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ACQUEST

Definitions: ACQUEST

ACQUEST

Noun

1. Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.

2. Acquisition; the thing gained.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: ACQUEST

DomainDefinitions

Law

Property acquired in common by husband and wife after their marriage, otherwise than by succession. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms within Context: ACQUEST

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

Property

Landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground; (earth); acquest, messuage, toft.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ACQUEST

Etymologies containing "ACQUEST": Acquist. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ACQUEST" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (accession, acquisition, gain).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ACQUEST

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

acquest

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ACQUEST

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

Albanian

  

pronë (assets, demesne, domain, estate, gear, goods, holding, land, ownership, patrimony, possession, premise, property, realty). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ненаследено имущество, лично придобито имущество, придобивка (accession, acquirement, acquisition, asset, attainment, haul, purchase), постижение (accession, accomplishment, achievement, acquirement, acquisition, attainment, effort, performance). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

inkomsten tijdens het huwelijk. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ansio-omaisuus. (various references)

   

French

  

acquêts. (various references)

   

German

  

Errungenschaft (accession, acquisition, asset, attainment, gain). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szerzemény (accession, acquisition, attainment, composition, gain, purchase). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acquestay

   

Portuguese

  

aquisição (acquirement, acquisition, asset, buy, gain, haul, procurement, purchase), adquiridos, bens adquiridos. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

achiziţionare (acquisition, purchase), lucru achiziţionat. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

приобретение (accuisition, acquirement, acquisition, acquisitions, contraction, procurance, procuration, procurement, purchase). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tekovina (attainment, goods, heritage), stečena imovina. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förvärvad egendom. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vật kiếm được. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ACQUEST

Derivations

Words beginning with "ACQUEST": acquests. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ACQUEST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-q-s-t-u"

-1 letter: acutes, casque, cuesta, sacque.

-2 letters: acute, caste, cates, cause, cesta, cutes, quate, quest, sauce, saute, scuta, scute, squat, taces.

-3 letters: aces, acts, ates, case, cast, cate, cats, cues, cute, cuts, east, eats, ecus, etas, qats, sate, scat, scut, seat, sect, seta, suet, tace, taus, teas, utas.

-4 letters: ace, act, ate, cat, cue, cut, eat, eau, ecu, eta, qat, qua, sac, sae, sat, sau, sea, sec, set, sue, suq, tae, tas, tau, tea, use, uta, uts.

-5 letters: ae, as, at, es, et, ta, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-q-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: acquests, racquets.

 

+2 letters: aqueducts, chaquetas, coequates, cotqueans, sequacity.

 

+3 letters: acquitters, quittances, requiescat.

 

+4 letters: acquiescent, acquisitive, catafalques, equivocates, loquacities, reacquaints, requiescats, sasquatches, semiaquatic, sequacities.

 

+5 letters: acquirements, acquittances, aquacultures, aquicultures, coequalities, equinoctials, equivocators, quarterbacks, quarterdecks, racquetballs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ACQUEST


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

41 43 51 55 45 53 54

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 01000011 01010001 01010101 01000101 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#67 &#81 &#85 &#69 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0043 0051 0055 0045 0053 0054

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

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

35375155395354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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