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Definition: Adulterer |
AdultererNoun1. Someone who commits adultery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adulterer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Adulterer \A*dul"ter*er\, noun. [Formed from the verb adulter, with the English ending -er. See Advoutrer.]. (references) |
Synonym: AdultererSynonym: fornicator (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Libertine | Noun: libertine; voluptuary; a; rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man; intrigant, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard; chartered libertine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adulterer |
| English words defined with "adulterer": adulteress, Advoutrer ♦ fornicatress ♦ hussy ♦ jade ♦ loose woman ♦ strumpet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adulterer": CON, CRIM. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "adulterer": Advoutrer. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A traitor, an adulterer! The priests were right to abandon him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Pakistan | AI also reported that if an accused adulteress is killed, and the adulterer manages to escape this fate, he may be required under the karo/kari tradition to compensate the family of the accused adulteress; sometimes, a woman from the adulterer's family is given compensation to repair the honor of the adulteress' family. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Adulterer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Adulterer" is used about 14 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) | 85.71% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
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 |
adulterer | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adulterer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kurorëshkelës (adulterous). (various references) | |
Arabic | زوج خائن, عاهر (common, licentious, salacious), الزاني (corespondent), رجل متهم بالزنا, شخص زاني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | прелюбодеец (co-respondent). (various references) | |
Czech | cizoložník. (various references) | |
Dutch | echtbreker. (various references) | |
Esperanto | adultulo. (various references) | |
French | adultère (adulatory, adulteress, adulterous, adultery). (various references) | |
German | Ehebrecher. (various references) | |
Greek | μοιχόσ, μοιχός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ אף, ז אי (fornicator, lecher, prostitutor, womanizer), ואף (fornicator, roue, seductive, unfaithful). (various references) | |
Hungarian | házasságtörő férfi. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pezinah (fornicator), orang yang berzina. (various references) | |
Italian | adultero (adulterous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "" (adultery), 浮気者 (cheater, unfaithful person), 姦夫 (paramour). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まおと" (adultery), うわきもの (cheater, unfaithful person), か"ぷ (adulteress, dry towel, government, paramour, refund, restoration, return). (various references) | |
Korean | 간음". (various references) | |
Manx | maarderer, brisheyder poosee, adultrinagh (adulterous). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adultereray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | adúltero (adulterous). (various references) | |
Romanian | adulter (adulterate, adulterous, adultery, fornication), bãrbat adulter. (various references) | |
Russian | участник прелюбодеяния, нарушающий супружескую верность, прелюбодей. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | preljubnik, brakolomnik. (various references) | |
Spanish | adúltero (adulterous). (various references) | |
Swedish | äktenskapsbrytare. (various references) | |
Turkish | aldatan erkek, zina yapan erkek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | учасник перелюбства, зрадливець, порушник подружньої вірності. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đ n ông thông dâm, người đ n ông ngoại tình. (various references) | |
Welsh | godinebwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adulter, moechiae, moechus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 57, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | UmeiV de prosagagete wde uioi anomoi sperma moicwn kai pornhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Vos autem accedite huc filii auguratricis semen adulteri et fornicariae |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Yee forsothe neyheth hider, sonus of a wicche, sed of auouteresse, and of a fornycarie. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the lewd. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Isaiah Chapter 57, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Apan panuol diri, kamong mga anak nga lalake sa babayeng salamangkira, ang kaliwat sa mananapaw ug sa bigaon. |
| Croatian | Pristupite sad, sinovi vraèarini, leglo preljubnièko i bludnièko! |
| Danish | Men I, kom nu her, I Troldkvindens Børn, I, Horkarls og Skøges Yngel: |
| Dutch | Doch nadert gijlieden hier toe, gij kinderen der guichelares! gij overspelig zaad, en gij, die hoererij bedrijft! |
| Finnish | Mutta te tulkaa tänne, te velhottaren lapset, te avionrikkojamiehen ja porttovaimon sikiöt. |
| French | Mais vous, approchez ici, fils de l`enchanteresse, Race de l`adultère et de la prostituée! |
| German | Und ihr, kommt herzu, ihr Kinder der Tagewählerin, ihr Same des Ehebrechers und der Hure! |
| Hungarian | És ti közelgjetek ide, szemfényvesztõ fiai, paráznának magva, a ki paráználkodol. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi kamu, kaum pendosa, datanglah untuk diadili! Kamu tidak lebih baik daripada tukang sihir, orang yang suka berzinah dan pelacur! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi kamu, hendaklah ke mari, hai anak-anak petenung perempuan! kamu benih yang bermukah dan berzinah! |
| Italian | Ora, venite qui, voi, figli della maliarda, progenie di un adultero e di una prostituta. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko koutou ia, awhi mai ki konei, e nga tama a te wahine makutu, e nga uri o te tangata puremu, o te wahine kairau. |
| Norwegian | Men kom hit, I trollkvinnens barn, I horkarls og horkvinnes yngel! |
| Rumanian | ,,Dar voi, apropiayi-vq kncoace fii ai vrqjitoarei, sqmknya precurvarului wi a curvei! |
| Russian | оП ТЙ'МЙЪШФЕУШ УА"Б ЧЩ, УЩОПЧШС ЮБТП"ЕКЛЙ, УЕНС ТЕМА'П"ЕС Й 'МХ"ОЙ"Щ! |
| Spanish | ¡Pero acercaos acá vosotros, oh hijos de bruja, descendientes de adúltero y de prostituta! |
| Swedish | Men träden fram hit, I söner av teckentyderskor, I barn av äktenskapsbrytare och skökor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adulterer": adulterers. (additional references) | |
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"Adulterer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adulerer, adulter, adulterare, adulterey, adulturer, aldulterer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adulterer" (pronounced udu"lterer) |
| 3 | -t er er | caterer, nurturer, plasterer, putterer, waterer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-r-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: treadler, ultrared, ureteral. | |
-2 letters: alerted, alerter, altered, alterer, realter, related, relater, retread, ruderal, treader, treadle. | |
-3 letters: aulder, darter, dartle, dealer, dearer, delate, derate, dueler, elated, elater, eluate, eluder, eluted, larder, lauder, leader, reader, realer, reared, redate, redear, relate, reread, retard, retear, retral, tarred, teared, tearer, teledu, terrae, trader, ureter. | |
-4 letters: adult, alder, alert, alter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-r-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: adulterers. | |
+2 letters: reregulated. | |
+3 letters: recirculated, reformulated, relubricated, ultrarefined, uncorrelated. | |
+4 letters: multibarreled, overregulated, preformulated, rearticulated, tetrafluoride, ultrararefied. | |
+5 letters: counterrallied, tetrafluorides, unrestrainedly. | |
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