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Definition: Bermudas |
BermudasNoun1. A group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Bermudas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1702. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Bermudas To live in the Bermudas, i.e. in some out-of-the-way place for cheapness. The shabby genteel hire a knocker in some West-end square, where letters may be left for them, but live in the Bermudas, or narrow passages north of the Strand, near Covent Garden. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | BERMUDAS. A cant name for certain places in London, privileged against arrests, like the Mint in Southwark, Ben. Jonson. These privileges are abolished. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BermudasSynonym: Bermuda (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: International Futures Exchange Bermudas (finance). |
Crosswords: Bermudas |
| English words defined with "Bermudas": Ballahou ♦ Long-boned shad. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Bermudas": BERMUDAS. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bermudas" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Bermudas), Portuguese (Bermuda, Bermudas). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Misterio en las Bermudas (1977) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Bermudas" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Bermudas" is used about 16 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) | 62.5% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (plural) | 37.5% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Bermudas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Бермуди. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Bermudy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Bermuda Eilanden. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Bermudoj. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Bermudes (Bermuda). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bermudas (Bermuda), Bermudainseln. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bermuda-szigetek (bermuda islands), bermudák. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Bermude. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Ny Bermioodee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermudasbay Bermudas (Bermuda). (various references) Бермудские Острова. (various references) bermudska ostrva (bermuda islands). (various references) Bermudasöarna (the bermuda islands). (various references) Bermuda Þort, Uzun Þort. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Bermudas" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bermaldo, bermuda, Bermudo, Bernadac, Burmola, Germidis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Bermudas" (pronounced bermyuw"duz) |
| 3 | -d u z | agendas, cicadas, pandas, sodas, verandas. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-m-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: daubers, remudas, rumbaed. | |
-2 letters: absurd, abused, abuser, ambers, amused, amuser, ardebs, bardes, beards, breads, breams, brumes, bursae, dauber, daubes, debars, demurs, dermas, dreams, dumber, embars, madres, medusa, mudras, redubs, remuda, rumbas, sabred, sambur, serdab, umbers, umbrae, umbras. | |
-3 letters: abuse, amber, amuse, ardeb, armed, arums, aures, barde, bards, bared, bares, barms, based, baser, bauds. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-m-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: drumbeats, subdermal. | |
+2 letters: adumbrates, ambuscader, submarined. | |
+3 letters: ambuscaders, breadcrumbs, drumbeaters, dumbwaiters, lumberyards, masturbated, subdermally, unscrambled. | |
+4 letters: ambidextrous, barramundies, candelabrums, drumbeatings, subepidermal. | |
+5 letters: misattributed, subdepartment, unembarrassed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 72 6D 75 64 61 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-. -- ..- -.. .- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110010 01101101 01110101 01100100 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e r m u d a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0072 006D 0075 0064 0061 0073 |
| 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)3671847987706785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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