| an |
| 1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
| 2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
| 3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
| 4. conj. (archaic) If | |
| 5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
| An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
| 6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
| 7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
| 8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
| I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
| ancient |
| 1. adj. Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old. | |
| an ancient city an ancient forest | |
| 2. adj. Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern. | |
| an ancient author an ancient empire | |
| 3. adj. (history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete) Experienced; versed. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete) Former; sometime. | |
| 6. n. A person who is very old. | |
| 7. n. A person who lived in ancient times. | |
| 8. n. (heraldry, archaic) A flag, banner, standard or ensign. | |
| 9. n. (legal) One of the senior members of the Inns of Court or of Chancery. | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) A senior; an elder; a predecessor. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete, rare) ensign or flag | |
| 12. n. (obsolete, rare) the bearer of a flag; ensign | |
| Germanic |
| 1. adj. Relating to the Germanic peoples (such as Germans, Scandinavians or Anglo-Saxons). | |
| a Germanic tribe | |
| 2. adj. (linguistics) Relating to the language or group of languages known as Germanic. | |
| a Germanic language | |
| 3. adj. Having German characteristics. | |
| He arrived with Germanic punctuality. | |
| 4. n. (history) A native of Germania. | |
| 5. n. topics, en, Language families | |
| 6. adj. Of or containing germanium. | |
| 7. adj. Containing germanium with a valence of 4. | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| modern |
| 1. adj. Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient. | |
| Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease. Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look. | |
| 2. adj. (history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography. | |
| 3. n. Someone who lives in modern times. | |
| 4. n. The modern time. | |
| German |
| 1. n. A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality. | |
| 2. n. A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent. | |
| 3. n. (historical) A member of a Germanic tribe. | |
| Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed. | |
| 4. n. A German wine. | |
| 5. n. (US printing rare dated) A size of type between American and Saxon, 1½-point type. | |
| 6. n. An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg and a small part of Belgium. | |
| German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. | |
| 7. adj. Of or relating to the nation of Germany. | |
| 8. adj. Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent. | |
| Her German husband has blond hair. | |
| 9. adj. Of, in or relating to the German language. | |
| We take German classes twice a week. | |
| Because the instructions were German, Yves couldn't read them. | |
| 10. adj. (obsolete except in set terms) Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister). | |
| brother-german | |
| 11. adj. (obsolete except in set terms) Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin). | |
| cousin-german | |
| 12. adj. (obsolete) Closely related, akin. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) A near relative. | |
| 14. n. An elaborate round dance, often with a waltz movement. | |
| 15. n. A social party at which the german is danced. | |
| individual |
| 1. n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people. | |
| He is an unusual individual. | |
| 2. n. (legal) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation. | |
| 3. n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class. | |
| 4. n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population. | |
| 5. adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one. | |
| As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one. | |
| 6. adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person. | |
| individual personal pension; individual cream cakes | |
| 7. adj. Not divisible without losing its identity. | |
