word meaning
Example Sentences
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Tribal elders suggested Wo'aabi, an Indigenous word meaning "worm."
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
It said it often used the term "Riba", an Arabic word meaning "excess" and commonly used to describe the prohibition of interest under Islamic law.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025
That meant when introducing the vocabulary questions, pronouncers Jacques Bailly and the Rev. Brian Sietsema were forced to use the awkward construction, “Your word meaning word is …”
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024
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
In the fields, Japanese women would sing bolehole bushi—holehole is a Hawaiian word meaning “stripping leaves,” and bushi is Japanese for “song.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
