lewdness
— Noun
– English
~ the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
Lewis
— Noun
– English
~ United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951)
Lewis and Clark Expedition
— Noun
– English
~ an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States; led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; traveled from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1803 to 1806
Lewis
— Noun
– English
~ English critic and novelist; author of theological works and of books for children (1898-1963)
Lewis
— Noun
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~ United States explorer and soldier who lead led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River (1774-1809)
Lewis
— Noun
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~ United States athlete who won gold medals at the Olympics for his skill in sprinting and jumping (born in 1961)
Lewis
— Noun
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~ United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
Lewis Carroll
— Noun
– English
~ English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Lewis
— Noun
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~ United States labor leader who was president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1935 to 1940 (1880-1969)
Lewisia cotyledon
— Noun
– English
~ evergreen perennial having a dense basal rosette of long spatula-shaped leaves and panicles of pink or white-and-red-striped or pink-purple flowers; found on cliffs and in rock crevices in mountains of southwestern Oregon and northern California
Lewisia
— Noun
– English
~ genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers
Lewiston
— Noun
– English
~ a town in northwestern Idaho
lewiston
— Noun
– English
~ a town in southwestern Maine to the north of Portland
lexeme
— Noun
– English
~ a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'
lexical database
— Noun
– English
~ a database of information about words
lexical entry
— Noun
– English
~ the entry in a dictionary of information about a word
lexical disambiguation
— Noun
– English
~ disambiguation of the sense of a polysemantic word
lexical ambiguity
— Noun
– English
~ the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
lexicalisation
— Noun
– English
~ the process of making a word to express a concept
lexicalization
— Noun
– English
~ the process of making a word to express a concept