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As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
Jonathan Winters

Meaning of "Mitty" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MITTY

From a short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939), by James Thurber.
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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 MITTY

Mitty  [ˈmɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MITTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mitty 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MITTY


amity
ˈæmɪtɪ
anonymity
ˌænɒˈnɪmɪtɪ
calamity
kəˈlæmɪtɪ
committee
kəˈmɪtɪ
conformity
kənˈfɔːmɪtɪ
deformity
dɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ
dimity
ˈdɪmɪtɪ
enmity
ˈɛnmɪtɪ
enormity
ɪˈnɔːmɪtɪ
extremity
ɪkˈstrɛmɪtɪ
proximity
prɒkˈsɪmɪtɪ
samithi
ˈsʌmɪtɪ
subcommittee
ˈsʌbkəˌmɪtɪ
uniformity
ˌjuːnɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MITTY

Mittelland Canal
mitten
mittened
Mitterrand
mittimus
Mitty-like
Mittyesque

WORDS THAT END LIKE MITTY

ambitty
bitty
chitty
ditty
gritty
itty-bitty
kitty
nitty
nitty-gritty
shitty
slitty
the nitty-gritty
titty
tough titty
unwitty
Walter Mitty
witty

Synonyms and antonyms of Mitty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Mitty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MITTY

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

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1,325 millions of speakers

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380 millions of speakers
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280 millions of speakers

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Mitty
278 millions of speakers

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Mitty
270 millions of speakers

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Mitty
260 millions of speakers

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Mitty
220 millions of speakers

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Mitty
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180 millions of speakers

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Mitty
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Mitty
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Mitty
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Mitty
75 millions of speakers

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Mitty
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Mitty
70 millions of speakers

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Mitty
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Mitty
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Mitty
40 millions of speakers

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Mitty
30 millions of speakers
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Mitty
15 millions of speakers
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Mitty
14 millions of speakers
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Mitty
10 millions of speakers
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5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Mitty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MITTY»

The term «Mitty» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.179 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MITTY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Mitty

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QUOTES WITH «MITTY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Mitty.
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Jonathan Winters
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MITTY»

Discover the use of Mitty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Mitty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
A henpecked husband copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airplane pilot, a brilliant doctor, and other dashing figures.
James Thurber, 2008
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces
James Thurber is universally admired for his hilarious sense of humour, off - beat imagination and unique take on the world around him.
‎2000
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James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”: A garden ...
The expression “to lead someone up the garden path” means “to deliberately deceive someone”. Manfred Jahn analysed this short story with respect to his garden path short story theory.
Anastasia Deibert, 2008
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: A Musical Based on the ...
Musical comedy Based on the story by James Thurber Characters: 5 male, 6 female, and as many extras as desired.
Joe Manchester, Earl Shuman, 1968
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Code Orange
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
Caroline B. Cooney, 2013
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LIFE
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty originally appeared in The New Yorker. Little noticed at first, it caught on in wartime. Soldiers liked it so well that some of them formed Mitty Clubs, with "pocketa" as password. 1939 BY JAMES THURBER WE' RE ...
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Shmoop Literature Guide
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‎2010
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ADAPTATION TO LIFE
Although fascinated by photography, Mitty preferred photographs of things to people. By design, he learned to write so that no one could understand him. Like a surprising number of other Grant Study subjects, in lieu of dating Mitty obtained a ...
George E. Vaillant, 2012
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Currents of Comedy on the American Screen: How Film and ...
Walter Mitty is a real character we can all identify with, unlike the pro- tagonists of other suspense comedies in which the main character is merely a cardboard cutout created solely to exhibit the abilities of its comic star. While The Secret Life  ...
Nicholas Laham, 2009
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The Last Conceptual Revolution: A Critique of Richard ...
But look again at Mitty's secret lives. There is one fantasy in which Mitty imagines himself as a murder suspect. Indeed, in Mitty's fantasy he physically assaults an authority figure — in this case a district attorney. Mitty the murder suspect can ...
Eric Gander, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MITTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Mitty is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pizarro: Target Summer Pops returns to downtown San Jose
Santana, a longtime drama teacher at San Jose's Archbishop Mitty High, caught the acting bug at Children's Musical Theatre San Jose and has ... «Marin Independent Journal, Jul 15»
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Sports digest: Rose Bowl crowd of 93226 watches Barcelona beat …
... All-Star game were former Stanford star Nneka Ogwumike and Danielle Robinson, a former standout at Archbishop Mitty High-San Jose. «Marin Independent Journal, Jul 15»
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Did Ferris Bueller's Cameron grow up to be Fight Club's narrator?
Or maybe someone on Reddit will decide that they're all just Walter Mitty and be done with it. Send your Great Job, Internet tips to GJI@avclub. «A.V. Club, Jul 15»
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Local minor league baseball stats
Mitch Haniger (Archbishop Mitty) Visalia (Diamondbacks) California A .360 7 23. James Harris (Oakland Tech) Beloit (A's) Midwest A .233 4 18. «San Jose Mercury News, Jul 15»
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Bob Baker | Journalist and musician, 67
He wrote about the experience in a 2007 story in the New York Times, under the headline "When Walter Mitty Met Conway Twitty." - L.A. Times. «Philly.com, Jul 15»
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Anton Duffy main player in plot to kill Mad Dog Adair, Sam McCrory
... it emerged he had a serious drug addiction to Tramadol and his defence team tried to portray him as a "fantasist" and "Walter Mitty" character. «stv.tv, Jul 15»
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Summer activities for kids and families | Week of July 20
The Schuykill Banks Movie Series is showing The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on Thursday at the Schuylkill Banks by the Walnut Street Bridge. «Philadelphia Public School Notebook, Jul 15»
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Gardai arrest 'Walter Mitty' armed robber
Gardai have busted a 'Walter Mitty' armed robber who is the chief suspect for at least four raids on businesses in north Co Dublin over the ... «Herald, Jul 15»
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At 57, 100-plus baseball games and the midnight shift on Belmont …
It impresses me how he has kept that Walter Mitty-like enthusiasm all these years.'' Strassmann, who played trumpet in the UMass Jazz ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
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Super dogs and loud lawyers tell Alabama stories
Lowder said Amos is the Walter Mitty of dogs, a fanciful canine who imagines himself as much more. I didn't see that. I didn't see him jump or ... «AL.com, Jul 15»

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