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YAHOO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
search engine (a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet))
Domain usage:
trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
Synonyms:
bumpkin; chawbacon; hayseed; hick; rube; yahoo; yokel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("yahoo" is a kind of...):
rustic (an unsophisticated country person)
