| eldest | (adjective) first in order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
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| (noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: firstborn |
| electrologist | (noun) someone skilled in the use of electricity to remove moles or warts or hair roots | - |
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| electrotherapist | (noun) someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity | - |
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| elegist | (noun) the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | - |
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| elitist | (noun) someone who believes in rule by an elite group | - |
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| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| embryologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in embryology | - |
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| empiricist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism | - |
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| encrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: incrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: incrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, incrust |
| encyclopaedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopedist |
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| encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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| endmost | (adjective) being or situated at an end | Synonyms: terminal |
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| endoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoderm, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| endocrinologist | (noun) physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system | - |
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| endodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in diseases of the dental pulp and nerve | - |
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| enlist | (verb) join the military | - |
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| (verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: draft, muster in |
| (verb) hire for work or assistance | Synonyms: engage |
| enologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: fermentologist, oenologist |
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| enthusiast | (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | Synonyms: partisan, partizan |
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| (noun) a person having a strong liking for something | Synonyms: fancier |
| entoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoderm, hypoblast |
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| entomologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, bugologist |
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| entrust | (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, intrust, trust |
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| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: leave |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| enzymologist | (noun) a person who is trained in or engaged in enzymology | - |
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| epidemiologist | (noun) a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases | - |
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| epistemologist | (noun) a specialist in epistemology | - |
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| erst | (adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erstwhile, formerly, once |
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| erythroblast | (noun) a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop | - |
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| escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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| escapologist | (noun) an entertainer who is expert in the art of escaping | Synonyms: escape expert |
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| eschatologist | (noun) a theologian who specializes in eschatology | - |
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| essayist | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: litterateur |
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| ethicist | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in ethics | Synonyms: ethician |
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| ethnologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies ethnology | - |
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| ethologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies the behavior of animals in their natural habitats | - |
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| etiologist | (noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases | Synonyms: aetiologist |
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| etymologist | (noun) a lexicographer who specializes in etymology | - |
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| eulogist | (noun) an orator who delivers eulogies or panegyrics | Synonyms: panegyrist |
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| evangelist | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: gospeler, gospeller, revivalist |
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| evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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| excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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| exhaust | (noun) system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged | Synonyms: exhaust system |
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| (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust fumes, fumes |
| (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: beat, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release |
| (verb) use up the whole supply of | - |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: play out, run down, sap, tire |
| exhibitionist | (noun) someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention | Synonyms: show-off |
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| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: flasher |
| exist | (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: be |
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| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: live, subsist, survive |
| existentialist | (adjective) relating to or involving existentialism | - |
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| (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
| exodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth | - |
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| exorcist | (noun) someone who practices exorcism | Synonyms: exorciser |
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| (noun) one of the minor orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church | - |
| expansionist | (adjective) of or involving or guided by expansionism | - |
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| expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
| extortionist | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortioner |
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| extremist | (adjective) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | Synonyms: radical, ultra |
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| (noun) a person who holds extreme views | - |
| fabulist | (noun) a person who tells or invents fables | - |
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| faddist | (noun) a person who subscribes to a variety of fads | - |
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| falangist | (noun) a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | Synonyms: phalangist |
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| fantasist | (noun) a creator of fantasies | - |
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| fantast | (noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: futurist |
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| farthermost | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthest, furthermost, furthest, utmost, uttermost |
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| farthest | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthermost, furthermost, furthest, utmost, uttermost |
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| (adverb) to the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest' is used more often than `furthest' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: furthest |
| (adverb) to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest' is used more often than `farthest' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: furthest |
| fascist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of fascism | Synonyms: fascistic |
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| (noun) an adherent of fascism or other authoritarian views | - |
| fast | (adjective) acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly | - |
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| (adjective) at a rapid tempo | - |
| (adjective) (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time | - |
| (adjective) (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time | - |
| (adjective) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause | Synonyms: firm, loyal, truehearted |
| (adjective) securely fixed in place | Synonyms: firm, immobile |
| (adjective) hurried and brief | Synonyms: flying, quick |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous |
| (adjective) resistant to destruction or fading | - |
| (adjective) (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds | - |
| (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fasting |
| (adverb) quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form) | - |
| (adverb) firmly or closely | Synonyms: tight |
| (verb) abstain from eating | - |
| (verb) abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons | - |
| fastest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: quickest |
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| fatalist | (adjective) of or relating to fatalism | Synonyms: fatalistic |
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| (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
| fauvist | (noun) a member of a group of French painters who followed fauvism | Synonyms: Fauve |
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| feast | (noun) something experienced with great delight | - |
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| (noun) an elaborate party (often outdoors) | Synonyms: fete, fiesta |
| (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: banquet, spread |
| (noun) a ceremonial dinner party for many people | Synonyms: banquet |
| (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
| (verb) gratify | Synonyms: feed |
| federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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| feetfirst | (adverb) with the feet foremost | - |
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| feist | (noun) a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog | Synonyms: fice |
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| feminist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women | - |
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| (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
| fermentologist | (noun) a specialist in wine making | Synonyms: enologist, oenologist |
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| fetishist | (noun) one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) | - |
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| fewest | (adjective) (superlative of `few' used with count nouns and usually preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the smallest in number | - |
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| fibroblast | (noun) a cell from which connective tissue develops | - |
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| finalist | (noun) a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition | - |
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| fingerpost | (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerboard |
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| first | (adjective) preceding all others in time or space or degree | Synonyms: 1st |
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| (adjective) highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections | - |
| (adjective) ranking above all others | Synonyms: foremost, world-class |
| (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: beginning |
| (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: inaugural, initiative, initiatory, maiden |
| (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate) | Synonyms: first base |
| (noun) the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving | Synonyms: first gear, low, low gear |
| (noun) an honours degree of the highest class | Synonyms: first-class honours degree |
| (noun) the first element in a countable series | Synonyms: number 1, number one |
| (noun) the first or highest in an ordering or series | Synonyms: number one |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| (adverb) before anything else | Synonyms: first of all, first off, firstly, foremost |
| (adverb) prominently forward | Synonyms: foremost |
| (adverb) the initial time | - |
| (adverb) before another in time, space, or importance | - |
| fist | (noun) a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting) | Synonyms: clenched fist |
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| flabbergast | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: boggle, bowl over |
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| flautist | (noun) someone who plays the flute | Synonyms: flute player, flutist |
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| florist | (noun) a shop where flowers and ornamental plants are sold | Synonyms: florist shop, flower store |
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| (noun) someone who grows and deals in flowers | - |
| flutist | (noun) someone who plays the flute | Synonyms: flautist, flute player |
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| flypast | (noun) a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground | Synonyms: fly-by, flyover |
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| foist | (verb) insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
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| (verb) to force onto another | - |
| footrest | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footstool, ottoman, tuffet |
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| forecast | (noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | Synonyms: prognosis |
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| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| foremast | (noun) the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts | - |
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| foremost | (adjective) ranking above all others | Synonyms: first, world-class |
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| (adjective) situated closest to the bow | - |
| (adjective) preceding all others in spatial position | Synonyms: frontmost |
| (adverb) prominently forward | Synonyms: first |
| (adverb) before anything else | Synonyms: first, first of all, first off, firstly |
| forest | (noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | Synonyms: wood, woods |
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| (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: timber, timberland, woodland |
| (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: afforest |
| fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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| frontmost | (adjective) preceding all others in spatial position | Synonyms: foremost |
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| frost | (noun) weather cold enough to cause freezing | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (noun) the formation of frost or ice on a surface | Synonyms: icing |
| (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: hoar, hoarfrost, rime |
| (verb) damage by frost | - |
| (verb) decorate with frosting | Synonyms: ice |
| (verb) provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance | - |
| (verb) cover with frost | - |
| funambulist | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope | Synonyms: tightrope walker |
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| functionalist | (noun) an adherent of functionalism | - |
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| fundamentalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
| (noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
| (noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
| furthermost | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthest, utmost, uttermost |
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| furthest | (adjective) (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order | Synonyms: farthermost, farthest, furthermost, utmost, uttermost |
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| (adverb) to the greatest distance in space or time (`farthest' is used more often than `furthest' in this physical sense) | Synonyms: farthest |
| (adverb) to the greatest degree or extent or most advanced stage (`furthest' is used more often than `farthest' in this abstract sense) | Synonyms: farthest |
| futurist | (adjective) of or relating to futurism | Synonyms: futuristic |
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| (noun) someone who predicts the future | Synonyms: fantast |
| (noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) will be fulfilled in the future | - |
| gabfest | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| gambist | (noun) a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba | - |
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| gastroenterologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract | - |
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| gatepost | (noun) either of two posts that bound a gate | - |
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