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Meaning of "carcanet" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CARCANET

From French carcan, of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse kverkband chin strap.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CARCANET

ˈkɑːkəˌnɛt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CARCANET

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Carcanet 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 CARCANET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of carcanet in the English dictionary

The definition of carcanet in the dictionary is a jewelled collar or necklace.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CARCANET

alkanet · botnet · burgonet · dragnet · Ethernet · evernet · extranet · falconet · fishnet · gillnet · hairnet · internet · intranet · keepnet · lansquenet · molinet · solenette · telnet · Transnet · Usenet

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CARCANET

carcajou · carcake · carcase · carcass · Carcassonne · carcel · carceral · Carchemish · carcinogen · carcinogenesis · carcinogenic · carcinogenicity · carcinoid · carcinological · carcinologist · carcinology · carcinoma · carcinomata · carcinomatoid · carcinomatosis

WORDS THAT END LIKE CARCANET

dwarf planet · elanet · exoplanet · extrasolar planet · giant planet · inferior planet · inner planet · Isle of Thanet · Janet · major planet · Manet · minor planet · outer planet · planet · protoplanet · Red Planet · remanet · Thanet · the Red Planet · toucanet

Synonyms and antonyms of carcanet in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «carcanet» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF CARCANET

Find out the translation of carcanet to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of carcanet from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «carcanet» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

carcanet
1,325 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Spanish

carcanet
570 millions of speakers
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English

carcanet
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

carcanet
380 millions of speakers
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carcanet
280 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Russian

carcanet
278 millions of speakers
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carcanet
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

carcanet
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

carcan
220 millions of speakers
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Carcanet
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

carcanet
180 millions of speakers
ja

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carcanet
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

carcanet
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Carcanet
85 millions of speakers
vi

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carcanet
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

carcanet
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

कारकॅनॅट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

bezeli
70 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Italian

carcanet
65 millions of speakers
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carcanet
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

carcanet
40 millions of speakers
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carcanet
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

carcanet
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

carcanet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

carcanet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Carcanet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of carcanet

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CARCANET»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of carcanet
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about carcanet

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CARCANET»

Discover the use of carcanet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to carcanet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Poets on Paintings: A Bibliography
Sujat, Rooms by the Sea Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea Source: Sujat Bhatt, Monkey Shadows (Manchester, UK: Carcanet, 1991), 92–3 Bhatt, Sujat, Sunlight in a Cafeteria Edward Hopper, Sunlight in a Cafeteria Source: Sujat Bhatt, ...
Robert D. Denham, 2010
2
Poetry: The Basics
All rights reserved; Carcanet Press Limited for a quotation taken from 'Brevity' by Judith Wright found in Collected Poems © Carcanet Press Limited; John Harwood for a quotation from 'Long After Heine' by Gwen Harwood found in Collected ...
Jeffrey Wainwright, 2004
3
Scotland as Science Fiction
Hugh MacDiarmid, “The Unholy Loch,” Complete Poems, 2 (Manchester: Carcanet, 1994), 1478—79. Ewan MacColl, Uranium 235: A Documentary Play in Eleven Episodes, intro. Hugh MacDiarmid (Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1948), 12.
Caroline McCracken-Flesher, 2011
4
Thinking Translation: Perspectives from Within and Without : ...
As an introductory note in Weinberger and Carcanet's Paz edition tells us: Blanco was meant to be read as a series of signs on a single page. As the reading progresses, the page unfolds vertically: a space which, as it opens out, allows the  ...
Rebecca Hyde Parker, Karla Guadarrama García, Karla Guadarrama, 2008
5
In the fertile land
Stories deal with exile, art, history, the desire to change, decisions, procrastination, and self-perception
Gabriel Josipovici, 1987
6
Haiku
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp and Carcanet Press. 'The Hurricane' and 'Prelude to Winter' by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems 1939- I 962, Volume II, copyright © 194-4~ by New Directions ...
Peter Washington, 2003
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The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-century Scottish Poetry
and 'A Poem About Death' from Collected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2001). Reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press Ltd. Iain Crichton Smith, 'Poem of Lewis' from The Long River (Edinburgh: M. Macdonald, 1955); 'John Knox' ...
Maurice Lindsay, Lesley Duncan, 2005
8
Selected Poems
Mimi Khalvati's Selected Poems draws on her three Carcanet collections, In White Ink (1991), Mirrorwork (1995) and Entries on Light (1997).
Mimi Khalvati, 2012
9
No enemy: a tale of reconstruction
The novel's introduction includes recent biographical information on Ford and places the work within its context as autobiographical fiction.
Ford Madox Ford, Paul Skinner, 2002
10
Christmas Poems
GRAVES, ROBERT: 'Christmas Robin' from Collected Poems, published by Carcanet Press. Reprinted by permission of A. P. Watt Ltd. HEATH-STUBBS, JOHN: 'For the Nativity' from Collected Poems 1943-1987, published by Carcanet Press.
John Hollander, J. D. McClatchy, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CARCANET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term carcanet is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sara Baume on longlist for £25000 prize
Independent publishers are well represented with eight titles on the list from Bloomsbury, Carcanet, Canongate, Granta, Scribe, Serpent's Tail ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
2
On my radar: Iain Sinclair's cultural highlights
Tom Raworth in his garden: xxxxxx · Facebook Twitter Pinterest. Tom Raworth in his garden: 'persistent and wise'. Photograph: Carcanet ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
3
Why remembering and reciting poetry is good for you
CP Nield's poetry has been published in New Poetries IV (Carcanet), as well as journals Ambit, The London Magazine and Magma. In 2006, he ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jun 15»
4
Saving grace: how WB Yeats helped Eavan Boland to become a poet
Eavan Boland's latest volume of poetry is A Woman Without a Country (Carcanet Press). She is a professor of English and director of the ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
5
Three Irish poets shortlisted for £10000 Forward Prize
... for physical (Cape Poetry); Matthew Siegel for Blood Work (CB Editions); and Karen McCarthy Woolf for An Aviary of Small Birds (Carcanet). «Irish Times, Jun 15»
6
David Nicholls: the book that saved me
PJ Kavanagh with his wife Sally in Bali in 1958. Photograph: Carcanet. Sally is smart, direct, optimistic, gregarious – a startling contrast to the ... «The Guardian, May 15»
7
The Poet's Dilemma: Spirit of Culture and Body of Language
And, yet, anyone who journeys through her five collections of verse, published by Carcanet, is inevitably struck by her Persian-ness. «Asharq Alawsat English, Apr 15»
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Sacha Dugdale: new co-director of Winchester Poetry Festival
She is editor of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, author of three collections of poetry for Carcanet and has translated two collections ... «Hampshire Chronicle, Apr 15»
9
Edwin Morgan: The Midnight Letterbox - Selected Correspondence …
... was showing signs of giving up on poetry completely and one can sense Morgan's relief when Michael Schmidt of Carcanet took an interest ... «Herald Scotland, Apr 15»
10
Edwin Morgan's letters and scrapbooks published for the first time
Edwin Morgan, The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence, 1950 - 2010, is being published by Carcanet Press. The selected ... «Herald Scotland, Mar 15»
REFERENCE
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