All English words - page 235

Meanings of Among:

preposition

Situated more or less centrally in relation to (several other things).

Usage examples:

Flowers hidden among the roots of the trees

Meanings of Amongst:

preposition

Situated more or less centrally in relation to (several other things).

Usage examples:

Flowers hidden among the roots of the trees

Meanings of Amontillado:

noun

A medium dry sherry.

Usage examples:

Taste-wise, it feels more like a dry oloroso than amontillado, revealing, as it does, a dark, nutty…

Meanings of Amontillados:

noun

A medium dry sherry.

Usage examples:

Taste-wise, it feels more like a dry oloroso than amontillado, revealing, as it does, a dark, nutty…

Meanings of Amor:

noun

(the name of) an asteroid discovered in 1932 which follows an orbit crossing that of mars and approaching but not crossing that of earth. also: any of a large group of asteroids, including eros, which follow orbits of this nature (also "amor asteroid", "amor object").

Meanings of Amora:

noun

Usually in plural. any of the jewish scholars in palestine and babylon who interpreted the mishnah between the 2nd and 5th centuries c.e. until the completion of the talmud.

Meanings of Amorado:

noun

A male lover; = "inamorato".

Meanings of Amoraic:

adjective

Of or relating to the amoraim, the jewish scholars in palestine and babylon who interpreted the mishnah between the 2nd and 5th centuries c.e. until the completion of the talmud.

Meanings of Amoral:

adjective

Lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something.

Usage examples:

An amoral attitude to sex

Meanings of Amorality:

noun

A lack of moral principles

Usage examples:

The glorious thing about almodóvar's movies is their unashamed amorality., her novel is a tale of p…

Meanings of Amoret:

noun

A sweetheart, lover, or paramour; especially a female one. compare "amoretto". chiefly archaic and literary in later use.

Meanings of Amoretti:

noun

A representation of cupid in a work of art.

Usage examples:

The shameless cocotte venus, wheedling her husband vulcan for armour for aeneas, her son by anchise…

Meanings of Amoretto:

noun

A representation of cupid in a work of art.

Usage examples:

The shameless cocotte venus, wheedling her husband vulcan for armour for aeneas, her son by anchise…

Meanings of Amorino:

noun

Especially in renaissance and baroque art: a representation of cupid; a cupid, a putto. compare amoret , "amoretto".

Meanings of Amorism:

noun

Amorous feelings or behaviour; romantic or sexual love or involvements.

Meanings of Amorist:

noun

A person who is in love or who writes about love.

Usage examples:

Against the odds i seem, in the words of that cockney amorist, to be ‘some 'ow still about’.

Meanings of Amoristic:

adjective

Of or relating to love or desire; amatory.

Meanings of Amorists:

noun

A person who is in love or who writes about love.

Usage examples:

Against the odds i seem, in the words of that cockney amorist, to be ‘some 'ow still about’.

Meanings of Amorite:

noun

A member of a semi-nomadic people living in mesopotamia, palestine, and syria in the 3rd millennium bc, founders of the ancient city of mari on the euphrates and the first dynasty of babylon.

Usage examples:

The people who took over the amorites were the hittites.

adjective

Relating to the amorites.

Usage examples:

A full cite should be given from verses 13-15: ‘they set out from there and camped alongside the ar…

Meanings of Amorosa:

noun

A female lover.

Meanings of Amorosity:

noun

The state or quality of being amorous; amorousness. also without implication of romantic or sexual desire: †affection, fondness (obsolete).

Meanings of Amoroso:

adverb

(especially as a direction) in a loving or tender manner.

Usage examples:

The pieces are to be played amoroso

adjective

Played in a loving or tender manner.

Usage examples:

The effect is heightened by the amoroso style of the melody

noun

A dark, sweet sherry.

Meanings of Amorous:

adjective

Showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.

Usage examples:

She rejected his amorous advances

Meanings of Amorph:

noun

A mutant allele which is inactive and fails to produce a detectable product compared with the wild-type allele.

Meanings of Amorpha:

noun

Any of several leguminous north american shrubs of the genus amorpha, having long spiked clusters of purple flowers and hairy pinnate leaves. also (in form amorpha): the genus itself.