Pronounced: core-ee-AY-shuhs, adj (the accented syllable is a long ‘a’ sound)
Notes: I don’t think I’ve ever run across this word
Yesterday’s word
The word uberty means “abundance; fruitfulness”
First usage
The word goes way back to the early 1400s
Background / Comments
Pretty straightforward; our word comes the Latin word uber (rich; fruitful; abundant). Uber is a word we heard a lot these days; in slang usage, it appears to mean something more like “super”: an uber-geek is a kind of ultimate or super geek.
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