| abecedarian
|
(adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) |
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| (noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject |
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| academician
|
(noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy |
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| (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation |
Synonyms:
schoolman |
| (noun) an educator who works at a college or university |
Synonyms:
academic,
faculty member |
| acanthocephalan
|
(noun) any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
Synonyms:
spiny-headed worm |
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| acanthopterygian
|
(noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
Synonyms:
spiny-finned fish |
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| acoustician
|
(noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics |
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| actinian
|
(noun) any sea anemone or related animal |
Synonyms:
actinia,
actiniarian |
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| actiniarian
|
(noun) any sea anemone or related animal |
Synonyms:
actinia,
actinian |
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| actinomyxidian
|
(noun) of or relating to parasites of worms |
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| actinozoan
|
(noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed |
Synonyms:
anthozoan |
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| adman
|
(noun) someone whose business is advertising |
Synonyms:
advertiser,
advertizer |
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| aeonian
|
(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely |
Synonyms:
unceasing,
unending,
perpetual,
eonian,
eternal,
everlasting,
ageless |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era) |
Synonyms:
eonian |
| aesculapian
|
(adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art |
Synonyms:
medical |
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| aesthetician
|
(noun) a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) |
Synonyms:
esthetician |
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| (noun) a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty |
Synonyms:
esthetician |
| afghan
|
(noun) a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl |
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| (noun) a coat made of sheepskin |
Synonyms:
sheepskin coat |
| agnathan
|
(noun) eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms |
Synonyms:
jawless fish,
jawless vertebrate |
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| agrarian
|
(adjective) relating to farming or agriculture |
Synonyms:
agricultural,
farming |
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| aircraftman
|
(noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force |
Synonyms:
aircraftsman |
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| aircraftsman
|
(noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force |
Synonyms:
aircraftman |
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| aircrewman
|
(noun) a member of an aircrew |
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| airman
|
(noun) someone who operates an aircraft |
Synonyms:
aeronaut,
aviator,
flier,
flyer |
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| airwoman
|
(noun) a woman aviator |
Synonyms:
aviatress,
aviatrix |
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| alderman
|
(noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) |
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| alsatian
|
(noun) breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
Synonyms:
German police dog,
German shepherd,
German shepherd dog |
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| ambrosian
|
(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant |
Synonyms:
nectarous,
ambrosial |
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| (adjective) worthy of the gods |
Synonyms:
ambrosial |
| ameban
|
(adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae |
Synonyms:
amebic,
amebous,
amoeban,
amoebic,
amoebous |
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| amoeban
|
(adjective) pertaining to or resembling amoebae |
Synonyms:
ameban,
amebic,
amebous,
amoebic,
amoebous |
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| amphibian
|
(noun) a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water |
Synonyms:
amphibious vehicle |
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| (noun) an airplane designed to take off and land on water |
Synonyms:
amphibious aircraft |
| (noun) cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia |
Synonyms:
amphibious |
| anatotitan
|
(noun) one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs |
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| anchorman
|
(noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute |
Synonyms:
anchor,
anchorperson |
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| annelidan
|
(adjective) relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida |
Synonyms:
annelid |
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| antediluvian
|
(adjective) so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period |
Synonyms:
antiquated,
archaic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the period before the biblical flood |
Synonyms:
antediluvial |
| (noun) any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge |
Synonyms:
antediluvian patriarch |
| (noun) a very old person |
Synonyms:
ancient |
| antemeridian
|
(adjective) before noon |
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| anthozoan
|
(noun) sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed |
Synonyms:
actinozoan |
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| antiauthoritarian
|
(adjective) opposed to authoritarianism |
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| antinomian
|
(adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism |
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| (noun) a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism |
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| antipodean
|
(adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth |
Synonyms:
antipodal |
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| antiquarian
|
(adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities |
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| (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities |
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| (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities |
Synonyms:
antiquary,
archaist |
| anuran
|
(adjective) relating to frogs and toads |
Synonyms:
salientian,
batrachian |
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| (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
Synonyms:
frog,
salientian,
batrachian,
toad,
toad frog |
| apian
|
(adjective) relating to or having the characteristics of bees |
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| apiarian
|
(adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping |
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| aplacophoran
|
(noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle |
Synonyms:
solenogaster |
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| apogean
|
(adjective) relating to or characteristic of an apogee |
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| arachnidian
|
(adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida |
Synonyms:
spiderlike,
spiderly,
spidery,
arachnoid |
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| araneidan
|
(adjective) relating to or resembling a spider |
Synonyms:
araneidal |
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| arcadian
|
(adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic |
Synonyms:
pastoral,
bucolic |
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| archaean
|
(adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon |
Synonyms:
archean |
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| archdiocesan
|
(adjective) of or relating to an archdiocese |
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| archean
|
(adjective) of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon |
Synonyms:
archaean |
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| archosaurian
|
(adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria |
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| (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts |
Synonyms:
archosaur,
archosaurian reptile |
| arctan
|
(noun) the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number |
Synonyms:
inverse tangent,
arc tangent,
arctangent |
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| arithmetician
|
(noun) someone who specializes in arithmetic |
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| artesian
|
(adjective) (of water) rising to the surface under internal hydrostatic pressure |
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| arthropodan
|
(adjective) of or relating to invertebrates of the phylum Arthropoda |
Synonyms:
arthropodal,
arthropodous |
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| artilleryman
|
(noun) a serviceman in the artillery |
Synonyms:
machine gunner,
gunner,
cannoneer |
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| artisan
|
(noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft |
Synonyms:
journeyman,
craftsman,
artificer |
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| ascidian
|
(noun) minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves |
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| ashcan
|
(noun) a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected |
Synonyms:
dustbin,
garbage can,
wastebin,
ash bin,
ash-bin,
ashbin,
trash barrel,
trash bin,
trash can |
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| assemblyman
|
(noun) someone who is a member of a legislative assembly |
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| assemblywoman
|
(noun) a woman assemblyman |
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| astrakhan
|
(noun) the fur of young lambs |
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| aurorean
|
(adjective) characteristic of the dawn |
Synonyms:
auroral |
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| authoritarian
|
(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty |
Synonyms:
despotic,
dictatorial,
autocratic,
tyrannic,
tyrannical |
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| (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience |
Synonyms:
dictatorial,
overbearing |
| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner |
Synonyms:
dictator |
| avellan
|
(adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts |
Synonyms:
avellane |
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| avian
|
(adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of birds |
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| bacchanalian
|
(adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking |
Synonyms:
orgiastic,
carousing,
bacchanal,
bacchic |
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| backwoodsman
|
(noun) a man who lives on the frontier |
Synonyms:
mountain man,
frontiersman |
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| baggageman
|
(noun) an attendant who takes care of baggage |
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| bagman
|
(noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers |
Synonyms:
roadman,
commercial traveler,
commercial traveller,
traveling salesman,
travelling salesman |
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| (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money |
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| balagan
|
(noun) a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) |
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| balbriggan
|
(noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear |
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| ban
|
(verb) forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper) |
Synonyms:
censor |
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| (verb) prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure |
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| (verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment |
Synonyms:
banish |
| (verb) expel from a community or group |
Synonyms:
banish,
cast out,
ostracise,
ostracize,
shun,
blackball |
| (noun) a decree that prohibits something |
Synonyms:
prohibition,
proscription |
| (noun) 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova |
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| (noun) 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania |
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| (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something |
Synonyms:
forbiddance,
banning,
forbidding |
| (noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. |
Synonyms:
Hart,
dit,
hartley |
| bandsman
|
(noun) a player in a band (especially a military band) |
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| banian
|
(noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks |
Synonyms:
banyan,
Indian banyan,
East Indian fig tree,
banian tree,
banyan tree,
Ficus bengalensis |
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| (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India |
Synonyms:
banyan |
| banyan
|
(noun) East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks |
Synonyms:
banian,
Indian banyan,
East Indian fig tree,
banian tree,
banyan tree,
Ficus bengalensis |
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| (noun) a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India |
Synonyms:
banian |
| barbacan
|
(noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) |
Synonyms:
barbican |
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| barbarian
|
(adjective) without civilizing influences |
Synonyms:
uncivilised,
uncivilized,
wild,
savage,
barbaric |
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| (noun) a member of an uncivilized people |
Synonyms:
savage |
| (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement |
Synonyms:
peasant,
Goth,
churl,
boor,
tike,
tyke |
| barbican
|
(noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) |
Synonyms:
barbacan |
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| bargeman
|
(noun) someone who operates a barge |
Synonyms:
bargee,
lighterman |
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| barman
|
(noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar |
Synonyms:
mixologist,
barkeep,
barkeeper,
bartender |
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| basilican
|
(adjective) of or relating to or resembling a basilica |
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| batman
|
(noun) an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer |
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| batrachian
|
(adjective) relating to frogs and toads |
Synonyms:
salientian,
anuran |
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| (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
Synonyms:
frog,
salientian,
anuran,
toad,
toad frog |
| batsman
|
(noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting |
Synonyms:
batter,
hitter,
slugger |
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| beadsman
|
(noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another |
Synonyms:
bedesman |
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| bean
|
(noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food |
Synonyms:
edible bean |
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| (noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans |
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| (noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods |
Synonyms:
bean plant |
| (noun) informal terms for a human head |
Synonyms:
dome,
attic,
noggin,
noodle,
bonce |
| (verb) hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball |
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| beautician
|
(noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor |
Synonyms:
cosmetician |
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| bedesman
|
(noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another |
Synonyms:
beadsman |
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| bedpan
|
(noun) a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination |
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| beggarman
|
(noun) a man who is a beggar |
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| beggarwoman
|
(noun) a woman who is a beggar |
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| bellman
|
(noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels |
Synonyms:
bellboy,
bellhop |
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| bemoan
|
(verb) regret strongly |
Synonyms:
lament,
deplore,
bewail |
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| benzofuran
|
(noun) a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins |
Synonyms:
coumarone,
cumarone |
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| bipartisan
|
(adjective) supported by both sides |
Synonyms:
bipartizan,
two-party,
two-way |
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| bipartizan
|
(adjective) supported by both sides |
Synonyms:
bipartisan,
two-party,
two-way |
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| boatman
|
(noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat |
Synonyms:
boater,
waterman |
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| bogbean
|
(noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface |
Synonyms:
Menyanthes trifoliata,
marsh trefoil,
water shamrock,
bog myrtle,
buckbean |
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| bogeyman
|
(noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children |
Synonyms:
bugaboo,
bugbear,
booger,
boogeyman |
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| bohemian
|
(adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior |
- |
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| (noun) a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life |
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| bondman
|
(noun) a male bound to serve without wages |
Synonyms:
bondsman |
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| (noun) a male slave |
Synonyms:
bondsman |