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Definition: Neglige |
NegligeNoun1. A loose dressing gown for women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "neglige" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Synonyms: NegligeSynonyms: housecoat (n), negligee (n), peignoir (n), wrapper (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Neglige |
| Non-English Usage: "Neglige" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (neglige, negligee, peignoir), Swedish (neglige, negligee, wrapper). |
| 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 |
neglige | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "neglige"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | robdëshambër (deshabille, dressing gown, negligee, wrap, wrapper), petk dhome (negligee). (various references) | |
Arabic | المبذل ثوب نسوى طويل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свободен (at large, available, disengaged, disposable, easeful, easy, exempt, facile, familiar, fetterless, floating, fluent, footloose, free, glib, go-as-you-please, immune, independent, intestate, leisure, loose, off, open, otiose, quit, spare, tripping, unbending, unbound, unbuttoned, uncommitted, unconstrained, unforced, unreserved, unrestricted, unstudied, untenanted, untrammelled, vacant, void, wide), широк (ample, broad, capacious, catholic, deep, extensive, flaring, flyaway, full, large, loose, spacious, sweeping, untight, vast, voluminous, wide), неглиже (deshabille, dishabille, negligee), неофициален (informal, inofficial, negligee, off the record, officious, unceremonious, unofficial), небрежен (careless, casual, floppy, heedless, lax, loose, neglectful, negligent, perfunctory, ragged, raunchy, regardless, remiss, skimpy, slack, slapdash, slipshod, slipslop, sloppy, slovenly, thoughtless, unheeding, untidy). (various references) | |
Farsi | لباس توی خانه بانوان (Negligee). (various references) | |
French | négligé (neglected, negligee). (various references) | |
German | neglige (negligee, peignoir). (various references) | |
Hungarian | neglizsé (negligee). (various references) | |
Manx | gooyn eddrym. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egligenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | traje despretensioso (negligee), roupão feminino (negligee), robe de chambre (negligee). (various references) | |
Romanian | neglijeu (peignoir). (various references) | |
Russian | дамский халат (negligee). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | negliže (negligee). (various references) | |
Spanish | salto de cama (dressing gown, negligee, peignoir). (various references) | |
Swedish | neglige (negligee, wrapper). (various references) | |
Turkish | sabahlık (deshabille, dressing gown, gown, housecoat, morning gown, negligee, peignoir, robe, wrapper), ev elbisesi (deshabille, indoor dress, negligee, undress). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ранковий жіночий халат, негліже (nightclothes, night-rail), пеньюар (nightgown, night-rail, peignoir, wrapper), домашн" вбрання (deshabille, dishabille, undress). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "neglige": negligee, negligees, negligence, negligences, negligent, negligently, negliges. (additional references) | |
Words containing "neglige": nonnegligent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: geeing, leggin, niggle. | |
-2 letters: genie, ingle, liege. | |
-3 letters: gene, gien, glee, gleg, glen, lien, line, ling. | |
-4 letters: eel, egg, eng, gee, gel, gen, gie, gig, gin, lee, leg, lei, lie, lin, nee, nil. | |
-5 letters: el, en, in, li, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-g-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: gingeley, gleeking, gleeting, negligee, negliges. | |
+2 letters: elegising, elegizing, gelignite, gingeleys, gingelies, greenling, legginess, negligees, negligent. | |
+3 letters: delegating, gelignites, gingellies, greenlings, leaguering, leveraging, neglecting, negligence, negligible, regelating, relegating, repledging. | |
+4 letters: becudgeling, filagreeing, filigreeing, genealogies, genealogist, glengarries, legginesses, lengthening, negligences, negligently, squilgeeing. | |
+5 letters: angelologies, becudgelling, beggarliness, beleaguering, degringolade, deregulating, enlightening, evangelizing, genealogical, genealogists, generalising, generalizing, genuflecting, gingerliness, glycogenesis, greenmailing, gynecologies, nonnegligent, reregulating, sloganeering, telegramming, telegraphing. | |
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