English Words: S
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The government practice of forcibly taking Aboriginal children away from their families to be brought up in foster care or adopted into white families, which occurred from the late 1950s until the 1980s.
Of, pertaining to, or designating the edition or text of the Vulgate (1592, corrected in 1593 and 1598), correcting that of Pope Sixtus V (r. 1585–90), which was revised on the orders of Pope Clement VIII (r. 1592–1605).
The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
The ordinal form of the number sixty-eight, describing a person or thing in position number 68 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number sixty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 65 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number sixty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 61 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number sixty-four, describing a person or thing in position number 64 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number sixty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 69 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number sixty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 62 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number sixty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 67 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number sixty-six, describing a person or thing in position number 66 of a sequence.
The ordinal form of the number sixty-three, describing a person or thing in position number 63 of a sequence.
A Kurdish tribe who live in southern Arbil, as well as Mekhmur, Deshti-Qeraj, and Girdesor villages in Iraq.
A geographic region consisting of the four former counties of Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping, collectively; now a part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
A celebration held upon completing the reading of a unit of Judaic scripture; a graduation.
An undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge who receives an allowance for his college expenses or tuition, sometimes in return for doing a defined job.
The impact of size on the magnitude or strength of a relationship, property or phenomenon.
To evaluate; to estimate or anticipate the magnitude, difficulty, or strength of something.
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 455. 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.