Standard Lemma guide
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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intj
Eye dialect spelling of bye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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name
A surname.
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name
The language of the Bai ethnic group.
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name
An island off the coast of Sabah, Malaysia
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noun
A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
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noun
A yellow mist occurring in spring and fall in China and Japan, caused by yellow dust blown from central China.
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noun
An ethnic group of China.
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Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Baic
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Broader terms: Tibeto-Burman, Tibeto-Burman language
History
From Chinese 白 (Bái). Doublet of Bach (Vietnamese surname).
Borrowed from Malay Bai.
Borrowed from Japanese 霾 (bai). First recorded in English in the 1910s.
Across languages
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