Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

toxophilite

/tɒkˈsɒfɪlʌɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tox-ophilite
IPA: /tɒkˈsɒfɪlʌɪt/

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to archery.

noun

Someone keen on or an expert at archery; a lover or practitioner of archery.

Example Sentences

"What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lincoln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some "desirable" young man with those killing bows and arrows of theirs?"
"Here the gardens of the place encroached with a somewhat wide sweep upon the paddock, and gave ample room for the doings of the toxophilites. Miss Thorne got together such daughters of Diana as could bend a bow, and marshalled them to the targets."

Etymology

From Toxophilus, the title of a 1545 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”) + φίλος (phílos, “love”); equivalent to τόξον (tóxon) + -philite.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: philite

Inflected Forms

toxophilites (plural)

Derived Forms

toxophilitic

Frequently Paired Words

toxophiliac toxophilous toxophily

Questions

How do you pronounce toxophilite?: The recorded pronunciation is /tɒkˈsɒfɪlʌɪt/.
What does toxophilite mean?: Pertaining to archery.
Where does toxophilite come from?: From Toxophilus, the title of a 1545 book by Roger Ascham intended to mean ‘lover of the bow’, from Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon, “bow”) + φίλος (phílos, “love”); equivalent to τόξον (tóxon) + -philite.

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