What word has more then 645 meanings?

But “run” can act as both a verb and a noun, with meanings too numerous to count -- unless you like counting to 645. That is the number of definitions that Oxford English Dictionary has found for “run” for its upcoming 2037 edition.
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What word has more than 645 meaning?

So Far One three-letter word does much of the heavy lifting in the English language. The little word "run" — in its verb form alone — has 645 distinct meanings.
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What word has over 600 definitions?

The Word “Run” Has The Most Definitions

Some dictionaries list over 600 entries for this word. The most common verb meanings are "to advance quickly" and "to ". You can also “run a temperature”, “run the water”, and “run something by someone”. The word “run” can also be a noun.
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What word has over 400 definitions?

According to Guinness World Records, the word that has the most meanings in the English language is the verb “set.” “Set” has 430 senses listed in the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which was published in 1989.
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Which word has the most number of meanings?

The word with the most meanings in English is the verb 'set', with 430 senses listed in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989. The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters.
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2850 Most Important English Words (NGSL) - With definitions in easy English



What is the 3 longest word?

14 of the Longest Words in English
  1. 1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters): ...
  2. 2 Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (thirty letters): ...
  3. 3 Floccinaucinihilipilification (twenty-nine letters): ...
  4. 4 Antidisestablishmentarianism (twenty-eight letters):
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What is the 1 longest word in English?

In that case, what's the longest word in the English language dictionary? It's pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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Which word has 464 definitions?

What does set mean in English? According to the Oxford Dictionary, this word has as many as 464 interpretations!
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Is there a word with 190000 characters?

The longest English word is also the longest word in the world, with almost 190,000 letters. It is the chemical name for titin, the largest protein known. The longest word in the English dictionary however, is the 45-letter word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which refers to a lung disease.
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Is Floccinaucinihilipilification a real word?

The word "floccinaucinihilipilification" means "the estimation of something as worthless." It's an 18th-century coinage that combines four Latin prefixes meaning "nothing."
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What word has over 100000 letters?

Is there a 100000 letter word? isoleucine." 189,819 letters make up it.
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What is the 7 longest word?

7. Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters)
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Is there a word with all 26 letters?

An English pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most well known English pangram is probably “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. My favorite pangram is “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.”
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What 3 letter word has over 645 Meaning?

You might think it's absurd (and maybe it is), but Oxford English Dictionary editors recently revealed that “run” has indeed become the single word with the most potential meanings in all of English, boasting no fewer than 645 different usage cases for the verb form alone.
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What is the most complicated 5 letter word?

Sesquipedalian. This word means 'long-winded' words, such as Sesquipedalian.
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What was the 2022 word of the year?

Gaslighting

Merriam-Webster dictionary chose 'gaslighting', after a 1,740% rise in searches for the term this year. According to the OED it means “manipulating (a person) by psychological means into questioning his or her own sanity”.
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What is the longest F word?

floccinaucinihilipilification (29).
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What is the 189 000 letter word?

1. methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine. You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.
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How many 5letter words exist?

The Free Dictionary lists more than 158,000 words with five letters. The the Official Scrabble Dictionary (which allows some pretty obscure five-letter words), puts the number at about 9,000.
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Can a number be a word?

Numbers can be written either as words (e.g., one hundred) or numerals (e.g., 100). In this article we follow the guidelines of APA Style, one of the most common style guides used in academic writing. In general, words should be used for numbers from zero through nine, and numerals should be used from 10 onwards.
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What is the 15 word?

15 in words is written as Fifteen.
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What word has 52 letters?

In the 17th century, Dr. Edward Strother coined the 52-letter word aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. The word is used to describe the spa waters in Bath, England.
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What is German longest word?

1. Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung (36) Officially recognised by the Duden - Germany's pre-eminent dictionary - as the longest word in German, Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung is a 36-letter, tongue-tying way of describing a rather, mundane everyday concept: motor vehicle liability insurance.
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What is the longest word in the world 45 letters?

The longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis with 45 letters. Our definition is "a lung disease caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust." The entry for this word can be found in our Medical Dictionary.
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