Inaugural

Definitions: Inaugural

Inaugural

Adjective

1. Occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball".

2. Serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage".

Noun

1. An address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a US president).

2. The ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration".

Date "inaugural" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms: Inaugural

Synonyms: first (adj), initiative (adj), initiatory (adj), maiden (adj), inaugural address (n), inauguration (n). (additional references)

Antonym: exaugural (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Inaugural

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beginning	Adjective: beginning; Verb: initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive, introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative; embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial; (old); aboriginal; natal, nascent.
Precursor	Adjective: precursory; prelusive, prelusory, preludious; proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary; precedent; (prior).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Inaugural

English words defined with "inaugural": Budge bachelor ♦ ceremony ♦ first ♦ inaugural address, initiative, initiatory ♦ maiden. (references)

Specialty definitions using "inaugural": inaugural ceremony. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Inaugural" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (inaugural, opening), Portuguese (inaugural), Romanian (inaugural, maiden, opening), Spanish (inaugural, maiden, opening).

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Modern Usage: Inaugural

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Viagem Inaugural do 'Pátria' (1947)

Troop 'A' in Inaugural Parade (1897)

Bicyclers in Inaugural Parade (1897)

A Chegada do Comboio Inaugural � Estação Central do Porto (1897)

The 53rd Presidential Inaugural Gala: An American Journey (1997)

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

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Commercial Usage: Inaugural

Domain	Title
Books	Colorado Rockies: The Inaugural Season (reference) FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address (The Library of Presidential Rhetoric) (reference) I Do Solemnly Swear: The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, 1789-2001 (reference) Lincoln's First Inaugural Address [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Inaugural Souvenir (reference) WNBA: We Got Next - The Story of the WNBA's Inaugural Season (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Inaugural Recital (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Inaugural

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Photo Album: Inaugural

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Team members from the Air Combat Command Communications Group at Langley Air Force Base, Va., trek up a steep hill during a 6.2-mile forced march to kick off the inaugural Wilderness Challenge 2000 competition near the New River Gorge National River in We.		Inaugural phantasies, 1889.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Welcome to the inaugural city! : it may be voteless but it lacks in nothing else.Credit: Library of Congress.		President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivering his inaugural address on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, January 21, 1957.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Secret service agents try to hold back the crowds that surge forward to watch President Johnson dance with the First Lady at the inaugural ball at the National Guard Armory [...].Credit: Library of Congress.		Inaugural decorations, McKinley inauguration, Pension Building.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Emblems and seals. Emblem with eagle used at inaugural I.Credit: Library of Congress.		Inauguration of presidents of the United States. Inaugural stand for Roosevelt.Credit: Library of Congress.
	T.D. Dutton and J.J. Boone, radio broadcasters of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., testing the installation for broadcasting the inaugural ceremonies.Credit: Library of Congress.		The inaugural charity ball.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Inaugural

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		In 1997, Siemens managed to close their inaugural year in the fiber optics market with sales of US$13 million, representing nearly 50 percent of the fiber optics bought by telephone companies. (references)
Civil Liberties	Syria	In his July 2000 inaugural speech, President Bashar Al-Asad emphasized the principle of media transparency. (references)
Economic History	Mexico	The Border Health Commission held its inaugural meeting in November 2000. (references)
	Trinidad and Tobago	In 1995, Trinidad played host to the inaugural meeting of the Association of Caribbean States and has become the seat of this 35-member grouping, which seeks to further economic progress and integration among its states. (references)
Human Rights	Taiwan	In his 2000 inaugural address, President Chen declared that Taiwan must include international human rights in its legal code and establish a national human rights commission, and, in December, he announced additional details and a schedule to his human rights promotion program. (references)
	Marshall Islands	The employment of a foreign national former high court judge, who had disagreements with the previous government, was terminated prematurely in June 1999, but he was appointed to the Supreme Court in May 2000. In his January 2000 inaugural address, President Note pledged to protect the independence of the judiciary, following the previous 4 years during which three chief justices resigned or were terminated by the Government. (references)
Political Economy	Turkey	Secretary Daley's visit to Turkey in January 1998 marked the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Turkey Business Development Council that includes both public officials and private business. (references)
Political Rights	Congo	Citizens have not been able to change their government through free elections since independence in 1960. In his May 1997 inaugural address, President Laurent Kabila promised a constitution and elections by 1999; however, the 1998 outbreak of war effectively prevented the holding of national elections. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Inaugural

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Congressman Ortiz's question was so amazingly stupid and worthy of our inaugural Katie Couric Award that we decided we had to know more about this man.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Inaugural

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to 'saving' the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to 'destroy' it without war--seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation.
William H. Taft	1909-1913	The office of an inaugural address is to give a summary outline of the main policies of the new administration, so far as they can be anticipated.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	In his first Inaugural Address, Thomas Jefferson warned of entangling alliances.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Inaugural

"Inaugural" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Inaugural" is used about 216 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)	96.3%	208	21,075
Noun (singular)	3.7%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	216	N/A

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

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Expression: Inaugural

Expressions using "inaugural": inaugural address ♦ inaugural ceremony ♦ inaugural lecture ♦ inaugural speech. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "inaugural": pre-inaugural.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Inaugural

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
inaugural	17
inaugural address	13
inaugural mandela nelson speech	8
inaugural jfk speech	6
inaugural speech	5
inaugural mandelas nelson speech	5
gown inaugural	4
inaugural kennedy speech	3
inaugural lincolns second	3
inaugural lincoln second	3
ball bush inaugural	3
badge inaugural	3
bush inaugural	2
cruise inaugural	2
inaugural medal	2
inaugural jfks speech	2
inaugural kennedy	2
inaugural lincoln	2
inaugural parade	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Inaugural

Language		Translations for "inaugural"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përurimi. (various references)

Arabic		‏إفتتاحي (inaugurated, initiatory, precursory, preliminary). (various references)

Bulgarian		встъпително слово, встъпителен (entrance, exordial, introductory, opening, precursory, prefatory, prelusive, preparatory). (various references)

Chinese		就职 (installment, instalment). (various references)

Czech		inauguraèní, zahajovací (preliminary), nástupní. (various references)

Danish		indvielsestale (inaugural address, opening address, welcome address, welcome speech), indvielsesceremoni (inaugural ceremony, official opening, opening ceremony), velkomsttale (inaugural address, opening address, welcome address, welcome speech), stiftende møde (inaugural meeting), konstituerende møde i Arbejdsgruppen (inaugural meeting of the Reflection Group), foerste moedeperiode (inaugural sitting), åbningstale (inaugural address, opening address, welcome address, welcome speech), åbningsceremoni (inaugural ceremony, official opening, opening ceremony). (various references)

Dutch		inaugureel. (various references)

Esperanto		inaŭgura. (various references)

Farsi		گشایشی , سخنرانی افتتاحی , افتتاحی . (various references)

Finnish		virkaanastujaisesitelmä (inaugural lecture). (various references)

French		inaugural. (various references)

German		Einführung (foreword, guide book, implementation, inauguration, inception, infusion, institution, introduction, launch, lead in, short prefatory note), Antrittsrede (inaugural address, inaugural speech, investiture speech, maiden speech). (various references)

Greek		εναρκτήριοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		fölavató. (various references)

Indonesian		upacara pengukuhan. (various references)

Italian		inaugurale (inauguratory, maiden, opening). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		新任 (new). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		し�"に�" (acceptance, acknowledge, admission, confidence, credence, imperial appointment, new, trust). (various references)

Korean		취임 (Inaugurating). (various references)

Manx		bunnee (of a sheaf). (various references)

Norwegian		innvielses-. (various references)

Pig Latin		inauguralay

Portuguese		inicial (early, forehand, incertitude, incidence, initial, initiative, initiatory, leaf, maiden, young), inaugural, imperceptível (imperceptible, imperfect, inconspicuous, indite, undiscriminated). (various references)

Romanian		inaugural (maiden, opening), de deschidere (opening). (various references)

Russian		вступительный (admission, exordial, initiation, introductory, opening, prefatory, prelusive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		inauguralan, prilikom svečanog otvaranja. (various references)

Spanish		inaugural (maiden, opening). (various references)

Swedish		invignings-. (various references)

Turkish		açılış törenine ait, açılış töreni (inauguration), açılış konuşması (inaugural speech, opening speech), açılış (inauguration, opening). (various references)

Ukranian		вступний (exordial, inductive, initiative, introductory, opening, prefatorial, prefatory, prelusive, prodromic). (various references)

Vietnamese		khai trương (inauguratory). (various references)

Welsh		agoriadol (opening). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Inaugural

Derivations
	Words beginning with "inaugural": inaugurals. (additional references)
	Words ending with "inaugural": postinaugural, preinaugural. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Inaugural" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inagural, inaugral, innaugural, inuagural. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Inaugural"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "inaugural" (pronounced i'nô"gerul or i'nô"gyerul)
4	-g er u l	doggerel.
3	-er u l	admiral, agricultural, architectural, behavioral, bilateral, collateral, Corporal, countercultural, cultural, doctoral, electoral, ephemeral, federal, femoral, funeral, Gen, general, guttural, horticultural, humoral, intercultural, lateral, liberal, literal, littoral, mackerel, mayoral, mineral, multicultural, multilateral, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, numeral, pastoral, pectoral, peripheral, pickerel, postdoctoral, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, sectoral, structural, supernatural, temporal, trilateral, unilateral, unnatural, visceral.
4	-y er u l	behavioral.
3	-er u l	admiral, agricultural, architectural, bilateral, collateral, Corporal, countercultural, cultural, doctoral, doggerel, electoral, ephemeral, federal, femoral, funeral, Gen, general, guttural, horticultural, humoral, intercultural, lateral, liberal, literal, littoral, mackerel, mayoral, mineral, multicultural, multilateral, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, numeral, pastoral, pectoral, peripheral, pickerel, postdoctoral, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, sectoral, structural, supernatural, temporal, trilateral, unilateral, unnatural, visceral.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Inaugural

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-l-n-r-u-u"
	-2 letters: angular, arugula, augural, guarani, ungular.
	-3 letters: agnail, anural, anuria, argali, iguana, laguna, langur, lingua, luring, narial, nilgau, raglan, ranula, ruling, ungual, ungula, urania, urinal.
	-4 letters: again, agria, alang, algin, align, argal, argil, augur, aural, garni, glair, gnarl, graal, grail, grain, grana, gular, laari, lagan, lanai, lauan, laura, liana, liang, ligan, linga, lunar, lungi, naira, ruana, rugal, ruing, ulnar, unrig, urial.
	-5 letters: agar, agin, airn, alan, alar, alga, anal, anga, anil, aria, aril, aura, gain, gala, gaun, gaur, girl, girn, glia, gnar, gran, grin, guan, guar, guru, iglu, lain, lair, lang, lari, liar, ling, lira, luau, luna, lung, nail, nurl, raga, ragi, raia, rail, rain, rang, rani, rial, ring, ruga, ruin, rung, ulan, ulna, unai, unau.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-l-n-r-u-u"
	+1 letter: inaugurals.
	+2 letters: equiangular.
	+3 letters: preinaugural.
	+4 letters: acculturating, postinaugural.
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