word meaning
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Tribal elders suggested Wo'aabi, an Indigenous word meaning "worm."
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
This mass exodus has been dubbed "japa", a Yoruba word meaning "to escape".
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2025
As I wrote in my 2023 book, “The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir,” the very name “Wales” is a Saxon word meaning “Home of the Foreigners.”
From Salon • May 27, 2024
He taught me a Tahitian word, fiu, a kind of hand-flip word meaning “enough,” or “fed up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
The word meaning “energetic” has a glr, it’s not “spritely”: Ed and Trixie were feeling sprightly.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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