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Definitions: Dalliance |
DallianceNoun1. The deliberate act of wasting time instead of working. 2. Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dalliance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Dalliance \Dal"li*ance\, noun. [From Dally.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DallianceSynonyms: coquetry (n), dawdling (n), flirt (n), flirtation (n), flirting (n), toying (n), trifling (n), wasting time (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Endearment | Noun: endearment, caress; blandishment, blandiment; _panchement, fondling, billing and cooing, dalliance, necking, petting, sporting, sparking, hanky-panky; caressing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dalliance |
| English words defined with "dalliance": Colling. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Dalliance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Dalliance" is used about 39 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) | 97.44% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 39 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dalliance | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dalliance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dëfrim (amusement, dissipation, entertainment, fun, gaiety, jinks, ploy), qëndrim jo serioz, naze (coquetry, fastidiousness, namby-pamby, particularity, pickiness). (various references) | |
Arabic | مداعبة غزل, مداعبة (banter, flirtation, jest, pleasantry, practical joke), عبث (fiddlestick, flightiness, flirtation, frivolity, futility, loiter, mess up, moonshine, mosey, palter, piddle, piffling, pointless, potter, shallowness, toy, trifle, twiddle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | флиртуване (flirtation), флирт (flirtation, necking), бавене (procrastination), прахосване на време, празно развлечение. (various references) | |
Chinese | 调戏. (various references) | |
Czech | lelkování, laškování (hankey-pankey, hanky panky), flirtování (flirtation). (various references) | |
French | flirt, badinage. (various references) | |
German | tändelei (dallying, dilly-dallying, trifling). (various references) | |
Greek | παιδιαρίσματα, χασομέρι, τρυφερόλογα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | dévajkodás (archness, devilry, deviltry), enyelgés (badinage, billing and cooing, philander, playfulness). (various references) | |
Manx | cumrailys (obstructionism, retardation, suspension). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allianceday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | namorico (amourette, flirt, flit), galanteio (attention), comportamento infantil, comportamento frívolo, brincadeira (badinage, banter, diversion, drollery, escape, Frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gambol, game, gibe, gird, hoax, humor, humour, jape, jest, jibe, joke, joker, joky, Josh, lark, play, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, raillery, rig, sport, waggery). (various references) | |
Romanian | distracţie (absence-mindedness, amusement, distraction, diversion, do, drollery, entertainment, frolic, fun, jest, jocularity, jollity, merriment, merry making, pastime, recreation, revel, skittle, sport, sporting), rãgaz (interregnum, interruption, leisure, pause, peace, reprieve, respite, rest, time, truce), hoinãrealã (ramble, rambling), flirt (flirtation), amuzament (amusement, distraction, diversion, entertainment, jest, jocularity, pastime, picnic, recreation), amânare (adjournment, deferment, delay, postponement, procrastination, reprieve, respite, retardation). (various references) | |
Russian | развлечение (amusement, distraction, diversion, divertissement, do, entertainment, fun, glorification, merriment, pleasure, recreation, relaxation, sport, treat), шалость (caper, devilments, devilry, frolic, prank, waggery, wantonness), несерьезное отношение (casual attitude), бесцельная игра. (various references) | |
Scottish | mosradh (coarse dalliance). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | udvaranje (courting, courtship, love making, lovemaking, pass, suit), razonoda (amusement, avocation, diversion, divertissement, leisure, pastime, recreation, relaxation), igra (blind man's buff, dance, dart, game, pas de deux, play, playgame), šala (dido, farce, fun, have on, jest, joke, lark, pleasantry, rag, rib, sally, trick). (various references) | |
Spanish | diversiones, juegos (games), frivolidad (frivolity, idleness, levity, skittishness, triviality). (various references) | |
Swedish | sölande, flört (flirt, flirtation). (various references) | |
Turkish | tembellik (dilatoriness, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, slackness, sloth, sluggishness, stagnancy, stagnation, vacancy), oynaşma (coquetry, coquettish, playing with each other), oyalanma (amusement, distraction, procrastination), cilveleşme, üşengeçlik (dilatoriness, inactivity, indolence, sloth). (various references) | |
Ukranian | гультяйство, несерйозне ставлення, бездіяльне життя. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự yêu đương lăng nhăng, sự ve vãn (courtship, flirtation, wooing), sự su"ng sã cợt nhã sự đùa giỡn, sự lần lữa, sự dây dưa sự lẩn tránh, sự chim chuột, sự chơi bời nhảm nhí mất thời giờ. (various references) | |
Welsh | maldod (affectation). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dalliance": dalliances. (additional references) | |
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"Dalliance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dailiance, daliance, dalience, dalliace, dallience, dalliiaance, dalliiance, delalande, Malfiance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dalliance" (pronounced da"lēuns) |
| 5 | -l ē u n s | resilience. |
| 4 | -ē u n s | ambiance, ambience, audience, deviance, disobedience, expedience, experience, inexperience, invariance, obedience, prescience, radiance, subservience, transience, variance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-l-n" | |
-1 letter: alliance, ancillae, calendal, canaille, canalled. | |
-2 letters: alcaide, alcalde, ancilla, canaled, candela, canella, cedilla, decanal, inlaced. | |
-3 letters: acedia, aecial, alcade, alined, allied, anlace, callan, called, candle, clinal, denial, inlace, laical, lanced, lienal, lineal, nailed, nilled. | |
-4 letters: acned, aecia, ailed, aland, alane, alcid, alien, aline, anile, calla, canal, caned, canid, cella, celli, clade, clean, cline, dance, decal, elain, eland, ideal, ileac, ileal, laced, laden, ladle, lanai, lance, liana, liane, lilac, linac, lined, naiad, naled, nicad, nidal. | |
-5 letters: aced, acid, acne, aide, alae, alan, alec, anal, anil, cade, cadi, caid, cain, call, cane, cedi, ceil, cell, cine, clad, clan, dace, dale, deal, dean, deil, deli, dell, deni, dial, dice, diel, dill, dine, elan, iced, idea, idle, ilea, lace, lade, laic, laid, lain, land, lane, lead, leal, lean, lend, lice, lied, lien, line, nada, nail, nice, nide, nill. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: dalliances. | |
+2 letters: calendrical, cantillated. | |
+3 letters: accidentally, demoniacally, disallowance, hallucinated, pedantically. | |
+4 letters: anecdotically, asyndetically, backpedalling, declinational, disallowances, educationally, undialectical. | |
+5 letters: adrenergically, clairaudiently, delocalization, diabolicalness, diagenetically, interdialectal, unacademically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 6C 6C 69 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- .-.. .-.. .. .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a l l i a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 006C 006C 0069 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)386778787567806971 |
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