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Definition: LICH GATE |
LICH GATE1. A covered gate through which the corpse was carried to the church or burial place, and where the bier was placed to await the clergyman; a corpse gate. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interment | Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. |
Opening | Portal, porch, gate, ostiary, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door; arcade; cellarway, driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway; lich gate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LICH GATE |
| English words defined with "LICH GATE": Corpse gate. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LICH GATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | portik me strehë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | покрита порта на църковен двор (lych-gate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vrata církve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | temetõ fedett kapubejárata (lych-gate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | giat ruillickey, giat ny merriu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ichlay ategay poartã de cimitir. (various references) покойницкая (lych-gate). (various references) grobljanske vratnice. (various references) övertäckt portvalv (lych-gate). (various references) çatılı mezarlık kapısı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: teiglach. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: ethical. | |
-2 letters: aiglet, alight, atelic, chalet, chital, gelati, glitch, halite, heliac, ligate, thecal. | |
-3 letters: agile, aglet, aitch, cheat, chela, chiel, chile, cleat, eclat, eight, ethic, glace, ileac, laich, laigh, laith, latch, lathe, lathi, leach, legit, letch, licht, light, lithe, tache, teach, telia, telic, theca, tical. | |
-4 letters: ache, alec, alit, cage, cate, ceil, celt, chat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-h-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: chelating, lethargic, lightface. | |
+2 letters: hatcheling, lightfaced, lightfaces, megalithic, phlegmatic, theurgical. | |
+3 letters: backlighted, candlelight, ethological, hatchelling, hematologic, oligochaete, searchlight, spaceflight, telegraphic, theological. | |
+4 letters: archeologist, bathypelagic, candlelights, cartwheeling, enchantingly, ethnological, geotechnical, oligochaetes, searchlights, spaceflights. | |
+5 letters: archaeologist, archeologists, candlelighted, candlelighter, changeability, copyrightable, eschatologies, hematological, lethargically, straightlaced, technological, theologically. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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