All English words - page 2113

Meanings of Mayonnaise:

noun

A thick creamy dressing consisting of egg yolks beaten with oil and vinegar and seasoned.

Usage examples:

Spread each slice thinly with mayonnaise

Meanings of Mayor:

noun

(in england, wales, and northern ireland) the head of a town, borough, or county council, elected by council members and generally having purely ceremonial duties.

Usage examples:

After retirement she was town councillor and deputy mayor and was a member of many local societies.

Meanings of Mayoral:

adjective

Relating to a mayor.

Usage examples:

Mayoral candidates

Meanings of Mayoralties:

noun

The office or position of mayor.

Usage examples:

The party failed to win the mayoralty

Meanings of Mayoress:

noun

The wife of a mayor.

Usage examples:

He duly turned up on the day with his mayoress wife, sue, and joined in the fun.

Meanings of Mayors:

noun

(in england, wales, and northern ireland) the head of a town, borough, or county council, elected by council members and generally having purely ceremonial duties.

Usage examples:

After retirement she was town councillor and deputy mayor and was a member of many local societies.

Meanings of Maypoles:

noun

A painted pole, decorated with flowers, round which people traditionally dance on may day, holding long ribbons that are attached to the top of the pole.

Usage examples:

The schoolchildren dance round a short maypole erected on the green

Meanings of Mays:

noun

The hawthorn or its blossom.

Usage examples:

The may is just barely starting to open here, but leaves are out

modal verb

Expressing possibility.

Usage examples:

That may be true

Meanings of Maythe:

noun

Any of various white-rayed species of camomile (genus anthemis and perhaps allied genera), chiefly weeds of cultivated ground; especially (also more fully "stinking maythe") stinking camomile, anthemis cotula. also: any of several other white-rayed plants of the family asteraceae (compositae); especially ox-eye daisy, leucanthemum vulgare (also "†white maythe").

Meanings of Mayweed:

noun

A plant of the daisy family, typically found as a weed of arable land.

Meanings of Maza:

noun

In ancient greece: a type of simple bread, cake, or pancake made from barley meal.

Meanings of Mazaedium:

noun

In certain ascomycete fungi (chiefly of the order caliciales or family onygenaceae): a powdery mass of free spores.

Meanings of Mazagran:

noun

Iced black coffee laced with brandy or rum, traditionally served in an earthenware goblet and drunk through a straw.

Meanings of Mazama:

noun

Specifically. in form mazama. a genus of american deer, now containing only the brockets.

Meanings of Mazard:

noun

The head.

Meanings of Mazards:

noun

The head.

Meanings of Mazatec:

noun

A member of an american indian people of northern oaxaca in southern mexico.

adjective

Of or relating to the mazatecs or their language.

Meanings of Mazdaism:

noun

Another term for zoroastrianism.

Meanings of Mazdean:

adjective

Zoroastrian.

Meanings of Maze:

noun

A network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way.

Usage examples:

The house has a maze and a walled italian garden

verb

Be dazed and confused.

Usage examples:

She was still mazed with the drug she had taken

Meanings of Mazed:

verb

Be dazed and confused.

Usage examples:

She was still mazed with the drug she had taken

Meanings of Mazelike:

adjective

Having or consisting of a complex network; labyrinthine.

Usage examples:

Under the house is a maze-like set of tunnels

Meanings of Mazhabi:

noun

Originally: a convert to sikhism from islam. in later use (from the end of the 19th century): (in the punjab) a sikh convert from the chuhra group of outcastes (traditionally sweepers and scavengers).

Meanings of Maziest:

adjective

Like a maze; labyrinthine.

Usage examples:

The mazy old fishing quarter

Meanings of Mazily:

adverb

In a confused or convoluted manner; as if in a maze.