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Definition: Condolence |
CondolenceNoun1. An expression of sympathy with another's grief; "they sent their condolences". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "condolence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: CondolenceSynonym: commiseration (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Condolence | Noun: condolence; lamentation; sympathy, consolation. |
Congratulation | Noun: congratulation, gratulation; felicitation; salute; condolence; compliments of the season. |
Courtesy | Mark of recognition, nod; "nods and becks and wreathed smiles"; valediction; condolence. |
Lamentation | Plaintiveness; Adjective: languishment; condolence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Condolence |
| English words defined with "condolence": Condolatory, Condolement. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "condolence": Hanun. (references) |
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | And here, instead of its being a matter of condolence, it turns out to be one of congratulation. |
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Worker Rights | Japan | The Public Management Ministry began accepting applications for condolence money in April; the legislation provides for payments of $33,333 (4 million yen) to seriously injured foreign national soldiers and $21,667 (2.6 million yen) to the survivors of those foreign nationals killed in service. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Condolence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Condolence" is used about 32 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% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "condolence": letter of condolence. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "condolence": Condolence-letter. | |
| 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 "condolence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngushëllim (comfort, commiseration, consolation, refuge, relief, resort, solace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مواساة (commiseration, consolation), تعزية (comfort, comforting, consolation, grieve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съчувствие (commiseration, compassion, feeling, fellow feeling, sympathy), съболезнование. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 吊". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | soustrast (commiseration, compassion), projev soustrasti (condolences). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | همدردی (Pity, Sympathy), تسلیت , اظهارتاسف . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | surunvalittelu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | condoléance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beileid (condolences, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συλλυπητήρια (condolement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ת חומים (comfort, consolation, solace), "שתתפות בצער (commiseration, sympathy), "בעת ת חומים, חום (comfort, compassion, consolation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | részvétnyilvánítás, részvét (commiseration, compassion, rue, ruth, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | takziah. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cordoglio (grief, sorrow), condoglianza (sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "悼 (lament, regret, sorrow, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くやみ, あいとう (lament, regret, sorrow, sympathy), とぶらい (burial, funeral), とむらい (burial, funeral), ちょうい (close siege, mourning, sympathy, tide level). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coghobberan, cocheayney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ondolencecay condolência, pêsames (condolences). (various references) condoleanţe. (various references) соболезнование (commiseration). (various references) izjava saučešća. (various references) condolencia (pity, ruth). (various references) kondoleans (condolement). (various references) taziye (sympathies), başsağlığı (condolatory, sympathies), başağlığı. (various references) співчуття (charity, commiseration, empathy, leaning, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | condolere. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "condolence": condolences. (additional references) | |
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"Condolence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: condolance, condolancs, condoleance, condolensce, condolense, condolonce, condonlence, consolance, consolence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "condolence" (pronounced kundō"luns) |
| 4 | -l u n s | ambivalence, ambulance, balance, benevolence, counterbalance, equivalence, excellence, imbalance, insolence, nonviolence, opulence, parlance, pestilence, petulance, prevalence, resemblance, semblance, silence, surveillance, turbulence, unbalance, Valence, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-l-n-n-o-o" | |
-3 letters: concede, condole, condone. | |
-4 letters: cloned, colone, conned, cooeed, cooled, donnee, doolee, encode, locoed, neoned, noodle. | |
-5 letters: clone, codec, coden, codon, coled, colon, condo, coned, cooed, cooee, dolce, donee, donne, leone, loden, looed, nonce, odeon, olden. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-l-n-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: condolences. | |
+5 letters: endonucleolytic. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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