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Africander

Definition: Africander

Africander

Noun

1. Tall large-horned humped south African cattle for meat or draft.

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

Date "Africander" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

"Africander" is a common misspelling or typo for: Afrikaner.

Synonyms within Context: Africander

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

Extraneousness

Noun: extraneousness; Adjective: extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Africander

"Africander" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Africander" is used about 2 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 (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Rhyming with "Africander"

Words rhyming with "Africander" (pronounced 'Af`ri*can"der'): Asunder, Attainder, Badder, Balder, Bepowder, Bewilder, Bewonder, Bhunder, Bidder, Bunder, Cider, Codder, Coriander, Cyder, Detainder, Disclaunder, Disrudder, Dissunder, Dittander, Dunder, Eider, Emborder, Entender, Fader, Fender, Forbidder, Forwander, Foulder, Fudder, Gadder, gander, Germander, Gerrymander, guilder, Gynander, Hadder, Imborder, Ingender, Joinder, Kadder, Ladder, Mander, Misjoinder, Misrender, Miswander, Moider, Monander, Mooder, Nadder, Nedder, Nodder, Nonjoinder, octander, Oleander, Outbidder, Palissander, Pinder, Plodder, Podder, Polder, Pomander, Poulder, Prender, Preorder, Preponder, reorder, Ridder, Ryder, Sawder, Scaphander, Sclender, Self-murder, shedder, Shoder, skidder, Skilder, slender, Solander, Spender, spider, Stalder, Subjoinder, suborder, superorder, surrejoinder, thereunder, tinder, udder, Unorder, unsolder, Unwonder, Upthunder, Wedder, Zander. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Africander

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-i-n-r-r"

-2 letters: infrared, radiance.

-3 letters: acarine, acrider, airfare, araneid, cairned, cardiae, carfare, carinae, carried, drainer, faciend, fancied, fancier, faradic, randier, refrain.

-4 letters: acarid, acedia, acinar, afeard, afraid, arcade, arcane, arider, arnica, canard, carafe, carder, cardia, caried, carina, carnie, cedarn, cinder, craned, crania, dancer, darner, denari, errand, facade, fadein, fainer, faired, fairer, farced, farcer, farcie, farina, ferric, fiacre, fiance, finder, fraena, friend, infare, nacred, racier, radian, raider, rained, rancid, redfin, refind.

-5 letters: acari, acned, acred, acrid, aecia, afire, aider, aired, airer, anear, arced, areca, areic, arena, cadre, caird, cairn, caned, caner, canid, cared, carer, cedar, ceria, cider, crane, cried, crier, dance, darer, daric, deair, decaf, denar, dicer, dinar, diner, direr, drain, drear, drier, erica, faced, facer, facia, fader, faena, farad, farce, farci, fared, farer, feria, fiend, fined, finer, fired, firer, franc, frena, friar, fried, frier, infer, infra, irade, nacre, nadir, naiad, naira, naric, nicad, nicer, raced, racer, radar, rance, ranid, rared, redan, redia, reran, riced, ricer, rider, rifer.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-f-i-n-r-r"
 

+2 letters: handicrafter.

 

+3 letters: handicrafters.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Africander


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

41 66 72 69 63 61 6E 64 65 72

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 01100110 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#102 &#114 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0066 0072 0069 0063 0061 006E 0064 0065 0072

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

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

35728475696780707184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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