Altarpiece

Definition: Altarpiece

Altarpiece

Noun

1. A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table.

Date "altarpiece" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Synonym: Altarpiece

Synonym: reredos (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Altarpiece

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych. Groups of statuary can also be placed on the altar. Sometimes the altarpiece is set on the altar itself.

If the altar stands free in the choir, both sides of the altar-piece can be covered with painting. The screen, retable or reredos are also commonly decorated.

A famous example is the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) by Hubert and Jan van Eyck.

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ArtLex: altarpiece or altar-piece

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Altarpiece."

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Crosswords: Altarpiece

English words defined with "altarpiece": diptych ♦ Pentaptych, Predella ♦ triptych. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Altarpiece

Domain	Title
Books	A Victim of Anonymity: The Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece (Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures, No 25) (reference) Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community: The Altarpiece of Santiago Atitlan (reference) Master of the Hohenfurth Altarpiece (reference) The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice (reference) The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grunewald's Altarpiece (California Studies in the History of Art, Series 1) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Altarpiece

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Photo Album: Altarpiece

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Altarpiece showing Christ appearing before a nun, with religious building in background.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Altarpiece

"Altarpiece" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Altarpiece" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	93.33%	42	52,864
Noun (proper)	6.67%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	45	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Altarpiece

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
altarpiece	13
altarpiece ghent	6
the isenheim altarpiece	6
altarpiece merode	5
altarpiece santo	2
altarpiece grunewald isenheim	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Altarpiece

Language		Translations for "altarpiece"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		altaarstuk. (various references)

Dutch		altaarstuk. (various references)

Esperanto		altartabulo, superaltara pentraĵo. (various references)

Finnish		alttaritaulu. (various references)

German		Altarbild (reredos). (various references)

Italian		pala d'altare. (various references)

Manx		jalloo (bust, carving, drawing, effigy, figure, guy, icon, idol, image, joss, painting, picture, sculpture, statue). (various references)

Pig Latin		altarpieceay

Russian		алтарь (altar, chancel, sanctuary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oltarski kip. (various references)

Spanish		retablo (reredos). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Altarpiece

Derivations
	Words beginning with "altarpiece": altarpieces. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Altarpiece" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Altrieve. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Altarpiece"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "altarpiece" (pronounced ô"lterpē's)
5	-t er p ē' s	centerpiece, masterpiece.
3	-p ē' s	crosspiece, eyepiece, mouthpiece, showpiece, timepiece.
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Anagrams: Altarpiece

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-l-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: replicate.
	-2 letters: acierate, lacerate, parietal, particle, pearlite, placater, praelect, prelatic, tailrace.
	-3 letters: acerate, apteral, apteria, article, atelier, calipee, caliper, caltrap, capelet, capital, carpale, paretic, partial, peatier, percale, perlite, petrale, picrate, pileate, placate, plaiter, platier, pleater, plectra, plicate, prelate, prelect, receipt, recital, replace, replate, replica, reptile, reticle, tiercel, treacle.
	-4 letters: acetal, aecial, aerate, aerial, apical.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-l-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: altarpieces.
	+2 letters: recapitalize, recapitulate.
	+3 letters: parenthetical, recapitalized, recapitalizes, recapitulated, recapitulates.
	+4 letters: appreciatively, hypercatalexis, overcapitalize.
	+5 letters: hypercatalectic, overcapitalized, overcapitalizes, paragenetically, parenthetically, peripatetically, practicableness, practicalnesses, precancellation, telegraphically, therapeutically.
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