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manner of speaking collapse: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

idiom collapse: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

clause collapse: (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

millionaire collapse: a person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars

billionaire collapse: a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars

shibboleth collapse: a manner of speaking that is distinctive of a particular group of people

paragraph collapse: one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line; write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher; write about in a paragraph; "All her friends were paragraphed in last Monday's paper"; divide into paragraphs, as of text; "This story is well paragraphed"

anthropoid collapse: any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids; person who resembles a nonhuman primate; resembling human beings; resembling apes

aborigine collapse: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived; the earliest known inhabitants of a region

capitalist collapse: a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business); a conservative advocate of capitalism; of or relating to capitalism or capitalists; "a capitalist nation"; "capitalistic methods and incentives"

oracle collapse: a shrine where an oracular god is consulted; a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible

missing link collapse: hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings

bushman collapse: a dweller in the Australian bush country; a member of the race of nomadic hunters and gatherers who live in southern Africa

proverb collapse: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

construction collapse: drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"; the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"; the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades"; the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought; a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"; an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"

Man collapse: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage"; one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea; an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"; a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man"; an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"; the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself"; a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"; provide with men; "We cannot man all the desks"; take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"

murderer collapse: a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

assassin collapse: a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors"; a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders

matador collapse: the principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull

serviceman collapse: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty"

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