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adjective
- An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right.
- Would Macbeth care for dessert?
- The title for the (primary) female deity in female-centered religions, for example, the title for the Goddess in Wicca.
- My , will you not take pity on me?
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noun
- (historical) Any of a class of German mercenaries in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- A card-game, used for gambling.
- 2007, Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, tr. Helen Constantine, p. 196:
- :And so it was over the game of ' that I scored my first triumph.
- 1962', Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire'':
- :One could see part of the dimly lit court where under an enclosed poplar two soldiers on a stone bench were playing .
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noun
- An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
- The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field.
- A pier or other landing place on a river.
- A formal reception, especially one given by royalty (originally, upon rising from bed).
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noun (Plural: levellers)
- A person or thing that levels.
- I adjusted the built into each leg of the table, but it still wobbled.
- A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves and the have nots.
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noun (plural)
- those areas of learning that require and cultivate general intellectual ability rather than technical skills; the humanities
- (obsolete) the trivium and the quadrivium
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noun - A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.
- The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
adjective - Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
- Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
- Full; perfect; complete; pure.
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noun little, Little Englander
- (British) someone who advocated an end to the British Empire
- (British) someone unaware of the world outside England
- (British) a bigoted and nationalistic English person
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proper noun
- God
- (Christianity) Jesus
- An aristocratic title used as a form of address for a marquis, earl, or viscount; the usual style for a baron; a courtesy title for a younger son of a duke or marquis; a title for certain high officials and dignitaries such as Lord Mayor; a title for a bishop
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noun
- (In Medieval Britain) An officer, appointed by lot, to preside over the Feast of Fools at Christmas.
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| Luddite |
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noun
- any of a group of early 19th century English textile workers who destroyed machinery because it would harm their livelihood.
- (context, by extension) someone who opposes technological change
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