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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Contraction of all right.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philadelphia, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, not-comparable, slang
Qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
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adj
Okay; average; nothing special.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philadelphia, not-comparable, slang
Qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
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adv
Contraction of all right.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philadelphia, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, not-comparable, slang
Qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
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Synonyms: none provided
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intj
Contraction of all right.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philadelphia, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, slang
Qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: ard plough, scratch plough
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noun
Initialism of acid reflux disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of acute respiratory disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of aftertreatment regeneration device (on Diesel engines manufactured by Caterpillar Inc.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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History
Contraction of all right, possibly influenced by regional Philadelphia English pronunciation.
A Scottish habitational name from any of several places called Aird, whose names in turn derive from Scottish Gaelic àird (“promontory, height”) or àirde (“height”), from àrd (“high”).
Borrowed from Norwegian ard (“plough”), from Old Norse arðr, from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2érh3trom (“plough”), whence also Latin aratrum.
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
