.0 Ma, the beginning of the Phanerozoic, marked by the build up of oxygen in the atmosphere and the emergence of primitive multicellular life.


lexentry: eng/Protestant__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Protestant
trans_list: protestantisch | evangelisch
sense:
(Christianity) Of or pertaining to several denominations of Christianity that separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation.


lexentry: eng/Protestant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Protestant
trans_list: Protestant | Protestantin
sense:
(Christianity) A member of any of several Christian denominations which separated from the Roman Catholic Church based on theological or political differences during the Reformation (or in some cases later).


lexentry: eng/Proto-Indo-European__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Proto-Indo-European
trans_list: indogermanisch | urindogermanisch
sense:
(linguistics, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the Proto-Indo-European language, or the people who spoke it.


lexentry: eng/Proto-Indo-European__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Proto-Indo-European
trans_list: Urindogermanisch | Indogermanisch
sense:
(linguistics, uncountable) The reconstructed ancestor language or protolanguage of the Indo-European family of languages, which includes most European, Iranian, and Indian languages.


lexentry: eng/Proto-Norse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Proto-Norse
trans_list: Urnordisch
sense:
An Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia and ancestral to Old Norse that evolved from Proto-Germanic over the first centuries AD.


lexentry: eng/Proto-Slavic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Proto-Slavic
trans_list: Urslawisch
sense:
(linguistics) A hypothetical, reconstructed language whence all the Slavic languages later descended.


lexentry: eng/Proxima_Centauri__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Proxima Centauri
trans_list: Proxima Centauri
sense:
(star) A red dwarf star, part of the Alpha Centauri system and the nearest star to Earth's solar system.


lexentry: eng/Prussia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Prussia
trans_list: Preußen | Preussen
sense:
(historical) A German province which was originally located in this area but later greatly expanded, and which was the predecessor to and a member of the German Empire; abolished as an administrative unit at the end of the Second World War.


lexentry: eng/Prussia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Prussia
trans_list: Prußen | Preußen
sense:
(countable) A country known for exceptional military professionalism in her region. Historically used for Bulgaria as the "Prussia of the Balkans".


lexentry: eng/Prussian_blue__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Prussian blue
trans_list: Berliner Blau | Preußisch Blau
sense:
(inorganic compound) An insoluble dark, bright blue pigment, ferric ferrocyanide (equivalent to ferrous ferricyanide), used in painting and dyeing, and as an antidote for certain kinds of heavy metal poisoning.


lexentry: eng/Prussian_red__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Prussian red
trans_list: Preußisch Rot
sense:
(chemistry) Potassium ferricyanide, K3[Fe(CN)6], a highly poisonous ferric crystal salt of potassium cyanide used as a pigment.


lexentry: eng/Psyche__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Psyche
trans_list: Psyche
sense:
(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The personification of the soul. Originally a mortal princess who later married Eros/Cupid, (the god of love), was deified, and bore him a daughter, Hedone/Voluptas.


lexentry: eng/Ptah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ptah
trans_list: Ptah
sense:
(Egyptian mythology) A god of creativity and craftsmen, sometimes also identified with gods of death and the birth of the sun.


lexentry: eng/Ptolemaic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ptolemaic
trans_list: ptolemäisch
sense:
(historical) Of or pertaining to the Ptolemy dynasty of pharaohs, the Ptolemies, rulers of Hellenistic Egypt.


lexentry: eng/Punch_and_Judy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Punch and Judy
trans_list: Kasperletheater | Kasperltheater | Kaspertheater
sense:
A traditional sideshow often found at seaside resorts, consisting of various glove puppets operated by one person in a small tent-style booth theatre.


lexentry: eng/Punjab__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Punjab
trans_list: Pandschab | Punjab
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError which has union territory Chandigarh as its capital; its biggest city is Ludhiana.


lexentry: eng/Punjabi__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Punjabi
trans_list: Punjabi
sense:
Of, pertaining to, descended from the people or culture of the Punjab, or written in the Punjabi language.


lexentry: eng/Punjabi__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Punjabi
trans_list: Pandschabi | Punjabi
sense:
(uncountable) The main language spoken in the Punjab region, in eastern Pakistan and Northern India.


lexentry: eng/Puppis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Puppis
trans_list: Achterdeck des Schiffs
sense:
(constellation) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the stern of a ship. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.


lexentry: eng/Purgatory__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Purgatory
trans_list: Fegefeuer | Fegfeuer | Purgatorium
sense:
(Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification prior to entering Heaven.


lexentry: eng/Purim__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Purim
trans_list: Purim | Purimfest
sense:
(Judaism) A Jewish festival, celebrated on the 14th day of Adar, commemorating the deliverance of the Persian Jews from a complete massacre at the hand of Haman the Amalekite.


lexentry: eng/Puss_in_Boots__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Puss in Boots
trans_list: gestiefelte Kater
sense:
A 17th-century French literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.


lexentry: eng/Putinism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Putinism
trans_list: Putinismus
sense:
(politics) The political policies of Vladimir Putin; the Russian political system during Putin’s tenure in power.


lexentry: eng/Pyramid_Texts__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pyramid Texts
trans_list: Pyramidentexte
sense:
A corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the Old Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead king into the afterlife, carved on pyramid walls and sarcophagi.


lexentry: eng/Pyrenean_chamois__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pyrenean chamois
trans_list: Gemse
sense:
Rupicapra pyrenaica, a goat-antelope that lives in the Pyrenees and the Apennine Mountains of central Italy.


lexentry: eng/Pyrenees__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pyrenees
trans_list: Pyrenäen
sense:
The mountain range separating Spain from France, inhabited by Basques in the west, Occitans in the centre-north, Aragonese in the centre-south, and Catalans in the east.


lexentry: eng/Pyrrhic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Pyrrhic
trans_list: Pyrrhus- | pyrrhisch
sense:
Achieved at too great a cost or detriment to have been worthwhile (as a victory, accomplishment, etc).


lexentry: eng/Pyrrhic_victory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pyrrhic victory
trans_list: Pyrrhussieg
sense:
A very costly victory, wherein the considerable losses outweigh the gain, so as to render the struggle not worth the cost.


lexentry: eng/Pyrrhus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pyrrhus
trans_list: Pyrrhos
sense:
Ancient Greek given name, particularly worn by the king of Epirus (319-272 BC) who defeated Romans in several battles, but sustained heavy losses, from which the term Pyrrhic victory was coined.


lexentry: eng/Pythagorean_theorem__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pythagorean theorem
trans_list: Satz des Pythagoras
sense:
(geometry) A mathematical theorem which states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of those of the two other sides.


lexentry: eng/Pyxis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Pyxis
trans_list: Schiffskompass | Pyxis
sense:
(constellation) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the compass of a ship. It is associated with the larger Argo Navis, although it was never officially part of that constellation.


lexentry: eng/Père_David's_deer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Père David's deer
trans_list: Davidshirsch
sense:
Elaphurus davidianus, a species of deer known only in captivity, which prefers marshland and is believed to be native to the subtropics of China.


lexentry: eng/QAnon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: QAnon
trans_list: QAnon
sense:
(US politics) An anonymous poster on the Internet message boards 4chan, 8chan and 8kun, claiming to possess Q clearance, who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory claiming that Donald Trump is working against a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles comprised of his political opponents.


lexentry: eng/QRS_complex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: QRS complex
trans_list: Kammerkomplex | QRS | QRS-Gruppe | QRS-Komplex
sense:
(medicine) A series of graphical deflections on a typical electrocardiogram that represents the electrical changes generated by the depolarization of the heart ventricles.


lexentry: eng/Q_fever__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Q fever
trans_list: Q-Fieber
sense:
An infectious disease, resembling influenza, caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii (previously classified as Rickettsia burnetii).


lexentry: eng/Qataban__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Qataban
trans_list: Qataban
sense:
An ancient South Semitic-speaking kingdom in ancient Yemen that existed from the early 1st millennium BCE until the late 1st or 2nd centuries CE.


lexentry: eng/Quaker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Quaker
trans_list: Quäker
sense:
A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.


lexentry: eng/Quakerism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Quakerism
trans_list: Quäkertum
sense:
The belief system of the members of the Religious Society of Friends, an ostensibly Christian religious denomination that began in England in the 17th century.


lexentry: eng/Quaternary__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Quaternary
trans_list: Quartär
sense:
(geology) The geological period of the Cenozoic Era immediately following the Tertiary. It is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene Epochs.


lexentry: eng/Queen_of_Heaven__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Queen of Heaven
trans_list: Himmelskönigin
sense:
(Christianity, chiefly, _, Catholicism) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role as queen of Heaven.


lexentry: eng/Question_Time__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Question Time
trans_list: Fragestunde
sense:
(politics) A time during a sitting of parliament wherein Members of Parliament ask questions of government ministers (including the Prime Minister) which they are obliged to answer.


lexentry: eng/Quidditch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Quidditch
trans_list: Quidditch
sense:
A fictional ball game played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals.


lexentry: eng/Quinquagesima__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Quinquagesima
trans_list: Quinquagesima
sense:
(Christianity) A moveable feast in the Christian calendar on the Sunday 49 days before Easter Sunday (50 days counting inclusively).


lexentry: eng/Quranism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Quranism
trans_list: Koranismus
sense:
A denomination in Islam that generally rejects the authoritative role of hadiths, and considers the Qur'an to be the only dependable religious text.


lexentry: eng/R&D__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: R&D
trans_list: F&E | F+E | FE | FuE
sense:
(business) Initialism of Research and Development (a department within a company (or governmental division) dedicated to that task, or the fiscal category that represents it in fiscal reporting.)


lexentry: eng/REM_sleep__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: REM sleep
trans_list: paradoxer Schlaf | REM-Phase | REM-Schlaf | desynchronisierter Schlaf
sense:
The stage of sleep during which most brain activity and dreams occur, characterised by rapid eye movement (REM).


lexentry: eng/RGB__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: RGB
trans_list: RGB
sense:
Initialism of red, green, blue; a color model in which colors are represented by adding varying amounts of red, green, and blue light.


lexentry: eng/Rabbinic_Judaism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rabbinic Judaism
trans_list: rabbinisches Judentum
sense:
The mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian Talmud, having its roots in Pharisaic Judaism and based on the belief that Moses at Mount Sinai received two items from God: the written Torah and the oral Torah.


lexentry: eng/Ragnarok__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ragnarok
trans_list: Götterdämmerung | Ragnarök
sense:
(Norse mythology) A series of future events culminating in a battle, fought between the Æsir and einherjar on one side, and the forces of Surtr, Loki, and Loki's children on the other, in which all of creation is burned down and almost all life is extinguished.


lexentry: eng/Raków__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Raków
trans_list: Raków
sense:
A settlement founded in the Sandomierz Voivodeship of Lesser Poland in 1569 as the centre of the Polish Brethren, the site of the Racovian Academy 1602–1638 and of the publication of the Racovian Catechism in 1605; formerly a town until 1869, it is now a village of the Republic of Poland and the seat of the gmina wiejska (rural commune) of the same name.


lexentry: eng/Ramadan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ramadan
trans_list: Ramadan
sense:
(Islam) The holy ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, during which Muslims fast between the break of dawn until sunset; they also refrain from drinking liquids, smoking and having sexual relations.


lexentry: eng/Ramism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ramism
trans_list: Ramismus
sense:
(historical, philosophy) A collection of theories on rhetoric, logic and pedagogy based on the teachings of Petrus Ramus.


lexentry: eng/Rapunzel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rapunzel
trans_list: Rapunzel
sense:
A German fairy tale about a girl imprisoned in a tower who lets down her long hair for a rescuer to climb.


lexentry: eng/Received_Pronunciation__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Received Pronunciation
trans_list: Britisches Englisch | Schulenglisch
sense:
The form of pronunciation of the English language traditionally spoken by the educated classes of the south-east of England, considered to be a standard (see received) and used as such in the pronunciation schemes of most British dictionaries. Abbreviation: RP


lexentry: eng/Reconquista__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Reconquista
trans_list: Reconquista | Rekonquista
sense:
(Iberian, _, history) The process by which the Christian countries of Spain and Portugal were reconquered and regained from the Moors.


lexentry: eng/Red_Army_Faction__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Red Army Faction
trans_list: Baader-Meinhof-Bande | Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe | RAF | Rote Armee Fraktion
sense:
(historical) A far-left terrorist organization active from 1970 to 1998, mainly in West Germany and West Berlin.


lexentry: eng/Red_Forest__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Red Forest
trans_list: Roter Wald
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; a highly radioactive and highly contaminated pine forest caused by fallout from the Chornobyl-Vladimir Lenin nuclear power plant meltdown disaster accident.


lexentry: eng/Red_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Red Sea
trans_list: Rotes Meer
sense:
(US politics) The states of the western and southern United States which consistently vote Republican in presidential elections.


lexentry: eng/Redemptorist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Redemptorist
trans_list: Redemptorist
sense:
A member of the Roman Catholic missionary congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (i.e. Jesus Christ), founded in 1732 by Saint Alphonsus Maria of Liguori


lexentry: eng/Reform_Judaism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Reform Judaism
trans_list: Reformjudentum
sense:
A movement in Judaism, characterized by the loosening of the strictures of much of traditional Jewish law that is seen as irrelevant to modern society, and by the shortening, simplification, and translation to the vernacular of Jewish ritual.


lexentry: eng/Reformation__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Reformation
trans_list: Reformation
sense:
(historical) The religious movement initiated in the 16th century against the Roman Catholic Church.


lexentry: eng/Reformed__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Reformed
trans_list: reformiert
sense:
Of the Protestant movement typically associated with John Calvin, as separated from the Lutheran Church to pursue more extensive reformation.


lexentry: eng/Rehoboam__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rehoboam
trans_list: Rehabeam
sense:
King of Israel after Solomon, whose folly split the kingdom in two; the father of Abijah (biblical character)


lexentry: eng/Renaissance__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Renaissance
trans_list: Renaissance
sense:
(historical) The 14th-century revival of classical art, architecture, literature and learning that originated in Italy and spread throughout Europe over the following two centuries.


lexentry: eng/Renaissance__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Renaissance
trans_list: Renaissance
sense:
The period of this revival, typically lasting from the late 14th to the late 16th centuries; the transition from medieval to modern times.


lexentry: eng/Republic_of_China__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Republic of China
trans_list: Republik China | Taiwan
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; modern-day Taiwan (began in the early 20th century in mainland China).


lexentry: eng/Republic_of_North_Macedonia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Republic of North Macedonia
trans_list: Republik Nordmazedonien
sense:
Country situated north of Greece and west of Bulgaria on the Balkan Peninsula, formerly partially recognised as the Republic of Macedonia.


lexentry: eng/Republic_of_South_Africa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Republic of South Africa
trans_list: Republik Südafrika
sense:
(proscribed) The Transvaal statelet from 1852 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's annexation of it in 1902.


lexentry: eng/Republic_of_South_Vietnam__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Republic of South Vietnam
trans_list: Republik Südvietnam
sense:
(history) An underground government that opposed the South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam War and became its provisional government for a year after the war.


lexentry: eng/Republic_of_Texas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Republic of Texas
trans_list: Republik Texas
sense:
(historical) A former sovereign state that successfully revolted from Mexico in 1839-1845 and was then annexed into the United States of America as the state of Texas.


lexentry: eng/Republican__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Republican
trans_list: Republikaner | Republikanerin
sense:
(US politics) A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.


lexentry: eng/Reticulum__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Reticulum
trans_list: Netz
sense:
(constellation) A small constellation of the southern summer sky, said to resemble a reticle. It lies between the constellations of Horologium and Dorado.


lexentry: eng/Reynold__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Reynold
trans_list: Reinhold
sense:
A en given name, today more popular in the forms Reginald and Ronald. Modern use is partly transferred from the surname.


lexentry: eng/Rhaeto-Romance__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rhaeto-Romance
trans_list: Rätoromanisch | Ladinisch
sense:
(linguistics) A group of related Romance languages spoken in north and north-eastern Italy and southeastern Switzerland, or any of these languages individually. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Rhea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rhea
trans_list: Rhea
sense:
(Greek god) A Titan, the daughter of Uranus and Gaia, the mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus.


lexentry: eng/Rhenish__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Rhenish
trans_list: Rheinisch
sense:
The linguistic varieties spoken in the Rhineland, a continuum between traditional dialects and regional forms of Standard German.


lexentry: eng/Rhesus_factor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rhesus factor
trans_list: Rhesusfaktor
sense:
An antigen of the Rhesus system; understood unless otherwise specified to refer to Rhesus factor D (RhD), which appears on the surface of the red blood cells of most (85%) humans. An incompatibility between the Rh-blood types of a mother and her baby may cause serious disease for the baby.


lexentry: eng/Rhine__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rhine
trans_list: Rhein
sense:
A river in western Europe, that flows through Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, France and the Netherlands, before emptying into the North Sea.


lexentry: eng/Rhineland-Palatinate__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rhineland-Palatinate
trans_list: Rheinland-Pfalz
sense:
One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation.


lexentry: eng/Rhineland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rhineland
trans_list: Rheinland
sense:
(usually, with the definite article) TemplateParserError:LuaError. Roughly equivalent to the former Prussian Rhine Province, now the greater part of Rhineland-Palatinate plus the south-western half of North Rhine-Westphalia.


lexentry: eng/Rhodopes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rhodopes
trans_list: Rhodopen
sense:
A mountain range in Southeastern Europe, with over 83% of its area in southern Bulgaria and the remainder in Greece.


lexentry: eng/Richard's_pipit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Richard's pipit
trans_list: Spornpieper
sense:
Anthus richardi, a medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in open grasslands in the East Palearctic.


lexentry: eng/Richter_scale__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Richter scale
trans_list: Richterskala
sense:
(seismology) a logarithmic scale used to express the energy released by an earthquake, each increase of 1 representing a 32-fold increase in energy.


lexentry: eng/Riemann_hypothesis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Riemann hypothesis
trans_list: Riemann-Hypothese | Riemann-Vermutung | Riemannsche Hypothese | Riemannsche Vermutung
sense:
(mathematics, analysis, number theory) The conjecture that the zeros of the Riemann zeta function exist only at the negative even integers and certain complex numbers whose real part is ½.


lexentry: eng/Riemann_integral__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Riemann integral
trans_list: Riemann-Integral | Riemannintegral | riemannsches Integral
sense:
(analysis) A type of integral whose computation involves dividing the interval of integration into smaller sub-intervals, summing sample values of the integrand inside those sub-intervals multiplied by their lengths, and letting the number of sub-intervals tend to infinity.


lexentry: eng/Riemann_zeta_function__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Riemann zeta function
trans_list: riemannsche ζ-Funktion
sense:
(number theory, analytic number theory, uncountable) The function ζ defined by the Dirichlet series \textstyle \zeta(s)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac 1 {n^s} = \frac1{1^s} + \frac1{2^s} + \frac1{3^s} + \frac1{4^s} + \cdots, which is summable for points s in the complex half-plane with real part > 1; the analytic continuation of said function, being a holomorphic function defined on the complex numbers with pole at 1.


lexentry: eng/Riemannian_geometry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Riemannian geometry
trans_list: Riemannsche Geometrie
sense:
(mathematics, geometry) The branch of differential geometry that concerns Riemannian manifolds; an example of a geometry that involves Riemannian manifolds.


lexentry: eng/Riemannian_manifold__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Riemannian manifold
trans_list: riemannsche Mannigfaltigkeit | riemannscher Raum
sense:
(differential geometry, Riemannian geometry) A real, smooth differentiable manifold whose each point has a tangent space equipped with a positive-definite inner product;(more formally) an ordered pair (M, g), where M is a real, smooth differentiable manifold and g its Riemannian metric.


lexentry: eng/Rigel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rigel
trans_list: Rigel
sense:
(star) A blue supergiant star in the constellation Orion; Beta (β) Orionis. The seventh brightest star in the night sky.


lexentry: eng/Righteous_Among_the_Nations__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Righteous Among the Nations
trans_list: Gerechter unter den Völkern
sense:
(State of Israel) Title given to a non-Jew who risked his or her life during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.


lexentry: eng/Rigveda__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rigveda
trans_list: Rigveda | Rigweda
sense:
An ancient Indian Veda and sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods (devas), composed between 1700–1100 B.C.E..


lexentry: eng/Riksmål__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Riksmål
trans_list: Riksmål
sense:
A conservative and unofficial variety of Bokmål that resists the attempted merger with Nynorsk, and is closer to Danish.


lexentry: eng/Ring_of_Fire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ring of Fire
trans_list: Feuerring
sense:
(geology, volcanology) An area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic activity, around the Pacific Ocean.


lexentry: eng/Ripuarian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ripuarian
trans_list: Ripuarisch | Nordmittelfränkisch | Ripuarisch-Fränkisch
sense:
A West Central German dialect group, spoken in the northern Rhineland (including the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Aachen), as well as parts of German-speaking Belgium and south-eastern Limburg (Netherlands); linguistically, the least affected by the consonant shift of all High German dialects


lexentry: eng/Robin_Hood__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Robin Hood
trans_list: Robin Hood
sense:
A legendary English outlaw famous for his skill in archery and his vow to defend the poor and the oppressed against established authority.


lexentry: eng/Roblox__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Roblox
trans_list: Roblox
sense:
A massively multiplayer online game and creation system platform (introduced in 2004) in which users design and play video games.


lexentry: eng/Roche_limit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Roche limit
trans_list: Rochegrenze
sense:
(astronomy) The closest a satellite can approach its parent body before the gravitational forces holding it together are overwhelmed by tidal forces pulling it apart.


lexentry: eng/Rodinia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rodinia
trans_list: Rodinia
sense:
(geology) The world supercontinent that formed at the end of the Mesoproterozoic era, then broke into eight continents during the Neoproterozoic.


lexentry: eng/Rolls-Royce__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Rolls-Royce
trans_list: Mercedes
sense:
(chiefly, British, informal) Anything that is the best of its type; the best quality product possible.


lexentry: eng/Rom__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Rom
trans_list: Rom | Roma | Roma und Sinti | Romni | Sinti und Roma | Zigeuner
sense:
(in particular) A male member of the Romani people who is married and considered respectable amongst the family.


lexentry: eng/Roman_Empire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Roman Empire
trans_list: Römisches Reich | Römerreich
sense:
(historical) The empire which succeeded the Roman Republic and existed between 27 B.C.E. and 476 C.E. in the west (and until 1453 C.E. in the east; see Byzantine Empire), encompassing territories stretching from Britain and Germany to Spain, North Africa and the Persian Gulf. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/Roman_candle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Roman candle
trans_list: Römische Kerze | Römische Licht
sense:
A type of firework with a long, thick paper tube that contains layers of "stars" and lifting charges. When ignited, pyrotechnic stars shoot from the tube one at a time.


lexentry: eng/Roman_mile__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Roman mile
trans_list: Meile
sense:
An ancient Roman unit of itinerant distance of 1000 paces (mille passus, hence also "mile" from Latin mille, "1000"). Indirectly standardized to 5000 Roman feet by Agrippa in 29 BC. In modern times, Agrippa's Imperial Roman mile is empirically estimated to have been around 1481 meters (1620 yards, 4860 English feet, 0.92 English miles); compared with a modern mile, which is 5280 feet.


lexentry: eng/Roman_road__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Roman road
trans_list: Römerstraße
sense:
(historical) Any of many roads built in Europe, including Britain, by the Ancient Romans, many of which survive in various forms.


lexentry: eng/Romance__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romance
trans_list: romanisch
sense:
Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, etc.


lexentry: eng/Romanesque__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romanesque
trans_list: romanisch
sense:
Somewhat resembling the Roman; applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman Empire, but especially to the more developed art and architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.


lexentry: eng/Romani__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romani
trans_list: Romani | Zigeunersprache | Romanes | Roma-Sprache
sense:
The Indo-Aryan lect of the Roma people, or one of its sublects (such as Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc), closely related to Hindi and Rajasthani.


lexentry: eng/Romani_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romani studies
trans_list: Tsiganologie
sense:
(humanities) A field of study concerned with the culture, history and language of the Romani people.


lexentry: eng/Romanian_deadlift__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romanian deadlift
trans_list: rumänisches Kreuzheben
sense:
(weightlifting) A form of deadlift in which the body is bent at the hips and the knees are not bent.


lexentry: eng/Romanic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Romanic
trans_list: Riesen taube
sense:
Of or relating to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc.


lexentry: eng/Romanization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romanization
trans_list: Romanisierung
sense:
(usually, uncountable) The act or process of putting text into the Latin (Roman) alphabet, by means such as transliteration and transcription.


lexentry: eng/Romans__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romans
trans_list: Römerbrief
sense:
(biblical) The sixth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Christians in Rome.


lexentry: eng/Romansch__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romansch
trans_list: Rätoromanisch | Bündnerromanisch
sense:
A Rhaeto-Romance language (or dialect continuum) spoken in the Graubünden/Grisons canton of Switzerland; it is one of the four official languages of Switzerland. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/Romanticism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romanticism
trans_list: Romantik
sense:
(arts, music) An artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, peaking from 1800 to 1850, characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical.


lexentry: eng/Rome__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: Rome
trans_list: Rom
sense:
The Holy See, the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, particularly prior to the establishment of the Vatican City in the 19th century.


lexentry: eng/Romeo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Romeo
trans_list: Romeo
sense:
(fiction) One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.


lexentry: eng/Romeo_and_Juliet__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Romeo and Juliet
trans_list: Romeo und Julia
sense:
A pair of lovers, particularly if they are young, visibly enamored, and come from families or groups that are on opposing sides of a dispute.


lexentry: eng/Roof_of_the_World__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Roof of the World
trans_list: Dach der Welt
sense:
The various high mountainous regions in Asia, made up of the Pamirs, the Himalayas, Tibet and Mount Everest.


lexentry: eng/Rorschach_test__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rorschach test
trans_list: Rorschachtest
sense:
(psychology) A method of psychological evaluation that uses a person's interpretations of inkblots or similar images to discover information concerning his or her personality, emotional functioning, or unconscious mind.


lexentry: eng/Rosetta_Stone__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rosetta Stone
trans_list: Stein von Rosette
sense:
A large inscribed stone found near Rosetta, Egypt, in 1799, later used as a basis for understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing.


lexentry: eng/Rosh_Hashanah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rosh Hashanah
trans_list: Rosch ha-Schana
sense:
The Jewish holiday marking the start of the liturgical year, taking place on the first two days of Tishrei, 163 days after the first day of Passover.


lexentry: eng/Rosicrucian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
sense: (of teachings) mystic, occult or esoteric and related to the philosophy of Rosicrucianism.
written_rep: Rosicrucian
trans_list:
rosencreutzerisch | rosencreutzisch | rosenkreutzerisch | rosenkreutzisch | rosenkreuzerisch | rosenkreuzisch


lexentry: eng/Rosicrucian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
sense: A 'Brother' of the 'Order of the Rose Cross'; a member of a Rosicrucian Order.
written_rep: Rosicrucian
trans_list:
Rosencreutzer | Rosencreutzerin | Rosenkreutzer | Rosenkreutzerin | Rosenkreutzler | Rosenkreutzlerin


lexentry: eng/Ross's_gull__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ross's gull
trans_list: Rosenmöwe
sense:
Rhodostethia rosea, a small gull breeding in the high Arctic of northernmost North America, and northeast Siberia.


lexentry: eng/Round_Table__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Round Table
trans_list: Tafelrunde
sense:
(Arthurian legend) King Arthur's table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his knights congregate, all having equal status since the table has no head.


lexentry: eng/Roy_G._Biv__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Roy G. Biv
trans_list: ROGGBIL
sense:
(mnemonic) An acronym used to remember the color sequence of the visible spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.


lexentry: eng/Royal_Navy__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Royal Navy
trans_list: Königliche Marine
sense:
The British navy; formed in the 16th century, although England has had naval ships since before the time of Alfred the Great.


lexentry: eng/Rubik's_cube__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rubik's cube
trans_list: Zauberwürfel | Rubik's Cube
sense:
A mechanical puzzle in the shape of a cube, all sides able to be rotated, each side divided into 9 squares, the moving pieces allowing the cube to be rearranged. The goal is to get the colored squares aligned so that each side of the cube is the same color.


lexentry: eng/Rumpelstiltskin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rumpelstiltskin
trans_list: Rumpelstilzchen
sense:
A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.


lexentry: eng/Ruritanian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ruritanian
trans_list: Luft-
sense:
Of or having the characteristics of adventure, romance, and intrigue, as in works of romantic fiction.


lexentry: eng/Ruritanian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Ruritanian
trans_list: Bordurien
sense:
Used to describe a fictitious and generic foreign government or person, used to state a general or hypothetical situation.


lexentry: eng/Rus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rus
trans_list: Rus
sense:
A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Novgorod, Kiev and the Volga and Dnieper gave rise to the Rus' principalities. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Rus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Rus
trans_list: Rus | Ruthenien
sense:
Kievan Rus', the medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was in Kiev.


lexentry: eng/Ruscism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ruscism
trans_list: Raschismus
sense:
(politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism, Russianism, Great Russian chauvinism; the ideology of Russia, seen as fascism or as fascist.


lexentry: eng/Russenorsk__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Russenorsk
trans_list: Russenorsk
sense:
An Arctic pidgin language combining elements of Russian and Norwegian, mainly used by traders in the nineteenth century.


lexentry: eng/Russia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: Russia
trans_list: Russland
sense:
(dated, countable) Any of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).


lexentry: eng/Russia_leather__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Russia leather
trans_list: Juchtenleder | Juchten
sense:
A form of bark-tanned cow leather, made hard-wearing, flexible, and waterproof with the use of birch oil.


lexentry: eng/Russian_SFSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Russian SFSR
trans_list: Russische SFSR
sense:
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the name for modern day Russia before the collapse of the Soviet Union (1917-1991).


lexentry: eng/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
trans_list: Russische Sozialistische Föderative Sowjetrepublik
sense:
The official name for modern-day Russia under the Communist Party from 1936 to 1991 (from 1918 to 1937, according to the Constitution of the RSFSR, called the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic). Part of the USSR from 1922 to 1991.


lexentry: eng/Russian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Russian
trans_list: Russe | Russin | russisch
sense:
(countable) An ethnic Russian: a member of the East Slavic ethnic group which is native to, and constitutes the majority of the population of, Russia.


lexentry: eng/Russian_oven__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Russian oven
trans_list: Petschka
sense:
A kind of oven/furnace that first appeared in the 15th century, used for both cooking and domestic heating in traditional Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian households, and designed to retain heat for long periods of time by channeling the smoke and hot air of combustion through a labyrinth of passages.


lexentry: eng/Russian_roulette__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Russian roulette
trans_list: Russisches Roulette
sense:
(idiomatic, games) A deadly game in which a person loads a single bullet in the cylinder of a revolver, spins the cylinder so that the bullet's location is unknown, points the muzzle at his/her head, and pulls the trigger. In its most lethal form, played by multiple participants each of whom takes a turn until the weapon discharges.


lexentry: eng/Russian_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Russian studies
trans_list: Russistik
sense:
(humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Russian language, Russian linguistics, and Russian sociolinguistics.


lexentry: eng/Russianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Russianism
trans_list: Russismus
sense:
(countable) A word or other feature originating in the Russian language that has been borrowed by another language.


lexentry: eng/Russophobia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Russophobia
trans_list: Russophobie
sense:
The contempt or disgust towards Russians or Russia, especially the political system, or the customs of the former Soviet Union.


lexentry: eng/Rusyn__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rusyn
trans_list: Rusine | Rusinin | Rusniake | Rusniakin
sense:
A member of a people living in the eastern Carpathian Mountains, in part of western Ukraine, south-eastern Poland and north-eastern Slovakia.


lexentry: eng/Ruthenia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ruthenia
trans_list: Ruthenien
sense:
The territory between Central and Eastern Europe inhabited by Rusyns, on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in parts of Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia.


lexentry: eng/Ruthenia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Ruthenia
trans_list: Ruthenien
sense:
(historical) Lands inhabited by Ukrainians (Ruthenians) of the former Austrian Empire kingdom of Galicia (1772–1918), corresponding to parts of Western Ukraine.


lexentry: eng/Ruthenian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ruthenian
trans_list: Ruthenisch
sense:
Any of various languages historically spoken in Ruthenia; West Russian, also known as Old Ukrainian, Old Belarusian and Rusian, any Old East Slavic descendant, which is different from Russian, Great Russian or "East Russian"


lexentry: eng/Ruy_Lopez__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ruy Lopez
trans_list: Spanische Partie | Spanisch | Spanische Eröffnung
sense:
(chess) A common chess opening, an Open Game characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, in which White moves king's bishop to the fifth rank.


lexentry: eng/Rāma__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Rāma
trans_list: Rama
sense:
(Hinduism) A mythological king of Ayodhya in ancient India, considered as the seventh avatar of Vishnu and a lila-avatara described in Bhagavata Purana; one of the most worshipped Hindu deities.


lexentry: eng/S-train__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: S-train
trans_list: S-Bahn
sense:
(chiefly in German-speaking countries and Copenhagen, Denmark) A commuter rail/metro system (generally overground) serving a metropolitan area; a train in such a system.


lexentry: eng/SIM_card__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: SIM card
trans_list: SIM-Karte
sense:
A small, removable card smaller than a credit card which stores mobile phone data such as contact names and numbers, SMSs and security information.


lexentry: eng/SMS__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: SMS
trans_list: SMS | SMS-Nachricht | Textnachricht
sense:
(telecommunications) Initialism of Short Message Service. A service to send text messages on a cell phone.


lexentry: eng/SPD__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: SPD
trans_list: SPD | Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
sense:
(German politics) Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Germany (“Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands”).


lexentry: eng/Saba__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saba
trans_list: Saba
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; in the southern part of the Caribbean off the west coast of Venezuela.


lexentry: eng/Sabah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sabah
trans_list: Makrele
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError located at the Northern part of the Borneo island with the main city Kota Kinabalu as its capital.


lexentry: eng/Sabbatarian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sabbatarian
trans_list: Sabbatarier | Sabbatarierin | Sabbatist | Sabbatistin
sense:
A person who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week ("Saturday", the Israelite or Jewish Sabbath) as holy in conformity with the fourth commandment of the Decalogue, such as an Orthodox Jew, Seventh-day Adventist, Seventh Day Baptist, a member of the Church of God (Seventh Day); a Sabbath-keeper, a Saturday-keeper.


lexentry: eng/Sabbatarian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Sabbatarian
trans_list: Sabbatarier | Sabbatarierin | Sabbatist | Sabbatistin
sense:
A person who regards and keeps the first day of the week as holy and often considers it as a replacement for the seventh-day Sabbath, a Sunday-keeper.


lexentry: eng/Sabbatarianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sabbatarianism
trans_list: Sabbatariertum | Sabbatismus
sense:
The principles and practices of a Sabbatarian; the observance of the Sabbath, the keeping of the Sabbath.


lexentry: eng/Sachertorte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sachertorte
trans_list: Sachertorte
sense:
A torte made of butter, eggs, confectioner's sugar, toasted breadcrumbs, spices, and chocolate, which is baked in layers, put together with apricot jam and finally frosted with chocolate.


lexentry: eng/Sadducee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sadducee
trans_list: Sadduzäer | Sadduzäerin
sense:
(historical) A member of an ancient Jewish sect possibly formed as a political party in the 2nd century BCE and existing until around the 1st century CE.


lexentry: eng/Safavid__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Safavid
trans_list: safawidisch
sense:
Relating to the Safavid dynasty, a Muslim dynasty which ruled Iran between the 16th and 18th centuries.


lexentry: eng/Sagitta__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sagitta
trans_list: Pfeil
sense:
(constellation) A small autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble an arrow. It lies between the constellations of Vulpecula and Aquila.


lexentry: eng/Sagittarius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sagittarius
trans_list: Schütze
sense:
(zodiac constellations) A constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a centaur who is an archer. It contains the stars Kaus Australis and Nunki.


lexentry: eng/Sagittarius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Sagittarius
trans_list: Schütze
sense:
(astrology) The zodiac sign for the archer, ruled by Jupiter and covering November 23 - December 21 (tropical astrology) or December 16 - January 14 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/Sahel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sahel
trans_list: Sahel | Sahelzone
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, between the Sahara to the north and a more humid zone (Sudan) to the south.


lexentry: eng/Saint_Barbara__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saint Barbara
trans_list: Sankt Barbara | St. Barbara | die heilige Barbara
sense:
The patron of armourers, military engineers, gunsmiths, miners and anyone else who worked with cannon and explosives.


lexentry: eng/Saint_Martin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saint Martin
trans_list: St. Martin
sense:
An island in the northeast of the Caribbean Sea, whose northern portion is part of France and whose southern portion is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.


lexentry: eng/Saint_Nicholas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saint Nicholas
trans_list: Sankt Nikolaus | St. Nikolaus | der heilige Nikolaus
sense:
(Christianity) A 4th-century Greek bishop from Myra, Anatolia, patron saint of children, mariners and the unwed among others, functioning in multiple countries as a gift-giving figure around his feast day of December 6.


lexentry: eng/Saint_Petersburg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saint Petersburg
trans_list: Sankt Petersburg
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, known between 1914 and 1924 as Petrograd and between 1924 and 1991 as Leningrad, and former capital of Russia (1713–1728, 1732–1918).


lexentry: eng/Saint_Valentine's_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saint Valentine's Day
trans_list: Valentinstag
sense:
A holiday in remembrance of Saint Valentine, February 14th, celebrated by sending cards or similar tokens of love.


lexentry: eng/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
trans_list: St. Vincent und die Grenadinen
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, comprising the islands of Saint Vincent and the island chain of the Grenadines.


lexentry: eng/Salafism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Salafism
trans_list: Salafismus
sense:
(Islam) A movement comparing itself to Sunni Islam, claiming to taking the pious ancestors, the salaf of the patristic period of early Islam, as exemplary models.


lexentry: eng/Salamis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Salamis
trans_list: Salamis
sense:
(Greek mythology) A nymph, the daughter of Asopus and Metope, who was carried away by Poseidon to the island that bears her name.


lexentry: eng/Saluki__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saluki
trans_list: Saluki
sense:
(cynology) An ancient sighthound breed of dog with a silky coat originating in the Middle East, once sacred to the Egyptians.


lexentry: eng/Salvation_Army__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Salvation Army
trans_list: Heilsarmee
sense:
A Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion, originally founded to help the poor of London.


lexentry: eng/Sam_Browne_belt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sam Browne belt
trans_list: Koppel mit Schulterriemen | Koppeltragegestell
sense:
A wide military belt, usually leather, supported by a strap going diagonally over the right shoulder.


lexentry: eng/Samaritan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Samaritan
trans_list: Samariter | Samariterin
sense:
A native, or inhabitant of Samaria; especially one practising certain ethnoreligious traditions indigenous to that region.


lexentry: eng/Samland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Samland
trans_list: Samland
sense:
A peninsula, situated in what was historically East Prussia and is now the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, which juts out into the Baltic, and from which the Vistula Spit (enclosing the Vistula Lagoon) and Curonian Spit (enclosing the Curonian Lagoon) extend.


lexentry: eng/Samoa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Samoa
trans_list: Samoa
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. Formerly Western Samoa, and, before that, German Samoa. It is distinct from American Samoa.


lexentry: eng/Samos__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Samos
trans_list: Samos
sense:
A modern Greek prefecture in the eastern part of the Aegean that includes the island along with the islands of Icaria and Fourni.


lexentry: eng/Samoyedic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Samoyedic
trans_list: Samojedisch | samojedische Sprachen
sense:
Any of a group of languages spoken in the Urals that, along with Finno-Ugric, make up the Uralic language group.


lexentry: eng/Samson__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Samson
trans_list: Samson | Simson
sense:
An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress. (biblical character)


lexentry: eng/Samtskhe-Javakheti__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Samtskhe-Javakheti
trans_list: Samzche-Dschawachetien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, with Akhaltsikhe as its regional capital; populated mostly by Armenians.


lexentry: eng/San_Francisco__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: San Francisco
trans_list: San Francisco | San Franzisko
sense:
A major coastal city in California of over 800,000 widely known for its unique culture, architecture, and LGBT population; formerly Yerba Buena (pre-1847).


lexentry: eng/San_Salvador__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: San Salvador
trans_list: San Salvador
sense:
(historical) Short for San Salvador Island, TemplateParserError:LuaError discovered on Christopher Columbus's first voyage.


lexentry: eng/Sanctus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sanctus
trans_list: Sanctus
sense:
A prayer in Christian liturgy, beginning “Holy, holy, holy …” and typically said or sung as a hymn shortly before the anaphora.


lexentry: eng/Sango__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sango
trans_list: Sango
sense:
The primary language spoken in the Central African Republic: it has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.


lexentry: eng/Sanskrit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sanskrit
trans_list: Sanskrit | sanskritisch
sense:
A classical Indo-European language of South Asia, which is the liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism. [from 1610s]


lexentry: eng/Santo_Domingo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Santo Domingo
trans_list: Santo Domingo
sense:
(historical) The Spanish-colonized portion of the island of Hispaniola, which later became the Dominican Republic, especially as contrasted with Saint-Domingue, the French-controlled portion.


lexentry: eng/Sappho__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sappho
trans_list: Sappho
sense:
An Ancient Greek female name, particularly borne by a poetess from Lesbos who lived between 630 and 570 BC (exact dates unknown).


lexentry: eng/Saracen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saracen
trans_list: Sarazene
sense:
A member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries CE, who were specifically distinct from Arabs.


lexentry: eng/Sargon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sargon
trans_list: Sargon
sense:
An Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BCE.


lexentry: eng/Sarmatism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sarmatism
trans_list: Sarmatismus
sense:
(historical) The belief that the people of the Polish Commonwealth descended from the ancient Sarmatians, the legendary invaders of Slavic lands in antiquity.


lexentry: eng/Saskatchewan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Saskatchewan
trans_list: Saskatchewan
sense:
Prairie province in western Canada (named after the river, which flows through it) which has Regina as its capital city.


lexentry: eng/Saskatoon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saskatoon
trans_list: Saskatoon | Saskatun
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError (2016 census: 246,376 (city); 295,095 (metro)), located on the South Saskatchewan River.


lexentry: eng/Satan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Satan
trans_list: Satan | Teufel
sense:
(religion) The supreme evil spirit in the Abrahamic religions, who tempts humanity and rules Hell; the Devil; (in, _, Theistic Satanism) the same figure, regarded as a deity to be revered and worshipped.


lexentry: eng/Satanism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Satanism
trans_list: Satanismus
sense:
A profession, philosophy, or ideological construct featuring a positive, admirable, or useful association to the figure, character or entity known as 'Satan'; or, featuring opposition to all morality and the procurement of what is wanted regardless of the consequences concerning others.


lexentry: eng/Satanist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Satanist
trans_list: Satanist
sense:
One who identifies with Anton Szandor LaVey's philosophical teachings and the religion, Satanism, founded upon it.


lexentry: eng/Saterland_Frisian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saterland Frisian
trans_list: Saterfriesisch | Saterländisch
sense:
a Frisian language spoken mostly in the municipality of Saterland in the district of Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany


lexentry: eng/Sathmar_Swabian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sathmar Swabian
trans_list: Sathmarer Schwabe | Sathmarschwabe
sense:
A member or descendant of the ethnic German (Swabian) community in Sathmar (Satu Mare), a region now mostly in Rumania with a small part in Hungary.


lexentry: eng/Saturday__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saturday
trans_list: Samstag | Sonnabend | Sabbat | Satertag
sense:
The seventh day of the week in many religious traditions, and the sixth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; observed as the Sabbath/Shabbat in Judaism (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset); it follows Friday and precedes Sunday.


lexentry: eng/Saturn__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saturn
trans_list: Saturn
sense:
(astronomy) The sixth planet of the solar system, known for its large rings, and until recent times the furthest known; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♄.


lexentry: eng/Sauer__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sauer
trans_list: Sauer
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError that flows for 173 km (103 mi) through Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany; it empties into the Moselle near Wasserbillig.


lexentry: eng/Save__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Save
trans_list: Save
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError that flows about 400 km (250 mi) from south of Harare in Zimbabwe, through Mozambique, to the Indian Ocean.


lexentry: eng/Savi's_warbler__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Savi's warbler
trans_list: Rohrschwirl
sense:
Locustella luscinioides, an Old World warbler, found in parts of Europe, Western Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa.


lexentry: eng/Saxon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Saxon
trans_list: Sachse
sense:
A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.


lexentry: eng/Scandinavian_Defence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scandinavian Defence
trans_list: Skandinavische Verteidigung
sense:
A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 d5, in which both the white king's pawn and the black queen's pawn advance two squares as the first moves.


lexentry: eng/Scandinavian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Scandinavian
trans_list: skandinavisch
sense:
(Of a language) Of or relating to the North Germanic family of languages to which Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Danish, Icelandic, and Faeroese belong.


lexentry: eng/Scandinavian_mile__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scandinavian mile
trans_list: Meile
sense:
A Scandinavian unit of distance of 10 kilometers. Standardized to 10,688.54 meters in 1649, before being defined as 10 km in 1889.


lexentry: eng/Scania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scania
trans_list: Schonen
sense:
A historical region, currently part of Sweden, occupying the southernmost tip of the Scandinavian Peninsula.


lexentry: eng/Scheherazade__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Scheherazade
trans_list: Scheherazade
sense:
A fictional character, the wife and storyteller of the king Shahryar in One Thousand and One Nights.


lexentry: eng/Schengen_Area__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Schengen Area
trans_list: Schengen-Raum | Schengenraum
sense:
(European politics) The group of European countries that have signed the Schengen Agreement, abolishing border controls between each other.


lexentry: eng/Schengen__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Schengen
trans_list: Schengen
sense:
(politics) The Schengen Agreement: a treaty between countries in continental Europe abolishing mutual border controls and standardizing visa policy.


lexentry: eng/Schlegel_diagram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Schlegel diagram
trans_list: Schlegeldiagramm
sense:
(geometry) A projection of a polytope from n-dimensional space to n-1 dimensions through a point beyond one of its faces; especially such a projection (itself represented in 2 dimensions) of a 3- or 4-dimensional polytope.


lexentry: eng/Schlemm's_canal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Schlemm's canal
trans_list: Schlemm-Kanal
sense:
(anatomy) a circular channel in the eye that collects aqueous humour from the anterior chamber and delivers it into the bloodstream; if it is blocked, a glaucoma results


lexentry: eng/Schläfli_symbol__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Schläfli symbol
trans_list: Schläfli-Symbol
sense:
(geometry) A notation that recursively encodes certain properties of a specified regular polytope or tessellation.


lexentry: eng/Schopenhauerian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Schopenhauerian
trans_list: schopenhauerisch
sense:
Of or relating to Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), German philosopher known for his pessimism and clarity.


lexentry: eng/Schrammelmusik__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Schrammelmusik
trans_list: Schrammelmusik
sense:
(music genre) A style of Viennese folk music originating in the late 19th century and still performed in present-day Austria.


lexentry: eng/Schröderization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Schröderization
trans_list: Schröderisierung
sense:
(politics) The co-opting of business or political figures by a foreign regime, specifically Russia. [from early 21st c.]


lexentry: eng/Schrödinger's_cat__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Schrödinger's cat
trans_list: Schrödingers Katze
sense:
The thought experiment which was devised by Erwin Schrödinger, is usually considered a paradox, involves a Schrödinger's cat and is typically supposed to be analysed from the point of view of quantum mechanics.


lexentry: eng/Scientologist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scientologist
trans_list: Scientologe | Scientologin
sense:
A follower of Scientology, whether belonging to the "official" Church of Scientology or being outside in the so-called Free Zone.


lexentry: eng/Scientology__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scientology
trans_list: Scientologie
sense:
A belief system with certain religious aspects, developed in 1952, focused on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.


lexentry: eng/Scorpio__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Scorpio
trans_list: Skorpion
sense:
(astrology) The zodiac sign for the scorpion, ruled by Mars and covering October 23 - November 22 (tropical astrology) or November 16 - December 15 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/Scorpius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scorpius
trans_list: Skorpion
sense:
(constellation) A constellation of the zodiac, roughly shaped like a scorpion. Its brightest star is the red giant Antares.


lexentry: eng/Scots__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scots
trans_list: Niederschottisch | Schottisch
sense:
A Germanic language closely related to English and descended from northern dialects of Middle English, spoken in parts of Scotland, now especially in the northeastern and southern regions of the country.


lexentry: eng/Scottish_Gaelic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scottish Gaelic
trans_list: Schottisch-Gälisch | Erse | Ersisch | Hochschottisch
sense:
The Gaelic language of Scotland, spoken primarily in the northern and western parts of the country, with important communities in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Scottish Gaelic had its widest influence between 800 and 1200 C.E., as place names throughout Scotland attest.


lexentry: eng/Scottish_crossbill__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scottish crossbill
trans_list: Schottlandkreuzschnabel
sense:
Loxia scotica, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is endemic to the Caledonian Forests of Scotland


lexentry: eng/Scouts__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scouts
trans_list: Patrouille
sense:
A worldwide youth movement with the aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play a constructive role in the society [1].


lexentry: eng/Scrabble__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scrabble
trans_list: Scrabble
sense:
A board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board.


lexentry: eng/Sculptor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sculptor
trans_list: Bildhauer
sense:
(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the southern sky. It lies between Aquarius and Phoenix and lies in the direction of the southern pole of the Milky Way.


lexentry: eng/Scutum__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scutum
trans_list: Schild
sense:
(constellation) A small autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a shield. It lies between the constellations of Aquila, Sagittarius, and the tail of Serpens.


lexentry: eng/Scylla__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scylla
trans_list: Skylla
sense:
A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirlpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily. The passage between Scylla and Charybdis was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying between Scylla and Charybdis signifies a great peril on either hand.


lexentry: eng/Scythia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Scythia
trans_list: Skythien
sense:
(historical) A region of Central Eurasia in the classical era, encompassing parts of the Pontic steppe, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, inhabited by nomadic Scythians from at least the 11th century BCE to the 2nd century CE.


lexentry: eng/Sea_of_Galilee__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sea of Galilee
trans_list: Galiläisches Meer | See Genezareth | See von Galiläa
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, located about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of the ancient city of Nazareth.


lexentry: eng/Sea_of_Marmara__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sea of Marmara
trans_list: Marmarameer
sense:
A deep inland sea in north-western Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea via the straits of Bosphorus and Dardanelles.


lexentry: eng/Sea_of_Okhotsk__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sea of Okhotsk
trans_list: Ochotskisches Meer
sense:
A sea between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.


lexentry: eng/Sealand__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sealand
trans_list: Fürstentum Seeland | Seeland
sense:
A self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Principality of Sealand) whose capital is HM Fort Roughs, a former British sea fort.


lexentry: eng/Second_Intermediate_Period__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Second Intermediate Period
trans_list: Zweite Zwischenzeit
sense:
(historical) The period of Egyptian history from the end of the Middle Kingdom midway through the 13th dynasty to the start of the New Kingdom at the beginning of the 18th dynasty, characterized by political disintegration and later the conquest of Egypt by the Hyksos.


lexentry: eng/Second_World__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Second World
trans_list: Zweite Welt
sense:
Those countries aligned with the East during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the West (First World).


lexentry: eng/Sedna__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Sedna
trans_list: Sedna
sense:
(astronomy) 90377 Sedna, a trans-Neptunian dwarf planet whose eccentric detached orbit is wholly beyond the Kuiper belt.


lexentry: eng/Sekhmet__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sekhmet
trans_list: Sachmet
sense:
(Egyptian mythology) The goddess of death, war, violence, plague, and medicine; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah; depicted as having the head of a lioness.


lexentry: eng/Seleucid_Empire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Seleucid Empire
trans_list: Seleukidenreich
sense:
(historical) A Greek-Macedonian empire created by Seleucus out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great and ruled by the Seleucid dynasty (312–63 BCE).


lexentry: eng/Seleucid__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Seleucid
trans_list: seleukidisch
sense:
Relating to the Greek-Macedonian dynasty which ruled (312–63 BCE) an empire created by Seleucus out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great.


lexentry: eng/Seljuk__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Seljuk
trans_list: seldschukisch
sense:
Of or related to Seljuk, to his dynasty, to their empire in southwestern Asia, or to the period of their rule from the 11th–14th centuries.


lexentry: eng/Seljuk__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Seljuk
trans_list: Seldschuk
sense:
Seljuk Bey, the legendary founder of an Oghuz Turk dynasty that ruled an eponymous Sunni Muslim empire in Southwest Asia and numerous successor states, particularly in Anatolia.


lexentry: eng/Semipelagianism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Semipelagianism
trans_list: Semipelagianismus
sense:
A Christian theological and soteriological school of thought on salvation, holding that the beginning of faith (and therefore salvation) is an act of free will, while the increase of faith is the work of God.


lexentry: eng/Semitism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Semitism
trans_list: Semitismus
sense:
(countable) A word or phrase (construction or idiom) typical of or influenced by a Semitic language such as Arabic, Aramaic or Hebrew. (Compare Romanism, Hebraism.)


lexentry: eng/Semitism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Semitism
trans_list: Semitismus
sense:
(uncountable, strict sense, rare) Judaism; Jewishness (especially when seen as the thing to which anti-Semitism is opposed).


lexentry: eng/Senate__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Senate
trans_list: Senat
sense:
Any of several legislative bodies. (In countries which have multiple legislative bodies, the Senate is often the more senior.)


lexentry: eng/Seoul__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Seoul
trans_list: Seoul | Soul | Söul
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, also the historical capital of Korea from 1394 until the country was divided in 1945.


lexentry: eng/September__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: September
trans_list: September | Scheiding
sense:
The ninth month of the Gregorian calendar, following August and preceding October. Abbreviations: Sep or Sep., Sept or Sept.


lexentry: eng/Septuagint__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Septuagint
trans_list: Septuaginta
sense:
An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.


lexentry: eng/Serbia_and_Montenegro__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Serbia and Montenegro
trans_list: Serbien und Montenegro
sense:
(historical) Former country on the Balkan Peninsula, formerly part of Yugoslavia. It disbanded in 2006.


lexentry: eng/Serbo-Croatian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Serbo-Croatian
trans_list: Serbokroatisch | serbokroatisch
sense:
The South Slavic language of which Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are literary standards.


lexentry: eng/Serpens__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Serpens
trans_list: Schlange
sense:
(constellation) A large summer constellation of the northern sky said to resemble a snake. It is the only constellation consisting of two parts (Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda) separated by the constellation Ophiuchus, representing the snake handler Asclepius.


lexentry: eng/Set__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Set
trans_list: Seth
sense:
(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.


lexentry: eng/Sexagesima__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sexagesima
trans_list: Sexagesima
sense:
(Christianity) In the Christian calendar the Sunday two weeks before Lent, eight before Easter Sunday.


lexentry: eng/Sextans__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sextans
trans_list: Sextant
sense:
(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a sextant. It lies south of the constellation of Leo.


lexentry: eng/Shadrach__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Shadrach
trans_list: Schadrach
sense:
(biblical character) Hananiah, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.


lexentry: eng/Shakespearean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Shakespearean
trans_list: shakespearienisch
sense:
(literature) Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, associated with, or suggestive of William Shakespeare (an English playwright), his works, or his authorship, or the time in which he lived.


lexentry: eng/Shakespearean_sonnet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Shakespearean sonnet
trans_list: Shakespeare-Sonett | elisabethanisches Sonett | englishes Sonett
sense:
(poetry) A sonnet comprising three quatrains and a final couplet, in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.


lexentry: eng/Shanghai__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Shanghai
trans_list: Schanghai | Shanghai
sense:
A major international port including the eastern coast of Shanghai Municipality and the northeastern islands of Zhejiang Province.


lexentry: eng/Shanghainese__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Shanghainese
trans_list: Schanghaier | Shanghaier
sense:
Of or pertaining to Shanghai and the surrounding areas like the Lower Yangtze Delta region like parts of the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui


lexentry: eng/Shavuot__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Shavuot
trans_list: Erntefest | Schawuot | Wochenfest
sense:
A Jewish holiday that occurs in the spring, a harvest festival, also commemorating the anniversary of the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai.


lexentry: eng/Sheffield_stand__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sheffield stand
trans_list: Fahrradbügel
sense:
A type of bicycle stand consisting of a single inverted U-shaped metal bar that is mounted onto or embedded into the ground.


lexentry: eng/Sherpa__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sherpa
trans_list: Sherpa
sense:
A member of a particular Himalayan ethnic group living in Nepal and Tibet, known especially as mountaineers.


lexentry: eng/Shinto__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Shinto
trans_list: Shintoismus | Schintoismus | Sintoismus
sense:
Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.


lexentry: eng/Shiva__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Shiva
trans_list: Schiwa | Shiva
sense:
(Hinduism) The god of destruction and transformation, and together with Brahma and Vishnu, one of the principal deities in Hinduism. Within Shaivism he is viewed as the Supreme deity, whereas in other branches of Hinduism such as the Smarta tradition he is worshipped as one of the six manifestations of the Divine.


lexentry: eng/Shrovetide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Shrovetide
trans_list: Fasching | Fastnacht | Fastnachtszeit | Karneval
sense:
The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.


lexentry: eng/Siamese_cat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Siamese cat
trans_list: Siamkatze
sense:
A short-haired breed of domestic cat having blue eyes and pointed coat pattern, that is, a pale body and dark extremities.


lexentry: eng/Siberian_Husky__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Siberian Husky
trans_list: sibirischer Husky
sense:
(zoology) A medium-sized spitz breed of dog originally used for herding reindeer and pulling sleighs.


lexentry: eng/Siberian_crane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Siberian crane
trans_list: Nonnenkranich
sense:
(ornithology) A large white crane, Grus leucogeranus, which breeds in Arctic Russia and western Siberia.


lexentry: eng/Sicilian_Defence__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sicilian Defence
trans_list: Sizilianische Verteidigung
sense:
A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 c5, in which both the white king's pawn and the black king's bishop's pawn advance two squares as the first moves.


lexentry: eng/Sicily__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Sicily
trans_list: Sizilien
sense:
(historical) Synonym of Kingdom of Sicily, a former kingdom controlling the island and some of southern Italy in the medieval and early modern period


lexentry: eng/Sicily__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Sicily
trans_list: Sizilien
sense:
(historical) Synonym of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a former kingdom controlling the island and most of southern Italy in the 19th century


lexentry: eng/Sieg_Heil__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sieg Heil
trans_list: Sieg Heil
sense:
(historical) The greeting Sieg Heil, used in the Third Reich during the Nazi era and by neo-Nazis today.


lexentry: eng/Sikhism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sikhism
trans_list: Sikhismus
sense:
A revealed, monotheistic religion originating in northern India, in the 16th century, through Guru Nanak and his successors.


lexentry: eng/Silesia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Silesia
trans_list: Schlesien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, now chiefly in Poland, with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany, from early modernity until 1945 predominantly German-speaking with Slavic-speaking minorities (and local majorities).


lexentry: eng/Silesian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Silesian
trans_list: Schlesisch | schlesische Mundart
sense:
(uncountable) Lower Silesian, a Germanic language or dialect spoken in southwestern parts of what is now Poland (Lower Silesia).


lexentry: eng/Silesian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Silesian
trans_list: Schlesisch | Wasserpolnisch | Schlonsakisch | Wasserpolackisch
sense:
(uncountable) Upper Silesian, a West Slavic language spoken in southwestern parts of Poland and the Czech Republic.


lexentry: eng/Silicon_Valley__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Silicon Valley
trans_list: Silicon Valley | Silizium-Tal
sense:
(informal) Originally, the region of the San Francisco Bay Area in which there are a high number of industries producing silicon chips; later extended to mean the entire concentration of high-tech businesses in this area.


lexentry: eng/Silk_Road__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Silk Road
trans_list: Seidenstraße
sense:
(historical) An extensive interconnected network of trade routes across Asia, North and Northeast Africa, and Europe, historically used by silk traders.


lexentry: eng/Silurian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Silurian
trans_list: silurisch
sense:
(geology) Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the Llandovery, Wenlock, Ludlow and Pridoli epochs from about 439 to 409 million years ago.


lexentry: eng/Simplified_Chinese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Simplified Chinese
trans_list: Kurzzeichen | vereinfachtes Chinesisch
sense:
Chinese written using the forms of Chinese characters introduced by the PRC as script reform. The characters are simplified (with a reduced number of strokes, etc.) compared to their pre-reform shapes.


lexentry: eng/Sinai__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Sinai
trans_list: Sinai | Sinai-Halbinsel
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; the location where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments from God.


lexentry: eng/Sindhi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sindhi
trans_list: Sindhi
sense:
An Indo-Aryan language spoken in four main dialects in Pakistan and India. There are around 35 million Sindhi speakers in Sindh سنڌ and more than 40 million throughout the world. Sindhi is written with a modified Arabic script that has 52 letters, and in a modified Devanagari script too.


lexentry: eng/Sinhalese__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sinhalese
trans_list: singhalesisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to the majority ethnic group of Sri Lanka, their Indo-Aryan language, or their culture.


lexentry: eng/Sinocentrism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sinocentrism
trans_list: Sinozentrismus
sense:
(historical) The belief, held by the ancient Chinese, that China was literally the centre of the world.


lexentry: eng/Sinop__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sinop
trans_list: Sinop
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, located at the northernmost point of the southern coast of the Black Sea.


lexentry: eng/Sinophone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sinophone
trans_list: Chinesischsprachige | Chinesischsprachiger
sense:
a person who speaks one or more of the Sinitic or Chinese language(s) either natively or by adoption, a Chinese-speaking person.


lexentry: eng/Sisyphus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sisyphus
trans_list: Sisyphos | Sisyphus
sense:
(Greek mythology) Son of Aeolus and Enarete, and king of Ephyra, as tragic figure doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades.


lexentry: eng/Sjögren's_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sjögren's syndrome
trans_list: Sjögren-Syndrom
sense:
An autoimmune disorder in which immune cells attack and destroy the exocrine glands that produce tears and saliva.


lexentry: eng/Skagerrak__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Skagerrak
trans_list: Skagerrak
sense:
The marine passage between Norway and Denmark, formerly also including the passage between Sweden and Denmark, comprising the Kattegat.


lexentry: eng/Skolt_Sami__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Skolt Sami
trans_list: Skoltsamisch
sense:
A Finno-Ugric language spoken by 300 people in the area north of the lake Inari in Finland and nearby parts of Russia.


lexentry: eng/Slavic_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Slavic studies
trans_list: Slawistik
sense:
(humanities, US) A field of academic study concerned with Slavic areas, Slavic languages, literature, history, and culture.


lexentry: eng/Slavism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Slavism
trans_list: Slawismus
sense:
(countable) A linguistic feature of one or more Slavic languages, especially a Slavic idiom or phrasing that appears in a non-Slavic language.


lexentry: eng/Slavonia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Slavonia
trans_list: Slawonien | Slavonien
sense:
In early modern times: Kingdom of Slavonia, covering north-eastern parts of modern Croatia and region of Syrmia in modern Serbia.


lexentry: eng/Sleeping_Beauty__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Sleeping Beauty
trans_list: Dornröschen
sense:
The main character in this story, who is in unbroken slumber under a magical spell, awaiting the kiss of a prince.


lexentry: eng/Slovincian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Slovincian
trans_list: Slovinze | Slovinzer | Slovinzerin | Slovinzin | Slowinze | Slowinzer
sense:
One of a Slavic people living between the lakes Gardno (Gardersee) and Łebsko (Lebasee) near Słupsk (Stolp) in Pomerania.


lexentry: eng/Slovio__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Slovio
trans_list: Slovio
sense:
An artificial language based on the Slavic languages and written in either the Latin or Cyrillic script, intended to be readily understandable by speakers of any modern Slavic language.


lexentry: eng/Smurfette_principle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Smurfette principle
trans_list: Schlumpfine-Prinzip
sense:
The practice in fiction, such as in film and television series, of including only one woman in an otherwise male ensemble.


lexentry: eng/Smyrna__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Smyrna
trans_list: Smyrna
sense:
(chiefly, historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError founded in circa the 11th century BC on the site of the present-day Turkish city of İzmir.


lexentry: eng/Snares_penguin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Snares penguin
trans_list: Snaresinselpinguin
sense:
A species of crested penguin, Eudyptes robustus, which breed on The Snares, an island group off South Island, New Zealand.


lexentry: eng/Snoopy__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Snoopy
trans_list: Snoopy
sense:
Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz; often representing doggish soulfulness.


lexentry: eng/Snow_White__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Snow White
trans_list: Schneewittchen | Schneeweißchen
sense:
A fictional character in the fairy tale Snow-White and Rose-Red, from Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot collected by the Brothers Grimm.


lexentry: eng/Society_of_Jesus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Society of Jesus
trans_list: Gesellschaft Jesu | Jesuiten
sense:
An order of Roman Catholic clergy, the Jesuits, having a tradition of education, theological scholarship, and missionary work; formed during the 16th century.


lexentry: eng/Sodom__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sodom
trans_list: Sodom
sense:
(biblical, Quranic) A city in the Middle East which, according to the Bible and Islamic tradition, but not specifically named in the Qur'an, was destroyed by God (along with Gomorrah) for the sins of its inhabitants.


lexentry: eng/Sogdiana__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sogdiana
trans_list: Sogdien
sense:
An ancient Iranian-speaking civilization of what is today eastern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan.


lexentry: eng/Solar_System__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Solar System
trans_list: Sonnensystem
sense:
(astronomy) The Sun and all the heavenly bodies that orbit around it, including the eight planets, their moons, the asteroids, and comets.


lexentry: eng/Solomon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Solomon
trans_list: Salomo | Salomon | Solomon
sense:
(Biblical character) In the Old Testament and Qur'an, a king of Israel famous for his wisdom; father of King Rehoboam and the son of King David.


lexentry: eng/Son_of_Man__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Son of Man
trans_list: der Menschensohn | des Menschen Sohn
sense:
(Christianity) A Christian title of Jesus Christ, referring to his status as a celestial being who presides as an eschatological judge.


lexentry: eng/Song_of_Songs__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Song of Songs
trans_list: Hohelied | Hoheslied
sense:
(biblical) The twenty-second book of the Christian Old Testament and the seventeenth book of the Hebrew Bible.


lexentry: eng/Sony_pony__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sony pony
trans_list: Kleinpferd
sense:
(slang, derogatory, video games) A slavish supporter of Sony's video games or consoles; a Sony fanboy


lexentry: eng/Sophocles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sophocles
trans_list: Sophokles
sense:
A Greek dramatic poet (ca. 497 BCE – 405 BCE); Sophocles was one of the three greatest Greek tragedians. In the Athenian dramatic competitions of the Festival of Dionysus, he won more first prizes (around 20) than any other playwright, and placed second in all others he participated in. He is best remembered for his Oedipus Cycle of plays.


lexentry: eng/Sound__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sound
trans_list: Sund | Öresund
sense:
The strait that separates Zealand (an island of Denmark) from Scania (part of Sweden); also sometimes called by the Danish name, Øresund.


lexentry: eng/South_America__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South America
trans_list: Südamerika
sense:
The continent that is the southern part of the Americas. It is east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, south of North America and north of Antarctica.


lexentry: eng/South_American_sea_lion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South American sea lion
trans_list: Mähnenrobbe | Südamerikanischer Seelöwe
sense:
A sea lion, Otaria flavescens, found on the Chilean, Peruvian, Uruguayan and Argentine coasts, with a very large head with an upturned snout.


lexentry: eng/South_Asia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South Asia
trans_list: Südasien
sense:
All the countries of the Indian subcontinent (principally India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan) and the Indian Ocean (principally Sri Lanka, Maldives)


lexentry: eng/South_Caucasus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South Caucasus
trans_list: Transkaukasien
sense:
A mountainous region in the easternmost part of Europe, lying between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Also known as Transcaucasus.


lexentry: eng/South_China_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South China Sea
trans_list: Südchinesisches Meer
sense:
The western arm of the Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland and Taiwan, Borneo and the Philippines.


lexentry: eng/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
trans_list: Südgeorgien und die Südlichen Sandwichinseln
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. A territory of inhospitable islands, composed of the South Georgia island group, and the South Sandwich Islands chain.


lexentry: eng/South_Ossetia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South Ossetia
trans_list: Südossetien
sense:
A disputed region in the South Caucasus. Formally recognized as a part of Georgia by most countries, but de facto an independent country fully named Republic of South Ossetia, with capital city Tskhinvali.


lexentry: eng/South_Pole__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South Pole
trans_list: Südpol
sense:
(geography) The Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole; the point which south is oriented towards, and therefore the southernmost point on Earth (having a latitude of -90°).


lexentry: eng/South_Vietnam__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South Vietnam
trans_list: Südvietnam
sense:
(historical) A state, officially the Republic of Vietnam, that governed southern Vietnam in 1955–1975.


lexentry: eng/South_West_Africa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South West Africa
trans_list: Südwestafrika
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, which gained independence in 1990 and was renamed to Namibia.


lexentry: eng/South_Yemen__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: South Yemen
trans_list: Südjemen
sense:
(historical) A former country in the Middle East from 1967 until 1990; full name People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.


lexentry: eng/South__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: South
trans_list: Süden
sense:
(US) The south-eastern states of the United States, including many of the same states as formed the Confederacy.


lexentry: eng/Southeast_Asia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Southeast Asia
trans_list: Südostasien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, comprising the territories of Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.


lexentry: eng/Southern_Altai__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Southern Altai
trans_list: Altaisch
sense:
A Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic, Russia on the border of Mongolia and the People's Republic of China. There is no mutual intelligibility with Northern Altai.


lexentry: eng/Southern_Cross__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Southern Cross
trans_list: Kreuz des Südens
sense:
(constellation) A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross, which appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.


lexentry: eng/Southern_Ireland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Southern Ireland
trans_list: Südirland
sense:
The short-lived autonomous region of the United Kingdom established on 3 May 1921 and dissolved on 6 December 1922, superseded by the Irish Free State.


lexentry: eng/Southern_Ocean__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Southern Ocean
trans_list: Südlicher Ozean | Südpolarmeer | Antarktik
sense:
The portion of the World Ocean surrounding Antarctica, variously taken as the waters south of the Antarctic Circle, the waters south of 60° S, or the waters bounded by the Antarctic Convergence.


lexentry: eng/Soviet_Russia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Soviet Russia
trans_list: Sowjetrussland
sense:
The unofficial term used for the former Russian Republic for a short period after its collapse - from 7 November 1917 (October Revolution) to 19 July 1918 (1st RSFSR Constitution) or to 30 December 1922 (Treaty on the Creation of the USSR). Also used to refer to the Soviet Union as a whole in the early stages.


lexentry: eng/Soviet_republic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Soviet republic
trans_list: Sowjetrepublik
sense:
(historical) A republic within the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; a list of these can be found at Soviet Socialist Republic.


lexentry: eng/Space_Shuttle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Space Shuttle
trans_list: Spaceshuttle
sense:
A space transportation system developed by NASA consisting of a reusable winged orbiter, a set of recoverable booster rockets, and a fuel tank.


lexentry: eng/Spanish_Netherlands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Spanish Netherlands
trans_list: Spanische Niederlande
sense:
(plurale tantum, historical) The southern part of the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) during and after the Eighty Years' War, ruled by Spain and lasting from 1581 to 1713.


lexentry: eng/Spanish_Road__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Spanish Road
trans_list: Spanische Straße
sense:
(historical) A land route which was used from 1567–1620 for military supply and trade, and stretched from northern Italy to the Low Countries.


lexentry: eng/Spanish_Sign_Language__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Spanish Sign Language
trans_list: Spanische Gebärdensprache
sense:
A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behavior to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas.


lexentry: eng/Spanish_influenza__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Spanish influenza
trans_list: Spanische Grippe
sense:
(pathology) A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.


lexentry: eng/Spanish_moss__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Spanish moss
trans_list: Spanisches Moos
sense:
A gray epiphyte that hangs down from trees, Tillandsia usneoides, native to the southeastern US and throughout humid tropical and subtropical parts of the Americas.


lexentry: eng/Spartacus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Spartacus
trans_list: Spartacus
sense:
A Thracian name, notably borne by a gladiator who was one of the slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.


lexentry: eng/Sphinx__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sphinx
trans_list: Sphinx
sense:
(usually, with "the") An ancient, large statue in Egypt, with the face of a man and the body of a lion, lying near the Great Pyramids.


lexentry: eng/Sphinx__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Sphinx
trans_list: Sphinx
sense:
(Greek mythology) One of the many offspring of Typhon and Echidna, a winged lion-like creature with a woman's face, who committed suicide out of frustration after Oedipus managed to solve her riddles.


lexentry: eng/Spidey-sense__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Spidey-sense
trans_list: Spinnensinn
sense:
(humorous) An intuitive feeling, usually of something being dangerous or risky; (more generally) instinct, intuition.


lexentry: eng/Spiritism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Spiritism
trans_list: Spiritismus
sense:
A philosophical doctrine, established in France in the mid nineteenth century, postulating that humans are essentially immortal spirits that temporarily inhabit physical bodies, and may have influence on the physical world.


lexentry: eng/Spree__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Spree
trans_list: Spree
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError that flows through Lusatia and into Berlin, where it flows into the Havel.


lexentry: eng/Springtime_of_Nations__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Springtime of Nations
trans_list: Europäische Revolution | Frühling der Völker | Völkerfrühling
sense:
(history, European history) A period, sometimes confounded with the Age of Revolution in Europe and/or the pre-March era (Vormärz) specifically in Germany; variously beginning in 1789 (the French Revolution) or (in Germany) either in 1815 (German Confederation) or 1830 (French July Revolution) and leading up to to the Revolutions of 1848.


lexentry: eng/Sranan_Tongo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sranan Tongo
trans_list: Surinamer
sense:
A creole language spoken as a first language by approximately 126,000 people in Suriname, the mother tongue of the Creoles.


lexentry: eng/Srinagar__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Srinagar
trans_list: Srinagar
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. It is situated in the Kashmir valley on the banks of the river Jhelum and famous for its gardens.


lexentry: eng/St._Elmo's_fire__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: St. Elmo's fire
trans_list: Elmsfeuer
sense:
An electrical discharge, or corona, seen around pointed objects, caused by ionization of the atmosphere during storms.


lexentry: eng/St._Stephen's_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: St. Stephen's Day
trans_list: Stefanitag | Stefanstag | Stephanitag | Stephanstag | Stephanustag
sense:
(Christianity) A Christian holiday commemorating Saint Stephen the protomartyr (first Christian martyr; died 34 C.E.), falling immediately after Christmas Day (on December 26 in the Western Church and on December 27 in the Eastern Orthodox Church).


lexentry: eng/St_John's_wort__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: St John's wort
trans_list: Johanniskraut
sense:
Any of several plants, of the genus Hypericum, especially Hypericum perforatum, that have yellow flowers and traditionally ward off evil.


lexentry: eng/Stakhanovite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Stakhanovite
trans_list: Stachanower | Stachanowerin
sense:
(historical) An extremely productive or hard-working worker, especially in the former USSR, who may earn special rewards; a workaholic.


lexentry: eng/Stalin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Stalin
trans_list: Stalin
sense:
A surname from Russian; usually referring to the Russian [empire, republic] revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Joseph Stalin.


lexentry: eng/Standard_Model__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Standard Model
trans_list: Standardmodell
sense:
(particle physics) A theory about the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions that mediate the dynamics of the known subatomic particles.


lexentry: eng/Star_Trek__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Star Trek
trans_list: Raumschiff Enterprise | Star Trek
sense:
A popular sci-fi media franchise set in the future, primarily focusing on the adventures of the personnel of a space navy of an interstellar political federation of which Earth is a charter member.


lexentry: eng/Star_Wars__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Star Wars
trans_list: Krieg der Sterne | Star Wars
sense:
An American epic space opera franchise centered on a film series created by George Lucas in a setting where futuristic technology co-exists with a semi-sentient form of magic/religion called the Force.


lexentry: eng/Star_of_Bethlehem__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Star of Bethlehem
trans_list: Dreikönigsstern | Stern von Bethlehem | Weihnachtsstern
sense:
(Biblical) The bright star in the Gospel of Matthew that lead the "wise men from the East" to travel to Bethlehem.


lexentry: eng/Star_of_David__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Star of David
trans_list: Davidstern | Davidsstern
sense:
A symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism, having the shape of a hexagram, the compound of two equilateral triangles.


lexentry: eng/Start_button__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Start button
trans_list: Anlassen
sense:
(computing, GUI) a labeled button in some versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that opens the Start menu.


lexentry: eng/Start_menu__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Start menu
trans_list: Startmenü
sense:
(computing) A menu in some operating systems that is launched by pressing an on-screen button and provides a central launching point for applications and tasks.


lexentry: eng/Stasi__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Stasi
trans_list: Stasi
sense:
(derogatory) People who engage in covert surveillence or similar activities associated with secret police.


lexentry: eng/State_of_Palestine__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: State of Palestine
trans_list: Staat Palästina
sense:
The country established in West Bank and Gaza Strip, including occupied Palestinian territories and those under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian National Authority.


lexentry: eng/State_of_the_Union__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: State of the Union
trans_list: Ansprache zur Lage der Union | State of the Union Address
sense:
(US politics) The State of the Union address, an annual event in which a president of the United States reports the status of the country, normally to a joint session of the United States Congress.


lexentry: eng/Statue_of_Liberty__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Statue of Liberty
trans_list: Freiheitsstatue
sense:
A very large statue in New York harbor, representing the Roman goddess Libertas, and considered emblematic of the United States and its attractiveness to voluntary immigrants.


lexentry: eng/Stendhalian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Stendhalian
trans_list: stendhalisch
sense:
Of, pertaining to, or in the style of French novelist Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), known as Stendhal.


lexentry: eng/Stigmata__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Stigmata
trans_list: Stigmata
sense:
(religion, Christianity) bodily marks or sores, corresponding in location to the crucifixion wounds of Christ; supposed to occur during states of religious ecstasy or hysteria, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically


lexentry: eng/Stone_Age__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Stone Age
trans_list: Steinzeit
sense:
(archaeology, paleontology) A broad prehistoric period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking.


lexentry: eng/Stone__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Stone
trans_list: Stein
sense:
(countable) An English occupational and habitational surname from Old English, for someone who lived near a stone worked with stone, from Old English stan.


lexentry: eng/Stradivarius__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Stradivarius
trans_list: Stradivari | Stradivarius
sense:
(musical instruments) A stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari.


lexentry: eng/Strait_of_Dover__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Strait of Dover
trans_list: Straße von Dover
sense:
A strait in the English Channel, connecting to the North Sea, between Dover (England) and Calais (France)


lexentry: eng/Strait_of_Magellan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Strait of Magellan
trans_list: Magellanstraße
sense:
A navigable sea route between the southern coast of Chile and the northern coast of Tierra del Fuego.


lexentry: eng/Strait_of_Messina__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Strait of Messina
trans_list: Straße von Messina
sense:
The narrow section of water between the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of mainland Italy.


lexentry: eng/Strasbourg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Strasbourg
trans_list: Straßburg | Strassburg
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; located in the historic region of Alsace, near the border with Germany and at various historical points a part of Germany.


lexentry: eng/Strasserism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Strasserism
trans_list: Strasserimus
sense:
The political philosophy and practices of Otto Strasser and his Black Front, characterized by support of German National Socialism, but opposition to Hitlerism.


lexentry: eng/Streisand_effect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Streisand effect
trans_list: Streisand-Effekt
sense:
A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts even more unwanted attention, thus furthering its dissemination.


lexentry: eng/Sturmabteilung__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sturmabteilung
trans_list: Sturmabteilung
sense:
A paramilitary division under the German Nazi Party, operating from 1921 until being disbanded in 1934.


lexentry: eng/Stymphalian_bird__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Stymphalian bird
trans_list: Stymphalische Vögel
sense:
(Greek mythology) A man-eating bird with a bronze beak and sharp metallic feathers it could launch at its victims, which infested Stymphalus. They were slain by Herakles as part of his sixth Labour, who took advantage of their sensitive sense of hearing.


lexentry: eng/Styria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Styria
trans_list: Steiermark
sense:
(historical) The Duchy of Styria, a duchy within the Holy Roman Empire, located in modern-day southern Austria and northern Slovenia.


lexentry: eng/Sublime_Porte__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Sublime Porte
trans_list: Hohe Pforte
sense:
(figuratively) A pars pro toto for the Ottoman sultanic court, hence for the imperial government, notably the vizierial divan and the entire empire, or a personage with a similar standing.


lexentry: eng/Suebi__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Suebi
trans_list: Sueben
sense:
A group of Germanic tribes living mostly near Elbe in what is now central Germany around the first century BCE.


lexentry: eng/Sukkot__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sukkot
trans_list: Laubhüttenfest | Sukkot | Sukkoth
sense:
(Judaism) An ancient biblical / Israelite / Jewish festival lasting seven days, celebrating the autumn harvest and commemorating the passage through the wilderness: observed from the 15th day to the 21 day of the month of Tishrei (Tishri).


lexentry: eng/Sumer__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sumer
trans_list: Sumerer
sense:
Earliest known civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia.


lexentry: eng/Sumerogram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sumerogram
trans_list: Sumerogramm
sense:
(linguistics) A Sumerian cuneiform symbol used as a logogram in another language, such as Akkadian or Hittite.


lexentry: eng/Summer_Triangle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Summer Triangle
trans_list: Sommerdreieck
sense:
(asterism) A bright asterism of the northern summer sky. Its corners are the three 1st-magnitude stars Altair (α Aql), Deneb (α Cyg), and Vega (α Lyr).


lexentry: eng/Sun__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sun
trans_list: Sonne
sense:
The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.


lexentry: eng/Sundaland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sundaland
trans_list: Sunda | Sundaland
sense:
(biogeography) A biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia which encompasses the areas of the Asian continental shelf that was exposed during the last ice age [from 1920s]


lexentry: eng/Sundanese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sundanese
trans_list: Sundanese | Sundanesin
sense:
A member of an ethnic group in the western part of the island of Java in Indonesia, numbering approximately 42 million.


lexentry: eng/Sunday__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sunday
trans_list: Sonntag
sense:
The first day of the week in many religious traditions, and the seventh day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 standard; the Christian Sabbath; the Lord's Day; it follows Saturday and precedes Monday.


lexentry: eng/Sunday_best__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sunday best
trans_list: Sonntagsstaat
sense:
(idiomatic) A person's finest clothing, especially the clothes one reserves to wear to church on Sunday.


lexentry: eng/Sunni__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Sunni
trans_list: sunnitisch
sense:
Belonging or relating to the branch of Islam based on the Qur'an, the Kutub al-Sittah (the hadiths which record the Sunnah) and that places emphasis on the Sahabah.


lexentry: eng/Superman__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Superman
trans_list: Superman
sense:
A fictional comic-book superhero with superhuman strength and speed, X-ray vision, and the ability to fly. [from 1933.]


lexentry: eng/Suprematism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Suprematism
trans_list: Suprematismus
sense:
(arts) A genre of abstract art based on simple geometric forms championed by the Russian avant-garde in the early twentieth century.


lexentry: eng/Supreme_Leader__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Supreme Leader
trans_list: Oberster Rechtsgelehrter
sense:
The head of state and commander-in-chief of the entire armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the authority to dismiss the Iranian president. The Supreme Leader is also the highest-ranking spiritual leader in Iran.


lexentry: eng/Surzhyk__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Surzhyk
trans_list: Surschyk | Surshyk
sense:
A pidgin language or interlanguage combining elements of Russian and Ukrainian, spoken mainly in Ukraine but also some neighbouring regions in Russia (Kursk, Voronezh and Belgorod) or Ukrainians living in Russia.


lexentry: eng/Suwalki_gap__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Suwalki gap
trans_list: Suwalki-Lücke
sense:
The strip of NATO-controlled territory along the Polish–Lithuanian border, separating Russia (Kaliningrad) from its ally Belarus.


lexentry: eng/Svetovid__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Svetovid
trans_list: Swantewit
sense:
The chief god of the Slavic tribe of Rani and the Polabian Slavs, ruling over war, fertility, and prosperity.


lexentry: eng/Swabian_Turkey__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swabian Turkey
trans_list: Schwäbische Türkei
sense:
A region of southwestern Hungary inhabited by an ethnic German minority who settled there, beginning in the late 1600s after the land was conquered from the Ottoman Empire, from the Palatinate, Hesse, Swabia, Bavaria and elsewhere.


lexentry: eng/Swadesh_list__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swadesh list
trans_list: Swadesh-Liste
sense:
(linguistics) One of the lists of vocabulary with universal test meanings/concepts developed by Morris Swadesh in the 1950-70s.


lexentry: eng/Swahili__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swahili
trans_list: Suaheli | Swahili
sense:
An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade.


lexentry: eng/Swazi__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swazi
trans_list: Swasi
sense:
A person from Swaziland/Eswatini or of Swazi/Swati descent originally migrating from Central Africa.


lexentry: eng/Swazi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swazi
trans_list: Siswati
sense:
A Bantu language primarily spoken in Swaziland/Eswatini and the South African regions adjacent to it.


lexentry: eng/Swedenborgian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swedenborgian
trans_list: schwedenborgianisch | swedenborgianisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg in 1688), Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian.


lexentry: eng/Swedenborgianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swedenborgianism
trans_list: Schwedenborgianismus | Swedenborgianismus
sense:
(historical) Any of several related Christian denominations that developed as a new religious movement, informed by the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.


lexentry: eng/Swedish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swedish
trans_list: Schwedisch | schwedisch
sense:
The language of Sweden and Åland (an autonomous part of Finland). Swedish is also one of the two official languages of Finland, spoken by 6% of the citizens. A very small minority in Estonia has Swedish as their mother tongue.


lexentry: eng/Swedish_massage__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swedish massage
trans_list: schwedische Massage
sense:
A popular style of massage involving effleurage, petrissage, tapotement, friction, and vibration/shaking as the basic strokes.


lexentry: eng/Swedish_mile__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swedish mile
trans_list: Meile
sense:
A unit of measure used in Sweden and other parts of Scandinavia, today with a length of 10 kilometres, but formerly with different values.


lexentry: eng/Swiss_Army_knife__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swiss Army knife
trans_list: Schweizer Taschenmesser | Schweizer Messer | Schweizer Offiziersmesser
sense:
Any of a class of multi-function pocket knives or multitools, having a blade and various tools, such as screwdrivers and can openers.


lexentry: eng/Swiss_Standard_German__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swiss Standard German
trans_list: Schweizerhochdeutsch
sense:
The form of the German language used for publishing, broadcasting and writing in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as distinguished from the Swiss German language used in speech.


lexentry: eng/Swiss_roll__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Swiss roll
trans_list: Biskuitroulade | Roulade
sense:
A type of sponge cake rolled up into a cylinder, typically but not exclusively with jam or chocolate filling.


lexentry: eng/Sydney__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Sydney
trans_list: Sydney
sense:
(uncountable) TemplateParserError:LuaError, now part of the amalgamated Cape Breton Regional Municipality on Cape Breton Island.


lexentry: eng/Syr_Darya__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Syr Darya
trans_list: Syrdarja
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, running parallel to the Amu Darya. Known in classical times as Jaxartes.


lexentry: eng/Syracusan__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Syracusan
trans_list: syrakusisch
sense:
Of or belonging to Syracuse, a city in Sicily, Italy, or of the city of Syracuse in central New York State.


lexentry: eng/Székely__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Székely
trans_list: Szekler
sense:
A member of a subgroup of the Hungarian people living mostly in the Székely Land in present-day Romania.


lexentry: eng/Süderbeste__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Süderbeste
trans_list: Süderbeste
sense:
The name by which the River Beste is called on its course between the millpond in Lasbek-Gut and its confluence with the River Norderbeste.


lexentry: eng/T-bar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: T-bar
trans_list: Schlepplift
sense:
(skiing) A type of ski lift where skiers/snowboarders are dragged up the ski run while they slide along on their skis/snowboards on the slope. They hang onto a T-shaped bar, a crossbar handle and a lead shaft linking to the drive cable.


lexentry: eng/T-beam__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: T-beam
trans_list: Kreuzprofil
sense:
(construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like the letter T.


lexentry: eng/T-junction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: T-junction
trans_list: Straßeneinmündung
sense:
An intersection of routes where one road terminates as it joins a (usually higher priority) road at approximately 90°. In most countries, a give way or stop road sign will be seen at a T-junction.


lexentry: eng/T-shirt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: T-shirt
trans_list: T-Shirt
sense:
A lightweight shirt without buttons, usually with short sleeves and no collar. Often made of cotton and frequently bears a picture or slogan.


lexentry: eng/T-square__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: T-square
trans_list: Reißschiene
sense:
A rule with a short perpendicular crosspiece at one end, used by draughtsmen to draw parallel lines.


lexentry: eng/TTBOMK__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: TTBOMK
trans_list: meines besten Wissens | nach meinem besten Wissen | soviel ich weiß | soweit ich weiß
sense:
(Internet slang) Initialism of to the best of my knowledge, indicating uncertainty in spite of having some knowledge on the subject.


lexentry: eng/T_cell__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: T cell
trans_list: T-Lymphozyt | T-Zelle
sense:
(immunology) A lymphocyte, from the thymus, that can recognise specific antigens and can activate or deactivate other immune cells.


lexentry: eng/T_tubule__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: T tubule
trans_list: T-Tubuli | T-Tubulus
sense:
(anatomy) One of the extensions of the cell membrane of striated muscle cells, running in a transverse manner, that permit the transmission of the action potential into the cell and regulate cellular calcium concentration.


lexentry: eng/Tacitus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tacitus
trans_list: Tacitus | Tazitus
sense:
A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56–117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200–275), a Roman emperor.


lexentry: eng/Taimyr__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Taimyr
trans_list: Taimyr
sense:
A large peninsula in the Russian North that forms the northernmost part of mainland Eurasia and Asia in Krasnoyarsk kray, Russia.


lexentry: eng/Taiwan_Strait__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Taiwan Strait
trans_list: Formosastraße | Taiwanstraße
sense:
The strait dividing mainland Asia (China) from Taiwan island and connecting the East and South China Seas.


lexentry: eng/Taj_Mahal__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Taj Mahal
trans_list: Taj Mahal | Tadsch Mahal
sense:
A monument located in Agra, India, constructed between 1631 and 1654, considered one of the finest examples of Mughal architecture in the world.


lexentry: eng/Tajik_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tajik SSR
trans_list: Tadschikische SSR
sense:
Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Tajikistan while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1924–1991).


lexentry: eng/Tajik__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tajik
trans_list: tadschikisch
sense:
Of, from, or pertaining to Tajikistan, the Tajik people (living in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) or the Tajiki dialect of Persian.


lexentry: eng/Taliban__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Taliban
trans_list: Taliban
sense:
A Deobandi Islamist and largely Pashtun religious political movement founded in Afghanistan in 1994 by mullah Mohammad Omar, which has governed the country from 1996 to 2001 and since 2021.


lexentry: eng/Talmud__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Talmud
trans_list: Talmud
sense:
A collection of Jewish writings related to the practical application of Judaic law and tradition (may refer to either the Babylonian Talmud or the shorter Jerusalem Talmud).


lexentry: eng/Talossan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Talossan
trans_list: Talossanisch
sense:
A constructed language created in 1980 by R. Ben Madison for the micronation of Talossa; autonym: Talossan.


lexentry: eng/Tamil_Tigers__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tamil Tigers
trans_list: Befreiungstiger von Tamil Eelam | Tamilischen Tigern
sense:
A former guerrilla and conventional militant organization that sought the establishment of an independent homeland () in the northeast of Sri Lanka for the minority Tamil community.


lexentry: eng/Tamil__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Tamil
trans_list: Tamilisch | Tamil
sense:
(uncountable) A Dravidian language spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India and in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia.


lexentry: eng/Tanakh__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tanakh
trans_list: Tanach
sense:
The body of Jewish scripture comprising the Torah, the Neviim (prophets) and the Ketuvim (writings), corresponding roughly to the Christian Old Testament.


lexentry: eng/Tanganyika__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Tanganyika
trans_list: Tanganjika
sense:
A former British mandate and territory and, between 1961 and 1964, an independent country in East Africa.


lexentry: eng/Taoism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Taoism
trans_list: Taoismus | Daoismus
sense:
A Chinese mystical philosophy traditionally founded by Lao-tzu in the 6th century B.C.E. that teaches conformity to the tao by unassertive action and simplicity.


lexentry: eng/Tartarus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tartarus
trans_list: Tartaros
sense:
(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A dark and gloomy part of the realm of Hades, reserved for the damned and the wicked, such as the Titans; an equivalent of hell in Greek and Roman mythology.


lexentry: eng/Tasmania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tasmania
trans_list: Tasmanien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast, having its capital at Hobart.


lexentry: eng/Tasmania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Tasmania
trans_list: Tasmanien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError comprising the majority of the state of Tasmania's land area and on which most of its inhabitants live.


lexentry: eng/Tasmanian_devil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tasmanian devil
trans_list: Beutelteufel | Tasmanischer Teufel
sense:
A medium-sized carnivorous marsupial (Sarcophilus harrisii) found exclusively on the island of Tasmania.


lexentry: eng/Tatar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tatar
trans_list: Tatar | Tatarin
sense:
A person belonging to one of several Turkic, Tatar-speaking ethnic groups in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.


lexentry: eng/Tatar__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tatar
trans_list: Tatarisch | tatarische Sprache
sense:
An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.


lexentry: eng/Taurus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Taurus
trans_list: Stier
sense:
(zodiac constellations) : A constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a bull and containing the star Aldebaran.


lexentry: eng/Taurus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Taurus
trans_list: Stier
sense:
(astrology) : The zodiac sign for the bull, ruled by Venus and covering April 21 - May 21 (tropical astrology) or May 16 - June 15 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/Taurus__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Taurus
trans_list: Taurusgebirge
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, almost 4000 metres high and running parallel to the Mediterranean coast


lexentry: eng/Taylor_series__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Taylor series
trans_list: Taylorreihe
sense:
(calculus) A power series representation of given infinitely differentiable function \textstyle f whose terms are calculated from the function's arbitrary order derivatives at given reference point \textstyle a; the series \textstyle f(a)+\frac {f'(a)}{1!} (x-a)+ \frac{f(a)}{2!} (x-a)^2+\frac{f(a)}{3!}(x-a)^3+ \cdots = \sum_{n=0} ^ {\infty} \frac {f^{(n)}(a)}{n!} (x-a)^{n}.


lexentry: eng/Tchaikovsky__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tchaikovsky
trans_list: Tschaikowski
sense:
A transliteration of the Russian surname Чайко́вский (Čajkóvskij), usually applying to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.


lexentry: eng/Telescopium__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Telescopium
trans_list: Teleskop
sense:
(constellation) A small faint constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a telescope. It lies south of the constellation of Corona Australis.


lexentry: eng/Teletext__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Teletext
trans_list: Teletext | Videotext
sense:
(UK, Ireland) A text-based information retrieval system using television sets with a suitable decoder; developed by the BBC.


lexentry: eng/Temple_Mount__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Temple Mount
trans_list: Tempelberg
sense:
One of the hills in Jerusalem, where King Solomon built his great temple, which was destroyed twice (the hill ultimately leveled, leaving only the Wailing Wall venerated by Jews) and today an Islamic compound/courtyard enclosing the Foundation Stone atop which sit the Dome of the Rock, and containing the Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Islamic-era structures.


lexentry: eng/Temple__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Temple
trans_list: Tempel
sense:
(Judaism, Christianity, historical) Any of the former chief temples to YHWH in Jerusalem, particularly Solomon's Temple.


lexentry: eng/Temple__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Temple
trans_list: Tempel
sense:
Either of two of the Inns of Court in London (the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple), built on a site once occupied by the Knights Templar.


lexentry: eng/Temple_of_Heaven__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Temple of Heaven
trans_list: Himmelstempel
sense:
A religious complex in southeastern Beijing, formerly important to Chinese imperial rituals; the present-day park surrounding and preserving the site.


lexentry: eng/Ten_Commandments__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ten Commandments
trans_list: Dekalog | Zehn Gebote | zehn Gebote
sense:
(religion) A particular list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible or the Hebrew Bible, were twice given or dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and inscribed on two stone tablets.


lexentry: eng/Tera–Wasserburg_diagram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tera–Wasserburg diagram
trans_list: Tera-Wasserburg-Diagramm
sense:
(geology, geochronology) A type of concordia diagram, used in the context of uranium–lead dating, whose axes are the ratios 207Pb/206Pb and 238U/206Pb.


lexentry: eng/Terpsichore__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Terpsichore
trans_list: Terpsichore
sense:
(Greek god) The goddess of dance and the dramatic chorus, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus & Mnemosyne.


lexentry: eng/Terracotta_Army__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Terracotta Army
trans_list: Terrakottaarmee
sense:
A collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, located in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China.


lexentry: eng/Tesla_coil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tesla coil
trans_list: Teslaspule
sense:
A type of resonant transformer circuit used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity.


lexentry: eng/Tetragrammaton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tetragrammaton
trans_list: Tetragramm | Tetragrammaton
sense:
The four Hebrew letters יהוה (in transliteration, YHWH or JHVH) used as the ineffable name of God in the Hebrew Bible, variously transliterated as Yahweh or Jehovah.


lexentry: eng/Tetris__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tetris
trans_list: Tetris
sense:
A puzzle video game in which falling tetrominoes must be manipulated to form complete lines, which are then cleared from the grid.


lexentry: eng/Teutonic_Knights__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Teutonic Knights
trans_list: Deutscher Orden
sense:
A German religious order founded in the late 12th century and known for conquering the Baltic Prussians and bringing Prussia under German control; the order exists today as a charitable organisation.


lexentry: eng/Texas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: Texas
trans_list: Texas
sense:
(historical) a sovereign state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846


lexentry: eng/Thatcherism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thatcherism
trans_list: Thatcherismus
sense:
(UK politics) The political ideology attributed to the governments of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), characterised by, among other things, a free market economy, privatisation, low taxation, austerity and opposition to unionisation.


lexentry: eng/The_Call_of_South_Africa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: The Call of South Africa
trans_list: Die Stimme Südafrikas
sense:
a former national anthem of South Africa, created during the 1920s and used from the 1930s to the 1990s.


lexentry: eng/The_Game__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: The Game
trans_list: Spiel
sense:
A mind game where the objective is to avoid thinking about "The Game", and by thinking about it one loses, and subsequently has to announce one's loss to the world in order to make them lose.


lexentry: eng/The_Hague__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: The Hague
trans_list: Den Haag
sense:
(figuratively, by extension, sometimes, _, hyperbolic) Punishment for a very destructive, harmful or immoral act.


lexentry: eng/Thebes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thebes
trans_list: Theben
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, the capital city of Boeotia and an important political centre in antiquity.


lexentry: eng/Thebes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Thebes
trans_list: Theben
sense:
An ancient city and archaeological site in Upper Egypt, having functioned as capital city at times during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.


lexentry: eng/Themis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Themis
trans_list: Themis
sense:
(Greek god) A Titan, the embodiment of divine order, law and custom. She was the daughter of Gaia and Uranus.


lexentry: eng/Theophany__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Theophany
trans_list: Epiphanias
sense:
One of the Great Feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Church, commemorating the revelation of Jesus' divinity, especially in his baptism by John the Baptist.


lexentry: eng/Theotokos__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Theotokos
trans_list: Gottesgebärerin
sense:
(Christianity, chiefly, _, Orthodoxy) Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.


lexentry: eng/Thermidor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thermidor
trans_list: Thermidor | Hitzemonat
sense:
(historical) The eleventh month of the French Republican Calendar, from July 19 or 20 to August 17 or 18.


lexentry: eng/Thessalonians__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thessalonians
trans_list: Thessalonicher
sense:
(biblical) Books in the New Testament of the Bible (1 Thessalonians and 2 Thessalonians), epistles to the Christians in ancient Thessaloniki.


lexentry: eng/Thessaly__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thessaly
trans_list: Thessalien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; one of its 13 peripheries. It contains the prefectures of Karditsa, Larissa, Magnesia and Trikala.


lexentry: eng/Third_Intermediate_Period__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Third Intermediate Period
trans_list: Dritte Zwischenzeit
sense:
(historical) The period of Egyptian history from the end of the New Kingdom to the start of the Late Period, comprising the 21st through 25th dynasties and characterized by political fragmentation and periods of Libyan and Nubian rule over Egypt.


lexentry: eng/Third_World__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Third World
trans_list: Dritte Welt | Trikont
sense:
(attributive, pejorative, informal) Any developing country, or a country lacking the perceived rudiments of civilization.


lexentry: eng/Thomæan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thomæan
trans_list: Thomaschrist | Thomaschristin
sense:
A member of an early Christian church supposedly founded by the Apostle Thomas on the Malabar coast of India.


lexentry: eng/Thor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thor
trans_list: Thor | Donar
sense:
(Norse mythology) A hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, and the protection of mankind.


lexentry: eng/Thoth__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thoth
trans_list: Thot
sense:
The ancient Egyptian moon god of wisdom, learning, and magic, usually depicted as an ibis or baboon.


lexentry: eng/Thrace__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thrace
trans_list: Thrakien
sense:
A historical and geographic area in southeast Europe, now divided between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.


lexentry: eng/Threadneedle_Street__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Threadneedle Street
trans_list: Dreinadelstraße
sense:
A street in London, running from Poultry and Lombard Street to Bishopsgate; the site of the Bank of England.


lexentry: eng/Thuban__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thuban
trans_list: Thuban
sense:
(star) α Draconis, a white giant star in the constellation Draco which served as the North Star from about 3942 to 1793 BC.


lexentry: eng/Thucydides__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thucydides
trans_list: Thukydides
sense:
(c. 460 BCE – c. 395 BCE) A great ancient Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century BCE war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BCE.


lexentry: eng/Thule__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thule
trans_list: Thule
sense:
The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).


lexentry: eng/Thursday__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Thursday
trans_list: Donnerstag
sense:
The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.


lexentry: eng/Tiberius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tiberius
trans_list: Tiberius
sense:
(historical) A en given name of mostly historical use, in particular, the praenomen of the second Roman emperor Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, reigning 14-37 C.E..


lexentry: eng/Tibet__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tibet
trans_list: Tibet
sense:
The Tibetan Plateau, a plateau region in Central Asia, where the Tibetan people traditionally live, encompassing what is now Tibet Autonomous Region (also called Xizang), most of Qinghai, the western half of Sichuan, a small part of Yunnan and a small part of Gansu in the People's Republic of China, and also the country of Bhutan, and the Indian regions of Sikkim and Ladakh.


lexentry: eng/Tibetan_Buddhism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tibetan Buddhism
trans_list: Vajrayana | Wadschrajana
sense:
The body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, Bhutan, Kalmykia, Buryatia and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, and India.


lexentry: eng/Tibetan_Mastiff__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tibetan Mastiff
trans_list: tibetanische Dogge | tibetanischer Mastiff
sense:
A large dog of a breed from Central Asia, having a medium to long double coat in a wide variety of colors, sometimes with white markings around neck, chest, and legs.


lexentry: eng/Tibetan_Plateau__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tibetan Plateau
trans_list: Hochland von Tibet
sense:
A high altitude plateau north of the Great Himalaya ranges, west of the Szechuan basin, and south of the Taklamakan Desert.


lexentry: eng/Tibetan_fox__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tibetan fox
trans_list: Tibetfuchs
sense:
Vulpes ferrilata, a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau in Nepal, China, and India


lexentry: eng/Tibeto-Burman__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Tibeto-Burman
trans_list: tibetobirmanisch
sense:
(linguistics) Of the Tibeto-Burman languages, one of the subgroups of the Sino-Tibetan language family.


lexentry: eng/Tigris__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tigris
trans_list: Tigris
sense:
A river in Southwest Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf.


lexentry: eng/Tironian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tironian
trans_list: tironisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to Marcus Tullius Tiro (died circa 4 BCE), scribe of Cicero and inventor of an early shorthand.


lexentry: eng/Tironian_note__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tironian note
trans_list: Nota Tironiana | Tironische Note | nota Tironiana | nota tironiana | tironische Note
sense:
Any one of thousands of signs in a system of shorthand developed in the 60s BC by Cicero’s scribe Marcus Tullius Tiro.


lexentry: eng/Tishrei__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tishrei
trans_list: Tischri
sense:
(Judaism) The first month of the civil year and the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Elul and before Cheshvan.


lexentry: eng/Titan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Titan
trans_list: Titan
sense:
(mythology) Any of the race of giant gods in Greek mythology that preceded and was overthrown by the Olympian gods.


lexentry: eng/Titanic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Titanic
trans_list: Titanic
sense:
The R.M.S. Titanic, an ocean liner, supposedly unsinkable, that sank on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.


lexentry: eng/Titoism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Titoism
trans_list: Titoismus
sense:
The political ideas or policies associated with Josip Broz Tito; in particular, an adaptation of Marxist-Leninist ideology, characterized by experiments with workers’ self-management instead of central planning and a foreign policy of independence from both the Soviet and Western blocs.


lexentry: eng/Tobias__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tobias
trans_list: Tobias
sense:
The main character in the Book of Tobit, regarded as apocryphal by most Protestants (Biblical character).


lexentry: eng/Tobit__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tobit
trans_list: Tobias | Tobit
sense:
(biblical character) A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.


lexentry: eng/Toblerone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Toblerone
trans_list: Toblerone
sense:
A Swiss chocolate bar with honey, nougat and almonds, shaped like a triangular prism with triangular wedge-shaped pieces.


lexentry: eng/Tocharian_A__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tocharian A
trans_list: Osttocharisch | Tocharisch A
sense:
(linguistics) The eastern member of the Tocharian branch of Indo-European languages, extinct since the ninth century. Once spoken in the Tarim Basin in Central Asia.


lexentry: eng/Tocharian_B__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tocharian B
trans_list: Tocharisch B | Westtocharisch
sense:
(linguistics) The western member of the Tocharian branch of Indo-European languages, extinct since the ninth century. Once spoken in the Tarim Basin in Central Asia.


lexentry: eng/Tocharian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tocharian
trans_list: Tocharisch
sense:
(linguistics) An extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, consisting of two languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B, written in an abugida derived from Brahmi.


lexentry: eng/Togarmah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Togarmah
trans_list: Thorgama | Togarma
sense:
A grandson of Japheth in the Old Testament; traditional ancestor of Armenians, sometimes also of Georgians.


lexentry: eng/Tok_Pisin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tok Pisin
trans_list: Neuguinea-Pidgin
sense:
A creole of Indo-European, Malayo-Polynesian and Trans-New-Guinean languages (principally English and Kuanua); one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea.


lexentry: eng/Tollund_Man__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tollund Man
trans_list: Tollund-Mann
sense:
(archaeology) A bog body found preserved in peat on the Jutland peninsula, Denmark, in 1950; the naturally mummified body of a man believed to have lived in the 5th century BCE during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the pre-Roman Iron Age.


lexentry: eng/Toltec__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Toltec
trans_list: Tolteke | Toltekin
sense:
A member of a pre-Columbian Native American people who dominated much of central Mexico between the 10th and 12th centuries AD.


lexentry: eng/Tom_Thumb__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tom Thumb
trans_list: Däumling
sense:
A fairy-tale character who is the size of a person's thumb; the protagonist and hero of the fairy tale The History of Tom Thumb.


lexentry: eng/Torah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Torah
trans_list: Thora | Tora | Torah
sense:
The first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures, attributed to Moses and therefore also known as the Five Books of Moses.


lexentry: eng/Tory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tory
trans_list: Tory
sense:
(UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; historically associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church.


lexentry: eng/Tory__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Tory
trans_list: Tory
sense:
(Canadian politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party.


lexentry: eng/Tower_of_Babel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tower of Babel
trans_list: Turmbau zu Babel
sense:
(biblical) A tower erected at Babel by the descendants of Noah's son Ham to reach the sky, and whose completion God thwarted by making the workers speak different languages so that they were unable to understand one another.


lexentry: eng/Tower_of_London__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Tower of London
trans_list: Tower | Tower of London | Turm von London
sense:
A riverside fortress in London, used as a palace, a prison and now a museum housing the Crown Jewels.


lexentry: eng/Traditional_Chinese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Traditional Chinese
trans_list: Langzeichen | traditionelles Chinesisch
sense:
Chinese written using the traditional form of Chinese characters, as opposed to Simplified Chinese (introduced by the PRC as script reform).


lexentry: eng/Transcaucasian_SFSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Transcaucasian SFSR
trans_list: Transkaukasische SFSR
sense:
(historical) A Soviet republic consisting of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan with its capital in Tbilisi (1922–1936).


lexentry: eng/Transdanubia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Transdanubia
trans_list: Transdanubien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, bounded by the Danube river (north and east), the Drava and Mura rivers (south), and the foothills of the Alps roughly along the border between Hungary and Austria (west).


lexentry: eng/Transfiguration__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Transfiguration
trans_list: Verklärung des Herrn
sense:
(Christianity) An annual feast day, observed on August 6th (Gregorian) or 19th (Julian), celebrating the miracle when the face of Jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles.


