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Definition: Capote |
CapoteNoun1. A long hooded overcoat. 2. A long hooded cloak. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "capote" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Etymology: Capote \Ca*pote"\, noun. [from Spanish expression capote (Compare to French capote.), from Late Latin expression capa cape, cloak. See Cap.]. (references) |
Synonyms: CapoteSynonyms: hooded cloak (n), hooded coat (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Capote |
| English words defined with "capote": humorless ♦ unhumorous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Capote" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (capote, coat, condom, glove, hood, overcoat), Italian (hood), Portuguese (bonnet, cloak, cowl, greatcoat, hood, lurch, mantle, vole, volt), Spanish (Cape, cloak, mulch, raincoat). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Visit with Truman Capote (1966) Cem Garotas e um Capote (1945) La Maja del capote (1943) El Capote de paseo (1927) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Truman Capote, half-length portrait, facing left, escorting Gloria Vanderbilt. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Truman Capote. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He was dressed in a blouse which was in part a capote, was restless and daring, looking behind and before as he went |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Cuba | On January 25, a prison guard beat common prisoner Jose Ramon Capote, who had to be hospitalized. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Capote" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Capote" is used about 6 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 (proper) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "capote" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Capote | Last name | 400 | 21,003 |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "capote"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pelerinë me kapuç, kapuç (cowl, hood, tip, tippet), kapotë (bonnet, greatcoat, reefer, Ulster). (various references) | |
Arabic | معطف (cloak, coat, greatcoat, jacket, mantle, overcoat, pall, wrap). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дамска шапчица. (various references) | |
Czech | kapota (hood). (various references) | |
French | capote. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csuklyás köpeny (capuchin). (various references) | |
Italian | mantello (blanket, cape, casing, cloak, coat, mantle, wrap). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apotecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | capota (calash, canopy, cowl, fairing, hood). (various references) | |
Romanian | capotã (cowl, hood, top). (various references) | |
Russian | откидной верх экипажа, длинная шинель. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ogrtač sa kapuljačom. (various references) | |
Spanish | capota (bonnet, hood, top). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | капор (bonnet, hood), капот мотора, капелюшок з поворозками, відкидний верх екіпажа, накидка (opera cloak, wrap), плащ з капюшоном (capuchin), довга шинель. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | áo cho ng có mũ trùm đầu, áo ca pốt mui xe. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "capote": capotes. (additional references) | |
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"Capote" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calote, capat, capate, capete, Capiot, capishe, capit, capite, capiti, caproate, Caprotti, captoe, capute, Caputh, Caputi, cayote, Chapot, Clapcott, sapete. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: toecap. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: coapt, epact. | |
-2 letters: atop, cape, capo, cate, coat, cope, cote, pace, pact, pate, peat, poet, tace, taco, tape, tepa, toea, tope. | |
-3 letters: ace, act, ape, apt, ate, cap, cat, cep, cop, cot, eat, eta, oat, oca, ope, opt, pac, pat, pea, pec, pet, pot, tae, tao, tap, tea, toe, top. | |
-4 letters: ae, at, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: capotes, coapted, ectopia, outpace, peacoat, polecat, toecaps. | |
+2 letters: acceptor, apothece, cachepot, calotype, capstone, cenotaph, clodpate, compleat, conepate, conepatl, coparent, copemate, copulate, ectopias, footpace, mercapto, opencast, operatic, outcaper, outpaced, outpaces, peacoats, pectoral, poetical, polecats, portance, postface, postrace, potlache. | |
+3 letters: acceptors, acropetal, adipocyte, ametropic, apotheces, apothecia, cachepots, calotypes, capstones, captioned, cartopper, catchpole, cenotaphs, chassepot, clodpates, coadapted, compacted, compacter, comparted, conepates, conepatls, cooperate, copacetic, coparents, copartner, copasetic, copayment, copemates, copulated, copulates, corporate, ectoplasm, footpaces, opacities, operatics, outcapers, outpreach, pectorals, peculator, percolate, petticoat, phagocyte, poachiest, portances, postcavae, postfaces, potlaches, preatomic, precatory, precoital, proactive, procreant, procreate, retropack, scapegoat, scapolite, spaceport, spectator, syncopate, townscape. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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