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Definition: Allocution |
AllocutionNoun1. (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "allocution" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Etymology: Allocution \Al`lo*cu"tion\, noun. [Latin expression allocuto, from alloqui to speak to; ad loqui to speak: compare to the French expression allocution.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Allocution | Noun: allocution, alloquy, address; speech; apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the ear. |
Speech | Oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy; allocution; conversation; salutatory : screed: valedictory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Allocution |
| English words defined with "allocution": Adlocution. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Allocution" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (address, allocution, speech). |
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| "Allocution" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allocution" 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 |
allocution | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "allocution"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shumë e caktuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خطبة رسمية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | реч (address, language, speech, tongue, utterance), възвание (appeal, invitation, proclamation), адрес (address, direction, superscription). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | slavnostní proslov. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | allocution. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rövid buzdító beszéd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allogamento. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | allocutionay alocução (oration). (various references) alocuţiune (address), discurs (address, diatribe, harangue, oration, speaking, speech, utterance). (various references) речь (accents, address, discourse, harangue, language, oration, speech, words). (various references) svečani govor (harangue), beseda (oration, sermon). (various references) arenga (harangue, spiel), alocución (address). (various references) söylev (address, discourse, dissertation, harangue, oration, sermon, speech), nutuk (declamation, discourse, harangue, oration, speech), konuşma (address, causerie, chat, conversation, delivery, discourse, harangue, interlocution, oration, speaking, speech, spiel, spoken, talk, talking, utterance), hitabe (address, oration, speech). (various references) напутлива промова, звершення (accomplishment), алокуція. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "allocution": allocutions. (additional references) | |
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"Allocution" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: allochthon, alocution, Aslockton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "allocution" (pronounced 'Al`lo*cu"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: collation. | |
-2 letters: colonial, cotillon, location, locution. | |
-3 letters: auction, caution, coolant, cullion, inocula, linocut, lunatic, octanol, outlain. | |
-4 letters: action, alnico, atonic, cation, catlin, citola, clinal, clonal, coital, coloni, incult, latino, lintol, loculi, lotion, oilcan, talion, tincal, toluic, toluol, toucan, tunica, uncial, uncoil, uncool. | |
-5 letters: actin, allot, aloin, antic, atoll, aulic, canto, cloot, clout, coati, colin, colon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: allocutions. | |
+2 letters: flocculation. | |
+3 letters: autonomically, flocculations, illocutionary, lactoglobulin, suballocation, vulcanologist. | |
+4 letters: lactoglobulins, occupationally, suballocations, vulcanologists. | |
+5 letters: coeducationally, computationally, conjugationally, conjunctionally, unconditionally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 6F 63 75 74 69 6F 6E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. --- -.-. ..- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01100011 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l o c u t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 006F 0063 0075 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| 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)35787881698786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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