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Bunter

Definition: Bunter

Bunter

Noun

1. A batter who bunts.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bunter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Bunter

DomainDefinitions

Geography

The lower strata of multicoloured sandstone and conglomerates of the New Red Sandstone(Triassic)formation. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang in 1811

BUNTER. A low dirty prostitute, half whore and half beggar. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Crosswords: Bunter

English words defined with "bunter": Trias. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bunter": BUNTER. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bunter

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Billy Bunter (1952)

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

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Commercial Usage: Bunter

DomainTitle

Books

  • Billy Bunter of Bunter Court (reference)

  • Biscuits for Bunter (reference)

  • Boys will be boys : the story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, et al (reference)

  • Bunter By Appointment (reference)

  • But for Bunter (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: Bunter

"Bunter" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Bunter" is used about 27 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)77.78%2176,261
Lexical Verb (base form)11.11%3202,518
Noun (singular)11.11%3202,518
                    Total100.00%27N/A

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

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Expressions: Bunter

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "bunter": bunter-like, bunter-style.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bunter

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

bunter

13

billy bunter

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bunter

Language Translations for "bunter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

broget sandsten (variegated sandstone), porfyrsandsten. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bontzandsteen. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kirjava hiekkakivi. (various references)

   

French

  

grès bigarré. (various references)

   

German

  

Buntsandstein (mottled sandstone, variegated sandstone). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ψαμμόλιθος. (various references)

   

Italian

  

arenaria variegata. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

unterbay

   

Portuguese

  

cré (chalk). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

arenisca abigarrada (mottled sandstone, variegated sandstone). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

buntsandstein, brokig sandsten. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

лахмітниця, баба (bim, woman). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bunter

Derivations

Words beginning with "bunter": bunters. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bunter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: benitier, Benster, bente, Bintje, Bitner, bnter, Bojtar, Bonte, Bontje, Buiter, Bulter, Buncer, Bunder, buneer, Buner, bunet, bunta, bunte, buntes, bunto, Buntom, buter, butir, Butner, buxtorf, dunter, Kunter, unter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bunter"

Words rhyming with "bunter" (pronounced 'Bun"ter'): Abutter, Acater, Acquitter, Adelaster, Admitter, Adulter, Aflutter, Aglitter, Alabaster, Allotter, Amylobacter, Antitrochanter, Apporter, Atter, Auntter, Auster, Balter, Baxter, Beflatter, Begetter, Bemaster, Beplaster, Bescatter, Besetter, Bespatter, Bewinter, Blatter, Blotter, Boroughmaster, Boulter, Buster, Canaster, Cauter, Cheirepter, Chitter, Chowter, Cinter, Circumcenter, Climacter, Clotter, Clyster, Coleopter, Colter, Committer, Complotter, Concertmeister, Coniroster, Coster, Crater, Cremaster. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bunter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: brunet, burnet.

Words within the letters "b-e-n-r-t-u"

-1 letter: brent, brunt, brute, buret, burnt, rebut, tuber, tuner.

-2 letters: bent, bren, brut, bunt, burn, bute, rent, rube, rune, runt, tern, true, tube, tune, turn, unbe.

-3 letters: ben, bet, bun, bur, but, ern, neb, net, nub, nut, reb, ret, rub, rue, run, rut, ten, tub, tun, urb, urn.

-4 letters: be, en, er, et, ne, nu.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-n-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: blunter, brunets, bunters, burnets, burthen, subrent, tribune, turbine.

 

+2 letters: arbutean, braunite, breadnut, brunette, burgonet, burstone, burthens, buttoner, rebutton, subentry, subrents, subtrend, tribunes, trueborn, turbaned, turbines, turnable, unbitter, urbanest, urbanite.

 

+3 letters: banqueter, blueprint, braunites, breadnuts, brunettes, buhrstone, burgonets, burrstone, burstones, burthened, buttering, butternut, buttoners, curbstone, debenture, embruting, exuberant, heartburn, interclub, outburned, outnumber, overburnt, rebutting, rebuttons, recumbent, subaltern, subcenter, subtrends, sunbather, tenebrous, tenurable, tribunate, turbanned, turbinate, turbulent, turntable, unstabler, urbanites.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bunter


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

42 75 6E 74 65 72

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 01110101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 006E 0074 0065 0072

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

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

368780867184

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Bunter"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsetanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk, датський, датська мова

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk, голландська мова, голландський

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutossuomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandés, finés, finsk, фінська мова, фінський

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzungtysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk, німкеня, німецький, німець

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättningZweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський

Ukranian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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