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Definition: Monsignor |
MonsignorNoun1. (Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Monsignor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
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Satire | MONSIGNOR, n. A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Monsignor |
| Specialty definitions using "Monsignor": INFERIAE. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The pampas are in Argentina, monsignor. (Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Le; writing credit: Luis Buñuel; Jean-Claude Carrière) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Monsignor Martinez (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | McKean, W., Right Reverend Monsignor, portrait photograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the Dii Manes, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity, giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obscure writer at the court of Saint Louis, we shall probably not err on the side of presumption in considering it apocryphal, though Monsignor Capel's judgment of the matter might be different; and to that I bow -- wow. |
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| "Monsignor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.21% of the time. "Monsignor" is used about 107 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) | 54.21% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (proper) | 45.79% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "Monsignor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | pan (Don, Mister, Mons, monseigneur, Monsieur, monsig, mr, Mr., Sahib, seigneur, seignior, sr). (various references) | |
Dutch | monseigneur. (various references) | |
Esperanto | monsinjoro, episkopa moŝto. (various references) | |
French | monseigneur. (various references) | |
German | monsignore. (various references) | |
Greek | κύριοσ (capital, chief, dominant, esquire, gentleman, leading, liege, main, master, mr, principal, proper, seignior), τίτλοσ καθολικού αρχιερέα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | monszinyore (monsignori), monszinyor (monsignori). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onsignormay.(various references) | |
Russian | монсеньор. (various references) | |
Spanish | monseñor (mgr, monseigneur). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | монсеньйор (monseigneur). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Monsignor": monsignori, monsignorial, monsignors. (additional references) | |
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"Monsignor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: monseignor, Monsenor, Monsignore, monsignori, monsignour, Muenzinger, Munsingen, Munzinger, Ronsingon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Monsignor" (pronounced mÄnsē"nyer) |
| 5 | -s ē" n y er | senior. |
| 3 | -n y er | bonier, junior, tenure. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-m-n-n-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: moorings, mornings. | |
-2 letters: gnomons, mignons, mooning, mooring, morions, morning, noosing, ronions, rooming, roosing, snoring, sorning. | |
-3 letters: girons, gnomon, gonion, grison, groins, grooms, isogon, mignon, minors, mongos, mooing, morion, morons, nosing, ogrism, onions, orison, ronion, rosing, signor, simoon, soring. | |
-4 letters: girns, giron, giros, gismo, goons, grins, groin, groom, irons, minor, mongo, monos, moons, moors, morns. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-m-n-n-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: monsignori, monsignors. | |
+2 letters: ironmongers, nonorgasmic. | |
+3 letters: monsignorial. | |
+4 letters: fashionmonger, ironmongeries, overconsuming. | |
+5 letters: aggiornamentos, fashionmongers, mispronouncing, uncompromising. | |
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