ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. modernness- the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" contemporaneity,contemporaneousness,modernity,modernism ...
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Translations Spanish / Español Select a language: modernism [ˈmɒdənɪzəm]N→modernismom Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992...
In addition, as also shown above,plenty of Korean text slang terms are based on English words.They’re examples ofKonglish, the use of English words in a Korean context. Often, these English loanwords or transliterations don’t keep their original meanings—and sometimes mean something else en...
words: American slang; origin; characteristics; social function; prospect; linguistic status I. Introduction Modern American slang is a very complicated language phenomenon. It refers to some special class, industry or prisoners, gangs use jargon and slang. Some vulgar, difficult to get in good ...
"tidy, sophisticated teen" (usually contrasted withrocker), 1960, slang shortening ofmodern. modernism(n.) 1737, "deviation from the ancient and classical manner" [Johnson, who calls it "a word invented by Swift"], frommodern(adj.) +-ism. From 1830 as "modern ways and styles." As a ...
BUSIEST day of my life I think :) Bare things poppin' off." It will publish an entry for the slang term at the end of the year, with a draft version identifying it as chiefly British slang, meaning ...
Today all of my babies went to school for the whole entire day for the very first time. In other words, 14 years (plus just shy of one month) and this is the first working day I’ve had all to myself. And you know what I did with it? Very little work, at least in the tradi...
Neologisms are newly coined terms, words, or phrases, that may be commonly used in everyday life but have yet to be formally accepted as constituting mainstream language. Neologisms represent the evolving nature of the English language. Over time people create new words that express concepts or ...
These are strong words but won’t blow the roof off the joint— for real invective you want the slang of the moment, usually borrowed from other languages. (There are no uɣoso for profanity. It’s been tried, but it’s like dipping the word in a vat of irony: it inevitably ...
Additionally, the Romani language has provided a series of slang words to Romanian such as: mișto "good, beautiful, cool" < mišto, [108] gagică "girlie, girlfriend" < gadji , a hali "to devour" < halo, mandea "yours truly" < mande, a mangli "to pilfer" < manglo. ...