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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EMBONPOINT

From phrase en bon point in good condition.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EMBONPOINT

embonpoint  [ɑ̃bɔ̃pwɛ̃] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EMBONPOINT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Embonpoint can act as a noun and an adjective.
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.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EMBONPOINT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of embonpoint in the English dictionary

The definition of embonpoint in the dictionary is plumpness or stoutness. Other definition of embonpoint is plump; stout.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EMBONPOINT

embolies
embolisation
embolise
embolism
embolismal
embolismic
embolization
embolize
embolus
emboly
emborder
emboscata
embosk
embosom
emboss
embossable
embossed
embosser
embossment
embothrium

WORDS THAT END LIKE EMBONPOINT

access point
appoint
at knife-point
beside the point
checkpoint
cut-off point
disappoint
joint
midpoint
pick-up point
pinpoint
point
power point
price point
standpoint
starting point
talking point
to the point
try for a point
up to a point
viewpoint

Synonyms and antonyms of embonpoint in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «embonpoint» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EMBONPOINT

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

Translator English - Chinese

丰满之体态
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

embonpoint
570 millions of speakers

English

embonpoint
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

embonpoint
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

embonpoint
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

embonpoint
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

embonpoint
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হৃষ্টপুষ্টতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

embonpoint
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Embonpoint
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

embonpoint
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

embonpoint
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

embonpoint
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Embonpoint
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

embonpoint
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

embonpoint
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

इबनपोइंट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

semizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

embonpoint
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

embonpoint
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

embonpoint
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

embonpoint
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

embonpoint
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gesit word
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

embonpoint
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

embonpoint
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of embonpoint

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EMBONPOINT»

The term «embonpoint» is regularly used and occupies the 79.307 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EMBONPOINT» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMBONPOINT»

Discover the use of embonpoint in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to embonpoint and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Corpulency, I.E. Fat, Or Embonpoint, In Excess: Letters To ...
Explaining Briefly His Newly-Discovered Diet System, To Reduce The Weight And Benefit The Reader.
Alfred William Moore, 2010
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Recherche Pour Le Développement de la Traction Animale en ...
Travail effectué par les boeufs de labour (MJ/jour) selon leur poids vif et embonpoint. e.s. poids vif e.s. embonpoint e.s. interaction 0.086 *** 0.086 *** 0.135 *** avec une moyenne de 0.78 m/s (P). Sur les distances imposées par l' essai, ...
West Africa Animal Traction Network. Workshop, Peter R. Lawrence, 1993
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Classic and historic portraits
In the third novel, the Miller's wife is " very beautiful and embonpoint.'" In the twenty-first, the abbess is described as "beautiful and young and embonpoint."' It is true that in some other instances in these tales, the expression embonpoint is ...
James Bruce, 1854
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Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th Century Turkey
When gentlemen alluded to the glimpses everyday life gave them of Duduesqe bodies, they did so coyly and indirectly. It must be suspected that the embonpoint of Ottoman women served pars pro toto by indicating a voluptuous nature about ...
Reinhold Schiffer, 1999
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How to Sound Clever: Master the 600 English Words You ...
embonpoint. (noun) = plumpness of person from the French en bon point: in good condition; embonpoint is a euphemism for fatness e.g. Towards the end of his life Marlon Brando grew depressed and his embonpoint increased dramatically ...
Hubert van den Bergh, 2010
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A Dolphin in the Woods Composite Translation, Paraversing & ...
Tinker. Bell. &. Marot's. L'embonpoint. or,. the. metamorphosis. of. plump. in. translation. About 1990, I reread Peter Barrie's Peter Pan. I have two recollections why. 1) After reading an essay about flying dreams by Lafcadio Hearn, I asked my ...
Robin D. Gill, 2009
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The Superior Person's Book of Words
EMBONPOINT iv n. Plumpness. From the French en ban point (in good shape). Often used of women, and with just a trace of raillery implied. Commonly pronounced in the French fashion; but may be anglicized, in which event you would ...
Peter Bowler, 1982
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Des Maladies Mentales Considérées Sous Les Rapports Médical, ...
Si avec le rétablissement normal de toutes les fonctions, avec le retour de l' appétit, du sommeil, de l'embonpoint et de la régularité des sécrétions, le délire ne diminue pas proportionnellement, la folie persiste, devient alors, pour ainsi dire, ...
‎1838
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the britsh critic
glish embonpoint , might acquire new hints for her science of anti-phthisis." Vol. I. p. 184. Now, what a Pythoness was, we know, and what embonpoint is, we know, and we can conceive the embonpoint of a Pythoness ; but a Pythoness of ...
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Critical Receptions: Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
To give an example: “Among this order, (that is among the well-fed peasantry of France) Miss Prescott, the Pythoness of English embonpoint, might acquire new hints for her science of anti-phthisis.” Vol. I. p. 134. Now, what a Pythoness was, ...
Jacqueline E. Belanger, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EMBONPOINT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term embonpoint is used in the context of the following news items.
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S ometimes I feel a certain pressure as an Irishwoman abroad. It's a …
And should they eat too much of that chocolate cake, they can at least look forward to being described as "embonpoint", which sounds so much ... «Herald, Jul 15»
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The Danczuk divorce again reveals social media's ability to reduce …
The story so far: Karen Danczuk, 32, became notorious when she began posting pictures of her impressive embonpoint on Twitter. This was ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
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I've changed my mind about the Swedes. They took in 40000 Syrian …
Everyone keeps asking me what I think about Craig Raine's poem about a young Gatwick border controller's embonpoint. I reply that if “She is ... «New Statesman, Jun 15»
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Journée du yoga: le Premier ministre indien prend lui-même la pose
La superstar de Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan a été enrôlée dans cette promotion et de nombreux fonctionnaires avec de l'embonpoint ont été ... «Al Huffington Post, Jun 15»
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Jurassic Park : Dennis Nedry, fan des "Dents de la mer" !
Si vous connaissez bien Jurassic Park, vous vous souvenez certainement de Dennis Nedry, cet informaticien véreux à l'embonpoint abondant ... «AlloCiné, Jun 15»
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Liz Hurley is STILL a showstopper at 50: Looking great 21 years …
With more curves than Silverstone and an embonpoint that strained at the silk and Lycra designed to contain it, she ensured no one missed her ... «Express.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Boris Charmatz, Sadler's Wells, London — review
One of the more agile dancers sucks her toes; another nibbles her own embonpoint. The week ended with Charmatz's 2013 collaboration with ... «Financial Times, May 15»
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Do men prefer brains to busts? Not in my household...
Truly, there is no magnet on the planet that will pull a guy towards you faster than a bountiful embonpoint. There is a reason, dear Professor, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
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There's pure poetry in a grilled cheese sandwich
It went down, soft pulpy, slushy, oozy – all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large beatified Strawberry." You only need ... «The Independent, May 15»
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers faces his biggest crisis yet over 'alcohol abuse'
From Salma Hayek's eye-popping embonpoint to Cate Blanchett's show-stopper of a Giles Deacon gown, there is no mistaking the selling ... «Daily Mail, May 15»

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