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Definition: AMASSMENT |
AMASSMENTNoun1. An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. |
Date "AMASSMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Etymology: Amassment \A*mass"ment\, noun. [Compare to Old French amassement.]. (Websters 1913) |
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 | Ante; plastic; clink; pile; piling; accumulation; aggregate; aggregation; amassment; assemblage; bank; barrel; buildup; chunk; collection; conglomeration; gob; great deal; hill; hoard; hunk; jumble; lump; mass; mound; oodles; pack; peck; pyramid; quantity. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "AMASSMENT": amassment of things. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "AMASSMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | grumbullim (accumulation, agglomeration, aggregate, collection, conglomeration, congregation, crowding, cumulation, gathering, Ingathering, milling, muster, rally, round up, ruck, turn out), grumbull (abatis, aggregation, bank, batch, bevy, bunch, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, crowd, group, heap, jumble, mass, mob, mountain, pile, pile up, stack, stamp mill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | струпване (agglomeration, aggregation, cluster, concourse, congregation, crowding), куп (accumulation, agglomeration, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulation, cumulus, heap, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, pile, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack, tumble), натрупване (accretion, accumulation, agglomeration, concourse, congestion, cumulation, hilling, jam, lodgement, lodgment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Anhäufung (accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation, amassing, cluster, clustering, congestion, conglomeration, crowding, hoarding, overcrowding), häufung (accumulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συσσώρευση (accretion, accumulating, accumulation, agglomeration, aggrégation, aggregate, aggregation, clustering, compaction, congestion, conglomeration, cumulation, enhancement, heap, hoarding, packing, rolling, stocking, storage, storing, tractor rolling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amassmentay acumulare (accumulation, assemblage, cumulation), strângere (accumulation, clench, collection, constriction, contraction, grip, gripe, hug, jam, nip, squeeze). (various references) скопление (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, concourse, congeries, conglomeration, cumulation, muster). (various references) sự tích luỹ (accumulation, cumulation), sự chất đống (accumulation), sự cóp nhặt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AMASSMENT": amassments. (additional references) | |
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"AMASSMENT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amazment, arassment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "AMASSMENT" (pronounced 'A*mass"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement, Annulment. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-m-m-n-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: meatman, messman, stamens, stemmas. | |
-3 letters: aments, ansate, assent, atmans, manats, manses, mantas, mantes, mensas, messan, sanest, seaman, stamen, stanes, steams, stemma. | |
-4 letters: amass, amens, ament, ansae, antae, antas, antes, asset, atman, atmas, easts, etnas, mamas, manas, manat, manes, manse, manta, massa, masse, masts, mates, means, meant, meats, mensa, menta, mesas, names, nates, neats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-m-m-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: amassments. | |
+2 letters: mainstreams. | |
+3 letters: disarmaments, maternalisms. | |
+4 letters: diamagnetisms, embarrassment, misdemeanants, somnambulates. | |
+5 letters: admeasurements, embarrassments, maladjustments, maladministers, mismanagements, paramagnetisms, sacramentalism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4D 41 53 53 4D 45 4E 54 |
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| Semaphore (1791, 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 01001101 01000001 01010011 01010011 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A M A S S M E N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004D 0041 0053 0053 004D 0045 004E 0054 |
| 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)354735535347394854 |
| 1. Definition 2. Sounds 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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