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Definition: Praetorian |
PraetorianAdjective1. Of or relating to a Roman praetor; "praetorial powers". 2. Characteristic of Praetorian soldiers in respect to corruption or political venality; "a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble"- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "praetorian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
Synonyms: PraetorianSynonyms: praetorial (adj), pretorial (adj), pretorian (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Praetorian |
| English words defined with "praetorian": Praetorian Guard, pretorian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "praetorian": Death from Strange Causes, Decuman Gate. (references) |
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| "Praetorian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Praetorian" is used about 14 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% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "praetorian": praetorian guard. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
the praetorian guard | 35 |
praetorian | 28 |
cheat praetorian | 12 |
game praetorian | 6 |
cheat code praetorian | 3 |
crimson praetorian | 3 |
guard praetorian roman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "praetorian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pretorian, pretor (praetor), rojë personale (bodyguard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جندي في الحرس الإمبراطوري الروماني, برتيوري. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prétorien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | prätorianer (praetorian guard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πραιτωριανόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | praetorianus, praetorianus testőr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pretoriano. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | praeteyragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aetorianpray pretoriano, pretorial. (various references) преторианец. (various references) pretorijanac. (various references) pretoriano (pretorian), pretorial (pretorian). (various references) pretors-, pretoriansk, pretorian. (various references) преторіанський, преторіанець. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praetorii, praetorio, praetorium. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "praetorian": praetorians. (additional references) | |
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"Praetorian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Parietaria, praestari, Praeterita, praetoria, praetorianize, preatorian, proctorial. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "praetorian" (pronounced prētô"rēun) |
| 6 | -t ô" r ē u n | historian, salutatorian, valedictorian. |
| 5 | -ô" r ē u n | hyperborean. |
| 4 | -r ē u n | agrarian, authoritarian, barbarian, carrion, centenarian, centurion, Clarion, contrarian, criterion, Cyprian, disciplinarian, egalitarian, equestrian, humanitarian, libertarian, librarian, majoritarian, nonsectarian, octogenarian, ovarian, pagurian, parliamentarian, pedestrian, planarian, presbyterian, proletarian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, valerian, vegetarian, veterinarian. |
| 3 | -ē u n | accordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reparation. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: pretorian. | |
-2 letters: aeration, anterior, antirape, atropine, pretrain, priorate, terrapin. | |
-3 letters: aerator, airport, apteria, atropin, narrate, operant, painter, pareira, partier, partner, patinae, pertain, pierrot, pointer, pornier, praetor, preriot, printer, pronate, prorate, protean, protein, repaint, reprint, retrain, terrain, trainer, tropine. | |
-4 letters: anopia, antiar, aortae, apnoea, aroint, arpent, arrant, artier, atoner, enrapt, entrap, errant, errata, irater, ironer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: praetorians, preparation, proletarian, reparations. | |
+2 letters: antipredator, perorational, preparations, proletarians, repatriation. | |
+3 letters: anticorporate, antipredators, hyperrational, inappropriate, intrapersonal, nonparametric, precautionary, prevarication, procrastinate, repatriations. | |
+4 letters: interparochial, parthenocarpic, perturbational, prefabrication, preoperational, prevarications, procrastinated, procrastinates, proletarianise, proletarianize, repolarization, unappropriated. | |
+5 letters: appropriateness, cinematographer, inappropriately, interparoxysmal, intraperitoneal, malpractitioner, megacorporation, parametrization, paranormalities, parthenocarpies, prefabrications, proletarianised, proletarianises, proletarianized, proletarianizes, reappropriating, repolarizations, reprivatization, supersaturation. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 61 65 74 6F 72 69 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .- . - --- .-. .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100001 01100101 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r a e t o r i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0061 0065 0074 006F 0072 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)50846771868184756780 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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