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Definitions: Embonpoint |
EmbonpointAdjective1. Euphemisms for slightly fat; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; "chubby babies"; "pleasingly plump". Noun1. The bodily property of being well rounded. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "embonpoint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Etymology: Embonpoint \Em`bon`point"\, noun. [French expression, from en bon point in good condition. See Bon, and Point.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: EmbonpointSynonyms: buxom (adj), chubby (adj), plump (adj), zaftig (adj), zoftig (adj), plumpness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Size | Turgidity; (expansion); corpulence, obesity; plumpness; Adjective: embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Embonpoint |
| Non-English Usage: "Embonpoint" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (avoirdupios, corpulence, fatness, overweight, portliness, rotundity), Swedish (plumpness). |
| "Embonpoint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Embonpoint" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "embonpoint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | trashëri (corpulence, stupidity, thickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | закръгленост (rondure, rotundity, rotundness, roundness), пълнота (amplitude, completeness, completion, corpulence, entirety, fat, fatness, fleshiness, fullness, fulness, integrality, plenitude, plenum, portliness, pregnancy, rotundity, stoutness, thoroughness, volume, wholeness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tuènost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πάχοσ (adiposeness, adiposity, fat, pursiness, thickness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pocakosság (podginess, portliness, rotundity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | embonpointay embolia (embolism). (various references) полнота (amplitude, completeness, comprehensiveness, entirety, exhaustiveness, fat, fatness, fleshiness, fullness, fulness, integrality, obesity, plenum, portliness, rotundity, stoutness). (various references) toplu olma, semizlik, dolgunluk (fullness, fulness, repletion). (various references) sự béo tốt (corpulence, corpulency), đẫy đ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "embonpoint": embonpoints. (additional references) | |
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"Embonpoint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ombonpoint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-t" | |
-2 letters: noontime, pointmen. | |
-3 letters: biotope, emotion, eobiont, mention, metopon, pimento, pinbone, pontine, tompion. | |
-4 letters: bonito, bonnet, bonnie, bootie, entomb, impone, intomb, intone, ionone, motion, notion, optime, option, pitmen, pointe, ponent, ponton, potion, potmen, tenpin, tinmen. | |
-5 letters: benni, beton, biome, biont, boite, bonne, inept, monie, monte, netop, niton, nomen, nomoi, nonet, onion, opine, penni, pinon, pinot, pinto, piton, point, tempi, tempo, tenon, tonne, topoi. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: bicomponent, embonpoints. | |
+3 letters: noncompatible. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 62 6F 6E 70 6F 69 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- -... --- -. .--. --- .. -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01100010 01101111 01101110 01110000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m b o n p o i n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0062 006F 006E 0070 006F 0069 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39796881808281758086 |
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