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noun
- A sign used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop
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proper noun
- (form of, capitalized form, hangul)
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| HE |
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abbreviation
- His Excellency, Her Excellency
- His Eminence
- high explosive
- Higher Education
- Health Education
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| headword |
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noun
- a word used as the title of a section, particularly in an dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus
- (grammar) any word which may be modified by an adjunct
- a very discerning car shopper, "shopper" is the .
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| Hebrew |
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noun
- (countable) a member or descendant of a Semite, Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- (countable) a descendant of the biblical Patriarch Eber.
- (uncountable) the language of the Hebrew people, ISO 639 code he.
adjective
- of or pertaining to the Hebrew people or language.
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| heterography |
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noun
- An incorrect spelling; a spelling different from accepted spelling.
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| heteronym |
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noun (nyms)
- A word having the same spelling as another, but a different pronunciation and meaning.
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| heteronymous |
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adjective - Of, or relating to a heteronym
- Being different words, but having a common relationship e.g. brother and sister are siblings of each other
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| heth |
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noun
- The eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, �.
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| hierarchy |
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noun (hierarchies)
- A body of ruling officials organized in nested ranks.
- Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
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| hieroglyphic |
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noun
- (especially, in plural) a writing system of ancient Egypt and Maya civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus
- any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph
- (context, by extension) undecipherable handwriting
adjective
- of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols
- difficult to decipher
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| Hispanicism |
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noun (Hispanicism)
- A Spanish language item as it appears in another language.
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| holophrastic |
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adjective
- (linguistics, of a sentence) Consisting of a single word, such as "Go." or "Whatever."
- (linguistics) Pertaining to the stage of development where a child produces simple one-word utterances.
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| homograph |
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noun (nyms)
- A word that is spelled the same as another but has a different meaning and usually a different etymology.
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| homonym |
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noun
- A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning.
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| homophone |
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noun
- A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling and meaning, for example: carat, caret, carrot and karat.
- A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
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| homophonic |
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adjective - (linguistics) having the same sound; being homophones
- (music) having a single, accompanied, melodic line; not polyphonic
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| homophonous |
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adjective
- Having the same pronunciation.
- "Cot" and "caught" are in some American accents, as are "there" and "they're".
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| honorific |
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noun
- A title or term of respect.
adjective
- Showing or conferring honour and respect.
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| hyponym |
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noun
- A hyponym of A is a word B that is more specific than A (compare with hypernym). That is to say that you may call B A but not the reverse.
- Dog is of animal; indeed, all dogs are animals but not all animals are dogs.
- Spanish is a of European.
- Square is a of rectangle.
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