AMBAGES

Date "AMBAGES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Etymology: Ambages \Am*ba"ges\, plural noun. [Latin expression (usually in plural); prefix ambi-, amb- agere to drive: compare to the French expression ambage.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: AMBAGES

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Circuit	Noun: circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages, loop; winding; (circuition); zigzag; (deviation).
Convolution	Winding; Verb: convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages; torsion; inosculation; reticulation; (crossing); rivulation; roughness.
Diffuseness	Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology; pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages; periphrase, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-lining; richness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: AMBAGES

Domain	Title
Books	Ambages : relatos (reference) Ambages Completos (reference) Sin ambages : textos y contextos (reference) Sonría por favor! : aforismos, ambages, paronomasias, retruécanos, ambigüedades y otros barquinazos del idioma (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: AMBAGES

Language		Translations for "AMBAGES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		menevër për të marrë krahët e armikut. (various references)

Bulgarian		тайни методи, косвени методи. (various references)

Hungarian		kertelés (circumlocution, hedging, prevarication, shuffle, tergiversation). (various references)

Pig Latin		ambagesay

Portuguese		ambiguidade (ambiguity, amphibology, era), evasiva (dodge, dodgery, elusion, evasion, prevarication, quibble, quirk, salvo, shuffle, subterfuge, tergiversation). (various references)

Romanian		ocolişuri. (various references)

Russian		обиняки. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		namotavanje (winding). (various references)

Turkish		dolaylı davranış, dolambaçlı yol (circuit, detour, indirect means, meander, meandering, roundabout, roundabout way). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "AMBAGES"

Anagrams: AMBAGES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-m-s"
	-1 letter: ambage, amebas, gambas, gambes, seabag.
	-2 letters: abase, abeam, agmas, ameba, beams, bemas, gamas, gamba, gambe, gambs, games, mabes, mages, samba.
	-3 letters: abas, agas, ages, agma, amas, asea, baas, bags, bams, base, beam, begs, bema, gabs, gaes, gama, gamb, game, gams, gems, mabe, maes, mage, mags, megs, mesa, sabe, saga, sage, same, seam.
	-4 letters: aas.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-g-m-s"
	+1 letter: gambades, megabars.
	+2 letters: ballgames, embassage, gambadoes, mangabeys, mangabies.
	+3 letters: assemblage, cablegrams, embassages, submanager.
	+4 letters: assemblages, blancmanges, megaloblast, submanagers.
	+5 letters: assemblagist, cabbageworms, disambiguate, embarrassing, megaloblasts, reassemblage.
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