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Stylite

Definition: Stylite

Stylite

Noun

1. An early Christian ascetic who lived on top of high pillars.

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

Date "stylite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Etymology: Stylite \Sty"lite\, noun. [from Greek expression, from pillar.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Stylite

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Clergy	Cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian; Gilbertine; Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Stylite

English words defined with "stylite": Pillarist. (references)

Specialty definitions using "stylite": Stylites. (references)

Commercial Usage: Stylite

Domain	Title
Books	A letter from Jacob of Edessa to John the Stylite of Litarab concerning ecclesiastical canons (reference) The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (Translated Texts for Historians) (reference) The Disputation of Sergius the Stylite against a Jew. (reference) The Life of St. Simon the Stylite (reference) Vies géorgiennes de S. Syméon Stylite l'Ancien et de S. Ephrem. (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stylite

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

Modern Translation: Stylite

Language		Translations for "stylite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		стълпник. (various references)

Finnish		pylväspyhimys. (various references)

Greek		στυλίτης. (various references)

Pig Latin		ylitestay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Stylite

Derivations
	Words beginning with "stylite": stylites. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Rhyming with "Stylite"

Words rhyming with "stylite" (pronounced 'Sty"lite'): halite, Lucullite, Mellite, Oblite, Perlite, Phyllite, Polyhalite, Scyllite, Xylite. (additional references)

Anagrams: Stylite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: testily.
	Words within the letters "e-i-l-s-t-t-y"
	-1 letter: stylet, titles.
	-2 letters: islet, istle, silty, stile, stilt, style, styli, testy, tiles, tilts, title, yetis, yetts.
	-3 letters: isle, leis, lest, lets, leys, lies, list, lite, lits, lyes, lyse, sett, silt, site, slit, stet, stey, stye, syli, tels, test, tets, ties, tile, tils, tilt, tits, tyes, yeti, yett.
	-4 letters: els, its, lei, let, ley, lie.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-l-s-t-t-y"
	+1 letter: stylites.
	+2 letters: pettishly, sectility, sterility, stiltedly, tensility.
	+3 letters: bestiality, elasticity, hesitantly, polytheist, sentiently, stealthily, stridently.
	+4 letters: abstinently, crystallite, dictyostele, etymologist, festinately, insatiately, insistently, kittenishly, lithophytes, multisystem, obstinately, pestilently, polytheists, selectivity, stringently, testability, transiently, versatility.
	+5 letters: acetylations, anelasticity, astringently, consistently, coquettishly, crystallites, dictyosteles, distractedly, ecstatically, essentiality, etymologists, hesitatingly, inelasticity, interestedly, intestinally, methylations, meticulosity, multiversity, persistently, polytheistic, restrictedly, scatteringly, shatteringly, simultaneity, storytelling, streptolysin, theistically, thriftlessly, transitively, typicalities, unsettlingly.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams

9. Bibliography

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