English Words: S

54,294 words · Page 273 of 1086

serangnoun

A native Indian boatswain; a lascar captain.

Serangoonname

A planning area and new town in the North-East Region of Singapore.

serapenoun

A type of blanket worn as a cloak, especially by Spanish-Americans, or used as a saddle blanket.

serapeumnoun

A temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis.

seraphnoun

A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal. A description can be found at the beginning of Isaiah chapter 6.

seraphicadj

Of or relating to a seraph or the seraphim.

seraphicaladj

Seraphic: of or relating to a seraph or the seraphim; (by extension) pure and sublime.

seraphicalladj

Obsolete form of seraphical.

seraphicallyadv

in a seraphic manner; with angelic purity.

seraphicnessnoun

The quality of being seraphic.

seraphimnoun

plural of seraph

seraphimsnoun

plural of seraph

Seraphinaname

A female given name from Latin.

Seraphinename

A female given name from Latin.

seraphlikeadj

Resembling or characteristic of a seraph.

Serapicadj

Of or relating to Serapis or his cult.

Serapisname

A Graeco-Egyptian god devised during the 3rd century BC as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in the realm of Ptolemy I.

seraskiernoun

A commander in the Ottoman Empire.

seraskieratenoun

The office or position of a seraskier.

serayanoun

meranti

Seraydarianname

A surname from Armenian.

Serbnoun

A person of Serb descent (not necessarily from Serbia). (Compare Serbian.)

Serbanname

A surname from Romanian.

Serbdomnoun

The Serbs, as a people, seen as constituting a unified cultural or political community.

Serbhoodnoun

The Serbs, as a people, seen as constituting a unified ethnic, cultural or political community.

Serbianame

A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Serbia. Capital and largest city: Belgrade. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.

Serbianadj

Of or pertaining to Serbia, the Serbian people or their language.

Serbiandomnoun

Serbian people, seen as constituting a unified cultural or political community.

Serbianhoodnoun

Serbian people, seen as constituting a unified cultural or political community.

Serbianismnoun

A linguistic feature of Serbian language, especially a Serbian idiom or phrasing that appears in some other language.

Serbianizationnoun

the act or process of Serbianizing.

Serbianizeverb

To make Serbian.

Serbiannessnoun

The state or quality of being Serbian.

Serbinname

A surname.

Serbinizationnoun

the act or process of making Serbian.

Serbismnoun

A linguistic feature of Serbian language, especially a Serbian idiom or phrasing that appears in some other language.

Serbisticsnoun

Serbian studies

Serbizeverb

Synonym of Serbianize.

Serbnessnoun

The state or quality that is characteristic of Serbs, in terms of cultural of ethnic identity.

Serbo-Communismnoun

Yugoslavian socialism when viewed as a Serb political ideology.

Serbo-Croatname

Synonym of Serbo-Croatian.

Serbo-Croatianname

The South Slavic language of which Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are literary standards.

Serbo-Croatismnoun

A term, phrase or idiom from Serbo-Croatian in another language.

Serbocentricadj

Focused on the Serb people.

Serbocentrismnoun

The practice of viewing the world from a Serbian perspective, with an implied belief, either conscious or subconscious, in the preeminence of Serbian culture.

Serbonianadj

Relating to the Serbonian Bog.

Serbonian Bogname

A wetland in Egypt, famed for falsely appearing to be solid land.

Serbophilenoun

One who loves Serbia, the Serbian people, or Serbian culture.

Serbophilianoun

The love or admiration of Serbia, the Serbian people, culture, or language

Serbophobianoun

hostility, fear, intolerance or racism against the Serbian people, culture, or language

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter S contains 54,294 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 1,086 pages, and you are currently viewing page 273. 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.

For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "S" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.