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Definitions: Carioca |
CariocaNoun1. A native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro. 2. Music composed for dancing the carioca. 3. A lively ballroom dance that resembles the samba. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Carioca |
| Non-English Usage: "Carioca" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (carioca, native product). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Comédia Carioca (1965) Carioca Carnival (1955) Sinfonia Carioca (1955) Carioca Serenaders (1941) | |
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Music |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
carioca | 67 |
carioca zé | 12 |
carioca ze | 7 |
carioca joe | 4 |
cabana carioca | 4 |
carioca jose | 3 |
carioca carnival | 3 |
carioca club | 3 |
carioca funk | 2 |
farofa carioca | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Carioca"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кариока. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ariocacay carioca (native product). (various references) karioka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Carioca": cariocas. (additional references) | |
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"Carioca" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caradocian, Caramoja, carico, Caricuao, carioce, carioka, carnica, Carnochan, Carnock, Cirefca, cirica, Claricia, Craiova, criacao, Daroca, Garioch, Garriock, Icaricia, Kariuki, Warioba. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Carioca" (pronounced ke'rēō"ku) |
| 3 | -ō" k u | bocce, Coca, loca, Mocha, Oka. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-o-r" | |
-2 letters: acari, cacao, circa, coria, croci. | |
-3 letters: arco, aria, caca, ciao, coca, coir, croc, orca, raia. | |
-4 letters: air, arc, car, cor, oar, oca, ora, orc, ria, roc. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, ar, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-o-r" | |
+1 letter: aircoach, cariocas. | |
+2 letters: acrobatic, capacitor, carcinoma, carpaccio, macaronic. | |
+3 letters: achromatic, acrobatics, acrostical, aircoaches, anachronic, ascocarpic, autocratic, cacciatore, capacitors, caracoling, carcinomas, carpaccios, cataphoric, cochairman, covariance, macaronics, noncardiac, sacroiliac, vaccinator. | |
+4 letters: accessorial, acromegalic, anacreontic, aristocracy, autocracies, calorically, caracolling, carcinomata, categorical, chancroidal, charcoaling, coarctation, covariances, macrophagic, monarchical, pacificator, sacroiliacs, vaccinators. | |
+5 letters: acceleration, accretionary, acromegalics, acrostically, agrochemical, anacreontics, apochromatic, archdiocesan, aristocratic, autocratical, cacographies, cartographic, catadioptric, cataphoretic, catastrophic, clairvoyance, coacervation, coarctations, cochairwoman, craniofacial, craniosacral, laparoscopic, metathoracic, microbalance, mycobacteria, narcotically, nonpractical, oligarchical, overcapacity, pacificators, panchromatic, pantisocracy, saccharoidal, sarcoplasmic, slavocracies, theocratical, thoracically, timocratical, tragicomical, transoceanic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 69 6F 63 61 |
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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)01000011 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101111 01100011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r i o c a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0069 006F 0063 0061 |
| 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)37678475816967 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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