Nativity –Nativity
Definitions:
Nativity
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Nativity
Noun
1. The
event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first
child". 2. The
theological doctrine that Jesus Christ had no human father; Christians
believe that Jesus's birth fulfilled Old Testament
prophecies and was attended by miracles; the Nativity is celebrated at
Christmas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by |
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Date "nativity" was first used:
12th century. (references) |
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Specialty Definition: Nativity
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A Nativity Scene
The Nativity
refers to the birth of Jesus Christ.
According to the Bible Jesus was born in the
city of
Remembering or re-creating the Nativity is
one of the central ways Christians celebrate Christmas. In Christian churches
children will often perfom plays re-creating the
events of the Nativity, or sing some of the numerous Christmas carols that
reference the event. Many Christians will also display a small re-creation of
the Nativity known as a Nativity scene in their homes, using wooden figurines
to portray the key characters of the event.
Though Jesus's
birth is celebrated on December 25, most scholars agree that it is unlikely he
was actually born on this date.
Source: adapted by the
editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the
article "Nativity."
Synonyms:
Nativity
Synonyms: birth (n), nascence (n), nascency (n). (additional references) |
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Antonym: death (n). (additional references) |
Synonyms
within Context: Nativity
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Context |
Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning
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Origin; (cause); source, rise;
bud, germ; egg, rudiment; genesis, primogenesis,
birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start, inception, creation, starting
point; dawn; (morning); evolution. |
Prediction
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Verb: predict, prognosticate,
prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity;
advise; forewarn. |
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Noun: prediction, announcement;
program, programme; (plan); premonition; (warning);
prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration;
augury, auguration; ariolation,
hariolation; foreboding, aboding;
bodement, abodement; omniation, omniousness;
auspices, forecast; omen; horoscope, nativity; sooth, soothsaying;
fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy. |
Sorcery
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Verb: practice sorcery;Noun: cast a nativity,
conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo;
entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate; (influence); taboo; wave a wand;
rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits
from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead. |
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Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. |
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Crosswords:
Nativity
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English words defined with "nativity": Apotelesm ♦ creche ♦ Natalitious, Nativies, Nowel ♦ Parousia, Patavinity ♦ The
Nativity ♦ virgin
birth. (references) |
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Specialty definitions using "nativity": Feasts
♦ Halo
♦ Nativity
scene ♦ Odd
Numbers ♦ Shandean Exactness, St.
John's Eve, St. Mark's Eve. (references). |
Modern Usage: Nativity
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Screenplays
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Oh God. One Christmas our dog, Vandi, stole
The Baby Jesus from the Nativity scene and my mother ran through the
neighborhood in her housecoat screaming 'Vandi you
eat that Baby Jesus you're going to Doggy Hell. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) Twinkling colored lights are nice and so are plastic Santas
and reindeers and nativity scenes, but let me tell you something. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah
Hashim) |
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Movie/TV Titles
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The Nativity Cycle (1956) Nativity Blues (1989) The Nativity (1986) |
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Commercial Usage: Nativity
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Books
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Angels & All Children: A Nativity
Story in Words, Music, and Art (reference) ·
Nativity (reference) ·
Nativity Poems (reference) ·
Precious Moments Christmas Miracle: Create
Your Own Nativity Scene With Press-Out
Figures! (reference) ·
Sister Wendy's Nativity (reference) (more book examples) |
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Theater & Movies
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The Beginner's Bible - The Story of the Nativity
(reference) ·
Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible: The
Nativity (reference) |
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Music
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Christmas Night: Carols of the Nativity
(reference) ·
Black Nativity [Broadway Cast] [CAST
RECORDING] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples) |
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Consumer Goods
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Marquis by Waterford Holy Family Nativity
Set (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples) |
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Image Slideshow: Nativity
Familiar Quotations: Nativity
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Author |
Quotation |
Christopher Marlowe
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You stars that reigned at my nativity,
whose influence hath allotted death and hell. |
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Non-Fiction Usage: Nativity
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Lexicography
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Devil's Dictionary
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HALO, n. Properly, a luminous ring encircling an
astronomical body, but not infrequently confounded with "aureola," or "nimbus," a somewhat similar
phenomenon worn as a head-dress by divinities and saints. The halo is a
purely optical illusion, produced by moisture in the air, in the manner of a
rainbow; but the aureola is conferred as a sign of
superior sanctity, in the same way as a bishop's mitre,
or the Pope's tiara. In the painting of the Nativity, by Szedgkin, a pious artist of Pesth,
not only do the Virgin and the Child wear the nimbus, but an ass nibbling hay
from the sacred manger is similarly decorated and, to his lasting honor be it said, appears to bear his unaccustomed dignity with
a truly saintly grace. |
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Usage Frequency: Nativity
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"Nativity" is generally used as a noun
(singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nativity"
is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written
in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English
language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the
British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one
percent have been omitted) |
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Noun (singular) |
100% |
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34,067 |
Source: compiled by the
editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derived & Related Names: Nativity
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The following table summarizes names derived from the word
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Molid |
N/A |
Biblical |
Nativity |
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Expression: Nativity
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Expressions using
"nativity": cast a nativity ♦
nativity of Christ ♦ nativity of mary ♦ nativity
play ♦ nativity scene ♦ one's nativity ♦
the nativity ♦ to calculate one's
nativity ♦ to cast one's nativity. Additional references. |
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Ending with
"nativity": Neo-nativity. |
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nativity
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches
per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by
various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the
expression at Amazon.com. |
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nativity
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394 |
nativity scene
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99 |
nativity set
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church of the nativity
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34 |
english
nativity
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nativity in black
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nativity school
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catholic church nativity
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precious moment nativity
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willow tree nativity
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Modern Translations: Nativity
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Translations for "nativity"; alternative
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Albanian
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lindje (accouchement, birth, dawn, delivery,
East, generation, genesis, giving birth, labor, labour,
nascence, nascency, Orient, origination,
procreation, progeniture, rise), lindja e krishtit,
horoskop (horoscope). (various references) |
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Arabic
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ميلاد
السيد المسيح (the
nativity), ولادة
(accouchement, birth, confinement, delivery, giving birth). (various references) |
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Bulgarian
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рождество
христово,
рождение,
хороскоп
(horoscope), произход
(background, beginning, birth, blood, derivation, descent, extraction, filiation, fountain, genesis, line, mint, origin,
origination, origins, parentage, pedigree, provenance, provenience, rise,
stock). (various references) |
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Czech
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narození (birth), zrození.
(various references) |
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Danish
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julekrybbe (crib, Nativity scene). (various references) |
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Dutch
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krib (crib, groin, groyne,
manger, Nativity scene, spit, spur, trough). (various references) |
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French
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nativité. (various references) |
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German
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geburt (birth, childbirth, child-birth,
delivery, descent, fruit, parturition, partus). (various references) |
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Greek
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γέννηση
(birth, childbirth, delivery, ganeration, nascency, parturition, partus,
procreation, progeniture). (various references) |
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Hungarian
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horoszkóp (horoscope). (various references) |
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Italian
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nativit�
(birth). (various references) |
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Japanese Kanji
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�"�誕
(birth). (various references) |
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Japanese Katakana
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せいた��"
(birth, charcoal making), ��"��"うた��"
(birth), ��"うた��"
(birth, end, exaggerated beyond recognition, lies, nonsense, wild talk). (various references) |
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Manx
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ruggyr (birth; |
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Pig Latin
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ativitynay.(various references) |
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Portuguese
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nativos (natives), natividade,
nascimento de cristo,
nascimento (birth, heatspot,
rising, uprise). (various references) |
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Romanian
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naştere (accouchement, bearing, birth,
childbirth, confinement, deliverance, delivery, genesis, get, lying in,
parentage, parturition, rise, strain), loc de origine.
(various references) |
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