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Definition: Copulative |
CopulativeAdjective1. (grammar) syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence; "`and' is a copulative conjunction". Noun1. An equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CopulativeSynonyms: connecting (adj), copula (n), linking verb (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Copulative |
| English words defined with "copulative": connecting, Coplatry, Copulatively. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "copulative": Lest ♦ That. (references) |
| "Copulative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Copulative" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "copulative": copulative conjunction. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "copulative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | رابط (attachment, camp, conjunctive, connective, copula, couple, give voice to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | полов (carnal, genital, sensual, sex, sexual, venereal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sluèovací, kopulativní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقاربتی (Venereal), وابسته به جفت گیری , رابط (Gobetween, Liaison), ربطی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | copulatif. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kopulative. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνδετικόσ (conjunctive, connecting, connective, copular, ligamentous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kapcsoló (contact, switch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kata penghubung (conjunction), bersifat menghubungkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coppylagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opulativecay copulativo, conjunção copulativa. (various references) copulativ, de împerechere. (various references) связующий (binder-hole, cohesive), детородный (genital). (various references) sastavni (component, compositional, constituent, contextual, integral, structural, syndetic), kopulativan. (various references) copulativo (associational, conjunctively), de copulativo. (various references) kopulations-. (various references) sevişme (lay, love making, making love, petting), koşaç (copula), birleştiren (conjunctive), bağlaç (conjunction, connective, paper clip), çiftleşme ile ilgili (coital). (various references) спарувальний, дітородний (genital). (various references) tiểu từ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "copulative": copulatives. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-p-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: copulate, locative, outcavil, poetical, poultice. | |
-3 letters: aloetic, capitol, captive, coalpit, copulae, couplet, ectopia, octuple, optical, outleap, outlive, outpace, ovulate, peculia, pivotal, plicate, polecat, topical, vacuole, victual, violate, voltaic. | |
-4 letters: active, aculei, alcove, aplite, atelic, atopic, avocet, caplet, capote, citola, citole, coeval, coital, copula, coteau, couple, culpae, cupola, eluvia, epical, locate, luetic, octave, oilcup. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-o-p-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: copulatives. | |
+4 letters: nonspeculative, overparticular. | |
+5 letters: overspeculating, overspeculation. | |
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