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
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Terms in this context
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belligerence in CommonParlance
- definition hostile or warlike attitude or nature
- definition a natural disposition to be hostile
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belligerency in CommonParlance
- definition hostile or warlike attitude or nature
- definition fighting; acts of overt warfare
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belligerent in CommonParlance
- definition characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
- definition engaged in war
- definition someone who fights (or is fighting)
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belligerently in CommonParlance
- definition with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner
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belling in CommonParlance
- definition a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple
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bellman in CommonParlance
- definition a man employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels
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bellow in CommonParlance
- definition a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
- definition shout loudly and without restraint
- definition make a loud noise, as of animal
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bellower in CommonParlance
- definition someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice
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bellowing in CommonParlance
- definition a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
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bellows in CommonParlance
- definition (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument
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bellows fish in CommonParlance
- definition small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
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bellpull in CommonParlance
- definition a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc.
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bells of Ireland in CommonParlance
- definition aromatic annual with a tall stems of small whitish flowers enclosed in a greatly enlarged saucer-shaped or bell-shaped calyx
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bellwether in CommonParlance
- definition someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity
- definition sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell
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bellwoman in CommonParlance
- definition a woman employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels
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bellwort in CommonParlance
- definition any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers
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belly in CommonParlance
- definition the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- definition a protruding abdomen
- definition a part that bulges deeply
- definition the hollow inside of something
- definition the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
- definition swell out or bulge out
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belly button in CommonParlance
- definition a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
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belly dance in CommonParlance
- definition a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen
- definition perform a belly dance
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belly dancer in CommonParlance
- definition a woman who performs a solo belly dance
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belly dancing in CommonParlance
- definition a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen
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belly flop in CommonParlance
- definition a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water
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belly flopper in CommonParlance
- definition a dive in which the abdomen bears the main force of impact with the water
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belly laugh in CommonParlance
- definition a burst of deep loud hearty laughter
- definition a joke that seems extremely funny
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belly out in CommonParlance
- definition swell out or bulge out