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Definition: Duenna |
DuennaNoun1. (Spain; Portugal; etc) a woman chaperon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "duenna" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Duenna \Du*en"na\, noun; plural Duennas. [from Spanish expression due[~n]a, do[~n]a, from the Latin expression domina. See Dame.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Duenna [Lady ]. The female of don. The Spanish don is derived from the Latin dominus =a lord, a master. A duenna is the chief lady-in-waiting on the Queen of Spain; but in common parlance it means a lady who is half companion and half governess, in charge of the younger female members of a nobleman's or gentleman's family in Portugal or Spain. "There is no duenna so rigidly prudent and inexorably decorous as a superannuated coquette."- W. Irving: Sketch-Book (Spectre Bridegroom). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Keeper | Protector, governor, duenna; guardian; governess; (teacher); nurse, nanny, babysitter, catsitter, dogsitter, bonne, ayah. |
Safety | Protector, guardian; warden, warder; preserver, custodian, duenna, chaperon, third person. |
Teacher | Noun: teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don; governor, bear leader; governess, duenna; disciplinarian. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Duenna |
| English words defined with "duenna": Duennas. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "duenna": Ruydera ♦ Sartor Resartus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "duenna": Dona. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Duenna" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (duenna), Swedish (duenna). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Duenna" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Duenna" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
duenna | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "duenna"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kujdestare (nanny), guvernante (governess, Mademoiselle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فهرمانة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | компаньонка, гувернантка (governess). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | chaperonne (chaperon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | akompanantino (chaperon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | duègne, accompagnatrice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κηδεμόνασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | duenna, társalkodónõ (lady's companion), társalkodónő (lady companion), gardedám (chaperon, chaperone, gooseberry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ben arree. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | kompañera (chaperon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uennaday governanta (governess, housekeeper). (various references) дуэнья (chaperon, chaperone). (various references) pratilja mlade gospođice. (various references) dueña (landlady, Madame, missis, missus). (various references) duenna. (various references) dadı (dry nurse, governess, nanny, nurse, nursemaid), genç kıza eşlik eden kadın (chaperon). (various references) гувернантка (governess, schoolmistress), дуенья (dragon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "duenna": duennas, duennaship, duennaships. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-n-u" | |
-2 letters: dean, dune, nude, unde. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, den, due, dun, eau, end, nae, nan, nun. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, an, de, ed, en, na, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-n-u" | |
+1 letter: duennas, dunnage, mundane, nuanced, unladen, unnamed. | |
+2 letters: annulled, duneland, dunnages, inundate, mundanes, unaneled, unatoned, unbanned, underran, unearned, unhanded, unhanged, unmanned, unnailed, unranked, untanned, unwanted, unwarned, unweaned, unyeaned. | |
+3 letters: abundance, announced, candlenut, dunelands, endurance, fundament, guanidine, inundated, inundates, mundanely, outmanned, redundant, suntanned, turbanned, unadorned, unaligned, unamended, unattuned, unavenged, unbandage, unbranded, unchained, unchanged, uncleaned, undaunted, underhand, underlain, undrained, unhandier, unleading, unlearned, unmanaged, unpainted, unplanned, unsnapped, unsnarled, unstained, untainted, untangled, untrained. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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