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- attain verb (attain, attains, attained, attaining); noun attainment; adjective attainable
1) (formal) To reach or achieve a goal, level or result after effort. 2) (formal) To reach a certain age, size, height or amount. - attainable adjective (attainable, more attainable)
1) Possible to reach or achieve: «an attainable goal». 2) Possible to get: «Tickets are still attainable.» - attained verb past form of attain (attain, attains, attained, attaining); adjective (attained)
Attained means reached or achieved, usually after hard work: attained a goal. - attainment noun (attainment; an attainment, attainments — formal)
Attainment is reaching a goal or getting something after effort. - attar noun (attars) (old or rare word)
A strong, sweet-smelling oil made from flower petals, especially roses, used for perfume. - attempt verb (attempt, attempts, attempted, attempting); noun (an attempt, attempts)
To try to do something, especially something difficult. - attempted verb form (past of «attempt»: attempt, attempts, attempted, attempting); adjective
Attempted means tried to do something, especially something difficult. - attend verb (attend, attends, attended, attending); phrasal: attend to
To attend something is to go to it and be there, such as school, a meeting or a party. - attendance noun (attendance, attendances)
Attendance is being present at a place or event, like school. - attendant noun (an attendant, attendants); adjective (attendant — formal)
A person whose job is to look after people or a place, such as a flight attendant, a car park attendant or a pool attendant. - attended verb (attend, attends, attended, attending; past form attended)
Attended means went to an event, a meeting or a place, like a school, a party or a game. - attendee noun (an attendee, attendees)
1) An attendee is a person who goes to an event, such as a meeting, conference, class or party. - attention noun (attention — uncountable)
Attention is when you listen, watch or think carefully about something. - attentive adjective (attentive, more attentive, most attentive); adverb attentively; noun attentiveness
1) Listening or watching carefully and paying close attention. 2) Kind and helpful, noticing what other people need. - attentively adverb (attentively); from the adjective attentive
1) In a way that pays close attention, listening or watching carefully. 2) In a caring, helpful way that notices what someone needs. - attest verb (attest, attests, attested, attesting)
1) (formal) To show or prove that something is true. 2) (formal, law) To state officially, often in writing, that something is true, like… - attic noun (an attic, attics)
1) A room or space just under the roof of a house, often used for storing things. 2) (adjective use) In or of the attic: an attic bedroom. - attire noun (attire — uncountable); verb (attire, attired — formal)
1) (formal) Clothes, especially for a special event: «formal attire». 2) verb (formal, old use): To dress someone. - attired adjective (attired); past form of the rare verb attire
1) (formal) Dressed in a particular way. - attitude noun (an attitude, attitudes)
Your attitude is the way you think and feel about something, which shows in how you behave: a positive attitude, a bad attitude. - attorney noun (attorneys)
1) (old use) a person trusted to act for someone else in law or business; today we would say a lawyer. - attract verb (attract, attracts, attracted, attracting); noun attraction; adjective attractive
To attract means to pull something towards itself: magnets attract iron. - attraction noun (an attraction, attractions; also uncountable)
A place or thing people want to visit or see: a tourist attraction. - attractive adjective (attractive, more attractive, most attractive)
Attractive means pleasant to look at, good-looking or pretty: "an attractive garden". - attributable adjective (attributable — used with «to»)
If something is attributable to a cause, it is caused by it or can be said to come from it. - attribute noun (an attribute, attributes) — said "AT-trib-yoot"; verb (attribute, attributes, attributed, attributing) — said "a-TRIB-yoot"
An attribute is a quality or feature that someone or something has: "patience is a good attribute". - attribution noun (attribution, attributions)
Saying who wrote, made, said or did something: giving credit. - au preposition + article (French «au» = to the, at the, in the); symbol (Au = gold); abbreviation (AU = Australia; astronomical unit) — not an English word on its own
«Au» means «to the», «at the» or «in the» before a masculine word: «au parc» is «to the park», «au revoir» is «goodbye». - aubergine noun (aubergine, aubergines); adjective (aubergine — colour)
A vegetable with smooth, shiny, dark purple skin and soft white flesh; in the USA, Canada and Australia it is called eggplant. - auburn adjective (no change); noun (the colour)
1) Auburn means a reddish-brown colour, usually said of hair. 2) As a noun, auburn is that reddish-brown colour itself. - auction noun (an auction, auctions); verb (auction, auctions, auctioned, auctioning — often «auction off»)
An auction is a public sale where things are sold to the person who offers the most money. - audacious adjective (more audacious, most audacious)
1) Audacious means bold and daring, ready to take big risks. 2) (old use) Audacious can also mean rude or insolent, not showing respect. - audacity noun (audacities)
Audacity is boldness, daring to do something that other people would not dare to do. - audible adjective (audible, more audible); adverb: audibly
1) Loud enough to be heard. - audibly adverb
In a way that can be heard; loud enough for people to hear it. - audience noun (audience, audiences)
An audience is the group of people watching or listening to a show, film, talk or game. - audio noun (audio — uncountable); adjective (audio)
Audio means sound, especially recorded or broadcast sound. - audit noun (an audit, audits); verb (audit, audits, audited, auditing)
An official check of a company's or organisation's money records to make sure they are correct and honest. - audition noun (an audition, auditions); verb (audition, auditions, auditioned, auditioning)
noun A short performance to show whether you are good enough for a part in a play, a band, a choir or a show. - auditor noun (an auditor, auditors)
A person whose job is to check the money records of a company or organisation carefully to make sure they are correct and honest. - auditorium noun (an auditorium, auditoriums or auditoria)
1) A large room or building where an audience sits to watch a play, concert or talk. 2) The part of a theatre where the audience sits. - auditory adjective (auditory)
1) About hearing or the ears. - aug abbreviation (Aug, short for August)
1) A short written form of August, the eighth month of the year. 2) (maths/computing, rare) Short for "augmented" in some technical names. - aught pronoun (old use)
1) (old use) Aught means anything at all. 2) In «for aught I know» it means as far as I know, for all I know. - augment verb (augment, augments, augmented, augmenting)
1) (formal) To make something bigger, stronger or better by adding to it. 2) (music) To make a musical interval larger (augmented chord). - augmentation noun (augmentation, augmentations)
1) (formal) Making something bigger, larger or stronger by adding to it. 2) Something added to make something larger. - augmented verb past form of augment (augment, augments, augmented, augmenting); adjective (augmented)
1) (formal) Augmented means made bigger or added to. 2) (adjective) Augmented reality is a computer picture added on top of the real world… - august noun (August — the month); adjective (august — grand, rare)
August is the eighth month of the year, with 31 days, coming after July and before September. - auk noun (an auk, auks)
1) An auk is a black-and-white seabird of the cold northern seas, which dives and «flies» underwater to catch fish; puffins, guillemots… - auld adjective (auld — Scottish)
1) (Scottish, dialect) Old. 2) In «Auld Lang Syne»: a Scottish song by Robert Burns, meaning «old long since», days long ago. - aunt noun (aunt, aunts; auntie, aunty)
An aunt is the sister of your mother or father. - auntie noun (an auntie, aunties; also aunty)
Auntie is a friendly, informal word for an aunt, the sister of your mum or dad, or the wife of your uncle. - aunty noun (an aunty, aunties) — also spelt auntie; informal
Aunty is a friendly name for an aunt: your mother's or father's sister, or your uncle's wife. - aura noun (an aura, auras)
An aura is a special feeling or quality that seems to surround a person or place, like an air of calm, mystery or importance. - auricle noun (auricle, auricles)
The outer part of the ear that you can see, also called the pinna. - aurochs noun (aurochs, plural aurochs or aurochsen)
A huge wild ox with long horns that lived in Europe, Asia and North Africa and became extinct in 1627; it is the ancestor of today's cattle. - aurora noun (an aurora, auroras or aurorae); proper noun (Aurora — a name; Roman goddess of dawn)
An aurora is a display of moving, coloured light (often green, pink or purple) in the night sky near the North or South Pole. - auscultate verb (auscultate, auscultates, auscultated, auscultating) — medicine
1) (medicine) To listen to sounds inside the body, like the heart and lungs, usually with a stethoscope. - auspicious adjective (auspicious; more auspicious, most auspicious) — formal
Showing signs that something will go well; a lucky or promising start. - aussie noun (an Aussie, Aussies — informal); adjective (Aussie — informal)
1) (informal) An Aussie is a person from Australia. 2) (informal) Aussie means Australian, as in «Aussie rules football». - austere adjective (austerer, austerest)
1) Austere means plain and strict, without comfort, luxury or decoration. 2) Austere can also mean stern and serious in manner. - austerity noun (austerity, austerities)
A time when a government cuts spending sharply and people have less money and fewer services. - australian adjective (Australian); noun (an Australian, Australians)
1) Australian means from or belonging to Australia, its people or its language. 2) An Australian is a person from Australia. - austrian adjective (Austrian); noun (an Austrian, Austrians)
Austrian means from or connected with Austria, a country in central Europe with mountains called the Alps. - authentic adjective (authentic); noun (authenticity)
1) Real and true, not a copy or a fake. 2) Done in the traditional or original way, like authentic Italian pizza. 3) Honest and sincere… - authenticate verb (authenticate, authenticates, authenticated, authenticating)
To prove that something is real or genuine, not fake. - authentication noun (authentication — uncountable)
Checking that someone really is who they say they are, for example with a password, a code or a fingerprint. - authenticity noun (authenticity — uncountable)
Being real or genuine, not fake or copied: the authenticity of a painting or a signature. - author noun (an author, authors); verb (author, authors, authored, authoring — mostly formal)
An author is a person who writes a book, story, poem or article. - authorisation noun (authorisation, authorisations); US spelling: authorization
1) Official permission to do something. 2) A document or code that gives that permission. - authorise verb (authorise, authorises, authorised, authorising); US spelling: authorize
1) To give official permission for something to happen. 2) To give someone the power or right to do something. - authorities noun, plural (the authorities); singular authority (an authority)
The authorities: the people or organisations in charge, such as the police, the government or the council. - authority noun (authority, uncountable; an authority, authorities)
Authority is the power or right to give orders and make decisions: "the head teacher has authority over the school". - authorship noun (authorship, usually no plural)
The fact of being the person who wrote a book, article, song or other piece of work. - autism noun (autism — uncountable); adjective autistic
1) Autism is a lifelong difference in how a person's brain works, which affects how they communicate, make sense of the world and deal… - autistic adjective (autistic)
1) Autistic describes a person who has autism, a lifelong difference in how the brain works that affects how a person communicates, makes… - auto noun (an auto, autos — mainly US); prefix (auto-)
An auto is a car (mainly American, a bit old-fashioned): «auto repair shop». - autobiography noun (an autobiography, autobiographies)
1) A book or story of a person's life written by that person. 2) The kind of writing (genre) where people tell their own life story. - autochthony noun (rare; no plural used)
The idea that a people has always lived in its own land, or that they came out of the earth there; a rare word from learned writing. - autocorrect noun (autocorrect — uncountable); verb (autocorrect, autocorrects, autocorrected, autocorrecting)
1) A tool in phones and computers that changes words it thinks are spelled wrong while you type. 2) verb To change a word in this way. - autograph noun (an autograph, autographs); verb (autograph, autographs, autographed, autographing)
A famous person's signature, written for a fan to keep. - automated adjective (automated); past form of automate (automate, automates, automated, automating)
1) Done by machines or computers instead of people. - automatic adjective (automatic); noun (an automatic — a car or gun)
An automatic machine works by itself, without a person controlling each step: automatic doors, an automatic washing machine. - automatically adverb
Automatically means by itself, done by a machine without a person needing to do it. - automation noun (automation, uncountable); verb automate (automate, automates, automated, automating)
1) Using machines and computers to do work by themselves, without people doing each step. 2) The system or machines that do this work. - autonomy noun (autonomy)
1) The right of a group, region or country to govern itself. 2) Being able to make your own choices and act independently. - autopilot noun (autopilot — uncountable; an autopilot, autopilots)
A computer system in an aircraft, ship or car that steers and controls it automatically, without a person doing it by hand. - autumn noun (autumn, autumns); adjective use (autumn leaves)
Autumn is the season between summer and winter, when leaves change colour and fall and days get shorter and cooler. - autumnal adjective (autumnal)
1) About autumn, or typical of autumn, like falling leaves, cool air and orange colours. - auxiliary adjective (auxiliary); noun (an auxiliary, auxiliaries)
adjective: Giving extra help or support: an auxiliary engine is a backup. - avail noun (no plural); verb (avails, availed, availing)
Avail means use or help: «of no avail» means it did not help at all. - availability noun (availability — mostly uncountable; availabilities — rare)
1) Whether something can be got, bought or used right now. 2) Whether a person is free to do something or meet someone at a certain time. - available adjective (available)
1) Available means you can get it, buy it or use it now. 2) Available means a person is free to see you or help, not busy. - avalanche noun (an avalanche, avalanches)
An avalanche is a huge mass of snow, ice and rocks that suddenly slides fast down a mountain. - avarice noun (no plural)
A greedy wish to have more and more money, gold or things, and to keep them. - avaricious adjective (more avaricious, most avaricious)
Greedy for money and riches, always wanting more. - avatar noun (an avatar, avatars)
A picture or character that stands for you in a game, app or online chat. - avenge verb (avenges, avenged, avenging)
To punish someone in return for a wrong they did to you or to someone you love. - avenged verb (past tense and past participle of avenge)
Punished someone in return for a wrong done to oneself or a loved one. - avenger noun (avengers)
A person who punishes someone for a wrong done to themselves or to someone they love.
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