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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTHROPOPHAGY

anthropophagy  [ˌænθrəˈpɒfədʒɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTHROPOPHAGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Anthropophagy 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 ANTHROPOPHAGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of anthropophagy in the English dictionary

The definition of anthropophagy in the dictionary is a rare word for cannibalism.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTHROPOPHAGY


autocoprophagy
ˌɔːtəʊkəˈprɒfədʒɪ
autophagy
ɔːˈtɒfədʒɪ
bacteriophagy
bækˌtɪərɪˈɒfədʒɪ
coprophagy
kɒˈprɒfədʒɪ
creophagy
krɪˈɒfədʒɪ
endophagy
ɛnˈdɒfədʒɪ
exophagy
ɛkˈsɒfədʒɪ
geophagy
dʒɪˈɒfədʒɪ
hippophagy
hɪˈpɒfədʒɪ
ichthyophagy
ˌɪkθɪˈɒfədʒɪ
monophagy
mɒnˈɒfədʒɪ
mycophagy
maɪˈkɒfədʒɪ
oligophagy
ˌɒlɪˈɡɒfədʒɪ
omophagy
əʊˈmɒfədʒɪ
ostreophagy
ˌɒstrɪˈɒfədʒɪ
pantophagy
pænˈtɒfədʒɪ
phytophagy
faɪˈtɒfədʒɪ
scatophagy
skæˈtɒfədʒɪ
theophagy
θɪˈɒfədʒɪ
xerophagy
zɪəˈrɒfədʒɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTHROPOPHAGY

anthropomorphous
anthropomorphously
anthropopathic
anthropopathism
anthropopathy
anthropophagi
anthropophagic
anthropophagite
anthropophagous
anthropophagus
anthropophobia
anthropophobic
anthropophuism
anthropophyte
anthropopsychic
anthroposophic
anthroposophical
anthroposophist
anthroposophy
anthropotomy

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTHROPOPHAGY

aerophagy
baggy
biology
cabbagy
cagy
doggy
energy
entomophagy
garbagy
genealogy
gy
Moholy-Nagy
Nagy
orgy
polyphagy
psychology
sagy
stagy
strategy
technology

Synonyms and antonyms of anthropophagy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anthropophagy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTHROPOPHAGY

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

Translator English - Chinese

anthropophagy
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antropofagia
570 millions of speakers

English

anthropophagy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आदमखोरी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أكل لحم البشر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

антропофагия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antropofagia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নরমাংসভোজন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

anthropophagie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antropophagy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Anthropophagie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

anthropophagy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

anthropophagy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anthropophagy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tánh ăn thịt người
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

anthropophagy
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मानववंशशास्त्रज्ञ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yamyamlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antropofagia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antropofagia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

антропофагії
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antropofagie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανθρωποφαγία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antropofagie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anthropophagy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anthropophagy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anthropophagy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTHROPOPHAGY»

The term «anthropophagy» is used very little and occupies the 152.357 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTHROPOPHAGY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «anthropophagy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «anthropophagy» 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 anthropophagy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTHROPOPHAGY»

Discover the use of anthropophagy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anthropophagy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Anthropophagy
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Charles William Darling, 2009
2
Anthropophagy: Cannibalism, Eucharist, Haematophagy, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2011
3
Cannibalism and the Colonial World
Rethinking. anthropophagy. William Arens Mais, je ne suis pas un cannibale ( Emperor Bokassa I, Echoes From a Somber Empire) In Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971: 338), Keith Thomas informs us that astrologers of an earlier age ...
Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen, 1998
4
Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in ...
The latter word is derived from Western language games that orient the lines of inquiry into indiscriminate anthropophagy. The only reasonable evidence of Maori anthropophagy during the earliest contacts was from Maori consumption of  ...
Gananath Obeyesekere, 2005
5
Colonizer and Colonized
Colonial. Stereotyping. and. Cultural. Anthropophagy. Introduction Macau-the " gate" of South China— has been the colonial settlement and outpost of Portugal in Asia since 1557, but will be returned to the People's Republic of China on ...
International Comparative Literature Association. Congress, Theo d'. Haen, Patricia Krüs, 2000
6
The Motive of the Cannibal in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and ...
But before turning to the treated novels, the some general information about the anthropophagic motive must be given. (2) Cannibalism - a definition First of all, in order to look at the motive of anthropophagy in Robinson Crusoe and Life of Pi, ...
Florian Widmann, 2009
7
Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History of Race in ...
CHAPTER. 9. From. Auto-Critique. to. Anthropophagy,. 1964-1971 00 In the second phase of Cinema Novo, extending roughly from 1964 through the coup- within-the-coup of December 1968, filmmakers turned away from favela and sertao to ...
Robert Stam, 1997
8
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism
Had the modern philosophers tackled the problem of the existence of anthropophagy in the state of nature, they would have been faced with an extremely difficult dilemma. Is the anthropophagy of the natural man legitimate under the species ...
Catalin Avramescu, 2011
9
Colonialism-postcolonialism
It is important to remember that images of Africans, Turks, Muslims, barbarians, anthropophagy, 'men of Inde' and other categories had circulated for a long time before colonialism. These images often appear to coincide with the constructions  ...
Ania Loomba, 1998
10
Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Ritual ...
Times Magazine article on ritual anthropophagy by militias in the Congo. The acts were public, both demonstrating military superiority and reflecting a hunger — literally — for the potency and resilience that their victims' body parts could offer.
David Frankfurter, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTHROPOPHAGY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anthropophagy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
NBC Cancels Hannibal (Because They've Never Been Cool)
... even the ever-more-jaded America of today isn't quite ready for Must-See anthropophagy. (The previous candidate for Hannibal's dark throne ... «TheStranger.com, Jun 15»
2
One College Student's Analysis on Representation in the Film …
... denying both their achievements and its own appropriation, thus consolidating its sense of self and glorifying its own cultural anthropophagy. «Huffington Post, May 15»
3
Top of the food chain
Anthropophagy is an old taboo, although ritual cannibalism, especially to establish hierarchies of power, has never been uncommon in human ... «Livemint, May 15»
4
Ancient Mesoamerican Recipe For Cooking Human Flesh Decoded …
“Both boiling and grilling were used in Mesoamerican ritual anthropophagy [or cannibalism],” the authors write, so finding both forms of cooking ... «Forbes, May 15»
5
Trivia Test: Jack Demsey famous for what sport?
LANGUAGE: What is the practice of anthropophagy more commonly known as? 8. HISTORY: What Native American tribe did Pocahontas ... «Naples Daily News, May 15»
6
Countering the NAP
Being normal and peaceful does not hurt Islam, Muslims and the ideology – whatever it means – of Pakistan. Anthropophagy that the state itself ... «The Nation, Apr 15»
7
Varejao's fleshy, grisly art unconvincing at the ICA
Reports that anthropophagy (essentially, cannibalism) was a widespread practice among native American tribes found credulous audiences ... «Boston Globe, Nov 14»
8
Season 5, Episode 3: a fast-moving episode neatly rounded up the …
... anthropophagy – was about to become The Walking Dead's new “big bad”. But the story arcs on the show seem to have become a lot shorter. «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
9
Standing Up To The Terrorists Of Ferguson
James Briggs · Top Commenter · Institute of Misanthropy and Anthropophagy. You should probably stay in Ohio, Mark. What you are proposing ... «Bearing Arms, Oct 14»
10
'Gotham' Season 1 Recap, Episode 4: 'Arkham'
Even young Bruce Wayne (David Mazouz), at this point, has grown accustomed to the city's anthropophagy. With the surprise visit by Oswald, ... «ComicsAlliance, Oct 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Anthropophagy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/anthropophagy>. May 2024 ».
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