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Meaning of "emolumentary" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EMOLUMENTARY

emolumentary  [ɪˌmɒljʊˈmɛntərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EMOLUMENTARY

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

WHAT DOES EMOLUMENTARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of emolumentary in the English dictionary

The definition of emolumentary in the dictionary is advantageous; tending towards emolument.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EMOLUMENTARY


alimentary
ˌælɪˈmɛntərɪ
complementary
ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛntərɪ
complimentary
ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛntərɪ
documentary
ˌdɒkjʊˈmɛntərɪ
elementary
ˌɛlɪˈmɛntərɪ
filamentary
ˌfɪləˈmɛntərɪ
impedimentary
ɪmˌpɛdɪˈmɛntərɪ
integumentary
ɪnˌtɛɡjʊˈmɛntərɪ
mockumentary
ˌmɒkjʊˈmɛntərɪ
parliamentary
ˌpɑːləˈmɛntərɪ
rudimentary
ˌruːdɪˈmɛntərɪ
sacramentary
ˌsækrəˈmɛntərɪ
sedimentary
ˌsɛdɪˈmɛntərɪ
semidocumentary
ˌsɛmɪˌdɒkjʊˈmɛntərɪ
shockumentary
ˌʃɒkjuːˈmɛntərɪ
supplementary
ˌsʌplɪˈmɛntərɪ
tenementary
ˌtɛnəˈmɛntərɪ
testamentary
ˌtɛstəˈmɛntərɪ
uncomplimentary
ˌʌnkɒmplɪˈmɛntərɪ
unparliamentary
ˌʌnpɑːləˈmɛntərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EMOLUMENTARY

emo
emodin
emollescence
emolliate
emollience
emollient
emollition
emolument
emolumental
emote
emoter
emoticon
emotion
emotionable
emotional
emotional baggage
emotional blackmail
emotional correctness
emotional cripple
emotional intelligence

WORDS THAT END LIKE EMOLUMENTARY

commentary
dentary
fly-on-the-wall documentary
fragmentary
involuntary
ligamentary
medicamentary
military
momentary
nondocumentary
nonelementary
nonvoluntary
pigmentary
running commentary
sedentary
segmentary
semisedentary
unguentary
vestimentary
voluntary

Synonyms and antonyms of emolumentary in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «emolumentary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EMOLUMENTARY

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

Translator English - Chinese

emolumentary
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

emolumentary
570 millions of speakers

English

emolumentary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

emolumentary
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

emolumentary
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

emolumentary
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

emolumentary
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

emolumentary
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

emolumentary
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Emolumen
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

emolumentary
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

emolumentary
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

emolumentary
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Emolumentary
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

emolumentary
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

emolumentary
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनुकरणीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

emolumentary
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

emolumentary
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

emolumentary
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

emolumentary
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

emolumentary
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

emolumentary
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

emolumentary
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

emolumentary
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

emolumentary
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of emolumentary

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EMOLUMENTARY»

The term «emolumentary» is used very little and occupies the 170.721 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EMOLUMENTARY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMOLUMENTARY»

Discover the use of emolumentary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to emolumentary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Metropolitan Magazine
honourable competency to the more active and emolumentary life of a city. Being a man of intellectual acquirements, he devoted all his attention to his son, and disciplined him at an early age in the ways of attentive study. Mr. Pigot received ...
2
The Metropolitan
He was soon firmly entrenched within the equity fortress ; and though, like many of his brethren who contrive to discharge the duties of " tw7o gentlemen at once," he too might have taken an emolumentary sweep in the broad field of common ...
3
Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons: ...
Suppose a good comedy to be represented at Drury Lane, and a good tragedy at Covent Garden, each of equal merit respectively, which would be most emolumentary to the respective managers ? — I rather think experience shows that ...
4
Memoirs and correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, second ...
... reduction in the properties of the still existing inhabitants of the country district, by far the most emolumentary portion of the parish, has literally taken place during that particular term. Whence, then, it may be asked, under such circumstances, ...
Viscount Robert Stewart Castlereagh, Charles William Vane Londonderry (Marquis of), 1849
5
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign ...
Mr. Crecvey was not disposed to protract unnecessarily the discussion, but he would like to know, as there were two acts necessary on the part of the Crown to put the grantee in the full' possession of the oilice, as an emolumentary oflice, ...
6
The Lancet
But all the public emolumentary situations are virtually closed against them. Such are the baneful effects of that iniquitous and barbarous penal code, which makes men aliens in their native country. Happy, mugnanimous, and enlightened ...
7
Chambers concise dictionary
[15c: from Latin emolumentum a corn-grinder's fee, from molere to grind] □ emolumentary adj. emote /I'mout/ > v (emoted, emoting) intr, derog colloq to display exaggerated or insincere emotion. [Early 20c: back-formation from EMOTION] ...
Ian Brookes, 2004
8
Military Collections and Remarks
These gentlemen, commanding the bulwarks of the nation very deservedly have extreme emolumentary employments in their own departments ': Witness, Greenwich; guard squadrons, and ships ; yatchts; commis. fioners 3. comptrollers ; &C.
‎1777
9
Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious ...
fEase at home, tho' crown'd with the emolumentary Smiles os the Court. Yet after all these Services to his King and Country, he has no Title, but to the universal - ' * Esteem nounce Sentence, and adjourn'd the' Court; for Prorogations and ...
‎1754
10
A Tour through some of the Northern parts of Europe, ...
I am surprised to hear that 'marriage is not encouraged by every honor*ary or. emolumentary mark of favor, which the government can confer on it, finde it seems the most essential and necessary policy. they can a adopt. K' If If the report be ...
Sir Nathaniel William WRAXALL, 1776

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Emolumentary [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/emolumentary>. Apr 2024 ».
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