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ASSIENTO

Definition: ASSIENTO

ASSIENTO

Noun

1. A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ASSIENTO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references)


Crosswords: ASSIENTO

English words defined with "ASSIENTO": Assientist. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ASSIENTO": Assiento Treaties. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ASSIENTO

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

assiento

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "ASSIENTO"

Words rhyming with "ASSIENTO" (pronounced 'As`si*en"to'): Agitato, Allegretto, Anito, Araguato, Arnatto, Avigato, Ayuntamiento, Bassetto, Basto, Braziletto, Busto, Canoncito, Canto, Carapato, Castrato, Cavetto, Cento, Cinquecento, Concerto, Concetto, Contrafagetto, Cornuto, Corvetto, Couranto, Devoto, Ferretto, Flauto, Fugato, Giusto, graffito, grotto, gusto, impasto, inamorato, junto, larghetto, legato, lento, libretto, lotto, manifesto, Manto, Marcato, memento, Misurato, moderato, molto, mosquito, Moto, Motto. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ASSIENTO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: astonies.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-s-s-t"

-1 letter: atonies, entasis, nasties, nosiest, sestina, tansies, tisanes.

-2 letters: anises, assent, atones, enosis, eosins, essoin, insets, noesis, noises, onsets, ossein, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, santos, satins, season, setons, siesta, sonsie, stains, stanes, steins, stenos, stones, tassie, tenias, tineas, tisane.

-3 letters: aeons, anise, antes, antis, asset, atone, easts, entia, eosin, etnas, inset, iotas, nates, neats.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: agonistes, assertion, botanises, canoeists, cessation, insolates, misatones, saponites, sedations, senoritas, sensation, sonicates.

 

+2 letters: actionless, adroitness, anatomises, antibioses, assertions, assoilment, astonished, astonishes, caseations, cessations, coastlines, dawsonites, encomiasts, gestations, hailstones, intradoses, isobutanes, isooctanes, lanosities, manifestos, ostensoria, passionate, patronises, sanbenitos, sectionals, senhoritas, sensations, serrations, sovranties, stationers, stramonies, tyrosinase.

 

+3 letters: abiogenists, abstentions, abstentious, aeronomists, anecdotists, animosities, antismokers, antistories, assentation, assoilments, astronomies, bastinadoes, captionless, confiscates, consociates, constancies, constatives, constipates, decussation, designators, desolations, diatessaron, escalations, estimations, estivations, exhaustions, hesitations, housetrains, iconostases, inosculates, ironmasters, isoantigens, isocyanates, macintoshes, maisonettes, manifestoes, monasteries, monetarisms, monetarists, neorealists, nonascetics, obstinacies, overstrains, personalist, poinsettias, proteinases, rainforests, reassertion, reassorting, seasonality, senatorship, sensational, separations, signatories, speciations, stephanotis, throatiness, tyrosinases, waitpersons.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ASSIENTO


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

41 53 53 49 45 4E 54 4F

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 01010011 01010011 01001001 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#83 &#73 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0053 0049 0045 004E 0054 004F

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

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

3553534339485449

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INDEX

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


  

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