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Definition: Seneschal |
SeneschalNoun1. The chief steward or butler of a great household. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seneschal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Seneschal \Sen"es*chal\, noun. [Old French expression seneschal, Late Latin expression seniscalcus, of Teutonic origin; compare to Gothic sineigs old, skalks, Old High German. scalch, Anglo-Saxon scealc. Compare to Senior, Marshal.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: SeneschalSynonym: major-domo (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Director | Secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar; (deputy); steward, factor; agent; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator. |
Master | Mayor, mayoralty; prefect, chancellor, archon, provost, magistrate, syndic; alcalde, alcaid; burgomaster, corregidor, seneschal, alderman, councilman, committeeman, councilwoman, warden, constable, portreeve; lord mayor; officer; (executive); dewan, fonctionnaire. |
Servant | Bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Seneschal |
| English words defined with "seneschal": Seneschalship. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "seneschal": Kay, King Ban, King Ryence ♦ Queux. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "seneschal": SIR. (references) |
| "Seneschal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.65% of the time. "Seneschal" is used about 85 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) | 97.65% | 83 | 36,350 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 85 | N/A |
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 |
seneschal | 3 |
diana seneschal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "seneschal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që vjetërohet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | управител на замък (castellan), сенешал. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αρχιοικονόμοσ φεουδάρχου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | udvarmester (marshal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | siniscalco. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shennskyl. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eneschalsay senescal. (various references) postelnic, majordom (Butler, majordomo, steward). (various references) сенешаль. (various references) senešal. (various references) senescal. (various references) ortaçağda büyük evlerdeki kâhya. (various references) сенешаль. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seneschal": seneschals. (additional references) | |
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"Seneschal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hentschel, santschii, senechal, senecschal, senescal, senesch, Seneschalli, seneshal, Senskell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: cleanses, encashes, enchases, haleness. | |
-2 letters: achenes, clashes, cleanse, encases, enchase, enlaces, hansels, leaches, leashes, scalene, seances, senecas. | |
-3 letters: achene, aneles, cashes, ceases, censes, chases, chasse, chelae, chelas, cleans, easels, encase, encash, enlace, hances, hansel, hanses, hassel, hassle, laches, lances, lashes, leases, leches, lenses, lessen, naches, scales, scenas, scenes, seance, selahs, seneca, shales, sheals. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: changeless, seneschals. | |
+2 letters: ethicalness, housecleans. | |
+3 letters: candlefishes, changelessly, lecithinases, shacklebones. | |
+4 letters: changefulness, ethicalnesses, sclerenchymas, teachableness. | |
+5 letters: changeableness, changelessness, charitableness, cholinesterase, clannishnesses, clearinghouses, collieshangies, gesellschaften, housecleanings, methodicalness, physicalnesses, steeplechasing, watchfulnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 65 73 63 68 61 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. . ... -.-. .... .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01100011 01101000 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n e s c h a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0065 0073 0063 0068 0061 006C |
| 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)537180718569746778 |
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