See NBD in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Abbreviation.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "NBDs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "NBD (countable and uncountable, plural NBDs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"N",
"B",
"D"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "next business day"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "49 47 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 42 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English words spelled without vowels",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 48 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 49 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of next business day."
],
"id": "en-NBD-en-noun-0FJ4djW4",
"links": [
[
"next",
"next#English"
],
[
"business day",
"business day#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"countable",
"initialism",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "no big deal"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "49 47 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "45 42 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English words spelled without vowels",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 48 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "49 49 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
75,
78
]
],
"ref": "2017 November 20, Claire Dederer, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?”, in The Paris Review:",
"text": "The really astonishing thing about watching this scene is its nonchalance. NBD, I’m fucking a high schooler.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
30,
33
]
],
"ref": "2018 November 19, Ashitha Nagesh, “From beard lights to tree hair, are these the weirdest Christmas beauty trends?”, in BBC Three, BBC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2018:",
"text": "We know nail art generally is NBD at this point, but trust us - these are next level attention to detail.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
123,
126
]
],
"ref": "2019 February 7, Claire Reilly, “Jeff Bezos just confirmed what we all knew: Nudes are no big deal”, in CNET News, CNET:",
"text": "No, because one of the richest men in the world just confirmed what we all sort of already suspected: Nudes are officially NBD.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of no big deal."
],
"id": "en-NBD-en-noun-vD4UUmiK",
"links": [
[
"no",
"no#English"
],
[
"big deal",
"big deal#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"countable",
"initialism",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "An event or action that has never been accomplished under a given set of conditions and criteria. An attempt at performing such under the given set of conditions and criteria.",
"word": "never been done"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "45 42 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English words spelled without vowels",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of never been done: An event or action that has never been accomplished under a given set of conditions and criteria. An attempt at performing such under the given set of conditions and criteria."
],
"id": "en-NBD-en-noun-hsnR4wis",
"links": [
[
"never",
"never#English"
],
[
"been",
"been#English"
],
[
"done",
"done#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) Initialism of never been done: An event or action that has never been accomplished under a given set of conditions and criteria. An attempt at performing such under the given set of conditions and criteria."
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"countable",
"initialism"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-iː"
}
],
"word": "NBD"
}
{
"categories": [
"English abbreviations",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English words spelled without vowels",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/iː",
"Rhymes:English/iː/3 syllables"
],
"etymology_text": "Abbreviation.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "NBDs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "NBD (countable and uncountable, plural NBDs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyphenations": [
{
"parts": [
"N",
"B",
"D"
]
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "next business day"
}
],
"categories": [
"English initialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of next business day."
],
"links": [
[
"next",
"next#English"
],
[
"business day",
"business day#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"countable",
"initialism",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "no big deal"
}
],
"categories": [
"English initialisms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
75,
78
]
],
"ref": "2017 November 20, Claire Dederer, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?”, in The Paris Review:",
"text": "The really astonishing thing about watching this scene is its nonchalance. NBD, I’m fucking a high schooler.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
30,
33
]
],
"ref": "2018 November 19, Ashitha Nagesh, “From beard lights to tree hair, are these the weirdest Christmas beauty trends?”, in BBC Three, BBC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2018:",
"text": "We know nail art generally is NBD at this point, but trust us - these are next level attention to detail.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
123,
126
]
],
"ref": "2019 February 7, Claire Reilly, “Jeff Bezos just confirmed what we all knew: Nudes are no big deal”, in CNET News, CNET:",
"text": "No, because one of the richest men in the world just confirmed what we all sort of already suspected: Nudes are officially NBD.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of no big deal."
],
"links": [
[
"no",
"no#English"
],
[
"big deal",
"big deal#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"countable",
"initialism",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "An event or action that has never been accomplished under a given set of conditions and criteria. An attempt at performing such under the given set of conditions and criteria.",
"word": "never been done"
}
],
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English initialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of never been done: An event or action that has never been accomplished under a given set of conditions and criteria. An attempt at performing such under the given set of conditions and criteria."
],
"links": [
[
"never",
"never#English"
],
[
"been",
"been#English"
],
[
"done",
"done#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(countable) Initialism of never been done: An event or action that has never been accomplished under a given set of conditions and criteria. An attempt at performing such under the given set of conditions and criteria."
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"countable",
"initialism"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-iː"
}
],
"word": "NBD"
}
Download raw JSONL data for NBD meaning in English (3.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.