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Definition: Epithet |
EpithetNoun1. A defamatory or abusive word or phrase; "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me". 2. Descriptive word or phrase. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "epithet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Synonym: EpithetSynonym: name (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nomenclature | Name; appelation, appelative; designation, heading, rubric; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Epithet |
| English words defined with "epithet": Agdistis, Agnomen, Aldine, Antonomasia ♦ Bairava, Best and Greatest ♦ Cloud-compeller ♦ Ekename ♦ Galilaean, Galilean ♦ Hoppestere ♦ Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Fulminator, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans ♦ Ka ♦ Lightning Hurler ♦ Protector of Boundaries, Pythius ♦ Rain-giver ♦ smear word ♦ The Faithful, Thunderer, Title deeds, To take a name in vain. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "epithet": crawling horror ♦ Father Thames ♦ Gederathite ♦ Harodite. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "epithet": thesis. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Mary Wollstonecraft | Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Epithet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.68% of the time. "Epithet" is used about 76 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) | 98.68% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.32% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | 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 |
epithet | 19 |
epithet racial | 7 |
define epithet | 2 |
by epithet homer in odyssey | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "epithet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | epitet. (various references) | |
Arabic | كنية (agnomen, cognomen, nickname, surname), نعت (adjective, attribute, attributive, description, qualification), لقب (agnomen, appellation, call, cognomen, denomination, designate, designation, dub, entitle, nickname, pet name, sobriquet, soubriquet, style, surname, title). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ругатня (bad language, curse, cuss, damn, expletive, strafe, swear), епитет, прякор (alias, by name, cognomen, handle, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, surname). (various references) | |
Chinese | 口号 (slogan). (various references) | |
Czech | epiteton. (various references) | |
Farsi | کنیه (Nickname, Sobriquet, Surname, Title), لقب (Label, Sobriquet, Surname, Title), عنوان (Address, Caption, Head, Headline, Rubric, Surname, Title, Topic), صفت (Adjective, Qualification, Quality, Schema), اصطلاح (Idiom, Phrase, Term). (various references) | |
French | épithète. (various references) | |
German | beiwort (adjective). (various references) | |
Greek | επίθετο (adjective, surname). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תואר (adjective, appearance, aspect, degree, designation, figure, shape, title), כ וי (appellation, denomination, name, sobriquet, style, surname, term, title). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jelző (attribute, modality, signal). (various references) | |
Indonesian | julukan (nickname, sobriquet). (various references) | |
Italian | epiteto (insult). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 糞垂れ (vulgar epithet), 糞っ垂れ (vulgar epithet), 枕詞 (poetic epithet or convention), 形容語 (an epithet), 辞 (stereotyped epithet). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くそたれ (vulgar epithet), くそったれ (vulgar epithet), まくら"とば (poetic epithet or convention), か"じ (arranging, Chinese characters, coordinator, executive secretary, feeling, government business, impression, kanji, manager, sense, stereotyped epithet, supervisor), けいよう" (an epithet). (various references) | |
Manx | ennym (designation, figurehead, name, noun, title of book). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | epithetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | epíteto (name), cognome (cognomen, nickname), apelido (byname, cognomen, denomination, first name, nickname, surname). (various references) | |
Romanian | epitet (surname), calificativ (Mark, name, qualifying). (various references) | |
Russian | эпитет. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | epitet (label). (various references) | |
Spanish | epíteto. (various references) | |
Swedish | epitet (epihtet, tag), tillmäle. (various references) | |
Turkish | sıfat (adjectival, adjective, attribute, attribution, attributive, capacity, character, determinant, title), lakap (agnomen, cognomen, moniker, nickname, patronymic, sobriquet, surname), hakaret (affront, contempt, contumely, cuss word, defamation, hotfoot, indignity, insult, invective, opprobrium, outrage, revilement, slap, slap in the face, slight, slur, snub). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | термін (appellation, term), епітет. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adposita, adpositaque, adposite, adpositi, adpositis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "epithet": epithetic, epithetical, epithets. (additional references) | |
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"Epithet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elithie, epethet, ephitet, ephithet, epihet, epite, epitehet, Epitek, epitet, epiteth, epith, epithat, epithe, epitlet, epthet, Jepthe, Optiphot, Pathet, puhtmet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-p-t-t" | |
-1 letter: petite. | |
-2 letters: petit, petti, teeth, tithe. | |
-3 letters: pith, teth, thee. | |
-4 letters: eth, hep, het, hie, hip, hit, pee, peh, pet, phi, pht, pie, pit, tee, tet, the, tie, tip. | |
-5 letters: eh, et, he, hi, it, pe, pi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: epithets, tephrite. | |
+2 letters: epithetic, tephrites. | |
+3 letters: ciphertext, empathetic, epenthetic, telepathic. | |
+4 letters: ciphertexts, epithetical, hepatitides, heterotopic, heterotypic, parenthetic, paresthetic, pettishness, pheneticist, telepathies, telephonist, therapeutic, trusteeship. | |
+5 letters: amphitheater, extrahepatic, osteopathies, pathogenetic, pheneticists, photoexcited, photometries, pteridophyte, telegraphist, telephonists, therapeutics, trusteeships. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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