Samarcand

  

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Samarcand

Definition: Samarcand

Samarcand

Noun

1. City in southern Uzbekistan; Tamerlane's opulent capital in the 14th century.

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

Date "Samarcand" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1819. (references)

Synonym: Samarcand

Synonym: Samarkand (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Samarcand

Specialty definitions using "Samarcand": AltamorusPanace'a. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Samarcand

DomainTitle

Books

  • Narrative of the embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the court of Timour at Samarcand, A.D. 1403-6 (reference)

  • Travels in Central Asia : being the account of a journey from Teheran across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Modern Translations: Samarcand

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

Pig Latin

  

amarcandsay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Samarcand

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-m-n-r-s"

-1 letter: sandarac.

-2 letters: armadas, canards, mansard, maracas, marasca, mascara, sardana.

-3 letters: amarna, arcana, armada, asrama, canard, carman, damans, damars, dramas, madras, maraca, samara.

-4 letters: adman, asana, camas, cards, carns, crams, daman, damar, damns, darns, drama, drams, maars, manas, marcs, nadas, narcs, nards, rands, sacra, saran, scram.

-5 letters: amas, anas, ands, ansa, arcs, arms, cads, cams, cans, card, carn, cars, casa, cram, damn, dams, darn, dram, maar, macs, mads, mana, mans, marc, mars, nada, narc, nard, rads, rams, rand, sand, sard, scad, scam, scan, scar.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-d-m-n-r-s"
 

+2 letters: calamanders.

 

+4 letters: coastguardman, handcraftsman.

 

+5 letters: aminoacidurias, antiradicalism, coastguardsman, handicraftsman.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Samarcand


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

53 61 6D 61 72 63 61 6E 64

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)

01010011 01100001 01101101 01100001 01110010 01100011 01100001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#109 &#97 &#114 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 006D 0061 0072 0063 0061 006E 0064

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

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

536779678469678070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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