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Definition: Counselling |
CounsellingNoun1. Direction or advice as to a decision or course of action. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "counselling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"Counselling" is a common misspelling or typo for: counseling. |
| Domain | Definition |
Public Administration | The giving of advice on personal, social, psychological, etc problems as an occupation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CounsellingSynonyms: counsel (n), counseling (n), direction (n), guidance (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Counselling |
| Specialty definitions using "counselling": pathways to integration, predictive genetic test ♦ student services. (references) |
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Screenplays | No marriage counselling, no trial separation, divorced. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Health | Genetic counselling may also be needed. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Counselling" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Counselling" is used about 1,402 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% | 1,402 | 5,725 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "counselling": careers counselling ♦ employment counselling ♦ occupational counselling ♦ vocational counselling. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "counselling": counselling-learning, counselling-room. | |
Ending with "counselling": co-counselling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "counselling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 建议 (Counseled, Counseling, Counselled, suggest, suggested, Suggesting, suggestion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | psykologisk rådgivning (counseling, counseling psychology, counselling psychology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | counselling (counseling, counseling psychology, counselling psychology), counseling (counseling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | neuvonta (advise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | counselling (counseling, counseling psychology, counselling psychology), conseils professionnels. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ratend (advising). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμβουλευτική (counseling, counseling psychology, counselling psychology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | counselling (counseling, counseling psychology, counselling psychology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 조언 (Counseling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coyrlee (advising, advisory, consultant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ounsellingcay orientação profissional (careers counselling, careers guidance, employment counselling, occupational counselling, occupational guidance, vocational counselling, vocational guidance). (various references) консультация (consultation, councelling, tutorial). (various references) counselling (counseling, counseling psychology, counselling psychology). (various references) familjerådgivning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "counselling": counsellings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "counselling": cocounselling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-l-l-n-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: counseling. | |
-2 letters: enclosing, ensouling, longlines, unclosing, unselling. | |
-3 letters: clonings, cullions, enginous, ligneous, longline, nucleins, nucleoli, nucleons, sculling, scullion, snelling. | |
-4 letters: celling, censing, cineols, cloning, closing, clueing, cognise, coignes, collies, collins, congius, conines, consign, counsel, cullies, culling, cullion, eloigns, elusion, ensuing, glucose, guenons, gullies, gunnels, gunnies, igneous, inclose, legions, lensing, leucins, ligules, lingoes, locules, longies. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-l-l-n-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: counsellings. | |
+2 letters: cocounselling, hallucinogens. | |
+3 letters: eugeosynclinal. | |
+4 letters: hallucinogenics. | |
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