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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.
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.
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noun
A form of music with melodies in counterpoint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A form of trompe l'oeil which realistically renders domestic items (paper-knives, playing-cards, ribbons, etc).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: art, arts
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noun
A card game that combines several different contracts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
A mode of philosophical debate popular in the Middle Ages, in which any question could be posed extemporaneously.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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noun
an issue that is presented for formal disputation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: issue
History
From Latin quod libet (“that which is pleasing”).
