Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

non-treasure

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English

Syllables: non-trea-sure
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of nontreasure.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Several of our non-treasures had to be dismissed within days for intolerable personal filthiness (there was the celebrated case of the louse on the table-napkin. . .) or irredeemable incompetence, or both."
"Even in the normative tradition of recent centuries, core treasure liturgies are enhanced by ritual texts composed by means of ordinary, non-treasure authorship and yet these become regarded as treasure as well."

Etymology

From non- + treasure.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: non

Usage

Inflected Forms

non-treasures (plural)

Questions

What does non-treasure mean?: Alternative form of nontreasure.
Where does non-treasure come from?: From non- + treasure.

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