Oecumenical

Definitions: Oecumenical

Oecumenical

Adjective

1. Concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions; "ecumenical thinking"; "ecumenical activities"; "the ecumenical movement".

2. Of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience".

Date "oecumenical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Synonyms: Oecumenical

Synonyms: cosmopolitan (adj), ecumenic (adj), ecumenical (adj), general (adj), oecumenic (adj), universal (adj), worldwide (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Generality	Universal; catholic, catholical; common, worldwide; ecumenical, oecumenical; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting; all over, covered with.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

"Oecumenical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oecumenical" is used about 5 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%	5	157,705

Expression using "oecumenical": ecumenic oecumenic ecumenical oecumenical. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "oecumenical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		universi, botëror (epoch making, global, Mondial, world, worldwide). (various references)

Arabic		‏مسكوني (ecumenical), ‏عالمي (cosmopolitan, ecumenical, global, globular, international, macroscopic, scholarly, secular, universal). (various references)

Bulgarian		всемирен, вселенски (catholic, ecumenical). (various references)

Dutch		Stichting Interkerkelijk vormingswerk inzake ontwikkelingssamenwerking (Institute for Oecumenical Education for Development Co-operation). (various references)

French		œcuménique. (various references)

German		ökumenisch (ecumenical). (various references)

Hungarian		ökumenikus (ecumenical). (various references)

Italian		ecumenico (ecumenical). (various references)

Manx		ooilley-chadjin. (various references)

Pig Latin		oecumenicalay

Portuguese		organização dos estados americanos (organizations), ecumênico (eczema). (various references)

Russian		всемирный (catholic, ecumenical, global, mondial, supranational, universal), вселенский (ecumenical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vaseljenski (ecumenical), ekumenski (ecumenical). (various references)

Spanish		ecuménico (ecumenical). (various references)

Swedish		världs- (universal). (various references)

Turkish		kiliselerin evrenselleşmesi ile ilgili (ecumenical). (various references)

Ukranian		всесвітній (catholic, ecumenical, universal, worldwide), вселенський (catholic, ecumenical). (various references)

Vietnamese		toàn thế giới (ecumenical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-m-n-o-u"
	-1 letter: ecumenical.
	-3 letters: ecumenic, leucemia, leucemic.
	-4 letters: alumine, calcine, calcium, cauline, cenacle, cineole, cocaine, coeliac, comical, conceal, conical, council, encomia, eucaine, inocula, laconic, leucine, leucoma, licence, limacon, lucence, melanic, oceanic, uncomic.
	-5 letters: aculei, acumen, aecium, aeonic, almuce, alnico, alumin, alumni, anemic, anomic, anomie, caecum, calico, camion, cancel, celiac, cicale, cinema, cineol, cleome, clonic, cocain, column.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-l-m-n-o-u"
	+2 letters: neurochemical.
	+3 letters: counterclaimed, neurochemicals.
	+5 letters: communicableness, microencapsulate, uncommercialized.
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