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Sociably

Definition: Sociably

Sociably

Adverb

1. In a gregarious manner.

2. In a sociable manner; "sociably, the new neighbors invited everyone on the block for coffee".

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

Date "sociably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Synonym: Sociably

Synonym: gregariously (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: unsociably (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Sociably

"Sociably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sociably" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sociably

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

sociably

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sociably

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

Chinese 

  

善社交地. (various references)

   

German

  

gesellig (chummily, convivial, gregarious, sociable, social). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοινωνικώσ (companionably). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

barátságosan (amiably, amicably, genially). (various references)

   

Italian

  

socievole (chummily, companionable, conversable, genial, gregarious, sociable, social). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

사교 으로. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ociablysay

   

Russian 

  

общественно. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sociable (chummily, clubbable, companionable, sociable, social). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sociably

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

amicabiliter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sociably

Derivations

Words ending with "sociably": indissociably, insociably, unsociably. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sociably" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Shockabilly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sociably"

Words rhyming with "sociably" (pronounced 'So"cia*bly'): Abominably, Acceptably, Accessibly, Accountably, Accustomably, Actionably, Admirably, Adorably, Advisably, Affably, Agreeably, Allowably, Alterably, Amenably, Amiably, Amicably, Answerably, ASSEMBLY, Assumably, Audibly, Avaiably, Brambly, Bubbly, Chanceably, Changeably, Chargeably, Charitably, Cognizably, Comfortably, Commensurably, Compatibly, Compellably, Comprehensibly, Conducibly, Conformably, Conscionably, Considerably, Contemptibly, Conversably, Convertibly, Covenably, Credibly, Creditably, Crumbly, Customably, Damnably, Deceivably, Deducibly, Durably, forcibly. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Sociably

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-l-o-s-y"

-2 letters: aliyos, bialys, boylas, cibols, cobias, cosily, social.

-3 letters: aboil, acyls, bails, basic, basil, bialy, blocs, boils, bolas, boyla, calos, cibol, clays, cloys, coals, coaly, cobia, coils, colas, laics, obias, salic, scaly, sibyl.

-4 letters: ably, abos, abys, acyl, ails, albs, also, asci, bail, bals, bays, bias, bios, bloc, boas, boil, bola, boys, cabs, calo.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-l-o-s-y"
 

+2 letters: insociably, symbolical, unsociably.

 

+3 letters: biophysical, biosocially, bodaciously, nonsyllabic, sociability.

 

+4 letters: considerably, crossability, inconsolably, inconsumably, monosyllabic, myeloblastic, octosyllabic, polysyllabic, subsonically, symbolically.

 

+5 letters: bacteriolyses, bacteriolysis, bisectionally, blastomycosis, bombastically, flamboyancies, incontestably, indissociably, insociability, lymphoblastic, obstetrically, octosyllabics, syllabication, symbiotically, unsociability.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sociably


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

53 6F 63 69 61 62 6C 79

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ---    -.-.    ..    .-    -...    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100001 01100010 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#99 &#105 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0063 0069 0061 0062 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

5381697567687891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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