entendre
/ɑntˈɑndɹə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A meaning, especially one that is implied rather than explicitly stated.
Example Sentences
- "Like Lon Chaney, this mind’s mummy lives—but beneath how many wrappings of multiple entendres?"
- "“Come on baby let’s ride / slide on into your four-wheel-drive and ride,” the singer urges, conveying more entendres than two."
- "Still, in pursuit of said Phantom Nympho, much fun had been had – and more entendres doubled than you could shake a stick at."
- "Though he decries “egghead philosophers who try to tell us what we are,” even [Vince] McMahon notes a historical connection surrounding the evolution of WWF plot lines. In the 1980s, echoing the Cold War, it was mostly a matter of good guys versus bad guys. “Black and white, pretty simple,” he says. “But now we’re into more entendres, different shadings.”"
- "[…] and double-, triple-, multiple-entendres of its very title already begin to dramatize, and with the effect of seeming to replicate the very miscarriage of ‘dialectic’ itself that is the crux of the book’s indictment of ‘enlightenment’."
- "Ono Komachi was a prominent and gifted poet in her day. She was able to weave emotional intensity, multiple entendres, and metaphors together to form elegant poetry."
Etymology
Extracted from double entendre, corresponding to French entendre (“to understand, to mean”); doublet of intend.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: entendre