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Definitions: Circassian |
CircassianNoun1. A member of a Caucasian people living in the Caucasus but not speaking an Indo-European language. 2. A northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian people. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Circassian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Crosswords: Circassian |
| English words defined with "Circassian": Abkhas, Abkhasian, Abkhaz, Abkhazian ♦ Circassian walnut. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Circassian": Argantes. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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 | Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume. It depicts (from left to right) the blockade runners Petrel, Memphis, Elizabeth, Ella Warly, Patras, Alliance, Ann, Stettin, Circassian and Tubal Cain. Three of these vessels, Memphis, Stettin and Circassian later served in the U.S. Navy. Credit: NAVY. |  | Constantinople. Circassian. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Syria | Languages: Arabic (official), English and French (widely understood), Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic, Circassian. (references) |
Minorities | Israel and the occupied territories | The Israeli Druze and Circassian communities are subject to the military draft and the overwhelming majority accepts service willingly. (references) |
Political Rights | Jordan | Of the 104 seats in the lower house scheduled for election in 2002, 9 are reserved for Christians, 9 for Bedouins, and 3 for the Circassian or Chechen ethnic minorities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Circassian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Circassian" is used about 8 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Circassian": circassian walnut. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Circassian": turco-circassian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
circassian | 32 |
blank circassian gun stock walnut | 4 |
circassian music | 4 |
association benevolent circassian | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Circassian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | черкезки, черкезин. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 切"克斯语. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cserkesz, finom pamutkásmir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ircassiancay circassiano. (various references) cerchezã, cerchez. (various references) черкесский, черкес. (various references) čerkez, čerkeski jezik, čerkeski. (various references) circasiano. (various references) çerkezlerle ilgili, çerkezce ile ilgili, çerkezce, çerkez. (various references) черкеська мова, черкеський, черкеска, черкес. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "Circassian" (pronounced 'Cir*cas"sian'): Albigensian, Artesian, Asian, Athanasian, Australasian, Castrensian, Cluniacensian, Complutensian, Lithosian, Magnesian, Malthusian, Manganesian, Marcosian, Megalesian, Melanesian, Paraphrasian, Peloponnesian, Precisian, Premonstratensian, Prussian, Russian, Waldensian. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-i-n-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: acrasins, narcissi. | |
-3 letters: acrasin, arnicas, ascaris, carcass, carinas, raisins. | |
-4 letters: acinar, acinic, anisic, arnica, cairns, carina, casini, cassia, crania, crasis, crisic, crisis, crissa, nairas, raisin, ricins, sansar, sarans, sarins, siccan. | |
-5 letters: acari, acini, airns, arias, arsis, assai, cacas, cains, cairn, carns, casas, circa, crass, naira, narcs, naric, naris, raias, rains, ranis, ricin, sacra, sains. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-i-n-r-s-s" | |
+4 letters: carcinomatosis, pantisocracies, saccharinities, scarifications. | |
+5 letters: sacrosanctities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 72 63 61 73 73 69 61 6E |
| 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)01000011 01101001 01110010 01100011 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i r c a s s i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 0072 0063 0061 0073 0073 0069 0061 006E |
| 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)37758469678585756780 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kínai, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , magyar, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugál, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | румънски език, румънски, румънец, 罗马尼亚语, román, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, spanyol, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | 乌克兰 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , angol, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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