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Do-gooder

Definition: Do-gooder

Do-gooder

Noun

1. 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-gooder

Synonyms: humanitarian (n), improver (n). (additional references)

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Spoken Usage: Do-gooder

SpeakerPhrase(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.

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Usage Frequency: Do-gooder

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Do-gooder

Language Translations for "do-gooder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

jótét lélek, álfilantróp (do gooder). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

o-gooderday

   

Russian 

  

благодетель человечества. (various references)

   

Thai

  

คนชอบช่วยเหลือผู้อื่น. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Do-gooder

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Do-gooder


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 2D 67 6F 6F 64 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 00101101 01100111 01101111 01101111 01100100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#45 &#103 &#111 &#111 &#100 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 002D 0067 006F 006F 0064 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

388115738181707184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Spoken
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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