Bestiary is an English word with synonyms like book. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Bestiary in a sentence
Bestiary meaning
- A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals.
- A collection of various beasts, depicted in art, literature, or the like.
- A list or guidebook of the monsters to be found in a roleplaying game.
Synonyms of Bestiary
Using Bestiary
- The main meaning on this page is: A medieval treatise of various real or imaginary animals. | A collection of various beasts, depicted in art, literature, or the like. | A list or guidebook of the monsters to be found in a roleplaying game.
- Useful related words include: book.
- In the example corpus, bestiary often appears in combinations such as: the bestiary, bestiary of, bestiary is.
Context around Bestiary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 4 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bestiary
- In this selection, "bestiary" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, norman, complete, fantastic, dial, content and mode stand out and add context to how "bestiary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a short bestiary of creatures and as a bestiary and a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bestiary" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bestiary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Other short poems derive from the Latin bestiary tradition. (9 words)
These glitches tend to also find their way into the bestiary. (11 words)
At public readings he has said that his short story "Bestiary" is not fiction. (14 words)
Among other improvement to Rogue, Koeneke included a persistent town at the highest level where players could buy and sell equipment, and the use of data structures within the Pascal language allowed him to create a more diverse bestiary within the game. (42 words)
The basic set also included a short "bestiary" of creatures native to the world of Volturnus (the setting for the introductory module included with the basic boxed set), along with rules for creating new creatures. (35 words)
The bestiary in the Queen Mary Psalter is found in the "marginal" decorations that occupy about the bottom quarter of the page, and are unusually extensive and coherent in this work. (31 words)
Example sentences (16)
In fact the bestiary has been expanded beyond the source in the Norman bestiary of Guillaume le Clerc to ninety animals.
Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called "The Bestiary" (Dial, 2007) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary.
Now the trio has co-authored a book, Family Traits: The Fantastic Bestiary of a Father and his Sons, a gorgeous celebration of a family’s shared passion for art.
These glitches tend to also find their way into the bestiary.
Among other improvement to Rogue, Koeneke included a persistent town at the highest level where players could buy and sell equipment, and the use of data structures within the Pascal language allowed him to create a more diverse bestiary within the game.
At public readings he has said that his short story "Bestiary" is not fiction.
Bestiary content Medieval bestiaries often contained detailed descriptions and illustrations of species native to Western Europe, exotic animals and what in modern times are considered to be imaginary animals.
In addition, the game included a bestiary, a quick save function, music player, and additional equipment in the style of previous Game Boy Advance re-releases.
Mobile compatible phones. citation The port removed the bestiary mode and original Game Boy version of the game, and condensed some of the in-game cutscenes.
Other short poems derive from the Latin bestiary tradition.
The Aberdeen Bestiary is one of the best known of over 50 manuscript bestiaries surviving today.
The basic set also included a short "bestiary" of creatures native to the world of Volturnus (the setting for the introductory module included with the basic boxed set), along with rules for creating new creatures.
The bestiary in the Queen Mary Psalter is found in the "marginal" decorations that occupy about the bottom quarter of the page, and are unusually extensive and coherent in this work.
The bestiary, then, is also a reference to the symbolic language of animals in Western Christian art and literature.
The description was then normally followed with an artistic illustration of the animal as described in the bestiary.
This features databases such as a bestiary and a gallery of artwork created in development.
Common combinations with bestiary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the bestiary 7×
- bestiary of 3×
- bestiary is 2×