enclave
Y
[en-kleyv, ahn-]
D
–noun
1. a country, or esp., an outlying portion of a country, entirely or mostly surrounded
by
the territory of another country.
2. any small, distinct area or group enclosed or isolated within a larger one:
a [Chinese]-speaking enclave in [London].
–verb (used with object)
3. to isolate or enclose (esp. territory) within a foreign or uncongenial (不情投意合) environment; make an enclave of: The desert enclaved the little settlement.
C
Pronounce it either EN-KLAIV or AHN-KLAIV. It means "a group or political entity surrounded by a larger country or another entity": [Little Norway] is an enclave in southern [Brooklyn].
Kenneth Branagh's attractive, intelligent reading of Shakespeare's As You Like It deserves a look. He transplants the action to
an imagined self-governing enclave
of
19th-century [British merchants]
in Japan. Brian Blessed doubles as both the wicked Duke Frederick and his virtuous brother, Duke Senior: driven from power in a palace coup to seek exile in the forest.
colossal
mogul magnate czar tycoon
regent prexy
despot vassal
villein
a serf in [feudalism]
paean
is [at] some level a [paean] of [praise] [to] the fortitude and moral courage that
[paeon] a prosodic foot in verse - ---
[peon] social have-nots
Deluge
Y
[en-kleyv, ahn-]
D
–noun
1. a country, or esp., an outlying portion of a country, entirely or mostly surrounded
by
the territory of another country.
2. any small, distinct area or group enclosed or isolated within a larger one:
a [Chinese]-speaking enclave in [London].
–verb (used with object)
3. to isolate or enclose (esp. territory) within a foreign or uncongenial (不情投意合) environment; make an enclave of: The desert enclaved the little settlement.
C
Pronounce it either EN-KLAIV or AHN-KLAIV. It means "a group or political entity surrounded by a larger country or another entity": [Little Norway] is an enclave in southern [Brooklyn].
Kenneth Branagh's attractive, intelligent reading of Shakespeare's As You Like It deserves a look. He transplants the action to
an imagined self-governing enclave
of
19th-century [British merchants]
in Japan. Brian Blessed doubles as both the wicked Duke Frederick and his virtuous brother, Duke Senior: driven from power in a palace coup to seek exile in the forest.
colossal
mogul magnate czar tycoon
regent prexy
despot vassal
villein
a serf in [feudalism]
paean
is [at] some level a [paean] of [praise] [to] the fortitude and moral courage that
[paeon] a prosodic foot in verse - ---
[peon] social have-nots
Deluge
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