measure
/ˈmɛʒ.ɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished."
- "Mom's rage has no measure."
- "Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend."
- "but there is never found a foolish man who knows the measure of his stomach"
- "They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure."
- "It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine."
Etymology
Etymology tree Old French mesurebor. Middle English mesure English measure From Middle English mesure, from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra (“a measure”), mētior (“to measure”, supine stem in mēns-) + -tūra. Largely displaced native Old English metan ("to measure" whence modern mete) and ġemet (“a measure”). See also -ure.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɛʒ.ɚ/
- British English: /ˈmɛʒ.ə/