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Definition: Bestowal |
BestowalNoun1. The act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift. 2. A gift that is bestowed or conferred. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bestowal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: BestowalSynonyms: bestowment (n), conferment (n), conferral (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Giving | Noun: giving; Verb: bestowal, bestowment, donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment; investment,Noun: giving; Verb: bestowal, bestowment, donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment; investment, investiture; award. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bestowal |
| English words defined with "bestowal": Affordment ♦ Subarration. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bestowal": LAUGHTER. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Liability to attacks of laughter is one of the characteristics distinguishing man from the animals -- these being not only inaccessible to the provocation of his example, but impregnable to the microbes having original jurisdiction in bestowal of the disease. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation. Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infection character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray. From this peculiarity he names the disorder Convulsio spargens. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bestowal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bestowal" is used about 16 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% | 16 | 87,710 |
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 |
the bestowal | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bestowal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | blatim (oblation, peace offering), dhuratë (benevolence, bounty, contribution, endowment, fairing, Favor, favour, gift, grant, handsel, oblation, offering, premium, present, presentation, testimonial, token). (various references) | |
Arabic | منحة (awarding, conferment, donation, endowment, giving, granting, presenting), هبة (benevolence, blast, boon, bounty, charity, contribution, donation, endowment, gift, grant, liberality, offering, outburst, present, privilege, puff, waft, whiff), عطاء (bid, bonus, liberality, tender). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | прилагане (application, applying, fit), даряване (endowment). (various references) | |
Czech | udìlení (conferment, grant). (various references) | |
French | octroi, don. (various references) | |
German | verleihung (award, awarding, bestowment, conferment, enfranchisement, hire, hiring, investiture, investment, lending, lending out, loan, loaning, presentation, rental, renting), Schenkung (donation, gift), schenken (bestow, donate, endow, give, give as a gift, give as a present, present), gewähren (accord, afford, bestow, deign, extend, furnish, give, grant, impart, to accord, to afford, to allow, to deign, vouchsafe), erweisung. (various references) | |
Greek | παραχώρηση (allowance, concession, grant), χορήγηση (administration, allowance, giving, grant, granting, issue, providing, supply). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זב" (bounty, endowment, gift, present), "ע ק" (bonus, conferment, endowment, grant, gratuity, presentation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | adományozás (conference, conferment, dispensation, grant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penganugerahan (conferral), pencurahan (outflow, outpouring). (various references) | |
Italian | deposito (account, attic, check in, deposit, depository, depot, leaving, loft, memory, pawn, pledge, repository, storage, store, storeroom, unloading point, warehouse), concessione (concession, grant). (various references) | |
Korean | 수여 (Awarding, Bestowment, Conferring, Granting). (various references) | |
Manx | stowal (bestow, confer, conferment, decorate, stow), giootal (bestow, gift, grant, present). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estowalbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | outorga (conferment, grant, grant-in-aid, issuance, outlet), favor (behalf, boon, countenance, favor, favour, grace, indulgence, lights, please), doação (bequest, bounty, dole, donation, donative, endowment), concessão (accordance, allotment, allowance, award, conferment, franchise, lease). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãsplatã (desert, guerdon, payment, payola, price, prize, recompense, requital, retribution, return, reward, wage), dar (and, bounty, but, consequently, dowry, endowment, genius, gift, grant, hence, however, pledge, present, sop, still, yet). (various references) | |
Russian | награждение (investiture), дар (donation, donative, faculty, gift, grant, pledge). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poklanjanje, dodeljivanje (allotment, conferment), darovanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | otorgamiento (allowance, conferment, grant), dádiva (alms), concesión (allowance, award, awarding, concession, conferment, dealership, grant, granting, putting). (various references) | |
Swedish | föräring (present). (various references) | |
Turkish | bağış (benefaction, bounty, contribution, donation, donative, endowment, gift, grant, largess, largesse, offer, offering, pittance), yerine koyma (implantation, replacement, substitution), armağan (bounty, donation, gift, gratuity, present, presentation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | подарунок (gift, handsel, present, presentation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tặng (donation, offering, presentation), sự cho (donation, gift, grant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bestowal": bestowals. (additional references) | |
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"Bestowal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Battiwala, Bessoumal, bestway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "bestowal" (pronounced 'Be*stow"al'): Abyssal, Accrual, Accusal, Actinozoal, Adjournal, Albuminoidal, Amenorrhoeal, Anomal, Anthropoidal, Apogeal, Apohyal, Appraisal, Apprizal, Approval, Arachnoidal, Arctogeal, Arousal, Arrival, Asteroidal, Avowal, Axal, Balmoral, Banal, Basihyal, Beheadal, Bequeathal, Betrayal, Betrothal, Burghal, Carousal, Catarrhal, Cemental, Ceratohyal, Choroidal, Cital, Coastal, Cockal, Colloidal, Comprisal, Conchoidal, Conoidal, Convival, CORAL, Coralloidal, Cordal, Cotidal, Crinoidal, Croupal, Crustal, Cryal. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stowable, teabowls. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-o-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: boatels, oblates, sowable, teabowl. | |
-2 letters: ablest, belows, bestow, bleats, bloats, boatel, botels, bowels, elbows, lobate, lowest, oblast, oblate, osteal, owlets, solate, stable, tables, towels. | |
-3 letters: abets, ables, aloes, altos, awols, bales, baste, bates, bawls, beast, beats, below, belts, besot, betas, blase, blast, blate, blats, blaws, bleat, blest, blets, bloat, blots, blows, boast, boats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-o-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: bestowals. | |
+2 letters: deathblows, whaleboats, worktables. | |
+4 letters: battlewagons, bladderworts. | |
+5 letters: workabilities. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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