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Definition: Corpulence |
CorpulenceNoun1. The property of excessive fatness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "corpulence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | For a person to dream of being corpulent, indicates to the dreamer bountiful increase of wealth and pleasant abiding places. To see others corpulent, denotes unusual activity and prosperous times. If a man or woman sees himself or herself looking grossly corpulent, he or she should look well to their moral nature and impulses. Beware of either concave or convex telescopically or microscopically drawn pictures of yourself or others, as they forbode evil. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CorpulenceSynonyms: adiposis (n), overweight (n), stoutness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Breadth, Thickness | Thickness, crassitude; corpulence; (size); dilation; (expansion). |
Size | Turgidity; (expansion); corpulence, obesity; plumpness; Adjective: embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Corpulence |
| English words defined with "corpulence": Bantingism ♦ Portliness. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Corpulence" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (corpulence, fatness, portliness, stoutness). |
| "Corpulence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corpulence" is used about 6 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
corpulence vomitorial | 6 |
corpulence | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "corpulence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trashëri (embonpoint, stupidity, thickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سمنة (portliness), بدانة (blubber, fat, fatness, fleshiness, obesity, portliness, rotundity, stoutness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пълнота (amplitude, completeness, completion, embonpoint, entirety, fat, fatness, fleshiness, fullness, fulness, integrality, plenitude, plenum, portliness, pregnancy, rotundity, stoutness, thoroughness, volume, wholeness), дебелина (avoirdupois, fat, fatness, girth, obesity, thickness, width). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | otylost (obesity), korpulence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pyylevyys (plumpness), lihavuus (fatness, stoutness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | corpulence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beleibtheit (fatness, portliness, stoutness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παχυσαρκία (obesity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בשריות (fleshiness, meatiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | testesség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kegendutan (too fat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corpulenza (fleshiness, portliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 肥満 (fatness, obesity), 肥大 (enlarge, fatness, obesity, swell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひま" (fatness, obesity), ひ い (enlarge, fatness, obesity, swell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | riurid (large in circumference, overweight, stoutness, thickness), mooar-volgaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orpulencecay corpulência (bulk, fleshiness, fullness, fulness, portliness, stoutness). (various references) corpolenţã (burliness, corpulency, fatness, stoutness), trupeşie (corpulency), grãsime (fat, fatness, flesh, grease, rotundity, stoutness, tallow). (various references) тучность (adiposity, avoirdupois, fat, obesity, portliness), дородность (embonpoint). (various references) ugojenost, razvijenost, debljina (fatness, grossness, largeness, obesity, stoutness, thickness). (various references) corpulencia (beef, bulk, portliness, stoutness), carnosidad (fleshiness). (various references) fetma (fat, fatness, fatten, flesh, lard, put on flesh, put on weight). (various references) irilik (bigness, corpulency, enormity, largeness, massiveness, stoutness), şişmanlık (adiposity, being fat, being overweight, corpulency, fatness, fleshiness, fullness, fulness, obesity, spread, stoutness). (various references) огрядність (fleshiness, fullness, fulness, obeseness, obesity, stoutness), ожиріння (adiposity, fattiness). (various references) sự to béo (corpulency), sự mập mạp (chubbiness, corpulency, pursiness, rotundity), sự béo tốt (corpulency, embonpoint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adeps, adipe, adipem, adipemque, adipes, adipibus, adipum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corpulence": corpulences. (additional references) | |
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"Corpulence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corpulance, Corpulency. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-l-n-o-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: opercule, opulence, recouple. | |
-3 letters: coenure, coupler, cupeler, lucence, lucerne, pleuron, pouncer, recoupe. | |
-4 letters: cloner, coerce, colure, concur, cornel, coulee, couple, crenel, creole, crepon, croupe, eloper, encore, loupen, lucern, opener, pencel, pereon, pounce, recoup, reopen, unreel. | |
-5 letters: ceorl, clepe, clone, clour, copen, coper, cornu, coupe, creel, creep, crepe, crone, croup, cruel, cupel, elope, enrol, enure. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-l-n-o-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: corpulences. | |
+2 letters: corpulencies. | |
+4 letters: conceptualizer. | |
+5 letters: conceptualizers, reconceptualize. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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