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Definition: Conge |
CongeNoun1. A concave molding. 2. Formal permission to depart; "he gave me his conge". 3. An abrupt and unceremonious dismissal. Verb1. Perform a ceremonious bow. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Conge "To give a person his congé" is to dismiss him from your service. "To take one's congé" is to give notice to friends of your departure. This is done by leaving a card at the friend's house with the letters P.P.C. (pour prendre congé) inscribed on the left-hand corner. (French, donner congé and donner à son congé.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: CongeSynonym: congee (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abrogation | Dismissal, conge, demission; bounce; deposal, deposition; dethronement; disestablishment, disendowment; deconsecration; sack, walking papers, pink slip, walking ticket; yellow cover. |
Churchdom | Council; conclave, convocation, synod, consistory, chapter, vestry; sanhedrim, conge d'elire; ecclesiastical courts, consistorial court, court of Arches. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conge |
| Specialty definitions using "conge": Conge d'Elire ♦ P. (references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Portrait of Bricktop (Ada Smith du Conge), Paris. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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 |
conge parental | 9 |
conge paternite | 5 |
conge maternite | 3 |
beaucoup conge | 3 |
conge de paternite | 3 |
conge de maternite | 2 |
conge de formation individuel | 2 |
conge parentale | 2 |
conge | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "conge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | отпуск (clergyman's fortnight, clergyman's week, furlough, hols, leave, temper, vac, vacations). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conge": congeal, congealed, congealing, congealment, congealments, congeals, congee, congeed, congeeing, congees, congelation, congelations, congener, congeneric, congenerous, congeners, congenial, congenialities, congeniality, congenially, congenital, congenitally, conger, congeries, congers, conges, congest, congested, congesting, congestion, congestions, congestive, congests. (additional references) | |
Words containing "conge": decongest, decongestant, decongestants, decongested, decongesting, decongestion, decongestions, decongestive, decongests, uncongenial, uncongenialities, uncongeniality. (additional references) | |
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"Conge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cange, chnge, Chongil, Chongwe, coage, codge, coge, cogea, cogen, Cognee, cognex, cogni, Conae, congic, Congle, congr, congre, congy, conie, conje, Conygree, Conze, Coogee, Coong, Cung, Cyngen, konge, Konje, onge, sconge, Shongwe, songe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-n-o" | |
-1 letter: cone, gone, once. | |
-2 letters: cog, con, ego, eng, eon, gen, nog, one. | |
-3 letters: en, go, ne, no, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-n-o" | |
+1 letter: cogent, coigne, congee, conger, conges. | |
+2 letters: acrogen, coagent, cogency, cognate, cognise, cognize, coigned, coignes, coinage, cologne, congaed, congeal, congeed, congees, congers, congest, congoes, coreign, cryogen, decagon, echoing, genomic. | |
+3 letters: acrogens, aglycone, becoming, biogenic, cameoing, canoeing, coagency, coagents, codesign, coercing, cogently, cognates, cognised, cognises, cognized, cognizer, cognizes, cognomen, cohering, coinages, collagen, cologned, colognes, comanage, comingle, congeals, congener, congests, conglobe, congress, converge, cooeeing, cooeying, coreigns, cosigned, cosigner, covering, coveting, cowering, cozenage, cozening, crannoge, cryogens, cryogeny, cyanogen, cymogene, cytogeny, decagons, decoding, decoying, encoding, encoring, epigonic, erogenic, escoting, genocide, geomancy, geoponic, gerontic, glycogen, gonocyte, groschen, gynecoid, gynoecia, isogenic, myogenic, neologic, ochering, octangle, oncogene, orogenic, oxygenic, pyogenic, recoding, scrounge, zoogenic. | |
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