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Definition: Ayr |
AyrNoun1. A port in southwestern Scotland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Ayr" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1630. (references) |
Crosswords: Ayr |
| English words defined with "Ayr": Ayrshire. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Ayr": Auld Brig, Ayrshire Poet ♦ Kilwinning. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ayr" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Cornish (air), Manx (creeper, father, father figure, generator, mover, padre). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The constituency of Ayr is currently held by the Labour Party, the Member of Parliament being Sandra Osborne. From 1950 to 1997 it was a Conservative seat, the Member of Parliament for most of this period having been George Younger, who represented the constituency from 1964 to 1992.
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Movie/TV Titles | The Beautiful County of Ayr (1949) | |
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 | Belle Ayr Range from the New Grand Hotel, Catskill Mountains, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | New Grand Hotel from Belle Ayr, Catskill Mountains, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farm home of Andy Grubb near Mount Ayr, Iowa. He rents one hundred eighty acres from an estate. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Ayr" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ayr" is used about 352 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 (proper) | 100% | 352 | 15,213 |
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1. Ayr, ND (city, FIPS 4020) 2. Ayr, NE (village, FIPS 2865) |
Expression using "Ayr": Mount Ayr. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Ayr": ayr-based. | |
Ending with "Ayr": Knockshinnoch-ayr. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Ayr"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Esperanto | Ajro. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayray Inbhir Àir. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "Ayr": buckayro, buckayros, dayroom, dayrooms, hayrack, hayracks, hayrick, hayricks, hayride, hayrides, payroll, payrolls, playroom, playrooms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ray, rya, yar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-y" | |
-1 letter: ar, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-y" | |
+1 letter: aery, airy, army, arty, aryl, awry, bray, dray, eyra, fray, gray, kyar, nary, pray, racy, raya, rays, ryas, tray, vary, wary, yard, yare, yarn, year. | |
+2 letters: alary, ambry, angry, apery, array, artsy, aryls, barky, barmy, barny, barye, boyar, braky, braxy, brays, carny, carry, chary, clary, crazy, cymar, dairy, darky, deary, deray, diary, drays, dryad, early, eyras, faery, fairy, farcy, foray, frays, gayer, glary, grapy, gravy, grays, gyral, hairy, hardy, harpy, harry, hayer, hoary, hydra, hyrax, kaury, kyars, lardy, larky, layer, leary, lyard, lyart, marly, marry, marvy, mayor, moray, narky, ovary, pardy, parry, party, payer, payor, prays, pyran, raggy, rainy, rally, rammy, randy, rangy, raspy, ratty, rawly, rayah, rayas, rayed, rayon, ready, relay, repay, resay, rhyta, riyal, royal, sarky, satyr, saury, sayer, scary, spray, stray, tardy, tarry, tarty, teary, trays, tryma, unary, warty, weary, yager, yaird, yards, yarer, yarns, yearn, years, yerba, yurta. | |
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