movement
/ˈmuːv.mənt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.97 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I saw a movement in that grass on the hill."
- "social movement"
- "The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947."
- "During the latter part of Taiwan's authoritarian period, social protest movements arose that complemented the periodic efforts of the political opposition- the dangwai-to open the political system. One of the most prominent movements occurred in the town of Lukang in Changhua County in 1986."
- "Beethoven's movements"
- "Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old French movoir Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Old French movementbor. Middle English mevement English movement From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring. Morphologically move + -ment.
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Inflected Forms
movements (plural)
mov. (alternative, abbreviation)
movt (alternative, abbreviation)
mvmt (alternative, abbreviation)
mvt (alternative, abbreviation)