Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Etymology
The English term "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived therefrom can designate any or even all of the human ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Etymology
The English term "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived therefrom can designate any or even all of the human ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Terms
The English language's original word for "woman" was Old English wīf, akin to German Weib; it later became the modern word "wife." The m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia - Woman
A woman is an adult female human, as contrasted with a man (an adult male), and a girl, (a female child). The term woman (irregular plura...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Man: Encyclopedia - Man
A man is a male human adult, in contrast to an adult female, which is a woman. The term man (irregular plural: men) is a term used to ind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bukkake: Encyclopedia - Bukkake
Bukkake is a group sex practice wherein a series of men take turns ejaculating on a woman. There are strong overtones of erotic humiliati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artio: Encyclopedia - Artio
In Gallo-Roman religion, Artio was a goddess of the bear, and was worshipped at Berne, which actually means "bear". Artio - Representatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amenorrhoea: Encyclopedia - Amenorrhoea
Amenorrhoea (BE) or amenorrhea (AmE) is the absence of a menstrual period in a woman of reproductive age. Physiologic states of amenorrho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Toque: Encyclopedia - Toque
A toque (pronounced /tok/; for /tuk/ see "Canadian variant" below) is a type of hat with a narrow brim or no brim at all. They were popul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady: Encyclopedia - Lady
A lady is a woman who is the counterpart of a lord; or, the counterpart of a gentleman. The term Lady can be used as a title. Lady - Etym...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Virtue: Encyclopedia - Virtue
(Greek αρετη; Latin virtus) Virtue is moral excellence of a man or a woman. The word is derived from the Greek arete (αρετη). A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blodeuwedd: Encyclopedia - Blodeuwedd
In Welsh mythology, Blodeuwedd is the later name of Blodeuedd, a woman made from flowers. Her story is part of the Fourth Branch of the M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen: Encyclopedia - Helen
Helen (Ἑλένη) was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought abou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dísir: Encyclopedia - Dísir
In Norse mythology, the dísir (sing. dís) are a collective of divine female beings of whom little is known with certainty except that t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arduinna: Encyclopedia - Arduinna
In Celtic mythology, Arduinna was the eponymous goddess of the Ardennes forest. Her cult thus originated in the Ardennes, which derived i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Girl: Encyclopedia - Girl
A girl is a young female human, as opposed to a boy, a young male human. The age at which a female person transitions from girl to woman ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chicano: Encyclopedia - Chicano
A Chicano or Chicana is a term used to indicate an identity held by some persons of Mexican descent living in the United States. Often ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sita Devi: Encyclopedia - Sita Devi
Sita (Sanskrit सीता Sītā) is the wife of Rama, the Seventh Avatara of Vishnu, and is esteemed an examplar of womanly and wifely...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Were: Encyclopedia - Were
This article is about the word were. There is also a style of Muslim religions music called were. Were and wer are archaic terms for adul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hieros Gamos: Encyclopedia - Hieros Gamos
Hieros Gamos or Hierogamy means a coupling (sometimes marriage) of a god and a man or a woman, often having a symbolic meaning. It is an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Womyn: Encyclopedia - Womyn
Womyn is the best-known one of a number of alternate spellings intended in radical feminism (see also) misandrist circles to degender th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achtland: Encyclopedia - Achtland
In Irish mythology, Queen Achtland married one of the "Tuatha Dé Danann" (too'-ah deh dah'nan) who were the children of the Goddess Danu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tuisco: Encyclopedia - Tuisco
Tuisto or Tuisco was according to Tacitus (Germania, ch. 2) the ancestor of all Germanic tribes. He was the father of the first man, Mann...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rake: Encyclopedia - Rake
A rake is a stock character, a man who wastes his (usually inherited) fortune on "wine, women, and song," incurring lavish debts in the p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia - Gerald Gardner
Gerald Brosseau Gardner (June 13, 1884 - February 13, 1964) was a British civil servant, amateur anthropologist, writer, and occultist wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mazzaroth: Encyclopedia - Mazzaroth
The word Mazzaroth is mentioned only once in the King James Version of the Old Testament of the Bible: it is found in the Book of Job 38:...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Typhon: Encyclopedia - Typhon
Typhon (Typhaon, Typhoeus, Typhus), in Greek mythology, was the final son of Gaia, this time with Tartarus, the offspring of the Earth an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brook Of Sorek: Encyclopedia - Brook Of Sorek
The Brook of Sorek, also called the Valley of Sorek, (in Hebrew nachal sorek), mentioned in the Book of Judges 16:4 of the Hebrew Bible, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The White Goddess: Encyclopedia - The White Goddess
The author and poet Robert Graves' study of the nature of poetic myth-making, The White Goddess, first published in 1948, and revised, am...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesarean Section: Encyclopedia - Caesarean Section
A caesarean section (cesarean section AE), or C-section, is a form of childbirth in which a surgical incision is made through a mother's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hoodoo: Encyclopedia - Hoodoo
Hoodoo is a traditional folk magic which originated in the western African coastal cultures and migrated to the United States during the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Breeches: Encyclopedia - Breeches
Breeches are an item of clothing covering the body from the waist down, with separate coverings for each leg. The spelling britches refle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Man: Encyclopedia Ii - Man - Biology And Sex
In terms of sex, men have various sexual characteristics that differentiate them from women. Just as in women, the sex organs of a man ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Man: Encyclopedia Ii - Man - Etymology
The term "man" (from Proto-Germanic mannaz "man, person") and words derived from it can designate any or even all of the human race regar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic King: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic King - Etymology
The name king is derived from the Anglo-Saxon cyning, which in turn is derived from the Proto-Germanic *kuningaz. The original meaning is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tribadism: Encyclopedia Ii - Tribadism - Terminology
Tribadism - Etymology. The term tribadism is thought to ultimately derive from the ancient Greek word tribein "to rub". Originally anci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Effeminacy: Encyclopedia Ii - Effeminacy - History
Effeminacy - Etymology. Effeminacy comes from the Latin, ex which is "out" and femina which means woman; it basically means to be like ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gerald Gardner: Encyclopedia Ii - Gerald Gardner - Wicca
Gardner claimed to have been initiated in 1939 into a tradition of religious witchcraft that he believed to be a continuation of European...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Man: Encyclopedia Ii - Man - Age
Manhood is the period in a male's life after he has transitioned from a boy. Many cultures have rites of passage to symbolize a man's com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Man: Encyclopedia Ii - Man - Gender Roles
In terms of gender, men differ from women by a variety of behaviors. Certain characteristics generally associated with men may be delinea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amenorrhoea: Encyclopedia Ii - Amenorrhoea - Etymology And Definition
The term is derived from Greek: a = negative, men = month, rhoia = flow. Derived adjectives are amenorrhoeal and amenorrheic. The opposit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Girl: Encyclopedia Ii - Girl - Usage
By the 1700s, there was a difference in some uses of the word between England and the Americas. In England, a "girl" was often a serving ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blond: Encyclopedia Ii - Blond - Etymology Spelling And Grammar
The adjective is a relatively recent borrowing into English from French (the traditional English terms for blond being "fair-haired", "fl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goatse.cx: Encyclopedia Ii - Goatse.cx - Etymology
The intended meaning of the site's name is not known for certain. It is commonly interpreted as a word play on the phrase "goat sex", alt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesarean Section: Encyclopedia Ii - Caesarean Section - Risks
Statistics from the 1990s suggest that less than one woman in 2,500 who has a caesarean section will die, compared to a rate of one in 10...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Masturbation: Encyclopedia Ii - Masturbation - Masturbation In History And Society
Masturbation - Antiquity. There are depictions of male masturbation in prehistoric rock paintings around the world, though these are al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Masturbation: Encyclopedia Ii - Masturbation - Masturbation In History And Society
Masturbation - Antiquity. There are depictions of male masturbation in prehistoric rock paintings around the world, though these are al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Family Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Family Name - Romania
In Romania family names traditionally have an English-like usage: a child inherits his father's family name, and a wife takes her husband...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady: Encyclopedia Ii - Lady - More Recent Usage: Social Class
In more recent years, usage of the word lady is even more complicated. Remarks made by the journalist William Allen White in his 1946 aut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor: Encyclopedia Ii - Actor - Actresses In Male Roles
Women actors sometimes play the roles of prepubescent boys, because in some regards a woman has a closer resemblance to a boy than does a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actor: Encyclopedia Ii - Actor - Actresses In Male Roles
Actresses sometimes play the roles of prepubescent boys, because in some regards a woman has a closer resemblance to a boy than does a ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Womanist: Encyclopedia Ii - Womanist - Introduction
A womanist and the associated philosophy of womanism deal with Black feminism. What does the term Womanist mean? It was developed by auth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gender: Encyclopedia Ii - Gender - Social Category
Since 1950 an increasing part of the academic literature, and of the public discourse uses gender for the perceived or projected (self-id...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boy: Encyclopedia Ii - Boy - Colloquial Uses
Many occasions occur when an adult male could be referred to as a boy. A man or woman will refer to a boyfriend in one or two words regar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady: Encyclopedia Ii - Lady - More Recent Usage: Sexism
Non-sexist language guidelines forbid its use to refer attributively to the sex of a working person, as in lady lawyer and lady doctor. M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boy: Encyclopedia Ii - Boy - Colloquial Uses
Many occasions occur when an adult male could be referred to as a boy. A man or woman will refer to a boyfriend in one or two words regar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bootylicious: Encyclopedia Ii - Bootylicious - The Song And Its Success
The song "Bootylicious" features lyrics of a confident woman taunting a man, suggesting that he is not ready because her body is too boot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vampire: Encyclopedia Ii - Vampire - Sources
Books: Barber, Paul : Vampires, Burial and Death : Folklore and Reality . Yale University Press.1988. ISBN 0300048599 Bell, Mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Absinthe: Encyclopedia Ii - Absinthe - Cultural Impact
The legacy of absinthe as an eccentric, mysterious and addictive drink continues to this day. Absinthe has been seen or featured in movie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vampire: Encyclopedia Ii - Vampire - Sources
Books: Barber, Paul : Vampires, Burial and Death : Folklore and Reality . Yale University Press.1988. ISBN 0300048599 Bell, Mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stonehenge: Encyclopedia Ii - Stonehenge - Myths And Legends
Friar's Heel: The Heel Stone was once known as "Friar's Heel." A folk tale, which cannot be dated earlier than the seventeenth century, r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Militant: Encyclopedia Ii - Militant - Characteristics Of Militancy
Persons described as militants -- either individuals or groups (composed of citizens) -- have usually enrolled and trained for service in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Militant: Encyclopedia Ii - Militant - Mass Media Usage Of The Word
The mass media often uses the term "militant" in the context of terrorism. Journalists often apply the term militant to movements using t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Militant: Encyclopedia Ii - Militant - Examples
Militants occur across the political spectrum, including white supremacists, separatists, abortion opponents, and environmentalists. Exam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Radical Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Radical Chinese Character - Identifying Radicals In Characters
Millenia of development and cultural integration has meant that Chinese characters have shifted from being largely pictographic assemblag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bukkake: Encyclopedia Ii - Bukkake - Etymology
Bukkake is the noun form of the Japanese verb bukkakeru (打っ掛ける, to dash [water]), and means simply "splash" or "dash." The comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesarean Section: Encyclopedia Ii - Caesarean Section - Etymology
There are several elements which contribute to a linguistic explanation of the word caesarean. The term may be simply derived from the L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blond: Encyclopedia Ii - Blond - Etymology Spelling And Grammar
The adjective is a relatively recent borrowing into English from French (the traditional English terms for blond being "fair-haired", "fl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady: Encyclopedia Ii - Lady - Etymology And Usage
The word comes from Old English hlaifdige; the first part of the word is laif, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hlaford, lord; the se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blond: Encyclopedia Ii - Blond - Etymology, Spelling, And Grammar
The adjective is a relatively recent borrowing into English from French (the traditional English terms for blond being "fair-haired", "fl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bukit Merah: Encyclopedia Ii - Bukit Merah - Etymology
In Malay, Bukit Merah means "red hill" (bukit is Malay for "hill", while merah means "red". The area, including the MRT station located h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shidduch: Encyclopedia Ii - Shidduch - Backgrounds
The Talmud (tractate Kiddushin 41a) states that a man may not marry a woman until having seen her first. This edict is based on the Torah...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Necronomicon: Encyclopedia Ii - Necronomicon - Etymology Of The Title
Lovecraft wrote that the meaning of the title as translated from the Greek language: nekros (corpse), nomos (law), eikon (image) was: "An...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia Ii - Amazons - Etymology
The name Ἀμαζών is probably derived from an Iranian ethnonym, *ha-mazan-, originally meaning "warriors". A connected word is proba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Necronomicon: Encyclopedia Ii - Necronomicon - Etymology Of The Title
Lovecraft wrote that the title, as translated from the Greek language, meant "An image of the law of the dead": nekros ("corpse"), nomos ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuck: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuck - Etymology
The etymology of fuck has given rise to a great deal of speculation, which should be regarded skeptically. The authoritative Oxford Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fuck: Encyclopedia Ii - Fuck - Etymology
The etymology of fuck has given rise to a great deal of speculation, which should be regarded skeptically. The authoritative Oxford Engli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heresy Of Peor: Encyclopedia Ii - Heresy Of Peor - Biblical Account
The preceeding story is that of Balaam, in which a prophet, Balaam, ascends the mountain of Pe‘or, and sacrifices to God at the top of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heresy Of Peor: Encyclopedia Ii - Heresy Of Peor - Biblical Account
The preceeding story is that of Balaam, in which a prophet, Balaam, ascends the mountain of Pe‘or, and sacrifices to God at the top of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Menstrual Cycle: Encyclopedia Ii - Menstrual Cycle - Etymology And The Lunar Month
The terms "menstruation" and "menses" come from the Latin mensis (month), which in turn relates to the Greek mene (moon) and to the roots...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gay: Encyclopedia Ii - Gay - Etymology
The word started to acquire sexual connotations in the late 17th century, being used with meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Paganism - Etymology
Paganism - Pagan. The term pagan is from Latin paganus, an adjective originally meaning "rural", "rustic" or "of the country". As a nou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesarean Section: Encyclopedia Ii - Caesarean Section - History
Although most believe that Caesar himself was born by C-section, that is not the case. The Ancient Roman C-section was first performed to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bikini: Encyclopedia Ii - Bikini - Bikinis In Modern Culture
It took fifteen years for the bikini to be accepted in the United States. In 1951 bikinis were banned from the Miss World Contest. In 195...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesarean Section: Encyclopedia Ii - Caesarean Section - Indications
Obstetricians or other care-providers recommend caesarean section when vaginal delivery might pose a risk to the mother or baby. Possible...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lunfardo: Encyclopedia Ii - Lunfardo - Modern Buenos Aires Slang
Since the 1970s, it is a matter of debate whether newer additions to the slang of Buenos Aires qualify as lunfardo. Traditionalists argue...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dodona: Encyclopedia Ii - Dodona - Herodotus And The Origins Of Dodona
Herodotus (Histories 2:54-57) was told by priests at Egyptian Thebes in the 5th century BC "that two priestesses had been carried away fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lilith: Encyclopedia Ii - Lilith - Akkadian Mythology
Lilith - Kiskil-lilla. Lilith has been identified with ki-sikil-lil-la-ke4, a female demon in the Sumerian prologue to the Gilgamesh ep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heresy Of Peor: Encyclopedia Ii - Heresy Of Peor - Ba‘al Pe‘or
These, and the biblical back-references, are the only ancient records referring to Ba‘al Pe‘or. There is no way of knowing whether Ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anagram: Encyclopedia Ii - Anagram - Astronomy
Perhaps the only practical use to which anagrams have been turned is to be found in the transpositions in which some of the astronomers o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Mumbai: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Mumbai - Ancient Times
The present day Mumbai city region was originally made up of seven small isles. The islands were Bombay, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kokopelli: Encyclopedia Ii - Kokopelli - Origins And Development
Kokopelli has been worshipped since at least the time of the Ancient Pueblo Peoples. The first known images of him appear on Hohokam pott...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Terms
The English language's original word for "woman" was Old English wīf, akin to German Weib; it later became the modern word "wife." The m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Legal Rights Of Women Historically
Some early legal systems that are the antecedents of modern systems formalized female dependency. Woman - Biblical law. In the Mosaic l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Biology And Sex
Biological factors are not the sole determinants of whether persons are considered, or consider themselves, women. Some women can have ab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Culture And Gender Roles
Main article: gender role In many prehistoric cultures, women assumed a particular cultural role. In hunter-gatherer societies, women wer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Biology And Sex
Biological factors are not the sole determinants of whether persons are considered, or consider themselves, women. Some women can have ab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Legal Rights Of Women Historically
Some early legal systems that are the antecedents of modern systems formalized female dependency. Woman - Biblical law. In the Mosaic l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Woman: Encyclopedia Ii - Woman - Culture And Gender Roles
Main article: gender role In many prehistoric cultures, women assumed a particular cultural role. In hunter-gatherer societies, women wer...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Iv - W
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages IV - W . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. ...   » Read the article