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Meaning of "whodunnitry" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF WHODUNNITRY

huːˈdʌnɪtrɪ


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

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WHODUNNITRY

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WHODUNNITRY

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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.
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280 millions of speakers
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75 millions of speakers
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Trends of use of whodunnitry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WHODUNNITRY»

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cruel Habitations
April 1989: sisters Alison and Jacquie Barnett take a holiday to Greece that neither of them will ever forget.
Kate Charles, 2012
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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»

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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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