Art union
() An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists. |
Brother german
() A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. |
Cousin-german
(n.) A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1. |
Fair-world
(n.) State of prosperity. |
German
(a.) Nearly related |
German
(n.) A native or one of the people of Germany. |
German
(n.) The German language. |
German
(n.) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. |
German
(n.) A social party at which the german is danced. |
German
(n.) Of or pertaining to Germany. |
Prisoner
(n.) One who is confined in a prison. |
Prisoner
(n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not |
trades union
() Alt. of Trade union |
Trade union
() An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc. |
Union
(n.) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined |
Union
(n.) Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like |
Union
(n.) That which is united, or made one |
Union
(n.) A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together. |
Union
(n.) A large, fine pearl. |
Union
(n.) A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field |
Union
(n.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine |
Union
(n.) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on. |
World
(n.) The earth and the surrounding heavens |
World
(n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests |
World
(n.) The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns |
World
(n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one |
World
(n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men |
World
(n.) Individual experience of, or concern with, life |
World
(n.) The inhabitants of the earth |
World
(n.) The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven |
World
(n.) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity |
World-wide
(a.) Extended throughout the world |
| world record | the best record in the whole world |
union
unification
uniting
conjugation jointure | the act of making or becoming a single unit, the union of opposing factions, he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays |
| prisoner's base | a children's game, two teams capture opposing players by tagging them and taking them to their own base |
| German lesson | instruction in the German language |
| prisoner of war censorship | military censorship of communication to and from prisoners of war and civilian internees held by the armed forces |
coupling
mating
pairing
conjugation
union sexual union | the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes, the casual couplings of adolescents, the mating of some species occurs only in the spring |
| world war | a war in which the major nations of the world are involved |
world affairs
international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
the way of the world
the ways of the world | the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen, the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world, she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil, he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world |
World War I
World War
Great War
First World War
War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
World War II
World War
Second World War | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from to |
New World goldfinch
goldfinch yellowbird Spinus tristis | American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer |
| New World sparrow | sparrow-like North American finches |
New World flycatcher
flycatcher tyrant flycatcher
tyrant bird | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing |
Old World flycatcher
true flycatcher
flycatcher | any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing |
Old World chat
chat | songbirds having a chattering call |
robin redbreast
robin redbreast Old World robin
Erithacus rubecola | small Old World songbird with a reddish breast |
Old World warbler
true warbler | small active brownish or greyish Old World birds |
New World warbler
wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
New World chat
chat | birds having a chattering call |
New World oriole
American oriole
oriole | American songbird, male is black and orange or yellow |
New World blackbird
blackbird | any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black |
Old World oriole
oriole | mostly tropical songbird, the male is usually bright orange and black |
| Old World jay | a European jay |
| New World jay | a North American jay |
| Old World vulture | any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia |
New World vulture
cathartid | large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures |
Old World scops owl
Otus scops | European scops owl |
coral snake harlequin-snake
New World coral snake | any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, widely distributed in South America and Central America |
| coral snake Old World coral snake | any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia |
| Old World quail | small game bird with a rounded body and small tail |
Old World crayfish
ecrevisse | small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America |
Old World coot
Fulica atra | a coot found in Eurasia |
Old world white pelican
Pelecanus onocrotalus | similar to American white pelican |
| German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany,
pointer and
bloodhound |
German shepherd
German shepherd dog
German police dog
alsatian | breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
black bee
German bee | darkolored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin |
German cockroach
Croton bug
crotonbug
water bug Blattella germanica | small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe, a common household pest |
European rabbit
Old World rabbit
Oryctolagus cuniculus | common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere, widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs, young are born naked and helpless |
| New World mouse | a variety of rodent |
| Old World porcupine | terrestrial porcupine |
| New World porcupine | arboreal porcupine |
Old World beaver
Castor fiber | a European variety of beaver |
New World beaver
Castor canadensis | a variety of beaver found in almost all areas of North America except Florida |
New World tapir
Tapirus terrestris | a tapir found in South America and Central America |
Old World buffalo
buffalo | any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo, Cape buffalo |
New World least weasel
Mustela rixosa | of Canada and northeastern United States |
Old World least weasel
Mustela nivalis | of Europe |
anteater
New World anteater | any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites |
world
human race
humanity
humankind
human beings
humans
mankind
man | all of the living human inhabitants of the earth, all the world loves a lover, she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women |