Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

battement

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English

Syllables: bat-te-ment
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg

noun

A thumping or beating sensation

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[…] he raised slowly his rounded arms, stretched them gracefully backward and forward, moved his feet with precision and lightness, took a few small steps, made some battements and pirouettes, and disappeared like a butterfly."
"Ernst and Watson are superb dancers--extraordinarily agile and acrobatic, and their unison spins, battements, and body lines showed a split-second timing."
"Secondly, though there is an audible vertigo, as is known by the battement, or undulations of sound in the ears, which many vertiginous people experience[…]."

Etymology

Borrowed from French battement (“beating, hitting”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: battement

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

battements (plural)

Questions

What does battement mean?: A ballet move involving a beating action with an extended leg
Where does battement come from?: It is traced to French.

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