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SPECTATORSHIP

Definition: SPECTATORSHIP

SPECTATORSHIP

Noun

1. The act of beholding.

2. The office or quality of a spectator.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPECTATORSHIP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references)


Commercial Usage: SPECTATORSHIP

DomainTitle

Books

  • Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (reference)

  • Projecting Illusion : Film Spectatorship and the Impression of Reality (reference)

  • Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: SPECTATORSHIP

"SPECTATORSHIP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SPECTATORSHIP" is used about 12 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%12101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SPECTATORSHIP

Derivations

Words beginning with "SPECTATORSHIP": spectatorships. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SPECTATORSHIP" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: settlorship. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SPECTATORSHIP"

Words rhyming with "SPECTATORSHIP" (pronounced 'Spec*ta"tor*ship'): Abbotship, Accompliceship, Accountantship, Acquaintanceship, Administratorship, Admiralship, Advisership, Advocateship, AEdileship, Agentship, Airmanship, Aldermanship, Almonership, Amateurship, Ambassadorship, Apostleship, Apprenticeship, Archdeaconship, Archership, Archonship, Assessorship, Associateship, Attorneyship, Auditorship, Augurship, Authorship, Autocratship, Babyship, Bachelorship, Bardship, Beadleship, Beauship, Boatmanship, Burgess-ship, Burghership, Bursarship, Butlership, Cadetship, Candidateship, Canonship, Captainship, Cardinalship, Censorship, Chairmanship, Chamberlainship, Championship, Chancellorship, Chaplainship, Chargeship, Chief-justiceship. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SPECTATORSHIP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-o-p-p-r-s-s-t-t"

-2 letters: hippocrases, prosthetics.

-3 letters: pastorship, postscript, prosthetic, rheostatic, scrappiest, spaceports, spectators, starchiest, stroppiest, therapists.

-4 letters: aphorises, aphorists, atrophies, chapiters, chartists, chassepot, chastiser, choppiest, copperahs, crappiest, hippocras, operatics, ostracise, ostriches, parchesis, pastiches, patchiest, piscators, pistaches, poachiest, postcrash, posthaste, postheats, postiches, practises, prophases, prophasic, prophetic, prospects, prostates, prostatic, prothesis, prothetic, rheostats, sapphires, spaceport, spaceship, spectator, sportiest.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-o-p-p-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: spectatorships.

 

+2 letters: psychotherapist.

 

+3 letters: psychotherapists.

 

+5 letters: supersophisticated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SPECTATORSHIP


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

53 50 45 43 54 41 54 4F 52 53 48 49 50

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)

01010011 01010000 01000101 01000011 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 01010011 01001000 01001001 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#80 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#83 &#72 &#73 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0050 0045 0043 0054 0041 0054 004F 0052 0053 0048 0049 0050

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

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

53503937543554495253424350

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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