APOSTOLATE

  

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APOSTOLATE

Definition: APOSTOLATE

APOSTOLATE

Noun

1. The dignity or office of the pope, as the holder of the apostolic see.

2. The dignity, office, or mission, of an apostle; apostleship.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "APOSTOLATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Apostolate \A*pos"to*late\, noun. [Latin expression apostolatus, from apostolus. See Apostle.]. (Websters 1913)


Commercial Usage: APOSTOLATE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Called and Gifted for the 3rd Millennium: Reflections of the U.S. Catholic Bishops on the 30th Anniversary of the Decree on the Apostolate of the lai (reference)

  • Opus Dei in the Church: An Ecclesiological Study of the Life and Apostolate of Opus Dei (reference)

  • The apostolate of Christian renewal (reference)

  • The apostolate of holy motherhood (reference)

  • The hidden hand of God : the life of Veronica O'Brien and our common apostolate (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: APOSTOLATE

"APOSTOLATE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "APOSTOLATE" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: APOSTOLATE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

apostolate holy motherhood

9

apostolate sign times

8

apostolate

5

apostolate family fatima

3

apostolate consecration family

2

apostolate holy relic

2

apostolate maronites national

2

world apostolate fatima

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: APOSTOLATE

Language Translations for "APOSTOLATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

apostolaat (apostleship), apostelskap (apostleship). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

apostolaat (apostleship), apostelschap (apostleship). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

apostoleco (apostleship). (various references)

   

French

  

apostolat (apostleship). (various references)

   

German

  

Apostolat (apostleship). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

apostolkodás (apostleship), apostoli küldetés (apostleship), apostoli hivatás (apostleship), új tanok hirdetése (apostleship). (various references)

   

Italian

  

apostolato (apostleship). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ostyllys (apostleship). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apostolateay

   

Portuguese

  

apostolado, dignidadeefunçãodeapóstolo (apostleship). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

apostolat (apostleship). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

apostolado (apostleship). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

apostollük, havarilik görevi, havarilik (discipleship). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

апостольська місія, апостольство (apostleship). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chức tông đ" sự lãnh đạo trong cuộc tuyên truyền vận động. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: APOSTOLATE

Derivations

Words beginning with "APOSTOLATE": apostolates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"APOSTOLATE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apostalate, apostolates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "APOSTOLATE"

Words rhyming with "APOSTOLATE" (pronounced 'A*pos"to*late'): Absquatulate, Acidulate, Aculeolate, Adulate, Alveolate, Ambulate, Amylate, Appendiculate, Aristulate, Assibilate, Assimulate, Astipulate, Avolate, Barbellate, Barbellulate, Belate, Biarticulate, Biauriculate, Biflabellate, Biflagellate, Bifoliolate, Bimaculate, Binoculate, Binoxalate, Binucleolate, Biocellate, Bipupillate, Bombilate, Boncilate, Bookplate, Bracteolate, Breastplate, Bullate, Bursiculate, Calceolate, Campanulate, Cancellate, Cantillate, Capitellate, Capreolate, Caprylate, Catenulate, Cephalate, Chelate, Chocolate, Cholate, Circumambulate, Circumundulate, Clavellate, Confabulate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: APOSTOLATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-o-o-p-s-t-t"

-2 letters: apostate, paletots, potatoes.

-3 letters: apostle, palates, paletot, pelotas, peltast, pottles, tapalos, tapetal, teapots, tootles.

-4 letters: alates, aptest, aslope, latest, lattes, lottes, lottos, osteal, palate, palest, palets, pastel, pelota, petals, plates, pleats, postal, potato, pottle, pottos, saloop, salpae, sapota, sapote, septal, solate, staple, statal, tapalo, tapeta, teapot, tepals, tootle, totals.

-5 letters: alate, aloes, altos, ataps.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-o-o-p-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: apostolates.

 

+2 letters: postneonatal.

 

+3 letters: extrapolators, paleobotanist.

 

+4 letters: extrapolations, operationalist, paleobotanists, posterolateral, progestational, spatiotemporal.

 

+5 letters: allotetraploids, autotetraploids, operationalists, osteopathically, postdevaluation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: APOSTOLATE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 50 4F 53 54 4F 4C 41 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .--.    ---    ...    -    ---    .-..    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010000 01001111 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001100 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#80 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#79 &#76 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0050 004F 0053 0054 004F 004C 0041 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35504953544946355439

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Non-English Dictionaries with "APOSTOLATE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Afrikaans

woordeboek, definisie, vertalingAfrikaans, Zuidafrikaans, afrikansa lingvo, afrikansa, d'Afrikanders, afrikanisch, Afrikander, Afrikaander, dél-afrikai holland nyelv, africaans, güney afrika hollanda lehçesi, бурська мова, người Nam phi, người H lan ở Kếp

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatieNederlands, Hollands, néerlandais, holländisch, holland, olandese, Ollanish, Germaanish, holandês, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, holandés, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã"

Esperanto

vortaro, difino, tradukoesperanton, espéranto, eszperanto, eszperantó, esperanto, esperanto dili, tiếng etperantô

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionFrans, Franse taal, français, französisch, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, DefinitionDuits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, Duitse, allemand, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, alemán, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításHongaar, Hongaars, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, húngaro, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneItaliaans, Italiaan, Italianer, italien, italienisch, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtmanx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoPortugees, portugais, portugiesisch, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcireRoemeen, Roemeens, Roumain, rumäne, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, rumano, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaanse taal, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeTurks, turque, türkisch, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняOekrains, Oekrainer, Oekraïens, ukraino, ukraina, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchVietnamees, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, TranslationEngels, anglan, anglais, englisch, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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