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astonishment — Everyday, meaning 1: Astonishment is a feeling of very great surprise.↗ Example: To my astonishment, the cat began to talk.↗ · The crowd gasped in astonishment.↗ · Mole stared in astonishment at Rat's boat.↗ · Much to our astonishment, we won the cup.↗ · Her eyes widened in astonishment.↗ · He shook his head in astonishment.↗ · The grand-vizir was filled with astonishment.↗ · The LORD will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.↗ (Torah DEU.28.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither the LORD shall lead thee away.↗ (Torah DEU.28.37, JPS 1917)↗ · How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!↗ (Prophets JER.51.41, JPS 1917)↗ · And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.↗ (Prophets JER.51.37, JPS 1917)↗ · To make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.↗ (Prophets JER.18.16, JPS 1917)↗

astounded — Everyday, meaning 1: Very much surprised, so amazed that you are almost stunned.↗ Example: Fionn was astounded.↗ · The Sultan was astounded by the marvel.↗ · We were astounded by the size of the cake.↗

astounding — Everyday, meaning 1: Amazing and very surprising, hard to believe.↗ Example: She showed astounding skill with the sword.↗ · It is an astounding thing to tell.↗ · The dragon's roar was astounding.↗

astray — Everyday, meaning 1: Astray means away from the right path or place, lost.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To go astray or be led astray means to do wrong things, often because someone tempted you.↗ Example: The letter went astray in the post.↗ · We went astray in the Wild Wood.↗ · Toad's friends were afraid he would be led astray.↗ · The shepherd went to look for the sheep that had gone astray.↗ · Don't let anyone lead you astray.↗ · One of my gloves has gone astray.↗ · Some day they will lead you astray.”↗ · Cursed be he that maketh the blind to go astray in the way.↗ (Torah DEU.27.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the satyrs, after whom they go astray.↗ (Torah LEV.17.7, JPS 1917)↗ · If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.↗ (Torah EXO.23.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall they not go astray that devise evil?↗ (Writings PRO.14.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus were they defiled with their works, and went astray in their doings.↗ (Writings PSA.106.39, JPS 1917)↗ · Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.↗ (Writings PRO.7.25, JPS 1917)↗

astride — Everyday, meaning 1: With one leg on each side of something, sitting or standing across it, such as on the back of an animal.↗ Example: The boy sat astride the pony.↗ · He sat astride the goat and rode off.↗ · Jack my Hedgehog was astride the cock.↗

astrolabe — Everyday, meaning 1: An old instrument made of brass discs and a pointer, used to measure how high the Sun or a star is above the horizon.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: With it, sailors and astronomers could work out the time and where they were on Earth.↗ Example: The museum had a shiny brass astrolabe in a glass case.↗ · Sailors once used an astrolabe to find how far north they were.↗ · The astronomer held up the astrolabe to the night sky.↗ · Our class made a paper astrolabe in science.↗ · An astrolabe measures the height of a star above the horizon.↗ · Scholars in Baghdad improved the astrolabe long ago.↗ · She turned the ring of the astrolabe to line it up with the Sun.↗

astrologer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who studies the stars and planets and claims to tell what will happen from them.↗ Example: The king called for his astrologer.↗ · The astrologer gazed at the sky all night.↗ · Marzavan had an astrologer's dress made for the prince.↗ · The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers.↗ (Writings DAN.5.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Daniel answered before the king, and said: 'The secret which the king hath asked can neither wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor astrologers, declare unto the king; (Writings DAN.2.27, JPS 1917)↗ · Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers; and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.↗ (Writings DAN.4.4, JPS 1917)↗

astrological — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Having to do with astrology, the belief that the stars and planets shape what happens to people.↗ Example: All the other commentaries mentioned above, together with all quotations of other expounders of the same book, contain nothing but a medley of arbitrary, mystical explanations and sophistical distortions of scriptural verses, astrological notions, oriental (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

astrology — Everyday, meaning 1: The belief that the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars at the time someone is born, or on a certain day, affect people's character and what will happen to them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The practice of making horoscopes based on star signs (such as Aries, Leo, Capricorn).↗ Example: Astrology says your star sign depends on your birthday.↗ · Scientists have found no evidence that astrology predicts the future.↗ · My aunt reads the astrology page for fun.↗ · Astronomy is a science, but astrology is not.↗ · Long ago, astrology and astronomy were studied together.↗ · In astrology there are twelve signs of the zodiac.↗ · He had been in many countries and learnt many things, including astrology.↗

astronaut — Everyday, meaning 1: A person trained to travel and work in space, in a spacecraft or on a space station.↗ Example: The astronaut floated inside the space station.↗ · Astronauts wear spacesuits when they go outside.↗ · Neil Armstrong was the first astronaut to walk on the Moon.↗ · I want to be an astronaut when I grow up.↗ · Astronauts train for years before they fly.↗ · The astronauts ate dried food from packets.↗ · From space, the astronaut could see the whole of Australia.↗ · Six astronauts live on the space station at a time.↗

astronomer — Everyday, meaning 1: An astronomer is a scientist who studies the stars, planets, moons, comets, galaxies and everything else in space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An amateur astronomer is a person who watches the night sky as a hobby, often with a telescope.↗ Example: An astronomer studies the stars and planets.↗ · Galileo was a famous Italian astronomer.↗ · The astronomer looked through a giant telescope.↗ · Astronomers have found planets around other stars.↗ · My uncle is an amateur astronomer with his own telescope.↗ · Astronomers named the new comet after its discoverer.↗ · The astronomer explained why the Moon changes shape.↗ · I want to be an astronomer when I grow up.↗ · AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars.↗ · astronomers signified by the word Tali, not the constellation Draco, but the line which joins together the two points in which the orbit of the moon intercepts the ecliptic (Dragon's head and tail).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Astle, The Origin and Progress of Writing, London 1784, p. 41: rhu!↗ ', IX, 354, 439).↗ <)r he could have meant Jewish astronomers like JIashallah, who was called by Abraham ibn Eira an Indian sage (mr; Din) (see M. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

astronomical — Everyday, meaning 1: To do with astronomy, the science of stars, planets and space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Extremely large, especially about prices or numbers.↗ Example: The price of the concert tickets was astronomical.↗ · An eclipse is an astronomical event.↗ · The distances in space are astronomical.↗ · The astronomical society meets to look at stars.↗ · Our phone bill was astronomical this month.↗ · An astronomical unit is the distance from Earth to the Sun.↗

astronomy — Everyday, meaning 1: The science that studies the stars, planets, moons, comets, galaxies and everything else in space.↗ Example: Astronomy is the study of space.↗ · I joined the astronomy club and saw Saturn's rings.↗ · Galileo made important discoveries in astronomy.↗ · Astronomy helped sailors find their way by the stars.↗ · My big sister wants to study astronomy at university.↗ · Astronomy uses lots of very big numbers.↗ · URANIA, the muse of Astronomy, stands erect, and bears in her left hand a celestial globe.↗ · astronomy, etc.; for ordinary purposes there was a decimal system of notation, without tiie principle of position.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

astute — Everyday, meaning 1: Clever at understanding people and situations quickly, and using that to your advantage; sharp and shrewd.↗ Example: That was an astute guess.↗ · The astute detective noticed the mud on the boots.↗ · Badger was an astute old animal who knew the weasels' tricks.↗ · She made an astute choice and saved money.↗ · An astute reader will spot the clue in chapter one.↗ · The Cat was astute and made a clever bargain.↗ · But Hermes, astute as he was dishonest, determined to test the shepherd's integrity.↗

asunder — Everyday, meaning 1: Apart, into pieces, split or torn apart.↗ Example: The tree split asunder.↗ · The rope broke asunder.↗ · They parted asunder after the quarrel.↗ · And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground did cleave asunder that was under them.↗ (Torah NUM.16.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and pinch off its head close by its neck, but shall not divide it asunder.↗ (Torah LEV.5.8, JPS 1917)↗ · The lot causeth strife to cease, and parteth asunder the contentious.↗ (Writings PRO.18.18, JPS 1917)↗ · How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!↗ (Prophets JER.50.23, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.'↗ (Writings PSA.2.3, JPS 1917)↗

asylum — Everyday, meaning 1: Asylum is safety and protection that a country gives to people who have run away from danger, war or unfair punishment in their own country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Someone «seeking asylum» is asking another country to let them stay safely; they are called an asylum seeker.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old-fashioned) An asylum was a large old hospital for people with serious mental illness; this word is not used for hospitals today.↗ Example: The family fled the war and asked for asylum in Canada.↗ · The country granted her asylum because her life was in danger.↗ · Asylum seekers wait for a decision on whether they can stay.↗ · Our school welcomed a boy whose family had been given asylum.↗ · In the past, people with mental illness were sometimes locked in asylums.↗ · He sought asylum at an embassy.↗ · Asking for asylum is a legal right under international law.↗

at — Everyday, meaning 1: At shows where something is: at the shop, at school.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: At shows when: at noon, at the start.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: At shows what you look, point or aim towards: look at the board.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: At gives a price or a speed: at 5 dollars each, at 60 km an hour.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: At shows how well someone does something: good at maths.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (casual) «Where it's at» means where the fun or the action is; «Where are you at?» asks how far you have got.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (rough) «Shout at», «have a go at» or «be at someone» means to tell them off or nag them angrily.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (formal) The exam voice says «at a rate of», «at a cost of», «at the commencement», «at the conclusion».↗ Everyday, meaning 9: After a word like "not", "at all" means in any way or to any degree.↗ Example: Not quite.↗ Look at the word «equal»: it tells us to divide.↗ · At the start Ken had 12 stamps.↗ · At the shop Mia buys 3 pens.↗ · We have lunch at twelve o'clock.↗ · Look at the bird on the fence!↗ · She is very good at swimming.↗ · Pencils are sold at 50 cents each.↗ · At last the bus arrived.↗ · At least 3 people must play this game.↗ · at the shops rn, need anything↗ · Stop having a go at me, I counted them twice!↗ · At the commencement of the journey a vehicle contained 30 passengers, at a fare of 2 dollars each.↗ · "He isn't a rabbit at all!↗ · And I besought the LORD at that time, saying: (Torah DEU.3.23, JPS 1917)↗ · From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed unto Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.↗ (Torah NUM.11.35, JPS 1917)↗ · At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.↗ (Torah DEU.15.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And they went out at noon.↗ (Prophets 1KI.20.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Why did I not perish at birth?↗ (Writings JOB.3.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Is a nation brought forth at once?↗ (Prophets ISA.66.8, JPS 1917)↗

atheism — Everyday, meaning 1: The belief that there is no God or gods.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not believing in any god.↗ Example: Atheism is the belief that there is no God.↗ · In RE we learned about atheism as well as world religions.↗ · Some people choose atheism, and others choose a faith.↗ · My uncle's atheism doesn't stop him enjoying Christmas with us.↗ · Atheism and religion both try to answer big questions.↗ · We should respect people's beliefs, including atheism.↗ · An atheist might say that people can be good without God.↗

atheist — Everyday, meaning 1: An atheist is a person who believes there is no God or gods.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, atheist describes such a person or view.↗ Example: My uncle is an atheist, but he still comes to our carol service.↗ · An atheist does not believe in any god.↗ · Atheists and Christians talked politely in the debate.↗ · She became an atheist when she was older.↗ · In ethics class, an atheist and a Muslim pupil shared their views.↗ · Being an atheist doesn't mean you have no values.↗

athenian — Everyday, meaning 1: Belonging to or coming from Athens, the capital city of Greece, especially ancient Athens.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who lived in ancient Athens or lives in Athens today.↗ Example: The Athenians built the Parthenon on a hill called the Acropolis.↗ · Athenian democracy let some citizens vote on laws.↗ · Women and slaves could not vote in the Athenian assembly.↗ · Socrates was a famous Athenian thinker.↗ · The Athenian navy fought the Persians at Salamis.↗ · We compared Athenian and Spartan children in class.↗ · An Athenian boy went to school to learn reading, music and sport.↗ · Daedalus, a descendant of Erechtheus, was an Athenian architect, sculptor, and mechanician.↗