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ABDERA

Date "ABDERA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)


Specialty Definition: ABDERA

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Literature

Abdera A maritime town of Thrace, said in fable to have been founded by Abdera, sister of Diomede. It was so overrun with rats that it was abandoned, and the Abderitans migrated to Macedonia. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Specialty Definition: Abdera

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Abdera is:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Abdera."

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Crosswords: ABDERA

English words defined with "ABDERA": Abderite. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ABDERA": Abderitan, Abderitan LaughterDemocritosLaughing PhilosopherProtagoras of AbderaSophist, Sophistry, Sophism, Sophisticator. (references)
Etymologies containing "ABDERA": Abderian. (references)

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Usage Frequency: ABDERA

"ABDERA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ABDERA" is used about 6 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 (proper)100%6143,867

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ABDERA

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

abdera de protagoras

3

abdera de protágoras

3

abdera consultores.com

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ABDERA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: abrade.

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

-1 letter: ardeb, baaed, barde, bared, beard, bread, debar.

-2 letters: abed, area, bade, bard, bare, bead, bear, brad, brae, bred, darb, dare, dear, drab, read.

-3 letters: aba, arb, are, baa, bad, bar, bed, bra, dab, deb, ear, era, rad, reb, red.

-4 letters: aa, ab, ad, ae, ar, ba, be, de, ed, er, re.

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

+1 letter: abraded, abrader, abrades.

 

+2 letters: abraders, adorable, arabized, bandager, barehead, barraged, bayadeer, bayadere, bigarade, broadaxe, daybreak, drapable, drawable, gradable, radiable, readable, readably, seaboard, tabarded, teaboard, tradable.

 

+3 letters: abandoner, aberrated, abradable, abreacted, abrogated, acerbated, admirable, adsorbate, adumbrate, adverbial, awardable, balladeer, bandagers, barefaced, bargained, barnacled, barracked, barricade, baseboard, bayadeers, bayaderes, bigarades, bravadoes, broadaxes, broadleaf, carbamide, carbonade, daybreaks, draftable, drapeable, gabardine, graybeard, handlebar, headboard, sarabande, seaboards, teaboards, trabeated, tradeable, unabraded.

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Alternative Orthography: ABDERA


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

41 42 44 45 52 41

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 01000010 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0044 0045 0052 0041

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

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

353638395235

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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