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Meaning of "chapless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHAPLESS

chapless  [ˈtʃæplɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHAPLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Chapless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CHAPLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of chapless in the English dictionary

The definition of chapless in the dictionary is lacking a lower jaw.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHAPLESS


accomplice
əˈkɒmplɪs
complice
ˈkɒmplɪs
dripless
ˈdrɪplɪs
escapeless
ɪˈskeɪplɪs
gapless
ˈɡæplɪs
hapless
ˈhæplɪs
helpless
ˈhɛlplɪs
hopeless
ˈhəʊplɪs
mapless
ˈmæplɪs
pulpless
ˈpʌlplɪs
sapless
ˈsæplɪs
shapeless
ˈʃeɪplɪs
sleepless
ˈsliːplɪs
soapless
ˈsəʊplɪs
stampless
ˈstæmplɪs
strapless
ˈstræplɪs
surplice
ˈsɜːplɪs
tapeless
ˈteɪplɪs
topless
ˈtɒplɪs
zipless
ˈzɪplɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHAPLESS

chaperon
chaperonage
chaperone
chapess
chapfallen
chapiter
chaplain
chaplaincy
chaplainry
chaplainship
chaplet
chapleted
Chaplin
Chaplinesque
chapman
Chapman Stick
chapmanship
chapmen
chappal
chapped

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHAPLESS

bottomless
capless
cropless
flapless
hipless
hoopless
humpless
lipless
napless
pipless
rumpless
scalpless
shipless
slipless
snapless
soupless
stopless
tipless
trumpless
whelpless
worshipless

Synonyms and antonyms of chapless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «chapless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHAPLESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

chapless
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

chapless
570 millions of speakers

English

chapless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

chapless
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

chapless
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

chapless
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

chapless
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

chapless
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chapless
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Chapless
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

chapless
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

chapless
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

chapless
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Chapless
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chapless
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

chapless
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अविचारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

chapless
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

chapless
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

chapless
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

chapless
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

chapless
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

chapless
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

chapless
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

chapless
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

chapless
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of chapless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHAPLESS»

The term «chapless» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.935 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHAPLESS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHAPLESS»

Discover the use of chapless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to chapless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Dictionary of the Language of Shakespeare
Chapless. Without lips. Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks, and yellow chapless skulls. Romeo and Juliet, iv. 1. Why, e'en so : and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and ...
Swynfen Jervis, 1868
2
A Synoptic Hamlet: a Critical-Synoptic Edition of the Second ...
Did these bones cost no more the breeding but 3282 3283 85 chopless, and knocked about the <mazard> with a sexton's chapless, ma/ard spade. Here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to 90 to play at loggats with ."., Mine ache to think on t ...
Jesús Tronch, William Shakespeare, 2002
3
Hamlet
91. chapless: without a lower jaw (See picture, below.) mazard: head (a slang term) 94. loggets: a game played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake 101. quiddities: hair-splitting definitions 102. quillities: quibbles; tenures: holdings 103.
William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, 2012
4
The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text: Twentieth-Century ...
Juliet means chapless skulls, ones without lips, but is the Q2 reading merely an error of transposition, chapels for chaples? Walker pointed out that it could not be since the compositor consistently used -lesse spellings in setting this edition, ...
Gabriel Egan, 2010
5
Romeo and Juliet: Language and Writing
Picking up a skull in the graveyard, Hamlet describes it as 'My Lady Worm's, chapless'; soon afterwards he mocks Yorick's skull: 'Quite chopfallen' (Folio Hamlet, 5.1.87–8; 190). The compound 'chapless' appears to have been Shakespeare's ...
Catherine Belsey, 2014
6
The Complete Romeo and Juliet: An Annotated Edition of the ...
83 O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling, bones O'ercovered quite: “entirely covered up” (Mowat, 182) 84 With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Reeky: “emitting foul vapor”; chapless: “without lower jaws” (Riverside, 1,130) 85 Or ...
Donald J. Richardson, 2013
7
Hamlet
This might be my lord such-a-one , that praised my lord such-a-one's horse , when he meant to beg it, might it not? Hor. Ay, my lord. Ham. Why, e'en so, and now my lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade ...
William Shakespeare, 1843
8
Textual and Literary Criticism
She observed that the Second Quarto had the misprint c-h-a-p-e-l-s for the word chapless, or, 'without lips'. She then pointed out that the compositor of this quarto (actually two compositors, as we now know) was an -esse speller and therefore ...
Fredson Bowers, 1966
9
The Complete Hamlet: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare ...
HAMLET 87 Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worrn's; chapless, and Chapless: “ lacking the lower jaw” (Barnet, 122) 88 knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade: Mazzard: “head” (Barnet, 122) 89 here's fine revolution, an we had the ...
Donald J. Richardson, 2012
10
Romeo and Juliet
83 *chapless lacking the lower jaw. Q2 'chapels' may have been influenced by a misunderstanding of the Q1 form 'chaples' (I chapless). 85 *shroud grave-clothes. Word omitted in Q2—3; supplied from Q4. Compare 4.3.42—3; 5.3.97.
William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, 2003

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHAPLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term chapless is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The 50 Best Songs of 2014
... has never been more prolific, and now that means he's accepted that his partying, philandering, chapless-buttcheek-ing days are behind him. «Paste Magazine, Dec 14»
2
The Future of Our Gay Neighborhoods
... where gay men can walk down the street wearing chapless trousers in peace, and where lesbians can get their bikes fixed by other lesbians. «VICE, Sep 14»
3
Jessie J at Q Awards 2011 fashion verdict: Upmarket greebo look is …
Moving on to her striking chapless-effect bodysuit, let's move on again as quickly as possible. Mock-burlesque chic is so Dita von Teese four ... «Mirror.co.uk, Oct 11»
4
Seeking a post-gender society
In the role of Chapless Charlie, dancing on stage with his friends in the troupe, Charlie is able to express his true sense of self. If a transgender ... «Michigan Daily, Feb 09»

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