klingon

klingon (nominative singular)
klingonit (nominative plural)
klingon (accusative nominative singular)
klingonit (accusative nominative plural)
klingonin (accusative genitive singular)
klingonit (accusative genitive plural)
klingonin (genitive singular)
klingonien (genitive plural)
klingonia (partitive singular)
klingoneja (partitive plural)
klingonissa (inessive singular)
klingoneissa (inessive plural)
klingonista (elative singular)
klingoneista (elative plural)
klingoniin (illative singular)
klingoneihin (illative plural)
klingonilla (adessive singular)
klingoneilla (adessive plural)
klingonilta (ablative singular)
klingoneilta (ablative plural)
klingonille (allative singular)
klingoneille (allative plural)
klingonina (essive singular)
klingoneina (essive plural)
klingoniksi (singular translative)
klingoneiksi (plural translative)
klingonitta (abessive singular)
klingoneitta (abessive plural)
klingonein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
klingonini (nominative singular)
klingonini (nominative plural)
klingonini (accusative nominative singular)
klingonini (accusative nominative plural)
klingonini (accusative genitive singular)
klingonini (accusative genitive plural)
klingonini (genitive singular)
klingonieni (genitive plural)
klingoniani (partitive singular)
klingonejani (partitive plural)
klingonissani (inessive singular)
klingoneissani (inessive plural)
klingonistani (elative singular)
klingoneistani (elative plural)
klingoniini (illative singular)
klingoneihini (illative plural)
klingonillani (adessive singular)
klingoneillani (adessive plural)
klingoniltani (ablative singular)
klingoneiltani (ablative plural)
klingonilleni (allative singular)
klingoneilleni (allative plural)
klingoninani (essive singular)
klingoneinani (essive plural)
klingonikseni (singular translative)
klingoneikseni (plural translative)
klingonittani (abessive singular)
klingoneittani (abessive plural)
klingoneineni (comitative plural)
klingonisi (nominative singular)
klingonisi (nominative plural)
klingonisi (accusative nominative singular)
klingonisi (accusative nominative plural)
klingonisi (accusative genitive singular)
klingonisi (accusative genitive plural)
klingonisi (genitive singular)
klingoniesi (genitive plural)
klingoniasi (partitive singular)
klingonejasi (partitive plural)
klingonissasi (inessive singular)
klingoneissasi (inessive plural)
klingonistasi (elative singular)
klingoneistasi (elative plural)
klingoniisi (illative singular)
klingoneihisi (illative plural)
klingonillasi (adessive singular)
klingoneillasi (adessive plural)
klingoniltasi (ablative singular)
klingoneiltasi (ablative plural)
klingonillesi (allative singular)
klingoneillesi (allative plural)
klingoninasi (essive singular)
klingoneinasi (essive plural)
klingoniksesi (singular translative)
klingoneiksesi (plural translative)
klingonittasi (abessive singular)
klingoneittasi (abessive plural)
klingoneinesi (comitative plural)
klingonimme (nominative singular)
klingonimme (nominative plural)
klingonimme (accusative nominative singular)
klingonimme (accusative nominative plural)
klingonimme (accusative genitive singular)
klingonimme (accusative genitive plural)
klingonimme (genitive singular)
klingoniemme (genitive plural)
klingoniamme (partitive singular)
klingonejamme (partitive plural)
klingonissamme (inessive singular)
klingoneissamme (inessive plural)
klingonistamme (elative singular)
klingoneistamme (elative plural)
klingoniimme (illative singular)
klingoneihimme (illative plural)
klingonillamme (adessive singular)
klingoneillamme (adessive plural)
klingoniltamme (ablative singular)
klingoneiltamme (ablative plural)
klingonillemme (allative singular)
klingoneillemme (allative plural)
klingoninamme (essive singular)
klingoneinamme (essive plural)
klingoniksemme (singular translative)
klingoneiksemme (plural translative)
klingonittamme (abessive singular)
klingoneittamme (abessive plural)
klingoneinemme (comitative plural)
klingoninne (nominative singular)
klingoninne (nominative plural)
klingoninne (accusative nominative singular)
klingoninne (accusative nominative plural)
klingoninne (accusative genitive singular)
klingoninne (accusative genitive plural)
klingoninne (genitive singular)
klingonienne (genitive plural)
klingonianne (partitive singular)
klingonejanne (partitive plural)
klingonissanne (inessive singular)
klingoneissanne (inessive plural)
klingonistanne (elative singular)
klingoneistanne (elative plural)
klingoniinne (illative singular)
klingoneihinne (illative plural)
klingonillanne (adessive singular)
klingoneillanne (adessive plural)
klingoniltanne (ablative singular)
klingoneiltanne (ablative plural)
klingonillenne (allative singular)
klingoneillenne (allative plural)
klingoninanne (essive singular)
klingoneinanne (essive plural)
klingoniksenne (singular translative)
klingoneiksenne (plural translative)
klingonittanne (abessive singular)
klingoneittanne (abessive plural)
klingoneinenne (comitative plural)
klingoninsa (nominative singular)
klingoninsa (nominative plural)
klingoninsa (accusative nominative singular)
klingoninsa (accusative nominative plural)
klingoninsa (accusative genitive singular)
klingoninsa (accusative genitive plural)
klingoninsa (genitive singular)
klingoniensa (genitive plural)
klingoniaan (partitive singular)
klingoniansa (partitive singular)
klingonejaan (partitive plural)
klingonejansa (partitive plural)
klingonissaan (inessive singular)
klingonissansa (inessive singular)
klingoneissaan (inessive plural)
klingoneissansa (inessive plural)
klingonistaan (elative singular)
klingonistansa (elative singular)
klingoneistaan (elative plural)
klingoneistansa (elative plural)
klingoniinsa (illative singular)
klingoneihinsa (illative plural)
klingonillaan (adessive singular)
klingonillansa (adessive singular)
klingoneillaan (adessive plural)
klingoneillansa (adessive plural)
klingoniltaan (ablative singular)
klingoniltansa (ablative singular)
klingoneiltaan (ablative plural)
klingoneiltansa (ablative plural)
klingonilleen (allative singular)
klingonillensa (allative singular)
klingoneilleen (allative plural)
klingoneillensa (allative plural)
klingoninaan (essive singular)
klingoninansa (essive singular)
klingoneinaan (essive plural)
klingoneinansa (essive plural)
klingonikseen (singular translative)
klingoniksensa (singular translative)
klingoneikseen (plural translative)
klingoneiksensa (plural translative)
klingonittaan (abessive singular)
klingonittansa (abessive singular)
klingoneittaan (abessive plural)
klingoneittansa (abessive plural)
klingoneineen (comitative plural)
klingoneinensa (comitative plural)

Klingon, Klingonese (fictional language)

A Klingon (member of a fictional alien race)


klingon

fr-adj

klingon (feminine klingonne, masculine plural klingons, feminine plural klingonnes)

klingonne (feminine)
klingons (masculine plural)
klingonnes (feminine plural)


klingon

Klingon (artificial language from the Star Trek franchise)


klingon

(science fiction) Klingon (a member of the Klingon species in Star Trek)

(science fiction) Klingon (artificial language from the Star Trek franchise)


klingon

klingon (indefinite nominative singular)
klingons (genitive indefinite singular)
klingonen (definite nominative singular)
klingonens (definite genitive singular)
klingoner (indefinite nominative plural)
klingoners (genitive indefinite plural)
klingonerna (definite nominative plural)
klingonernas (definite genitive plural)


Jovian

en-adj

Jovian (comparative more Jovian, superlative most Jovian)

more Jovian (comparative)
most Jovian (superlative)

From Latin Iovis, genitive of Iuppiter, analysable as Jove + -ian.

(astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter.

Near-synonym: Zeusian

He did not admit of equals. But as a patron he was superb. With his Jovian air, his colossal condescension, his amused smile, his general suggestion of the god descending to the mortal, he could be quite overpowering in his amiability.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(Roman mythology) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus); Jove-like; befitting Jupiter.


Jovian

(chiefly science fiction) An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.


Neptunian

From Latin Neptūnius (“of or pertaining to the Roman god Neptune”), from Neptūnus (“the Roman god Neptune”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ- (“to become damp, cloudy”)) + -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); analysable as Neptune + -ian. The English word is cognate with French neptunien (“pertaining to the Roman god Neptune, pertaining to the sea, pertaining to Neptunism, Neptunian; proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist”), German Neptunier (“proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist”).

cog

Near-synonym: Poseidonian

The Tomb disburd'ning, whence the Ghoſt aroſe / Of great Achilles; Such when Thracian Foes / (The Prelude of thy Fates, Troy!) he o'rethrew, / And the white hair'd Neptunian Cycnus [i.e., Neptune's son] ſlew.

1679, Lucius Annaeus Seneca [i.e., Seneca the Younger], translated by Edward Sherburne, Troades: Or The Royal Captives. A Tragedy, Written Originally in Latin, […], London: Printed by Anne Godbid, and John Playford, for Samuel Carr, […], →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 21:

(Roman mythology) Of or pertaining to Neptune, the Roman god of fresh water and the sea, the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon.


Neptunian

We are not ourselves, bigotted Neptunians or Vulcanians: we perceive difficulties whichever theory be adopted: and provided the earth be but stable under us, we are not anxiously jealous for the dignity of the trident-wielding power, or for the honour of the hammer-working deity.

1807 October, “View of the Mineralogy, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of the Island of Arran, […] by the Rev. James Headrick. pp. 395. Price 10s. 6d. Constable and Co. Edinburgh: Murray, London, 1807. [book review]”, in The Literary Panorama. Being a Review of Books, Magazine of Varieties, and Annual Register, volume III, London: Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis, […], [f]or C[harles] Taylor, […], published March 1808, →OCLC, column 57:

Its [obsidian's] origin is warmly contested between the Neptunians and Plutonians, many of the latter denominating it a vitreous lava.

1813, John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth, “OBSIDIAN”, in Pantologia. A New Cyclopædia, Comprehending a Complete Series of Essays, Treatises, and Systems, Alphabetically Arranged; […], volumes VIII (MID–OZO), London: Printed for G. Kearsley; [et al.], →OCLC, column 1:

As to the two theories, neither will suffice alone. The neptunian is utterly inadequate to explain the phenomena of basalt; nor can a vulcanist account for the appearance of an hydrophane.—We need both explanations. Those geologists who have travelled in the north of Europe, are generally neptunians; those who have made their observations in the south of the same regions, are generally vulcanists.

1817 April, “Art. IV.—An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology, being an Introduction to the Study of Those Sciences, […] By Parker Cleaveland, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Lecturer in Chymistry and Mineralogy in Bowdoin College, &c. &c. Boston, 1816. Large 8vo. pp. 668.”, in The Analectic Magazine, volume IX, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by Moses Thomas, →OCLC, pages 312–313:

(geology, historical) A proponent of Neptunism.


Neptunian

From Neptune (“eighth planet in the solar system”) + -ian.

suffix

I need not say that from Neptune the earth is completely invisible, as well as Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter. Saturn is a little star which departs from the sun up to 18°. For the Neptunians the solar system appears to be composed of the sun, Saturn, Uranus, their own world, and the planet which doubtless gravitates beyond Neptune.

1894, Camille Flammarion, “The Planet Neptune and the Frontiers of the Solar Domain”, in J[ohn] Ellard Gore, transl., Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens: … Translated from the French with the Author’s Sanction, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 470:

We learn the energy quotient of a bogus Earthling, note how much it varies from that of a genuine one, and then proceed to carefully single out every Neptunian. It will take time, no doubt, but not perhaps as long as we think, as the percentage of Neptunians to Earthlings is small.

1952, John Russell Fearn, chapter 12, in Quorne Returns (The Golden Amazon Saga; book 6), [Rockville, Md.]: Wildside Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 102:

Pretend that you are a visitor to Earth from the planet Neptune. When you return home you will want to describe Earthlings to your fellow Neptunians. [...] Good luck! Or as Neptunians say, "Urk bliff!"

2001, Justin McCory Martin, “March”, in Marvelous Month-by-month Writing Prompts: 250 Knock-their-socks-off Writing Prompts to Inspire Super Writing All Year Long!, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Professional Books, →ISBN, page 43:

Since Neptune had been the chosen planet to help Earth work through its current series of crises, Neptunians were key beings at this time. Each visit to Earth was a specific mission for those who were chosen to travel there.

2001 April 12, Patricia Ann Pich, “Neptune”, in Out of this World: A Fairy Tale for Children of All Ages, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, pages 5–6:

(chiefly science fiction) An (imaginary) inhabitant of the planet Neptune.


annum

From Latin per annum (“yearly”), from annus (“year”).

(uncommon, science fiction) A "year" determined by the revolution of an extraterrestrial planet.


ACE

en-noun

ACE (countable and uncountable, plural ACEs)

human recombinant soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2

(film) A member of American Cinema Editors


Initialism of one true threesome coined by analogy with OTP (“one true pairing”).

And you don't have to limit your favorite ship to two characters — if there's a third involved, they can be your OT3.

2015, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, page 31:

For some, each member of the triangle cares deeply for the other two, like Elena/Damon/Stefan and Scott/Allison/Isaac—both the most popular OT3s in their respective fandoms.

2017, Charity A. Fowler, "Negotiating Desire: Resisting, Reimagining and Reinscribing Normalized Sexuality and Gender in Fan Fiction", dissertation submitted to Virginia Commonwealth University, page 286

Not only are male characters often presented as unapologetically bisexual (or, in some sense, post-sexual), but OT3 partnerships are not uncommon.

2018, Lucy Neville, Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica, page 237:

(fandom slang) One true threesome; a polyamorous ship involving three characters that is a personal favorite of a fan.


ESP

ESP (countable and uncountable, plural ESPs)

We don't know how they decide if they should keep a name, because Bennie and Scotty don't actually talk. But they agree on everything, maybe through ESP.

2010, Jennifer Egan, “Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:

Rubio accused Christie of having to be dragged back to New Jersey under pressure to handle the storm. Christie retorted, “Is that one of the skills you get as a United States senator? ESP?”

2016 February 6, Kyle Cheney, “11 most explosive moments of the GOP debate”, in Politico:

extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception#English

(parapsychology) Abbreviation of extrasensory perception.

Near-synonym: wallhack

(by extension, video games) A cheat program that provides extra information that is not attainable during regular gameplay, such as player positions, equipment status, etc.

Environmental Sample Processor
w:Environmental Sample Processor

(ecology) Initialism of Environmental Sample Processor.

email service provider
w:mailbox provider

(Internet) Initialism of email service provider.


ESP

超感覚的知覚 超感覚的知覚#Japanese

Synonym of 超感覚的知覚 (chōkankakuteki chikaku, “extrasensory perception”); ESP


TD

TD (countable and uncountable, plural TDs)

(video games) Initialism of tower defense.


TD

ja-noun

TD(ティーディー) • (tī-dī)

タワーディフェンス タワーディフェンス#Japanese

Initialism of タワーディフェンス (tawā difensu, “tower defense”).


magic realism

en-noun

magic realism (usually uncountable, plural magic realisms)

Calque of German Magischer Realismus, first referring to the anti-expressionist artistic movement New Objectivity (1925), later applied to literature, especially in Latin America where it is known as realismo mágico.

Perhaps the best news to come out of the nominations was the brightened box-office prospects for such films as Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a dazzling piece of magic realism pieced together from just $1.8m, some rusty bathtubs and whatever Louisiana bric-a-brac its youthful collective of film-makers could lay their hands on; […]

2013 January 11, Tom Shone, “Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last?”, in The Guardian:

A literary style or genre that combines naturalistic details and narrative with surreal or dreamlike elements.


OTP

Other common OTPs are Frodo/Sam and Aragorn/Legolas.

2007, Kristin Thompson, The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, page 179:

The 'shippers in the study asserted that they may enjoy reading stories about other 'ships, or stories without a 'ship […] but the stories they most enjoy are those about their OTP.

2013, Jennifer K. Stuller, Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 43:

Over Rico's shoulder, I see Claire biting her lip, wearing the look of a shipper watching her OTP interact.

2018, Britta Lundin, Ship It, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Initialism of one true pair (or pairing): the romantic pairing preferred by an author or reader of fan fiction.


jinx

From jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”.


D&D

(roleplaying games) Initialism of Dungeons & Dragons.


CMS

CMS (countable and uncountable, plural CMSes or CMSs)

(video games) Initialism of construction and management simulation: a style of game that involves planning and managing a population of citizens in a town or similar, without direct control of characters


tambourine

From French tambourin (“little drum”), from French tambour (“drum”). Ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr); see it and Persian تنبور for more.

A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.

Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.


дракон

be-noun

драко́н<anml>

драко́н • (drakón) m animal (genitive драко́на, nominative plural драко́ны, genitive plural драко́наў)

драко́н (canonical)
drakón (romanization)
драко́на (genitive)
драко́ны (nominative plural)
драко́наў (genitive plural)
драко́н (nominative singular)
драко́ны (nominative plural)
драко́на (genitive singular)
драко́наў (genitive plural)
драко́ну (dative singular)
драко́нам (dative plural)
драко́на (accusative singular)
драко́наў (accusative plural)
драко́нам (instrumental singular)
драко́намі (instrumental plural)
драко́не (locative singular)
драко́нах (locative plural)
драко́ны (count-form plural)

be-ndecl

драко́н<anml>


дракон

bg-noun

дра́коновски

дра́кон • (drákon) m (relational adjective дра́конов or дра́коновски)

дра́кон (canonical)
drákon (romanization)
дра́конов (adjective relational)
дра́коновски (adjective relational)
дра́кон (indefinite singular)
дра́кони (indefinite plural)
дра́конът (definite singular subjective)
дра́коните (definite plural subjective)
дра́кона (definite objective singular)
дра́коните (definite objective plural)
дра́кона (count-form plural)
дра́коне (singular vocative)
дра́кони (plural vocative)

bg-ndecl

дра́кон<(v)>

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρᾰ́κων (drákōn).


дракон

mk-noun

дракон • (drakon) m (plural дракони, relational adjective драконски)

drakon (romanization)
дракони (plural)
драконски (adjective relational)
дракон (indefinite singular)
дракони (indefinite plural)
драконот (definite singular unspecified)
драконите (definite plural unspecified)
драконов (definite proximal singular)
дракониве (definite plural proximal)
драконон (definite distal singular)
драконине (definite distal plural)
дракону (singular vocative)
драконе (singular vocative)
дракони (plural vocative)
дракона (count-form plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).


дракон

ru-noun+

драко́н • (drakón) m anim (genitive драко́на, nominative plural драко́ны, genitive plural драко́нов)

драко́н (canonical)
drakón (romanization)
драко́на (genitive)
драко́ны (nominative plural)
драко́нов (genitive plural)
драко́н (nominative singular)
драко́ны (nominative plural)
драко́на (genitive singular)
драко́нов (genitive plural)
драко́ну (dative singular)
драко́нам (dative plural)
драко́на (accusative singular)
драко́нов (accusative plural)
драко́ном (instrumental singular)
драко́нами (instrumental plural)
драко́не (prepositional singular)
драко́нах (plural prepositional)

→ Bashkir: дракон (drakon)

драко́нъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)


дракон

uk-noun

драко́н<anml>

драко́н • (drakón) m animal (genitive драко́на, nominative plural драко́ни, genitive plural драко́нів)

драко́н (canonical)
drakón (romanization)
драко́на (genitive)
драко́ни (nominative plural)
драко́нів (genitive plural)
драко́н (nominative singular)
драко́ни (nominative plural)
драко́на (genitive singular)
драко́нів (genitive plural)
драко́нові (dative singular)
драко́ну (dative singular)
драко́нам (dative plural)
драко́на (accusative singular)
драко́ни (accusative plural)
драко́нів (accusative plural)
драко́ном (instrumental singular)
драко́нами (instrumental plural)
драко́нові (locative singular)
драко́ні (locative singular)
драко́нах (locative plural)
драко́не (singular vocative)
драко́ни (plural vocative)

uk-ndecl

драко́н<anml>


roman à clef

Borrowed from French roman à clef (literally “novel with a key”).

bor

I want to emphasize that in this respect my account of romance differs substantially from both Annabel Patterson's argument that the primary purpose of roman à clef in early modern England was to avoid censorship and Michael McKeon's […]

2007, A. Zurcher, Seventeenth-Century English Romance: Allegory, Ethics, and Politics, Springer, →ISBN, page 9:

In the end, the fragmentary nature of the text and Dora's abrupt decision to terminate her treatment indicate that as a narrative technology, the roman à clef fails. This owes less to the particulars of the individual case, however, than to Freud's […]

2009, Sean Latham, The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57:

However, I would argue that this feature of the roman à clef need not be characterized as an impediment to interpretation. If the layered address contained in novels that encrypt references to the 'real' is acknowledged as itself a characteristic […]

2011, S. Nair, Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Writing Romans à Clef Between the Wars, Springer, →ISBN, page 23:

A piece of fiction, especially a novel, describing real-life people or events.


TARDIS

Coined in 1963 for the British science-fiction programme Doctor Who; said to stand for "Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space".

'While I was in the Rani's TARDIS, I made an adjustment or two.' He chuckled, remembering the occasion.

1986, Pip & Jane Baker, chapter 19, in The Mark of the Rani, page 129:

The Master's essence escapes his funeral urn and lands the TARDIS in San Francisco on December 30, 1999.

2000, Fraser A. Sherman, Cyborgs, Santa Claus, and Satan, page 57:

I want the ground to swallow me up. I want to hide in a corner, curl up, and weep, sucking my thumb. I want the TARDIS to appear and take me away.

2004, Will Hadcroft, The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing up with Asperger Syndrome (Undiagnosed), page 16:

The time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.


TARDIS

This unassuming Georgian terrace house, located within five minutes walk of the busy commercial and tourist heart of Bath in Somerset, is like a veritable TARDIS of astronomical history and discovery, with more to see on the inside than its [exterior suggests].

2008, in Astronomy Now, volume 22, issues 7–12, page 36

Alternative form of Tardis (something which resembles the bigger-on-the-inside time machine from the series Doctor Who).


quantum teleportation

en-noun

quantum teleportation (usually uncountable, plural quantum teleportations)

quantum entanglement
quantum entanglement

(quantum mechanics) the instantaneous transference of a quantum state to a distant location using quantum entanglement and the transmission of classical information


teleportation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-teleporation.wav

Coined by Charles Fort in his 1931 book Lo! from tele- + transportation.

Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.

إِنْتِقَال آنِي

process of moving matter from one point to another


quantum entanglement

quantum entanglement (countable and uncountable, plural quantum entanglements)

(quantum mechanics) A quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects are spatially separated.

ക്വാണ്ടം എൻടാംഗിൾമെന്റ്

kvāṇṭaṁ eṉṭāṅgiḷmenṟŭ


ETI

Ethical Trading Initiative
Extraterrestrial intelligence

Initialism of Ethical Trading Initiative.


techno

(music) A repetitive style of music originally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythmic component is most often in common time (4/4), where time is marked with a bass drum on each quarter note pulse, a backbeat played by snare or clap on the second and fourth pulses of the bar, and an open hi-hat sounding every second eighth note.


reptilian

From reptile + -ian, replacing earlier reptilious and adjectival reptile.

More evolved than the Grays or Reptilians, the Humanoids seem to feel some sort of kinship with humans and are likely to be kind.[…] Some researchers believe the Grays are merely preparing the way for a full-scale invasion of Reptilian aliens.

2001, Caroline Tiger, The UFO Hunter’s Handbook: A Field Guide to the Paranormal, →ISBN, pages 62–63:

Such powerful human families would descend upon the reptilians themselves and they would be willing to do just anything to retain their power.

2010, Chico Penteado, Talking to the Reptilians-A Report from Brazil, →ISBN, page 11:

The reptilians are the creation of the Carians.

2011, Collin Robert Bowling, A New Order of the Ages, →ISBN:

Reptilians generally are envisioned as half snake, half human, and they are thought to have come from the Alpha Draconian star system.

2015, Marty Crump, Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg, →ISBN:

(science fiction) A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.


utopian

en-adj

utopian (comparative more utopian, superlative most utopian)

more utopian (comparative)
most utopian (superlative)

a utopian project

The Great Society was never, in my mind, just a visionary utopian ideal. I considered it a realistic outline of what this nation could achieve in a limited period of time if we marshaled our will and committed our resources.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:


extradimensional

(science fiction) Originating outside the known physical reality of the universe.

(science fiction) Coming from a world outside Einsteinian space-time.


negro spiritual

en-noun

negro spiritual (plural negro spirituals)

(music) A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music.


ballet music

Piano and drums make for very good ballet music!

(music) Music composed primarily to accompany a ballet performance


spooky

en-adj

spooky (comparative spookier, superlative spookiest)

spookier (comparative)
spookiest (superlative)

(informal) Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.


new jack swing

(music) A variety of swingbeat dance music combining elements of rhythm and blues, soul music, hip hop and rap.


R & B

rhythm and blues
rhythm and blues#English


soul music

(music) A genre of music that originated in black American gospel, characterized by the use of secular lyrics, and an earthy, intensely emotional style.


gospel music

en-noun

gospel music (usually uncountable, plural gospel musics)

(music) A type of Christian music genre that is a cornerstone of the Christian media that originated amongst African-Americans based on the folk music melodies with the addition of elements of spirituals and jazz.


rhythm and blues

From early 1940s, replacing earlier race music.

(music) A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s.


dance music

From all sides her gift for playing the piano was insisted upon, and she had to consent. As very soon she had played the only pieces of dance music she could remember, she went on to play an air from a sonata by Mozart.

1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:

In the bar in which Strickland and Nichols sat a mechanical piano was loudly grinding out dance music.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLVII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

Music composed to accompany social dancing.

musique entraînante

music composed to accompany social dancing


folk music

folk music (usually uncountable, plural folk musics)

Any contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music, especially a specific genre of originally American popular music that draws on Anglo-American musical forms.


Tweedle-dee

The names "Tweedledum" and "Tweedledee" first appeared in print in one of John Byrom's epigrams, which satirised the disagreements between Handel and Bononcini. They were made popular by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.

A fictional little fat man who is the twin brother of Tweedle-dum and appears in multiple artistic works, including certain nursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.


Tweedle-dum

A fictional little fat man who is the twin brother of Tweedle-dee and appears in multiple artistic works, including certain nursery rhymes and Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass.


empathy

empathy (countable and uncountable, plural empathies)

A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.

coin

(parapsychology, science fiction) A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.


aug

(science fiction) Clipping of augmentation.


alicorn

Term already associated with unicorns and reinterpreted as a blend of Latin āla (“wing”) with unicorn, popularized by Bearing an Hourglass (1984) and other fantasy novels by Piers Anthony.

The Alicorn. He be a winged unicorn, the finest equine flesh extant, the adoration of every fair and innocent maiden. For that steed I would give anything.

1984 August, Piers Anthony, Bearing an Hourglass, Del Rey Books, published 1992, →ISBN, →OL, page 171:

A silver portal opens in the sky and a^([sic]) ebony alicorn stallion gallops from it the silver tips on his black wings shine in the sun's light.

1999 May 15, Twyligtsky <twyligtsky@aol.comSKYMAGE>, “Re: RP: First appearence!^([sic])”, in alt.mythology.mythic-animals (Usenet), message-ID <19990515145319.05236.00000939@ng-fs1.aol.com>:

Rarity: Why, you've become an alicorn! I didn't even know that was possible.
Pinkie Pie: [wearing a costume horn and wings] Alicorn party!

2013 February 16, M.A. Larson, “Magical Mystery Cure” (16:32), in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, season 3, episode 13, spoken by Rarity and Pinkie Pie (Tabitha St. Germain and Andrea Libman):

(nonstandard) A mythological creature, a mixture of pegasus and unicorn: a winged horse with a single horn on its head.


spectral

en-adj

spectral (comparative more spectral, superlative most spectral)

more spectral (comparative)
most spectral (superlative)

The spectral chain-rattling and moans gave me the chills.

The day itself was miserably dull; a thick fog shut out the landscape, while a few of the nearer trees alone were visible, spreading out their thin spectral arms on the murky air.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage Morning”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 202:

Agitated by a multitude of curious thoughts, I retired to my room, that night, prepared to encounter some new experience of a spectral character.

1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Ghost in Master B’s Room”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C[harles] Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 27, column 2:

Of, or pertaining to, spectres; ghostly.


griffon

Inherited from Old French grifon (grif + -on), from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

inh+

(mythology) griffin (legendary creature)


ghostly

en-adj

ghostly (comparative ghostlier, superlative ghostliest)

ghostlier (comparative)
ghostliest (superlative)

From Middle English gostly, gastlich, from Old English gāstlīċ (“spiritual, holy, clerical (not lay), ghastly, ghostly, spectral”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaistalīk (“spiritual”), equivalent to ghost + -ly. Cognate with Scots ghaistly, gaistly (“spiritual, ghastly, terrifying”), West Frisian geastlik (“spiritual, clerical, religious”), Dutch geestelijk (“spiritual, clerical, ecclesiastical”), German geistlich (“spiritual, sacred, religious”), Danish geistlig (“ecclesiastical, clerical”).

cog

A ghostly hush fell.

Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing in fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 35:

His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.

2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 134:


gamelan

en-noun

gamelan (countable and uncountable, plural gamelans)

/ˈɡæ.məˌlæn/

Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀ (gamelan), from Old Javanese gamelan.

(music) A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a siuling).


zouk

From French secouer (“to shake up”), via creole.

From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Brooklyn’s own ReggaeLution band will perform, and at 9, D.J. Lumumba (a k a Revolution) will preside over an inclusive Caribbean dance party, from bachata to zouk and back again.

2007 August 3, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:

(music) A style of dance music originating in the French Antilles, combining Latin American, African and Western disco rhythms; a dance to this music


triton

Learned borrowing from Latin Trītōn, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρίτων (Trítōn).


Zwerg

de-noun

Zwerg m (strong, genitive Zwerges or Zwergs, plural Zwerge, diminutive Zwergchen n or Zwerglein n, feminine Zwergin)

Zwerges (genitive)
Zwergs (genitive)
Zwerge (plural)
Zwergchen (diminutive neuter)
Zwerglein (diminutive neuter)
Zwergin (feminine)
Zwerg (nominative singular)
Zwerge (definite nominative plural)
Zwerges (genitive singular)
Zwergs (genitive singular)
Zwerge (definite genitive plural)
Zwerg (dative singular)
Zwerge (dative singular)
Zwergen (dative definite plural)
Zwerg (accusative singular)
Zwerge (accusative definite plural)

From Middle High German twerc, from Old High German twerc, from Proto-West Germanic *dwerg, from Proto-Germanic *dwergaz.
The development Middle High German tw- > modern German zw- is regular. Compare Dutch dwerg, English dwarf, Low German Dwarg, Danish dværg.


gender bender

(fantasy) A person capable of changing their physical sex.

(fantasy) An instance of someone's physical sex being changed, usually via magic.


Triton

la-noun

Trītōn m (genitive Trītōnis); third declension

Trītōn (canonical masculine)
Trītōnis (genitive)
Trītōn (nominative singular)
Trītōnes (nominative plural)
Trītōnēs (nominative plural)
Trītōnis (genitive singular)
Trītōnos (genitive singular)
Trītōnum (genitive plural)
Trītōnī (dative singular)
Trītōnibus (dative plural)
Trītōna (accusative singular)
Trītōnem (accusative singular)
Trītōnas (accusative plural)
Trītōnēs (accusative plural)
Trītōne (ablative singular)
Trītōnibus (ablative plural)
Trītōn (singular vocative)
Trītōnes (plural vocative)
Trītōnēs (plural vocative)


retrocognition

en-noun

retrocognition (usually uncountable, plural retrocognitions)

/ˌɹɛtɹəʊkɒɡˈnɪʃən/

(parapsychology) extrasensory knowledge of past events.


extrasensory

extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception

Of or relating to extrasensory perception.

mimosmyslový

of or relating to extrasensory perception


extrasensory perception

/ˌɛkstɹəˈsɛnsəɹi pəˈsɛpʃən/

The supposed ability to obtain information without the use of normal sensory channels.


Narnia

Named by C. S. Lewis after the Latin name of the Italian town of Narni.

(fantasy) A land in which a series of seven children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are set.


poder

Meu poder favorito é o teletransporte.

(science fiction) power; superpower (supernatural ability)


fanfic

pt-noun

fanfic f or (uncommon) m (plural fanfics)

Unadapted borrowing from English fanfic.


sentient

en-adj

sentient (comparative more sentient, superlative most sentient)

more sentient (comparative)
most sentient (superlative)

From Latin sentiēns (“feeling, perceiving”), present active participle of sentiō.

Not even a microbe? I don't want to blow up something that could evolve into a sentient species in a couple of billion years.

2002, André Bormanis, “Silent Enemy”, in Star Trek: Enterprise, season 1, episode 12, spoken by Jonathan Archer:

Lemoine has been placed on “paid administrative leave” after publishing a transcript of conversations with LaMDA which he claims support his belief that the chatbot is sentient and comparable to a seven- or eight-year-old child. […] While Lemoine no doubt genuinely believes his claims, LaMDA is likely to be as sentient as a traffic light.

2022 June 14, Toby Walsh, “Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it’s very human to be taken in by machines”, in The Guardian:

After more than 25 years as an artificial intelligence researcher[…]Dr. Goertzel knew he had finally reached the end goal: Desdemona, a machine he had built, was sentient. But a few minutes later, he realized this was nonsense.

2022 August 5, Cade Metz, “A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(loosely, chiefly science fiction) Possessing human-like awareness and intelligence.

բանական

science fiction: possessing human-like awareness, knowledge and intelligence


sentient

The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.

1965, Philip José Farmer, The Maker of Universes:

(loosely, chiefly science fiction) An intelligent, self-aware being.


destroyer

/dəˈstɹɔɪ.ɚ/

From destroy + -er. Designating a warship, it is ellipsis of torpedo-boat destroyer, the longer term appearing at the end of the 19th century and the shorter form early in the 20th.

(military) A larger warship with guided missile armament, usually intended for air defence or anti-ship roles. Often, but not always, larger than a frigate and smaller than a cruiser.

(science fiction, by extension) A starship of comparable role.


cockatrice

First attested 1382 as Middle English cocatrice (“basilisk”), from Old French cocatriz, from Late Latin calcātrīx (“she who treads upon something”), from Latin calcō (“tread”), from calx (“heel, hoof”).

der

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 8:17:

(fantasy, folklore) A snake or serpent that appears to be hatched from a rooster, or cock's, egg.


gigant

gīgant (canonical masculine)
gīgant (nominative singular)
gīgantas (nominative plural)
gīgant (accusative singular)
gīgantas (accusative plural)
gīgantes (genitive singular)
gīganta (genitive plural)
gīgante (dative singular)
gīgantum (dative plural)

a giant (mythical being of superhuman size)


gigant

gigant (nominative singular)
giganci (nominative plural)
giganty (derogatory nominative plural)
giganta (genitive singular)
gigantów (genitive plural)
gigantowi (dative singular)
gigantom (dative plural)
giganta (accusative singular)
gigantów (accusative plural)
gigantem (instrumental singular)
gigantami (instrumental plural)
gigancie (locative singular)
gigantach (locative plural)
gigancie (singular vocative)
giganci (plural vocative)

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) giant (Greek mythological creature)


Uranian

en-adj

Uranian (comparative more Uranian, superlative most Uranian)

more Uranian (comparative)
most Uranian (superlative)

Aphrodite Pandemos
Aphrodite Urania
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Louvre
Plato

From Latin Ūrania (“muse of astronomy in Greek mythology”) + -an (suffix forming agent nouns). Ūrania is derived from Ancient Greek Οὐρᾰνῐ́ᾱ (Ouraníā, “muse of astronomy”), from οὐράνιος (ouránios, “of or relating to the sky, celestial, heavenly”) (from οὐρανός (ouranós, “the sky; heaven, home of the gods; the universe”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers- (“rain”)) + -ιος (-ios, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘pertaining to’).
The alternative form Ouranian is derived from Ancient Greek οὐράνιος (ouránios).
Adjective sense 2 (“homosexual”) and the noun sense (“a homosexual”) refer to Plato’s work Symposium (c. 385–370 B.C.E.), where the goddess Aphrodite, in her heavenly aspect Aphrodite Urania (see adjective sense 3) is described as inspiring a noble form of affection between older and younger men. Compare German Urning (“a homosexual, Uranian”), Urnigtum (“homosexuality”), also referring to Aphrodite Urania, coined by the German writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895) in 1864. By the 1900s, the use of the word in this sense had largely been supplanted by homosexual (see further at that entry). The term is no longer mainstream and is almost never used in modern contexts, though it has enjoyed a slight revival as a term for "gay man" as an analogue to lesbian.

der

/jʊˈɹeɪnɪən/

Hence is that secret pardon we bestow / In the true instinct of the grateful heart, / Upon the Sons of Song. The good they do / In the clear world of their Uranian art / Endures for ever; while the evil done / In the poor drama of the mortal scene, / Is but a passing cloud before the sun; [...]

1853, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, “The Ideal World”, in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza IV, page 317:

Hail thou! sole Muse that, in an age of toil, / Of all the old Uranian sisterhood, / Art left to light us o'er the furrowed soil, / Of this laborious star!

1859, Owen Meredith [pseudonym; Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton], “Epilogue”, in The Wanderer, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, part III, stanza I, page 424:

At first sight the winds would appear to be if anything Ouranian powers of the upper air, yet it seems that sacrifices to the winds were buried, not burnt.

1903, Jane Ellen Harrison, “The Anthesteria. The Ritual of Ghosts and Spirits.”, in Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: At the University Press, →OCLC, page 67:

[T]hose deities which are called ‘chthonic’ or earthly are, as a matter of fact, not in any sense deities of the earth. They are, in one of their aspects associated with the ‘underworld,’ but that underworld is but a segment of their cycle; they are deities of the underworld not because they appertain to the earth or are in any sense a personification of it, but because they are, on the contrary, heavenly bodies which, in the course of their cycle, pass under the earth. They are therefore just as much ‘uranian’ as are the Olympians.

1927, Robert Briffault, “The Great Mothers”, in The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions, volume III, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 146–147:

If he [the Hindu god Varuna] cannot be classed exclusively among the "gods of the sky" he nevertheless has qualities proper to the ouranian divinities. He is visva-darsata, "everywhere visible", he "separated the two worlds", the wind is his breath; [...]

1991, Mircea Eliade, “The ‘God who Binds’ and the Symbolism of Knots”, in Philip Mairet, transl., Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism, Mythos paperback edition, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 96–97:

Conversely, Kenneth Anger's only widely released film since 1972, Lucifer Rising (1980), uses a megalithic temple (not Stonehenge) and a number of ancient Egyptian sites in a Crowleyan ritual hymn to chthonian and ouranian deities of power and light.

2002, P. Adams Sitney, “The End of the 20th Century”, in Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943–2000, 3rd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 417:

(comparable, literary, poetic) Celestial, heavenly; uranic.

uranien

celestial, heavenly — see also celestial, heavenly

To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble. I hold it to be noble – more noble than other forms.

1898 February 18?, Oscar Wilde, “Letter to Robert Ross”, in Merlin Holland, Rupert Hart-Davis, editors, The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, published 2000, →ISBN, page 1019:

His [Plato's] Philosophical Eros is not the Uranian Eros which possessed the nation, and the Uranian doctrine is not primarily either philosophical or paederastic. It is a value attached to the masculine which included philosophy as masculine and paederasty when not anti-masculine, but was itself the idea and form of virtue.

1930, Arthur Lyon Raile [pseudonym; Edward Perry Warren], “The Uranian Idea”, in A Defence of Uranian Love, part the second (The Uranian Eros), [London]: Privately printed, →OCLC, pages 19–20:

Before these ideals would once again become available to "homosexuality" as a positive social identity, however, the Uranian modality of male love would be rejected by the avant-garde itself as an outworn fashion.

1994, Linda [C.] Dowling, “The Higher Sodomy”, in Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 134:

[Edward] Carpenter was disappointed by these meetings with [Walt] Whitman but began to integrate a positive homosexual view into his socialist writings. Carpenter saw the Uranian (homosexual) spirit to be more enlightened than that of the common man and believed that Uranians were the new prophets of the coming social revolution.

2003, Chuck Stewart, “Biographical Sketches”, in Gay and Lesbian Issues: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues), Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 138:

Through Veiled Eyes [by John Moray Stuart-Young, published in 1908] was produced by a specialist Uranian publisher for circulation to a specialist Uranian readership, and it required the audience to identify with an adult narrator who spends the bulk of one summer "grooming" an English boy for physical intimacy. This is the sexual scenario most likely to inspire public violence in contemporary Britain, [...] Set in the context of Uranian art, however, it is possible to regard this as a desire fated to be celibate, if only by the status of the angelic love object in the real world as a "real boy, grubby, ink-stained, insolent, uncomprehending of Uranian passion and rebuffing its smallest manifestations." Such a forgiving perspective is one of the few options available to literary critics wishing to avoid the discomfort of drawing biographical conclusions from the material produced by Uranian authors such as Stuart-Young.

2006, Stephanie Newell, “‘Uranian’ Love in West Africa”, in The Forger’s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku (New African Histories), Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

(comparable, literary, archaic) Homosexual; also, pederastic; relating to a man's erotic love for adolescent boys; (specifically) of poetry: conveying appreciation for young men.

For assuredly are there two Venuses; one, the eldest, the daughter of Uranus, born without a mother, whom we call the Uranian; the other younger, the daughter of Jupiter and Dione, whom we call the Pandemian;—of necessity must there also be two Loves, the Uranian and Pandemian companions of these goddesses. [...] [T]he attendant on the other, the Uranian, whose nature is entirely masculine, is the Love who inspires us with affection, and exempts us from all wantonness and libertinism.

a. 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Banquet. Translated from Plato.”, in Mrs. Shelley [i.e., Mary Shelley], editor, Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, … In Two Volumes, volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, published 1840, →OCLC, page 86:

That this is indeed the general tendency of his [Pausanias of Athens'] speech is made clear by two remarks that follow immediately upon his differentiating the Pandemian from the Uranian gods. [...] But what is true for Aphrodite seems to be a contradiction in terms: she is both one and two and all gods must be praised—both Uranian and Pandemian—and yet only the Uranian ought to be praised [...].

2010, Steven Berg, “Pausanias: Noble Lies and the Fulfillment of Greekness”, in Eros and the Intoxications of Enlightenment: On Plato’s Symposium (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Athens and Enlightenment), page 27:

(not comparable, Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Of Aphrodite Urania, the heavenly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the earthly aspect known as Aphrodite Pandemos: heavenly, spiritual.

Graced by nurses (art's nurse highly grac'd him) / Who fed him with pure marrow of the Muses; / And when he list, with moisture to refresh him, / He drunke cleare Helicon: cleare from abuses, / He bent his mind to pure Vranian vses, / Vranianie him did to heau'n vpreare: / And made to man, him demi-god appeare.

1600, Cyril Tourneur, The Transformed Metamorphosis, [London]: Printed by Valentine Sims, […], →OCLC; republished in John Churton Collins, editor, The Plays and Poems of Cyril Tourneur: […] In Two Volumes, volume II, London: Chatto and Windus, […], 1878, →OCLC, page 213:

Actually, this little girl-child should have been as happy as a lark. But, she wasn't. This is because her Bengali genes had her continually wish to be a Sarasvati, or Uranian Muse, to all the males who came within her ambit – incessantly inspiring them to great works of Art or Scientific discoveries.

2007, Vivek Iyer, chapter 8, in Samlee’s Daughter: A Novel, Great Britain: Polyglot Publications, →ISBN, section I:

(not comparable, Greek mythology, dated) Relating to Urania, the Muse of astronomy.


Uranian

Aphrodite Pandemos
Aphrodite Urania
Louvre
Voyager 2

/jʊˈɹeɪnɪən/

[T]he fury of a fiery hot-brained Marsian, may kindle immediate and incessant wrangling and feuds; whilst a quiet placid Uranian, in his turn, may yet at times be excessively annoyed, ay, worried and tormented, by the tardiness, listlessness and inactivity of his dronish companion.

1839, A Fantastical Excursion into the Planets, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 172:

And obviously, since the year of the Uranians lasts 84 of our years, the continuance of the sun above the horizon would last for many years. [...] And as with the summer day, so with the winter night, years elapse before either comes to an end. For upwards of 20 years, in a latitude corresponding to that of London, the Uranians—if there are any—never see the small Uranian sun.

1872, Richard A[nthony] Proctor, “Uranus and Neptune, the Arctic Planets”, in Other Worlds than Ours: The Plurality of Worlds Studied under the Light of Recent Scientific Researches, 3rd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 171–172:

(chiefly science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Uranus.


impressionism

en-noun

impressionism (countable and uncountable, plural impressionisms)

(music) A style that avoided traditional harmony, and sought to invoke the impressions of the composer.


rege

Borrowed from English reggae, from Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”).

der

(music) reggae (a music genre from Jamaica)


suspense

Borrowed from French suspense, from English suspense.


seven-league boots

en-noun

seven-league boots pl (normally plural, singular seven-league boot)

The Count strode away as if he had secured seven-league boots, and in less time than it seemed possible, though it was an age to Lady Anne (...), he returned with two bank of England notes in his hand, which he put into the bailiff's, saying,—"There's your money for yourself and all. You have proper behavour, and will make no say of this littel matter."

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XL, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 211:

(folklore, fairy tale) A pair of boots enabling the wearer to cross seven leagues at one stride.


nóg

nóg (nominative singular)
nogi (nominative plural)
nogowie (nominative plural)
noga (genitive singular)
nogów (genitive plural)
nogowi (dative singular)
nogom (dative plural)
noga (accusative singular)
nogi (accusative plural)
nogowie (accusative plural)
nogiem (instrumental singular)
nogami (instrumental plural)
nogu (locative singular)
nogach (locative plural)
nogu (singular vocative)
nogi (plural vocative)
nogowie (plural vocative)

Possibly borrowed from Czech noh, or inherited from Proto-Slavic ultimately from Proto-Slavic *jьnogъ. First attested in 1528. Displaced by gryf.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “nog”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]


sector

Sector (Star Trek)
Sector (instrument)
sector

(science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.


bop

en-verb

bop (third-person singular simple present bops, present participle bopping, simple past and past participle bopped)

bops (present singular third-person)
bopping (participle present)
bopped (participle past)
bopped (past)

onom

Imitative

“Better him than me,” I said while my mother fluttered her blue eyes at me and bopped me on the nose with a wooden spoon.

(colloquial, transitive) To strike gently or playfully.


bop

en-noun

bop (countable and uncountable, plural bops)

That grand wild sound of bop floated from beer parlors; it mixed medleys with every kind of cowboy and boogie-woogie in the American night.

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

(uncountable, music) A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.

[…] their first kiss during the school bop, with Paul Weller singing “You're the Best Thing” and everything tingling from her toes up […]

2012, Barbara Claypole White, The Unfinished Garden, page 308:

(countable) A casual party with dancing; a disco.

Theatres; Music House used for bands; May Ball; very popular weekly bops in JCR and MCR; library (57,000 books); 40 networked PCs, 24-hrs.

2005, Johnny Rich, Push Guide to Which University, page 472:

At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.

2012, Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, page 120:

(countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.


bop

Variant of whop (“to move around quickly with an impact”) and bob (“to move gently vertically”) as well as from the dances above interpreted as a manner of locomotion.

"I bopped down to take Charlie out for a surprise lunch, but he's out at the warehouse doing something with somebody or something. So I'm letting you take me to lunch."

2011, S. E. Finken, Near Misses, page 199:

I'm just bopping, give a fuck who's in the place

2019 July 31, “Taste (Make It Shake)”, Aitch (lyrics):

(informal, transitive, intransitive) To walk casually; to stroll.


bop

(slang, offensive) A promiscuous woman, especially in the context of having a high body count or giving fellatio to many men.


klezmer

klezmer (countable and uncountable, plural klezmers or klezmorim)

Borrowed from Yiddish קלעזמער (klezmer), from Hebrew כְּלֵי זֶמֶר (kléy zémer, “musical instruments”).

der

כְּלֵי זֶמֶר

(music, uncountable) A type of popular Jewish folk music especially associated with Ashkenazi cultures.


drow

en-noun

drow (countable and uncountable, plural drow)

A Shetlandic and Orcadian alteration of trow, most likely influenced by an unattested Norn *drog (“malevolent [undead] being”). Trow is derived from Norn troll, or otherwise from Old Norse trǫll. L-vocalisation occurred in the early 15th century in Middle Scots, so "trolly knolls" probably became *trowie knowes around this time. The supposed Norn *drog would have been derived from Old Norse draugr.

der

(fantasy roleplaying games, countable) A member of a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.

constructed language
constructed language

(fantasy roleplaying games, uncountable) A fictional constructed language spoken by the Drow.

(rare, mythology, countable) A trow; a member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.


bluegrass

From the band Blue Grass Boys, led by Bill Monroe; bluegrass is first attested in print in reference to the genre of music in 1956.

(music, uncountable) A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments.


bluegrass

Unadapted borrowing from English bluegrass.


horror movie

(chiefly Canada, US) A motion picture which entertains by horrifying or frightening the audience.

grilfliek

motion picture which horrifies or frightens


sleeper

(science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.


tarnen

de-verb

tarnen (weak, third-person singular present tarnt, past tense tarnte, past participle getarnt, auxiliary haben)

tarnt (present singular third-person)
tarnte (past)
getarnt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
tarnen (infinitive)
tarnend (participle present)
getarnt (participle past)
tarne (first-person indicative present singular)
tarnen (first-person indicative plural present)
tarne (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnst (indicative present second-person singular)
tarnt (indicative plural present second-person)
tarnest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
tarnt (indicative present singular third-person)
tarnen (indicative plural present third-person)
tarne (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
tarnen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
tarnte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
tarnten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
tarnte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarnten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarntest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
tarntet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
tarntest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarntet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
tarnte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
tarnten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
tarnte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
tarnten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
tarn (imperative second-person singular)
tarne (imperative second-person singular)
tarnt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe getarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben getarnt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest getarnt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet getarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben getarnt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe getarnt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben getarnt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten getarnt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte getarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten getarnt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten getarnt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten getarnt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tarnen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde tarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden tarnen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden tarnen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden tarnen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden tarnen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
getarnt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden getarnt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden getarnt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden getarnt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

Early 20th century, a borrowing (inspired by older Tarnkappe) from Middle High German tarnen, from Old High German *tarnōn, from Proto-West Germanic *darnōn.


steampunk

en-noun

steampunk (countable and uncountable, plural steampunks)

From steam + -punk, by analogy with cyberpunk, coined by science-fiction writer Kevin Wayne Jeter (born 1950) in a 1987 letter to the magazine Locus in response to a review of his book Infernal Devices published the same year (see the quotation below).

Black Rock Desert
Burning Man
Greenbelt, Maryland
Nevada

There's railroad trains, a lot of steam-driven stuff, but that's about it. More ‘steam punk’, I suppose.

1987 May, James Blaylock, Locus, volume 20, number 5 (#316 overall), page 57:

It is also the vision of steampunk, a subculture that is the aesthetic expression of a time-traveling fantasy world, one that embraces music, film, design and now fashion, all inspired by the extravagantly inventive age of dirigibles and steam locomotives, brass diving bells and jar-shaped protosubmarines.

2008 May 8, Ruth La Ferla, “Steampunk moves between 2 worlds”, in The New York Times:

The [Arboath North Signal Box] locking room's collection of chains, pulleys and wires resembles the inside of a piano, stretching to the 72-levered frame above. Lovers of steampunk will find it especially pleasing.

2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 57:

(uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.


steampunk

steampunk (nominative singular)
steampunku (genitive singular)
steampunku (dative singular)
steampunk (accusative singular)
steampunku (singular vocative)
steampunku (locative singular)
steampunkem (instrumental singular)

Ten styl se prý jmenuje steampunk, je to tak správně? Má to být obdoba viktoriánské gotiky.

2014, Klára Šumová, Hra na lež, Ostrava: Domino, translation of The Lying Game by Tess Stimson, page 97:

He says it's called steampunk. Is that right? Victorian Gothic. (Original English text.)

(singular only) steampunk, a subgenre of science fiction


steampunk

steampunk (nominative singular)
steampunkok (nominative plural)
steampunkot (accusative singular)
steampunkokat (accusative plural)
steampunknak (dative singular)
steampunkoknak (dative plural)
steampunkkal (instrumental singular)
steampunkokkal (instrumental plural)
steampunkért (causal-final singular)
steampunkokért (causal-final plural)
steampunkká (singular translative)
steampunkokká (plural translative)
steampunkig (singular terminative)
steampunkokig (plural terminative)
steampunkként (essive-formal singular)
steampunkokként (essive-formal plural)
steampunkban (inessive singular)
steampunkokban (inessive plural)
steampunkon (singular superessive)
steampunkokon (plural superessive)
steampunknál (adessive singular)
steampunkoknál (adessive plural)
steampunkba (illative singular)
steampunkokba (illative plural)
steampunkra (singular sublative)
steampunkokra (plural sublative)
steampunkhoz (allative singular)
steampunkokhoz (allative plural)
steampunkból (elative singular)
steampunkokból (elative plural)
steampunkról (delative singular)
steampunkokról (delative plural)
steampunktól (ablative singular)
steampunkoktól (ablative plural)
steampunké (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
steampunkoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
steampunkéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
steampunkokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
steampunkom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
steampunkjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
steampunkod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
steampunkjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
steampunkja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
steampunkjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
steampunkunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
steampunkjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
steampunkotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
steampunkjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
steampunkjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
steampunkjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

steampunk (subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th-century society)


steampunk

steampunk (nominative singular)
steampunku (genitive singular)
steampunkowi (dative singular)
steampunk (accusative singular)
steampunkiem (instrumental singular)
steampunku (locative singular)
steampunku (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English steampunk.

ubor

(film, science fiction) steampunk (sci-fi subgenre)


oom-pah

Onomatopoeia of the sound and rhythm of German folk music.

(music) A genre of Germanic music (especially Bavarian music) typically involving brass instruments.


jingle

/ˈd͡ʒɪŋɡ(ə)l/

The verb, which is older than the noun, is from Middle English gyngle. Onomatopoeic; compare jangle.

Her tambourine didn't come with any jingles attached.

(music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.


wonky

From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).

inh

By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]

2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers:

(music) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.


house music

Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

Gotta have house music, all night long / With that house music, you can't go wrong / Give me that house music, set me free

1986, Marshall Jefferson (lyrics and music), “Move Your Body”:

House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body / And, as I told you before, this is our house and our house music

1987, “My House”, Chuck Roberts (lyrics), performed by Rhythm Controll:

Corrugated-steel ceilings, a dozen blue-felted pool tables and DJ house music Thursday to Saturday.

2007, Danny Palmerlee, South America on a Shoestring, page 66:

(music) A particular type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum.


bara

Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), the name of Japan's first modern gay men's magazine, named after a post-World War II term for gay men.

bor

(Internet slang) A genre of homoerotic media, usually manga and often pornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan.


action adventure

en-noun

action adventure (plural action adventures)

Organized crime, law enforcement, warfare, nature, disasters, mythology, religion, and history are all common themes in the action adventure genre.

The ‘arcade adventure’ concept is catching on fast, with a number of software houses bringing out arcade action adventure games, including the Wally series from Mikro-Gen and the soon-to-be-launched Chuckie Egg II.

1985, Graeme Kidd, “Great Scott!”, in Crash, number 15:

Unlike most action adventures, this one lets you choose from three character classes: Knight, Valkyrie (a female character) or Barbarian.

1989, Shay Addams, Quest for Clues No II, page 146:

A film, novel, television series or video game characterized by action, intrigue, and sometimes violence.


monkfish

monkfish (countable and uncountable, plural monkfish or monkfishes)

[The] monkfish is preceded by the “monstre Leonin” and followed by the “monstre marinen habit d'Evesque” (de Monstro Leonino and de pisce Episcopi habitu respectively). The creature represented in these works is a hybrid: his round and tonsured ...

2017, Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature: Essays (Jeff Persels, Kendall Tarte, George Hoffmann), page 382


heavy metal

heavy metal (countable and uncountable, plural heavy metals)

Lester Bangs
Mike Saunders
Sandy Pearlman
William S. Burroughs

The origin of the music genre sense is often disputed; it was used by William S. Burroughs in Soft Machine and Nova Express and various music critics claim to have coined it: Sandy Pearlman, Lester Bangs and Mike Saunders.

(music, uncountable) A genre descended from rock music, characterized by the use of emphatic drumbeats, highly amplified distortion, and overall loudness; often featuring extended instrumental solos and powerful vocals.


heavy metal

pl-noun

heavy metal m inan (related adjective heavymetalowy)

heavymetalowy (adjective)
heavy metal (nominative singular)
heavy metalu (genitive singular)
heavy metalowi (dative singular)
heavy metal (accusative singular)
heavy metalem (instrumental singular)
heavy metalu (locative singular)
heavy metalu (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English heavy metal.


heavy metal

[ˈɛ.βi ˈmɛ.tɐɫ]

(music) heavy metal (genre of rock music)


cerealogy

There is no university with a department of cerealogy, and consequently anyone may call him- or herself a "cerealogist," even after one single visit to a crop circle.

2001, Eltjo Haselhoff, The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles: Scientific Research & Urban Legends, page xv:

Despite film showing the two men creating highly complex crop circles, the momentum behind cerealogy was too strong to be stopped by any admission of English eccentricity.

2002 August 12, “Cereal offenders who won't go away”, in Christian Science Monitor:

Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.

2005, Steve Dewey, John Ries, In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited, page 57:


älva

älva (indefinite nominative singular)
älvas (genitive indefinite singular)
älvan (definite nominative singular)
älvans (definite genitive singular)
älvor (indefinite nominative plural)
älvors (genitive indefinite plural)
älvorna (definite nominative plural)
älvornas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish ælf, from Old Norse alfr, from Proto-Germanic *albiz (“fairy, elf”).

A human-like creature from the Swedish mythology similar to an elf or fairy. She is often a young beautiful female, and can sometimes see her dancing in the mist. Feminine form of alv.


shape-shifter

(fantasy, mythology, science fiction) Alternative form of shapeshifter


dystopian

en-adj

dystopian (comparative more dystopian, superlative most dystopian)

more dystopian (comparative)
most dystopian (superlative)

If Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games turns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’t out of the question—the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade.

2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:

In my book Britain has actually worked out how it wants to leave and the EU is preparing a new constitution as a result. The real Brexit is actually much more dystopian.

2019 June 30, Philip Oltermann, quoting Tom Hillenbrand, “German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit Britain”, in The Guardian:

He kept thinking about an episode of “Black Mirror,” the British dystopian anthology series, in which the characters rate everyone they interact with on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. (It doesn’t end well.)

2020 January 17, Amy Chozick, “This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes”, in New York Times:

The whole city is immersed in a dystopian-looking smog: urban streets in sepia, emptier than usual, bathed in an eerie quiet.

2023 June 7, Samira Asma-Sadeque, “‘It’s too much’: New Yorkers don masks or stay inside amid smog crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Dire; characterized by human suffering or misery.


leyenda

From Latin legenda, gerundive plural of legere (“to read”), adapted to leer (gerund leyendo).

legend, idol (famous and admired person)


strah

strȃh (canonical inanimate masculine)
strȃh (nominative singular)
strahȏva (dual nominative)
strahȏvi (nominative plural)
strahȗ (genitive singular)
strahóv (dual genitive)
strahóv (genitive plural)
strȃhu (dative singular)
strȃhi (dative singular)
strahȏvoma (dative dual)
strahȏvama (dative dual)
strahȏvom (dative plural)
strȃhȏvam (dative plural)
strȃh (accusative singular)
strahȏva (accusative dual)
strahȏve (accusative plural)
strȃhu (locative singular)
strȃhi (locative singular)
strahȏvih (dual locative)
strahȏvih (locative plural)
strȃhom (instrumental singular)
strahȏvoma (dual instrumental)
strahȏvama (dual instrumental)
strahȏvi (instrumental plural)
strȃh (singular vocative)
strahȏva (dual vocative)
strahȏvi (plural vocative)
strȃh (nominative singular)
strahȏva (dual nominative)
strahȏvi (nominative plural)
strȃha (genitive singular)
strahóv (dual genitive)
strahóv (genitive plural)
strȃhu (dative singular)
strȃhi (dative singular)
strahȏvoma (dative dual)
strahȏvama (dative dual)
strahȏvom (dative plural)
strȃhȏvam (dative plural)
strȃh (accusative singular)
strahȏva (accusative dual)
strahȏve (accusative plural)
strȃhu (locative singular)
strȃhi (locative singular)
strahȏvih (dual locative)
strahȏvih (locative plural)
strȃhom (instrumental singular)
strahȏvoma (dual instrumental)
strahȏvama (dual instrumental)
strahȏvi (instrumental plural)
strȃh (singular vocative)
strahȏva (dual vocative)
strahȏvi (plural vocative)

From Proto-Slavic *straxъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *strākš-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-.

strah je sredi votel, okoli ga pa nič ni

phantom, ghost (a scary mythical creature)


fluff

en-noun

fluff (countable and uncountable, plural fluffs)

From earlier floow (“woolly substance, down, nap, lint”), also spelt flough, flue, and flew, from West Flemish vluwe,
of uncertain ultimate origin:
* Compare Old English flōh (“that which is flown off, fragment, piece”) - see flaw
* Possibly representing a blend of flue + puff; compare Middle Dutch vloe, or perhaps onomatopoeic; compare dialectal English floose, flooze, fleeze (“particles of wool or cotton; fluff; loose threads or fibres”), Danish fnug (“down, fluff”), Swedish fnugg (“speck, flake”).
* Alternatively, West Flemish vluwe may derive from French velu (“hairy, furry”), from Latin villūtus (“having shaggy hair”), from villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”).
For words of similar sound and meaning in other languages, compare Japanese フワフワ (fuwafuwa, “lightly, softly”), Hungarian puha (“soft, fluffy”), Polish puchaty (“soft, fluffy”),Romanian puf (“down, peachfuzz, soft hair of some animals, powderpuff”).

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

cog

And when something triggers, I can close the window and go read fluff for hours until I calm down.

2011, anonymous, quoted in Katherine Larsen & Lynn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 138

Fans prefer fluff to other types of fic. But angst (dramatic stories where characters have a wide range of emotions, including...angsty ones) comes in close second.

2017, "Flourish Kink", quoted in Ashley J. Barner, The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft, page 67

Ah, fluff. My happy place. These fics are dedicated to feel-good feelings, which are the very best type of feelings.

2017, Carrie DiRisio, Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.


gangsta rap

en-noun

gangsta rap (countable and uncountable, plural gangsta raps)

(music) A subgenre of hip-hop music associated with urban street gangs and characterized by a focus on lyrics about crime, urban life, and materialistic excess.


shoot 'em up

My wife won't watch this movie; it's a shoot ’em up.

The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.

1983 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 160, number 2, page 88:

An unmissable shoot 'em up.

1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989

(idiomatic, film, television, literature, video games) A piece of media which depicts considerable gunplay.


gabber

gabber (countable and uncountable, plural gabbers)

Borrowed from Dutch gabber (literally “friend”), from Yiddish חבֿר (khaver). Doublet of chaver, kubber.

This, in turn, birthed all kinds of mainly regional variations that have lasted from the 90s to today, most notably gabber—a relentless mix of superfast BPMS, distorted kickdrums and roared vocals that evoked the distilled nihilism of Rotterdam skinheads.

2020 January 10, Joe Muggs, “Gabber: return of dance music’s gloriously tasteless subgenre”, in The Guardian:

(uncountable, music) A subgenre of hardcore techno characterised by an intense, distorted kick sound and controversial lyrics or samples.


gabber

nl-noun

gabber m (plural gabbers, diminutive gabbertje n)

gabbers (plural)
gabbertje (diminutive neuter)

→ English: gabber

→ German: Gabber

Borrowed from Yiddish חבֿר (khaver, “friend”), from Hebrew חָבֵר (khavér, “friend”).


elemental

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Incidentally, such beings may be said to have an existence of a sort upon the lower astral plane; they are elementals created by man's evil desires and unclean thoughts.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 115:

(mysticism, fantasy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water or variations of them like ice, lightning, etc. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.


elemental

(alchemy, folklore, mythology) elemental


brujería

From brujo + -ería. Akin to Portuguese bruxaria.


changeling

/ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒlɪŋ/

The noun is derived from change + -ling (suffix with the sense ‘immature; small’). Sense 6 (“idiot, simpleton”) is from the idea that foolish children had been left by magical creatures (sense 1).
The adjective is derived from the noun.

suffix

(fantasy, science fiction) An organism which can change shape to mimic others; a shape-shifter.


comm

My comm was set on silent mode—nothing in or out except emergency transmissions.

2018, Joseph Kainz, Sector 12 and the Art of Burning, page ix:


eoten

Learned borrowing from Old English eoten. Doublet of ettin.

lbor

The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).

1834, “The National Fairy Mythology of England”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 10, page 53:

In these manuscripts we are again in an atmosphere of eotens and trolls, there are traces of even older terrors, when the first Teuton settlers in Europe struggled with the aborigines who lived in caves[.]

1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, page 3:

A giant from Old English literature and mythology.


burlesque

→ English: burlesque

→ German: burlesk

→ Romanian: burlesc

→ Turkish: burlesk

Borrowed from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).


paranormal

en-adj

paranormal (comparative more paranormal, superlative most paranormal)

more paranormal (comparative)
most paranormal (superlative)

From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + normal; compare supernatural.

prefix

“We who study the paranormal always hope for strong readings with our equipment,” explains Nancy.

That (ostensibly) cannot be explained by what scientists know; supernatural; especially of or pertaining to ghosts, spirits, and supposed abilities like telepathy.

خارق للطبيعَة

cannot be explained by scientific methods


matte

Matte painting is a tool that filmmakers can use to create a scene that is impossible to achieve with conventional cinematographic means.

(film) A background, often painted or created with computers


X-Phile

1995, Ngaire Genge, The Unofficial X-Files Companion: An X-Phile's Guide to the Mysteries, Conspiracies, and Really Strange Truths Behind the Show, Crown Trade Paperbacks, →ISBN:

1998, Richard Corliss, Time, quoted in Peter Bart, The Gross: The Hits, the Flops — the Summer That Ate Hollywood, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 227,
And that’s enough to turn an X-phile into an ex-phile.

2003, Robynn J. Stilwell, "The sound is ‘out there’: score, sound design and exoticism in The X-Files", in Allan F. Moore (ed.), Analyzing Popular Music, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70,
The X-Files – as any X-Phile could tell you – divides into two kinds of episodes: the mythology shows, which further the overarching plot of Mulder’s search for the truth that is ‘out there’ about the US government conspiracy to conceal the alien presence; and the stand-alone shows.

My involvement in coffee connoisseur (Kozinets, 2002), Star Trek fan (2001) and X-Phile (1997) communities was high.

2006, Robert V. Kozinets, “Netnography 2.0”, in Russell W. Belk, editor, Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:

(fandom slang) A fan of the television series The X-Files.


AD&D

w:Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

(roleplaying games) Initialism of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.


Ewok

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas in 1983 from the syllabic reverse of Wookiee. The name first appeared in the end titles of the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

coin

Those vampire-wanna-bes, who are actually cute in a Ewok/troll doll sort of way, pick their teeth nightly after a six-course wing fling.

2000, Lori Torrance, Tea for Texas: A Guide to Tearooms in the State, page 15:

Tripping a walker the size of a house is difficult but not impossible. You will need high-tensile wire and suitably grounded posts. Ask your Ewok friends for help.

2005, Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Bloomsbury,, →ISBN, page 134:

My answer to those who believe that all Bigfoot are just huge cuddly Ewoks is to remind them that there is plenty of evidence that every member of the great apes family […] has exhibited hostility […].

2007, Matthew Scott Hansen, The Shadowkiller: A Novel, page 434:

She looked like a little plump Ewok, standing with Big Foot.

2008, Grace Octavia, His First Wife, Dafina Books,, →ISBN, page 30:

It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.

2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray:

A member of a fictional, primitive race of teddy-bear-like creatures.


goblin

From Middle English gobelyn, from Old Northern French gobelin (compare Norman goubelin, Walloon gobelin), possibly a blend of Old Dutch *kobeholdo (“goblin”) (compare Dutch kabouter, German Kobold) and Late Latin cobalus (“mountain sprite”), from Ancient Greek κόβαλος (kóbalos, “rogue, knave; goblin”). Displaced native Old English pūca from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”).

inh

From yͤ hagg & hungry Goblin,
yͭ into raggs would rend yee,
& yͤ spirit yͭ stand’s by yͤ naked man,

c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)

"[…]If he had struck a stroke more to the side just here," said the goblin, tapping the very stone, as it seemed to Curdie, against which his head lay, "he would have been through; but he's a couple of yards past it now, and if he follow the lode it will be a week before it leads him in.[…]"

1872, George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin, page 50:

At last the goblins had a chance to rid themselves of one of the troublesome defenders, and two goblin warriors snatched the opportunity.

2006, Charlotte Bishop, Norty: The Chosen Ones, page 187:

The goblin shifted the two younger ones closer to him. It looked like he was hiding behind them, using them as a shield.
The goblin looked pure evil. His eyes were brown.

2010, Thom L. Nichols, War: Return of the Elves, Part 1, page 37:

I shall send another entourage of goblins back here to Desput with the goblins’ new ally the Pixy! These creatures deserve the same respect as any other goblin.

2010, D. S. Macleod, The Middle Times: Rise of the Goblin King, page 229:

Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

(fantasy) A malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid, often associated with orcs or trolls.

iratxo

hostile diminutive humanoid in fantasy literature


goblin

goblin (nominative singular)
gobliny (nominative plural)
goblina (genitive singular)
goblinów (genitive plural)
goblinowi (dative singular)
goblinom (dative plural)
goblina (accusative singular)
gobliny (accusative plural)
goblinem (instrumental singular)
goblinami (instrumental plural)
goblinie (locative singular)
goblinach (locative plural)
goblinie (singular vocative)
gobliny (plural vocative)

(fantasy) goblin (hostile diminutive humanoid in fantasy literature)


simurgh

(Iranian mythology) A gigantic winged benevolent creature.


naiad

From Latin Naias, from Ancient Greek Νᾱϊάς (Nāïás, “naiad”), from νάω (náō, “to flow”).

(Greek mythology) A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.


diálogo

From Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos).


gen

en-verb

gen (third-person singular simple present gens, present participle genning, simple past and past participle genned)

gens (present singular third-person)
genning (participle present)
genned (participle past)
genned (past)

Samples could be taken from the original, and plans could be made, but genning could not be initiated until death had occurred.

2008, Bart Dahmer, Primal Screams, →ISBN, page 36:

Her nurturer ears, genned to be hyper-sensitive, had to be hurting from the noise.

2011, Karen Sandler, Tankborn, →ISBN, page 28:

(science fiction) To genetically engineer.


chronoscope

/ˈkɹɒnəˌskəʊp/

(science fiction) A device able to directly view other times, past or future.


tin can

For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do

1969, David Bowie (lyrics and music), “Space Oddity”:

(science fiction, slang) A metal spaceship or space station.


phaser

* (science fiction): For the fictional weapon coined for Star Trek: originally a "ph(oton ma)ser," later changed canonically to a "phas(ed)-e(nergy) r(ectifier)" (of "nadions", not photons).
* (phase modulation): phase + -er

Captain James Kirk: "Set your phaser on one quarter. I'll leave mine on stun."

1966 September 8, George Clayton Johnson, The Man Trap (Star Trek), season 1, episode 1:

His oddly reserved nature stands out [...]. Whyte sets his phaser on stun, not kill.

A Bajoran rushed past with an armful of phaser rifles, another with a box of hand phasers.

1999, Dafydd ab Hugh, chapter 3, in Fallen Heroes [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; 5], New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books:

Giolitti's Gold Key art is widely admired, [...] and this is a terrific opportunity to pick up a page—set your phasers on bid.

2004, Hertiage Signature Auction #811, page 185:

I said, "Set phasers on be-a-bastard."

Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(science fiction) Fictional energy weapon, with multiple settings for degree of intensity, from the television series Star Trek (1966–69).


phaser

phaser (third-person singular simple present phasers, present participle phasering, simple past and past participle phasered)

phasers (present singular third-person)
phasering (participle present)
phasered (participle past)
phasered (past)

(science fiction, transitive) To shoot with a phaser weapon.


ETV

en-noun

ETV (countable and uncountable, plural ETVs)

(ufology, countable) Initialism of extraterrestrial vehicle.


þyrs

þyrs (nominative singular)
þyrsas (nominative plural)
þyrs (accusative singular)
þyrsas (accusative plural)
þyrses (genitive singular)
þyrsa (genitive plural)
þyrse (dative singular)
þyrsum (dative plural)

desctree

Middle English: thurs, thirs, thrisse, thrusse, thurse, thursse, thyrce, þurs
English: thurse

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *þuris, from Proto-Germanic *þurisaz. Cognate with Old High German duris (“demon”), Old Saxon thuris (“the rune þ”), Old Norse þurs (“giant”).

inh+

Exeter Book, Riddle 40, 62-63 (late 10th century)

I can gorge more greedily / and eat at least as much as an old giant

Ic mēsan mæg meahtelīcor / ond efnetan ealdum þyrse

Maxims II, 42-43 (early 11th century)

The monster must live in the fen / alone in its land.

Þyrs sceal on fenne gewunian / ana innan lande.


sirena

From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


sirena

From Spanish sirena, from Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).

a siren; a device that creates a loud sound as an alarm or signal; the sound it creates


sirena

From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). Cognate with Piedmontese siren-a.


sirena

Learned borrowing from Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn (“siren”), from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


sirena

→ Cebuano: sirena

→ Tagalog: sirena

Borrowed from Late Latin Sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).


sirena

[sɪˈɾɛː.n̪ɐ]

Borrowed from Spanish sirena, from Late Latin Sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The third sense is an extension of the original, further popularized by the rap song Sirena.

Ligaya Tiamson Rubin, may mga kuwento ang mga taga- Angono tungkol sa mga sirena na siyang nakikita sa isang malaking bato na umaawit at may mahabang gintong buhok. Kapag may dumarating na tao ay agad itong nawawala.

2005, Ligaya Tiamson- Rubin, (Es) kultura ng bayan: Kakambal ng ibang mga bayan:

Diego: 'Yun pong bahagi ng dagat ditong nilalabasan ng mga sirena. Galit daw po ang mga sirena sa mga tagarito. Ayon po kasi sa kuwentu-kuwento, noong unang panahon daw e pinakialaman ng mga mangingisda dito ang mga sirena ...

1993, Ricardo Lee, Salome: a Filipino filmscript, Univ of Wisconsin Center for:

Sa kaharian nila Amelita... Sa kaharian ng mga Sirena...Nakaramdam ako ng kasiyahan. Si Lagrimas... Sana ay masaya siya saan man siya naroon.... Katapusan Si Robinson Mago ay isang Electronics and Communication Engineer na ...

2014, Robin Mago, Amelita, Robinson Mago:

Natutuklasan nila sa mga libro ni Gaying na lahat ng mga taga-Angono ay nagiging bida, walang bandido, nagiging mga diwata, higante at mga sirena sa kanilang mahal na Angono. Nagkakaroon tuloy sila ng pakiramdam na sila man ay ...

2005, Ligaya Tiamson- Rubin, Angono, Rizal: Pagtatala ng gunita, panimulang dokumentasyon ng mga bayan sa Pilipinas, →ISBN: