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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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name
Initialism of Ethereum Name Service.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: business, cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency, finance
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noun
An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: alchemy, chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, pseudoscience
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noun
plural of en
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
Initialism of enteric nervous system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of ens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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History
From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.
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