Polyglot

  

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Polyglot

Definition: Polyglot

Polyglot

Adjective

1. Having a command of or composed in many languages; "a polyglot traveler"; "a polyglot Bible contains versions in different languages".

Noun

1. A person who speaks more than one language.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "polyglot" was first used: sometime around 1645. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Polyglot

DomainDefinitions

19th Century Satire

A parrot that can swear in several languages. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

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

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Specialty Definition: Polyglot (computing)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In the context of computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independently of which of the chosen programming language in which it is compiled or interpreted. Intuition suggests that polyglot programs should be impossible or very difficult to write. Intuition, in this case, is wrong.

Generally polyglots are written in a combination of C (which allows redefinition of tokens and even operators with a preprocessor) and a scripting language such as Lisp, Perl or sh.

The two most commonly used techniques for constructing a polyglot program are to make liberal use of languages which use different characters for comments and to redefine various tokens as others in different languages. Often good use is made of quirks of syntax. These are demonstrated in this public domain polyglot written in ANSI C, PHP and GNU bash shell:

#define a /*
#"// 2> /dev/null > /dev/null \\
;
// 2> /dev/null; x=a;
$x=5 // 2> /dev/null \\
;
if (($x))
// 2> /dev/null; then
return 0;
// 2> /dev/null; fi
#define e ?>
#define b */
#include 
#define main() int main()
#define printf printf(
#define true )
#define function
function main()
{
printf "Hello, world!\
"true/* 2> /dev/null | grep -v true*/; return 0; } #define c /* main #*/

Note the following:

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Polyglot (computing)."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Polyglot

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

POLYGLOT

EnglishMulti-Language Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech SystemN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Polyglot

Synonym: linguist (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Polyglot

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Difference

Adjective: differing; Verb: different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified; diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform; daedal.

Interpretation

Polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic;

Equivalent, equivalent meaning; synonym; paraphrase, metaphrase; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary; polyglot.

Language

Adjective: lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot, hexaglot, polyglot; literary.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Polyglot

English words defined with "polyglot": Polyglottous. (references)
Etymologies containing "polyglot": Pentaglot, Polyglottous. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Polyglot" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Czech (polyglot).

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Commercial Usage: Polyglot

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mushroom terms : polyglot on research and cultivation of edible fungi (reference)

  • Polyglot Dictionary of 116 Languages (reference)

  • Polyglot medical questionnaire in twenty-seven languages with digital system of communication (reference)

  • Polyglott Sprachfèuhrer = Polyglot conversation booK (reference)

  • Terminorum musicae index septem linguis redactus = Polyglottes Wèorterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie : deutsch, englisch, franzèosisch, italienisch, spanisch, ungarisch, russisch = Polyglot dictionary of musical terms : English, German, French, Itali (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: Polyglot

"Polyglot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "Polyglot" is used about 17 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)94.12%1687,710
Lexical Verb (base form)5.88%1339,140
                    Total100.00%17N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Polyglot

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

polyglot

23

bozs polyglot

2

bible polyglot

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Polyglot

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

Albanian

  

poliglot, shumëgjuhësh. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متعدد اللغات, ‏مزيج من اللغات, ‏الكثير اللغات. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

многоезичен, полиглот (linguist). (various references)

   

Czech

  

polyglot, vícejazyèný, nìkolikajazyèný, mnohojazyèný. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

متکلم بچندزبان , چندزبانی . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

monikielinen puheesta tekstiksi-ja tekstistä puheeksi muuntava järjestelmä POLYGLOT (multi-language speech-to-text and text-to-speech system). (various references)

   

French

  

projet POLYGLOT, polyglotte. (various references)

   

German

  

vielsprachig (multilingual), mehrsprachig (multi lingual, multilingual). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γλωσσομαθήσ (linguist), πολύγλωσσοσ (multilingual). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פולי'לוט, רב לשו י. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

több nyelvű könyv, több nyelvű (multilingual), soknyelvű (multilingual). (various references)

   

Italian

  

poliglotta (multi-lingual). (various references)

   

Manx

  

yl-chengagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olyglotpay

   

Portuguese

  

poligamia. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

poliglot. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

многоязычный (multilingual, multi-lingual), полиглот. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poliglotski, poliglot, mnogojezični, koji govori više jezika. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

polígloto (linguist). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

polyglott, POLYGLOT (multi-language speech-to-text and text-to-speech system), flerspråkig (multilingual, multi-lingual). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çok dilli (multilingual), çok dilde basılmış kitap, çok dilde basılmış, çok dil bilen kimse, çok dil bilen (multilingual). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

багатомовний (multilingual), поліглот. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

viết bằng nhiều thứ tiếng, người biết nhiều thứ tiếng sách viết bằng nhiều thứ tiếng, kinh thánh viết bằng nhiều thứ tiếng, biết nhiều thứ tiếng nhiều thứ tiếng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Polyglot

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

polyglottos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Polyglot

Derivations

Words beginning with "polyglot": polyglotism, polyglotisms, polyglots, polyglottism, polyglottisms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Polyglot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ployglot, plyglot, Polygala, polyglote, polygnotan, polygolt, polygot. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Polyglot"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "polyglot" (pronounced pÄ"lēglÄt)
3-l Ä tsubplot.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Polyglot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-l-l-o-o-p-t-y"

-3 letters: golly, goopy, loopy, ology, tolyl.

-4 letters: glop, goop, logo, logy, loop, loot, plot, ploy, pogy, poll, polo, poly, pool, toll, tool, toyo, typo.

-5 letters: goo, got, goy, gyp, log, loo, lop, lot, oot, opt, ply, pol, pot, tog, too, top, toy.

 Words containing the letters "g-l-l-o-o-p-t-y"
 

+1 letter: polyglots.

 

+3 letters: planetology, polyglotism, typological.

 

+4 letters: paleontology, palynologist, polyglotisms, polyglottism.

 

+5 letters: cryptological, geotropically, ophthalmology, palynologists, polyglottisms, topologically, typologically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Polyglot


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

50 6F 6C 79 67 6C 6F 74

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)

01010000 01101111 01101100 01111001 01100111 01101100 01101111 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#108 &#121 &#103 &#108 &#111 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 006C 0079 0067 006C 006F 0074

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

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

5081789173788186

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Polyglot"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتانarabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutosfinlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, ‏اللغة الفنلندية, ‏فنلندية, ‏فنلندي, фински език, фински, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, ‏المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏اللغة اليونانية, ‏الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm

Hebrew

אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתקhebraishte, ‏اليهودية, ‏اللغة العبرية, ‏يهودي, ‏عبري, ‏العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, musevi, ibranice, ibrani, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей, người Hê-brơ

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás‏مجري, ‏المجري, ‏الهنغاري, ‏هنغاري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione‏الإيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏إيطالي, ‏شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtgjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningsuedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisht, ukrainas, ‏أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, ‏الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, اهل اوکرانی درکشورشوروی , ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, ‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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