Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

whitmanite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: whit-man-ite
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).

noun

An admirer or imitator of American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).

Example Sentences

"Did I not dispute a whole afternoon with another young man about the necessity for character, only to learn at the end of it that he didn't know what character was. He supposed it was 'something narrow and priggish—like what deacons used to be' And he, mind you, was in his twenties, and claimed, ore rotundo, to be a Whitmanite, a Shavian, and a socialist."
"[Walt] Whitman gave [Edward] Carpenter a letter of introduction to his fan, Dr Richard Maurice Bucke and he set off, across the vast Lake Erie, to meet the Canadian Whitmanite, who was in charge of an insane asylum in the town of London."

Etymology

From Whitman + -ite.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Whitman

Inflected Forms

more Whitmanite (comparative) most Whitmanite (superlative) Whitmanites (plural)

Synonyms

Whitmanic Whitmanian

Questions

What does whitmanite mean?: Of or relating to the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892).
Where does whitmanite come from?: From Whitman + -ite.

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