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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 New Year's Eve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
A surname from Middle English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A village in Jönköping, Småland, Sweden.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
An unincorporated community in Stillwater County, Montana, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
An unincorporated community in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
A neighborhood of Laredo, Webb County, Texas, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
An unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Wisconsin, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename
Ellipsis of Nye County.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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noun
A brood or flock of pheasants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Topographic surname which derives from a misdivision of Middle English atten (“at the”) + ei (“island”) or æ (“river, waterway”).
Probably from French nid (“nest, brood”), from Latin nidus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nest.
