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Definition: Gluttony |
GluttonyNoun1. Habitual eating to excess. 2. Eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gluttony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Gluttony \Glut"ton*y\, noun; plural Gluttonies. [from Old English expression glotonie, Old French glotonie, gloutonnie.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Gluttony (See Apicius , etc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: GluttonySynonyms: gula (n), overeating (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Noun: eating; gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination; gluttony. |
Gluttony | Noun: gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness; Adjective: voracity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gluttony |
| English words defined with "gluttony": edacity, esurience ♦ Gluttonies, Gormandism ♦ Lurcation ♦ rapaciousness, rapacity ♦ voraciousness, voracity. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gluttony": Feast ♦ Lucifera ♦ Manduce ♦ Seven Deadly Sins. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Peter De Vries | Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. |
Thomas Hobbes | The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Gluttony punishes the glutton |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven. |
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| "Gluttony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gluttony" is used about 37 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% | 37 | 56,631 |
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 |
gluttony | 41 |
deliverance gluttony | 4 |
bible gluttony | 3 |
bible gluttony overcoming | 2 |
curse generational gluttony | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "gluttony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grykësi (gourmand, rapacity, voracity), tahmaqarllëk, pangopësi (debauchery, insatiability, piggishness, rapacity, voracity), lakmi (avidity, covetousness, cupidity, eagerness, envy, greed, greediness). (various references) | |
Arabic | نهم (avid, cormorant, gluttonous, gourmand, insatiable, insatiate, lickerish, open mouthed, pig, piggy, ravenous, straggling, voracious, voracity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ненаситност (avidity, greed, greediness, insatiability, voracity), лакомия (greed, greediness, guttler, guzzler, piggery, voracity), преяждане (gorge, overindulgence). (various references) | |
Czech | nenasytnost (greed, greediness, insatiability, voracity), hltavost (greed, voracity), žravost (edacity, greed, voracity). (various references) | |
Farsi | شکم پرستی . (various references) | |
French | gourmandise, gloutonnerie. (various references) | |
German | völlerei (overindulgence, piggery), fresserei (blowout, guzzling). (various references) | |
Greek | λαιμαργία (greed, lickerishness, yoke). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זלילה (surfeit), זוללות, אכלנות, גרגרנות (voracity), בלענות (voracity), רעבתנות (avidity, greed, hunger, voracity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | torkosság, zabálás (blow-out, gorge, stuffing), falánkság (esurience, esuriency, voracity). (various references) | |
Italian | gozzoviglia (carousal, debauch, revelry), golosità (greediness), ghiottoneria (delicacy, greed, greediness, kickshaw), ingordigia (greed, greediness, hunger). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 飽食 (engorgement, satiation). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいしょく (corrosion-resistant, faded colour, fading, retirement), おおぐい, くいいじ, ほうしょく (being in the service of, engorgement, jewelry, jewels and ornaments, satiation), けんたん (sputum test, voracity). (various references) | |
Manx | jiooghid (avidity, greed, insatiability, voraciousness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | forslukenhet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uttonyglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gulodice (kickshaw, tidbit, titbit), glutonaria (belly worship, gormandize), voracidade (belly, edacity, greediness, voracity), avidez por comida. (various references) | |
Romanian | lãcomie (covetousness, cupidity, gourmandize, greed, hoggishness, hunger, rapacity). (various references) | |
Russian | обжорство (guzzle), ненасытность (insatiability), прожорливость (rapacity, voracity), полифагия. (various references) | |
Scottish | lon , lon-chraois. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proždrljivost (edacity, ravin, voraciousness, voracity), halapljivost (voraciousness, voracity). (various references) | |
Spanish | glotonería. (various references) | |
Swedish | glupskhet (greed, voracity). (various references) | |
Thai | นิสัยตะกละ. (various references) | |
Turkish | oburluk (gorge, greed, greediness, voracity), açgözlülük (avarice, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greed, greediness, insatiability, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity). (various references) | |
Turkmen | iяermenlik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обжерливість (belly worship, gorge, gormandize), ненаситність (insatiability). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thói tham ăn (greediness), thói phàm ăn, tính háu ăn. (various references) | |
Welsh | glythineb. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abdomen, aplestiam. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Gluttony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glotony, glotton, glottony, Glouston, glution, glutnony, gluton, glutony, gluttomy, gluttoned, gluttuny, glutuny, Glytona, gutton, lutton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gluttony" (pronounced glu"tunē) |
| 4 | -t u n ē | botany, destiny, litany, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, paleobotany, scrutiny. |
| 3 | -u n ē | accompany, aborigine, agony, balcony, cacophony, colony, company, disharmony, larceny, ebony, Epiphany, felony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, homogeny, intercompany, intracompany, irony, mahogany, misogyny, ontogeny, Peony, phylogeny, polygyny, polyphony, progeny, Saxony, simony, Symphony, Tiffany, tyranny. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-l-n-o-t-t-u-y" | |
-1 letter: glutton. | |
-2 letters: loungy. | |
-3 letters: glout, gluon, gouty, gutty, guyot, nutty, ungot, young. | |
-4 letters: glut, gout, logy, long, lout, lung, lunt, luny, only, tolu, tong, tony, tout, tung, ugly, unto. | |
-5 letters: gnu, got, goy, gul, gun, gut, guy, log, lot, lug, nog, not, nut, out, tog, ton, tot, toy, tug, tun, tut, yon, you. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-n-o-t-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: gluttonously. | |
+5 letters: outstandingly, unforgettably. | |
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