serene, a. calm, placid, composed, tranquil, unruffled, unclouded.

serenity, n. calmness, composure, tranquillity; cloudlessness, clearness.

serf, n. bondman, thrall, slave, bond servant, villein.

serfdom, n. thralldom, slavery, subjection, bondage, servitude.

serious, a. grave, earnest, thoughtful, solemn, staid, sober, demure, saturnine; momentous, important, weighty, grave; dangerous, alarming, critical.

seriousness, n. gravity. Antonyms: levity, frivolity, triviality.

sermon, n. homily, exhortation (religious), discourse. a.s.sociated words: homiletics, homiletic, homilist.

serpent, n. snake, reptile, ophidian; basilisk, c.o.c.katrice, amphisbaena. a.s.sociated Words: ophiology, ophiolatry, ophiophagous, ophiography, herpetology, ophidian, ophiologic, ophiomorphous, herpetologist, herpetotomy, herpetotomist, ophiologist, ophiomancy, echidna, echidnine, fang, uraeus, serpentry, reptilian, anguiform, anguine.

serpentine, a. serpentlike, subtle, sinuous, winding, zigzag, tortuous.

servant, n. dependent, subaltern, subordinate, helper, servitor, attendant, retainer; domestic, maid, menial, drudge, valet, flunky, groom, coistril, lackey, underling, f.a.g, coolie, butler, factotum, orderly, soubrette, equerry.

serve, v. attend, wait upon; promote, advance, contribute, conduce to; subserve; treat, requite; satisfy, suffice, content, answer, do; deal, distribute.

service, n. labor, employment, office, duty, business, function, ministry; ritual, ceremony, rite; advantage, benefit, avail, use, utility; homage, obeisance.

servile, a. slavish, abject, cringing, groveling, obsequious; dependent, enslaved.

servitude, n. bondage, enslavement.

set, v. place, put, fix, establish, locate, station; adjust, regulate, adapt; oppose, obstruct; appoint, a.s.sign.

set, a. fixed, immovable, rigid, firm, obstinate, inflexible, unyielding; regular, uniform, established, prescribed, ordained, appointed.

set, n. clique, group, cla.s.s, party, coterie, circle, band, company.

set aside. displace, supersede.

setback, n. (Colloq.) backset, check, repulse, reverse, relapse.

set-off, n. offset; counterclaim, equivalent.

set-out, n. display, equipage, rig, turnout; (Colloq.) preparations.

settle, v. fix, establish; ordain, install; adjust, determine, decide; sink, subside, fall; precipitate; quiet, calm, pacify, tranquillize; colonize, people.

settlement, n. establishment; ordination, installation; colonization, colony; adjustment; subsidence.

settler, n. pioneer, colonist.

settlings, n. pl. sediment, dregs, lees, precipitate, grounds, feculence; foots.

set-to, n. (Colloq.) contest, conflict, encounter, combat, fight, scrimmage.

seven, n. heptade. a.s.sociated Words: septenary, septuple, septette, septenate, septemvirate, septemvir, heptarchy.

sevenfold, a. septuple.

seven languages. a.s.sociated Word: heptaglot.

seven-sided, a. heptagonal, septilateral.

seven-sided figure. heptagon, heptahedron.

seventy, n. a.s.sociated Words: septuagenary, septuagesimal, Septuagint.

seventy years. a.s.sociated Words: septuagenarian, septuagenary.

seven years. septennate. a.s.sociated Words: septennial, septennially, septenary.

sever, v. part, divide, disunite, separate, disjoin, detach, disconnect.

several, a. various, diverse, manifold, divers, sundry.

severe, a. drastic, harsh, stern, rigorous, exact, cruel; serious, sedate, grave, austere, sober; distressing, afflictive, sharp, acute, violent, intense; inexorable, stern, exacting, peremptory, unrelenting, unmerciful; plain, austere, unembellished, unadorned; methodical, strict, precise, exact.

severity, n. rigor, rigorousness, harshness, exactness, cruelty; seriousness, gravity; violence, intensity, acuteness; austerity, simplicity, plainness; exactness, strictness, preciseness.

sew, v. st.i.tch; baste.

sewer, n. a.s.sociated Words: sewerage, sewage.

sewing woman. seamstress.

s.e.x, n. a.s.sociated Words: s.e.xual, gender, bis.e.xual, unis.e.xual, epicene, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditism, androgyne, androgyny, gonad.

s.e.xless, a. as.e.xual, agamous.

s.e.xton, n. janitor (of a church), sacristan, sacrist.

s.e.xual desire. l.u.s.t, venereal appet.i.te, s.e.xual appet.i.te, carnal appet.i.te, lasciviousness, venery, concupiscence, salacity, salaciousness, aphrodisia; satyriasis (immoderate); nymphomania (morbid in women); (of animals) strus, rut, heat, struation. Antonym: anaphrodisia.

a.s.sociated Words: aphrodisiac, antaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, amative, amativeness, amorous, amorousness, amatory, antiorgastic, philter, strual, sedative, erotic, erotomania, sadism, satyromaniac.

s.e.xual intercourse. coition, copulation, venery, s.e.xual conjunction; (illicit) fornication, bawdry; prost.i.tution, putage; adultery; incest; rape; (unnatural) sodomy, b.u.g.g.e.ry, pederasty; (of birds) tread.

Antonyms: continence, chast.i.ty, virginity. a.s.sociated Words: venereal, incontinence, incontinent, unchast.i.ty, copulatory, gonorrhea, clap, syphilis, cenogamy, infibulation, intromittent, access, nonaccess, o.r.g.a.s.m, fecundation, impregnate, impregnation, copulate, lecher, lechery, lecherous, libertine, libertinism, house of a.s.signation, bawd, procurer, bawdry, pander, catamite.

s.e.xual love. venery, amorousness, amativeness.

s.e.xual organs. genitals, privates, private parts, organs of generation, pudenda, virilia; (male) p.e.n.i.s, t.e.s.t.i.c.l.es; (female external) v.u.l.v.a, pudendum; (internal) womb, uterus, ovaries, v.a.g.i.n.a, c.l.i.toris. a.s.sociated Words: agamic, agamous, protandric, protandrism, nympha, maidenhead, pudic, p.u.b.es, spermatheca, gonad, masturbation, infibulation.

s.e.xual power. virility; fecundity. a.s.sociated Word: emasculate.