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Definition: Altar Boy |
Altar BoyNoun1. A boy serving as an acolyte. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Churchwarden, sidesman; clerk, precentor, choir; almoner, suisse, verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan; acolyth, acolothyst, acolyte, altar boy; chorister. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Mom must have some compromising photos of the head priest with an altar boy for them to even be considering Igby. (Igby Goes Down; writing credit: Burr Steers) Said the Bishop to the altar boy. (The Trip; writing credit: Robert Louis Stevenson; Ron Clements) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Portrait photographs. Episcopal minister, altar boy and choir standing at entrance to church.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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 |
altar boy | 146 |
dangerous life of altar boy the | 60 |
altar boy robe | 3 |
altar boy life secret | 3 |
altar boy dangerous life script | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "altar boy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 侍者 (attendant, valet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じしゃ (attendant, private company, temples and shrines, valet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | guilley altar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | altaray oybay ministrante (acolyte). (various references) monaguillo (server). (various references) korgosse (acolyte, altar-boy, choirboy, chorister). (various references) papaz yardımcısı çocuk. (various references) що прислужу" в олтарі. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-o-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ratably. | |
-2 letters: abator, aboral, aortal, baryta, rabato. | |
-3 letters: abort, alary, altar, aorta, artal, bloat, boart, bolar, boral, borty, boyar, boyla, labor, labra, lobar, lyart, rabat, ratal, royal, tabla, tabor, talar, tolar. | |
-4 letters: ably, alar, alba, alto, arty, aryl, baal, blat, blot, boar, boat, bola, bolt, bora, bort, bota, brat, bray, byrl, lory, lota, oral. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-l-o-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: ambulatory, bardolatry, laboratory. | |
+3 letters: ablutionary, abnormality, adorability, carboxylate, elaborately, libationary, roadability, treasonably. | |
+4 letters: abolitionary, ambulatorily, carboxylated, carboxylates, constabulary. | |
+5 letters: absorbability, acrobatically, affordability, campylobacter, carbonylation, carboxylating, carboxylation, comparability, confabulatory, decarboxylate, mycobacterial, perambulatory, polycarbonate, probationally, reasonability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 74 61 72 42 6F 79 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01110100 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l t a r   B o y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0074 0061 0072 0042 006F 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35788667842368191 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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