When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Revenge - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge

    Some examples include the painting Herodias' Revenge by Juan de Flandes and the operas Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, both by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Japanese art, revenge is a theme in various woodblock prints depicting the forty-seven rōnin by many well-known and influential artists, including Utagawa Kuniyoshi .

  3. Revanchism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revanchism

    In Albert Bettannier's La Tache Noire (The Black Stain, 1887) French students are taught about the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, taken by Germany in 1871.. Revanchism (French: revanchisme, from revanche, "revenge") is the political manifestation of the will to reverse the territorial losses which are incurred by a country, frequently after a war or after a social movement.

  4. Revengeance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revengeance

    Revengeance may refer to: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance , a video game spinoff in the Metal Gear series by Konami, formerly known as Metal Gear Solid: Rising "Revengeance", a song by American metal band Soulfly on their album Enslaved

  5. Synonym - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym

    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  7. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_and...

    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  8. List of fictional politicians - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_politicians

    Senator Steven Armstrong (Alastair Duncan) – Colorado, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance; Senator Melvin G. Ashton (William Powell) – The Senator Was Indiscreet; Senator Tom August – Minnesota, Advise and Consent; Senator Henry Babcock – (Thurston Hall) – Sherlock Holmes in Washington

  9. Cognitive synonymy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_synonymy

    Cognitive synonymy is a type of synonymy in which synonyms are so similar in meaning that they cannot be differentiated either denotatively or connotatively, that is, not even by mental associations, connotations, emotive responses, and poetic value.