# translation

lexentry: eng/-ability__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ability
trans_list: -barkeit
sense:
Forms a noun from a verb or an adjective by changing from -able; ability, inclination or suitability for a specified function or condition.


lexentry: eng/-aemia__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -aemia
trans_list: -ämie
sense:
(British spelling, medicine) Blood; presence in blood (of a substance denoted by an affixed combining form); state or condition of the blood.


lexentry: eng/-an__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -an
trans_list: -isch
sense:
Of or pertaining to; an adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. (Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a, -n is used instead.)


lexentry: eng/-ane__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ane
trans_list: -an
sense:
Variant of -an, usually with differentiation (germane, humane, urbane), but sometimes alone (mundane).


lexentry: eng/-ed__Suffix__3
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ed
trans_list: -ig
sense:
Used to form possessional adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.


lexentry: eng/-ee__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ee
trans_list: -e | -en | -er | -es | ge-
sense:
Added to transitive verbs to form words meaning a person or thing that is the object of that verb (i.e., to whom or to which an action is done).


lexentry: eng/-elect__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -elect
trans_list: gewählt
sense:
Used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.


lexentry: eng/-er__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -er
trans_list: -er
sense:
(added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.


lexentry: eng/-er__Suffix__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: -er
trans_list: -er
sense:
(added to nouns, chiefly denoting occupations) A person whose occupation is the root noun; (more broadly, occasionally with adjectives) a person characterized by the root.


lexentry: eng/-er__Suffix__5
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -er
trans_list: -er
sense:
(added to certain adjectives and adverbs, now especially short ones) More; used to form the comparative.


lexentry: eng/-ese__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ese
trans_list: -isch
sense:
Used to form adjectives and nouns describing things and characteristics of a city, region, or country, such as the people and the language spoken by these people.


lexentry: eng/-est__Suffix__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -est
trans_list: -st
sense:
(archaic, dialectal) Used to form the second-person singular present tense and past tense of verbs. (if thou is the subject; not used with you)


lexentry: eng/-ful__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ful
trans_list: -voll
sense:
Used to form adjectives from nouns, with the sense of being full of, tending to, or thoroughly possessing the quality expressed by the noun.


lexentry: eng/-gon__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -gon
trans_list: -eck
sense:
(geometry) Forms the names of plane figures containing a given number of angles, and thus bounded by that number of line segments (polygons). If the number is large enough, it can take the hyphenated suffix directly.


lexentry: eng/-ible__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ible
trans_list: -bar
sense:
An adjective suffix, now usually in a passive sense; forms adjectives meaning "able to be", "relevant or suitable to, in accordance with", or expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense.


lexentry: eng/-ic__Suffix__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: -ic
trans_list: -isch
sense:
(chemistry) Used to denote certain chemical compounds in which a specified chemical element has a higher oxidation number than in the equivalent compound whose name ends in the suffix -ous. For example sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) has more oxygen atoms per molecule than sulphurous acid (H₂SO₃).


lexentry: eng/-ine__Suffix__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: -ine
trans_list: -in
sense:
(chemistry) Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements.


lexentry: eng/-ing__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ing
trans_list: -ung
sense:
Used to form nouns or noun-like words (or elements of noun phrases) from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action.


lexentry: eng/-ing__Suffix__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: -ing
trans_list: zu
sense:
Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.


lexentry: eng/-ish__Suffix__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: -ish
trans_list: -isch
sense:
(of adjectives from roots of proper nouns denoting names of nations or regions) Of, belonging, or relating to (a nationality, place, language or similar association with something).


lexentry: eng/-ism__Suffix__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: -ism
trans_list: -ismus
sense:
Used to form names of a tendency of behaviour, action, state, condition or opinion belonging to a class or group of persons, or the result of a doctrine, ideology or principle or lack thereof.


lexentry: eng/-ite__Suffix__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: -ite
trans_list: -it
sense:
(chemistry) Used to form names of certain chemical compounds, especially salts or esters of acids whose name ends in -ous.


lexentry: eng/-itis__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -itis
trans_list: -itis
sense:
(pathology) Suffix denoting diseases characterized by inflammation, itself often caused by an infection.


lexentry: eng/-ity__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ity
trans_list: -ität
sense:
Used to form an uncountable noun from an adjective; especially, to form the noun referring to the state, property, or quality of conforming to the adjective's description.


lexentry: eng/-ive__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ive
trans_list: -iv
sense:
An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to, or serving to; as: affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.


lexentry: eng/-ization__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ization
trans_list: -isation | -isierung
sense:
A suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing something, or of making something.


lexentry: eng/-less__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -less
trans_list: -los
sense:
Lacking (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun.


lexentry: eng/-ly__Suffix__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: -ly
trans_list: -lich | -haft | -ig | -isch
sense:
Used to form adjectives from nouns, the adjectives having the sense of "appearing like, resembling, or having the likeness of what is denoted by the noun".


lexentry: eng/-mancy__Suffix__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: -mancy
trans_list: -mantie
sense:
(fantasy) Variety of magic, especially that controlling or related to a specific element, substance, or theme.


lexentry: eng/-ness__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ness
trans_list: -keit | -heit | -nis
sense:
Appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of being (the adjective)", "the quality of being (the adjective)", or "the measure of being (the adjective)".


lexentry: eng/-nomy__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -nomy
trans_list: -nomie
sense:
a system of rules, laws, or knowledge about a body of a particular field; distribution, arrangement, management


lexentry: eng/-ology__Suffix__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: -ology
trans_list: -ologie
sense:
(often, humorous) added to an ordinary English word to create a name for a (possibly non-existent) field of study.


lexentry: eng/-on__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -on
trans_list: -on
sense:
(physics, maths, and, biology) Forming nouns denoting subatomic particles (proton), quanta (photon), molecular units (codon), or substances (interferon).


lexentry: eng/-philia__Suffix__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: -philia
trans_list: -philie
sense:
(pathology) Used to form nouns meaning abnormal liking or tendency (for something), e.g. paraphilia.


lexentry: eng/-ship__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ship
trans_list: -schaft
sense:
Appended to a noun to form a new noun denoting a property or state of being, time spent in a role, or a specialised union. In particular, the way a set of social duties associated with a particular role shapes or develop's one's character.


lexentry: eng/-stan__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -stan
trans_list: -stan
sense:
Used in the names of regions in the Middle East and Central Asia which were historically influenced by Persian and Turkic cultures.


lexentry: eng/-th__Suffix__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -th
trans_list: -ste | -te
sense:
(mathematics) Used to form a term denoting the ordinal numeral corresponding to the value, being a natural number, of a mathematical expression.


lexentry: eng/-tion__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -tion
trans_list: -tion | -ung
sense:
(non-productive) Used to form nouns meaning "the action of (a verb)" or "the result of (a verb)". Words ending in this suffix are almost always derived from a similar Latin word; a few (e.g. gumption) are not derived from Latin and are unrelated to any verb. More often, -ation is used.


lexentry: eng/-ward__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ward
trans_list: -wärts
sense:
Forming adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backward", "toward", "forward", etc.


lexentry: eng/-wards__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -wards
trans_list: -wärts
sense:
Forming adjectives and adverbs denoting course or direction to, or motion or tendency toward, as in "backwards", "towards", etc.


lexentry: eng/-ware__Suffix__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -ware
trans_list: Programm
sense:
Used to form mass nouns denoting specific classes of computer software, based on use, function, or method of distribution.


lexentry: eng/-y__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -y
trans_list: -ig
sense:
Added to nouns and adjectives to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, either “involving the referent” or “analogous to it”.


lexentry: eng/-yl__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -yl
trans_list: -yl
sense:
(organic chemistry) A univalent radical or functional group formed from a given molecule. Thus propyl from propane, benzyl from benzene, and so forth.


lexentry: eng/-zygous__Suffix__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: -zygous
trans_list: -zygot
sense:
(biology) Having or originating from a specified state as a result of conditions in the zygote stage of development.


lexentry: eng/1-up__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: 1-up
trans_list: 1-Up
sense:
(video games) An item that grants the player an extra life in the game, staving off game over by one more try.


lexentry: eng/15_minutes_of_fame__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: 15 minutes of fame
trans_list: fünfzehn Minuten Ruhm
sense:
(idiomatic) A very short time in the spotlight or brief flurry with fame, after which the person or subject involved is quickly forgotten.


lexentry: eng/1992__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: 1992
trans_list: neunzehnhundertzweiundneunzig
sense:
(economics) The commencement of the single market trade association of European Union countries, on January 1, 1993.


lexentry: eng/1_Chronicles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: 1 Chronicles
trans_list: 1 Chronik
sense:
(biblical) The first of the two Books of Chronicles and the thirteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible.


lexentry: eng/2-1_road__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: 2-1 road
trans_list: Kernfahrbahn
sense:
(transport) A type of road with extra-wide shoulders and a smaller single two-way lane in the middle for vehicles.


lexentry: eng/2CV__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: 2CV
trans_list: Ente
sense:
deux chevaux (conventional French shortening of deux chevaux-vapeur "two horsepower") (a model of car by French manufacturer, Citroën)


lexentry: eng/2_Chronicles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: 2 Chronicles
trans_list: 2 Chronik
sense:
(biblical) The second of the two Books of Chronicles and the fourteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible.


lexentry: eng/610_Office__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: 610 Office
trans_list: Büro 610
sense:
(informal) The Public Security Anti-Xie-Jiao Organization (公安部反邪教组, gong'anbu fanxiejiao zu) in the People's Republic of China


lexentry: eng/A-bomb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: A-bomb
trans_list: A-Bombe | Atombombe
sense:
(slang) An atomic bomb; a weapon that derives its energy from nuclear reactions and has enormous destructive power.


lexentry: eng/ABC__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: ABC
trans_list: ABC-Buch | ABC-Fibel | Abc-Buch | Abcdarium | Abecebuch | Abecedarium
sense:
(obsolete) A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid-17th century.]


lexentry: eng/ACAB__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ACAB
trans_list: alle Bullen sind Schweine
sense:
(derogatory) Initialism of all cops are bastards: an anti-police slogan protesting against police behaviour, often used in graffiti, tattoos, and other imagery.


lexentry: eng/AC__Noun__1
sense_num: 11
written_rep: AC
trans_list: Wechselspannung | Wechselstrom
sense:
(electricity) Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).


lexentry: eng/APEC__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: APEC
trans_list: APEC | Asiatisch-pazifische wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit
sense:
A regional trade agreement between Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan (under the name Chinese Taipei), Hong Kong, the US, and members of ASEAN.


lexentry: eng/AP__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: AP
trans_list: AP
sense:
(grammar, sentence parsing) Initialism of adjective phrase; adverbial phrase. (Note: to disambiguate, one can use the abbreviations AdjP and AdvP instead.)


lexentry: eng/ASMR__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: ASMR
trans_list: ASMR
sense:
(uncountable) Initialism of autonomous sensory meridian response (“a claimed biological phenomenon involving a pleasurable tingling in response to a stimulus”).


lexentry: eng/ATV__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ATV
trans_list: Quad | ATV
sense:
(transportation) Initialism of all-terrain vehicle. (an astride-seated quad or tri-wheeled off-road recreational vehicle).


lexentry: eng/AWOL__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: AWOL
sense:
(military) Absence without proper authority from the properly appointed place of duty, or from unit, organization, or other place of duty at which one is required to be at the time prescribed.

trans_list:
unerlaubte Abwesenheit | unerlaubte Abwesenheit von der Truppe | unerlaubte Entfernung | unerlaubte Entfernung von der Truppe


lexentry: eng/A_level__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: A level
trans_list: Abitur
sense:
A non-compulsory examination taken in the final two years in British high schools; the qualification obtained by passing such an exam


lexentry: eng/A_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: A major
trans_list: A-dur | A-Dur
sense:
(music) The major key with A as its tonic, with the notes A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, and G♯, the key signature of which has three sharps.


lexentry: eng/Aaron's_beard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aaron's beard
trans_list: Judenbart
sense:
A common name for several plants that have tufts of stamens. [First attested in the late 19th century.]


lexentry: eng/Aaron's_rod__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Aaron's rod
trans_list: Aronstab
sense:
(archaic) A rod with one serpent twined around it, as used by Aaron (differing from the caduceus of Mercury, which has two serpents).


lexentry: eng/Abaza__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abaza
trans_list: Abasinisch
sense:
A Northwest Caucasian language spoken in the Russian autonomous republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, in the Caucasus Mountains, as well as in Turkey. [Mid 19th century.]


lexentry: eng/Abba__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abba
trans_list: Vater
sense:
(Christianity) Father, an honorific title given to God in the New Testament, especially used in prayers. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]


lexentry: eng/Abbasid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abbasid
trans_list: Abbaside
sense:
(historical) A member of the dynasty of caliphs that ruled from Baghdad, from about 750 to 1250, claiming ancestry of Abbas.


lexentry: eng/Abecedarian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abecedarian
trans_list: Abecedarier
sense:
(historical) A member of a 16th-century Anabaptist sect, follower of the Zwickau prophets (and specially of Thomas Storch), who believed that any kind of knowledge (even basic reading and writing) would keep one from reaching obtaining salvation. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Abegg's_rule__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abegg's rule
trans_list: Abegg’sche Regel
sense:
(chemistry) A rule in chemistry that states that the sum of the hydrogen valence and the maximum oxygen valence is equal to eight.


lexentry: eng/Abelian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abelian
trans_list: Abelianer | Abelianerin | Abelit | Abelitin
sense:
(Christianity, historical) A member of a sect in fourth-century Africa mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married but lived in continence after the manner, as they claimed, of Abel.


lexentry: eng/Abiturient__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abiturient
trans_list: Abiturient | Abiturientin
sense:
A pupil / student in the German education system who is taking, or who has taken and passed, the Abitur. [from mid 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Abkhaz__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abkhaz
trans_list: Abchase | Abchasin
sense:
An Abkhazian; a native or inhabitant of Abkhazia, a region just east of the Black Sea. [Mid 19th century.]


lexentry: eng/Aboriginal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aboriginal
trans_list: einheimische | indigene
sense:
Of or pertaining to Australian Aboriginal peoples, Aborigines, or their language. [First attested in the 19th century.]


lexentry: eng/Aborigine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aborigine
trans_list: Aborigine
sense:
(offensive, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal person from Australia (descending from, or a member of, one of the indigenous people(s) before British colonization), Aboriginal Australian.


lexentry: eng/Aborigines__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Aborigines
trans_list: Ureinwohner
sense:
The native peoples of various regions, especially the Australian Aboriginal peoples, but also the original inhabitants of Canada and Argentina. Often considered offensive.


lexentry: eng/Abraham__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abraham
trans_list: Abraham
sense:
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Baha'i) A prophet in the Old Testament, Qur'an and Aqdas; a Semitic patriarch son of Terah who practiced monotheism, father of the Jewish patriarch Isaac by Sarah and the Arab patriarch Ishmael by Hagar. [First attested prior to 1150.]


lexentry: eng/Abraum_salts__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abraum salts
trans_list: Abraumsalz
sense:
a mixture of carnallite, kieserite and sylvite found in Prussia; chemically, mixed sulphates and chlorides of potassium, sodium and calcium


lexentry: eng/Abstract_Expressionism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abstract Expressionism
trans_list: abstrakter Expressionismus
sense:
An American genre of modern art that used improvised techniques, such as sinuous linearity, to generate highly abstract forms while allowing the artist spontaneity. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]


lexentry: eng/Absurdistan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Absurdistan
trans_list: Absurdistan
sense:
(informal) Any country where absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government.


lexentry: eng/Abyssinian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abyssinian
trans_list: abessinisch
sense:
(dated, usually, _, capitalized) Of or pertaining to Ethiopia or its inhabitants; Ethiopian. [First attested in the late 18th century.]


lexentry: eng/Abyssinian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Abyssinian
trans_list: Abessinier
sense:
A short-haired domestic cat descended from cats of ancient Egypt making it one of the oldest breeds in the world; Abyssinian cat. [First attested in the late 19th century.]


lexentry: eng/Acadia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Acadia
trans_list: Akadien
sense:
(history) A colonial territory owned by France in the 17th and early 18th centuries, spanning over what are now the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and part of the state of Maine in the USA.


lexentry: eng/Achaea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Achaea
trans_list: Achaia | Achäa
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, in the northern head of the Peloponnese peninsula that contains mostly mountains.


lexentry: eng/Achaemenid__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Achaemenid
trans_list: Achämeniden-
sense:
Relating to the dynasty which ruled the Persian empire c. 550–330 BCE (the Achaemenid Empire), founded by Achaemenes.


lexentry: eng/Acherontic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Acherontic
trans_list: acherontisch
sense:
Of, pertaining to or resembling Acheron (one of the rivers located in the underworld according to ancient Greek mythology).


lexentry: eng/Achilles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Achilles
trans_list: Achilleus
sense:
(Greek mythology) A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.


lexentry: eng/Achilles_tendon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Achilles tendon
trans_list: Achillessehne
sense:
(anatomy) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, and inserted into the bone of the heel.


lexentry: eng/Acmeism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Acmeism
trans_list: Akmeismus
sense:
A literary movement in early twentieth-century Russia, reacting against symbolism and concerned with greater immediacy in poetic language.


lexentry: eng/Adam's_apple__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Adam's apple
trans_list: Adamsapfel
sense:
(anatomy) The lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence.


lexentry: eng/Addison's_disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Addison's disease
trans_list: Addison-Krankheit
sense:
(disease) A disorder in which the adrenal glands fail to produce a sufficient quantity of steroids, causing hypocortisolemia and a resultant brownish discoloration of the skin.


lexentry: eng/Adjara__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Adjara
trans_list: Adscharien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError located in its southwestern corner, bordered by Turkey to the south and by the Black Sea to the west. Predominantly populated by Muslim Georgians. Capital: Batumi.


lexentry: eng/Admiralty_Islands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Admiralty Islands
trans_list: Admiralitätsinseln
sense:
A group of islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, to the north of New Guinea in the south Pacific Ocean, belonging to Papua New Guinea.


lexentry: eng/Advent_Sunday__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Advent Sunday
trans_list: Adventssonntag
sense:
The fourth Sunday before Christmas Day, the start of Advent: 30 November (Saint Andrew's Day) or the nearest Sunday to it.


lexentry: eng/Advent__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Advent
trans_list: Advent
sense:
(Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas.


lexentry: eng/Advent_calendar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Advent calendar
trans_list: Adventskalender | Adventkalender | Weihnachtskalender
sense:
A calendar used to count down the days of Advent, having windows revealing a hidden picture or gift on each day.


lexentry: eng/Advent_wreath__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Advent wreath
trans_list: Adventskranz
sense:
(Christianity) A usually evergreen wreath adorned with four (or sometimes five) candles, the first of which is lit on Advent Sunday, followed by the lighting of an additional candle on each subsequent Sunday.


lexentry: eng/Adventist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Adventist
trans_list: Adventist | Adventistin
sense:
One who believes in the Second Advent (usually known as the Second Coming) of Jesus; an advocate of Adventism.


lexentry: eng/Aeneid__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aeneid
trans_list: Aeneis
sense:
A classic epic poem, written in Latin by Virgil in the 1st century BCE (between 29 and 19 BCE), that tells the legendary story of Aeneas fleeing Troy and settling in Italy as ancestor of the Romans.


lexentry: eng/Aeolus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aeolus
trans_list: Äolus
sense:
(Greek god) The name of a number of characters in Greek mythology, including the founder of the Aeolian race, and a god with power over wind.


lexentry: eng/Aeschylus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aeschylus
trans_list: Aischylos | Äschylus
sense:
A Greek dramatic poet (525 BCE—456 BCE); Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians.


lexentry: eng/Aesculapian_snake__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aesculapian snake
trans_list: Äskulapnatter
sense:
A European species of nonvenomous snake, Zamenis longissimus, syn. Coluber longissimus, associated with Aesculapius in Ancient Greek mythology.


lexentry: eng/Aether__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aether
trans_list: Aither
sense:
(Greek god) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of light, brother-husband of Hemera and grandson of Chaos.


lexentry: eng/Aetna__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aetna
trans_list: Ätna
sense:
(Greek mythology, and, Roman mythology) A nymph in Sicily who, according to legend, gave her name to the volcanic Mount Etna.


lexentry: eng/Aetna__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Aetna
trans_list: Ätna
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, situated at the foot of Mount Etna, on its southern declivity.


lexentry: eng/Africa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Africa
trans_list: Afrika
sense:
The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.


lexentry: eng/Africa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Africa
trans_list: Afrika
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.


lexentry: eng/African-American_Vernacular_English__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: African-American Vernacular English
trans_list: afroamerikanisches Englisch
sense:
A variation of Modern English spoken predominantly by lower socioeconomic class individuals of African descent, usually in urban or suburban surroundings in the United States.


lexentry: eng/African_hunting_dog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: African hunting dog
trans_list: Afrikanischer Wildhund
sense:
A wild canid, Lycaon pictus, typically black, white and tan, found in Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa.


lexentry: eng/African_violet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: African violet
trans_list: Usambaraveilchen
sense:
Any perennial plant of section Streptocarpus sect. Saintpaulia (formerly genus Saintpaulia), especially Streptocarpus ionantha, with fine haired round leaves and velvety petals.


lexentry: eng/Afrikaans__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Afrikaans
trans_list: Afrikaans
sense:
A Germanic language descending from Dutch; the primary language of the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers, as well as many mixed-race (e.g. Rehoboth Basters) living in South Africa and in Namibia. Also, one of the eleven official languages of South Africa and until 1990 one of three official languages of Namibia.


lexentry: eng/Afrikaner__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Afrikaner
trans_list: Afrikaander | Bure | Kapholländer | Weißafrikaner
sense:
A member of an ethnic group of northwestern European ancestry and associated with southern Africa and the Afrikaans language.


lexentry: eng/Afroasiatic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Afroasiatic
trans_list: afroasiatisch
sense:
Of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and possibly Omotic languages.


lexentry: eng/Age_of_Enlightenment__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Age of Enlightenment
trans_list: Zeitalter der Aufklärung
sense:
(historical period) A period of time ranging from part of the 17th century through much of the 18th century, characterized particularly by the importance of logic and reason.


lexentry: eng/Agnus_Dei__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Agnus Dei
trans_list: Lamm Gottes
sense:
(Roman Catholicism, heraldiccharge) A small model, picture, or heraldic representation of a lamb with a cross and sometimes a flag (usually white with a red cross).


lexentry: eng/Ainu__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ainu
trans_list: Ainu
sense:
The endangered language spoken by the Ainu ethnic group, generally considered a language isolate with no known relation to other languages.


lexentry: eng/Aion__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aion
trans_list: Äon
sense:
A Hellenistic deity associated with time, the orb or circle encompassing the universe, and the zodiac.


lexentry: eng/Akkadian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Akkadian
trans_list: Akkadisch | akkadisch
sense:
The now extinct Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, formerly used as an international language of diplomacy.


lexentry: eng/Al_Jazeera__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Al Jazeera
trans_list: Al-Dschasira
sense:
A group of satellite television channels from Qatar. Two channels broadcast news in English and in Arabic, with other children’s and sport channels in Arabic.


lexentry: eng/Alan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alan
trans_list: Alanen
sense:
(historical) A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.


lexentry: eng/Alaska_pollock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alaska pollock
trans_list: Alaska-Pollack | Alaska-Seelachs | Pazifische Pollack | Pazifischer Polardorsch
sense:
A semipelagic schooling fish, Gadus chalcogrammus (syn. Theragra chalcogramma), widely distributed in the North Pacific with largest concentrations found in the eastern Bering Sea.


lexentry: eng/Alazani__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alazani
trans_list: Alasani
sense:
A river that flows for 351km, from its headwaters to the south of the main ridge of the Greater Caucasus in the north-west of Georgia’s Akhmeta municipality, through the Caucasus, until it feeds into the River Kura at Azerbaijan’s Mingachevir Reservoir.


lexentry: eng/Albanian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Albanian
trans_list: Albanisch | albanisch
sense:
The languages spoken by the Albanian people, primarily spoken in Albania and Kosovo. (ISO 639 language codes: sq/sqi/alb (Albanian), als (Tosk), aln (Gheg), aat (Arvanitika), aae (Arbëresh).)


lexentry: eng/Albigenses__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Albigenses
trans_list: Albigenser
sense:
(historical, Christianity) A sect of reformers opposed to the Roman Catholic Church in the 12th century AD, considered heretics who were subject to the Albigensian Crusade; a branch of the Catharists, distinct from the Waldenses.


lexentry: eng/Alcibiades__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alcibiades
trans_list: Alkibiades
sense:
A Greek en given name, notably borne by Alcibiades (450–404 B.C.), a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.


lexentry: eng/Alcmene__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alcmene
trans_list: Alkmene
sense:
(Greek mythology) Descendant of Perseus and Andromeda, the wife of Amphitryon, and mother, by Zeus, of Heracles/Hercules.


lexentry: eng/Alcoholics_Anonymous__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alcoholics Anonymous
trans_list: Anonyme Alkoholiker
sense:
A self-supporting organization of alcoholic people, which proves mutual support to obtain and maintain sobriety.


lexentry: eng/Aldebaran__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aldebaran
trans_list: Aldebaran
sense:
(star) One of the brightest stars in the sky, now recognised to be a binary star in the constellation Taurus (alpha (α) Tauri); an orange giant, 68 light years from Earth. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/Alectryon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alectryon
trans_list: Alektryon
sense:
(Greek mythology) A youth charged by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in illicit love with Aphrodite. He fell asleep and was transformed into a rooster as punishment.


lexentry: eng/Alemannic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alemannic
trans_list: Alemannisch
sense:
A language or dialect group, belonging to the High German dialects, spoken in certain parts of South Germany, in Alsace (France), Vorarlberg (Austria), Switzerland and Liechtenstein.


lexentry: eng/Aleut__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aleut
trans_list: Aleute | Aleutin
sense:
A member of the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the United States and of Kamchatka Krai in the Russia.


lexentry: eng/Aleutian_Islands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aleutian Islands
trans_list: Aleuten | Alëuten
sense:
An archipelago of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming an island arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, between Alaska and the Kamchatka Peninsula of Asia; part of the United States.


lexentry: eng/Alexander_the_Great__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alexander the Great
trans_list: Alexander der Große
sense:
(356–323 BCE) A king (basileus) of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and conqueror of much of Asia.


lexentry: eng/Algeria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Algeria
trans_list: Algerien
sense:
(historical) Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830


lexentry: eng/Algerian_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Algerian War
trans_list: Algerienkrieg
sense:
The war between France and the Algerian nationalist FLN from 1954 to 1962, as a result of which Algeria gained its independence from France.


lexentry: eng/Algic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Algic
trans_list: algisch
sense:
An indigenous language family of North America, comprising Wiyot, Yurok, and many Algonquian languages.


lexentry: eng/Alice__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Alice
trans_list: Alice
sense:
(cryptography, physics) The person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.


lexentry: eng/All_Hallows__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: All Hallows
trans_list: Allerheiligen
sense:
(chiefly, archaic) All Saints' Day, the 1st of November; the Christian feast day honoring all Christian saints. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/All_Saints'_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: All Saints' Day
trans_list: Allerheiligen
sense:
(Christianity) In Christian tradition, the annual feast day celebrating the life of all saints, taking place on the first day of November, or (in the Greek church) on the first Sunday after Pentecost.


lexentry: eng/All_Souls'_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: All Souls' Day
trans_list: Allerseelen | Allerseelentag
sense:
(Christianity) An annual feast day celebrating the faithful departed on the second day of November, immediately following All Saints' Day.


lexentry: eng/Allahu_akbar__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Allahu akbar
trans_list: Allahu akbar
sense:
(Islam) "God is most great"; the Muslim takbir, or liturgical proclamation, used to accept sovereignty of God and as a common form of thanksgiving. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/Allies__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Allies
trans_list: Alliierte
sense:
The countries allied against the Axis Powers during World War II. The major signatories included the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States, and China.


lexentry: eng/Allies__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Allies
trans_list: Alliierte
sense:
The countries allied against the Central Powers during World War I, including especially the United Kingdom, the Russian Empire, and France.


lexentry: eng/Alpha_Centauri__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alpha Centauri
trans_list: Alpha Centauri
sense:
(star) The brightest star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It is actually a binary star with Proxima Centauri as a third component.


lexentry: eng/Alps__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alps
trans_list: Alpen
sense:
(usually, with "the") TemplateParserError:LuaError, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.


lexentry: eng/Alsace__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alsace
trans_list: Elsass | Elsaß
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. It has changed hands between France and Germany several times throughout history.


lexentry: eng/Altaic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Altaic
trans_list: altaisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to a grouping of languages (formerly proposed to be a language family, now generally considered a sprachbund by linguists) that includes the Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish), the Mongolic (e.g. Mongolian) and Tungusic (e.g. Xibe) languages, and less often the Japonic and Koreanic languages.


lexentry: eng/Altair__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Altair
trans_list: Altair
sense:
(star) The brightest star in the constellation Aquila; Alpha (α) Aquilae. It is the twelfth brightest star in the sky, and forms one corner of the Summer Triangle.


lexentry: eng/Alzette__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alzette
trans_list: Alzette | Alzig
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError that flows for 73 km (45 mi) through France and Luxembourg; it empties into the Sauer near Ettelbruck.


lexentry: eng/Alzheimer's_disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Alzheimer's disease
trans_list: Alzheimer-Krankheit | Alzheimer
sense:
(neurology, disease) A disorder involving loss of mental functions resulting from brain tissue changes; senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type.


lexentry: eng/Amalthea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Amalthea
trans_list: Amalthea
sense:
(Greek mythology) The most frequently mentioned foster mother of Zeus, sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a mountain cave, sometimes as a goat-tending nymph.


lexentry: eng/Amarone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Amarone
trans_list: Amarone
sense:
An Italian full-bodied ruby to garnet red wine, characterized by a pungent, almost bitter taste. It is made in the Valpolicella region from dried-after-picking grapes of the Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara varieties.


lexentry: eng/Amaterasu__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Amaterasu
trans_list: Amaterasu
sense:
(Japanese god, Shinto) The Japanese sun goddess, and most important Shinto deity; she is the daughter of Izanagi and Izanami and the sister of Susanoo, Tsukuyomi, Ōyamatsumi, and Kagutsuchi.


lexentry: eng/Amazon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Amazon
trans_list: Amazonas
sense:
(sometimes, attributive) A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.


lexentry: eng/Amduat__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Amduat
trans_list: Amduat
sense:
An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom describing the journey of the sun through the underworld at night.


lexentry: eng/American_Civil_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American Civil War
trans_list: Sezessionskrieg | Amerikanischer Bürgerkrieg
sense:
A war fought in the United States between 1861 and 1865, between the Northern states (Union) and Southern states (Confederacy).


lexentry: eng/American_Cordillera__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American Cordillera
trans_list: Kordilleren
sense:
A chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western backbone of North America, Central America, South America and Antarctica.


lexentry: eng/American_Dream__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: American Dream
trans_list: amerikanischer Traum
sense:
(idiomatic) A philosophy that with perseverance, courage and determination, anyone can prosper and achieve success.


lexentry: eng/American_English__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American English
trans_list: amerikanisches Englisch | Amerikanisch | Amerikanisches Englisch | US-amerikanisches Englisch
sense:
The form of the English language that is chiefly used in the United States, contrasted with British English or Canadian English and that of other places.


lexentry: eng/American__Adjective__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: American
trans_list: amerikanisch | Amerikaner
sense:
(archaic) Synonym of American Indian and Native American, of, from, or pertaining to the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.


lexentry: eng/American__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: American
trans_list: Amerikaner | Amerikanerin
sense:
(archaic) Synonym of American Indian or Native American, an indigenous inhabitant of the Americas. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/American_bittern__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American bittern
trans_list: Nordamerikanische Rohrdommel
sense:
A medium-sized bittern most commonly found in North America, Botaurus lentiginosus, known for its resounding calls.


lexentry: eng/American_cheese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American cheese
trans_list: Sandwichkäse | Toastkäse
sense:
A common processed cheese, yellow, or white in colour and mild in flavour, with a medium-firm consistency.


lexentry: eng/American_cocker_spaniel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American cocker spaniel
trans_list: Amerikanischer Cocker Spaniel
sense:
A sporting dog of a breed ranging between 18 and 30 lbs., originally bred in Britain as the English cocker spaniel for the sport of cocking, or bird hunting. Breed divided by colors: black, sable, parti, tri, and ASCOB.


lexentry: eng/American_football__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American football
trans_list: American Football
sense:
A game similar to rugby football played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide (with two 10 yard-long endzones) in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.


lexentry: eng/American_foulbrood__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American foulbrood
trans_list: Amerikanische Faulbrut
sense:
A highly contagious and destructive disease of bees caused by the spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae.


lexentry: eng/American_lion__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: American lion
trans_list: Berglöwe
sense:
An extinct lion of subspecies †Panthera leo atrox or species †Panthera atrox, endemic to North America and northwestern South America during the Pleistocene epoch.


lexentry: eng/American_planetree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American planetree
trans_list: Amerikanische Platane
sense:
A species of large tree native to eastern North America and planted elsewhere, Platanus occidentalis


lexentry: eng/American_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: American studies
trans_list: Amerikanistik
sense:
(humanities) an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the Americas, with a historical emphasis upon the United States, It traditionally incorporating the study of history, literature, and critical theory, but also includes fields as diverse as law, art, the media, film, religious studies, urban studies, women's studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology, foreign policy and culture of the United States, among others


lexentry: eng/Americanize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Americanize
trans_list: amerikanisieren
sense:
(US, Canada) To render American; to adapt to the custom, culture, or style of the United States of America.


lexentry: eng/Americas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Americas
trans_list: Amerika
sense:
North America and South America taken together; that is, North America, Central America, and South America taken together.


lexentry: eng/Amu_Darya__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Amu Darya
trans_list: Amu-Darja
sense:
A major river in Central Asia flowing across the border of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan parallel to Syr Darya and into the Aral Sea. Known in classical times as Oxus.


lexentry: eng/Amun__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Amun
trans_list: Ammon
sense:
(Egyptian god) An Egyptian wind deity associated with the town of Thebes; later (post-16th century BCE) the creator deity, often depicted with curling ram horns.


lexentry: eng/Amur__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Amur
trans_list: Amur
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, emptying into the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Tartary, where the mouth of the river faces the northern end of the island of Sakhalin.


lexentry: eng/Amur_leopard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Amur leopard
trans_list: Amurleopard
sense:
a wild feline predator, of species Panthera pardus orientalis, native to the mountainous areas of the taiga as well as other temperate forests in Korea, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.


lexentry: eng/Anabaptist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anabaptist
trans_list: Wiedertäufer | Anabaptist | Anabaptistin | Wiedertäuferin
sense:
A member of a radical wing of Christians during the Protestant Reformation, with a tenet of adult baptism.


lexentry: eng/Anal__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Anal
trans_list: Anal
sense:
The Northern Kukish (Sino-Tibetan) language spoken by these people, sometimes called Namfau after the two largest villages it is spoken in.


lexentry: eng/Ananke__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ananke
trans_list: Ananke
sense:
(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.


lexentry: eng/Anansi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anansi
trans_list: Anansi
sense:
A trickster spider (though sometimes taking human form), one of the primary characters in West African and Caribbean folklore.


lexentry: eng/Anatolia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anatolia
trans_list: Anatolien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. Bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highland to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.


lexentry: eng/Anaximander__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anaximander
trans_list: Anaximander
sense:
(c. 610 BCE–c. 546 BCE) A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus; pupil of Thales and teacher of Anaximenes.


lexentry: eng/Anaximenes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anaximenes
trans_list: Anaximenes
sense:
(c. 585 BCE–c. 525 BCE) An ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus; the pupil of Anaximander. He taught that the basic element of which the world is composed is the air.


lexentry: eng/Ancien_Régime__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ancien Régime
trans_list: Ancien Régime
sense:
(historical) The aristocratic social and political system established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, overthrown by the French Revolution of 1789.


lexentry: eng/Ancient_Egypt__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ancient Egypt
trans_list: altes Ägypten
sense:
(historical) A civilization that existed in the valley of the Nile River from ca. 3150 BCE to 30 BCE. Noted for building the Great Pyramids of Giza.


lexentry: eng/Ancient_Greece__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Ancient Greece
trans_list: antikes Griechenland
sense:
The civilization that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BCE (including the first two European civilizations, Minoan and Mycenaean), known as the cradle of Western civilization.


lexentry: eng/Ancient_Greek__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ancient Greek
trans_list: Altgriechisch | altgriechisch
sense:
Any of the various forms of the Greek language of classical antiquity, particularly the classical Attic dialect used in Athenian literature.


lexentry: eng/Ancient_Rome__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ancient Rome
trans_list: altes Rom
sense:
The civilization associated with Rome from the 9th century BCE to the 5th century C.E. and the Roman Empire centered on it.


lexentry: eng/Andalusia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Andalusia
trans_list: Andalusien
sense:
The most populated and second largest of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain, whose capital is Seville.


lexentry: eng/Andaman_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Andaman Sea
trans_list: Andamanensee
sense:
Part of the Indian Ocean, to the southeast of the Bay of Bengal, south of Burma (Myanmar), west of Thailand, north-west of the Malay Peninsula, north of Sumatra, and east of the Andaman Islands.


lexentry: eng/Andromeda__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Andromeda
trans_list: Andromeda
sense:
(Greek mythology) The daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of Eritrea, rescued from her sacrifice to the sea monster Cetus by Perseus, who married her; mother of Perses, ancient king of Persia.


lexentry: eng/Andromeda__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Andromeda
trans_list: Andromeda
sense:
(constellation) A constellation of the northern sky representing the "chained woman" Andromeda in Greek mythology, which is surrounded by the constellations of Cassiopeia, Perseus, and Pegasus, among others.


lexentry: eng/Andromeda__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Andromeda
trans_list: Andromeda
sense:
(galaxy) The nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, located within the Andromeda constellation (see Andromeda Galaxy); M31.


lexentry: eng/Angle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Angle
trans_list: Angel
sense:
(historical) A member of a Germanic tribe first mentioned by Tacitus, one of several which invaded Britain and merged to become the Anglo-Saxons; an Anglian.


lexentry: eng/Anglican_Communion__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anglican Communion
trans_list: Anglikanische Gemeinschaft | Anglikanische Kommunion
sense:
A worldwide network of Churches that are are in communion with the Church of England as represented by the Archbishop of Canterbury


lexentry: eng/Anglican__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anglican
trans_list: anglikanisch
sense:
Relating to the Church of England, or one of several related churches, such as those in the Anglican Communion.


lexentry: eng/Anglo-Egyptian_Sudan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
trans_list: Anglo-Ägyptischer Sudan
sense:
Sudan, during the time when it was ruled jointly by Egypt and the United Kingdom, from 1899 until Sudan became independent in 1956.


lexentry: eng/Anglo-Norman__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anglo-Norman
trans_list: Anglonormannisch
sense:
The Old French dialect spoken in England by the ruling classes after the Norman Conquest, or the form of this dialect used in English law until the 17th century.


lexentry: eng/Anglocentrism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anglocentrism
trans_list: Anglozentrismus
sense:
The practice of viewing the world from an English or Anglo-American perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of English or Anglo-American culture.


lexentry: eng/Anglosphere__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anglosphere
trans_list: Anglosphäre
sense:
The totality of Anglophone countries, the geographical or cultural realm of native English-speakers.


lexentry: eng/Angria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Angria
trans_list: Engern
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, located in what is now Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.


lexentry: eng/Annas__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Annas
trans_list: Annas | Hannas
sense:
(biblical) A Jewish high priest known for having four sons and a son-in-law (Caiaphas) succeed him in his lifetime; and for cooperating with Caiaphas to have Jesus Christ crucified.


lexentry: eng/Annunciation__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Annunciation
trans_list: Verkündigung
sense:
(Christianity) The announcement by the archangel Gabriel to Mary that she would give birth to a son, namely Jesus. Celebrated on 25th March.


lexentry: eng/Anointing_of_the_Sick__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anointing of the Sick
trans_list: Krankensalbung
sense:
A Catholic sacrament in which a priest anoints a sick or dying person with oil and prays for his salvation.


lexentry: eng/Anschluss__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anschluss
trans_list: Anschluss | Anschluß
sense:
(historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. [from 1920s]


lexentry: eng/Antarctic_Circle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Antarctic Circle
trans_list: südliche Polarkreis | südlicher Polarkreis
sense:
(geography) The line which marks approximately the northernmost place in the Southern Hemisphere where the sun does not set on the summer solstice and does not rise on the winter solstice.


lexentry: eng/Antares__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Antares
trans_list: Antares
sense:
(star) Alpha Scorpii (α Sco), the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius. It is a M type red giant, and is a binary with a B type companion visible in greenish.


lexentry: eng/Antes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Antes
trans_list: vorher
sense:
(historical) A medieval European tribal union who lived north of the lower Danube and the Black Sea (on the territory of modern Moldova and Ukraine) in the 6th and 7th century AD.


lexentry: eng/Anthropocene__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anthropocene
trans_list: Anthropozän
sense:
(geology) The proposed current geological epoch, in which the effect of human activities on the global environment have disrupted the natural variability of the Holocene. [from 1960s]


lexentry: eng/Antichrist__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Antichrist
trans_list: Antichrist
sense:
(Christianity, Islam) The false messiah who, under direct control of the Devil, will lead the abomination in the end times.


lexentry: eng/Antilles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Antilles
trans_list: Antillen
sense:
The islands of the West Indies, bounded to the north by (and including) the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, in the Caribbean Sea.


lexentry: eng/Antisthenes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Antisthenes
trans_list: Antisthenes
sense:
A Greek en given name, notably borne by Antisthenes of Athens (445–365 B.C.), a Greek philosopher, founder of the school of Cynicism and a pupil of Socrates


lexentry: eng/Antlered_God__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Antlered God
trans_list: Gehörnter Gott
sense:
(Wicca) The second major supernatural figure in the Wiccan religion, a triune god equal to the Goddess, split into the aspects of Father, Master, and the Sage.


lexentry: eng/Antlia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Antlia
trans_list: Luftpumpe
sense:
(constellation) A faint winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a pump. The common English name is "Air pump".


lexentry: eng/Anubis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anubis
trans_list: Anubis
sense:
(Egyptian mythology) In the mythology of ancient Egypt, the god of the dead and tombs, commonly depicted with the head of a jackal.


lexentry: eng/Anuket__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anuket
trans_list: Hestia
sense:
An Ancient Egyptian goddess of the cataracts of the Nile River. Sometimes treated as an aspect of the god of the Nile.


lexentry: eng/Anzac_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Anzac Day
trans_list: ANZAC Day
sense:
April 25, a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand that originally commemorated the sacrifices made by members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and now honours people from those countries who have served in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations.


lexentry: eng/Apache__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Apache
trans_list: Apachen | Apatschen
sense:
Any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e., Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.


lexentry: eng/Apache__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Apache
trans_list: Apachisch | Apatschisch
sense:
The group of languages used by any of several Athabascan-speaking peoples of the American southwest excluding Navajo, i.e. Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Plains Apache, or Western Apache.


lexentry: eng/Apennines__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Apennines
trans_list: Apennin | Apenninen
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, stretching 1,200 km from the north to the south of the country, along its east coast, traversing the entire Apennine Peninsula, and often called the "spine of Italy".


lexentry: eng/Aphrodite__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aphrodite
trans_list: Aphrodite
sense:
(Greek god) The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea. Her Roman counterpart is Venus.


lexentry: eng/Apocalypse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Apocalypse
trans_list: Offenbarung | Apokalypse
sense:
(countable, biblical) The written account of a revelation of hidden things given by God to a chosen prophet.


lexentry: eng/Apocalypse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Apocalypse
trans_list: Offenbarung | Apokalypse
sense:
(Christianity) Revelation (last book of the Bible, composed of twenty-two chapters, which narrates the end of times)


lexentry: eng/Apocrypha__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Apocrypha
trans_list: Apokryphen
sense:
That group of works which formed part of the Septuagint, but not of the Hebrew canon recognized by the Jews, and which is considered by some Christians to form an authentic part of Scripture, but which is rejected by others (namely by Protestants).


lexentry: eng/Apollo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Apollo
trans_list: Apollon | Apoll | Apollo
sense:
(Greek god, Roman god) The son of Zeus and Leto (or Jupiter and Latona), and the twin brother of Artemis (or Diana). He was the god of light, music, medicine, and poetry; and prophecy, dance, manly beauty, and more.


lexentry: eng/Apollonian_circle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Apollonian circle
trans_list: Kreis des Apollonios | apollonischer Kreis
sense:
(geometry) Any circle in two families of circles such that every circle in the first family intersects every circle in the second family orthogonally and vice versa.


lexentry: eng/Apostle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Apostle
trans_list: Apostel
sense:
(Christianity) Any of the group of twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to preach and spread the Gospel.


lexentry: eng/Apostles'_Creed__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Apostles' Creed
trans_list: Apostolisches Glaubensbekenntnis
sense:
(Christianity) A statement of Christian belief, traditionally ascribed to the twelve Apostles of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/Appalachians__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Appalachians
trans_list: Appalachen
sense:
A range of mountains in eastern North America, running northeast from Alabama in the United States to Newfoundland in Canada, variously including or excluding the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York.


lexentry: eng/Appenzell__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Appenzell
trans_list: Appenzell
sense:
A historic canton in the northeast of Switzerland that split up into the two modern half-cantons in 1597.


lexentry: eng/Appian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Appian
trans_list: Appian
sense:
A Roman en given name, notably borne by Appian of Alexandria (c. 95 – c. 165), a Roman historian of Greek descent


lexentry: eng/Appius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Appius
trans_list: Appius
sense:
A Roman en given name, notably borne by Appius Claudius Caecus, a Roman politician of the 4th and 3rd century BC, builder of the Appian Way


lexentry: eng/Apple__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Apple
trans_list: Apple
sense:
The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.


lexentry: eng/April__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: April
trans_list: April | Ostermond
sense:
The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar, following March and preceding May. Abbreviation: Apr or Apr.


lexentry: eng/Aquarius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Aquarius
trans_list: Wassermann
sense:
(astrology) The zodiac sign for the water carrier, ruled by Uranus covering January 20 – February 18 (tropical astrology) or February 15 – March 14 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/Aquila__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aquila
trans_list: Adler
sense:
(constellation) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble an eagle. It includes the star Altair.


lexentry: eng/Arab_World__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arab World
trans_list: arabische Welt
sense:
(as a minimum) Those Arabic-speaking independent states where Arabic is the main official and spoken language.


lexentry: eng/Arabian_Peninsula__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arabian Peninsula
trans_list: Arabische Halbinsel
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, bordered by Jordan, the Syrian desert and Iraq to the north, the Persian Gulf to the northeast, the Gulf of Oman to the east, the Arabian Sea (part of the Indian Ocean) to the south (southeast), the Gulf of Aden to the south, the Red Sea to the west (southwest) extending north into the Gulf of Aqaba, and north along the Red Sea Rift to the Mediterranean Sea on the west (northwest). It consists mainly of Saudi Arabia, and may be geologically defined as the Arabian plate, also as the Arabian subcontinent.


lexentry: eng/Arabian_horse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arabian horse
trans_list: Araber
sense:
A breed of horse that originated on the Arabian Peninsula characterised by a refined, wedge-shaped head, broad forehead, large eyes, large nostrils and small muzzle.


lexentry: eng/Arabian_jasmine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arabian jasmine
trans_list: Arabischer Jasmin
sense:
A shrubby vine with flowers whose fragrance is used for perfume and flavoring (Jasminum sambac), the jasmine used to make jasmine tea.


lexentry: eng/Arabic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Arabic
trans_list: Arabisch | arabische Sprache | arabisches Alphabet
sense:
The Aramaic-derived alphabet used to write the Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, and Uyghur languages, among others.


lexentry: eng/Arabist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arabist
trans_list: Arabist | Arabistin
sense:
(anthropology, linguistics) A scholar who studies Arab or Arabic culture, politics, or language. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/Aragonese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aragonese
trans_list: Aragonesisch | Aragonisch
sense:
The language of Aragon, nowadays only spoken as a mother tongue by a few thousand people in some valleys of the Pyrenees.


lexentry: eng/Aramaean__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aramaean
trans_list: Aramäer | Aramäerin
sense:
Any member of a West Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who lived in the Levant and later also in upper Mesopotamia (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They spoke Aramaic.


lexentry: eng/Araucanization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Araucanization
trans_list: Araukanisierung
sense:
The process of expansion of the Mapudungun language and other elements of the Mapuche culture from its homeland Araucania into the plains of Patagonia, so as to assimilate such other native Amerindian peoples as the Puelches and Tehuelches.


lexentry: eng/Arawak__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arawak
trans_list: Arawak
sense:
A member of an Amerindian people who lived in the region of the Caribbean when the Spanish arrived in America.


lexentry: eng/Arc_de_Triomphe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arc de Triomphe
trans_list: Triumphbogen
sense:
A war monument in Paris, France, designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, started in 1808 and inaugurated in 1836.


lexentry: eng/Archaean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Archaean
trans_list: archaisch
sense:
(geology) Of, or relating to the geologic eon from about 3,800 to 2,500 million years ago; comprises the Eoarchean, Paleoarchean, Mesoarchean and Neoarchean eras; marked by an atmosphere with little oxygen, the formation of the first continents and oceans and the emergence of simple life.


lexentry: eng/Archaic_Egyptian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Archaic Egyptian
trans_list: Frühägyptisch
sense:
(linguistics, history) The Egyptian language as written and spoken during the Early Dynastic Period, before the time of the earliest attested complete sentences.


lexentry: eng/Archimedean_solid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Archimedean solid
trans_list: archimedischer Körper
sense:
(geometry) Any of a class of convex semiregular polyhedra, composed of two or more types of regular polygon meeting in identical vertices.


lexentry: eng/Archimedes'_screw__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Archimedes' screw
trans_list: archimedische Schraube
sense:
(engineering) A screwlike device invented by Greek mathematician Archimedes, ca. 200 B.C.E., which when twisted inside a cylinder, raises water from a lower level to a higher level, allowing irrigation of fields.


lexentry: eng/Arctic_Circle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arctic Circle
trans_list: Nördlicher Polarkreis
sense:
The parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33′ 39″ north of the Equator, which marks approximately the southernmost place in the Northern Hemisphere where the sun does not set on the summer solstice and does not rise on the winter solstice.


lexentry: eng/Arctic_Ocean__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arctic Ocean
trans_list: Arktischer Ozean | Nordpolarmeer
sense:
The smallest of the five oceans of the Earth, on and around the North Pole, bordered by the three continents of Asia, Europe and North America.


lexentry: eng/Arctic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Arctic
trans_list: arktisch
sense:
(geography) Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet, characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/Arctic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Arctic
trans_list: arktisch
sense:
Extremely cold, snowy, or having other properties of extreme winter associated with the Arctic. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/Arctic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Arctic
trans_list: Arktis
sense:
(geography) The region of the Earth above the Arctic Circle, containing the North Pole. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/Arctic_warbler__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arctic warbler
trans_list: Wanderlaubsänger
sense:
Phylloscopus borealis, a widespread leaf warbler in birch or mixed birch forest near water throughout its breeding range in Fennoscandia and northern Asia


lexentry: eng/Arcturus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arcturus
trans_list: Arcturus
sense:
(star) A bright yellow-orange star in the constellation Boötes; Alpha (α) Boötis. It is the fourth-brightest star in the night sky.


lexentry: eng/Area_51__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Area 51
trans_list: Area 51
sense:
(informal, US, military, aviation, research, espionage, ufology) TemplateParserError:LuaError. It is the subject of conspiracy theories claiming it is where the US government hides extra-planetary alien visitors.


lexentry: eng/Ares__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ares
trans_list: Ares
sense:
(Greek god) The Greek god of war, considered equivalent to the Roman Mars and usually described as a son of Zeus and Hera, companion of Eris and Enyo, and by Aphrodite father of Deimos and Phobos.


lexentry: eng/Argand_lamp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Argand lamp
trans_list: Argandbrenner
sense:
(now, historical) A type of oil lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.


lexentry: eng/Argo_Navis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Argo Navis
trans_list: Schiff Argo
sense:
(constellation) : A former constellation of the southern sky, said to represent the mythical ship Argo. In 1763, it was divided into the three new constellations: Carina (keel), Puppis (stern), and Vela (sail).


lexentry: eng/Argo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Argo
trans_list: Argo
sense:
(Greek mythology) The ship in which Jason and the Argonauts sailed on their quest for the Golden Fleece.


lexentry: eng/Argonaut__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Argonaut
trans_list: Argonaut | Argonautin
sense:
(Greek mythology) One of the members of the Argo who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece.


lexentry: eng/Argus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Argus
trans_list: Argos
sense:
(Greek mythology) A mythical being, also called Argos or Argus Panoptes, with many eyes, a watchman who served Hera; his eyes were later transplanted to the peacock's tail.


lexentry: eng/Arian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Arian
trans_list: Arianer | Arianerin
sense:
(Christianity) A believer of Arianism, particularly (historical) the official Arian churches lasting to the 7th century.


lexentry: eng/Arianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arianism
trans_list: Arianismus
sense:
(Christianity) A Christological doctrine, condemned as heretical by the Council of Nicaea, which holds that Jesus was created by God, rather than being God himself.


lexentry: eng/Aries__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Aries
trans_list: Widder
sense:
(astrology) The zodiac sign for the ram, ruled by Mars and covering March 20 – April 20 (tropical astrology) or April 15 – May 15 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/Aristophanes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aristophanes
trans_list: Aristophanes
sense:
An Ancient Greek male name, most famously borne by a playwright who lived from circa 446 BC to circa 386 BC.


lexentry: eng/Aristotle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aristotle
trans_list: Aristoteles
sense:
An ancient Greek philosopher, logician, and scientist (382–322 BCE), student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.


lexentry: eng/Arius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arius
trans_list: Arius
sense:
A Greek en given name, notably borne by Arius, circa 250–336, a priest in Alexandria, the founder of Arianism


lexentry: eng/Arizona__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Arizona
trans_list: Arizona
sense:
(historical) A territory of the southwest Confederate (1862–1865) and United States of America (1863–1912), with its capitals at Tucson, Prescott, and Phoenix.


lexentry: eng/Ark_of_the_Covenant__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ark of the Covenant
trans_list: Bundeslade
sense:
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) The sacred container, a gold-plated wooden chest, of the two tablets of law (the Ten Commandments) given to Moses by the Hebrew God.


lexentry: eng/Armageddon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Armageddon
trans_list: Harmagedon
sense:
(Christianity, Islam) Mount Megiddo, the site of a prophesied final battle between the forces of good and evil.


lexentry: eng/Armenia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Armenia
trans_list: Armenien
sense:
(historical) Ancient kingdom in the Armenian Highland southeast of Black Sea and southwest of Caspian Sea; area now divided between Turkey, Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.


lexentry: eng/Armenian_Highland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Armenian Highland
trans_list: Armenisches Hochland
sense:
A plateau in the north of Western Asia, connecting the Lesser Caucasus with the Taurus Mountains. Total area: about 400,000 km². Average elevation: 1500 to 2000 metres, highest point: Mount Ararat. The area lies mostly in eastern Turkey; also includes the whole of modern Armenia, southern Georgia, western Azerbaijan, northwestern Iran, Nakhichevan and Nagorno-Karabakh.


lexentry: eng/Armenian_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Armenian SSR
trans_list: Armenische SSR
sense:
One of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics that made up the former Soviet Union (1920-1991, name changed in 1990). Became independent as the Republic of Armenia in 1991, after the collapse of the USSR.


lexentry: eng/Armenian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Armenian
trans_list: armenisch | Armenisch
sense:
Of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, the Armenian people, the Armenian language, or the Armenian alphabet.


lexentry: eng/Armenian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Armenian
trans_list: Armenisch | armenisch
sense:
(uncountable) A branch of Indo-European languages, which includes the various stages of the Armenian language.


lexentry: eng/Armenian_cucumber__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Armenian cucumber
trans_list: Armenische Gurke
sense:
Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, a long, slender variety of muskmelon which resembles a cucumber in taste and inner appearance.


lexentry: eng/Armenian_genocide__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Armenian genocide
trans_list: Genozid an den Armeniern | Völkermord an den Armeniern
sense:
(historical) The systematic mass murder of around one million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I (1915–1917).


lexentry: eng/Arminianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arminianism
trans_list: Arminianismus
sense:
(Christianity) A school of thought within Protestantism based on the theological ideas of Jacobus Arminius.


lexentry: eng/Arminius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arminius
trans_list: Arminius | Hermann
sense:
(history) A chieftain of the Cherusci (an ancient Germanic tribe) who defeated the Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.


lexentry: eng/Aromanian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aromanian
trans_list: Aromunisch | Mazedorumänisch
sense:
An endangered Eastern Romance language spoken mainly in Greece, but also in Albania, North Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and relatively intelligible with Romanian and Megleno-Romanian.


lexentry: eng/Art_Deco__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Art Deco
trans_list: Art déco
sense:
A style of decorative art and architecture originating in the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by bold geometric forms and simple composition.


lexentry: eng/Art_Nouveau__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Art Nouveau
trans_list: Jugendstil
sense:
A decorative style of art and architecture that especially used the sinuous and flowing lines of plants.


lexentry: eng/Arte_Povera__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Arte Povera
trans_list: Arte Povera
sense:
(art) A radical Italian modern art movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, making use of worthless or common materials such as earth or newspaper, in the hope of subverting the commercialization of art.


lexentry: eng/Artemis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Artemis
trans_list: Artemis
sense:
(Greek god) The Greek goddess of the hunt, wild animals, and wilderness; the daughter of Leto and Zeus; the sister of Apollo. (Compare Diana.)


lexentry: eng/Aryan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aryan
trans_list: Arier | Arierin
sense:
(theosophy, Germanic, _, mysticism, Nazism) A member of an alleged master race with no fixed definition, comprising people of Germanic descent (in the narrowest sense), or all non-Jewish Caucasians (in the broadest sense)


lexentry: eng/Aryan__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Aryan
trans_list: Arier
sense:
(Nazi, _, or, _, white supremacist ideology, informal) A person of Caucasian (white / European) ethnicity; a white non-Jew.


lexentry: eng/Asatru__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asatru
trans_list: Asenglaube
sense:
A neopagan religion, reconstructed from old Norse religion, which honors the Æsir and/or other Norse gods and spirits.


lexentry: eng/Ascanius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ascanius
trans_list: Ascanius
sense:
(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A legendary king of Alba Longa, and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas.


lexentry: eng/Asclepius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asclepius
trans_list: Asklepios | Asklepius | Äskulap | Äskulapius
sense:
(Greek god) A Greek mythological deity, the god of doctors, medicine and healing; a son of Apollo and the Thessalian princess Coronis, husband to the goddess Epione and father of the Asclepiades; identified with the Roman god Aesculapius.


lexentry: eng/Ash_Wednesday__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ash Wednesday
trans_list: Aschermittwoch
sense:
(Christianity) The Wednesday 46 days before Easter in a given year, (Catholicism) traditionally observed as the beginning of Lent and a day of strict abstention from certain foods and pleasures.


lexentry: eng/Ashkenazi__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ashkenazi
trans_list: aschkenasisch
sense:
Of or relating to Jews of Central European, particularly of German and Polish origin, and their traditions, customs, and rituals.


lexentry: eng/Ashoka__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ashoka
trans_list: Ashoka
sense:
(historical) An ancient Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE.


lexentry: eng/Ashura__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ashura
trans_list: Aschura
sense:
(Islam) A holy day falling on the 10th day of Muharram, commemorating the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali in 680 AD.


lexentry: eng/Asia_Minor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asia Minor
trans_list: Kleinasien
sense:
A large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea; it makes up the Asian part of Turkey.


lexentry: eng/Asia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asia
trans_list: Asien
sense:
A continent located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.


lexentry: eng/Asian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asian
trans_list: Asiat | Asiatin | Asiate
sense:
(US, Canada, Australia, NZ, also International English on the Internet) A person from or with ancestry in East or Southeast Asia, occasionally South Asia.


lexentry: eng/Asian_giant_hornet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asian giant hornet
trans_list: Asiatische Riesenhornisse
sense:
Vespa mandarinia, the world's largest hornet, native to temperate and tropical Eastern Asia, and having a powerful sting.


lexentry: eng/Asiarch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asiarch
trans_list: Asiarch
sense:
(historical) One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.


lexentry: eng/Asiatic_Vespers__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asiatic Vespers
trans_list: Blutbefehl von Ephesos | Vesper von Ephesos | asiatische Vesper
sense:
(historical) An incident in 88 BCE, in which a coordinated massacre of Roman citizens in various towns in Anatolia was undertaken at the behest of King Mithridates VI of Pontus, which served as casus belli for Rome to instigate the First Mithridatic War.


lexentry: eng/Asperger's_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asperger's syndrome
trans_list: Asperger-Syndrom
sense:
(dated, uncountable, neurology) An autism-related developmental disorder characterised by sustained impairment in social interaction and nonverbal communication and by repetitive behaviour as well as restricted interests and routines.


lexentry: eng/Assyria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Assyria
trans_list: Assyrien
sense:
A Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant from the mid-23rd century BC to 608 BC and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), which came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.


lexentry: eng/Assyrian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Assyrian
trans_list: assyrisch
sense:
(historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur.


lexentry: eng/Assyrian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Assyrian
trans_list: assyrisch
sense:
(historical) Of, or characteristic of, or pertaining to the ancient nation and empire, including the northern half of Mesopotamia, with capital city of Nineveh.


lexentry: eng/Assyrian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Assyrian
trans_list: Assyrer | Assyrerin | Assyrier | Assyrierin
sense:
(historical) A person who resided in the ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur.


lexentry: eng/Assyrian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Assyrian
trans_list: Assyrer | Assyrerin | Assyrier | Assyrierin
sense:
(historical) A citizen of an ancient nation and empire, including the northern half of Mesopotamia, with capital city of Nineveh.


lexentry: eng/Asterix__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asterix
trans_list: Asterix
sense:
A series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo about an Ancient Gaul named Asterix.


lexentry: eng/Asturias__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Asturias
trans_list: Asturien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, on the Spanish north coast facing the Cantabrian Sea. The capital city is Oviedo.


lexentry: eng/Athena__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Athena
trans_list: Athene
sense:
(Greek god) The goddess of wisdom, especially strategic warfare, the arts, and especially crafts, in particular, weaving; daughter of Zeus and Metis. Her Roman counterpart is Minerva.


lexentry: eng/Atlantic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Atlantic
trans_list: atlantisch
sense:
Pertaining to locations adjacent to or in the vicinity of the Atlantic Ocean, such as the British Isles in Northwestern Europe, or the eastern seaboard of the USA.


lexentry: eng/Atlantic_herring__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Atlantic herring
trans_list: Atlantischer Hering
sense:
Clupea harengus, an abundant species of herring and an important food fish living in the North Atlantic.


lexentry: eng/Atlantic_pomfret__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Atlantic pomfret
trans_list: Brachsenmakrele
sense:
Brama brama, the largest species of the pomfret family Bramidae, found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.


lexentry: eng/Atlas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Atlas
trans_list: Atlas
sense:
(Greek god) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.


lexentry: eng/Atlas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Atlas
trans_list: Atlas
sense:
(rocketry, military, US) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.


lexentry: eng/Atlas_bear__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Atlas bear
trans_list: Atlasbär
sense:
Ursus arctos crowtheri, an extinct population of brown bear native to North Africa that went extinct in historical times.


lexentry: eng/Atomic_Age__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Atomic Age
trans_list: Atomzeitalter
sense:
The era, starting in the mid-1940s, during which nuclear energy was developed, and in which it was thought that all energy would be provided by such sources.


lexentry: eng/Attalid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Attalid
trans_list: Attalide
sense:
(historical) A member of the Hellenistic dynasty that ruled Pergamon in Asia Minor from 282 BCE to around 133 BCE


lexentry: eng/Attic_Greek__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Attic Greek
trans_list: Attisch
sense:
The dialect of Ancient Greek used in Attica, the region surrounding Athens, from 500 to 300 B.C.E., closely related to Ionic Greek and a main contributor to Koine Greek. The language of Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Xenophon, etc.


lexentry: eng/Attila_the_Hun__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Attila the Hun
trans_list: Attila | Hunnenkönig Attila | König Attila
sense:
(historical) Attila, kingly ruler of the tribe of the Huns and vast Eurasian Hunnic Empire and feared enemy of the Roman Empire, from 434 until his death in 453.


lexentry: eng/Auckland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Auckland
trans_list: Auckland
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError which includes the city, situated between the Northland region to the north and the Waikato region to the south.


lexentry: eng/Audouin's_gull__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Audouin's gull
trans_list: Korallenmöwe
sense:
Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus, a large gull restricted to the Mediterranean and the western coast of Saharan Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.


lexentry: eng/August__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: August
trans_list: August | Ernting
sense:
The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.


lexentry: eng/Augustan__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Augustan
trans_list: augusteisch
sense:
(literature) Pertaining to the period of English literature during the first half of the 18th century, known for satire and political themes.


lexentry: eng/Augustus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Augustus
trans_list: Augustus
sense:
The Roman emperor Augustus, also called Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (63 B.C.E. – 14 C.E.); heir to Julius Caesar


lexentry: eng/Aulis__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Aulis
trans_list: Aulis
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, where, according to legend, the Greek fleet gathered to set off for Troy, and where Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia.


lexentry: eng/Auriga__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Auriga
trans_list: Fuhrmann
sense:
(constellation) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a charioteer. It includes the star Capella.


lexentry: eng/Austerlitz__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Austerlitz
trans_list: Austerlitz
sense:
, Czech Republic. The site of Napoleon's victory over the combined Russian and Austrian armies in 1805.


lexentry: eng/Australia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Australia
trans_list: Australien
sense:
(geology) TemplateParserError:LuaError. New Guinea and the intervening islands are also on the Australian tectonic plate and are thus geologically considered part of the continent.


lexentry: eng/Australian_cattle_dog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Australian cattle dog
trans_list: Australischer Treibhund
sense:
A breed of herding dog bred in Australia for controlling cattle; varieties include the Queensland heeler, blue heeler and red heeler.


lexentry: eng/Australian_magpie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Australian magpie
trans_list: Flötenvogel
sense:
A species of magpie-like black-and-white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea, Gymnorhina tibicen, and introduced to New Zealand, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.


lexentry: eng/Australian_rules_football__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Australian rules football
trans_list: Australian Football
sense:
A variety of football devised in Australia, played on an oval field with an oval ball that players try to kick between the goalposts or between a central and outer post.


lexentry: eng/Australian_white_ibis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Australian white ibis
trans_list: Molukkenibis
sense:
Threskiornis molucca, a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, which is widespread across much of Australia and has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long downcurved bill and black legs.


lexentry: eng/Austrian_German__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Austrian German
trans_list: Österreichisches Deutsch
sense:
A national standard variety of the German language that is spoken and written in Austria and Bolzano-Bozen (Italy).


lexentry: eng/Austrofascism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Austrofascism
trans_list: Austrofaschismus
sense:
(historical) A fascist political movement in Austria between 1933 and 1938 until the country's annexation by Nazi Germany.


lexentry: eng/Avar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Avar
trans_list: Aware | Awarin
sense:
A person belonging to this people of Caucasus, mainly of Daghestan, in which they are the predominant group.


lexentry: eng/Avar__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Avar
trans_list: Awarisch | awarische Sprache
sense:
A North Caucasian language spoken mainly in Avaria (Republic of Daghestan) as its official language, and in parts of Azerbaijan.


lexentry: eng/Avestan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Avestan
trans_list: Avestisch | Awestisch
sense:
An ancient Eastern Old Iranian language that was used to compose the sacred hymns and canon of the Zoroastrian Avesta.


lexentry: eng/Avogadro's_number__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Avogadro's number
trans_list: Avogadro-Konstante
sense:
(chemistry, physics) The number of atoms present in 12 grams of isotopically pure carbon-12, being 6.02214076 × 1023. By definition, the number of elementary entities (atoms or molecules) comprising one mole of a given substance.


lexentry: eng/Axial_Age__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Axial Age
trans_list: Achsenzeit
sense:
(history) The age from about the 8th to the 3rd century BCE, during which broad changes in religious and philosophical thought occurred in a variety of locations.


lexentry: eng/Axis_power__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Axis power
trans_list: Achsenmacht
sense:
(chiefly, in the plural) A country in the alliance (in effect before and during World War II) of Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, imperial Japan, and a few other countries, which opposed the Allies.


lexentry: eng/Ayurveda__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ayurveda
trans_list: Ayurveda
sense:
Traditional Hindu alternative medicine, involving balancing three bodily humours of wind, bile, and phlegm.


lexentry: eng/Azerbaijan_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Azerbaijan SSR
trans_list: Aserbaidschanische SSR
sense:
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for Azerbaijan while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1936–1991, name changed in 1990).


lexentry: eng/B-flat_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: B-flat major
trans_list: B-dur
sense:
(music) The major key with B-flat as its tonic, with the notes B♭, C, D, E♭, F, G, and A, the key signature of which has two flats.


lexentry: eng/B-side__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: B-side
trans_list: B-Seite
sense:
The reverse side of a cassette tape or a phonograph record, especially a vinyl single, often containing songs not considered for airplay.


lexentry: eng/BB_cream__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: BB cream
trans_list: BB Cream
sense:
A type of facial cosmetic product which provides the benefits of a foundation, moisturizer and sunblock in one.


lexentry: eng/BCE__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: BCE
trans_list: v. d. Z. | v. u. Z.
sense:
(chronology) Initialism of Before Common Era (Before the Common Era, before Common Era, before the Common Era), Before Current Era (Before the Current Era, before current era, before the current era), or before Christian Era.


lexentry: eng/BDSM__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: BDSM
trans_list: BDSM
sense:
Sexual or non-sexual practices or activities involving bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism, or acts of domination and submission.


lexentry: eng/BL_Lac_object__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: BL Lac object
trans_list: BL-Lacertae-Objekt
sense:
(astronomy) a type of active galaxy with an active galactic nucleus (AGN), named after its prototype, BL Lacertae


lexentry: eng/BMX_bike__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: BMX bike
trans_list: BMX-Fahrrad | BMX-Rad
sense:
An off-road sport bicycle, usually having 20-inch (508-mm) wheels, used for racing and stunt riding.


lexentry: eng/BRICS__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: BRICS
trans_list: BRICS
sense:
(geopolitics, economics) Acronym of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa: an international economic organization comprising these fast-growing economies.


lexentry: eng/BRIC__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: BRIC
trans_list: BRIC
sense:
(politics, economics) Initialism of Brazil, Russia, India and China: a group of countries with similarly fast-growing economies.


lexentry: eng/B_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: B major
trans_list: H-Dur
sense:
(music) The major key with B as its tonic, with the notes B, C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, and A♯, the key signature of which has five sharps:


lexentry: eng/Baal__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baal
trans_list: Baal
sense:
(mythology, biblical) A storm and fertility god of the Phoenician and Canaanite pantheons, reckoned as chief of the gods by the 1st millennium BC.


lexentry: eng/Baathism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baathism
trans_list: Baathismus
sense:
(politics) An Arab nationalist ideology that promotes the development and creation of a unified Arab state through the leadership of a vanguard party over a progressive revolutionary government.


lexentry: eng/Baba_Yaga__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baba Yaga
trans_list: Baba Jaga
sense:
(Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder. She behaves ambivalently and may be either amiable or hostile.


lexentry: eng/Babel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Babel
trans_list: Babel
sense:
(biblical) The city and tower in the land of Shinar where the confusion of languages took place, according to the Bible.


lexentry: eng/Babism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Babism
trans_list: Babismus
sense:
The doctrine of a pantheistical religious sect, founded in Persia in 1844 by Mirza Ali Mohammed ibn Rabhik (1820-1850), who assumed the title of Bab-ed-Din ("Gate of the Faith"). It combines Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements, and forbids concubinage, polygamy, mendicancy, slave-dealing, and the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs. Precursor to the Baháʼí Faith.


lexentry: eng/Babylonian_Talmud__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Babylonian Talmud
trans_list: Babylonischer Talmud
sense:
The Talmud composed and compiled primarily from the teachings, discussions and disagreements of the Amoraim of the Babylonian exile.


lexentry: eng/Bachelor_of_Science__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bachelor of Science
trans_list: Bachelorabschluss
sense:
A three- to four-year (about 120 credit hours) undergraduate degree, with a concentration in the sciences or scientific applications.


lexentry: eng/Bactria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bactria
trans_list: Baktrien
sense:
The ancient Greek name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya in the Middle East, encompassing parts of northern Afghanistan, eastern Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and northern Pakistan.


lexentry: eng/Bactrian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bactrian
trans_list: Baktrisch
sense:
An extinct Eastern Iranian language which was spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria, also called Tocharistan, in northern Afghanistan.


lexentry: eng/Baghdad__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baghdad
trans_list: Bagdad
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, situated in the center of the country on the Tigris river; a historical center of the Muslim world.


lexentry: eng/Bagirmi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Bagirmi
trans_list: Bagirmi | Baguirmi
sense:
A family of languages which includes the Bagirmi language as well as Naba, Kenga, Fer, Beraku, Disa, and Goulai.


lexentry: eng/Baháʼí_Faith__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baháʼí Faith
trans_list: Bahaismus | Bahaitum
sense:
A religious movement founded by Baháʼu'lláh, which draws on the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and other Baháʼí texts.


lexentry: eng/Baikonur__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baikonur
trans_list: Baikonur
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.


lexentry: eng/Bajram_Curri__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bajram Curri
trans_list: Bajram Curr
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, located within the Valbona valley just west of the river Valbona on the edge of the Albanian Alps.


lexentry: eng/Balachka__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Balachka
trans_list: Balatschka
sense:
The dialects spoken by Cossacks living in Russia, heavily influenced by Ukrainian dialects but features akanye, like standard and central Russian.


lexentry: eng/Balearic_Islands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Balearic Islands
trans_list: Balearische Inseln | Balearen
sense:
A group of Mediterranean islands of the east coast of Spain, formed by Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, and Formentera.


lexentry: eng/Balkan_Peninsula__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Balkan Peninsula
trans_list: Balkanhalbinsel | Balkan
sense:
A large peninsula in southeastern Europe surrounded by water on three sides: the Adriatic Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea (including the Ionian and Aegean Seas) to the south and the Black Sea to the east. Its northern boundary is often given as the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers.


lexentry: eng/Balkanization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Balkanization
trans_list: Balkanisierung
sense:
(historical, chiefly, political science) The fragmentation of a geopolitical region into several small states that are often hostile or non-cooperative with each other.


lexentry: eng/Balkans__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Balkans
trans_list: Balkan
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, roughly equivalent to the area covered by Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, sometimes including Romania, Slovenia, and European Turkey. [19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Balochi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Balochi
trans_list: Belutschisch
sense:
A Northwestern Iranian language spoken mainly in SW Pakistan (80% of speakers), SE Iran and S Afghanistan. SIL standard divides Balochi into three related languages, Eastern Balochi, Southern Balochi and Western Balochi.


lexentry: eng/Balochistan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Balochistan
trans_list: Belutschistan
sense:
A region on the Iranian plateau in south-western Asia, northwest of the Arabian Sea, dominated by desert and mountains, composed of southwestern Pakistan, southeastern Iran and a very small section of southwestern Afghanistan; inhabited by the Baloch people.


lexentry: eng/Baltic_herring__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baltic herring
trans_list: Ostseehering | Strömling
sense:
A subspecies of Atlantic herring, (Clupea harengus membras), living in the Baltic Sea, smaller than Atlantic herring, with leaner flesh.


lexentry: eng/Balticism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Balticism
trans_list: Baltismus | baltisches Lehnwort
sense:
A word or other feature originating in a Baltic language that has been borrowed by another language, usually a Slavic or a Finnic one.


lexentry: eng/Bambara__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bambara
trans_list: Bambara | bambara
sense:
A West Sudanic language spoken mainly in Mali by as many as six million people, and by smaller numbers of people in Senegal Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Gambia.


lexentry: eng/Banach_space__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Banach space
trans_list: Banach-Raum
sense:
(functional analysis) A normed vector space which is complete with respect to the norm, meaning that Cauchy sequences have well-defined limits that are points in the space.


lexentry: eng/Banbury_story_of_a_cock_and_a_bull__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Banbury story of a cock and a bull
trans_list: eine Geschichte ohne Hand und Fuß
sense:
(idiomatic, obsolete, slang, Britain) A roundabout, nonsensical story. [from about late 17th c. to early 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Bantu__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Bantu
trans_list: Bantu | Bantu-Sprachfamilie
sense:
(uncountable) The largest African language family of the Niger-Congo group, spoken in much of Sub-Saharan Africa.


lexentry: eng/Baphomet__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baphomet
trans_list: Baphomet
sense:
A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that the Knights Templar worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.


lexentry: eng/Baptist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baptist
trans_list: Baptist | Baptistin
sense:
An adherent of a Protestant denomination (or various subdenominations) of Christianity, which believes in the baptism of believers (sometimes only adults), as opposed to the baptism of infants.


lexentry: eng/Barabbas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Barabbas
trans_list: Barabbas
sense:
(Christianity) In the accounts of the Passion of Christ, an insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/Barbary__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Barbary
trans_list: Berberei | Barbareskenstaaten
sense:
(historical) The Mediterranean coastal areas of North Africa that were used as a base by pirates in the 16th to 19th centuries.


lexentry: eng/Barbary_lion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Barbary lion
trans_list: Atlaslöwe | Berberlöwe | Nubischer Löwe
sense:
(zoology) Any of the North African population, now extinct in the wild, of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.


lexentry: eng/Barbary_macaque__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Barbary macaque
trans_list: Berberaffe | Magot
sense:
Macaca sylvanus, an Old World monkey found in Gibraltar and the Atlas Mountains in Algeria and Morocco.


lexentry: eng/Baroque__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baroque
trans_list: Barock
sense:
(arts, music) A period in western architecture, art and music from ca. 1600 to ca. 1760 CE, known for its abundance of drama, rich color, and extensive ornamentation.


lexentry: eng/Baroque_guitar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baroque guitar
trans_list: Barockgitarre
sense:
An archaic form of guitar with five strings, originating in the Baroque era, played by either strumming or plucking, and characterized by the use of reentrant tuning.


lexentry: eng/Baruch__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baruch
trans_list: Baruch
sense:
(biblical character) Any of a number of Old Testament men, including the scribe and companion of Jeremiah.


lexentry: eng/Bashkir__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bashkir
trans_list: Baschkirisch | baschkirisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to a certain Turkic ethnic group that lives mostly in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan.


lexentry: eng/Basic_English__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Basic English
trans_list: Basikenglisch
sense:
A simplified controlled language based on English and intended for international communication and TESL.


lexentry: eng/Basque__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Basque
trans_list: Baske | Baskin
sense:
A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.


lexentry: eng/Bastet__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bastet
trans_list: Bastet
sense:
(Egyptian god) The goddess of the sun and the moon, of cats, and Lower Egypt; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ptah, often depicted as having a she-cat's head.


lexentry: eng/Batman__Proper_noun__3
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Batman
trans_list: Batman
sense:
A fictional hero and the main protagonist of DC Comics, noted for his intellect and stealth, who uses a bat-themed costume and equipment (including a belt with an array of utilities) and is assisted by his sidekick Robin.


lexentry: eng/Battle_of_Britain__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Battle of Britain
trans_list: Luftschlacht um England
sense:
(historical) A series of air engagements between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe during World War II for air superiority over southern England and the English Channel prior to any German invasion of the British Isles.


lexentry: eng/Baudelairean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baudelairean
trans_list: baudelairisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, critic, and translator, or to his works.


lexentry: eng/Bauhaus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bauhaus
trans_list: Bauhaus
sense:
(architecture, design, also, attributively) A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design.


lexentry: eng/Baumkuchen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Baumkuchen
trans_list: Baumkuchen
sense:
A kind of layer cake, traditionally baked on a spit, in which the layers resemble concentric tree rings.


lexentry: eng/Bavaria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Bavaria
trans_list: Bayern
sense:
One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation, which includes the historical Bavaria and parts of Swabia and Franconia.


lexentry: eng/Bavarian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bavarian
trans_list: Bairisch | baierische Mundart | bairische Mundart
sense:
A German dialect spoken in Bavaria (a state of southern West Germany) and Austria, which varies considerably across different regions.


lexentry: eng/Bay_of_Biscay__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bay of Biscay
trans_list: Golf von Biskaya | Biskaya
sense:
a gulf of the North Atlantic Ocean along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain, named for the Spanish province of Biscay


lexentry: eng/Bayer_designation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bayer designation
trans_list: Bayer-Bezeichnung
sense:
a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name.


lexentry: eng/Beast__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Beast
trans_list: Tier
sense:
(biblical) A figure in the Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), often identified with Satan or the Antichrist.


lexentry: eng/Beatles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Beatles
trans_list: Beatles
sense:
An extremely successful and influential British rock music quartet that operated primarily in the 1960s.


lexentry: eng/Beaufort_scale__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Beaufort scale
trans_list: Beaufortskala
sense:
(nautical) An empirical measure for the intensity of the wind based mainly on the state of the sea or wave conditions.


lexentry: eng/Beetle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Beetle
trans_list: Käfer
sense:
(UK, Australia, NZ) A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011).


lexentry: eng/Beghard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Beghard
trans_list: Begard | Begarde
sense:
(historical) One of an association of religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation of the Beguines, and influenced by Albigensian teachings and by the Brethren of the Free Spirit.


lexentry: eng/Behçet's_disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Behçet's disease
trans_list: Morbus Behçet
sense:
(disease) A multi-system disorder involving ulcerations on the mouth and sometimes the genitals, notorious for causing hypopyon uveitis (actually a rare symptom).


lexentry: eng/Bel_Paese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bel Paese
trans_list: Bel Paese
sense:
A soft, mild, creamy Italian cheese shaped in small disks and produced from cow's milk, originally from Lombardy.


lexentry: eng/Belarusian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Belarusian
trans_list: Weißrussisch | Belarusse | Weißrusse | Belarussin | Belarusisch | Weißrussin
sense:
(uncountable) The Slavic language spoken in Belarus (formerly called White Ruthenia or White Russia).


lexentry: eng/Belgian_Congo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Belgian Congo
trans_list: Belgisch-Kongo
sense:
(historical) A Belgian colony in Africa, the successor to King Leopold II of Belgium's Congo Free State and predecessor of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [from 1908 to 1960]


lexentry: eng/Belgian_Limburg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Belgian Limburg
trans_list: Belgisch-Limburg | Belgischer-Limburg
sense:
The roughly southwestern part of the Benelux region of Limburg (speaking Dutch and two groups of its dialects; not to be geographically confused with historical political entities), which is part of Flanders region (northern Belgium), where it is administratively designated as the provincie (province) Limburg, as opposed to Dutch Limburg, which belongs to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, confusingly under the same administrative designation


lexentry: eng/Belisarius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Belisarius
trans_list: Belisar
sense:
(history) a general of the Byzantine Empire, who was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously


lexentry: eng/Bellatrix__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bellatrix
trans_list: Bellatrix
sense:
(star) A blue eruptive variable star, the third brightest star in the constellation Orion; Gamma (γ) Orionis.


lexentry: eng/Belle_Époque__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Belle Époque
trans_list: Belle Époque
sense:
(history) A period of European history, extending over several decades until the start of the First World War, characterized by artistic and cultural refinement.


lexentry: eng/Beloved_Disciple__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Beloved Disciple
trans_list: Lieblingsjünger
sense:
(biblical) A figure in the Gospel of John whose identity is left implicit within the text; traditionally, John the Evangelist himself.


lexentry: eng/Benedict__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Benedict
trans_list: Benedikt
sense:
(countable) A en given name, particularly of the sixth-century founder of the Benedictine order, and of several popes.


lexentry: eng/Benedictine__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Benedictine
trans_list: Benediktiner
sense:
A type of liqueur originating from the Benedictine cloister of Fécamp in France, made from cognac together with herb and spice extracts.


lexentry: eng/Bengal__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bengal
trans_list: Bengalen
sense:
A region in the Indian subcontinent which is today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal).


lexentry: eng/Bengal_light__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bengal light
trans_list: bengalisches Feuer
sense:
A bright blue flare prepared from nitre, sulphur, and the black sulphide of antimony; formerly used in signalling, but now chiefly as fireworks.


lexentry: eng/Bengal_tiger__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bengal tiger
trans_list: Königstiger | Königstigerin
sense:
Any tiger of a specific, fragmented population of the subspecies Panthera tigris tigris in the Indian subcontinent.


lexentry: eng/Bengali__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Bengali
trans_list: Bengali | Bengalisch | Bengalische Sprache
sense:
(uncountable) A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.


lexentry: eng/Berber__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Berber
trans_list: Berber
sense:
A group of closely related Afroasiatic languages spoken in northern Africa, particularly Morocco and Algeria.


lexentry: eng/Bergamasco__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bergamasco
trans_list: Bergamasker Hirtenhund
sense:
A medium-sized breed of herding dog originating in the Italian Alps, known for its heavily matted coat resembling dreadlocks.


lexentry: eng/Bering_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bering Sea
trans_list: Beringmeer | Beringsee
sense:
The sea between Siberia and Alaska, north of the Pacific Ocean, that is connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait.


lexentry: eng/Berlin_Wall__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Berlin Wall
trans_list: Berliner Mauer | antifaschistischer Schutzwall
sense:
(history) A wall that parted the city of Berlin until 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic to keep East Germans from escaping to West Berlin.


lexentry: eng/Bermuda_Triangle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bermuda Triangle
trans_list: Bermuda-Dreieck | Bermudadreieck
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError where many ships and planes have disappeared under allegedly mysterious circumstances.


lexentry: eng/Bermuda_grass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bermuda grass
trans_list: Hundszahngras
sense:
A perennial grass, Cynodon dactylon, native to Africa and Asia, used in warm areas of the world for pasture, lawn and making hay.


lexentry: eng/Bernoulli's_principle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bernoulli's principle
trans_list: Bernoulli-Prinzip
sense:
(fluid dynamics) The principle which states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in static pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.


lexentry: eng/Bernoulli_distribution__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bernoulli distribution
trans_list: Bernoulli-Verteilung
sense:
(statistics) A discrete probability distribution that represents the result of a single trial, taking value 1 with "success" probability p and value 0 with "failure" probability q=1-p.


lexentry: eng/Bert__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bert
trans_list: Bert
sense:
A diminutive form of male given names containing the element bert, such as Albert or Robert, also used as a formal given name.


lexentry: eng/Bes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bes
trans_list: Bes
sense:
(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, the protector of households and mothers, children and childbirth.


lexentry: eng/Beskids__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Beskids
trans_list: Beskiden
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, running from Czech Republic to Ukraine along the Polish-Slovakia border, with its highest peak Hoverla at 2061 meters.


lexentry: eng/Bessarabia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bessarabia
trans_list: Bessarabien
sense:
(historical) A geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west. Now divided between Moldova and Ukraine.


lexentry: eng/Betelgeuse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Betelgeuse
trans_list: Beteigeuze
sense:
(star) A bright-red supergiant intrinsic variable star, the second brightest star in the constellation Orion; Alpha (α) Orionis. It is the tenth brightest star in the nighttime, and one of the largest stars known.


lexentry: eng/Bethsaida__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bethsaida
trans_list: Bethsaida
sense:
(Biblical) Either of the two villages, Bethesda Julias and Bethesda of Galilee, mentioned in the New Testament.


lexentry: eng/Betti_number__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Betti number
trans_list: Bettizahl
sense:
(topology, algebraic topology) Any of a sequence of numbers, denoted bn, which characterise a given topological space K by giving, for each dimension, the number of holes in K of said dimension; (formally) the rank of the nth homology group, Hn, of K.


lexentry: eng/Bibb_lettuce__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bibb lettuce
trans_list: Buttersalat
sense:
A variety of head lettuce with loose arrangement of leaves, known for its sweet flavor and tender texture.


lexentry: eng/Bible_basher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bible basher
trans_list: Betschwester
sense:
(pejorative) A fundamentalist Christian preacher, or other fervent Christian, who is seen to take every opportunity to talk about Christianity and attempt to convert those around them.


lexentry: eng/Biblical_Hebrew__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Biblical Hebrew
trans_list: Bibelhebräisch | biblisches Hebräisch
sense:
the archaic form of the Hebrew language, spoken by the Israelites in the area known as Canaan/Israel in the first millennium BC, best-attested in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)


lexentry: eng/Bierwurst__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bierwurst
trans_list: Bierwurst
sense:
beerwurst; a smoked, seasoned Brühwurst sausage originally from Bavaria in Germany, with a garlicky flavor and dark red color.


lexentry: eng/Big_Bang__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Big Bang
trans_list: Urknall
sense:
(cosmology) The cosmic event that marks the beginning of time and the rapid expansion of space for the visible universe. The evolution of the universe since that beginning point is described by the Big Bang Theory.


lexentry: eng/Big_Ben__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Big Ben
trans_list: Big Ben
sense:
The hour bell in the Elizabeth Tower (formerly known as the Clock Tower), adjacent to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, United Kingdom.


lexentry: eng/Big_Crunch__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Big Crunch
trans_list: Big Crunch
sense:
(cosmology) The hypothetical eventual collapse of the universe that would ultimately occur if it contracted continuously in the future.


lexentry: eng/Big_Dipper__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Big Dipper
trans_list: Großer Wagen
sense:
(constellation, especially, US) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid. [from 1845] The other stars in it are Alioth, Megrez, Merak, and Phecda.


lexentry: eng/Big_Mac__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Big Mac
trans_list: Big Mac | Big Mäc
sense:
A hamburger from the fast food company McDonald's, served on a three-part bun with various condiments.


lexentry: eng/Bigfoot__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bigfoot
trans_list: Bigfoot
sense:
(US, Canada, cryptozoology, folklore) A very large, hairy, humanoid creature, similar to the yeti, said to live in the wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, especially the Pacific Northwest.


lexentry: eng/Bircher_muesli__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bircher muesli
trans_list: Bircher Müesli
sense:
A breakfast dish originally consisting of rolled oats mixed with apples, nuts, lemon juice, cream and honey.


lexentry: eng/Birds'_Wedding__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Birds' Wedding
trans_list: Vogelhochzeit
sense:
A custom among the Sorbs (Wends) of Lusatia in Germany, whereby on the evening of 24 January children put empty plates outside, and on the morning of 25 January they find pastries, meringues and candy in the form of birds, which are said to have been left for them by birds celebrating their wedding.


lexentry: eng/Bislama__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bislama
trans_list: Bislama | Bislamisch
sense:
A creole language spoken on the South Pacific island-nation of Vanuatu, derived from Indo-European (mainly from English) and Oceanic languages.


lexentry: eng/Black_Death__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Black Death
trans_list: schwarzer Tod | Beulenpest
sense:
(disease, historical) A pandemic outbreak of bubonic plague throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia.


lexentry: eng/Black_Forest_horse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Black Forest horse
trans_list: Schwarzwälder Kaltblut
sense:
A draft horse of a rare breed originating in southern Germany. It has a dark chestnut coat with a flaxen mane and tail.


lexentry: eng/Black_Friday__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Black Friday
trans_list: Black Friday
sense:
(US, Canada, UK, business, retailing) The day after US Thanksgiving Day, generally regarded as the first day of the Christmas season, and the busiest shopping day of the year. Observed in the US, Canada, and more recently to an extent, the UK.


lexentry: eng/Black_Friday__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: Black Friday
trans_list: Schlussverkauf
sense:
(by extension) The sales period involving heavy price reductions immediately following US Thanksgiving Day, from Friday (the original Black Friday) through Monday (Cyber Monday).


lexentry: eng/Blarney_Stone__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Blarney Stone
trans_list: Blarney-Stein
sense:
A stone set into the upper wall of Blarney Castle in Ireland, which if kissed is supposed to bestow the gift of the gab or blarney.


lexentry: eng/Blu-ray_drive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Blu-ray drive
trans_list: Blu-ray-Laufwerk
sense:
(computer hardware) An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a Blu-ray disc.


lexentry: eng/Blue_Banana__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Blue Banana
trans_list: Blaue Banane
sense:
A discontinuous corridor of urbanization in Western Europe, stretching from northwest England to Milan.


lexentry: eng/Bluebeard__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bluebeard
trans_list: Blaubart
sense:
A famous fairy tale written by Charles Perrault in 1697 about a violent nobleman who has the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of his current wife to avoid the same fate.


lexentry: eng/Blyth's_pipit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Blyth's pipit
trans_list: Steppenpieper
sense:
Anthus godlewskii, medium-sized passerine bird which breeds in Mongolia and neighbouring areas of China, Tibet and India.


lexentry: eng/Bob's_your_uncle__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bob's your uncle
trans_list: und schon haben wir's
sense:
(UK, Commonwealth, Hong Kong, idiomatic) "No problem", "the solution is simple", "there you have it", "It's that easy", "you have what you want", "all will be well": indicates a desirable conclusion has been reached.


lexentry: eng/Boeotia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Boeotia
trans_list: Böotien
sense:
A district of Ancient Greece, formerly renowned for the French proverbially equating the residents with philistinism; now, a district in east Central Greece, situated on the peninsula, west of Euboea, north of Attica and Megaris, and east of Phocis. The present-day capital of the prefecture is Livadeia.


lexentry: eng/Bogdania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bogdania
trans_list: Bogdania | Bogdanien
sense:
(historical) Moldavia, Great Wallachia, the territory between Transylvania and the Dniester north of Wallachia and south of Lithuania, conquered by the Ottomans in 1512


lexentry: eng/Bogomil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bogomil
trans_list: Bogomile | Bogomilin
sense:
(Christianity, historical) A member of a dualist Christian sect which flourished in the Balkans during the 10th to 15th centuries and was characterized by resistance to the state and church authorities.


lexentry: eng/Bohemian_earspoon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bohemian earspoon
trans_list: Böhmischer Ohrlöffel
sense:
(historical) A polearm with a long, broad, socketed spearhead, with a guard of two outward-protruding "ears" at the base of the head, used for hunting and in combat.


lexentry: eng/Bohmian_mechanics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bohmian mechanics
trans_list: bohmsche Mechanik
sense:
(physics) a version or interpretation of quantum mechanics which uses pilot waves instead of the Copenhagen interpretation.


lexentry: eng/Bolshevik__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bolshevik
trans_list: Bolschewik | Bolschewikin | Bolschewist | Bolschewistin
sense:
(historical) A Russian communist revolutionary, member of the Bolshevik Party in the 1917 Communist Revolution of Russia.


lexentry: eng/Bolshevik__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Bolshevik
trans_list: Bolschewik | Bolschewikin | Bolschewist | Bolschewistin
sense:
(historical) A member of the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.


lexentry: eng/Bolshevism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Bolshevism
trans_list: Bolschewismus
sense:
The Communist political ideology adopted by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Marxism-Leninism.


lexentry: eng/Bonaire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bonaire
trans_list: Bonaire
sense:
An island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela, a special municipality of the Netherlands.


lexentry: eng/Bonaparte's_gull__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bonaparte's gull
trans_list: Bonapartemöwe
sense:
Chroicocephalus philadelphia, a member of the gull family Laridae found mainly in northern North America.


lexentry: eng/Book_of_the_Dead__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Book of the Dead
trans_list: Totenbuch
sense:
An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, developed from the earlier Coffin Texts.


lexentry: eng/Boolean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Boolean
trans_list: boolesch
sense:
(logic, computing) Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.


lexentry: eng/Boolean_algebra__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Boolean algebra
trans_list: boolesche Algebra
sense:
(algebra) An algebraic structure (\Sigma, \vee, \wedge, \sim, 0, 1) where \vee and \wedge are idempotent binary operators, \sim is a unary involutory operator (called "complement"), and 0 and 1 are nullary operators (i.e., constants), such that (\Sigma, \vee, 0) is a commutative monoid, (\Sigma, \wedge, 1) is a commutative monoid, \wedge and \vee distribute with respect to each other, and such that combining two complementary elements through one binary operator yields the identity of the other binary operator. (See Boolean algebra (structure)#Axiomatics.)


lexentry: eng/Boolean_algebra__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Boolean algebra
trans_list: boolesche Algebra
sense:
(algebra, logic, computing) Specifically, an algebra in which all elements can take only one of two values (typically 0 and 1, or "true" and "false") and are subject to operations based on AND, OR and NOT


lexentry: eng/Borscht_Belt__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Borscht Belt
trans_list: Borschtsch-Gürtel
sense:
An area in upstate New York, in the Catskills, in which there were once many Jewish camps and resorts.


lexentry: eng/Bose-Einstein_condensate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bose-Einstein condensate
trans_list: Bose-Einstein-Kondensat
sense:
(physics) A gaseous superfluid phase of matter in which all the particles have the same quantum state.


lexentry: eng/Bosnia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bosnia
trans_list: Bosnien
sense:
The northern three-fourths of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a geographic and historical entity, not an administrative unit.


lexentry: eng/Bosniak__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bosniak
trans_list: Bosniak
sense:
A person belonging to an autochthonous South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro.


lexentry: eng/Bosniak__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Bosniak
trans_list: Bosniak
sense:
A person typically characterized by their ties to the Bosnian historical region, traditional adherence to Islam, and common culture and language.


lexentry: eng/Bosnian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Bosnian
trans_list: Bosnisch | Bosnier | Bosnierin
sense:
(uncountable) The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken primarily by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina.


lexentry: eng/Boston__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: Boston
trans_list: Boston
sense:
(cards) An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.


lexentry: eng/Boston_ivy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Boston ivy
trans_list: Dreispitzige Jungfernrebe
sense:
A perennial vine related to the grapevine, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, which, like true ivy (Hedera helix), is planted next to masonry buildings to grow on the walls. In spite of the name, Boston ivy is native to Japan, Korea and China.


lexentry: eng/Botox__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Botox
trans_list: Botox
sense:
A toxic compound (generic name botulinum toxin type A) produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, that causes the paralysis of muscles, used in cosmetic surgery to conceal wrinkles and for muscle spasm relief and headache prevention.


lexentry: eng/Boudica__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Boudica
trans_list: Boadicea | Boudicca | Boudicea
sense:
A queen of the British Iceni tribe that led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire, died c. 61 CE


lexentry: eng/Bowden_cable__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bowden cable
trans_list: Bowdenzug
sense:
A flexible cable used to transmit mechanical force by the movement of an inner cable (most commonly of steel) relative to a hollow outer housing.


lexentry: eng/Boötes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Boötes
trans_list: Bärenhüter
sense:
(constellation) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, called the “bear-guard” or the “herdsman”. It includes the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, Arcturus.


lexentry: eng/Brabant__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brabant
trans_list: Brabant
sense:
(historical) Until 1995, a province of central Belgium; since divided into Flemish Brabant, Brussels-Capital Region and Walloon Brabant.


lexentry: eng/Brabant__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Brabant
trans_list: Brabant
sense:
Duchy of Brabant; a historical region, roughly comprising the area of modern Flemish and Walloon Brabant, Brussels, the Belgian province of Antwerp, and the Dutch province of North Brabant.


lexentry: eng/Brahma__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brahma
trans_list: Brahma
sense:
(Hinduism, Hindu god) Hindu god (deva) of creation and one of the Trimurti, the others being Vishnu and Shiva.


lexentry: eng/Brandenburg_Gate__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brandenburg Gate
trans_list: Brandenburger Tor
sense:
An 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built after the restoration of order during the early Batavian Revolution, and now a major landmark.


lexentry: eng/Brandenburg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Brandenburg
trans_list: Brandenburg | Brandenburg an der Havel | Provinz Brandenburg | Stadt Brandenburg
sense:
(historical) The lands of Brandenburg (Mark Brandenburg, Provinz Brandenburg), provinces of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.


lexentry: eng/Brazilian_Portuguese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brazilian Portuguese
trans_list: brasilianisch Portugiesisch
sense:
The Portuguese language as spoken and written in Brazil, particularly when it differs from other regional varieties of that language.


lexentry: eng/Brezhnev__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brezhnev
trans_list: Breschnew
sense:
A transliteration of the Russian surname Бре́жнев (Bréžnev); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Leonid Brezhnev.


lexentry: eng/British_English__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: British English
trans_list: britisches Englisch | Britisches Englisch
sense:
The English language as written and spoken in the United Kingdom (in contrast with other places, particularly other countries where English is predominant or at least an important language)


lexentry: eng/Britisher__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Britisher
trans_list: Brite
sense:
(India) The British colonial authorities; a European member of the British Raj, especially an officer from the colonial authorities.


lexentry: eng/Briton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Briton
trans_list: Brite | Britin | Britannier
sense:
An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman.


lexentry: eng/Bronze_Age__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bronze Age
trans_list: Bronzezeit
sense:
(archaeology) A period in a civilization's development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze.


lexentry: eng/Brownian_motion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brownian motion
trans_list: brownsche Bewegung
sense:
(statistical mechanics) Random motion of particles suspended in a fluid, arising from those particles being struck by individual molecules of the fluid.


lexentry: eng/Brownshirt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brownshirt
trans_list: Braunhemd
sense:
(historical) A uniformed member of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP), especially a storm trooper of the Sturmabteilung.


lexentry: eng/Brumaire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brumaire
trans_list: Brumaire | Nebelmonat
sense:
(historical) The second month of the French Republican Calendar, from October 22, 23 or 24 to November 20, 21 or 22.


lexentry: eng/Brusselization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brusselization
trans_list: Brüsselisierung
sense:
(urbanism) Careless introduction of high-rise buildings into traditional residential neighbourhoods.


lexentry: eng/Brussels_sprout__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brussels sprout
trans_list: Rosenkohl | Kohlsprosse | Sprossen | Sprossenkohl
sense:
(chiefly, in the plural) The green vegetable Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera, a cabbage variety native to Belgium.


lexentry: eng/Brutalism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Brutalism
trans_list: Brutalismus
sense:
(architecture) A style of modernist architecture characterized by angular geometry and overt signs of the construction process.


lexentry: eng/Buddha's_hand__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Buddha's hand
trans_list: Finger-Zitronatzitrone
sense:
Citrus medica var. sarcodactylus, a fragrant variant of citron whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections.


lexentry: eng/Buddhahood__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Buddhahood
trans_list: Buddha-Natur | Buddhaschaft
sense:
(Buddhism) The state of being a buddha, or being spiritually enlightened by Buddhist or other teachings.


lexentry: eng/Bukovina__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bukovina
trans_list: Bukowina | Buchenland
sense:
A historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and adjoining plains, currently split between Romania and Ukraine.


lexentry: eng/Bulverism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bulverism
trans_list: Bulverismus
sense:
A rhetorical fallacy in which a speaker assumes that their opponent's argument is wrong, and instead of disproving it, condescendingly explains why their opponent would have come to that conclusion.


lexentry: eng/Burgher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Burgher
trans_list: Burgher
sense:
A member of a mixed-race ethnic group of Sri Lanka, consisting of descendants of European colonists and local people.


lexentry: eng/Busan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Busan
trans_list: Busan
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. It is the second largest city and the largest port city in Korea. It is also well known for its beaches and port.


lexentry: eng/Bushism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bushism
trans_list: Bushism
sense:
The political philosophy associated with former US president George W. Bush or his father, former US president George H. W. Bush.


lexentry: eng/Byelorussian_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Byelorussian SSR
trans_list: Weißrussische SSR
sense:
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for Bolshevik Belarus which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union (1919–1991).


lexentry: eng/Byzantine_Empire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Byzantine Empire
trans_list: Byzantinisches Reich | Byzanz | Oströmisches Reich
sense:
(historical) The predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages with its capital city being Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), originally known as Byzantium, which fell in 1453.


lexentry: eng/Byzantine_Greek__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Byzantine Greek
trans_list: byzantinisches Griechisch
sense:
Collectively, the continuum of forms of the Greek language as written and spoken during the time of the Byzantine Empire (C.E. 330–1453), preceded by Koine Greek and Early Medieval Greek and succeeded by Late Medieval Greek to Modern Greek. (ISO 639-3 code: grc shared with Classical Greek.)


lexentry: eng/Byzantine_fault_tolerance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Byzantine fault tolerance
trans_list: byzantinische Fehlertoleranz
sense:
(computing) The dependability of a fault-tolerant (distributed) computer system, where components may fail without perfect information about the state of the components.


lexentry: eng/Béarn__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Béarn
trans_list: Béarn
sense:
(historical) A former viscounty in the southwestern French Pyrenees, which became part of the French royal domain before it was united with the French crown, together with Navarra, as a single feudal province of the French realm.


lexentry: eng/Bézier_curve__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Bézier curve
trans_list: Bézierkurve
sense:
(mathematics, computer graphics) A type of parametric curve defined by a set of control points, two of which are the ends of the curve, while the others determine its shape. [From 1960s.]


lexentry: eng/C++__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: C++
trans_list: C++
sense:
(computer language) A multi-paradigm high-level compiled programming language, that is a more advanced form of C.


lexentry: eng/C-pop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: C-pop
trans_list: C-Pop
sense:
(music genre) Chinese pop music influenced by western genres. It consists of two subgenres, Cantopop and Mandopop, though the gap between them has been narrowing.


lexentry: eng/C-sharp_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: C-sharp major
trans_list: Cis-Dur
sense:
(music) a key with the notes C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, and B♯, the key signature of which has seven sharps:


lexentry: eng/C-suite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: C-suite
trans_list: Direktor
sense:
(management) The group of officers of a business organization who have the word "chief" in their titles.


lexentry: eng/CAPTCHA__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CAPTCHA
trans_list: CAPTCHA | Captcha
sense:
(computing, Internet) A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of distorted characters or describing images, to demonstrate that they are a human and not a computer program.


lexentry: eng/CD-ROM__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CD-ROM
trans_list: CD-ROM
sense:
compact disk - read only memory: an optical disc containing data that can be read (but not changed) by a computer


lexentry: eng/CDU__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CDU
trans_list: CDU | Christlich Demokratische Union
sense:
(German politics) Initialism of Christian Democratic Union (of Germany) (“Christlich Demokratische Union”). (a major mainstream German political party)


lexentry: eng/CD__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CD
trans_list: CD
sense:
Initialism of compact disc; a disc once commonly used to store data, and especially for the distribution of music and software.


lexentry: eng/CD_drive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CD drive
trans_list: CD-Laufwerk
sense:
(computer hardware) An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a compact disc.


lexentry: eng/CE__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CE
trans_list: n. Chr. | n. Chr. G. | n. Chr. Geb. | n. d. Z. | n. u. Z. | u. Z.
sense:
Initialism of Common Era, Current Era or Christian Era. Equivalent of AD. Like other era initialisms, often written in small caps.


lexentry: eng/CJK__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CJK
trans_list: CJK
sense:
Initialism of Chinese, Japanese, Korean (languages typically grouped because they all use writing systems derived from Chinese characters)


lexentry: eng/CPC__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CPC
trans_list: KPCh
sense:
(China, politics) Communist Party of China, the sole ruling political party in the People's Republic of China


lexentry: eng/CPIL__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CPIL
trans_list: IPRG
sense:
Initialism of Code on Private International Law. (names of laws in Belgium, the Code de droit international privé / Wetboek van internationaal privaatrecht, and in Switzerland, the loi fédérale suisse sur le droit international privé / Schweizerisches Bundesgesetz über das internationale Privatrecht / legge federale svizzera sul diritto internazionale privato)


lexentry: eng/CSU__Proper_noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CSU
trans_list: CSU | Christlich-Soziale Union
sense:
The Bavarian Christian Social Union (Christlich-Soziale Union), a major mainstream right-wing political party in Bavaria


lexentry: eng/C_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: C major
trans_list: C-Dur
sense:
(music) The major key with C as its tonic, and no sharps or flats, having the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, and B.


lexentry: eng/Caelus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Caelus
trans_list: Uranus
sense:
(Roman god) The personification of the sky and heavens. Either the brother-husband or son-&-husband of Terra, with whom he fathered the Titans and the Cyclops. He is the Roman counterpart of Uranus.


lexentry: eng/Caesar_salad__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Caesar salad
trans_list: Caesar Salad
sense:
(gastronomy, countable, and, uncountable) A type of salad, generally made from romaine lettuce, croutons, parmesan cheese, coddled or hard-boiled eggs, fresh-ground black pepper and Worcestershire sauce.


lexentry: eng/Calayan_rail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Calayan rail
trans_list: Calayan-Ralle
sense:
a flightless bird (Gallirallus calayanensis) from the family Rallidae that inhabits Calayan Island in the Philippines.


lexentry: eng/California_hazelnut__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: California hazelnut
trans_list: Schnabelnuss
sense:
A shrub with edible nuts, Corylus cornuta subsp. californica, native to the western edge of North America.


lexentry: eng/California_poppy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: California poppy
trans_list: Kalifornischer Mohn
sense:
A popular flowering garden plant, Eschscholzia californica, native to the south-western United States, and other similar plants in genus Eschscholzia.


lexentry: eng/California_quail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: California quail
trans_list: Schopfwachtel
sense:
A quail native to California and areas of neighboring states, but introduced elsewhere, Callipepla californica


lexentry: eng/Calvary__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Calvary
trans_list: Golgota
sense:
The hill outside Jerusalem which is traditionally held to be the location of the crucifixion of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/Calvinism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Calvinism
trans_list: Calvinismus | Kalvinismus
sense:
The Christian religious tradition based upon the doctrines and forms of Christian practice of several Protestant reformers, especially John Calvin, in contrast to Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anabaptism, and Arminianism. One distinctive trait of the system is its Augustinian doctrine of predestination, which teaches that God has elected some for salvation, apart from anything they do or believe.


lexentry: eng/Calydon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Calydon
trans_list: Kalydon
sense:
(historical, Greek mythology) The legendary founding king and eponym of the city of Calydon, whose failure to honor the goddess Artemis in a rite resulted in her sending the Calydonian Boar to lay waste to the city.


lexentry: eng/Cambrian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cambrian
trans_list: kambrisch
sense:
(geology) Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and Furongian epochs from about 542 to 490 million years ago.


lexentry: eng/Cambrian_explosion__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cambrian explosion
trans_list: kambrische Artenexplosion | kambrische Explosion | kambrische Radiation
sense:
(evolutionary, _, biology) The relatively rapid appearance, during the Cambrian Period around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla, as demonstrated in the fossil record.


lexentry: eng/CamelCase__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: CamelCase
trans_list: Binnenmajuskel | Binnenversal | Binnenversalie
sense:
(typography, often used in, _, programming) The style of writing by concatenating multiple component words (i.e. writing without any space between them), while capitalizing the first letter of each word, starting with the first or the second word.


lexentry: eng/Campidanese_Sardinian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Campidanese Sardinian
trans_list: Campidanesisch
sense:
a diasystem of the Sardinian language primarily spoken in the Cagliari, capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy


lexentry: eng/Canada__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Canada
trans_list: Kanada
sense:
(historical) Lower Canada 1791–1840 (also Canada East 1840–1867, now province of Quebec) or respectively Upper Canada (Canada West, now province of Ontario), often “the Canadas” (or politically, “United Canada” 1840–1867).


lexentry: eng/Canada__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Canada
trans_list: Kanada
sense:
(historical) (1608–1763) The most active province of New France. Nowadays corresponds to the territory of much of Quebec, Ontario, and several US states (aligning with the Saint Lawrence River and Ottawa River plains and Great Lakes plains, and Laurentian Mountains)


lexentry: eng/Canadian_football__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Canadian football
trans_list: Canadian Football | kanadischer Fußball
sense:
A game similar to American football played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide (with two 20 yard-long endzones) in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.


lexentry: eng/Cancer__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Cancer
trans_list: Krebs
sense:
(astrology) The zodiac sign for the crab, ruled by the Moon and covering June 22 - July 22 (tropical astrology) or July 16 - August 15 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/Candlemas__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Candlemas
trans_list: Lichtmess
sense:
The festival in the Christian year celebrated on February 2nd. It commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple.


lexentry: eng/Canes_Venatici__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Canes Venatici
trans_list: Jagdhunde
sense:
(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a pair of hunting dogs (Chara and Asterion) held on a leash by Boötes and following the bear Ursa Major.


lexentry: eng/Canis_Major__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Canis Major
trans_list: Großer Hund
sense:
(constellation) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dog following the hunter Orion. It includes the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius (sometimes called the Dog Star).


lexentry: eng/Canis_Minor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Canis Minor
trans_list: Kleiner Hund
sense:
(constellation) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dog following the hunter Orion. It is most notable for including the eighth brightest star in the night sky, Procyon.


lexentry: eng/Cannae__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cannae
trans_list: Cannae | Kannä
sense:
(historical) A village in the Apulia region of south east Italy, known as the site of a battle in 216 B.C. in which the Carthaginians under Hannibal defeated the Romans


lexentry: eng/Cantonese__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Cantonese
trans_list: Kantonesisch | kantonesisch
sense:
(uncountable) A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language.


lexentry: eng/Cantopop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cantopop
trans_list: Cantopop
sense:
(uncountable, music genre) Cantonese popular music, originating from Guangdong (Canton) and Hong Kong.


lexentry: eng/Cao_Dai__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cao Dai
trans_list: Caodaismus
sense:
(religion) A syncretic monotheistic religion founded in the 20th century in Vietnam, which worships a deity of the same name.


lexentry: eng/Cape_lion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cape lion
trans_list: Kaplöwe
sense:
A lion of the extinct population of subspecies Panthera leo melanochaita which inhabited the Cape of Good Hope.


lexentry: eng/Capeverdean_Crioulo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Capeverdean Crioulo
trans_list: kapverdisches Kreol
sense:
A creole language spoken in Cape Verde and divided into Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau, Sal, Boa Vista, Maio, Santiago, Fogo and Brava creoles.


lexentry: eng/Capricorn__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Capricorn
trans_list: Steinbock
sense:
(astrology) : The zodiac sign for the goat, ruled by Saturn and covering December 22 – January 20 (tropical astrology) or January 15 – February 14 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/Captain_Obvious__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Captain Obvious
trans_list: Kapitän Offensichtlich
sense:
(humorous, usually, pejorative, sarcastic, very often preceded with thank you) Someone who makes superfluous or obvious statements.


lexentry: eng/Carboniferous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Carboniferous
trans_list: karbonisch
sense:
(geology) Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the lower, middle and upper Mississippian and lower, middle and upper Pennsylvanian epochs from about 345 to 280 million years ago, when coal was laid down.


lexentry: eng/Care_Bears__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Care Bears
trans_list: Glücksbärchis | Hab-Dich-Lieb-Bärchis | Hab-Dich-lieb Bärchis | Hab-Dich-lieb-Bärchis
sense:
A fictional group of multi-colored bear characters, originally painted in 1981 by artist Elena Kucharik to be used on greeting cards from American Greetings but in 1983, the characters were turned into plush teddy bears.


lexentry: eng/Caribbean_Netherlands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Caribbean Netherlands
trans_list: Karibische Niederlande
sense:
The three special municipalities of the Netherlands that are located in the Caribbean: Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba.


lexentry: eng/Caribbean_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Caribbean Sea
trans_list: Karibisches Meer | Karibik
sense:
A tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico.


lexentry: eng/Caribbean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Caribbean
trans_list: karibisch
sense:
Pertaining to the sea and region of the western Atlantic bounded by South America, Central America, and the islands of the West Indies (such as Cuba and Hispaniola).


lexentry: eng/Caribbean__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Caribbean
trans_list: Karibik
sense:
The countries that occupy the region of the western Atlantic bounded by South America, Central America, and the islands of the West Indies (such as Cuba and Hispaniola)


lexentry: eng/Carina__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Carina
trans_list: Schiffskiel
sense:
(constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.


lexentry: eng/Carmelite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Carmelite
trans_list: Karmelit | Karmelitin
sense:
A member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic religious order focusing on contemplative prayer and the Virgin Mary.


lexentry: eng/Carniola__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Carniola
trans_list: Krain
sense:
(historical) A historical region of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires that comprised parts of what is now Slovenia.


lexentry: eng/Caro-Kann_Defence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Caro-Kann Defence
trans_list: Caro-Kann-Verteidigung
sense:
(chess) A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 c6, in which the white king's pawn advances two squares and the black king's bishop's pawn advances one square.


lexentry: eng/Caroline_Islands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Caroline Islands
trans_list: Karolinen
sense:
A widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea, politically divided between the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau.


lexentry: eng/Carolingian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Carolingian
trans_list: karolingisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to the dynasty that ruled parts of western Europe from the 7th to the 9th centuries.


lexentry: eng/Carolingian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Carolingian
trans_list: Karolinger
sense:
Any member of a Frankish noble family with its origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the seventh century.


lexentry: eng/Carpathians__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Carpathians
trans_list: Karpaten
sense:
A large mountainous system in Central Europe, mainly in Transylvania (Romania) and the Polish (Silesian)-Slovak border region.


lexentry: eng/Carpatho-Ukraine__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Carpatho-Ukraine
trans_list: Karpatenukraine | Karpato-Ukraine
sense:
(historical) A former region of Czechoslovakia (September 1938 – March 1939) and self-declared independent state (during March of 1939).


lexentry: eng/Cartesian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cartesian
trans_list: kartesianisch | cartesianisch | cartesisch | kartesisch
sense:
Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.


lexentry: eng/Cartesian_product__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cartesian product
trans_list: kartesisches Produkt | Kreuzprodukt
sense:
(set theory) The set of all possible pairs of elements whose components are members of two sets. Notation: X \times Y = \{(x,y)\|x\in X \land y\in Y\}.


lexentry: eng/Carthusian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Carthusian
trans_list: Kartäuser | Kartäusermönch
sense:
A member of a Christian contemplative order of monks founded by Bruno of Cologne (St Bruno) in 1084.


lexentry: eng/Cassia_crossbill__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cassia crossbill
trans_list: Idahokreuzschnabel
sense:
Loxia sinesciuris, a passerine bird in the family Fringillidae, endemic to the South Hills and Albion Mountains in southern Idaho.


lexentry: eng/Cassiopeia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cassiopeia
trans_list: Cassiopeia
sense:
(Greek mythology) Proud wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda, queen of Ethiopia. When she boasted that her beauty was equal to that of the Nereids, she was punished by Poseidon.


lexentry: eng/Cassiopeia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Cassiopeia
trans_list: Cassiopeia
sense:
(constellation) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky representing Queen Cassiopeia from Greek myth. The constellation lies between Cepheus and Perseus and contains the stars Schedar and Caph.


lexentry: eng/Castile__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Castile
trans_list: Kastilien
sense:
A vaguely defined region of central Spain generally corresponding to the regions of Old and New Castile.


lexentry: eng/Castilian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Castilian
trans_list: Kastilisch
sense:
(inexact, sometimes, _, offensive) Synonym of Spanish, the language of Spain and its former colonies.


lexentry: eng/Catalan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Catalan
trans_list: Katalanisch
sense:
The Romance language of Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain, also spoken in the Valencian autonomous region (where the language is officially named valencià), the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Roussillon in France, and the Sardinian city of Alghero.


lexentry: eng/Catalonia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Catalonia
trans_list: Katalonien
sense:
(historical) A traditional region and former principality, including the autonomous community of Catalonia, the Aragon Strip and the region of Northern Catalonia (France).


lexentry: eng/Catch-22__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Catch-22
trans_list: Dilemma | Sackgasse | Teufelskreis | Zwickmühle | ausweglose Situation
sense:
(idiomatic) A difficult situation from which there is no escape because it involves mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.


lexentry: eng/Cathar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cathar
trans_list: Katharer | Katharerin
sense:
A member of certain so self-styled Novatian and other medieval Christian sects embracing a form of dualism and extraordinary practices purportedly adhering to Mary Magdalene's teachings, persecuted by Roman Catholics as heretics.


lexentry: eng/Catholic_Church__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Catholic Church
trans_list: Katholische Kirche
sense:
The Catholic Church, which consists of 24 particular churches in full communion with the Pope as the Bishop of Rome.


lexentry: eng/Caucasian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Caucasian
trans_list: kaukasisch
sense:
(anthropology, dated) Of a racial classification pertaining to people having certain phenotypical features such as straight, curly, or wavy hair and very light to brown pigmented skin, and originating from Europe, parts of Northern Africa and Central, South, and Western Asia.


lexentry: eng/Caucasus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Caucasus
trans_list: Kaukasus
sense:
(geopolitical) A geopolitical region in Eastern Europe, deriving its name from the aforementioned mountains.


lexentry: eng/Cauchy_sequence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cauchy sequence
trans_list: Cauchy-Folge | Cauchyfolge
sense:
(analysis) Any sequence x_n in a metric space with metric d such that for every \epsilon > 0 there exists a natural number N such that for all k, m \ge N , d(x_k, x_m) < \epsilon .


lexentry: eng/Celsius__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Celsius
trans_list: Celsius
sense:
Related to a metric temperature scale, originally defined as having the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and its boiling point as 100 degrees, at standard atmospheric pressure. The standardized definition has 0.01 °C as the triple point of water, and a difference in temperature of 1 °C corresponds to 1⁄273.16 of the difference in temperature between the triple point and the absolute zero.


lexentry: eng/Celtiberian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Celtiberian
trans_list: Keltiberer | Keltibererin
sense:
A member of a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during the Roman Empire.


lexentry: eng/Celtiberian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Celtiberian
trans_list: Keltiberisch
sense:
An extinct Indo-European language of the Celtic branch spoken by these people in an area of the Iberian Peninsula lying between the headwaters of the Duero, Tajo, Júcar and Turia rivers and the Ebro river.


lexentry: eng/Celtic_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Celtic Sea
trans_list: Keltische See
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError The area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland bounded by Saint George's Channel, the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay.


lexentry: eng/Celtic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Celtic
trans_list: Keltisch | keltisch
sense:
A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over Western and Central Europe in the pre-Christian era.


lexentry: eng/Celtic_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Celtic studies
trans_list: Keltistik | Keltologie
sense:
(humanities) the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to a Celtic people


lexentry: eng/Cenozoic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cenozoic
trans_list: Känozoikum
sense:
(geology) A geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon comprising the Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary periods from about 65 million years ago to the present, when the continents moved to their current position and modern plants and animals evolved.


lexentry: eng/Centaurus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Centaurus
trans_list: Zentaur
sense:
(constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky (and autumn of the southern sky) with the outline of a centaur. It includes the stars Alpha Centauri (Rigil Kentaurus and Toliman), Proxima Centauri, and Hadar.


lexentry: eng/Central_Africa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Central Africa
trans_list: Zentralafrika
sense:
A core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.


lexentry: eng/Central_Asia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Central Asia
trans_list: Mittelasien | Zentralasien
sense:
A landlocked area of continental Asia comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. In the USSR and the modern Russia, the area is called Middle Asia (Средняя Азия).


lexentry: eng/Central_Europe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Central Europe
trans_list: Mitteleuropa | Zentraleuropa
sense:
A geographic region in the center of Europe, usually including Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Germany.


lexentry: eng/Central_Germany__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Central Germany
trans_list: Mitteldeutschland
sense:
A region in the eastern part of Germany, including the states of Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia.


lexentry: eng/Central_Powers__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Central Powers
trans_list: Mittelmächte
sense:
(historical) The countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and Bulgaria, all of whom fought against the Allies in World War I.


lexentry: eng/Cepheus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cepheus
trans_list: Kepheus
sense:
(Greek mythology) Husband of Cassiopeia, king of Eritrea, father of Andromeda. There may be two mythical kings by this name.


lexentry: eng/Cepheus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Cepheus
trans_list: Kepheus
sense:
(constellation) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, located between Draco and Cassiopeia and representing the king Cepheus from Greek myth. It contains the star Alderamin.


lexentry: eng/Cerberus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cerberus
trans_list: Zerberus
sense:
(Greek mythology) The giant three-headed dog who guards the entrance to Hades; and one of the many offspring of Echidna and Typhon.


lexentry: eng/Cerenkov_effect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cerenkov effect
trans_list: Tscherenkow-Strahlung
sense:
(physics) The emission of light (Cerenkov radiation) that occurs when a charged particle passes through an insulator at a speed greater than the speed of light in that medium; the characteristic blue glow from a nuclear reactor.


lexentry: eng/Ceres__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Ceres
trans_list: Ceres
sense:
(astronomy) A celestial body orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, the innermost dwarf planet; officially called (1) Ceres. (see usage notes)


lexentry: eng/Ceto__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ceto
trans_list: Keto
sense:
(Greek god) A primordial sea goddess, wife of Phorcys and mother of numerous monsters including Echidna and the gorgons.


lexentry: eng/Cetus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cetus
trans_list: Walfisch
sense:
(constellation) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a whale. It includes the star Mira.


lexentry: eng/Chagatai__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chagatai
trans_list: Tshagatai
sense:
A male given name of historical usage, most famously borne by the Mongol ruler Chagatai Khan (1183–1242), second son of Genghis Khan and first khan of the Chagatai Khanate, a medieval Mongol and later Turkicized khanate of Central Asia (divided after the 14th century).


lexentry: eng/Chaldea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chaldea
trans_list: Chaldäa
sense:
A region in the southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain.


lexentry: eng/Chaldean_Catholic_Church__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chaldean Catholic Church
trans_list: chaldäisch-katholische Kirche
sense:
(Christianity) An Eastern Catholic particular church (sui juris), which uses the Chaldean rite, in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church.


lexentry: eng/Challenger_Deep__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Challenger Deep
trans_list: Challengertief
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; a point in the Mariana Trench, known as the deepest point in the world's oceans.


lexentry: eng/Cham__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cham
trans_list: Tscham
sense:
an ethnic Albanian from Çamëri, originally resided in the western part of the region of Epirus in northwestern Greece, an area known among Albanians as Çamëri (engl.: Chameria).


lexentry: eng/Chamaeleon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chamaeleon
trans_list: Chamäleon
sense:
(constellation) A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.


lexentry: eng/Champa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Champa
trans_list: Tschampa
sense:
(historical) A collection of Cham polities in what is now Vietnam from the 2nd century through 1832.


lexentry: eng/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chancellor of the Exchequer
trans_list: Schatzkanzler
sense:
The official title held by the British cabinet minister, who is responsible for all governmental economic and financial matters, including the treasury.


lexentry: eng/Channel_Islands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Channel Islands
trans_list: Kanalinseln | Normannischen Inseln
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, San Nicolas, Santa Barbara, Santa Catalina, San Clemente.


lexentry: eng/Charlemagne__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Charlemagne
trans_list: Karl der Große
sense:
One of the kings of the Franks from 768 to 814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 until his death in 814.


lexentry: eng/Charles's_law__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Charles's law
trans_list: Charlessches Gesetz | Gay-Lussacsches Gesetz | Gesetz von Charles | erste Gesetz von Gay-Lussac
sense:
(physics) The law stating that the density of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to its temperature at constant pressure.


lexentry: eng/Chartism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chartism
trans_list: Chartismus
sense:
(historical) A working-class movement for political and social reform in the United Kingdom during the mid-19th century.


lexentry: eng/Chebyshev's_inequality__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chebyshev's inequality
trans_list: Tschebyscheff-Ungleichung | tschebyscheffsche Ungleichung
sense:
(statistics) The theorem that in any data sample with finite variance, the probability of any random variable X that lies k or more standard deviations away from the mean is no more than 1/k2, i.e. assuming mean μ and standard deviation σ, the probability is:


lexentry: eng/Chechen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chechen
trans_list: Tschetschene | Tschetschenin
sense:
A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.


lexentry: eng/Chechens__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chechens
trans_list: Tschetschenen
sense:
A Nakh people of the northeastern Caucasus, now mostly Sunni Muslim and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.


lexentry: eng/Cheddar__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cheddar
trans_list: Cheddar
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, famous for its cheese, and also for its gorge, caves and remains of early man found in them (OS grid ref ST4553).


lexentry: eng/Chekist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chekist
trans_list: Tschekist | Tschekistin
sense:
(historical) An agent of the Cheka, the Soviet Russian secret police from 1917 to 1922, replacing the Okhrana secret police of Tsarist Russia; succeeded by the OGPU and NKVD.


lexentry: eng/Cheops__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cheops
trans_list: Cheops
sense:
a pharaoh of Egypt, who ruled in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC) and is renowned as the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza


lexentry: eng/Chernobyl__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Chernobyl
trans_list: Tschernobyl | Tschornobyl
sense:
(by extension) The 1986 nuclear accident which resulted in the abandonment of the aforementioned city.


lexentry: eng/Cherusci__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cherusci
trans_list: Cherusker
sense:
(historical) a Germanic tribe that inhabited parts of the plains and forests of northwestern Germany, in the area possibly near present-day Hanover, during the first centuries BC and AD


lexentry: eng/Cheshire_cat__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cheshire cat
trans_list: Cheshire-Katze | Edamer-Katze | Grinsekatze
sense:
A fictional cat with a broad fixed grin, made popular by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).


lexentry: eng/Chiers__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chiers
trans_list: Korn
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError that flows for about 130 km (81 mi) through Luxembourg, Belgium and France; it joins the Meuse near Sedan.


lexentry: eng/Chilean_mussel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chilean mussel
trans_list: Miesmuschel
sense:
A species of mussel Mytilus chilensis and its edible flesh, native to southern South America and the Kerguelen Islands.


lexentry: eng/Chimera__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chimera
trans_list: Chimäre
sense:
(Greek mythology) A supposed fire-breathing monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or snake, killed by the hero Bellerophon.


lexentry: eng/China__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: China
trans_list: China
sense:
A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Yellow, Yangtze, and Pearl Rivers in East Asia, taken as a whole under its various dynasties.


lexentry: eng/China__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: China
trans_list: China
sense:
The principal state in this country, including (historical) an empire under various dynasties and (since 1949) the People's Republic of China.


lexentry: eng/China_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: China syndrome
trans_list: China-Syndrom
sense:
(idiomatic, nuclear physics, uncountable) A hypothetical kind of catastrophic failure in which a nuclear reactor melts through the floor of its containment system and penetrates the Earth's surface, continuing downward as if (from a Western Hemispheric point of view) traveling through the planet toward China.


lexentry: eng/Chinatown__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinatown
trans_list: Chinatown | Chinesenstadt
sense:
A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_Crested_Dog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese Crested Dog
trans_list: Chinesischer Schopfhund
sense:
A toy dog that resembles a long-snouted Chihuahua with tufts of hair about the head and ears, tail and feet.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_New_Year__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese New Year
trans_list: chinesisches Neujahrsfest
sense:
An annual Chinese holiday, marking the beginning of a new year according to the traditional Chinese calendar.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_Wall__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese Wall
trans_list: Chinesische Mauer
sense:
(idiomatic, jargon) An information barrier within an organization, designed to ensure internal confidentiality; frequently used to prevent conflicts of interest.


lexentry: eng/Chinese__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Chinese
trans_list: chinesisch | Chinesisch
sense:
Of, from, or related to a language native to Han Chinese persons, often used generally of Chinese characters or particularly to refer to Standard Mandarin.


lexentry: eng/Chinese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese
trans_list: Chinesen | Chinesisch
sense:
(uncountable, collective) The citizens of China, particularly citizens of the People's Republic of China.


lexentry: eng/Chinese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Chinese
trans_list: Chinesisch | chinesische Sprache | chinesisch
sense:
(uncountable) The branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family including Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Minnan, and other closely related language varieties and dialects.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_bellflower__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese bellflower
trans_list: Ballonblume
sense:
A plant of the species Platycodon grandiflorus, sole species of genus Platycodon, native to east Asia.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_checkers__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese checkers
trans_list: Halma
sense:
A board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_cinnamon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese cinnamon
trans_list: Zimtkassie
sense:
An evergreen tree (Cinnamomum cassia) originating in southern China, and widely cultivated for its aromatic bark, which is used to produce cinnamon.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_cinnamon__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Chinese cinnamon
trans_list: Bruch
sense:
The bark of this tree when used as spice, and when distinguishing it from "true cinnamon", the bark of the C. verum.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_crocodile_lizard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese crocodile lizard
trans_list: Chinesische Krokodilschwanzechse
sense:
A semiaquatic anguimorph lizard, Shinisaurus crocodilurus, found only in cool forests in southeastern China and northeastern Vietnam.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_dragon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese dragon
trans_list: Long | Lóng
sense:
(mythology) A legendary creature, usually depicted as long and snake-like, with many claws, common in several East Asian cultures.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_finger_trap__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese finger trap
trans_list: Fingerfalle
sense:
A gag toy, used to play practical jokes, that traps the victim's fingers in both ends of a small cylinder woven from bamboo.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_jump_rope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese jump rope
trans_list: Gummihopse | Gummihuppe | Gummihüpfen | Gummitwist
sense:
A children's game in which two participants hold a string of rubber bands tied in a circle with their feet and a third participant is challenged to make a certain series of moves in relation to the string successfully.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_lantern__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese lantern
trans_list: Lampion
sense:
A paper lantern in bright colours used for decorative purposes, commonly painted with Chinese art and calligraphy motifs.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_numeral__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese numeral
trans_list: chinesische Ziffer
sense:
(arithmetic) Any of the symbols 〇 (or 零), 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 百, 千, 萬 / 万, 億 / 亿, etc. used to represent numbers in Chinese-speaking countries/areas, Japan, at some stage in Korea and Vietnam.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese studies
trans_list: Chinakunde | Chinastudien | Chinawissenschaften | Sinologie
sense:
(humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literature written in the Chinese language, Chinese linguistics, and Chinese sociolinguistics.


lexentry: eng/Chinese_whispers__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chinese whispers
trans_list: Stille Post | Flüsterpost
sense:
(games, mostly, UK) A game for several players in which a phrase, whispered by each person in turn to their neighbour, is often unwittingly misunderstood as it is transferred, to humorous effect by the time it reaches the last person and is compared with the original phrase.


lexentry: eng/Chitral__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Chitral
trans_list: Chitral
sense:
The capital of the Chitral District, situated on the western bank of the Chitral River, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It also served as the capital of the princely state of Chitral until 1969.


lexentry: eng/Chortitza__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chortitza
trans_list: Chortitza | Chortiza
sense:
A village (or colony of several villages) founded by German- / Mennonite Low German-speaking Mennonites in 1789 in what is now Ukraine.


lexentry: eng/Christian_Democracy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christian Democracy
trans_list: Christdemokratie
sense:
A political ideology incorporating traditional family and church values alongside progressive values, such as welfare. It is closely linked with Roman Catholicism and its philosophy of economic and social justice.


lexentry: eng/Christian_Era__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christian Era
trans_list: christliche Zeitrechnung
sense:
The current date era beginning approximately 2000 years ago in the Gregorian calendar, based on the (assumed) birth of Jesus Christ.


lexentry: eng/Christmas_Day__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christmas Day
trans_list: Weihnachtstag
sense:
The day on which Christmas is celebrated. It is December 25 in the West, and January 7 in some Eastern Orthodox churches.


lexentry: eng/Christmas_Eve__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
sense: The day before Christmas Day.
written_rep: Christmas Eve
trans_list:
Heiligabend | Weihnachtsabend | Heiliger Abend | Christnacht | Heilige Nacht | Vortag vor Weihnachten


lexentry: eng/Christmas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christmas
trans_list: Weihnachten
sense:
(originally, Christianity) A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.


lexentry: eng/Christmas_box__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christmas box
trans_list: Weihnachtsgeld
sense:
(historical) A bonus or gift given by an employer to an employee, by a master/mistress to his/her servants, or by a householder to delivery persons at Christmas time, traditionally on Boxing Day.


lexentry: eng/Christmas_cracker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christmas cracker
trans_list: Knallbonbon
sense:
(British, Canada, New Zealand) A table decoration, in the form of a large paper sweet wrapper, constructed around a cardboard tube typically containing a paper hat, silly joke and a small novelty or toy; a pair of people pull the ends of the cracker causing an embedded device to make a crack sound as the cracker breaks in two and the contents are released.


lexentry: eng/Christmas_ham__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christmas ham
trans_list: Weihnachtsschinken
sense:
A ham, boiled and then baked in the oven with mustard, served sliced at Christmas as one of the traditionally most important parts of the Scandinavian julbord (special Christmas-time smörgåsbord).


lexentry: eng/Christmas_ham__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Christmas ham
trans_list: Weihnachtsschinken
sense:
Ham prepared in various other ways in various regions at Christmas, such as stuffed ham in parts of the United States, or ham soaked in fruit juices in the Philippines.


lexentry: eng/Christmas_light__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christmas light
trans_list: Christbaumkerze
sense:
(mostly, in the plural) One of the electric lights used at Christmas to decorate a tree, house, etc.


lexentry: eng/Christmas_season__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Christmas season
trans_list: Weihnachtszeit
sense:
Christmastide, Yuletide; the Twelve Days of Christmas, starting on Christmas Day and ending on Epiphany, January 6.


lexentry: eng/Christmas_tree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christmas tree
trans_list: Weihnachtsbaum | Christbaum
sense:
A conifer used during the Christmas holiday season, typically decorated with lights and ornaments and often a star or angel at its tip.


lexentry: eng/Christology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Christology
trans_list: Christologie
sense:
(uncountable) A field of study within Christian theology which is concerned with the nature of Jesus Christ, particularly with how the divine and human are related in his person.


lexentry: eng/Chronicles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chronicles
trans_list: Chroniken
sense:
(biblical) A book of the Jewish Tanakh, divided into two Books of Chronicles in the Christian Bible.


lexentry: eng/Chrysostom__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chrysostom
trans_list: Chrysostomos
sense:
The epithet of John Chrysostom, Dio Chrysostom and several other people, given to them for their eloquence.


lexentry: eng/Chud__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chud
trans_list: Tschude
sense:
(historical, in early Russian annals, chiefly, used, _, in the plural) A member of any of several Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia.


lexentry: eng/Chudskoye__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chudskoye
trans_list: Peipussee
sense:
A large freshwater lake on the border between Russia and Estonia, part of the larger Pskovsko-Chudskoye (Russian)/Peipus (Estonian) lake system.


lexentry: eng/Chukchi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chukchi
trans_list: Tschuktschisch
sense:
(uncountable) A Paleosiberian language spoken by Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.


lexentry: eng/Church_Father__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Church Father
trans_list: Kirchenvater
sense:
(Christianity) One of a number of male Christian writers from Antiquity whose doctrinal work is considered authoritative by the later church.


lexentry: eng/Church_Slavonicism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Church Slavonicism
trans_list: Kirchenslawismus
sense:
(Slavistics) Denoting a word, phrase or linguistic structure borrowed from or formed under the influence of Old Church Slavonic or some later Church Slavonic recension.


lexentry: eng/Church_of_England__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Church of England
trans_list: Kirche von England
sense:
The English branch of the Christian Church; (since the 16th century) specifically the established Protestant church in England which is the mother church of the Anglican Communion.


lexentry: eng/Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
trans_list: Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage
sense:
The major denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement, founded in the United States by Joseph Smith; the Mormon Church.


lexentry: eng/Church_of_the_East__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Church of the East
trans_list: Kirche des Ostens
sense:
Any of the modern successors of that church following its schisms since the 16th century, in particular the Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Church of the East, and Chaldean Catholic Church, or all of these considered together.


lexentry: eng/Chuukese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chuukese
trans_list: chuukesische
sense:
A member of an ethnic group in Oceania who speak the Chuukese language and constitute 48% of the population of the Federated States of Micronesia.


lexentry: eng/Chuvash__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Chuvash
trans_list: Tschuwaschisch
sense:
An agglutinative language of the Bolgar branch of the Turkic language family and is spoken west of the Ural mountains in central Russia. Chuvash is the native language of the Chuvash people and an official language of Chuvashia. It is spoken by about two million people.


lexentry: eng/Cilicia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cilicia
trans_list: Kilikien
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, famed for cilice — haircloth made from the hair of Cilician goats


lexentry: eng/Cinderella__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cinderella
trans_list: Aschenputtel
sense:
A popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward.


lexentry: eng/Cinderella__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Cinderella
trans_list: Aschenputtel | Aschenbrödel
sense:
The main character in this story, a mistreated and impoverished girl. At a royal ball she meets a handsome prince who later identifies her by means of a dropped article, most commonly a slipper, and removes her from her poverty.


lexentry: eng/Circassian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Circassian
trans_list: Tscherkesse | Tscherkessin
sense:
A native or inhabitant of Circassia (historical) (nowadays shared by Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia), including the Adyghes and Ubykhs.


lexentry: eng/Circinus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Circinus
trans_list: Zirkel
sense:
(constellation) A small constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a compass. It lies between the constellations of Centaurus and Triangulum Australe.


lexentry: eng/Cistercian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cistercian
trans_list: Zisterzienser | Zisterzienserin
sense:
A member of a monastic order which follows the Benedictine rule and emphasizes silent contemplative prayer.


lexentry: eng/Classical_Arabic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Classical Arabic
trans_list: klassisches Arabisch
sense:
The form of the Arabic language used in literary texts around the 8th to 10th centuries, standardized from ancient dialects of Arab tribes and the Qur'an.


lexentry: eng/Classical_Chinese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Classical Chinese
trans_list: klassisches Chinesisch
sense:
The written Chinese language used from the Zhou Dynasty (1045 B.C.E.) (especially the Spring and Autumn Period), through to the end of the Han Dynasty (220 C.E.). In Chinese, or, formally, . The language of many classics of Chinese literature.


lexentry: eng/Classical_Latin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Classical Latin
trans_list: klassisches Latein
sense:
The Latin language as spoken and written in formal speeches, literature, the arts, etc., by the ancient Romans.


lexentry: eng/Classical_Nahuatl__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Classical Nahuatl
trans_list: klassisches Nahuatl
sense:
The variants of the Nahuatl language spoken in central Mexico at the time of the Spanish colonization.


lexentry: eng/Clean_Monday__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Clean Monday
trans_list: Aschermittwoch
sense:
(Christianity) The seventh Monday before Easter, (Eastern Christianity) traditionally regarded as the beginning of Lent


lexentry: eng/Cleopatra__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cleopatra
trans_list: Kleopatra
sense:
A given name of women in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt; notably Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE); last of the Ptolemy line.


lexentry: eng/Clerve__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Clerve
trans_list: Klerf
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError that flows for 48 km (30 mi) through Luxembourg; it empties into the Wiltz near Kautenbach.


lexentry: eng/Clifford_algebra__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Clifford algebra
trans_list: Clifford-Algebra
sense:
(algebra, mathematical physics) A unital associative algebra which generalizes the algebra of quaternions but which is not necessarily a division algebra; it is generated by a set of \gamma_i (with i ranging from, say, 1 to n) such that the square of each \gamma_i is fixed to be either +1 or −1, depending on each i, and such that any product \gamma_i \gamma_j anticommutes when its factors are distinct (i.e., when i \ne j).


lexentry: eng/Clio__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Clio
trans_list: Klio
sense:
(Greek god) The goddess of history and heroic poetry, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.


lexentry: eng/Clotho__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Clotho
trans_list: Klotho
sense:
(Greek mythology) The youngest of the three Fates, a daughter of Zeus and Themis; the spinner of the thread of life. Her Roman equivalent is Nona.


lexentry: eng/Cluniac__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cluniac
trans_list: Cluniazenser | Kluniazenser
sense:
(historical) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 910 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.


lexentry: eng/Clytemnestra__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Clytemnestra
trans_list: Klytaimestra
sense:
(Greek mythology) wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed after the Trojan War, whereupon was killed herself by their son Orestes


lexentry: eng/Coffin_Texts__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Coffin Texts
trans_list: Sargtexte
sense:
A corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.


lexentry: eng/Cold_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cold War
trans_list: Kalter Krieg
sense:
(historical) The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991.


lexentry: eng/Colombian_necktie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Colombian necktie
trans_list: Kolumbianische Krawatte
sense:
A method of execution in which the victim’s throat is slashed vertically, then his tongue is pulled out through the gaping wound toward the sternum, after which the victim usually dies of asphyxiation or blood loss.


lexentry: eng/Colorado_beetle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Colorado beetle
trans_list: Kartoffelkäfer
sense:
A beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, formerly Doryphora decemlineata, with black and yellow stripes, that is a serious pest of potatoes.


lexentry: eng/Colossians__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Colossians
trans_list: Kolosser
sense:
(biblical) The twelfth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Colossae which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.


lexentry: eng/Colossus_of_Rhodes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Colossus of Rhodes
trans_list: Koloss von Rhodos
sense:
A statue of Greek god Helios in ancient Rhodes, Greece. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.


lexentry: eng/Columbia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Columbia
trans_list: Kolumbien
sense:
District of Columbia The federal capital region of the United States of America, including Washington, D.C.


lexentry: eng/Columbian__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Columbian
trans_list: Tertia
sense:
(uncountable, US, _, printing, dated) A size of type between English and great primer, standardized as 16-point.


lexentry: eng/Coma_Berenices__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Coma Berenices
trans_list: Haar der Berenike
sense:
(constellation) A small dim summer constellation of the northern sky, said to represent an offering of hair from Queen Berenice II of Egypt. Originally considered to represent the tuft of hair on the end of Leo's tail.


lexentry: eng/Comecon__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Comecon
trans_list: RGW
sense:
(historical) , a multinational economic organization that existed in the Eastern Bloc from 1949 to 1991.


lexentry: eng/Comintern__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Comintern
trans_list: Komintern
sense:
(historical) An international association of Communist parties, established in 1919 by Vladimir Lenin and dissolved in 1943.


lexentry: eng/Common_Era__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Common Era
trans_list: gängige Zeitrechnung
sense:
(chronology) The secular equivalent of anno Domini and the Christian Era, the internationally recognized method of numbering years on the Gregorian calendar.


lexentry: eng/Commonwealth_Games__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Commonwealth Games
trans_list: Commonwealth Games
sense:
A sporting event, somewhat like the Olympic Games, held every four years and involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.


lexentry: eng/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Commonwealth of Independent States
trans_list: GUS | Gemeinschaft unabhängiger Staaten
sense:
An alliance and confederation of nine former Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed as a successor to the Soviet Union.


lexentry: eng/Commonwealth_of_Nations__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Commonwealth of Nations
trans_list: Commonwealth | britischer Staatenbund
sense:
An association of independent, sovereign states most of which formerly constituted the British Empire.


lexentry: eng/Confederate_States_of_America__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Confederate States of America
trans_list: Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika
sense:
(historical) An unrecognized nation existing from 1861–1865, consisting of the eleven Southern states who sought independence from the United States of America over the issue of slavery.


lexentry: eng/Confucianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Confucianism
trans_list: Konfuzianismus
sense:
The philosophy and teaching of Confucius, which emphasizes self-cultivation, collective harmony, righteousness and the family structure.


lexentry: eng/Congo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Congo
trans_list: Kongo | Demokratische Republik Kongo | Republik Kongo | Zaire
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


lexentry: eng/Congress_Poland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Congress Poland
trans_list: Kongresspolen
sense:
(historical) The Kingdom of Poland created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a sovereign state of the Russian part of Poland connected by personal union with the Russian Empire under the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland until 1832.


lexentry: eng/Conservative_Judaism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Conservative Judaism
trans_list: Reformjudentum
sense:
A moderate stream of Liberal Judaism centered in North America that theoretically maintains Jewish tradition and law, but provides for a more flexible interpretation of it than Orthodox Judaism, in keeping with an evolving world and society.


lexentry: eng/Conté__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Conté
trans_list: Conté
sense:
(art) A drawing medium, usually square in cross-section, composed of compressed powdered charcoal or graphite mixed with a clay or wax base. [from mid 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Cooper_pair__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cooper pair
trans_list: Cooper-Paar
sense:
(physics) A pair of electrons (or other fermions), of opposite spin, whose theorised behaviour is the basis of the BCS theory of superconductivity.


lexentry: eng/Copernican_Revolution__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Copernican Revolution
trans_list: kopernikanischen Wende
sense:
The paradigm shift, from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens based around the Earth to a heliocentric model, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus and later supported by Galileo and others.


lexentry: eng/Copernicus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Copernicus
trans_list: Copernicus | Kopernikus | Koppernick
sense:
Nicolaus Copernicus, a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.


lexentry: eng/Coptic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Coptic
trans_list: Koptisch
sense:
The Afroasiatic language traditionally spoken by the Copts in Egypt, now extinct and used only as a liturgical language.


lexentry: eng/Cor_Caroli__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cor Caroli
trans_list: Herz Carls II. | Herz Karls II.
sense:
(astronomy) The brightest star in the constellation Canes Venatici; Alpha (α) Canum Venaticorum (2.90m).


lexentry: eng/Corfu__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Corfu
trans_list: Korfu
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, one of the Ionian Islands. The ancient name is Corcyra (Κόρκυρα), in Modern Greek Kérkira (Κέρκυρα).


lexentry: eng/Corinthian_bronze__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Corinthian bronze
trans_list: korinthische Bronze
sense:
A hard valuable metal alloy in classical antiquity, of uncertain composition, thought to have been an alloy of copper with gold and/or silver involving heat treatment and quenching, but perhaps only a very high grade of bronze.


lexentry: eng/Corinthians__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Corinthians
trans_list: 1. Korintherbrief | 2. Korintherbrief
sense:
(biblical) Either of the two books in the New Testament of the Bible that are written as epistles to the people of Corinth and which are attributed to Paul the Apostle, Sosthenes and Timothy.


lexentry: eng/Coriolis_force__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Coriolis force
trans_list: Corioliskraft
sense:
(physics, meteorology) A fictitious force apparently exerted on any moving body (including a parcel of air) due to the rotation of the earth, observed as a deflection of the body to the right of its direction of travel (i.e., clockwise) in the Northern Hemisphere, or to the left (anticlockwise) in the Southern Hemisphere; any equivalent apparent force that deflects objects in a rotating reference frame.


lexentry: eng/Cornwall__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Cornwall
trans_list: Cornwall
sense:
The country of the Cornish, currently having the status of a royal duchy in England belonging to the male heir apparent to the reigning monarch, and consisting at least of the Cornwall County and the Isles of Scilly.


lexentry: eng/Corpus_Christi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Corpus Christi
trans_list: Fronleichnam
sense:
(Christianity) A feast day in honor of the Eucharist, observed by Roman Catholics and high-church Anglicans on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.


lexentry: eng/Corvus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Corvus
trans_list: Rabe
sense:
(constellation) A constellation of the southern sky south of the constellation Virgo, said to resemble a crow.


lexentry: eng/Cossack__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cossack
trans_list: Kosak
sense:
A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.


lexentry: eng/Coulomb's_constant__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Coulomb's constant
trans_list: Coulomb-Konstante
sense:
(electricity) the constant of proportionality in the equation of Coulomb's law; numerical value depends on the units used


lexentry: eng/Coulomb's_law__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Coulomb's law
trans_list: Coulombsches Gesetz
sense:
(electricity) the fundamental law of electrostatics - the force between two point charges is proportional to the product of their charges, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them


lexentry: eng/Council_of_Europe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Council of Europe
trans_list: Europarat
sense:
An international organisation focused on protecting human rights, democracy, rule of law in Europe, with headquarters in Strasbourg, France.


lexentry: eng/County_of_Sicily__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: County of Sicily
trans_list: Grafschaft Sizilien | Grafschaft Sizilien und Kalabrien
sense:
(historical) A Norman state, comprising Sicily, Malta and part of Calabria, founded in 1071 and succeeded in 1130 by the Kingdom of Sicily.


lexentry: eng/Crater__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crater
trans_list: Becher
sense:
(constellation) A dim spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a cup. It lies between the constellations Virgo and Hydra.


lexentry: eng/Cretaceous__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cretaceous
trans_list: Kreide
sense:
(geology) The geologic period within the Mesozoic era that comprises lower and upper epochs from about 146 to 66 million years ago.


lexentry: eng/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
trans_list: Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit
sense:
(disease, neurology) A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).


lexentry: eng/Crimea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crimea
trans_list: Krim
sense:
Synonym of Crimean Peninsula: TemplateParserError:LuaError. A peninsula which juts southwards out of the Ukrainian mainland (to which it is connected by the Isthmus of Perekop) into the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Sea of Azov from the Black Sea.


lexentry: eng/Crimean_Gothic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crimean Gothic
trans_list: Krimgotisch
sense:
A Germanic, probably East Germanic, language spoken by the Crimean Goths in some isolated locations in Crimea until the late eighteenth century.


lexentry: eng/Crimean_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crimean War
trans_list: Krimkrieg
sense:
(historical) A conflict held mostly in the Crimean Peninsula between October 1853 and February 1856, in which Russian troops were defeated to an alliance of France, the United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia.


lexentry: eng/Crimean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crimean
trans_list: Krim-
sense:
Denoting, of, or related to Crimea, a peninsula on the north of the Black Sea, separating it from the Sea of Azov.


lexentry: eng/Crispin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Crispin
trans_list: Crispinus
sense:
A Roman shoemaker, martyr and saint, and brother of Crispinian; patron saint of cobblers and tanners.


lexentry: eng/Cro-Magnon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cro-Magnon
trans_list: Cro-Magnon-Mensch
sense:
(archaeology) The earliest known form of modern human (Homo sapiens) in Europe, dating from the late Paleolithic.


lexentry: eng/Croatian_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Croatian studies
trans_list: Kroatistik
sense:
(humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Croatian language, Croatian linguistics, and Croatian sociolinguistics.


lexentry: eng/Crohn's_disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crohn's disease
trans_list: Morbus Crohn
sense:
(disease) Crohn’s regional enteritis, a chronic inflammatory disease that can involve any part of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus.


lexentry: eng/Cronus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cronus
trans_list: Saturn
sense:
(Greek mythology) The youngest of the twelve Titans, son of Uranus and Gaia; father to the first generation of Olympian gods and goddesses.


lexentry: eng/Crown_land__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crown land
trans_list: Krongut | Kronland
sense:
(UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) In Britain and some Commonwealth countries, land that is owned by the state, nominally titled to the reigning King or Queen of England, and whose use and disposition is controlled by a government within that Commonwealth country or by an official representative of the monarch.


lexentry: eng/Crown_prosecutor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crown prosecutor
trans_list: Staatsanwalt | Staatsanwältin
sense:
(British, Canadian, Australian) The state prosecutor; the legal party responsible for presenting the case against an individual in a criminal trial.


lexentry: eng/Crusade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crusade
trans_list: Kreuzzug
sense:
Any of a series of religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.


lexentry: eng/Crux__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Crux
trans_list: Kreuz des Südens
sense:
(constellation) A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross. It appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.


lexentry: eng/Cryptozoic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cryptozoic
trans_list: Kryptozoikum
sense:
(archaic, geology) An eon or other time period before the Cambrian, when the fossils of hard-shelled animals first appeared in the geological record.


lexentry: eng/Cthulhu__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cthulhu
trans_list: Cthulhu
sense:
A gigantic fictional humanoid alien god being described with a head resembling an octopus and dragon wings and claws, around whom an insane cult developed.


lexentry: eng/Cuban_red_macaw__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cuban red macaw
trans_list: Kuba-Ara
sense:
A small parrot (†Ara tricolor), formerly found in Cuba, and extinct since the late nineteenth century.


lexentry: eng/Cuman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cuman
trans_list: Kumane | Kumanin
sense:
(historical) A member of a nomadic Turkic people of central Asia who ruled parts of Eurasia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.


lexentry: eng/Cupid__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cupid
trans_list: Amor | Cupido
sense:
(Roman god) The god of love, son of Venus; sometimes depicted as a cherub (a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow). The Roman counterpart of Eros.


lexentry: eng/Cushite__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cushite
trans_list: kuschitisch
sense:
Pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa, historically considered the descendants of biblical Cush.


lexentry: eng/Cushite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cushite
trans_list: Kuschite | Kuschiter | Kuschiterin | Kuschitin
sense:
(anthropology, dated, _, in academic contexts) A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.


lexentry: eng/Cyclades__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cyclades
trans_list: Kykladen
sense:
An Aegean island chain in southeast-central Greece, surrounding the main island Delos, further including the islands of Andros, Naxos, Paros, Santorini, Syra, Tinos and Zea.


lexentry: eng/Cygnus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cygnus
trans_list: Schwan
sense:
(constellation) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a swan. It includes the triple star system HD 188753 and the stars Deneb and Albireo.


lexentry: eng/Cynic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cynic
trans_list: Kyniker | Kynikerin
sense:
A member of a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.


lexentry: eng/Cyrene__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cyrene
trans_list: Kyrene
sense:
(historical) an Ancient Greek colony in North Africa near the coast of Mediterranean Sea in the Cyrenaica region of present-day Libya.


lexentry: eng/Cyrillic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Cyrillic
trans_list: kyrillisch | Kyrillisch
sense:
Denoting an alphabet devised for writing the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language, and its adaptations used for several languages of Eastern Europe and Asia; of or relating to this writing system.


lexentry: eng/Czech_hedgehog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Czech hedgehog
trans_list: Tschechenigel
sense:
(military) A static antitank and anti-landing craft obstacle, widely used during World War II, constructed from three mutually-perpendicular steel rails connected in the form of a tripod.


lexentry: eng/D-flat_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: D-flat major
trans_list: Des-Dur
sense:
(music) a major key with the notes D♭, E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C, the key signature of which has five flats


lexentry: eng/DNA__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: DNA
trans_list: DNS | DNA
sense:
(biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid (“a nucleic acid found in all living things (and some non-living things such as certain viruses) which consists of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix; encoded in its structure are genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction”).


lexentry: eng/DVD__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: DVD
trans_list: DVD
sense:
(initialism) digital video disc or digital versatile disc; an optical disc on which video is recorded in digital format, such as commercially-released movies and other video media.


lexentry: eng/D_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: D major
trans_list: D-Dur
sense:
(music) The major key with the notes D, E, F♯, G, A, B, and C♯, the key signature of which has two sharps.


lexentry: eng/Dacia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dacia
trans_list: Dacien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. The Dacian kingdom was conquered by the Romans and later named Romania after them.


lexentry: eng/Daco-Romanian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Daco-Romanian
trans_list: Dakorumänisch
sense:
The standard Romanian language, distinguished from the Aromanian (Macedo-Romanian), Megleno-Romanian and Istro-Romanian languages.


lexentry: eng/Dada__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dada
trans_list: Dadaismus
sense:
A cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland during and as a reaction to World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920, which primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, nihilism, randomness, and rejection of the prevailing standards in art.


lexentry: eng/Daffy_Duck__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Daffy Duck
trans_list: Daffy Duck
sense:
A fictional anthropomorphic black duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons by Warner Bros.


lexentry: eng/Dakota__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Dakota
trans_list: Dakota
sense:
(historical) The Dakota Territory; an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North Dakota and South Dakota.


lexentry: eng/Dalai_Lama__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dalai Lama
trans_list: Dalai Lama
sense:
(Tibetan Buddhism) The supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism, believed to be an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, and considered the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.


lexentry: eng/Daltonism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Daltonism
trans_list: Rot-Grün-Blindheit
sense:
(medicine, pathology) Inability or defective ability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, especially red-green color blindness.


lexentry: eng/Damascus_steel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Damascus steel
trans_list: Damaszener Stahl
sense:
A kind of steel used in swordmaking from about 300 BC to 1700 AD, characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water.


lexentry: eng/Danegeld__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Danegeld
trans_list: Danegeld
sense:
(history) a tax raised originally to protect against Viking raiders in the 10th and 11th centuries, and later continued as a land tax


lexentry: eng/Danelaw__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Danelaw
trans_list: Danelag
sense:
(history) The part of Great Britain in which the laws of the Scandinavians dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.


lexentry: eng/Danish_pastry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Danish pastry
trans_list: Kopenhagener | Plunder | Plundergebäck | Teilchen
sense:
A sweet and flaky yeast-raised roll made from a dough using butter or margarine and filled with remonce (butter and sugar) or custard.


lexentry: eng/Dantesque__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dantesque
trans_list: dantesk
sense:
Of, pertaining to, or in the style of Dante; characterized by a formal, elevated tone and somber focus.


lexentry: eng/Danube_Swabian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Danube Swabian
trans_list: Donauschwabe
sense:
(often, in the plural) A member or descendant of any of the unrelated, usually non-Swabian groups of Germans that settled along the Danube and elsewhere in southeastern Europe (not including the Carpathian Germans or Transylvanian Saxons).


lexentry: eng/Danube_bleak__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Danube bleak
trans_list: Mairenke
sense:
A species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family (Chalcalburnus chalcoides, Alburnus chalcoides)


lexentry: eng/Danzig__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Danzig
trans_list: Danzig
sense:
Gdańsk (especially in reference to the times when it was part of a German-speaking state such as Prussia or Germany).


lexentry: eng/Dari__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dari
trans_list: Dari
sense:
The dialect of the Persian language as spoken natively by approximately one-half of the population in Afghanistan and which serves as the interethnic lingua franca for the vast majority of the population; also referred to as Eastern Persian, Afghan Persian, or simply Persian.


lexentry: eng/Dari__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Dari
trans_list: Dari
sense:
(historical) A variety of Middle Persian, the court language of the late Sassanid period and of classical Persian poetry.


lexentry: eng/Darwin_Award__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Darwin Award
trans_list: Darwin Award
sense:
(jocular) One of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by "removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner."


lexentry: eng/Darwin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Darwin
trans_list: Darwin
sense:
A surname, especially referring to Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist and founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection.


lexentry: eng/Darwinian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Darwinian
trans_list: Darwin’sch
sense:
Of or pertaining to the scientific views advanced by the English biologist, geologist, and naturalist Charles Darwin, especially his theory that living organisms evolve through the natural selection of inherited variations that increase organisms' ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.


lexentry: eng/Darwinism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Darwinism
trans_list: Darwinismus
sense:
The principles of natural selection set out in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859), more strictly defined by August Weismann and developed by other authors into a central part of the modern evolutionary synthesis.


lexentry: eng/Daurian_jackdaw__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Daurian jackdaw
trans_list: Elsterdohle
sense:
An Asian bird of the crow family (Coloeus dauuricus) closely related to the western jackdaw (Coloeus monedula).


lexentry: eng/David__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: David
trans_list: David
sense:
(biblical character) The second king of Judah and Israel, the successor of King Saul in the Old Testament; the son of Jesse and the father of Nathan and King Solomon.


lexentry: eng/Davos__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Davos
trans_list: Davos
sense:
(metonymy) An annual meeting of business leaders, major politicians, economists, and other celebrities hosted by the World Economic Forum in the town of Davos, Switzerland at the end of January.


lexentry: eng/Dead_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dead Sea
trans_list: Totes Meer
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest land-based elevation on Earth.


lexentry: eng/Death__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Death
trans_list: Sensenmann | Boandl | Boandlkramer | Boanl | Boanlkramer | Freund Hain
sense:
The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.


lexentry: eng/Decameron__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Decameron
trans_list: Dekameron
sense:
A collection of 100 short stories by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353.


lexentry: eng/December__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: December
trans_list: Dezember | Julmond
sense:
The twelfth and last month of the Gregorian calendar, following November and preceding the January of the following year, containing the southern solstice.


lexentry: eng/Dedekind_domain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dedekind domain
trans_list: Dedekindring
sense:
(algebra, ring theory) An integral domain in which every proper ideal factors into a product of prime ideals which is unique (up to permutations).


lexentry: eng/Defoe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Defoe
trans_list: Defoe
sense:
Daniel Defoe (c. 1659 to 1661 – 1731), English trader, writer, journalist and pamphleteer best known for writing Robinson Crusoe


lexentry: eng/Deism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Deism
trans_list: Deismus
sense:
A religious philosophy and movement prominent in 17th-18th-century England, France, and what is now the United States which rejected supernatural events such as prophecy and miracles, divine revelation, and holy books or revealed religions that assert such things exist.


lexentry: eng/Delaware__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Delaware
trans_list: Delaware | Delawaren | Delawarinnen | Lenape | Lenni Lenape
sense:
The Lenape people, the indigenous people of Lenapehoking, in what is now the Mid-Atlantic United States.


lexentry: eng/Delete__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Delete
trans_list: Entfernen
sense:
(computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.


lexentry: eng/Delphinus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Delphinus
trans_list: Delfin | Delphin
sense:
(constellation) A small summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dolphin. It lies between the constellations Cygnus and Aquila.


lexentry: eng/Demeter__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Demeter
trans_list: Demeter
sense:
(Greek god) The goddess of the fertility of the Earth and harvests, protector of marriage and social order; daughter of Cronos and Rhea, mother to Persephone.


lexentry: eng/Demiurge__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Demiurge
trans_list: Demiurg
sense:
(gnosticism) A prideful, inferior being that creates the material world; frequently identified with the creator God of the Hebrew Bible.


lexentry: eng/Democritus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Democritus
trans_list: Demokrit
sense:
A Greek philosopher (c.460-c.370 BC). The originator of the atomic theory together with his teacher Leucippus.


lexentry: eng/Demosthenes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Demosthenes
trans_list: Demosthenes
sense:
An Ancient Greek en given name, famously borne by Demosthenes, the Athenian statesman and orator of 4th century BC.


lexentry: eng/Demotic_Greek__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Demotic Greek
trans_list: Demotike | Dhimotiki | Dimotiki | Dimotikí
sense:
The Modern Greek vernacular language. It became the official Modern Greek in 1976 when Katharevousa was replaced, and was written in polytonic script until 1982, and in monotonic script after 1982.


lexentry: eng/Denali__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Denali
trans_list: Denali
sense:
The highest mountain peak in North America (the third most prominent peak after Mount Everest and Aconcagua), located in central Alaska.


lexentry: eng/Deneb__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Deneb
trans_list: Deneb
sense:
(star) A blue giant star in the constellation Cygnus; Alpha (α) Cygni. It forms one corner of the Summer Triangle. Deneb is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and one of the most luminous stars known.


lexentry: eng/Deng__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Deng
trans_list: Japanischer Marder
sense:
A common surname from Chinese, sometimes romanised as Teng, notably borne by Chinese politician Deng Xiaoping.


lexentry: eng/Denmark-Norway__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Denmark-Norway
trans_list: Dänemark-Norwegen
sense:
(historical) A former political entity consisting of the united kingdoms of Denmark and Norway, including overseas Norwegian dependencies of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands.


lexentry: eng/Denmark__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Denmark
trans_list: Dänemark
sense:
The main part of the Kingdom of Denmark, excluding the Faroe Islands and Greenland; the metropole of the Kingdom of Denmark.


lexentry: eng/Deutsche_Mark__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Deutsche Mark
trans_list: Deutsche Mark | D-Mark
sense:
(historical, numismatics) The former currency unit of Germany (now replaced by the euro), abbreviated as DM or DEM.


lexentry: eng/Devanagari__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Devanagari
trans_list: Devanagari | Dewanagari
sense:
An abugida script used to write many languages originating in India and Nepal, including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Maithili, Bhili, Konkani, Bhojpuri, and Nepali.


lexentry: eng/Devonian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Devonian
trans_list: devonisch
sense:
(geology) of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 415 to 360 million years ago


lexentry: eng/Diana__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Diana
trans_list: Diana
sense:
(Roman god) The daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Artemis.


lexentry: eng/Diels-Alder_reaction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Diels-Alder reaction
trans_list: Diels-Alder-Reaktion
sense:
(organic chemistry) The cycloaddition reaction between a conjugated diene and an alkene to form a cyclohexene ring.


lexentry: eng/Diocletian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Diocletian
trans_list: Diokletian
sense:
Roman cognomen, particularly borne by the Roman emperor Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (245-313).


lexentry: eng/Dionysus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dionysus
trans_list: Dionysos
sense:
(Greek god) The god of wine, ivy and grapes, specifically its intoxication and social influence, but also the patron of agriculture and the theater. Also related to the mystery of religion, as in "spiritual intoxication".


lexentry: eng/Discordianism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Discordianism
trans_list: Diskordianismus
sense:
A minor modern religion with absurdist elements, often seen as a parody, based on the worship of Eris, the Greek goddess of discord and confusion.


lexentry: eng/Divine_Providence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Divine Providence
trans_list: göttliche Vorsehung
sense:
(theology) the sovereignty, superintendence, or agency of God over events in people's lives and throughout history.


lexentry: eng/Dobruja__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dobruja
trans_list: Dobrudscha
sense:
A historical region shared by Bulgaria and Romania, located between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea.


lexentry: eng/Doctor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Doctor
trans_list: Doktor | Doktorin | Dr.
sense:
The title of an academic or medical doctor (a person who holds a doctorate); used before or instead of the doctor's name.


lexentry: eng/Dogri__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dogri
trans_list: Dogri
sense:
An Indo-Aryan language, spoken primarily in Jammu region, parts of Himachal Pradesh & parts of Northern Punjab in India and Pakistan.


lexentry: eng/Dolly_Varden_trout__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dolly Varden trout
trans_list: Dolly-Varden-Forelle
sense:
A salmonid fish, Salvelinus malma, native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.


lexentry: eng/Don_Quixote__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Don Quixote
trans_list: Don Quichotte | Don Quijote | Don Quixote
sense:
A famous 1605–1615 Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), whose full title is El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha).


lexentry: eng/Donald_Duck__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Donald Duck
trans_list: Donald Duck
sense:
One of the Disney cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic white-feathered duck who usually wears a sailor suit and is known for his voice especially in tantrums.


lexentry: eng/Donatism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Donatism
trans_list: Donatismus
sense:
(Christianity) An early Christian belief which maintained that apostate priests were incapable of administering the sacraments, as opposed to the orthodox view that any sacrament administered by a properly ordained priest or bishop is valid, regardless of how sinful he is or if he has converted to another religion.


lexentry: eng/Donetsk_People's_Republic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Donetsk People's Republic
trans_list: Volksrepublik Donezk
sense:
A partially-recognized secessionist state proclaimed in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on the 7th of April, 2014; it claims to be the successor state of the 1918 Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic and is one of two members of the Confederation of Novorossiya.


lexentry: eng/Donohue_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Donohue syndrome
trans_list: Leprechaunismus
sense:
(genetic disorder) A rare, severe genetic disorder resulting in elfin facial features and an impaired insulin receptor.


lexentry: eng/Doppler_effect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Doppler effect
trans_list: Doppler-Effekt | Dopplereffekt
sense:
The apparent change in frequency or wavelength of a wave that is perceived by an observer moving relative to the source of the waves.


lexentry: eng/Dorado__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dorado
trans_list: Schwertfisch
sense:
(constellation) A small constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a goldfish or swordfish. It lies between the constellations Pictor and Reticulum, and is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud.


lexentry: eng/Dornfelder__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dornfelder
trans_list: Dornfelder
sense:
(uncountable) A dark-skinned grape variety used for red wine, developed as a hybrid (Helfensteiner × Heroldrebe) by August Herold in 1955 at the Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wein- und Obstbau Weinsberg (State Education and Research Institute for Viticulture and Pomology Weinsberg) in Württemberg, Germany.


lexentry: eng/Douglas_fir__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Douglas fir
trans_list: Douglasfichte
sense:
An evergreen conifer of genus Pseudotsuga; there are four to six species native to western North America and eastern Asia.


lexentry: eng/Down_syndrome__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Down syndrome
trans_list: Down-Syndrom | Downsyndrom | Mongolismus | Trisomie 21
sense:
(neurology, chiefly, US, Australia, New Zealand) A genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21 (a chromosomal excess), whereby the patients typically have a delay in cognitive ability and physical growth, as well as a small head and tilted eyelids. [from 1961.]


lexentry: eng/Draco__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Draco
trans_list: Drache
sense:
(constellation) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dragon. It features a line of stars (including Thuban) that winds between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.


lexentry: eng/Dravidian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dravidian
trans_list: Dravidisch | Drawidisch
sense:
A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh.


lexentry: eng/Drina__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Drina
trans_list: Drina
sense:
A river that flows northward 160 miles along the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia to empty into the Sava River.


lexentry: eng/Duchy_of_Athens__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Duchy of Athens
trans_list: Herzogtum Athen
sense:
(historical) A duchy, encompassing the regions of Attica and Boeotia, which was established in Greece in 1205 after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade.


lexentry: eng/Duckburg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Duckburg
trans_list: Entenhausen
sense:
A fictional city, located in the fictional US state of Calisota, that serves as the home of Donald Duck, his surrounding cast, and several other anthropomorphic animals.


lexentry: eng/Dungan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dungan
trans_list: Dungane | Dunganin
sense:
A Muslim people originally from north-west China who currently reside in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.


lexentry: eng/Dutch_Limburg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dutch Limburg
trans_list: Niederländisch-Limburg | Niederländischer-Limburg
sense:
The roughly northeastern part of the Benelux region of Limburg (speaking Dutch and two groups of its dialects; not to be geographically confused with historical political entities), which belongs to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, where it is administratively designated as the provincie (province) Limburg, as opposed to Belgian Limburg, which is part of Flanders region (northern Belgium), confusingly under the same administrative designation


lexentry: eng/Dutch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dutch
trans_list: Niederländer | Holländer
sense:
(collective) The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands.


lexentry: eng/Dutch__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dutch
trans_list: Niederländisch | Holländisch
sense:
The main language of the Netherlands, Flanders (i.e., the northern half of Belgium) and Suriname; Netherlandic.


lexentry: eng/Dutch_auction__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Dutch auction
trans_list: Ausfahrt
sense:
A reverse auction that starts at a high price that is gradually reduced by the auctioneer until someone is willing to buy.


lexentry: eng/Dutch_elm_disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dutch elm disease
trans_list: Ulmensterben
sense:
(plant disease) A disease of elm trees caused by ascomycete fungi in the genus Ophiostoma and spread by bark beetles.


lexentry: eng/Dutchman's_breeches__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Dutchman's breeches
trans_list: Kapuzen-Herzblume
sense:
A plant of the species Lamprocapnos spectabilis, formerly Dicentra spectabilis, similar to D. cucullaria, but red or pink.


lexentry: eng/Dönmeh__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Dönmeh
trans_list: Dönme
sense:
(historical) A group of crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who, to avoid imprisonment after declaring arrival of the doomsday messiah, converted publicly to Islam, but retained their Jewish beliefs in secret.


lexentry: eng/EEA__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: EEA
trans_list: EWR
sense:
Initialism of European Economic Area (the area consisting of the European Union plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein).


lexentry: eng/EEC__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: EEC
trans_list: EWG
sense:
(historical) Initialism of European Economic Community, forerunner of the European Community (EC) and the European Union (EU).


lexentry: eng/E_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: E major
trans_list: E-Dur
sense:
(music) The major key with the notes E, F♯, G♯, A, B, C♯, D♯, the key signature of which has four sharps.


lexentry: eng/Earlier_Egyptian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Earlier Egyptian
trans_list: ältere Ägyptisch
sense:
(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by a relatively synthetic typology, including Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Middle Egyptian, and Neo-Middle Egyptian, and contrasted against Later Egyptian.


lexentry: eng/Early_Middle_Ages__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Early Middle Ages
trans_list: Frühmittelalter
sense:
(history) The period of the Middle Ages from about the fifth to the eleventh centuries that followed the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.


lexentry: eng/Early_Modern_English__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Early Modern English
trans_list: Frühneuenglisch
sense:
The form of the English language written and spoken from the end of the 15th century to the mid-17th century.


lexentry: eng/Early_New_High_German__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Early New High German
trans_list: Frühneuhochdeutsch | frühneuhochdeutsch
sense:
The form of the German language spoken from 1350 or 1500 to 1650 CE, successor to Middle High German.


lexentry: eng/Earth_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Earth Day
trans_list: Tag der Erde
sense:
(North American countries) April 22; Created in 1970, global day of observance of the need to protect the earth.


lexentry: eng/Earth_Overshoot_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Earth Overshoot Day
trans_list: Erdüberlastungstag
sense:
(ecology) The calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth's capacity to regenerate those resources that year.


lexentry: eng/Earthling__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Earthling
trans_list: Erdling | Terraner | Terranerin
sense:
(chiefly, science fiction) An inhabitant of Earth, as opposed to one of another planet; specifically, a sentient member of any species native to Earth. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/East_Asia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: East Asia
trans_list: Ostasien
sense:
The eastern part of Asia inclusive of China proper, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan and sometimes inclusive of Mongolia and Tibet and some or all of Southeast Asia and the Philippines.


lexentry: eng/East_China_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: East China Sea
trans_list: Ostchinesisches Meer
sense:
A marginal sea east of China, south of the Korean Peninsula, west of the Ryukyu Islands, and north of Taiwan.


lexentry: eng/East_Flemish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: East Flemish
trans_list: Ostflämisch
sense:
a (rather artificial, by anology with West Flemish) group of Flemish dialects of the Dutch language in the eastern part of the historic countship of Flanders (now in Belgium, and further south/west in France)


lexentry: eng/East_Frisian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: East Frisian
trans_list: ostfriesisch
sense:
Pertaining to East Frisia, the East Frisians, the East Frisian language or the East Frisian Low German dialect.


lexentry: eng/East_Frisian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: East Frisian
trans_list: Ostfriesisch | osterlauwerssches Friesisch | ostfriesische Sprache
sense:
The Frisian language spoken in East Frisia (northwest Germany), of which Saterland Frisian is the last remaining variety.


lexentry: eng/East_Germany__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: East Germany
trans_list: Ostdeutschland
sense:
(historical, 1949–1990) A former Communist country of Central Europe between 1949 and 1990, officially called the German Democratic Republic (GDR), capital East Berlin.


lexentry: eng/East_Indies__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: East Indies
trans_list: Ostindien
sense:
Southeast Asia, especially Island Southeast Asia or Indonesia, but also including India, Indochina, Malaya and the Malay Archipelago, from the Philippines to Indonesia.


lexentry: eng/East_Prussia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: East Prussia
trans_list: Ostpreußen | Ostprüßen
sense:
(historical) A historical province of Prussia and Germany, since WWII divided between Poland and Russia. A small part of the territory is part of Lithuania.


lexentry: eng/East_Siberian_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: East Siberian Sea
trans_list: Ostsibirische See
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. This sea is bordering on the Laptev Sea in the West and the Chukchi Sea in the East.


lexentry: eng/East__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: East
trans_list: Orient | Osten
sense:
The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from Arabia, India, Persia or China.


lexentry: eng/Easter_Sunday__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Easter Sunday
trans_list: Ostersonntag
sense:
(Christianity) Easter Day, a Christian religious moveable holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.


lexentry: eng/Easter_Week__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Easter Week
trans_list: Osterwoche
sense:
The week after Holy Week, starting on Easter Sunday, containing Easter Monday, and going on through to Easter Saturday.


lexentry: eng/Easter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Easter
trans_list: Ostern | Osterfest
sense:
A Christian feast commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, celebrated on the first Sunday (and Monday) following the full moon that occurs on or next after the vernal equinox, ranging in most of Western Christianity (such as Protestantism and Roman Catholicism) from March 22 to April 25, and in Eastern Christianity (such as the Coptic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church) from April 4 to May 8.


lexentry: eng/Easter_egg__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Easter egg
trans_list: Osterei
sense:
A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter and, in the Western European tradition, sometimes hidden for children to find.


lexentry: eng/Easter_egg__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Easter egg
trans_list: Easter Egg | Osterei
sense:
(computing, video games) An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes. [from 1980s]


lexentry: eng/Easter_egg__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Easter egg
trans_list: Easter Egg
sense:
(by extension) Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster.


lexentry: eng/Easter_egg_hunt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Easter egg hunt
trans_list: Ostereiersuche
sense:
A common festive activity held at Easter, where Easter eggs are hidden outdoors (or indoors if in bad weather) for children to run around and find; this may also be a contest to see who can collect the most eggs.


lexentry: eng/Eastern_Armenian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eastern Armenian
trans_list: Ostarmenisch
sense:
One of the two standardized forms of the modern Armenian language, the other being Western Armenian. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia and is the dialect spoken by Armenian diaspora in CIS countries and Iran. It developed in the 19th century in Russian Armenia.


lexentry: eng/Eastern_Bloc__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eastern Bloc
trans_list: Ostblock
sense:
(historical) The largely Communist countries of the eastern world, usually Eastern Europe and especially in the Cold War era.


lexentry: eng/Eastern_Europe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eastern Europe
trans_list: Osteuropa
sense:
A socio-politic geographical area of eastern Europe usually including the European countries to the east of Germany, Austria and Italy, and to the west of the Urals. However, a less common definition of the region excludes the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, the Baltic states and some parts of the Balkans - placing them in Central Europe instead.


lexentry: eng/Eastern_Hemisphere__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eastern Hemisphere
trans_list: östliche Hemisphäre
sense:
The hemisphere of the Earth to the east of the Greenwich Meridian (zero degree longitude) and west of 180 degrees longitude (approximately the International Date Line).


lexentry: eng/Eastern_Orthodox_Church__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eastern Orthodox Church
trans_list: Orthodoxe Kirchen | byzantinisch-orthodoxe Kirchen
sense:
One of the major branches of Christianity; it comprises the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church and other patriarchates.


lexentry: eng/Eblaite__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eblaite
trans_list: Eblaitisch
sense:
(historical) An extinct Semitic language spoken in the 3rd millennium BCE, primarily in the ancient city of Ebla, which is located in modern Syria. It was written in cuneiform script and is considered to be the oldest written Semitic language.


lexentry: eng/Ebola_fever__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ebola fever
trans_list: Ebolafieber
sense:
(disease) An extremely contagious and often fatal illness caused by the Ebola virus, characterised by fever and internal bleeding, contracted through infected body fluids.


lexentry: eng/Ebola_virus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ebola virus
trans_list: Ebolavirus
sense:
Any extremely contagious filovirus infection of African origin that causes Ebola fever, spread through contact with bodily fluids or secretions of infected persons and by airborne particles, caused by the viruses in genus Ebolavirus.


lexentry: eng/Ecbatana__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ecbatana
trans_list: Ekbatana
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, and subsequently a royal residence of Persian and Parthian kings.


lexentry: eng/Echo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Echo
trans_list: Echo
sense:
(Greek mythology) An oread, punished by Hera by losing her own voice and only being able to mimic that of others.


lexentry: eng/Eden__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eden
trans_list: Eden
sense:
(biblical) A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia.


lexentry: eng/Edomite__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Edomite
trans_list: Edomitisch
sense:
A Canaanite Semitic language spoken by the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BCE, extinct from the 6th century BCE.


lexentry: eng/Egypt__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Egypt
trans_list: Ägypten | Altes Ägypten | Altägypten
sense:
(historical) A civilization based around the river Nile, on its lower reaches nearer the Mediterranean.


lexentry: eng/Egyptian_Mau__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Egyptian Mau
trans_list: Ägyptische Mau
sense:
A domestic cat of a short-haired breed originating in Egypt, with a well-muscled medium-length body.


lexentry: eng/Egyptian_cobra__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Egyptian cobra
trans_list: Uräusschlange | Ägyptische Kobra
sense:
A species of cobra found in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Naja haje) often referred to as an asp.


lexentry: eng/Ehlers-Danlos_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
trans_list: Ehlers–Danlos-Syndrom
sense:
(medicine, pathology) Any of a group of inherited connective tissue disorders caused by a defect in the synthesis of collagen, and resulting in abnormally elastic skin, joints, muscles, etc.


lexentry: eng/Eid_al-Adha__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eid al-Adha
trans_list: Opferfest
sense:
An Islamic festival commemorating the prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail to Allah.


lexentry: eng/Eid_al-Fitr__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eid al-Fitr
trans_list: Zuckerfest | Fest des Fastenbrechens | Id al-Fitr
sense:
(Islam) The religious celebration at the end of Ramadan, on the first day of the tenth month of the Muslim lunar calendar.


lexentry: eng/Eiffel_Tower__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eiffel Tower
trans_list: Eiffelturm
sense:
An iron tower built in 1889 on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris; a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world.


lexentry: eng/Eighty_Years'_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eighty Years' War
trans_list: Achtzigjähriger Krieg
sense:
(historical) The conflict in the Low Countries against Spanish rule, from 1568 to 1648, that gradually turned into a Dutch war of independence.


lexentry: eng/Eileithyia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eileithyia
trans_list: Eileithyia
sense:
(Greek god) The goddess of childbirth and midwifery; the daughter of Zeus and Hera; the Greek counterpart of the Roman Lucina.


lexentry: eng/Einang_stone__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Einang stone
trans_list: Einangstein
sense:
A runestone, located within the Gardberg site near Fagernes, Norway, which bears an Elder Futhark Runic inscription in Proto-Norse that has been dated to the 4th century.


lexentry: eng/Einstein__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Einstein
trans_list: Einstein
sense:
Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.


lexentry: eng/Einstein_ring__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Einstein ring
trans_list: Einsteinring
sense:
(astronomy) A ring-shaped gravitational mirage; an image of a distant light source (such as a galaxy) which has been distorted into a ring by a gravitational lens.


lexentry: eng/Einstein–de_Haas_effect__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Einstein–de Haas effect
trans_list: Einstein-de Haas-Effekt
sense:
(physics) A physical phenomenon in which a change in the magnetic moment of a free body causes the body to rotate, as a consequence of the conservation of angular momentum.


lexentry: eng/Eisch__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eisch
trans_list: Eisch
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError that flows for around 50 km (31 mi) through Belgium and Luxembourg; it joins the Alzette near Mersch.


lexentry: eng/Ekavian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ekavian
trans_list: ekavisch
sense:
A dialect or group of dialects of Serbo-Croatian spoken primarily in Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as /e/.


lexentry: eng/El_Niño__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: El Niño
trans_list: El Niño
sense:
An invasion of warm water into the surface of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru and Ecuador, the positive phase of the multi-year ENSO cycle, which causes changes in local and regional climate.


lexentry: eng/Elagabalus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Elagabalus
trans_list: Elagabal
sense:
(Ancient Rome) The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (reigned 218–222), noted for eccentricity, femininity, decadence, and disregard for Roman religious traditions and sexual taboos.


lexentry: eng/Elam__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Elam
trans_list: Elam
sense:
(historical) An ancient civilization established in what is now south-western Iran before 3000 BC; its capital was Susa and its inhabitants were Elamites; known in classical times as Susiana.


lexentry: eng/Elbrus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Elbrus
trans_list: Elbrus
sense:
An inactive volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia. Elbrus's highest peak is the highest mountain in the Caucasus, and in Russia.


lexentry: eng/Eleatic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eleatic
trans_list: eleatisch
sense:
Of or relating to a certain school in Elea of Ancient Greek philosophers who taught that reality is stable and unchanging and that real knowledge comes from reason rather than senses.


lexentry: eng/Elector__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Elector
trans_list: Kurfürst | Kurfürstin
sense:
(historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.


lexentry: eng/Electoral_College__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Electoral College
trans_list: Electoral College | Wahlmänner-Gremium | Wahlmännergremium | Wahlmännerkollegium
sense:
(US politics) An electoral college chosen, within a state, to formally cast that state's votes for the president and vice president of the United States.


lexentry: eng/Electra_complex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Electra complex
trans_list: Elektrakomplex
sense:
(psychoanalysis) The theory that a female's psychological development involves a sexual attachment to the father and jealousy of the mother.


lexentry: eng/Elfdalian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Elfdalian
trans_list: Älvdalisch
sense:
A linguistic variety of the Scandinavian language continuum spoken in the old parish of Övdaln in Sweden.


lexentry: eng/Elizabethan_collar__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Elizabethan collar
trans_list: Schutzkragen
sense:
(figurative) A protective medical device worn by an animal, usually a cat or dog, shaped like a truncated cone, to prevent the animal from biting or licking at its body or scratching at its head or neck while wounds or injuries heal.


lexentry: eng/Elling_Woman__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Elling Woman
trans_list: Frau von Elling
sense:
(archaeology) A bog body found preserved in peat on the Jutland peninsula, Denmark, in 1938; the naturally mummified body of a woman believed to have died approximately 280 BCE, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the pre-Roman Iron Age.


lexentry: eng/Elsinore__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Elsinore
trans_list: Helsingör
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. Its Kronborg Castle served as the setting for William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.


lexentry: eng/Emajõgi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Emajõgi
trans_list: Emajõgi | Embach
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError which flows from Lake Võrtsjärv through Tartu County into Lake Peipus, crossing the city of Tartu for 10 km. It has a length of 101 km.


lexentry: eng/Ember_day__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ember day
trans_list: Quatember
sense:
(Christianity) Any of the three days within the same week, four separate sets of which occur roughly equidistant in the circuit of the year, that are set aside for fasting and prayer. In Western Christianity they are usually the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsunday, Holy Cross Day (14 September), and Saint Lucy's Day (13 December).


lexentry: eng/Emesene__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Emesene
trans_list: Emesene
sense:
(historical) A region in Syria along the middle and upper section of the Orontes river, between Epiphaneia to the north and Maurikiopolis to the south.


lexentry: eng/Emirate_of_Sicily__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Emirate of Sicily
trans_list: Emirat von Sizilien
sense:
(historical) A mediaeval Islamic state that ruled Sicily from 831 until falling to the Normans in 1091; specifically, the state ruled by the Kalbids, from 948 to 1091.


lexentry: eng/Empire_of_Japan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Empire of Japan
trans_list: Japanisches Kaiserreich
sense:
(historical) Japan from the Constitution of the Empire of Japan (1890) until the enactment of the post-WWII Constitution of Japan (1947). Unofficially used for Japan from the end of the shogunate (1868) to the end of the World War II (1945).


lexentry: eng/Engadin__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Engadin
trans_list: Engadin
sense:
A long valley in the Swiss Alps located in the canton of Grisons/Graubünden in southeast Switzerland.


lexentry: eng/England__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: England
trans_list: England
sense:
The kingdom established in southeast Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927 and its various successor states, now the largest and most populous of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom; (by extension, sometimes, proscribed) the area of this kingdom generally, south of Scotland and east of Wales, including (historical) this area of Celtic and Roman Britain or the post-Roman kingdoms of the Angles and other Germans taken collectively.


lexentry: eng/English-Canadian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
sense: Of or relating to anglophone (English-speaking, English-language) Canadians, of English Canada.
written_rep: English-Canadian
trans_list:
anglofon kanadisch | anglokanadisch | anglophon kanadisch | englisch-kanadisch | englischkanadisch | englischsprachig kanadisch


lexentry: eng/English_Channel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: English Channel
trans_list: Ärmelkanal
sense:
The arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the British Isles from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.


lexentry: eng/English__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: English
trans_list: Englisch
sense:
(uncountable) Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.


lexentry: eng/English__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: English
trans_list: Mittel
sense:
(printing, dated) A size of type between pica (12 point) and great primer (18 point), standardized as 14-point.


lexentry: eng/English__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: English
trans_list: Englisch | englisch
sense:
The language originating in England but now spoken in all parts of the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and other parts of the world.


lexentry: eng/English_bond__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: English bond
trans_list: Englischer Verband
sense:
(masonry) In bricklaying, an arrangement of bricks such that one course has the short sides of the bricks (headers) facing outwards, and the next course has the long sides of the bricks (stretchers) facing outwards.


lexentry: eng/English_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: English studies
trans_list: Anglistik
sense:
(humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language, English linguistics, and English sociolinguistics.


lexentry: eng/Englishman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Englishman
trans_list: Engländer
sense:
A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation. [from 7th c.]


lexentry: eng/Englishwoman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Englishwoman
trans_list: Engländerin
sense:
A female native or inhabitant of England; a woman who is English by birth, descent or naturalisation.


lexentry: eng/Enlightenment__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Enlightenment
trans_list: Aufklärung
sense:
A 17th- and 18th-century philosophical movement in European history; the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason emphasizing rationalism.


lexentry: eng/Eos__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eos
trans_list: Eos
sense:
(Greek god) The Greek goddess of the dawn; daughter of Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios and Selene, wife of Astraeus (god of the dusk), and mother of the four Anemoi ("Winds"), and the five Astra Planeta ("Wandering Stars/Planets"). Her Roman counterpart is Aurora.


lexentry: eng/Ephesians__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ephesians
trans_list: Epheserbrief
sense:
(biblical) The tenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Ephesus which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.


lexentry: eng/Epicureanism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Epicureanism
trans_list: Epikureismus
sense:
A system of philosophy, chiefly ethics, based upon the teachings of Epicurus (c. 340–c. 270 BC), that advocated retreat from public life to preserve one's long-term happiness and ataraxia.


lexentry: eng/Epimetheus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Epimetheus
trans_list: Epimetheus
sense:
(Greek mythology) Son of Iapetus and Clymene, brother to Atlas, Menoetius and Prometheus, of whom he ignored warnings to beware of any gifts from Zeus. He accepted Pandora as his wife, thereby bringing sorrow to the world; father to Pyrrha.


lexentry: eng/Epirus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Epirus
trans_list: Epirus
sense:
(historical) A larger historical kingdom in roughly the same region, widely extended by the Greek general and king Pyrrhus during the early Hellenistic period.


lexentry: eng/Epirus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Epirus
trans_list: Epirus
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; one of the thirteen peripheries (administrative regions) of modern Greece.


lexentry: eng/Equatorial_Guinean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Equatorial Guinean
trans_list: äquatorialguineisch
sense:
Of, from, or pertaining to Equatorial Guinea, the Equatorial Guinean people or the Equatorial Guinean culture.


lexentry: eng/Equuleus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Equuleus
trans_list: Füllen
sense:
(constellation) The second smallest constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a little horse. It lies west of the constellation Aquarius.


lexentry: eng/Erasmus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Erasmus
trans_list: Desiderius Erasmus von Rotterdam | Erasmus
sense:
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam), a Dutch humanist and theologian.


lexentry: eng/Erdős_number__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Erdős number
trans_list: Erdős-Zahl
sense:
(mathematics) A number describing the degree of collaboration between a mathematician and Paul Erdős, defined such that a mathematician who has written a paper with Erdős has an Erdős number of 1, a mathematician who has written a paper with somebody having an Erdős number of 1 has an Erdős number of two, and so on.


lexentry: eng/Erinyes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Erinyes
trans_list: Erinnyen
sense:
(Greek god) The Furies; the goddesses of vengeance against serious moral offence (such as oath-breaking), latterly known as protectors of Athens, of pre-Olympian origin and variously described as having sprung from the spilled blood of Uranus or as daughters of Nyx; identified with the Roman Dirae.


lexentry: eng/Eris__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eris
trans_list: Eris
sense:
(Greek god) The goddess of discord and strife, whose apple of discord sparked events that eventually led to the Trojan War; equated by Homer with Enyo (goddess of violent war) and identified with the Roman goddess Discordia;(religion, Discordianism) the same figure as principal deity of Discordianism, regarded as the goddess of disorder.


lexentry: eng/Eris__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Eris
trans_list: Eris
sense:
(astronomy) The celestial body 136199 Eris, the most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the largest known object in the scattered disk; formerly nicknamed Xena.


lexentry: eng/Erlenmeyer_flask__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Erlenmeyer flask
trans_list: Erlenmeyerkolben
sense:
(chemistry) A glass laboratory flask of a conical profile with a narrow tubular neck and a flat bottom, used to manipulate solutions or carry out titrations.


lexentry: eng/Eros__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eros
trans_list: Eros
sense:
(Greek god) The god of love and sexual desire; son of either Erebus and Nyx or Aphrodite and Ares. His Roman counterpart is Cupid.


lexentry: eng/Erzya__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Erzya
trans_list: Ersja
sense:
A Finno-Ugric language spoken primarily in the Volga region of Russia, but is also spoken in Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.


lexentry: eng/Esbjerg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Esbjerg
trans_list: Esberg | Esbjerg
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, on the North Sea. The second-largest city in its region and the fifth-largest city in Denmark.


lexentry: eng/Eskimo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eskimo
trans_list: Eskimo
sense:
(sometimes, offensive) A group of indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic, from Siberia, through Alaska and Northern Canada, to Greenland, including the Inuit and Yupik.


lexentry: eng/Esperantist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Esperantist
trans_list: Esperantist | Esperantistin
sense:
A specialist or speaker of Esperanto, the international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof.


lexentry: eng/Esperanto__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Esperanto
trans_list: Esperanto
sense:
An international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof with a base vocabulary inspired by Indo-European languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian, and having a streamlined grammar with completely regular conjugations, declensions, and inflections.


lexentry: eng/Estonian_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Estonian SSR
trans_list: Estnische SSR
sense:
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, the name for the Republic of Estonia while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1940–1991, name changed in 1990).


lexentry: eng/Ethelred__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ethelred
trans_list: Ethelred | Æthelred
sense:
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Ethelred I, King of Wessex between 865 and his death in 871


lexentry: eng/Ethelred__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ethelred
trans_list: Ethelred | Æthelred
sense:
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Ethelred II “the Unready”, King of the English between 978 and his death in 1016


lexentry: eng/Ethiopia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Ethiopia
trans_list: Äthiopien
sense:
(historical) Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile.


lexentry: eng/Etruria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Etruria
trans_list: Etrurien
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, located between the Arno and Tiber rivers, corresponding to modern day Tuscany in Western Italy; the home of Etruscans.


lexentry: eng/Euboea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euboea
trans_list: Euböa
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, the second-largest, just off the eastern coast of Boeotia, in the Aegean Sea.


lexentry: eng/Eucharist__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Eucharist
trans_list: Eucharistie | Eucharistiefeier
sense:
The substances received during this sacrament, namely the bread and wine, seen as Christ’s body and blood.


lexentry: eng/Euclidean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euclidean
trans_list: euklidisch
sense:
(geometry) Adhering to the principles of traditional geometry, in which parallel lines are equidistant.


lexentry: eng/Euclidean_algorithm__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Euclidean algorithm
trans_list: euklidische Algorithmus
sense:
(arithmetic, number theory) Specifically, a method, based on a division algorithm, for finding the greatest common divisor (gcd) of two given integers; any of certain variations or generalisations of said method.


lexentry: eng/Euclidean_distance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euclidean distance
trans_list: euklidischer Abstand
sense:
(geometry) The distance between two points defined as the square root of the sum of the squares of the differences between the corresponding coordinates of the points; for example, in two-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the Euclidean distance between two points a = (ax, ay) and b = (bx, by) is defined as: d(\textbf{a}, \textbf{b}) = \sqrt{(\textbf{a}_x - \textbf{b}_x)^2 + (\textbf{a}_y - \textbf{b}_y)^2}


lexentry: eng/Euclidean_geometry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euclidean geometry
trans_list: euklidische Geometrie
sense:
(geometry) The familiar geometry of the real world, based on the postulate that through any two points there is exactly one straight line.


lexentry: eng/Euhemerus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euhemerus
trans_list: Euhemeros
sense:
(historical) An ancient Greek Sicilian Skeptic philosopher, famed for a lost work proposing most or all mythology derived from historical figures and natural events which became supernatural only through retelling.


lexentry: eng/Euler's_formula__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Euler's formula
trans_list: eulersche Formel
sense:
(differential geometry) Formula which calculates the normal curvature of an arbitrary direction in the tangent plane in terms of the principal curvatures \kappa_1 and \kappa_2 and the angle \theta which that direction makes with the first principal direction:


lexentry: eng/Euler's_rotation_theorem__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euler's rotation theorem
trans_list: Satz vom Fußball
sense:
(geometry) A theorem which states that, in 3-dimensional space, any displacement of a rigid body such that some point on it remains fixed is equivalent to a single rotation about some axis that runs through said point.


lexentry: eng/Euler-Mascheroni_constant__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euler-Mascheroni constant
trans_list: Euler-Mascheroni-Konstante | Eulersche Konstante
sense:
(math) A constant, denoted γ and recurring in analysis and number theory, that is defined as the limiting difference between the harmonic series and the natural logarithm and has the approximate value 0.57721566.


lexentry: eng/Euler_angle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euler angle
trans_list: Euler-Winkel | eulerscher Winkel
sense:
(geometry) Any one of three angles which together describe the orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed three-dimensional coordinate system, according to a formalism introduced by Leonhard Euler.


lexentry: eng/Eumolpus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eumolpus
trans_list: Eumolpos
sense:
(Greek mythology) The son of Poseidon and Chione, who became one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the founders of the Eleusinian Mysteries.


lexentry: eng/Euphrates__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euphrates
trans_list: Euphrat
sense:
The river in the Middle East, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.


lexentry: eng/Eurasia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurasia
trans_list: Eurasien
sense:
The largest and most populous landmass on Earth, consisting of Europe and Asia; sometimes also including neighbouring islands. [1881]


lexentry: eng/Eurasia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Eurasia
trans_list: Eurasien
sense:
A region comprising parts of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia; the countries of the former Soviet Union and the sphere of influence of Russia.


lexentry: eng/Eurasian_jay__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurasian jay
trans_list: Eichelhäher
sense:
A widespread species of jay, usually crested and with pinkish-brown plumage and a harsh screech (Garrulus glandarius).


lexentry: eng/Eurasian_teal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurasian teal
trans_list: Krickente
sense:
Anas crecca, a common and widespread duck which breeds in temperate Palearctic and migrates south in winter.


lexentry: eng/Eurasianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurasianism
trans_list: Eurasismus
sense:
(geopolitics) A Russian political movement focused on the Russian geopolitical interests in Eurasia.


lexentry: eng/Euripides__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euripides
trans_list: Euripides
sense:
A Greek tragedian (c. 480–406 B.C.E.); Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens.


lexentry: eng/Eurocentrism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurocentrism
trans_list: Eurozentrismus
sense:
The practice of viewing the world from a European perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture.


lexentry: eng/Eurocrat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurocrat
trans_list: Eurokrat | Eurokratin
sense:
(slang, derogatory) An employee or minister of the European Union, typically working in Brussels or Strasbourg.


lexentry: eng/Eurodeterrent__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurodeterrent
trans_list: Eurodeterrent
sense:
The proposed unified nuclear deterrent of the European Community (before November 1993) and the European Union (after November 1993).


lexentry: eng/Eurodollar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurodollar
trans_list: Eurodollars
sense:
(economics) A deposit, in US dollars, held in a bank outside of the United States (no longer necessarily in Europe)


lexentry: eng/Eurogroup__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurogroup
trans_list: Euro-Gruppe
sense:
(European politics) The informal body composed of the finance ministers of the countries in the Eurozone.


lexentry: eng/Europe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Europe
trans_list: Europa
sense:
The portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean.


lexentry: eng/European_Central_Bank__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European Central Bank
trans_list: Europäische Zentralbank
sense:
The Central bank for the European Union, administering the monetary policy of the 17 EU Eurozone member states.


lexentry: eng/European_Council__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European Council
trans_list: Europäischer Rat
sense:
an institution of the European Union (EU) charged with defining the EU's overall political direction and priorities, that comprises the heads of state or government of the member states, along with the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission


lexentry: eng/European_Stability_Mechanism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European Stability Mechanism
trans_list: Europäischer Stabilitätsmechanismus
sense:
(finance, EU) A proposed international organisation that would provide financial assistance to members of the Eurozone in financial difficulty.


lexentry: eng/European_Union__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European Union
trans_list: Europäische Union
sense:
A supranational organisation, consisting of 27 member states, created in the 1950s to bring the nations of Europe into closer economic and political connection.


lexentry: eng/European_bitterling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European bitterling
trans_list: Bitterling
sense:
A fish of species Rhodeus amarus, originating in Europe, ranging from the Rhone River basin in France to the Neva River in Russia.


lexentry: eng/European_herring_gull__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European herring gull
trans_list: Silbermöwe
sense:
A common, large seagull, Larus argentatus, having a white and gray body and a yellow bill with a red spot and found in the coastal areas of Europe.


lexentry: eng/European_polecat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European polecat
trans_list: Iltis | Europäischer Iltis
sense:
Mustela putorius, related to mink and weasels, native to Europe and parts of Asia, and from which certain of the animals called ferrets have been domesticated.


lexentry: eng/European_rabbit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European rabbit
trans_list: Kaninchen
sense:
An animal of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus, native to southwestern Europe and northwest Africa, introduced and invasive elsewhere.


lexentry: eng/European_seabass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European seabass
trans_list: Europäischer Wolfsbarsch
sense:
A highly appreciated marine food fish found in the coastal waters of eastern Atlantic from Cape Verde to southern Norway and in the Mediterranean, (Dicentrarchus labrax).


lexentry: eng/European_shag__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European shag
trans_list: Krähenscharbe
sense:
Gulosus aristotelis (syn. Phalacrocorax aristotelis), a member of the Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant) family of seabirds.


lexentry: eng/European_spider_crab__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: European spider crab
trans_list: Meerespinne
sense:
A species of migratory crab, Maja squinado, found in the north-east Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.


lexentry: eng/Europeanisation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Europeanisation
trans_list: Europäisierung
sense:
The process whereby the people and institutions of the countries of the European Union become more European and less national.


lexentry: eng/Europop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Europop
trans_list: Europop
sense:
A style of continental European pop music from the 1970s and 1980s characterized by catchy beats, slick songs and frothy lyrics.


lexentry: eng/Eurosceptic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurosceptic
trans_list: EU-Skeptiker | EU-Skeptikerin | Europagegner | Europagegnerin | Euroskeptiker | Euroskeptikerin
sense:
(UK form) One who is sceptical of European integration, such as the EEC, the EC, the EP, the EU, the Euro, etc.


lexentry: eng/Euroscepticism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Euroscepticism
trans_list: EU-Skepsis | Euroskeptizismus | EU-Skeptizismus | Euroskepsis
sense:
Opposition to or scepticism of increasing European integration, such as the EEC, the EC, the EP, the EU, the Euro.


lexentry: eng/Eurovision__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eurovision
trans_list: Eurovision
sense:
A European broadcasting system, created by the European Broadcasting Union, that produces the Eurovision Song Contest and related programmes.


lexentry: eng/Eustachian_tube__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Eustachian tube
trans_list: Ohrtrompete
sense:
(anatomy) In humans and other land vertebrates, a tube that links the nasopharynx to the cavity of the middle ear to allow the equalization of the pressure on both sides of the eardrum.


lexentry: eng/Evangelist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Evangelist
trans_list: Evangelist | Evangelistin
sense:
(biblical) A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), (also evangelist.)


lexentry: eng/Exodus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Exodus
trans_list: Exodus
sense:
The second of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the second book in the Torah describing the Exodus.


lexentry: eng/F-sharp_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: F-sharp major
trans_list: Fis-Dur
sense:
(music) a musical key with the notes F♯, G♯, A♯, B, C♯, D♯, and E♯, the key signature of which has 6 sharps


lexentry: eng/FDP__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: FDP
trans_list: FDP | Freie Demokratische Partei
sense:
(German politics) Initialism of Free Democratic Party of Germany (Freie Demokratische Partei); a German centrist classical liberal political party.


lexentry: eng/FUBAR__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: FUBAR
trans_list: kaputt
sense:
(slang) Fucked up (or, bowdlerized, fouled up) beyond all recognition (or beyond all repair, or beyond all reason, or beyond any recovery).


lexentry: eng/Fabergé_egg__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fabergé egg
trans_list: Fabergé-Ei
sense:
One of the thousands of decorated Easter eggs made by the House of Fabergé from 1885 to 1917, especially one of the 69 large jeweled pieces made for Russian imperial family and a few other customers.


lexentry: eng/Fabian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Fabian
trans_list: fabisch
sense:
(political) Advocating that social reforms be reached through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden revolution; specifically, relating to the Fabian Society, a British socialist society advocating reformist socialism.


lexentry: eng/Facebook__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Facebook
trans_list: Facebook
sense:
(trademark) A social-networking website where users can find acquaintances or "friends", exchange messages, and post updates.


lexentry: eng/Fahrenheit__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fahrenheit
trans_list: Fahrenheit
sense:
Describing a temperature scale originally defined as having 0°F as the lowest temperature obtainable with a mixture of ice and salt, and 96°F as the temperature of the human body, and now defined with 32°F equal to 0°C, and each degree Fahrenheit equal to 5/9 of a degree Celsius or 5/9 kelvin.


lexentry: eng/Falklands_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Falklands War
trans_list: Falklandkrieg
sense:
A conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands), waged between March and June of 1982.


lexentry: eng/Fall__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fall
trans_list: Sündenfall
sense:
(theology) The sudden fall of humanity into a state of sin, as brought about by the transgression of Adam and Eve. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/Fallopian_tube__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fallopian tube
trans_list: Eileiter | Ovidukt
sense:
(anatomy) Either of the two ducts in female mammals through which ova pass from the ovaries to the uterus.


lexentry: eng/Far_East__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Far East
trans_list: Ferner Osten
sense:
(dated) East Asia (Korea, Japan, China, the Russian Far East, etc.), and Southeast Asia, taken as a whole.


lexentry: eng/Faraday_cage__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Faraday cage
trans_list: Faradayscher Käfig
sense:
Any conductive surrounding, idealized or practical, used to interrupt the transmission of electromagnetic energy or electrostatic discharge across it.


lexentry: eng/Faroese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Faroese
trans_list: Färöisch
sense:
(uncountable) The language of the Faroe Islands, closely related to Icelandic, and more distantly to Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish


lexentry: eng/Fata_Morgana__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fata Morgana
trans_list: Fata Morgana
sense:
A form of mirage caused by a temperature inversion in the atmosphere, especially one seen in the Strait of Messina.


lexentry: eng/Fatah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fatah
trans_list: Fatah
sense:
a major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).


lexentry: eng/Father's_Day__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Father's Day
trans_list: Vatertag | Herrentag | Männertag
sense:
A holiday in celebration of fatherhood, or to honor fathers, celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most of the world's countries. See Wikipedia:Father's Day:Dates.


lexentry: eng/Father__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Father
trans_list: Vater
sense:
(Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master.


lexentry: eng/Faustian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Faustian
trans_list: faustisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to Faust, especially in the sense of being willing to abandon one's principles or values in order to pursue knowledge, wealth or other benefits.


lexentry: eng/Faustian_bargain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Faustian bargain
trans_list: Teufelspakt
sense:
(idiomatic) An agreement in which a person abandons his or her spiritual values or moral principles in order to obtain knowledge, wealth or other benefits.


lexentry: eng/February__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: February
trans_list: Februar | Feber | Hornung
sense:
The short month following January and preceding March in the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, used in all three calendars for intercalation or addition of leap days.


lexentry: eng/Federal_Communications_Commission__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Federal Communications Commission
trans_list: Federal Communications Commission
sense:
US wireless regulatory authority. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.


lexentry: eng/Fehmarn_Belt__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fehmarn Belt
trans_list: Fehmarnbelt
sense:
A strait in the Baltic Sea between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland, connecting the Bay of Kiel and the Bay of Mecklenburg.


lexentry: eng/Fennoscandia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Fennoscandia
trans_list: Fennoskandien | Fennoskandinavien | Fennoskandischer Schild
sense:
(geology) the Fennoscandian Shield underlying Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Northern Denmark; Baltic Shield.


lexentry: eng/Fenrir__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fenrir
trans_list: Fenrir | Fenriswolf
sense:
(Norse mythology) A monstrous wolf, one of Loki's offspring, who bites off Tyr's right hand while being bound by the gods in fear of a prophecy that he will kill Odin, remaining so bound until the events of Ragnarok.


lexentry: eng/Fermat's_Last_Theorem__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fermat's Last Theorem
trans_list: Fermats Letzter Satz | Großer fermatscher Satz | Satz von Fermat-Wiles-Taylor
sense:
(number theory) The theorem that the Diophantine equation a^n + b^n = c^n has no solutions for positive integers a, b, c, n, where n > 2.


lexentry: eng/Fermat's_principle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fermat's principle
trans_list: Fermatsches Prinzip
sense:
(physics, optics) The principle, which links geometrical optics (or "ray optics") with wave optics, that the path traversed by a ray between two given points is: (in the original "strong" formulation) the one that takes the least time, or (in a weaker but more general formulation) one that takes a time that is "stationary" with respect to variations of the path (so that, loosely speaking, a small change in the ray path entails a very small change in the traversal time).


lexentry: eng/Ferris_wheel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ferris wheel
trans_list: Riesenrad
sense:
An amusement ride, consisting of an upright rotating wheel having seats that remain in a horizontal position as the wheel revolves.


lexentry: eng/Fertile_Crescent__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fertile Crescent
trans_list: Fruchtbarer Halbmond
sense:
(historical) A crescent-shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts.


lexentry: eng/Feynman_diagram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Feynman diagram
trans_list: Feynman-Diagramm
sense:
(physics) A pictorial representation of the interactions of subatomic particles, showing their paths in space and time as lines, and their interactions as points where lines meet.


lexentry: eng/Fibonacci_sequence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fibonacci sequence
trans_list: Fibonaccifolge
sense:
(mathematics) The sequence of integers, each of which is the sum of the preceding two, the first and second numbers both being 1.


lexentry: eng/Fijian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fijian
trans_list: Fidschi | Fidschianisch
sense:
an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.


lexentry: eng/Fimbulwinter__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fimbulwinter
trans_list: Fimbulwinter
sense:
(Norse mythology) One of the signs of the onset of the end of this world, the final, three-year-long winter (with no intervening summers); it marks the coming of the Ragnarok, the battle that will end the world.


lexentry: eng/Finlandization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Finlandization
trans_list: Finnlandisierung
sense:
(politics) The process by which a smaller or less powerful sovereign state comes to abide by a more powerful neighbor's foreign policy rules, while retaining its independence.


lexentry: eng/Finn__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Finn
trans_list: Finne | Finnin
sense:
A member of another Finnic nationality, such as (more narrowly) a Baltic Finn such as a Karelian or Estonian, or (more broadly) a Volga Finn or Perm Finn.


lexentry: eng/Finnish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Finnish
trans_list: Finnisch | finnisch
sense:
The Finno-Ugric language spoken by the majority of the people living in Finland, one of the two official languages of the country (the other is Swedish).


lexentry: eng/Finnish_forest_reindeer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Finnish forest reindeer
trans_list: Waldren
sense:
A subspecies of the reindeer, Rangifer tarandus fennicus, found only in Eastern Finland and Russian Karelia.


lexentry: eng/Finno-Ugric__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Finno-Ugric
trans_list: finno-ugrische Sprachen
sense:
A group of languages that, together with Samoyedic, make up the Uralic family; they are spoken in a broad swathe from Siberia to Norway.


lexentry: eng/Fiordland_penguin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fiordland penguin
trans_list: Dickschnabelpinguin
sense:
A species of crested penguin, Eudyptes pachyrhynchus, with distinctive blue-grey upperparts, which breed on the Fiordland coast and on nearby islands.


lexentry: eng/Firefox__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Firefox
trans_list: Firefox
sense:
(software) A free, open source, cross-platform, graphical web browser, developed by the Mozilla Foundation.


lexentry: eng/First_Communion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: First Communion
trans_list: Erstkommunion
sense:
(Roman Catholicism) The first time that a person, usually a child, receives the sacrament of Communion.


lexentry: eng/First_Communion__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: First Communion
trans_list: Erstkommunion | Erstkommunionfeier
sense:
(Roman Catholicism) The celebration of the former, consisting of a solemn mass and generally a following private party.


lexentry: eng/First_Intermediate_Period__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: First Intermediate Period
trans_list: Erste Zwischenzeit
sense:
(historical) The period of Egyptian history from the end of the Old Kingdom to the start of the Middle Kingdom (comprising the Seventh/Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and early Eleventh dynasties), characterized by a loss of central authority in favor of local nomarchs.


lexentry: eng/First_Lady__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: First Lady
trans_list: First Lady | Erste Dame
sense:
The wife of the chief executive of a nation; especially the wife of the President of a country; or a woman (e.g. a relative) who takes on similar public duties, as when the chief executive is unmarried.


lexentry: eng/First_World__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: First World
trans_list: Erste Welt
sense:
(historical, politics) Those countries aligned with the West during the Cold War, particularly in contrast to those aligned with the East (Second World).


lexentry: eng/Flag_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flag Day
trans_list: Flaggentag
sense:
(Canada) February 15, for the inauguration of the Canadian flag in 1965, National Flag of Canada Day.


lexentry: eng/Flanderization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flanderization
trans_list: Flanderisierung
sense:
(uncountable) The progressive exaggeration of a single trait or set of traits of a fictional character until it overtakes all other characterization [from c. 2006]


lexentry: eng/Flaubertian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flaubertian
trans_list: Flaubert'sch
sense:
Of or relating to Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), influential French novelist in the style of literary realism.


lexentry: eng/Flemish_Community__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flemish Community
trans_list: Flämische Gemeinschaft
sense:
One of the three communities of Belgium, consisting of the Flemish Region (the provinces of West Flanders, East Flanders, Flemish Brabant, Antwerp, Limburg) and partially the Brussels-Capital Region.


lexentry: eng/Flemish__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flemish
trans_list: flämisch | Flämisch
sense:
Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.


lexentry: eng/Flemish_bond__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flemish bond
trans_list: Flämischer Verband
sense:
(masonry) In bricklaying, an arrangement of bricks such that each course consists of alternate bricks having their short sides (headers) and long sides (stretchers) facing outwards, with alternate courses being offset.


lexentry: eng/Flora__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flora
trans_list: Flora
sense:
(Roman god) the goddess of flowers, nature and spring; she is also the wife of Favonius and the mother of Karpos. She is the Roman counterpart of Chloris.


lexentry: eng/Florence__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: Florence
trans_list: Florenz
sense:
(historical) a medieval and early modern republic centered on the city of Florence in Italy that existed from 1115 to 1185 and from 1197 to 1569 when the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was formed.


lexentry: eng/Florida_panther__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Florida panther
trans_list: Florida-Panther
sense:
Puma concolor cougar, an endangered cougar that lives in forests and swamps of southern Florida in the United States.


lexentry: eng/Floréal__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Floréal
trans_list: Blütenmonat | Floréal | Blumenmonat
sense:
(historical) The eighth month of the French Republican Calendar, from April 20 or 21 to May 19 or 20.


lexentry: eng/Flying_Dutchman__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flying Dutchman
trans_list: Fliegender Holländer
sense:
(nautical, _, folklore) A mythical Dutch-flagged ghost clipper that is very fast sailing, and never makes it to port, seen on the high seas, where upon being hailed, occupants request information on persons long dead, or leave messages for said people. In European naval folklore, it was considered to portend bad luck.


lexentry: eng/Flying_Fortress__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flying Fortress
trans_list: Fliegende Festung
sense:
(informal) The Boeing B-17, a United States WWII heavy bomber, based upon a reputation for toughness and reliability, as well as its relatively heavy defensive armament at the expense of bombload.


lexentry: eng/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Flying Spaghetti Monster
trans_list: Fliegendes Spaghettimonster
sense:
(humorous) A deity consisting of spaghetti and meatballs, the creator of the universe according to the religion of Pastafarianism.


lexentry: eng/Fomalhaut__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fomalhaut
trans_list: Fomalhaut
sense:
(star) The brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky; Alpha (α) Piscis Austrini.


lexentry: eng/Ford_circle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ford circle
trans_list: Ford-Kreis
sense:
(geometry) Any one of a class of circles with centre at (p/q, 1/(2q2)) and radius 1/(2q2), where p/q is an irreducible fraction (i.e., p and q are coprime integers).


lexentry: eng/Fordism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fordism
trans_list: Fordismus
sense:
An economic and social system based on industrial mass production, where the worker is paid relatively high wages in order to buy in large quantity the products turned out in mass production.


lexentry: eng/Fornax__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fornax
trans_list: Chemischer Ofen
sense:
(constellation) A winter constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a furnace. It lies near the constellation Eridanus.


lexentry: eng/Forschungsstipendium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Forschungsstipendium
trans_list: Forschungsstipendium
sense:
(education) Any of a certain kind of scholarship or fellowship granted by some German academic Stiftungen to fund or subsidize a specified project of academic research; a research scholarship.


lexentry: eng/Foucault's_pendulum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Foucault's pendulum
trans_list: Foucaultsches Pendel
sense:
A pendulum on a long wire, free to move in any direction; the plane of its motion appears to turn (clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere) as the world turns beneath it.


lexentry: eng/Founding_Father__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Founding Father
trans_list: Gründervater der USA
sense:
(chiefly, US) Any of the men who were responsible for the founding of the United States of America. Chiefly used to refer to political leaders who drafted the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and to military leaders who fought in the American Revolutionary War.


lexentry: eng/Fountain_of_Youth__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fountain of Youth
trans_list: Jungbrunnen
sense:
(mythology) A legendary spring of water with the magical property of restoring youth and health to those who bathe or drink from it.


lexentry: eng/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
trans_list: Apokalyptische Reiter | vier apokalyptischen Reiter
sense:
(biblical) Four beings in Revelation 6:1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each embodied as a horseman riding a different-colored horse that represents a different aspect of the Apocalypse.


lexentry: eng/Fourier_series__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fourier series
trans_list: Fourier-Reihe | Fourierreihe
sense:
(mathematics, analysis) Any series resulting from the decomposition of a periodic function into terms involving cosines and sines (or, equivalently, complex exponentials).


lexentry: eng/Fourier_transform__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fourier transform
trans_list: Fourier-Transformation | Fouriertransformation
sense:
(analysis, harmonic analysis, physics, electrical engineering) A particular integral transform that when applied to a function of time (such as a signal), converts the function to one that plots the original function's frequency composition; the resultant function of such a conversion.


lexentry: eng/Franche-Comté__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Franche-Comté
trans_list: Franche-Comté | Freigrafschaft Burgund
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError; since 2015, part of the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.


lexentry: eng/Francoism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Francoism
trans_list: Franquismus
sense:
(historical) The period of history in Spain under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, from 1936/1939 to 1975.


lexentry: eng/Frank__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Frank
trans_list: Franke | Fränkin
sense:
One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.


lexentry: eng/Franklin's_gull__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Franklin's gull
trans_list: Präriemöwe
sense:
A migratory gull that breeds in the Northern Hemisphere and winters in the Southern Hemisphere; Leucophaeus pipixcan.


lexentry: eng/Fransaskois__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fransaskois
sense:
Pertaining to the francophone and French Canadian population of Saskatchewan, Franco-Saskatchewanian.

trans_list:
franko-saskatchewanisch | franko-saskatschewanisch | frankosaskatchewanisch | frankosaskatschewanisch


lexentry: eng/Fransaskois__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
sense: A member of the francophone French Canadian community of Saskatchewan, Franco-Saskatchewanian.
written_rep: Fransaskois
trans_list:
Franko-Saskatchewaner | Franko-Saskatchewanerin | Franko-Saskatschewaner | Franko-Saskatschewanerin | Frankosaskatchewaner | Frankosaskatchewanerin


lexentry: eng/Fransén-Robinson_constant__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fransén-Robinson constant
trans_list: Fransén–Robinson-Konstante
sense:
(mathematics) The numeric value of the integral over the positive real numbers of the reciprocal of the gamma function, \textstyle F=\int_0^\infty \frac 1 {\Gamma(x)} dx = 2.8077702420285....


lexentry: eng/Franz_Josef_Land__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Franz Josef Land
trans_list: Franz-Josef-Land
sense:
An archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, north of Novaya Zemlya, east of Svalbard.


lexentry: eng/FreeCell__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: FreeCell
trans_list: FreeCell
sense:
A solitaire card game, similar to Klondike but with the addition of cells where one card can be placed at a time.


lexentry: eng/Free_City_of_Danzig__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Free City of Danzig
trans_list: Freie Stadt Danzig
sense:
(historical) A sovereign state at the Baltic Sea between the World Wars I and II, encompassing the city of Danzig


lexentry: eng/Freedom_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Freedom Day
trans_list: Freiheitstag
sense:
Any of various annual commemorative days that mark the start of an era of freedom, such as the end of apartheid in South Africa or the withdrawal of British troops from Malta.


lexentry: eng/Freemason__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Freemason
trans_list: Freimaurer
sense:
A member of the Free and Accepted Masons (sometimes entitled Ancient Free and Accepted Masons), an international fraternal and charitable organization.


lexentry: eng/Fregean__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fregean
trans_list: Fregesch
sense:
Of or relating to German philosopher Gottlob Frege and his philosophy, including his distinction between "sense" and "reference".


lexentry: eng/French-Canadian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
sense: Of or relating to Francophone Canadians or French Canada.
written_rep: French-Canadian
trans_list:
frankofon kanadisch | frankokanadisch | frankophon kanadisch | französisch-kanadisch | französischkanadisch | französischsprachig kanadisch


lexentry: eng/French_Defence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: French Defence
trans_list: Französische Verteidigung
sense:
A chess opening characterized by the moves 1.e4 e6, in which the white king's pawn advances two squares and the black king's pawn advance one square.


lexentry: eng/French_Indochina__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: French Indochina
trans_list: Französisch-Indochina
sense:
A former part of the French colonial empire in Indochina in southeast Asia, consisting of the current territories of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.


lexentry: eng/French_Revolution__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: French Revolution
trans_list: Französische Revolution
sense:
A period in France of radical social and political upheaval which saw the country change from a monarchy to a republic (1789–1799).


lexentry: eng/French__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: French
trans_list: Französisch | französisch
sense:
(chiefly, _, uncountable) The language of France, shared by the neighboring countries Belgium, Monaco, and Switzerland and by former French colonies around the world.


lexentry: eng/French_drop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: French drop
trans_list: Bambuslibelle
sense:
(magic) A sleight of hand technique by which a magician appears to pass an object from one hand to the other while in fact keeping it in the original hand.


lexentry: eng/French_maid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: French maid
trans_list: Zofe
sense:
A lady's maidservant of French origin, formerly considered a status symbol among wealthy households; now usually with reference to the titillating costume associated with them.


lexentry: eng/French_onion_soup__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: French onion soup
trans_list: Zwiebelsuppe
sense:
(culinary) A soup made with onions and beef broth or beef stock, traditionally served with croutons and cheese as toppings.


lexentry: eng/French_paradox__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: French paradox
trans_list: Französische Paradox
sense:
The observation that the French suffer a relatively low incidence of coronary heart disease, despite having a diet relatively rich in saturated fats.


lexentry: eng/Frenchy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Frenchy
trans_list: Franzmann
sense:
(slang, sometimes, derogatory) A native or resident of France, or a francophone, or a person of French lineage.


lexentry: eng/Freudian_slip__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Freudian slip
trans_list: Freudsche Fehlleistung | Freudscher Fehler | Freudscher Versprecher
sense:
(psychology) A mistake in speech or action in which a person supposedly shows their true subconscious desires.


lexentry: eng/Friday__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Friday
trans_list: Freitag
sense:
The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim Sabbath; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.


lexentry: eng/Friday_the_thirteenth__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Friday the thirteenth
trans_list: Freitag der [[13.]]
sense:
A particular date combination that occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on a Friday, and which is considered unlucky in some cultures.


lexentry: eng/Frigg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Frigg
trans_list: Frigg | Frigga
sense:
(Germanic mythology, Norse mythology) The wife of Odin, and the Norse/Germanic goddess of married love, the heavens, home and hearth, after whom Friday is named (due to her being identified with Venus).


lexentry: eng/Frimaire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Frimaire
trans_list: Frimaire | Reifmonat | Frostmonat
sense:
(historical) The third month of the French Republican Calendar, from November 21, 22 or 23 to December 20, 21 or 22.


lexentry: eng/Frisian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Frisian
trans_list: Friese | Friesisch
sense:
A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is native to the region of Frisia (which is in the Netherlands, northern Germany, and southern Denmark).


lexentry: eng/Frisian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Frisian
trans_list: Friesisch
sense:
A Germanic language group or language (see Usage notes), or a lect thereof, which descended from Old Frisian, with speakers in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.


lexentry: eng/Frobenius_endomorphism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Frobenius endomorphism
trans_list: Frobeniushomomorphismus
sense:
(algebra, commutative algebra, field theory) Given a commutative ring R with prime characteristic p, the endomorphism that maps x → x p for all x ∈ R.


lexentry: eng/Fructidor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fructidor
trans_list: Fruchtmonat | Fructidor
sense:
(historical) The twelfth and final month of the French Republican Calendar, from August 18 or 19 to September 16 or 17.


lexentry: eng/Fusha__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Fusha
trans_list: Fusha | Standartarabisch | arabische Hochsprache
sense:
Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, taken together: "standard" Arabic, used in religious texts, in writing, and in formal speech, as opposed to the regional "dialects" used for most daily communication.


lexentry: eng/G20__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: G20
trans_list: Gruppe der Zwanzig
sense:
(politics, economics) A group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies: 19 countries plus the European Union.


lexentry: eng/GDPR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: GDPR
trans_list: DSGVO | DS-GVO | EU-DS-GVO | EU-DSGVO | EU-Datenschutzgrundverordnung
sense:
(European Union, _, law) Initialism of General Data Protection Regulation: a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).


lexentry: eng/GPS_receiver__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: GPS receiver
trans_list: Navi | Navigationsgerät
sense:
An audiovisual device, fitted to a civilian road vehicle, that uses the military Global Positioning System (U.S. Navstar system) as an aid to navigation.


lexentry: eng/GTA__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: GTA
trans_list: GTA
sense:
(video games) Initialism of Grand Theft Auto, a series of video games by Rockstar Games involving car theft and gang warfare (e.g. GTA V).


lexentry: eng/G_major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: G major
trans_list: G-Dur
sense:
(music) The major key with the notes G, A, B, C, D, E, F♯, the key signature of which has one sharp.


lexentry: eng/Gael__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gael
trans_list: Gäle | Gälin
sense:
A member of an ethnic group in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, whose language is one that is Gaelic.


lexentry: eng/Gaelic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gaelic
trans_list: Ersisch
sense:
Of or relating to the Gaels, the Goidel peoples of Scotland, Ireland, and the Manx, or their languages.


lexentry: eng/Gaia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Gaia
trans_list: Gaia
sense:
(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, the personification of the earth, and one of the primordial deities from whom all the others descend.


lexentry: eng/Gaian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gaian
trans_list: Gaianer
sense:
A radical Green who views the ecology of the Earth's biosphere not only as the basis of human moral examples, but of all cognition and even sentience.


lexentry: eng/Galapagos_Islands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Galapagos Islands
trans_list: Galapagosinseln
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, famed for their influence on Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.


lexentry: eng/Galatians__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Galatians
trans_list: Galater
sense:
(biblical) The ninth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of Saint Paul to the Galatians.


lexentry: eng/Galego__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Galego
trans_list: Galicisch
sense:
A language spoken in the region of Galicia in the Northwestern corner of the Spanish peninsula and which is related to Portuguese. It is believed to be the parent language of Portuguese and shares many similarities with it, but typically uses Spanish orthography.


lexentry: eng/Galician__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Galician
trans_list: Galicisch | Galizisch | Galicier | Galizier | Galicierin | Galizierin
sense:
(uncountable) The language of Galicia; a Romance language spoken in the northwestern corner of the Iberian peninsula.


lexentry: eng/Galilean__Adjective__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Galilean
trans_list: galileisch
sense:
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Galileo Galilei.


lexentry: eng/Galileo__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Galileo
trans_list: Galileo
sense:
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), an Italian thinker and key figure in the scientific revolution who improved the telescope, made astronomical observations, and put forward the basic principle of relativity in physics.


lexentry: eng/Gallicanism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gallicanism
trans_list: Gallikanismus
sense:
(historical, chiefly, Roman Catholicism) The doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope; the intellectual movement in support of this doctrine and the policies expressing it.


lexentry: eng/Gallo-Roman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gallo-Roman
trans_list: Galloromanisch
sense:
(historical) A Romanized Gaul, i.e. a Gaulish person who adopted or adapted the culture, language etc. of the Roman Empire following the establishment of Roman rule in the region of Gaul.


lexentry: eng/Gallurese__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gallurese
trans_list: Galluresisch
sense:
A Romance language or dialect, transitional between Corsican and Sardinian, spoken in the historical region of Gallura, northeastern Sardinia.


lexentry: eng/Gandhi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Gandhi
trans_list: Gandhi
sense:
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, and proponent of nonviolence.


lexentry: eng/Gang_of_Four__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gang of Four
trans_list: Viererbande
sense:
(China, historical, politics) A leftist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials that came to prominence during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.


lexentry: eng/Ganymede__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ganymede
trans_list: Ganymed
sense:
(Greek god) A Trojan boy who was abducted (either by Zeus or Eos), and ultimately became immortal in order to be Zeus' cupbearer.


lexentry: eng/Garden_of_Eden__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Garden of Eden
trans_list: Garten Eden
sense:
(Abrahamic religions) In the Book of Genesis of the Bible and Surat Sad of the Qur'an, a garden at the source of the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers, where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.


lexentry: eng/Gaugamela__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gaugamela
trans_list: Gaugamela
sense:
(historical) a village in Assyria, where in 331 BC Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III


lexentry: eng/Gaza_Strip__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gaza Strip
trans_list: Gazastreifen
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError: A small area of land on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a Palestinian territory bordered by Egypt and Israel.


lexentry: eng/Gehenna__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gehenna
trans_list: Gehinnom
sense:
In rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.


lexentry: eng/Gemini__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gemini
trans_list: Zwillinge
sense:
(zodiac constellations) A constellation of the zodiac traditionally taken to represent the pair of twins Castor and Pollux in Greek mythology. It contains the stars Castor, Pollux, and Alhena.


lexentry: eng/Gemini__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Gemini
trans_list: Zwillinge
sense:
(astrology) The zodiac sign for the twins, ruled by Mercury and covering May 22 – June 21 (tropical astrology) or June 16 – July 15 (sidereal astrology).


lexentry: eng/General_Government__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: General Government
trans_list: Generalgouvernement
sense:
(historical) an occupation zone established by Nazi Germany consisting of parts of modern day Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine


lexentry: eng/Generation_Z__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Generation Z
trans_list: Generation Z
sense:
The generation of people born between the late 1990s to early 2010s, following Generation Y. Typically defined as starting with 1997 births and ending at 2012 births.


lexentry: eng/Geneva_Convention__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Geneva Convention
trans_list: Genfer Konvention
sense:
(international law) An international treaty which defines the required treatment for prisoners of war by their captors.


lexentry: eng/Genoa__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: Genoa
trans_list: Genua
sense:
(historical) a maritime republic in northwestern Italy that existed from the 11th century until its disestablishment in 1797 when Napoleon formed the Ligurian Republic, a client state; Genoa briefly regained independence in 1814 before becoming quickly annexed by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1815.


lexentry: eng/Genoa_cake__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Genoa cake
trans_list: Genueser Kuchen | genuesischer Kuchen
sense:
(mostly, UK) A fruitcake consisting of sultanas, currants or raisins, glacé cherries, almonds, and candied orange peel or essence, cooked in a batter of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar.


lexentry: eng/George__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: George
trans_list: Georg | Jürgen
sense:
A diminutive of the en given names Georgina or Georgia; also used in the conjoined name George Ann(e).


lexentry: eng/Georgian_SSR__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Georgian SSR
trans_list: Georgische SSR
sense:
(historical) : the Republic of Georgia while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1936–1991, name changed in 1990).


lexentry: eng/Georgian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Georgian
trans_list: georgisch | grusinisch
sense:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Eastern European country of Georgia, the Georgian people or the Georgian language.


lexentry: eng/Georgian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Georgian
trans_list: Georgier | Georgierin | Grusier | Grusierin
sense:
(countable) A person or a descendant of a person from Georgia, a country in Eastern Europe and Western Asia.


lexentry: eng/German_Autumn__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: German Autumn
trans_list: Deutscher Herbst
sense:
(historical) A set of events in late 1977, revolving around the kidnapping and murder of industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, by the Red Army Faction (RAF), and the hijacking of the Lufthansa aeroplane Landshut by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).


lexentry: eng/German_Confederation__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: German Confederation
trans_list: Deutscher Bund
sense:
(historical) An association of predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe in the 19th century.


lexentry: eng/German_Spaniel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: German Spaniel
trans_list: Deutscher Wachtelhund
sense:
A hunting dog of a breed developed in Germany around 1890, having a sturdy build and a brown coat with occasional white markings.


lexentry: eng/German__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: German
trans_list: Deutscher | Germane | Deutsche | Germanin
sense:
A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent.


lexentry: eng/German__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: German
trans_list: Achtelcicero
sense:
(uncountable, US, _, printing, rare, dated) A size of type between American and Saxon, 1+1⁄2-point type.


lexentry: eng/German__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: German
trans_list: Deutsch | deutsche Sprache | deutsch
sense:
(uncountable) An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium.


lexentry: eng/German_chamomile__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: German chamomile
trans_list: Kamille
sense:
An annual plant, Matricaria recutita, of the aster family, which is the type of camomile most used for tea.


lexentry: eng/German_dualism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: German dualism
trans_list: deutscher Dualismus
sense:
(German history) The period (1740–1866) during which Germany was dominated by the two poles of Austria and Prussia vying for supremacy thereover.


lexentry: eng/German_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: German studies
trans_list: Germanistik
sense:
(humanities) A field that researches, documents, and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms.


lexentry: eng/German_wheel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: German wheel
trans_list: Rhönrad
sense:
(circus arts) An apparatus made up of two large, usually steel rings joined together by a set of parallel steel bars.


lexentry: eng/Germania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Germania
trans_list: Germanien
sense:
(historical) Any of several geographical regions of different historical periods that were mainly inhabited by Germanic peoples.


lexentry: eng/Germanic__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Germanic
trans_list: Germanisch | germanisch
sense:
(linguistics) The early, undocumented ancestral language from which other Germanic languages developed, such as Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Frisian, English, German, Faroese, Icelandic, Yiddish, Norwegian and Swedish.


lexentry: eng/Germanist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Germanist
trans_list: Germanist | Germanistin
sense:
(humanities, ;, dated) A person who studies the Germanic languages, the associated literatures and/or cultures. [from late 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Germany__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Germany
trans_list: Deutschland
sense:
A nation or civilization occupying the country around the Rhine, Elbe, and upper Danube Rivers in Central Europe, taken as a whole under its various governments.


lexentry: eng/Germinal__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Germinal
trans_list: Germinal | Keimmonat
sense:
(historical) The seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, starting on the date of the vernal equinox (March 21 or 22) and ending on April 19 or 20.


lexentry: eng/Gesamtkunstwerk__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gesamtkunstwerk
trans_list: Gesamtkunstwerk
sense:
Total artwork; an artistic creation such as an operatic performance that encompasses music, theatre and the visual arts.


lexentry: eng/Gestalt_therapy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gestalt therapy
trans_list: Gestalttherapie
sense:
(psychology) An existential and experiential psychotherapy that focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment.


lexentry: eng/Gethsemane__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gethsemane
trans_list: Getsemani | Gethsemane | Gethsemani
sense:
A biblical location in ancient Jerusalem, a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus underwent the agony in the garden and was arrested the night before his crucifixion.


lexentry: eng/Ghibelline__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ghibelline
trans_list: Ghibelline | Gibelline | Waiblinger
sense:
(historical, politics) In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Holy Roman Emperor in a long struggle against the Guelphs and the Pope.


lexentry: eng/Ghost_Festival__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ghost Festival
trans_list: Geisterfest
sense:
A traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival in Asia, when ghosts and spirits are said to emerge from the lower realm, and deceased ancestors are venerated.


lexentry: eng/Ghost_of_Christmas_Past__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ghost of Christmas Past
trans_list: Geist der vergangenen Weihnacht
sense:
A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who visits Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show him his past, especially certain events of past Christmases that contributed to his later distaste for Christmas.


lexentry: eng/Ghost_of_Christmas_Present__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ghost of Christmas Present
trans_list: Geist der diesjährigen Weihnacht
sense:
A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, who visits Ebenezer Scrooge accompanied by a great feast in order to show him events of the current Christmas.


lexentry: eng/Ghost_of_Christmas_Yet_to_Come__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
trans_list: Geist der kommenden Weihnacht
sense:
A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; it visits Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show his impending fate of death and loneliness in a future Christmas that is ultimately avoided.


lexentry: eng/Gila_monster__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gila monster
trans_list: Gila-Krustenechse
sense:
A venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, that lives in the deserts of the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico.


lexentry: eng/Girl_Scout__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Girl Scout
trans_list: Girl Scout
sense:
(US) A member of the Girl Scouts, a worldwide youth organisation for girls, known as Girl Guides in Commonwealth countries.


lexentry: eng/Glagolitic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Glagolitic
trans_list: Glagoliza
sense:
(linguistics) The oldest known Slavonic alphabet, designed around 862–863 by Saint Cyril in order to translate the Bible and other texts into Old Church Slavonic. Mostly replaced by Cyrillic alphabet in Orthodox Christian Slavic countries, but still in use in the Croatian Church along the Dalmatian coast, in Czech and Croatian recensions of Church Slavic.


lexentry: eng/Global_Positioning_System__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Global Positioning System
trans_list: Global Positioning System
sense:
(cartography) A system which enables a mobile receiver to determine its precise location based on signals received from a constellation of US military satellites.


lexentry: eng/Gnosticism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gnosticism
trans_list: Gnostizismus | Gnosis
sense:
A wide variety of Jewish and early Christian sects having an interest in gnosis, or divine knowledge, and generally holding the belief that there is a god greater than the Demiurge, or the creator of the world.


lexentry: eng/Go_Fish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Go Fish
trans_list: Quartett
sense:
(card games) A children's card game in which players ask each other for cards of a particular rank, requiring them to "fish" in a pool of additional cards if they do not have the requested card.


lexentry: eng/God-fearer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: God-fearer
trans_list: Gottesfürchtige | Gottesfürchtiger
sense:
(historical, Christianity) A member of a class of non-Jewish sympathizers to Second Temple Judaism, mentioned in the New Testament and other contemporary sources.


lexentry: eng/God-fearing__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: God-fearing
trans_list: gottesfürchtig
sense:
(religion) Following the precepts of a religious practice; respecting and revering God and his authority.


lexentry: eng/God__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: God
trans_list: Gott
sense:
The single deity of various monotheistic religions, especially the deity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.


lexentry: eng/God_the_Father__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: God the Father
trans_list: Gott der Vater | Gottvater
sense:
(Christian, _, theology) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to the God of Abraham and the Jewish scriptures and considered the creator of mankind and Father of Jesus Christ


lexentry: eng/God_the_Holy_Ghost__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: God the Holy Ghost
trans_list: Gott der Heiliger Geist
sense:
(Christian, _, theology) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to divine essence present in the faithful (particularly, inspired prophets) and considered to proceed either (Eastern Orthodoxy) from God the Father alone or (Roman Catholicism) from Him together with God the Son.


lexentry: eng/God_the_Son__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: God the Son
trans_list: Gott der Sohn
sense:
(Christian, _, theology) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to the Word of God, which became flesh—incarnated—in Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God the Father.


lexentry: eng/God_works_in_mysterious_ways__Proverb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: God works in mysterious ways
trans_list: die Wege des Herrn sind unergründlich | Gottes Wege sind unergründlich
sense:
Commenting that a seemingly unfortunate or unfavourable situation or change may be beneficial later or in the long run.


lexentry: eng/Godspeed__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Godspeed
trans_list: viel Erfolg!
sense:
(literary) Used, especially at a parting, to express the wish that the outcome of the actions of a person (typically someone about to start a journey or a daring endeavour) is positive for them.


lexentry: eng/Golden_Fleece__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Golden Fleece
trans_list: Goldenes Vlies
sense:
(Greek mythology) A magical fleece from a winged ram guarded by the hydra in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts.


lexentry: eng/Golden_Fleece__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Golden Fleece
trans_list: Goldenes Vlies
sense:
A chivalric order founded in 1430 by Duke Philip III of Burgundy. Later awarded in Spain and Habsburg Austria.


lexentry: eng/Golden_Horde__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Golden Horde
trans_list: Goldene Horde
sense:
(historical) A Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire.


lexentry: eng/Goldilocks__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Goldilocks
trans_list: Goldlöckchen
sense:
The protagonist of a traditional fairy tale. She is a golden-haired young girl who inquisitively enters the house of three bears and tries their three bowls of porridge, three chairs, and three beds, in each case finding only one that suits her.


lexentry: eng/Goliard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Goliard
trans_list: Vagant
sense:
(historical) A wandering student of the 12th or 13th century, whose convivial lifestyle included minstrelsy and a typical satyric Latin poetry.


lexentry: eng/Gollum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gollum
trans_list: Gollum
sense:
A person who bears the traits or has the characteristics of Gollum in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.


lexentry: eng/Gomorrah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gomorrah
trans_list: Gomorra | Gomorrha | Gomorrhah
sense:
(Biblical, Quranic) TemplateParserError:LuaError which, according to the Hebrew Bible and to Islamic tradition, was destroyed by God (along with Sodom) for the sins of its inhabitants.


lexentry: eng/Gondwana__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Gondwana
trans_list: Gondwana
sense:
(geology) A southern supercontinent, formed before Pangaea between 600 and 530 million years ago, that included most of the landmasses which make up today's continents of the Southern Hemisphere.


lexentry: eng/Good_Friday__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Good Friday
trans_list: Karfreitag | Charfreitag | Hoher Freitag | Stiller Freitag
sense:
(Christianity) The Friday before Easter Sunday, the commemoration of the day on which Christ was crucified.


lexentry: eng/Good_King_Henry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Good King Henry
trans_list: Guter Heinrich
sense:
A goosefoot of species Blitum bonus-henricus (syn. Chenopodium bonus-henricus), native to Britain and much of Europe, cultivated as a vegetable.


lexentry: eng/Gordias__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gordias
trans_list: Gordias | Gordios
sense:
(Greek mythology) The name of at least two members of the royal house of Phrygia, the best-known of which was reputedly the founder of the Phrygian capital city Gordium, the maker of the legendary Gordian knot, and the father of the legendary king Midas.


lexentry: eng/Goth__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Goth
trans_list: Gote | Gotin
sense:
A member of the East Germanic people known for their invasion of the western Roman Empire and subsequent founding of successor states in Italy and Spain during Late Antiquity.


lexentry: eng/Gothic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Gothic
trans_list: gotisch
sense:
(architecture) Of or relating to the architectural style favored in Western Europe in the 12th to 16th centuries, with high-pointed arches, clustered columns, etc. [from 1640s]


lexentry: eng/Gothic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Gothic
trans_list: gotisch | Gothic
sense:
(literature) Of or relating to the style of fictional writing associated with Gothic fiction, emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious, desolate setting. [from early 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/Gothic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: Gothic
trans_list: gotisch
sense:
(typography, USA) Of a sans serif typeface using straight, even-width lines, also known as grotesque.


lexentry: eng/Gothicism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Gothicism
trans_list: Gotizismus
sense:
An early modern Swedish cultural movement glorifying the ancient Goths, who were thought to be the ancestors of the Swedish people.


lexentry: eng/Gotland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Gotland
trans_list: Gotland
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError; the only municipality there, so it, the county and island all have the same area.


lexentry: eng/Gottscheerish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gottscheerish
trans_list: Gottscheerisch
sense:
The Germanic lect (sometimes considered an independent language and sometimes considered a dialect of Bavarian) historically used by the Gottscheers in the enclave of Gottschee, Slovenia, now little spoken.


lexentry: eng/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Grand Duchy of Lithuania
trans_list: Großfürstentum Litauen
sense:
(historical) A former European state from the 13th century until 1795, encompassing the territory of modern-day Lithuania and Belarus, a large part of Ukraine, and small parts of Russia and Poland


lexentry: eng/Grandmaster__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Grandmaster
trans_list: Großmeister | Grossmeister | Grossmeisterin | Großmeisterin
sense:
(chess) A player of the highest rank, as determined by FIDE, with an Elo rating of at least 2500. [From 1950.]


lexentry: eng/Great_Bear__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Bear
trans_list: Großer Bär
sense:
(constellation) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a large bear. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.


lexentry: eng/Great_Britain__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Britain
trans_list: Großbritannien
sense:
The island (and sometimes including some of the surrounding smaller islands) off the north-west coast of Europe made up of England, Scotland, and Wales.


lexentry: eng/Great_Britain__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Great Britain
trans_list: Großbritannien
sense:
(historical, or, loosely) The United Kingdom, or its predecessor the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1801).


lexentry: eng/Great_Game__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Game
trans_list: Große Spiel
sense:
(historical) The strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia, mainly during the 19th century.


lexentry: eng/Great_Lakes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Lakes
trans_list: Große Seen
sense:
A group of five lakes on the United States–Canada border, consisting of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (Lake Michigan–Huron), Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.


lexentry: eng/Great_Leap_Forward__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Leap Forward
trans_list: Großer Sprung nach vorn
sense:
(historical) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).


lexentry: eng/Great_Patriotic_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Patriotic War
trans_list: Großer Vaterländischer Krieg
sense:
(historical, in Soviet or Russian contexts) the German-Soviet war (a portion of World War II fought between the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945)


lexentry: eng/Great_Purge__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Purge
trans_list: Großer Terror
sense:
(Soviet Union, historical) A campaign of extensive political purge and repression from 1936 to 1938, led by Joseph Stalin and executed by the NKVD to purge his political opponents.


lexentry: eng/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Pyramid of Giza
trans_list: Cheops-Pyramide
sense:
The largest and most famous of the Egyptian pyramids, and the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.


lexentry: eng/Great_Russia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Russia
trans_list: Großrussland
sense:
(historical, obsolete) The territories of "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of Muscovy and, later, Russia.


lexentry: eng/Great_Russian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Great Russian
trans_list: großrussisch
sense:
(historical) Of or pertaining to Great Russians, the language of Great Russia, as opposed to Little Russia, White Russia, etc.


lexentry: eng/Great_Russian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Russian
trans_list: Großrussisch
sense:
(obsolete) The Russian language, especially when (possibly erroneously) considered to be mutually intelligible with the Ukrainian (Little Russian) and Belarusian (White Russian) languages.


lexentry: eng/Great_Satan__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Satan
trans_list: Großer Satan
sense:
(pejorative, mostly used by Muslims, especially in Iran) The United States of America, particularly with regard to its perceived imperialist foreign policy.


lexentry: eng/Great_Schism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Schism
trans_list: (großes) morgenländisches Schisma | Großes Schisma | Schisma von 1054
sense:
(Christianity, historical) The split between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in 1054.


lexentry: eng/Great_Vowel_Shift__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Vowel Shift
trans_list: Große Vokalverschiebung
sense:
(phonology) A major change in the pronunciation of the English language, affecting the sounds of long vowels, that took place in England between 1350 and 1700.


lexentry: eng/Great_Wall_of_China__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Great Wall of China
trans_list: Chinesische Mauer
sense:
An ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols.


lexentry: eng/Greater_Caucasus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Greater Caucasus
trans_list: Großer Kaukasus
sense:
the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains, which stretches for about 1,200 kilometres from west-northwest to east-southeast, between the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea.


lexentry: eng/Greater_London__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Greater London
trans_list: Greater London | Groß-London
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError combining the City of London, the City of Westminster and 31 other London boroughs. Greater London borders (anticlockwise) Essex, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Kent.


lexentry: eng/Greek_Orthodox_Church__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Greek Orthodox Church
trans_list: Griechisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
sense:
A group of Eastern Orthodox churches comprising the churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cyprus and Greece.


lexentry: eng/Greek__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Greek
trans_list: Griechisch | griechische Sprache | griechisch
sense:
The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly (depending on context) Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.


lexentry: eng/Greek_fire__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Greek fire
trans_list: griechisches Feuer
sense:
(historical) A highly flammable substance of unknown composition first used by the Greeks of Constantinople in the 7th century C.E. to set fire to enemy ships, buildings etc.


lexentry: eng/Greek_salad__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Greek salad
trans_list: Griechischer Salat
sense:
A salad, popular in Greece, normally consisting of tomatoes, olives and feta cheese among other ingredients.


lexentry: eng/Green_Man__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Green Man
trans_list: Grüner Mann
sense:
(now, _, historical) A character in British folklore often depicted as a foliate head; any of certain similarly-depicted figures from other cultures, hypothesised to share a common folkloric or mythological root. [From 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/Green_Zone__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Green Zone
trans_list: Grüne Zone
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError: A fortified high-security district of Baghdad; established by the United States occupation force in the wake of the U.S.-Iraq War invasion of 2003; which contains major international hotels, international organizations and forces headquarters, Iraqi national ministries and government offices, and VIP residences.


lexentry: eng/Greenland_Sea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Greenland Sea
trans_list: Grönlandsee
sense:
a sea area to the east of Greenland, bounded by Iceland, the Norwegian Sea, Svalbard and the Arctic Ocean.


lexentry: eng/Gregorian_calendar__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gregorian calendar
trans_list: gregorianischer Kalender
sense:
The calendar currently used in the western world. It replaced the Julian calendar and was devised to halt the slow drift of the vernal equinox towards earlier in the year.


lexentry: eng/Grim_Reaper__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Grim Reaper
trans_list: Sensenmann | Schnitter | Todesengel
sense:
A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.


lexentry: eng/Grimm's_law__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Grimm's law
trans_list: Grimmsches Gesetz | erste Lautverschiebung
sense:
(indo-european studies) A sound change that affected the Proto-Indo-European stop consonants in the development of Proto-Germanic, causing devoicing or change into a fricative.


lexentry: eng/Grimmian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Grimmian
trans_list: Grimmsch
sense:
Of or relating to the Brothers Grimm (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm), German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who collected and published folklore during the 19th century.


lexentry: eng/Groundhog_Day__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Groundhog Day
trans_list: Murmeltiertag
sense:
An annual festival held in Canada and the USA on February 2 in which the arrival time of the spring season is predicted by whether or not a certain groundhog can see its shadow.


lexentry: eng/Grover's_algorithm__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Grover's algorithm
trans_list: Grover-Algorithmus
sense:
(comptheory) A quantum algorithm that finds with high probability the unique input to a black-box function that produces a particular output value.


lexentry: eng/Grus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Grus
trans_list: Kranich
sense:
(constellation) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a crane. It contains the star Alnair and lies south of the constellation Piscis Austrinus.


lexentry: eng/Gryffindor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gryffindor
trans_list: Greiftür
sense:
(sometimes used attributively) A person having traits associated with Gryffindor house from the Harry Potter series, including bravery, boldness, or an affinity for lions or the colours red and gold.


lexentry: eng/Guaraní__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Guaraní
trans_list: Guaraní
sense:
South-American Indian language of the Tupí-Guaraní family; spoken in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.


lexentry: eng/Guelph__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Guelph
trans_list: Welfe | Guelfe
sense:
(historical, politics) In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Pope in a long struggle against the Ghibellines and the Holy Roman Emperor.


lexentry: eng/Guillain-Barré_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Guillain-Barré syndrome
trans_list: Guillain-Barré-Syndrom
sense:
(neurology, disease) Rapid-onset muscle weakness, often severe and sometimes fatal, resulting from impaired peripheral nervous system function, associated with various viral and other infections.


lexentry: eng/Guldborgsund__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Guldborgsund
trans_list: Guldborgsund
sense:
A strait in the Baltic Sea between the Danish islands of Lolland and Falster, connecting the Bay of Mecklenburg and the Smålandsfarvandet.


lexentry: eng/Gulf_Stream__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gulf Stream
trans_list: Golfstrom
sense:
The warm ocean current issuing from the Gulf of Mexico, flowing northeastwards along the coast of North America to the Grand Banks where it breaks eastwards across the Atlantic Ocean and helps to maintain warm temperatures along the western coasts of the British Isles.


lexentry: eng/Gulf_War__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gulf War
trans_list: Golfkrieg
sense:
(history) One of several wars fought at the Persian Gulf in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, principally the one from 1990 to 1991.


lexentry: eng/Gulf_War_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gulf War syndrome
trans_list: Golfkriegssyndrom
sense:
A chronic multisymptom disorder affecting veterans and civilians after the 1991 Gulf War, possibly related to chemical weapons.


lexentry: eng/Gulf_of_Alaska__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gulf of Alaska
trans_list: Golf von Alaska
sense:
An arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east


lexentry: eng/Gulf_of_Finland__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gulf of Finland
trans_list: Finnischer Meerbusen
sense:
An arm of the Baltic Sea that separates the European countries of Estonia and Finland. On its eastern end, the Neva at the Russian city of St. Petersburg empties into it.


lexentry: eng/Gulf_of_Riga__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gulf of Riga
trans_list: Rigaischer Meerbusen
sense:
The inland body of water that is part of the Baltic Sea in eastern Europe and is near Latvia and Estonia.


lexentry: eng/Gulf_of_Thailand__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gulf of Thailand
trans_list: Golf von Thailand
sense:
An inland body of water in the Pacific Ocean that is southeast of Southeast Asia below the countries of Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia, and is close to the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia.


lexentry: eng/Gummy_Bears__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gummy Bears
trans_list: Gummibärchen
sense:
A kind of gummy candy, a type of confectionery made from gelatine, in the miniature form of a toy bear.


lexentry: eng/Gunpowder_Plot__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gunpowder Plot
trans_list: Pulververschwörung
sense:
(British) A failed plot, in November 1605, to kill the Protestant king James I of England and VI of Scotland, and to blow up the House of Lords using gunpowder, annually commemorated on Guy Fawkes Day.


lexentry: eng/Guria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Guria
trans_list: Gurien
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, in the western part of the country, bordered by the eastern end of the Black Sea with Ozurgeti as its regional capital.


lexentry: eng/Gutnish__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gutnish
trans_list: Gotländisch
sense:
The native language of the island of Gotland in present day Sweden, used both as a spoken and written language until late medieval times. Modern Gutnish is increasingly marginalised by Standard Swedish.


lexentry: eng/Gwoyeu_Romatzyh__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gwoyeu Romatzyh
trans_list: Lateinumschrift der Reichssprache
sense:
A transliteration system for Mandarin Chinese, characterized by its tonal spelling without diacritic marks.


lexentry: eng/Gypsy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gypsy
trans_list: Zigeuner | Zigeunerin
sense:
(sometimes, offensive) A member of the Romani people, or one of the sub-groups (Roma, Sinti, Romanichal, etc).


lexentry: eng/Gödel's_incompleteness_theorem__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gödel's incompleteness theorem
trans_list: Gödelscher Unvollständigkeitssatz
sense:
(logic, mathematics) One of two theorems in mathematical logic that demonstrates the inherent limitations of every formal axiomatic system containing basic arithmetic.


lexentry: eng/Gödel_number__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gödel number
trans_list: Gödelnummer
sense:
(logic) A number uniquely assigned to each symbol, and to each well-formed formula of some formal language.


lexentry: eng/Gülenist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Gülenist
trans_list: Gülenist
sense:
(Turkey, politics) A supporter of the social movement led by Turkish Islamic scholar and preacher Fethullah Gülen.


lexentry: eng/HD_DVD_drive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: HD DVD drive
trans_list: HD-DVD-Laufwerk
sense:
(computer hardware) An optical drive used for reading data from and possibly writing data on a HD DVD.


lexentry: eng/HIIT__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: HIIT
trans_list: HIIT | Hochintensitäts-Intervalltraining
sense:
(exercise) Initialism of high-intensity interval training: a form of exercise based on short bursts of intense effort, such as sprinting.


lexentry: eng/HSK__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: HSK
trans_list: HSK | Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi | Prüfung des Chinesisch-Niveaus
sense:
(education) Initialism of w:Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, standardized test of Standard Mandarin Chinese proficiency for non-native speakers.


lexentry: eng/HTTP_cookie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: HTTP cookie
trans_list: Cookie
sense:
(Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.


lexentry: eng/Habakkuk__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Habakkuk
trans_list: Habakuk
sense:
A prophetic book in the Old Testament of the Bible, one of the minor prophets; or the eighth part of the Tere Asar in the Jewish Tanakh.


lexentry: eng/Hadean__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hadean
trans_list: Hadaikum
sense:
(geology) The Hadean eon; part of the Precambrian supereon, spanning from around 4.6 to 4 billion years ago.


lexentry: eng/Hades__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hades
trans_list: Hades
sense:
(Greek god) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.


lexentry: eng/Hail_Mary_pass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hail Mary pass
trans_list: Hail Mary | Hail Mary Pass
sense:
(American football) A long forward pass with little chance of completion, typically used by the losing team when time is running out and no other play is practical, in a desperate attempt to score the winning points.


lexentry: eng/Haitian_Creole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Haitian Creole
trans_list: Haitianisch
sense:
A language spoken in Haiti; developed first as a creole based on French and several West African languages.


lexentry: eng/Hall_effect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hall effect
trans_list: Halleffekt
sense:
(physics) the effect in which a conductor that carries an electric current perpendicular to an applied magnetic field develops a voltage gradient transverse to both current and field


lexentry: eng/Halloween__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Halloween
trans_list: Halloween
sense:
The eve of All Hallows' Day; October 31st; celebrated (mostly in English-speaking countries) by children going door-to-door in costume and soliciting candy with menaces.


lexentry: eng/Hamas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hamas
trans_list: Hamas
sense:
A militant Palestinianist and Sunni Muslim movement that presses for an independent, Palestinian Islamic state and the Palestinian right of return.


lexentry: eng/Hamlet__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hamlet
trans_list: Hamlet
sense:
The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play, whose father's ghost, murdered by Hamlet's uncle, exhorts him to seek revenge.


lexentry: eng/Hampshire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hampshire
trans_list: Hampshire
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError bordered by Berkshire, Surrey, West Sussex, Dorset, Wiltshire, the English Channel and the Solent separating it from the Isle of Wight; the county town is Winchester.


lexentry: eng/Han__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Han
trans_list: Han-Dynastie
sense:
An imperial Chinese dynasty, ruling (with interruptions) from 206 BC to AD 220, marked by the expansion of the Yellow River's Huaxia culture to the recent conquests of the Qin and a flowering of economic, literary, and scientific development


lexentry: eng/Hand_of_Fatima__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hand of Fatima
trans_list: Hand der Fatima
sense:
An apotropaic symbol, in both Jewish and Islamic cultures, serving as a talisman against the "evil eye".


lexentry: eng/Hannibal__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hannibal
trans_list: Hannibal
sense:
A en given name of mostly historical use. Most notably borne by the Carthaginian general Hannibal, son of Hamilcar.


lexentry: eng/Hansard__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hansard
trans_list: Hansard
sense:
(chiefly, Britain, Commonwealth) The official report of debates and other proceedings in the British and some Commonwealth parliaments.


lexentry: eng/Hanse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hanse
trans_list: Hanse | Gilde
sense:
(historical) A merchant guild, particularly the Fellowship of London Merchants (the "Old Hanse") given a monopoly on London's foreign trade by the Normans or its successor, the Company of Merchant Adventurers (the "New Hanse"), incorporated in 1497 and chartered under Henry VII and Elizabeth I.


lexentry: eng/Hanseatic_League__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hanseatic League
trans_list: Hanse
sense:
(historical) The commercial and military alliance of Low German merchant guilds and privileged market towns which dominated trade along the coasts of northern Europe from the mid-12th to mid-17th centuries.


lexentry: eng/Hansel_and_Gretel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hansel and Gretel
trans_list: Hänsel und Gretel
sense:
A German fairy tale, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812, about the siblings named Hansel and Gretel who are threatened by a cannibalistic witch who lives in a house made of cake and bread.


lexentry: eng/Hanukkah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hanukkah
trans_list: Chanukka
sense:
(Judaism) An eight-day Jewish festival, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, which commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.


lexentry: eng/Haratin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Haratin
trans_list: Haratin
sense:
A member of a group of dark-skinned African people in Maghreb and Western part of Sahara (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya), who often form a distinct social class.


lexentry: eng/Harvard__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Harvard
trans_list: Harvard
sense:
A university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named after John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.


lexentry: eng/Harvest_Festival__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Harvest Festival
trans_list: Erntedankfest
sense:
(UK) church festival celebrating the harvest, held at the end of September or the beginning of October


lexentry: eng/Harz__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Harz
trans_list: Harz
sense:
A mountain range in Northern Germany; its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.


lexentry: eng/Hasdrubal__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hasdrubal
trans_list: Hasdrubal
sense:
A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Hasdrubal Barca and several other Carthaginians


lexentry: eng/Hashemite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hashemite
trans_list: Haschemit
sense:
One who lays claim to being a direct descendant of Hashim, the great grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.


lexentry: eng/Haskell__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Haskell
trans_list: Haskell
sense:
(programming language) A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.


lexentry: eng/Hassānīya__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hassānīya
trans_list: Hassania
sense:
A group of Arabic dialects spoken primarily in Mauritania, a portion of southern Morocco, and Western Sahara.


lexentry: eng/Hathor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hathor
trans_list: Hathor
sense:
(Egyptian god) The goddess of joy, love, and motherhood; one of the "Eyes / Daughters of Ra", the consort of Ra/Horus; often depicted as having a cow's head.


lexentry: eng/Hayashi_limit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hayashi limit
trans_list: Hayashi-Limit
sense:
(astrophysics) A theoretical maximum radius of a star of given mass; the radius at which the inward force of gravity exactly balances the outward pressure of the gas of the star.


lexentry: eng/Headless_Horseman__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Headless Horseman
trans_list: kopfloser Reiter
sense:
A mythical figure who has appeared in folklore around the world since the Middle Ages, who is traditionally depicted as a man upon horseback who is missing his head.


lexentry: eng/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
trans_list: Heard und McDonaldinseln
sense:
An Australian external territory and volcanic group of uninhabited Antarctic islands, between Madagascar and Antarctica.


lexentry: eng/Hebe__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hebe
trans_list: Hebe
sense:
(Greek god) The goddess of youth, and a daughter of Zeus and Hera. Her Roman counterpart is Juventas.


lexentry: eng/Hebrew__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hebrew
trans_list: Hebräer | Hebräerin
sense:
(countable) A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


lexentry: eng/Hecate__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hecate
trans_list: Hekate
sense:
The powerful goddess, in Greek mythology, of magic, crossroads, fire, light, the moon, and the underworld. Her Roman counterpart is Trivia.


lexentry: eng/Hecatoncheires__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hecatoncheires
trans_list: Hekatoncheiren
sense:
(Greek mythology) Three monstrous giants of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms, who were offspring of Uranus by Gaia, whom Zeus freed from captivity and who in return aided the Olympians in the Titanomachy.


lexentry: eng/Hegelian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hegelian
trans_list: hegelianisch | Hegelsch
sense:
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the philosophical system of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).


lexentry: eng/Hegelianism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hegelianism
trans_list: Hegelianismus
sense:
The system of logic and philosophy set forth by G. W. F. Hegel, which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", i.e. all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories.


lexentry: eng/Heidelberg_man__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Heidelberg man
trans_list: Heidelbergmensch
sense:
Homo heidelbergensis: A long-extinct hominid, of the Old World, from which modern humans are derived.


lexentry: eng/Heilsgeschichte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Heilsgeschichte
trans_list: Heilsgeschichte
sense:
(theology) History seen as the work of God's salvation. (Especially, in Christianity, the history of the Old Testament, seen as a preparation for the coming of Christ.)


lexentry: eng/Heimlich_maneuver__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Heimlich maneuver
trans_list: Heimlich-Handgriff
sense:
(emergency medicine) A first aid procedure used to treat choking. The patient is lifted from behind, squeezing their diaphragm to expel air and thereby dislodging an obstruction in the windpipe.


lexentry: eng/Heisenberg_cut__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Heisenberg cut
trans_list: Heisenbergscher Schnitt
sense:
(quantum mechanics, philosophy of physics) A conceptualised division separating the quantum system being observed from the classical system that comprises the observer's information, knowledge and conscious awareness.


lexentry: eng/Heisenberg_uncertainty_principle__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Heisenberg uncertainty principle
trans_list: Heisenbergsche Unschärferelation | Unschärferelation
sense:
(physics, quantum mechanics) The principle that there is an absolute limit on the combined accuracy of certain pairs of simultaneous, related measurements, especially that of the position and momentum of a particle. Originally posited as a problem of measurement, it was soon refined as an inherent property of the universe.


lexentry: eng/Hejaz__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hejaz
trans_list: Hedschas
sense:
The mountainous area of northwest Saudi Arabia which gave rise to early Islam and which contains the sites of many holy places.


lexentry: eng/Hejaz__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hejaz
trans_list: Hedschas
sense:
An independent kingdom in the area between 1924 and 1932, when it merged with Najd to form the present Saudi Arabia.


lexentry: eng/Hel__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hel
trans_list: Hel
sense:
(religion, Norse mythology) The goddess of the realm of the unheroic dead, a daughter of Loki by the jotun Angrboða.


lexentry: eng/Helen__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Helen
trans_list: Helena
sense:
(Greek mythology) the daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.


lexentry: eng/Helenus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Helenus
trans_list: Helenos
sense:
(Greek mythology) the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra.


lexentry: eng/Helios__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Helios
trans_list: Helios
sense:
(Greek god) The god of the Sun; son of Hyperion and Theia, brother of Selene and Eos, father of Phaeton amongst others. His Roman counterpart is Sol.


lexentry: eng/Hellenism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hellenism
trans_list: Hellenismus
sense:
Any of the characteristics of ancient Greek culture, civilization, principles and ideals, including humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility.


lexentry: eng/Hellenistic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hellenistic
trans_list: hellenistisch
sense:
Of or relating to the period of the Greek culture, history, or art after the death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.) to the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian (31 B.C.) – though this end-point is often debated, and can range from 146BC to 330AD [*].


lexentry: eng/Helmholtz_coil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Helmholtz coil
trans_list: Helmholtzspule
sense:
(physics) one of a pair of flat coils, having equal numbers of turns and equal diameters, arranged on a common axis and connected in series; used to obtain a nearly uniform magnetic field without the use of a long solenoid


lexentry: eng/Helvétius__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Helvétius
trans_list: Helvétius
sense:
A surname from French, notably borne by Claude Adrien Helvétius, a French philosopher and littérateur


lexentry: eng/Hephaestus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hephaestus
trans_list: Hephaistos
sense:
(Greek god) The god of fire, smithwork, metallurgy, volcanoes, and artisans, who served as blacksmith of the gods. His Roman counterpart is Vulcan.


lexentry: eng/Hera__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hera
trans_list: Hera
sense:
(Greek god) The queen of the gods, and goddess of marriage and birth; daughter of Cronus and Rhea, sister and wife of Zeus, mother of Hephaestus, Ares, Hebe, and Enyo.


lexentry: eng/Heracles__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Heracles
trans_list: Herakles
sense:
(Greek mythology) : Son of Zeus and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his 12 labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.


lexentry: eng/Heraclitus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Heraclitus
trans_list: Heraklit
sense:
An Ancient Greek en given name, notably borne by Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher


lexentry: eng/Herbart__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Herbart
trans_list: Herbart
sense:
A surname from German, notably borne by the German philosopher and educator Johann Friedrich Herbart.


lexentry: eng/Herculaneum__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Herculaneum
trans_list: Herculaneum
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError which was entirely destroyed by the same eruption of Vesuvius that also turned Pompeii into a ruin


lexentry: eng/Hercules__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hercules
trans_list: Herkules
sense:
(Roman mythology) The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his 12 labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.


lexentry: eng/Hercules__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hercules
trans_list: Herkules
sense:
(constellation) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero. It lies between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis.


lexentry: eng/Herero__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Herero
trans_list: Herero
sense:
A member of a people belonging to the Bantu group, with about 240,000 members today mostly in Namibia, Angola, and Botswana.


lexentry: eng/Hermes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hermes
trans_list: Hermes
sense:
(Greek god) The herald and messenger of the gods, and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.


lexentry: eng/Herod__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Herod
trans_list: Herodes
sense:
The name of any of a number of members of the Herodian dynasty who ruled in the Roman province of Judea, most notably Herod the Great, who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents, or Herod Antipas, his son, who met Jesus during his Passion.


lexentry: eng/Herostratus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Herostratus
trans_list: Herostratos
sense:
an Ancient Greek arsonist who destroyed the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, in order to become famous


lexentry: eng/Hertzsprung-Russell_diagram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
trans_list: Hertzsprung-Russell-Diagramm
sense:
(astronomy) A graphic representation of the absolute magnitude of stars against their color (or surface temperature), which shows the main sequence of stars plus the white dwarfs and red giants.


lexentry: eng/Herzeg-Bosnia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Herzeg-Bosnia
trans_list: Herzeg-Bosnien
sense:
A short-lived, unrecognised political entity that existed during the Bosnian war, consisting of the Croat communities of Bosnia.


lexentry: eng/Herzegovina__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Herzegovina
trans_list: Herzegowina
sense:
Southern wedge of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Represents a geographic and historic entity, not an administrative unit.


lexentry: eng/Hesiod__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hesiod
trans_list: Hesiod
sense:
Ancient Greek poet and rhapsodist of the 8th century BCE, known as the first author of didactic verse


lexentry: eng/Hesperia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hesperia
trans_list: Hesperia
sense:
Literally "western land", a term poetically applied by Ancient Greeks to Italy and by Romans to the Iberian Peninsula and Western Africa.


lexentry: eng/Hesperides__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hesperides
trans_list: Hesperiden
sense:
(Greek mythology) A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden filled with trees that grew golden apples in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas Mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; they are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.


lexentry: eng/Hessian_matrix__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hessian matrix
trans_list: Hesse-Matrix
sense:
(math) The square matrix of second-order partial derivatives of a scalar-valued function. It describes the local curvature of a function of many variables.


lexentry: eng/Hettangian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hettangian
trans_list: Hettangium
sense:
The corresponding lowest stage of the Jurassic system, marked by the lowest strata in which the neoammonite genus Psiloceras appears.


lexentry: eng/Hezbollah__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hezbollah
trans_list: Hisbollah
sense:
A political and military Shi'a Islamic organization that arose after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.


lexentry: eng/Higgs_boson__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Higgs boson
trans_list: Higgs-Boson | Higgs-Teilchen
sense:
(particle) An elementary particle in the Standard Model, namely a boson with zero spin, that gives mass to other particles.


lexentry: eng/High_German__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: High German
trans_list: (die) Hochdeutschen
sense:
(countable) A native or inhabitant of the southern highlands of Germany; a High German speaker. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/High_Mass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: High Mass
trans_list: Hochamt
sense:
A Roman Catholic or Anglo-Catholic Mass celebrated in full ceremonial form, in which the celebrant is generally assisted by a deacon and, in the Tridentine form, a subdeacon, and accompanied by acolytes, a thurifer, and a choir.


lexentry: eng/High_Middle_Ages__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: High Middle Ages
trans_list: Hochmittelalter
sense:
(history) The period of European history, between the Early Middle Ages and the Late Middle Ages, that saw great social and political change.


lexentry: eng/Highway_Code__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Highway Code
trans_list: StVO
sense:
The official road safety manual for the United Kingdom, covering pedestrians, animals, cyclists, motorcyclists and drivers.


lexentry: eng/Hijra__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hijra
trans_list: Hedschra | Hidschra | Hegira
sense:
The flight of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 ce, which forms the first year of the Islamic era (ah 1).


lexentry: eng/Hilbert_space__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hilbert space
trans_list: Hilbert-Raum | Hilbertraum
sense:
(functional analysis) A generalized Euclidean space in which mathematical functions take the place of points; crucial to the understanding of quantum mechanics and other applications.


lexentry: eng/Hilferdingian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hilferdingian
trans_list: Hilferdingsch
sense:
Relating to the views of Rudolf Hilferding; in particular pertaining to the theory that imperialism was primarily the product of finance.


lexentry: eng/Himalayan_salt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Himalayan salt
trans_list: Himalayasalz
sense:
A form of rock salt from the Punjab region, sometimes pinkish in colour, used for seasoning food and for making decorative lamps etc.


lexentry: eng/Himalayas__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Himalayas
trans_list: Himalaja | Himalaya
sense:
The mountain range in south-central Asia which extends about 2,414 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam; it contains nine of the world’s ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest/Qomolongma.


lexentry: eng/Hindenburg__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hindenburg
trans_list: Hindenburg
sense:
(aviation, historical) A German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship that was destroyed by fire on May 6, 1937.


lexentry: eng/Hindi__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hindi
trans_list: Hindi
sense:
The Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages. These are also spoken in Fiji, Guyana and as a second language by Indians in many other countries.


lexentry: eng/Hinduism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hinduism
trans_list: Hinduismus
sense:
A religion, philosophy and culture native to India, characterized by the belief in reincarnation and a supreme oneness personified in many forms and natures.


lexentry: eng/Hippocrates__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hippocrates
trans_list: Hippokrates
sense:
An Ancient Greek en given name, notably borne by Hippocrates of Cos, an Ancient Greek physician, circa 5th century BC, sometimes called the "father of medicine."


lexentry: eng/Hiroshima__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hiroshima
trans_list: Hiroschima | Hiroshima
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. It was the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.


lexentry: eng/Hispaniola__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hispaniola
trans_list: Hispaniola
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, divided politically into the independent nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.


lexentry: eng/Hispaniolan_crossbill__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hispaniolan crossbill
trans_list: Hispaniolakreuzschnabel
sense:
Loxia megaplaga, a crossbill that is endemic to Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), and the only one of its genus in the Caribbean.


lexentry: eng/Hitchcockian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hitchcockian
trans_list: hitchcockisch
sense:
Of or pertaining to Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), British filmmaker and producer, or his works, especially noted for suspense and psychothrillers.


lexentry: eng/Hitler__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hitler
trans_list: Hitler
sense:
Ellipsis of w:Adolf Hitler; Führer of the Nazi Party and chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945; particularly as the embodiment of Nazism.


lexentry: eng/Hittite__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Hittite
trans_list: hethitisch
sense:
Of or relating to the Hittite Kingdom, located in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), that flourished from about 1800 to 1400 B.C.E..


lexentry: eng/Hittite__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hittite
trans_list: Hethitisch | hethitisch
sense:
An ancient Indo-European language of the Anatolian branch, attested from the 16th century BC until the 13th century BC.


lexentry: eng/Hittitologist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hittitologist
trans_list: Hethitologe | Hethitologin
sense:
(anthropology, linguistics) an archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in the study of the Ancient Hittites and their Near Eastern Empire which was based in Hattusa in modern day Anatolia.


lexentry: eng/Hjelmslev's_theorem__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hjelmslev's theorem
trans_list: Satz von Hjelmslev
sense:
(geometry) a theorem stating that if a set of points {P_i} lying on a line is isometrically mapped to points {P_i'} on a different line, then the midpoints of the segments P_iP_i' also lie on a line.


lexentry: eng/Hmong__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hmong
trans_list: Miao
sense:
A people who live predominantly in the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, and (in diaspora) around the world.


lexentry: eng/Hodgkin's_lymphoma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hodgkin's lymphoma
trans_list: Hodgkin-Lymphom
sense:
(disease, oncology) A malignant lymphoid neoplasm characterized by the formation of large tumour cells (Reed-Sternberg cells) in the lymph nodes.


lexentry: eng/Hogwarts__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hogwarts
trans_list: Hogwarts
sense:
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for learning magic in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.


lexentry: eng/Hohenstaufen__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hohenstaufen
trans_list: Hohenstaufen | Staufen
sense:
(historical) A mediaeval (11th—14th centuries) German dynasty of Swabian origin, from which came numerous monarchs, including dukes of Swabia and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.


lexentry: eng/Hohenzollern__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hohenzollern
trans_list: Hohenzollern
sense:
(historical) a noble family and royal dynasty of electors, kings, and emperors of Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany, and Romania.


lexentry: eng/Holiness__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holiness
trans_list: Heiligkeit
sense:
(countable) Used in connection with His or Your to address the leader of some religious traditions, notably the pope.


lexentry: eng/Holocaust__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holocaust
sense:
(historical, narrowly) The systematic mass murder (genocide) of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.

trans_list:
Holocaust | Auschwitz | Endlösung | Judenmord | Judenvernichtung | Massenmord an den europäischen Juden


lexentry: eng/Holocaust__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Holocaust
sense:
(historical, broadly) The systematic mass murder (democide) of somewhere between eleven and fourteen million people, namely six million Jews and from five to eight million others (including Romanis, Slavs, homosexuals, and people with physical and mental disabilities), perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.

trans_list:
Holocaust | Auschwitz | Endlösung | Judenmord | Judenvernichtung | Massenmord an den europäischen Juden


lexentry: eng/Holocene__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holocene
trans_list: holozänisch
sense:
(geology) Of a geologic epoch within the Quaternary period from about the year 10 000 BC to the present; the age of man.


lexentry: eng/Holodomor__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Holodomor
trans_list: Holodomor
sense:
(historical, rare) А famine with mass deaths, especially one of the Soviet famines in 1921–22, 1932–33, or 1946–47.


lexentry: eng/Holofernes__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holofernes
trans_list: Holofernes
sense:
a character in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, an invading general of Nebuchadnezzar, beheaded by Judith.


lexentry: eng/Holohoax__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holohoax
trans_list: Auschwitzlüge | Holocaustschwindel | Holohoax
sense:
(offensive, used by Holocaust deniers) The Holocaust viewed as an event which is fabricated and did not happen.


lexentry: eng/Holstein__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holstein
trans_list: Holstein
sense:
The region between the rivers Elbe and Eider, to the south of Schleswig, part of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.


lexentry: eng/Holy_Communion__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holy Communion
trans_list: Abendmahl | Brotbrechen | Eucharistie | Heilige Kommunion | Heiliges Abendmahl | Heiliges Mahl
sense:
A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper of Christ, with the physical forms of bread and usually wine which are believed by certain denominations to become Christ himself or to host his spiritual presence.


lexentry: eng/Holy_Grail__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holy Grail
trans_list: Heiliger Gral
sense:
(Arthurian mythology) An artifact in Arthurian mythology, being the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper and in which some of his blood was caught during the crucifixion.


lexentry: eng/Holy_Land__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holy Land
trans_list: Heiliges Land
sense:
(Judaism, Christianity, Islam) That part of the Middle East, consisting mostly of Israel and Palestine, in which most Biblical events are set.


lexentry: eng/Holy_League__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holy League
trans_list: Heilige Liga
sense:
(historical) Any one of several temporary alliances between Christian countries of (especially mediaeval) Europe, formed for some specific objective of ostensible benefit to Christianity.


lexentry: eng/Holy_Prepuce__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holy Prepuce
trans_list: Heilige Vorhaut | heilige Vorhaut
sense:
Any of several sacred or holy foreskins (Latin sānctum praepūtium) allegedly from the circumcision of the baby Jesus on the eighth day of his life.


lexentry: eng/Holy_Roman_Empire__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holy Roman Empire
trans_list: Heiliges Römisches Reich | Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
sense:
(history) A political conglomeration of lands in Central Europe from at least 962 C.E. until 1806. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/Holy_See__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holy See
trans_list: Heiliger Stuhl
sense:
The episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent see of the Catholic Church. It is also the sovereign entity headed by the Pope which governs the Vatican and represents the Catholic Church in temporal affairs.


lexentry: eng/Holy_Spirit__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holy Spirit
trans_list: Heiliger Geist
sense:
(Christianity) The person (hypostasis) of the Trinity or Godhead corresponding to divine essence present in the faithful (particularly inspired prophets) and considered to proceed either from (Eastern Orthodoxy) God the Father alone or (Roman Catholicism) from Him together with God the Son.


lexentry: eng/Holy_Week__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Holy Week
trans_list: Karwoche | Stille Woche | Heilige Woche | Osterwoche
sense:
The week preceding Easter containing Palm Sunday, Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), Holy Friday (Good Friday), and Holy Saturday.


lexentry: eng/Home_Army__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Home Army
trans_list: Polnische Heimatarmee
sense:
(history) the dominant Polish resistance movement in Poland, occupied by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, during World War II.


lexentry: eng/Home_Office__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Home Office
trans_list: Innenministerium
sense:
(British, UK politics) The British government department, headed by the Home Secretary, responsible for security and law enforcement in England and Wales.


lexentry: eng/Homocaust__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Homocaust
trans_list: Homocaust
sense:
(rare) The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.


lexentry: eng/Hong_Kong__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hong Kong
trans_list: Hongkong
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, located on an island east of the Pearl River delta in the South China Sea; formerly owned by the United Kingdom.


lexentry: eng/Hooke's_law__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hooke's law
trans_list: Hookesches Gesetz
sense:
(physics) the principle that the stress applied to a solid is directly proportional to the strain produced. This law describes the behavior of springs and solids stressed within their elastic limit.


lexentry: eng/Horned_God__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Horned God
trans_list: Gehörnter Gott
sense:
(Wicca) The second major supernatural figure in the Wiccan religion, a triune god equal to the Goddess, split into the aspects of the Father, Master, and the Sage.


lexentry: eng/Horologium__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: Horologium
trans_list: Pendeluhr
sense:
(astronomy) A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a pendulum clock. It lies between the constellations Fornax and Dorado.


lexentry: eng/House_of_Representatives__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: House of Representatives
trans_list: Repräsentantenhaus
sense:
The lower house in the bicameral legislatures of several countries; also some singular legislative bodies in unicameral systems.


lexentry: eng/Houston__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: Houston
trans_list: Houston
sense:
JSC, the NASA Mission Control complex located in Houston, named the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center since 1973.


lexentry: eng/Hradec_Králové__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hradec Králové
trans_list: Hradec Králové | Königgrätz
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError, located at the west Bohemia at the confluence of the Elbe and the Orlice river.


lexentry: eng/Hubble_constant__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hubble constant
trans_list: Hubble-Konstante
sense:
(astronomy) A number that expresses the rate of expansion of the universe; the velocity at which a distant object is receding from the Earth divided by its distance; its reciprocal determines the age of the universe.


lexentry: eng/Hudson_Bay__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hudson Bay
trans_list: Hudson Bay
sense:
TemplateParserError:LuaError. A large arctic sea, surrounded on three sides, by Quebec on the east, Nunavut to the west, Manitoba to the southwest, Ontario on the south, and extending southeast becoming James Bay. To the north lies the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.


lexentry: eng/Hudsonian_godwit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hudsonian godwit
trans_list: Hudsonschnepfe
sense:
An American wader, Limosa haemastica, gathering on the shores of Hudson Bay to migrate to South America each autumn.


lexentry: eng/Human_Genome_Project__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Human Genome Project
trans_list: Humangenomprojekt
sense:
(genetics) an organized international scientific endeavour to determine the complete structure of human genetic material (DNA), identify all the genes, and to understand their function


lexentry: eng/Humpty_Dumpty__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Humpty Dumpty
trans_list: Goggelmoggel | Humpty Dumpty
sense:
A nursery rhyme character, a short, squat, egg-like being who falls from a wall and breaks, whose name has become synonymous with anything fragile or the existence of which is precarious.


lexentry: eng/Hungarian__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hungarian
trans_list: ungarisch | Ungarisch
sense:
Of, from, or pertaining to the Kingdom of Hungary, during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of ethnicity.


lexentry: eng/Hungarian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hungarian
trans_list: Ungar | Ungarin
sense:
A person from the former Kingdom of Hungary, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, regardless of that person's ethnicity.


lexentry: eng/Hungarian_notation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hungarian notation
trans_list: ungarische Notation
sense:
(computing, programming) A naming convention in which the name of a variable indicates its data type and intended use by including abbreviations as prefixes.


lexentry: eng/Hungarism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hungarism
trans_list: Hungarismus
sense:
(chiefly, historical) The fascist ideology of the Nazi-aligned Arrow Cross Party, which ruled Hungary from 1944 to 1945, and of its predecessors and subsequent far-right supporters.


lexentry: eng/Hungary_water__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hungary water
trans_list: Ungarisch Wasser | ungarisch Wasser
sense:
(historical) One of various early modern perfumes and elixirs made of rosemary, camomile or later lavender infused in various alcohols.


lexentry: eng/Hunsrik__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hunsrik
trans_list: Riograndenser Hunsrückisch
sense:
A Germanic language spoken by some 3 to 5 million people, mainly in southern Brazil. The vocabulary and pronunciation are influenced by Portuguese.


lexentry: eng/Huntington's_disease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Huntington's disease
trans_list: Huntington-Krankheit
sense:
(disease, neurology) A hereditary disorder of the basal ganglia that leads to progressive loss of motor coordination.


lexentry: eng/Hurler_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hurler syndrome
trans_list: Syndrom
sense:
(pathology, disease) A genetic disorder that results in the buildup of glycosaminoglycans due to a deficiency of alpha-L iduronidase.


lexentry: eng/Hurrian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hurrian
trans_list: Hurriter | Hurriterin
sense:
(historical) A member of an ancient people who lived in northern Mesopotamia and created a powerful kingdom called Mitanni in the 16th-13th century BC.


lexentry: eng/Hurrian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hurrian
trans_list: Hurritisch
sense:
The language of Hurrians, neither Indo-European nor Semitic, whose only known relative is the Urartian.


lexentry: eng/Hussitism__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hussitism
trans_list: Hussitismus
sense:
(Christianity, historical) A religious reform and nationalistic movement of the Bohemian Reformation, based on the teachings of Jan Hus.


lexentry: eng/Hyacinthus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hyacinthus
trans_list: Hyakinthos
sense:
(Greek mythology) A Spartan youth loved and accidentally killed by Apollo. The flower hyacinth sprang from his blood.


lexentry: eng/Hyades__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hyades
trans_list: Hyaden
sense:
(astronomy) An open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus, and the nearest visible such cluster to Earth.


lexentry: eng/Hydra__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hydra
trans_list: Hydra
sense:
(Greek mythology) A mythological serpent with many heads, slain by Hercules as one of his twelve labours.


lexentry: eng/Hydra__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hydra
trans_list: Wasserschlange | Hydra
sense:
(constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a serpent. It lies just south of the zodiac and contains the star Alphard.


lexentry: eng/Hydrus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hydrus
trans_list: Kleine Wasserschlange
sense:
(constellation) A winter constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a small serpent. It lies between the constellations Mensa and Tucana. It is not to be confused with the constellation Hydra.


lexentry: eng/Hygiea__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hygiea
trans_list: Hygeia
sense:
(Greek god) Ancient Greek goddess of health, cleanliness, and sanitation. Her Roman name is Hygēa/Hygīa or Salus.


lexentry: eng/Hygieia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hygieia
trans_list: Hygieia | Hygeia
sense:
(Greek deities) The goddess and personification of health and healthiness, a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.


lexentry: eng/Hypatia__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Hypatia
trans_list: Hypatia
sense:
(historical) Hypatia of Alexandria (born c. AD 350–370; died 415), an Ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, and head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria.


lexentry: eng/Hypnos__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hypnos
trans_list: Hypnos
sense:
(Greek god) The god and personification of sleep. The son of Nyx and Erebus, twin brother of Thanatos, husband of Pasithea, and the father of the Oneiroi. His Roman counterpart is Somnus.


lexentry: eng/Hyrcania__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Hyrcania
trans_list: Hyrkanien
sense:
(historical) TemplateParserError:LuaError, corresponding to parts of modern-day Iran (specifically Northern Iran) and Turkmenistan.


lexentry: eng/Höðr__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Höðr
trans_list: Hödur
sense:
(Norse mythology) The blind son of the Norse gods Odin and Frigg, whom Loki tricked into shooting Baldur with a mistletoe arrow.


lexentry: eng/I'll_call_the_police__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I'll call the police
trans_list: ich rufe die Polizei
sense:
Indicates that the speaker is going to call the police, presumably to counter actions from the interlocutor.


lexentry: eng/I'm_hot__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I'm hot
trans_list: mir ist heiß
sense:
Indicates that the speaker is hot (i.e. feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort)


lexentry: eng/I'm_sorry__Phrase__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: I'm sorry
trans_list: es tut mir leid | Entschuldigung | entschuldigen Sie | ich bitte um Verzeihung | tut mir leid
sense:
(with an upward inflection) Indicates that the speaker is confused or requests information to be repeated; come again?, say again?, I beg your pardon?; see also Thesaurus:say again


lexentry: eng/ICAO__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ICAO
trans_list: IZLO
sense:
Acronym of w:International Civil Aviation Organization; a United Nations agency headquartered in Montreal, Canada.


lexentry: eng/ICAO_spelling_alphabet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ICAO spelling alphabet
trans_list: NATO-Buchstabieralphabet
sense:
The ICAO radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization. This alphabet assigns names to letters of the alphabet for clearer enunciation (and for the same reason pronounces the numeral 9 as "niner"):


lexentry: eng/ILO__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ILO
trans_list: IAO | Internationale Arbeitsorganisation
sense:
Initialism of International Labour Organization, a specialised agency of the United Nations to deal with labour issues. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland.


lexentry: eng/IOC__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: IOC
trans_list: IOK
sense:
(ornithology) Initialism of International Ornithological Committee. (now known as International Ornithologists' Union)


lexentry: eng/IP_address__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: IP address
trans_list: IP-Adresse
sense:
(Internet) A number assigned to each computer's or other device's network interface, which are active on a network. supporting the Internet Protocol, in order to distinguish each network interface, and hence each networked device) from every other network interface anywhere on the network.


lexentry: eng/ISIS__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ISIS
trans_list: ISIG | ISIL | ISIS
sense:
A Salafist group active in Libya, Nigeria, Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed an (unrecognized) state. [from 2013]


lexentry: eng/ISP__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: ISP
trans_list: ISP
sense:
(Internet) Initialism of internet service provider. (a company that provides Internet access for a fee)


lexentry: eng/I_don't_care__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
sense: Indicates that the speaker has no interest or emotional investment in the topic at hand.
written_rep: I don't care
trans_list:
es ist mir egal | es ist mir scheißegal | es interessiert mich nicht | es ist mir gleich | es ist mir schnuppe | es ist mir wumpe


lexentry: eng/I_don't_have_all_day__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I don't have all day
trans_list: Ich habe nicht den ganzen Tag Zeit
sense:
Used to say that you want someone to do something faster because you do not have enough time to wait for them to finish


lexentry: eng/I_don't_know__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I don't know
trans_list: ich weiß es nicht | ich weiß nicht | was weiß ich
sense:
A phrase used in response to a question or command in which the target person does not know the answer to or how to respond.


lexentry: eng/I_hate_you__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I hate you
trans_list: ich hasse Sie | ich hasse dich | ich hasse euch
sense:
Expression of hatred, or intense disdain or dislike directed at someone. Some might invoke this phrase without literal implication, such as unselectively and uncontrolledly directing the phrase to innocent surrounding people as a result of difficult life circumstances, or jokingly in reponse to being pranked. Such uses should be avoided, however.


lexentry: eng/I_have_a_fever__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I have a fever
trans_list: ich habe Fieber
sense:
Indicates that the speaker has an abnormally high body temperature, which is usually a symptom of a disease.


lexentry: eng/I_know__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I know
trans_list: ich weiß
sense:
A response used to indicate that speaker was in agreement with the preceding statement before it was made.


lexentry: eng/I_know_you_are_but_what_am_I__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I know you are but what am I
trans_list: selber, selber, lachen alle Kälber | wer es sagt, der ist es selber
sense:
(rhetorical question, colloquial, childish) Assertion that an insult made by the party to whom the phrase is directed is actually true of that party, and not of the person using the phrase. Usually considered to be a playground taunt.


lexentry: eng/I_love_you__Phrase__1
sense_num: 02
sense: An affirmation of romantic feeling to a lover or spouse.
written_rep: I love you
trans_list:
ich liebe dich | ich habe Sie gern | ich habe Sie lieb | ich habe dich gern | ich habe dich lieb | ich habe euch gern


lexentry: eng/I_miss_you__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I miss you
trans_list: du fehlst mir | ich vermisse dich
sense:
An expression of sorrow or sadness about the absence of a family member, close friend, lover or spouse.


lexentry: eng/I_spy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I spy
trans_list: ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst
sense:
(games) A game where players have to guess what one can see, based on the initial letter of the object.


lexentry: eng/I_tell_a_lie__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I tell a lie
trans_list: lügen
sense:
(chiefly, British, idiomatic) I am mistaken; I thought that what I said (or wrote) was true, but I have just realised that it is not.


lexentry: eng/I_think_therefore_I_am__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I think therefore I am
trans_list: ich denke, also bin ich
sense:
(philosophy) I am able to think, therefore I exist. A philosophical proof of existence based on the fact that someone capable of any form of thought necessarily exists.


lexentry: eng/I_told_you_so__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: I told you so
trans_list: ich hab's gesagt
sense:
Used to remind someone that they were already warned by the speaker/writer that a certain event would happen.


lexentry: eng/Iapetus__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iapetus
trans_list: Iapetus | Iapetos | Japetos | Japetus
sense:
(Greek god) A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.


lexentry: eng/Ibadism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ibadism
trans_list: Ibadismus
sense:
(Islam) The doctrines associated with Ibadis, such as the acceptance of fewer hadiths, and the addition of Jami Sahih as a canonical hadith.


lexentry: eng/Iberian_Peninsula__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iberian Peninsula
trans_list: Iberische Halbinsel | Pyrenäenhalbinsel
sense:
A peninsula located in the extreme southwest of Europe which includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar, bordered on the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Pyrenees forming the northeast edge of the peninsula, connecting it to the rest of Europe.


lexentry: eng/Iberian_chiffchaff__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Iberian chiffchaff
trans_list: Iberienzilpzalp
sense:
Phylloscopus ibericus, a species of leaf warbler endemic to Portugal, Spain and North Africa, west of a line stretching roughly from the western Pyrenees via the mountains of central Spain to the Atlantic.


lexentry: eng/Icelandic_horse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Icelandic horse
trans_list: Islandpferd | Islandpony | Isländer
sense:
A horse of a small, hardy breed developed from ponies taken to Iceland by Norse settlers in the 9th and 10th centuries.


lexentry: eng/Ijekavian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ijekavian
trans_list: ijekavisch
sense:
A dialect, group of dialects or dialect continuum of Serbo-Croatian spoken through most of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro and parts of Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as disyllabic (triphonemic) /ije/ or diphthongal /je/ sequence.


lexentry: eng/Ikavian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Ikavian
trans_list: ikavisch
sense:
A dialect or group of dialects of Serbo-Croatian spoken primarily in coastal Croatia distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as /i/.


lexentry: eng/Illyria__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Illyria
trans_list: Illyrien
sense:
A region in Southeast Europe, the western part of what is now the Balkan Peninsula that was inhabited by the Illyrians, ancient Indo-European people.


lexentry: eng/Illyrian__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Illyrian
trans_list: Illyrisch
sense:
An extinct Indo-European language or group of languages spoken in modern Southeast Europe, in the western half of the Balkan Peninsula.


lexentry: eng/Imbolc__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Imbolc
trans_list: Imbolg
sense:
(Britain, Ireland) A Gaelic and Wiccan festival celebrated on 1 or 2 February which marks the beginning of spring.


lexentry: eng/Immaculate_Conception__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Immaculate Conception
trans_list: unbefleckte Empfängnis
sense:
The doctrine, in the Roman Catholic Church, that the Virgin Mary was conceived biologically but free from original sin.


lexentry: eng/Imperial_Flanders__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Imperial Flanders
trans_list: Reichsflandern
sense:
The (smaller) part of the countship of Flanders, east of the Scheldt (Escaut), for which the count did not pay homage as vassal of the French king but to the Holy Roman Emperor.


lexentry: eng/Inanna__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Inanna
trans_list: Inanna
sense:
(mythology, Mesopotamian mythology) A Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, known by the Akkadians as Ishtar and later identified with Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus.


lexentry: eng/Inca__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Inca
trans_list: Inka
sense:
A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest.


lexentry: eng/Incarnation__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Incarnation
trans_list: Inbegriff
sense:
(Christianity) The doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is fully divine and fully human.


lexentry: eng/India__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: India
trans_list: Indien
sense:
(historical, often "British India") A territory of the British Empire, chiefly comprising the modern day countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Burma.


lexentry: eng/Indian_English__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indian English
trans_list: Indisches Englisch | indisches Englisch
sense:
A major dialect of the English language, spoken in many varieties in India and by people from India.


lexentry: eng/Indian__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: Indian
trans_list: Indianer | Indianerin
sense:
An American Indian, a member of one of the indigenous peoples of the Americas (generally excluding the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/Indian_almond__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: Indian almond
trans_list: Badam | Indische Mandel | Katappenbaum | Seemandelbaum
sense:
A tropical tree grown for its edible fruit, almondlike nuts, and as an ornamental shade tree, Terminalia catappa.


