id

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a state in the Rocky Mountains
  2. noun a card or badge used to identify the bearer
  3. noun (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity

Etymology

From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

Idaho, Gem State

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