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Definition: Canticle |
CanticleNoun1. A hymn derived from the Bible. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "canticle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Etymology: Canticle \Can"ti*cle\, noun; plural Canticles. [Latin expression canticulum little song, diminutive of canticum song, from cantus singing, from coner to sing. See Chant.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Slang in 1811 | CANTICLE. A parish clerk. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonym: CanticleSynonym: song. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Canticle |
| English words defined with "canticle": Benedicite ♦ Canticle of Simeon, Canticles ♦ Magnificat ♦ Nowel ♦ song thrush. (references) |
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Song Titles | Molde Canticle Part 4 (performing artist: Jan Garbarek) | |
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| "Canticle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Canticle" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "canticle": canticle of Simeon. 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 |
canticle | 20 |
blood canticle | 15 |
canticle of the sun | 8 |
canticle creature | 6 |
canticle choir | 5 |
canticle leibowitz summary | 4 |
canticle guide leibowitz study | 4 |
canticle fair garfunkel lyrics scarborough simon | 3 |
canticle mary | 3 |
canticle plain | 2 |
canticle love | 2 |
canticle liebowitz | 2 |
canticle fair scarborough | 2 |
canticle chapter leibowitz summary | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "canticle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | himn i shkurtër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النشيد (canto, song), أنشودة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | песен (air, canto, chanson, chant, note, song, strain, tune). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chvalozpìv (hymn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cantique (canto), hymne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lobgesang (anthem, doxology, hymn, laud, pean, vaunt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ύμνοσ (anthem, hymn), άσμα (canto, chant, lay, singing, song, strain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vallásos himnusz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | nyanyian (aria, canto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cantico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cantick. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anticlecay cântico (Carol, chant), hino (anthem, choral, hymn, paederast). (various references) cântec bisericesc (anthem), imn (anthem, Carol, hymn, psalm). (various references) гимн (anthem, hymn). (various references) slavopojka (laud, praise), slavopoj (hymn, panegyric). (various references) canto de himno solemne, canción solemne, canción religiosa, himno solemne, himno religioso, himno (anthem, hymn). (various references) lovsång (anthem, Carol, hymn, Laud, paean). (various references) kantik, ilahi (anthem, celestial, chant, divine, elysian, godly, heavenly, hymn, psalm). (various references) b i thánh ca (antiphon), b i ca (laid, lay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "canticle": canticles. (additional references) | |
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"Canticle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Canicule, cantable, Canteleu, cantical, Cantil, catnic, centile, Centocelle, Chantoisel, panticle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "canticle" (pronounced 'Can"ti*cle'): Adminicle, Ancle, Appendicle, Arbuscle, Auricle, Bernacle, Bernicle, bicycle, Binnacle, Binocle, Bittacle, Calicle, Carbuncle, Cardiacle, Caulicle, Charbocle, Cicatricle, Clavicle, Conceptacle, Conventicle, Coracle, Cornicle, Covercle, Cubicle, Curricle, Cuticle, Demicircle, Denticle, Diverticle, Encircle, Epicycle, Fernticle, follicle, funicle, furuncle, granduncle, hemicycle, Hibernacle, icicle, Immanacle, Incircle, Incle, Interclavicle, Isicle, Mascle, monocle, Monticle, Muscle, Nucle, Obstacle, Opercle, Orbicle, Ossicle, Panicle, Particle, Pedicle, Peduncle, Pellicle, Pendicle, Pentacle, Perpendicle, Piacle, Planticle, Postclavicle, Propugnacle, Proventricle, Racle, Radicle, receptacle, reticle, Ridicle, sanicle, Sarcle, Secle, Sectiuncle, semicircle, Sicle, silicle, socle, spectacle, Sphericle, spiracle, Spiricle, Subtectacle, Supraclavicle, Surcle, Sustentacle, tentacle, testicle, Thesicle, treacle, Triacle, tubercle, Tunicle, Unmanacle, utricle, Ventricle, Versicle, Verticle, Vesicle, Vibratiuncle, Zocle. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: calcine, calcite. | |
-2 letters: accent, acetic, acetin, atelic, cancel, cantic, cantle, catlin, celiac, centai, cental, cicale, client, enatic, entail, inlace, lactic, lancet, lectin, lentic, tenail, tincal, tineal. | |
-3 letters: actin, alien, aline, anile, antic, cacti, cecal, clean, cleat, cline, eclat, elain, elint, enact, entia, ileac, inlet, lance, laten, leant, liane, linac, telia, telic, tenia, tical, tinea. | |
-4 letters: acne, alec, alit, anil, ante, anti, cain, cane, cant, cate, ceca, ceil, celt, cent, cine, cite, clan, clit, elan, etic, etna, ilea, lace, laic, lain, lane, late, lati, lean, lent, lice, lien, line, lint, lite, nail, neat, nice, nite, tace, tael, tail, tain, talc, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile, tine. | |
-5 letters: ace, act, ail, ain, ait, ale, alt, ane, ani, ant, ate, can, cat, cel, eat, eta, ice, lac, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, nae, net, nil, nit, tae, tan, tea, tel, ten, tic, tie, til, tin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: canticles, inculcate, technical. | |
+2 letters: accidental, accidently, acetylenic, conciliate, inculcated, inculcates, lactogenic, occidental, technicals. | |
+3 letters: acceptingly, accidentals, anecdotical, anticyclone, calisthenic, cancelation, candlestick, centrically, chanticleer, circinately, conciliated, conciliates, contractile, electrician, incalescent, narcoleptic, neocortical, technically, untechnical. | |
+4 letters: accelerating, acceleration, accidentally, anticlerical, anticyclones, biotechnical, calisthenics, cancelations, cancellation, candlesticks, centralistic, chanticleers, cladogenetic, coincidental, conceptional, conciliative, conduplicate, connectional, contractible, convectional, correctional, counterclaim, criticalness, cybernetical, dialectician, echolocation, electricians, encephalitic, geotechnical, inaccurately, insecticidal, intervocalic, narcoleptics, nontechnical, occidentally, recalcitrant, reluctancies, technicality, technicalize, tectonically, tetracycline, unacclimated, uncirculated, zootechnical. | |
+5 letters: accelerations, acetylcholine, acquiescently, anecdotically, anticlericals, anticlockwise, cancellations, catecholamine, cinematically, cliometrician, coeducational, conceptualise, conceptualism, conceptualist, conceptuality, conceptualize, confiscatable, conglomeratic, consultancies, counterclaims, cytogenetical, dialecticians, eccentrically, echolocations, intercortical, intergalactic, metencephalic, neoclassicist, nonelectrical, occidentalize, phallocentric, plantocracies, practicalness, pyrotechnical, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitrants, recalculating, recalculation, recirculating, recirculation, technicalized, technicalizes, technological, telencephalic, tetracyclines, uncomplicated, undialectical, volcanicities, vulcanicities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6E 74 69 63 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -. - .. -.-. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a n t i c l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006E 0074 0069 0063 006C 0065 |
| 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)3767808675697871 |
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