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Definition: ASSES' BRIDGE |
ASSES' BRIDGE1. [L. pons asinorum.] The fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid, ``The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another.'' [Sportive] ``A schoolboy, stammering out his Asses' Bridge.'' --F. Harrison. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unintelligibility | Pons asinorum, asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon; (unmeaning). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ASSES' BRIDGE |
| English words defined with "ASSES' BRIDGE": Pons asinorum. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "ASSES' BRIDGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | szamarak hídja. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | asses'ay idgebray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-b-d-e-e-g-i-r-s-s-s" | |
-3 letters: degassers, digresses, disagrees, dressages. | |
-4 letters: abridges, brassies, brigades, debasers, degasser, degasses, disagree, diseases, dressage, seabirds, seasides, sidebars. | |
-5 letters: abiders, abridge, aegises, badgers, bareges, bargees, beadier, begirds, besides, biassed, biasses, braised, braises, brassed, brasses, brassie, bridges, brigade, brisses, darbies, dassies, dearies, debaser, debases, degases, derbies, desires, digress, disbars, disease, dragees, dresses, gassers, gassier, grassed. | |
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