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STYLOBATE

Definition: STYLOBATE

STYLOBATE

Noun

1. The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "STYLOBATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)

Etymology: Stylobate \Sty"lo*bate\, noun. [Latin expression stylobates, stylobata, Greek; pillar one that treads, from to go.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: STYLOBATE

English words defined with "STYLOBATE": Hecatompedon. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Stylobate

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Stylobate is the immediate foundation of a row of classical columns. Also called stereobate.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stylobate."

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Usage Frequency: STYLOBATE

"STYLOBATE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STYLOBATE" is used about 4 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%4175,879

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

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Modern Translation: STYLOBATE

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

Bulgarian 

  

стилобат. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στυλοβάτησ (mainstay, prop). (various references)

   

Italian

  

stilobate. (various references)

   

Manx

  

laare (bottom, deck, flat, floor, level, set, sill, storey). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ylobatestay

   

Romanian

  

stilobat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стилобат (stylobata). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: STYLOBATE

Derivations

Words beginning with "STYLOBATE": stylobates. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "STYLOBATE"

Words rhyming with "STYLOBATE" (pronounced 'Sty"lo*bate'): Acutilobate, Barbate, Bilobate, Breedbate, Cohobate, Columbate, Comprobate, Dealbate, Delibate, incubate, Limbate, Makebate, Niobate, Orbate, Pinnatilobate, Rabate, Rabbate, sorbate, Stereobate, Surbate, trilobate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: STYLOBATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-o-s-t-t-y"

-2 letters: battles, beastly, boatels, bottles, oblates, stately, stylate, tablets, totable.

-3 letters: ablest, basely, battle, belays, bettas, blasty, bleats, bloats, blotty, boatel, botels, bottle, boylas, latest, lattes, lobate, lottes, lysate, lyttae, lyttas, oblast, oblate, obtest, osteal, slatey, solate, stable, stably, stylet, tables, tablet, toasty, totals.

-4 letters: abets, ables, abyes, aloes, altos, bales, baste, bates, batts.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-o-s-t-t-y"
 

+1 letter: stylobates.

 

+2 letters: obstinately.

 

+3 letters: erythroblast.

 

+4 letters: erythroblasts, incontestably, obstetrically, overstability.

 

+5 letters: erythroblastic.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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