English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 142 of 488
A theory of literary criticism developed in the United States around 1900 by Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, opposing Romanticism and emphasizing the moral and spiritual content of literary masterpieces.
A person that immigrated to Taiwan after 1987, during and after the end of the martial law era; mainly used for Mainland Chinese and Southeast Asian women who migrate to Taiwan for marriage.
Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city centred on the rebuilt Holy Temple, the Third Temple, to be established in Jerusalem, which would be the capital of the Messianic Kingdom, the meeting place of the twelve tribes of Israel, during the Messianic era.
A style of news writing and journalism of the 1960s and 1970s, employing a subjective approach and literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.
Egypt after the Second Intermediate Period but before the Third Intermediate Period, from the time of the overthrow of the Hyksos under Ahmose I at the start of the 18th Dynasty to its de facto disintegration at the end of the 20th Dynasty.
A movement in the 1990s and 2000s to rebrand the British Labour Party by discarding traditional goals such as nationalization and socialism.
A broad political movement, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, made up of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a range of reforms on issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, and the legalization of drugs.
A relatively progressive or less traditional religious movement, especially (historical) the party within the 18th-century Scottish Secession Church which adopted Voluntary views of the relations of church and state; or the Socinianizing party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century.
One of 8 counties in Connecticut, United States, presumably named after the settlement of New London (now a city).
A suburban area of Greater London, England, mainly in the Borough of Kingston upon Thames (OS grid ref TQ2168).
A man who, rejecting sexist attitudes and traditional conceptions of masculinity, aims to be caring and sensitive, and to take a substantial role in the domestic routine.
A dramatic and short-lived change in the teaching of mathematics in grade schools in the 1960s, focusing on abstract topics such as symbolic logic, to the detriment of simple arithmetic etc.
Interactive digital media, such as the Internet, as opposed to traditional media such as print and television.
A state in the southwestern United States. Capital: Santa Fe. Largest city: Albuquerque.
A philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness cannot be resolved by humans.
An assertive African-American pursuing political and social equality, especially during the Harlem Renaissance.
A former colony of the Netherlands: A Dutch colonial province along the east coast of North America, capital New Amsterdam
A culinary movement in the Nordic countries, and Scandinavia in particular, since the mid-2000s, based on traditional techniques such as pickling, smoking, and salting, and promoting local and seasonal produce.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter N contains 24,391 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 488 pages, and you are currently viewing page 142. 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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