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Definition: ARPEN |
ARPENNoun1. Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Paintings. Andrew Mellon by Arpen Landon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ARPEN": arpens, arpent, arpents. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ARPEN": sharpen. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ARPEN": carpenter, carpentered, carpentering, carpenters, carpentries, carpentry, sharpened, sharpener, sharpeners, sharpening, sharpens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: aper, earn, nape, neap, near, pane, pare, pean, pear, rape, reap. | |
-2 letters: ane, ape, are, ear, era, ern, nae, nap, pan, par, pea, pen, per, ran, rap, rep. | |
-3 letters: ae, an, ar, en, er, na, ne, pa, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-p-r" | |
+1 letter: arpens, arpent, enrapt, entrap, enwrap, napery, napper, pander, panier, panzer, parent, pawner, planer, prance, preman, rapine, rappen, repand, replan, trepan. | |
+2 letters: aproned, arpents, caprine, entraps, enwraps, firepan, grapnel, hanaper, heparin, knapper, manrope, nappers, nappier, operand, operant, padrone, painter, panders, pandore, paniers, pannier, panther, panzers, pardine, pardner, parents, partner, parvenu, pastern, pattern, pawners, perinea, persona, pertain, plainer, planers, planner, planter, plenary, praline, pranced, prancer, prances, pranged, pranked, prawned, prawner, preanal, predawn, prename, preplan, prewarn, profane, pronate, propane, protean, ranpike, rapines, reaping, repaint, repanel, replans, replant, reptant, sharpen, snapper, spanker, spanner, spawner, trepang, trepans, undrape. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 52 50 45 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. .--. . -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010010 01010000 01000101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A R P E N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0052 0050 0045 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3552503948 |
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