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9,359 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

Arpajon
proper noun
Arpajon (a city in Essonne department, France); a French surname
Arpavon
proper noun
Arpavon (a village in Drôme department, France)
Arquisat
proper noun
Arquisat (a hamlet in the commune of Miglos, Ariège department, Occitania, France)
Arrien-en-Bethmale (a village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France)
Arrouet
proper noun
a surname, Arrouet
Arruda
proper noun
a surname, Arruda, from Portuguese
Arsace
proper noun
Arsaces
Arsenault
proper noun
a surname originating as a patronymic
Arseneau
proper noun
a surname, Arseneau
Arseneault
proper noun
a surname, Arseneault
Arsinoé
proper noun
a female given name of historical usage, equivalent to English Arsinoe
Arstt.
proper noun
abbreviation of Aristote (“Aristotle”): Arist.
Arsène
proper noun
a male given name
Art déco
noun, masculine
Art Deco
Artagnan
proper noun
Artagnan (a commune of Vic-en-Bigorre canton, Tarbes arrondissement, Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania, France)
Artaxerxès
proper noun
Artaxerxes
Arthabaska
proper noun
a regional county municipality of Centre-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada
Arthur
proper noun
a male given name; King Arthur
Artigat
proper noun
Artigat (a village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France)
Artigole
proper noun
A toponym in Urau, Haute-Garonne
Artiguenave
proper noun
A toponym in Montastruc-de-Salies, Haute-Garonne
Artigues
proper noun
Artigues (a village and commune of Ariège department, Occitania, France); Artigues (a village and commune of Aude department, Occitania, France); Artigues (a village and commune of Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania, France); Artigues (a village and commune of Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Artihaguère
proper noun
A toponym in Saleich, Haute-Garonne
Artillac
proper noun
Artillac (a river in Ariège department, Occitania, France)
Artois
proper noun
a former county of the Kingdom of France, in what is now northern France; a former state in the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now northern France
Artémide
noun, feminine
Any one of the Artemides (the seven daughters of the Semitic goddess Astarte as mentioned by Eusebius (quoting Philo of Byblos) in the Praeparatio evangelica, understood as midwives, with their name echoing Artemis's role as a goddess of childbirth)
Artémis
proper noun
Artemis
Artésien
noun, masculine
Artesian (native or inhabitant of Artois, a geographic region in the Pas-de-Calais department, Hauts-de-France, France) (usually male)
Arundel
proper noun
a township municipality of Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality, Laurentides, Quebec, Canada
Arve
proper noun
Arve (A river in France and Switzerland, a tributary of the Rhône).
Arverne
noun, masculine/feminine
Arvern
Arviat
proper noun
Arviat: a hamlet in Kivalliq, Nunavut, Canada
Arzou
proper noun
a male given name from Azerbaijani
Arès
proper noun
Ares
Aréopage
proper noun
alternative letter-case form of aréopage
Arétas
proper noun
Aretas, the name of various kings of the Nabataeans
Asbestos
proper noun
Asbestos (former name of Val-des-Sources: a town in Les Sources, Estrie, Quebec, Canada); Asbestos (former name of Les Sources: a regional county municipality of Cantons-de-l'Est, Quebec, Canada)
Ascarat
proper noun
Ascarat (a village and commune of Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
Ascension
proper noun
Ascension; the holiday commemorating the Ascension of Jesus
Asclèpe
proper noun
Asclepius (Greek god); a male given name of historical usage
Asclépiade
proper noun
a male given name of historical usage
Asco
proper noun
Asco (a left tributary of the Golo, Corsica, France)
Ascou
proper noun
Ascou (a village in Ariège department, France)
Ascoux
proper noun
Ascoux (a village in Loiret department, France)
Asdi
proper noun
Sida, initialism of Agence suédoise de coopération internationale au développement
Asiatique
noun, masculine/feminine
Asian (resident or native of Asia)
Asie
proper noun
Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean); Asia (an ancient province of the Roman Empire in western Anatolia, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD)
Asie Mineure
proper noun
Asia Minor
Asie centrale
proper noun
Central Asia (a landlocked geographic area of continental central Asia comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan)
Asie de l'Est
proper noun
East Asia (a geographic region comprising the eastern part of Asia, inclusive of China proper, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan and sometimes inclusive of Mongolia and Tibet and some or all of Southeast Asia and the Philippines)
Asie de l'Ouest
proper noun
West Asia (the westernmost geographic region of Asia, which includes Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Sinai Peninsula, and Transcaucasia)
Asie du Sud
proper noun
South Asia (a geographic region of Asia, comprising all the countries of the Indian subcontinent (principally India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan) and the Indian Ocean (principally Sri Lanka, Maldives))
Asie du Sud-Est
proper noun
Southeast Asia (a geographic region of Asia, comprising the territories of Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam)
Asie mineure
proper noun
alternative letter-case form of Asie Mineure
Asie occidentale
proper noun
West Asia (the westernmost geographic region of Asia, which includes Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Sinai Peninsula, and Transcaucasia)
Asie-Pacifique
proper noun
Asia-Pacific
Aslani
proper noun
a transliteration of the Persian surname اصلانی
Asperger
proper noun
a surname from German
Asperger
noun, feminine
someone who has Asperger's syndrome
Assam
proper noun
Assam (a state in northeastern India)