From en.wiktionary.org:
[Blessing]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], from [en], [ang], equivalent to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
2. * [XVII]
3. A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
4. * [chapter=5]
5. Good fortune.
6. [en] A modern pagan ceremony.
7. The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval .
8. * [passage=Jocasta had my BLESSING when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.]
9. Something someone is glad of.
10. A prayer before a meal; grace .
11. A group of unicorns .
12. * {{ quote-journal | en | author=Betsy Schiffman | title=Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report | titleurl=http://www.wired.com/business/2008/09/should-we-trash/ | journal=Wired | date=11 September 2008
|passage=And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a BLESSING of
unicorns and one million dollars.}}
1. * 2009 , Andrew Orlowski, " Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last? (see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/13/facebook_music_and_tesco/) ", _The Register_ , 13 September 2011:
2. *: Then a BLESSING of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2011 | author=Suzette Mayr | title=Monoceros | pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=P1YCBTB6e3wC&pg=PA94&dq=%22blessing+of+unicorns%22 | page=94 | publisher=Coach House Books | year_published=2011 | isbn=9781552452417
|passage=She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or
write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her BLESSING of
unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically
correct unicorns.}}
**** Antonyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|Blessing Way|blessingly|blurse|houseblessing|a blessing and a curse
|blessing in disguise| Camp Blessing |count one's blessings|stepmother's
blessing |God's Blessing Green |mixed blessing|blessing loom |Toronto blessing
}}
**** Translations
[divine or supernatural aid or reward]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Avestan: [ae]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Latin: [la]
- Lutuv: [clt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manx: [gv]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sidamo: [sid]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[pronouncement invoking divine aid]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Latin: [la]
- Manx: [gv]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[good fortune]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swahili: [sw]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[(_paganism_ ) modern pagan ceremony]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
[trans-bottom]
[act of declaring, seeking or bestowing favor]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Irish: [ga]
- Kurdish:
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Swahili: [sw]
[trans-bottom]
[thing one is glad of]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
[trans-bottom]
[prayer before a meal]
[group of unicorns]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
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*** Anagrams
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