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Meaning of "errantry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ERRANTRY

errantry  [ˈɛrəntrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ERRANTRY

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Errantry 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 ERRANTRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Errantry

Errantry is a three-page long poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, first published in 1933. It was included in Tolkien's short poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Tolkien invented the meter, which consists of trisyllabic assonances, three in each set of four lines. The second and fourth line in every quartet rhyme, as do the end of the first line and beginning of the second line in every pair. This was so difficult that he never wrote another poem again in this style, though he later did develop another style from this, and the result, through long evolution from Errantry, was Eärendil the Mariner as published in The Fellowship of the Ring. This poem was set to music by Donald Swann. The sheet music and an audio recording are part of the song-cycle The Road Goes Ever On. Errantry later came to be categorised as a Hobbit poem from Middle-earth. Errantry perfectly fits the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General.

Definition of errantry in the English dictionary

The definition of errantry in the dictionary is the way of life of a knight errant.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ERRANTRY


agentry
ˈeɪdʒəntrɪ
ancientry
ˈeɪnʃəntrɪ
Coventry
ˈkɒvəntrɪ
Daventry
ˈdævəntrɪ
dysentery
ˈdɪsəntrɪ
gallantry
ˈɡæləntrɪ
giantry
ˈdʒaɪəntrɪ
infantry
ˈɪnfəntrɪ
lieutenantry
lɛfˈtɛnəntrɪ
merchantry
ˈmɜːtʃəntrɪ
pageantry
ˈpædʒəntrɪ
peasantry
ˈpɛzəntrɪ
pedantry
ˈpɛdəntrɪ
pheasantry
ˈfezəntrɪ
pleasantry
ˈplɛzəntrɪ
serjeantry
ˈsɑːdʒəntrɪ
studentry
ˈstuːdəntrɪ
tenantry
ˈtɛnəntrɪ
truantry
ˈtruːəntrɪ
unpleasantry
ʌnˈplɛzəntrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ERRANTRY

err
errable
errancies
errancy
errand
errand boy
errand of mercy
errant
errantly
errantries
errata
erratic
erratical
erratically
erraticism
erratum
errhine
erring
erringly
erroneous

WORDS THAT END LIKE ERRANTRY

butler´s pantry
carpentry
chantry
country
cross-country
entry
gantry
gentry
go to the country
home country
knight errantry
light infantry
pantry
sentry
servantry
sycophantry
the Black Country
the country
the North Country
the West Country

Synonyms and antonyms of errantry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «errantry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ERRANTRY

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

Translator English - Chinese

侠义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

andante
570 millions of speakers

English

errantry
510 millions of speakers

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errantry
380 millions of speakers
ar

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errantry
280 millions of speakers

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Errantry
278 millions of speakers

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andante
270 millions of speakers

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errantry
260 millions of speakers

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errante
220 millions of speakers

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Errantry
190 millions of speakers

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errantry
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

遊歴
130 millions of speakers

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errantry
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Errantry
85 millions of speakers
vi

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errantry
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

errantry
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फरारी होणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

başıboşluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Errantry
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

errantry
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Errantry
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

errantry
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περιπλάνηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dolende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Errantry
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Errantry
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of errantry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ERRANTRY»

The term «errantry» is normally little used and occupies the 126.008 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ERRANTRY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ERRANTRY»

Discover the use of errantry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to errantry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Errantry: Strange Stories
Hand's award winning stories begin in the shimmery, dusty corners of upstate New York and move into even stranger settings.
Elizabeth Hand, 2013
2
Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in ...
Three aspects of these (geo)graphies concern me here: First, I address the poetic paradox of "rooted errantry" in the Cajun music repertoire by considering briefly the importance within this repertoire of actual topo- nyms (predominantly, village  ...
Charles J. Stivale, 2003
3
Errantry
A printed scroll inspired by a series of woodcuts known as Triumphzug Kaiser Maximilians I. After a four column introduction, the bulk of the scroll contains a series of pictures joined by the text of a poem (based on J.R.R. Tolkien's poem ...
Werner Pfeiffer, 2008
4
A Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian ...
errantry, in the Life and Aèlions of Dott (Quixote, who spent his Time in Adventures to free the World of Monsters, and to tame Gyants, and all in Honour of Dúlcinea Del Toboso, whom, though homely and agreeable only to his depraved Taste, ...
Anthony Collins, 1737
5
Poetics of Relation
ERRANTRY, EXILE 1. While errance is usually translated as "wandering," " errantry" seems better suited to Glissant's use of the word, and there is precedence in translations of Cesaire. Errance for Glissant, while not aimed like an arrow's ...
Édouard Glissant, 1997
6
Rules and Directions for Playing Magna Charta Or, Knight ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
‎2012
7
The Choice of Achilles: The Ideology of Figure in the Epic
IDEOLOGY AND FIGURATIVE ERRANTRY The disjunction, and occasional contradiction, between the different authorities Spenser invokes in his poetry generates a series of figurative and thematic displacements and suspensions that ...
Susanne Lindgren Wofford
8
The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and ...
For instance, Ouyang Feng refuses to conduct knight-errantry for the village girl by throwing out an excuse: “I lost my father when I was young and learned how to protect myself early.” He juxtaposes knight-errantry and self-protection and casts  ...
Ann Huss, Jianmei Liu, 2007
9
J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
Donald Swann's setting of six of these appeared in The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle (along with ''Errantry'' from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and the separately published ''Bilbo's Last Song''—the latter added to Swann's second ...
Michael D. C. Drout, 2007
10
Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism
Conde,. Crossing,. Errantry. of. Place. When one writes about imaginary space, that cultural aura of yearning and rear- ticulation, one is troping on another sordid history than that conspitatorial nexus between Nation and colonization in ...
Peter Hitchcock, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ERRANTRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term errantry is used in the context of the following news items.
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Summer Plays at Town & Gown, UGA and Arts!Oglethorpe
... the other prisoners as characters in his play of imagined knight errantry, such as love interest Aldonza/Dulcinea, played by Margot Hitchcock. «Flagpole Magazine, Jun 15»
2
The Stacks: How America Fell for the Private Eye
... his own stories in the first person, and sometimes admits to being afraid, has a self-deflating wit which takes the curse off his knight-errantry:. «Daily Beast, May 15»
3
Pauline Kael's First Film Review for The New Republic
We do something similar when reading Cervantes. Quixote, his mind confused by tales of Knight Errantry, going out to do battle with imaginary ... «The New Republic, May 15»
4
Oxford's Influential Inklings
Then, as now, one was tempted to fantasize one's surroundings as a Camelot of intellectual knight-errantry or an Eden of serene contemplation ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15»
5
Groam & Joan Son of Groam take distinctive brand of jazz and rock …
Groam & Joan Son of Groam, Errantry, Qlaud. 9 p.m. Saturday. Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar. $7. www.teabazaar.com. 293-9947. Posted: Friday ... «The Daily Progress, May 15»
6
Review: Randall LaGro stirs mystery, memories in monoprints at …
The New Mexico artist's recent works are no exception, evoking, variously, medieval knight-errantry, a profusion of flowers and a figure framed ... «ArtsATL, Apr 15»
7
Don Quixote, Charlie Hebdo, and the Politics of Laughter
... characters of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and its definitive sequel of 1615 furthered their misbegotten quest to reactivate knight errantry ... «Dissident Voice, Apr 15»
8
A Modest Reading of Don Quixote
... enemy of Amadis of Gaul and of the whole countless troop of his descendants; odious to me now are all the profane stories of knight-errantry; ... «Daily Sabah, Apr 15»
9
Tilting at windmills in Spain's La Mancha
Don Quixote renounced knight errantry and the books that had led him to turn knight errant, resumed the name Alonzo Quixano, and died in his ... «The Australian, Apr 15»
10
Weekend Words: Knight
Knight-errantry is religion. —Cervantes, Don Quixote. The world's male chivalry has perished out, But women are knights-errant to the last; «Hyperallergic, Mar 15»

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