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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DURANCE

From Old French, from durer to last, from Latin dūrāre.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DURANCE

durance  [ˈdjʊərəns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DURANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Durance 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 DURANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

durance

Durance

The Durance is a major river in south-eastern France. Its source is in the south-western Alps, in Montgenèvre ski resort near Briançon and it flows south-west through the following départements and cities: ▪ Hautes-Alpes: Briançon, Embrun. ▪ Alpes-de-Haute-Provence: Sisteron, Manosque. ▪ Vaucluse: Cavaillon, Avignon. ▪ Bouches-du-Rhône. The Durance's main tributaries are the Bléone and Verdon rivers. The Durance itself is a tributary of the Rhône River and flows into the Rhône near Avignon. The Durance is the second longest of the tributaries of the Rhône and the third largest in terms of its flow.

Definition of durance in the English dictionary

The definition of durance in the dictionary is imprisonment. Other definition of durance is duration.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DURANCE


appearance
əˈpɪərəns
assurance
əˈʃʊərəns
bancassurance
ˈbæŋkəˌʃʊərəns
clearance
ˈklɪərəns
coinsurance
ˌkəʊɪnˈʃʊərəns
conference
ˈkɒnfərəns
difference
ˈdɪfərəns
endurance
ɪnˈdjʊərəns
ignorance
ˈɪɡnərəns
insurance
ɪnˈʃʊərəns
interference
ˌɪntəˈfɪərəns
manurance
məˈnjʊərəns
perdurance
pəˈdjʊərəns
preference
ˈprɛfərəns
procurance
prəˈkjʊərəns
reassurance
ˌriːəˈʃʊərəns
reference
ˈrɛfərəns
reinsurance
ˌriːɪnˈʃʊərəns
securance
sɪˈkjʊərəns
tolerance
ˈtɒlərəns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DURANCE

dura
dura mater
durability
durable
durable goods
durable press
durableness
durables
durably
dural
Duralumin
duraluminium
duramen
Durango
durant
Durante
Duras
duration
durational
durative

WORDS THAT END LIKE DURANCE

advance
car insurance
customs clearance
deliverance
disappearance
entrance
Fort-de-France
fragrance
France
health insurance
industrial insurance
intolerance
life insurance
perseverance
put in an appearance
remembrance
severance
Torrance
trance
travel insurance
zero tolerance

Synonyms and antonyms of durance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «durance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DURANCE

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

Translator English - Chinese

科蒙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

durance
570 millions of speakers

English

durance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Durance
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

DURANCE
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Дюранс
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Durance
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কারারোধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

durance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Durian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Durance
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

監禁
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

듀란
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Duren
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Durance
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறைக்காவல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धीर देणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

durance
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

durance
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Durance
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Дюранс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Durance
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

σε διάρκεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Durance
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Durance
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Durance
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of durance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DURANCE»

The term «durance» is quite widely used and occupies the 45.814 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DURANCE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DURANCE»

Discover the use of durance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to durance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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In Durance Vile, and Other Stories
Duchess. AND OTHER STORIES. C . THE DUCHESS, AUTHOR OP " PHYLLIS," " MOLLY BaWN," " ROSSMOYNE," ETC. Ttwse who have drawn np<m the fund of recreative reading in "Phyllis" and "iMolly - ISawn" will greet heartily the little ...
Duchess, 1885
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Forty-Two Months in Durance Vile: Prisoner of the Japanese
This is a first-hand account of life as a Japanese prisoner during the Second World War.
R. Keith Mitchell, 1997
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Jim of Hellas: Or, in Durance Vile. Bethesda Pool
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.
Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe, 2009
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Indian Ink
FLORA: Can't hear you! ( DURANCE steps closer, outside the bedroom door.) DURANCE: That fellow Das was on the road. I'm sure it was him. FLORA: ( Dressing) Well ...why not? DURANCE: Hecutme. FLORA: What? DURANCE: Igave hima ...
Tom Stoppard, 2013
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Integrated Water Resources Management
Relevance. of. geomorphology. in. exploitive. and. sustainable. management. of. water. resources. in. the. Durance. River,. France. ROBIN F. WARNER School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia e-mail: ...
Miguel A. Marino, Slobodan P. Simonovic, 2001
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Provence & the Ce D'Azur
At the western edge of Haute- Provence, the winding waters of the 324km-long River Durance, an affluent of the Rhône, follow the Via Domitia, the road from Italy that allowed the Romans to infiltrate the whole of France. The Vallée de la ...
‎2010
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Tom Stoppard: Plays 2: The Dissolution of Dominic Boot, 'M' ...
durance: The damnedest thing happened to me just now. flora: (Inside) Can't hear you! Come in, it's quite safe. (durance also enters the interior. He is now in the living- room, flora is further within the bungalow.) durance: That fellow Das was ...
Tom Stoppard, 1997
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Geomorphological Processes and Human Impacts in River Basins
Catalonia. Spain. May 2004). IAHS Publ. 299. 2005. Suspended sediment transport and trapping processes in the regulated lower Durance River, southeastern France EMMANUEL RIBES & MIREILLE PROVANSAL Department of Geography, ...
Ramon J. Batalla, Celso García, 2005
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Hannibal's War: A Military History of the Second Punic War
Fourthly, it is very difficult to reconcile Livy's description of the Durance where Hannibal crossed it (21.31. ... better the wide flood-plain through which the Durance flows into the Rhone, and where it can rise phenomenally after a sudden storm ...
John Francis Lazenby, 1998
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Rivers of Europe
In the early 1990s, Cazaubon and Giudicelli (1999) collected 77 taxa in the middle Durance. Densities ranged from 1060 to 1900 individuals/m2. Thirty taxa were considered common and represented $90% of the sampled individuals.
Klement Tockner, Urs Uehlinger, Christopher T. Robinson, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DURANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term durance is used in the context of the following news items.
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Solar Impulse 2 Finishes Record Breaking Japan To Hawaii Leg
Well before the landing, after nearly three days and nights, Mr. Borschberg broke a durance and distance records he had set in early June – 44 ... «Energy Matters, Jul 15»
2
River Run welcomes 80 buddy hikers
2—Durance 1.21:33 with Richard Feldman (30:31) and Kelly Feldman (51:02). 3—Sparkiberry 1.30:18 with Joshua Berry (45:09) and Lauren ... «Idaho Mountain Express and Guide, Jul 15»
3
William Shakespeare's jokes are just not funny, Sir Richard Eyre …
Prince Hal: As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle; and is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance? Falstaff: How now, how now, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
4
Interim discussions for commercial refueling ship for the Royal …
The RAN already had the 'purpose' built French designed Durance class AOR ship, HMAS Success, based in the East for the East Coast fleet, ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jun 15»
5
River deep, mountain high
... lakes at an altitude of 2,500 metres and winds its way for 160 kilometres before flowing into the Durance River, then into the Mediterranean. «The Nation, Jun 15»
6
Bike riders invited to Ronde Van Ketchum tour Sunday
Durance Cycleworks and The Elephant's Perch of Ketchum are inviting bicycle riders to a non-competitive group ride covering a 77.3-mile ... «Idaho Mountain Express and Guide, Jun 15»
7
Dozens of US companies bet on nuclear power revolution - report
... ITER nuclear fusion project, based at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) research centre of Cadarache in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, ... «AsiaOne, Jun 15»
8
The French and BALTOPS 2015
... Vice Adm. James Foggo III to the crew aboard of the French navy Durance class command and replenishment ship BCR Somme (A631). «Second Line of Defense, Jun 15»
9
Nuclear war on the Hill
On a patch of land in Saint-Paul-les-Durance, in the South of France, cranes recently installed two massive electrical fixtures, industrial gray and 87 tons each ... «Politico, Jun 15»
10
Carilion sponsors Challenger Little League teams for disabled youth
Danielle Durance takes a swing at the preseason Challenger scrimmage held at Carilion Wellness in Roanoke. Posted: Friday, June 12, 2015 ... «Roanoke Times, Jun 15»

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