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Definitions: BENCHER |
BENCHERNoun1. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. 2. A member of a court or council. 3. An alderman of a corporation. 4. One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court. |
Date "BENCHER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lawyer | Noun: lawyer, attorney, legal counsel; counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law; jurist, legist, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult, legal adviser, advocate; barrister, barrister at law; King's or Queen's counsel; K.C.; Q.C.; silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher; tubman, judge. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BENCHER |
| English words defined with "BENCHER": Disbench. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BENCHER": Benchers. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BENCHER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BENCHER" is used about 21 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BENCHER": back bencher. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BENCHER": back-bencher, cross-bencher. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bencher | 14 |
bencher metal | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BENCHER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عضو نقابة المحامين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | membre de l'ordre des avocats. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abgeordnete (assembly man, assemblyman, back bencher, Burgess, delegate, deputy, floor, member, member of parliament, private member, representative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nem kormánypárti képviselõ (back bencher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | avvocato anziano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ベンチ'温める (bench press, bench warmer, benchmark, benchmark-task, to be a bench polisher, venture business, venture capital). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ベンチャー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | binkeyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | encherbay remador (oar, oarsmanship, puller, rower, waterman), frequentador de bares, advogado (advocate, attorney, barrister, barrister solicitor, counsel, counsellor, counselor, intercessor, lawyer, patron saint, pleading, solicitor, templar). (various references) decano del colegio de abogados. (various references) baro yönetim kurulu üyesi, kıdemsiz parlamento üyesi (back bencher, backbencher), avam kamarası üyesi. (various references) суддя (beak, court, judge, justice, magistrate, oracle, umpire). (various references) lânh tụ đảng đối lập (front bench, front-bencher), cựu bộ trưởng (front bench, front-bencher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BENCHER": benchers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BENCHER": backbencher. (additional references) | |
Words containing "BENCHER": backbenchers. (additional references) | |
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"BENCHER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bankchek, Beacher, Bechar, Bechari, Bechler, Bechner, Bechor, beecher, Bencey, benche, Beneherth, benkert, Betcher, Biancheri, Bingchen, Buechner, buescheri, buncher, Bunchrew, Dencher. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BENCHER" (pronounced be"nkher) |
| 5 | b e" n kh er | debenture. |
| 4 | -e" n kh er | adventure, Clencher, denture, indenture, misadventure, quencher, trencher, venture. |
| 3 | -n kh er | clincher, cruncher, launcher, licensure, Pincher, rancher. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-h-n-r" | |
-1 letter: breech. | |
-2 letters: beech, bench, cheer, hence, rebec. | |
-3 letters: been, beer, bene, bree, bren, cere, eche, erne, hebe, herb, here, hern. | |
-4 letters: bee, ben, cee, ere, ern, hen, her, neb, nee, reb, rec, ree. | |
-5 letters: be, eh, en, er, he, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-h-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bedrench, benchers, blencher, unbreech. | |
+2 letters: blenchers, breeching. | |
+3 letters: abhorrence, bedrenched, bedrenches, breechings, rebranched, rebranches, unbreeched, unbreeches. | |
+4 letters: abhorrences, antechamber, backbencher, bedrenching, benchwarmer, hebephrenic, unbreeching, unreachable, workbenches. | |
+5 letters: antechambers, backbenchers, benchwarmers, buccaneerish, bunchberries, chinaberries, hebephrenics, merchantable, unbreachable, unsearchable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 4E 43 48 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -. -.-. .... . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01001110 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E N C H E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 004E 0043 0048 0045 0052 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36394837423952 |
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