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intellectual | mora |

As an adjective intellectual

is belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

As a noun intellectual

is an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

As a proper noun mora is

or mora can be .

intellectual

English

(wikipedia intellectual) (Webster 1913)

Alternative forms

* intellectuall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
  • Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
  • Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
  • Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
  • (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
  • * 1805 , William Wordsworth, The Prelude , Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
    • I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life ...

    Antonyms

    * non-intellectual

    Derived terms

    * anti-intellectual * intellectual capital * intellectual disability * intellectual honesty * intellectuality * intellectual journey * intellectual property * intellectual rights * organic intellectual

    Related terms

    * intellect * intellectualize * intelligence * intelligent * overintellectualize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
  • (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

    • Derived terms

    * public intellectual

    See also

    * intelligentsia * egghead * nerd * geek * highbrow

    mora

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
  • (poetics) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
  • * 1918 , Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures , volume 35, page 22:
    • In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae' and a light syllable equivalent to one ' mora .
  • (phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).

    • See also

    * syllable

    Derived terms

    * bimoraic * monomoraic * moraic * moraically * nonmoraic

    Etymology 2

    New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
  • * 1904 , W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest
    • At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any fish of the genus Mora
  • # The common mora
    • Synonyms
    * (common mora) ribaldo, (goodly-eyed cod) (US), (googly-eyed cod) (NZ)

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (-)
  • (finger-counting game)

    • Etymology 5

    From the (etyl) .

    Noun

    (morai)
  • An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.

    • Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals ----