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DELENDA

Definition: DELENDA

DELENDA

Noun plural

1. Things to be erased or blotted out.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Synonyms within Context: DELENDA

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Expression: DELENDA

Expression using "DELENDA": delenda est Carthago. Additional references.

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

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Rhyming with "DELENDA"

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)

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Anagrams: DELENDA

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.

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Alternative Orthography: DELENDA


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

44 45 4C 45 4E 44 41

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)

01000100 01000101 01001100 01000101 01001110 01000100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#76 &#69 &#78 &#68 &#65

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)

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

38394639483835

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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