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
Acronym of External Affairs Minister.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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name
Initialism of Ethnikó Apeleftherotikó Métopo, the Greek National Liberation Front.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
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noun
Uncle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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noun
Initialism of external auditory meatus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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History
From Middle English eem, eme, from Old English ēam (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2éwh2os (“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”). Cognate with Scots eme (“uncle”), West Frisian iem, omke (“uncle”), Dutch oom (“uncle”), German Ohm, Oheim (“maternal uncle”), Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”). See uncle. Doublet of oom and ohm.
