amenity
/əˈmɛnəti/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.75 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, among others.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday."
- "The harbor of Port Royal, rendered gloomy by recollections of misery, was avoided; and after searching the coast and discovering places, which were so full of amenity, that melancholy itself could not but change its humor, as it gazed, the followers of Calvin planted themselves on the banks of the river May."
- "Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that. They were short on amenity, overcrowded, and artless. Americans were sick of them and saw no way to improve them."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its etymon, Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: amenite, amenité, amoenitās
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈmɛnəti/
- British English: /əˈmiːnəti/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
amenity block
amenity fee
amenity tree
civic amenity
civic amenity site
communal amenity
public amenity