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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap in area |
| Synonyms: | allowance, assart, clearance, defoliated area, dell, empty space, expanse, gap, glade, headroom, margin, open space, opening |
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | liberate; free from uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | absolve, acquit, clarify, defog, discharge, disculpate, emancipate, exculpate, exonerate, explain, find innocent, let go, let off, let off the hook, release, relieve, set free, vindicate |
| Antonyms: | condemn, find guilty, sentence |
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass over, often by jumping |
| Synonyms: | hurdle, leap, miss, negotiate, overleap, surmount, vault |
| Antonyms: | hit, run into |
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | profit |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, acquire, clean up, earn, gain, gather, get, glean, make, net, obtain, pick up, realize, reap, receive, secure, win |
| Main Entry: | aisle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passageway dividing something |
| Synonyms: | alley, artery, avenue, clearing, corridor, course, egress, gangway, hallway, ingress, lane, opening, passage, path, walk, way |
| Notes: | the bride actually walks up the nave (from Latin navis 'ship') of a church, not one of the aisles (one of the two parts parallel to the nave) |
| Main Entry: | colonization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | settlement of area |
| Synonyms: | clearing, establishment, expanding, expansion, founding, immigration, migration, opening up, peopling, pioneering, populating, settlement, settling, squatting, transplanting |
| Main Entry: | colony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community |
| Synonyms: | antecedents, clearing, dependency, dominion, mandate, new land, offshoot, outpost, possession, protectorate, province, satellite, settlement, subject state, swarm, territory |
| Main Entry: | lot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of property |
| Synonyms: | acreage, allotment, apportionment, area, block, clearing, division, field, frontage, parcel, part, patch, percentage, piece, plat, plot, plottage, portion, property, real estate, tract |
| Main Entry: | region |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area, domain; scope |
| Synonyms: | arena, bailiwick, belt, block, clearing, country, demesne, district, division, domain, dominion, environs, expanse, field, ghetto, ground, inner city, jungle, land, locale, locality, neck of woods, neighborhood, part, place, precinct, province, quarter, range, realm, scene, section, sector, shire, sphere, stomping ground, suburb, terrain, territory, tract, turf*, vicinity, walk, ward, world, zone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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