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Definition: Toga |
TogaNoun1. A one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient Rome. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toga" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Toga \To"ga\, noun; plural English Togas, from Latin expression Tog[ae]. [Latin expression, akin to tegere to cover. See Thatch.]. (Websters 1913) |
| 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 |
TOGA | English | Total gene expression analysis | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The toga was the distinctive garb of Ancient Rome. It consisted of a long sash of cloth, folded in a particular way, that was worn over a tunic. The sash went over the left shoulder and under the right arm.
The toga was the characteristic garment of male Roman citizens. Non-citizens were not allowed to wear one. The corresponding formal garment for women was the stola.
In the earliest days of the Roman Kingdom and Roman republic, the toga was worn even in wartime. However, the garment was not practical for battle and difficult to wear with armour, so the toga was abandoned as a wartime garment. This caused the toga to be associated with peace; it was the essential garb for Romans who were acting in public, civic, legal, and other official functions. It continued to be so even late in the Roman empire, when the toga had been largely abandoned as ordinary clothing.
There were certain kinds of toga that were associated with various ranks and official functions. These included:
How to make a toga: http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/reenactments/toga.html
Toga is also a village in Toyama, Japan.External link
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Toga."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adolescence | Verb: come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats. |
Clothing | Robe, tunic, paletot, habit, gown, coat, frock, blouse, toga, smock frock, claw coat, hammer coat, Prince Albert coat, sack coat, tuxedo coat, frock coat, dress coat, tail coat. |
Scepter | Toga, pall, mantle, robes of state, ermine, purple. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Toga |
| English words defined with "toga": Praetexta ♦ toga virilis, Togae, Togas, Togated, Trabea. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "toga": Abolla ♦ Caracalla ♦ Gens Togata ♦ White-coat. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "toga": Candidate ♦ Praetexta ♦ Togated. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Toga" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (dress, gown, robe, toga), German (toga), Italian (gown, robe, toga), Latin (cloak or mantle, toga), Portuguese (gown, robe, toga, vestment), Serbo-Croatian (toga), Spanish (gown, robe, silk, toga), Swedish (toga). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Toga! Toga! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) If she's wearing anything under that toga. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) It's a toga party. (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) | |
Movie/TV Titles | She-Male Encounters 19: Toga Party (1989) Wild Toga Party (1985) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Mid-winter South Pole toga party. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | No more toga, no more probation. |
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| "Toga" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.96% of the time. "Toga" is used about 49 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) | 97.96% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Brazil | Dixie Toga S.A. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "toga": Toga praetexta ♦ toga virilis. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "toga": toga-clad, toga-like, toga-style. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
toga | 575 | party pic toga | 9 |
toga party | 275 | make sheet toga | 6 |
make toga | 218 | outfit toga | 6 |
toga costume | 96 | de graduacion toga | 6 |
making toga | 35 | de historia la toga | 6 |
picture toga | 32 | party photo toga | 6 |
tie a toga | 27 | bike shop toga | 6 |
roman toga | 22 | fest toga | 6 |
joes toga | 20 | hedonism toga | 6 |
joe toga | 17 | toga woman | 5 |
party picture toga | 17 | design toga | 5 |
toga wear | 17 | make roman toga | 5 |
idea party toga | 16 | invitation party toga | 5 |
wrap a toga | 14 | pic toga | 5 |
greek toga | 13 | female toga | 5 |
birrete toga y | 13 | fold toga | 5 |
pattern toga | 12 | costume make toga | 4 |
instructions toga | 12 | costume sexy toga | 4 |
toga tying | 11 | girl toga | 4 |
alma de el la toga | 10 | sexy toga | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "toga"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | togë (Academicals, platoon, robe, squad), petk zyrtar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سترة (coat, jacket, jumper, lounge suit, smock, sweater), شملة رداء (cloak, mantle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тога (gown). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tóga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | toga (dress, gown, robe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لباس رسمی قضات , جبه (Cassock, Cloak), ردای بی استین , ردا (Cloak, Mantle, Robe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Toga. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μανδύασ ρωμαίου, τήβεννοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tóga (chiton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | jubah (robe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | toga (gown, robe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogatay toga (gown, robe, vestment). (various references) togã (gown). (various references) тога (togae). (various references) toga. (various references) toga (gown, robe, silk). (various references) toga. (various references) yün harmani. (various references) тога, мантія (cloak, gown, mantle, pallium, pluvial, sack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | toga. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "toga": togae, togaed, togas, togate, togated. (additional references) | |
Words containing "toga": autogamies, autogamous, autogamy, cleistogamic, cleistogamies, cleistogamous, cleistogamously, cleistogamy, cryptogam, cryptogamic, cryptogamous, cryptogams, protogalaxies, protogalaxy. (additional references) | |
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"Toga" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doga, dogga, goga, googa, hoga, joga, noga, oga, poga, stoga, taga, tagu, targa, tege, Tegea, tg, t'go, tifa, tiga, Tigra, Tirga, tmoa, toa, toab, toag, toaj, toba, Tobgyal, toda, toea, tofa, Togai, togan, togar, toge, togem, togen, togg, togh, togi, togie, togin, toglach, togwa, Toha, tojo, Toka, tolab, tolga, toma, tona, toog, Toorak, topa, toqa, tora, toraf, torag, torga, torge, tosa, touge, tova, tovah, Tovar, Toya, Tozaj, tsog, ttgca, tuge, tugi, tugo, tuva, tyoga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "toga" (pronounced tō"gu) |
| 3 | -ō" g u | yoga. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: goat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-o-t" | |
-1 letter: ago, gat, goa, got, oat, tag, tao, tog. | |
-2 letters: ag, at, go, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-o-t" | |
+1 letter: argot, fagot, gator, gavot, gloat, goats, groat, magot, tango, togae, togas, tonga. | |
+2 letters: agorot, agouti, agouty, argots, dotage, faggot, fagots, forgat, fugato, galiot, galoot, garote, gators, gavots, gelato, gitano, gloats, goatee, groats, latigo, legato, maggot, magots, nougat, orgeat, otalgy, outage, outgas, potage, ragout, ragtop, tangos, tautog, togaed, togate, tongas, towage. | |
+3 letters: abought, agatoid, agitato, agonist, agoroth, agoutis, amongst, antilog, argotic, atoning, autoing, boating, cantdog, catalog, coagent, coating, cognate, cottage, doating, dogcart, dogmata, dotages, faggots, faggoty, fagoted, fagoter, flotage, footage, fugatos, galiots, galipot, galliot, galloot, galoots, garoted, garotes, garotte, garrote, gavotte, gelatos, gestapo, gigaton, gitanos, gloated, gloater, globate, glottal, goateed, goatees, goatish, grantor, grayout, gunboat, gyrator, hangout, hostage, latigos, legator, legatos, loggats, maggots, maggoty, magneto, megaton, moating, montage, negaton, negator, nougats, octagon, onstage, orating, orgeats, otalgia, otalgic, outages, outbrag, outdrag, outgain, outgave, outgnaw, outrage, outrang, outsang, pigboat, portage, postage, postbag, potages, pottage, ragouts, ragtops, ragwort, rootage, stopgap, storage, stowage, tangelo, tangoed, tautogs, togated, tollage, tongman, tonnage, towages, tugboat, voltage, warthog. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 67 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- --. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01100111 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o g a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0067 0061 |
| 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)54817367 |
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