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Adrianople

Definition: Adrianople

Adrianople

Noun

1. A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Adrianople" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1863. (references)



Synonyms: Adrianople

Synonyms: Adrianopolis (n), Edirne (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Adrianople

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adrianople Ad 378: The Goths Crush Rome's Legions (Campaign, 84) (reference)

  • Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Adrianople

Illustrations:
Adrianople

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Adrianople

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

adrianople

6

adrianople battle

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

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Modern Translations: Adrianople

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

Danish

  

Adrianopel. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Adrianopel. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

Adrianopolo. (various references)

   

French

  

Andrinople. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αδριανούπολη. (various references)

   

Manx

  

Caayr Adrian. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adrianopleay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Adrianople

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-r"

-2 letters: airplane, palinode, paranoid, parlando, pelorian, praedial, prandial.

-3 letters: adrenal, aeolian, aileron, alienor, aneroid, apnoeal, aproned, araneid, dalapon, dariole, dipolar, ladrone, laniard, leopard, leporid, nadiral, oedipal, opaline, operand, ordinal, padrone, padroni, paladin, pandora, pandore, pardine, paroled, peloria, plained, plainer, poniard, praline, preanal, predial, proline, radiale.

-4 letters: aerial, aldrin, alined, aliner, aliped, alodia, alpine, anodal, anopia, apneal, apnoea, apodal, areola, ariled, darnel, denari, denial, derail, dialer, diaper, dinero, diploe, dipole, dopier, earlap, eidola, elapid, eolian, indole, inroad, ironed, ladino, ladron, laired, lander, lardon, larine, linear, loader, loaned, loaner, nailed, nailer, narial, neroli, opined, ordain, ordeal, orpine, pained, paired, palier, pander, panier, parade, pardie, pardon, parian, parled, parole, pedalo, pedlar, penial, period, pinder, pineal, pinole, pirana, planar, planed, planer, pleiad, polder, ponder, ponied, prolan, radial, radian, railed, rained, rapine, realia, redial, relaid, reload, reloan, renail, repaid, repand, replan, roadie, roiled, rondel.

-5 letters: adore, adorn, aider, ailed, aired, aland, alane, alder, alien, aline, aloin, alone, anear, anile, anode, anole, apian, apnea, apron, areal, arena, ariel, aroid, arpen, danio, deair, denar, dinar, diner, doper, drail, drain, drape, drone, elain, eland, eloin, enrol, ideal, idler, indol, irade, irone, laari, laden, lader, laird, lanai, lapin, learn, liana, liane, liard, lidar, lined, liner, loden, loner, loped, loper, loran, nadir, naiad, naira, naled, nerol, nidal, nodal, nopal, noria, oared, oiled, oiler, olden, older, oldie, olein, opera, opine, oread, oriel, orpin, padle, padre, padri, paean, paeon, palea, paled, paler, panda, paned, panel, parae, pardi, pared, pareo, parle, parol, pearl, pedal, pedro, pelon, penal, peril, piano, pilar, pilea, piled, pined, plaid, plain, plane, plead, plena, plied, plier, podia, poind, polar, poled, poler, pored, pride, pried, prion, prole, prone, radio, radon, ranid, raped, rapid, redan, redia, redip, redon, renal, reoil, repin, riled, riped, ripen, roped.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-r"
 

+4 letters: depolarization, malapportioned, predevaluation.

 

+5 letters: depolarizations, paradoxicalness, predevaluations, proletarianised, proletarianized.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Adrianople


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

41 64 72 69 61 6E 6F 70 6C 65

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 01100100 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#110 &#111 &#112 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 0072 0069 0061 006E 006F 0070 006C 0065

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

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

35708475678081827871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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