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Definition: Emeritus |
EmeritusAdjective1. Honorably retired from assigned duties and retaining your title along with the additional title `emeritus' as in "professor emeritus"; "retired from `assigned duties'" does not necessarily imply that one is inactive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emeritus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Public Administration | Retired or honorably discharged from active duty because of age, infirmity, or long service, but retained on the rolls: a professor --. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EMERITUS | English | Global trust services infrastructure | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: EmeritusSynonym: retired (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Respect | Respected;Verb: in high esteem, in high estimation; time-honored, venerable, emeritus. |
Sage | Adjective: venerable, reverenced, emeritus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Emeritus |
| English words defined with "emeritus": Emeriti. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "emeritus": Emerited. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Emeritus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (retired person), German (emeritus, retired person), Spanish (emeritus), Swedish (emeritus). |
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Screenplays | Because this isn't a convention weekend with your secretary, is it? Or -- or some broad that you picked up after three belts of booze. This is your great winter romance, isn't it? Your last roar of passion before you settle into your emeritus years. (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky) | |
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| "Emeritus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Emeritus" is used about 34 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) | 88.24% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.76% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Emeritus Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "emeritus": emeritus professor ♦ professor emeritus. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
emeritus | 78 |
emeritus communication | 7 |
emeritus president | 5 |
emeritus corporation | 4 |
emeritus status | 4 |
definition emeritus | 3 |
emeritus pastor | 2 |
emeritus corp | 2 |
chairman emeritus | 2 |
define emeritus | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "emeritus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 退休 (retire, retired, retirement, retiring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | täysinpalvellut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | émérite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | emeritus (retired person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επίτιμοσ (honorary, titular, titulary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשעבר (bygone, former, formerly, heretofore, past, previously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyetemi tanár (professor, professor emeritus, regius professor, visiting professor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | purnawirawan (retired (Ret.), superanuated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emerito. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 名誉教授 (emeritus professor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | めいよきょうじゅ (emeritus professor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ny haaue (idly, retired). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emeritusay emergente (emergent, forthcoming). (various references) pensionat (Pensionary, retiring, superannuated). (various references) отставной (ex service, ex-service, superannuated). (various references) emeritus, jubilado (annuitant, Jubilate, Pensionary, pensioner, ret., retired, retired employe, retired employee, retired person, retiree, senior citizen, superannuated). (various references) emeritus. (various references) ปล"เกษีย"แล้วแต่ยังมีตำแหน่งเป็นเกียรติ. (various references) заслужений діяч у відставці. (various references) danh dự (derogatory, honour, rehabilitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Emeritus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ameritus, emeretus, emerit, emerita, emeritas, emeritis, emertius, emiratus, Encrinus, meritus, merritots. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emeritus" (pronounced i'me"rutus) |
| 4 | -u t u s | calamitous, circuitous, duplicitous, felicitous, fortuitous, gratuitous, gravitas, impetus, precipitous, prophetess, riotous, serendipitous, solicitous, ubiquitous. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, apprentice, armistice, arthritis, asbestos, berettas, bronchitis, cactus, countess, detritus, encephalitis, eucalyptus, fetus, gastritis, glottis, gratis, hepatitis, hiatus, hostess, injustice, justice, laryngitis, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, mastoiditis, meningitis, momentous, notice, osteoarthritis, portentous, poultice, priestess, prospectus, robustas, situs, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: metiers, mustier, reemits, retimes, triseme. | |
-2 letters: estrum, iterum, merest, merits, meters, metier, metres, mister, miters, mitres, mustee, muster, reemit, remise, remits, resite, resume, retems, reties, retime, retuse, smiter, suiter, timers, truism. | |
-3 letters: emeus, emirs, emits, ester, etuis, items, meets, meres, merit, meter, metes, metis, metre, mires, miser, miter, mites, mitre, mures, muser, muter, mutes, reest, remet, remit, reset, retem, retie, reuse, rimes, rites, serum, sieur, siree, smite, steer, stere, stime, strum, suite, teems, terms, terse, tiers, timer, times, tires, trees, tries, trims, trues, uteri. | |
-4 letters: emes, emeu, emir, emit, emus, erst, etui, ires, item, meet, mere, mete, mire, mirs, mise, mist, mite, mure, muse, must, mute, muts, rees, reis, rems, rest, rete, rets, rime, rims, rise, rite, rues, rums, ruse, rust, ruts, seem, seer, seme, semi, sere, sire, site, smit, smut, stem, stir, stum, suer, suet, suit, sure, teem, tees, term, tier, ties, time, tire, tree, trim, true, tuis, user. | |
-5 letters: eme, ems, emu, ere, ers, ire, ism, its, met, mir, mis, mus, mut, ree, rei, rem, res, ret, rim, rue, rum, rut, see, sei, ser, set, sim, sir, sit, sri, sue, sum, tee, tie, tis, tui, use, uts. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: furmeties, mutineers, rheumiest, summiteer. | |
+2 letters: deuteriums, euhemerist, eurythmies, fremituses, frumenties, furmenties, inurements, maumetries, musketries, osmeterium, periosteum, sestertium, summeriest, summertime, summiteers, suppertime, terminuses, trumperies, udometries, ureotelism. | |
+3 letters: audiometers, computerise, costumeries, desideratum, eudiometers, euhemerists, eurhythmies, hemipterous, immurements, innumerates, marguerites, marquetries, marquisette, meitneriums, multiscreen, peritoneums, presumptive, restimulate, resubmitted, rheumatizes, summertimes, suppertimes, temerarious, ureotelisms, urinometers. | |
+4 letters: acquirements, amentiferous, audiometries, computerised, computerises, computerizes, coulometries, countermines, disbursement, enumerations, euhemeristic, fluorimeters, hermeneutics, instrumented, interregnums, marqueteries, marquisettes, meretricious, metallurgies, misadventure, mountaineers, muliebrities, multiplexers, multiservice, neurochemist, recruitments, reequipments, requirements, restimulated, restimulates, supereminent, vermiculites, volunteerism. | |
+5 letters: circumcenters, counterimages, disburdenment, disbursements, disfigurement, documentaries, dumortierites, fluorimetries, fluorometries, intermixtures, metalliferous, misadventures, neurochemists, overstimulate, prematurities, presumptively, refurbishment, reimbursement, remunerations, submillimeter, superminister, temerariously, tumorigeneses, tumorigenesis, turbidimeters, underestimate, unreminiscent, volunteerisms. | |
| 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)45 6D 65 72 69 74 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- . .-. .. - ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m e r i t u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0065 0072 0069 0074 0075 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3979718475868785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Company Usage 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Abbreviations 12. Acronyms | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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