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Definition: Courtesy |
CourtesyNoun1. A courteous or respectful or considerate act. 2. A courteous or respectful or considerate remark. 3. A courteous manner. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "courtesy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Literature | Courtesy Civility, politeness. It was at the courts of princes and great feudatories that minstrels and pages practised the refinements of the age in which they lived. The word originally meant the manners of the court. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the British peerage system, wives, children, and other close relatives of a peer are addressed by styless that may mislead those unacquainted with the system into thinking that they have substantive titles.If a peer of the rank of Earl, Marquess, or Duke has more than one title, his eldest son uses one of the lesser titles. (The eldest sons of Barons and Viscounts do not receive such a privilege.) If that eldest son has an eldest son, and there are additional titles available, he too may use a lesser title. For example, the Duke of Norfolk is also the Earl of Arundel and Lord Maltravers, and so his son may be styled Earl of Arundel, and the grandson styled Lord Maltravers. However, only the grandfather is a peer: the other two remain 'commoners' until they actually acquire a substantive title. Also, such courtesy titles are only used by the peer's eldest son, and the eldest son's eldest son, and so forth. Other descendants are not permitted to use the peer's subsidiary titles.
The actual title used is a matter of family tradition; it is usually chosen to avoid confusion with other peerage title. For instance, the Duke of Wellington is also the Marquess of Wellington and the Marquess Duoro. The Duke's son does not become the Marquess of Wellington (which could potentially cause confusion between the son and the father), instead becoming the Marquess Duoro.
A peer's wife takes her courtesy title based on her husband's rank, unless she herself has a higher title. Thus a baron's wife is called "baroness", an earl's wife is called a "countess", a duke's wife a "duchess", etc. Despite being referred to as a "peeress", she does not, however, become a peer "in her own right": these are 'styles', not substantive titles.
Another form of courtesy title, in the form of an honorific prefix, is granted to younger sons, and all daughters of peers. The rules differ for different ranks of peers: the children of a baron, for example, get the prefix "Hon.", the daughters of an earl are called "Lady", and so on:
Peer Wife Eldest Son Younger Son Unmarried Daughter Duke Duchess Father's Subsidiary Title Lord [Firstname] [Lastname] Lady [Firstname] [Lastname] Marquess Marchioness Father's Subsidiary Title Lord [Firstname] [Lastname] Lady [Firstname] [Lastname] Earl Countess Father's Subsidiary Title The Honourable [Firstname] [Lastname] Lady [Firstname] [Lastname] Viscount Viscountess The Honourable [Firstname] [Lastname] The Honourable [Firstname] [Lastname] The Honourable [Firstname] [Lastname] Baron Baroness The Honourable [Firstname] [Lastname] The Honourable [Firstname] [Lastname] The Honourable [Firstname] [Lastname] Note that a peer's daughter that marries a commoner retains her courtesy title (substituting her husband's surname for the maiden name), but if she marries a peer, she gains the courtesy title as that peer's wife. Also note that when the children of a peeress in her own right (a peeress that holds a substantive title) gain courtesy titles as usual, but the husband receives no special distinction.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Courtesy title."
Synonym: CourtesySynonym: good manners (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: discourtesy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courtesy | Verb: be courteous; Adjective: show courtesy; n. |
Uncover, cap; touch the hat, take off the hat; doff the cap; present arms; make way for; bow; make one's bow, make a leg; scrape, curtsy, courtesy; bob a curtsy, bob a courtesy; kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee. | |
Phrase: Tien de plus estimable que la ceremonie; " the very pink of courtesy ". | |
Obeisance; (reverence); bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam, kotow, kowtow, bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection; (worship); obsequiousness; capping, shaking hands; Verb: grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving cup, vin d'honneur, pledge; love token; (endearment); kiss, buss, salute. | |
Noun: courtesy; respect; good manners, good behavior, good breeding; manners; politeness; Adjective: bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding, polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor; amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension; (humility); affability, complaisance, pr_venance, amability, gallantry; pink of politeness, pink of courtesy. | |
Depression | Sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline; (be horizontal). |
Bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam. | |
Evolution | Verb: oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble, wabble; dangle, swag. |
Humility | Condescension; affability; (courtesy). |
Respect | Verb: respect, regard; revere, reverence; hold in reverence, honor, venerate, hallow; esteem; (approve of); think much of; entertain respect for, bear respect for; look up to, defer to; have a high opinion of, hold a high opinion of; pay attention, pay respect; n. to; do honor to, render honor to; do the honors, hail; show courtesy; salute, present arms; do homage to, pay homage to; pay tribute to, kneel to, bow to, bend the knee to; fall down before, prostrate oneself, kiss the hem of one's garment; worship. |
Noun: respect, regard, consideration; courtesy; attention, deference, reverence, honor, esteem, estimation, veneration, admiration; approbation. | |
Submission | Obey; kneel to, bow to, pay homage to, cringe to, truckle to; bend the neck, bend the knee; kneel, fall on one's knees, bow submission, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow. |
Obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow, prostration. | |
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Screenplays | I just came here as a professional courtesy since she's in New Orleans and plans on killing one of your prominent citizens (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late Théoden, King (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness courtesy of whoever I swiped it from out of the cupboard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) And so, we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully-armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Social Courtesy (1951) Everyday Courtesy (1948) Captain Courtesy (1915) | |
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 | Jubilant astronomers unveiled humankind's most spectacular views of the universe, courtesy of ... Credit: NASA. |  | Artist's concept of Giotto. (Photo courtesy of ESA). Credit: NASA. |
 | The very earliest rendition of a bathymetric map of an oceanic basin. Matthew Fontaine Maury published this map in 1853 in "Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts ...." This image was obtained through the courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory Gilliss Library. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Title page to "Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts ...." The very first bathymetric map of an oceanic basin was published in this document. This image was obtained through the courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory Gilliss Library. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | A stack of 122mm rockets lay in the Pit, March 11 and 12, 1991, near Khamisiyah, Iraq after being demolished. (Photo courtesy of the 307th Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army). |  | Senior Master Sgt. Stephanie Harwell, Air Force Communications Agency, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., earned the National Security Agency's 1999 Frank B. Rowlett Trophy for individual achievement in Information Systems Security. (Courtesy photo). |
 | The F-22 Raptor successfully completed the 16th load static test recently. There are three more tests left in the process to certify the strength of the Raptors airframe. (Courtesy photo). |  | Workers raise a 14,800-pound Ground Based Electro Optical Deep Space Surveillance system telescope mount into position at the Maui Space Surveillance Complex in Hawaii, Nov. 3. (Courtesy photo). |
 | Schematic depiction of the osmotic stress action in the case of actin polymerization (Picture courtesy R.P. Rand, Brock U). Credit: NICHD. |  | A schematic presentation of the rationale for using Osmotic Stress method in thye study of biopolymers, especially DNA (Picture courtesy H.H. Strey, NIH). Credit: NICHD. |
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| "Up Close & Personal 2" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Many of you have asked to know the identity of my model in the Retro Man series. He's my son, user: Omek. Please, as a courtesy, would you let me know if you use this image? Thank you." |
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Author Unknown | Courtesy is the go-power behind all teamwork -- it works wonders. |
| Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet. | |
Benjamin Franklin | To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | The greater person is one of courtesy. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. |
| Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. | |
St. Basil | He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. |
Thomas Fuller | All doors open to courtesy. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | The fever was over, and Emma could harbour little fear of the pulse being quickened again by injurious courtesy. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I owe you courtesy. |
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Health | The photos that appear on this site were provided courtesy of Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI) and were used with permission. (references) | |
Business | The above series of contacts and courtesy calls, while mostly ceremonial, serves to appease those who might later interfere with negotiations, and whose approval will likely be required sooner or later to facilitate business. (references) | |
British English should be used both as a courtesy and because a great number of words have subtly – or completely – different meaning in the U.K. than in the U.S. the media are far more likely to use a press release that they do not have to translate into British English. (references) | ||
Economic History | Belize | The Government of Belize will spend close to $1.4 million in improving access to archaeological sites in Belize, especially "Caracol." Courtesy a generous soft loan from Taiwan, the government is funneling $ 50 million toward the construction of low-cost housing. (references) |
Human Rights | Cuba | On April 12, UPECI reported that Roca's wife, Magaly de Armas, complained about her husband's harassment by prison guards and lack of common courtesy towards him. (references) |
Political Economy | SPAIN | Government fiscal restraint, higher tax receipts, and lower interest on government debt, courtesy of lower euro interest rates, should allow the government's budget deficit/GDP ratio to fall to 0.4 percent in 2001. The government's overall debt/GDP ratio should fall to 60 percent in 2001. (references) |
Travel | Greece | Knowing a few courtesy phrases in Greek is always appreciated. (references) |
Portugal | Courtesy, in business and other spheres, is simply expected and easily extended. (references) | |
Trinidad | Business people are informal and friendly and value personal contact and courtesy. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both -- as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man. Incompossibility, it will be seen, is only incompatibility let loose. Instead of such low language as "Go heel yourself -- I mean to kill you on sight," the words, "Sir, we are incompossible," would convey and equally significant intimation and in stately courtesy are altogether superior. |
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Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | I have received unbounded hospitality and courtesy as their expression of friendliness to our country. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | When we have differed with the Soviet Union, or other nations, for that matter, I have tried to differ quietly and with courtesy, and without venom. |
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| "Courtesy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Courtesy" is used about 1,067 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% | 1,067 | 7,034 |
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Expressions using "courtesy": by courtesy ♦ by courtesy of ♦ by courtesy of smb. ♦ courtesy call ♦ courtesy light ♦ courtesy title ♦ courtesy visit ♦ Initiate tenant by courtesy ♦ mark of courtesy ♦ military courtesy ♦ pink of courtesy ♦ show courtesy ♦ To strain courtesy ♦ with courtesy ♦ with scant courtesy. Additional references. | |
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| 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 "courtesy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | beleefdheid (politeness). (various references) | |
Albanian | xhentilesë (kindness, politeness), njerëzi (civility, comity, courtliness, decency, humanity, Lord, mankind, people, politeness, public, world), mirësjellje (civility, complaisance, decency, mannerliness, politeness, suavity, urbanity). (various references) | |
Arabic | كياسة (civility, comity, complaisance, complaisant, delicacy, elegance, grace, politeness, refinement, urbanity), ملاطفة (caress, civility, friendliness, kind treatment, kindness, petting), مجاملة, لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, tone down, urbanity), جميل (beaut, beauteous, beautiful, comeliness, comely, dainty, fair, favor, favour, fine, good looking, grace, graceful, gratitude, handsome, kind act, lovely, magnificent, nice, pretty, shapely, sightly, sweet), إحترام (consideration, deference, esteem, estimation, homage, honor, honour, obeisance, prestige, regard, reputability, respect, respects, reverence), إذن (consequently, ear, furlough, licence, license, lug, order, permission, then). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | учтивост (civility, gentility, politeness), благоволение (condescension, grace). (various references) | |
Chinese | 礼貌 (Courtesies, Polite, Politeness), 禮貌 (manners). (various references) | |
Czech | zdvořilost (civility, comity, mannerliness, politeness, respectfulness, urbanity), svolení (assent, permission), pozornost (attention, consideration, thoughtfulness), dvornost (chivalry, courtliness, gallantry). (various references) | |
Dutch | beleefdheid (politeness). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ĝentilaĵo. (various references) | |
Farsi | تواضع (Humility, Obeisance), ادب ومهربانی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kohteliaisuus (compliment, politeness). (various references) | |
French | courtoisie (courting, courtliness, courtship). (various references) | |
German | Höflichkeit (amenity, blandness, civility, comity, compliment, cordiality, courteousness, courtliness, pleasantry, politeness, suavity, urbanity), verbindlichkeit (bindingness, blandness, civility, commitment, compulsoriness, liability, obligingness, reliability, urbanity). (various references) | |
Greek | ευγένεια (chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration for, cousteousness, delicacy, gallantry, gentility, gentleness, graciousness, humaneness, ladyship, loftiness, nobility, nobleness, politeness, refinement, respectfulness, tactfulness, urbanity, urbanness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אדיבות (affability, courtliness, kindness, mannerliness, politeness), דרך ארץ (politeness), נימוסיות (mannerliness, politeness), נימוס (etiquette, observance, politeness, tact, usage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | udvariasság (affability, attention, chivalry, civility, comity, complacency, complaisance, courtliness, gallantry, mannerliness, neighborliness, neighbourliness, obsequiousness, politeness, urbanity), udvarias gesztus, udvari bók, pukedli (curtsey), meghajlás (bow, bowing, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, inclination of the head), figyelem (attention, consideration, heed, in limelight, notice, regard), elõzékenység (affability, civility, complaisance, politeness, thoughtfulness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sopan-santun (civility, courteousness, politeness), kesopanan (culture, decency, politeness, propriety), basa-basi (fashion, politeness), adab (civilization, culture, erudition, good manners, knowing proper, learning, refinement). (various references) | |
Italian | cortesia (civility, comity, complaisance, courteousness, courtliness, Favor, favour, friendliness, gentleness, goodness, goodwill, kindness, politeness, urbanity), gentilezza (affability, blandness, civility, comity, Favor, favour, gentleness, goodwill, kindliness, kindness, lovableness, thoughtfulness, urbanity), educazione (behavior, breeding, civility, cultivation, culture, education, instruction, manners, politeness, raising, training, upbringing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 礼儀 (etiquette, manners). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎり (debt of gratitude, decency, duty, honor, sense of duty, social obligation), ぎれい (etiquette), ひょうけい, いんぎん (friendship, intimacy), いんきょう (sincerity), こうい (act, celestial latitude, change of dress, conduct, deed, dignity, ecliptic latitude, eminent, favor, good will, high ranking, imperial throne, kindness, lady court attendant, school doctor, seasonal changing of clothes, second accession of the same emperor, second lunar month, siege), れいぎさほう (etiquette), れいぎ (etiquette, manners), れいほう (etiquette, manners, sacred mountain, sacred treasure, salute), あいそう (civility, compliments, graces, sociability), あいきょう (attractiveness, charm, love and respect, love for one's hometown), あいそ (appeal, civility, complaint, compliments, graces, sociability), てんれい (ceremony, etiquette, graceful, liturgy, seal style and ancient square style). (various references) | |
Korean | 의례 (Courtesies). (various references) | |
Manx | cooyrtoilid (politeness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ourtesycay.(various references) | |
Polish | grzeczność (politeness). (various references) | |
Portuguese | cortesia (amenity, attention, civility, comity, gallantry, mannerliness, politeness, suavity, urbanity). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | cortesia. (various references) | |
Romanian | curtoazie (courteousness, courtliness), politeţe (civility, comity, complaisance, courtliness, decency, form, mannerliness, politeness), galanterie (dry goods, gallantry, haberdasher's, haberdashery, hosier's, millinery), etichetã (ceremony, decorum, docket, etiquette, label, stamp, tag, ticket), amabilitate (affability, amability, amiability, amiableness, blandness, civility, courteousness, Favor, favour, gentleness, kindness, obligingness, politeness, willingness). (various references) | |
Russian | вежливость (affability, civility, comity, courtliness, mannerliness, politeness, urbanity). (various references) | |
Scottish | furbhailt , furailt. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uljudnost (gentility, mannerliness), učtivost (civility, comity, complaisance, mannerliness, obligingness, politeness). (various references) | |
Spanish | cortesía (affability, candidness, chivalry, civility, comity, curtsey, curtsy, decency, gallantry, politeness, suavity, urbanity). (various references) | |
Swedish | artighet (mannerliness, politeness). (various references) | |
Turkish | nezaket (affability, civility, comity, complaisance, daintiness, decency, decorum, delicacy, devoirs, gallantry, gentleness, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, keenness, kindliness, kindness, mildness, polish, politeness, suavity, sweetness, urbaneness, urbanity), incelik (civility, daintiness, delicacy, discretion, elaborateness, fineness, finesse, fragility, grace, gracefulness, keenness, niceness, nicety, point, polish, politeness, refinement, slenderness, slightness, slimness, subtility, subtlety, tact, thinness, touch). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sypaязylyk (politeness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чемність (affability, amenity, civility, decency, mannerliness, obligingness), ввічливість (affability, civility, comity, complaisance, courtliness, decency, mannerliness, politeness, suavity, urbanity), люб'язність (affability, amenity, amiability, civility, complaisance, compliment, obligingness), привітність (affability, amiability, cordiality, geniality, hospitality, neighborliness, neighbourliness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tác phong nhã nhặn do ưu đãi mà được, sự nhã nhặn tác phong lịch sự, sự lịch sự (affability, affableness, chic, comity, courteousness, courtliness, politeness, refinement), nhờ ơn riêng, do sự giúp đỡ đến thăm xã giao người nào. (various references) | |
Welsh | cwrteisi. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | humanitas, humanitatem, humanitatis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "courtesy": courtesying. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "courtesy": discourtesy. (additional references) | |
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"Courtesy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cortesi, cortesy, Courcey, couresty, courres, courtasy, courteas, courtecy, Courteny, courtersy, courtesey, courtesty, courtisy, courtoisie, courtosy, courtsey, courtsy, courtusy, coutesy, curteisi, curteisye, curtesly, curtesy, curtisy, curtosy, curtusy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "courtesy" (pronounced ker"tusē) |
| 4 | -t u s ē | ecstasy, fantasy. |
| 3 | -u s ē | accuracy, adequacy, advocacy, Argosy, aristocracy, autocracy, bureaucracy, candidacy, celibacy, confederacy, conspiracy, degeneracy, delicacy, democracy, diplomacy, jealousy, legacy, embassy, fallacy, Geodesy, heresy, hypocrisy, idiocy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, immediacy, inaccuracy, inadequacy, intimacy, intricacy, legitimacy, leprosy, literacy, lunacy, meritocracy, obstinacy, Odyssey, papacy, pharmacy, piracy, pleurisy, policy, primacy, privacy, prophecy, secrecy, supremacy, surrogacy, theocracy. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: couters, curtesy, curtsey, scouter. | |
-2 letters: cerous, corset, coster, course, courts, couter, coyest, crouse, cruets, cruset, crusty, curets, curtsy, cutesy, cuteys, eructs, escort, ouster, outcry, outers, oyster, rectos, rectus, recuts, routes, scoter, sector, source, souter, storey, stoure, stoury, surety, toyers, truces, tuyers. | |
-3 letters: ceros, cores, corse, coset, cosey, cotes, court, coyer, crest, cruet, cruse. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: costumery. | |
+2 letters: counterspy, eucaryotes, excusatory. | |
+3 letters: countryseat, countryside, courteously, courtesying, discourtesy, persecutory, subcategory, voyeuristic. | |
+4 letters: countermyths, counterplays, counterploys, counterstyle, countryseats, countrysides, granulocytes. | |
+5 letters: agranulocytes, brachypterous, coterminously, counterstyles, gesticulatory, heterocystous, hypercautious, obstructively, precipitously, reticulocytes, treacherously. | |
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