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Curiosity
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(curiosities) 1. Curiosity is a desire to know about something. Ryle accepted more out of curiosity than anything else... To satisfy our own curiosity we traveled to Baltimore. N-UNCOUNT 2. A curiosity is something that is unusual, interesting, and fairly rare. There is much to see in the way of castles, curiosities, and museums... N-COUNT
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noun (plural -ties) Date: 14th century 1. desire to know: a. inquisitive interest in others' concerns ; nosiness b. interest leading to inquiry intellectual ~ 2. archaic undue nicety or fastidiousness 3. a. one that arouses interest especially for uncommon or exotic characteristics b. an unusual knickknack ; curio c. a curious trait or aspect ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (pl. -ies) 1 an eager desire to know; inquisitiveness. 2 strangeness. 3 a strange, rare, or interesting object. Etymology: ME f. OF curiouset{eacute} f. L curiositas -tatis (as CURIOUS) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. любознательность; пытливость curiosity about unknown lands —- желание узнать побольше о неизвестных странах 2. любопытство to be eaten up with curiosity —- быть снедаемым любопытством I was dying of curiosity —- я умирал от любопытства 3. странность 4. редкая антикварная вещь old curiosity shop —- антикварный магазин, "лавка древностей" Id: curiosity killed a cat —- любопытство до добра не доведет ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) любопытство 2) любознательность 3) (а curiosity) диковина, редкость 4) странность 5) антикварная, редкая вещь 6) attr. антикварный - curiosity shop CURIOSITY shop антикварный магазин; лавка древностей ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 the desire to know about something, or to know about a lot of different things + abou (Children have a natural curiosity about the world around them.) out of curiosity (Just out of curiosity, how old are you? | burning/bursting with curiosity (=having an extremely strong desire to know something) | idle curiosity (=the desire to know something that you do not need to know)) (It's not just idle curiosity. | satisfy your curiosity (=find out what you want to know)) (I just had to satisfy my curiosity, so I opened the parcel.) 2 something that is interesting because it is unusual or strange (His house was full of old maps and other curiosities.) 3 curiosity killed the cat an expression used to tell someone not to ask questions about something that does not concern them ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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