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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LADY BOUNTIFUL

After a character in George Farquhar's play The Beaux' Stratagem (1707).
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LADY BOUNTIFUL

lady bountiful play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LADY BOUNTIFUL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lady bountiful 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 LADY BOUNTIFUL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of lady bountiful in the English dictionary

The definition of lady bountiful in the dictionary is an ostentatiously charitable woman.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LADY BOUNTIFUL

lady
Lady Chapel
Lady Day
lady doctor
lady fern
lady friend
Lady Luck
Lady Macbeth strategy
lady mayoress
Lady Muck
lady of the house
Lady of the Lake
lady orchid
lady palm
lady teacher
lady-in-waiting
lady-killer
lady-killing
lady´s bedstraw
lady´s finger

WORDS THAT END LIKE LADY BOUNTIFUL

beautiful
body beautiful
bountiful
dutiful
fanciful
merciful
pitiful
plentiful
unbeautiful
undutiful
unmerciful
unpitiful
weariful

Synonyms and antonyms of lady bountiful in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lady bountiful» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LADY BOUNTIFUL

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

Translator English - Chinese

丰富多样的女士
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dama generosa
570 millions of speakers

English

lady bountiful
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

महिला भरपूर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

سيدة الوفيرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

леди обильный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

senhora beneficiente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভদ্রমহিলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

femme généreuse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wanita gemilang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dame freigebige
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

女性の豊かな
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

레이디 풍부한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lady Bountiful
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

phụ nữ dồi dào
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெண் பெண்தன்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

महिला उदार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hayırsever kadın
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

signora generosa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pani hojny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

леді рясний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

doamnă bogat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυρία άφθονη
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

lady oorvloed
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

lady frikostiga
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

lady bountiful
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lady bountiful

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LADY BOUNTIFUL»

The term «lady bountiful» is used very little and occupies the 156.603 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LADY BOUNTIFUL» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LADY BOUNTIFUL»

Discover the use of lady bountiful in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lady bountiful and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lady Bountiful
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.
George A. Birmingham, 2009
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The Mystery of Lady Bountiful
Non-fiction-history of Lililan Knox and the Knox Lumber Company in Texas
Bob Bowman, Doris Bowman, Edward J. Barrett, 2002
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Lady Bountiful, a Story of Years; a Play in Four Acts
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 2012
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Lady Bountiful's Legacy to Her Family and Friends
Subtitle: A Book of Practical Instructions
John Timbs, 2009
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Following Djuna: Women Lovers and the Erotics of Loss
After a three-story interruption that begins with a meditation on the erotics of attraction, then recounts the excesses wrought by power imbalances, the threads of the opening narrative resume in the fifth story, a tale of "I" and Lady Bountiful, nee ...
Carolyn Allen, 1996
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The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early ...
SULLEN. Put a little pepper and salt in their bellies, good woman. Enter Lady Bormrzfitl. I beg your ladyship's pardon for taking your business out of your hands ; I have been :1tampering here a little with one ofyour patients. LADY BOUNTIFUL.
J. Douglas Canfield, Maja-Lisa von Sneidern, 2001
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Restoration Comedy in Performance
Where, where is my Lady Bountiful? - Pray, which is the old lady of you three? LAdy bOUNTiFUL. I am. By Archer's charming little impertinence the audience is immediately alerted to the flippant level of deception that is to be perpetrated.
J. L. Styan, 1986
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The development of George Farquhar as a comic dramatist
Even Freeman, brother of Mrs. Sullen, stops Off at the Inn before he goes to Lady Bountiful's House. Act II, Scene I, takes place at Lady Bountiful's House. All of the female characters in the story live there with the exception of Cherry, daughter ...
Eugene Nelson James, 1972
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Second Chances
CHAPTER – Royal Breakfast Prince Perry and Princess Polly are having breakfast at the garden dining table as Lady Bountiful approaches near. "Lady Bountiful, why do your locks appear rather wet today? Did you just have a bath?
Dominae Primus, 2010
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Posh Logic: 100 Puzzles
In the days when only the very rich had motor cars, Lady Bountiful of Bountiful Hall employed a chauffeur named James. One week on successive days he drove her to a different one of the locations numbered 1 to 4 on the sketch-map at  ...
The Puzzle Society, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LADY BOUNTIFUL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lady bountiful is used in the context of the following news items.
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Canvassing young opinion in Keighley
THIS Lady Bountiful, speaking to two rather woebegone children and a small dog, was – perhaps not surprisingly – a politician's wife! She was ... «Keighley News, Jul 15»
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Fine talk, big staff, but where are the children, Lady Bountiful?
I wanted to look into some of the problems faced by Camila Batmanghelidjh, the luxuriant Lady Bountiful who founded this beacon of altruism. «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
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Rachel Dolezal: How not to be an ally
But playing Lady Bountiful is not the way to go about it. She has undermined her work by pretending that racial identity is a matter of choice, ... «rabble.ca, Jun 15»
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Did Anna Wintour Make the Tony Awards Chic?
Were Wintour and company acting as Lady Bountiful to a grateful group of thespians, or as the Queen Soch making over the dowdy theater ... «New York Magazine, Jun 15»
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The Beaux' Stratagem: As Witty As It Is Clever
If that wasn't enough there are French prisoners of war roaming freely around the city, highwaymen intent on burgling Lady Bountiful's house ... «Londonist, May 15»
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Can a city girl cut the country life?
... like some kind of Lady Bountiful, scattering pellets and flinging root vegetables in the general direction of sheep, goats, chickens and some of ... «Cambridge News, May 15»
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An Eastern Mystic
Merrill's father, Charles, was a co-founder of Merrill Lynch who described himself as “a mixture of Santa Claus, Lady Bountiful, the Good ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
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Wabash play opens today
Bringing high energy and comic relief are veteran performers Jamie Watson as Lady Bountiful (Squire Sullen's mother) and her faithful surgical ... «thepaper24-7.com, Apr 15»
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TRAI: Helping Telecom Companies Make Even More Money
Instead, we have the TRAI promising to be Lady Bountiful for the telecom companies. A sorry document that sullies the relatively clean image of ... «NewsClick, Apr 15»
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Is Harbor Acres Sarasota's Best Neighborhood?
She divided her time between Sarasota and another home in Massachusetts and functioned locally as a Lady Bountiful to just about everybody ... «Sarasota, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
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