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Definition: Epaulette |
EpauletteNoun1. Adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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They are found on the trench coat and the safari jacket, and other garments.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Epaulette."
Synonym: EpauletteSynonym: epaulet (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Title | Decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one,s cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon; reward. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Epaulette |
| English words defined with "epaulette": Espauliere. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Epaulette" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (epaulet). |
| "Epaulette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Epaulette" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "epaulette": epaulet epaulette. 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 |
epaulette shark | 8 |
epaulette product | 4 |
epaulette | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "epaulette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | spaletë (epaulet, shoulder loop). (various references) | |
Arabic | كتاف (epaulet), الكتفية (epaulet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | еполет (epaulet), пагон (epaulet, shoulder strap, shoulder-mark). (various references) | |
Czech | epoleta (epaulet). (various references) | |
Danish | epaulette. (various references) | |
Dutch | epaulette. (various references) | |
French | épaulette extérieure, épaulette (epaulet, epaulet epaulette). (various references) | |
German | schulterklappe (shoulder strap). (various references) | |
Greek | εξωτερική επωμίδα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vállpánt (epaulet, scale, shoulder loop), váll-lap (epaulet, scale, shoulder mark, strap). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tanda pundak. (various references) | |
Italian | spallina esterna. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肩 (epaulet, shoulder strap). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | エポレット , け"しょう (charter, displaying, energy, epaulet, good health, honouring, inspection, manifesting, offering prizes, pep, refer to modestly, revealing or demonstrating the truth, reward, sheath of tendon, shoulder strap, spirit, verification, winning). (various references) | |
Manx | geaylaig. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epauletteay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | platina (platen, platinum), dragona (epaulet, shoulder-strap). (various references) | |
Russian | эполет (epaulet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naramenica (epaulet, shoulder strap). (various references) | |
Spanish | hombrera exterior, charretera (epaulet). (various references) | |
Swedish | epålett (epaulet). (various references) | |
Thai | อินทรธนู. (various references) | |
Turkish | omuzluk (epaulet), apolet (epaulet, shoulder strap). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | еполет (epaulet). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "epaulette": epauletted, epaulettes. (additional references) | |
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"Epaulette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epautet, epautlet, esaulet, Ezpeleta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-l-p-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: epaulet, palette, peltate. | |
-3 letters: eluate, pattee, pettle, puttee. | |
-4 letters: elate, elute, etape, latte, leapt, lepta, letup, lutea, palet, petal, plate, pleat, taupe, telae, tepal, tepee, tutee. | |
-5 letters: alee, epee, late, leap, leet, lept, lute, pale, pate, peal, peat, peel, pele, pelt, plat, plea, pula, pule, putt, tael, tale, tape, tate, taut, teal, teat, teel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-l-p-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: epauletted, epaulettes. | |
+3 letters: superathlete. | |
+4 letters: superathletes. | |
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