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Definition: Assamese |
AssameseAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Assam or its people or culture. Noun1. Native or inhabitant of the state of Assam in NE India. 2. The Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people; closely related to Bengali. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Assamese" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
Synonym: AssameseSynonym: Asamiya (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Assamese |
| English words defined with "Assamese": Asamiya. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | India | On May 23, Tripura Darpan reported that the house of Mrinal Shara, a correspondent for an Assamese daily, was attacked by a group of armed youths who threatened him for his reporting. (references) |
India | In Assam a similar incident occurred as police intercepted the editor of the largest Assamese daily in April 2000, accusing him of having participated in a function organized by a militant organization. (references) | |
India | In Assam, where the population is increasing rapidly, the issue of Bangladeshi migrants (who generally are Muslim) has become very sensitive among the Assamese (predominantly Hindu) population, which considers itself to be increasingly outnumbered. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Assamese" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Assamese" is used about 4 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | 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 |
assamese | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Assamese"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 熊猴 (Assamese macaque). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | assameseay เกี่ยวกับรัฐอัสสัม, ชาวอัสสัม. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-m-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: amasses, sesames. | |
-2 letters: massas, masses, messes, sesame. | |
-3 letters: amass, asses, eases, esses, massa, masse, mesas, seams, seems, semes. | |
-4 letters: amas, asea, ease, emes, eses, maes, mass, mesa, mess, same, sass, seam, seas, seem, sees, seme. | |
-5 letters: aas, ama, ass, eme, ems, ess, mae, mas, sae, sea, see. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-m-s-s-s" | |
+2 letters: embassages, metastases, smearcases. | |
+3 letters: assemblages, embarrasses. | |
+4 letters: assuagements, manageresses, marquessates, metastasizes, misfeasances, sexagesimals. | |
+5 letters: amativenesses, amiablenesses, animatenesses, leishmaniases, reassemblages, semiparasites, supersalesman. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 73 61 6D 65 73 65 |
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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).- ... ... .- -- . ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01110011 01100001 01101101 01100101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s s a m e s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0073 0061 006D 0065 0073 0065 |
| 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)3585856779718571 |
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