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Definition: LUSTRAL |
LUSTRALAdjective1. Of or pertaining to a lustrum. 2. Of or pertaining to, or used for, purification; as, lustral days; lustral water. |
Date "LUSTRAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Etymology: Lustral \Lus"tral\, adjective. [Latin expression lustralis, from lustrum: compare to the French expression lustral. See Lustrum.]. (references) |
Crosswords: LUSTRAL |
| Specialty definitions using "LUSTRAL": Lustral Water. (references) |
| "LUSTRAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LUSTRAL" is used about 4 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) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
lustral | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LUSTRAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pesëvjeçar (five-year, Lustrum, quinquennial), i ceremonisë së pastrimit. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | очистителен (cathartic, depletive, depletory, purgative, purgatorial). (various references) | |
Greek | καθαρτήριοσ (lustrative, purgatorial). (various references) | |
Italian | lustrale (cathartic, cleansing, scavenging). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustrallay.(various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับพิธีล้างบาป. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "LUSTRAL" (pronounced 'Lus"tral'): Ambidextral, Ancestral, Antral, Biventral, Cadastral, Central, Cloistral, Conirostral, Cultirostral, Curvirostral, Dextral, Fissirostral, Longirostral, mistral, mitral, Multicentral, Neuro-central, Palustral, Periastral, Pressirostral, Rectirostral, Recurvirostral, Rostral, Sceptral, Sequestral, Serratirostral, spectral, Subastral, Subcentral, triquetral, Unicentral, Ventral. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-l-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lustra, trulls, ultras. | |
-2 letters: sault, stall, stull, sural, sutra, talus, trull, ultra. | |
-3 letters: alls, alts, arts, lars, last, lats, lust, rats, rust, ruts, sall, salt, saul, slat, slur, star, sura, tall, tars, taus, tsar, ursa, utas. | |
-4 letters: all, als, alt, ars, art, lar, las, lat, ras, rat, rut, sal, sat, sau, tar, tas, tau. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-l-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: claustral, pluralist, scutellar, suturally, tailleurs, turnhalls, ultraslow. | |
+3 letters: gesturally, illustrate, lackluster, pluralists, prothallus, rustically, salutarily, sculptural, ultraslick, ultrasmall. | |
+4 letters: allurements, aquarellist, butterballs, calculators, carefullest, fearfullest, illustrated, illustrates, illustrator, lacklusters, legislature, masterfully, platterfuls, plattersful, pluralistic, pluralities, resultantly, spiritually, subcultural, sublittoral, surveillant, ultracasual, ultralights, ultrasimple, victuallers. | |
+5 letters: adulterously, aquarellists, flocculators, gracefullest, gratefullest, heliolatrous, idolatrously, illuminators, illustrating, illustration, illustrative, illustrators, industrially, juristically, legislatures, metallurgies, metallurgist, prothalluses, puristically, racquetballs, rambouillets, ratatouilles, recalculates, scripturally, sculpturally, sericultural, structurally, subcentrally, sublittorals, supravitally, surveillants, tranquillest, trifluralins, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, ultrarealism, ultrarealist, ultraviolets. | |
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