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Definition: Busker |
BuskerNoun1. A person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Busker 2" by Eoghan Mcnally Commentary: "Busker,Grafton St. dec,'03." | "Lady" by Sunny Lim Commentary: "Busker ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Busker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Busker" is used about 22 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 (singular) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "busker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Busker | Last name | 200 | 30,668 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
busker | 30 |
busker denver fest | 7 |
busker festival halifax | 6 |
busker festival | 6 |
busker fest | 5 |
busker larver og på åmer | 4 |
busker denver festival | 3 |
busker festival ottawa | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "busker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | poulièní muzikant. (various references) | |
French | musicien ambulant. (various references) | |
Greek | υπαίθριος τραγουδιστής. (various references) | |
Italian | suonatore ambulante (street musician), cantambanco (charlatan). (various references) | |
Manx | arraneyder straiddey (ballad singer, street singer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uskerbay.(various references) | |
Russian | уличный музыкант, бродячий актер (barnstormer). (various references) | |
Spanish | músico ambulante (street musician). (various references) | |
Swedish | kringvandrande musikant, gatumusikant. (various references) | |
Turkish | sokak çalgıcısı, gezgin aktör. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вуличний музикант. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người hát rong, diễn viên rong. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "busker": buskers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "busker" (pronounced bu"sker) |
| 3 | -s k er | asker, brisker, esker, masker, whisker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: burkes. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-k-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: brusk, burke, burse, kerbs, rebus, rubes, suber. | |
-2 letters: burs, busk, kerb, kues, rebs, rube, rubs, rues, ruse, rusk, suer, sure, ukes, urbs, user. | |
-3 letters: bur, bus, ers, kue, reb, res, rub, rue, ser, sub, sue, uke, urb, use. | |
-4 letters: be, er, es, re, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-k-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: brusker, buckers, bunkers, burkers, burlesk, buskers, rebukes. | |
+2 letters: breakups, bruskest, bucklers, burkites, burlesks, hauberks, rebukers, roebucks, subclerk, unbrakes. | |
+3 letters: breakouts, buckeroos, debunkers, grubstake, kurbashed, kurbashes, outbreaks, reedbucks, subclerks, submarket, superbank, tubeworks. | |
+4 letters: backrushes, berkeliums, cockleburs, cyberpunks, grubstaked, grubstaker, grubstakes, housebreak, housebroke, parbuckles, rudbeckias, sourcebook, submarkets, subnetwork, superbanks, superblock, trebuckets, waterbucks. | |
+5 letters: blockbuster, bloodsucker, bushwhacker, buttermilks, grubstakers, housebreaks, housebroken, lumberjacks, rubbernecks, sourcebooks, strikebound, subnetworks, superblocks, thumbsucker, turnbuckles, turtlebacks, unworkables. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Images: Digital Art | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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