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Prayer Book

Definition: Prayer Book

Prayer Book

Noun

1. A book containing prayers.

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


Synonym: Prayer Book

Synonym: prayerbook (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Prayer Book

English words defined with "prayer book": BradfordPortassrubricservice bookWilliam Bradford. (references)
Specialty definitions using "prayer book": Psalm cv. 28SternholdWicked Prayer Book. (references)
Etymologies containing "prayer book": Portass. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Prayer Book

DomainTitle

Books

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu: An African Prayer Book [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Ayn Keloheynu: Learn to Comprehend the Hebrew Prayer Book (reference)

  • Dandelion prayer book : talking with God in your golden years : for those who used to be young and wish they still were (reference)

  • A Doubter's Prayer Book (reference)

  • The Dieter's Prayer Book (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Prayer Book

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Prayer Book

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

National Cathedral. Official standard prayer book of America, 1892. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Prayer Book

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

prayer book

62
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Prayer Book

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

Albanian

  

lutjesore, libër lutjesh (breviary, missal). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كتاب الصلاة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

молитвеник (breviary). (various references)

   

Czech

  

modlitební kniha. (various references)

   

Danish

  

boennebog, bønnebog. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kerkboek, gebedenboek. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rukouskirja (prayer-book). (various references)

   

French

  

paroissien, livre de prières, livre de messe, livre de la prière. (various references)

   

German

  

Gebetbuch (missal). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προσευχητάριο, προσευχητάρι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ספר תפילות. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

imakönyv (primer, service book). (various references)

   

Italian

  

libro di prighieri, libro di preghiere. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

祈祷書 , 祈とう書 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きとうしょ. (various references)

   

Manx

  

lioar phadjeragh, lioar phadjer. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ayerpray ookbay

   

Portuguese

  

ritual (agenda, ceremony, consuetudinary, cult, ordinal, rite, ritual, service-book), missal (missal), livro de orações (missal). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

carte de rugãciuni (church service, missal). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

молитвенник (ordinal, prayer-book, primer, service book, service-book). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

molitvenik. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

libro de oraciones (ordinal), devocionario (missal). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bönbok (church service). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

dua kitabı (missal, primer, service book). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

молитовник (missal, ordinal, primer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Prayer Book

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-k-o-o-p-r-r-y"

-2 letters: yearbook.

-3 letters: prebook, rookery.

-4 letters: arroyo, bakery, barker, booker, brayer, broker, karroo, parker, poorer, porker, prayer, prober, rebook, repark, ropery.

-5 letters: apery, arbor, baker, barer, barky, barre, barye, beaky, berry, borer, boyar, brake, braky, break, broke, brook, karoo, kebar, kerry, opera, pareo, parer, parry, payer, payor, peaky, perky, perry, poker, pokey, pooka, porky, probe.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Prayer Book


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 61 79 65 72      42 6F 6F 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100001 01111001 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000010 01101111 01101111 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#97 &#121 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#111 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0061 0079 0065 0072      0042 006F 006F 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508467917184236818177

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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