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PRONUNCIATION OF PAEDERASTY

paederasty  [ˈpɛdəˌræstɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PAEDERASTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Paederasty 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 PAEDERASTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

paederasty

Pederasty

Pederasty or paederasty is a homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male. The word pederasty derives from Greek "love of boys", a compound derived from παῖς "child, boy" and ἐραστής "lover". Historically, pederasty has existed as a variety of customs and practices within different cultures. The status of pederasty has changed over the course of history, at times considered an ideal and at other times a crime. In the history of Europe, its most structured cultural manifestation was Athenian pederasty, and became most prominent in the 6th century BC. Greek pederasty's various forms were the subject of philosophic debates in which the purely carnal type was unfavorably compared with erotic friendships and moderate forms. The legal status of pederasty in most countries is currently determined by whether or not the boy has reached the local age of consent. Illegal forms of pederasty fall under child sexual abuse.

Definition of paederasty in the English dictionary

The definition of paederasty in the dictionary is sexual relations between a man and a boy.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PAEDERASTY


abdominoplasty
æbˈdɒmɪnəʊˌplæstɪ
angioplasty
ˈændʒɪəˌplæstɪ
arthroplasty
ˈɑːθrəˌplæstɪ
Asti
ˈæstɪ
blepharoplasty
ˈblɛfərəʊˌplæstɪ
epinasty
ˈɛpɪˌnæstɪ
heteroplasty
ˈhɛtərəʊˌplæstɪ
hymenoplasty
ˈhaɪmənəʊˌplæstɪ
hypoplasty
ˈhaɪpəʊˌplæstɪ
keratoplasty
ˈkɛrətəʊˌplæstɪ
mammaplasty
ˈmæmæˌplæstɪ
mammoplasty
ˈmæməˌplæstɪ
osteoplasty
ˈɒstɪəˌplæstɪ
otoplasty
ˈəʊtəʊˌplæstɪ
pederasty
ˈpɛdəˌræstɪ
rhinoplasty
ˈraɪnəʊˌplæstɪ
staphyloplasty
ˈstæfɪləʊˌplæstɪ
stomatoplasty
ˈstɒmətəˌplæstɪ
thoracoplasty
ˈθɔːrəkəʊˌplæstɪ
uranoplasty
ˈjʊərənəʊˌplæstɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PAEDERASTY

paederast
paederastic
paedeutic
paediatric
paediatric nurse
paediatric nursing
paediatrician
paediatrics
paediatry
paedo
paedobaptism
paedobaptist
paedodontic
paedogenesis
paedogenetic
paedogenic
paedological
paedologist
paedology
paedomorphic

WORDS THAT END LIKE PAEDERASTY

autoplasty
blasty
contrasty
Cornish pasty
dynasty
hasty
masty
Ming Dynasty
nasty
nyctinasty
overhasty
pasty
photonasty
polymasty
tasty
toasty
tuboplasty
vasty
video nasty
yeasty

Synonyms and antonyms of paederasty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «paederasty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PAEDERASTY

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

Translator English - Chinese

paederasty
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pederastia
570 millions of speakers

English

paederasty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

paederasty
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

paederasty
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

педерастия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pederastia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পায়ুকাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pédérastie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paederasty
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Päderastie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

paederasty
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

paederasty
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paederasty
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

paederasty
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

paederasty
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जुगारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oğlancılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pederastia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paederasty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

педерастія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pederastie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

paederasty
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

paederasty
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

paederasty
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paederasty
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of paederasty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PAEDERASTY»

The term «paederasty» is barely ever used and occupies the 194.648 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PAEDERASTY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PAEDERASTY»

Discover the use of paederasty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to paederasty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Homosexuality in the Ancient World
PAEDERASTY*. JAN BREMMER §1. Problem: One of the intriguing features of the Greeks is their active interest in homosexuality.1 On the whole scholars have been rather reserved in tackling this problem, but in the course of time different ...
Wayne R. Dynes, Stephen Donaldson, 1992
2
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on ...
Classical paederasty, Patzer maintains, is a logical (though not in every case a temporal) development from the kind of initiation ritual attested for the Cretans. It differs from its ancestor in that (1) it aims at inculcating not military but civic virtue;  ...
David M Halperin, 2012
3
Gay Studies from the French Cultures: Voices from France, ...
GAY MALE HISTORY AND COMMENTARY Paederasty and Political Life in Archaic Greek Cities Bernard Sergent, PhD, Senior Researcher Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France SUMMARY. This article deals with the ...
Rommel Mendès-Leite, Pierre-Olivier de Busscher, 1993
4
Classics: A Discipline and Profession in Crisis?
Classical paederasty, Patzer maintains, is a logical (though not in every case a temporal) development from the kind of initiation ritual attested for the Cretans. It differs from its ancestor in that (1) it aims at inculcating not military but civic virtue;  ...
Phyllis Culham, Lowell Edmunds, Alden Smith, 1989
5
Bentham and the Oppressed
136 'Paederasty', p. 402. 137 As in the cases of the poets Martial, Horace, Virgil; he also quotes Pilati, Traits def Loix Civiles, ch. du marriage; 'Paederasty', p. 401. In addition, Bentham observes that such prejudice had at least one advantage, ...
Lea Campos Boralevi, 1984
6
Jeremy Bentham: Critical Assessments
136. Jeremy. Bentham's. Essay. on. 'Paederasty': An. Introduction*1. L. Crompton. *Source: Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 3 (4), Summer 1978, pp. 383-87. The following essay, which is being published for the first time, is the earliest scholarly  ...
Bhikhu C. Parekh, 1993
7
Political Inversions: Homosexuality, Fascism, and the ...
Sagitta's polemic is such that it is difficult to determine whether he attributes his marginaliza- tion to the specificity of male -male desire or to the particular construction of paederasty. One could argue — on the one hand — that the sexual ...
Andrew Hewitt
8
Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry
ever-present possibility of opening a gap between the traditional language and ideals of paederasty and the reality of sexual desire. In Idyll 13, however, the point lies in the fact that Heracles was not just Hylas' erastes, but was in fact his ...
Richard L. Hunter, Richard Hunter, 2006
9
Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians - Hopkins, Pater and Wilde
Peregrinus, and The Ignorant Book Collector — several of those that are now attributed to Pseudo-Lucian treat paederasty quite differently. In one case — the dialogue Erôtes (now dated ca. 300 CE) — paederasty is actually proven superior to ...
Michael Matthew Kaylor, 2006
10
Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures : a ...
Both Kenneth Dover and I have argued in some detail against deriving classical Greek paederasty from earlier, shadowy, prehistoric initiation rites; it is unnecessary to recapitulate those arguments here.3 What I would like to do instead is ...
Martin B. Duberman, 1997

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PAEDERASTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term paederasty is used in the context of the following news items.
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Gadfly: Gerard Henderson and the word of George Pell
... as chairman of Aunty, Professor Richard Downing, who defended an ABC program in 1975 that discussed “the phenomenon of paederasty”. «The Saturday Paper, Jun 15»
2
The love that dared not speak its name in the Foreign Office
... promiscuity or exhibitionism to paederasty". The report, warmly welcomed by the Thatcher government, recommended that homosexuality be ... «Independent, Mar 10»
3
Clive Barker's Jericho
I was not alluding to Wilde's affair with Douglas, but instead to his self confessed - nay, self proclaimed - paederasty. You can deny it all you like ... «Spong, Oct 07»

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