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Definition: Soutane |
SoutaneNoun1. 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rebel in soutane (1971) Rebell in der Soutane (1970) | |
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Books | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
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 |
boutons noir rouges soutane à | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 sotana (cassock), sotaina (cassock), batina (cassock). (various references) sutanã (cassock, frock, gown, long robe). (various references) сутана (cassock, priestly garb). (various references) mantija (cassock, mantle). (various references) sotana (cassock, robe). (various references) sutan. (various references) papaz cüppesi (Alb, chasuble, cope). (various references) áo xutan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "soutane": soutanes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 75 74 61 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- ..- - .- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110101 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o u t a n e |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53818786678071 |
| 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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