ESCURIAL

  

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ESCURIAL

Definition: ESCURIAL

ESCURIAL

Noun

1. A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ESCURIAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Etymology: Escurial \Es*cu"ri*al\, noun. [Prop. Spanish escorial, i. e., hill or heap of rubbish, earth, and stones brought out of mine, from escoria dross of metal, from Latin expression scoria, from the Greek expression. Compare to Scoria.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: ESCURIAL

English words defined with "ESCURIAL": Escorial. (references)

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Modern Usage: ESCURIAL

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Escurial (1991)

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

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Commercial Usage: ESCURIAL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Barabbas ; Escurial (reference)

  • The Oregon Territory, Its History and Discovery: Including an Account of the Convention of the Escurial, Also the Treaties and Negotiations Between t (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ESCURIAL

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.
 
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escurial

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Modern Translations: ESCURIAL

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

Danish

  

escurial får (escurial sheep). (various references)

   

French

  

escurial sheep (escurial sheep). (various references)

   

German

  

Escurial sheep (escurial sheep). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πρόβατο εσκοριάλ (escurial sheep). (various references)

   

Italian

  

escurial sheep (escurial sheep). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

escurialay

   

Portuguese

  

ovelha de raça escurial (escurial sheep). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escurial sheep (escurial sheep). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "ESCURIAL"

Words rhyming with "ESCURIAL" (pronounced 'Es*cu"ri*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ESCURIAL

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: auricles.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-s-u"

-1 letter: auricle, claries, eclairs, recusal, saucier, scalier, secular, uracils.

-2 letters: aculei, ariels, caries, carles, caules, caulis, causer, cerias, cesura, clause, clears, cruise, curiae, curial, curies, eclair, ericas, lacers, lacier, lucres, relics, resail, sailer, saucer, saurel, scaler, sclera, serail, serial, slicer, sluice, ulcers, uracil, urials.

-3 letters: acres, aisle, alecs, arcus, areic, ariel, arils, arise, arles.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: peculiars, simulacre, vesicular.

 

+2 letters: circulates, curtailers, curtilages, graticules, incurables, lacustrine, lubricates, luciferase, mercurials, revictuals, saucerlike, secularise, secularism, secularist, secularity, secularize, simulacres, testicular, versicular, victualers.

 

+3 letters: apicultures, arenicolous, articulates, avicultures, calciferous, cartularies, circularise, curtainless, disgraceful, electuaries, elucidators, inscrutable, irrecusable, irrecusably, lactiferous, lawrenciums, luciferases, luxuriances, republicans, reticulates, secularised, secularises, secularisms, secularists, secularized, secularizer, secularizes, specularity, subliteracy, superficial, ulcerations, ultrafiches, unclarities, unrealistic, veraciously, victuallers, vulcanizers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ESCURIAL


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

45 53 43 55 52 49 41 4C

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)

01000101 01010011 01000011 01010101 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#83 &#67 &#85 &#82 &#73 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0053 0043 0055 0052 0049 0041 004C

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

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

3953375552433546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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