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Definition: Armorial |
ArmorialAdjective1. (heraldry) of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms; "armorial bearing". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "armorial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Armorial \Ar*mo"ri*al\, adjective. [French expression armorial, from armoiries arms, coats of arms, for armoieries, from the Old French expression armoier to paint arms, coats of arms, from armes, from the Latin expression arma. See Arms, Armory.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Heraldry, crest; coat of arms, arms; armorial bearings, hatchment; escutcheon, scutcheon; shield, supporters; livery, uniform; epaulet, chevron; garland, love knot, favor. |
Adjective: indicating; Verb:, indicative, indicatory; denotative, connotative; diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic, pathognomonic, symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial; individual; (special). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Armorial |
| English words defined with "armorial": Caboched, Checky ♦ Emblaze, Emblazoning ♦ heraldry, Heralds' College. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "armorial": Flag, Flags ♦ Monumental Figures ♦ Quency. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "armorial": Checky. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Armorial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (armorial, heraldic), Portuguese (armorial, armourial), Spanish (armorial). |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Letters came, with armorial seals upon them, though of bearings unknown to English heraldry |
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| "Armorial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Armorial" is used about 30 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "armorial": armorial bearing ♦ armorial bearings. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
armorial | 7 |
armorial general rietstap | 5 |
armorial general | 3 |
armorial bearing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "armorial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | خاص بشعار النبالة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хералдически (heraldic), герб (arms, blazon, blazonry, cognizance, emblazonry, escutcheon, obverse). (various references) | |
Finnish | aatelisvaakuna (armorial bearings, coat of arms), vaakuna (armorial bearings, arms). (various references) | |
French | armorial. (various references) | |
German | Wappenbuch. (various references) | |
Greek | οικόσημων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | heraldika, címertani (heraldic). (various references) | |
Italian | araldico (heraldic). (various references) | |
Manx | eillagh, armlagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | armorialay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | armorial (armourial), heráldico (armourial). (various references) | |
Romanian | heraldic. (various references) | |
Russian | гербовник. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | knjiga grbova, heraldički. (various references) | |
Spanish | heráldico (armourial, heraldic). (various references) | |
Swedish | vapen (arms, coat of arms, crest, hardware, weapon, weaponry). (various references) | |
Turkish | hanedan arması kitabı, hanedan arması ile ilgili. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | геральдичний (heraldic), гербовий. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "armorial": armorially, armorials. (additional references) | |
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"Armorial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amorial, arborial, armerian, Armorel, armorican, Gromril, marmorial, Romorola. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "armorial" (pronounced 'Ar*mo"ri*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-m-o-r-r" | |
-2 letters: amoral. | |
-3 letters: alamo, alarm, armor, aroma, laari, lamia, malar, maria, moira, molar, moral. | |
-4 letters: alar, alma, amia, amir, aria, aril, lair, lama, lari, liar, lima, limo, lira, loam, maar, mail, mair, marl, milo, moil, mola, mora, oral, orra, raia, rail, rami, rial, roam, roar, roil. | |
-5 letters: aal, ail, aim, air, ala, ama, ami, arm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-m-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: armorials. | |
+2 letters: armorially, lacrimator, rigamarole. | |
+3 letters: ameliorator, lacrimators, rigamaroles, scalariform. | |
+4 letters: ameliorators, amelioratory, imperatorial, microfilaria, overfamiliar, semiarboreal. | |
+5 letters: foraminiferal, irrationalism, microfilariae, microfilarial, microvascular, oleomargarine, paranormality, reformational, scalariformly, ultraromantic. | |
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