bliss
/blɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.78 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
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An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
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A unisex given name from English.
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a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL
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A place in the United States:
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Example Sentences
- "The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss."
- "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!"
- "What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?"
- "When they insist on knowing my bliss I tell them this When they want to know what the reason is I only smile when I lie, then I tell them why"
- "So who is this saying that money is bliss? Your logic remiss You and the devil about to kiss"
- "I'm still blissing out after our date. I had a great time."
Etymology
From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bliss, *blīþisi