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Definition: Especial |
EspecialAdjective1. Surpassing what is common or usual or expected; "he paid especial attention to her"; "exceptional kindness"; "a matter of particular and unusual importance"; "a special occasion"; "a special reason to confide in her"; "what's so special about the year 2000?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "especial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: EspecialSynonyms: especial(a) (adj), exceptional (adj), particular(a) (adj), special (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Speciality | Adjective: special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular; (exceptional); idiomatic; idiotypical; typical. |
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Crosswords: Especial |
| English words defined with "especial": Bishop in partibus ♦ Especialness, exceptional ♦ good part ♦ indifferent ♦ particular, Particular redemption ♦ Reins of a vault ♦ soft spot, special, sweet tooth ♦ weak part, weak spot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "especial": Peerage of the Apostles ♦ Waif ♦ zbeba. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Especial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (apart, particular, separate, special), Galician (special), Portuguese (especial, especially, occasional, particular, peculiar, separate, special), Portuguese Brazilian (special), Spanish (apart, especial, great, particular, peculiar, separate, show, special). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Primer noticiario especial para América (1937) Especial Míster Bean (2003) Algo muy especial de Veronica Castro (1986) Rica y... especial Guapa (1975) | |
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Margaret Fuller | The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. |
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Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | This oath certainly applies, in an especial manner, to their conduct in their official character. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When she took the vows of St. Vincent de Paul, she had taken the name of Simplice by especial choice. |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Constituting as it does the best standing security of this country against foreign aggression, it claims the especial attention of Government. |
Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | I refer to the prevalence of a popular disposition to expect from the operation of the Government especial and direct individual advantages. |
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| "Especial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.27% of the time. "Especial" is used about 134 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.27% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.24% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.49% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 134 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "especial": especial closed cupboard for dairy produce ♦ especial interest ♦ in especial. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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Albanian | special (express, extra, special), i veçantë (characteristic, detached, discrete, distinct, distinctive, exceptional, exclusive, extra, extra special, individual, odd, of one's own, off, particular, particularized, peculiar, pet, queer, racy, rare, separate, single, sole, special, specific, uncommon), i posaçëm (extra, extraordinary, particular, special). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إستثنائي (exceptional, exceptive, extraneous, extraordinary, freak, freaked, mighty, out of the ordinary, particular, phenomenal, premium, prodigious, rare, remarkable, singular, special, terrific, thundering, uncommon, unusual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | специален (ad hoc, distinct, particular, peculiar, purposive, special), особен (distinct, exclusive, fanciful, funny, idiosyncratic, individual, odd, original, particular, peculiar, queer, special, specific, strange, uncommon), изключителен (exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, extraordinary, inimitable, one in a thousand, phenomenal, rare, rousing, signal, super, superior, surpassing, unaverage, uncommon, unexampled, unique, unusual, vintage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 特别 (Distinctive, Particularly, special). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | obzvláštní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخصوص(special). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | exceptionnel, spécial, particulier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vornehmlich (above all, chief, chiefly, especially, first and foremost, in particular, main, mainly, principal, principally). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιδιαίτεροσ (chaplain, particular, private, privy, special, specific), ειδικόσ (expert, special, specialist, specific). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מיוח" (distinctive, particular, peculiar, singular, special, specific). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyéni (individual, particular, personal, private, several, subjective, substantive), különleges (anomalous, extra, fancy, particular, patent, peculiar, quite out of the common, special, specific, supernumerary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | istimewa (eminent, special). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | speciale (particular, special), particolare (detail, detailed, individual, particular, peculiar, singular, special, strange). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 특별한 (Extraordinary, Particular, special, unusual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuchadjin (exceptional, odd, out of the way, rare, singular, uncommon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | spesiell (particular, special), særlig (especially). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | especialay especial (especially, occasional, particular, peculiar, separate, special), esparto. (various references) special (express, extra, particular, peculiar, proper, special, specially), deosebit (apart, choice, different, differently, dissimilar, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverse, excellent, extra, in a class by itself, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, profoundly, remarkable, separate, singular, special, specific, strange, sundry, uncommon, unlike, unusual, variant, varied). (various references) особенный (individual, particular, peculiar). (various references) especial (apart, great, particular, peculiar, separate, show, special), tipo (blighter, build, character, disposition, fellow, figure, genre, genus, guy, kind, make, nomenclatural type, print, proposition, rate, shape, sort, type, type specimen), típico (picturesque, typical, vernacular), articular (articular, articulate, frame, joint, state, vocalize). (various references) speciell (exclusive, express, individual, particular, peculiar, special), särskild (apart, different, exclusive, express, extraordinary, individual, particular, peculiar, separate, separately, several, special). (various references) โ"ยเจาะจง. (various references) baş (arch, arch-, beginning, beginnings, bow, capital, central, chief, coconut, costard, first, foremost, general, governing, grand, head, heading, in chief, initial, knob, leader, master, nob, noddle, off, outset, potato, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sconce, top), ayrı (aloof, another, apart, aside, detachedly, discontinuous, discrete, dissimilar, distanced, distinct, divergent, divided, hetero-, isolated, segregate, separate, unconnected), özel (ad hoc, closet, distinctive, esoteric, exclusive, express, extraordinary, individual, intimate, particular, peculiar, personal, private, privy, proper, proprietary, self, sole, special, specific, state, very). (various references) спеціальний (express, special, specific, technical), винятковий (egregious, exceptional, exceptive, exclusive, only, particular, preternatural, single, singular, surpassing), окремий (detached, discriminate, distinct, individual, isolated, particular, partitive, private, self contained, separate, single). (various references) xuất sắc riêng biệt, đặc biệt (distinguished, exceptional, extra, individual, particular, particularly, racy, ripping, scrumptious, special, specially, topping). (various references) enwedig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praecipuam, praecipue, praecipuis, praecipuum. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "especial": especially. (additional references) | |
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"Especial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: espacialy, especaily, especiall, especialy, espetial, expecial, exspecial, Ezbekia, izekial. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "especial" (pronounced 'Es*pe"cial'): Antisocial, Auspicial, Beneficial, Bifacial, Cicatricial, Commercial, Comprovincial, Craniofacial, Crucial, Dissocial, Edificial, Epinicial, Ex-official, Extra-official, Extraprovincial, Facial, Faucial, Fecial, financial, Ganancial, Inartificial, Injudicial, Inofficial, interfacial, Internuncial, Intersocial, judicial, Maleficial, Policial, Pontificial, Postglacial, Praecocial, Preglacial, Prejudicial, Pronuncial, Provencial, Quincuncial, Racial, sacrificial, semiofficial, social, spacial, Subglacial, superficial, Temporofacial, Trifacial, unifacial. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: calipees. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: calipee, eclipse, plaices, special. | |
-2 letters: apices, apiece, asleep, clepes, elapse, epical, escape, espial, lipase, peaces, pieces, places, plaice, please, plicae, specie, spicae, splice. | |
-3 letters: aisle, alecs, aspic, capes, cease, ceils, cepes, claps, clasp, clepe, clips, easel, epics, ileac, laces, laics, lapis, lapse, leaps, lease, paces, pails, paise, pales, peace, peals, pease, peels, peise. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: callipees, prelacies, replicase, specialer. | |
+2 letters: despicable, epicalyces, epicalyxes, especially, explicates, fireplaces, percalines, plasticene, replicases, replicates, specialest, specialise, specialize, tailpieces. | |
+3 letters: altarpieces, catalepsies, cataplexies, cephalexins, esemplastic, inescapable, mesopelagic, pediculates, petulancies, plangencies, plasticenes, predicables, psychedelia, specialised, specialises, specialized, specializes, specialness, specialties, specifiable, speculative. | |
+4 letters: displaceable, displacement, encephalitis, escapologies, kaleidoscope, mantelpieces, misplacement, narcolepsies, peccadilloes, perspectival, phylacteries, placekickers, placidnesses, poeticalness, precessional, preeclampsia, psychedelias, reduplicates, sextuplicate, specialities, superhelical, superspecial, ultraprecise. | |
| 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 73 70 65 63 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ... .--. . -.-. .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E s p e c i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0073 0070 0065 0063 0069 0061 006C |
| 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)3985827169756778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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