| s | (noun) the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: S |
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| (noun) 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: sec, second |
| sabaton | (noun) armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel | Synonyms: solleret |
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| sabayon | (noun) light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled | Synonyms: zabaglione |
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| sabbat | (noun) a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy | Synonyms: witches' Sabbath |
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| sabbatia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes | - |
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| sabbatical | (noun) a leave usually taken every seventh year | Synonyms: sabbatical leave |
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| saber | (noun) a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back | Synonyms: cavalry sword, sabre |
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| (noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle | Synonyms: sabre |
| sabertooth | (noun) any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene | Synonyms: saber-toothed tiger |
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| sabianism | (noun) the religion of a group mentioned in the Koran as entitled to Muslim religious toleration along with Jews and Christians and usually identified with the Mandaeans or the Elkesaites. | - |
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| sabicu | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a hard dark brown wood resembling mahogany in texture and value | Synonyms: Lysiloma sabicu |
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| (noun) the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany | Synonyms: sabicu wood |
| sabin | (noun) a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound | - |
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| sable | (noun) marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur | Synonyms: Martes zibellina |
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| (noun) a scarf (or trimming) made of sable | - |
| (noun) an artist's brush made of sable hairs | Synonyms: sable's hair pencil, sable brush |
| (noun) a very dark black | Synonyms: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, soot black |
| (noun) the expensive dark brown fur of the marten | - |
| sabot | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, patten |
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| (noun) a shoe carved from a single block of wood | Synonyms: wooden shoe |
| sabotage | (noun) a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged | - |
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| saboteur | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, wrecker |
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| (noun) a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader | Synonyms: fifth columnist |
| sabra | (noun) a native-born Israeli | - |
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| sabre | (noun) a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back | Synonyms: cavalry sword, saber |
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| (noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle | Synonyms: saber |
| sac | (noun) a structure resembling a bag in an animal | - |
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| (noun) a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule | Synonyms: theca |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pocket, pouch, sack |
| saccade | (noun) a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest | - |
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| (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, jolt |
| saccharase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose | Synonyms: invertase, sucrase |
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| saccharide | (noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: carbohydrate, sugar |
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| saccharin | (noun) a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener | - |
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| saccharinity | (noun) the excessive sweetness of saccharin | - |
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| saccharose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: sucrose |
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| saccule | (noun) a small sac or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth) | Synonyms: sacculus |
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| sacculus | (noun) a small sac or pouch (especially the smaller chamber of the membranous labyrinth) | Synonyms: saccule |
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| sacerdotalism | (noun) a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God | - |
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| sachem | (noun) a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) | Synonyms: sagamore |
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| (noun) a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall) | - |
| sachet | (noun) a small soft bag containing perfumed powder; used to perfume items in a drawer or chest | - |
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| sack | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sacking |
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| (noun) the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter | - |
| (noun) a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases | Synonyms: carrier bag, paper bag, poke |
| (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: chemise, shift |
| (noun) a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily | Synonyms: hammock |
| (noun) a woman's full loose hiplength jacket | Synonyms: sacque |
| (noun) any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry) | - |
| (noun) the quantity contained in a sack | Synonyms: sackful |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pocket, pouch, sac |
| sackbut | (noun) a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone | - |
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| sackcloth | (noun) a coarse cloth resembling sacking | - |
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| (noun) a garment made of coarse sacking; formerly worn as an indication of remorse | - |
| sackful | (noun) the quantity contained in a sack | Synonyms: sack |
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| sacking | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack |
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| (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: bagging |
| sacque | (noun) a woman's full loose hiplength jacket | Synonyms: sack |
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| sacrament | (noun) a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | - |
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| sacredness | (noun) the quality of being sacred | - |
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| sacrifice | (noun) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity | Synonyms: ritual killing |
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| (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture |
| (noun) (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | - |
| (noun) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) | - |
| (noun) a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value | - |
| sacrificer | (noun) a religious person who offers up a sacrifice | - |
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| sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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| sacrilegiousness | (noun) profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege | - |
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| sacristan | (noun) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | Synonyms: sexton |
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| sacristy | (noun) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held | Synonyms: vestry |
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| sacrum | (noun) wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx | - |
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| saddhu | (noun) (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man | Synonyms: sadhu |
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| saddle | (noun) posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl | - |
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| (noun) a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal | - |
| (noun) a seat for the rider of a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle seat |
| (noun) a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe | - |
| (noun) cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins | - |
| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddleback |
| saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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| (noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
| saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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| saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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| saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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| saddlecloth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle | Synonyms: horse blanket, saddle blanket |
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| saddler | (noun) a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses | - |
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| saddlery | (noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: stable gear, tack |
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| (noun) workshop where a saddler works | - |
| sadhe | (noun) the 18th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| sadhu | (noun) (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man | Synonyms: saddhu |
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| sadism | (noun) sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others | - |
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| sadist | (noun) someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others | - |
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| sadness | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: gloominess, lugubriousness |
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| (noun) emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being | Synonyms: unhappiness |
| (noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sorrow, sorrowfulness |
| sadomasochism | (noun) sadism and masochism combined in one person | - |
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| sadomasochist | (noun) someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism | - |
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| safari | (noun) an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) | Synonyms: campaign, hunting expedition |
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| safe | (noun) strongbox where valuables can be safely kept | - |
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| (noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, rubber, safety |
| (noun) a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests | - |
| safebreaker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safecracker |
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| safecracker | (noun) a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents | Synonyms: cracksman, safebreaker |
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| safeguard | (noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: guard, precaution |
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| (noun) a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war | Synonyms: safe-conduct |
| safehold | (noun) a refuge from attack | - |
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| safekeeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, keeping |
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| safeness | (noun) the quality of being safe | - |
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| safety | (noun) (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely | Synonyms: base hit |
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| (noun) a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line | - |
| (noun) a device designed to prevent injury or accidents | Synonyms: guard, safety device |
| (noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, rubber, safe |
| (noun) a safe place | Synonyms: refuge |
| (noun) the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions | - |
| safflower | (noun) thistlelike Eurasian plant widely grown for its red or orange flower heads and seeds that yield a valuable oil | Synonyms: Carthamus tinctorius, false saffron |
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| saffranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: safranin, safranine |
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| saffron | (noun) a shade of yellow tinged with orange | Synonyms: orange yellow |
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| (noun) dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus | - |
| (noun) Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food | Synonyms: Crocus sativus, saffron crocus |
| safranin | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranine |
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| safranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranin |
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| sag | (noun) a shape that sags | Synonyms: droop |
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| saga | (noun) a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account | - |
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| sagaciousness | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: judiciousness, sagacity |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, judgment, sagacity |
| sagacity | (noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | Synonyms: judiciousness, sagaciousness |
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| (noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, judgment, sagaciousness |
| sagamore | (noun) a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) | Synonyms: sachem |
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| sage | (noun) aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc | - |
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| (noun) a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom | - |
| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb | Synonyms: salvia |
| sagebrush | (noun) any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium | Synonyms: sage brush |
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| sagitta | (noun) any arrowworm of the genus Sagitta | - |
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| sago | (noun) powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener | - |
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| saguaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, sahuaro |
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| sahib | (noun) formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name | - |
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| sahuaro | (noun) extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit | Synonyms: Carnegiea gigantea, saguaro |
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| saiga | (noun) goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis | Synonyms: Saiga tatarica |
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| sail | (noun) an ocean trip taken for pleasure | Synonyms: cruise |
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| (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, canvass, sheet |
| (noun) any structure that resembles a sail | - |
| sailboat | (noun) a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast | Synonyms: sailing boat |
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| sailcloth | (noun) a strong fabric (such as cotton canvas) used for making sails and tents | - |
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| sailfish | (noun) large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | - |
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| (noun) a saltwater fish with lean flesh | - |
| sailing | (noun) riding in a sailboat | - |
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| (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: navigation, seafaring |
| (noun) the departure of a vessel from a port | - |
| (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring |
| sailmaker | (noun) a maker of sails | - |
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| sailor | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, skimmer, straw hat |
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| (noun) any member of a ship's crew | Synonyms: crewman |
| (noun) a serviceman in the navy | Synonyms: bluejacket, navy man, sailor boy |
| sailplane | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: glider |
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| sailplaning | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, soaring |
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| sainfoin | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain | Synonyms: esparcet, holy clover, Onobrychis viciaefolia, Onobrychis viciifolia, sanfoin |
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| saint | (noun) person of exceptional holiness | Synonyms: angel, holy man, holy person |
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| (noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon |
| (noun) a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization | - |
| sainthood | (noun) the status and dignity of a saint | - |
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| (noun) saints collectively | - |
| saintliness | (noun) the quality of resembling a saint | - |
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