To declare freely and openly; to assert. / To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. / To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.

(obsolete) evidence; declaration

A town in Warwickshire, England, birthplace of William Shakespeare. Often used as a byword for a particularly idyllic or historic town.

(astronomy) The region of the Universe in alignment with the galactic plane of the Milky Way where few galaxies were initially seen due to dust interfering with the view of ground-based telescopes.

plural of avocado

plural of avocet

(nonstandard, hypercorrect) plural of avocado

(management, accounting) An expense one has avoided incurring.

In an avocational manner.

A unit of weight in the avoirdupois system of weights, defined as 0.45359237 kg in most of the English-speaking world since 1959.