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Definition: Soiree |
SoireeNoun1. A party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "soiree" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Etymology: Soiree \Soi`ree"\, noun. [French expression, from soir evening, from the Latin expression serus late, serum late time. Compare to Serenade.]. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SOIREE | English | Southern Ocean Iron Release Experiment | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sociality | Party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_e; evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party; kettle, kettle drum; partie carr_e, dish of tea, ridotto, rout; housewarming; ball, festival; smoker, smoker-party;sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha; tea-party, tea-fight. (amusement); " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Soiree |
| English words defined with "soiree": musical soiree ♦ soiree musicale. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Soiree" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (soiree). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Soiree" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Soiree" is used about 23 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) | 91.3% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "soiree": musical soiree ♦ soiree musicale. 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 |
soiree | 49 |
de robe soiree | 9 |
dress soiree | 4 |
echangiste soiree | 4 |
belle de les plus robe soiree | 3 |
organisation soiree | 3 |
dansante soiree | 3 |
cd de debut soiree | 2 |
kpig soiree swine | 2 |
an elegant soiree print | 2 |
sb soiree | 2 |
soiree zouk | 2 |
soiree swine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "soiree"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbrëmje (dew-fall, even, evening, eventide, get together, night, vesper), festë (conviviality, do, feast day, festival, fete, fete day, fiesta, holiday, jamboree, party, red letter day). (various references) | |
Arabic | حفلة ساهرة (show), سهرة (evening, party). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | соаре, вечеринка (rout, sociable, social). (various references) | |
Czech | veèírek (do, party). (various references) | |
French | soirée (society). (various references) | |
German | soiree, abendgesellschaft. (various references) | |
Greek | εσπερίσ (party), εσπερίδα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסב" (board, conference, fete, party, reception, social affair), שף (ball, darkness, fete, party). (various references) | |
Hungarian | estély (ball, crush, function, shindig, social evening). (various references) | |
Italian | serata (evening, party), trattenimento (entertainment, fete). (various references) | |
Manx | giense fastyr, fastyr kiaullee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oireesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | recepção (front desk, receipt, reception, recipiency). (various references) | |
Romanian | seratã (at home, entertainment, evening, evening party, party). (various references) | |
Russian | званый вечер (entertainment). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | soare, večernja sedeljka. (various references) | |
Spanish | soirée, velada (cocktail party, junket, social, thrash, watch). (various references) | |
Turkish | suare (evening), gece matinesi, akşam partisi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | суаре, званий вечір. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "soiree": soirees. (additional references) | |
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"Soiree" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: osireion, Osiride, poireau, Sairey, semibreve, sgoir, Shourie, Sibree, siore, siree, sirree, skiry, sliere, soare, soige, soire, Soire'e, soirie, soirre, soory, sorie, soriel, sourie, stiree, suriy, swoire, toviere, tsiree. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: erose, osier, siree. | |
-2 letters: eros, ires, ores, rees, reis, rise, roes, rose, seer, sere, sire, sore, sori. | |
-3 letters: ere, ers, ire, oes, ore, ors, ose, ree, rei, res, roe, see, sei, ser, sir, sri. | |
-4 letters: er, es, is, oe, or, os, re, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: erosive, oreides, soirees. | |
+2 letters: boiserie, boweries, cheerios, cicorees, coteries, creolise, doweries, eloiners, emeroids, emersion, eringoes, erosible, erotizes, esoteric, eurokies, eversion, exorcise, firehose, foreside, heroines, heroizes, indorsee, isoprene, isothere, kerosine, memories, memorise, moperies, oneriest, orreries, overlies, overside, oversize, overwise, pioneers, poetiser, poetries, poperies, promisee, rebodies, recopies, reimpose, rejoices, relievos, revoices, roperies, roselike, roseries, serotine, sierozem, soberize, theories, theorise, tiresome, voleries, weirdoes. | |
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