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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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The longest river in Scotland, United Kingdom, originating on the slopes of Ben Lui and flowing eastwards through the city of Perth before becoming an estuary, the Firth of Tay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A river in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada, a left tributary of the Rideau.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A township in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A diminutive of the unisex given name Taylor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Tea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, obsolete
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noun
a branch of the Tai languages
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Tai
History
Borrowed from Hokkien 鄭/郑 (Tēn), Teochew 鄭/郑 (dên7), Hokkien 戴 (Tè), or a variant of the English surname Tee.
Clipping of Taylor.
Spelling form indicating original pronunciation of tea. The digraph ea represented /ɛː/ in Early Modern English; it later merged chiefly with ee, but regionally or sporadically with ay (in standard English break, great, steak). Compare the song Polly put the kettle on, where tea rhymes with away.
