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Definition: Bequest |
BequestNoun1. (law) a gift of personal property by will. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bequest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Archeological | Transfer of property to an institution under the terms of a deceased person's will. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | After this dream, pleasures of consolation from the knowledge of duties well performed, and the health of the young is assured. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Finance | A gift of personal property made by a deceased person. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BequestSynonym: legacy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Giving | Bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage; voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance; amortization. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bequest |
| English words defined with "bequest": Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Alfred Nobel ♦ Bequeathal, Bequeathment ♦ Nobel ♦ Specific legacy, Superstitious use. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bequest": bequest to a class ♦ class bequest ♦ demonstrative bequest ♦ onerous bequest ♦ RESTITUTIONS ♦ substituted bequest, substituted gift, substituted legacy. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | A Bequest to the Nation (1973) | |
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Economic History | Poland | Such a perpetual tenant has the right to dispose of its interest in the land by sale, gift, or bequest. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESTITUTIONS, n. The founding or endowing of universities and public libraries by gift or bequest. |
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| "Bequest" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "Bequest" is used about 180 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) | 99.44% | 179 | 23,133 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 180 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bequest": bequest to a class ♦ class bequest ♦ demonstrative bequest ♦ onerous bequest ♦ substituted bequest. 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 |
bequest | 13 |
colonel bequest the | 12 |
bequest colonel download | 11 |
bequest will | 9 |
bequest uk will | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bequest"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trashëgim (descent, devolution, heirship, heredity, heritage, inheritance, legacy, patrimony), lënie trashëgim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وصية (behest, charge, commandment, device, injunction, instruction, legacy, precept, testament, will), وراثة (heredity, inheritance, succession), توريث (bequeathing, devising, entailment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | наследство (estate, heritage, inheritance, patrimony), завещание (bequeathing, legacy, testament, will). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 遗产 (heritage, Legacies, legacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | závìt, odkaz (cross-reference, legacy, reference), dìdictví (heirloom, heritage, inheritance, legacy, patrimony, settlement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | legaat (devise, legacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | میراث (Heritage, Inheritance, Legacy, Patrimony), ترکه (Bough, Heirloom, Offshoot, Rod, Scion, Spray, Sprig, Switch, Twig, Wand, Wattle), ارثی که بنابوصیت رسیده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | legs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vermächtnis (bequests, donation, gift, inheritance, legacy, present, settlement, testament, will), nachlass (allowance, deduction, discount, estate, rebate, reduction, remains, remission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κληροδότημα (legacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ירוש" (heritage, inheritance, legacy, patrimony, succession), עזבון (estate, inheritance, legacy), חל" (estate, heritage, inheritance, legacy, possession, property). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hagyaték (heritage, legacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | warisan (heir, inheritance, legacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lascito (entail, legacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 遺財 (inheritance), 遺贈 (legacy), 遺留 , 遺" (inheritance), 遺愛 (relic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いぞう (legacy), いざい (extraordinary talent, genius, inheritance), いさ" (inheritance, miscalculation, stomach medicine, stomachacid), いりゅう (dissuasion from resigning or leaving), いあい (iai, relic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | leggad (amour propre, beau, boy, boy sweetheart, endowment; sweetheart, legacy, partner, Valentine, Valentine sweetheart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | equestbay legado (demise, devise, endowment, legacy, legate), herança (entail, estate, heirdom, heiress, heredity, heritage, inheritance, inheritress, patrimony, succession), doação (bestowal, bounty, dole, donation, donative, endue, gift, grant, grantor). (various references) testament (testament, will), obiect lãsat prin testament, moştenire (heirdom, heirship, hereditament, heritage, inheritance, legacy, patrimony, succession), legat prin testament. (various references) завещанное наследство, завещание (bequeathing, devise, last will and testament, testament, testamento). (various references) zaostavština (inheritance). (various references) legado (devise, devisee, inheritance, left, legacy, legate, legated). (various references) testamentering, testamentarisk gåva (gift post mortem, testamentary gift). (various references) เงินหรือทรัพย์สินที่เป็นมร"ก. (various references) miras (estate, heirdom, heirship, heritage, inheritance, inherited, legacy), kalıt (heritage, inheritance, legacy). (various references) спадщина (heirdom, heritage, inheritance, legacy, patrimony), посмертний дар. (various references) cymynrodd (legacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | legati, legatum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bequest": bequests. (additional references) | |
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"Bequest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bequeatg, bequist, berquist, biques, eques, equest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bequest" (pronounced bikwe"st) |
| 6 | -i k w e" s t | request. |
| 5 | -k w e" s t | quest. |
| 4 | -w e" s t | northwest, southwest, West. |
| 3 | -e" s t | abreast, acquiesced, addressed, arrest, assessed, attest, behest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Celeste, chest, coalesced, compressed, confessed, congest, crest, depressed, detest, digest, digressed, dispossessed, distressed, divest, dressed, expressed, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, impressed, infest, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, obsessed, oppressed, pest, possessed, pressed, Prest, professed, progressed, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, repressed, rest, retest, stressed, suggest, suppressed, test, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, vest, wrest, zest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-q-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: beets, beset, butes, quest, tubes. | |
-3 letters: bees, beet, best, bets, bust, bute, buts, stub, suet, tees, tube, tubs. | |
-4 letters: bee, bet, bus, but, see, set, sub, sue, suq, tee, tub, use, uts. | |
-5 letters: be, es, et, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-q-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: bequests. | |
+2 letters: bequeaths. | |
+3 letters: banqueters, banquettes, barquettes, briquettes, subsequent. | |
+4 letters: bequeathals, blanquettes, subsequents. | |
+5 letters: barquentines, equabilities, equilibrates, questionable, subsequently. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 71 75 65 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . --.- ..- . ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110001 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e q u e s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0071 0075 0065 0073 0074 |
| 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)36718387718586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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