Helen Fenton

Adonis: Definition and part of speech

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Adonis

  1. n. A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant’s eye (Adonis autumnalis); — named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
  2. n. A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
  3. n. A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.

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.

Adolescence: Definition and part of speech

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Adolescence

  1. n. The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

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.

Adobe: Definition and part of speech

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Adobe

  1. n. An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

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.

Ado: Definition and part of speech

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Ado

  1. n. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
  2. n. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.

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.