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Adore

Definition: Adore

Adore

Verb

1. Love intensely; "he just adored his wife".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Adore

DomainDefinitions

Satire

ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

19th Century Satire

From add, annex, and ore, meaning wealth. Example, foreign nobles who marry American heiresses adore them. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.

Bible

Adore to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex. 3:5; Josh. 5:15), and prostration (Gen. 17:3; Ps. 95:6; Isa. 44:15, 17, 19; 46:6). To "kiss the Son" in Ps. 2:12 is to adore and worship him. (See Dan. 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur in Scripture. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms: Adore

Synonyms: Revere, Venerate. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Adore

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Love

Burn; adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument; dote on, dote upon; take a fancy to, look sweet upon; become enamored; Adjective: fall in love with, lose one's heart; desire.

Worship

Verb: worship, lift up the heart, aspire; revere; adore, do service, pay homage; humble oneself, kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee; fall down, fall on one's knees; prostrate oneself, bow down and worship.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Adore

English words defined with "adore": Elevation of the host. (references)
Specialty definitions using "adore": Abdomen, AlilatCnephKiss the Book. (references)
Etymologies containing "adore": inexorable. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Adore" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (adores).

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Modern Usage: Adore

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Now Sandy has nothing to do with anarchy in general, she's just a beautiful, wonderful, funnny, witty, loving, sexy, tough-as-nails, little weird girl, and I absolutely adore her. I like Sandy a lot. (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

Much has been said of the strumpets of yore Of wenches and bawdyhouse queens by the score But I sing of a baggage that we all adore The landlord's daughter. (The Wicker Man; writing credit: Anthony Shaffer)

I absolutely adore you. (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond)

I adore you. This may be the cookies talking, but you're the best! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Russel Boyd, do you swear to love me, adore me and feed me with junk food 'til death us do part? (A Many Splintered Thing; writing credit: Geoff Deane)

Lyrics

I need to tell why we adore ("Addictive Love"; performing artist: BeBe& CeCe Winans)

This young reporter I did adore, ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

The one I adore ("Earth Angel"; performing artist: The Penguins)

You know I will adore you 'til eternity. ("Be My Baby"; performing artist: The Ronettes)

Movie/TV Titles

I Adore You (1933)

Bob adore le flirt (1921)

Song Titles

I Do Adore Her (performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

Ava adore (performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)

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

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Commercial Usage: Adore

DomainTitle

Books

  • 250 Things You Can Do to Make Your Cat Adore You (reference)

  • Careers for Kids at Heart & Others Who Adore Children [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  • Come Let Us Adore Him New From Thomas Kinkade! Scripture Selections, Fireside Stories And Scenes To Share At Christmas (reference)

  • How I Adore You: Stories (reference)

  • How to Adore an Older Woman (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Familiar Quotations: Adore

AuthorQuotation

Henry Morgan

People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.

Oscar Wilde

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Victor Hugo

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

William Wordsworth

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Adore

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

There in the synagogue, in the mosque, a hideous side that we detest, and in the pagoda and in the wigwam, a sublime aspect that we adore.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Adore

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Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Adore

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Karl Lagerfeld

Oh, I'm very good on that but I don't do it too much because if you want to lose all your friends, you do that. But it's something I still adore.

Liza Minnelli

Well, I'd love to do that, but I love being married. That's my first priority. You never know. You can't predict what's going to happen in your career. I adore making films and I love singing for people live, but I really love my husband.

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

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Usage Frequency: Adore

"Adore" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 68.99% of the time. "Adore" is used about 158 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
Lexical Verb (base form)68.99%10931,132
Lexical Verb (infinitive)31.01%4948,677
                    Total100.00%158N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Adore

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.
 
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Modern Translations: Adore

Language Translations for "adore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

adoreer (worship), aanbid (worship). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

adhuroj (deify, worship). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏هام ب, ‏نمق (embellish, lard, retouch), ‏وقر (consider, revere, steady, venerate), ‏حب حتى العبادة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

страшно обичам, обожавам (idolize), много обичам (riot in), боготворя (deify, divinize, hero worship, worship), благоговея пред (revere, venerate). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

崇拜 (Adoration, adored, Adoring, Cult, Deified, Deify, Deifying, Worship, Worshiped, Worshiping, Worshipped, Worshipping). (various references)

   

Czech

  

uctívat (venerate, worship), obdivovat koho, milovat (cherish, love). (various references)

   

Danish

  

dyrke (to cultivate, worship). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verafgoden (worship), adoreren (worship), aanbidden (worship). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

adori (worship). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

tilbiðja (worship). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پرستش (Adoration, Devotion, Praise, Worship), ستودن (Allow, Applaud, Commend, Eulogize, Extol, Glorify, Praise). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

palvoa (worship), jumaloida (idolize, worship). (various references)

   

French

  

adorer. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oanbidde (worship), ferearje (worship). (various references)

   

German

  

verehren (admire, donate, enshrine, give, glorify, honor, honour, idolize, revere, reverence, to adore, to enshrine, venerate, worship), anbeten (hallow, to adore, worship). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λατρεύω (bless, worship). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

adhuroj (worship). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"וקיר (appreciate, cherish, hold dear, prize, respect, treasure, venerate), ל"עריץ (admire, lionize, look up to, revere, venerate), ל"אליל (deify, put on a pedestal), לס'ו" (bend, prostrate oneself, worship). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

imád (blest, love, to adore, to bless, to worship, worship). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyembah, mencintai (cherish), memuja (exalt, glorify, idolize, revere). (various references)

   

Irish

  

adhair (worship). (various references)

   

Italian

  

venerare (hallow, revere, venerate, worship), adorare (worship). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

慕う (to adore, to love dearly, to miss, to yearn for). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

したう (to adore, to love dearly, to miss, to yearn for). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

경앙하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

ooashlaghey (pay homage to, revere, worship), cur ooashlaghey da. (various references)

   

Maya

  

icht (to adore). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

adorá (worship). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adoreay

   

Portuguese

  

adorar (bless, love, worship). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

adora (exalt, glorify, idolize, venerate, worship). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обожать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

obožavati (admire, deify, idolize, lionize, worship). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

adorar (deify, dote, worship). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

anbegi (worship). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

kuabudu (worship). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tillbedja (worship), dyrka (dote upon, glorify, idolize, lionize, worship), avguda (deify, dote upon, idolize, worship). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tapmak (deify, glorify, grovel, hero worship, idolize, make an idol of, revere, venerate, worship), taparcasina sevmek (worship), tapınmak (worship), delicesine sevmek (be crazy for, dote, dote upon), bitmek (be at an end, be out of smth., be very fond of, break off, break up, cease, come to an end, conclude, die down, drop, end, end off, end up, expire, fag, finish, lapse, lay off, leave off, quit, run out, sprout, stop, surcease, terminate, vegetate, wear out), bayılmak (be a sucker for, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be fond of, be taken by, be taken with, blackout, commune with oneself, conk, enthuse, faint, fall for, lose consciousness, pass out, swoon). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

обожнювати (apotheosize, canonize, deify, divinify, worship), поклонятися (venerate, worship), палко кохати. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

addoli (worship). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Adore

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

adora, adorabant, adorabat, adorabimus, adorabis, adorabit, adorabitis, adorabo, adorabunt, adoramus, adorando, adorandum, adorans, adorant, adorante, adorantes, adorare, adorarem, adorarent, adoraret, adorari, adorassent, adorasset, adorasti, adorat, adorate, adoratis, adorato, adoraturus, adoraverimus, adoraverint, adoraveris, adoraverit, adoraveritis, adoravero, adoraverunt, adoravi, adoravit, adoravitque, adorem, adoremus, adorent, adores, adoret, adoretis, adoretisque, adoro, bosoramus, horem, ora, orabam, orabant, orabas, orabat, orabis, orabit, orabitis, orabitque, orabo, orabunt, oramus, orando, orandum, orans, orante, orantes, orare, orarent, oraret, oras, orassent, orasset, orat, orate, oratis, oraverimus, oraverint, oraverit, oraverunt, oravi, oravimus, oravit, orem, oremus, orent, orentque, oret, oretis, oretur, orionem, oro, orto, venerant, veneras, venerat, venero. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Adore

Derivations

Words beginning with "adore": adored, adorer, adorers, adores. (additional references)

Words ending with "adore": compradore. (additional references)

Words containing "adore": compradores, conquistadores, paradores, picadores. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Adore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abdnouri, abdure, acore, Acorte, adade, adard, Adare, Adaro, adars, addere, adhore, adir, Adire, adoce, adoe, adoge, adoke, adole, Adone, ador, adoree, adoret, adorm, Adorne, adour, adours, adove, adoze, Adprt, adre, Adrep, adrode, adroi, adue, adule, aduse, Adyr, Adzope, adzor, afora, Afori, Agdere, Agdor, agore, Ahora, Ahorey, Aidara, ajore, alore, Amoore, andora, anore, ardore, Ardroe, Ardura, ardure, arode, arore, asdor, ator, Atora, atory, ature, audre, avora, avoret, awdor, Awori, axor, ayore, ayoreo, azor, azore, azori, Badoer, dagori, darode, doore, edor, edora, gadaref, Kadoorie, odore, Odrodek, Padome, Radoje, vador. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Adore"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "adore" (pronounced udô"r)
3-d ô" rdoor, Dore, Dorr.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Adore

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: oared, oread.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-o-r"

-1 letter: aero, dare, dear, doer, dore, odea, orad, read, redo, road, rode.

-2 letters: ado, are, doe, dor, ear, era, oar, ode, ora, ore, rad, red, rod, roe.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-o-r"
 

+1 letter: adored, adorer, adores, deodar, dogear, fedora, loader, orated, ordeal, oreads, radome, redowa, reload, roadeo, roadie, roamed, roared, sarode, soared.

 

+2 letters: aborted, adopter, adorers, adorned, adorner, aneroid, aproned, arbored, armored, aroused, arrowed, avodire, avoider, bandore, boarded, boarder, borated, bravoed, broaden, broader, brocade, caroled, caromed, comrade, cordage, cordate, corrade, croaked, dariole, delator, deodara, deodars, dogears, dowager, drosera, eardrop, earldom, exordia, favored, fedoras, feodary, foraged, forayed, forbade, garoted, groaned, hagrode, hoarded, hoarder, jeopard, labored, ladrone, leopard, leotard, loaders, madrone, majored, operand, ordeals, outdare, outread, oversad, padrone, pandore, paroled, radioed, radomes, razored, readopt, readorn, readout, reboard, redcoat, redowas, reloads, roached, roadbed, roadeos, roadies, roasted, rondeau, rotated, roulade, sarodes, savored, tabored, torsade, troaked, vapored, wordage, zedoary.

 

+3 letters: abhorred, absorbed, accorded, accorder, adopters, adorable, adorners, adroiter, adsorbed, adsorber, aeroduct, aerodyne, afforded, airdrome, amberoid, anchored, androgen, aneroids, approved, arboured, arillode, armoured, arointed, aroynted, assorted, asteroid, attorned, aureoled, authored, avodires, avoiders, banderol, bandores, beadroll, beadwork, bearwood, becoward, boarders, boardmen, boneyard, bordeaux, breadbox, broached, broadaxe, broadens, broadest, brocaded, brocades, bromated, carboyed, carolled, caroused, carromed, cartoned, cavorted, ceratoid, chordate, clamored, coadmire, colander, coleader, collared, compadre, compared, comrades, conelrad, copyread, cordages, corraded, corrades, crayoned, damewort, danewort, darioles, darksome, deaconry, debonair, decorate, deflator, defoamer, delators, demeanor, democrat, deodaras, derogate, deviator, dialoger, diaspore, dogeared, dognaper, dowagers, dragomen, dragonet, dragrope, drawbore, drophead, droseras, eardrops, earldoms, educator, enamored, endeavor, endocarp, endosarc, exordial, expandor, extrados, factored, falderol, farrowed, favoured, flavored, fordable, foredate, forehand, forehead, forelady, foreland, foresaid, foreyard, forrader, freeload, garotted, garroted, gheraoed, goatherd, handover, harbored, hardcore, hardnose, harrowed, headroom, headword, headwork, hoarders, homeward, hoorahed, hoorayed, ideogram, idocrase, idolater, jargoned, jeopards, jeopardy, keratoid, keyboard, laboured, ladrones, leadwork, leadwort, leeboard, leopards, leotards, lodestar, madrones, marooned, marrowed, mediator, moderate, moderato, mortared, narrowed, nonrated, normande, obdurate, oleander, operands, operated, ordained, ordainer, ordinate, ordnance, organdie, orphaned, outdared, outdares, outdream, outheard, outraced, outraged, outrated, outraved, outreads, outtrade, overaged, overawed, overdare, overdear, overdraw, overglad, overgoad, overhand, overhard, overhead, overlade, overlaid, overland, overload, overpaid, padrones, pandores, pardoned, pardoner, parodied, parodies, parroted, pastored, pegboard, poleward, pomander, portaged, portaled, poularde, preadopt, predator, probated, profaned, prograde, pronated, prorated, pyoderma, racemoid, radiomen, ragouted, rancored, ransomed, rationed, ratooned, rawboned, readopts, readorns, readouts, reasoned, reavowed, reboards, recoaled, redactor, redcoats, reloaded, reloader, reloaned, remolade, renegado, reordain, resoaked, rhabdome, rhapsode, roadbeds, roadless, roadside, roadster, romanced, rondeaux, roulades, savoured, scorepad, seaboard, seadrome, shadower, solander, sorehead, sowbread, taboured, tailored, tapadero, teaboard, teardown, teardrop, teratoid, tetrapod, throated, toreador, torsades, tradeoff, unloader, upsoared, vapoured, varoomed, wanderoo, wardrobe, waterdog, wordages.

 

+4 letters: abandoner, abrogated, absconder, accorders, accoutred, adjourned, adornment, adroitest, adsorbate, adsorbent, adsorbers, aerodrome, aeroducts, aerodynes, affronted, aforesaid, afterword, airdromes, amberoids, amortised, amortized, androecia, androgens, androgyne, andromeda, aperiodic, aphorised, aphorized, arborized, arillodes, arrogated, arrowhead, arytenoid, asteroids, astrodome, atrophied, ausformed, bacteroid, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, bandolier, barhopped, baseboard, beadrolls, beadworks, bearwoods, becowards, begroaned, belabored, blockader, boardlike, bombarded, boneyards, bordereau, boulevard, bravadoes, breakdown, broadaxes, broadened, broadleaf, broadness, broadside, bromeliad, broodmare, burladero, calorized, camcorder, caprioled, caracoled, carbonade, carpooled, carronade, cartooned, cedarwood, charioted, chlordane, chordates, clamoured, clangored, clarioned, coadmired, coadmires, coarsened, coatdress, cochaired, cocreated, cofferdam, colanders, coleaders, commander, compadres, comparted, comradely, comradery, conelrads, copyreads, cordately, corelated, coriander, cornbread, coronated, corotated, corralled, costarred, cowardice, creodonta, crosshead, croustade, crusadoes, cruzadoes, dameworts, daneworts, dangerous, davenport, dayflower, deaerator, decorated, decorates, decorator, dedicator, deflators, defoamers, delegator, demeanors, demeanour, democracy, democrats, deodorant, deprogram, dermatome, derogated, derogates, desolater, desolator, desperado, detonator, detractor, deviators, deviatory, dialogers, diarrhoea, diaspores, doctorate, dogearing, dognapers, dognapper, doomsayer, doorplate, downgrade, downrange, dragonets, dragooned, dragropes, drawbores, dreadlock, dromedary, dropheads, droppable, ealdorman, ealdormen, earlywood, eavesdrop, editorial, educators, embargoed, enamoured, endeavors, endeavour, endocarps, endosarcs, estradiol, expandors, falderols, farandole, feodaries, feudatory, flavoured, floriated, forearmed, foredated, foredates, forehands, foreheads, forelands, forenamed, foreyards, formamide, formatted, forrarder, forwarded, forwarder, freeboard, freeloads, gadrooned, garderobe, gargoyled, garrotted, gasholder, girandole, gladsomer, glamoured, goatherds, godfather, godparent, goosander, grandiose, handovers, handsomer, handwrote, harboured, hardcores, hardcover, hardnoses, harpooned, headboard, headrooms, headwords, headworks, heartwood, hexachord, hoarsened, holidayer, homewards, hydrolase, ideograms, ideograph, idocrases, idolaters, jarovized, jeoparded, kaiserdom, keyboards, landowner, leadworks, leadworts, leeboards, leotarded, leporidae, lodestars, lowlander, madrepore, malformed, meandrous, mediators, mediatory, meditator, melodrama, memoranda, moderated, moderates, moderator, moderatos, moralised, moralized, mordanted, mortgaged, motorcade, nondancer, nongraded, nonreader, noseguard, notarized, obcordate, obturated, octahedra, oddsmaker, oleanders, orangeade, ordainers, orderable, ordinance, ordinates, ordnances, organdies, organised, organized, ostracode, outargued, outbarked, outbraved, outdreams, outdreamt, outearned, outglared, outlander, outprayed, outraised, outranged, outranked, outroared, outsoared, outspread, outstared, outtraded, outtrades, outwarred, overacted, overalled, overbaked, overboard, overbroad, overdared, overdares, overdraft, overdrank, overdrawn, overdraws, overgoads, overhands, overhated, overheads, overheard, overladed, overladen, overlades, overlands, overloads, overpedal, overplaid, overrated, oversaved, overtaxed, overtrade, paloverde, paradores, paradoses, paradoxes, paragoned, parboiled, pardoners, patrolled, pegboards, perorated, picadores, pinafored, polarised, polarized, pollarded, polyhedra, pomanders, ponderosa, poniarded, portrayed, poulardes, preadopts, predation, predators, predatory, preordain, presoaked, programed, prolapsed, promenade, proofread, pyodermas, ramrodded, randomize, rattooned, readopted, readorned, rearoused, reboarded, redaction, redactors, refloated, reloaders, reloading, relocated, remolades, renegados, renovated, reordains, resonated, rhabdomes, rhapsodes, rhodamine, roadhouse, roadsides, roadstead, roadsters, romanised, romanized, romeldale, roundelay, scorecard, scorepads, seaboards, seadromes, secondary, shadowers, shadowier, shoreward, showbread, sideboard, solanders, solarised, solarized, soreheads, sowbreads, spadework, steroidal, superroad, swearword, tamboured, tapaderos, teaboards, teardowns, teardrops, tetrapods, toadeater, tolerated, toreadors, tornadoes, tradeoffs, trapezoid, trematode, unadorned, unarmored, undercoat, unloaders, uphoarded, valorised, valorized, vaporised, vaporized, varicosed, wanderoos, wardrobes, waterdogs, zebrawood, zedoaries.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Adore


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

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    ---    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01100100 01101111 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#111 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 006F 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3570818471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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