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Meaning of "adulator" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ADULATOR

adulator  [ˈædjʊleɪtə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADULATOR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adulator is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADULATOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

adulator

Flattery

Flattery is the act of giving excessive compliments, generally for the purpose of ingratiating oneself with the subject. Historically, flattery has been used as a standard form of discourse when addressing a king or queen. In the Renaissance, it was a common practice among writers to flatter the reigning monarch, as Edmund Spenser flattered Queen Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare flattered King James I in Macbeth and Niccolò Machiavelli flattered Lorenzo II de' Medici, ruler of Florence and Duke of Urbino, in The Prince. Flattery is also used in pick-up lines when attempting to initiate romantic courtship. Most associations with flattery, however, are negative. Negative descriptions of flattery range at least as far back in history as The Bible. In the Divine Comedy, Dante depicts flatterers wading in human excrement, stating that their words were the equivalent of excrement, in the 8th Circle of Hell. An insincere flatterer is a stock character in many literary works. Examples include Wormtongue from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Goneril and Regan from King Lear, and Iago from Othello.

Definition of adulator in the English dictionary

The definition of adulator in the dictionary is a person who adulates someone.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADULATOR


accumulator
əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪtə
calculator
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪtə
deregulator
diːˈreɡjʊleɪtə
emulator
ˈɛmjʊleɪtə
escalator
ˈɛskəˌleɪtə
insulator
ˈɪnsjʊˌleɪtə
isolator
ˈaɪsəˌleɪtə
later
ˈleɪtə
legislator
ˈlɛdʒɪsˌleɪtə
manipulator
məˈnɪpjʊleɪtə
modulator
ˈmɒdjʊˌleɪtə
oscillator
ˈɒsɪˌleɪtə
regulator
ˈrɛɡjʊˌleɪtə
relata
rɪˈleɪtə
relator
rɪˈleɪtə
simulator
ˈsɪmjʊˌleɪtə
slater
ˈsleɪtə
stimulator
ˈstɪmjʊˌleɪtə
translator
trænsˈleɪtə
ventilator
ˈvɛntɪˌleɪtə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADULATOR

adularescence
adularescent
adularia
adulate
adulation
adulatory
Adullamite
adult
adult education
adult education centre
Adult Training Centre
adulterant
adulterate
adulteration
adulterator
adulterer
adulteress
adulteries
adulterine
adulterise

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADULATOR

administrator
ambulator
annihilator
articulator
chelator
circulator
collator
correlator
depilator
epilator
flight simulator
formulator
inflator
interpolator
invigilator
local oscillator
mutilator
pocket calculator
scintillator
tabulator
violator

Synonyms and antonyms of adulator in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «adulator» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADULATOR

Find out the translation of adulator to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adulator from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adulator» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

adulator
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adulator
570 millions of speakers

English

adulator
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

adulator
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتملقين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

adulator
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adulator
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্তাবক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adulateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Adulator
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

adulator
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

adulator
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

adulator
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adulator
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

adulator
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

adulator
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अडुझीटर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yalaka
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

adulatore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

adulator
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

adulator
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adulator
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κόλακας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

adulator
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

adulator
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

adulator
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adulator

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADULATOR»

The term «adulator» is normally little used and occupies the 139.213 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADULATOR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «adulator» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «adulator» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adulator

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADULATOR»

Discover the use of adulator in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adulator and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Second Corinthians, a Letter about Reconciliation
Adulator 56A; 74D-E, Prae. ger. reip. 810C; Epictetus Dipp. 2.14.14-22; 3.1.10-1 1; Dio Chrysostom Or. 32.10, 16-19,30,33; 33.6- 7; Clement of Alexandria Quis dives salvetur4\.\-3. 20 Plutarch Adulator 55C, cf. Adulator 59D, Dio Chrysostom ...
Ivar Vegge, 2008
2
Friendship, Flattery, and Frankness of Speech: Studies on ...
Three Theses The three theses that I wish to argue for are as follows: [1] Adulator is not only addressed, honorifically, to Prince Philo- pappus but direcdy aimed at him. Though standing in a long and variegated moral philosophical tradition, ...
John T. Fitzgerald, 1996
3
A YEAR IN MY PAJAMAS WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA, The Politics of ...
But the former president now The Adulator in Chief ~ or is that adulterer? ~ got caught with his pants down, and a lifetime record of stellar achievements were almost lost to his indiscretions. Anyone else and they would have been. But the boy ...
Halli Casser-Jayne
4
The works of Francis Bacon, baron of Verulam, viscount St. ...
Etenim odores unguen- torum durabiles magis sunt, quam florum. Laudum tot conditiones fallaces sunt, ut laus merito in suspicionem venire possit. Laudes quaedam ab adulatione sola pro- deunt ; quod si adulator sit vulgaris, ...
Francis Bacon, 1826
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Petronius Rediuiuus Et Helias Tripolanensis: Id Est ...
From Iohannes de Whethamstede, PABVLARIVM POETARVM ADULATOR [1] Blandus adulator ea semper est prelato consilia daturus qui sibi graciora fore fuerit suspicatus.527 Quibus seruientes non solum vilibus sordescunt in sordibus528 ...
Elias (of Thriplow), Marvin L. Colker, 2007
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The Characters of Theophrastus [tr. by I. Taylor] illustr. ...
THE ADULATOR. Adulation is the base converse of an inferior with one from whom he seeks some sordid advantage. The Adulator, walking with his patron, says, ' Mark you not how the eyes of all are turned towards you 1 There is not another ...
Theophrastus, 1831
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A ...
adulator callidior si sit, vestigia premet adulatoris principalis; intelligo, tui ipsius; et in quibus tibi places, aut teipsum excellere putas, iis adulator inhaerebit maxime : sin adulator sit impudens, et perfrictae frontis, tum demum, in quibus conscius ...
Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu, 1834
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The characters of Theophrastus: illustrated by ...
THE ADULATOR. Adulation is the base converse of an inferior with one from whom he seeks some sordid advantage. The Adulator, walking with his patron, says, ' Mark you not how the eyes of all are turned towards you ? There is not another ...
Theophrastus, Isaac Taylor, 1836
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The works of Francis Bacon
adulator callidior si sit, vestigia premet adulatoris principalis; intelligo, tui ipsius; et in quibus tibi places, aut teipsum excellere putas, iis adulator inhaerebit maxime: sin adulator sit impudens, et perfrictae frontis, tum demum, in quibus conscius ...
Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.), Basil Montagu, 1834
10
Musical Performance: A Philosophical Study
... 'inside' does nothing disappointing. For 'adulator' supporters who support strong functionalism not any old inner constitution will do. Some strong functional equivalence between adulator and human inner structure and content is necessary.
Stan Godlovitch, 2002

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADULATOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adulator is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rhea Pillai Vs Leander Paes, blow in court to Paes
... and status whether unmarried or not and relation in any nature with a male adulator, more particularly respondent,a " said the court order. «Times of India, Mar 15»
2
The Great Bow Tie View of History
Malcolm Muggeridge, who in 1966 would call deutero-Schlesinger “a slobbering apologist for the late President; an undiscriminating adulator of the whole ... «American Spectator, Jun 14»
3
Waiting for a Wise Man
But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend that they always reason right about the means of promoting it. They know ... «American Thinker, Oct 11»
4
What makes a modern hero?
The key thing in Shackleton's mythos for the modern adulator is that his men made it back alive. For the post-Victorians, the death of Scott's ... «BBC News, Jan 08»
5
Marcel Marceau - mime master
Chaplin, by then an old man, seemed to recognize his young adulator, so Mr. Marceau built up his nerve and went over to introduce himself. «San Francisco Chronicle, Sep 07»

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« EDUCALINGO. Adulator [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/adulator>. Apr 2024 ».
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