Volapuk

  

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Volapuk

Definition: Volapuk

Volapuk

Noun

1. One of the first artificial language constructed for use as an auxiliary international language; based largely on English but with some German and French and Latin roots.

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

Synonyms within Context: Volapuk

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

Neologism

Dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Volapuk

English words defined with "Volapuk": Idiom NeutralVolapukist. (references)

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Modern Usage: Volapuk

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

L' Escadron Volapuk (1970)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Volapuk

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

  volapuk

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Volapuk

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

Dutch

  

Volapük. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

volapuko. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olapukvay

   

Portuguese

  

Volapuque. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Volapuk

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-k-l-o-p-u-v"

-2 letters: polka.

-3 letters: kola, loup, opal, oval, pula, ulva.

-4 letters: alp, auk, avo, koa, kop, lap, lav, lop, luv, oak, oka, ova, pal, pol, pul, upo, vau.

-5 letters: al, ka, la, lo, op, pa, up.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Volapuk


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

56 6F 6C 61 70 75 6B

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)

01010110 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110101 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#111 &#108 &#97 &#112 &#117 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 006F 006C 0061 0070 0075 006B

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

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

56817867828777

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INDEX

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


  

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