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Definition: Lustrum |
LustrumNoun1. A period of five years. 2. (ancient Rome) a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lustrum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Interval consisting of five consecutive years sometimes used in the study of meteorological elements. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Lustrum A space of five years. The word means a purification. These public expiations were made at Rome by one of the censors every fifth year, at the conclusion of the census. (Latin, luere, to purify.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Period | Noun: period, age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum, quinquennium, lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry, lunation, moon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lustrum |
| English words defined with "lustrum": Luster Lustre, Lustra, Lustral, Lustrums. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lustrum": Lustrical. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lustrum" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (Lustrum), Latin (bawdy, brothel, forest, house of ill fame, marsh, swamp, whorehouse, woods), Serbo-Croatian (lustrum). |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lustrum | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "lustrum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Pesëvjeçar (five-year, lustral, quinquennial), Ceremoni Pastrimi. (various references) | |
Arabic | التطهير العام (luster). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Петгодишен Период. (various references) | |
Czech | Pìtiletí (quinquennium). (various references) | |
Danish | femaar. (various references) | |
Dutch | lustrum. (various references) | |
Finnish | viisivuotisjakso. (various references) | |
French | Lustrum, lustre (luster, lusters, lustre). (various references) | |
German | Lustrum. (various references) | |
Greek | πενταετία (five year period, five years, quinquennium), λούστρουμ, ενταετήσ ίάθαρση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ַמש ים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Ragyogás (blaze, brilliance, brilliancy, effulgence, flame, glamor, glamour, glare, glitter, glossiness, glowing, irradiation, lucency, luster, lustre, magnificence, radiance, radiancy, sheen, shine, splendor, splendour), Fény (blaze, clarity, glaze, gloss, light, luster, lustre, pageantry, polish, pomp, refulgence, revolving light, shine, splendor, splendour, state). (various references) | |
Indonesian | masa lima tahun. (various references) | |
Italian | lustro (glory, gloss, glossy, luster, lustre, lustrous, moist, prestige, sheen, shine, shining, shiny). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ustrumlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lustro (burnish, glossiness, polish). (various references) | |
Romanian | lustru (gloss, glossiness, luster, lustre, polish, shallowness, shine, varnish, veneer). (various references) | |
Russian | пятилетие (luster, lustre, quinquennial, quinquennium). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lustrum, žrtva ispaštanja (peace offering). (various references) | |
Spanish | lustro (chandelier). (various references) | |
Swedish | årspentad. (various references) | |
Turkish | beş yıllık dönem. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | п'ятиріччя (quinquennial, quinquennium). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lustrum": lustrums. (additional references) | |
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"Lustrum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kunstraum, lidstrom, Linstrum, lustorol, Lustra, lustreum, lustril, lustrium, lustrom, olusatrum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "lustrum" (pronounced 'Lus"trum'): Alabastrum, Antrum, Calamistrum, Centrum, Claustrum, Colostrum, Nostrum, Plectrum, Pleurocentrum, rostrum, Sequestrum, Sistrum, spectrum, tantrum, Zygantrum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-m-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: strum. | |
-3 letters: lums, lust, must, muts, rums, rust, ruts, slum, slur, smut, stum, sulu, ulus, urus. | |
-4 letters: lum, mus, mut, rum, rut, sum, ulu, uts. | |
-5 letters: mu, um, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-m-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: lustrums, multures. | |
+2 letters: claustrum, multiuser, ngultrums, tremulous. | |
+3 letters: telluriums. | |
+4 letters: gutturalism, mistrustful, multicourse, multiparous, multisource, muscularity, musculature, summersault, tremulously, tristimulus, tumblerfuls. | |
+5 letters: accumulators, gutturalisms, maricultures, microtubules, monocultures, mournfullest, multicourses, multifarious, multipurpose, musculatures, semilustrous, stratocumuli, summersaults, surmountable, ultravacuums. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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