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Definitions: Agape |
AgapeAdjective1. With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe; "the gaping audience"; "we stood there agape with wonder"; "with mouth agape". Noun1. A religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Agape" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "love". |
Date "agape" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1120. (references) |
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Literature | Agape (3 syl.) A love-feast. The early Christians held a love-feast before or after communion, when contributions were made for the poor. These feasts became a scandal, and were condemned at the Council of Carthage, 397. (Greek, agape, love.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Agape (in Greek written αγάπη; pronounced "ah-GAH-pee") is a Greek word for love. It was used by the early Christians to refer to the special love for God and God's love for man, as well as the self-sacrificing love they believed all should have for each other. It is a prominent term in the works of C.S. Lewis.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Agape."
Synonyms: AgapeSynonyms: agape(p) (adj), gaping (adj), love feast (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curiosity | Adjective: curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious; inquiring; prying, snoopy, nosy, peering; prurient; inquisitorial, inquisitory; curious as a cat; agape; (expectant). |
Expectation | Adjective: expectant; expecting; Verb: in expectation; Noun: on the watch; (vigilant); open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation; agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation; aux aguets; ready; curious; looking forward to. |
Rite | Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint's DAy, All Souls' Day |
Wonder | Adjective: surprised; Verb: aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment; struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Agape |
| English words defined with "agape": Agapae, At gaze ♦ gaping. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "agape": Agape tæ, Agapemone ♦ Priamond. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Agape" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (agape), French (agape, love feast), German (agape), Italian (Agape), Latin (affection, agape). |
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Civil Liberties | Uzbekistan | In Tashkent the Agape mission Church has faced prolonged difficulty registering, despite the fact that it meets all legal requirements for registration. (references) |
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| "Agape" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 43.55% of the time. "Agape" is used about 62 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 (proper) | 43.55% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.1% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 19.35% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Agape" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "love". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Agape." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Agape | Female | Ancient Greek | N/A |
| Agapios | Male | Ancient Greek | Agape |
| Agape | Female | Greek | N/A |
| Agapios | Male | Greek | Agape |
| Agafya | Female | Russian | Agape |
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| 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 |
agape | 262 |
agape love | 45 |
agape press | 34 |
agape card | 19 |
agape mortgage | 19 |
agape church | 18 |
agape home mortgage | 13 |
agape christian academy | 11 |
agape christian fellowship | 10 |
agape farm | 10 |
agape boarding school | 10 |
agape house | 9 |
agape ministry | 8 |
agape camp | 8 |
agape definition | 8 |
adoption agape | 7 |
agape online | 7 |
agape amor | 6 |
agape village | 6 |
agape angeles los | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "agape"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Golëhapur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فاغر الفم (open mouthed), مدهش (amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, baffling, dandy, dumbfounding, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, phenomenal, prodigious, ripping, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, surprising, topping, trembling, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Зяпнал, Захласнато, Захласнат, Зинал, Християнска Любов, Братска Любов, Братска 'ечеря. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | S Ústy Dokořán. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | agape, liefdemaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | agapo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | متعجب بادهان باز, مبهوت (Quizzical), عشق الهی , درحال دهن دره , درشگفت . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | avosuin (with one's mouth open), suu ammollaan (gaping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | agape, Surpris, Bouche Bée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gaffend (gaping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ορθάνοιχτοσ, όε Ανοικτό Στόμα, χάσκων (gaper, yawner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | װעור װ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tátott szájjal (open mouthed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ternganga (open-mouthed), termangap, tercengang (amazed, astonished, dumb founded, flabbergasted, stupefied, taken aback, wondering), celangap (wide open), cangah (be opened wide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Agape, A Bocca Aperta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 愛餐会 (love feast), 愛餐 (love feast), アカデミー賞 (a capella, academic, academician, academicism, academism, Academy Award, accumulator, Achilles, Christian feast in token of fellowship, Christian fellowship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あいさ"かい (love feast), あいさ" (love feast), アカペー (Christian feast in token of fellowship, Christian fellowship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhongey graih, foshlit (ajar, blatant, downright; free-spoken, exploded; overt, exposed, extrovert; forthcoming; blank, extrovert; forthcoming; blank as credit, liable, open, open-necked, patent, unfastened), beeal-foshlit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agapeay Boquiaberto (garage), ágape (feast). (various references) Cu Gura Cãscatã (open mouthed, with open mouth), Cãscat (absent minded, ajar, gaping, open mouthed, stupid, yawn, yawning). (various references) азинув от. (various references) blenuti (gawk). (various references) Boquiabierto (open mouthed). (various references) Med Vidöppen Mun. (various references) Ağzı Açık Olarak, Ağzı Açık Kalmış (fascinated, floored, open mouthed, stunned), Merhamet (benignity, charitableness, charity, clemency, commiseration, compassion, grace, loving kindness, mercy, misericordia, pity, Ruth), Hayır (auspiciousness, benefaction, beneficence, charity, good, nay, no, nope), Þaşırıp Kalmış, Þaşırıp Kalarak. (various references) Братська Любов, оззявивши ота. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | agapan. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | agape. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "agape": agapeic. (additional references) | |
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"Agape" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aage, aapa, aapam, aape, Aapo, Aegae, Afaep, Afap, Agace, agade, Agadez, agae, agaip, agale, Agalev, agalevn, agame, agane, agap, agapa, Agapaki, agaped, agapee, agapet, agapey, agapi, Agapito, agapy, agave, Agebe, agepa, agerpres, Aghalee, agop, agope, agpc, alape, Angepena, apage, apgrp, azap, egap, Ifapa, Ijape, Natapei, Zacapa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "agape" (pronounced ugā"p) |
| 3 | -g ā" p | gape. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-p" | |
-1 letter: gape, page, peag. | |
-2 letters: aga, age, ape, gae, gap, pea, peg. | |
-3 letters: aa, ae, ag, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-p" | |
+1 letter: agapae. | |
+2 letters: agapeic, apagoge, apanage, apogeal, apogean, package, pageant, parerga, passage, pawnage, rampage, warpage. | |
+3 letters: amperage, apagoges, apanages, appanage, campagne, galopade, lagnappe, packaged, packager, packages, paganise, paganize, pageants, paginate, paragoge, passaged, passages, pawnages, paygrade, pelagial, pellagra, phalange, pygmaean, rampaged, rampager, rampages, warpages. | |
+4 letters: amperages, apogamies, apologiae, appanages, appealing, appearing, appeasing, appendage, carpetbag, champagne, disparage, gallopade, galopades, graspable, hypallage, lagnappes, lagniappe, orphanage, packagers, paganised, paganises, paganized, paganizer, paganizes, pageantry, paginated, paginates, palsgrave, paragoges, paragoned, paralegal, parentage, parsonage, pasturage, patronage, paygrades, pellagras, pentagram, phalanger, phalanges, plasmagel, propagate, rampagers, repackage, repassage, scapegoat, scrappage. | |
+5 letters: agoraphobe, anemograph, antiplague, appareling, appendages, arpeggiate, asparagine, asperating, aspergilla, campaigned, campaigner, carpetbags, champagnes, disparaged, disparager, disparages, esophageal, frangipane, gallopades, glasspaper, heptagonal, hypallages, lagniappes, macrophage, megaparsec, mispackage, orphanages, pacemaking, paganizers, palavering, palsgraves, paralegals, paramagnet, paraplegia, paraplegic, parentages, parsonages, passageway, pasturages, patronages, pentagonal, pentagrams, phalangeal, phalangers, phanerogam, pharyngeal, plagiaries, plagiarise, plagiarize, plasmagels, plasmagene, plateauing, plateglass, prearrange, prepackage, propagable, propagated, propagates, rampageous, readapting, repackaged, repackager, repackages, repassages, scapegoats, scapegrace, scrappages, separating, upgradable, wampumpeag. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 61 70 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. .- .--. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01100001 01110000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g a p e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0067 0061 0070 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3573678271 |
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