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plighter

Meaning of "plighter" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PLIGHTER

ˈplaɪtə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLIGHTER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Plighter 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 PLIGHTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of plighter in the English dictionary

The definition of plighter in the dictionary is someone who promises something.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLIGHTER

blighter · candlelighter · citer · delighter · downlighter · fighter · firefighter · firelighter · Gauleiter · highlighter · lamplighter · lighter · limelighter · mitre · moonlighter · reiter · songwriter · titre · uplighter · writer

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLIGHTER

plicately · plicateness · plication · plicature · plied · plier · pliers · plies · plight · plight one´s troth · plightful · plim · plimsole · plimsoll · Plimsoll line · pling · Plinian · plink · plinker · plinking

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLIGHTER

all-nighter · cigarette lighter · daughter · freedom fighter · freighter · gas lighter · granddaughter · great-granddaughter · gunfighter · involuntary manslaughter · jet fighter · laughter · manslaughter · night fighter · overnighter · prizefighter · Richter · righter · slaughter · stepdaughter · voluntary manslaughter

Synonyms and antonyms of plighter in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «plighter» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PLIGHTER

Find out the translation of plighter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

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

plighter
1,325 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Spanish

plighter
570 millions of speakers
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plighter
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

plighter
380 millions of speakers
ar

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plighter
280 millions of speakers
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plighter
278 millions of speakers
pt

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plighter
270 millions of speakers
bn

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plighter
260 millions of speakers
fr

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plighter
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pemetik api
190 millions of speakers
de

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plighter
180 millions of speakers
ja

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plighter
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

plighter
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Javanese

Plighter
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

plighter
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

plighter
75 millions of speakers
mr

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लठ्ठ
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

plighter
70 millions of speakers
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plighter
65 millions of speakers
pl

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plighter
50 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Ukrainian

plighter
40 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Romanian

plighter
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

plighter
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

plighter
14 millions of speakers
sv

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plighter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

plighter
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLIGHTER»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLIGHTER»

Discover the use of plighter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to plighter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
The play employs several relatively established '-er' forms, such as 'surfeiter' (2.1. 33), 'wearer' (2.2.7), 'reporter' (2.2.194) and 'master-leaver' (4.10.21), which occur elsewhere in Renaissance literature, but, as with 'boggler' and 'plighter', ...
Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells, 2010
2
Antony And Cleopatra
Ant. To let a fellow that will take rewards, And say, God quit you! be familiar with My play-fellow, your hand; this kingly seal, 790 And plighter of high hearts !—+O, that I were Upon the hill of Basan, to out-roar The horned herd! for I have savage  ...
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, 1786
3
An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by ...
And. —- Rather comfort his distressed plight - - Ibid. — To keep her constancy in plight and youth Troilus and Cressida. —- Haply, when I shall wed, that lord, whose hand must take my plight, shall carry half my love with him - - Lear. Plighter.
Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare, 1827
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An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by ...
1 838 64 Plighter. This kingly seal, and plighter of high hearts Antony and Cleopatra. 11. 747. 51 Plod. Trudge, plod, away, o' the hoof Merry Wlvet of Windsor. 3 44 20 — That bare-foot plod I the cold ground upon . ..///'.. Well.', 4 238 8 ...
Samuel Ayscough, 1827
5
Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions ...
IX. plighter 173 Hounds 175 1 178 \r 180 181 Dukeof Buccleuch's 185 , No. Ill 188 New Game BUI 190 192 with Mr. Jollirt'e's 94th of November' - ..194 Sir Thomas Stanley's Letter to Innkeepers In the different Towns and Counties of England, ...
‎1831
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The Dramatic Works: Complete in Three Volumes
Ant. To let afellow thattwlll take rewards, And say, God quit you! be familiar with My playfellow, your hand; this kingly seal, And plighter of high hearts !—0, that l were Upon the,-hill.of. Basan, to outroar The horned herd! for I have savage cause; ...
William Shakespeare, 1820
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The Dramatic Works and Poems
Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is. Cleo . Wherefore is this 7 Ant. To let a fellow that will take rewards, And say, Ood qnit you ! be familiar with My playfellow, your hand ; this kingly seal, And plighter of ...
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, 1843
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The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the ...
... Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is. Cleo. Wherefore is this ? Ant. To let a fellow that will take rewards, And say, God quit you ! be familiar with My playfellow, your hand ; this kingly seal, And plighter of ...
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler, 1825
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The practical nature of the doctrines and alleged ...
Of this covenant Christ is the plighter of his troth for it, the surety, the promiser, the undertaker. The verb this comes of means to prove, which comes from the words signifying striking hands, or giving one's hand as a sign of a covenant, and so ...
Augustus Clissold, 1839
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The works of Shakespear: In six volumes
Wherefore is this? , *Jfl *p Ant, To let a fellow that will take rewards, rc u , n And fay, God quit you, be familiar w$j; jDl „COj x ^ My play-fellow, ypur han^i tl^^^pg^ ftal,^^ :iA is{ ls|^ And plighter of high hearts! — O that I w^p(/ r ^ 5£,f"- Upon the hill ...
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe, 1723
REFERENCE
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