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Definition: ALCORAN |
ALCORANNoun1. The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). |
Date "ALCORAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pseudo-Revelation | Noun: the Koran, the Alcoran; Lyking, Vedas, Zendavesta, Avesta, Sastra, Shastra, Tantra, Upanishads, Purana, Edda; Book of Mormon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ALCORAN |
| English words defined with "ALCORAN": Alkoran. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "ALCORAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | koran. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ал-коран. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coran. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | korán (abortively, betimes, early, Koran, Quran, untimely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alcoranay alcorão (Koran, koranic). (various references) коран (koran). (various references) koran (koran). (various references) koranen. (various references) kuran (builder, koran, qur'an). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: canola, carnal. | |
-2 letters: acorn, canal, carol, claro, coala, coral, craal, loran, narco, racon. | |
-3 letters: alan, alar, anal, anoa, arco, calo, carl, carn, clan, clon, coal, cola, corn, loan, loca, lorn, narc, oral, orca, roan. | |
-4 letters: aal, ala, ana, arc, can, car, col, con, cor, lac, lar, nor, oar, oca, ora, orc, ran, roc. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: coplanar. | |
+2 letters: cantorial, monarchal, nonracial. | |
+3 letters: caracoling, carmagnole, cladoceran, connatural, fractional, halocarbon, laceration, monarchial, nonaccrual, tractional. | |
+4 letters: accelerando, accordantly, aeronomical, alcyonarian, altercation, anthropical, archegonial, calibration, calumniator, caracolling, carmagnoles, carpogonial, chancroidal, charcoaling, cladocerans, clairvoyant, conflagrant, contractual, coplanarity, declaration, endocardial, halocarbons, intraocular, lacerations, lacrimation, microfaunal, monarchical, noncoplanar, nonracially, nonvascular, organically, overbalance, pantropical, plantocracy, postcranial, rapscallion, reclamation, redactional, thrasonical, translocate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4C 43 4F 52 41 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01001100 01000011 01001111 01010010 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L C O R A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 0043 004F 0052 0041 004E |
| 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)35463749523548 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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