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Definition: Precentor |
PrecentorNoun1. The musical director of a choir. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Precentor \Pre*cen"tor\, noun. [Latin expression praecentor, from praecinere to sing before; prae before canere to sing. See Chant.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PrecentorSynonyms: cantor (n), choirmaster (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Churchwarden, sidesman; clerk, precentor, choir; almoner, suisse, verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan; acolyth, acolothyst, acolyte, altar boy; chorister. |
Director | Intendant; overseer, overlooker; supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile; moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator; caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Precentor |
| English words defined with "precentor": Cantoral staff ♦ precentorship. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "precentor": Cathedrals of the Old Foundation ♦ Letter-Gae ♦ Musician, Chief. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Precentor" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (precentor). |
| "Precentor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Precentor" is used about 24 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% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "precentor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | drejtues kori (Cantor, chanter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قائد جوقة المرتلين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lukkari, kanttori (cantor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | maître de chapelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vorsänger (choir leader, leading voice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρωτοψάλτησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elõénekes pap. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | precentore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | leeideilagh kiaullee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecentorpray precentor, chantre (chanter, singer). (various references) dirijor de cor (chanter, choir master, chorister). (various references) регент хора. (various references) vođa u crkvenom horu (cantor), kantor (cantor, lector), horovođa (kapellmeister). (various references) chantre (cantor). (various references) kantor (Cantor). (various references) kilise korosu şefi. (various references) регент хору (psalmist). (various references) codwr canu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cantor, cantores, cantoresque, cantoribus, cantorum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "precentor": precentorial, precentors, precentorship, precentorships. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "precentor" (pronounced 'Pre*cen"tor'): Abactor, Abator, Abductor, Accentor, Actor, Adductor, Adjutor, Administrator, Agistator, Alienator, Amputator, Archtraitor, Arendator, Arpentator, Assentator, BENEFACTOR, Bettor, Betutor, Bisector, Bivector, Buccinator, Calefactor, Calorimotor, Calumniator, Cantor, Captor, Castigator, Causator, Circumferentor, Citator, Coadjutor, Collator, Cornutor, Cremator, Cretor, Cunctator, Curator, Deductor, Delator, Devotor, fetor, Fictor, Flector, foetor, Glossator, IMPOSTOR, laudator, lector, Lentor, Levator. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: receptor. | |
-2 letters: erector, percent, porrect, potence, precent. | |
-3 letters: cenote, center, centre, copter, corner, cornet, crepon, encore, opener, pecten, pereon, perron, perter, porter, poteen, pretor, recent, recept, rector, renter, reopen, repent, report, retore, retorn, tenrec. | |
-4 letters: cento, conte, copen, coper, corer, creep, crepe, crept, crone, crore, enter, erect, netop, noter, pence, peter, ponce, preen, prone. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: precentors, preconcert. | |
+2 letters: copartnered, cyproterone, interceptor, preconcerts, procurement. | |
+3 letters: counterpower, cyproterones, interceptors, intercompare, intercropped, interoceptor, precentorial, preconcerted, procurements, protuberance, recuperation. | |
+4 letters: correspondent, corruptnesses, counterplayer, counterpowers, countersniper, intercompared, intercompares, interoceptors, precentorship, preconcerting, protuberances, rapprochement, recuperations, redescription, reincorporate, retrospecting, retrospection, scleroprotein, terpsichorean. | |
+5 letters: contemporaries, correspondents, counterplayers, counterproject, counterprotest, counterpuncher, countersnipers, hyperexcretion, hypersecretion, incorporeities, intercorporate, mercaptopurine, overprotecting, overprotection, precentorships, preconstructed, rapprochements, redescriptions, reincorporated, reincorporates, retrospections, scleroproteins. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 63 65 6E 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . -.-. . -. - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e c e n t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0063 0065 006E 0074 006F 0072 |
| 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)508471697180868184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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