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Definition: Adore |
AdoreVerb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Synonyms: AdoreSynonyms: Revere, Venerate. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Adore |
| English words defined with "adore": Elevation of the host. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "adore": Abdomen, Alilat ♦ Cneph ♦ Kiss 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 68.99% | 109 | 31,132 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 31.01% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Total | 100.00% | 158 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
adore | 54 |
adore joyful joyful thee we | 24 |
j adore | 22 |
adore anjali | 16 |
ava adore | 12 |
smashing pumpkin adore | 9 |
adore lyrics | 9 |
adore ava lyrics | 9 |
gina adore | 8 |
dior j adore | 8 |
adore more | 8 |
adore eyes lyrics | 8 |
adore lyrics prince | 7 |
adore prince | 6 |
adore je t | 5 |
adore ava lyrics pumpkin smashing | 5 |
adore beauty | 5 |
adore lyrics pumpkin smashing | 5 |
adore i | 4 |
adore color hair | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 adorar (bless, love, worship). (various references) adora (exalt, glorify, idolize, venerate, worship). (various references) обожать. (various references) obožavati (admire, deify, idolize, lionize, worship). (various references) adorar (deify, dote, worship). (various references) anbegi (worship). (various references) kuabudu (worship). (various references) tillbedja (worship), dyrka (dote upon, glorify, idolize, lionize, worship), avguda (deify, dote upon, idolize, worship). (various references) 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) обожнювати (apotheosize, canonize, deify, divinify, worship), поклонятися (venerate, worship), палко кохати. (various references) addoli (worship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 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. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "adore" (pronounced udô"r) |
| 3 | -d ô" r | door, Dore, Dorr. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. 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)41 64 6F 72 65 |
| 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)01000001 01100100 01101111 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d o r e |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3570818471 |
| 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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