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Definition: Swami |
SwamiNoun1. A Hindu religious teacher; used as a title of respect. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "swami" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (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 |
SWAMI | English | Software Aided Multipoint Input | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Swami |
| English words defined with "swami": chela. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Life and Message of Swami Vivekananda (1964) Swami (1949) A Balmy Swami (1949) Swami (1941) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Holy Man of Benares - Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswathi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Sri Swami Sivananda | Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Swami" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Swami" is used about 18 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 (proper) | 55.56% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.44% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "swami": swami-of-the-month. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "swami"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Обръщение Към Брамин, Йога, Мистик, Индуски Идол. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pandit, hindu vallásoktató, hindu úr (baboo), brámin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amisway свами (swamis). (various references) ผู้รอบรู้ (intellect, Renaissance man). (various references) Hoca (hodja, master, preceptor, prelector, teacher), Hindu Din Bilgini. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "swami": swamies, swamis. (additional references) | |
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"Swami" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awamir, dwmail, Eslami, Iswari, Saami, sammi, samo, sawm, Sawrij, sawti, shami, Shamim, Shamji, swabi, swail, swair, swaji, swame, swamk, swamy, swane, swanee, swani, swanwic, swari, swarmy, swei, swimmi, swomi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "swami" (pronounced swÄ"mē) |
| 3 | -Ä" m ē | Ami, balmy, commie, mommy, pastrami, rami, salami, Tommy, Tsunami. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-s-w" | |
-1 letter: aims, amis, maws, sima, swam, swim. | |
-2 letters: aim, ais, ami, ism, mas, maw, mis, saw, sim, was, wis. | |
-3 letters: ai, am, as, aw, is, ma, mi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-s-w" | |
+1 letter: miaows, swamis. | |
+2 letters: impawns, manwise, mawkish, midways, misdraw, sawmill, semiraw, swamies, wampish, warmish, wigwams. | |
+3 letters: dwarfism, misaward, misdrawn, misdraws, sawmills, swampier, swamping, swampish, swarming, swimwear, swingman, wailsome, wartimes, whammies, womanise, womanish. | |
+4 letters: dwarfisms, farmwives, firmwares, hairworms, kinswoman, mackinaws, mawkishly, micawbers, misawards, sawtimber, scrimshaw, semidwarf, swampiest, swimmable, switchman, wambliest, wampished, wampishes, wearisome, welfarism, whimsical, wigmakers, wisewoman, womanised, womanises, womanizes. | |
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