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Definition: Amenities |
AmenitiesNoun1. Things that make you comfortable and at ease; "all the comforts of home". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "amenities" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | Natural and people-made qualities of the environment from which people derive pleasure, enrichment and satisfaction. Source: European Union. (references) |
General | Complimentary items in sleeping rooms such as special toiletries, morning newspaper, flowers, fruit, sweets or small gifts provided for guests. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AmenitiesSynonyms: comforts (n), conveniences (n), creature comforts (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Amenities |
| English words defined with "amenities": agreeableness, amenity. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "amenities": arriving passenger amenities ♦ facade easement ♦ low-level language ♦ site criteria ♦ Valuation for Sustainable Environments. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Diagonal view of orchestra, proscenium and stage, curtains open. Copy of 1928 photo of completed theater interior, by Canfield and Shook, photographers, courtesy of Drew Eberson, Stamford, Connecticut. (Reproduction Number: HABS, KY,56-LOUVI,17-47) Going to the movies became quite an event in the 1920s. Large, urban motion picture "palaces" originally incorporated all the amenities found in live theaters, even out-doing them in scale and opulence and adding concert hall features such as great electric pipe organs and elaborately decorated lobbies. The Loew's Theatre chain hired nationally-known theater architect John Eberson, who designed this 1928 theater in a Spanish influenced style called Churrigueresque.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Extensive regulation and licensure did not appear to affect the proportion of professional nursing staff, knowledge of care procedures and appropriate monitoring of health conditions, or more "cosmetic" features such as availability of physical amenities and attractiveness of the homes. (references) | |
Business | Condominiums are also starting to offer such amenities. (references) | |
Business class amenities and services can be found in all major cities, including those in the eastern states. (references) | ||
Children | India | Overcrowded and serving as "dumping grounds" for desperate relatives, some mental hospitals lack even basic amenities and have poor medical facilities. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Rwanda | Human Rights Watch reported that many of these individuals were forced to move against their will to substandard housing, often with little access to basic amenities such as water. (references) |
Discrimination | Fiji | A compact included in the Constitution specifically provides for affirmative action and "social justice" programs to secure effective equality of access to opportunities, amenities, and services for ethnic Fijians and Rotumans and for all disadvantaged citizens and groups. (references) |
Economic History | Ireland | Coastal erosion poses a serious threat to public infrastructure and tourist amenities. (references) |
Zambia | Volunteers live primarily in rural villages in remote parts of the country without running water, electricity, or other amenities. (references) | |
Bahamas | It includes three resorts-Breakers Cay, Lighthouse Pointe, and Manor House-14 restaurants, meeting and convention rooms, and state-of-the-art amenities. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kenya | The former prisoners described prisons as full of disease, death, corruption, and brutality with guards demanding bribes for the most basic amenities. (references) |
Kenya | Overcrowding led to health-related problems arising from the sharing of amenities, encouraged the spread of infectious diseases, and resulted in food and water shortages. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | Others who had the proper building permits were offered apartments or plots of land in compensation, but such compensation was often not at fair market value for example, desert plots with no amenities, or was inadequate for large families. (references) | |
Minorities | Nigeria | In January militant youths shut down three major oil facilities near the town of Warri to back demands for jobs and social amenities. (references) |
Travel | Uruguay | Typically, business is discussed after social amenities. (references) |
Costa Rica | Average rental values for a 3-4-bedroom home with U.S. type amenities range from $3500-$5000 per month. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Amenities" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.71% of the time. "Amenities" is used about 515 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 (plural) | 96.71% | 498 | 12,078 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.29% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 515 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "amenities": arriving passenger amenities ♦ the amenities of civilization ♦ the amenities of life. 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 "amenities"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pajisje (capital goods, device, equipage, equipment, facilities, fit out, fitment, fitting, fittings, fixing, fixings, gadget, mounting, provision, rig, rigging, supply, tackle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المتعة (pleasure), اللياقة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | удоволствия (bed of roses, cakes and ale, sweets), удобства (conveniences, facilities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 礼节 (Amenity, ritual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veřejná zařízení, pohodlí (comfort, convenience, ease), komfort (comfort, luxury). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | offentlig service (public services, utilities), faciliteter (facilities), ekstra opmærksomheder. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | overheidsdiensten (public services, utilities), openbare nutsvoorzieningen (public services, utilities), openbare nutsbedrijven (public services, utilities), openbare diensten (public services, utilities), leefbaarheid, bijzondere attenties. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | attraits, attentions spéciales, amenities, agréments, accommodement, valeur d'échange, services publics, politesses, installations, commodités, équipements, équipement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Annehmlichkeiten (adoptabilities, comforts, conveniences, goodies, public services, utilities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόσθετες δωρεάν παροχές, άνεσεισ (conveniences), δημόσιες υπηρεσίες (public services, public utilities, public utility company, statutory undertaker, utilities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | udvariaskodás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | attrezzature di servizio (public services, utilities), servizi pubblici (public services, utilities), servizi accessori, servizi (facilities, facility, medical services, public services, restrooms, service, service trades, services, utilities), piacevolezze, comodit (accommodation, amenity, comfort, convenience, cosiness, coziness, ease, easiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amenitiesay atenções do hotel, amenidades, serviços públicos (public services, public utilities, public utility company, statutory undertaker, utilities), encantos. (various references) binefacerile civilizaţiei (the amenities of civilization). (various references) удовольствия. (various references) običaji (mores), način ponašanja. (various references) atenciones del hotel, amenidades, servicios (blue room, cloakroom, facilities, lavatory, medical services, public services, service, services, toilet, toilets, toilette, utilities), recursos (appeals, means, public services, resources, sinews, utilities), normas, formalidades (formalities), etiqueta (black tie, dinner-jacket, docket, etiquette, formality, label, Mark, tab, tag, ticket, tuxedo), entretenimientos, comodidades (facilities). (various references) artigheter, agremanger (material comforts, ornaments), bekvämlighet (accommodation, comfort, convenience, cosiness, ease, love of ease), älskvärdheter. (various references) yaşamın hoş yönleri, rahatlıklar, kolaylıklar (facilities). (various references) краса (beauty, dear, delight, handsomeness, queen), втіха (balm, consolation, pleasure), зручності, принади (charm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Amenities" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: admenities, Ameinias, ameneties, amenite, amenitie, amenitiy, amenties, amentities, amicitiae, Amiennois, Amienois, aminities, ammenities, ammenties, arenites, ilmenites, immenities, Meintjies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "amenities" (pronounced ume"nutēz) |
| 6 | -e" n u t ē z | obscenities. |
| 5 | -n u t ē z | affinities, communities, divinities, fraternities, humanities, humanity, immunities, indemnities, indignities, opportunities, vanities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, ambiguities, animosities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, causalities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, commonalities, complexities, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, disabilities, disability, disparities, eccentricities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, formalities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, identities, illegalities, improprieties, impurities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, legalities, liabilities, liquidities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, oddities, parities, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, technicalities, tonalities, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, varieties, velocities, verities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-m-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: enmities, etamines, matinees, miseaten. | |
-2 letters: amities, animist, emetins, etamine, etamins, etesian, inmates, intimae, intimas, isatine, itemise, matinee, meanest, meanies, meinies, santimi, sienite, tameins. | |
-3 letters: aments, amines, animes, animis, emetin, enates, enemas, etamin, imines, inmate, inseam, intima, intime, isatin, mantes, mantis, matins, meanie, meinie, mensae, mesian, misate, miseat, saimin, samite, sateen, seamen, semina, senate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-m-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: eliminates, inseminate. | |
+2 letters: antiemetics, cinematizes, disseminate, impatiences, impatienses, inestimable, inseminated, inseminates, maternities, mendacities, mentalities, nematicides, tiemannites. | |
+3 letters: administered, disseminated, disseminates, equanimities, essentialism, ethionamides, intermarries, intimateness, meanspirited, pentamidines, recriminates, reestimating, remediations. | |
+4 letters: actinometries, amenabilities, amniocentesis, ceremonialist, craniometries, credentialism, denominatives, determinacies, emotionalizes, essentialisms, eudaemonistic, geometricians, helminthiases, imitativeness, immediateness, inanimateness, intermediates, miscegenation, pedestrianism, sedimentation, vegetarianism. | |
+5 letters: almightinesses, aminopeptidase, ceremonialists, credentialisms, demyelinations, determinations, determinatives, emotionalities, exceptionalism, existentialism, exterminations, ferrimagnetism, imperativeness, incrementalism, incrementalist, inimitableness, intermarriages, intermediacies, intermediaries, intermetallics, intimatenesses, meditativeness, mercerizations, militantnesses, miscegenations, mutagenicities, overestimating, overestimation, pedestrianisms, pinealectomies, pneumaticities, premeditations, pyrimethamines, reexaminations, regimentations, reminiscential, sabermetrician, sedimentations, semicentennial, sentimentalise, sentimentalism, sentimentalist, sentimentality, sentimentalize, simultaneities, vegetarianisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 65 6E 69 74 69 65 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- . -. .. - .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m e n i t i e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0065 006E 0069 0074 0069 0065 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357971807586757185 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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