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Definition: CORDWAINER |
CORDWAINERNoun1. A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cordwainer Not a twister of cord, but a worker in leather. Our word is the French cordouannier (a maker or worker of cordouan); the former a corruption of Cordovanier (a worker in Cordovan leather). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agent | Sempstress, semstress, seamstress; needlewoman, workwoman; tailor, cordwainer. |
Clothing | Clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress, snip; dressmaker, habitmaker, breechesmaker, shoemaker; Crispin; friseur; cordwainer, cobbler, hosier, hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CORDWAINER |
| English words defined with "CORDWAINER": Cordiner. (references) |
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| "CORDWAINER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "CORDWAINER" is used about 8 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 (singular) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cordwainer smith | 8 |
cordwainer | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CORDWAINER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | greasee (bootmaker, cobbler, cobbling, shoemaker). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ordwainercay ayakkabıcı (shoemaker, shoeseller). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CORDWAINER": cordwaineries, cordwainers, cordwainery. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CORDWAINER" (pronounced 'Cord"wain*er'): Abaiser, Abandoner, Abaser, Abater, Abhorrer, Abider, Abjurer, Abolisher, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Abutter, Acater, Acceder, Accelerometer, Accepter, Accipenser, Accipiter, Acclaimer, Accompanier, Accomplisher, Accorder, Accruer, Accumber, Accuser, Acetifier, Acetimeter, Acetometer, Achiever, Acidifier, Acidimeter, Acipenser, Acknowledger, Acoumeter, Acquirer, Acquitter, Acroter, Actinometer, Adducer, Adelaster, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admeasurer. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-n-o-r-r-w" | |
-1 letter: coriander. | |
-2 letters: careworn, cordwain, ironware, narrowed, ordainer, rancored, reordain. | |
-3 letters: acrider, adorner, aircrew, aneroid, arrowed, cairned, carried, carrion, codeina, cornier, corrade, corrida, crowder, crowdie, crowned, crowner, decrown, downier, drainer, drowner, randier, readorn, recrown, redrawn, rowdier, wordier, worried. | |
-4 letters: acnode, adorer, aeonic, anodic, arider, candor, canoed, carder, caried, carnie, cedarn, cinder, codeia, codein, coined, coiner. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-n-o-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: cordwainers, cordwainery. | |
+3 letters: cordwaineries. | |
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