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Utter

Definition: Utter

Utter

Adjective

1. Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense".

2. Total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness".

Verb

1. Articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse".

2. Express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand".

3. Express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense".

4. Put into circulation; of counterfeit currency.

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

Date "utter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Utter

DomainDefinition

Tips from 1870

Usage: Utter. This verb should be distinguished from express or say. Utter carries with it the idea of articulate expression, except in the sense of uttering false coins or forged notes.
As an adjective it is defined by complete, perfect, absolute, etc., but it can be applied only to what is unpleasant or unfavorable. "I enjoyed utter happiness" would be an absurd expression, but "I was doomed to utter misery" illustrates a proper use of the word. Source: Slips of Speech.

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

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Synonyms: Utter

Synonyms: arrant(a) (adj), complete(a) (adj), consummate(a) (adj), dead(a) (adj), double-dyed(a) (adj), everlasting(a) (adj), gross(a) (adj), perfect(a) (adj), pure(a) (adj), sodding(a) (adj), staring(a) (adj), stark(a) (adj), thoroughgoing(a) (adj), utter(a) (adj), emit (v), express (v), give tongue to (v), let loose (v), let out (v), mouth (v), speak (v), talk (v), verbalize (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Utter

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Absurdity

Noun: absurdity, absurdness; Adjective: imbecility; alogy, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence; nugacity.

Disclosure

Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split.

Greatness

Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute).

Money

Verb: amount to, come to, mount up to; touch the pocket; draw, draw upon; indorse; (security); issue, utter; discount; back; demonetize, remonetize; fiscalize, monetize.

Nonassemblage Dispersion

Verb: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse.

Publication

Verb: publish; make public, make known; (information); speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice.

Speech

Verb: speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue.

Unmeaningness

Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility).

Voice

Verb: utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry; (shout); ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Utter

Specialty definitions using "utter": Abracadabra, AOL, AOL!Babes, Benchers, BorachioCountercheck Quarrelsome, Courage of One's OpinionDevil to Pay and no Pitch HotFabulinus, Friday, an Unlucky Day, Frozen WordsHermetically SealedImprovisatorsKing CashQuos EgosheriffUse the Source Luke, UTSL, Utter and Inner Barristers. (references)
Etymologies containing "utter": Synecphonesis. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Utter" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (otter).

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Modern Usage: Utter

DomainUsage

Screenplays

There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I do, I offer a complete and utter retraction (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton)

The man caught on the barbed wire said to waken the sleeper, utter the truth, then kiss him. The truth is, that for me, it shall always be 1945 (I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream; writing credit: Harlan Ellison;)

Bert, what utter nonsense (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh)

Let me explain: I was a complete, total, utter idiot (The Tall Guy; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

Movie/TV Titles

Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969)

Kalle Utter (1925)

The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (1999)

Utter Trash (1975)

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

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Commercial Usage: Utter

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Fearless Butterfly: Fresh Poems, Muses, and Utter Raps (reference)

  • Ankoku Buto: The Premodern and Postmodern Influences on the Dance of Utter Darkness (Cornell University East Asia Papers, No 49) (reference)

  • Prompt and Utter Destruction: President Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan (reference)

  • The Bill Ballance hip handbook of nifty moves ... and how to cope in situations of utter copelessness (reference)

  • The Utter Disaster on the Oregon Trail; Vol. II, Snake Country Series (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Utter

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The Spirit of comrade Norman Bethune's utter devotion to others without any thought of self is manifested in his boundless sense of responsibility in his work and his extreme warmheartedness towards his comrades and the people. Every party member should l. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Utter

AuthorQuotation

Mikhail A. Bakunin

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover everyday anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

Seneca

What utter foolishness it is to be afraid that those who have a bad name can rob you of a good one.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Utter

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Harriet felt this too much to utter more than a few words of eager exclamation

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

And at last the Professor opened his eyes, and sat up, blinking at us with eyes of utter bewilderment

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Then, without saying a word, he fell on his knees, and even before the crowd had time to utter a cry, he was under the cart

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

How could he utter in words to the priest what he had done

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Utter

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

TS patients may utter strange and unacceptable sounds, words, or phrases. (references)

Economic History

Barbados

Graduated November 1977 at Middle Temple, London, with Degree of the Utter Bar. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ABRACADABRA. By Abracadabra we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither? -- a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach. I only know that 'tis handed down. From sage to sage, From age to age -- An immortal part of speech! Of an ancient man the tale is told That he lived to be ten centuries old, In a cave on a mountain side. (True, he finally died.) The fame of his wisdom filled the land, For his head was bald, and you'll understand His beard was long and white And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near To sit at his feat and hear and hear, Though he never was heard To utter a word But "Abracadabra, abracadab, Abracada, abracad, Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!" 'Twas all he had, 'Twas all they wanted to hear, and each Made copious notes of the mystical speech, Which they published next -- A trickle of text In the meadow of commentary. Mighty big books were these, In a number, as leaves of trees; In learning, remarkably -- very! He's dead, As I said, And the books of the sages have perished, But his wisdom is sacredly cherished. In Abracadabra it solemnly rings, Like an ancient bell that forever swings. O, I love to hear That word make clear Humanity's General Sense of Things. Jamrach Holobom

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Utter

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

You'll see the images of opulence in the Michelangelo Hotel and the wackos attending, juxtaposed with those of nearby people living in utter and total squalor.

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

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Speeches: Utter

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Monroe

1817-1825We now, fellow-citizens, comprise within our limits the dimensions and faculties of a great power under a Government possessing all the energies of any government ever known to the Old World, with an utter incapacity to oppress the people.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837The experience of another year has confirmed the utter fallacy of the idea that the Bank of the United States was necessary as a fiscal agent of the Government.

Warren G. Harding

1921-1923Let us express renewed and strengthened devotion, in grateful reverence for the immortal beginning, and utter our confidence in the supreme fulfillment.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Utter

"Utter" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 74.13% of the time. "Utter" is used about 687 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)74.13%50911,896
Lexical Verb (infinitive)20.49%14126,682
Lexical Verb (base form)5.38%3756,631
                    Total100.00%687N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Utter

The following table summarizes the usage of "utter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
UtterLast name2,0006,779
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Utter

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "utter".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
HormahN/ABiblical

Utter destruction

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Utter

Expressions using "utter": die in utter poverty meet with an utter refusal utter a sigh utter a sound utter a word utter bar utter barrister utter chaos utter cries utter curses utter fatique utter foolishness utter havoc utter nonsense utter obscenities what utter nonsense!. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Utter

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

frida utter

65

bill utter ford

35

utter

24

bob ford utter

11

guy utter

7

access utter

5

cream utter

5

cow utter

4

bill utter

3

christy utter

3

insanity utter

2

bob utter

2

frida utter nude

2

ford utter

2

bill denton ford utter

2

balm utter

2

frida picture utter

2
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Modern Translation: Utter

Language Translations for "utter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

uithaal (collect, draw out, drive, drive out, express, gather, give, give utterance to, pick, pick up, pull, pull out), ontlok (draw, draw out, drive, drive out, express, give, give utterance to, pull, pull out). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

total (aggregate, all out, all up, summation, tot, total, totality), shqiptoj (enounce, enunciate, mouth, pronounce, say), shpreh me fjalë (conceive, verbalize, word), shpreh (bid, breathe, clothe, couch, embody, express, express oneself, extend, formulate, give voice to, import, outspeak, phrase, profess, put, put forward, say, speak), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, vomit, whiffle), lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck), i plotë (all out, big, broad, clear, close, complete, comprehensive, crowded, dead, direct, dyed in the wool, entire, flush, fraught, full, gross, integral, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plummy, pregnant, radical, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unabbreviated, uncut, unquestioning, whole), hedh në qarkullim (float), absolut (absolute, all-rounder, complete, direct, irrelative, perfect, plenary, sheer, total). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فوه, ‏كلي (aggregate, general, total, universal), ‏كامل (absolute, all out, complete, completed, concluded, consummate, entire, essential, finalized, finished, full, full blown, full scale, integral, integrate, out and out, outright, perfect, plenary, plumb, rounded off, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unqualified, whole), ‏مطلق (absolute, categorical, complete, downright, free, full, infinite, liberator, outright, perfect, plenary, stark, ultimate, unbounded, unconditional, uncontrolled, unlimited, unqualified, unrestrained, unrestricted), ‏نفث (breathe, emit, erupt, expectoration, expel), ‏نبس ب, ‏لفظ العبر, ‏قال (go, said, say, speak, state, talk, tell, told), ‏وضع (accentuate, affix, apply, bestow, bin, clap, conjuncture, dab, design, do, emplacement, estate, frame, install, job, lay, lay down, lay out, manner, outline, perch, place, placement, plant, posit, position, positioning, posture, put, put down, put up, rank, return, set, set back, situation, status, stick down, stuff, tuck, writing), ‏تام (blank, complete, crass, entire, every, flat, gone, implicit, integral, outright, perfect, perfected, performed, plenary, pure, rank, regular, round, sound, thorough, thoroughgoing, unconditional, unequivocal, unqualified, whole), ‏أطلق (cast, cast off, divorce, draw, eject, emanate, enlarge, erupt, evolve, fire, generalize, give off, liberate, loose, open, project, relax, release, shoot, slip, speed, spout, toss, touch off, unchain, unlock). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

решителен (chopping, crisp, decided, decisive, determined, drastic, fateful, flat-footed, heroic, high-spirited, obstinate, peremptory, plucky, plump, point blank, pronounced, purposeful, purposive, resolute, ringing, stable, stalwart, straight out, strong-minded, sturdy, thoroughgoing, trenchant, ultimate, unfaltering, unflinching, unhesitating, winning), краен (completive, distal, dizzy, end, endmost, eventual, extreme, final, high, intense, intolerant, latter, marginal, out-, outside, profuse, rabid, red-hot, sublime, supreme, terminal, terminative, terrible, ultimate, unmerciful, utmost, uttermost, veriest, wild-eyed), категоричен (categorical, decided, definite, definitive, emphatic, explicit, final, flat, irresistible, outright, plump, point blank, positive, thorough, unconditional), казвам (bid, call, convey, observe, put to, say, state, tell), абсолютен (absolute, implicit, irrelative, perfect, plenary, plenipotentiary, profound, rank, sheer, sovereign, unconditioned, unmitigated, unqualified, veriest), пълен (absolute, alive, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog), произнасям (articulate, enounce, enunciate, pass, pronounce, sound, syllable, vocalize), изразявам с думи, изричам (syllable), изпускам (elide, emit, exhale, exhaust, exude, give off, heave, leave out, let fall, let out, lose, muff, omit, ooze, pour, put forth, quit, release, run, shoot, throw out, vent), издавам (betray, bring out, condemn, delate, denounce, disclose, divulge, emit, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, leak, loose, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, spill, stick out, throw out). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

說出 , 完全 (Complete, Completeness, Comprehensiveness, CPL, Downright, exclusively, out-and-out, Physically, Plenary, totally, Wholly). (various references)

   

Czech

  

podivný (curious, eldritch, freak, peculiar, quaint, queer, rum, strange, weird), bytostný (substantive), dokonalý (accomplished, cast iron, consummate, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, perfect, proficient, thorough, unqualified, very), hluboký (dead, deep, heavy, low, profound, thick), holý (bald, bare, bleak, hard, naked, stark, undiluted), korunovaný (crowned), naprostý (absolute, bloody, complete, dead, downright, entire, full, outright, perfect, positive, rank, sheer, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, unconditional, unmitigated), úplný (absolute, clear, complete, entire, full, outright, perfect, plenary, thorough-paced, very, whole), nepřekonatelný (compelling, deep rooted, immovable, impassable, insuperable, insurmountable, irresistible, overwhelming, unbreakable, unequaled, unequalled), zajeèet, pronést (deliver, interject, interpose), totální (absolute, all out, blank, hopeless, total, wholesale), vyjádřit (couch, embody, express, formulate, give, give voice to, profess, put, state, voice), vykřiknout (call out, cry out, ejaculate, exclaim, give a cry, yell), vyložený (absolute, arrant, downright, real, right-down, undiluted), vyslovit (bring in, enunciate, express, formulate, sound, speak, state), nenapravitelný (confirmed, dyed in the wool, hopeless, incorrigible, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreparable). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uitbrengen (achieve, act, carry out, do, draw out, drive out, express, give utterance to, make, perform, pull out, report), slaken (draw out, drive out, express, give utterance to, pull out), ontlokken (draw out, drive out, express, give utterance to, pull out). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

eligi (draw out, drive out, express, give utterance to, pull out). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

حداعلی (Culmination, Uttermost), بزبان اوردن , بحداکثر, اداکردن (Acquit, Discourse, Express, Innuendo, Pronounce), جمعا (Wholly), باعلی درجه , سودمندی (Efficacy, Productivity, Use, Utilization), فایده (Advantage, Avail, Fruit, Profit, Use), غیرعادی (Abnormal, Anomalous, Extraordinary, Irregular, Prodigious, Queer, Unco, Uncommon, Unusual, Unwonted), گفتن (Bubble, Cite, Inform, Intimate, Observe, Rehearse, Relate, Say, Tell, Utterance), کاملا (Altogether, Intoto, Outright, Quite, Smack, Sopping, Sound, Through, Utterly, Wholly), مطلق (Absolute, Abstract, Arbitrary, Autocratic, Downright, Free, Implicit, Positive, Sheer, Slick, Stark, Total, Unconditional, Unrestrained), مفیدیت , فاش کردن (Babble, Betray, Disclose, Divulge, Giveaway, Manifest, Peach, Reveal, Squeal, Tattle, Tell, Uncloak, Unfold), سود (Advantage, Avail, Dividend, Fruit, Gain, Good, Grist, Increment, Interest, Lucre, Profit). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

virkkaa (say), virkahtaa (put in), lausua (express, pronounce, read poetry, recite, say, state). (various references)

   

French

  

total, répandre (give utterance to), publier, prononcer, proférer, pousser, parfait, mettre en circulation, complet, absolu, émettre. (various references)

   

German

  

äußern (air, comment, deliver, express, observe, speak, throw out, to express, to voice, ventilate, voice). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθαρός (aboveboard, clean, clear, sheer), ξεστομίζω (come out with), προσφέρω (confer, donate, make an offer, offer, offer to, pay, put up, render, subscribe, tender), εκστομίζω (rap), εκβάλλω (bounce, doff, drive out, eject, evict, extrude, oust, put out, take off), εκφέρω (express, vent), λέγω (come out with, divulge, tell), αρθρώνω, αρθρώ (articulate), απόλυτοσ (absolute, absolutist, categorical, dead, perfect, plenary, sheer, strict, unconditional, unqualified), απόλυτος (absolute, outright), ολοσχερήσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מוחלט (absolute, categorical, certain, decided, definite, downright, outright, positive, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unqualified), למלל (say, speak, talk), ל"וציא מפיו (articulate), ל"שמיע (announce, cause to hear, pronounce, sound, state), ל"'ות (articulate, growl, meditate, murmur, pronounce, speak, vocalize), ל"ביע (cause to flow, express, give voice to, mean, pour, register, speak), לבטא (enunciate, express, mouth, pronounce, speak, state), כליל (complete, completely, downright, entirely, out and out, over, passim, quite, stark, stiff, thoroughly, total, totally, utterly, whole), 'מור (absolute, complete, completion, concluded, conclusion, end, ended, entire, finish, finished, finishing, out and out, outright, perfect, sheer, stark, termination, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, total, very). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

végleges (consummative, definite, definitive, eventual, last), teljes (absolute, absorbing, all-out, at full speed, bag of tricks, clear, complement, complete, consummate, crass, entire, exhaustive, fore-and-aft, full statement, full-blood, global, gross, integrate, integrated, out and out, perfect, plenary, Plumb, pukka, regular, restitution of all things, right-down, round, setout, to come in for one's full share of sg, to pelt, to the full, to the top of one's bent, to transmogrify, total, undivided, very, whole), tökéletes (absolute, accomplished, beyond all praise, can be hardly improved on, complete, consummate, exquisite, finished, impeccable, perfect, pukka, rank, regular, thorough, very), legteljesebb (unmitigated), kimond (pronounce, rap out, speak out, to adjudge, to air, to predicate, to pronounce, to rap out, to sound, to voice), kiejt (drop out, enunciate, pronounce, to enunciate, to pronounce, to utter, vocalize), abszolút (absolute, absolutely, sheer, total, unmitigated). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyuarakan (express, give voice to something), mengungkapkan (cast, express), mengemukakan (adduce, express, profound). (various references)

   

Italian

  

totale (absolute, all, all out, blank, complete, entire, gross, integral, overall, sheer, sound, summation, total, whole), pronunciare (declare one's opinion, deliver, pronounce, say, sound, spell), proferire, mandare (commit, consign, despatch, dispatch, drive, drop, emit, forward, get, give off, let out, send, send off, send out, sent, to send, transmit), lanciare (cast, chuck, dash, drop, fling, flip, float, hurl, launch, move out, pitch, promote, propose, put up, send, send up, set, shoot, sling, start, throw), estrinsecare (declare, exteriorise, exteriorize), emettere (breathe, deliver, discharge, draw, ejaculate, eject, emit, expel, express, give out, heave, issue, output, ray, release, send out, spend, spew, write out), completo (absolute, all, all out, all round, arrant, blank, clear, complete, dead, entire, full, full up, implicit, inclusive, integral, intimate, out and out, outfit, outright, overall, perfect, round, set, sound, stark, suit, thorough, total, totally, unabridged, whole), assoluto (absolute, all-time, clear, damned, downright, implicit, perfect, profound, sheer, stark, sweeping, unqualified, very), articolare (articular, articulate, articulated, be divided, subdivide). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

真の (genuine, real, true), "然たる (absolute, complete, pure, sheer), "然 (pure). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

し"の (genuine, real, true), じゅ"ぜ"たる (absolute, complete, pure, sheer), じゅ"ぜ" (pure). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

완 한 (Complete, Consummate, CPL, integral, Perfect). (various references)

   

Manx

  

slane (absolute, absolute of ruler, absolutely, chin-chin, complete, entire, fully, gross, healed, intact, integer, inviolate, perfect, sane, sheer, thorough, total, unbroken, undivided, unexpurgated as edition; good bye, unexpurgated; good bye, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, well, whole), loayrt (accost, accosting, address, articulation, discourse, express, frame, frame as word, pipe up, speak, speaking, talk), fockley (articulate, articulation, express, mouth, pronounce, utterance, vocalization, vocalize). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eruttay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

wydobyć (draw out, drive out, express, give utterance to, pull out). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

total (absolute, all out, all-out, all-purpose, amount, entire, entirety, gross, integer, number, outright, plenary, run-down, sheer, sum, summation, teetotal, through and through, tot, total, universal, whole). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vorbi (say, speak, talk), total (absolute, all out, blank, complete, completely, count, crass, dead, entire, exclusive, gross, inclusive, outright, perfectly, quite, sum, thorough, total, totally, unmitigated, utterly, whole, wholly), spune (call, declare, denounce, explain, name, pass, pretend, pronounce, propose, put, recite, relate, remark, say, speak, speak to, state, tell), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out), rosti (breathe, deliver, enunciate, lip, pass, pronounce, put up, say, sound, speak, spout, voice), pune în circulaţie bani falşi, pronunţa (articulate, deliver, form, give, give forth, pass, pronounce, say, sound, speak, spell, vocalize), profera, fabrica bani falşi, exprima (advance, breathe, conceive, connote, convey, couch, declare, express, formulate, have, indicate, look, phrase, put, represent, show, signify, sound, speak, state, voice), emite (criticize, discharge, effuse, emit, express, flash, float, give, give forth, give off, issue, reissue, release, send, stream, suggest, transmit, vent), cumplit (atrocious, cruel, dreadful, eerie, fell, ferocious, fierce, grievous, horrendous, mad, monstrous, outrageous, severe, terrible, uttermost), complet (absolute, all out, broad, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, every inch, exhaustive, fairly, flat, full, fully, good, hollow, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, unabridged, utterly, whole), absolut (absolute, absolutely, arbitrarily, be sure, blank, boundless, broad, categorical, categorically, coercive, complete, completely, dead, downright, emphatic, entire, essential, finished, flat, inalienable, just, perfect, physically, positive, positively, precious, pure, sheer, simple, strict, sure, there's no doubt about it, thorough, thoroughly, total, unequivocal, unfailingly, unlimited, unmistakable, unmistakably, unqualified, unrestricted), înşira (bead, enumerate, retail, string, thread). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

крайний (extravagant, extreme, last, margin, out, outside, supreme, ultra, utmost, uttermost), выговорить (pronounce), вымолвить, молвить (say), абсолютный (absolute, dyed-in-the-wool, positive, stark, teetotal, total, unconditioned, unmitigated), проговорить (say), промолвить (say), произносить сплошной, произносить (articulate, enounce, enunciate), полный (absolute, abysmal, all out, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, flush, fraught, fubsy, full, full-bodied, full-length, implicit, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, portly, rotund, round, seamless, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, unabridged, uncut), изрекать (speak pompously). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

abair (express, say, tell). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

potpun (absolute, complete, consummate, crass, downright, outright, plenary, stark, thorough-paced, total, unmixed, uttermost), izustiti (mouth), izjaviti (allege, assert, aver, declare, outspeak, profess), apsolutan (absolute, flat, uttermost). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

total (absolute, aggregate, catholic, complex, entire, outright, overall, sheer, sum, summation, tally, throwput, total, totalization, whole, wholesale), puro (bare, chaste, cigar, clean, fine, Frank, fresh, guiltless, neat, plain, pure, raw, self, sheer, sinless, transparent, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, undefiled, unmixed), publicar (acquaint, advertise, air, announce, ask, bring out, get out, give notice, inform, insert, insert in a newspaper, issue, let know, print, publicize, publish, put forth, put out, release, reveal), pronunciar (bring in, deliver, enounce, give, make, pass, preach, pronounce), proferir (ejaculate, give, light), poner en circulación (circulate, issue), hacer circular moneda falsa, exteriorizar (act out, declare, express outwardly, exteriorize, externalize, reveal, show), expresar (act out, articulate, come, embody, enunciate, express, frame, pass, phrase, put, quote, say, set forth, state, vent, voice, word), expender (expend, issue, output, sell, spend, write out), dar a (devote, give on to, set, thunder), completo (absolute, all around, all round, clear, complete, consummate, downright, entire, finished, full, inclusive, integral, omnibus, outright, overall, perfect, plain, plenary, Plumb, rank, round, sheer, stark, thorough, total, unalloyed, whole), cabal (absolute, complete, entire, exact, integral, overall, proper, regular, thorough, together, total, whole), absoluto (absolute, absolutely, absoluteness, clear, complete, implicit, infinite, loss, perfect, sheer, unquestioned). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

yttra (offer, pass, say, speak), ytterlig (extreme). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

piyasaya sürmek (launch, pass), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, void), bütün (aggregate, all, all out, all over the, altogether, at all, clear, complement, complete, continuum, entire, entirely, every, everything, gross, holo-, integral, omni-, one and only, out and out, overall, pan-, quite, round, sheer, solid, the total, the whole, total, totality, unbroken, undivided, whole, wholly), basmak (affix, attack suddenly, break into, catch, come on, come upon, flood, flow, foray, impress, imprint, irrupt, jam, letter, press, print, publish, raid, sink, spit, spit out, stamp, stencil, step, step on, stomp, strike, strike off, transfer, tread, tread on, weigh), dile getirmek (give voice to, mention, put into words, voice), ifade etmek (amount, be enunciative of, breathe, conceive, connote, couch, denote, describe, emit, enounce, express, figure, frame, give voice to, import, mean, purport, reflect, represent, sign, signify, state, voice, word), açığa vurmak (betray, disclose, divulge, evince, express, externalize, give vent to, lay bare, let on, reveal, spill, uncloak, unclose, uncork, unseal, unveil, vent, ventilate, yield, yield up), mutlâk (absolute, certain, extreme, infallible, peremptory, plenipotentiary, positively, sovereign, sov'ran, strict, unconditional, unconditioned, unqualified, very), telâffuz etmek (pronounce), söylemek (affirm, air, apprise, assert, aver, bade, bid, break, call, confess, couch, deliver, drop, enunciate, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sing, sound, speak, speak of, spill, spit, spit out, state, tell, throw out, voice, word), sapına kadar (rightdown, to the backbone, to the quick, up to the hilt, utterly), ses çıkarmak (clatter, noise, sound, speak, voice), su katılmadık (out and out, prize, quite, through and through, thru and thru, trueborn), tüm (all, all over the, clear, entire, entirety, full complement, over all, pan-, total, totality, undivided, whole), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, proper, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, very, whole), kesin (absolute, accurate, assertive, categorical, certain, cheese it, clean-cut, clear-cut, conclusive, decided, decisive, declared, definite, definitive, determined, dogmatic, downright, exact, express, extreme, final, firm, flat, frozen, implicit, indisputable, indubitable, irreversible, irrevocable, mathematical, ocular, outright, peremptory, point blank, pointed, precise, pronounced, rigid, rigorous, round, safe, scientific, specific, spot-on, Square, stark, sure, sure as death, unambiguous, uncompromising, undoubted, unquestionable, unquestioned, unquestioning). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

категоричний (categorical, dogmatic, dogmatical, flat-footed), викладати (couch, pose, profess, put, recite, set forward, teach), вимовляти (pronounce, speak, vocalize, voice), очевидний (apparent, demonstrable, direct, downright, evident, evidential, gross, manifest, necessary, obvious, open, ostensible, overt, palpable, plain, plum, pronounced, questionless, self evident, transparent, uncontested, unmistakable), повний (absolute, all out, big, broad, chock-a-block, complete, crass, definitive, entire, fatty, flush, full, integral, orbicular, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pudgy, pure, rotund, round, total, whole). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ho n to n (all, all right, all-in-all, altogether, backbone, clean, completely, consummate, due, full, fully, heartily, hilt, hollow, inch, out-and-out, outright, perfectly, profound, purely, quite, regular, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughly, undivided, utterly, wholly). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

yngan (speak), traethu (declare, treat), lleisio (bawl, sound), llefaru (speak). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Utter

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

consona, dissero, effabuntur, effundo, egerant, egerat, egere, egereret, egerimus, egeris, egerit, egeritis, egerunt, egeruntque, egesta, egestas, eloquar, eloquens, eloquentia, eloqui, emiserit, emiserunt, emisi, emisisset, emisisti, emisit, emissa, emissae, emissarum, emissiones, emissus, emittam, emittamque, emittat, emitte, emittendum, emittens, emittere, emitteris, emittes, emittet, emittis, emittit, iace, iacere, iacerent, iaceret, iachin, iaciam, iaciat, iaciebant, iaciendos, iaciens, iacientes, iacies, iaciet, iacio, iacitur, iacobi, iacta, iacto, iactu, iactus, iecerit, iecit, locuta, locutaque, locuti, locutique, locutum, locutura, locutus, locutusque, loquamini, loquamur, loquantur, loquar, loquaris, loquatur, loquebamur, loquebantur, loquebar, loquebaris, loquebatur, loquebaturque, loquemur, loquendi, loquendo, loquendum, loquens, loquente, loquentem, loquentes, loquentibus, loquentis, loquentium, loquentur, loquere, loqueremur, loquerentur, loquerer, loquereris, loqueretur, loqueris, loquerisque, loquetur, loqueturque, loqui, loquimini, loquimur, loquitur, loquiturque, loquor, loquuntur, profunde, profundi, profundis, profundo, pronuntiabit, pronuntiabo, pronuntiabunt, pronuntians, pronuntiansque, pronuntiavi, pronuntiet, pronuntio, sono. (various references)

Old English450-1100

utan. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

outen. (various references)

Middle High German1100-1500

utern. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Utter

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 14, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintMartuV pistoV ou yeudetai ekkaiei de yeudh martuV adikoV
Latin405VulgateTestis fidelis non mentietur profert mendacium testis dolosus
Middle English1395WyclifA feithful witnesse shal not lien; the trecherous witnesse speketh lesing.
Jacobean English1611King JamesA faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Victorian English1833WebsterA faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.
Basic English1964OgdenA true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Utter

LanguageProverbs Chapter 14, Verse 5
Cebuano¶ Ang usa ka matinumanon nga saksi dili mobakak; Apan ang bakakon nga saksi magapamulong ug mga bakak.
Chinese 實 見 證 人 、 不 說 謊 話 . 假 見 證 人 、 吐 出 謊 言 。
CroatianIstinit svjedok ne laže, a krivi svjedok širi laž.
DanishSanddru Vidne lyver ikke, det falske Vidne farer med Løgn.
DutchEen waarachtig getuige zal niet liegen; maar een vals getuige blaast leugens.
FinnishUskollinen todistaja ei valhettele, mutta väärä todistaja puhuu valheita.
FrenchUn témoin fidèle ne ment pas, Mais un faux témoin dit des mensonges.
GermanEin treuer Zeuge lügt nicht; aber ein Falscher Zeuge redet frech Lügen.
Haitian Creole¶ Yon bon temwen p'ap bay manti. Yon fo temwen p'ap di verite.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSaksi yang jujur selalu mengatakan yang sesungguhnya, saksi yang tak dapat dipercaya selalu berdusta.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBarangsiapa yang tiada suka akan dusta, ia itulah saksi yang benar, tetapi orang yang bernafas bohong itulah saksi dusta adanya.
ItalianIl testimone vero non mentisce, quello falso spira menzogne.
Korean 실 한 증 인 은 거 " 말 을 아 니 하 여 도 거 " 증 인 은 거 " 말 을 뱉 느 니 라
Maori¶ E kore te kaiwhakaatu pono e teka; ka puaki ia te teka i te kaiwhakaatu teka.
NorwegianTrofast vidne lyver ikke, men den som taler løgn, er et falskt vidne.
PortugueseA testemunha verdadeira não mentirá; a testemunha falsa, porém, se desboca em mentiras.   
RumanianUn martor credincios nu minte, dar un martor mincinos spune minciuni.
RussianчЕТОЩК УЧЙ"ЕФЕМШ ОЕ МЦЕФ, Б УЧЙ"ЕФЕМШ МПЦОЩК ОБЗПЧПТЙФ НОПЗП МЦЙ.
SpanishEl testigo veraz no miente, pero el testigo falso respira mentiras.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Utter

Derivations

Words beginning with "utter": utterable, utterance, utterances, uttered, utterer, utterers, uttering, utterly, uttermost, uttermosts, utters. (additional references)

Words ending with "utter": abutter, aflutter, butter, clutter, cutter, flutter, gutter, haircutter, mutter, nutter, putter, rebutter, reutter, scutter, shutter, splutter, sputter, stonecutter, strutter, stutter, surrebutter, unclutter, woodcutter. (additional references)

Words containing "utter": abutters, butterball, butterballs, buttercup, buttercups, buttered, butterfat, butterfats, butterfingered, butterfingers, butterfish, butterfishes, butterflied, butterflies, butterfly, butterflyer, butterflyers, butterflying, butterier, butteries, butteriest, buttering, butterless, buttermilk, buttermilks, butternut, butternuts, butters, butterscotch, butterscotches, butterweed, butterweeds, butterwort, butterworts, buttery, cluttered, cluttering, clutters, cluttery, cutters, flutterboard, flutterboards, fluttered, flutterer, flutterers, fluttering, flutters, fluttery, guttered, guttering, gutterings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Utter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dutter, etter, jutter, tter, tufter, tutar, tuter, Uchte, Ugta, Ugte, unter, untether, uster, utea, uted, utee, uter, utera, uther, utier, uttar, uttery, Wtterc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Utter"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "utter" (pronounced u"ter)
3u" t eraflutter, butter, clutter, cutter, flutter, gutter, mutter, nutter, putter, shutter, sputter, stutter.
2-t erdrifter, dumpster, duster, Easter, eater, editor, educator, elater, elevator, embitter, enchanter, encounter, enter, accelerator, accelerometer, abductor, accumulator, activator, actor, actuator, adapter, adaptor, adjuster, administer, administrator, after, agitator, aglitter, alabaster, alligator, allocator, altar, alter, alternator, altimeter, ammeter, Amphitheater, ancestor, anemometer, animator, anteater, applicator, appropriator, apter, arbiter, arbitrator, aster, attar, auditor, aviator, babysitter, backwater, banister, bannister, banter, barometer, barrister, barter, batter, beater, beefeater, belter, benefactor, better, bettor, billeter, biter, bitter, blaster, Blatter, blister, blockbuster, blotter, blunter, bluster, bolster, Bolter, booster, breakwater, brighter, broadcaster, bullfighter, burgomaster, Buster, calculator, canister, cannister, canter, Cantor, capacitor, captor, carburetor, carpenter, Carter, caster, Castor, cater, catheter, center, centimeter, centre, chapter, character, charter, chatter, cheater, chiropractor, clatter, cloister, cluster, coaster, cogenerator, collaborator, collector, Colter, comforter, commentator, communicator, commuter, compactor, comparator, competitor, computer, concertmaster, conciliator, conductor, connecter, connector, conservator, consolidator, conspirator, constrictor, constructor, contractor, contributor, converter, coordinator, cooter, copywriter, coster, Cotter, Coulter, counter, counterfeiter, Courter, covenanter, crater, creator, creditor, critter, curator.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Utter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-r-t-t-u"

-1 letter: tret, true.

-2 letters: ret, rue, rut, tet, tut.

-3 letters: er, et, re, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-r-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: butter, cutter, gutter, mutter, nutter, putter, rutted, tauter, touter, truest, tufter, turret, turtle, urtext, utters.

 

+2 letters: abutter, burette, butters, buttery, clutter, curette, curtate, curtest, cutters, entrust, flutter, grutten, gutters, guttery, guttier, guttler, mutters, nutters, nuttier, outrate, outsert, putters, puttier, quartet, quitter, reutter, ruttier, scutter, shutter, sputter, stature, stouter, stutter, tartufe, taunter, texture, torture, touters, tribute, trumpet, trusted, trustee, truster, tuatera, tufters, tuftier, turbeth, turgent, turgite, turpeth, turrets, turtled, turtler, turtles, tutelar, tutored, tutoyer, urtexts, uttered, utterer, utterly.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Names: Frequency
14. Names: Derived from
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Translations: Ancient
19. Bible Trace
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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