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Definition: PURLIEU |
PURLIEUNoun1. Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. 2. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights. |
Date "PURLIEU" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Purlieu (2 syl.). Frenen pourallé lieu (a place free from the forest laws). Henry II., Richard I., and John made certain lands forest lands; Henry III. allowed certain portions all round to be severed. These "rues," or forest borders were freed from that servitude which was laid on the royal forests. The "perambulation" by which this was effected was technically called pourallée. "In the purlieus of this forest stands A sheepcote fenced about with olive-trees." Shakespeare: As You Like It, iv. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PURLIEU |
| English words defined with "PURLIEU": Pourlieu. (references) |
| "PURLIEU" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PURLIEU" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PURLIEU"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrethinë (surroundings, vicinity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | често посещавано място (haunt, resort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | περίχωρα (environs, outskirts, outskirts are, suburbs, surroundings), περίχωρο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urlieupay subúrbio (suburb, suburban), canto da cidade. (various references) preajmã (adjacency, neighborhood, neighbourhood, precinct, vicinity), periferie (outskirts, periphery, province, suburb), pãmânt la margine de pãdure, margini (precinct), mahalale, hotare, cartiere mãrginaşe. (various references) окрестность (environs, locality, neighbourhood, suburbs, vicinity). (various references) lindero (abutment, party line), límites (ambit, borderland, bounds, limit, pale). (various references) jaktmarker, gränsområde (border district, borderland, frontier). (various references) sınır (border, borderland, borderline, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, butting, circumscription, compass, confine, deadline, extreme, extremity, frontier, limit, limitation, line of demarcation, March, pale, skirting, stint, verge, watershed), hudut (border, boundaries, boundary, frontier, limits, March). (various references) куточок (angle), притулок (accommodation, asylum, bield, chimney, cover, harbour, niche, nook, port, refuge, sanctuary, shelter, subterfuge, succor, succour). (various references) vùng phụ cận, rìa rừng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PURLIEU": purlieus. (additional references) | |
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"PURLIEU" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pluriel, plurium, purile, purleymen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-p-r-u-u" | |
-2 letters: peril, plier, puler. | |
-3 letters: lier, lieu, lipe, lire, lure, peri, pier, pile, plie, pule, puli, pure, puri, purl, riel, rile, ripe, rule. | |
-4 letters: ire, lei, leu, lie, lip, per, pie, piu, pul, pur, rei, rep, rip, rue, ulu. | |
-5 letters: el, er, li, pe, pi, re, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-p-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: purlieus. | |
+3 letters: apiculture, parimutuel, sulphurise, superfluid. | |
+4 letters: apicultures, penuriously, pulchritude, sulphurised, sulphurises, superfluids, superfluity. | |
+5 letters: epicuticular, multipicture, multipurpose, perjuriously, pisciculture, preinaugural, pulchritudes, supercilious, superquality, voluptuaries. | |
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