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Definition: Epistolary |
EpistolaryAdjective1. Written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence; "an endless sequence of epistolary love affairs"; "the epistolatory novel". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "epistolary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonym: EpistolarySynonym: epistolatory (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Correspondence | Adjective: epistolary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Epistolary |
| English words defined with "epistolary": Epistolar, epistolatory, Epistolical, Epistolographic. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Epistolary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Epistolary" is used about 17 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 88.24% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | 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 |
epistolary novel | 3 |
epistolary | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "epistolary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | epistolar, i latrave. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكتوب بشكل سلسلة رسائل, متضمن في رسائل, رسالي, رسائلي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | епистоларен, писмен (graphic, graphical, writing, written). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 书信". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | épistolaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιστολικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מכתבי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | levélbeli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | epistolare (letter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 書簡文 (epistolary style), 書簡"小説 (novel written in epistolary style), 候調 (epistolary style), 候文 (epistolary style), 候文 (epistolary style), 再拝 (bowing twice, epistolary clothing, worshipping again). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうろうぶ" (epistolary style), そうろうちょう (epistolary style), しょか"たいしょうせつ (novel written in epistolary style), しょか"ぶ" (epistolary style), さいはい (baton, bowing twice, colleagues, epistolary clothing, fellows, second defeat, worshipping again). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pistylagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epistolaryay carta (card, chart, charter, letter, license, misspell). (various references) epistolar. (various references) эпистолярный. (various references) epistolarni. (various references) epistolar. (various references) i brevform, brev-. (various references) mektuplardan oluşan, mektuplara ait, mektuplaşarak yürütülen. (various references) епістолярний, листовний, письмовий (black and white, graphic, written). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Epistolary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: episcopari, epistilary, epistolory, pistolier. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "epistolary" (pronounced i'pi"stule'rē) |
| 5 | -u l e' r ē | ancillary, capillary, Constabulary, corollary, formulary, vocabulary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, contemporary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: royalties, saprolite. | |
-2 letters: asperity, pelorias, petiolar, petrosal, peytrals, pilaster, plaister, plaiters, plastery, poitrels, polarise, polarity, polestar, priestly, prostyle, protyles, psaltery, royalist, solitary, spoliate, sportily. | |
-3 letters: airpost, aplites, apostil, apostle, atopies, esparto, estriol, irately, isolate, isotype, leprosy, loiters, opiates, oralist, orality, ostiary, paisley, paliest, palters, parleys, paroles, parsley, parties, pastier, patrols, peartly, peloria, pelotas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-o-p-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: antileprosy, personality. | |
+3 letters: amphiprostyle, chalcopyrites, impersonality, lycanthropies, perissodactyl, stereotypical, stylographies, superloyalist. | |
+4 letters: amphiprostyles, isentropically, perissodactyls, pertinaciously, polymerisation, praiseworthily, processability, prosthetically, superloyalists, supernormality. | |
+5 letters: atmospherically, dermatoglyphics, geostrophically, hypercatabolism, hyperinflations, hypermetabolism, hypersalivation, interparoxysmal, interpersonally, phenylthioureas, phosphorylative, polycrystalline, polymerisations, polymerizations, postoperatively, prehistorically, prepositionally, proselytization, stereotypically. | |
| 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)45 70 69 73 74 6F 6C 61 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .--. .. ... - --- .-.. .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E p i s t o l a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0070 0069 0073 0074 006F 006C 0061 0072 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)39827585868178678491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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