Due to the word's association with witches, a gathering of Wiccans, followers of the witchcraft-based neopagan religion of Wicca, is also described as a coven.

A connotation is a commonly understood subjective cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to the word's or phrase's explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation.

A number of Christians, of various political persuasions, object to the use of the word communism in the term " Christian communism " due to that word's association with the governments of nations such as the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Vietnam, and North Korea, which are seen or have been seen as oppressive in the US.

The word's association with the village is reflected in the title of the community's monthly newspaper, Nene.

The ultimate root of " amaranth " is the Greek ( amarantos ), " unfading ," with the Greek word for " flower ," ἄνθος ( anthos ), factoring into the word's development as " amaranth.

A simple example would consist of looking up a given word in a dictionary, then proceeding to look up the words found in that word's definition, etc., also comparing with older dictionaries from different periods in time, and such a process would never end.

The word's origin is the Turkish word Yurt or Vatan which means land with the Turkish word Ana which means mother attached to it as a prefix.

The interpretant can be ( 1 ) immediate to the sign, all that the sign immediately expresses, such as a word's usual meaning ; or ( 2 ) dynamic, such as a state of agitation ; or ( 3 ) final or normal, the ultimate ramifications of the sign about its object, to which inquiry taken far enough would be destined and with which any actual interpretant can at most coincide.

Modern Icelandic usage generally excludes the latter, which is instead represented with the letter eth ( Ð, ð ), however the pronunciation of words beginning with a þ often depends on that word's position within a sentence, being pronounced if the word is at the beginning of a sentence but otherwise.

Reviewing its uses in scholarly literature, historian Werner Bergmann proposes that pogroms be " defined as a unilateral, nongovernmental form of collective violence initiated by the majority population against a largely defenseless ethnic group, and occurring when the majority expect the state to provide them with no assistance in overcoming a ( perceived ) threat from the minority ," but adds that in western usage, the word's " anti-Semitic overtones " have been retained.

" The word's resonances were close to those of modern terms for individuals with obsessive interests in technical minutiae, such as nerd, trainspotter or anorak.

Clarence also speaks Richard's " Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun ,/ Not separated with the racking clouds / But severed in a pale clear-shining sky " ( ll. 26 – 28 ); Edward's " Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon / Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay " ( ll. 68 – 69 ); and Richard's " Great lord of Warwick, if we should recount / Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance / Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told ,/ The words would add more anguish than the wounds " ( ll. 96 – 100 ).

Clarence also speaks Richard's " Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun ,/ Not separated with the racking clouds / But severed in a pale clear-shining sky "; Edward's " Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon / Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay "; and Richard's " Great lord of Warwick, if we should recount / Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance / Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told ,/ The words would add more anguish than the wounds ".

The prestige of the Tables of Toledo and other medieval Arabic astronomy works at the time of the word's emergence in the West, together with the absence of the word in Arabic, suggest it may have been invented in the West, and is pseudo-Arabic.

Akathisia, or acathisia, is a syndrome characterized by unpleasant sensations of inner restlessness that manifests itself with an inability to sit still or remain motionless ( hence the word's origin in Ancient Greek: from-kathízein-" to sit " with a privative a as prefix expressing negation or absence ; literally meaning inability to sit ).

Since then, a number of important changes to the word's meaning and use have taken place, and attempts have been made to redefine the word with varying degrees of adoption and influence.

In modern practical terms, philanthropy specifically refers to the enacting of private initiatives for the public good, focusing on improving the lives of others collectively — balancing the social scientific aspect emphasized in the 20th century with the traditional humanist connotation of the word's original usage.

The narrator describes Septimus and Evans behaving together like " two dogs playing on a hearth-rug " who, inseparable, " had to be together, share with each other, fight with each other, quarrel with each other ..." Jean E. Kennard notes that the word " share " could easily be read in a Forsteran manner, perhaps as in Forster's Maurice which shows the word's use in this period to describe homosexual relations.

As a prefix, this negates a word's meaning, e. g., changing " svabhāva ", " with essence " to " asvabhāva ", " without essence ".

One such method, used in the second Beale cipher, substitutes the first letter of a word in the book with that word's position.

Considering the interdependence of many European regions ( particularly the French ) with the Venetian Republic, which occupied most of Croatia's coast, and the word's uncertain philologic origin, the new male neckdress was known as a cravate.

The Perfection of Wisdom in One Letter illustrates this approach by choosing to represent the perfection of prajñā with the Sanskrit / Pali short a vowel (" अ ", pronounced )— which, as a prefix, negates a word's meaning ( e. g., changing svabhava to asvabhava, " with essence " to " without essence "; cf.

The word " Motorik " means " motor skill " in German, although the word's use in music journalism may be derived from a punning modification of " motoric ", a term long used by music critics to describe relentless ostinato rhythm.

In the case of a word, it is often implied by the word's definition.

When linguists study the lexicon, they consider such things as what constitutes a word ; the word-concept relationship ; lexical access and lexical access failure ; how a word's phonology, syntax, and meaning intersect ; the morphology-word relationship ; vocabulary structure within a given language ; language use ( that is, pragmatics ); language acquisition ; the history and evolution of words ( i. e. etymology ); and the relationships between words, often studied within philosophy of language.

But as the word entered the Southern German dialects via Saxony and Westphalia, the word's meaning in Early Modern German became attached to the activities of these courts specifically.

However, it is believed instead to be derived from an Indo-Iranian word meaning " white-yellow, pale "; in Sanskrit, this word's reflex was प ा ण ् डर pāṇḍara, which was derived from प ु ण ् डर ी क puṇḍárīka ( tiger, among other things ), then borrowed into Greek.

Phonetically Intuitive English is a Chrome browser extension that automatically adds such a pronunciation guide to English words on Web pages, for English-speaking children to recognize a written word's pronunciation and therefore map the written word to the mental word in his mind.

Back-formation is different from clipping – back-formation may change the part of speech or the word's meaning, whereas clipping creates shortened words from longer words, but does not change the part of speech or the meaning of the word.

* the rate of change is not really constant, but actually depends on the time period during which the word has existed in the language ( i. e. chances of lexeme X being replaced by lexeme Y increase in direct proportion to the time elapsed – the so called " aging of words ", empirically understood as gradual " erosion " of the word's primary meaning under the weight of acquired secondary ones );

Jörð is the common word for earth in Old Norse, as are the word's descendants in the modern Scandinavian languages ; Icelandic jörð, Faroese jørð, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord.

In 2008 the word soju entered the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Merriam-Webster dates the word's appearance in the American English lexicon at 1978.

Although Robinson said he did not like the word's literal definition of " attendants ", since he felt they were his friends, he liked the word itself and began to use it in regular conversation when referring to them.

In each word the suffix :-a ,-am and-uit, and not the position in the sentence, marks the word's grammatical function.

This practice helps to eliminate ambiguity, and it also serves as a sort of shorthand etymology, since the meaning of the hanja and the fact that the word is composed of hanja often help to illustrate the word's origin.

The etymology that most reference works provide today is based on an influential survey of the word's early history in print: a series of six articles by Allen Walker Read in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964 .< sup > dead links </ sup > He tracked the spread and evolution of the word in American newspapers and other written documents, and later throughout the rest of the world.

However, the accent is only used in words whose stressed syllable is in an unpredictable location within the word: where the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, no accent is used, and the height of the stressed vowel cannot then usually be determined solely from the word's spelling.

These languages are tonal languages, meaning variations in tone of a word can change that word's meaning.

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.

The decision to name the object Pluto was intended in part to honour Percival Lowell, as his initials made up the word's first two letters.

It was called " rap ", expanding the word's earlier meaning in the African-American community —" to discuss or debate informally.

The word's first recorded attestation in a European language was a text by Ludovico di Varthema in Italian in 1510, as manga ; the first recorded occurrences in languages such as French and post-classical Latin appear to be translations from this Italian text.

The term " oracle " was intended to mean " source of truth and wisdom ," and the term " officious ," rather than being related to the word's normal meaning, described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo database while surfing from work.

An example of this is the nonsense word " Bumruff " which originally returned a single result ( the surname of a woman living in Ireland in 1911 ), but once a person on Xbox Live chose the name as a Gamertag, the word's status as a Googlewhackblatt was destroyed.

There were numerous neologisms based on Latin roots, and some scholars modified the spelling of French words to bring them into conformity with their Latin roots ( however, this produced a radical difference between a word's spelling and the way it was pronounced ).

Whichever one, or both, " guahadahuri " or " canesadooharie ", was the more phonetically accurate of a Native-American word, but the word's translation seems lost to obscurity.

Inoue was criticized for referring to Girl A as genki ( vigorous, lively ) due to the word's usual positive connotations.

Trudeau was also admired for his laid-back attitude and his celebrity relationships ; in that word's prevailing use at the time, describing a modern, hip and happening person, he was described as a swinger.

The word's use was long thought to be restricted to the two versions of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew and Luke.

Zicree also points out that the chances of the word " serve " having the same dual meaning in both English and another language, especially an alien one, are almost nil ( though it is entirely possible that, as in the original story, the word's dual meaning in the English language was merely coincidental, and the word did not have the same dual meaning in the Kanamit language, or that the Kanamits deliberately came up with a dual-meaning construction ( possibly with " words " they made up, not previously existing in native " Kanamitish "), plausible in English, before making it the title of the book ).

The Saga name was not used due to the word's affiliation with the elderly holiday package agency.

The meaning " rent, fixed payment ", which was already present in the Old English word, was further strengthened due to the word's resemblance to the unrelated ( so say these sources ) Latin firmus-a-um (" firm, solid "), and firmitas (" security, firmness ").

Such preferences for Greek terms was a product of Renaissance humanism which was strong in Germany by that time, though the word's use at the time was infrequent and casual.

The word's East Semitic cognate, riš, was one possible phonetic reading of the Sumerian cuneiform sign for " head " ( SAG, 30px ) in Akkadian.

Having come from the bay area around the time the word's popularity spread, it could be said that he was one of the first people to bring " Hella " to the mainstream.