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noun
- Any loud and joyous song; a song of triumph.
- An enthusiastic expression of praise.
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noun (countable and uncountable; plural palladia or )
- (countable) a safeguard (from a statue of Athena that was believed to safeguard the ancient city of Troy).
- (uncountable) a metallic chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46.
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noun (pl=pallia, pl2=palliums)
- A woollen vestment conferred on archbishops by the Pope.
- (historic) A large cloak worn by Greek philosophers and teachers.
- (zoology) The mantle of a mollusc.
- (meteorology) A sheet of cloud covering the whole sky, especially nimbostratus.
- (anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
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noun (prothes, es)
- The addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in nother from other ("a whole nother thing"), or Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (sphere).
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proper noun
- (constellation) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the compass of a ship. It is associated with the larger Argo Navis, although it was never offically part of that constellation.
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