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| Domain | Definition |
Personal Care & Hotels | A perfumed preparation applied to the skin after shaving. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AFTERSHAVE |
| Non-English Usage: "AFTERSHAVE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (aftershave). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | God Jerry what aftershave have you got on there? (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Avoid perfume, cologne, or aftershave lotion that contains alcohol. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AFTERSHAVE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.43% of the time. "AFTERSHAVE" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.43% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.71% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 70 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "AFTERSHAVE": aftershave lotion. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "AFTERSHAVE": aftershave-commercial. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "AFTERSHAVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | locion pas rrojës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كولونيا بعد الحلاقة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | voda po holení (aftershave lotion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aftershave. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | postraza ŝmiraĵo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | après-rasage, lotion après rasage (aftershave lotion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rasierwasser (after shave lotion, pre-shave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | arcszesz (aftershave lotion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dopobarba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aftershaveay лосьон после бритья, лосьон (lotion), применяющийся после бритья. (various references) posle brijanja. (various references) loción para después del afeitado (aftershave lotion). (various references) rakvatten (after-shave). (various references) лосьон після гоління. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AFTERSHAVE": aftershaves. (additional references) | |
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"AFTERSHAVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aftershaved. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-h-r-s-t-v" | |
-2 letters: feathers, hetaeras, ratafees. | |
-3 letters: aerates, aethers, afreets, fathers, feaster, feather, freshet, hafters, harvest, heaters, heavers, hefters, hetaera, ratafee, reheats, reshave, terefah, thraves. | |
-4 letters: aerate, aether, afreet, afresh, afters, aretes, arhats, averse, averts, earths, easter, eaters, ethers, everts, faster, father, feater, fester, fevers, freest, haeres, hafter, haters, havers, hearse, hearts, heater, heaver, heaves, hefter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-f-h-r-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: aftershaves. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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