antiphonary | (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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carbonara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese | - |
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confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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coronary | (noun) obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) | Synonyms: coronary thrombosis |
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counterrevolutionary | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
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dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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missionary | (noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
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(noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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(noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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monarchist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: royalist |
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monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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monarda | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda | Synonyms: wild bergamot |
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octonary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, ogdoad, VIII |
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pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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(noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
reactionary | (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, ultraconservative |
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revolutionariness | (noun) The state or quality of being revolutionary. | - |
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revolutionary | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionist, subversive, subverter |
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sayonara | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, so long |
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sonar | (noun) a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return | Synonyms: asdic, echo sounder |
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stationariness | (noun) remaining in place | Synonyms: fixedness, immobility |
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visionariness | (noun) The state or condition of being imaginary or illusory. | - |
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visionary | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, seer |
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(noun) a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible | - |