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Bermudas

Definition: Bermudas

Bermudas

Noun

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definitions: Bermudas

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonym: Bermudas

Synonym: Bermuda (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: International Futures Exchange Bermudas (finance).

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Crosswords: Bermudas

English words defined with "Bermudas": BallahouLong-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).

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Modern Usage: Bermudas

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Misterio en las Bermudas (1977)

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

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Usage Frequency: Bermudas

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)62.5%10111,207
Noun (plural)37.5%6143,867
                    Total100.00%16N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bermudas

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

bermudas de las triangulo

177

bermudas de el las triangulo

54

bermudas das triangulo

17

bermudas

12

bermudas de las triángulo

9

bermudas das triângulo

7

bermudas triangulo

6

bermudas triangle

6

bermudas de del el las misterio triangulo

3

bermudas de el las triángulo

3

bermudas islas

3

bermudas de triangulo

3

bermudas weather

2

bermudas nova palma

2

bermudas no trabajar voy

2

bermudas de del fotos las triangulo

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bermudas

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

   

Portuguese

  

Bermudas (Bermuda). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Бермудские Острова. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bermudska ostrva (bermuda islands). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Bermudasöarna (the bermuda islands). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Bermuda Þort, Uzun Þort. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Bermudas

Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Bermudas"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Bermudas" (pronounced bermyuw"duz)
3-d u zagendas, cicadas, pandas, sodas, verandas.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Bermudas

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bermudas


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

42 65 72 6D 75 64 61 73

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)

01000010 01100101 01110010 01101101 01110101 01100100 01100001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#114 &#109 &#117 &#100 &#97 &#115

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)

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

3671847987706785

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INDEX

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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