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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adv
Pronunciation spelling of though.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, Multicultural-London-English, alt-of, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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name
Initialism of Dictionary of Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Department of Energy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Department of Education.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, proscribed
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Synonyms: ED
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name
A surname of English origin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A female fallow deer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, specifically, uncountable
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noun
A female rabbit or hare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A female squirrel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A female kangaroo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of Design Of Experiments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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verb
Obsolete spelling of do.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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verb
Initialism of depends on experience.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
mature female of mammals of which the male is called `buck'
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
noun
the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy
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Broader terms: executive department
History
* As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun doe. * As a Norman surname, from Old French d' Eu, from Eu, Seine-Maritime. That city's name could be from Frankish *auwju (“island, water meadow”) or otherwise a reduction of Latin Augusta.
From Middle English do (“(female) fallow deer”), from Old English dā, from Proto-West Germanic *daihā (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *dheh1(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”). Cognate with Middle Scots da, dae (“female fallow deer”), Danish då (“fallow deer”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.
Across languages
166 source translations are retained for this English entry.
