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Definition: Cyrillic |
CyrillicAdjective1. Relating to or written in the alphabet used for writing Slavic languages; "Cyrillic writing". Noun1. An alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic language. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CyrillicSynonym: Cyrillic alphabet (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cyrillic |
| English words defined with "Cyrillic": Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croatian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cyrillic": Basic Multilingual Plane ♦ Cyrillic character set ♦ zigamorph. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Language questions were resolved by using both Latin and Cyrillic script, and by requirements that teachers not penalize students for lexicon or grammar usage identified more with one language variant than another. (references) |
Economic History | Bulgaria | Also during the ninth century, Orthodox Christianity became the primary religion in Bulgaria and the Cyrillic alphabet was established. (references) |
Minorities | Moldova | State schools are required to use the Cyrillic alphabet when teaching Moldovan/Romanian. (references) |
Travel | Bulgaria | Bulgarian is a Slavic language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet. (references) |
Russia | Signs are in Russian only, so it is helpful at least to learn the Cyrillic alphabet before you come. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cyrillic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.38% of the time. "Cyrillic" is used about 26 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) | 65.38% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (singular) | 30.77% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Cyrillic": cyrillic alphabet ♦ Cyrillic character set. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Cyrillic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i sllavishtës së vjetër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кирилица (cyrillic alphabet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 西裡爾 , 斯拉夫语字母. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | cyrilice (cyrillic alphabet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kyrillisk tegnsæt (Cyrillic character set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Cyrillisch alfabet (Cyrillic character set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kyrillinen merkistö (Cyrillic character set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | alphabet cyrillique (Cyrillic character set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kyrillisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Κυριλλικό σύνολο χαρακτήρων (Cyrillic character set), Κυριλλικό αλφάβητο (Cyrillic alphabet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cirillico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | キリスト教' (Christians). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | キリル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 키릴 문자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Kyrillagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yrilliccay cirílico. (various references) cirilic, chirilic. (various references) кириллица (cyrillic alphabet, cyrillics). (various references) cirílico. (various references) kyrillisk teckenuppsättning (Cyrillic character set), kyrillisk teckenmängd (Cyrillic character set). (various references) islav alfabesi ile yazılmış olan, islav alfabesi ile ilgili. (various references) кирилічний, кириліця. (various references) $cyrillic alphabet$ chữ cái kirin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Cyrillic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cyrilic, Cyrilla, cyrrillic, Krilich. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-i-l-l-r-y" | |
-3 letters: icily, lyric. | |
-4 letters: illy, lily, liri, rill, yill. | |
-5 letters: cry, icy, ill. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-i-l-l-r-y" | |
+2 letters: critically. | |
+3 letters: codicillary, conciliarly, cylindrical. | |
+4 letters: chimerically, uncritically. | |
+5 letters: cylindrically, impractically, sacrificially. | |
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