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Definition: Volapuk |
VolapukNoun1. 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. |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Volapuk |
| English words defined with "Volapuk": Idiom Neutral ♦ Volapukist. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | L' Escadron Volapuk (1970) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
volapuk | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Volapuk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | Volapük. (various references) | ||||||||||
Esperanto | volapuko. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | olapukvay Volapuque. (various references) | ||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 6F 6C 61 70 75 6B |
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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)01010110 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110101 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V o l a p u k |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56817867828777 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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