|
Reverse Search
Reverse Search allows you to search within the full text of dictionary entries for words, word parts, and phrases.
Search for entries that contain:
Exact matches of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or the word "orange."
Any form of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or "apples" or "orange" or "oranges."
Exact matches of all of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" and the word "orange."
The exact sequence of words and/or characters entered in the search box (for example, a fragment of a word, a single word, multiple words, or even a phrase containing punctuation)
Example: Searching for "a variety of apple" identifies all entries that contain that phrase. Searching for "app" identifies all entries that contain the letters "app," such as occurrences of "apple," "application," and "apply."
Search within these fields:
Optional:
Limit by part of speech:
chapbook |
a small book or pamphlet containing a ballad, poem, popular tale, or religious tract. |
Cinderella |
the title character of a common European fairy tale, who, with the help of a fairy godmother, escapes a life of misery and marries a prince. [1/2 definitions] |
embroidery |
the embellishment of a tale or report, esp. with fictitious details. [1/2 definitions] |
fable |
a short tale that teaches a moral lesson, often having animals as the main characters. [1/4 definitions] |
goldilocks |
(used with a sing. verb) (cap.) in a European folk tale, a young girl with blond hair who visits the house of three bears. [1/3 definitions] |
idyll |
a composition, often a poem, describing a simple, picturesque scene or episode such as a tale of the countryside. [1/4 definitions] |
Jabberwocky |
in the nineteenth-century tale Through the Looking Glass, a poem containing many nonsense words. [1/2 definitions] |
narrate |
to give an account or tell the tale of; relate. [1/4 definitions] |
old wives' tale |
a superstition, usu. embodied as a folk tale or bit of folk wisdom. |
romance |
formerly, a fictitious tale of the deeds and adventures of knights or other heroes, or the class of literature devoted to such tales. [1/7 definitions] |
Scheherazade |
in The Arabian Nights, a woman who escapes execution nightly by telling an unresolved tale to the Sultan. |
sob story |
a tale of personal problems meant to arouse pity in others. [1/2 definitions] |
thriller |
(informal) a suspenseful tale or drama, such as a murder mystery. [1/2 definitions] |
twice-told |
of a tale, story, or the like, familiar or hackneyed because of frequent repetition. |
yarn |
(informal) a long tale that is often exaggerated or hard to believe. [1/4 definitions] |
|
|