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Date "AGONISTES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1671. (references) |
"AGONISTES" is a common misspelling or typo for: agonists. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Agonistes (4 syl.). Samson Agonistes (the title of Milton's drama) means Samson wrestling with adversity - Samson combating with trouble. (Greek, agonizomai, to combat, to struggle.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AGONISTES |
| Specialty definitions using "AGONISTES": Harapha ♦ Sabbath Day's Journey. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Samson agonistes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "AGONISTES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.37% of the time. "AGONISTES" is used about 76 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 97.37% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Noun (plural) | 2.63% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
samson agonistes | 4 |
agonistes performance samson | 3 |
agonistes | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: agonises, agonists, astonies, eastings, giantess, seatings. | |
-2 letters: ageists, agonies, agonise, agonist, atonies, easting, eatings, egoists, entasis, gitanos, ingates, ingesta, ingests, nasties, nosiest, onstage, sagiest, seating, sestina, signets, stingos, stogies, tansies, teasing, tisanes, tossing. | |
-3 letters: ageist, agents, agists, agones, angsts, anises, assent, assign, atones, easing, eating, egoist, enosis, eosins, essoin, gainst, genoas, giants, gitano. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gestations. | |
+2 letters: abiogenists, designators, isoantigens, reassorting, signatories. | |
+3 letters: angiotensins, degustations, designations, gastronomies, genealogists, geobotanists, ignorantness, langoustines, legislations, nitrogenases, overcastings, pathogenesis, regionalists, resignations, segregations. | |
+4 letters: angelologists, angioplasties, antiestrogens, atherogenesis, cosignatories, gametogenesis, gastrocnemius, geomagnetisms, grandiosities, gynecomastias, introgressant, investigators, mineralogists, nematologists, oceanologists, overasserting, registrations, scapegoatings, segmentations, somersaulting, speedboatings, stenographies, teratogenesis, transgression. | |
+5 letters: anesthesiology, antiaggression, autosuggesting, autosuggestion, contagiousness, desegregations, deuteragonists, disintegrators, dogmaticalness, flagitiousness, galactosamines, gelatinousness, gesticulations, gratuitousness, ignorantnesses, introgressants, investigations, miscegenations, neonatologists, planetologists, prognosticates, resegregations, segregationist, serodiagnostic, skateboardings, subgenerations, transgressions, transmogrifies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 47 4F 4E 49 53 54 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. --- -. .. ... - . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000111 01001111 01001110 01001001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A G O N I S T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0047 004F 004E 0049 0053 0054 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354149484353543953 |
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