Helen Fenton

Advantageous: Definition and part of speech

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Advantageous

  1. a. Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Advene: Definition and part of speech

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Advene

  1. v. i. To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Advent: Definition and part of speech

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Advent

  1. n. Coming; any important arrival; approach.
  2. n. The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
  3. n. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adventist: Definition and part of speech

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Adventist

  1. n. One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; — called also Second Adventists.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adventitious: Definition and part of speech

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Adventitious

  1. a. Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
  2. a. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
  3. a. Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
  4. a. Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; — applied to foreign plants.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Adventive: Definition and part of speech

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Adventive

  1. n. A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.
  2. a. Accidental.
  3. a. Adventitious.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.