COLPORTEUR

Definition: COLPORTEUR

COLPORTEUR

Noun

1. A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Colporteur \Col"por`teur\, noun. [French expression colporteur one who carries on his neck, from colporter to carry on one's neck; col (L. collum) neck porter (L. portare) to carry.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Colporteur A hawker or pedlar; so called because he carries his basket or pack round his neck. The term is more especially applied to hawkers of religious books. (Latin, collum, the neck; porto, to carry.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Merchant	Retailer; chapman, hawker, huckster, higgler; pedlar, colporteur, cadger, Autolycus; sutler, vivandiere; costerman, costermonger; tallyman; camelot; faker; vintner.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: COLPORTEUR

English words defined with "COLPORTEUR": Colporter. (references)

Non-English Usage: "COLPORTEUR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (Hawker, huckster, packman, pedlar, street hawker).

Domain	Title
Books	Colporteur Ministry (reference) Le colporteur (reference) Le colporteur des mondes : penser l'Atlantique en Europe (reference) Le colporteur et la mercière : récit et enquête (reference) Le colporteur et le marinier des bords de Loire : récit (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Colporteur [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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.

Language		Translations for "COLPORTEUR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ai që shet libra të lira në rrugë. (various references)

Czech		kolportér. (various references)

Danish		omvandrende handelsmand (chapman, hawker, pedlar), kolportør (chapman, hawker), gadehandler (chapman, hawker), bissekræmmer (chapman, hawker, pedlar). (various references)

Dutch		colporteur (chapman, hawker), rondventer (chapman, hawker), rondreizend koopman (chapman, hawker, pedlar). (various references)

French		colporteur, déballeur. (various references)

German		Wandergewerbe/treibender (chapman, hawker), Hausierer (Hawker, huckster, hucksters, peddler, peddlers, pedlar, pedlars). (various references)

Hungarian		könyvterjesztõ. (various references)

Italian		venditore ambulante (coster, costermonger, Hawker, huckster, packman, peddler, pedlar), venditore a domicilio (chapman, hawker), libraio ambulante (chapman, hawker, pedlar). (various references)

Manx		cadjer bibleyn. (various references)

Pig Latin		olporteurcay

Portuguese		vendedor ambulante (cadger, haberdasher, hawk, huckster, packman, peddlar, peddler, peripatetic, tranter). (various references)

Russian		разносчик книг. (various references)

Spanish		colporteur (chapman, hawker), vendedor ambulante (coster, Hawker, huckster, peddler, pedlar). (various references)

Swedish		kolportör. (various references)

Turkish		gezici kitapçı. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "COLPORTEUR": colporteurs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "COLPORTEUR" (pronounced 'Col"por`teur'): litterateur, Raconteur, R'edacteur, restaurateur. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-o-p-r-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: colourer, uprooter.
	-3 letters: cloture, clouter, colorer, corrupt, coruler, coulter, coupler, couplet, courter, octuple, outcrop, porrect, poulter, precool, proctor, procure, recolor, trooper, trouper.
	-4 letters: colour, colter, colure, cooler, cooper, cooter, coplot, copout, copter, couple, couter, croupe, curler, curter, cutler, lector, looper, looter, ocelot, petrol, poorer, porter, pourer, pouter, precut, pretor, recoup, rector, reluct, replot.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-o-p-r-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: colporteurs.
	+3 letters: electrophorus, precopulatory, prosecutorial.
	+4 letters: multiprocessor.
	+5 letters: counterproposal, multiprocessors, ultramicroscope.
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COLPORTEUR

Definition: COLPORTEUR

COLPORTEUR

Noun

Specialty Definition: COLPORTEUR

Literature

Synonyms within Context: COLPORTEUR

Merchant

Crosswords: COLPORTEUR

Commercial Usage: COLPORTEUR

Books

Music

Frequency of Internet Keywords: COLPORTEUR

colporteur

Modern Translation: COLPORTEUR

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Derivations: COLPORTEUR

Derivations

Rhyming with "COLPORTEUR"

Anagrams: COLPORTEUR

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
colporteur	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.