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I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.
Sherman Hemsley

Meaning of "bigot" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BIGOT

From Old French: name applied contemptuously to the Normans by the French, of obscure origin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BIGOT

bigot  [ˈbɪɡət] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BIGOT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bigot 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 BIGOT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bigotry

Bigotry is the state of mind of a bigot: someone who, as a result of their prejudices, treats or views other people with fear, distrust or hatred on the basis of a person's ethnicity, evaluative orientation, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, disability, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

Definition of bigot in the English dictionary

The definition of bigot in the dictionary is a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics, or race.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BIGOT


ablegate
æbˈlɛɡət
boggart
ˈbɒɡət
braggart
ˈbræɡət
ergot
ˈɜːɡət
faggot
ˈfæɡət
fagot
ˈfæɡət
ingot
ˈɪŋɡət
lingot
ˈlɪŋɡət
loggat
ˈlɒɡət
macroaggregate
ˌmækrəʊˈæɡrɪɡət
maggot
ˈmæɡət
nondelegate
ˌnɒnˈdɛlɪɡət
Piggott
ˈpɪɡət
spigot
ˈspɪɡət
subaggregate
sʌbˈæɡrɪɡət
theologate
θɪˈɒləɡət
yoghurt
ˈjɒɡət
yogurt
ˈjəʊɡət

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BIGOT

bigheartedly
bighorn
bight
Bight of Biafra
Bight of Bonny
bigly
bigmouth
bigness
bignonia
bignoniaceous
bigos
bigoted
bigotedly
bigotgate
bigotries
bigotry
bigstick
bigtime
biguanide
bigwig

WORDS THAT END LIKE BIGOT

apple maggot
argot
begot
cagot
escargot
forgot
gigot
got
have got
magot
misbegot
saligot
Turgot
unbegot
unforgot

Synonyms and antonyms of bigot in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BIGOT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bigot» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of bigot

Translation of «bigot» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BIGOT

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

Translator English - Chinese

偏执的人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fanático
570 millions of speakers

English

bigot
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

धर्मांध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتعصب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ханжой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fanático
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধর্মান্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fanatique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bigot
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eiferer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

偏狭者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

편협한 사람
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhiệt tin
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வைராக்கியமுடையவன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बंड्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yobaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intransigente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bigot
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ханжею
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bigot
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φανατικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kwezel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bigott
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fanatiker
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bigot

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BIGOT»

The term «bigot» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.230 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BIGOT» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «BIGOT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bigot.
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Samuel Alito
I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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Sonny Bono
I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.
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Dinesh D'Souza
A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.
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William Drummond
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
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William Drummond
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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Sherman Hemsley
I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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Don King
There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.
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Ronald Knox
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
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Donald Norman
Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BIGOT»

Discover the use of bigot in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bigot and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early ...
Now William de Bourneville holds it from Roger Bigot. 2885 ii, 337a (7-60) Roger Bigot; Offton: TRE Leofcild, a freeman commended to Archbishop Stigand, held two carucates of land in Offton. Now Hugh d'Houdain holds it from Roger Bigot.
Robin Fleming, 2003
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Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting, 1800-1950
The first recorded landscape artist to establish a lasting public impression was Toussaint Francois Bigot, a native of Rennes, Brittany, France. Bigot first appeared in New Orleans in 1816, when, according to at least one account, he was ...
Pennington, Estill Curtis
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20,000 Quips & Quotes
BIGOT Bigamy is the proof that there can be too much of a good thing. The bigamist deserves his two mothers-in-law because he didn't take the trouble to get a divorce. A bigamist is a man for whom life is a bed of ruses. The bigamist is  ...
Evan Esar, 1995
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Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to ...
430v, 153v, Maurepas to Bigot and d'Enville, 25 and 26 March 1746, cited in Fre' gault, Francois Bigot, 1: 248; and Colonies C1113 27, ff. 154-4v, Bigot to Maurepas, 5 April 1746. 128 Marine B2 328, ff. 416, Maurepas to Ricouart, 18 March ...
James Pritchard, 1995
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Popular Romances for the Times: I. Excelsior; Or, An ...
III. The Granddaughter of the Caesars; Or, Hag of the Earth and Syren of the Waters Alexander Lookup. Despot. Ah, the rascals ! They've embezzled all the funds remaining in our treasury under pretense of purchasing votes. Bigot. Hang them !
Alexander Lookup, 1860
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Climate Change, Forests and REDD: Lessons for Institutional ...
Interviews by L. Bigot and N.L. Bui, 2011: 15. Doers et al. (2006) op. cit. Government of Vietnam (2007) op. cit. Sojitz Corporation (2006) Sojitz acquires FSC certification for its forestry business in Vietnam; WWF (2010) 'First forest smallholder ...
Joyeeta Gupta, Nicolien van der Grijp, Onno Kuik, 2013
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The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial ...
The tentacles of Bigot's machine reached across the Atlantic. La Pone, the Marine Minister's secretary, opened all correspondence from New France, judiciously diverting to Bigot any letters critical of the intendant's management. The merchant ...
William R. Nester, 2000
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Noncognitivism in Ethics
Now imagine that you ask Nice Guy what race Bigot thinks Al is. If the Big Hypothesis holds for '***', we would expect that the appropriate answer would be ' Bigot thinks that Al is a ***' – for after all, this is what most accurately describes Bigot's ...
Mark Schroeder, 2010
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Handbook of Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology
Much like prejudice as a topic in international prose and poetry (Larson, 1971), the psychology of prejudice reflects two main themes: (a) the psychology of the bigot, which seeks to understand why some people are prejudiced toward ...
Theodore Millon, Melvin J. Lerner, Irving B. Weiner, 2003
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Boneman: An Anthology of Canadian Plays
BIGOT: Angelique — delicious little harlot — silly business keeps the livres growing. PEAN: That doesn't make it any less of a bore. When are you going to send men to build my bomb shelter? BIGOT: All available men are working on ...
Gordon Ralph, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BIGOT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bigot is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ted Cruz courts the bigot vote: Why he won't criticize Donald Trump
Last week I expressed my bemusement at the fact that none of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates had forcefully denounced ... «Salon, Jul 15»
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See, Trump Told You So
They're trying to peg him as a racist bigot, who has an animus towards Mexican and Latin people. They're not going to grant him this notion that ... «RushLimbaugh.com, Jul 15»
3
Demand BDS justify its goals
... a single group or country – while ignoring equal or greater violations by an opposing or third party – might more accurately be called a bigot. «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
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South Carolina Senate vote brings Confederate flag one step closer …
Haley's change of heart came after police arrested 21-year-old Dylann Roof for the church massacre and photos emerged of the blond bigot ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
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No legit precedent for gay marriage
Some would say it's because I'm a bigot, and a bigot is never ready for the sea change that annihilates her bigoted world view. Others ... «Times-Enterprise, Jul 15»
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Richard's big gamble with the Greens
... Season, and the Liberals squabble with their leader and among themselves over cabinet leaks and who has the greatest right to be a bigot. «The New Daily, Jul 15»
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Hateful nonsense and the bashing of Chinese Filipinos
At the very least, you didn't call me a racist or a bigot. Of course, I know that many Chinese Filipinos are really Filipinos. I never lumped all ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
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Some musings on geese, guns and discrimination
According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of a bigot: “a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc.: a bigoted person ... «Coos Bay World, Jul 15»
9
Legacy of Modern Comic Book Movies: X2
Magneto is a complex character with different motivations and beliefs, but he is not evil; and Stryker is the kind of nutcase bigot that exists in ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
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Indigenous community voices must be heard in the recognise debate
... a complete waste of time and have even advocated for a “flat-equality”, that we should all be treated the same – the faux equality of the bigot. «The Guardian, Jul 15»

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