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Meaning of "opisthography" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OPISTHOGRAPHY

opisthography  [ˌɒpɪsˈθɒɡrəfɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OPISTHOGRAPHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Opisthography 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 OPISTHOGRAPHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of opisthography in the English dictionary

The definition of opisthography in the dictionary is the practice of writing on the front and back or a papyrus.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OPISTHOGRAPHY


autobiography
ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒɡrəfɪ
bibliography
ˌbɪblɪˈɒɡrəfɪ
biography
baɪˈɒɡrəfɪ
choreography
ˌkɒrɪˈɒɡrəfɪ
chromatography
ˌkrəʊməˈtɒɡrəfɪ
chromolithography
ˌkrəʊməʊlɪˈθɒɡrəfɪ
discography
dɪsˈkɒɡrəfɪ
filmography
fɪlˈmɒɡrəfɪ
geography
dʒɪˈɒɡrəfɪ
lithography
lɪˈθɒɡrəfɪ
mythography
mɪˈθɒɡrəfɪ
orthography
ɔːˈθɒɡrəfɪ
pathography
pəˈθɒɡrəfɪ
photography
fəˈtɒɡrəfɪ
photolithography
ˌfəʊtəʊlɪˈθɒɡrəfɪ
pornography
pɔːˈnɒɡrəfɪ
tomography
təˈmɒɡrəfɪ
topography
təˈpɒɡrəfɪ
typography
taɪˈpɒɡrəfɪ
videography
ˌvɪdɪˈɒɡrəfɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OPISTHOGRAPHY

opisometer
opisthobranch
opisthocoelian
opisthocoelous
opisthodomos
opisthoglossal
opisthognathism
opisthognathous
opisthograph
opisthographic
opisthosoma
opisthotonic
opisthotonos
opium
opium addict
opium den
opium poppy
opium war
Opium Wars
opiumism

WORDS THAT END LIKE OPISTHOGRAPHY

angiography
calligraphy
cartography
computed tomography
computerized tomography
cryptography
crystallography
demography
echocardiography
epigraphy
ethnography
gas chromatography
historiography
holography
iconography
mammography
oceanography
portrait photography
radiography
time-lapse photography
ultrasonography

Synonyms and antonyms of opisthography in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «opisthography» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OPISTHOGRAPHY

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

Translator English - Chinese

opisthography
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

opisthography
570 millions of speakers

English

opisthography
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

opisthography
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

opisthography
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

opisthography
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

opisthography
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

opisthography
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

opisthography
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Opisthography
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

opisthography
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

opisthography
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

opisthography
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Opisthography
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

opisthography
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

opisthography
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शस्त्रक्रिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

opisthography
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

opisthography
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

opisthography
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

opisthography
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

opisthography
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

opisthography
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opisthography
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

opisthography
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

opisthography
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of opisthography

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OPISTHOGRAPHY»

The term «opisthography» is normally little used and occupies the 145.480 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about opisthography

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPISTHOGRAPHY»

Discover the use of opisthography in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to opisthography and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions: Volume 1: Analysis
1885 (##001), is not opisthographic equally does not mean this feature was not at all borrowed from Linear A. When opisthography occurs, there always appears to be a textual. 209 Palaima (1989a): 156, note 53. 210 The cuneiform strategies  ...
Silvia Ferrara, 2012
2
The administration of neopalatial Crete: a critical ...
This is the most common explanation for opisthography, especially at sites other than Haghia Triada. At Haghia Triada, however, opisthography seems to have been mostly intentional (cf. infra). Linear A tablets always rotate around their ...
Ilse Schoep, 2002
3
Minos
Opisthography The reasons for opisthography are diverse, but only those tablets where a clear separation of recto and verso was intended and where the text on the verso is not merely the continuation of the text on the recto are considered ...
‎1999
4
The Haarlem legend of the invention of printing by Lourens ...
Anopisthography and opisthography is not a chronological, but a purely technical question, which, in its turn, is related to the corporations, to the connexion between prenters and typographers. So also the light-brown colour, with which in  ...
Antonius van der Linde, Laurens Coster, 1871
5
Affixes in Their Origin and Application: Exhibiting the ...
opisthography a writing upon both pages of a leaf. opisthodome oplstliocoelian en-t-os-th-o-bla-s-t opistbotonns -T-IC, a. plastic that may be moulded. (TtkAaaio I mould. T part.) rustic pertaining to (RUS, gen. RtJR-Is,) the country, or rural ...
Samuel Stehman Haldeman, 1871
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The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens ...
Anopisthography and opisthography is not a chronological, but a purely technical question, which, in its turn, is related to the corporations, to the connexion between prenters and typographers. So also the light-brown colour, with which in the ...
Antonius van der Linde, 1871
7
An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary: with an analysis of ...
... sarng; mympwyol Opinionatist, o-pin'-iyn-â-tist, s. un cil- dynus yn ei farn neu ei dyb ei hun Opiparous, o-pip'-a-rys, a. gorwych, ar- wych, costfawr Opisthodome, o-pis'-tho-dôm, s. cefn temi, y lle wrth gefn teml, olgadlas . Opisthography ...
Thomas Edwards, 1864
8
Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
(Opisthography is the practice of writing on both sides.) From Greek words that mean 'written on the back or cover.' antapology [ant-uh-pah-luh-jee] a reply to an apology. Very rare, this word deserves a wider use to describe responses to ...
Erin McKean, 2006
9
Literacy and Power in the Ancient World
... 103, 104, 105, 127; see also Bible, Gospels Nicaea, Second Council of, 201, 209 Nicephorus, Patriarch, 199, 202, 210, 211 Nineveh, 19 notebooks, 1 16 Notitia Dignitatum, 164 oaths, 39, 43 opisthography, 131 oracles, 7 orality, 3, 7, 12, 18, ...
Alan K. Bowman, Greg Woolf, 1996
10
Magical Practice in the Latin West: Papers from the ...
... 319, 322, 610 Reversed world of magic, 150, 225; reverse writing, see Opisthography Rhine, 141, 300 Rhodes, 312 Rhombus, 222 Ring letters, 221, 222, 235, 236, 237 Risk, 483 Ritual, 27, 32, 35, 38, 56f., 61, 65, 68, 82, 83, 86, 154 n.
Richard Lindsay Gordon, Francisco Marco Simón, 2010

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