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Definition: SEDUCEMENT |
SEDUCEMENTNoun1. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. 2. The act of seducing. |
Date "SEDUCEMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Motive | Inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism, magnetic force; allectation, allective; temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement; honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "SEDUCEMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Farsi | فریب (Abusive, Cheat, Deceit, Deception, Defraud, Delusion, Fiction, Humbug, Intake, Jazz, Lurch, Lure, Mace, Sophistry, Swindle, Temptation, Wile), وسیله اغوا, اغوا (Instigation, Sophistication, Temptation). (various references) | |
German | Verführung (enticement, seduction, temptation, tempting). (various references) | |
Greek | δελεασμόσ (blandishment, enticement, seduction). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | educementsay.(various references) | |
Ukrainian | спокуса (allure, allurement, bait, enticement, honeypot, lure, seduction, temptation), спокушання (seduction). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự dụ dỗ (enticement, inveiglement, seduction), sự cám dỗ (enticement). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SEDUCEMENT": seducements. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SEDUCEMENT" (pronounced 'Se*duce"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-m-n-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: cemented. | |
-3 letters: cements, centums, dements, demesne, descent, dustmen, emeutes, scented, seedmen. | |
-4 letters: cement, censed, centum, decent, dement, deuces, dunces, educes, educts, emceed, emcees, emends, emeute, endues, ensued, esteem, etudes, mensed, mestee, musted, mustee, nested, neumes, nudest, secede, secund, seduce, seemed, teemed, tensed, tenues, unmeet. | |
-5 letters: cedes, cense, cents, centu, cetes, cutes, deems, deets, demes. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-m-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: detumescent, seducements. | |
+2 letters: detumescence. | |
+3 letters: denouncements, detumescences. | |
+5 letters: countermelodies. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Rhymes | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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