adele
/əˈdɛl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.45 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
noun
An infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic number for every prime number p, such that all but finitely many of them are p-adic integers. More generally, a member of a self-dual topological ring built on any algebraic number field, and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.
Example Sentences
- "The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith, may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele, Adriane, or any other such “fanciful and romantic” names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: Adèle, -
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Wiktionary’s coverage of Adele terms
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