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Definitions: Seraphic |
SeraphicAdjective1. Of or relating to an angel of the first order; "he imagined a seraphic presence in the room". 2. Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seraphic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: SeraphicSynonyms: angelic (adj), angelical (adj), cherubic (adj), seraphical (adj), sweet (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angel | Adjective: angelic, seraphic, cherubic; saintly. |
Pain | Charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely; (beautiful); ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian; (heavenly). |
Piety | Adjective: pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly-minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic; saintly, saint-like; seraphic, sacred, solemn. |
Virtue | Exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Seraphic |
| English words defined with "seraphic": angelic, angelical ♦ cherubic ♦ seraphical, sweet. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cosette had fallen back into the profound seraphic love. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | In a dream or vision he had known the ecstasy of seraphic life. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Seraphic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seraphic" is used about 16 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% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "seraphic": seraphic doctor. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
feather seraphic | 19 |
seraphic | 3 |
feather gallery seraphic | 3 |
association mass seraphic | 3 |
character feather info seraphic | 2 |
feather hentai seraphic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "seraphic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | engjëllor (angelic, saintly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ساروفي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ангелски (angelic, celestial, cherubic, heavenly), божествен (celestial, divine, glorious, godlike, heavenly, olympian, supernal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | andìlský (angelic, cherubic, divine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | séraphique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | engelhaft (angelic, angelical, cherubic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αγγελικόσ (angelic, seraphical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szeráfi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eraphicsay seráfico. (various references) serafic (angelic). (various references) серафический. (various references) anđeoski (angel, angelic, cherubic). (various references) seráfico (seraphical). (various references) serafisk (seraphical). (various references) melek gibi (angelic, angelical, cherubic, innocence incarnate, like an angel). (various references) серафічний (seraphical), ангельський (seraphical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seraphic": seraphically. (additional references) | |
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"Seraphic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sarabhai, seraphi, seraphin, Serapia, serephin, serphid, Serpico. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aspheric, parchesi. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: cahiers, cashier, ceriphs, ciphers, eparchs, harpies, parches, scrapie, sharpie, spacier, spheric. | |
-2 letters: achier, apices, arches, ashier, aspire, cahier, capers, capris, caries, cerias, ceriph, chairs, chaise, chapes, chares, chaser, cheaps, chirps, cipher, crapes, cripes, eparch, ericas, escarp, eschar, pacers, paries, parish, parsec, perish, phasic, phrase, praise, preach, precis, prices, rachis, raphes, raphis, recaps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: camphires, chapiters, eparchies, parchesis, spherical. | |
+2 letters: archpriest, aspherical, dispatcher, graphemics, hairpieces, haruspices, parritches, pasticheur, pharmacies, preachiest. | |
+3 letters: amphimacers, archesporia, archpriests, atmospheric, birthplaces, chairperson, champerties, comradeship, dispatchers, graphicness, heptarchies, hippocrases, hyperstatic, microphages, paresthetic, pasticheurs, pentarchies, preachifies, preachiness, spherically, spirochaete, spirochetal. | |
+4 letters: accomplisher, apothecaries, archesporial, archesporium, archipelagos, atmospherics, cacographies, cataphoresis, chairpersons, cheeseparing, chiropterans, comradeships, coprophagies, demographics, diaphoretics, discographer, handicappers, hyperactives, hypercapnias, hyperplastic, necrophilias, nonspherical, orthopaedics, patriarchies, periphrastic, phylacteries, planispheric, predischarge, psychiatries, repurchasing, scenographic, seraphically, spirochaetes, stenographic, superhelical, therapeutics. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 72 61 70 68 69 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in 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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