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Soutane

Definition: Soutane

Soutane

Noun

1. A long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests.

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

Date "soutane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Etymology: Soutane \Sou`tane"\, noun. [French expression, from Spanish sotana, or Italian sottana, Late Latin expression subtana, from the Latin expression subtus below, beneath, from sub under.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Soutane

Non-English Usage: "Soutane" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (cassock), German (cassock).

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Modern Usage: Soutane

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Rebel in soutane (1971)

Rebell in der Soutane (1970)

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

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Commercial Usage: Soutane

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Use in Literature: Soutane

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He produced four candlebutts from the sidepockets of his soutane and placed them deftly among the coals and twisted papers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Soutane

"Soutane" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soutane" is used about 13 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
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soutane

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

boutons noir rouges soutane à

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Soutane

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

Albanian

  

zhgun, veladon (cassock, frock), tunikë (tunic). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

расо на католически свещеник. (various references)

   

Danish

  

praestekjole (cassock). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

soutane (cassock), toog (arc, bow). (various references)

   

French

  

soutane. (various references)

   

German

  

Soutane (cassock). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ράσο (cassock, frock, robe). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

reverenda (cassock). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tonaca (cassock, cowl, frock, habit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

outanesay

   

Portuguese

  

sotana (cassock), sotaina (cassock), batina (cassock). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sutanã (cassock, frock, gown, long robe). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сутана (cassock, priestly garb). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mantija (cassock, mantle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sotana (cassock, robe). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sutan. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

papaz cüppesi (Alb, chasuble, cope). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

áo xutan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Soutane

Derivations

Words beginning with "soutane": soutanes. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Soutane

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-s-t-u"

-1 letter: atones, unseat.

-2 letters: aeons, antes, atone, aunts, autos, etnas, nates, neats, notes, oaten, onset, santo, saute, seton, snout, stane, steno, stoae, stone, toeas, tones, tonus, touse, tunas, tunes, unset, usnea.

-3 letters: aeon, anes, ante, ants, anus, ates, aunt, auto, east, eats, eons, etas, etna, naos, neat, nest, nets, noes, nose, nota, note, nous.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outearns, seamount, soutanes, tonneaus.

 

+2 letters: aeronauts, anestrous, aquatones, astounded, autodynes, butanones, ceanothus, consulate, cotqueans, courantes, courtesan, cutaneous, eastbound, equations, isobutane, langouste, nectarous, oceanauts, outdances, outlearns, outrances, outranges, seamounts, shogunate, sulfonate, tenacious.

 

+3 letters: augmentors, autogenies, autogenous, autonomies, autosexing, coetaneous, conjugates, consulates, consummate, courantoes, courtesans, educations, emulations, entourages, exhaustion, extraneous, exudations, gelatinous, gluconates, headcounts, houseplant, housetrain, inoculates, inosculate, isobutanes, juniorates, keratinous, langoustes, nucleators, numerators, outlanders, outspanned, pulmonates, raconteurs, shogunates, soundstage, sulfonated, sulfonates, treasonous, undercoats.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Soutane


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

53 6F 75 74 61 6E 65

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)

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

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

01010011 01101111 01110101 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#117 &#116 &#97 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0075 0074 0061 006E 0065

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

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

53818786678071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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