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AVERNIAN

Definition: AVERNIAN

AVERNIAN

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: AVERNIAN

English words defined with "AVERNIAN": Avernal. (references)

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Anagrams: AVERNIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-n-n-r-v"

-1 letter: nirvana.

-2 letters: inaner, naiver, narine, ravine, vainer, vanner.

-3 letters: aiver, anear, arena, avian, inane, inner, invar, naevi, naira, naive, navar, raven, ravin, renin, riven, varia, varna, venin.

-4 letters: airn, anna, area, aria, aver, earn, naan, nana, nave, near, nevi, nine, raia, rain, rani, rave, rein, rive, vain, vair, vane, vara, vein, vena, vera, vier.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-n-n-r-v"
 

+2 letters: invariance.

 

+3 letters: anniversary, invariances, nonabrasive.

 

+4 letters: nonnarrative, overmanaging, veterinarian.

 

+5 letters: animadversion, animadverting, anniversaries, antinarrative, nonbehavioral, nonnarratives, nonvegetarian, overanalyzing, overarranging, overbalancing, revaccinating, revaccination, vernalization, veterinarians.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AVERNIAN


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

41 56 45 52 4E 49 41 4E

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 01010110 01000101 01010010 01001110 01001001 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#78 &#73 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0056 0045 0052 004E 0049 0041 004E

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

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

3556395248433548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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