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Definition: Courtship |
CourtshipNoun1. A man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "courtship" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | Bad, bad, will be the fate of the woman who dreams of being courted. She will often think that now he will propose, but often she will be disappointed. Disappointments will follow illusory hopes and fleeting pleasures. For a man to dream of courting, implies that he is not worthy of a companion. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | The mutual attraction between individuals of the opposite sex. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CourtshipSynonyms: courting (n), suit (n), wooing (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Endearment | Courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment; lovemaking; serenading; caterwauling. |
Love | Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship; amourette; free love. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Courtship |
| English words defined with "courtship": bundling ♦ Druery ♦ fandango ♦ love letter, Love suit, Love-making ♦ manakin ♦ prickleback ♦ stickleback. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "courtship": Appetitive Behavior ♦ Canoe, Crabs ♦ Difficulty ♦ Eel ♦ Orchard ♦ Side. (references) |
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Lyrics | He married trouble and had a courtship with a gun. (18 And Life; performing artist: Skid Row) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969) Courtship (1961) The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) A Divorce Courtship (1933) Ko-Ko's Courtship (1928) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The courtship of Ike Standoffish. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A receipt for courtship. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Curtis Estate, the scene of Washington's courtship & etc etc, Pamunkey River, near R.R. to Richmond. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Virginia courtship by Eugene W. Presbrey ; presented by Wm. M. Crane. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wm. H. Crane. A Virginia courtship. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Pope | Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake. |
| They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. | |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements, have no place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to express them in their language. |
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Travel | Djibouti | There are a few local habits to be aware of. For instance, you will typically see men holding hands: this is only a mark of friendship and not courtship. (references) |
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| "Courtship" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.62% of the time. "Courtship" is used about 260 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) | 99.62% | 259 | 18,370 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 260 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "courtship": courtship behaviour ♦ courtship display. 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 "courtship"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të ardhurit rrotull. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مغازلة (courting, philandering), مغازلات, تودد (court, endearment, fawn, woo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ухажване (addresses, attentions, court, gallantry, suit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | známost (connection), námluvy (love making), dvoření. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | parringsspil (courtship behaviour, giving distraction display), parringsleg, parringsadfaerd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bronst (heat, sexual desire), balts (display), balderen (courtship behaviour, giving distraction display). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معاشقه , اظهارعشق (Assault, Court). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | soidin (courtship behaviour, giving distraction display). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | courtoisie (courtesy, courting, courtliness), cour (court, courtyard), parade nuptiale, fréquentation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Werbung (advertisement, advertising, advt, attracting, build up, courting, pre-election publicity, promotion, propaganda, publicity, publicity department, recruitment, suit, winning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ερωτοτροπία (coquetry, flirtation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תקופת "חזור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | udvarlás (addresses, blarney, court, courting, lovemaking, love-making, wooing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | percumbuan (flirtation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corteggiamento (courting, lovemaking), comportamento di parata (courtship behaviour, giving distraction display), parata nuziale, parata di corteggiamento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 求縁 , 求婚 (marriage proposal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きゅう"" (bulb, marriage proposal, old grudge), きゅうえ" (baseball all-star game, eternity, old acquaintance, old grudge, old relationship, reinforcement, relief, rescue, suspending performance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sooree (court, go together, love-making, philander; love affair, suit, wooing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ourtshipcay cortejo (cortege, following, procession, suite, train), corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, cut, cutting, cutting edge, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, nick, pen, scission, score, section, slash, swinery, tailoring), parada nupcial, namoro (bint, carryings-on, court, crush, flame, mash), exibição nupcial. (various references) curte (address, addresses, attention, attentions, bar, close, court, courtyard, enclosure, forecourt, love making, sport, stack yard, suit, yard). (various references) ухаживание (addresses, assiduities, attentions, court, love making). (various references) udvaranje (courting, dalliance, love making, lovemaking, pass, suit). (various references) cortejo (cortege, procession, train). (various references) parningslek. (various references) kur yapma (addresses, courting, flirtation, suit, wooing), kur (addresses, attention, class, course, court, flirt, flirtation, par, pass, rate, rate of exchance, rush, suit, wooing). (various references) залицяння (address, court, flirtation, gallantry, wooing), женихання (court). (various references) sự ve vãn (dalliance, flirtation, wooing), sự tỏ tình (address, love-making), sự tán tỉnh (cajolery, wooing). (various references) carwriaeth (amour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adulationis, blanditiis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "courtship": courtships. (additional references) | |
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"Courtship" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: countship. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "courtship" (pronounced 'Court"ship'): Bardship, Beauship, Cadetship, Chargeship, Childship, Churchship, Clanship, Clerkship, Coheirship, Connoisseurship, Curship, Deanship, flagship, Foreship, Foxship, Friendship, Gladship, hardship, headship, judgeship, kingship, kinship, Lordship, Midship, Overlordship, Overseership, Patroonship, Pimpship, Queenship, Rogueship, Saintship, Schoolship, Seership, Shendship, Soleship, Sonship, squireship, Stayship, steamship, Stopship, Storeship, Swainship, thaneship, township, troopship, trusteeship, Unfriendship, Unkingship, Wardship, Workship. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: strophic. | |
-2 letters: citrous, hotspur, ostrich, photics, trophic, tropics. | |
-3 letters: chiros, chirps, choirs, chorus, citrus, coitus, corpus, courts, couths, croups, curios, houris, ichors, optics, orchis, orphic, photic, picots, prosit, purist, putsch, rictus, ripost, rouths, rustic, schuit, scouth, script, sprout, stupor, suitor, thoric, thorps, thrips, tophus, topics, tripos, tropic, upshot, upstir. | |
-4 letters: chips, chiro, chirp, chits. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: courtships. | |
+2 letters: curatorship. | |
+3 letters: coauthorship, curatorships, executorship, peritrichous. | |
+4 letters: coauthorships, executorships, haruspication, hypercautious, picturephones. | |
+5 letters: claustrophobia, claustrophobic, haruspications, hyperfunctions, instructorship, peritrichously, psychoneurotic, subatmospheric. | |
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