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monster
English
Alternative forms
- monstre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English monstre, borrowed from Old French monstre, mostre, moustre, from Latin m?nstrum.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?nst?(?)/
- (US) enPR: m?n'st?(r), IPA(key): /?m?nst?/
- Rhymes: -?nst?(?)
Noun
monster (plural monsters)
- A terrifying and dangerous creature.
- A bizarre or whimsical creature.
- A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
- Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster!
- (medicine, archaic) A horribly deformed person.
- 1837, Medico-Chirurgical Review (page 465)
- Deducting then these cases, we have a large proportion of imperfect foetuses, which belonged to twin conceptions, and in which, therefore, the circulation of the monster may have essentially depended on that of the sound child.
- 1837, Medico-Chirurgical Review (page 465)
- (figuratively) A badly behaved child, a brat.
- (informal) Something unusually large.
- (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
- (gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games.
Derived terms
Related terms
- monstrous
- monstrously
- monstrose
Translations
Descendants
- ? German: Monster
- ? Japanese: ?????
- ? Korean: ??? (monseuteo)
Adjective
monster (not comparable)
- (informal) Very large; worthy of a monster.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)
- (informal) Great; very good; excellent.
Synonyms
- (very large): gigantic, monstrous
Translations
Verb
monster (third-person singular simple present monsters, present participle monstering, simple past and past participle monstered)
- To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
- 1983, Michael Slater, Dickens and Women, page 290,
- A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations feature four cases of women monstered by passion. Madame Defarge is ‘a tigress’, Mrs Joe a virago, Molly (Estella?s criminal mother) ‘a wild beast tamed’ and Miss Havisham a witch-like creature, a ghastly combination of waxwork and skeleton.
- 2005, Diana Medlicott, The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are, Margaret Sönser Breen (editor), Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity, page 82,
- The community forgives: this is in deep contrast to offenders that emerge from prison and remain stigmatised and monstered, often unable to get work or housing.
- 2011, Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears, page 234,
- Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.
- 1983, Michael Slater, Dickens and Women, page 290,
- To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- 1968, Robert Lowell, Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays, page 145,
- Animals in our world have been monstered by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were monstered by the primal crime.
- 2009, Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy, page 292,
- In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “monstering” interrogator engaged in this for thirty hours.177
- 2010, Joshua E. S. Phillips, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture, page 39,
- The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering, and the MPs complied.
- 1968, Robert Lowell, Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays, page 145,
- (chiefly Australia) To harass.
Anagrams
- Monters, mentors, meronts, metrons, monstre, montres, termons
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?nst?r/
- Hyphenation: mon?ster
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch monster, probably from Old French monstre, from Latin m?nstrum. Cognate with English monster.
Noun
monster n (plural monsters, diminutive monstertje n)
- A monster, terrifying and dangerous creature.
- An extremely antisocial person, especially a criminal.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Cognate with English muster.
Noun
monster n (plural monsters, diminutive monstertje n)
- sample; small, representative quantity of a substance or material, as used for analysis or selection.
Derived terms
Verb
monster
- first-person singular present indicative of monsteren
- imperative of monsteren
Anagrams
- morsten, stormen, stromen
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin monstrum.
Pronunciation
Noun
monster n
- A monster, terrifying and dangerous creature.
Declension
Synonyms
- odjur
- vidunder
- best
Anagrams
- mentors, mostern, stormen
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demonstration
English
Etymology
From Middle English demonstracioun, from Old French demonstration, from Latin demonstrationem, from demonstrare (“show or explain”), from de- (“of or concerning”) + monstrare (“show”).Morphologically demonstrate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?m?n?st?e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
demonstration (countable and uncountable, plural demonstrations)
- The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
- (prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner. (clarification of this definition is needed)
- An event at which something will be demonstrated.
- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
- A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
- A show of military force.
- A mathematical proof.
- a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
- He read the proposition. […] So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.
- a. 1697, John Aubrey, Brief Lives, s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
Related terms
- demonstrable
- demonstrate
- demonstrator
- monster
- remonstration
- demo
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ?????????? (demonsutor?shon)
Translations
Anagrams
- nonmeditators
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?dem?nsd????o?n/
Noun
demonstration c (singular definite demonstrationen, plural indefinite demonstrationer)
- demonstration
Declension
Further reading
- “demonstration” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “demonstration” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
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