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.
adj
Initialism of
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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adj
Initialism of Earth–Moon–Earth.
Earth–Moon–Earth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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adj
Initialism of Early Modern English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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name
The Mexican Mafia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
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noun
An uncle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: obsolete outside Scotland
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noun
Friend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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History
From Spanish eme (“the letter M”).
From Middle English éam, eom, em, eme (“uncle”), from Old English ēam (“uncle”). See eam.
