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Definition: Celibate |
CelibateAdjective1. Abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests". Noun1. An unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "celibate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonym: CelibateSynonym: continent (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Celibate |
| English words defined with "celibate": Shakers ♦ United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "celibate": Celibacy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What would you do if I told you I've been celibate for six months (Skin Deep; writing credit: Blake Edwards) Oh, come on. Am I supposed to remain celibate while I bask in like the warm glow of your annihilating contempt (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman) Charlotte, I know you're planning a celibate life, but with half my chromosomes, I think that might be tough (Mermaids; writing credit: June Roberts) If I choose to be celibate, it's none of your business (White Palace; writing credit: Ted Tally) I'm a lonely celibate, me. I do nothing (Dinnerladies; writing credit: Victoria Wood) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Jeremy Taylor | A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He ate little, drank nothing, and was celibate. |
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| "Celibate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.76% of the time. "Celibate" is used about 66 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75.76% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.55% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.52% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.52% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "celibate": be a celibate. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "celibate": non-celibate. | |
| 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 |
celibate | 33 |
celibate relationship | 4 |
celibate marriage | 4 |
celibate rifle | 3 |
celibate single | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "celibate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri i përkorë në marrëdhëniet seksuale, beqar (bachelor, batch, single, single person, unmarried, virgin, wifeless). (various references) | |
Arabic | لا يمارس الجنس, العزب, أعزب (be distant, be single, single, unattached). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | целибат, който се е обрекъл на безбрачие, безбрачен. (various references) | |
Czech | žijící v celibátu. (various references) | |
French | célibataire. (various references) | |
German | Unverheiratete (bachelor, spinster). (various references) | |
Greek | άγαμοσ (agamous, bachelor, single, unmarried, unwed). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רוק (bachelor, single, unmarried). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nőtlen (to lead a single life). (various references) | |
Indonesian | hidup tak kawin. (various references) | |
Italian | celibe (bachelor, single, unmarried). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 独身 (bachelorhood, single, unmarried). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どくしん (bachelorhood, single, unmarried). (various references) | |
Manx | gyn poosey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elibatecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | celibatário (bachelor). (various references) | |
Romanian | celibatar (bachelor, celibatarian, single, unmarried, wifeless), necãsãtorit (chaste, single, unmarried), burlac (bachelor, single, single man, stag, wifeless), becher (bachelor, single, wifeless). (various references) | |
Russian | убежденный холостяк, холостяк холостой, холостяк (bachelor, celibatarian, loner), давший обет безбрачия. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neudata (maiden, unmarried), neženjen, neženja (bachelor). (various references) | |
Spanish | célibe (celibatarian). (various references) | |
Swedish | ogift (single, unmarried, maiden). (various references) | |
Turkish | dini nedenlerle evlenmeyen kimse, dini nedenlerle evlenmeyen, bekâr kimse, bekâr (Bach, bachelor, single, sole, unattached, unmarried, unwed, unwedded). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | целібат (celibacy), той, хто дав обітницю безшлюбності, незаміжня жінка, зв'язувати обітницею безшлюбності, безшлюбність (celibacy, singleness), примушувати до безшлюбності, переконаний холостяк (benedick, celibatarian), дівчина (adolescent, colleen, demoiselle, doll, gal, girl, lass, maiden, wench), дівка (wench). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sống độc thân, người sống độc thân, người không lập gia đình, không lập gia đình. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caelebs. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "celibate": celibates. (additional references) | |
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"Celibate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calibate, celabate, celebate, celeberate, celibat, celibrate, celivate, cellibrate, Ciliberto, cleibate, cleobaea, Kelibia, selibate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "celibate" (pronounced se"lubut) |
| 5 | -l u b u t | halibut. |
| 3 | -b u t | abbot, cohabit, exhibit, habit, inhabit, inhibit, jackrabbit, obit, orbit, prohibit, sherbet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: citeable. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-l-t" | |
-1 letter: citable. | |
-2 letters: albeit, albite, atelic, bailee, cablet. | |
-3 letters: abele, belie, betel, blate, bleat, blite, cable, ceiba, celeb, cleat, eclat, elate, elect, elite, ileac, table, telae, telia, telic, tical. | |
-4 letters: abet, able, alec, alee, alit, bail, bait, bale, bate, beat, beet, belt, beta, bice, bile, bite, blae, blat, blet, cate, ceil, celt, cete, cite, clit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-l-t" | |
+1 letter: celibates, excitable. | |
+2 letters: binucleate, creditable, emblematic, extricable, injectable, noticeable. | |
+3 letters: binucleated, bleacherite, celebrating, celebration, certifiable, ineluctable, inflectable, injectables, predictable, recalibrate, rectifiable, relubricate, unexcitable. | |
+4 letters: accreditable, bibliothecae, bicentennial, bleacherites, celebrations, cybernetical, electability, emblematical, inextricable, precipitable, recalibrated, recalibrates, relubricated, relubricates, unnoticeable. | |
+5 letters: ascertainable, bacteriolyses, bicentennials, bioelectrical, delectability, detectability, discreditable, educabilities, exceptionable, exceptionably, excitableness, incontestable, intracerebral, objectionable, resectability, subcollegiate, subliteracies, unpredictable. | |
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