When was a word first used?

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When was a word first used?

“Before the 12th century” is the oldest category listed. It’s important to note that the tool tracks the “first known use date” of a word, but its first usage might actually be older. “The date most often does not mark the very first time that the word was used in English,” Merriam-Webster notes.

What is the first word ever written?

Also according to Wiki answers, the first word ever uttered was “Aa,” which meant “Hey!” This was said by an australopithecine in Ethiopia more than a million years ago.

Is humongous a real word?

Humongous is an American slang word coined in the 1970’s, copying more proper words like tremendous or enormous. If you want to describe something that’s so big it’s hard to really measure, like the national debt or the number of cells in your body, you can use the world humongous.

What is a humongous?

: extremely large : huge a humongous building humongous amounts of money.

What is homogeneous?

1 : of the same or a similar kind or nature. 2 : of uniform structure or composition throughout a culturally homogeneous neighborhood.

What is the difference between huge and humongous?

As adjectives the difference between huge and humongous is that huge is very large while humongous is (informal) of an extremely large size.

What is another word for humongous?

What is another word for humongous?

astronomic astronomical
galactic gargantuan
giant gigantesque
gigantic grand
herculean heroic

Is gargantuan a word?

Gargantua is the name of a giant king in François Rabelais’s 16th-century satiric novel Gargantua. The scale of everything connected with Gargantua gave rise to the adjective “gargantuan,” which since Shakespeare’s time has been used of anything of tremendous size or volume.

What does behemoth mean?

1 often capitalized, religion : a mighty animal described in Job as an example of the power of God. 2 : something of monstrous size, power, or appearance a behemoth truck.

What is the other word for big?

What is another word for big?

large enormous
giant gigantic
huge immense
massive considerable
grand great

What does big mean in slang?

BIG — Born in Game. BIG — Bold in God. BIG — Blind Idiot God. BIG — Great, really good. BIG — Books Instead of Guns.

What do you call a good person?

good-natured

  • acquiescent.
  • agreeable.
  • altruistic.
  • amiable.
  • benevolent.
  • bighearted.
  • breezy.
  • charitable.