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Definition: Wimple |
WimpleNoun1. Headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wimple" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Religious vestment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Bible | Wimple Isa. 3:22, (R.V., "shawls"), a wrap or veil. The same Hebrew word is rendered "vail" (R.V., "mantle") in Ruth 3:15. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The wimple is a garment of mediaeval Europe worn by women. It is a cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. Today it is worn by some nuns who still don the traditional habit, and some culturally conservative Europeans.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wimple."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wimple |
| English words defined with "wimple": Whimple, Wimpled, Wimpling. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, but I met a nun and she let me try on her wimple. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Wimple" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Wimple" is used about 12 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) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
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 |
wimple | 7 |
mort wimple | 4 |
wimple winch | 4 |
piranha wimple | 3 |
hard mary nun sister wimple | 2 |
nun wimple | 2 |
olive wimple | 2 |
creation street wimple | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "wimple"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shami koke (headdress, headkerchief, kerchief, Tucker), mbuloj me shami. (various references) | |
Czech | závoj (blanket, mist, veil), rouška (cloak, guise, veil). (various references) | |
Danish | brystklaede. (various references) | |
Dutch | nonnenkap. (various references) | |
French | guimpe. (various references) | |
German | Brustkragen. (various references) | |
Greek | κυματίζω (stream, undulate, wave), ζαρώνω (cockle, contract, cower, crimple, cringe, crouch, crumple, knit, pucker, ruck, rumple, shrink, shrivel, wrinkle), guimpe. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כפת זירות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ránc (crease, Crinkle, crinkling, crumpling, flounce, furrow, pleat, plica, pucker, puckering, ruckle, wrinkle), apácafátyol (barb, gimp, nun's veiling). (various references) | |
Italian | colletto (collar, neck, neckband). (various references) | |
Manx | gimpey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impleway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | volta (bend, bent, circuit, detour, dog-collar, gyre, jaunt, meander, regress, return, revolution, round, roundabout, slue, spire, stroll, sweep, tour, turn, turnabout, turning, twiddle, twirl, twist, winding), véu (bloom, film, pellicle, veil), touca de freira, meandro (meander, twine, winding), escapulário (scapular). (various references) | |
Romanian | acoperãmânt purtat de cãlugãriţe. (various references) | |
Russian | плат. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kaluđerički veo. (various references) | |
Spanish | grinon, griñón. (various references) | |
Swedish | slöja (nun's veiling, shroud, veil), flodkrök, dok (veil). (various references) | |
Turkish | rahibe baş örtüsü, atkı (kerchief, muffler, scarf, shawl, shoe-buckle, stock, stole, tippet, weft, woof, wrap, wrapper). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | складка (corrugation, crease, flexure, plait, pleat, plica, plication, ply, ruckle, tuck, wrinkle), мантилья (mantelet, mantlet), згин (bending, bight, buckle, crease, flection, flexion, fold, ply, wind, winding, wriggle), закривати покривалом (veil), завуалювати, задурювати, апостольник, покриватися брижами. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khăn trùm chỗ cong. (various references) | |
Welsh | miswrn (mask, visor). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wimple": wimpled, wimples. (additional references) | |
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"Wimple" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cimple, nimple, Wimille, wimpe, wimpel, Wimpie, wipl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-p-w" | |
-1 letter: impel. | |
-2 letters: lime, limp, lipe, lwei, mewl, mile, pile, plew, plie, wile, wimp, wipe. | |
-3 letters: elm, imp, lei, lie, lip, mel, mew, mil, pew, pie. | |
-4 letters: el, em, li, me, mi, pe, pi, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-p-w" | |
+1 letter: wimpled, wimples. | |
+4 letters: multipower. | |
+5 letters: policewoman, policewomen. | |
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