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Definitions: VENERY |
VENERYNoun1. The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase. 2. Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition. |
Date "VENERY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Incontinence, intrigue, faux pas; amour, amourette; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation. |
Killing | Slaughtering; phthisozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir. |
Pursuit | Chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing; venation, venery; fox chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing, hawking; shikar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: VENERY |
| Specialty definitions using "VENERY": Beans. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "VENERY": Anaphrodisiac. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is what is called in venery (r)false reimbushment . The moon was full. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "VENERY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VENERY" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
venery | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VENERY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Albanian | shthurje (depravity, dissipation, laxity, lecherousness, lechery, profligacy, unbraiding, undoing), gjueti (chase, Chevy, Hunt, hunting, shoot). (various references) | ||||||||||
Czech | lov (chase, chivy, Hunt, hunting). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | κυνήγι (chase, game, hunting, shoot, shooting, venison), λαγνεία (concupiscence, lecherousness, lewdness, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, prurience, sensualism, wantonness). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | shelgerys, shelg (chase, hunt, prey, prowl, pursuit, quarry, run, shoot, spleen, the field). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eneryvay tình dục (erotism). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | veneria. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-r-v-y" | |
-1 letter: every, nerve, nervy, never, veery. | |
-2 letters: eery, envy, erne, even, ever, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre, neve, veer, very. | |
-3 letters: ere, ern, eve, eye, nee, ree, rev, rye, vee, yen. | |
-4 letters: en, er, ne, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-r-v-y" | |
+2 letters: conveyer, everyman, everymen, everyone, fervency, reconvey. | |
+3 letters: conveyers, fervently, inversely, liverymen, reconveys, relevancy, veeringly, venerably, vestrymen. | |
+4 letters: advertency, conversely, divergency, everything, everywoman, everywomen, governessy, inveteracy, overdyeing, purveyance, reconveyed, relevantly, replevying, reverently, veterinary. | |
+5 letters: advertently, convergency, conveyancer, conveyorise, conveyorize, deliveryman, deliverymen, divergently, evidentiary, intervalley, irrelevancy, nervelessly, nondelivery, overanalyze, overanxiety, overpayment, prevalently, purveyances, reconveying, resurveying, retentively, retentivity, revealingly, reverifying, sovereignly, sovereignty, vicegerency. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 45 4E 45 52 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . -. . .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V E N E R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0045 004E 0045 0052 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)563948395259 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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