English search results for: whirlpool

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. "flood", "stream"
  2. gulf, the sea
  3. raging abyss
  4. whirlpool
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. Charybdis (whirlpool Sicily/Italy)
  2. cruel person
  3. tortuous cavity
  4. whirlpool
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: Italy/Rome
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. crown of the head
  2. peak, top, summit
  3. the pole
  4. whirlpool, eddy, vortex
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#4

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. crown of the head
  2. peak, top, summit
  3. the pole
  4. whirlpool, eddy, vortex
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#5

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (see also Charybdis)
  2. whirlpool
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980