What does the word. . .  crestfallen mean?
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brought low in spirit
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It's the name of  private Catholic club.  It means "in this sign you shall conquer".
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Main Entry: ole·an·der\nFunction: noun\nPronunciation: 'O-le-"an-d&r, "O-le-'\nEtymology: Medieval Latin, alter. of arodandrum, lorandrum, perhaps alteration of Latin rhododendron -- more at RHODODENDRON \n: a poisonous evergreen shrub (Nerium oleander) of the dogbane family with fragrant white to red flowers\n\nPronunciation Key\n\nMore Information:  Audio
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my quote that i have always used and "owned- :) " since high school is\n~Amor Vincit Omnia~\n\n---it means Love Conquers All, plus it sounds really cool and looks pretty when it is written.the end.\n\n\n---P.S.!!! --Don't even think about stealing it!!! It is mine only! :)
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It means top.  The top of a mountain, or the top of a tree, or the highest point of a piece of land.  It can also mean the highest level of perfection; as in, someone trying to be the best at what they do.
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Strike me pink ~ A shock or surprise (intially it came from sunburn/heatstroke)\n\nI don't believe it is only a British expression.
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it means "relating to, (or in a manner similar to) Daedalus".  \n\nDaedalus tried to fly, and burnt his wings.
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It means 'crown'\n\nCheck out this website.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven\n\nOK good luck
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It is Welsh and I think it means 'stupid','emptyheaded', 'not all there",etc.\n\nI am a saesneg,but from my sojourns I think the literal translation is 'not a full yard'.\n\nOur ocker mates would say 'a sixpack short of a barbie'!
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It is a French word roughly translated as enjoyment.  Quite literally it means whatever 'gets you off'.  Transcendant Bliss.
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doing a search engine hunt. the name means GOD'S MANIFESTED GLORY( a bright white light or mist.).Othr sites are listed. type in the meaning of the word Shelinah
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God is kicking all his pets out of heaven! Just kidding!\n\nIt means raining heavily.
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Only the language context/period:\n\n* Thyself = Yourself (Old English)\n\n* Own self = Yourself (Modern English)\n\nFurther explanation: "thy" means "your" as does "thine". Thy is used before a word begining with a consonant (Thy beauty) and Thine before a word beginning with a vowel (a,e,i,o,u)\n\nHope that helped!\n~Ruj x
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The correct phrase reads:\n\nThe QUIET before the storm.  \n\nThis typically refers to pathetic fallacy (nature in sympathy with "man") and refers to the *LULL* of activity before events unfold in a dramatic (stormy) manner.
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The definitions already given are correct.  But perhaps it will help you to remember it if you look at the pieces put together to make the word: fool + hardy.\n\n"Fool" hardly needs explanation.\n"Hardy" is used hear in the sense of "bold"\n[Middle English, from Old French hardi, past participle of hardir, make hard, embolden, of Germanic origin; see  kar- in Indo-European roots.]\nhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=hardy\n\nIf it's of interest:\ncompare the nickname "Richard the LIONHEARTED".  The latter part is typically explained as "bold as a lion".  This also happens to be the historical meaning of the name "Leonard" (from "Leonhard", i.e., 'lion' + our word 'hardy') Since\n"heart" and "hardy" seem to have a distinct history (except perhaps in the murky recesses of 'Indo-European'), and the idea of "having heart" or being "of stout heart" goes way back, so I'm not sure whether it's just happenstance that these names are equivalent, or whether (more likely) one influenced the other.
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This is an interesting phrase in that, although there's no definitive origin, there are several speculative derivations.\n\nThe first thing to say is that the phrase seems to be unrelated to the well-known antipathy between dogs and cats, which is made word in the phrase "fight like cat and dog". In fact "raining cats and dogs" doesn't make a great deal of literal sense and the explanations below that attempt to link the phrase to felines, canines and weather seem rather feeble. \n\nHere goes though - take your choice.\n\nIt comes from mythology. Witches, who often took the form of their familiars - cats, are supposed to have ridden the wind. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms and sailors associated them with rain. Well, some evidence would be nice. There doesn't appear to be any to support this notion.\n\n\nCats and dogs were supposed to be washed from roofs during heavy weather. This is a widely repeated tale. It got a lease of life with the message "Life in the 1500s", which began circulating on the Internet in 1999. Here's the relevant part of that:\n\nI'll describe their houses a little. You've heard of thatch roofs, well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, "it's raining cats and dogs."\n\nThis is nonsense of course. It hardly needs debunking, but, least there be any doubt... \n\nDogs lived in thatched roofs? No, of course they didn't. Even accepting that mad idea, for them to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be on the outside - hardly the intuitive place for an animal to shelter from bad weather.\n\n\nThe phrase is supposed to have originated in England in the 17th century when city streets were filthy and heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals. \n\nThe idea that seeing a dead cats and dogs floating by in storms would cause people to coin this phrase is far fetched, but just about believable.\n\n\nAnother suggestion is that it comes from a version of the French word, catadoupe, meaning waterfall. \n\nWell, again. No evidence. If the phrase were 'raining cats' or if there also existed a French word, dogadoupe we might be going somewhere with this one. As there isn't lets pass this by. \nReturning to facts rather than idle speculation, we do know that the phrase was in use in a modified form in 1653, when Richard Brome's The City Wit, has the line:\n\n"It shall raine .. Dogs and Polecats".\n\nPolecats aren't cats as such but the jump between them in linguistic rather than veterinary terms isn't large. \n\nIn a form more like the current version it appears in Jonathan Swift’s 'A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation' in 1738: \n\n"I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs".\n\nMore likely than any of the versions given above is that this is just a nice descriptive turn of phrase, which doesn't relate to any particular event or practise. \n\nThere's a similar phrase originating from the north of England - "it's raining stair-rods". No one has gone to the effort of speculating that this is from mythic reports of stairs being carried into the air in storms and falling on gullible peasants. Its just a rather good vivid phrase giving a graphic impression of heavy rain.\n\nAnother similar phrase is "it’s raining like pitchforks", the first known reference of which is D. Humphreys' Yankey in England, 1815:\n\n"I'll be even with you, if it rains pitchforks - tines downwards."
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It is old English. check merriam-webster dictionary.com