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Definition: Conference |
ConferenceNoun1. A prearranged meeting for consultation or or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda). 2. An association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members. 3. A discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conference" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
General | High-level serious discussion. . . . . conference: a meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions whether of individuals or groups. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Participatory meeting designed for discussion, fact-finding, problem solving and consultation. As compared with a congress, a conference is normally smaller in scale and more select in character-features which tend to facilitate the exchange of information. The term "conference" carries no special connotation as to frequency. Though not inherently limited in time, conferences are usually of short duration with specific objectives. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Shipping | An association of ship owners operating in the same trade route who operate under collective conditions and agree on tariff rates. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term conference can be used to describe any meeting of people that confer about a certain topic.
- In politics, a conference is usually used for a multilateral diplomatic negatiation (like the Potsdam Conference).
- In science, a conference is a formalized event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops or by other means.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Conference."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| CO6P | English | Sixth Conference of the Parties | Environment |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ConferenceSynonyms: group discussion (n), league (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Advice | Reference, referment; consultation, conference, pourparler. |
Conversation | Discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete. |
Conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione; congress; (council); powwow. | |
Council | Assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum; council fire, powwow, primary. |
Summit | Summit conference, summit; peak of achievement, peak of performance; peaks and troughs, peaks and valleys. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conference |
| English words defined with "conference": at the same time, audience ♦ backgrounder ♦ call, Collocution, concurrently, confab, confabulate, confer, conferee, Conference meeting, Conference room, Conferential, consult, Consultary, consultation ♦ Enterparlance ♦ Flag of truse ♦ huddle ♦ Imparlance, Interlocution, interview ♦ news conference ♦ offer, organizationally ♦ Pan-Anglican, powwow, press conference, pretrial, pretrial conference ♦ short and sweet, sidebar, Symposiac, symposium ♦ teleconference, teleconferencing, To beat a parley, To break with, To talk over ♦ uncomfortable ♦ Yalta. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conference": Conference On DAta SYstems Languages, conference service coordinator ♦ Hampton Court Conference ♦ Open Conference ♦ Sixth Conference of the Parties ♦ video conference. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "conference": Enterparlance. (references) |
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Screenplays | If someone had asked me yesterday, I'd have told them that the Quebec Conference is made up of six professional hockey teams (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) From Geneva comes the news that the famous international crook, Gaston Monescu, robbed the peace conference yesterday (Trouble in Paradise; writing credit: Aladar Laszlo; Grover Jones) They're having a conference now to decide what to do. But I need somebody who knows (Airport; writing credit: Arthur Hailey; George Seaton) In the conference room (Thunderball; writing credit: Kevin McClory; Jack Whittingham) Star of the Gale Weathers press conference. Author of the press conference starring Gale Weathers (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Press Conference (1956) The Peace Conference (1935) Story Conference (1934) Disarmanent Conference (1931) | |
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 | Shows photo of NCI's first scientific staff gathered around conference room table. (very interesting shot in the dark with a slide projected on the screen which reflects off the table. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A man responds to a question at a press conference standing at a lecturn, while 2 photographers take his picture. See artwork: OCC-04. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Press conference on Legionnaire's disease held at CDC, Atlanta, GA. Dr. David Sencer, Director, CDC, at podium. Credit: CDC. |  | Here Dr. David Sencer is addressing media personnel at a press conference on Legionnaire's Disease in August, 1976. Credit: CDC. |
 | Brown and Glenn on Flight Deck Press Conference. Credit: NASA. |  | NACA's 9th Annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference. Credit: NASA. |
 | Jensen survey launch in Halifax Harbor Demonstrating hydrographic systems at international hydrographic conference Launch off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Reynolds Mansion, also called the Big House, was originally built by Thomas Spalding in 1810. It is currently operated by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as a conference facility. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve. Planting oysters at Felsgate Creek during the Rotary Club Conference in June 2000. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Dr. Francis P. Shepard, the "father of marine geology," discussing scientific findings of the International Indian Ocean Expedition on board the Coast and Geodetic Survey Ship PIONEER at a press conference in Colombo, Ceylon. Looking on were Dr. Robert Dietz, an early pioneer in plate tectonic theory, and Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Ceilings, nothing more than ce" by Velda Christensen Commentary: "A view of the ceiling in the LDS conference center." | "Twin towers" by Taylor Dixson Commentary: "Really sad to see these buildings go... this pic was taken 7.12.2001 during the flash forward conference... im just glad i got to see them in person before they were destroyed :( ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Francis Bacon | Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | It will prepare the agenda for the meetings of the Conference. (reference) |
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King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I do beseech your Grace to pardon me, and withal Forbear your conference with the noble Duke |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For these reasons, this consensus conference was organized. (references) | |
The panel finalized the revisions within a few weeks after the conference. (references) | ||
NIH Consensus Development Conference on Genetic Testing for Cystic Fibrosis. (references) | ||
Business | Hong Kong is a major conference and exhibition center. (references) | |
Embassy, which includes a large conference room, demonstration kitchen, library and visitor office. (references) | ||
As in the U.S., it is not advisable to call a press conference unless something newsworthy is to be announced. (references) | ||
Children | Mozambique | In 2000 ADEMO held a conference to address the rights of persons with disabilities. (references) |
Pakistan | There were credible reports of boys being sexually abused in a jail located in Punjab province in 2000. At a May 2000 conference in Karachi on trafficking in women, speakers claimed that more than 15,000 child sex workers were operating in Lahore and other cities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Djibouti | However, in October DAF was permitted to attend a conference in Lebanon. (references) |
Economic History | Indonesia | Video Gold Key: Gold key service via video conference. (references) |
Nicaragua | The Holiday Inn-Select has a large conference facility. (references) | |
Gabon | The PDG and 74 political organizations attended the conference. (references) | |
Human Rights | Gambia | The athletes were participating in the National Youth Conference. (references) |
Italy | Approximately 300 persons in total were detained during the Conference. (references) | |
Bahrain | The society also sent representatives to attend the World Conference on Racism in Durban. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Peru | Both organizations joined the Permanent Conference of Indigenous Peoples, an umbrella body that coordinates the activities of the country's indigenous population. (references) |
Indonesia | A March conference debated whether to pursue independence or special autonomy, resulting in numerous meetings with local communities to explain autonomy and solicit input. (references) | |
Philippines | The Higaonon people in Mindanao claim that they continue to be deprived of portions of their ancestral land by a powerful local landowning family that forced their removal through a violent demolition conducted by the PNP and private security forces in 1997. The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines continues to express concern over the effects of existing and planned large-scale mining on the land of the many indigenous people of Mindanao. (references) | |
Minorities | Cuba | Nevertheless racial discrimination often occurred and was acknowledged publicly by high governmental officials, including President Castro during remarks at the World Conference on Racism in South Africa. (references) |
Russia | In the materials that came out of the conference, groups such as Pentecostals, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Unification Church, and Scientology were included in the list of "cults," despite the fact that all have legal status. (references) | |
Russia | From April 23 to 25, local Russian Orthodox Church officials held a conference in Nizhniy Novgorod, which was devoted to "Totalitarian Cults--Threat of the XXI Century," featured a number of presentations from both domestic and foreign "anticult" activists. (references) | |
Political Economy | West Bank | The U.S. has facilitated negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians since the 1991 Madrid Middle East Peace Conference. (references) |
Austria | They meet regularly in the informal governors' conference, which formulates recommendations for federal legislation concerning the provinces. (references) | |
Sudan | In March 1999, at a grassroots peace conference in Wunlit, Bahr El Ghazal, representatives of the Nuer and Dinka tribes signed a peace covenant. (references) | |
Political Rights | Somalia | Women played a prominent role in the Djibouti Conference. (references) |
Zimbabwe | On March 31, the NCA sponsored a conference to revive the constitutional reform process. (references) | |
Somalia | Minorities were allocated 25 seats in the TNA during the Djibouti conference, which reflected their percentage of the population. (references) | |
Trade | West Bank | The United States increased its pledge at the November 1998, Donors' Conference in Washington following the signing of the Wye River Memorandum. (references) |
Kenya | Kenya is also a signatory to major international trade agreements such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Trade Organization, and the Lome Convention. (references) | |
Egypt | The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD): frequently called the "World Bank," was conceived in July 1944 at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. (references) | |
Travel | Australia | Many executives and conference delegates extend their stays in Australia with a holiday. (references) |
Bahamas | Even hotels without such centers will be happy to arrange for fax transmissions, office and conference facilities, and other business services. (references) | |
Senegal | Hotel Meridien Tel: 221-869-6969/Fax: 869-6924. The Meridien is the most prestigious hotel in Dakar and its conference facilities are impressive. (references) | |
Women | Somalia | Women's groups played a prominent role in the Djibouti Conference. (references) |
Taiwan | Several of the alleged victim's coworkers held a press conference to demand action. (references) | |
Palau | The women's conference held in March continued its focus on previous issues and problems. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mexico | However, at year's end, the conference had not taken place. (references) |
Kazakhstan | In May NGO's hosted a joint Central Asian Conference on trafficking. (references) | |
Indonesia | The police managed to stop the mob before they reached the conference room. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Thomas | First of all, Bob, they're not retroactive. Ari Fleischer used that term in a news conference, and then realized he was wrong. And in a follow-up news conference, he said he was wrong, so they aren't retroactive. |
Queen Rania of Jordan | I'm not quite clear about the details of this conference. But we are always supportive of any initiatives that promote peace. So I'm sure that our government will be supportive of that principle, but I don't know further details about it. |
Robert Novak | As a Senate-House conference committee agreed on the final version of the bill, the market rallied sharply on Wednesday. |
Rush Limbaugh | Former President Bill Clinton took part in a town hall forum of present and former world leaders as part of the World AIDS Conference in Spain. |
Yasser Arafat | Not to forget, first of all, we had agreed upon, from the beginning, to go together and to participate in the Madrid conference, according to this initiative which has been declared by President Bush, peace for land and land for peace. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | We have before us the beneficial results of the Washington conference and the various consultations recently held upon European affairs, some of which were in response to our suggestions and in some of which we were active participants. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Last February and March an Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace was held in Mexico City. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | More ideas for a beautiful America will emerge from a White House Conference on Natural Beauty which I will soon call. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Additional Federal judges are needed, as recommended by me and the Judicial Conference. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | I established an Office of Families within HHS and sponsored the White House Conference on Families. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We'll hold a White House Conference on Social Security in December. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Conference" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.88% of the time. "Conference" is used about 10,055 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) | 99.88% | 10,043 | 929 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.11% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10,055 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conference": American Business Conference ♦ be in conference ♦ Clinical Conference [Publication Type] ♦ closed door conference ♦ conference agent ♦ conference bridges ♦ conference call ♦ conference center ♦ conference circuit ♦ conference hall ♦ conference house ♦ Conference meeting ♦ Conference of Group Presidents ♦ conference of ministers ♦ Conference of the Parliaments("assises") ♦ Conference of the Parliaments("conclave") ♦ conference On DAta SYstems Languages ♦ Conference on European Post and Telegraph ♦ conference room ♦ conference table ♦ Consensus Development Conference [Publication Type] ♦ disarmament conference ♦ European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations ♦ national Football Conference ♦ negotiating conference ♦ news conference ♦ orders conference ♦ party conference ♦ peace conference ♦ planning conference ♦ potsdam conference ♦ press conference ♦ pretrial conference ♦ professional conference organizer ♦ sales conference ♦ Sixth Conference of the Parties ♦ summit conference ♦ tendering conference ♦ the press conference ♦ video conference. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "conference": conference-attending, conference-based, conference-calling, conference-centralized, conference-drafting, conference-goer, conference-goers, conference-going, conference-holding, conference-led, conference-papers, conference-reconciled, conference-related, conference-rooms, conference-style, conference-table. | |
Ending with "conference": pre-conference. | |
| 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 "conference"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shoqatë (association, college, fold, league, sodality, union), konsultim, konferencë (diet), këshillim (admonition, consultation, counsel, monition). (various references) | |
Arabic | مؤتمر (congress, consultation, convention, conventional, parley, seminar), تشاور (confer, conferment, consult, consultation, counsel, deliberation, go into a huddle), تداول (circulation, confer, counsel, currency, deliberate, deliberation, negotiate), إتحاد كنائس, إتحاد (all-union, association, combination, confederation, federation, incorporation, league, merger, oneness, unification, union, unity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвещание (consultation, council, counsel), разговаряне, консултация (consultation), конференция (round robin), обсъждане (agitation, argumentation, canvass, consideration, consultation, deliberation, discussion, dispute, parley, powwow). (various references) | |
Chinese | 談判 (negotiation, to negotiate), 會議 (meeting), 會晤 (meet, meeting), 招待會 (reception), 会议 (meeting, session, Sessions). (various references) | |
Czech | porada (advice, consultation, counsel, deliberations, meeting), konference (convention). (various references) | |
Danish | konference (consultation, joint clinical sessions). (various references) | |
Dutch | conferentie. (various references) | |
Esperanto | konferenco. (various references) | |
Faeroese | samrøða (interview). (various references) | |
Farsi | مذاکره (Discussion, Interview, Talk), مشاوره (Council), همرایزنی , کنگاش , گفتگو (Colloquy, Conversation, Converse, Dialogue, Discussion, Parlance, Talk). (various references) | |
Finnish | neuvottelu (consultation, negotiation), konferenssi, kokous (assemblage, assembly, congress, gathering, meeting, reunion). (various references) | |
French | conférence. (various references) | |
German | konferenz (meeting), besprechung (consultation, discussion, meeting, powwow, review, session, talk). (various references) | |
Greek | σύσκεψη (conclave, consultation, counsel, deliberation), συνδιάσκεψη (palaver), διάσκεψη (meeting). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כנס (assembly, congress, convention, gathering, meeting, rally, session). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tanácskozás (consultation, counsel, deliberation, pow-wow), tárgyalás (collateral bargaining, discussion, hearing, negotiation, parley, pleading, reconsideration, talk, talks, trying), konferencia (pow-wow), megbeszélés (appointment, conversation, discussion, interview, palaver, pow-wow, talk over), hajózási kartell, eszmecsere (colloquy, exchange of views), adományozás (bestowal, conferment, dispensation, grant), értekezlet (pow-wow, session, sitting), értekezés (discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, essay, pamphlet, tractate, treatise). (various references) | |
Indonesian | rembugan (consultation, duscussion), permusyawarahan (deliberation), perembugan (deliberation), musyawarah (discussion, meeting). (various references) | |
Italian | conferenza (congress, discussion, lecture, palaver). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 年会 (annual convention), コンピュータ用語 (combo, comfrey, competition, complement, complete, completion, complex, compliance, compliment, component, component stereo, component type, composer, composite, composite index, composition, compost, compote, compress, compressor, computation, computer communication, computerese, computing, computopia, computopolis, con brio, confection, confectionery, confession, configuration, conflict, conform, conformism, convention, convention bureau, convention center, convention hall, conventional, conveyor, conveyor system, convoy), 協議 (consultation, discussion, negotiation), 協議会 (convention), 商議 (consultation), 会談 (conversation, discussion, interview), 会談 (conversation, discussion, interview), 合議 (consultation), 会議 (meeting), 謀議 (conspiracy, plot), 諮議 (consultation), 話合い (discussion), 話し合い (discussion), 話し合い (discussion), 評定 (assessing, consultation, verdict), 評議 (discussion), 会議 (assembly, congress, convention, council, meeting, session). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しぎ (city assemblyman, conjecture, consultation, criticism behind one's back, developments, guess, outcome, personal opinion, practice jump, sandpiper, situation, snipe), きょうぎかい (athletic meet, convention), しょうぎ (camp stool, consultation, folding stool, harlot, Japanese chess, prostitute), きょうぎ (consultation, contest, creed, discussion, doctrine, game, match, narrow-sense, negotiation, paper-thin sheet of wood), ねんかい (anniversary service, annual convention), ひょうぎ (discussion), ひょうじょう (armed soldier, arms, consultation, facial expression, verdict), ぼうぎ (conspiracy, plot), かいぎ (assembly, congress, consultation via a circular, convention, council, disbelief, doubt, meeting, session, skepticism), かいだん (Buddhist ordination platform, conversation, disbandment, discussion, ghost story, interview, stairs), ごうぎ (consultation, grand, great), コンファレンス , はなしあい (discussion). (various references) | |
Korean | 회의 (Council, sceptic, sceptical, skeptic, skeptical). (various references) | |
Manx | co-whaiyl. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onferencecay.(various references) | |
Polish | konferencja. (various references) | |
Portuguese | conferência (assemblage, collation, congress, lecture, negotiation, parley, parling, prelection, reading, recount, speech, talk, travel-film, travelogue). (various references) | |
Romanian | consfãtuire (debate, deliberation), congres (congress, convention, diet), conferinţã (congress, diet, lecture, parley, reading, session, speech), sfat (advice, consultation, council, counsel, deliberation, piece of advice, recommendation, Rede, tip), deliberare (consultation, deliberation), şedinţã (assembly, meeting, session, sitting), adunare (accumulation, addition, aggregate, assemblage, assembly, cluster, collection, congregation, congress, conjunction, convention, convocation, crowd, footing up, gathering, heap, hoarding, meeting, muster, powwow, rally, reunion, rodeo, sitting, social, tot, turn out). (various references) | |
Russian | совещание (consultation, council, counsel, palaver, sederunt), конференция (parley). (various references) | |
Scottish | deasbud (a dispute, debate, dispute). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skup (aggregate, assemblage, bevy, concourse, congregation, congress, convention, convolution, costly, expensive, fancy, gathering, ingathering, meeting, troop), sednica (meeting, session), savetovanje (counsultation), kongres (congress, convention), konferencija. (various references) | |
Spanish | conferencia (confabulation, conference call, lecture, palaver, powwow, prelection, symposium, toll call). (various references) | |
Swedish | konferens (powwow). (various references) | |
Turkish | toplantı (assemblage, assembly, company, concourse, congress, convention, convocation, court, forum, function, gathering, get together, meeting, parley, powwow, rally, séance, session), lig (circuit, league), kongre (assembly, congress, congressional, convention, session), konferans (lecture, reading, thinkin), görüşme (bargaining, conversation, debate, discussion, disputation, hearing, intercourse, interview, meeting, negotiation, parley, rap, talk), birlik (alliance, body, brotherhood, coalescence, collaboration, combination, combine, communion, company, confederacy, confederation, contingent, corps, ensemble, establishment, fellowship, force, fraternity, gild, guild, league, legion, oneness, outfit, pool, posse, solidarity, troop, unanimity, union, unit, unity). (various references) | |
Turkmen | mejlis, maslahat (advice, council), gurultaя (assembly, convention). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | консультація (advice, consultation, tutorial), конференція (colloquy, parley), з'їзд (congress, convention, diet, rally, synod). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự hội ý hội nghị, sự bàn bạc. (various references) | |
Welsh | cynhadledd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | colloquium, placitum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Galatians Chapter 2, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Apo de twn dokountwn einai ti opoioi pote hsan ouden moi diaferei proswpon qeoV anqrwpou ou lambanei emoi gar oi dokounteV ouden prosaneqento |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ab his autem qui videbantur esse aliquid quales aliquando fuerint nihil mea interest Deus personam hominis non accipit mihi enim qui videbantur nihil contulerunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But of these that semeden to be sumwhat; whiche thei weren sum tyme, it perteyneth not to me, for God takith not the persoone of man; for thei that semeden to be sumwhat, yauen me no thing. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Of the which seme to be great (what they were in tyme passed it maketh no matter to me: God loketh on no mans person) neverthelesse they which seme great added nothynge to me. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But of these, who seemed to be somewhat, (whatever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me; |
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| Language | Galatians Chapter 2, Verse 6 |
| Croatian | A oni koji štogod znaèe - bili oni što bili, nije mi do toga, Bog ne gleda tko je tko - ti uglednici, uistinu, ništa nisu pridometnuli. |
| Dutch | En van degenen, die geacht waren, wat te zijn, hoedanigen zij eertijds waren, verschilt mij niet; God neemt den persoon des mensen niet aan; want die geacht waren, hebben mij niets toegebracht. |
| Finnish | Ja nuo, joita jonakin pidettiin - millaisia lienevät olleet, ei kuulu minuun; Jumala ei katso henkilöön - nuo arvossapidetyt eivät velvoittaneet minua mihinkään enempään, |
| French | Ceux qui sont les plus considérés-quels qu`ils aient été jadis, cela ne m`importe pas: Dieu ne fait point acception de personnes, -ceux qui sont les plus considérés ne m`imposèrent rien. |
| German | Von denen aber, die das Ansehen hatten, welcherlei sie weiland gewesen sind, daran liegt mir nichts; denn Gott achtet das Ansehen der Menschen nicht, mich haben die, so das Ansehen hatten, nichts anderes gelehrt; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Namun demikian, tidak ada hal-hal baru yang dituntut dari saya oleh orang-orang yang dianggap terpandang--bagi saya tidak ada bedanya kalau mereka terpandang atau tidak, sebab Allah tidak memandang muka. |
| Maori | Otira ko te hunga whai ingoa ahakoa he aha ratou, kahore tahi he tikanga ki ahau: kahore a te Atua whakapai ki te kanohi tangata kihai ratou, te hunga whai ingoa, i whakaatu mea ki ahau: |
| Norwegian | Men de som gjaldt for å være noget - hvor store de var, er mig det samme; Gud gjør ikke forskjell på folk - de som gjaldt mest, påla mig intet videre, |
| Rumanian | Cei ce sknt socotiyi ca fiind ceva-orice ar fi fost ei, nu-mi pasq: Dumnezeu nu cautq la faya oamenilor-acewtia, zic, ei cei cu vazq nu mi-au adaus nimic. |
| Shuar | Nu arantcha Yus akatramu uuntrinkia yamaram Túratniunka suruscharmai. Nincha Ashí aents ti neka ainiawai tu Enentáimtuiniawai. Kame nu shuar ti nékainiakuisha ti Enentáimtatsjai. Yus Ashí shuaran mash métek iyatsuk. |
| Swahili | Lakini watu hawa wanaosemekana kuwa ni viongozi--kama kweli walikuwa hivyo au sivyo, kwangu si kitu, maana Mungu hahukumu kwa kuangalia mambo ya nje--watu hawa hawakuwa na kitu cha kuongeza katika Habari hii Njema kama niihubirivyo. |
| Swedish | Och vad angår dem som ansågos något vara -- hurudana de nu voro, det kommer icke mig vid; Gud har icke anseende till personen -- så sökte icke dessa män, de som stodo högst i anseende, att pålägga mig några nya förpliktelser. |
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