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Meaning of "smallage" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SMALLAGE

From earlier smalache, from smalsmall + ache wild celery, from Old French, from Latin apium.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SMALLAGE

smallage  [ˈsmɔːlɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SMALLAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Smallage 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 SMALLAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

smallage

Celery

Celery is a plant variety in the family Apiaceae, commonly used as a vegetable. The plant grows to 1 m tall. The leaves are pinnate to bipinnate with rhombic leaflets 3–6 cm long and 2–4 cm broad. The flowers are creamy-white, 2–3 mm in diameter, and are produced in dense compound umbels. The seeds are broad ovoid to globose, 1.5–2 mm long and wide.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SMALLAGE


acknowledge
əkˈnɒlɪdʒ
assemblage
əˈsɛmblɪdʒ
cartilage
ˈkɑːtɪlɪdʒ
college
ˈkɒlɪdʒ
Coolidge
ˈkuːlɪdʒ
curtilage
ˈkɜːtɪlɪdʒ
haulage
ˈhɔːlɪdʒ
keelage
ˈkiːlɪdʒ
knowledge
ˈnɒlɪdʒ
milage
ˈmaɪlɪdʒ
mileage
ˈmaɪlɪdʒ
pillage
ˈpɪlɪdʒ
privilege
ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ
silage
ˈsaɪlɪdʒ
spillage
ˈspɪlɪdʒ
stallage
ˈstɔːlɪdʒ
stealage
ˈstiːlɪdʒ
thirlage
ˈθɜːlɪdʒ
tillage
ˈtɪlɪdʒ
village
ˈvɪlɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SMALLAGE

small-leaved lime
small-minded
small-mindedly
small-mindedness
small-scale
small-size
small-sized
small-time
small-timer
small-town
smallboy
smallclothes
smallest room
smallholder
smallholding
smallish
smallmouth bass
smallness
smallpox
smalls

WORDS THAT END LIKE SMALLAGE

athlete´s village
bricolage
collage
fishing village
fullage
global village
Greenwich Village
grillage
holiday village
hypallage
maquillage
no-tillage
outlet village
pupillage
shopping village
stillage
sullage
tallage
tollage
treillage
ullage

Synonyms and antonyms of smallage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «smallage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SMALLAGE

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

Translator English - Chinese

smallage
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

smallage
570 millions of speakers

English

smallage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

smallage
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

smallage
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

smallage
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

smallage
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

smallage
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

céleri à couper
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kecil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

smallage
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

smallage
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

smallage
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Smallage
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

smallage
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

smallage
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लहान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

smallage
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

smallage
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

smallage
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

smallage
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

smallage
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

smallage
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

smallage
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

smallage
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

smallage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of smallage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SMALLAGE»

The term «smallage» is used very little and occupies the 167.747 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SMALLAGE» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMALLAGE»

Discover the use of smallage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to smallage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Culinary Herbs
English Names: Leaf celery Also: ache, cutting celery, cutting mustard, green celery, smallage, soup celery, wild celery ["Wild celery" also refers to Vallisneria spiralis L., a perennial aquatic plant.] French Names: Celeri a couper (m) Also: ache, ...
Ernest Small, 2006
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Sauer's Herbal Cures: America's First Book of Botanic ...
Smallage (Soup Celery) A ptum graveolens Sauer: Sellery (1768) Now naturalized in many temperate areas of the United States, smallage has even invaded the salt marshes of California, a hahitat not unlike its original home in Europe.
William Woys Weaver, 2001
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Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants : Or, An Herball ...
C it A PJ XX V I I) Elzqfelinm, Paludnpiflmflve Apiam palnflre; ss Smallage. - - __- =_ Ee have besides the Smallage that hath usually beene knowne with us another sort thereof (as l may ss ss call it from the likenessc) which in.my former booke ...
John Parkinson, 1640
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Historical and Literary Botany: Containing the Qualities, ...
smallage. King Adrastus enlisted among the combatants, and was victorious. . Suidas * says that smallage was appropriated to mourning and lamentation; from thence arose the popular expression, when speaking of a sick man past recovery , ...
Eliza P. Reid, 1826
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A Garden of Herbs
SMALLAGE Smallage has little but its old-fashioned name to recommend it, for it has a very disagreeable taste. It is wild celery, and as Dethicke says, " It joyeth in the shadow and cometh well in any ground. Leave only a stem or two and it will ...
Eleanour Rohde, 2007
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The Complete Herbal: To which is Now Added, Upwards of One ...
Annis, Bishop's weed, made of ', Vetches or Tares, Violets, Nettles, Amomus, Smallage, Cummin, Cardamoms, common and Roman, the stones of Grapes, Cubebs, Grains of Paradise Greek Wheat, or Spelt Wheat The liver. Annis, Fennel ...
Nicholas Culpeper, 1843
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Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician
Smallage, Carline Thistle, Sullen- dine, China, Turmerick, Fennel, Gentian, Dog- grass, Cinquefoil, Parsley, Smallage, Asparagus, Rhubarb, Rhapontic, Kneeholly . Spleen. Smallage, Carline Thistle, Fern male and female, Parsley, Water-flag, ...
Nicholas Culpeper, 2006
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Culpeper's complete herbal
Dill, Smallage, Orobus, Rocket, Bazil, Nettles. In the third. Bishop's Weed, Annis, Amomus, Caraway, Fennel, (and so I believe Smallage too, let authors say what they will, for if the herb of Smallage be somewhat hotter than Parsley ; I know ...
Nicholas Culpeper, 1816
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An experimental history of the materia medica: or of the ...
Smallage: an umbelliferous plant, with bright green winged leaves, cut slightly into three roundish portions* serrated about the edges : the feeds are small, oval, plano-convex, furrowed, of a pale brownish or asti colour : the root long, about the ...
William Lewis, John Aikin, 1784
10
Notes and Queries
2, Devonshire Grove, Old Kent Road, S.E. Smallage (2n4 S. xii. 252.) — In some remarks in a former number upon names of herbs or vegetables ending in age, I stated that " smallage, a species of parsley, is derived by Skinner from small age,  ...
‎1863

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SMALLAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term smallage is used in the context of the following news items.
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Small but potent
It is a close relation to smallage (also known as wild celery), which is used in some French cooking for its pronounced bitter flavor. What Chinese celery lacks in ... «Taipei Times, Mar 15»
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South Yorkshire Police find Sheffield 'drive-by shooting car'
A black Ford Focus was found abandoned in Smallage Lane, near Woodhouse, on Monday morning. South Yorkshire Police said they were linking the car to the ... «BBC News, Sep 13»
3
Ye Olde Kitchen Garden
So why do we neglect common Colonial food plants like burnet, smallage, skirrets, scorzonera, gooseberry and purslane? And how would they taste to us now? «New York Times, Jul 11»

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