albeit
/ɔlˈbi.ɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.91 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Who are you? tell me for more certainty, / Albeit Ile ſweare that I do know your tongue."
- "The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men’s mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary."
- "There’s an easy, albeit expensive, way to fix the national crisis in forensic crime labs."
- "Up front, skipper and open-side Lewis Moody looked almost back to full fitness, while England's set-piece was barely troubled, albeit against a Romania side showing 11 changes from that beaten by Argentina earlier in the week."
- "Pelosi eventually agreed to self-impose term limits, albeit with an escape clause."
Etymology
From the Middle English expression al be it (that), itself shortened from althagh it be that (“although it be that”), and thus composed from al (“completely, entirely”, literally “all”) + be (3rd person singular present subjunctive of been (“to be”)) + it.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɔlˈbi.ɪt/
- British English: /ɔːlˈbiː.ɪt/