Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to billet
Participle: billeted
Gerund: billeting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | billet |
| you | billet |
| he;she;it | billets |
| we | billet |
| you | billet |
| they | billet |
Perfect
| I | have billeted |
| you | have billeted |
| he;she;it | has billeted |
| we | have billeted |
| you | have billeted |
| they | have billeted |
Past
| I | billeted |
| you | billeted |
| he;she;it | billeted |
| we | billeted |
| you | billeted |
| they | billeted |
Pluperfect
| I | had billeted |
| you | had billeted |
| he;she;it | had billeted |
| we | had billeted |
| you | had billeted |
| they | had billeted |
Future
| I | will billet |
| you | will billet |
| he;she;it | will billet |
| we | will billet |
| you | will billet |
| they | will billet |
Future Perfect
| I | will have billeted |
| you | will have billeted |
| he;she;it | will have billeted |
| we | will have billeted |
| you | will have billeted |
| they | will have billeted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | billet |
| you | billet |
| he;she;it | billet |
| we | billet |
| you | billet |
| they | billet |
Perfect
| I | have billeted |
| you | have billeted |
| he;she;it | have billeted |
| we | have billeted |
| you | have billeted |
| they | have billeted |
Imperfect
| I | billeted |
| you | billeted |
| he;she;it | billeted |
| we | billeted |
| you | billeted |
| they | billeted |
Pluperfect
| I | had billeted |
| you | had billeted |
| he;she;it | had billeted |
| we | had billeted |
| you | had billeted |
| they | had billeted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would billet |
| you | would billet |
| he;she;it | would billet |
| we | would billet |
| you | would billet |
| they | would billet |
Perfect
| I | would have billeted |
| you | would have billeted |
| he;she;it | would have billeted |
| we | would have billeted |
| you | would have billeted |
| they | would have billeted |
Imperative
| you | billet |
| we | Let's billet |
| you | billet |
Verbs conjugated like 'billet'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'billet'
ballet,
bullet,
fillet,
ballot,
beller,
bile,
bilge,
bill,
billow,
birle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1599, "to assign quarters to," earlier "official record or register" (M.E.), from Anglo-Fr. billette "list, schedule," dim. of bille (see bill (1)).
2. From Middle French billette (“schedule”), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle (“document”), from Medieval Latin bulla, hence cognate with etymology 1 above.
Sample Sentences
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Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. [1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:]
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Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatures […] [1965, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and other Writings:]