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Language, Linguistics, and Literary Terms , dark often used figuratively to mean unenlightened or ominous.
Dark Ages the period in western Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the hi… Dusk , dusk •Basque, Monégasque •ask, bask, cask, flask, Krasnoyarsk, mask, masque, task •facemask •arabesque, burlesque, Dantesque, desk, grotesque, humore… haemo- , hemo- (chiefly Brit. haemo-) • comb. form equivalent to hemato-.
haemo- combining form. see haem-.
haem- (haema-, haemo-, haemat(o)-) combining form… Astrobleme , COMBINING FORM In WORD-FORMATION, a BASE designed to combine with another, either also a combining form or a free word: bio- with -graphy to form bio… fairy ring , fairy ring A circle of dark-green grass (in a lawn or field) in which toadstools may be found. The circle is formed as a result of the radial growth… FORMATIVE , FORMATIVE.
1. In PHILOLOGY, a derivational AFFIX, especially one that determines part of speech or WORD class: -ness in darkness, forming a noun from…
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