Escritoire

Definition: Escritoire

Escritoire

Noun

1. A desk used for writing.

Date "escritoire" was first used: 1706. (references)

Synonyms: Escritoire

Synonyms: secretaire (n), secretary (n), writing table (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receptacle	Closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Escritoire

English words defined with "escritoire": Escritorial ♦ Scrutoire. (references)

Etymologies containing "escritoire": Scrutoire. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Forbes Winslow, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters to the right, eyes front, seated in chair at table with escritoire, holding quill pen.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Escritoire" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Escritoire" 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

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.

Language		Translations for "escritoire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏مكتب مزود برف. (various references)

Bulgarian		малко писалище. (various references)

Czech		psací stùl (bureau, desk, writing desk, writing table). (various references)

Danish		sekretaer (secretary), Chatol. (various references)

Dutch		lessenaar (desk, lectern, music stand, school desk, speaker's desk). (various references)

French		secrétaire, bureau avec des étages. (various references)

German		Sekretaer, Schreibschrank. (various references)

Greek		γραφείο (bureau, desk, drawing-room, office, office desk, secretary, study, writing desk, writing-desk). (various references)

Hungarian		szekreter (bureau, bureaux, davenport, secretaire). (various references)

Italian		scrivania (bureau, desk, office desk, writing, writing desk, writing-desk), scrittoio (desk). (various references)

Manx		coir screeuee (desk). (various references)

Pig Latin		escritoireay

Portuguese		escrivaninha (bureau, davenport, desk, secretaire, writing desk, writing table). (various references)

Russian		секретер (secretaire). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pisaći sto (desk, writing desk, writing table). (various references)

Spanish		escritorio (a desk, bureau, desk, desk job, office desk, scriptorium, writing desk, writing table, writing-desk). (various references)

Swedish		sekretär (bureau, davenport, writing desk). (various references)

Thai		โต๊ะเขียนหนังสือที่มีลิ้นปิ�"เปิ�" (ซึ่งบังลิ้นชักและช่องเก็บกระ�"าษไว้). (various references)

Turkish		çekmeceli yazı masası. (various references)

Ukranian		секретер (secretaire, writing desk). (various references)

Vietnamese		b� n viết có ngăn kéo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	scribere. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "escritoire": escritoires. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Escritoire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Secretorie. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-o-r-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: rectories.
	-2 letters: coteries, erectors, esoteric, reciters, secretor.
	-3 letters: cerites, cirrose, coesite, corries, coterie, crosier, erector, eristic, erotics, orrices, reciter, recites, rectors, rescore, restore, retires, retries, rioters, roister, soritic, terries, tierces.
	-4 letters: cerise, cerite, certes, cestoi, citers, cities, corers, corrie, corset, cosier, coster, criers, crores, erects, erotic, escort, iciest, orrice, recite, rector, rectos, rerise, rerose.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-i-o-r-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: cordierites, directories, escritoires.
	+2 letters: corporeities, meretricious, redirections.
	+3 letters: calorimetries, colorimetries, contrarieties, craniometries, meritocracies, reactionaries, reciprocities, recreationist, redescription, respirometric.
	+4 letters: coprosperities, corporealities, diastereomeric, incorporeities, mercerizations, meretriciously, nonrestrictive, recreationists, redescriptions, serotoninergic, stereoisomeric.
	+5 letters: confraternities, interconversion, micrometeorites, micrometeoroids, nitroglycerines, reconsideration, resurrectionist, retroactivities.
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