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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
Abbreviation of Sacramento.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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name
Acronym of Strategic Air Command.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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name
Acronym of surface air consumption.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: diving, hobbies, lifestyle, sports, underwater-diving
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name
Alternative form of Sauk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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name
The city of Sacramento, California, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A sacrifice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
Topics: games
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noun
The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines; now used only in the phrase sac and soc or soc and sac.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, historical
Topics: law
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noun
Acronym of senior aircraftman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Initialism of saeculum ante Christum (“era before Christ”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Alternative form of Sauk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To sacrifice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
Topics: games
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noun
a structure resembling a bag in an animal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: cavity, bodily cavity, cavum
Narrower terms: yolk sac, vitelline sac, umbilical vesicle, vesicula umbilicus, amnion, amniotic sac, amnios, chorion, coelenteron, air bladder, swim bladder, float, air sac, saccule, sacculus, bladder, vesica, acinus, bursa, cisterna, cistern, pouch, pocket, vesicle, cyst, alveolus, air cell, pericardial sac
noun
a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Sauk
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Algonquian, Algonquin
Narrower terms: Black Hawk, Makataimeshekiakiak, Keokuk
noun
a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: theca
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Broader terms: covering, natural covering, cover
noun
an enclosed space
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: pouch, sack, pocket
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cavity, enclosed space
History
Clipping of Sacramento.
Etymology tree Ancient Greek σᾰ́κκος (sắkkos)bor. Latin saccus Old French sac French sacbor. English sac Borrowed from French sac. Doublet of saccus, sack, saco, and sakkos.
Clipping of sacrifice.
See sake, soc.
