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Meaning of "whodunnitry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WHODUNNITRY

whodunnitry  [huːˈdʌnɪtrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WHODUNNITRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Whodunnitry 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 WHODUNNITRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of whodunnitry in the English dictionary

The definition of whodunnitry in the dictionary is the style or genre of novels, plays, etc concerned with crime.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WHODUNNITRY


asymmetry
æˈsɪmɪtrɪ
audiometry
ˌɔːdɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
cabinetry
ˈkæbɪnɪtrɪ
calorimetry
ˌkæləˈrɪmɪtrɪ
cemetery
ˈsɛmɪtrɪ
circuitry
ˈsɜːkɪtrɪ
corsetry
ˈkɔːsɪtrɪ
cytometry
saɪˈtɒmɪtrɪ
gannetry
ˈɡænɪtrɪ
geometry
dʒɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
morphometry
mɔːˈfɒmɪtrɪ
optometry
ɒpˈtɒmɪtrɪ
poetry
ˈpəʊɪtrɪ
spectrometry
spɛkˈtrɒmɪtrɪ
stoichiometry
ˌstɔɪkɪˈɒmɪtrɪ
symmetry
ˈsɪmɪtrɪ
telemetry
tɪˈlɛmɪtrɪ
toiletry
ˈtɔɪlɪtrɪ
trigonometry
ˌtrɪɡəˈnɒmɪtrɪ
whodunitry
huːˈdʌnɪtrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WHODUNNITRY

who-does-what
who´d
who´ll
who´s
who´s who
who´ve
whoa
whodunit
whodunitry
whodunnit
whoe´er
whoever
whole
whole blood
whole gale
whole hog
whole milk
whole note
whole number
whole step

WORDS THAT END LIKE WHODUNNITRY

babbitry
banditry
Guitry
hermitry
hobbitry
Jesuitry
microcircuitry
nitry
pulpitry
punditry
rabbitry
summitry

Synonyms and antonyms of whodunnitry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «whodunnitry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WHODUNNITRY

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

Translator English - Chinese

whodunnitry
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

whodunnitry
570 millions of speakers

English

whodunnitry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

whodunnitry
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

whodunnitry
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

whodunnitry
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

whodunnitry
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

whodunnitry
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

whodunnitry
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Whodunnitry
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

whodunnitry
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

whodunnitry
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

whodunnitry
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Whodunnitry
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

whodunnitry
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

whodunnitry
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Whodunnitry
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

whodunnitry
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

whodunnitry
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

whodunnitry
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

whodunnitry
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

whodunnitry
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

whodunnitry
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

whodunnitry
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

whodunnitry
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

whodunnitry
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of whodunnitry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WHODUNNITRY»

The term «whodunnitry» is barely ever used and occupies the 211.280 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 whodunnitry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHODUNNITRY»

Discover the use of whodunnitry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to whodunnitry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Talking About Detective Fiction
However much I try to discipline myself as to plot and general whodunnitry, I always find myself writing about a set of people in a milieu that for one reason or another attracts me, and then, bad cess to it, I have to involve them in some crime or ...
P. D. James, 2009
2
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
... thepolice detective 'Waters' (1849) which,while not conforming to the later'rules' of whodunnitry,helped to builduppublic identification with the still partly distrusted figureofthe detective policeman, and hence withthe process ofdetection itself.
Martin Priestman, 2003
3
Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction
Praise for Look at the Birdie "The fourteen stories in Lack at the Birdie, none of them afraid to entertain, dabble in whodunnitry. science fiction and commanding fables of good versus evil. Why these stories went unpublished is hard to answer.
Kurt Vonnegut, 2010
4
Books and Bookmen
RAE FOLEY. The Deadly Noose. (Hammond, Hammond, 12s. 6d.) This is pure whodunnitry at its unpretentious best. The catalytic Hiram Potter, around whom things always start to happen, uses his loaf to good purpose when he finds himself ...
‎1962
5
Film Review
But prime among them are the monumental miscasting of Melanie Griffith as a rough, tough homicide cop; the arbitrary resolution of its whodunnitry; and an autumnally-lit, idealized depiction of Hasidic life that's more strictly Hollywood than ...
‎1993
6
Sound & Vision
What follows Is fairy-tale romance and whimsical charm meshed with clever whodunnitry. Creator Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me, Wonder- falls) tapped Men in Black's Barry Sonnenfeld to direct the first two episodes, both of which he gave his ...
‎2008
7
London Theatre Record
The play personalises political issues entertainingly; but its reliance on old- fashioned psychological whodunnitry itself seems a poignant comment on South Africa's cultural time-warp. **#*♢#»****♢«#**#*»# WHAT'S ON 29. 6. 88 Patrick Mar mi ...
‎1988
8
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature.
William Goldbloom Bloch Associate Professor of Mathematics Wheaton College, 2008
9
Cruel Habitations
April 1989: sisters Alison and Jacquie Barnett take a holiday to Greece that neither of them will ever forget.
Kate Charles, 2012
10
Malice Aforethought
On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annual, much-anticipated tennis party at the Bickleighs, although not everyone has much enthusiasm for the game.
Francis Iles, 2012

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHODUNNITRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term whodunnitry is used in the context of the following news items.
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One for the Good Guys
The 14 stories in “Look at the Birdie,” none of them afraid to entertain, dabble in whodunnitry, science fiction and commanding fables of good versus evil. «New York Times, Oct 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Whodunnitry [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/whodunnitry>. May 2024 ».
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