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Aflare

Definitions: Aflare

Aflare

Adjective

1. Streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "a fluttering scarf"; "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze".

2. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire".

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

Date "aflare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)



Synonyms: Aflare

Synonyms: ablaze(p) (adj), afire(p) (adj), aflame(p) (adj), aflare(p) (adj), alight(p) (adj), blazing (adj), burning (adj), flaming (adj), flaring (adj), fluttering (adj), flying (adj), on fire(p) (adj), waving (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Aflare

English words defined with "aflare": ablaze, afire, aflame, alightblazing, burningflamingon fire. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Aflare" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (presence).

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Anagrams: Aflare

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-l-r"

-1 letter: areal, farle, feral, flare.

-2 letters: afar, alae, alar, alef, alfa, area, earl, fare, farl, feal, fear, flea, frae, leaf, lear, rale, real.

-3 letters: aal, ala, ale, are, arf, ear, elf, era, far, fer, lar, lea, ref.

-4 letters: aa, ae, al, ar, ef, el, er, fa, la, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-l-r"
 

+1 letter: earflap.

 

+2 letters: defrayal, earflaps, fairlead, falderal, farfalle, farmable, filariae, flatware, framable, taffarel.

 

+3 letters: afterclap, broadleaf, defrayals, draftable, fairleads, falderals, fallalery, farandole, farfalles, favorable, flagellar, flagrance, flatwares, frameable, frankable, fraternal, rafflesia, taffarels, ultrasafe, waterfall, waterleaf.

 

+4 letters: affirmable, affordable, afterclaps, defalcator, deflagrate, defrayable, factorable, fairleader, farandoles, fastballer, fatherland, filariases, flagrances, flatlander, formalwear, fragmental, fraxinella, langlaufer, malefactor, rafflesias, transferal, waterfalls, waterleafs.

 

+5 letters: acriflavine, allografted, antiwelfare, barefacedly, calefactory, defalcators, deflagrated, deflagrates, fairleaders, fallaleries, familiarise, familiarize, farthingale, fastballers, fatherlands, filamentary, firmamental, flabbergast, flagrancies, flatlanders, fraternally, fraxinellas, halfhearted, interfacial, langlaufers, leatherleaf, malefactors, parfocalize, trafficable, transferals, unfavorable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Aflare


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

41 66 6C 61 72 65

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)

01000001 01100110 01101100 01100001 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#102 &#108 &#97 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0066 006C 0061 0072 0065

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

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

357278678471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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