genuflection, genuflexion
(noun) the act of bending the knees in worship or reverence
Source: WordNet® 3.1
genuflection (countable and uncountable, plural genuflections)
the act of genuflecting
Source: Wiktionary
Gen`u*flec"tion, n. Etym: [F. génuflexion, fr. LL. genuflexio, fr. L. genu knee + flexio a bending, fr. flectere, flexum, to bend. See Knee, Flexible.]
Definition: The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship. Bp. Stillingfleet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
