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Palatial

Definition: Palatial

Palatial

Adjective

1. Relating to or being a palace; "the palatial residence".

2. Suitable for or like a palace; "palatial furnishings"; "a palatial yacht".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "palatial" was first used: 1754. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: Palatial

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Adjective: urban, metropolitan; suburban; provincial, rural, rustic; domestic; cosmopolitan; palatial.

Ostentation

Adjective: ostentatious, showy, dashing, pretentious; janty, jaunty; grand, pompous, palatial; high-sounding; turgid; (big-sounding); gairish, garish; gaudy, gaudy as a butterfly, gaudy as a tulip; flaunting, flashing, flaming, glittering; gay; (ornate).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Palatial

English words defined with "palatial": Palacious. (references)
Etymologies containing "palatial": Palacious. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Palatial

DomainTitle

Books

  • Kamares: A Study of the Character of Palatial Middle Minoan Pottery (reference)

  • Le Systeme Palatial En Orient, En Grece Et a Rome: Actes Du Colloque De Strasbourg (Travaux Du Centre De Recherche Sur Le Proche Orient Et LA Grece a (reference)

  • Pre Palatial (reference)

  • Pre Palatial: The Foundations of Palatial Crete: A Survey of Crete in the Early Bronze Age (reference)

  • The foundations of palatial Crete: a survey of Crete in the Early Bronze Age (reference)

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Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Palatial

Photos:
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Photo Album: Palatial

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Chief Two Moon, wealthy Indian medicine man from Waterbury, Conn., photographed at the Lincoln Memorial on the observation platform of his palatial touring bus ... Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Palatial

"Palatial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Palatial" is used about 69 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6940,280

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

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Expressions: Palatial

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "palatial": less-palatial, neo-palatial.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Palatial

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

crest palatial sealy

7

palatial

6

mikasa palatial platinum

4

crest palatial

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Palatial

Language Translations for "palatial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

madhështor (brilliant, dignified, distinguished, exalted, gorgeous, grandiose, imperial, imposing, impressive, kingly, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, monumental, olympian, princely, proud, royal, spectacular, splendid, stately, sublime, superb), luksoz (baronial, de luxe, exclusive, fancy, lavish, luxurious, plushy, rank, recherche, refined, rich, Swan, swanky, swell). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فخم (deluxe, grand, grandiose, imperial, imposing, lordly, luxurious, magnificent, majestic, noble, plushy, pompous, pontifical, regal, rich, royal, splendid, stately, substantial, sumptuous, superb), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏بلاطي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разкошен (costly, gorgeous, imperial, luxurious, magnificent, opulent, princely, profuse, royal, splendiferous, sumptuous, superb, voluptuous), великолепен (champion, colossal, glorious, gorgeous, grand, immense, imperial, magnificent, pompous, princely, royal, smashing, splashing, splendid, super, superb, wonderful), пищен (baronial, exuberant, flamboyant, florid, gaudy, gingerbread, gorgeous, lavish, lordly, luscious, lush, luxuriant, opulent, pompous, profuse, rich, riotous, spectacular, splendid, theatrical, voluptuous, wanton), дворцов (palace). (various references)

   

Czech

  

palácový (Palatine), výstavný, luxusní (executive, fancy, grand, high-class, lush, smart, sumptuous). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

palatsimainen, linnamainen. (various references)

   

French

  

magnifique, grandiose, comme un palais. (various references)

   

German

  

palastartig. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεγαλοπρεπήσ (gorgeous, grand, kingly, magnificence, magnificent, majestic, stately), ανακτορικόσ (royal). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מפואר (glorious, grand, grandiose, imposing, luxurious, magnificent, splendid, stately, sumptuous), "מוי ארמון. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagyszabású (colossal, large, monumental, on the large side), fejedelmi (princely, regal, royal). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sontuoso (lavish, luxurious, magnificent, rich, sumptuous), lussuoso (luxurious, plushy, rich, sumptuous). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

殿 (palace, palatial building). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

し"で"づくり (in the manner of Heian era palatial architecture), で"どう (conduction, drive, electric, evangelism, gearing, missionary work, palace, palatial building, proselytizing, transmission), "うてい (palatial residence, stately mansion). (various references)

   

Manx

  

plaasoil (palace), plaasagh (palace). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alatialpay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

suntuoso (costly, gorgeous, magnificent, palace, regal, sumptuous), semelhante a palácio (palace), grandioso (gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, imposing, lofty, magnificent, majestic, monumental, palace, spectacular, splendid, sublime, vast). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

somptuos (gorgeous, luxurious, magnificent, plush, princely, rich, richly, sumptuous, sumptuously), mãreţ (aerial, August, brilliant, grand, grandiose, kingly, loftily, lofty, magnificent, magnificently, majestic, mighty, princely, proud, splendid, stately, sumptuous, unearthly), de palat, ca un palat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

роскошный (de luxe, deluxe, lordly, luxurious, plushy, posh, princely, rank, rich, splendid, sumptuous, voluptuous). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poput dvorca, veličanstven (baronial, breathtaking, grand, grandiose, magnificent, majestic, marvellous, marvelous, noble, stately, statuesque). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

palaciego (courtier), suntuoso (luxurious, magnificent, rich, sumptuous). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

palatsliknande. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saray gibi, görkemli (brave, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, gallant, gorgeous, grandiose, imperial, magnificent, majestic, olympian, pompous, proud, puffy, queenlike, queenly, refulgent, splendid, stately, sublime, sumptuous). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розкішний (baronial, beautiful, belgravian, bonzer, costly, dressy, exuberant, glittering, large, lordly, luxurious, ritzy, splendid, sumptuous, swank, upholstered, voluptuous), палацовий. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

như lâu đ i, như cung điện; nguy nga. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

plasaidd. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Palatial

LanguagePeriodTranslations
French1500-Modern

palatial. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Palatial

Derivations

Words beginning with "palatial": palatially, palatialness, palatialnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Palatial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pacatian, palacial, Palagio, palatially, palatials, Palatinar, palatium, Palatna, pallasii, palpatial, palptial, palustria, Panagia, pelagian, peloidal, Pilatii, Plastitak, popliteal, pulsatile. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Palatial"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "palatial" (pronounced pulā"shul)
5-l ā" sh u lglacial.
4-ā" sh u lbiracial, facial, spatial, interracial, multiracial, nonracial, racial.
3-sh u linertial, antisocial, artificial, beneficial, bushel, commercial, confidential, controversial, crucial, essential, experiential, financial, impartial, special, superficial, infomercial, initial, interprovincial, judicial, jurisprudential, Marshal, Marshall, martial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonfinancial, nonresidential, official, partial, Paschal, potential, prejudicial, prenuptial, provincial, quintessential, sacrificial, social, uncontroversial, unofficial.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Palatial

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-l-l-p-t"

-1 letter: palatal.

-2 letters: pallia.

-3 letters: plait.

-4 letters: alit, atap, lati, lilt, lipa, pail, pall, pial, pill, pita, plat, tail, tala, tali, tall, tapa, till.

-5 letters: aal, ail, ait, ala, all, alp, alt, apt, ill, lap, lat, lip, lit, pal, pat, pia, pit, tap, til, tip.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-l-l-p-t"
 

+2 letters: palatalize, palatially.

 

+3 letters: palatalized, palatalizes, papillomata, parallactic.

 

+4 letters: alphabetical, antiparallel, palatability, palatalizing, palatialness.

 

+5 letters: apathetically, apocalyptical, appealability, manipulatable, paralytically, parasitically, pragmatically.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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