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AGUARDIENTE

Definition: AGUARDIENTE

AGUARDIENTE

Noun

1. A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque.

2. A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AGUARDIENTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Etymology: Aguardiente \A`guar*di*en"te\, noun. [Spanish expression, contr. of agua ardiente burning water (L. aqua water ardens burning).]. (references)


Synonyms within Context: AGUARDIENTE

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

Drunkenness

Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AGUARDIENTE

Non-English Usage: "AGUARDIENTE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Spanish (aqua vitae, booze, brandy, hard liquor, schnapps, spirits).

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Commercial Usage: AGUARDIENTE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aguardiente - Versos Y Cuentos Criollos (reference)

  • Aguardiente y conflictos sociales en la Nueva Granada durante el siglo XVIII (reference)

  • El aguardiente de caäna en Mâexico, 1724-1810 (reference)

  • EL aguardiente en una comunidad maya de los Altos de Chiapas (reference)

  • El chinguirito vindicado : el contrabando de aguardiente de caäna y la polâitica colonial (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AGUARDIENTE

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

aguardiente

34

aguardiente cristal

6

aguardiente nectar

4

aguardiente song

2

aguardiente antioqueño

2

aguardiente cocteles

2

aguardiente del preparación

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "AGUARDIENTE"

Words rhyming with "AGUARDIENTE" (pronounced 'A`guar*di*en"te'): Achiote, Andante, Aphrodite, Astarte, Atte, Bleynte, Borachte, Breste, Brillante, Cete, Chicalote, Chierte, Cognoscente, Concertante, Durante, Freelte, Frelte, Lentamente, Lette, machete, Mecate, Mercatante, metate, Mordente, Niste, Pococurante, Prighte, Rafte, rete, Semidiapente, Soavemente, Stacte, Sterte, Stirte, Swatte, Venite. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AGUARDIENTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-g-i-n-r-t-u"

-1 letter: deaerating, guaranteed, guarantied.

-2 letters: denigrate, gratineed, guarantee, negritude, tragedian.

-3 letters: aerating, antidrug, denature, derating, detainer, drainage, dungaree, eradiate, gadarene, gardenia, geniture, gradient, graduate, gratinee, guardant, guardian, indagate, indurate, interage, redating, regained, retained, retinued, reunited, ruinated, runagate, treading, underage, underate, undereat, urinated.

-4 letters: aerated, airdate, aneared, anergia, angered, antired, araneid, arenite, audient, aurated, aureate, darting.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-g-i-n-r-t-u"
 

+3 letters: headquartering.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AGUARDIENTE


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

41 47 55 41 52 44 49 45 4E 54 45

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 01000111 01010101 01000001 01010010 01000100 01001001 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#71 &#85 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#73 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0047 0055 0041 0052 0044 0049 0045 004E 0054 0045

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

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

3541553552384339485439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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