lettre de cachet

Questions about lettre de cachet

What is another word for lettre de cachet?

It depends which lettre de cachet you mean. In the sense “a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal”, the synonyms are cachet. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of lettre de cachet?

WordNet records no antonym for lettre de cachet. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for lettre de cachet come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of lettre de cachet

• Full entry for lettre de cachetAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for lettre de cachetWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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