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Definition: Felicitation |
FelicitationNoun1. Acknowledgement that someone has an occasion for celebration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "felicitation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonym: FelicitationSynonym: congratulation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Congratulation | Noun: congratulation, gratulation; felicitation; salute; condolence; compliments of the season. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "felicitation": self-felicitation. | |
| 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 |
felicitation | 3 |
carte de felicitation | 3 |
felicitation naissance | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "felicitation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | urim (congratulation, prayer, wish), përgëzim (congratulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تهنئة (compliment, congratulation, congratulations), أمنية (desideratum, wish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | честитка, благопожелание. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | blahopřání (congratulation, congratulations, greeting card). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | félicitations. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | glückwunsch (congratulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συγχαρητήριο (congratulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אחול (congratulation, good wish, greeting), ברכ" (beatitude, benediction, benefit, blessing, boon, congratulation, gift, greeting, hail, luck, profit, salute). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jókívánság (godspeed, remembrances), szerencsekívánat (thank god), gratuláció (congratulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | felicitazione (congratulation, congratulations). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | lykkønsning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elicitationfay поздравление (compliment, compliments, congratulation, congratulation to). (various references) čestitka (card, congratulation). (various references) felicitación (congratulation). (various references) lyckönskan (congratulation). (various references) การแส"งความยิน"ี. (various references) tebrik (congratulation, congratulatory, greeting), kutlama (celebration, commemoration, congratulation, congratulatory, gala, greeting, jamboree, Jubilate). (various references) вітання (ave, congratulation, congratulations, greeting, salutation, salute), вітальна промова (salutatory), поздоровлення (congratulations). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "felicitation": felicitations. (additional references) | |
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"Felicitation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: falicitation, fetishisation, fetishization. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "felicitation" (pronounced 'Fe*lic`i*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-l-n-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: elicitation. | |
-2 letters: actinolite. | |
-3 letters: ciliation, fictional, filiation. | |
-4 letters: antileft, antilife, citation, confetti, conflate, falconet, fetation, flection, initiate, olefinic, taconite. | |
-5 letters: aconite, aloetic, calotte, ciliate, elation, faction, fictile, fiction, filiate, finical, flatten, folacin, foliate, inflate, inflect, inflict, initial, intitle, lactone, lattice, lection, litotic, nictate, tactile, taction, tetanic, tinfoil, titanic, toenail, tonetic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-l-n-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: felicitations. | |
+2 letters: fictionalities. | |
+3 letters: confidentiality, electrification, functionalities, latensification. | |
+4 letters: electrifications, latensifications. | |
+5 letters: confidentialities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 6C 69 63 69 74 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-.. .. -.-. .. - .- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100011 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e l i c i t a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 006C 0069 0063 0069 0074 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| 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)407178756975866786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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