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Definition: COMMENDATORY |
COMMENDATORYAdjective1. Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop. 2. Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising. Noun1. A commendation; eulogy. |
Date "COMMENDATORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Commendatory, complimentary, benedictory, laudatory, panegyrical, eulogistic, encomiastic, lavish of praise, uncritical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: COMMENDATORY |
| English words defined with "COMMENDATORY": Commendatory prayer ♦ Eulogical, Eulogistical ♦ Parathesis ♦ Recommendatory. (references) |
Expression using "COMMENDATORY": Commendatory prayer. 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 |
commendatory | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COMMENDATORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مدحي (complimentary, laudative, laudatory, panegyrical, praising). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تقدیرامیز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συστατικόσ (constituent, recommendatory, testimonial), επαινετικόσ (appreciative, laudatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dicsérő (eulogistical, laudative, laudatory, panegyric), ajánló (dedicatory, proposer, recommendatory, sponsor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | moyllee (complimentary, congratulatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommendatorycay recomandabil (adequate, advisable, commendable, recommendable, recommendatory), elogios (encomiastic, eulogistic), apologetic (apologetic, apologetical, complimentary, encomiastical, encomiastically, eulogistic, eulogistically, roll my log and i'll roll yours, scratch my back and i'll scratch yours). (various references) рекомендующий (permissive). (various references) rekommendations-, berömmande (laudative, laudatory). (various references) tavsiye eden, salık veren, metheden (flattering, in praise of smb., in smb.'s praise), öven (eulogistic, in praise of smb., in smb.'s praise). (various references) ca ngợi (complimentary, laudative, laudatory), tiến cử, tán dương; tuyên dương giới thiệu, khen ngợi. (various references) cymeradwyol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | commendaticiis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "COMMENDATORY": recommendatory. (additional references) | |
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"COMMENDATORY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commendatore, Kommandatur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-m-m-n-o-o-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: commandery, commentary. | |
-3 letters: cartooned, commander, coronated, creodonta, dynamotor, manometry, momentary, motorcade. | |
-4 letters: acrodont, aeronomy, anteroom, aroynted, cartoned, cartoony, coenamor, cometary, commando, commoner, coronate, crayoned, creodont, deaconry, democrat, dormancy, enactory, marooned, moderato, monetary, monocrat, monocyte, mordancy, motorman, motormen, mycetoma, octonary, odometry, ratooned, romanced, roommate. | |
-5 letters: acronym, anymore, ardency, cardoon, caromed, cartoon, command, commend, comment, commode. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-m-m-n-o-o-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: recommendatory. | |
+5 letters: aerothermodynamic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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