| nargileh | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| naris | (noun) any of the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx | - |
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| nark | (noun) an informer or spy working for the police | Synonyms: copper's nark |
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| (noun) a lawman concerned with narcotics violations | Synonyms: narc, narcotics agent |
| narration | (noun) the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | Synonyms: recital, yarn |
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| (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narrative, story, tale |
| (noun) (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | - |
| narrative | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
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| narrator | (noun) someone who tells a story | Synonyms: storyteller, teller |
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| narrow | (noun) a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water | - |
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| narrowboat | (noun) a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals | Synonyms: canal boat, narrow boat |
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| narrowing | (noun) the act of making something narrower | - |
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| (noun) an instance of becoming narrow | - |
| (noun) a decrease in width | - |
| narrowness | (noun) the property of being narrow; having little width | - |
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| (noun) a small margin | Synonyms: narrow margin, slimness |
| (noun) an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior | Synonyms: narrow-mindedness |
| (noun) a restriction of range or scope | - |
| narthex | (noun) a vestibule leading to the nave of a church | - |
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| (noun) portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church | - |
| narwal | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwhal, narwhale |
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| narwhal | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhale |
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| narwhale | (noun) small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | Synonyms: Monodon monoceros, narwal, narwhal |
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| nasal | (noun) an elongated rectangular bone that forms the bridge of the nose | Synonyms: nasal bone, os nasale |
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| (noun) a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed | Synonyms: nasal consonant |
| nasalisation | (noun) the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators | Synonyms: nasalization |
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| nasality | (noun) a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators | - |
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| nasalization | (noun) the act of nasalizing; the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators | Synonyms: nasalisation |
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| nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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| nascency | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nativity |
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| nasion | (noun) the craniometric point at the bridge of the nose where the frontal and nasal bones of the skull meet | - |
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| nasopharynx | (noun) cavity forming the upper part of the pharynx | - |
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| nastika | (noun) Technical term in Hinduism used to classify philosophical schools and persons that do not accept the authority of the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures. | - |
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| nastiness | (noun) the quality of being highly unpleasant | - |
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| (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, spite, spitefulness |
| (noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, filthiness, foulness |
| nasturtium | (noun) flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings | - |
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| (noun) any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers | - |
| natality | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, birthrate, fertility, fertility rate |
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| natation | (noun) the act of someone who floats on the water | Synonyms: floating |
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| natator | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: bather, swimmer |
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| natatorium | (noun) pool that provides a facility for swimming | Synonyms: swimming bath, swimming pool |
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| nates | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| nation | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, res publica, state |
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| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: country, land |
| (noun) a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes) | - |
| national | (noun) a person who owes allegiance to that nation | Synonyms: subject |
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| nationalisation | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalization |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalization |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalization |
| nationalism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: patriotism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | - |
| (noun) the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination | - |
| nationalist | (noun) one who loves and defends his or her country | Synonyms: patriot |
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| (noun) an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government | - |
| nationality | (noun) people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation | - |
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| (noun) the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization | - |
| nationalization | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalisation |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| nationhood | (noun) the state of being a nation | - |
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| native | (noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
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| (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene |
| (noun) a person born in a particular place or country | - |
| nativeness | (noun) the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin | - |
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| nativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate | - |
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| (noun) the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation) | - |
| nativist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to nativism | - |
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| nativity | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nascency |
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| natriuresis | (noun) the presence of abnormally large amounts of sodium in the urine | - |
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| natrolite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum | - |
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| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| nattiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness |
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| natural | (noun) (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake | - |
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| (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: cancel |
| (noun) someone regarded as certain to succeed | - |
| naturalisation | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalization |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalization |
| naturalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | - |
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| (noun) an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description | Synonyms: realism |
| naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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| (noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
| naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| naturalness | (noun) the quality of being natural or based on natural principles | - |
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| (noun) the likeness of a representation to the thing represented | - |
| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, innocence |
| nature | (noun) the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions | - |
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| (noun) the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized | - |
| (noun) a particular type of thing | - |
| (noun) the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc. | - |
| (noun) a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe | - |
| naturism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: nudism |
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| naturist | (noun) a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion | Synonyms: nudist |
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| naturopath | (noun) a therapist who practices naturopathy | - |
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| naturopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process | - |
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| nauch | (noun) an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls | Synonyms: nautch, nautch dance |
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| naught | (noun) complete failure | - |
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| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| naughtiness | (noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, mischievousness |
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| naumachia | (noun) a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans | Synonyms: naumachy |
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| naumachy | (noun) a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans | Synonyms: naumachia |
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| naupathia | (noun) motion sickness experienced while traveling on water | Synonyms: mal de mer, seasickness |
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| nausea | (noun) disgust so strong it makes you feel sick | - |
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| (noun) the state that precedes vomiting | Synonyms: sickness |
| nauseant | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, vomit, vomitive |
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| nauseatingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
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| nautch | (noun) an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls | Synonyms: nauch, nautch dance |
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| nautilus | (noun) cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions | Synonyms: chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus |
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| (noun) cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells | Synonyms: Argonaut, Argonauta argo, paper nautilus |
| (noun) a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power | Synonyms: nuclear-powered submarine, nuclear submarine |
| nave | (noun) the central area of a church | - |
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| navel | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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| (noun) the center point or middle of something | Synonyms: navel point |
| navicular | (noun) the largest wrist bone on the thumb side | Synonyms: os scaphoideum, scaphoid bone |
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| navigability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft | - |
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| navigation | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: pilotage, piloting |
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| (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: sailing, seafaring |
| (noun) ship traffic | - |
| navigator | (noun) in earlier times, a person who explored by ship | - |
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| (noun) the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course | - |
| (noun) the ship's officer in charge of navigation | Synonyms: sailing master |
| navvy | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: drudge, galley slave, peon |
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| navy | (noun) a dark shade of blue | Synonyms: dark blue, navy blue |
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| (noun) an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare | Synonyms: naval forces |
| nawab | (noun) a governor in India during the Mogul empire | Synonyms: nabob |
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| nay | (noun) used to express negation | - |
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| naysayer | (noun) someone with an aggressively negative attitude | - |
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| naysaying | (noun) the act of saying no to a request | - |
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| nazi | (noun) derogatory term for a person who is fanatically dedicated to, or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc. | - |
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| neap | (noun) a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon | Synonyms: neap tide |
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| nearness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: closeness |
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| nearside | (noun) the side of a vehicle nearest the kerb | - |
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| nearsightedness | (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, shortsightedness |
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| neatness | (noun) the trait of being neat and orderly | Synonyms: tidiness |
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| (noun) the state of being neat and smart and trim | Synonyms: spruceness |
| neb | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, nib, pecker |
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| (noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: snout |
| nebbech | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbish |
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| nebbish | (noun) (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton | Synonyms: nebbech |
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| nebuchadnezzar | (noun) a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display | - |
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| nebula | (noun) (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea | - |
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| (noun) an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space | - |
| (noun) cloudiness of the urine | - |
| (noun) a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer | - |
| nebule | (noun) a small cloud | - |
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| nebuliser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| nebulizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, spray, sprayer |
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| necessary | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessity, requirement, requisite |
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| necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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| necessity | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, requirement, requisite |
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| (noun) the condition of being essential or indispensable | - |
| neck | (noun) an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck | Synonyms: neck opening |
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| (noun) a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form | - |
| (noun) the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | Synonyms: cervix |
| (noun) a cut of meat from the neck of an animal | - |
| (noun) a narrow elongated projecting strip of land | - |
| neckband | (noun) a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over | Synonyms: collar |
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| (noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: choker, collar, dog collar |
| (noun) a band around the collar of a garment | - |