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celestine

/tʃɛlɛstˈini/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.48 in modern English

Syllables
ce-les-tine
IPA
/tʃɛlɛstˈini/
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Synonym of celestial: of or resembling the heavens.

Obsolete

noun

A heavenly being: an angel or other resident of Heaven.

Obsolete

noun

A mineral with orthorhombic crystals, SrSO₄, colourless or white with blue and sometimes red shades.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A member of a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244.

name

A unisex given name.

Etymology

From Old French celestin, Latin caelestīnus, from caelestis (“heavenly”) + -inus (“-ine”), from caelum (“sky, heavens, Heaven”). Equivalent to celest + -ine.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more celestine (comparative) most celestine (superlative) celestines (plural)

Synonyms

celestial celestite Celestinian

Rhymes With

bikini genie sweeney martini lamborghini mussolini teeny zucchini mancini jeannie houdini cassini

Questions

How do you pronounce celestine?
The recorded pronunciation is /tʃɛlɛstˈini/.
What does celestine mean?
Synonym of celestial: of or resembling the heavens.
Where does celestine come from?
It is traced to Old French.

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