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Definition: Eulogy |
EulogyNoun1. A formal expression of praise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eulogy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Eulogy \Eu"lo*gy\, noun; plural Eulogies. [from Greek expression, from well speaking; well to speak. Compare to Eulogium, and see Legend.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | EULOGY, n. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: EulogySynonyms: encomium (n), paean (n), panegyric (n), pean (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Commendation, praise; laud, laudation; good word; meed of praise, tribute of praise; encomium; eulogy, eulogium; eloge, panegyric; homage, hero worship; benediction, blessing, benison. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eulogy |
| English words defined with "eulogy": Commendatory ♦ Elogy, Eulogical, Eulogies, Eulogistical, Eulogium ♦ Laudative ♦ Paneulogism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eulogy": Eulogy ♦ From hence. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eulogy": Eulogium ♦ Paneulogism. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Death is #2! That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Eulogy (2003) Bontoc Eulogy (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
St. Augustine | No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. |
Voltaire | Satire lies about men of letters during their lives, and eulogy after their death. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Eulogy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eulogy" is used about 42 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% | 42 | 52,864 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
eulogy | 629 | eulogy for a friend | 8 |
eulogy write | 61 | eulogy movie | 7 |
sample eulogy | 58 | eulogy free speech | 7 |
eulogy record | 48 | eulogy for my dad | 7 |
writing a eulogy | 43 | eulogy free sample | 6 |
eulogy poem | 36 | eulogy pet | 6 |
eulogy free | 24 | eulogy grandma | 5 |
funeral eulogy | 24 | eulogy for grandfather | 5 |
eulogy speech | 22 | eulogy lyrics | 5 |
eulogy example | 21 | eulogy poetry | 4 |
eulogy for mother | 20 | eulogy for mom | 4 |
deliver eulogy loving write | 17 | tool eulogy | 4 |
eulogy for grandmother | 13 | eulogies eulogy sample | 4 |
eulogy for brother | 13 | eulogy example free | 4 |
eulogy for father | 13 | eulogy hamlet | 4 |
eulogy gandhi k mohandas | 10 | eulogy template | 4 |
eulogy lyrics tool | 9 | dog eulogy | 4 |
eulogy quote | 9 | eulogy kennedy robert | 3 |
eulogy recording | 9 | eulogy famous | 3 |
eulogy gregory peck | 9 | eulogy funny | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "eulogy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | panegjirik (encomiastic, panegyric, panegyrical), lavdëri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مديح (compliment, panegyric), تقريظ (panegyric, praise, write up), تسبيح (glorification, magnification, praise), تأبين (funeral oration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хвалебствия (adulation), възхвала (exaltation, glorification, laudation, praise), панегирик (encomium, panegyric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 誄 (eulogize the dead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | velebení (celebration, laudation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مداحی , مدح , تشویق (Abet, Persuasion), ستایشگری , ستایش (Adoration, Laud, Panegyric, Praise, Tribute, Veneration, Worship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hymistys (praise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | panégyrique (eulogist, eulogistic), éloge. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lobrede (laudatory speech, paean, panegyric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εγκώμιο (laudation, praise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שבח (advantage, betterment, commendation, gain, glory, improvement, panegyric, praise, superiority), "ו"י" (praise, thanksgiving), "אמר" (augmentation, glorification, praise, rise), "ספ" (lamentation, mourning), אום שבח. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dicshimnusz (encomia, encomium, panegyric), dicsérő beszéd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | madah (praise, stanza). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | elogio (accolade, commendation, praise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 賞詞 (praise), 賛辞 (compliment), 讃歌 (paean, song of praise), 謳歌 (glorification, song of praise), '辞 (praise), '言葉 (compliment), 詞 (praise), 徳 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おうか (assimilation of new territory, cherry blossom, Europeanization, forcing down, glorification, imperial influence, song of praise, Westernization), しょうとく (inherent, making another's virtues well known, public praise), しょうし (absurdity, boatman, contemptible, crystallite, death by fire, laughable, low birth rate, midnight, officers and men, paper making, pitiful, praise, ridiculous, short or concise history, stamp), さ"か (admiration, affiliated with, calamity, mountain nomads, mountain villa, obstetrics, oxidation, paean, participation, praise, song of praise, three summer months, under jurisdiction of, under the umbrella), さ"じ (3 o'clock snack, childbirth, compliment, councillor, cubic, disaster, horrible accident, newborn baby, praise, secretary, silkworm, three times), ほうじ (bearing, Buddhist memorial service, holding up, Japanese characters, kanji and kana, praise, presenting), ほめ"とば (compliment, words of praise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ard-voylley (citation, eulogize, exalt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | lovtale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eulogyay elogio (accolade, commendation, compliment, encomium, incense, Laud, laudation, praise), elogiar (belaud, commend, cry up, glamorise, glamorize, glamourize, laud, panel, praise, run up, write up), elogia, panegírico (laudative, panegyrical). (various references) elogiu (commendation, encomium, eulogium), laudã (beslaver, bounce, commendation, compliments, display, glory, Laud, pat on the back, praise, vaunt). (various references) панегирик (encomium, laudation, panegyric). (various references) pohvala (accolade, blurb, commendation, laud, laudation, praise, praising), govor u slavu. (various references) elogio (accolade, commendation, compliment, encomium, praise, tribute). (various references) lovtal (encomium, laudation, panegyric). (various references) ถ้อยคำสรรเสริญ. (various references) methiye (Laud, paise, panegyric), kaside (encomium, ode), övme (commending, exaltation, flattery, glorification, laudation, praise, praising), övgü (accolade, approbation, bouquet, commendation, compliment, eclat, encomium, glowing account, ode, panegyric, praise, tribute). (various references) хвалебна промова, надгробне слово, панегірик (encomium, eulogism, panegyric). (various references) lời ca ngợi (laud, laudation, praise, rose-water), b i tán dương, b i ca tụng lời khen. (various references) molawd (panegyric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | enkomion, eulogia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | epitaphium, laudatio, laudationem, laudationes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Eulogy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eilog, Ellory, eugoly, eulegy, euligy, eulog, Eulogio, euolgy, euology, evlogy, Exlog, Heulog, Jesuology, Reologi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eulogy" (pronounced yuw"lujē) |
| 4 | -l u j ē | analogy, anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, astrology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, cosmology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, elegy, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, neurology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, petrology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, serology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, trilogy, urology, virology, zoology. |
| 3 | -u j ē | prodigy, strategy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-o-u-y" | |
-1 letter: gluey. | |
-2 letters: gley, glue, loge, logy, luge, ogle, ugly, yule. | |
-3 letters: ego, gel, gey, goy, gul, guy, leg, leu, ley, log, lug, lye, ole, you. | |
-4 letters: el, go, lo, oe, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-o-u-y" | |
+2 letters: rugosely. | |
+3 letters: hugeously, museology, neurology. | |
+4 letters: autecology, exiguously, generously, gorgeously, grievously, gruesomely, numerology, outyelling, outyelping, regulatory. | |
+5 letters: congruently, conjugately, dangerously, egregiously, exogenously, forgetfully, granulocyte, grotesquely, ingeniously, ingenuously, myelogenous, outyielding, religiously, righteously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 75 6C 6F 67 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..- .-.. --- --. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110101 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E u l o g y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0075 006C 006F 0067 0079 |
| 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)398778817391 |
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