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MATRONAL

Definition: MATRONAL

MATRONAL

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Matronal \Mat"ron*al\, adjective. [Latin expression matronalis.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: MATRONAL

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

Portuguese (matronly, matted), Spanish (matronal, matronly).

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Modern Translations: MATRONAL

Language Translations for "MATRONAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏رفيع إجتماعيا. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σεβαστόσ (matronly, respectable, time honored, time-honoured, venerable, worshipful), σοβαρόσ (burning, demure, earnest, grave, important, matronly, saturnine, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, staid), αξιοπρεπήσ (dignified, matronly, stilted). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

matrónához méltó (matronly), matrónához illő (matronly), idősebb asszonyhoz méltó (matronly), idősebb asszonyhoz illő (matronly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

matronale (matronly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atronalmay

   

Portuguese

  

mãe de família. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

serios (appreciable, demure, earnest, earnestly, genuine, grave, gravely, grievously, important, in earnest, in good earnest, intimate, minded, reliable, sad, sedate, serious, serious minded, seriously, seriousness, severe, sober, solemn, solid, staid, steady, stern, valid, weighty, well-conducted), grav (austere, bad, badly, critical, grave, gravely, grievously, important, low, low-pitched, serious, solemn, stern, weighty), de matroanã (matronly). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

подобающий почтенной женщине. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

matronski (matronly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

matronal (dame's violet, matronly, mother-of-the-evening), maduro y algo corpulento (matronly). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

що личить шановній жінці (matronly). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nghiêm trang (demure, matronlike, matronly, serious), đoan trang (comely, decent, decently, decorous, matronlike, matronly, respectable). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "MATRONAL"

Words rhyming with "MATRONAL" (pronounced 'Mat"ron*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MATRONAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-l-m-n-o-r-t"

-2 letters: amatol, amoral, antral, aortal, atonal, mantra, matron, mortal, normal, tarnal.

-3 letters: alamo, alant, alarm, altar, amort, antra, aorta, aroma, artal, atman, loran, malar, manat, manor, manta, molar, moral, natal, notal, ratal, ratan, roman, talar, talon, tamal, tolan, tolar, toman, tonal, trona.

-4 letters: alan, alar, alma, alto, anal, anoa, anta, atma, atom, lama, loam.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-l-m-n-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: laminator, patrolman.

 

+2 letters: laminators, laundromat, nonmarital, ornamental.

 

+3 letters: abnormality, antitumoral, calumniator, granulomata, lacrimation, laundromats, mandatorily, manipulator, matrimonial, migrational, nonmaterial, ornamentals, paramountly, patrimonial, rationalism, reclamation.

 

+4 letters: ameliorating, amelioration, astronomical, calumniators, galvanometer, inflammatory, lacrimations, malformation, malversation, manipulators, manipulatory, maturational, microanalyst, moralization, ornamentally, proclamation, prothalamion, protonematal, rationalisms, reclamations, romantically, ultramontane.

 

+5 letters: abnormalities, adrenalectomy, agglomerating, agglomeration, ameliorations, antiformalist, antilogarithm, antimicrobial, combinatorial, compartmental, deformational, deuteranomaly, formalization, galvanometers, galvanometric, gastronomical, glamorization, granulomatous, immigrational, informational, irrationalism, malabsorption, malacostracan, maladroitness, malformations, malversations, matriculation, matrimonially, microanalysts, microanalytic, moralizations, neuroblastoma, nomenclatural, normalization, paranormality, perambulation, permutational, proclamations, reformational, terminational, transformable, ultramarathon, ultramontanes, ultraromantic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MATRONAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 41 54 52 4F 4E 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    -    .-.    ---    -.    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000001 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#84 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0054 0052 004F 004E 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4735545249483546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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