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Definitions: Negligee |
NegligeeNoun1. A loose dressing gown for women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "negligee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | NEGLIGEE. A woman's undressed gown, Vulgarly termed a neggledigee. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: NegligeeSynonyms: housecoat (n), neglige (n), peignoir (n), wrapper (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Body clothes; linen; hickory shirt; shirt, sark, smock, shift, chemise; night gown, negligee, dressing gown, night shirt; bedgown, sac de nuit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Negligee |
| English words defined with "negligee": camisole. (references) |
| "Negligee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Negligee" is used about 20 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) | 100% | 20 | 78,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
negligee | 147 |
ebony negligee | 10 |
black brunette cimicifuga hillside near negligee | 8 |
sexy negligee | 7 |
sheer negligee | 6 |
blue negligee | 5 |
silk negligee | 3 |
model negligee | 3 |
see through negligee | 3 |
naughty negligee | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "negligee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | robdëshambër (deshabille, dressing gown, neglige, wrap, wrapper), petk dhome (neglige). (various references) | |
Arabic | عباءة (cloak, frock, gown, mantle), الفضلة لباس البيت, روب (curdle, robe, smock, stole, wrapper). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неглиже (deshabille, dishabille, neglige), неофициален (informal, inofficial, neglige, off the record, officious, unceremonious, unofficial), домашна дреха (deshabille, dishabille). (various references) | |
Farsi | لباس توی خانه بانوان (Neglige). (various references) | |
French | négligé (neglected, neglige). (various references) | |
German | neglige (neglige, peignoir). (various references) | |
Greek | νεγκλιζέ (négligé), πρόχειρο φόρεμα γυναίκασ, ατημέλητοσ (blowzy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרושל בלבוש (dowdy), שמלת בוקר, חלוק ש ". (various references) | |
Hungarian | hálóköntös (banian), pongyola (banian, deshabille, dressing gown, dressing-gown, floppy, housecoat, morning dress, peignoir, sloppy, tea-gown, undress, wrapper), neglizsé (neglige), gyöngysor (beadwork, collar of pearls, necklet, pearl necklace, rope). (various references) | |
Italian | negligé. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ネオン管 (bottleneck, drip-dry, import restriction list, Is it so?, nack chain, Nebraska, neck, neckerchief, necking, necklace, neckline, necktie, necktie pin, necrophilia, necrophobia, nector, negative, negative color, neglect, negotiation, Nelson, neon tube, nepenta, nephron, nephrosis, nepotism, Neptune, neptunium, Nescafe, -ness, nest, nest table, nesting, Nestle, net, net ball, Net citizen, net in, net play, net price, net score, netball falling in, netizen, net-mask, nettopology, network, network administration, networker, networking, Nevada, Never give up!, Never happen, Never mind, next, no carbon, no-iron, permanent snowpatch, Really?, several tables inside each other, tie, wash and wear). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ネグリジェ . (various references) | |
Korean | 네글리 . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egligeenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | traje despretensioso (negligence), roupão feminino (neglige), robe de chambre (neglige). (various references) | |
Russian | дамский халат (neglige). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | negliže (neglige). (various references) | |
Spanish | negligé (négligé). (various references) | |
Swedish | neglige (neglige, wrapper). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องแต่งกายอย่างไม่เป็นทางการ. (various references) | |
Turkish | sabahlık (deshabille, dressing gown, gown, housecoat, morning gown, neglige, peignoir, robe, wrapper), ev elbisesi (deshabille, indoor dress, neglige, undress). (various references) | |
Ukranian | простора сукня хуш ст.. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "negligee": negligees. (additional references) | |
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"Negligee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: neglege, negli, negligere, negliglee, neguibe, neligee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-g-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: neglige. | |
-2 letters: geeing, leggin, niggle. | |
-3 letters: gelee, genie, ingle, liege. | |
-4 letters: gene, gien, glee, gleg, glen, lien, line, ling. | |
-5 letters: eel, egg, eng, gee, gel, gen, gie, gig, gin, lee, leg, lei, lie, lin, nee, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-g-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: negligees. | |
+2 letters: negligence. | |
+3 letters: genealogies, legginesses, negligences. | |
+4 letters: beleaguering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 67 6C 69 67 65 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . --. .-.. .. --. . . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100111 01101100 01101001 01100111 01100101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e g l i g e e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0067 006C 0069 0067 0065 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4871737875737171 |
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