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.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A unisex given name from English.
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Usage: rare
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name
a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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name
A place in the United States:
A ghost town in California.
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name
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Gooding County, Idaho.
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky.
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name
A place in the United States:
A township in Emmet County, Michigan, named after Aaron T. Bliss.
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
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name
A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in the town of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York.
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name
A place in the United States:
Former name of Old Bliss, Oklahoma.
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noun
Perfect happiness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To feel bliss; (by extension) to reach a state of bliss or ecstasy.
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Usage: intransitive, usually
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noun
a state of extreme happiness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air
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Broader terms: elation
Narrower terms: ecstasy, rapture
History
From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
Across languages
76 source translations are retained for this English entry.
