Definition of epithet in English:

epithet

noun ˈɛpɪθɛtˈɛpəˌθɛt

1An adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet ‘dirty’
Example sentencesExamples
- I learnt that because of your game, you had picked up several endearing epithets.
- The normal way round is the creation of an identifying tag, normally by a pertinent epithet or nickname - hence I would become Fat James, or Green James, or Elf.
- This is not a personal name but an epithet of those who have achieved enlightenment, the goal of the Buddhist religious life.
- Looking up at the city's facades and trying to describe each of them with just one epithet was like constantly checking with my brain's in-built thesaurus for the synonyms of ‘ugly’.
- Possibly, we tend to confine moral epithets to those amiable or unamiable qualities which require more cultivation to become habitual, or depend to a greater extent upon the presence or absence of self-discipline.
- In Sanskrit, the Moon has many names and epithets.
- Among them was Bill Shankly accompanied, even here, by what have become his defining epithets: ‘the legend, the genius, the man‘.
- Judging by the epithet you've awarded him, I take it you weren't unduly impressed.
- Family names are arranged alphabetically beneath the divisions, and within each family the generic names and epithets are also alphabetized.
- In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within.
- There is no epithet deficit when it comes to describing today's crisis of business leadership: greedy, unethical, and myopic appear regularly on the adjectival hot list.
- Forms of address, epithets, and pronoun references that signal service and status, then clashes of rank, also get interwoven.
- Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases.
Synonyms
sobriquet, nickname, byname, title, name, label, tag
description, descriptive word/expression/phrase, designation, denomination, characterization, identification
informal moniker, handle
formal appellation, cognomen, anonym
1. 1.1 An epithet used as a term of abuse.
  people jeered and hurled racial epithets
  Example sentencesExamples
  There were times when ignorant people would throw bottles at me and hurl racial epithets while my brother and I walked down the street - that sort of thing.
  He shrieks where he should argue, and hurls vulgar epithets in my direction.
  They dismiss such work as nihilist or antiscience, and hurl epithets like ‘number-phobic’ and ‘jargon-monger’ at its authors.
  He noticed that most of the other words were racist epithets or the standard obscenities.
  ‘Master’ and ‘slave’ are ordinary English words, not epithets, and it's absurd to try and ban them from common usage.
  Instead of hurling epithets, the observers hurl objects.
  The woman begins to hurl racial epithets at them and goes as far as to hit one of the students.
  When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word.
  I understand the city has a rich history of standing up for freedom, but is the freedom to hurl curses and racial epithets at visiting collegiate athletes really one worth fighting for?
  Moe picks up an identical thick-bladed knife and hurls it at Whitford with an epithet.
  Such differences as exist among media do not warrant harsher treatment of threats, slurs, epithets, or harassing language because they occur in digital form.
  He went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets.
  And I use the word ‘bloody’ not as a redundant and offensive epithet, but as a statement of fact.
  In many people's minds free speech is a ‘right’ to hurl epithets at politically correct wusses, and to do so with no fear of having your fraternity suspended.
  They don't actually do the deed, or even attempt it, but the book is - according to early snippets - replete with deep-seated anger and elegantly nasty epithets hurled at both the President and his cabinet.
  It's sometimes hurled in an epithet, sometimes spoken with pride.
  Either she'll be touched to be rediscovered or she'll be very, very indignant and hurl ethnocentric epithets.
  So when he starts to verbally assault Zack, hurling painful epithets at him, one feels disoriented since they seemed to get along in school.
  Hurling homophobic epithets has become the prime means of harassing and humiliating any student - gay or straight - who is seen as vulnerable.
  'Cheap' and 'classless' are just two of the kinder epithets hurled at the linebacker.

Derivatives

epithetic

adjective ɛpɪˈθɛtɪk

Before the emails come flooding in, I am aware that the main reason given for using the sobriquet ‘British’ is as an essentially epithetic marketing tool. ‘British’ is a brand name.

epithetical

adjectiveɛpɪˈθɛtɪk(ə)l

It has been done, on occasion, by every Speaker who has ever sat in this Chair, because comments can be ironic or epithetical.
Example sentencesExamples
- She took his cue, and continued the conversation as if he hadn't said anything epithetical.

epithetically

adverb-ˈθɛtɪk(ə)li

‘God only knows the nature of god - the rest of us are just guessing,’ the song epithetically concludes.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French épithète, or via Latin from Greek epitheton, neuter of epithetos 'attributed', from epitithenai 'add', from epi 'upon' + tithenai 'to place'.

Definition of epithet in US English:

epithet

nounˈepəˌTHetˈɛpəˌθɛt

1An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.
old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet “dirty.”
Example sentencesExamples
- Judging by the epithet you've awarded him, I take it you weren't unduly impressed.
- Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases.
- Possibly, we tend to confine moral epithets to those amiable or unamiable qualities which require more cultivation to become habitual, or depend to a greater extent upon the presence or absence of self-discipline.
- Looking up at the city's facades and trying to describe each of them with just one epithet was like constantly checking with my brain's in-built thesaurus for the synonyms of ‘ugly’.
- I learnt that because of your game, you had picked up several endearing epithets.
- Forms of address, epithets, and pronoun references that signal service and status, then clashes of rank, also get interwoven.
- This is not a personal name but an epithet of those who have achieved enlightenment, the goal of the Buddhist religious life.
- In Sanskrit, the Moon has many names and epithets.
- The normal way round is the creation of an identifying tag, normally by a pertinent epithet or nickname - hence I would become Fat James, or Green James, or Elf.
- In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within.
- Family names are arranged alphabetically beneath the divisions, and within each family the generic names and epithets are also alphabetized.
- Among them was Bill Shankly accompanied, even here, by what have become his defining epithets: ‘the legend, the genius, the man‘.
- There is no epithet deficit when it comes to describing today's crisis of business leadership: greedy, unethical, and myopic appear regularly on the adjectival hot list.
Synonyms
sobriquet, nickname, byname, title, name, label, tag
1. 1.1 An epithet as a term of abuse.
  people jeered and hurled racial epithets
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Master’ and ‘slave’ are ordinary English words, not epithets, and it's absurd to try and ban them from common usage.
  And I use the word ‘bloody’ not as a redundant and offensive epithet, but as a statement of fact.
  The woman begins to hurl racial epithets at them and goes as far as to hit one of the students.
  They dismiss such work as nihilist or antiscience, and hurl epithets like ‘number-phobic’ and ‘jargon-monger’ at its authors.
  Instead of hurling epithets, the observers hurl objects.
  He went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets.
  When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word.
  I understand the city has a rich history of standing up for freedom, but is the freedom to hurl curses and racial epithets at visiting collegiate athletes really one worth fighting for?
  Either she'll be touched to be rediscovered or she'll be very, very indignant and hurl ethnocentric epithets.
  He noticed that most of the other words were racist epithets or the standard obscenities.
  Such differences as exist among media do not warrant harsher treatment of threats, slurs, epithets, or harassing language because they occur in digital form.
  In many people's minds free speech is a ‘right’ to hurl epithets at politically correct wusses, and to do so with no fear of having your fraternity suspended.
  Moe picks up an identical thick-bladed knife and hurls it at Whitford with an epithet.
  Hurling homophobic epithets has become the prime means of harassing and humiliating any student - gay or straight - who is seen as vulnerable.
  He shrieks where he should argue, and hurls vulgar epithets in my direction.
  'Cheap' and 'classless' are just two of the kinder epithets hurled at the linebacker.
  There were times when ignorant people would throw bottles at me and hurl racial epithets while my brother and I walked down the street - that sort of thing.
  It's sometimes hurled in an epithet, sometimes spoken with pride.
  They don't actually do the deed, or even attempt it, but the book is - according to early snippets - replete with deep-seated anger and elegantly nasty epithets hurled at both the President and his cabinet.
  So when he starts to verbally assault Zack, hurling painful epithets at him, one feels disoriented since they seemed to get along in school.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French épithète, or via Latin from Greek epitheton, neuter of epithetos ‘attributed’, from epitithenai ‘add’, from epi ‘upon’ + tithenai ‘to place’.

单词	epithet
释义	Definition of epithet in English: epithet noun ˈɛpɪθɛtˈɛpəˌθɛt 1An adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet ‘dirty’ Example sentencesExamples I learnt that because of your game, you had picked up several endearing epithets. The normal way round is the creation of an identifying tag, normally by a pertinent epithet or nickname - hence I would become Fat James, or Green James, or Elf. This is not a personal name but an epithet of those who have achieved enlightenment, the goal of the Buddhist religious life. Looking up at the city's facades and trying to describe each of them with just one epithet was like constantly checking with my brain's in-built thesaurus for the synonyms of ‘ugly’. Possibly, we tend to confine moral epithets to those amiable or unamiable qualities which require more cultivation to become habitual, or depend to a greater extent upon the presence or absence of self-discipline. In Sanskrit, the Moon has many names and epithets. Among them was Bill Shankly accompanied, even here, by what have become his defining epithets: ‘the legend, the genius, the man‘. Judging by the epithet you've awarded him, I take it you weren't unduly impressed. Family names are arranged alphabetically beneath the divisions, and within each family the generic names and epithets are also alphabetized. In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within. There is no epithet deficit when it comes to describing today's crisis of business leadership: greedy, unethical, and myopic appear regularly on the adjectival hot list. Forms of address, epithets, and pronoun references that signal service and status, then clashes of rank, also get interwoven. Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases. Synonyms sobriquet, nickname, byname, title, name, label, tag description, descriptive word/expression/phrase, designation, denomination, characterization, identification informal moniker, handle formal appellation, cognomen, anonym 1.1 An epithet used as a term of abuse. people jeered and hurled racial epithets Example sentencesExamples There were times when ignorant people would throw bottles at me and hurl racial epithets while my brother and I walked down the street - that sort of thing. He shrieks where he should argue, and hurls vulgar epithets in my direction. They dismiss such work as nihilist or antiscience, and hurl epithets like ‘number-phobic’ and ‘jargon-monger’ at its authors. He noticed that most of the other words were racist epithets or the standard obscenities. ‘Master’ and ‘slave’ are ordinary English words, not epithets, and it's absurd to try and ban them from common usage. Instead of hurling epithets, the observers hurl objects. The woman begins to hurl racial epithets at them and goes as far as to hit one of the students. When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word. I understand the city has a rich history of standing up for freedom, but is the freedom to hurl curses and racial epithets at visiting collegiate athletes really one worth fighting for? Moe picks up an identical thick-bladed knife and hurls it at Whitford with an epithet. Such differences as exist among media do not warrant harsher treatment of threats, slurs, epithets, or harassing language because they occur in digital form. He went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. And I use the word ‘bloody’ not as a redundant and offensive epithet, but as a statement of fact. In many people's minds free speech is a ‘right’ to hurl epithets at politically correct wusses, and to do so with no fear of having your fraternity suspended. They don't actually do the deed, or even attempt it, but the book is - according to early snippets - replete with deep-seated anger and elegantly nasty epithets hurled at both the President and his cabinet. It's sometimes hurled in an epithet, sometimes spoken with pride. Either she'll be touched to be rediscovered or she'll be very, very indignant and hurl ethnocentric epithets. So when he starts to verbally assault Zack, hurling painful epithets at him, one feels disoriented since they seemed to get along in school. Hurling homophobic epithets has become the prime means of harassing and humiliating any student - gay or straight - who is seen as vulnerable. 'Cheap' and 'classless' are just two of the kinder epithets hurled at the linebacker. Derivatives epithetic adjective ɛpɪˈθɛtɪk Before the emails come flooding in, I am aware that the main reason given for using the sobriquet ‘British’ is as an essentially epithetic marketing tool. ‘British’ is a brand name. epithetical adjectiveɛpɪˈθɛtɪk(ə)l It has been done, on occasion, by every Speaker who has ever sat in this Chair, because comments can be ironic or epithetical. Example sentencesExamples She took his cue, and continued the conversation as if he hadn't said anything epithetical. epithetically adverb-ˈθɛtɪk(ə)li ‘God only knows the nature of god - the rest of us are just guessing,’ the song epithetically concludes. Origin Late 16th century: from French épithète, or via Latin from Greek epitheton, neuter of epithetos 'attributed', from epitithenai 'add', from epi 'upon' + tithenai 'to place'. Definition of epithet in US English: epithet nounˈepəˌTHetˈɛpəˌθɛt 1An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. old men are often unfairly awarded the epithet “dirty.” Example sentencesExamples Judging by the epithet you've awarded him, I take it you weren't unduly impressed. Everything was done to make us throw away sobriety of thought and calmness of judgment and to inflate all expressions with sensational epithets and turgid phrases. Possibly, we tend to confine moral epithets to those amiable or unamiable qualities which require more cultivation to become habitual, or depend to a greater extent upon the presence or absence of self-discipline. Looking up at the city's facades and trying to describe each of them with just one epithet was like constantly checking with my brain's in-built thesaurus for the synonyms of ‘ugly’. I learnt that because of your game, you had picked up several endearing epithets. Forms of address, epithets, and pronoun references that signal service and status, then clashes of rank, also get interwoven. This is not a personal name but an epithet of those who have achieved enlightenment, the goal of the Buddhist religious life. In Sanskrit, the Moon has many names and epithets. The normal way round is the creation of an identifying tag, normally by a pertinent epithet or nickname - hence I would become Fat James, or Green James, or Elf. In Ancient Greek poetry, poets used epithets to make names fit the metrical patterns they composed within. Family names are arranged alphabetically beneath the divisions, and within each family the generic names and epithets are also alphabetized. Among them was Bill Shankly accompanied, even here, by what have become his defining epithets: ‘the legend, the genius, the man‘. There is no epithet deficit when it comes to describing today's crisis of business leadership: greedy, unethical, and myopic appear regularly on the adjectival hot list. Synonyms sobriquet, nickname, byname, title, name, label, tag 1.1 An epithet as a term of abuse. people jeered and hurled racial epithets Example sentencesExamples ‘Master’ and ‘slave’ are ordinary English words, not epithets, and it's absurd to try and ban them from common usage. And I use the word ‘bloody’ not as a redundant and offensive epithet, but as a statement of fact. The woman begins to hurl racial epithets at them and goes as far as to hit one of the students. They dismiss such work as nihilist or antiscience, and hurl epithets like ‘number-phobic’ and ‘jargon-monger’ at its authors. Instead of hurling epithets, the observers hurl objects. He went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. When we characterise these tendencies as centrist and opportunist, this is not some kind of epithet or swear word. I understand the city has a rich history of standing up for freedom, but is the freedom to hurl curses and racial epithets at visiting collegiate athletes really one worth fighting for? Either she'll be touched to be rediscovered or she'll be very, very indignant and hurl ethnocentric epithets. He noticed that most of the other words were racist epithets or the standard obscenities. Such differences as exist among media do not warrant harsher treatment of threats, slurs, epithets, or harassing language because they occur in digital form. In many people's minds free speech is a ‘right’ to hurl epithets at politically correct wusses, and to do so with no fear of having your fraternity suspended. Moe picks up an identical thick-bladed knife and hurls it at Whitford with an epithet. Hurling homophobic epithets has become the prime means of harassing and humiliating any student - gay or straight - who is seen as vulnerable. He shrieks where he should argue, and hurls vulgar epithets in my direction. 'Cheap' and 'classless' are just two of the kinder epithets hurled at the linebacker. There were times when ignorant people would throw bottles at me and hurl racial epithets while my brother and I walked down the street - that sort of thing. It's sometimes hurled in an epithet, sometimes spoken with pride. They don't actually do the deed, or even attempt it, but the book is - according to early snippets - replete with deep-seated anger and elegantly nasty epithets hurled at both the President and his cabinet. So when he starts to verbally assault Zack, hurling painful epithets at him, one feels disoriented since they seemed to get along in school. Origin Late 16th century: from French épithète, or via Latin from Greek epitheton, neuter of epithetos ‘attributed’, from epitithenai ‘add’, from epi ‘upon’ + tithenai ‘to place’.
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