chicken
chicken is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adolescence
- adolescent
- adult
- adultness
- affectibility
- age
- alive
- aromatic
- assume
- attain
- come
- core
- cut
- die
- discretion
- enthusiastic
- estate
- excitability
- excitable
- expressive
- fastidious
- flower
- full
- grown
- gushing
- have
- heart
- hearted
- highflying
- impassionable
- impressibility
- impressible
- impressionable
- inmost
- life
- lively
- majority
- man
- manhood
- manly
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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