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PRONUNCIATION OF COUNTERWORD

counterword  [ˈkaʊntəˌwɜːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COUNTERWORD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Counterword 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 COUNTERWORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of counterword in the English dictionary

The definition of counterword in the dictionary is a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COUNTERWORD


afterword
ˈɑːftəˌwɜːd
ayword
ˈaɪˌwɜːd
backword
ˈbækˌwɜːd
boo-word
ˈbuːˌwɜːd
byword
ˈbaɪˌwɜːd
catchword
ˈkætʃˌwɜːd
codeword
ˈkəʊdˌwɜːd
crossword
ˈkrɒswɜːd
foreword
ˈfɔːˌwɜːd
guideword
ˈɡaɪdˌwɜːd
headword
ˈhɛdˌwɜːd
keyword
ˈkiːˌwɜːd
nayword
ˈneɪˌwɜːd
overword
ˈəʊvəˌwɜːd
password
ˈpɑːsˌwɜːd
stopword
ˈstɒpˌwɜːd
swearword
ˈswɛəˌwɜːd
watchword
ˈwɒtʃˌwɜːd
word
wɜːd
word-for-word
ˌwɜːdfəˈwɜːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COUNTERWORD

counterterror
counterterrorism
counterthreat
counterthrust
countertop
countertrade
countertrend
countertype
countervail
countervailable
countervailing
countervailing duty
counterview
counterviolence
counterweigh
counterweight
counterweighted
counterwork
counterworker
counterworld

WORDS THAT END LIKE COUNTERWORD

at a word
buzz word
double-edged sword
f-word
in a word
mum´s the word
n-word
of one´s word
operative word
printed word
root word
sword
the c-word
the f-word
the last word
the n-word
the sword
the word
word for word
written word

Synonyms and antonyms of counterword in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «counterword» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

counterword
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

counterword
570 millions of speakers

English

counterword
510 millions of speakers

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counterword
380 millions of speakers
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counterword
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

counterword
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

counterword
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

counterword
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

counterword
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kata laluan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

counterword
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

counterword
130 millions of speakers

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counterword
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Counterword
85 millions of speakers
vi

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counterword
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

counterword
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिशब्द
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anlamı dışında kullanılan kelime
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

counterword
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

counterword
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

counterword
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

counterword
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

counterword
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

counterword
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

counterword
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

counterword
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of counterword

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTERWORD»

The term «counterword» is used very little and occupies the 155.334 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTERWORD» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERWORD»

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1
Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan
Might we say, then, that this "rejoining word" is equivalent to Lucile's " counterword" ("Gegenwort") and Lenz's silence ("His 'Long live the King!' is no longer a word, but rather a terrifying silence")? Explicitly designating Lucile's word as "poetry," ...
Aris Fioretos, 1994
2
Language and Relation: -- that There is Language
Might we say, then, that this "rejoining word" is equivalent to Lucile's " counterword" (Gegenwort) and Lenz's silence ("his 'Long live the King!' is no longer a word. It is a terrifying silence" [GW 195/47])? Explicitly designating Lucile's word as ...
Christopher Fynsk, 1996
3
Archiv Orientální
Especially the question of pre- or postponing the numeral- counterword complex has not been considered even in comprehenslve descriptions of Indonesian or Malay. The well-known Indonesian grammarians St. Takdir Alisjahbana and ...
Bedrǐch Hrozný, 1976
4
The Promise of Memory: History and Politics in Marx, ...
The argument unfolded in the following pages is that only in conjunction, intermingling the word of a memory of suffering and the word of the promise, can they form what Celan has called a counterword (Gegenwort). This counterword is a ...
Matthias Fritsch, 2012
5
Culture and Explosion
Understanding is looking for a counterword to the word ofa speaker. Only understanding of a foreign word seeks for 'a similar' word in the native language. (Bakhtin 2000: 436) Several scholarly works have been dedicated to the comparison of ...
Juri Lotman, Marina Grishakova, 2009
6
Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing
(IC xvi/xv) Heidegger envisaged a daring counterword as the condition of bringing language to speech as language. The region to which such a saying would open, however, was conceived far differently, as we will see, and the need for the ...
Christopher Fynsk, 2013
7
Sites of the Uncanny: Paul Celan, Specularity and the Visual ...
implores them to become mindful of his pause of breath and counterword ( Gegenwort, Gesammelte Werke,, 3:189). During a visit to Diisseldorf in 1955, Celan described in a letter to his wife the fate that had befallen the German language and ...
Eric Kligerman, 2007
8
The Argument to the Other: Reason Beyond Reason in the ...
And the admonitory epilogue should not be left out: if those who do not love and fear God imitate this supposed "dialectical trick" of Word and Counterword to know God, but appropriate this method without God, without knowing that it is the  ...
Steven G. Smith, 1983
9
Sensation, Contemporary Poetry and Deleuze: Transformative ...
What still requires some clarification, though, is whether or not the counterword is also an order-word (though one that runs counter to the dominant order). The fact that it is actualized as deterritorializing sensation and is therefore inscribed in ...
Jon Clay, 2010
10
The Collected Sermons of Walter Brueggemann
We fear we will lose free will and moral responsibility and all of that. But consider, it will not do to reduce life to our moral calculus, because we become grim and selfish and too sure, and then we die. The counterword on the lips ofJoseph and  ...
Walter Brueggemann, 2011

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COUNTERWORD»

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1
What makes a product “cool”?
... version of cool present in the American-English vernacular as it has become a ubiquitous “counterword of choice” (Petrucci and Head, 2006). «Salon, Feb 14»
2
Green My Ballard: Vacilando? I mean, just walk
Steinbeck writes: "In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb vacilar, present participle vacilando. «Ballard News Tribune, Feb 10»

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