noun / ~する noun:

• ground levelling (leveling)
• laying the groundwork; making preparations; smoothing the way

noun:

• roller; road leveller

noun:

• in company; among people ［じんちゅう］ ➜ 人中【ひとなか】
• philtrum; vertical groove between the nose and the upper lip - Anatomy term

noun:

• state-sponsored temples, particularly those favored and protected by the shogunate during the Kamakura period

noun:

• kanji "leg" or "foot" radical at left
• being (too) late; the past; the previous ［あとへん］

expression:

• (with) great vigour (from the way splitting bamboo goes all down the stick); irresistible force - idiom

noun:

• Galeocerdo (genus in the family Carcharhinidae whose sole member is the tiger shark)

noun:

• Paracanthurus (genus in the family Acanthuridae whose sole member is the palette surgeonfish)

expression / noun:

• the strong overwhelming the weak; completing various things without difficulty; Mt. Tai crushes an egg [literal] - four character idiom

noun / ~の noun:

• grandfather
• old man ［おおじ］ ➜ 爺
• kyogen mask used for the role of an old man ［おおじ］

noun / ~の noun:

• head; chief

noun:

• chairman; governor; president ［主席］
• top student; head of the class ［首席］
• top seat; first desk (in orchestra)

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• which can exist solely due to the presence of; whose existence is determined entirely by; which owes everything to

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to think hard; to brood over; to worry too much (about); to torment oneself (with the thought of)

noun / ~する noun:

• making a country prosperous; prosperous country
• Kōkoku era (of the Southern Court) (1340.4.28-1346.12.8)

noun:

• man of this world; the real world; temporal things
• cast-off cicada shell; cicada ［空蝉・虚蝉］

noun:

• funori; glue plant; marine alga of the genus Gloiopeltis
• funori; glue used as sizing for textiles

adverb:

• at last; at length ➜ やっと
• barely; just; by the skin of one's teeth

interjection:

• yo-ho!; heave-ho! ［やっとこさ・やっとこせ］ ➜ やっとこまかせ

noun:

• system for showing appreciation to the author of a web-site; virtual applause; web-applause [literal] - sometimes abbr. to 拍手

suffix noun:

• intimate (or disdainful) suffix used after a person's name (or the base of an adjective describing that person)

noun:

• edict from a senior official in government or military which had the status of a binding official document

noun:

• literary form imparting the nuance of polite speech (with sentences ending in "desu" and verbs ending in "masu") ➜ ですます体

noun:

• type of imperial banquet held during the Heian period and later
• being dead drunk; being very drunk - original meaning - archaism

noun:

• thrice moving from house to house
• the importance of creating an environment conducive to a child's learning - abbreviation ➜ 三遷の教え

noun:

• winter daylight; winter sunlight - obscure term
• trying to make the most of each day; devoting oneself to one's parents - obscure term

expression / noun or verb acting prenominally:

• which can exist solely due to the presence of; whose existence is determined entirely by; which owes everything to - emphatic version of あっての ➜ あっての・こそ

adverb:

• ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?") - emph. form of 一体 - four character idiom