Aix-la-Chapelle

  

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Aix-la-Chapelle

Definition: Aix-la-Chapelle

Aix-la-Chapelle

Noun

1. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital.

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

 

Synonym: Aix-la-Chapelle

Synonym: Aachen (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Aix-la-Chapelle

Non-English Usage: "Aix-la-Chapelle" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (Aix-la-Chapelle).

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Historic Usage: Aix-la-Chapelle

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Germany renounces in favour of Belgium all rights and title over the territory of Prussian Moresnet situated on the west of the road from Liege to Aix-la-Chapelle; the road will belong to Belgium where it bounds this territory. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Aix-la-Chapelle

"Aix-la-Chapelle" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aix-la-Chapelle" is used about 9 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
Noun (proper)100%9117,287

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

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Modern Translations: Aix-la-Chapelle

Language Translations for "Aix-la-Chapelle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

Aken. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Aken. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

Akeno, Aĥeno. (various references)

   

French

  

Aix-la-Chapelle. (various references)

   

German

  

Aachen (Aachen). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Aquisgrana. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aix-la-chapelleay

   

Spanish

  

Aquisgrán. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Aix-la-Chapelle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-e-h-i-l-l-l-p-x"

-4 letters: acalephae.

-5 letters: acalephe, achillea, caliphal, callipee, heliacal, pellicle.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Aix-la-Chapelle


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

41 69 78 2D 6C 61 2D 43 68 61 70 65 6C 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101001 01111000 00101101 01101100 01100001 00101101 01000011 01101000 01100001 01110000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#105 &#120 &#45 &#108 &#97 &#45 &#67 &#104 &#97 &#112 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0069 0078 002D 006C 0061 002D 0043 0068 0061 0070 0065 006C 006C 0065

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

357590157867153774678271787871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Historic
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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