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Coenobite

Definition: Coenobite

Coenobite

Noun

1. A member of a religious order living in common.

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


Specialty Definition: Coenobite

DomainDefinition

Satire

COENOBITE, n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples. O Coenobite, O coenobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian: With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick; With dropping shots he makes him sick. Quincy Giles. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

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

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Synonym: Coenobite

Synonym: cenobite (n). (additional references)
Antonym: eremite (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Coenobite

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

Albanian

  

murg (conventual, friar, monastic, monk, religioner). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

монах който живее в манастир. (various references)

   

Czech

  

mnich (carthusian, friar, monk, religious). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

cenobita. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cenobita (cenobite). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oenobitecay

   

Portuguese

  

cenobita. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

монах (cloisterer, conventual, friar, monastic, monk, obedientiary, religioner, votary). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cenobita. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

munk (cruller, monk, obedientiary, religioner). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผู้ที่"ำรงตนอย่างสันโ"ษ. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

чернець (benedictine, brother, conventual, friar, monastic, obedientiary, regular, religious). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Coenobite

Derivations

Words beginning with "coenobite": coenobites. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Coenobite"

Words rhyming with "coenobite" (pronounced 'C[oe]n"o*bite'): Albite, Barnabite, Cenobite, Chalybite, Columbite, Coquimbite, Flea-bite, Lychnobite, niobite, Sheepbite, Sorbite, Stilbite, Strombite, Turbite. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Coenobite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-i-n-o-o-t"

-1 letter: cenobite.

-2 letters: botonee, coontie, ebonite, ecotone, eobiont.

-3 letters: bonito, bootee, bootie, cenote, cootie, entice, noetic, notice.

-4 letters: beton, biont, boite, cento, conte, conto, cooee, niece, ontic, tonic.

-5 letters: been, beet, bene, bent, bice, bine, bint, bite, bone, boon, boot, cent, cete, cine, cion, cite, coin, cone, coni, coon, coot, cote, ebon, etic, icon, into, nice.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-i-n-o-o-t"
 

+1 letter: coenobites.

 

+3 letters: nonobjective.

 

+4 letters: objectionable.

 

+5 letters: concelebration, controvertible, noncelebration, nonconvertible, ribonucleotide.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Coenobite


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

43 6F 65 6E 6F 62 69 74 65

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)

01000011 01101111 01100101 01101110 01101111 01100010 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#101 &#110 &#111 &#98 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0065 006E 006F 0062 0069 0074 0065

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

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

378171808168758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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