Lieutenancy

  

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Lieutenancy

Definition: Lieutenancy

Lieutenancy

Noun

1. The position of a lieutenant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lieutenancy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references)


Crosswords: Lieutenancy

English words defined with "lieutenancy": Lieutenantry, Lieutenantship. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Lieutenancy

"Lieutenancy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lieutenancy" is used about 13 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Lieutenancy

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "lieutenancy": lord-lieutenancy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lieutenancy

Language Translations for "lieutenancy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rang togeri. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏منصب الملازم الأول. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чин на лейтенант, звание на лейтенант. (various references)

   

Czech

  

poruènictví (custody, guardianship, tutelage). (various references)

   

French

  

lieutenance. (various references)

   

German

  

leutnantsrang. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υπολοχανία. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ס' ות (deputyship). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

helytartóság (eparchy, exarchate), helytartói méltóság, helytartói állás, helyettesi állás, hadnagyi rendfokozat, hadnagyi rang, főhadnagyság, főhadnagyi rendfokozat, főhadnagyi rang. (various references)

   

Italian

  

luogotenenza. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ynnydaght, aachaptanys. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ieutenancylay

   

Portuguese

  

tenência, em lugar de (else, for, in place of, vice). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

gradul de locotenent. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чин лейтенанта. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

namesništvo (governorship, proconsulate, vicarage), čin poručnika. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yüzbaşılık (captaincy, captainship), teğmenlik. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chức trung uý chức đại uý hải quân. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Lieutenancy"

Words rhyming with "lieutenancy" (pronounced 'Lieu*ten"an*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Lieutenancy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-n-t-u-y"

-2 letters: anciently, enunciate.

-3 letters: innately, leniency, nucleate, uncinate.

-4 letters: acutely, alunite, ancient, annuity, annulet, anticly, cannily, canteen, cauline, cayenne, centile, cuneate, cutline, cyanine, cyanite, encinal, eucaine, inanely, latency, lenient, leucine, leucite, licente, lineate, linecut, lunatic, lyncean, nuclein, tenancy, tunicae, tunicle, uncinal, unclean, uneaten.

-5 letters: acetin, acetyl, acuity, aculei, annuli, atelic, auntie, auntly, canine, cannel, cannie.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-n-t-u-y"
 

+4 letters: consequentially, unexceptionably.

 

+5 letters: consequentiality, neurasthenically, unaffectionately.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lieutenancy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 69 65 75 74 65 6E 61 6E 63 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    ..    .    ..-    -    .    -.    .-    -.    -.-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01101001 01100101 01110101 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#101 &#117 &#116 &#101 &#110 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 0065 0075 0074 0065 006E 0061 006E 0063 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4675718786718067806991

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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