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ADAMANTEAN

Definition: ADAMANTEAN

ADAMANTEAN

Adjective

1. Of adamant; hard as adamant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ADAMANTEAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1671. (references)

Synonyms within Context: ADAMANTEAN

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

Hardness

Adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous; hard as a rock. Noun: stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker; stiff as starch, stiff as as board.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "ADAMANTEAN"

Words rhyming with "ADAMANTEAN" (pronounced 'Ad`a*man*te"an'): Achean, Achillean, Adonean, AEgean, Alloxan, Amebean, Amoebean, Amphigean, Andean, Antaean, Anthozoan, Apogean, Archimedean, Argean, Argoan, Assidean, Astraean, Atlantean, Augean, Basan, Biscayan, Bryozoan, Cabirean, Cadmean, Chaldean, Chian, Chouan, Circean, Clachan, Colossean, Cowan, Cyclopean, Cytherean, Dantean, Dian, Ditrochean, Duan, Egean, Enwoman, Epozoan, Etnean, Genian, Gigantean, Growan, Hyblaean, Hypocarpogean, Hypogean, Idumean, Iroquoian, Johannean, Judean, Laodicean, Laryngean, Lernean, Lethean, Lochan, Logan, Lyncean, Maccabean, Mausolean, Medicean, metazoan, Murexan, Neogaean, Nymphean, OEnocyan, Orphean, Paleogaean, Panacean, Pandean, Panomphean, Paraguayan, Pavan, Pekan, Perigean, Petrean, Pharisean, Pigmean, Platan, Polypean, Polyzoan, Prian, Priapean, Protozoan, Ptisan, Pyrenean, Riban, rowan, Samoan, Sisyphean, Sotadean, Stian, Styan, Tempean, terpsichorean, Thalian, Unwoman, Wigan, Witan. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ADAMANTEAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-d-e-m-n-n-t"

-3 letters: adamant, andante, mandate.

-4 letters: adnate, anadem, ataman, maenad, manana, manned, tandem, tanned.

-5 letters: adman, admen, amend, ament, anent, antae, anted, atman, daman, manat, maned, manna, manta, mated, meant, menad, menta, named, tamed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ADAMANTEAN


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

41 44 41 4D 41 4E 54 45 41 4E

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 01000100 01000001 01001101 01000001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#65 &#77 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0041 004D 0041 004E 0054 0045 0041 004E

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

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

35383547354854393548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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