DOUCEUR

Definition: DOUCEUR

DOUCEUR

Noun

1. A gift for service done or to be done; an honorarium; a present; sometimes, a bribe.

2. Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DOUCEUR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references)

Etymology: Douceur \Dou`ceur"\, noun. [French expression, from doux sweet. See Douce.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Giving	Alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish; fee; (recompense); consideration.
Reward	Douceur, bribe; hush money, smart money; blackmail, extortion; carcelage; solatium.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: DOUCEUR

Specialty definitions using "DOUCEUR": Bears are caught by Honey ♦ DOWSER ♦ Honey better than Vinegar. (references)

Non-English Usage: "DOUCEUR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (clemency, geniality, gentleness, honey, meekness, mellowness, mildness, smoothness, softness, sweetness).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

La Douceur d'aimer (1930)

Une nouvelle douceur (2000)

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

Domain	Title
Books	La douceur dans la pensée grecque (reference) La douceur de vivre : roman (reference) La douceur du foyer : une année dans la vie d'une mère de famille de banlieue (reference) La Douceur victorieuse, Placide Viel (reference) La mort en douceur : le suicide et l'euthanasie (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Les hommes se prennent par la douceur. / Lith. de Langlume. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"DOUCEUR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "DOUCEUR" is used about 7 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)	85.71%	6	143,867
Noun (proper)	14.29%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

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 "DOUCEUR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏بقشيش (baksheesh, fee, gratuity, perquisite, tip). (various references)

Bulgarian		рушвет (boodle, bribe, graft, kickback, oil, payoff, payola, swag, sweetener, vail), любезност (affability, amenity, amiability, civility, decency, fairness, goodness, kindness, mellowness, pleasantness, politeness), бакшиш (baksheesh, bakshish, fee, gratification, gratuity, perks, perquisite, refresher, tip). (various references)

Czech		malý dárek. (various references)

French		pot-de-vin, petit cadeau. (various references)

Hungarian		jutalom (accolade, award, consideration, gratification, guerdon, meed, plume, poundage, premium, prise, prize, recompense, remuneration, requital, reward, sanction). (various references)

Manx		milljid (lusciousness, sugariness, sweetness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ouceurday

Portuguese		gratificação (baksheesh, bakshish, beer money, perquisite, reward), gorjeta (baksheesh, bakshish, beer money, tip). (various references)

Romanian		bacşiş (baksheesh, gratification, gratuity, perquisite, tip). (various references)

Russian		чаевые (baksheesh, beer money, gratuity, pourboire, pourboires, tip), взятка (backhander, baksheesh, boodle, bribe, cumshaw, fix, golden key, graft, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, payola, rake off, silver key, sop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prijatnost (amenity, pleasantness), napojnica (bakhshish, fee, gratuity, perquisite, tip). (various references)

Spanish		propina (bakhsheesh, baksheesh, gratification, gratuity, gravamen, perquisite, tip). (various references)

Turkish		rüşvet (backhander, boodle, bribe, bribery, corruption, graft, inducement, kickback, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, payola, pie, sop), bahşiş (backsheesh, bakhshish, baksheesh, gratuity, pourboire, tip, vail). (various references)

Ukrainian		хабар (boodle, bribe, brokage, gratification, gratuity, payola, rake off, sop, sugarplum, swag), галантність (debonair, gallantry). (various references)

Vietnamese		tiền thưởng (consideration, donative, hire), tiền đấm m�"m, tiền đãi thêm (pourboire), tiền "diêm thuốc" tiền hối lộ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "DOUCEUR": douceurs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-o-r-u-u"
	-2 letters: coder, cored, coude, credo, crude, cured, decor, douce, duroc, uredo.
	-3 letters: cero, code, coed, cord, core, crud, cued, curd, cure, deco, doer, dore, dour, duce, dure, duro, ecru, euro, redo, rode, roue, rude, rued.
	-4 letters: cod, cor, cud, cue, cur, doc, doe, dor, due, duo, ecu, ode, orc, ore, oud, our, rec, red.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-o-r-u-u"
	+1 letter: douceurs.
	+2 letters: credulous, outcursed, succoured.
	+3 letters: cocultured, curmudgeon, drupaceous, outproduce, undercount, unproduced.
	+4 letters: countersued, credulously, curmudgeons, glucuronide, incredulous, outproduced, outproduces, tuberculoid, unconquered, undercounts, unretouched.
	+5 letters: curmudgeonly, discourteous, glucuronides, outreproduce, superconduct, thundercloud, undercounted, unobstructed, unproductive, unpronounced.
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