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Definition: Do-gooder |
Do-gooderNoun1. Someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Do-gooderSynonyms: humanitarian (n), improver (n). (additional references) |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Anyway, it's just another case of supposedly do-gooder, fairness liberals having one set of rules for the rest of us and another set for themselves and the elite. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Do-gooder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Do-gooder" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "do-gooder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jótét lélek, álfilantróp (do gooder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | o-gooderday благодетель человечества. (various references) คนชอบช่วยเหลือผู้อื่น. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-o-o-o-r" | |
-2 letters: dodger, odored. | |
-3 letters: dodge, gored, odder, rodeo. | |
-4 letters: dodo, doer, doge, door, dore, dreg, eddo, ergo, goer, good, gore, odor, ogre, ordo, redd, redo, rode, rood. | |
-5 letters: doe, dog, dor, ego, erg, ged, god, goo, gor, odd, ode, ore, red, reg, rod, roe. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 2D 67 6F 6F 64 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 00101101 01100111 01101111 01101111 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o - g o o d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 002D 0067 006F 006F 0064 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388115738181707184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Spoken 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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