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  • 11grandeur — n. 1. Greatness, vastness, immensity, loftiness, elevation, imposing character. 2. Majesty, loftiness, stateliness, state, dignity, pomp, magnificence, augustness, splendor …

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  • 12line# — line n Line, row, rank, file, echelon, tier are comparable when meaning a series of things arranged in continuous or uniform order. Line means little more than this, except when it is attached to a specific application that increases its… …

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  • 13majesty — maj•es•ty [[t]ˈmædʒ ə sti[/t]] n. pl. ties 1) regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur 2) supreme greatness or authority; sovereignty 3) gov (usu. cap.) a title of a sovereign (usu. prec. by his, her, or your) 4) gov a royal …

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  • 14majesty — /ˈmædʒəsti / (say majuhstee) noun (plural majesties) 1. regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur. 2. supreme greatness or authority; sovereignty. 3. a royal personage, or royal personages collectively. 4. (usually upper… …

  • 15Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …

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  • 16France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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  • 17United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 18Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

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  • 19arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 20South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …

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