Word Meanings - PRETORIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The general's tent in a Roman camp; hence, a council of war, because held in the general's tent. 2. The official residence of a governor of a province; hence, a place; a splendid country seat.

Related words: (words related to PRETORIUM)

• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• ROMANY
  1. A gypsy.
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• ROMANISH
  Pertaining to Romanism.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• SPLENDIDLY
  In a splendid manner; magnificently.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• ELEUTHEROMANIAC
  Mad for freedom.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• HIEROMANCY
  Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.