English Words: M
36,575 words · Page 180 of 732
Of or relating to Henry Mayhew (1812–1887), English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform.
A hole dug in the ground for dancing around on May Day, a feminist alternative to the supposedly phallic maypole.
A political supporter of Theresa May (born 1956), British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019.
A very short semester or term offered at some colleges that lasts at least a portion of the month of May, and sometimes also June.
A city, the county seat of Union County, Tennessee, United States. Original name: Liberty.
A town in County Kildare, Ireland, about 22 km west of Dublin city centre: home of Maynooth University and St Patrick’s college.
A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
A person of northern, western, or central European heritage, especially in contrast to someone of southern Italian or Sicilian heritage.
The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., formerly (historical) usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.
In the Merovingian kingdoms, the king’s steward and, by the 7th century, de facto regent.
Designating a system of local government that has a mayor who is directly elected by the voters serving as chief executive, and a separately elected legislative city council.
The office of a mayor, or the tenure during which a particular mayor holds office, where the time span may encompass one term or multiple terms.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter M contains 36,575 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 732 pages, and you are currently viewing page 180. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
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