English Words: N
24,391 words · Page 146 of 488
A large city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in northeastern England.
A village in the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, also known as Copshaw Holm, or Copshie in Scots.
Describing Christians or forms of Christianity seen as being marked by liberalism, influence from modern concepts and trends, novelty etc. and disregard for established or traditional beliefs and practices.
A new company, especially one spun-off from or replacing an existing company as a legal fiction to maintain ownership over an entity while separating it from the old company financially.
A thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of whom purports to be able to predict the future. The first player has to try to maximize winnings by choosing one of two boxes of money; however, the amount won also depends on whether a prediction made about the choice by the other player proves to be true.
A small town and civil parish with a town council in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7225).
New and often needlessly novel or gratuitously different; recently devised or fashionable, especially when not an improvement.
The quality of being newfangled; novelty or innovation, especially when very complicated or faddish.
A brief, humorous, often ridiculous story, the tone of which may range from playful to deeply offensive, which depicts Newfoundlanders as rustic, unsophisticated, or lacking in intelligence.
A large island off the coast of eastern Canada, which, along with Labrador, has composed the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador since 1949, and the Dominion of Newfoundland, before it.
A province in eastern Canada; abbreviation Nfld., Nfld, NL, N.L., N. L., or NF; formerly, Newfoundland (1949–2001). Capital: St. John's.
A native or inhabitant of the island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
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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 146. 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.
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