Read full poem →particularly by your Sex, that you must give me leave to explain two or
three difficult terms.
Dictionary Entry
That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary.
In a Sentence
“"Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms."”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. termsterms generalterms twoterms own
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Poetry examples for “terms”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →They rode ; they betted ; made a hundred friends,
And caught the blossoms of the flying terms,
But miss’d the mignonette of Vivian-place,
Read full poem →riers, this to mean sleeping car service, dining car service,
Pullman service, at the same cost and on the same terms
as other passengers.
Read full poem →And was again most apt to my desire.
To please me, what fair terms and sweet words has she!
Great gods! what kisses, and how many ga'[332] she!
Read full poem →And of false-brays,[509] and sallies, and scaladoes.[510]
But, to requite such gulling terms as these,
With words to my profession I reply; 10
Read full poem →But what thou utter'st common sense doth want,--
Half-English words, with fustian terms among,
Much like the burden of a northern song.
Read full poem →But speaks not one wise word throughout the year:
But, to define a gull in terms precise,--
A gull is he which seems and is not wise.[462]
Read full poem →Banjo arrived at Marseilles, Latnah’s place on her own
terms among the boys was a settled thing. But when,
falling in love with Banjo at first sight, she took him as
Read full poem →I watch’d. Her farewell show’d me plain
She loved, on the majestic terms
That she should not be loved again;
Read full poem →Which, sacrificing, is not nice
About the terms of sacrifice,
But offers all, with smiles that say,