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Definition: HANSEL |
HANSELNoun & verb1. See Handsel. |
Date "HANSEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Hansel A gift or bribe, the first money received in a day. Hence Hansel Monday, the first Monday of the year. To "hansel our swords" is to use them for the first time. In Norfolk we hear of hanselling a coat - i.e. wearing it for the first time. Lemon tells us that superstitious people will spit on the first money taken at market for luck, and Misson says, "Its le baisent en le recevant, craschent dessus, et le mettent dans une poche apart. " (Travels in England, p. 192.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HANSEL |
| Specialty definitions using "HANSEL": Spitting for Luck. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "HANSEL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Cornish (breakfast). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have to go save Buffy from Hansel and Gretel! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hansel and Gretel (2000) Cannon Movie Tales: Hansel and Gretel (1987) Hansel and Gretel (1982) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| "HANSEL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "HANSEL" 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 (proper) | 85.71% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "HANSEL" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hansel | Last name | 2,000 | 7,025 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
hansel and gretel | 139 |
hansel | 37 |
hansel and gretal | 23 |
hansel rv | 19 |
ford hansel | 14 |
jim hansel | 13 |
et gretel hansel | 11 |
hansel y gretel | 11 |
hansel honda | 11 |
hansel toyota | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HANSEL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | "авам Подарък За Късмет, "авам Капаро, Сефтосвам. (various references) | |
Czech | Dar (bounty, donation, gift, offering, present, settlement). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Újévkor Megajándékoz, Újévi Ajándék. (various references) | |
Italian | Dono Di Capodanno (handsel). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anselhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Hanoveriano, Sinal (alarm, Beck, character, denotation, denotement, deposit, gesture, guide, handsel, impress, imprint, impulse, index, indication, mark, marking, note, Ober phenomenon, pledge, rubber stamp, scar, seal, sign, signal, signature, spot, stamp, symbol, symptom, tincture, token, trace, track, vestige, waveform, waveshape), Sedimento (bottom, deposit, deposited sediment, draft, dreggy, dregs, foots, grain, Grout, handsel, hold one's ground, sediment, sedimentation, silt, slime, sludge), Garantia (assertion, assurance, bail, caution, chit, collateral, collateral investment, collateral security, contention, contract involving a guarantee, contract of guarantee, contract of guaranty, deed of contract, deposit, earnest, Gage, guarantee, guarantee (security contexts), guarantee agreement, guaranty, guard, handsel, lien, palladium, pawn, pledge, pledged share of stock, safe conduct, safeguard, sea letter, security, sponsion, voucher, warrant, warranty, word), Depósito (bailment, caking, crud, crud deposits, deposit, deposition, depository, depot, down payment, dreg, drop crater, droplet impaction, font, foots, garner, gas reservoir, handsel, lodging allowance, magazine, outhouse, payment on account, point deposit, precipitate, reservoir, sediment, sedimentation, sludge, spray coating, spray deposit, stack, staging area, stockroom, storage, storage house, store, storehouse, storeroom, tank, train depot, warehouse, yard), Camada (bed, bed plane, bedding, bedding plane, coat, coating, couch, daub, deposit, handsel, lay, layer, piece, plane of stratification, ply, reef, seam, sheet, stratification plane, stratum, streak, tier). (various references) | |
Russian | Предвкушение, Почин, Задаток, "арить. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kaparisati. (various references) | |
Spanish | Obsequiar (give away, handsel). (various references) | |
Turkish | Uğur Hediyesi (handsel), Siftah (first sale of the day, handsel), Pey Akçesi (earnest money, handsel, retainer), Þans Hediyesi, Ýlk Taksit. (various references) | |
Ukranian | Обновити, Почати, Почин, Подарунок, "обра Ознака, "арувати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiền bảo đảm sự nếm trước (handsel), sự hưởng trước (handsel), qu năm mới (handsel). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "HANSEL": hanseled, hanseling, hanselled, hanselling, hansels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "HANSEL" (pronounced ha"nsul) |
| 5 | -a" n s u l | cancel. |
| 4 | -n s u l | consul, council, counsel, pencil, Proconsul, stencil, tensile, tinsel, tonsil, unsell, utensil. |
| 3 | -s u l | antimissile, apostle, Axel, axle, basal, brasil, bristle, bustle, capsule, Castle, colossal, diesel, dismissal, dispersal, docile, dorsal, epistle, facile, fissile, fossil, gracile, gristle, Hassel, hassle, housel, hustle, imbecile, jostle, microfossil, missal, missel, missile, morsel, mucosal, muscle, mussel, Nestle, parcel, Passel, pixel, rehearsal, reversal, rustle, tassel, Tattersall, Tercel, Thistle, Tressel, trestle, tussle, universal, vassal, vessel, whistle, wrestle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ashen, elans, hales, hanse, heals, lanes, leans, leash, selah, shale, sheal. | |
-2 letters: ales, anes, elan, haen, haes, hale, heal, hens, lane, lase, lash, lean, leas, lens, sale, sane, seal, shea. | |
-3 letters: ale, als, ane, ash, els, ens, hae, has, hen, hes, las, lea, nae, nah, sae, sal, sea, sel, sen, sha, she. | |
-4 letters: ae, ah, al, an, as, eh, el, en, es, ha, he, la, na, ne, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: enhalos, handles, handsel, hansels, hantles, inhales, unleash. | |
+2 letters: anethols, blanches, chalones, chancels, channels, charnels, enhaloes, enthrals, ethanols, haleness, halfness, halogens, handlers, handless, handsels, hanseled, healings, helmsman, hyalines, inhalers, launches, leashing, manholes, nathless, planches, shealing, shetland, shinleaf, shrapnel, unlashed, unlashes. | |
+3 letters: anetholes, angelfish, anopheles, aphelions, ashlering, athelings, blanchers, cephalins, chandlers, elephants, enthralls, eulachans, eulachons, exhalants, exhalents, hailstone, hairlines, halazones, halftones, handbells, handhelds, handseled, hanseling, hanselled, hazelhens, hazelnuts, headlands, headlines, homelands, hyalogens, hymeneals, inhaulers, kephalins, launchers, loathness, longheads, lunkheads, methanols, mishandle, nailheads, narghiles, nargilehs, narwhales, natheless, phalanges, phalanxes, planchets, planished, planisher, planishes, rehandles, selachian, seneschal, shaveling, shealings, shearling, shetlands, shinleafs, spleuchan, synalepha, thankless, unlatches, unleashed, unleashes, unshackle, unshapely, wheelsman. | |
+4 letters: adhesional, allethrins, allophanes, allophones, alongshore, alpenhorns, anchorless, anglerfish, anthelices, anthelions, anthelixes, archangels, avalanches, benchlands, blandished, blandisher, blandishes, branchless, branchlets, candlefish, chalcogens, challenges, chameleons, chandelles, changeless, channelers, chatelains, chelations, chelonians, chloracnes, chlordanes, cochineals, decathlons, disenthral, earthlings, encashable, enchiladas, enthalpies, flashiness, hailstones, halenesses, halfnesses, haloclines, halogenous, halogetons, halothanes, handlebars, handleless, handseling, handselled, handsomely, handwheels, hanselling, harlequins, headliners, heartlands, heathlands, heliozoans, hesitantly, houseclean, houseplant, kalanchoes, languished, languisher, languishes, lavishness, leishmania, lengthways, leviathans, lunchmeats, manhandles, meanwhiles, melphalans, mischannel, mishandled, mishandles, nemophilas, neophilias, panhandles, phalangers, phenolates, philanders, planishers, punishable, rechannels, relaunches, ringhalses, selachians, seneschals, shavelings, shearlings, shinleaves, shrinkable, slathering, sphenoidal, spleuchans, synalephas, synaloepha, technicals, thylacines, unchastely, unleashing, unshackled, unshackles, unshakable, whalebones. | |
+5 letters: abolishment, ailanthuses, alightments, analphabets, anaphylaxes, angelfishes, annihilates, anophelines, antechapels, anthologies, bashfulness, blandishers, blaspheming, branchlines, calisthenic, cellophanes, cephalexins, chainwheels, challengers, chancellors, chandeliers, chandleries, changelings, channelizes, chatelaines, chloramines, chlorinates, coelacanths, disenthrall, disenthrals, earthliness, enkephalins, ethicalness, exhalations, fashionable, fatherlands, generalship, ghastliness, habiliments, halfpennies, halogenates, handselling, haplessness, harmfulness, hatefulness, healthiness, heavenliest, heulandites, highlanders, hinterlands, hollandaise, housecleans, houseplants, hydroplanes, hyperplanes, hypersaline, landholders, languishers, lanthanides, lecithinase, leishmanial, leishmanias, leprechauns, lifemanship, lightplanes, lithophanes, loathnesses, manchineels, mantelshelf, mechanicals, mesenchymal, mischannels, misshapenly, motherlands, nailbrushes, nalorphines, neophiliacs, nonathletes, overhandles, panhandlers, pentathlons, phalanstery, planchettes, planisphere, rhizoplanes, searchingly, shacklebone, shallowness, shapeliness, shellacking, shinplaster, slavishness, spinachlike, splashiness, stenohaline, stickhandle, synaloephas, tarnishable, thanklessly, theologians, thiopentals, unabashedly, unashamedly, uncrushable, unshockable, wavelengths, wealthiness, wholesaling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 41 4E 53 45 4C |
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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)01001000 01000001 01001110 01010011 01000101 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H A N S E L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0041 004E 0053 0045 004C |
| 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)423548533946 |
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