Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shandean

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: shan-dean
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne.

Example Sentences

"It was commenced when the author was in a Shandean fever, and burned to outstrip Sterne. Without any disguise as to who his model was he opened his vapid tale with a scene in which Yorick's manner was broadly caricatured, but which […]"
"The 'Fragment' may instead suggest another key of access to try in the inter-textual journey from the Shandean writer to the Pantagruelist in virtue of the 'poor Homenas', who is the homonym of that ludicrous bishop of Papimany in the Fourth […]"

Etymology

From Shandy + -an.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Shandy

Inflected Forms

more Shandean (comparative) most Shandean (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

Sternean

Questions

What does shandean mean?: Of or relating to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne.
Where does shandean come from?: From Shandy + -an.

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