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Definition: STORTHING |
STORTHINGNoun1. The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions. |
Etymology: Storthing \Stor"thing\, noun. [Norw. storting; stor great ting court, court of justice; compare to Danish ting, thing.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Storthing (pron. stor-ting). The Norwegian Parliament, elected every three years (Norse, stor, great; thing, court.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Council | Senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim; classis; Amphictyonic council; duma, house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal; (tribunal); board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Words rhyming with "STORTHING" (pronounced 'Stor"thing'): Althing, Plaything. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-n-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: shorting, shotting, tonights, trothing. | |
-2 letters: hornist, horsing, hosting, hotting, intorts, rotting, shoring, sorting, storing, throngs, tonight, trigons, tritons. | |
-3 letters: girons, girths, griots, grison, griths, groins, hosing, ingots, intort, intros, nights, nitros, norths, ogrish, rhinos, righto, rights, rosing, signor, soring, stingo, stotin, string, strong, things, thirst, thongs, thorns, throng, tights, tigons, tonish, toting, trigon. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-n-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: fortnights. | |
+2 letters: triphthongs. | |
+3 letters: ghostwriting, ghostwritten, intergrowths, outthrusting, overtightens, shortcutting, trapshooting. | |
+4 letters: fortnightlies, orchestrating, ornithologist, outstretching, theatergoings, thermosetting, thermostating, toothbrushing, trapshootings. | |
+5 letters: anthropologist, antilogarithms, counterweights, forthrightness, ornithologists, overstretching, thermostatting, toothbrushings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 4F 52 54 48 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - --- .-. - .... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T O R T H I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 004F 0052 0054 0048 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)535449525442434841 |
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