enclave
/ˈɑnkleɪv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.19 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
noun
A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
Example Sentences
- "The Republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy."
- "The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood."
- "They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers"."
- "What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq."
- "Since 2013, he has become a guru for the US-based far-right movement neoreaction, or NRx as it often calls itself. Neoreactionaries believe in the replacement of modern nation-states, democracy and government bureaucracies by authoritarian city states, which on neoreaction blogs sound as much like idealised medieval kingdoms as they do modern enclaves such as Singapore."
- "When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑnkleɪv/
- British English: /ˈɛnkleɪv/