ALMONRY

  

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ALMONRY

Definition: ALMONRY

ALMONRY

Noun

1. The place where an almoner resides, or where alms are distributed.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ALMONRY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references)

Specialty Definitions: ALMONRY

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Almonry The place where the almoner resides, or where alms are distributed. An almoner is a person whose duty it is to distribute alms, which, in ancient times, consisted of one-tenth of the entire income of monastery. (See Ambry.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: ALMONRY

English words defined with "ALMONRY": Almonries, Almry, Ambry, Aumery. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ALMONRY": Maunds. (references)
Etymologies containing "ALMONRY": Alms, Ambry. (references)

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Usage Frequency: ALMONRY

"ALMONRY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ALMONRY" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ALMONRY

Language Translations for "ALMONRY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

aalmoeseniershuis (almshouse, workhouse). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

място където се раздават помощи. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

armhuis (almshouse, workhouse), aalmoezeniershuis (almshouse, workhouse). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malriĉulejo (almshouse, workhouse). (various references)

   

Italian

  

elemosineria. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

almonryay

   

Vietnamese 

  

nơi phát chẩn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ALMONRY

Misspellings

"ALMONRY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Almendro, almondy, Almoro, Amandry, Amon-ra. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ALMONRY"

Words rhyming with "ALMONRY" (pronounced 'Al"mon*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almry, Altimetry, Alveary. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ALMONRY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-m-n-o-r-y"

-1 letter: normal.

-2 letters: anomy, loamy, loran, manly, manor, marly, mayor, molar, moral, moray, rayon, roman, royal.

-3 letters: amyl, army, aryl, loam, loan, lorn, lory, mano, many, marl, mayo, moan, mola, moly, mony, mora, morn, myna, nary, noma, norm, only, oral, roam, roan, yarn.

-4 letters: any, arm, lam, lar, lay, man, mar, may, moa, mol, mon.

 Words containing the letters "a-l-m-n-o-r-y"
 

+1 letter: matronly, normalcy, normally, randomly.

 

+2 letters: embryonal, monolayer, mordantly, myoneural, myrobalan, normality, pulmonary, workmanly.

 

+3 letters: abnormally, emblazonry, hormonally, informally, lampoonery, mineralogy, monaurally, monetarily, monolayers, myrobalans, poultryman, unmorality.

 

+4 letters: abnormality, clergywoman, conformably, importantly, informality, lognormally, mandatorily, momentarily, monocrystal, monocularly, moronically, nonmilitary, normatively, paramountly, salmonberry, sportsmanly, subnormally, unmemorably.

 

+5 letters: admonitorily, ceremonially, chlorenchyma, demonstrably, eleemosynary, harmonically, harmoniously, impersonally, imponderably, incomparably, inflammatory, laryngectomy, lognormality, manipulatory, membranously, meridionally, microanalyst, microtonally, monocrystals, ornamentally, paranormally, pronominally, pyromaniacal, romantically, subnormality, voluntaryism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ALMONRY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 4C 4D 4F 4E 52 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-..    --    ---    -.    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001100 01001101 01001111 01001110 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#76 &#77 &#79 &#78 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 004D 004F 004E 0052 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35464749485259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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