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Definition: Tunic |
TunicNoun1. An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue. 2. Any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tunic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Etymology: Tunic \Tu"nic\, noun. [Latin expression tunica: compare to the French expression tunique.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: TunicSynonyms: adventitia (n), tunica (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tunic |
| English words defined with "tunic": albuginea, Allium haematochiton ♦ byrnie ♦ camise, chiton, ciliary body ♦ gymslip ♦ hauberk ♦ kirtle ♦ Laticlave ♦ Orthostade ♦ red-skinned onion ♦ surcoat ♦ tabard, Tunicated, Tunicin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tunic": Cote-hardi ♦ Gird up the Loins ♦ Symbols of Saints. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tunic": Tunicary, Tunicle. (references) |
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Napoleon Bonaparte | A man will walk through hell to get a ribbon for his tunic. |
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| "Tunic" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tunic" is used about 279 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% | 279 | 17,495 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tunic": military tunic ♦ priest's tunic. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tunic": tunic-and-leggings, tunic-like. | |
Ending with "tunic": over-tunic. | |
| 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 "tunic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tunikë (soutane), xhaketë ushtarake, membranë (diaphragm, envelope, involucre, membrane, pellicle, Tunica, valve, webbing), bluzë e gjatë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سترة قصيرة (tabard), رداء كهنوتي (surplice, vestment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | туника, куртка (blouse, jacket), кител, обвивка (aril, casing, coat, covering, encasement, envelope, envelopment, husk, jacket, mantle, sheath, sheeting, shell, tegument, wrap, wrappage, wrapping), блуза (blouse, jacket), покривка (blanket, cloak, cloth, clothing, coat, cover, covering, mantle, spread, tegument). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 襡 (short skirt or tunic), 中山裝 (Chinese tunic suit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tunika, obal (casing, container, cover, husk, packaging, packing, padding, sleeve, wrap, wrapper, wrapping), halena (smock), blùza (blouse, coatee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tunika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tuniek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ecuadorian Quechua | cushma (traditional tunic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | tuniko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیراهن(روم قدیم), پوشش (Armature, Camouflage, Capsule, Casing, Coating, Cover, Envelope, Gear, Mantle, Overlay, Robe, Roof, Shale, Shield, Shroud), نیام (Legume, Pod, Scabbard, Vagina), کت کوتاه سربازان انگلیس , بلوزیاکت کوتاه کمربنددار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asetakki (coat of uniform). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tunique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Waffenrock (uniform), Tunika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χιτώνασ (caftan, camisole, cassock, gaberdine), χιτών (robe), αρχαίο εσωτερικόν ένδυμα, τυνίκ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מעיל קצר (bolero, jacket), ירכית, לסוט" (blouse, short jacket), חלוק (dressing gown, robe, smock, wrapper), חולצ" (blouse, shirt), אפו" (covering, ephod, surplice, vest), אצטל" (gown, robe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tunika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tunica (robe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 被膜 (capsule), 表着 (coat, jacket, outer garment), 上衣 (coat, jacket, outer garment), 上着 (coat, jacket, outer garment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひまく (capsule, film, membrane), うわぎ (coat, jacket, outer garment), じょうい (abdication, coat, emotion, emperor's wishes, expulsion of the foreigners, feeling, higher order, host computer, jacket, outer garment, superior, will, will or decree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cassag (cassock, curl, knot of hair, vortex). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unictay túnica (chiton, frock, robe, skin, tunica, vest, vestment). (various references) tunicã (frock), uniforma soldatului, membranã (coat, film, membrane, pellicle). (various references) туника. (various references) seuchd (a tunic or léine). (various references) tunika, vojnička bluza, opna (coat, membrane, tunica, velum). (various references) tunica, túnico, de túnico. (various references) vapenrock. (various references) tohum zarfı (calix, pod), tünik, gömlek (blouse, Sark, shimmy, shirt, Slough, Tunica), ceket (coat, jacket). (various references) оболонка (capsule, carcass, casing, casket, coma, covering, envelope, membrane, operculum, rind, sheath, shell, skin), мундир, блузка (blouse, chemisette, shirt). (various references) vỏ (cover, tegument, tunica). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tunica, tunicae, tunicam, tunicas, tunicis. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | camisia. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tunic": tunica, tunicae, tunicate, tunicated, tunicates, tunicle, tunicles, tunics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tunic": subtunic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tunic": subtunics. (additional references) | |
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"Tunic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bunic, dundic, etonic, hunnic, Ituni, Lunik, tanac, tandic, tanic, tantic, tarnic, teknik, tenec, Tewfik, toeic, tomic, tonick, tonik, tonio, tonish, tonix, tonoc, tornic, Tounis, towic, tufi, Tu'i, tuic, tu'ii, tuik, Tuin, Tuirc, tunai, tunc, tundi, tundish, tuni, tunix, tuno, tuxic, tuzi, unic, unik. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tunic" (pronounced tuw"nik) |
| 3 | -n i k | allophonic, arsenic, avionic, beatnik, botanic, bubonic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, catatonic, chronic, clinic, conic, cynic, demonic, diatonic, Dominick, electronic, embryonic, ethnic, eugenic, galvanic, ganglionic, germanic, gnomonic, hallucinogenic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, inorganic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, kibbutznik, laconic, leptonic, manic, masonic, mechanic, messianic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monoclinic, monophonic, multiethnic, neotenic, nucleonic, oceanic, organic, orogenic, ovonic, panic, pathogenic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, photogenic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, sardonic, satanic, scenic, schizophrenic, sonic, splenic, Sputnik, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, technic, tectonic, telegenic, telephonic, Titanic, tonic, transgenic, transoceanic, tympanic, ultrasonic, volcanic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cutin. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cunt, unci, unit. | |
-2 letters: cut, nit, nut, tic, tin, tui, tun. | |
-3 letters: in, it, nu, ti, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cutins, incult, induct, tunica, tunics. | |
+2 letters: auction, caution, chuting, conduit, curtain, cutline, cutting, ducting, dunitic, incrust, inducts, linecut, linocut, lunatic, noctuid, nutpick, quantic, quintic, ruction, suction, trucing, tucking, tunicae, tunicle, unction, unhitch, unstick. | |
+3 letters: aconitum, acquaint, actinium, anticult, anuretic, auctions, cautions, ceinture, cincture, clouting, conduits, continua, continue, continuo, cothurni, countian, counties, counting, courting, crusting, cultigen, cuneatic, curating, curtains, cutinise, cutinize, cutlines, cuttings, cuttling, discount, disjunct, ductings, eduction, enuretic, eructing, function, hutching, incrusts, incubate, incudate, inducted, inductee, inductor, instruct, intercut, junction, linecuts, linocuts, locution, lunatics, miscount, mulcting, mutchkin, nautical, neumatic, neuritic, neurotic, noctuids, noctuoid, nutpicks, plutonic, punditic, quantics, quintics, reinduct, ructions, ruthenic, scouting, scrutiny, sinciput, subtonic, subtunic, succinct, suctions, sultanic, taciturn, tincture, touching, trucking, tsunamic, tungstic, tunicate, tunicles, uncinate, unctions, unerotic, unexotic, unpoetic, unsticks, unstitch, uranitic, urticant, viscount. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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