Evensong

Definitions: Evensong

Evensong

Noun

1. The sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays.

2. (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer.

Date "evensong" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

Synonym: Evensong

Synonym: vespers (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Evensong

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Worship	Divine service, office, duty; exercises; morning prayer; mass, matins, evensong, vespers; undernsong, tierce; holyday; (rites).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Evensong

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Evensong (1934)

The Last Evensong (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Evensong

Domain	Title
Books	Ascension Day Evensong (reference) Death after evensong (reference) Evensong (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (reference) When Evensong and Morrowsong Accord: Three Essays on the Proverb (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Evensong

"Evensong" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 61.76% of the time. "Evensong" 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)	61.76%	21	76,261
Noun (proper)	14.71%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	11.76%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.76%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	34	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Evensong

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
evensong	13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Evensong

Language		Translations for "evensong"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mbrëmësore, lutje e mbrëmjes. (various references)

Arabic		‏صلاة العصر (none). (various references)

Bulgarian		вечерня (vespers), вечерна молитва. (various references)

Czech		veèerní pobožnost, požehnání (benediction, blessing, godsend). (various references)

French		vêpres. (various references)

German		Abendandacht. (various references)

Greek		εσπερινόσ (even song, evening prayer, vesper, vespers, vespertine). (various references)

Manx		asbyrt (vespers). (various references)

Pig Latin		evensongay

Romanian		vecernie (vesper), slujbã de searã. (various references)

Russian		вечерняя молитва, вечерня (vespers). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		večernje moljenje. (various references)

Spanish		vísperas (evening prayers, vespers). (various references)

Swedish		aftonsång (vesper bell). (various references)

Turkish		akşam duası (vespers), akğam duası (vespers). (various references)

Ukranian		вечірня молитва, вечірня. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Evensong

Derivations
	Words beginning with "evensong": evensongs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Evensong" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Avenson, ekenosen, euesong, Evensen, Evenson, Evinson, levesons, Nevelson. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Evensong

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-g-n-n-o-s-v"
	-2 letters: venges, venose.
	-3 letters: evens, genes, nenes, neons, neves, nones, ogees, ovens, segno, seven, venge.
	-4 letters: egos, engs, eons, even, eves, gees, gene, gens, goes, gone, nene, neon, neve, noes, nogs, none, nose, ogee, ones, oven, seen, sego, sene, snog, sone, song, vees, voes.
	-5 letters: ego, eng, ens, eon, eve, gee, gen, gos, nee, nog.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-g-n-n-o-s-v"
	+1 letter: evensongs.
	+3 letters: ergonovines, governances, governments.
	+4 letters: convergences, lovingnesses, noncoverages, oversanguine, overspending.
	+5 letters: convergencies, governmentese, misgovernment, nonaggressive, overdesigning, overengineers, overingenious, overlengthens, rendezvousing, subgovernment.
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