All English words - page 2791

Meanings of Junketer:

noun

Originally: a person who holds or attends a feast, banquet, or other festive gathering; a reveller, a partygoer. later more usually: a person who goes on an outing or pleasure trip; an excursionist.

Meanings of Junketing:

noun

The action of attending or going on a trip or celebration at public expense.

Usage examples:

The people who elected him will take note of his junketing and decide to not return him to office

verb

Attend or go on a trip or celebration at public expense.

Usage examples:

The mayor junketed off to christchurch for a cricket match last week

Meanings of Junkets:

noun

An extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by a government official at public expense.

Usage examples:

The latest row over city council junkets

verb

Attend or go on a trip or celebration at public expense.

Usage examples:

The mayor junketed off to christchurch for a cricket match last week

Meanings of Junketter:

noun

Originally: a person who holds or attends a feast, banquet, or other festive gathering; a reveller, a partygoer. later more usually: a person who goes on an outing or pleasure trip; an excursionist.

Meanings of Junkie:

noun

A drug addict.

Usage examples:

I thought my destiny was to be a heroin addict, a junkie for the rest of my life; i couldn't stop m…

Meanings of Junkies:

noun

A drug addict.

adjective

Useless or of little value.

Usage examples:

He will draw figures in a clumsy way and make use of the cheap look of junky illustration while at …

Meanings of Junking:

verb

Discard or abandon unceremoniously.

Usage examples:

Sort out what could be sold off and junk the rest

noun

Old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value.

Usage examples:

The cellars are full of junk

Meanings of Junkman:

noun

A person who travels round an area buying old or unwanted clothes and household items in order to resell them.

Usage examples:

I sold a cupboard like this to the junkman years ago

Meanings of Junkmen:

noun

A person who travels round an area buying old or unwanted clothes and household items in order to resell them.

Usage examples:

I sold a cupboard like this to the junkman years ago

Meanings of Junks:

verb

Discard or abandon unceremoniously.

Usage examples:

Sort out what could be sold off and junk the rest

noun

A flat-bottomed sailing vessel of a kind typical of china and the east indies, with a prominent stem and lugsails.

adjective

Relating to debt or investment in a company or organization that has a low credit rating (= ability to pay its debt)

Usage examples:

Junk advocates point out that the average junk portfolio lost about 10% of its value in october, a …

Meanings of Junky:

adjective

Useless or of little value.

Usage examples:

He will draw figures in a clumsy way and make use of the cheap look of junky illustration while at …

noun

Variant spelling of junkie.

Meanings of Junkyard:

noun

A place where scrap is collected before being recycled or discarded; a scrapyard.

Usage examples:

Specifically, motor vehicles deployed within the region were susceptible to explosive attacks, and …

Meanings of Junkyards:

noun

A place where scrap is collected before being recycled or discarded; a scrapyard.

Usage examples:

Specifically, motor vehicles deployed within the region were susceptible to explosive attacks, and …

Meanings of Juno:

proper noun

The most important goddess of the roman state, wife of jupiter.

noun

In roman mythology (= ancient stories), the goddess (= female god) who protected all the women of rome and was worshipped as queen of the gods

Usage examples:

In roman mythology, juno was the wife of jupiter.

Meanings of Junoesque:

adjective

(of a woman) imposingly tall and shapely.

Usage examples:

A handsome junoesque woman

Meanings of Junta:

noun

A military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force.

Usage examples:

The country's ruling military junta

Meanings of Juntas:

noun

A military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force.

Usage examples:

The country's ruling military junta

Meanings of Junto:

noun

A political grouping or faction, especially in 17th- and 18th-century britain.

Usage examples:

And from this time began an intrigue between his majesty and a junto of ministers maliciously bent …

Meanings of Juntos:

noun

A political grouping or faction, especially in 17th- and 18th-century britain.

Usage examples:

And from this time began an intrigue between his majesty and a junto of ministers maliciously bent …

Meanings of Jupiter:

proper noun

The largest planet in the solar system, a gas giant which is the fifth in order from the sun and one of the brightest objects in the night sky.

noun

The planet fifth in order of distance from the sun, after mars and before saturn

Meanings of Jura:

proper noun

A system of mountain ranges on the border of france and switzerland.

Meanings of Jural:

adjective

Relating to the law.

Usage examples:

The tradition based approach results in what, in my view, amounts to a significant change to the co…

Meanings of Jurara:

proper noun

A system of mountain ranges on the border of france and switzerland.

Meanings of Jurassic:

adjective

Relating to or denoting the second period of the mesozoic era, between the triassic and cretaceous periods.

Usage examples:

The meat eater is believed to have lived in the early jurassic era

noun

The second period of the mesozoic era or the system of rocks deposited during it.

Usage examples:

Sea levels fell again at the end of the jurassic

Meanings of Jurat:

noun

A person who has taken an oath or who performs a duty on oath, e.g. a juror.

Usage examples:

On one occasion it was declared impossible to proceed with co-option of a jurat replacement because…