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Origin story. The trauma of his parents' murder serves as the origin story for the American comic book superhero Batman. In entertainment, an origin story is an account or backstory revealing how a character or group of people become a protagonist or antagonist . In American comic books, it also refers to how characters gained their superpowers ...
An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. Creation myths are a type of origin myth narrating the formation of the universe. However, numerous cultures have stories that take place after the initial origin. These stories aim to explain the origins of natural phenomena or human ...
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
Faggot. Faggot, often shortened to fag in American usage, is a term, usually considered a slur, used to refer to gay men. [1] [2] In American youth culture around the turn of the 21st century, its meaning extended as a broader reaching insult more related to masculinity and group power structure. [3]
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
a descriptive phrase used in Germanic poetry, a modern learned word from Old Norse kenning in a special sense. kick Of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse kikn (="bend backwards, sink at the knees") kid kið (="young goat") kidnap From kid + a variant of nab, both of which are of Scandinavian origin. kilt
History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') [1] is the systematic study and documentation of the human past. [2] [3] The period of events before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. [4] ". History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the ...
Thesaurus. A thesaurus ( pl.: thesauri or thesauruses ), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...