Is <span title="antidisestablishmenttarianism">antidisestablishmenttaria...</span> a word?

Question

I came across this word at college,however not sure if its spelt right as spell checker don't know either.

Have you ever come across this word,if so where?

why is it not in the dictionary? should it be?

Can you impress us by giving the definition? (i know it,that is if the word really exsists!)

Answer 1

I think the word you&#039;re looking for is antidisestablishmentarianism.

It is in any good dictionary, you&#039;ve just not been looking in the right places ;)

It&#039;s got to do with a political group who in the 19th century were totally opposed to the Church of England being the main church in England.

So yeah, I hope this helped you out, there&#039;s a wikipedia page on it here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisesta...

good luck!

Answer 2

Antidisestablishmentarianism (listen to British sample (info), American sample (info)) is a political position that originated in nineteenth-century Britain, where antidisestablishmentarians were opposed to proposals to remove the Church of England&#039;s status as the state church of England forwarded principally by both Payne and Tuffin

Answer 3

yes, first heard it in fifth grade, in college now too. Its the seperation of church and state. Basically it means that government shouldn&#039;t be mixed with religion, but did anyone listen to that? NOO!!

Answer 4

This is my favourite word!! just because it is sooo long!!

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a political position that originated in nineteenth-century Britain, where antidisestablishmentarians were opposed to proposals to remove the Church of England&#039;s status as the state church of England forwarded principally by both Payne and Tuffin.

The movement succeeded in predominantly Anglican England, but failed overwhelmingly in Roman Catholic Ireland – where the Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1871 – and in Wales whose four Church of England dioceses were disestablished in 1920, subsequently becoming the Church in Wales. Antidisestablishmentarian members of the Free Church of Scotland delayed merger with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in a dispute about the position of the Church of Scotland.

The term has largely fallen into disuse; however, the issue itself is still current (see Act of Settlement 1701).

Word length

The word &quot;antidisestablishmentarianism&quot; itself is often referenced in English-speaking popular culture due to its unusual length of 28 letters and 12 syllables. It is commonly believed to be the longest word in the English language, excluding coined and technical terms not found in major dictionaries.

Longer words typically have been coined by specific authors in relatively modern times, or are obscure technical names. For example, floccinaucinihilipilification, first used in prose by William Shenstone in 1741, is 29 letters long, but was thought to have been coined as a nonsense word by a single person or small group of students at Eton. It is rumoured that this was intended to mean &quot;to value something at nothing&quot; or to describe a lack of value. Another word specifically coined to be the &#039;longest word in the English language&#039; is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from the song of the same name in the film Mary Poppins. Chlorofluorocarbonation is also a word that is almost as long as antidisestablishmentarianism, meaning, &quot;the act of putting chlorofluorocarbons into the air.&quot;

Recently, the 2007 edition of Guinness Book of World Records listed &quot;pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoco... as the longest word in the English language. The medical term is a lung disease, caused by the &quot;inhalation of very fine silica dust from volcanoes.&quot; The disease may make it harder to breathe, and people with it need to be hooked up to a lung machine (an artificial lung). This too was a purposely coined word, with the explicit intent of being a long word.

Answer 5

I remember hearing this word at school, and being told it was the longest word in the dictionary, but then finding it wasn&#039;t in the dictionary. lol i could have a stab at guessing what it means, but you&#039;d probably laugh so i wontt bother ha ha  

Answer 6

a long word....cool~

Answer 7

antidisestablishmentarianism...is a very disputable word. some would say its a double negative (ANTI...DIS) but what i&#039;ve heard is that its official mean is: the idea that there should not be an appointed church for a state or country.

Answer 8

it is. longest word in the dictionary i believe.  

Answer 9

yes it is.

the word came from the nation of idiots.

the word means: it bans fast food establishments.

Answer 10

its a word, and its spelt antidisestablishmentarianism

against the establishment I think is what it means :P

the dictionary says..and I quote &quot; originally, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, now opposition to the belief that there should no longer be an official church in a country &quot;

Answer 11

yes it is xx

Answer 12

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...

http://cc.kzoo.edu/k06dw03/Lab%207%20sou...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki:...

These are some sites I found, hope it helps.

Answer 13

Try Ultraantichurchdisestablishmentarianisti... for size.

Answer 14

antidisestablishmentarianism

The believe or ideology (hence the -ism), in no (hence the -anti), disestablishment (dis meaning opposite) (and establishment meaning establishment)

apparently it had something to do with ye-olde-england

Answer 15

yes. but yes u spelt it wrong...

it means

A political philosophy opposed to the separation of a religious group (&quot;church&quot;) and a government (&quot;state&quot;), esp. the belief held by those in 19th century England opposed to separating the Anglican church from the civil government.  

Answer 16

it is a word ,not with 2  t&#039;s though.

it was a movement within the church around 1900&#039;s

Answer 17

try this link for your answer

Answer 18

Merlin&#039;s puzzle. Rearrange the letters and say the magic spell and all is yours.

Only 17 people have ever done it correctly and you have heard of every one.

The meaning of the word is as others have said.