Nouns starting with A

• anteater — Noun – English ～ toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
• anteater — Noun – English ～ a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea
• antecedence — Noun – English ～ preceding in time
• antecedency — Noun – English ～ preceding in time
• antecedent — Noun – English ～ the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
• antecedent — Noun – English ～ a preceding occurrence or cause or event
• antecedent — Noun – English ～ anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
• antecedent — Noun – English ～ someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
• antechamber — Noun – English ～ a large entrance or reception room or area
• antediluvian — Noun – English ～ any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
• antediluvian — Noun – English ～ a very old person
• Antedon — Noun – English ～ a genus of echinoderms of the family Antedonidae
• Antedonidae — Noun – English ～ feather stars
• antefix — Noun – English ～ carved ornament at the eaves of a tile roof concealing the joints between tiles
• American antelope — Noun – English ～ fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
• antelope — Noun – English ～ graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
• antenna — Noun – English ～ sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; "he had a special antenna for public relations"
• antenna — Noun – English ～ one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste
• antenna — Noun – English ～ an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
• Antennaria — Noun – English ～ small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club-shaped bristles

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