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Definition: Extracurricular |
ExtracurricularAdjective1. Outside the regular academic curriculum; "sports and drama are popular extracurricular activities". 2. Outside the regular duties of your job or profession. 3. Characterized by adultery; "an adulterous relationship"; "extramarital affairs"; "the extracurricular activities of a philandering husband". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ExtracurricularSynonyms: adulterous (adj), extramarital (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Extracurricular |
| English words defined with "extracurricular": adulterous, athletics ♦ dramatics ♦ extramarital. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "extracurricular": DIRECTOR, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ♦ ENERGY-CONTROL OFFICER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Extracurricular" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (extracurricular). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's not like I have all these fluffy bunny feelings for them, I'm just not gonna get way extracurricular with it. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Ukraine | Schools run by religious communities can and do include religious education as an extracurricular activity. (references) |
Economic History | Luxembourg | The responsibilities of the members of the Conseil d'Etat are extracurricular to their normal professional duties. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Extracurricular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Extracurricular" is used about 14 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) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "extracurricular": extracurricular activity. 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 |
extracurricular activity | 23 |
extracurricular | 5 |
high school extracurricular activity | 2 |
activity benefit extracurricular | 2 |
activity child extracurricular | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "extracurricular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jashtë programit. (various references) | |
Arabic | لامنهاجى, لا روتينى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | извънучилищен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 課外 . (various references) | |
Dutch | periscolaire aktiviteiten (extracurricular course), buitenschoolse activiteit (extracurricular activity). (various references) | |
Farsi | فوق برنامه ای , فعالیت های فوق برنامه ای دانش اموز. (various references) | |
French | en dehors du programme, périscolaire, hors du programme, hors des heures. (various references) | |
German | außerschulische Aktivität (extracurricular course). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמחוץ לתכנית הרגילה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tananyagon kívüli (extra-curricular). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ekstrakulikuler, ceramah (causerie, discourse, sermon, talkative). (various references) | |
Italian | parascolastico. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 課外 , 正課外 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せいかがい, かがい (assault, damaging, evil, harm, heavy taxation, mischief, numerically inferior force, perigone, prostitution quarter, red-light district, small military force, taxation, violence). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extracurricularay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extracurricular. (various references) | |
Russian | факультативный (optional), внеклассный, внеаудиторный, внепрограммный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vanškolski. (various references) | |
Spanish | extraescolar. (various references) | |
Swedish | utanför schemat, fritids-. (various references) | |
Turkish | ders programı dışı, branş dışı kalan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | громадський (common, public), позааудиторний (outside). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngoại khoá. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "extracurricular": extracurriculars. (additional references) | |
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"Extracurricular" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: extracarricular, extracuricular, extracurricula, extracurricullar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "extracurricular" (pronounced e'kstrukeri"kyuler) |
| 8 | -k er i" k y u l er | curricular. |
| 6 | -i" k y u l er | particular, perpendicular, testicular, vehicular. |
| 5 | -k y u l er | avuncular, binocular, cardiovascular, circular, gastrovascular, intermolecular, jocular, molecular, muscular, secular, semicircular, spectacular, unspectacular, vascular, vernacular. |
| 4 | -y u l er | angular, annular, cellular, equiangular, globular, granular, intercellular, irregular, jugular, popular, rectangular, regular, singular, triangular, tubular, unicellular, unpopular. |
| 3 | -u l er | embezzler, enabler, abler, alveolar, bachelor, Buckler, Candler, chancellor, consular, councilor, counsellor, counselor, dangler, dissimilar, fiddler, Girdler, glandular, gobbler, hackler, humbler, hurdler, hustler, Idler, insular, jeweler, juggler, kindler, kittler, Littler, modular, needler, nestler, nodular, peninsular, rattler, reveler, saddler, settler, shuffler, Sidler, similar, simpler, Spindler, Stabler, stapler, stickler, subtler, swindler, tingler, Tinkler, titular, traveler, traveller, wrangler, wrestler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-l-r-r-r-r-t-u-u-x" | |
-5 letters: auriculate, caricature, curricular. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-i-l-r-r-r-r-t-u-u-x" | |
+1 letter: extracurriculars. | |
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