English Words: N
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A current prevailing situation which has emerged recently, that differs dramatically from the previous one and is expected to remain.
Individuals who have emerged more recently into wealth compared to the traditional nouveau riche.
A German anti-expressionist artistic movement of the first half of the twentieth century that espoused direct, unadorned, matter-of-fact aesthetics.
The New York Times (US newspaper) (suggesting that it supports Russia against Ukraine).
The largest city in Louisiana, United States and the parish seat of Orleans Parish, which is coterminous with the city.
A notional supercontinent created through global travel and commerce, and the resulting worldwide dispersal of alien species.
The form of the Persian language that is used today, first attested from the late ninth century. It is the direct precursor of Middle Persian.
Used to express or feign ignorance in order to avoid unwanted communication, typically in response to a text message from an unknown or unrecognized number, implying that the recipient has a new phone and thus does not recognize the sender's contact information.
(abbreviated NRM) Any religious community or spiritual group of modern origins, having a peripheral place within a state's dominant religious culture.
A youth fashion movement that peaked in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s, associated with synthpop music and flamboyant and sometimes androgynous attire.
A style, way of thinking, or method for accomplishing a task that is typical of the current era, as opposed to former eras.
One who is new school; a person who holds modern viewpoints, principles or ideologies relevant to the current era.
The Israeli currency since 1 January 1986 (distinguished from the abolished 1980-1985 shekel). Divided into 100 agorot and represented by ₪. In English, also represented by the initialism NIS (for "New Israeli Shekel"). ISO 4217 code: ILS.
A town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States, coextensive with Block Island.
A partial return to modernism, going against prevailing modes of postmodernist irony or cynicism.
A proposed reform and modernization of the Southern United States, involving tighter integration with the rest of the United States and a rejection of the economy and traditions of the Old South and the slavery-based plantation system, while maintaining white supremacy through Jim Crow laws and disenfranchisement.
A state of Australia, located in the southeastern part of the continent; a former British colony from 1788 to 1901. Capital: Sydney.
A former viceroyalty (a type of colony) in North America and Central America that existed from 1521 to 1821. It comprised of Spain's territorial possessions in the New World including the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and the Philippines, established following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521.
The second half of the Christian Bible, which includes the four Gospels, the Book of Acts, the Epistles, and the Book of Revelation.
A spiritual movement, sometimes classed as a Christian denomination, promoting the ideas that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
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 143. 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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