orthodox
/ˈɔɹθədɑks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.
adj
Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
adj
Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.
adj
Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.
adj
Of or pertaining to Orthodox Judaism.
Example Sentences
- "Five important modifications were made by the Pietists to the orthodox doctrine of justification, each corresponding to a distinctive aspect of the movement's agenda."
- "‘These speakers are academics who have specialised in Islamic sciences and are well respected in scholarly circles. It is grossly unjust to suggest that they belong to some fringe ideology rather than orthodox Islam.’"
- "She tattled on: first to one, then to the other—then to all, till she had tattled herself out of breath;—and then the orthodox half hour had expired, and the bell was rung, and the carriage ordered, and Mrs. Hare rose to depart."
- "Not only the quack cures of the past but also many forms of treatment given with the best will and intentions in the world by the best and most orthodox doctors of the time seem strange to us today."
- "[...which] Doherty hypothesized as the controlling variable for predicting who would become Orthodox or who would be Hicksite."
- "The Greek Orthodox population of the 62 bishoprics in 1886 numbered 65,549,096. to which the Orthodoxes of the army and navy must be added."
Etymology
From Late Middle English orthodoxe, from Middle French orthodoxe and its etymon Late Latin orthodoxus, from Ancient Greek ὀρθόδοξος (orthódoxos), from ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”). Displaced native Old English wuldorlīċ.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₃erdʰ-, orthodoxe, orthodoxus, ὀρθόδοξος
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɔɹθədɑks/
- British English: /ˈɔːθədɒks/