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Definitions: Eldest |
EldestAdjective1. First in order of birth; "the firstborn child". Noun1. The offspring who came first in the order of birth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eldest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Eldest \Eld"est\, adjective. [from Anglo-Saxon expression yldest, superl. of eald old. See Elder,]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: EldestSynonym: firstborn (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Age | Older, elder, eldest; senior; firstborn. |
Oldness | Adjective: old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable; elder, eldest; firstborn. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eldest |
| English words defined with "eldest": Bastard eigne, Borough-English ♦ call after, Charles, Czarowitz ♦ dauphin ♦ Eigne, Eldest hand, Esau, Esnecy ♦ Infanta, Infante ♦ Mary II ♦ Pragmatic sanction, primogeniture, Prince Charles, Princess royal ♦ Right honorable ♦ To name. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eldest": Abihail, Abram-colour, Amon's Son, Annie Laurie, Asa Thor. ♦ But ♦ Comus, Congreve Rockets ♦ Elder, Except ♦ Jemima ♦ Keys ♦ Leah, Little Dauphin, Locrin, Loegria, Lothian ♦ Malcolm, Mattithiah, Merab, Minna Troil, Moabite Stone, Mucklebackit ♦ Older, Omar, Orange Lilies ♦ Parshandatha, Public-house Signs ♦ Queenstown ♦ Reynardine, Rinaldo ♦ Saccharissa, Shear-Jashub. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eldest": Dean ♦ SIR. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Dryden | Self-defense is Nature's eldest law. |
Thomas Fuller | Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | We will not for the future grant to anyone license to take an aid from his own free tenants, except to ransom his person, to make his eldest son a knight, and once to marry his eldest daughter; and on each of these occasions there shall be levied only a reasonable aid. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | Is it reasonable, that the eldest brother, because he has the greatest part of his father's estate, should thereby have a right to take away any of his younger brothers portions? or that a rich man, who possessed a whole country, should from thence have a right to seize, when he pleased, the cottage and garden of his poor neighbour? The being rightfully possessed of great power and riches, exceedingly beyond the greatest part of the sons of Adam, is so far from being an excuse, much less a reason, for rapine and oppression, which the endamaging another without authority is, that it is a great aggravation of it: for the exceeding the bounds of authority is no more a right in a great, than in a petty officer; no more justifiable in a king than a constable; but is so much the worse in him, in that he has more trust put in him, has already a much greater share than the rest of his brethren, and is supposed, from the advantages of his education, employment, and counsellors, to be more knowing in the measures of right and wrong. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Henry is the eldest, he was named after me, not after his father. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | It began by the youngest girl suddenly, and without provocation, addressing her eldest sister. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her husband died, leaving the eldest of these children eight, the youngest one year old. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This tribe marries only among each other, and the eldest in succession is Prince or Governor. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Vietnam | Unmarried adult children commonly live with parents, as do the eldest son and his family. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | King Abdul Aziz died in 1953 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Saud, who reigned for 11 years. (references) | |
Brunei Darussalam | In 1967, Sultan Omar abdicated in favor of his eldest son, Hassanal Bolkiah, who became the 29th ruler. (references) | |
Political Economy | Qatar | He has also appointed Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad, his third eldest son, as Heir Apparent and Deputy Emir and his brother Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al-Thani as Deputy Prime Minister. (references) |
Women | Vietnam | Parents often expect an eldest daughter to assume responsibility for a significant part of the family's finances. (references) |
Worker Rights | Pakistan | A 1997 survey by the Pakistan Institute of Labor Education and Research indicated that in one-fourth of 187 Karachi households, the eldest child worker (below the age of 14) provided more than 40 percent of household income. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Earl Charles Spencer | Well, I think in fact there were a couple of girlfriends in between. And it wasn't an issue. It wasn't like Diana had stolen her eldest sister's boyfriend or anything. |
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| "Eldest" is generally used as an adjective (superlative) -- approximately 99.13% of the time. "Eldest" is used about 1,034 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 (superlative) | 99.13% | 1,025 | 7,240 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.87% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,034 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "eldest": eldest brother ♦ eldest daughter ♦ Eldest hand ♦ eldest sister ♦ eldest son ♦ the eldest hand ♦ the eldest son. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "eldest": eldest-born, eldest-daughter. | |
Ending with "eldest": second-eldest. | |
| 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 |
eldest | 9 |
eldest jacob leah son | 6 |
eldest in jacob leah old son testament | 2 |
cains eldest | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "eldest"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | më i vjetër, më i madh (better, elder, imperial, major, maximal, maximum, more, ranking). (various references) | |
Arabic | الاكبر سنا, بكرة (bobbin, pulley, roller, tackle, trundle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | най-възрастен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 最老 (Oldest), 最年長 , 伯仲"季 (order of seniority among brothers, second, third and youngest of brothers), 大 (big, deep, doctor, great, huge, large, major, oldest, wide). (various references) | |
Czech | nejstarší. (various references) | |
Farsi | مسن ترین , سالدارترین , ارشد (Classy, Commander, Elder, Major, Senior, Superior), بزرگترین (Best, Maximum, Supreme). (various references) | |
Finnish | vanhin poika (the eldest son). (various references) | |
French | aîné (elder). (various references) | |
German | älteste (chieftain, elder, oldest, presbyter). (various references) | |
Greek | πρωτότοκοσ (firstborn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | legidõsebb. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tertua. (various references) | |
Italian | maggiore (bigger, biggest, elder, greater, greatest, higher, larger, largest, longer, main, major, more, older, oldest, senior, superior, taller, tallest). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 長老 (senior). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちょうろう (mockery, ridicule, scorn, senior). (various references) | |
Korean | 오래 되" (Old, Older, Oldest). (various references) | |
Manx | shinney (oldest). (various references) | |
Norwegian | eldst (elder). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eldestay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mulheres idosas. (various references) | |
Romanian | cel mai mare, cel mai în vârstã. (various references) | |
Russian | самый старший. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | najstariji (primus). (various references) | |
Spanish | el mayor. (various references) | |
Swedish | äldst (earliest). (various references) | |
Thai | แก่ที่สุ". (various references) | |
Turkish | en yaşlı, yaşça en büyük. (various references) | |
Ukranian | старовинний (antiquarian, antique, early, elder, old, old time, old world, pristine, vintage), найстарший. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhiều tuổi nhất. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gal. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | rabû. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 44, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hreuna de apo tou presbuterou arxamenoV ewV hlqen epi ton newteron kai euren to kondu en tw marsippw tw beniamin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quos scrutatus incipiens a maiore usque ad minimum invenit scyphum in sacco Beniamin |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Bigynnynge fro the more vnto the leeste, fonde the coppe in the sak of Beniamyn. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he serched and began at the eldest and left at the yongest. And the cuppe was founde in Ben Iamins sacke. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 44, Verse 12 |
| Bulgarian | И той претърси, като почна от най-стария и свърши с най-младия; и чашата се намери във 'ениаминовия чувал. |
| Cebuano | Ug gipangita niya, ug nagsugod siya sa kamagulangan, ug natapus sa kamanghuran: ug ang copa hingkaplagan sa baluyot ni Benjamin. |
| Chinese | 家 宰 就 搜 查 、 從 年 長 的 起 、 到 年 幼 的 為 止 、 那 杯 竟 在 便 雅 憫 的 口 袋 裡 搜 出 來 。 |
| Croatian | On je pretraživao, poèevši s najstarijim i završivši s najmlaðim. Pehar se naðe u Benjaminovoj vreæi. |
| Danish | og han undersøgte dem fra den ældstes til den yngstes, og Bægeret blev fundet i Benjamins Sæk. |
| Dutch | En hij doorzocht, beginnende met den grootste, en voleindigende met den kleinste; en die beker werd gevonden in den zak van Benjamin. |
| Finnish | Ja hän etsi, alkaen vanhimmasta ja lopettaen nuorimpaan, ja malja löytyi Benjaminin säkistä. |
| French | L`intendant les fouilla, commençant par le plus âgé et finissant par le plus jeune; et la coupe fut trouvée dans le sac de Benjamin. |
| German | Und er suchte und hob am Ältesten an bis auf den Jüngsten; da fand sich der Becher in Benjamins Sack. |
| Haitian Creole | Chèf domestik Jozèf la pran fouye sak yo yonn apre lòt. Li konmanse ak sak pi gran an pou l' fini ak sak pi piti a. Yo jwenn gode a nan sak Benjamen an. |
| Hungarian | És keresgéle; a legnagyobbikon kezdé s a legkissebbiken végezé, és megtalálá a poharat a Benjámin zsákjában. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pelayan Yusuf itu memeriksa karung-karung itu dengan teliti, mulai dari karung kepunyaan yang sulung sampai kepada karung kepunyaan yang bungsu, dan piala itu ditemukan di dalam karung Benyamin. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka orang itupun menyelidiklah mulai dari pada yang besar sampai kepada yang kecil, maka didapatilah akan piala itu dalam karung Benyamin. |
| Italian | Quegli li frugò dal maggiore al più piccolo, e la coppa fu trovata nel sacco di Beniamino. |
| Korean | 그 가 나 이 많 은 자 에 게 서 부 터 시 작 하 여 나 이 은 자 에 게 까 지 수 탐 하 매 " 이 냐 민 의 자 루 에 서 발 견 된 지 라 |
| Maori | Na ka rapu ia, timata i te matamua a whakamutu ki te whakaotinga: a ka kitea te kapu i roto i te peke a Pineamine. |
| Modern Greek | Και ηρευνησεν, αρχισας απο του πρεσβυτερου και τελειωσας εις τον νεωτερον· και ευρεθη το ποτηριον εν τω σακκιω του 'ενιαμιν. |
| Norwegian | Og han så efter; han begynte hos den eldste og endte hos den yngste, og begeret blev funnet i Benjamins sekk. |
| Portuguese | E o despenseiro buscou, começando pelo maior, e acabando pelo mais novo; e achou-se a taça no saco de Benjamim. |
| Rumanian | Economul i -a scotocit, kncepknd cu cel mai kn vkrstq wi sfkrwind cu cel mai tknqr; wi paharul a fost gqsit kn sacul lui Beniamin. |
| Russian | пО П'ЩУЛБМ, ОБЮБМ УП УФБТЫЕЗП Й ПЛПОЮЙМ НМБ"ЫЙН; Й ОБЫМБУШ ЮБЫБ Ч НЕЫЛЕ чЕОЙБНЙОПЧПН. |
| Spanish | Él buscó, comenzando por el del mayor y terminando por el del menor, y la copa fue hallada en el costal de Benjamín. |
| Swedish | Och han begynte att söka hos den äldste och slutade hos den yngste; och bägaren fanns i Benjamins säck. |
| Thai | คนต้นเรือนก็ค้น"ูตั้งแต่คนหัวปีจนถึงคนสุ"ท้อง ก็พบถ้วยนั้นในกระสอบของเบนยามิน |
| Ukrainian | І став він шукати. озпочав від найстаршого, а скінчив наймолодшим. І знайдена чаша в мішку 'еніяминовім! |
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Misspellings | |
"Eldest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ehlvest, Elddis, elde, eldils, eldish, elds, endest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eldest" (pronounced e"ldust) |
| 5 | -l d u s t | boldest, coldest, goldest, mildest, oldest, wildest. |
| 4 | -d u s t | broadest, encyclopedist, fondest, grandest, hardest, jaundiced, kindest, loudest, methodist, modest, oddest, orthopedist, prejudiced, propagandist, proudest, reddest, rudest, saddest, sadist, shrewdest, soundest, stupidest, unkindest, weirdest, widest. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, microbiologist, mightiest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, protagonist, protectionist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, wettest, whitest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: deets, deles, delts, leets, sleet, steed, steel, stele, teels, teles. | |
-2 letters: dees, deet, dele, dels, delt, eels, elds, else, lees, leet, lest, lets, seed, seel, sled, teds, teed, teel, tees, tele, tels. | |
-3 letters: dee, del, eds, eel, eld, els, led, lee, let, see, sel, set, ted, tee, tel. | |
-4 letters: de, ed, el, es, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: delates, deletes, lewdest, nestled, pestled, settled, sleeted, smelted, steeled, teledus. | |
+2 letters: closeted, dateless, dealates, debtless, deflates, deflects, delisted, deluster, depletes, desalted, desalter, deselect, desolate, detassel, enlisted, feedlots, hosteled, leadiest, ledgiest, listened, lustered, molested, pedestal, pledgets, relisted, reslated, restyled, resulted, sedately, selected, sklented, sleuthed, steepled, streeled, tasseled, teaseled, tideless, tinseled, treadles, treddles, tweedles, wrestled. | |
+3 letters: bedplates, blistered, blustered, bolstered, clustered, datelines, deadliest, deathless, decretals, deflaters, delegates, deletions, delicates, delusters, denticles, depilates, depthless, derelicts, desalters, deselects, desolated, desolater, desolates, detailers, detassels, dolerites, dotterels, drupelets, elaterids, elevateds, endosteal, endostyle, endplates, escalated, fledgiest, flustered, glistened, glistered, goldenest, holstered, hostelled, ileitides, leistered, lepidotes, lobstered, lodestone, metalised, obsoleted, pedestals, plastered, resaluted, resettled, resmelted, rondelets, septupled, sextupled, sheltered, skeltered, slathered, slithered, splendent, steelhead, steelyard, stenciled, sweltered, tasselled, teaselled, televised, tinselled, treadlers, treadless, trellised, underlets, unsettled, unsteeled, weldments, wieldiest, yuletides. | |
+4 letters: adolescent, adulterers, adulteress, adulteries, assertedly, bedclothes, bedlamites, blessedest, cartelised, cloistered, debilities, decaliters, deciliters, decollates, decolletes, deescalate, defalcates, defaulters, deflectors, defoliates, dekaliters, delegatees, delegators, delftwares, delighters, delimiters, delineates, deltoideus, delustered, demulcents, depletions, desalinate, deselected, desolately, desolaters, despiteful, detasseled, detestable, detestably, devaluates, devilments, deviltries, digestible, diluteness, diplotenes, discreetly, discretely, disentitle, disrelated, edentulous, elatedness, electrodes, elucidates, endostyles, federalist, fidelities, fieldstone, gelidities, idealities, interlends, interludes, kentledges, legislated, lodestones, lodgements, misaltered, misrelated, multispeed, myelitides, outblessed, outspelled, oversalted, palletised, pedestaled, pelletised, petalodies, plaistered, plenitudes, proselyted, reenlisted, resculpted, saddletree, sedulities, sentineled, siderolite, slenderest, spectacled, speculated, splattered, splintered, spluttered, stalemated, steelheads, steelyards, stellified, stencilled, stepladder, sterilized, stilettoed, sulfureted, tailenders, telecasted, telescoped, tellurides, threadless, ultradense, unmolested, unselected, vestibuled, wildebeest. | |
+5 letters: adolescents, adulterates, adultnesses, aldosterone, belatedness, bestialized, blueshifted, castellated, centerfolds, centralised, clandestine, closefisted, credentials, credulities, deathlessly, debilitates, decathletes, decelerates, declivities, deductibles, deerstalker, deescalated, deescalates, defilements, deflagrates, deflections, delaminates, delectables, delegations, deleterious, deliberates, delightsome, delineators, delinquents, delustering, demodulates, deployments, depopulates, derailments, deregulates, desalinated, desalinates, deselecting, desperately, despoilment, destabilize, detasseling, detasselled, devitalizes, dexterously, dictyostele, dielectrics, digestively, dilettantes, disablement, disentailed, disentangle, disentitled, disentitles, distensible, dolefullest, edibilities, edulcorates, elasticized, emasculated, endosteally, established, federalists, feudalities, fieldstones, flusteredly, forestalled, friendliest, goaltenders, heulandites, interpleads, kettledrums, laundrettes, legitimised, lepidolites, letterheads, limitedness, medievalist, neutralised, nonselected, nucleotides, outdelivers, outfielders, outwrestled, pedestaling, pedestalled, pediculates, phlebitides, plentitudes, preselected, redistilled, reescalated, reinstalled, relatedness, replastered, residential, resplendent, revalidates, revitalised, saddletrees, sclerotized, scutellated, seductively, sentinelled, siderolites, silhouetted, slaughtered, splendidest, stakeholder, steamrolled, stepladders, stiltedness, stonewalled, streamlined, sulfuretted, tenderloins, tessellated, theodolites, theologised, tumbleweeds, turtledoves, turtleheads, unwieldiest, upholstered, vesiculated, wildebeests, wilderments. | |
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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)01000101 01101100 01100100 01100101 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l d e s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0064 0065 0073 0074 |
| 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)397870718586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Bible Trace 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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