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Definition: Solecism |
SolecismNoun1. A socially awkward or tactless act. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "solecism" was first used: 1577. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Solecism (3 syl.). Misapplication of words; an expression opposed to the laws of syntax; so called from the city of Soli, in Cilicia, where an Athenian colony settled, and forgot the purity of their native language. (Suidas.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Some examples of usages often regarded as solecisms in standard English:
See also:
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Synonyms: SolecismSynonyms: faux pas (n), gaffe (n), gaucherie (n), slip (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inelegance | Noun: inelegance; stiffness; Adjective: "unlettered Muse"; barbarism; slang; solecism; mannerism; (affectation); euphuism; fustian; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism. |
Reasoning, | Sophism, solecism, paralogism; quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet; inconsistency, antilogy; "a delusion, a mockery, and a snare"; claptrap, cant, mere words; "lame and impotent conclusion". |
Solecism | Verb: use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize, commit a solecism; murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's head. |
Noun: solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae; slipslop; bull; barbarism, impropriety. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Solecism |
| English words defined with "solecism": Solecist, Solecistical, Solecize. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
James Wilson | A government without the power of defence! It is a solecism. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Solecism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Solecism" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
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 |
solecism | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "solecism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkelje e normave të mirësjelljes, gabim gramatikor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | اللحن الخطأ النحوي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | солесизъм, граматична грешка, просташко държане, погрешно употребена дума, погрешно употребен израз. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غلطاصطلاحی , غلطدستوری , بی ترتیبی (Disorder, Irregularity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | solécisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schnitzer (blooper, blunder, bobble, Boner, boob, booboo, carver, goof, howler, slip up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σολοισμόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שבוש לשון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | stílushiba, nyelvtani hiba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | solecismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | red er lheh, jarrood grammeydagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olecismsay solecismo (indecorum), má educação, incorreção (badness, rudeness), erro (aberration, balk, boner, bug, delusion, deviation, error, fault, indecorum, lie, miss, mistake, slip, stumble, wrong). (various references) грамматическая ошибка, нарушение приличий (breach of decency, indecorum). (various references) solecizam, govorna greška. (various references) solecismo. (various references) språkfel (illiteracy). (various references) การกระทำหรือคำพู"ที่ผิ"พลา". (various references) kuraldışılık (anomaly, exception, irregularity), gramer yanlışı, görgüsüzlük (ill breeding, unmannerliness), dilbilgisi hatası, aykırılık (anomaly, contradiction, contradistinction, contrariety, cross-purposes, discrepancy, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity, repugnance). (various references) солецизм, порушення правил поведінки, помилка (aberration, balk, bloomer, bungle, delusion, error, failing, fallacy, fault, inaccuracy, lapsus, misdeed, mistake, sin, slip, stumble, trip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | soloecismus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "solecism": solecisms. (additional references) | |
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"Solecism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: solacium, solemism, solepcism, solicism, solipcism, solisism. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "solecism" (pronounced 'Sol"e*cism'): Academicism, AEstheticism, Agnosticism, Anatocism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Arsenicism, Asceticism, Asiaticism, Astaticism, Athleticism, Atomicism, Atticism, Autoecism, Biblicism, Briticism, Catholicism, Celticism, Citicism, Civicism, Classicism, Creticism, Criticism, Cynicism, Ecclesiasticism, Eclecticism, Gallicism, Gnosticism, laconicism, lambdacism, Lexiphanicism, lyricism, Metacism, Metempiricism, monasticism, Monoecism, Mutacism, Mysticism, Mytacism, Neocriticism, Neo-Scholasticism, Organicism, ostracism, Peripateticism, Phallicism, Physicism, Polysyllabicism, Prosaicism, Rhotacism, romanticism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-m-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: lissome, ossicle. | |
-2 letters: celoms, climes, closes, colies, cosies, lissom, mioses, missel, molies, osmics, slices, slimes, smiles, socles. | |
-3 letters: ceils, celom, clime, close, coils, coles, comes, coses, cosie, isles, limes, limos, loess, loses, melic, mesic, miles, milos, mises, misos, moils, moles, oleic, osmic, seism, semis, sices, silos, slice, slime, slims, sloes, smile, socle, soils. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-m-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: camisoles, coliseums, solecisms. | |
+2 letters: comeliness, mislocates, semicolons. | |
+3 letters: cacomistles, colostomies, comestibles, completists, compulsives, cosmologies, microscales, polemicists, schooltimes. | |
+4 letters: accomplishes, chrysomelids, combustibles, comelinesses, commensalism, compressible, cosmopolises, cosmopolites, glucosamines, milliseconds, misallocates, multicourses, musicologies, pleochroisms, scopolamines, sectionalism, semicolonies, uricotelisms. | |
+5 letters: accomplishers, anecdotalisms, cleistogamies, cleistogamous, collectivisms, commensalisms, complaisances, compressional, compressively, comradeliness, cosmetologies, cosmetologist, emasculations, galactosemias, maliciousness, microanalyses, microcapsules, miscellaneous, mischievously, molluscicides, mononucleosis, necrophilisms, neoclassicism, neoplasticism, osteomalacias, polycentrisms, sacerdotalism, sectionalisms, seismological, splenectomies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 6C 65 63 69 73 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-.. . -.-. .. ... -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01101100 01100101 01100011 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o l e c i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 006C 0065 0063 0069 0073 006D |
| 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)5381787169758579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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