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"ARYANS" is a plural of: aryan. |
Date "ARYANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
"ARYANS" is a common misspelling or typo for: Arians. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Aryans The parent stock of what is called the Indo-European family of nations. They lived probably in Bactria, i.e. between the river Oxus and the Hindu-koosh mountains. The Aryan family of languages include the Persian and Hindû with all the European except Basque, Turkish, Hungarian, and Finnic. Sometimes called the IndoEuropean, sometimes the Indo-Germanic, and sometimes the Japetic. Sanskrit, Zend, Latin, Greek, and Celtic are, of course, included. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Economic History | Pakistan | The Aryans were followed in 500 B.C. by Persians and, in 326 B.C., by Alexander the Great. (references) |
Pakistan | A major theory is that it was crushed by successive invasions (circa 2000 B.C. and 1400 B.C.) of Aryans, Indo-European warrior tribes from the Caucasus region in what is now Russia. (references) | |
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| "ARYANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ARYANS" is used about 14 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 (plural) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Misspellings | |
"ARYANS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arans, Ariand, arieans, Ariens, Aripand, Arranz, Arriens, aruanus, Arvydas, Cryans, Saroyan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-n-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: rayas, saran, yarns. | |
-2 letters: anas, ansa, nary, nays, raya, rays, ryas, yarn. | |
-3 letters: aas, ana, any, ars, ays, nay, ran, ras, ray, rya, say, syn, yar. | |
-4 letters: aa, an, ar, as, ay, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-n-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: yantras. | |
+2 letters: analyser, janisary, lanyards, naysayer, runaways, sanitary, sayonara, stannary, synkarya, tanyards. | |
+3 letters: agrypnias, analysers, analyzers, barnyards, gainsayer, garganeys, janissary, laryngals, manslayer, maryjanes, naysayers, peasantry, salarying, salaryman, salarymen, sanctuary, sayonaras, trainways, yardlands, yardwands. | |
+4 letters: absorbancy, aneurysmal, ankylosaur, candygrams, fairylands, gainsayers, hydrangeas, insanitary, laryngeals, manslayers, myrobalans, paralysing, paranymphs, partisanly, pleasantry, pyromanias, reanalyses, reanalysis, reanalyzes, reasonably, sandpapery, sanguinary, sanitarily, standardly, stationary, thysanuran, unsanitary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 52 59 41 4E 53 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. -.--. .- -. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010010 01011001 01000001 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A R Y A N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0052 0059 0041 004E 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)355259354853 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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