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An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior or employer, public or legally private). An elected official is a person who is an official ...
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 ...
Chinese names for China, aside from Zhongguo, include Zhōnghuá ( 中华; 中華; 'central beauty'), Huáxià ( 华夏; 華夏; 'beautiful grandness'), Shénzhōu ( 神州; 'divine state') and Jiǔzhōu ( 九州; 'nine states'). While official notions of Chinese nationality do not make any particular reference to ethnicity, common names for ...
The eight islands refers to the creation of the main eight islands of Japan by the gods Izanami and Izanagi in Japanese mythology as well as the fact that eight was a synonym for "many". Yashima (八島 or 八洲), "Eight (or Many) Islands" Fusō (扶桑), a mythical tree or a mysterious land located to the East of China. The term later became ...
t. e. A transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. [1] Some transgender people who desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another identify as transsexual.
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Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period. 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. For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The ...
Officially assigned code elements. The following is a complete list of the 249 current officially assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes, with the following columns: Code: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, pointing to its ISO 3166-2 article; Country name: English short name officially used by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA)