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Definition: ATHELING |
ATHELINGNoun1. An Anglo-Saxon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family. |
Date "ATHELING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nobility | King; (master); atheling; prince, duke; marquis, marquisate; earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret; baronet, baronetcy; knight, knighthood; count, armiger, laird; signior, seignior; esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour; emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali; sahib; chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ATHELING |
| English words defined with "ATHELING": Adeling. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "ATHELING" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "ATHELING" is used about 6 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 (proper) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ATHELING": athelings. (additional references) | |
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"ATHELING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Antholin, arhalien, Athelney, athlan, Athlyne. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ATHELING" (pronounced 'Ath"el*ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Aforegoing, Agoing, Airling, Allthing, Almsgiving, Althing, Aswing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Backbiting, Ballooning, Bantling, Banxring, Bardling, Batfowling, Baubling, Bawbling, Beeswing, Bicycling, Bing, Birdcatching, Birding, Birdling, Bird's-nesting, Birthing, Bittering, Bitterling, Blackbirding, Blattering, Bloodletting, Bloodshedding, Bluestocking, Bluewing, Blunging, Bocking, Bogtrotting, Bolling, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boottopping, Bottling, Boxhauling, Brambling, Brattishing. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-n-t" | |
-1 letter: atingle, elating, gahnite, gelatin, genital, halting, healing, heating, lathing, lighten. | |
-2 letters: aiglet, alight, eating, entail, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, haeing, haling, halite, hantle, hating, ingate, inhale, length, ligate, linage, tangle, tenail, thenal, tineal, tingle. | |
-3 letters: agent, agile, aglet, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, eight, elain, elint, entia, giant, glean, glint, hinge. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-n-t" | |
+1 letter: athelings, chelating, earthling, haltering, lathering. | |
+2 letters: alightment, blathering, earthlings, ethylating, hatcheling, leathering, lightplane, slathering, theologian. | |
+3 letters: alightments, alphabeting, anthologies, anthologize, candlelight, enthralling, farthingale, ghastliness, glutathione, hatchelling, lightplanes, methylating, nightingale, nightwalker, theologians. | |
+4 letters: almightiness, anthologized, anthologizer, anthologizes, candlelights, cartwheeling, enchantingly, establishing, ethnological, exhilarating, farthingales, geotechnical, glutathiones, halogenating, halogenation, hearteningly, hesitatingly, languishment, nightingales, nightwalkers, shatteringly, slaughtering, stringhalted, telegraphing, thermalizing, ultraheating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 54 48 45 4C 49 4E 47 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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).- - .... . .-.. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010100 01001000 01000101 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A T H E L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0054 0048 0045 004C 0049 004E 0047 |
| 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)3554423946434841 |
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