Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

holbeinian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hol-beini-an
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

In the style of Hans Holbein the younger.

adj

Including every edge exactly once and where, for all x and y, the edges (x,y) and (y,x) have opposite parities.

Example Sentences

"Change Thackeray's spirited devil into a dancing skeleton with an answering grin, and you have a picture that would fit into a medieval, or Holbeinian, Dance of Death."
"His letters to Anne translate social codes of French diplomacy, Holbeinian portraiture, and Erasmian epistolary friendship into performances of personal desire."
"Mercator replaced Ziegler's stiff, artificial rivers and lakes with fluid, Holbeinian waters, while the Bavarian's sea - so tormented and heavily worked that it always threatened to inundate the land -- was substituted by patches of placid hatching cruised by ships and improbable fish."
"a Holbeinian circuit"

Etymology

From Holbein + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Holbein

Inflected Forms

more Holbeinian (comparative) most Holbeinian (superlative)

Questions

What does holbeinian mean?: In the style of Hans Holbein the younger.
Where does holbeinian come from?: From Holbein + -ian.

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