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Definition: Baptistery |
BaptisteryNoun1. Bowl for baptismal water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "baptistery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: BaptisterySynonyms: baptismal font (n), baptistry (n), font (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Temple | Altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy; sacrarium; communion table, holy table, Lord's table; table of the Lord; pyx; baptistery, font; piscina, stoup; aumbry; sedile; reredos; rood loft, rood screen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "Baptistery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Baptistery" is used about 18 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) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
baptistery | 9 |
baptistery pisa | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "baptistery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | купол (boss, cupola, dome, umbrella, vault), кръщелня. (various references) | |
Czech | baptisterium (baptistry). (various references) | |
Dutch | doopkapel. (various references) | |
Esperanto | baptejo. (various references) | |
French | baptistère (baptizing). (various references) | |
German | Taufkapelle. (various references) | |
Greek | βαπτιστήριο (baptistry). (various references) | |
Hungarian | keresztelőkápolna (baptistry). (various references) | |
Italian | battistero (baptistry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aptisterybay.(various references) | |
Russian | баптистерий (baptistry). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | krstionica (baptistry, font). (various references) | |
Spanish | bautisterio (baptistry). (various references) | |
Swedish | dopkapell. (various references) | |
Turkish | kilisenin vaftiz bölümü (baptistry). (various references) | |
Ukranian | баптистерій. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | baptisterium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Baptistery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baptiser, baptistey, baptitery, battistero. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "baptistery" (pronounced ba"ptustrē) |
| 6 | -t u s t r ē | artistry, dentistry. |
| 5 | -u s t r ē | biochemistry, chemistry, forestry, geochemistry, industry, ministry, palmistry, registry, tapestry. |
| 4 | -s t r ē | ancestry, Maestri, pastry. |
| 3 | -t r ē | asymmetry, banditry, basketry, bigotry, cabinetry, carpentry, circuitry, complementary, country, dissymmetry, elementary, entry, gadgetry, gallantry, gantry, gentry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, infantry, mitre, optometry, pageantry, paltry, pantry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry, poetry, poultry, psychiatry, punditry, puppetry, reentry, rocketry, sentry, spectrometry, sultry, summitry, symmetry, telemetry, toiletry, wintry, zealotry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-p-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: baptistry, ytterbias. | |
-2 letters: asperity, bestiary, birettas, sybarite, tapestry, typebars, ytterbia. | |
-3 letters: artiest, artiste, attires, baiters, baptise, baptist, barites, barytes, batiste, batters, battery, battier, betrays, biparty, biretta, bistate, bitters, iratest, parties, partite, pastier, patters, patties, piaster, piastre, pirates, pyrites, ratites, rebaits, satiety, spatter, spitter, striate, tapster, tastier, terbias, tipster, traipse, typebar, typiest, yatters, yttrias. | |
-4 letters: airest, aptest, artist, aspire, attire, baiter, barest, barite, baryes, baryte, baster, batter, bestir, betray, bettas, bister, bistre, biters, bitter, braise, bratty, breast, britts, bypast, esprit, estray, paries, parity, paster, pastie, pastry, paters, patter, pattie, payers, petsai, pietas, pirate, praise, prates, pretty, priest, pyrite, rabies, rapist, ratite, rebait, repast, repays, ripest, satire, sitter, spirea, sprite, stater, stayer, strait, strati, striae, stripe, stript, stripy, tabers, tapers, tapirs, taster, taters, terais, terbia, tetras, titers, titres, traits, trapes, treats, treaty, tribes, tripes, triste, tryste, typier, typist, yarest, yatter, yerbas, yttria. | |
-5 letters: abets, abris, abyes, airts, apers, apery, apres, apter, arise, artsy, asper, aster, astir, atrip, baits, bares, barye, baser, baste, bates, batts, batty, bears, beast, beats, betas, betta, biers, birse, biter, bites, bitsy, bitts, bitty, braes, brats, brays, bries, brits, britt, byres, bytes, eyras, irate, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, parts, party, paste, pasty, pater, pates, patsy, patty, payer, pears, peart, peats, peaty, peris, pesty, petit, petti, petty, piers, pieta, piety, piste, pitas, prase, prate, prats, prays, presa, prest, preys, pries, prise, pyres, raise, rapes, raspy, rates, ratty, reaps, repay, resay, retia, ribes, ripes, rites, saber, sabir, sabre, satyr, sayer, sepia, septa, serai, sitar, spait, spare, spate, spear, speir, spier, spire, spirt, spiry, spite, sprat, spray, sprit, stair, stare, start, state, stipe, stirp, strap, stray, strep, stria, strip, taber, tabes, taper, tapes, tapir, tapis, tares, tarps, tarsi, tarts, tarty, taste, tasty, tater, tates, tears, teary, teats, tepas, terai, testa, testy, tetra, tiers, tipsy, tires, titer, titre, trait, traps, trapt, trays, treat, trets, treys, tribe, tries, tripe, trips, trite, tryst, tyers, types, tyres, years, yeast, yerba, yetis, yetts, yipes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-p-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+4 letters: presentability, respectability. | |
+5 letters: disreputability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 70 74 69 73 74 65 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .--. - .. ... - . .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110000 01110100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a p t i s t e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0070 0074 0069 0073 0074 0065 0072 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36678286758586718491 |
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