English words: A

1215 words under A; 1101–1200 on this page.

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• 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)
  Auburn means a reddish-brown colour, usually said of hair.
• auction noun (an auction, auctions); verb…
  An auction is a public sale where things are sold to the person who offers the most money.
• audacious adjective (more audacious, most audacious)
  Audacious means bold and daring, ready to take big risks.
• 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
  Loud enough to be heard.
• audibly adverbeveryday · Jewish tradition
  In a way that can be heard; loud enough for people to hear it.
• audience noun (audience, audiences)everyday · Jewish tradition
  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…
  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…
  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)
  A large room or building where an audience sits to watch a play, concert or talk.
• auditory adjective (auditory)
  About hearing or the ears.
• aug abbreviation (Aug, short for August)
  A short written form of August, the eighth month of the year.
• aught pronoun (old use)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Aught means anything at all.
• augment verb (augment, augments, augmented, augmenting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To make something bigger, stronger or better by adding to it.
• augmentation noun (augmentation, augmentations)
  Making something bigger, larger or stronger by adding to it.
• augmented verb past form of augment…
  Augmented means made bigger or added to.
• august noun (August — the month); adjective (august — grand, rare)everyday · Jewish tradition
  August is the eighth month of the year, with 31 days, coming after July and before September.
• auk noun (an auk, auks)
  An auk is a black-and-white seabird of the cold northern seas, which dives and «flies» underwater to catch fish; puffins, guillemots and…
• auld adjective (auld — Scottish)
  Old.
• aunt noun (aunt, aunts; auntie, aunty)everyday · Jewish tradition
  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…
  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)…
  To listen to sounds inside the body, like the heart and lungs, usually with a stethoscope.
• auspicious adjective (auspicious; more auspicious, most auspicious)…
  Showing signs that something will go well; a lucky or promising start.
• aussie noun (an Aussie, Aussies — informal); adjective…
  An Aussie is a person from Australia.
• austere adjective (austerer, austerest)
  Austere means plain and strict, without comfort, luxury or decoration.
• 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)
  Australian means from or belonging to Australia, its people or its language.
• 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)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Real and true, not a copy or a fake.
• authenticate verb…
  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…everyday · Jewish tradition
  An author is a person who writes a book, story, poem or article.
• authorisation noun (authorisation, authorisations); US spelling…
  Official permission to do something.
• authorise verb (authorise, authorises, authorised, authorising); US…
  To give official permission for something to happen.
• authorities noun, plural (the authorities); singular authority…everyday · Jewish tradition
  The authorities: the people or organisations in charge, such as the police, the government or the council.
• authority noun (authority, uncountable; an authority, authorities)everyday · Jewish tradition
  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)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The fact of being the person who wrote a book, article, song or other piece of work.
• autism noun (autism — uncountable); adjective autistic
  Autism is a lifelong difference in how a person's brain works, which affects how they communicate, make sense of the world and deal with…
• autistic adjective (autistic)
  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)
  A book or story of a person's life written by that person.
• 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…
  A tool in phones and computers that changes words it thinks are spelled wrong while you type.
• autograph noun (an autograph, autographs); verb…
  A famous person's signature, written for a fan to keep.
• automated adjective (automated); past form of automate…everyday · Jewish tradition
  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…
  Using machines and computers to do work by themselves, without people doing each step.
• autonomy noun (autonomy)
  The right of a group, region or country to govern itself.
• 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)
  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)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Avail means use or help: «of no avail» means it did not help at all.
• availability noun…
  Whether something can be got, bought or used right now.
• available adjective (available)
  Available means you can get it, buy it or use it now.
• 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)everyday · Jewish tradition
  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)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Punished someone in return for a wrong done to oneself or a loved one.
• avenger noun (avengers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A person who punishes someone for a wrong done to themselves or to someone they love.
• avenue noun (an avenue, avenues)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A wide street in a town or city, often with trees along the sides.
• aver verb (avers, averred, averring)
  To aver is to say something firmly, as if it were certainly true.
• average noun (average, averages); adjective (average); verb…
  The average (mean) is the number you get when you share a total equally: add the numbers, then divide by how many there are.
• averse adjective (averse) — used after a verb
  Not liking something or strongly against it: «averse to» something.
• aversion noun (aversion, aversions)
  A strong dislike of something.
• avert verb (avert, averts, averted, averting)
  To avert something bad means to stop it from happening, as in «avert a disaster».
• averting verb form (averting), the -ing form of «avert»
  Stopping something bad from happening.
• avian adjective (avian)
  To do with birds: «avian flu» is bird flu.
• aviary noun (an aviary, aviaries)
  An aviary is a large cage, building or enclosed space where birds are kept, big enough for them to fly about.
• aviation noun (aviation)
  Flying aircraft, and everything to do with building, running and flying planes.
• avocado noun (avocado, avocados; also avocadoes)
  An avocado is a pear-shaped fruit with dark green or black skin, soft pale-green flesh and one big seed (stone) in the middle.
• avoid verb (avoid, avoids, avoided, avoiding); adjective avoidableeveryday · Jewish tradition
  To avoid something means to keep away from it.
• avoidance noun (avoidance, uncountable)
  The act of keeping away from something or not doing something.
• avouch verbJewish tradition
  to say openly that something is true, or to declare a promise.
• avow verb (avow, avows, avowed, avowing)
  To say something openly and firmly, to declare it.
• await verb (await, awaits, awaited, awaiting)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To await is to wait for something.
• awaiteth verb, old form of «awaits» (he, she, it)
  «awaiteth» means «awaits», a form of «await»: (formal) To await is to wait for something.
• awake adjective (awake); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Awake means not sleeping.
• awaken verb (awaken, awakens, awakened, awakening); noun awakeningeveryday · Jewish tradition
  To wake up, or to wake someone up (a bit formal or story-like).
• award noun (an award, awards); verb…
  A prize or a reward given for doing something well.
• aware adjective (aware, more aware, most aware — after a verb)everyday · Jewish tradition
  If you are aware of something, you know about it or notice it.
• awareness noun (awareness — uncountable)
  Awareness is knowing about something or noticing it.
• away adverb; adjective (an away game)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Away means off to another place, not here any more: the bird flew away.
• awe noun (awe, uncountable); verb (awe, awes, awed, awing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A strong feeling of wonder and respect, sometimes with a little fear, when you see something huge, beautiful or powerful.
• awesome adjective (awesome, more awesome, most awesome)
  Awesome means very good, great or cool, as in «That film was awesome!».
• awful adjective (awful, more awful, most awful); adverb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Awful means very bad or unpleasant: awful weather, an awful smell.
• awfully adverb (awfully)
  Very; extremely: «awfully kind», «awfully sorry».
• awhile adverb (also spelt «a while»)
  Awhile means for a short time: wait awhile.

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