![]() You can see the full list of words to be added in this update here. Finally, ever wondered about the history of the word GROOM? Matthew Bladen, OED Senior Editor, delves into it here. The Merriam-Websters Pocket Dictionary is a concise yet comprehensive guide packed with information about the words most commonly used in speech and.Also be sure to have a read of OED Senior Consultant Phonetics Editor, Matthew Moreland's blog on the New Zealand Transcription Model. Take a look at the additions to New Zealand English in this blog post by Danica Salazar, OED Executive Editor.Discover the biblical origins of VIRAGO in this post by Eleanor Maier, OED Executive Editor.Learn more about the words added to the OED this quarter in our new words notes by OED Executive Editor, Craig Leyland.The latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary includes over 1,400 fully revised and updated entries, and over 700 new words, phrases, and senses appear for the first time, including deepfake, antigram, and groomzilla. ![]() We made history with Word of the Year in 2022, as we asked you to help us choose. Goblin mode is our 2022 Word of the Year, recognising our desire, particularly as we emerged from the pandemic, to engage in 'unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy' behaviour that typically 'rejects social norms or expectations'. Same format as dictionary.Get your annual subscription for just £100/$100! "anti-federalist" : "One of party opposed to a federative government - applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States. "anarchic" : "Pertaining to anarchy without rule or government in political confusion tending to produce anarchy as, anarchic despotism anarchical opinions. of India) ", dictionary_alpha_arrays.jsonĪn array of 26 objects, for each leading letter: "sarong" : "A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago. Unless they become themselves infected by previously biting a subject affected with malaria, the insects cannot transmit the disease. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. ![]() They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearly equaling the beak in length, while those of the female Culex are very short. Several species are found in the United States. "anopheles" : "A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. ![]()
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