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Definition: Concubinage |
ConcubinageNoun1. Cohabitation without being legally married. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "concubinage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: ConcubinageSynonyms: Concubines, Mistresses, Status & rights of. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim. coNoun: free love. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Concubinage |
| English words defined with "concubinage": Concubinacy, Concubinal, Concubinary, Concubinate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "concubinage": Sabrina. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "concubinage": Concubinacy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Concubinage" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (concubinage). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Concubinage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Concubinage" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
concubinage | 23 |
attestation concubinage honneur | 2 |
concubinage lettre modele | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "concubinage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bashkëjetesë jashtë martese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | التسري, إتخاذ المحظيات للزواج الغير شرعي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | конкубинат, извънбрачно съжителство (cohabitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | parforholdet (to live together as man and wife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | concubinaat (to live together as man and wife), buitenechtelijke samenleving (to live together as man and wife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | avoliitto (companionate marriage, living together of unmarried couple, to live together as man and wife), asumisliitto (companionate marriage, living together of unmarried couple, to live together as man and wife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | concubinage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | wilde Ehe (co-habitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פיל'שות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vadházasság (cohabitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pergundikan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | concubinato (companionate marriage, living together of unmarried couple, to live together as man and wife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | colhiabbeeys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oncubinagecay concubinato (liaison). (various references) concubinaj. (various references) внебрачное сожительство. (various references) konkubinat. (various references) concubinato (to live together as man and wife). (various references) konkubinat (to live together as man and wife). (various references) cariyelik, nikâhsız birliktelik (common marriage), metreslik, birlikte yaşama (cohabitation, common marriage). (various references) позашлюбне співжиття. (various references) thân phận n ng hầu, sự lấy vợ lẽ, sự lấy n ng hầu sự ở với nhau m không cưới xin chính thức thân phận vợ lẽ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | contubernia, contubernium, pelicatum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "concubinage": concubinages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "concubinage" (pronounced kÄnkyuw"bunuj) |
| 4 | -u n u j | orphanage. |
| 3 | -n u j | drainage, manage, tonnage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-u" | |
-2 letters: beaconing, concubine. | |
-3 letters: bouncing, buncoing, canoeing. | |
-4 letters: anguine, beaning, begonia, canonic, cocaine, coinage, guanine, oceanic. | |
-5 letters: aeonic, agonic, ancone, bagnio, baning, beacon, benign, biogen, boccia, boccie, bonaci, boning, bonnie, bougie, bounce, bunion, cangue, canine, caning, cannie, cocain, cognac, coigne, conine, coning, cubage, cubing, cueing, encina, eonian, gabion, guanin, guenon, guinea, incage, nonage, nuance, nuncio. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: concubinages. | |
+5 letters: counterbalancing. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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