Related Words:
- myth
collapse - a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people related words >
- Marchen,
- Mishnah,
- Spiritus Mundi,
- Sunna,
- Talmud,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- adventure story,
- allegory,
- ancient wisdom,
- apologue,
- apparition,
- archetypal myth,
- archetypal pattern,
- bedtime story,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- canard,
- chimera,
- cock-and-bull story,
- common law,
- concoction,
- creation,
- custom,
- delirium,
- detective story,
- eidolon,
- epic,
- extravaganza,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fabrication,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fib,
- fiction,
- figment,
- folk motif,
- folk story,
- folklore,
- folktale,
- forgery,
- gest,
- ghost story,
- hallucination,
- history,
- horse opera,
- idle fancy,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- immemorial usage,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- legend,
- lie,
- lore,
- love story,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- nursery tale,
- parable,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- prevarication,
- racial memory,
- romance,
- saga,
- science fiction,
- shocker,
- sick fancy,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- story,
- suspense story,
- tall tale,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thriller,
- tradition,
- traditionalism,
- traditionality,
- trip,
- untruth,
- vapor,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- whodunit,
- whopper,
- wildest dreams,
- work of fiction
- literature
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- the profession or art of a writer; "her place in literature is secure"
- the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit"
- creative writing of recognized artistic value
- published writings in a particular style on a particular subject; "the technical literature"; "one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature" related words >
- French literature,
- Renaissance literature,
- ancient literature,
- article,
- autograph,
- belles lettres,
- belles-lettres,
- bibliography,
- body of knowledge,
- body of learning,
- brainchild,
- brochures,
- circulars,
- classics,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- contemporary literature,
- copy,
- cyclopedia,
- data,
- document,
- draft,
- edited version,
- encyclopedia,
- engrossment,
- erotic literature,
- erotica,
- essay,
- facts,
- fair copy,
- fiction,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first draft,
- flimsy,
- folk literature,
- holograph,
- humane letters,
- information,
- kitsch,
- leaflets,
- letter,
- letters,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- lore,
- lucubration,
- manuscript,
- materials,
- matter,
- medieval literature,
- national literature,
- nonfiction,
- obscene literature,
- opus,
- original,
- pamphlets,
- paper,
- parchment,
- penscript,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- play,
- poem,
- polite literature,
- pop literature,
- popular literature,
- pornographic literature,
- pornography,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- production,
- propaganda,
- pseudonymous literature,
- publications,
- publicity,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- republic of letters,
- scatological literature,
- screed,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- serious literature,
- store of knowledge,
- system of knowledge,
- the written word,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- travel literature,
- treasury of information,
- typescript,
- underground literature,
- version,
- wisdom literature,
- work,
- writing,
- writings
- gazetteer
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- a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
- a journalist who writes for a gazette related words >
- atlas,
- biographical dictionary,
- calendar,
- casebook,
- catalog,
- catalogue raisonne,
- chemical dictionary,
- city directory,
- city editor,
- classified catalog,
- columnist,
- concordance,
- copy chief,
- copy editor,
- copyman,
- copyreader,
- correspondent,
- cub reporter,
- cyclopedia,
- desk dictionary,
- dialect dictionary,
- diaskeuast,
- diatesseron,
- dictionary,
- dictionary catalog,
- dictionary of quotations,
- directory,
- editor,
- editorial writer,
- electronics dictionary,
- encyclopedia,
- etymological dictionary,
- feature editor,
- foreign correspondent,
- foreign-language dictionary,
- general dictionary,
- geological dictionary,
- gloss,
- glossary,
- gradus,
- harmony,
- index,
- interviewer,
- journalist,
- leader writer,
- leg man,
- lexicon,
- managing editor,
- news editor,
- newsman,
- newspaperman,
- newspaperwoman,
- newswriter,
- nomenclator,
- onomasticon,
- own correspondent,
- paragrapher,
- paragraphist,
- phone book,
- phrase book,
- polyglot,
- polyglot dictionary,
- pressman,
- promptorium,
- publicist,
- reader,
- record book,
- reference book,
- reporter,
- reviser,
- rewrite man,
- rewriter,
- rhyming dictionary,
- science dictionary,
- slang dictionary,
- slotman,
- sob sister,
- source book,
- special correspondent,
- specialized dictionary,
- sports editor,
- studbook,
- subeditor,
- synonym dictionary,
- synonymy,
- telephone book,
- telephone directory,
- terminology,
- thesaurus,
- treasury of words,
- unabridged dictionary,
- vocabulary,
- war correspondent,
- word list,
- wordbook,
- work of reference
- bearing
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- a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
- dignified manner or conduct
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- relevant relation or interconnection; "those issues have no bearing on our situation"
- producing or yielding; "an interest-bearing note"; "fruit-bearing trees" related words >
- Zeitgeist,
- action,
- actions,
- activity,
- acts,
- address,
- affectation,
- affective meaning,
- aftermath,
- aim,
- air,
- air express,
- airfreight,
- airlift,
- applicability,
- application,
- appositeness,
- aspect,
- asportation,
- attitude,
- axis,
- azimuth,
- backing,
- ball bearing,
- bearings,
- beck,
- beckon,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- bent,
- bevel bearing,
- birthing,
- body language,
- bolstering,
- boost,
- born,
- bracing,
- brow,
- bump,
- bumper crop,
- bunt,
- burdened,
- bushing,
- butt,
- buttressing,
- calved,
- carriage,
- carry,
- carrying,
- cartage,
- cast,
- cast of countenance,
- celestial navigation,
- charade,
- chassis,
- childbearing,
- childbirth,
- chironomy,
- color,
- coloring,
- complexion,
- comportment,
- concern,
- concernment,
- conduct,
- connection,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- conveyance,
- correlation,
- countenance,
- course,
- crop,
- culture pattern,
- current,
- custom,
- dactylology,
- dead reckoning,
- deaf-and-dumb alphabet,
- delivery,
- demeanor,
- denotation,
- deportment,
- dig,
- direction,
- direction line,
- display,
- doing,
- doings,
- drayage,
- drift,
- dropped,
- dumb show,
- effect,
- endurance,
- enduring,
- essence,
- exposure,
- expressage,
- extension,
- face,
- facial appearance,
- favor,
- feature,
- features,
- ferriage,
- fix,
- foaled,
- folkway,
- force,
- frame,
- freight,
- freightage,
- front,
- frontage,
- fructiferous,
- fructification,
- fruit,
- fruitbearing,
- fruiting,
- fruition,
- fulcrum,
- garb,
- germaneness,
- gesticulation,
- gesture,
- gesture language,
- gestures,
- gist,
- given birth,
- giving birth,
- glacial movement,
- goings-on,
- grammatical meaning,
- guise,
- hand signal,
- harvest,
- hatched,
- haulage,
- hauling,
- head,
- heading,
- headstock,
- helmsmanship,
- holding,
- hustle,
- idea,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- inclination,
- infrastructure,
- intension,
- interest,
- jab,
- jewel,
- jog,
- joggle,
- jolt,
- jostle,
- kinesics,
- lay,
- lexical meaning,
- lie,
- lighterage,
- line,
- line of direction,
- line of march,
- line of position,
- lineaments,
- lines,
- literal meaning,
- look,
- looks,
- lugging,
- main current,
- mainstream,
- maintaining,
- maintien,
- make,
- manner,
- manners,
- materiality,
- meaning,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- modus vivendi,
- motion,
- motions,
- mount,
- mounting,
- movement,
- movements,
- moves,
- navigation,
- nee,
- needle bearing,
- newborn,
- nudge,
- oarlock,
- observable behavior,
- orientation,
- output,
- overtone,
- packing,
- pantomime,
- parturition,
- pattern,
- pertinence,
- physiognomy,
- pilotage,
- piloting,
- pith,
- pivot,
- point,
- poise,
- poke,
- port,
- portage,
- porterage,
- pose,
- position,
- position line,
- posture,
- practical consequence,
- practice,
- praxis,
- presence,
- press,
- pressure,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- proceeds,
- prod,
- produce,
- producing,
- product,
- production,
- propping,
- punch,
- purport,
- push,
- quarter,
- radio bearing,
- railway express,
- range,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- regard,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relationship,
- relevance,
- respect,
- rest,
- resting point,
- roller bearing,
- rowlock,
- run,
- scope,
- second crop,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- set,
- setting,
- shipment,
- shipping,
- shoring,
- shove,
- shrug,
- sign language,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- skeleton,
- social science,
- span of meaning,
- spirit,
- stance,
- stand,
- steerage,
- steering,
- stillborn,
- stream,
- stress,
- structural meaning,
- style,
- substance,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- supporting,
- supportive,
- suspensory,
- sustaining,
- sustentative,
- swing,
- symbolic meaning,
- tactics,
- telpherage,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- the general tendency,
- the main course,
- thole,
- tholepin,
- thrust,
- thrust bearing,
- time spirit,
- tone,
- totality of associations,
- toting,
- track,
- traits,
- transferred meaning,
- transport,
- transportation,
- transshipment,
- trend,
- truckage,
- turn,
- unadorned meaning,
- underframe,
- undertone,
- upholding,
- value,
- vintage,
- visage,
- waft,
- waftage,
- wagonage,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways,
- whelped,
- yield,
- yielding
- hoary
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- ancient; "hoary jokes" related words >
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- advanced,
- advanced in life,
- advanced in years,
- age-old,
- aged,
- ageless,
- along in years,
- ancient,
- antediluvian,
- antique,
- argent,
- argentine,
- auld,
- canescent,
- chalky,
- conventional,
- cretaceous,
- customary,
- dateless,
- elderly,
- established,
- fixed,
- fleecy-white,
- folk,
- frost-beaded,
- frost-chequered,
- frost-covered,
- frost-fettered,
- frost-rent,
- frostbound,
- frosted,
- frostlike,
- frosty,
- frosty-faced,
- gray,
- gray with age,
- gray-haired,
- gray-headed,
- grizzled,
- grizzly,
- grown old,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- heroic,
- hoar,
- hoar-frosted,
- hoaryheaded,
- immemorial,
- inveterate,
- lactescent,
- legendary,
- lily-white,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- marble,
- marmoreal,
- milky,
- mythological,
- niveous,
- of long standing,
- of old,
- of the folk,
- of yore,
- old,
- old as Methuselah,
- old as history,
- old as time,
- old-time,
- olden,
- oral,
- patriarchal,
- platinum,
- prescriptive,
- pure white,
- received,
- recognized,
- rime-frosted,
- rimed,
- rooted,
- senectuous,
- silver,
- silver-bearded,
- silver-headed,
- silvered,
- silvery,
- snow-white,
- snowy,
- swan-white,
- time-honored,
- timeless,
- timeworn,
- traditional,
- tried and true,
- true-blue,
- understood,
- unwritten,
- venerable,
- white,
- white as snow,
- white with age,
- white-bearded,
- white-crowned,
- white-haired,
- worshipful,
- wrinkled,
- wrinkly,
- years old
- speaking
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- the utterance of intelligible speech related words >
- ESP,
- accents,
- answer,
- articulate,
- breathing,
- chatter,
- comment,
- commerce,
- communication,
- communion,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- converse,
- correspondence,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- debating,
- declamation,
- demagogism,
- discourse,
- elocution,
- eloquence,
- eloquent,
- exchange,
- faithful,
- forensics,
- free-speaking,
- free-spoken,
- gab,
- homiletics,
- information,
- interaction,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunion,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- language,
- lecturing,
- lifelike,
- linguistic act,
- linguistic intercourse,
- living,
- locution,
- loud-speaking,
- loud-spoken,
- message,
- natural,
- oral communication,
- oratory,
- outspoken,
- palaver,
- parol,
- parole,
- phonation,
- plain-speaking,
- plain-spoken,
- platform oratory,
- prattle,
- public speaking,
- pyrotechnics,
- rabble-rousing,
- rapping,
- realistic,
- reply,
- response,
- rhetoric,
- sequence of phonemes,
- social intercourse,
- soft-speaking,
- soft-spoken,
- speech,
- speech act,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- speechcraft,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- speechmaking,
- string,
- stump speaking,
- talk,
- talkative,
- talking,
- telepathy,
- the spoken word,
- to the life,
- tongue,
- touch,
- traffic,
- truck,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true-speaking,
- two-way communication,
- utterance,
- utterance string,
- verbalization,
- vocable,
- voice,
- well-spoken,
- word,
- word of mouth,
- wordcraft,
- words,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking
- comment
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- a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"
- explain or interpret something
- make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague" related words >
- Parthian shot,
- accents,
- address,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- allude to,
- analysis,
- animadversion,
- animadvert,
- annotate,
- annotation,
- answer,
- apostrophe,
- apparatus criticus,
- approval,
- assertion,
- averment,
- blurt,
- blurt out,
- book review,
- call attention to,
- censure,
- chatter,
- clarification,
- commentary,
- commentate,
- commentation,
- construe,
- conversation,
- crack,
- critical bibliography,
- critical journal,
- critical notice,
- critical review,
- criticism,
- critique,
- declaration,
- dictum,
- discourse,
- discuss,
- editorial,
- elocution,
- elucidate,
- elucidation,
- exclaim,
- exclamation,
- exegesis,
- expansion,
- explain,
- explanation,
- explicate,
- expose,
- exposition,
- expound,
- expression,
- footnote,
- gab,
- gloss,
- greeting,
- interject,
- interjection,
- language,
- leader,
- leading article,
- let drop,
- let fall,
- literary criticism,
- make reference to,
- mention,
- muse,
- notation,
- note,
- note of explanation,
- notice,
- obiter dictum,
- observation,
- observe,
- opine,
- opinion,
- oral communication,
- palaver,
- parole,
- phrase,
- position,
- prattle,
- pronouncement,
- question,
- rapping,
- reaction,
- refer to,
- reference,
- reflect,
- reflection,
- remark,
- report,
- reveal,
- review,
- running commentary,
- say,
- saying,
- scholium,
- sentence,
- speak,
- speaking,
- speech,
- statement,
- subjoinder,
- talk,
- talk about,
- talking,
- thought,
- utterance,
- view,
- word,
- word of explanation,
- words,
- write-up,
- yakkety-yak,
- yakking
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