discipline
/ˈdɪsəplɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.23 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard."
- "The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline."
- "Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience."
- "Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?"
- "Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art."
- "giving her the discipline of the strap"
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɪsəplɪn/
- British English: /ˈdɪsɪplɪn/