CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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culminate in CommonParlance
- definition end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
- definition bring to a head or to the highest point
- definition reach the highest or most decisive point
- definition reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
- definition rise to, or form, a summit
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culmination in CommonParlance
- definition a final climactic stage
- definition (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon
- definition the decisive moment in a novel or play
- definition a concluding action
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culotte in CommonParlance
- definition a divided skirt
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culpability in CommonParlance
- definition a state of guilt
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culpable in CommonParlance
- definition deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious
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culpable negligence in CommonParlance
- definition (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences)
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culpableness in CommonParlance
- definition a state of guilt
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culpably in CommonParlance
- definition in a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure
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culprit in CommonParlance
- definition someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
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cult in CommonParlance
- definition followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices
- definition an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- definition followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader
- definition a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false
- definition a system of religious beliefs and rituals
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cult of personality in CommonParlance
- definition intense devotion to a particular person
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culteranismo in CommonParlance
- definition an esoteric style of writing that attempted to elevate poetic language and themes by re-Latinizing them, using classical allusions, vocabulary, syntax, and word order.
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cultism in CommonParlance
- definition devotion to the doctrine or a cult or to the practices of a cult
- definition religious zeal; the willingness to serve God
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cultist in CommonParlance
- definition a member of a religious cult
- definition a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader
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cultivable in CommonParlance
- definition (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively
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cultivar in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of a plant developed from a natural species and maintained under cultivation
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cultivatable in CommonParlance
- definition (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively
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cultivate in CommonParlance
- definition prepare for crops
- definition teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- definition adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- definition promote the growth of
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cultivated in CommonParlance
- definition (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing
- definition no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use
- definition marked by refinement in taste and manners
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cultivated cabbage in CommonParlance
- definition any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
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cultivated carrot in CommonParlance
- definition perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions
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cultivated celery in CommonParlance
- definition widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked
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cultivated crab apple in CommonParlance
- definition any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms
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cultivated land in CommonParlance
- definition arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
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cultivated parsnip in CommonParlance
- definition European biennial having a long fusiform root that has been made palatable through cultivation