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Allin

elements

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈɛl.ɪ.mənts//
  • //ˈɛl.ə.mənts//

The weather, such as wind or rain; environmental conditions considered as a source of danger, wear, etc.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of elementplural of element

noun

  1. 1

    The weather, such as wind or rain; environmental conditions considered as a source of danger, wear, etc.

    This artifact was found deep in a cave where it was protected from the elements.

    Shelter from the elements is a basic survival need for humans.

  2. 2

    The basic tenets of an area of knowledge, basics, fundamentals.

  3. 3

    The bread and wine of the Eucharist.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).