See wit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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"text": "The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!",
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"english": "I give thee consciousness, I give thee strength over all thou seest, over all its breadth and length thou shalt be wondrously wise. Mirth and joy [you shall] have at will to fulfil all thy liking and dwell in paradise.",
"ref": "15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, lines 174–179:",
"text": "I gif the witt, I gif the strenght, / of all thou sees, of brede & lengthe; / thou shall be wonder wise. / Myrth and Ioy to haue at will, / All thi likyng to fulfill, / and dwell in paradise.",
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"ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:",
"text": "Wel, wel (Meander) thou art deepely read:\nAnd hauing thee, I haue a iewell ſure:\nGo on my Lord, and giue your charge I ſay,\nThy wit wil make vs Conquerors to day.",
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"ref": "1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 23”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:",
"text": "O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:\nTo hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.",
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"ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 152:",
"text": "Wit is just as much put upon—blamed for a thousand impertinences over which it would not have held for a moment its glittering shield; it is like the radiant fairy doomed to wander over earth, concealed and transformed, and only allowed on rare occasions to shine forth in its true and sparkling form. It is well that wit is an impalpable and ethereal substance, or it must long since have evaporated in indignation at that peculiarly wretched and mistaken race, its imitators.",
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"ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
"text": "The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.",
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"ref": "1996 February 4, Jennifer Crittenden, “Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 14, production code 3F13:",
"text": "Evelyn Peters: \"Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing\".",
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"ref": "1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section III, page 26:",
"text": "[…] the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the dead centre of town’ […]",
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"text": "Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]",
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"ref": "1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:",
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{
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"text": "Wel, wel (Meander) thou art deepely read:\nAnd hauing thee, I haue a iewell ſure:\nGo on my Lord, and giue your charge I ſay,\nThy wit wil make vs Conquerors to day.",
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"ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
"text": "The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.",
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"ref": "1996 February 4, Jennifer Crittenden, “Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 14, production code 3F13:",
"text": "Evelyn Peters: \"Don't worry, Marge. Her idea of wit is nothing more than an incisive observation humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing\".",
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{
"ref": "1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section III, page 26:",
"text": "[…] the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the dead centre of town’ […]",
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"text": "Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?",
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"ref": "1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:",
"text": "Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]",
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"ref": "1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:",
"text": "[…] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]",
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{
"code": "ka",
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{
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"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
"word": "genio"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nunchi",
"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
"word": "눈치"
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{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "atjautība"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
"word": "agudez"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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"word": "esperteza"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "um",
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"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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{
"code": "es",
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"word": "inteligencia"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
"word": "mentalidad"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
"word": "gracia"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "listeza"
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Ability to think quickly",
"word": "nükte"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ostroúmie",
"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "остроу́мие"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "vtip"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "humor"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vid"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
"word": "humuro"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mot d’esprit"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Witz"
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"code": "grc",
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"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "ἀστεϊσμός"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
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"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
"tags": [
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "la",
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "Spoken humour, particularly that thought of quickly",
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"word": "asprātība"
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"masculine"
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"neuter"
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"masculine"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "Witzbold"
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},
{
"word": "unwitting"
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{
"word": "witness"
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"4": "I see"
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"text": "You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.",
"type": "example"
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{
"text": "They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1483, Thomas Malory, Le morte d'Arthur:",
"text": "Truly, said fair Elaine, I shall do all that I may do, for as fain would I know and wit where he is become as you or any of his kin, or queen Guenever, and cause great enough have I thereto as well as any other. And wit ye well, said fair Elaine to Sir Bors, I would lose my life for him rather than he should be hurt.",
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{
"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 2:3–4:",
"text": "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1849, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, St. Luke the Painter, lines 5–8:",
"text": "but soon having wist\nHow sky-breadth and field-silence and this day\nAre symbols also in some deeper way,\nShe looked through these to God and was God’s priest.",
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"be",
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"(transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively)."
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},
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"ipa": "/wɪt/"
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{
"code": "ayn",
"lang": "Yemeni Arabic",
"roman": "derā",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "درى"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "znaja",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "зная"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "vide"
},
{
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "weten"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "scii"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "savoir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "connaître"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "wissen"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "zināt"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "nojaust"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "vite"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "saber"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wiedzieć"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "znatʹ",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "знать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "védatʹ",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "ве́дать"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Know, be aware of",
"word": "veta"
}
],
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"Rhymes:English/ɪt",
"Rhymes:English/ɪt/1 syllable",
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"etymology_text": "From with.",
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"Pronunciation spelling of with."
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}
Download raw JSONL data for wit meaning in English (34.5kB)
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