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Definition: Curio |
CurioNoun1. Something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curio" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Curio \Cu"ri*o\, noun. [Abbreviation of curiosity.]. (references) |
Synonyms: CurioSynonyms: curiosity (n), oddity (n), oddment (n), peculiarity (n), rarity (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Curio |
| English words defined with "curio": Curios. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "curio": Tibet stone. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "curio": Curiosity. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Curio" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (curio), Italian (curium), Spanish (curium), Welsh (pine, waste). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Curio Shop (1933) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Interior of H.E. Klamer's curio store, Yellowstone Pk., Wyo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Curio shop and ladies' restroom, Port Aransas, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Exhibits in curio shop. Sunfish on left. Key West, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Albuquerque, New Mexico. A curio shop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Scarves by Vera, business at 417 5th Ave. Curio shelves. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | President James K. Polk, residence in Columbia, Tennessee. Curio cabinet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "African Dog" by Henk Badenhorst Commentary: "A curio I took awhile ago..." | "God" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "Some curio on a shelf. I don't know which indian goddess it represents. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Curio" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Curio" is used about 10 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) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Unclassified Items | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "curio" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Curio | Last name | 100 | 73,893 |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "curio": curio-sellers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "curio"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xhingël (catchpenny, gewgaw, gimcrack, knick knack, Nick nack, Spangle, tinsel, trinket), stringël (bagatelle, bauble, bibelot, bijouterie, charm, falderal, frippery, gaud, knick knack, Nick nack, pendant, pennant, rattletrap, trinket). (various references) | |
Arabic | تحفة (masterpiece, masterwork, rarity), شىء لافت للنظر (eye-catcher). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | куриоз, антикварна рядкост (curiosity). (various references) | |
Chinese | 琦 (valuable stone). (various references) | |
Czech | rarita (curiosity, rarity), kuriozita (curiosity, rarity). (various references) | |
Farsi | چیزغریب (Curiosity), تحفه (Rarity, Trove), سوقات , عتیقه (Antique, Relic). (various references) | |
Finnish | antiikkiesine (antique). (various references) | |
French | curio. (various references) | |
German | Kuriosität (curiosity, oddity, peculiarity, quaintness). (various references) | |
Greek | κειμήλιο (heirloom, jewel), σπάνιο αντικείμενο, μπιμπελό (knick knack), αντίκα (antique). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דבר יוצא דופן. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ritkaság (curiosity, rara avis, rareness, rarity, scarcity, sleaziness, tenuity, tenuousness), ritka mûalkotás. (various references) | |
Italian | rarità (exceptional, infrequence, rareness, rarity, scarcity), oggetto da collezione. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 珍品 (rare article). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こっとうひん, こっとう (antique), ちんぴん (rare article). (various references) | |
Manx | meereen (counter, particle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uriocay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | curiosidade (curiosity), raridade (fewness, phenomenon, rara avis, rarefaction, rareness, rarity, treasure), objeto de arte. (various references) | |
Romanian | curiozitate (curiosity, freak, inquisitiveness, interest, peculiarity, singularity), ciudãţenie (behavior, behaviour, curiosity, eccentricity, extravagance, freak, kink, oddity, oddment, oddness, originality, peculiarity, queerness, quip, singularity, strangeness, vagary, whim, whimsicality), raritate (dearth, rare, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, singularity), obiect rar de artã, antichitate (ancientry, antiquity, Hoar). (various references) | |
Russian | редкость (curiosity, rara avis, rareness, rarity, scarcity, sparseness, sparsity, sparsness, white crow), редкая вещь, антикварная вещь (curiosity, rarity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | retka stvar, raritet (rarity). (various references) | |
Spanish | curiosidad (curiosity, freak, inquisitiveness). (various references) | |
Swedish | kuriositet (curiosity). (various references) | |
Turkish | tuhaf tip (case, curiosity, fruitcake, odd fellow, odd fish, oddity, screwball, weirdo), ilginç şey (curiosity), antika (antiquarian, antique, crusted, curiosity, eccentric, kooky, old world, quaint, queer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рідкість (rareness, rarity, scarcity), рідкісна річ (oner). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật hiếm có (luxury, rarity), đồ cổ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "curio": curios, curiosa, curiosities, curiosity, curious, curiouser, curiousest, curiously, curiousness, curiousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words containing "curio": decurion, decurions, incuriosities, incuriosity, incurious, incuriously, incuriousness, incuriousnesses, uncurious. (additional references) | |
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"Curio" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Carajo, carico, Cario, caryo, Cefrino, Ceiriog, Ceirog, chria, Churilov, ciria, Cirino, Cirio, Clunio, cogrino, cordio, Corfiot, Corimo, Corio, Cortivo, Corzo, crio, Croi, cruci, cruir, cruix, cryo, cuir, cuire, cuirim, cuoir, cupio, curco, curi, curic, curin, curit, curo, curri, Curric, currior, cursitor, curto, curua, curvo, Krio, Kuhio, kurau, Kurilo, Ursio. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "curio" (pronounced 'Cu"ri*o'): Barrio, Carriboo, Durio, Furioso, impresario, Lothario, Oratorio, scenario, Turio, Vibrio. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: coir, uric. | |
-2 letters: cor, cur, orc, our, roc. | |
-3 letters: or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: corium, curios. | |
+2 letters: caribou, carious, cirrous, citrous, coenuri, couloir, courier, croquis, curiosa, curious, fluoric, ruction, unicorn. | |
+3 letters: bicolour, bouncier, caribous, chromium, ciborium, citreous, cloudier, clouring, coiffeur, coiffure, coinsure, colubrid, copurify, coremium, cothurni, couloirs, coumaric, coumarin, couriers, coursing, courtier, courting, cousinry, couthier, cribrous, croupier, croupily, cruzeiro, cubiform, cuniform, curculio, cuspidor, decurion, euphoric, gracious, ichorous, inductor, jouncier, microbus, microlux, mouchoir, neuronic, neurotic, occupier, outcried, outcries, outprice, outtrick, polyuric, pouchier, precious, ructions, ructious, scarious, sciuroid, scouring, sourcing, toreutic, touchier, unciform, unerotic, unheroic, unicolor, unicorns, urologic. | |
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