This week’s theme
Words that appear to be coined after presidential candidates

This week’s words
bident
trumpery
pensive
devi
joe

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(DAY-vee)

MEANING:

noun: A goddess.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Sanskrit devi (goddess). Earliest documented use: 1799.

NOTES:

Devi is her middle name. Really. Kamala means lotus; also the name of a goddess.

USAGE:

“She is in reality a devi with enormous power and titanic strengths.”
Anita Myles; Feminism and the Post-modern Indian Women Novelists in English; Sarup & Sons; 2006.

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