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Definition: DELENDA |
DELENDANoun plural1. Things to be erased or blotted out. |
Date "DELENDA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Delenda \De*len"da\, plural noun. [Latin expression, from delere to destroy.]. (Websters 1913) |
"DELENDA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Defend, Defender, Deled, Depend, Melinda. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Phrase: delenda est Carthago; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit; ecrasez l'infame. |
Malediction | Phrase: delenda est Carthago. |
Obliteration | Phrase: delenda est Carthago. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "DELENDA": delenda est Carthago. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Words rhyming with "DELENDA" (pronounced 'De*len"da'): Anaconda, Armada, Chorda, Cicada, Coda, Edda, hacienda, Haggada, jacaranda, Kuda, LAMBDA, Marimonda, Mida, Morinda, Nonda, Olla-podrida, Pagoda, panda, Pinnigrada, Plantigrada, Podrida, Propaganda, Pudenda, Racoonda, Reseda, Rig-Veda, rotunda, Sadda, Salsoda, Sida, Stomatoda, Tardigrada, Tienda, Urochorda, Veda, Venada, Veranda, Vifda, Yajur-Veda, Zerda. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ladened. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-l-n" | |
-1 letter: aneled, dandle, deaden, deaned, delead, landed, leaded, leaden, leaned. | |
-2 letters: addle, anele, dedal, deled, eland, ended, laded, laden, naled. | |
-3 letters: alee, dale, dead, deal, dean, deed, dele, dene, elan, lade, land, lane, lead, lean, lend, need. | |
-4 letters: add, ale, and, ane, dad, dal, dee, del, den, eel, eld, end, lad, lea, led, lee, nae, nee. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, al, an, de, ed, el, en, la, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-l-n" | |
+1 letter: danegeld, deadline, deplaned, unleaded. | |
+2 letters: danegelds, datelined, deadlines, deleading, enfiladed, gladdened, glandered, handseled, headlined, laundered, nonleaded, rehandled, slandered. | |
+3 letters: bandleader, calendared, calendered, chandelled, deadliness, decadently, defendable, delineated, demandable, dependable, dependably, endodermal, handselled, lavendered, longheaded, lunkheaded, undeclared, unheralded. | |
+4 letters: adrenalized, bandleaders, cleanhanded, deadeningly, delaminated, desalinated, desalinized, disentailed, engarlanded, interlarded, overhandled, philandered, undecidable, undelegated, underlapped, underplayed, undervalued, unlaundered. | |
+5 letters: acknowledged, benzaldehyde, candleholder, chandeliered, credentialed, deadlinesses, degringolade, denticulated, detailedness, disentangled, dreadfulness, evenhandedly, forehandedly, freehandedly, interpleaded, openhandedly, pedunculated, postdeadline, relandscaped, undefoliated, undependable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4C 45 4E 44 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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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)01000100 01000101 01001100 01000101 01001110 01000100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E L E N D A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004C 0045 004E 0044 0041 |
| 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)38394639483835 |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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