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Cyrillic

Definition: Cyrillic

Cyrillic

Adjective

1. Relating to or written in the alphabet used for writing Slavic languages; "Cyrillic writing".

Noun

1. An alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic language.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Cyrillic

Synonym: Cyrillic alphabet (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Cyrillic

English words defined with "Cyrillic": Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croatian. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Cyrillic": Basic Multilingual PlaneCyrillic character setzigamorph. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Cyrillic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cyrillic Books Printed Before 1701 in British and Irish Collections: A Union Catalogue (reference)

  • St. Peterburg, Stadtplan: Index Kyrillisch-Lateinisch = City-Map: With Cyrillic and Roman Index = Plan de Ville = Pianta Della Citta: 1:20 000-1 (Inte (reference)

  • The Beginning of Cyrillic Printing (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cyrillic

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Language questions were resolved by using both Latin and Cyrillic script, and by requirements that teachers not penalize students for lexicon or grammar usage identified more with one language variant than another. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

Also during the ninth century, Orthodox Christianity became the primary religion in Bulgaria and the Cyrillic alphabet was established. (references)

Minorities

Moldova

State schools are required to use the Cyrillic alphabet when teaching Moldovan/Romanian. (references)

Travel

Bulgaria

Bulgarian is a Slavic language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet. (references)

Russia

Signs are in Russian only, so it is helpful at least to learn the Cyrillic alphabet before you come. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cyrillic

"Cyrillic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.38% of the time. "Cyrillic" is used about 26 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)65.38%1785,106
Noun (singular)30.77%8124,375
Noun (proper)3.85%1339,140
                    Total100.00%26N/A

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

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Expressions: Cyrillic

Expressions using "Cyrillic": cyrillic alphabet Cyrillic character set. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cyrillic

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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72

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3

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66

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2

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60

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2

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16

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2

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13

character cyrillic

2

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7

arial cyrillic

2

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5

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2

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5

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2

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5

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2

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4

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2

alphabet cyrillic user

4

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2

cyrillic language

3

cyrillic font free language

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cyrillic

Language Translations for "Cyrillic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i sllavishtës së vjetër. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

кирилица (cyrillic alphabet). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

西裡爾 , 斯拉夫语字母. (various references)

   

Czech

  

cyrilice (cyrillic alphabet). (various references)

   

Danish

  

kyrillisk tegnsæt (Cyrillic character set). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Cyrillisch alfabet (Cyrillic character set). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kyrillinen merkistö (Cyrillic character set). (various references)

   

French

  

alphabet cyrillique (Cyrillic character set). (various references)

   

German

  

kyrillisch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Κυριλλικό σύνολο χαρακτήρων (Cyrillic character set), Κυριλλικό αλφάβητο (Cyrillic alphabet). (various references)

   

Italian

  

cirillico. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

キリスト教' (Christians). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

キリル . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

키릴 문자. (various references)

   

Manx

  

Kyrillagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yrilliccay

   

Portuguese

  

cirílico. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cirilic, chirilic. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кириллица (cyrillic alphabet, cyrillics). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cirílico. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kyrillisk teckenuppsättning (Cyrillic character set), kyrillisk teckenmängd (Cyrillic character set). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

islav alfabesi ile yazılmış olan, islav alfabesi ile ilgili. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кирилічний, кириліця. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

$cyrillic alphabet$ chữ cái kirin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Cyrillic

Misspellings

"Cyrillic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cyrilic, Cyrilla, cyrrillic, Krilich. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cyrillic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-i-i-l-l-r-y"

-3 letters: icily, lyric.

-4 letters: illy, lily, liri, rill, yill.

-5 letters: cry, icy, ill.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-i-i-l-l-r-y"
 

+2 letters: critically.

 

+3 letters: codicillary, conciliarly, cylindrical.

 

+4 letters: chimerically, uncritically.

 

+5 letters: cylindrically, impractically, sacrificially.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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