List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
noun noun (generic) archaic
- galley setting
- palanquin bearer
- fellow, colleague, comrade
archaic noun noun (generic)
- Western books (esp. Dutch; in the Edo period)
obsolete reading rarely used kanji form archaic noun noun (generic)
- Japan
- Yamato Province
noun noun (generic) archaic
- partly burned charcoal
- servant boy at a brothel or teahouse
noun noun (generic) archaic
- superficial knowledge, shallow wisdom
- small fief
noun (suffix) noun (generic) archaic noun
- a little more than, a little over, upwards of
- excess, surplus, remainder
noun noun (generic) archaic
- rumour (of a love affair), rumor, romance, scandal
- bad reputation
archaic noun noun (generic)
- blue telephone, (blue) public telephone
obsolete reading colloquial noun noun (generic) archaic derogatory
- bluebottle fly
- little pest
astronomy noun noun (generic) archaic
- constellation
- mansion (any of the Chinese constellations used to divide the ecliptic into 28 positions)
- Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)