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Definition: Christening |
ChristeningNoun1. Giving a Christian name at baptism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "christening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | CHRISTENING. Erasing the name of the true maker from a stolen watch, and engraving a fictitious one in its place. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rite | Baptism, christening, chrism; circumcision; baptismal regeneration; font. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Christening |
| English words defined with "christening": baptismal name ♦ Christian name. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "christening": Cockney School ♦ DEMURE ♦ Godfathers ♦ Misers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "christening": Christen. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Tonight you can do me the honor of christening my forks (Becket; writing credit: Edward Anhalt; Jean Anouilh) I was christened Chris but was cross at the christening. I've been Chris Cross and cross Chris ever since (Sing Me a Love Song; writing credit: Sig Herzig; Harry Sauber) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Christening and Launching Kaiser Wilhelm's Yacht 'Meteor' (1902) Trouble at the Christening (1900) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Christening ceremony of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships FAIRWEATHER and RAINIER. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Poses with the christening bottle, just before Vincennes was launched, at the Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Plant, Quincy, Massachusetts, 17 July 1943. As Miss Harriet Virginia Kimmell, Daughter of the Mayor of Vincennes, Indiana, she had also sponsored the previous USS Vincennes (CA-44), launched on 21 May 1936. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Sliding down the building ways during her launching, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 20 November 1919. Note group on the christening stand in the lower right, including the ship's sponsor, Mrs. R.T. Zane (at left), a Navy Captain lifting his hat to the ship, a motion picture cameraman and a Navy bugler. Credit: NAVY. |  | Mrs. Frederick B. Warder christens the submarine, during launching ceremonies at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 9 July 1960. Others present are (from left to right): Mrs. C. Pattisen, Lieutenant Dale E. Deverspicke (Chaplains' Corps), and Captain Henry P. Rumble. Note that the christening took place at Thresher's stern. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Mrs. Henry Williams (Maude Steers), ship's Sponsor and wife of Captain Henry Williams, USN (CC), with her party at Flusser's christening ceremonies, Squantum, Massachusetts, 7 November 1919. Mrs. Williams is standing toward the left, holding flowers. Credit: NAVY. |  | Ship's Sponsor, Miss Louise Leahy, poses with the christening bottle during launching ceremonies at the American Bridge Company shipyard, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, 5 April 1944. LST-662's port bow is directly behind her. Credit: NAVY. |
 | African American baby, full-length portrait, wearing christening gown. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Christening of daughter of Manuel L. Quezon, at Cathedral of Manila, by Archbishop O'Doherty. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Str. Seeandbee, the christening. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Baby in christening gown. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Christening" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.13% of the time. "Christening" is used about 89 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.13% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 5.62% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.12% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "christening": christening gown. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "christening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | doop (baptism). (various references) | |
Albanian | pagëzim (baptism, baptizing, epiphany). (various references) | |
Arabic | حفلة التعميد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кръщение (baptism), кръщавка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 洗礼 (BAPTISM, Baptismal, Christen, Christened). (various references) | |
Czech | křest (baptism). (various references) | |
Danish | daabskjole (baptismal gown, christening robe), daabsfrakke (christening gown). (various references) | |
Dutch | doopsel (baptism), doop (baptism). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bapto (baptism). (various references) | |
Finnish | ristiäiset, kaste (baptism, dew). (various references) | |
French | baptême. (various references) | |
German | taufe (baptism, baptize, launching). (various references) | |
Greek | βάπτισμα (baptism), βάφτιση (baptism), βαπτίσια, βαφτίσια. (various references) | |
Hungarian | keresztelő (baptist). (various references) | |
Italian | battesimo (baptism). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 命名式 , 命名 (naming). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | めいめいしき, めいめい (dark, divine, each, individual, invisible, naming). (various references) | |
Manx | bashtey (baptism, baptize, christen). (various references) | |
Norwegian | dåp. (various references) | |
Papiamen | boutismo (baptism). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isteningchray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | batismo (baptism). (various references) | |
Russian | крещение (baptism, baptizing, immersion, twelfth day, Twelfth-day). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krštenje (baptism, baptizing). (various references) | |
Spanish | bautizo (baptism), bautismo (baptism, baptizing), bauti/zo. (various references) | |
Swedish | dop (baptism), barndop. (various references) | |
Turkish | vaftiz için olan, vaftiz (baptism, baptismal), ad koyma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хрестини, хрещення (baptism, immersion). (various references) | |
Welsh | bedydd (baptism). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | baptisma, baptismus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "christening": christenings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "christening": rechristening. (additional references) | |
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"Christening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: christenin, christenyng, christining. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "christening" (pronounced kri"suning or kri"sning) |
| 6 | -i" s u n i ng | glistening, listening. |
| 5 | -s u n i ng | coarsening, fastening, hastening, jettisoning, lessening, loosening, worsening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | apportioning, abandoning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, happening, hardening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, leavening, lengthening, lightening, likening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, whitening, widening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: centrings, enriching, inserting, reshining, richening, sintering, snitching, trenching. | |
-3 letters: centring, christen, christie, cinerins, citherns, cithrens, citrines, cresting, crinites, enticing, etchings, ginniest, grinches, heisting, ichnites, igniters, inciters, inhering, inherits, inshrine, intrench, itchings, nighties, nitchies, reciting, resining, resiting, retching, righties, scenting, sennight, shirting, shrining, snitcher, stingier, thinners, tigerish. | |
-4 letters: censing, chining, chitins, cinerin, cistern, cithern. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: christenings. | |
+2 letters: rechristening. | |
+5 letters: anticholinergics. | |
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