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Date "AVOIR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
"AVOIR" is a common misspelling or typo for: aver, avoid, savior. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Avoir Avoir Martel en tête (French). To be distracted. Martel is a hammer, hence distraction, torment, torture. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insanity | Rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel; (be imbecile); have a screw loose; Noun: have a devil; avoir le diable au corps; lose one;s head; (be uncertain). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: AVOIR |
| Specialty definitions using "AVOIR": AVOIR DU POIS LAY ♦ Bears are caught by Honey, Bird in the hand ♦ Honey better than Vinegar ♦ meal card, Mouchard ♦ Pasch Eggs ♦ Rif. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "AVOIR": Havior. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "AVOIR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (get, have, have got, having, hold, own, possess, wear), French Canadian (have). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Je voudrais avoir, , , (Someone I love, Someone who loves me; performing artist: Dion) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Au théâtre ce soir: Pour avoir Adrienne (1967) Être et avoir (2002) Avoir su... (2001) En avoir (ou pas) (1995) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Croyez vous avoir affaire à une mâchoire. / Seb. Leroy. Lith de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Avec un nom pareil, vous devez avoir la main légère. / [Amédée Noé]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | La rougeole peut avoir des conséquences sérieuses : faites les vacciner. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Avec la carte, nous en aurons peu, mais nous en aurons tous. Casse aujourd'hui ton sucre en deux pour en avoir demain?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Comment vous ne vous arretez pas ... Vous ne m'aimez plus. Je commence a en avoir assez, je ne fais plus que passer. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Avec la carte, nous en aurons peu, mais nous en aurons tous. Casse aujourd'hui ton sucre en deux pour en avoir demain?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Pour avoir bu de grand matin La rosee a meme le thym, Deux moineaux etaient en ribote. |
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| "AVOIR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AVOIR" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "AVOIR": avoir le diable au corps. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AVOIR": avoirdupois, avoirdupoises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-o-r-v" | |
-1 letter: arvo, vair. | |
-2 letters: air, avo, oar, ora, ova, ria, var, via. | |
-3 letters: ai, ar, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: havior, pavior, savior, viator, virago. | |
+2 letters: advisor, aviator, avodire, avoider, bolivar, corvina, haviors, haviour, olivary, ovarial, ovarian, ovaries, ovipara, paviors, paviour, ravioli, saviors, saviour, travois, variola, variole, various, viators, vibrato, viragos. | |
+3 letters: abortive, advisors, advisory, aversion, aviators, avigator, avodires, avoiders, behavior, biovular, bolivars, bravoing, cavicorn, corrival, corvinas, deviator, disfavor, favoring, favorite, graviton, haviours, jarovize, nonrival, nonviral, obviator, omnivora, outrival, ovariole, ovaritis, overlaid, overlain, overpaid, parvolin, paviours, proviral, ravigote, raviolis, rotative, saviours, savorier, savories, savorily, savoring, tovarich, tovarish, travoise, valorise, valorize, vanitory, vaporing, vaporise, vaporish, vaporize, varicose, variform, variolar, variolas, varioles, variorum, varistor, vasiform, veronica, viatores, vibrator, vibratos, victoria, violater, violator, viragoes, virtuosa, vitiator, voracity, vortical, votaries, votarist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 56 4F 49 52 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01000001 01010110 01001111 01001001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A V O I R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0056 004F 0049 0052 |
| 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)3556494352 |
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