Of high value or worth. / Regarded with love or tenderness. / (derogatory) Treated with too much reverence. / (informal, derogatory) Blasted; damned. / (derogatory) Contrived to be cute or charming.

Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.

Very; an intensifier.

(manner) In a precise manner; exactly. / (focus) Used to provide emphasis.

(physics, chemistry) The international, standard conditions used to aid reproducibility; a temperature of 0 °C (273.15 K) and a pressure of 1 atmosphere (101.325 kPa). Abbreviated as STP.

The slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic, resulting from precession of the earth's axis of rotation, and causing the equinoxes to occur earlier each year

(uncountable) Precedence. / (physics, countable) The wobbling motion of the axis of a spinning body when there is an external force acting on the axis.

A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute. / (computing, networking) A syncword.

(intransitive) To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.

Ecclesiastes, the twenty-first book of the Old Testament. / (rare) A male given name from English. / (rare) A surname from Middle English. / A nickname.