| 1. | of or in time long past, esp. before the end of the Western Roman Empire a.d. 476: ancient history. |
| 2. | dating from a remote period; of great age: ancient rocks; ancient trees. |
| 3. | very old; aged: an ancient folk tale. |
| 4. | being old in wisdom and experience; venerable. |
| 5. | old-fashioned or antique. |
| 6. | a person who lived in ancient times. |
| 7. | one of the classical writers of antiquity. |
| 1. | of or pertaining to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly; earthly: mundane affairs. |
| 2. | common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative. |
| 3. | of or pertaining to the world, universe, or earth. |
Kristen
| 1. | devoted or dedicated to a deity or to some religious purpose; consecrated. |
| 2. | entitled to veneration or religious respect by association with divinity or divine things; holy. |
| 3. | pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to secular or profane ): sacred music; sacred books. |
| 4. | reverently dedicated to some person, purpose, or object: a morning hour sacred to study. |
| 5. | regarded with reverence: the sacred memory of a dead hero. |
| 6. | secured against violation, infringement, etc., as by reverence or sense of right: sacred oaths; sacred rights. |
| 7. | properly immune from violence, interference, etc., as a person or office. |
Kristen
| 1. | identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned: This street is the same one we were on yesterday. |
| 2. | being one or identical though having different names, aspects, etc.: These are the same rules though differently worded. |
| 3. | agreeing in kind, amount, etc.; corresponding: two boxes of the same dimensions. |
| 4. | unchanged in character, condition, etc.: It's the same town after all these years. |
Kristen
| 1. | not alike in character or quality; differing; dissimilar: The two are different. |
| 2. | not identical; separate or distinct: three different answers. |
| 3. | various; several: Different people told me the same story. |
| 4. | not ordinary; unusual. |
Kristen
but not what you are thinking| 1. | a wild and uncultivated region, as of forest or desert, uninhabited or inhabited only by wild animals; a tract of wasteland. |
| 2. | a tract of land officially designated as such and protected by the U.S. government. |
| 3. | any desolate tract, as of open sea. |
| 4. | a part of a garden set apart for plants growing with unchecked luxuriance. |
| 5. | a bewildering mass or collection. |
| 1. | pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town. |
| 2. | characteristic of a suburb or suburbs. |
| 3. | a suburbanite. |
| 4. | a short overcoat for casual wear. |
| 5. | station wagon. |
Kristen
| 1. | of, pertaining to, or designating a city or town. |
| 2. | living in a city. |
| 3. | characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified: He is an urban type. |
| 1. | the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur. |
| 2. | the portion or extent of this in a given instance; extent or room in three dimensions: the space occupied by a body. |
| 3. | extent or area in two dimensions; a particular extent of surface: to fill out blank spaces in a document. |
| 4. | Fine Arts.
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| 5. | outer space. |
| 6. | deep space. |
| 7. | a seat, berth, or room on a train, airplane, etc. |
| 8. | a place available for a particular purpose: a parking space. |
Krisen
| 1. | to exist or live: Shakespeare's “To be or not to be” is the ultimate question. |
| 2. | to take place; happen; occur: The wedding was last week. |
| 3. | to occupy a place or position: The book is on the table. |
| 4. | to continue or remain as before: Let things be. |
| 5. | to belong; attend; befall: May good fortune be with you. |
| 6. | (used as a copula to connect the subject with its predicate adjective, or predicate nominative, in order to describe, identify, or amplify the subject): Martha is tall. John is president. This is she. |
| 7. | (used as a copula to introduce or form interrogative or imperative sentences): Is that right? Be quiet! Don't be facetious. |
Kristen
| 1. | to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut. |
| 2. | to stop or obstruct (a gap, entrance, aperture, etc.): to close a hole in a wall with plaster. |
| 3. | to block or hinder passage across or access to: to close a border to tourists; to close the woods to picnickers. |
| 4. | to stop or obstruct the entrances, apertures, or gaps in: He closed the crate and tied it up. |
| 5. | (of the mind) to make imperceptive or inaccessible: to close one's mind to the opposite opinion. |
| 6. | to bring together the parts of; join; unite (often fol. by up): Close up those ranks! The surgeon closed the incision. |
| 7. | Electricity. to complete (an electrical circuit) by joining the circuit elements: The circuit was closed so the current could be measured. |
| 8. | to bring to an end: to close a debate. |
| 1. | not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night. |
| 2. | (of a door, gate, window sash, or the like) set so as to permit passage through the opening it can be used to close. |
| 3. | having no means of closing or barring: an open portico. |
| 4. | having the interior immediately accessible, as a box with the lid raised or a drawer that is pulled out. |
| 5. | relatively free of obstructions to sight, movement, or internal arrangement: an open floor plan. |
| 6. | constructed so as to be without cover or enclosure on the top or on some or all sides: an open boat. |
| 7. | having relatively large or numerous spaces, voids, or intervals: an open architectural screen; open ranks of soldiers. |
| 8. | perforated or porous: an open texture. |
| 9. | relatively unoccupied by buildings, fences, trees, etc.: open country. |
| 1. | not fresh; vapid or flat, as beverages; dry or hardened, as bread. |
| 2. | musty; stagnant: stale air. |
| 3. | having lost novelty or interest; hackneyed; trite: a stale joke. |
| 4. | having lost freshness, vigor, quick intelligence, initiative, or the like, as from overstrain, boredom, or surfeit: He had grown stale on the job and needed a long vacation. |
| 5. | Law. having lost force or effectiveness through absence of action, as a claim. |
| 1. | newly made or obtained: fresh footprints. |
| 2. | recently arrived; just come: fresh from school. |
| 3. | new; not previously known, met with, etc.; novel: to uncover fresh facts; to seek fresh experiences. |
| 4. | additional or further: fresh supplies. |
| 5. | not salty, as water. |
| 6. | retaining the original properties unimpaired; not stale or spoiled: Is the milk still fresh? |
| 7. | not preserved by freezing, canning, pickling, salting, drying, etc.: fresh vegetables. |
| 8. | not tired or fatigued; brisk; vigorous: She was still fresh after that long walk. |
| 9. | not faded, worn, obliterated, etc.: fresh paint; a fresh appearance. |
| 10. | looking youthful and healthy: a fresh beauty that we all admired. |
| 11. | pure, cool, or refreshing, as air. |
| 1. | water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 in. (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def. 6). |
| 2. | a rainfall, rainstorm, or shower: We had a light rain this afternoon. |
| 3. | rains, the rainy season; seasonal rainfall, as in India. |
| 4. | weather marked by steady or frequent rainfall: We had rain most of last summer. |
| 5. | a heavy and continuous descent or inflicting of anything: a rain of blows; a rain of vituperation. |
| 6. | (of rain) to fall (usually used impersonally with it as subject): It rained all night. |
| 1. | (often initial capital letter ) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes. |
| 2. | the sun considered with reference to its position in the sky, its visibility, the season of the year, the time at which or the place where it is seen, etc. |
| 3. | a self-luminous heavenly body; star. |
| 4. | sunshine; the heat and light from the sun: to be exposed to the sun. |
| 5. | a figure or representation of the sun, as a heraldic bearing usually surrounded with rays and marked with the features of a human face. |
| 6. | something likened to the sun in brightness, splendor, etc. |
| 1. | air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast. |
| 2. | a gale; storm; hurricane. |
| 3. | any stream of air, as that produced by a bellows or fan. |
| 4. | air that is blown or forced to produce a musical sound in singing or playing an instrument. |
| 5. | wind instrument. |
| 6. | wind instruments collectively. |
| 7. | the winds, the members of an orchestra or band who play the wind instruments. |
| 8. | breath or breathing: to catch one's wind. |
| 9. | the power of breathing freely, as during continued exertion. |
| 1. | Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets. |
| 2. | these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface. |
| 3. | the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall. |
| 4. | something resembling a layer of these flakes in whiteness, softness, or the like: the snow of fresh linen. |
| 5. | Literary.
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| 6. | Slang. cocaine or heroin. |
| 7. | white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal. Compare hash 1 (def. 5). |
| 1. | the cold season between autumn and spring in northern latitudes (in the Northern Hemisphere from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox; in the Southern Hemisphere from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox). |
| 2. | the months of December, January, and February in the U.S., and of November, December, and January in Great Britain. |
| 3. | cold weather: a touch of winter in northern Florida. |
| 4. | the colder half of the year (opposed to summer ). |
| 5. | a whole year as represented by this season: a man of sixty winters. |
| 6. | a period like winter, as the last or final period of life; a period of decline, decay, inertia, dreariness, or adversity. |
| 7. | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of winter: a winter sunset. |
| 8. | (of fruit and vegetables) of a kind that may be kept for use during the winter. |
| 9. | planted in the autumn to be harvested in the spring or early summer: winter rye. |
| 10. | to spend or pass the winter: to winter in Italy. |
| 11. | to keep, feed, or manage during the winter, as plants or cattle: plants wintering indoors. |
| 1. | of recent origin, production, purchase, etc.; having but lately come or been brought into being: a new book. |
| 2. | of a kind now existing or appearing for the first time; novel: a new concept of the universe. |
| 3. | having but lately or but now come into knowledge: a new chemical element. |
| 4. | unfamiliar or strange (often fol. by to): ideas new to us; to visit new lands. |
| 5. | having but lately come to a place, position, status, etc.: a reception for our new minister. |
| 6. | unaccustomed (usually fol. by to): people new to such work. |
| 7. | coming or occurring afresh; further; additional: new gains. |
| 8. | fresh or unused: to start a new sheet of paper. |
