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Definitions: Beatitude |
BeatitudeNoun1. A state of supreme happiness. 2. One of the eight sayings of Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount; in Latin each saying begins with `beatus' (blessed); "her favorite Beatitude is `Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth'". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beatitude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: BeatitudeSynonym: blessedness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pleasure | Happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification; enchantment, transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum; paradise, elysium; ( heaven); third heaven, seventh heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness; hedonics, hedonism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Beatitude |
| English words defined with "beatitude": nirvana ♦ Single blessedness. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Beatitude" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (beatitude, bliss). |
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Saint Thomas Aquinas | That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly, they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. |
Seneca | There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self. |
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| "Beatitude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Beatitude" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "beatitude". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Asareel | N/A | Biblical | The beatitude of God |
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Expression using "beatitude": his beatitude. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
beatitude | 262 |
beatitude free tape | 5 |
beatitude meaning | 5 |
beatitude sermon | 4 |
beatitude bible study | 3 |
beatitude picture | 3 |
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beatitude lyrics | 3 |
beatitude commandment | 3 |
beatitude catholic | 3 |
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beatitude explanation | 2 |
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beatitude prayer | 2 |
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beatitude campus care | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beatitude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lumturi e plotë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كل مقطع في خطبة المسيح, غبطة (exultation), سعادة (excellency, felicity, gladness, glee, happiness, his excellency, joy, privilege, sunshine, weal, welfare, well being), طوبى, بركة (benediction, blessing, boon, mercy, mere, pan, patch, pond, receptacle, tank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | блаженство (benediction, blessedness, bliss, felicity, heaven). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | blaženost (blessedness, rapture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | autuus (blessedness, bliss, salvation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | béatitude. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | seligsprechung (beatification), seligpreisung (glorification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μακαριότησ, μακαριότητα (blessedness, bliss, blissfullness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אשר (bliss, felicity, happiness, luck, that, well being, which, who), ברכ" (benediction, benefit, blessing, boon, congratulation, felicitation, gift, greeting, hail, luck, profit, salute), עימות (geniality, loveliness, lusciousness, pleasantness, pleasure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | boldogság (bliss, felicity, gladness, happiness, joy, rejoicing, weal), üdvösség (salvation, water of life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | beatitudine (bliss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 至福 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しふく (blessedness and joy, civilian clothes, for one's own profit, happiness, paper width, plain clothes, prosperity, remaining in obscurity, space assigned for something). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eatitudebay beatitude (bliss). (various references) beatitudine (bliss). (various references) блаженство (bliss, felicity). (various references) blaženstvo (beatification, blessedness, bliss, felicity, glory). (various references) bienaventuranza (blessedness), beatitud (blessedness, bliss). (various references) salighet (blessedness, bliss, glory). (various references) sonsuz mutluluk, salt mutluluk, kutluluk (auspiciousness, blessedness, holiness). (various references) благословення (beatification, benediction, blessing), блаженство (blessedness, bliss, dream, rapt). (various references) gwynfyd (blessedness, bliss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | beatitudine, beatitudinem, beatitudo. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beatitude": beatitudes. (additional references) | |
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"Beatitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beatitudo, beatutude, beautitude, betitde, Blattidae, Bultitude. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "beatitude" (pronounced 'Be*at"i*tude'): Acerbitude, Acritude, Altitude, Amaritude, Amplitude, Anxietude, Aptitude, Assuetude, Attitude, Certitude, Claritude, Colatitude, Consuetude, Crassitude, Crebritude, Decrepitude, Definitude, Desuetude, Disertitude, Disquiettude, Dissimilitude, Dulcitude, Egritude, 'Etude, Exacritude, Fessitude, finitude, Firmitude, fortitude, gratitude, habitude, hebetude, inaptitude, incertitude, Indefinitude, ineptitude, Inertitude, inexactitude, infinitude, ingratitude, inquietude, Insuetude, Inverisimilitude, lassitude, Lenitude, Lentitude, Limpitude, Lippitude, magnitude, Mansuetude, Mollitude, Multitude, Necessitude, Nigritude, Overmultitude, Pinguitude, Platitude, Plenitude, Promptitude, Pulchritude, Quietude, rectitude, Sanctitude, Senectitude, Serenitude, servitude, similitude, solicitude, solitude, Spissitude, Torpitude, turpitude, Unitude, Unquietude, Vastitude, Verisimilitude, Vicissitude. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: abetted, abutted. | |
-3 letters: baited, batted, battue, betide, betted, bitted, butted, dautie, debate, ideate, tabued, tauted, teated, tubate. | |
-4 letters: abide, adieu, audit, bated, battu, beaut, betta, bidet, butte, daube, debit, debut, etude, tabid, tubae, tubed, tutee. | |
-5 letters: abed, abet, abut, adit, aide, bade, bait, bate, batt, baud, bead, beat, beau, bedu, beet, beta, bide, bite, bitt, bute, butt, date, daub, daut, debt, deet, diet, dita, dite, duet, duit, edit, eide, etui, idea, tabu, tate, taut, teat, teed, tide, tied, tuba, tube. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-i-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: beatitudes. | |
+3 letters: reattributed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 61 74 69 74 75 64 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .- - .. - ..- -.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110100 01110101 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e a t i t u d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0061 0074 0069 0074 0075 0064 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367167867586877071 |
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