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Definition: BLACK-LETTER |
BLACK-LETTERAdjective1. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious. 2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. 3. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. |
Date "BLACK-LETTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Oldness | Prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous; paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic; primordial, primordinate; aboriginal; (beginning); diluvian, antediluvian; protohistoric; prehistoric; antebellum, colonial, precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite; paleocrystic; fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BLACK-LETTER |
| Specialty definitions using "BLACK-LETTER": Black Letter Day. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BLACK-LETTER" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLACK-LETTER" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BLACK-LETTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 黑信件. (various references) | |
Danish | gotisk skrift (Gothic, gothic writing), fraktur (fracture). (various references) | |
Dutch | gothische letter (Gothic). (various references) | |
French | caractère gothique. (various references) | |
German | gotische Schrift (Church text, German text, Gothic, gothic writing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fekete nap (black-letter day). (various references) | |
Korean | 까맣 서. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ack-letterblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | carácter gótico (Gothic). (various references) | |
Russian | будний день (black-letter day, weekday, week-day, workday). (various references) | |
Spanish | carácter gótico (Gothic). (various references) | |
Swedish | tykobrahedag (black-letter day). (various references) | |
Turkish | uğursuz gün (black-letter day), şanssız gün (black-letter day). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "BLACK-LETTER" (pronounced 'Black"-let`ter'): Amphiaster, Anglemeter, Animater, Archiater, Backwater, Bandmaster, Bargemastter, Beemaster, Bergmaster, Blendwater, Bloodletter, Bogtrotter, Breakwater, Burghermaster, Burghmaster, Burgomaster, Calc-sinter, Capellmeister, Catchwater, Chalkcutter, Coal-meter, Cockmaster, Colporter, Confederater, Constituter, Controverter, Corncutter, Court-plaster, Craftsmaster, Criticaster, Cutwater, Dekaliter, Dekameter, Dynamiter, Fillibuster, Fresh-water, goddaughter, limewater, Macerater, manslaughter, Masticater, Medicaster, Meliorater, micromillimeter, midwinter, Mint-master, news-letter, Ohmmeter, Outfitter, Penteconter. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-k-l-l-r-t-t" | |
-3 letters: bracelet, bractlet, cellaret, raclette, retackle. | |
-4 letters: abetter, battler, beretta, blacker, blatter, bleaker, bleater, bracket, brattle, clatter, labeler, relabel, retable, tackler, treacle. | |
-5 letters: backer, balker, baller, ballet, batter, battle, beaker, beater, becket, belter, berake, berate, betake, better, cablet, calker, caller, callet, cartel, cattle, cellae, cellar, cerate, cereal, claret, create, ecarte, elater, kelter, kettle, labret. | |
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