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Definition: Serviette |
ServietteNoun1. To protect clothing; wipe mouth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "serviette" was first used: 1818. (references) |
Etymology: Serviette \Ser`viette"\, noun. [French expression]. (references) |
Synonyms: ServietteSynonyms: napkin (n), table napkin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Serviette |
| Non-English Usage: "Serviette" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (brief case, briefcase, napkin, serviette, towel), German (napkin, paper napkin, serviette), Ruanda (napkin). |
| "Serviette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Serviette" is used about 18 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% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "serviette": serviette ring. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "serviette": serviette-rings. | |
| 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 |
serviette | 10 |
folding serviette | 3 |
de pliage serviette | 3 |
dekorative serviette | 2 |
hygienique serviette | 2 |
ring serviette | 2 |
pliage serviette | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "serviette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mësallë (table cloth). (various references) | |
Arabic | منديل المائدة (doily, napkin). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | салфетка (doily, napkin). (various references) | |
Czech | ubrousek (doily, napkin). (various references) | |
Danish | bordserviet (napkin). (various references) | |
Dutch | servet (napkin). (various references) | |
French | serviette de table, serviette. (various references) | |
German | serviette (napkin, paper napkin), Tischserviette (napkin). (various references) | |
Greek | πετσέτα φαγητού (napkin). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפית (doily, napkin), מפיו ת (nappy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szalvéta (doily, napkin, table napkin). (various references) | |
Italian | tovagliolo (napkin, table napkin). (various references) | |
Korean | 냅킨 (Napkin). (various references) | |
Manx | naptin buird, aanriteen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erviettesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guardanapo (cocktail napkin, napkin, table-napkin). (various references) | |
Romanian | şervet (diaper, napkin, towel). (various references) | |
Russian | салфетка (doily, napkin, table napkin, table-napkin). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | salveta (napkin, table napkin). (various references) | |
Spanish | servilleta (dinner roll, napkin, table napkin). (various references) | |
Swedish | sevett, servett (napkin). (various references) | |
Turkish | peçete (napkin, table napkin). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | серветка (doily, napkin, overlay, table napkin, towel). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khăn ăn (linen, napery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | serviette. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "serviette": serviettes. (additional references) | |
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"Serviette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saviotti, Suvretta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-r-s-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: eeriest, restive, teeters, testier, trevets, trivets, veeries, veriest, verites. | |
-3 letters: everts, evites, reeves, reives, resite, retest, reties, revest, revets, revise, rivets, settee, setter, severe, sitter, steeve, stiver, street, strive, teeter, terete, testee, tester, titers, titres, trevet, triste, trivet, verist, verite, verset, verste, vestee. | |
-4 letters: eerie, ester, evert, evite, reest, reeve, reive, resee, reset. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-r-s-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: serviettes. | |
+3 letters: overestimate, presentative, reinvestment, tergiversate. | |
+4 letters: advertisement, invertebrates, overestimated, overestimates, preventatives, receptivities, reinvestigate, reinvestments, retentiveness, retentivities, retrospective, revegetations, tergiversated, tergiversates. | |
+5 letters: advertisements, advertizements, determinatives, divertissement, frequentatives, overinvestment, perceptivities, perfectivities, protectiveness, reflectivities, reinvestigated, reinvestigates, repetitiveness, representative, retrospectives. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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