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Aglitter

Definition: Aglitter

Aglitter

Adjective

1. Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term".

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

Note: Aglitter \A*glit"ter\, adverb. adjective. [Prefix a- glitter.]. (Websters 1913)



Synonyms: Aglitter

Synonyms: aglitter(p) (adj), fulgid (adj), glinting (adj), glistering (adj), glittering (adj), glittery (adj), scintillant (adj), scintillating (adj), sparkling(a) (adj), sparkly (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Aglitter

"Aglitter" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aglitter" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aglitter

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aglitter

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Aglitter

Language Translations for "aglitter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏متألق (bright, brilliant, effulgent, glorious, luminescent, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, staring). (various references)

   

French

  

rayonnement. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aglitteray

   

Russian 

  

сияющий (auroral, fulgent, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Aglitter

Misspellings

"Aglitter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agister, aliter, Galiotti, maglite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Aglitter"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "aglitter" (pronounced ugli"ter)
5-g l i" t erglitter.
4-l i" t erlitter.
3-i" t erbitter, critter, embitter, fitter, fritter, hitter, knitter, quitter, Ritter, sitar, sitter, titter, transmitter.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Aglitter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-r-t-t"

-1 letter: glitter, tertial.

-2 letters: aiglet, aigret, attire, gaiter, gelati, glaire, latter, ligate, litter, ratite, rattle, regilt, retail, retial, tailer, target, tergal, tilter, triage.

-3 letters: agile, aglet, alert, alter, argil, argle, ariel, artel, atilt, glair, glare, grail, grate, great, irate, lager, large, later, latte, legit, liger, liter, litre, ratel, regal, relit, retag, retia, taler, targe, tater, telia, terai, terga, tetra, tiger, tiler, titer, title, titre, tragi, trail, trait, treat, trial, trite.

-4 letters: ager, airt, alit, aril, earl, egal, gait, gale, gate, gear, gelt, geta, gilt, girl, girt, glia, grat, grit, ilea, lair, lari, late, lati, lear, liar, lier, lira, lire, lite, rage, ragi, rail, rale, rate, real, rial, riel, rile, rite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, tart, tate, teal, tear, teat, tela, tier, tile, tilt, tire, tirl, tret, trig.

-5 letters: age, ail, air, ait, ale, alt, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, erg, eta, gae, gal, gar, gat, gel, get, gie, git, ire, lag, lar, lat, lea, leg, lei, let, lie, lit, rag, rat, reg, rei, ret, ria, rig, tae, tag, tar, tat, tea, teg, tel, tet, tie, til, tit.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: litterbag, tailgater.

 

+2 letters: blattering, clattering, earthlight, flattering, glitterati, graptolite, litterbags, tailgaters, tolerating.

 

+3 letters: altercating, alternating, earthlights, elutriating, graptolites, integrality, legitimator, maltreating, reallotting, reluctating, retaliating, splattering, straggliest, strategical, teratologic, tetralogies, triangulate.

 

+4 letters: adulterating, alliterating, astringently, clatteringly, earsplitting, entreatingly, featherlight, flatteringly, gesticulator, intertillage, legitimators, lighthearted, metallurgist, obliterating, preallotting, reticulating, scatteringly, shatteringly, stigmasterol, stringhalted, telegraphist, teratologies, teratologist, triangulated, triangulates, ultraheating, unflattering.

 

+5 letters: antilittering, dermatologist, extragalactic, extrapolating, gesticulators, gesticulatory, integrability, integralities, intercalating, intergalactic, interplanting, interpolating, interrelating, intertillages, letterspacing, metallurgists, penetratingly, recultivating, restimulating, retranslating, stigmasterols, straightlaced, strategically, streetwalking, telegraphists, telemarketing, teratological, teratologists, threateningly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Aglitter


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

41 67 6C 69 74 74 65 72

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 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#103 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0067 006C 0069 0074 0074 0065 0072

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

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

3573787586867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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