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bedlam

English

Etymology

From Bedlam, alternative name of the English lunatic asylum, Bethlem Royal Hospital (royal hospital from 1375, mental hospital from 1403) (earlier St Mary of Bethlehem outside Bishopsgate, hospice in existence from 1329, priory established 1247), since used to mean “a place or situation of madness and chaos”. Bedlam as name of hospital attested 1450.

Phonologically, corruption of Bethlem, itself a corruption of Bethlehem (the Biblical town), from Ancient Greek ??????? (B?thleém) from Biblical Hebrew ????? ?????? (bê? le?em, literally house of bread).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b?dl?m/

Noun

bedlam (plural bedlams)

  1. A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
  2. (obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
    • ca. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, sc. 7:
      Let's follow the old Earl, and get the Bedlam
      To lead him where he would; his roguish madness
      Allows itself to anything.
    • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Christian overtakes Faithful:
      The pilgrims were clothed with such kind of raiment as was diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair. The people, therefore, of the fair, made a great gazing upon them: some said they were fools, some they were bedlams, and some they are outlandish men.
  3. (obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
    • 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIV:lxxxiv:
      Shut up the world at large, let Bedlam out;
      And you will be perhaps surprised to find
      All things pursue exactly the same route,
      As now with those of soi-disant sound mind.
    • 1843, Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol":
      “There’s another fellow,” muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: “my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas. I’ll retire to Bedlam.”
    • ca. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter II:
      ... only the holy can stand the joys of that bedlam.

Descendants

  • ? Russian: ??????? (bedlám)

Translations

Further reading

  • Bethlem Royal Hospital on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • bedlam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • ambled, balmed, beldam, blamed, lambed

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report

English

Etymology

From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, Middle French reporter, and their source, Latin report?re (to carry back, return, remit, refer), from re- + port?re.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /???p??t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???p??t/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /???po?t/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po(?)?t/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /???po?t/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

report (third-person singular simple present reports, present participle reporting, simple past and past participle reported)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something). [from 15th c.]
  2. (transitive) To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.). [from 15thc.]
  3. (obsolete, reflexive) To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal. [15th-18thc.]
  4. (formal, transitive) To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of. [from 15thc.]
  5. (transitive) To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone). [from 19thc.]
  6. (intransitive) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself. [from 19thc.]
  7. (transitive, intransitive) To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter. [from 19thc.]
    • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      In January, the country’s weather agency sent aircraft to release chemicals into clouds over the Yellow Sea, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
  8. (intransitive) To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
    Now that I've been promoted, I report to Benjamin, whom I loathe.
  9. (politics, dated) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
  10. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
  11. (obsolete) To refer.
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
      Baldwin, his son, [] succeeded his father; so like unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almerick, and will spare the repeating his description.
  12. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, rare) To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.

Derived terms

  • aforereported
  • reporter
  • underreport
  • unreported

Translations

Noun

report (plural reports)

  1. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone, with the most common adpositions being by (referring to creator of the report) and on (referring to the subject).
  2. Reputation.
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 36:
      I love thee in such sort / As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
  3. (firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 34
      While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
      [] a pistol-shot, flash and report, came from the hedge-side.
  4. An employee whose position in a corporate hierarchy is below that of a particular manager.
    Synonym: subordinate

Derived terms

  • (piece of information): on report, report card
  • (employee): direct report, indirect report

Descendants

  • ? Japanese: ???? (rep?to), ???? (rip?to)

Translations

Further reading

  • Report on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Report in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Perrot, Porter, perrot, porret, porter, pretor, proter, troper

French

Etymology

deverbal of reporter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.p??/

Noun

report m (plural reports)

  1. postponement
  2. deferment

Synonyms

  • ajournement

Further reading

  • “report” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • porter

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