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I don’t know if the child is Teknonymy in English is refering to someone by the name of their child, but that does not mean the parent knows the child?
With a child name they are going to call someone using a name they chose. In Arabic we can call …
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Rani2Add Asked on March 14, 2021 in Single word requests.
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Word of person unwilling to share information
What do you name a person who is unwilling to share information? What’s the most important thing that can’t be …
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Raftesath Asked on March 14, 2021 in Single word requests.
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What word describe a person who isn’t optimistic but has a positive outlook?
I need a word to describe someone who knows better than to expect the best, but can be happy in …
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mowwwalker Asked on March 14, 2021 in Word choice.
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What is a word that consists of the repetition of one word?
What is a word that isn’t repeated? Where can I get the same questions and answers for the word polypoly …
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Michael Lai Asked on March 14, 2021 in Single word requests.
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What is a word that means a collection of a set of smaller collections, that does not use “super” or “sub” for the smaller collection?
I’m looking for a pair of words that essentially means “Super-collection” and “collection” where the super-collection contains a collection of …
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Ghopper21 Asked on March 14, 2021 in Single word requests.
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What exactly does “a language one has not learned?”
In linguistics and foreign language teaching, there are various terms to describe languages one knows or is learning, e.g. in …
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Village Asked on March 14, 2021 in Single word requests.
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Can the word attendance be used to describe the action or the state of being an attendant?
According to Wikipedia, an attendant is “one who attends; one who works with or watches over something”. When one is …
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Tatenda Zifudzi Asked on March 14, 2021 in Single word requests.
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Odd use of Agnostic in philosophy; agnostics are quite bad; many people today use agnostic theory in their thinking.
How can agnostic be used to denote caring? I was recently corrected on my usage of the word which got …
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deft_code Asked on March 14, 2021 in Word choice.
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What do you refer to as the player who’s scored most in a soccer (BrEng ‘football’) championship?
I tried translating Portuguese ( artilheiro ), but only got words related to war like: gunner, artillery man, etc.
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Patrick Asked on March 14, 2021 in Single word requests.
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Name of the smile when hearing one naive and enthusiastic person talk?
If I live in India during this last twenty-seven year period, I can say there will be no hunger or …
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Ooker Asked on March 14, 2021 in Single word requests.
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