Related Words:
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- bon mot,
- boutade,
- bright idea,
- bright thought,
- brilliant idea,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- conceit,
- crack,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- drollery,
- epigram,
- expression,
- facetiae,
- flash of wit,
- flight of wit,
- gag,
- gibe,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- happy thought,
- jape,
- jest,
- maxim,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- nasty crack,
- oracle,
- persiflage,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- play of wit,
- pleasantry,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- quip,
- quips and cranks,
- repartee,
- retort,
- riposte,
- sally,
- saw,
- saying,
- scintillation,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- smart crack,
- smart saying,
- snappy comeback,
- stock saying,
- stroke of wit,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- turn of thought,
- verse,
- waggery,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- wisecrack,
- word,
- words of wisdom,
- yak
- institute
collapse - an association organized to promote art or science or education
- advance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings" related words >
- Schule,
- academy,
- alliance,
- association,
- author,
- bear,
- beget,
- begin,
- breed,
- bring about,
- bring forth,
- bring to effect,
- bring to pass,
- bring up,
- broach,
- cause,
- christen,
- commence,
- conceive,
- constitute,
- create,
- decree,
- decretum,
- do,
- ecole,
- edict,
- educational institution,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- engender,
- escuela,
- establish,
- establishment,
- father,
- float,
- form,
- found,
- foundation,
- generate,
- gestate,
- give birth to,
- give occasion to,
- give origin to,
- give rise to,
- guild,
- inaugurate,
- incept,
- induct,
- initiate,
- install,
- institution,
- introduce,
- launch,
- law,
- league,
- lift up,
- make,
- materialize,
- occasion,
- ordinance,
- organization,
- organize,
- originate,
- pioneer,
- precept,
- prescript,
- produce,
- raise,
- realize,
- regulation,
- ring in,
- rule,
- scholastic institution,
- school,
- seminary,
- set afloat,
- set agoing,
- set on foot,
- set up,
- sire,
- society,
- start,
- start going,
- start up,
- statute,
- teaching institution,
- turn on,
- usher in,
- work
- gnome
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- a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
- a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure related words >
- Ariel,
- Befind,
- Corrigan,
- Finnbeara,
- Lilliputian,
- Mab,
- Oberon,
- Titania,
- Tom Thumb,
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- axiom,
- banshee,
- brocard,
- brownie,
- byword,
- catchword,
- cluricaune,
- collected sayings,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- dwarf,
- elemental,
- elemental spirit,
- elf,
- epigram,
- expression,
- fairy,
- fairy queen,
- fay,
- goblin,
- golden saying,
- gremlin,
- hob,
- homunculus,
- imp,
- kobold,
- leprechaun,
- manikin,
- maxim,
- midge,
- midget,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- oracle,
- ouphe,
- peewee,
- peri,
- phrase,
- pip-squeak,
- pithy saying,
- pixie,
- pooka,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- puca,
- pwca,
- pygmy,
- rule,
- runt,
- salamander,
- saw,
- saying,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- shrimp,
- sloka,
- sprite,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- sylph,
- sylphid,
- teaching,
- text,
- truism,
- undine,
- verse,
- wart,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- saying
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- a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression" related words >
- Parthian shot,
- adage,
- address,
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- ana,
- analects,
- announcement,
- annunciation,
- answer,
- aphorism,
- apostrophe,
- apothegm,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- axiom,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- comment,
- conclusion,
- crack,
- creed,
- current saying,
- declaration,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- enunciation,
- epigram,
- exclamation,
- expression,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- greeting,
- interjection,
- ipse dixit,
- manifesto,
- maxim,
- mention,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- note,
- observation,
- oracle,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- position,
- position paper,
- positive declaration,
- precept,
- predicate,
- predication,
- prescript,
- proclamation,
- profession,
- pronouncement,
- proposition,
- protest,
- protestation,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- question,
- reflection,
- remark,
- saw,
- say,
- say-so,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- stance,
- stand,
- statement,
- stock saying,
- subjoinder,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- thought,
- truism,
- utterance,
- verse,
- vouch,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- beleaguer,
- beset,
- besiege,
- black hole,
- blockade,
- bolt in,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bound,
- box in,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cage,
- cast in prison,
- cell,
- chamber,
- clap in jail,
- clap up,
- close in,
- compass,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- contain,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- corral,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- encircle,
- enclose,
- encompass,
- enshrine,
- federal prison,
- fence in,
- forced-labor camp,
- guardhouse,
- hedge in,
- hem in,
- hold captive,
- hold in captivity,
- hold prisoner,
- house in,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- immure,
- impound,
- imprison,
- incarcerate,
- include,
- industrial school,
- intern,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- jug,
- keep,
- kennel,
- labor camp,
- leaguer,
- lock in,
- lock up,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- mew,
- mew up,
- minimum-security prison,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- pen in,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- pocket,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- quarantine,
- rail in,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- shrine,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- sponging house,
- stable,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- surround,
- the hole,
- throw into jail,
- tollbooth,
- training school,
- wall in,
- wrap,
- yard,
- yard up
- creed
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- any system of principles or beliefs related words >
- Athanasian Creed,
- Catechism,
- Nicene Creed,
- Weltanschauung,
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- allegation,
- announcement,
- annunciation,
- articles of faith,
- articles of religion,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- belief,
- catechism,
- church,
- communion,
- conclusion,
- connection,
- course,
- credenda,
- credo,
- cult,
- declaration,
- denomination,
- dictum,
- doctrinal statement,
- doctrine,
- dogma,
- enunciation,
- faith,
- formulated belief,
- gospel,
- guiding principles,
- ideology,
- ipse dixit,
- ism,
- line,
- manifesto,
- orthodoxy,
- persuasion,
- plan of action,
- platform,
- policy,
- political faith,
- political philosophy,
- polity,
- position,
- position paper,
- positive declaration,
- predicate,
- predication,
- principles,
- procedure,
- proclamation,
- profession,
- pronouncement,
- proposition,
- protest,
- protestation,
- religion,
- religious belief,
- religious faith,
- say,
- say-so,
- saying,
- school,
- sect,
- stance,
- stand,
- statement,
- system of belief,
- system of beliefs,
- teaching,
- tenet,
- theology,
- tradition,
- utterance,
- vouch,
- weltanschauung,
- word,
- world view
- beadle
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- a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services
- United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989) related words >
- Bible clerk,
- Bible reader,
- G-man,
- MP,
- acolyte,
- almoner,
- anagnost,
- bailiff,
- beagle,
- bedral,
- bound bailiff,
- capitular,
- capitulary,
- captain,
- catchpole,
- chief of police,
- choir chaplain,
- churchwarden,
- clerk,
- commissioner,
- constable,
- deacon,
- deaconess,
- deputy,
- deputy sheriff,
- detective,
- elder,
- elderman,
- fed,
- federal,
- flic,
- gendarme,
- government man,
- inspector,
- lay elder,
- lay reader,
- lector,
- lecturer,
- lictor,
- lieutenant,
- mace-bearer,
- marshal,
- mounted policeman,
- narc,
- officer,
- parish clerk,
- patrolman,
- peace officer,
- police captain,
- police commissioner,
- police constable,
- police inspector,
- police matron,
- police officer,
- police sergeant,
- policeman,
- policewoman,
- portreeve,
- precentor,
- reader,
- reeve,
- roundsman,
- ruling elder,
- sacrist,
- sacristan,
- sergeant,
- sergeant at arms,
- sexton,
- shames,
- sheriff,
- sidesman,
- succentor,
- suisse,
- superintendent,
- teaching elder,
- thurifer,
- tipstaff,
- tipstaves,
- trooper,
- verger,
- vergeress
- letters
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- the literary culture; "this book shows American letters at its best"
- scholarly attainment; "he is a man of letters" related words >
- French literature,
- IPA,
- ITA,
- Initial Teaching Alphabet,
- International Phonetic Alphabet,
- Renaissance literature,
- account,
- alphabet,
- alphabetics,
- ancient literature,
- annals,
- belles lettres,
- bibliolatry,
- bibliomania,
- bluestockingism,
- book learning,
- book madness,
- bookiness,
- bookishness,
- booklore,
- catalog,
- chronicle,
- classical scholarship,
- classicism,
- classics,
- contemporary literature,
- correspondence,
- culture,
- documentation,
- donnishness,
- erotic literature,
- erotica,
- eruditeness,
- erudition,
- folk literature,
- futhark,
- graphemics,
- history,
- humane letters,
- humanism,
- humanistic scholarship,
- intellectualism,
- intellectuality,
- inventory,
- kitsch,
- learnedness,
- list,
- literacy,
- literature,
- medieval literature,
- memorial,
- national literature,
- obscene literature,
- paleography,
- pedantism,
- pedantry,
- pipe roll,
- polite literature,
- pop literature,
- popular literature,
- pornographic literature,
- pornography,
- pseudonymous literature,
- reading,
- record,
- recording,
- register,
- registry,
- relic,
- remains,
- republic of letters,
- roll,
- rolls,
- roster,
- rota,
- runic alphabet,
- scatological literature,
- scholarship,
- script,
- scroll,
- serious literature,
- syllabary,
- table,
- token,
- trace,
- travel literature,
- underground literature,
- vestige,
- wisdom literature,
- writing system
- oracle
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- a shrine where an oracular god is consulted
- a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible related words >
- Cassandra,
- Delphian oracle,
- Delphic oracle,
- Delphic tripod,
- Dodona,
- Pythian oracle,
- Python,
- adage,
- advice,
- ana,
- analects,
- answer,
- aphorism,
- apocalypse,
- apothegm,
- augur,
- augury,
- authority,
- axiom,
- byword,
- catchword,
- collected sayings,
- current saying,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- divination,
- diviner,
- doctor,
- elder,
- elder statesman,
- epigram,
- expression,
- fortune-teller,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- great soul,
- guru,
- illuminate,
- intellect,
- intellectual,
- lover of wisdom,
- mahatma,
- man of intellect,
- man of wisdom,
- mandarin,
- master,
- mastermind,
- maxim,
- mentor,
- message,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- philosopher,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- precept,
- prediction,
- prescript,
- prognostication,
- prognosticator,
- prophecy,
- prophet,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- rabbi,
- rishi,
- sage,
- sapient,
- savant,
- saw,
- saying,
- scholar,
- seer,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sibyl,
- sloka,
- soothsayer,
- starets,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- thinker,
- verse,
- vision,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise man,
- wise old man,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- wizard,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- a belief,
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- article of faith,
- axiom,
- behest,
- bench warrant,
- bidding,
- byword,
- canon,
- capias,
- catchword,
- caveat,
- charge,
- code,
- collected sayings,
- commandment,
- current saying,
- death warrant,
- decree,
- decretum,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- direction,
- directive,
- distich,
- doctrine,
- dogma,
- edict,
- epigram,
- expression,
- fiat,
- fieri facias,
- fundamental,
- general orders,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- guide,
- guideline,
- habere facias possessionem,
- injunction,
- instruction,
- interdict,
- law,
- mandamus,
- mandate,
- mandatory injunction,
- maxim,
- mittimus,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- nisi prius,
- notice,
- notification,
- oracle,
- order,
- ordinance,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- principle,
- process,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- regulation,
- rule,
- saw,
- saying,
- search warrant,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- slogan,
- sloka,
- statute,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- tenet,
- text,
- ukase,
- unwritten law,
- verse,
- warrant,
- warrant of arrest,
- warrant of attorney,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom,
- writ
- bosom
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- cloth that covers the chest or breasts
- a person's breast or chest
- the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept; "his bosom was bursting with the secret"
- hide in one's bosom; "She bosomed his letters" related words >
- bag,
- bear,
- being,
- beloved,
- blood,
- bones,
- boobs,
- boon,
- bottle up,
- bowels,
- breast,
- breasts,
- brisket,
- bury,
- bust,
- cache,
- center,
- center of life,
- cherish,
- cherished,
- chest,
- clasp,
- classify,
- cling to,
- clip,
- close,
- conceal,
- confidential,
- core,
- crop,
- dear,
- deepest recesses,
- deposit,
- dug,
- embosom,
- embrace,
- enfold,
- entertain,
- esoteric reality,
- esprit,
- file and forget,
- fold,
- fondle,
- foster,
- gut,
- guts,
- harbor,
- have,
- have and hold,
- heart,
- heart of hearts,
- heartstrings,
- hide away,
- hold,
- hold on to,
- hold out on,
- hug,
- in petto,
- inmost heart,
- inmost soul,
- inner,
- inner landscape,
- inner life,
- inner man,
- inner nature,
- inner recess,
- inner self,
- innermost being,
- inside,
- interior,
- interior man,
- intern,
- internal,
- intimate,
- intrados,
- inward,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep between us,
- keep buttoned up,
- keep close,
- keep dark,
- keep from,
- keep hidden,
- keep in ignorance,
- keep mum,
- keep secret,
- keep snug,
- keep under wraps,
- knockers,
- lock up,
- make no sign,
- mama,
- mamelon,
- mamelonation,
- mammary gland,
- mammilla,
- mammillation,
- midst,
- nenes,
- nerve center,
- never let on,
- nipple,
- not give away,
- not tell,
- nurse,
- nurture,
- pair,
- pap,
- papilla,
- penetralia,
- pigeon breast,
- plant,
- play dumb,
- press,
- put away,
- quick,
- recesses,
- seal up,
- secret heart,
- secret place,
- secret places,
- secrete,
- soul,
- special,
- spirit,
- squeeze,
- stash,
- store away,
- stow away,
- teat,
- thorax,
- tit,
- tits,
- titties,
- titty,
- treasure,
- treasure up,
- true being,
- true inwardness,
- udder,
- veil,
- viscera,
- vital center,
- vital principle,
- vitals,
- withhold
- jail
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- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) related words >
- POW camp,
- bastille,
- beleaguer,
- beset,
- besiege,
- big house,
- black hole,
- blockade,
- bolt in,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bound,
- box in,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- bucket,
- caboose,
- cage,
- calaboose,
- can,
- cast in prison,
- cell,
- chamber,
- chokey,
- clap in jail,
- clap up,
- clink,
- close in,
- college,
- compass,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- confine,
- constrain,
- contain,
- cooler,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cordon,
- cordon off,
- corral,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detain,
- detention camp,
- encircle,
- enclose,
- encompass,
- enshrine,
- federal prison,
- fence in,
- forced-labor camp,
- freezer,
- gaol,
- guardhouse,
- guardroom,
- hedge in,
- hem in,
- hold captive,
- hold in captivity,
- hold prisoner,
- hoosegow,
- house in,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- immure,
- impound,
- imprison,
- incarcerate,
- include,
- industrial school,
- intern,
- internment camp,
- jailhouse,
- jug,
- keep,
- kennel,
- labor camp,
- leaguer,
- lock in,
- lock up,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- mew,
- mew up,
- minimum-security prison,
- nick,
- oubliette,
- pen,
- pen in,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- pocket,
- pokey,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- quarantine,
- quod,
- rail in,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- rock pile,
- send down,
- shrine,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- slammer,
- sponging house,
- stable,
- state prison,
- stir,
- stockade,
- surround,
- the hole,
- throw into jail,
- tollbooth,
- training school,
- wall in,
- wrap,
- yard,
- yard up
- ana
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- a collection of anecdotes about a person or place
- mother of the ancient Irish gods; sometimes identified with Danu related words >
- Festschrift,
- adage,
- album,
- analects,
- anthology,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- aquarium,
- archives,
- axiom,
- beauties,
- biographical material,
- biographical records,
- body,
- byword,
- canon,
- catchword,
- chrestomathy,
- clippings,
- collectanea,
- collected sayings,
- collected works,
- collection,
- compilation,
- complete works,
- corpus,
- current saying,
- cuttings,
- data,
- delectus,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- excerpta,
- excerpts,
- expression,
- extracts,
- florilegium,
- flowers,
- fragments,
- fund,
- garden,
- garland,
- gleanings,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- government archives,
- government papers,
- historical documents,
- historical records,
- holdings,
- library,
- life records,
- maxim,
- memorabilia,
- menagerie,
- miscellanea,
- miscellany,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- museum,
- omnibus,
- oracle,
- papers,
- parish rolls,
- photograph album,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- posy,
- precept,
- prescript,
- presidential papers,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- public records,
- quotation book,
- raw data,
- saw,
- saying,
- scrapbook,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- sloka,
- stock saying,
- sutra,
- symposium,
- teaching,
- text,
- treasure,
- verse,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom,
- zoo
- resident
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- someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
- living in a particular place; "resident aliens" related words >
- Doctor of Medicine,
- GP,
- MD,
- abiding,
- addressee,
- allopath,
- allopathist,
- ambassador,
- ambassadress,
- apostolic delegate,
- artist-in-residence,
- attache,
- attending physician,
- benefice-holder,
- beneficiary,
- career diplomat,
- chancellor,
- charge,
- citizen,
- commercial attache,
- commorant,
- consul,
- consul general,
- consular agent,
- coroner,
- country doctor,
- croaker,
- deep-seated,
- denizen,
- diplomat,
- diplomatic,
- diplomatic agent,
- diplomatist,
- district,
- doc,
- doctor,
- dweller,
- dwelling,
- emissary,
- envoy,
- envoy extraordinary,
- esoteric,
- family doctor,
- foreign service officer,
- general practitioner,
- habitant,
- hirer,
- homesteader,
- house detective,
- house physician,
- householder,
- immanent,
- implanted,
- implicit,
- in residence,
- inalienable,
- incumbent,
- indwelling,
- infixed,
- ingrained,
- inhabitant,
- inhabiter,
- inherent,
- inmate,
- inner,
- inpatient,
- intern,
- internal,
- internuncio,
- intrinsic,
- inward,
- inwrought,
- irreducible,
- leaseholder,
- leech,
- legate,
- lessee,
- live-in maid,
- liver,
- living,
- living in,
- local,
- locum tenens,
- lodger,
- lodging,
- medical attendant,
- medical examiner,
- medical man,
- medical practitioner,
- medico,
- military attache,
- minister,
- minister plenipotentiary,
- minister resident,
- nuncio,
- occupant,
- occupier,
- paying guest,
- physician,
- physician in ordinary,
- plenipotentiary,
- private,
- regional,
- remaining,
- renter,
- residencer,
- resident physician,
- residentiary,
- resider,
- residing,
- roomer,
- sawbones,
- secret,
- secretary of legation,
- sojourner,
- squatter,
- staying,
- subjective,
- sublessee,
- subtenant,
- tenant,
- tenant at sufferance,
- tenant for life,
- unalienable,
- unchallengeable,
- underlessee,
- unquestionable,
- vice-consul,
- vice-legate
- harangue
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- a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
- deliver a harangue to; address forcefully related words >
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assignment,
- chalk talk,
- debate,
- declaim,
- declamation,
- demagogue,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- elocute,
- eulogy,
- exercise,
- exhortation,
- explain,
- exposit,
- exposition,
- expound,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- hold forth,
- homework,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- instruction,
- invective,
- jeremiad,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- moralize,
- mouth,
- object lesson,
- orate,
- oration,
- out-herod Herod,
- pep talk,
- perorate,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- point a moral,
- pontificate,
- preach,
- preachment,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- public speech,
- rabble-rouse,
- rant,
- rant and rave,
- rave,
- read,
- read a lesson,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- recite,
- rodomontade,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- sermonize,
- set speech,
- set task,
- skull session,
- soapbox,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- spout,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- task,
- teaching,
- tirade,
- tub-thump,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vituperate,
- vituperation
- lecture
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- teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class)
- a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"
- a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"
- deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" related words >
- address,
- admonish,
- admonishment,
- admonition,
- assignment,
- berate,
- berating,
- bring to book,
- call to account,
- castigation,
- censure,
- chalk talk,
- chastise,
- chastisement,
- chew out,
- chide,
- chiding,
- correct,
- correction,
- criticism,
- declaim,
- declamation,
- deliver a lecture,
- diatribe,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- dress down,
- dressing-down,
- exercise,
- explain,
- exposit,
- exposition,
- expound,
- fulminate against,
- harangue,
- have words with,
- hold forth,
- homework,
- homily,
- instruction,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- moralize,
- object lesson,
- objurgate,
- objurgation,
- orate,
- paper,
- philippic,
- point a moral,
- pontificate,
- preach,
- preachification,
- preachify,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- prelect,
- prelection,
- rail at,
- rate,
- rating,
- read a lesson,
- read a sermon,
- rebuke,
- recital,
- recitation,
- religious discourse,
- remonstration,
- reprehend,
- reprehension,
- reprimand,
- reproach,
- reprobation,
- reproof,
- reproval,
- reprove,
- scold,
- scolding,
- screed,
- sermon,
- sermonette,
- sermonize,
- set down,
- set straight,
- set task,
- skull session,
- spank,
- spanking,
- speech,
- straighten out,
- take down,
- take to task,
- talk,
- task,
- teaching,
- tell off,
- tongue-lash,
- tongue-lashing,
- travelogue,
- treatise,
- upbraid,
- upbraiding,
- warn,
- wig
- abate,
- abridge,
- abstain,
- aggrieve,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- arrest,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- ban,
- bank the fire,
- bar,
- bastille,
- bear,
- bind,
- bit,
- blunt,
- bottle up,
- box up,
- bridle,
- cage,
- cause,
- cause to,
- chasten,
- check,
- cloister,
- coerce,
- compel,
- concuss,
- confine,
- contain,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- coop,
- coop in,
- coop up,
- cork up,
- crib,
- crowd,
- crush,
- curb,
- curtail,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden,
- decelerate,
- deprive,
- detain,
- dictate,
- diminish,
- disallow,
- dompt,
- downplay,
- drive,
- dull,
- encage,
- enclose,
- enforce,
- enjoin,
- extenuate,
- fence in,
- force,
- govern,
- grieve,
- guard,
- have,
- hem in,
- hinder,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold down,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in custody,
- hold in leash,
- hold in restraint,
- hold up,
- hurt,
- immure,
- impel,
- impound,
- incarcerate,
- inhibit,
- injure,
- insist upon,
- intern,
- jail,
- jam,
- jug,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep in custody,
- keep in detention,
- keep under control,
- keep within bounds,
- lay,
- lay under restraint,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- make,
- mew,
- mew up,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- necessitate,
- oblige,
- obtund,
- pain,
- palliate,
- pen,
- pen up,
- play down,
- pound,
- prison,
- prohibit,
- pull,
- pull in,
- push,
- quod,
- rail in,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- refrain,
- rein,
- rein in,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- retard,
- retrench,
- seal up,
- set back,
- shackle,
- shotgun,
- shut in,
- shut up,
- slacken,
- slow down,
- smother,
- snub,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soften,
- squab,
- squash,
- squeeze,
- squish,
- stifle,
- straiten,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- tame,
- temper,
- tie,
- tone down,
- tune down,
- underplay,
- use force upon,
- wall in,
- weaken,
- withhold
- adage,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apophthegm,
- apothegm,
- appellation,
- appellative,
- axiom,
- binomen,
- binomial name,
- burning shame,
- butt,
- byname,
- byword of reproach,
- catch phrase,
- catchword,
- cliche,
- cognomen,
- collected sayings,
- cry,
- cryptonym,
- current saying,
- denomination,
- derision,
- designation,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- dirty shame,
- disgrace,
- distich,
- dupe,
- empty title,
- epigram,
- epithet,
- eponym,
- euonym,
- expression,
- fad word,
- fair game,
- figure of fun,
- fool,
- game,
- gazingstock,
- gnome,
- goat,
- golden saying,
- handle,
- honorific,
- humiliation,
- hyponym,
- jest,
- jestingstock,
- joke,
- label,
- laughingstock,
- low-down dirty shame,
- maxim,
- mockery,
- moniker,
- monkey,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- name,
- namesake,
- nomen,
- nomen nudum,
- oracle,
- parable,
- pet expression,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- precept,
- prescript,
- proper name,
- proper noun,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- reproach,
- saw,
- saying,
- scandal,
- scientific name,
- secret name,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- shame,
- shibboleth,
- slogan,
- sloka,
- sobriquet,
- stock,
- stock saying,
- style,
- sutra,
- tag,
- target,
- tautonym,
- teaching,
- text,
- title,
- toy,
- trinomen,
- trinomial name,
- verse,
- victim,
- vogue word,
- watchword,
- wisdom,
- wisdom literature,
- wise saying,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom
- wisdom
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- the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
- accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment related words >
- Sophia,
- adage,
- advantage,
- advantageousness,
- advisability,
- ana,
- analects,
- aphorism,
- apothegm,
- apprehension,
- appropriateness,
- axiom,
- beneficialness,
- broad-mindedness,
- byword,
- catchword,
- clairvoyance,
- collected sayings,
- command,
- comprehension,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- convenience,
- current saying,
- decency,
- depth,
- desirability,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- distich,
- epigram,
- erudition,
- expedience,
- expediency,
- expression,
- feasibility,
- fitness,
- fittingness,
- foreknowledge,
- fruitfulness,
- gnome,
- golden saying,
- good sense,
- good understanding,
- grasp,
- grip,
- gumption,
- horse sense,
- ideation,
- information,
- insight,
- intellection,
- intelligence,
- judgment,
- judiciousness,
- know-it-all,
- lore,
- mastery,
- maxim,
- mellow wisdom,
- mental grasp,
- moral,
- mot,
- motto,
- opportuneness,
- oracle,
- percentage,
- perspicacity,
- phrase,
- pithy saying,
- politicness,
- precept,
- precognition,
- prehension,
- prescript,
- profit,
- profitability,
- profoundness,
- profundity,
- propriety,
- proverb,
- proverbial saying,
- proverbs,
- prudence,
- rightness,
- ripe wisdom,
- sagaciousness,
- sagacity,
- sageness,
- saneness,
- sapience,
- savvy,
- saw,
- saying,
- science,
- seasonableness,
- seasoned understanding,
- seemliness,
- sentence,
- sententious expression,
- shrewdness,
- sloka,
- smart,
- smarty,
- smarty-pants,
- sound understanding,
- stock saying,
- suitability,
- sutra,
- teaching,
- text,
- timeliness,
- understanding,
- usefulness,
- verse,
- wisdom literature,
- wise guy,
- wise saying,
- wiseacre,
- wisecracker,
- wisehead,
- wiseness,
- wisenheimer,
- witticism,
- word,
- words of wisdom,
- worthwhileness
- injunction
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- (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order"
- a formal command or admonition related words >
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- Prohibition Party,
- Volstead Act,
- admonition,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- behest,
- bench warrant,
- bidding,
- blockade,
- boycott,
- capias,
- caveat,
- charge,
- check,
- circumscription,
- command,
- commission,
- constraint,
- contraband,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- death warrant,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- deceleration,
- demarcation,
- denial,
- dictate,
- direction,
- directive,
- disallowance,
- embargo,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- exhortation,
- fieri facias,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- habere facias possessionem,
- hindrance,
- inadmissibility,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- instruction,
- interdict,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- law,
- legal restraint,
- lockout,
- mandamus,
- mandate,
- mandatory injunction,
- mittimus,
- monopoly,
- narrowing,
- nisi prius,
- no-no,
- nonadmission,
- notice,
- notification,
- omission,
- order,
- precept,
- preclusion,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- prevention,
- process,
- prohibition,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- rationing,
- refusal,
- rein,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- repression,
- repudiation,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retardation,
- retrenchment,
- ruling,
- ruling out,
- search warrant,
- self-control,
- slowing down,
- statute,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- tariff wall,
- teaching,
- thought control,
- warning,
- warrant,
- warrant of arrest,
- warrant of attorney,
- word,
- writ,
- zoning,
- zoning laws
- VA hospital,
- almshouse,
- base hospital,
- bedlam,
- bird sanctuary,
- bolt-hole,
- bughouse,
- cache,
- clinic,
- community hospital,
- concealment,
- convalescent home,
- convalescent hospital,
- corner,
- cover,
- covert,
- coverture,
- cranny,
- crazy house,
- cubby,
- cubbyhole,
- dark corner,
- den,
- dugout,
- evacuation hospital,
- farm,
- field hospital,
- forest preserve,
- foster home,
- foxhole,
- funk hole,
- game preserve,
- game sanctuary,
- general hospital,
- halfway house,
- harbor,
- harbor of refuge,
- harborage,
- haven,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hidey hole,
- hiding,
- hiding place,
- hole,
- home,
- hospice,
- hospital,
- hospitium,
- infirmary,
- inpatient clinic,
- insane asylum,
- institution,
- inviolability,
- lair,
- lunatic asylum,
- madhouse,
- maison de sante,
- mental home,
- mental hospital,
- mental institution,
- niche,
- nook,
- nursing home,
- nuthouse,
- orphanage,
- osteopathic hospital,
- outpatient clinic,
- padded cell,
- policlinic,
- polyclinic,
- poor farm,
- poorhouse,
- port,
- preserve,
- private hospital,
- proprietary hospital,
- psychiatric ward,
- psychopathic hospital,
- public hospital,
- recess,
- refuge,
- rest home,
- retreat,
- safe haven,
- safehold,
- sanatorium,
- sanctuary,
- secret place,
- security,
- shelter,
- sick bay,
- sickbed,
- sickroom,
- snug harbor,
- special hospital,
- stash,
- state hospital,
- station hospital,
- stronghold,
- surgical hospital,
- teaching hospital,
- undercovert,
- veterans hospital,
- voluntary hospital,
- ward,
- well-baby clinic,
- workhouse
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