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- text=The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used against political or class opponents of the person or group in power ...969 bytes (160 words) - 20:22, 30 October 2022
- Enemy of the People is a term frequently used against political opponents to denote that they are not simply against the ruler but against the ...750 bytes (114 words) - 18:36, 29 October 2022
- # Continuing over a long period of time, long-term. #: The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most ...1 KB (155 words) - 23:27, 31 August 2023
- text=Codependency is a descriptive term that attempts to explain imbalanced relationships where one person enables another person's self ...653 bytes (79 words) - 21:45, 30 December 2022
- correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is a term used by proponents, usually on the political left, to describe language, policies, or measures that ...952 bytes (135 words) - 19:47, 31 October 2022
- # A term used to characterize a person or thing. # (mythology) A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in ...2 KB (250 words) - 20:27, 5 March 2024
- as inappropriate and censored. The term has roots in Marxist-Leninist ideology where it has a positive connotation, since Marxism views their ...977 bytes (147 words) - 03:17, 31 October 2022
- # The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions ... # A shortening of the term "climate change." ===Derived terms=== ...821 bytes (101 words) - 22:36, 25 June 2023
- of religious antiquity. This blanket term or umbrella concept is usually contrasted with Western Christianity that developed in Western Europe ...880 bytes (112 words) - 20:16, 23 April 2022
- text=Mass media is a term denoting that section of the media specifically designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large ...774 bytes (121 words) - 01:29, 1 March 2021
- text=Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches Western political society and culture. It emerged from the Western ...835 bytes (122 words) - 17:51, 19 February 2022
- between individuals of the same gender. The term "gay" is used predominantly to refer to self-identified homosexual people of either ...1 KB (145 words) - 16:18, 21 October 2022
- tsar (царь (carʹ)), but the latter term is still commonly applied to them. # The term sometimes refers to other emperors, besides those of Russia ...1 KB (135 words) - 22:13, 5 September 2023
- Combahee River Collective, who coined the term "identity politics"| that are based upon these identities. The term is used in a variety of ways ...961 bytes (134 words) - 23:52, 29 November 2023
- text=fr|Fin de siècle is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar ...964 bytes (161 words) - 19:33, 25 May 2023
- Codependency is a descriptive term that attempts to explain imbalanced ... criteria risks inappropriate overuse of the term and excessive focus on the ...2 KB (254 words) - 21:38, 30 December 2022
- Arabic. Generally it is associated with the Islamic term for the deity, although use of the term predates the advent of Islam. Pre-Islamic Arabs worshipped ...1 KB (170 words) - 00:01, 29 February 2024
- Latin) literature. Later historians expanded the term to include not only the lack of Latin literature, but a lack of contemporary written history ...1 KB (170 words) - 15:03, 15 April 2022
- #:Giving your children a good education is a wise long-term investment. ... * term investment investment|78414977 ...2 KB (190 words) - 15:49, 1 May 2024
- Since the middle of the twentieth century, the term science is normally used to indicate the natural sciences (e.g., chemistry), the social sciences ...2 KB (208 words) - 22:45, 25 June 2023
- by immediate gratification (short-term reward), coupled with delayed deleterious effects (long-term costs). Instead of being intoxicated with ...1 KB (211 words) - 21:56, 13 June 2020
- * Economic depression, a sustained, long-term downturn in economic ... * Depression (kinesiology), an anatomical term of motion, refers to ...1 KB (174 words) - 15:39, 2 August 2022
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- (dress). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English ... used, with clothing being a more formal term. This word is also used as ...2 KB (223 words) - 19:17, 31 March 2024
- text=The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official ...425 bytes (64 words) - 17:01, 28 October 2020
- many Indigenous North Americans disfavor the term "costume" to refer to their traditional and ritual garments and prefer the term regalia. ...2 KB (224 words) - 16:22, 31 August 2023
- text=The term Mass Media applies to several distinct categories: Traditional Media, Print Media, Electronic Broadcasting Media, Outdoor Media ...546 bytes (72 words) - 01:37, 28 December 2022
- In international statistics the less ambiguous term gross national income (GNI) has gradually replaced gross national product (GNP). ...563 bytes (69 words) - 19:42, 7 July 2023
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- ), Russian language term for all citizens and people of Russia, regardless of ethnicity *Russophone, Russian-speaking person ( ru|русскоговорящий ...735 bytes (74 words) - 15:02, 1 February 2023
- before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. }} ...613 bytes (90 words) - 19:25, 8 June 2023
- text=The term nuclear family refers to the family group consisting of parents and children, as opposed to the extended family which includes ...571 bytes (86 words) - 17:06, 6 December 2023
- of the Republic of India thereafter. In India, the term "tricolour" [Tirangā – तिरंगा (in Hindi)] almost always refers to the ...583 bytes (88 words) - 22:19, 15 September 2023
- text=Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of the Italian futurism, especially ...715 bytes (99 words) - 15:48, 28 July 2023
- text=The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official ...607 bytes (92 words) - 19:48, 3 November 2020
- text=Health is a term that refers to a combination of the absence of illness, the ability to manage stress effectively, good nutrition and physical ...636 bytes (93 words) - 21:20, 10 June 2021
- text=Ijtihad (Arabic اجتهاد) is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation ...596 bytes (84 words) - 15:21, 2 June 2021
- Thus, there is a tradition of using the term hominid to refer only to humans ... This more restricted use of the term hominid is common in anthropology ...5 KB (766 words) - 11:34, 2 February 2024
- with a sad and unfortunate outcome. However, the term also applies specifically in Western culture to a form of drama defined by Aristotle, characterized ...706 bytes (103 words) - 17:25, 16 August 2023
- and economic practices. It was not a term originated by the group itself. While Berbers are stereotyped as nomads, and indeed some tribes are ...683 bytes (102 words) - 18:37, 13 July 2023
- text=The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their pantheon of gods as well as ...691 bytes (110 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- of enormous density and temperature. The term is also used in a narrower sense to describe the fundamental "fireball" that erupted ...667 bytes (101 words) - 20:01, 14 August 2021
- The word "dybbuk" is derived from a Hebrew term meaning "attachment." According to kabbalistic tradition, a soul that has not been ...720 bytes (110 words) - 16:18, 20 March 2022
- given through the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. The term "Divine Principle" is also used by Unificationists to refer to a metaphysical concept ...758 bytes (111 words) - 22:02, 21 December 2023
- brass, woodwind, and percussion sections. The term orchestra derives from the Greek name for the semicircular area in front of the ancient Greek stage ...744 bytes (109 words) - 00:22, 30 May 2023
- ==Etymology== From Latin larva (“ghost-like, masked”). ==Noun== larva (plural larvas or larvae or larvæ) # An early stage of growth for some ...651 bytes (90 words) - 19:59, 19 July 2023
- Sea. The Aegean Sea is a sea with many islands; the term Arcipelago, originally a proper noun referring to the Aegean Sea, was first generalized to a ...728 bytes (99 words) - 19:27, 31 March 2024
- can be understood as a broader or narrower term depending on the context. ===Derived terms=== * preadolescence ===Related terms=== ...871 bytes (105 words) - 21:57, 28 February 2024
- text=The afterlife, or life after death, is a generic term referring to the continuation of existence after death, typically spiritual, experiential ...808 bytes (122 words) - 16:12, 23 June 2021
- of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes domains such as phonology, morphology ...788 bytes (111 words) - 23:47, 25 March 2023
- responsibility for themselves. The term "death of God" originated from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche in the nineteenth century ...865 bytes (132 words) - 17:27, 27 October 2021
- support domestic British corn (in Britain, the term "corn" means "grain" (the kernel), and implies the primary grain crop of a country ...767 bytes (114 words) - 22:00, 29 January 2024
- He was generally credited with coining the term "Rainbow Nation" as a metaphor to describe post-apartheid South Africa after 1994 ...676 bytes (98 words) - 20:37, 23 April 2022
- pathway to liberation. Mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart, or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically ...811 bytes (116 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- drawings, and animated film. Originally, the term referred to full-scale drawings for various forms of fine art, such as frescoes and tapestries. From ...784 bytes (115 words) - 16:33, 17 June 2023
- text=The term drama comes from a Greek word meaning "action." The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors on a stage before ...744 bytes (111 words) - 17:18, 16 August 2023
- text=The term fraternity, often colloquially shortened to "frat," generally refers to all-male or mixed-sex student organizations at ...809 bytes (119 words) - 18:16, 27 January 2022
- and not whole propositions themselves. A term picks out a set or class of ... The term of a categorical proposition picks out a group of things ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- text=The term concerto (plural concerti or concertos) refers to a musical work in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra. The ...709 bytes (106 words) - 16:36, 14 November 2021
- text=As a medical term, stress refers to a wide range of strong external stimuli or conditions, both physiological and psychological, impinging ...735 bytes (112 words) - 21:37, 31 January 2023
- also affected other regions of the USSR, the term Holodomor is specifically applied to the events that took place in territories populated by ethnic ...864 bytes (133 words) - 20:52, 23 April 2022
- The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints, since it contains the ...830 bytes (129 words) - 15:47, 5 July 2023
- Europe and to the United States. The term was introduced in 1884 when Maurice Barrès referred to a particular group of writers as Decadents ...885 bytes (130 words) - 16:26, 29 April 2023
- Russian character trait known as poshlost. This term is untranslatable, but contains elements of evil, banality and pettiness. It is a common theme in ...726 bytes (118 words) - 17:24, 6 October 2021
- shaped by cultural and historical contexts. The term "social construction" was introduced by sociologists Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann ...850 bytes (116 words) - 23:58, 14 February 2022
- text=Coral reef is the term for any fully marine, underwater ecosystem with a calcium carbonate foundation produced by the skeletons of living ...761 bytes (120 words) - 14:47, 7 June 2023
- culture and was popular among early Christians. The term "Apocalypse" is from the Greek word for "revelation" which means "an ...853 bytes (123 words) - 18:21, 18 February 2023
- text=Aging or ageing is the process of becoming older. The term refers especially to humans, many other animals, and fungi. Aging represents ...817 bytes (123 words) - 16:41, 23 November 2022
- text=African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African ...865 bytes (126 words) - 21:50, 26 February 2023
- The name "romantic" itself comes from the term "romance" which is a prose or poetic heroic narrative originating in the medieval. ...893 bytes (129 words) - 20:21, 28 May 2022
- business and commerce. When used outside Japan, the term “manga” refers specifically to comics originally published in Japan. Japanese manga has had ...836 bytes (129 words) - 21:39, 11 January 2024
- and topics. Such a thesaurus places each term in context, allowing a user ... * a list of every important term (single-word or multi-word) in a ...11 KB (1,593 words) - 18:31, 30 April 2023
- puberty, coming of age, marriages, or death. The term was popularized by German ethnographer Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) in the early part of the twentieth ...778 bytes (118 words) - 15:43, 22 July 2022
- 900 to 11,500 BP. In popular, current usage, the term is typically employed in the narrow sense of contemporary changes in which humans are regarded ...827 bytes (126 words) - 17:03, 5 August 2022
- planet. On August 24, 2006, the IAU defined the term "planet" for the first time. This definition excluded Pluto, which was then reclassified ...832 bytes (126 words) - 15:52, 23 December 2023
- system of the Han Chinese people. The term can literally be translated as "Emperor (or Sovereign) Above," "the Supreme God," ...934 bytes (136 words) - 19:17, 27 August 2022
- music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise term in referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical ...936 bytes (130 words) - 23:31, 3 May 2023
- In popular usage, the term is often confused with dissociative identity disorder (also known as multiple personality disorder). ===Derived terms=== ...1 KB (127 words) - 20:35, 30 April 2024
- text=Evil is a term used to describe something that brings about harmful, painful, and unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: ...948 bytes (142 words) - 15:06, 22 February 2022
- text=Virginity is a term used to describe the state of never having engaged in sexual intercourse. A person who still has his or her virginity ...871 bytes (139 words) - 19:12, 31 May 2023
- and wealth. Pyrrhus became famous for the term "Pyrrhic victory" which remains in usage even today. He reportedly offered the phrase ...843 bytes (143 words) - 17:44, 26 February 2024
- | label23 = Term | data23 = } | label24 = Predecessor | data24 = } | label25 = Successor | data25 = } | label26 = Political pa ...4 KB (383 words) - 00:25, 28 October 2020
- working poor during the French Revolution. The term refers to the britches they wore that distinguished them from the nobility and bourgeoisie. They ...1 KB (177 words) - 17:08, 30 July 2022
- | label23 = Term | data23 = } | label24 = Predecessor | data24 = } | label25 = Successor | data25 = } | label26 = Political pa ...4 KB (353 words) - 22:22, 15 November 2023
- text=In spiritualism, the term Medium refers to a person with a psychic ability to produce phenomena of a mental or physical nature by "channeling ...1 KB (154 words) - 23:07, 27 March 2023
- text=The term fraternity, often colloquially shortened to "frat," generally refers to all-male or mixed-sex student organizations at ...1 KB (158 words) - 16:25, 25 May 2022
- Isotropy is a term used in various scientific disciplines to indicate that certain properties of a part of nature (such as a material or radiation ...5 KB (748 words) - 21:30, 7 February 2023
- absolute or virtually absolute authority. The term originates from the days of the Roman Republic, when at times there were dictators appointed to rule ...1 KB (172 words) - 03:58, 25 January 2023
- before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works, such as those created by the government, are not covered by copyright ...1 KB (158 words) - 12:32, 2 January 2023
- house in order. What was meant to be a short-term, caretaker government lasted eight years, during which he accumulated personal wealth, ordered anyone ...929 bytes (138 words) - 21:35, 25 July 2021
- Within mathematics, the term statistics usually refers to mathematical statistics. ===Derived terms=== * algebraic statistics * applied statistics ...1 KB (149 words) - 07:03, 31 October 2023
- #(UK, informal, dated) Term of address to a man; guv'nor. ===Derived terms=== * centrifugal governor * governor general * lieutenant governor ...1 KB (160 words) - 16:03, 5 July 2023
- a conclusion. Each of the premises has one term in common with the conclusion ... "Being mortal" is the major term and "Socrates" ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 2023
- places, about whom little is known. However, the term "Baal" in the Bible was more frequently associated with a major deity in the Canaanite ...1 KB (193 words) - 21:21, 28 May 2022
- sense of the word only applied to male actors, the term actress being used for the female counterpart. ===Derived terms=== * character actor ...1 KB (163 words) - 19:41, 31 July 2023
- medicine renamed it with a New Latin term in the mid-nineteenth century; in English it was called consumption because of the wasting away that ...1 KB (177 words) - 21:23, 30 November 2023
- quot;TNT") is sometimes proscribed, but is the term's original and more common meaning. The status of an acronym's pronunciation is not ...3 KB (483 words) - 20:08, 26 September 2023
- debate as to whether Medieval Latin acquires this term from Old English feorm (rent, provision, supplies, feast), from Proto-Germanic *fermō, *firhuma ...3 KB (437 words) - 15:55, 1 May 2024
- In common use, ethnicity is used as a euphemism for the sensitive term race, but with identical meaning: group ancestry and physical characteristics ...1 KB (160 words) - 16:20, 31 December 2023
- that it will be cared for appropriately. The term limits of copyright, such that creative works enter the public domain after a specified time period ...1 KB (230 words) - 16:01, 26 October 2020
